The Evolution of Science Fiction discussion

This started as a quick list that got out of control. It shouldn't be considered complete nor is it strictly limited to influential SF authors & editors. Some fantasy, comic book, & script authors crept in, usually because of name recognition & influence. I tried to list some of their best known & most influential works, contributions, &/or description. Basically, it's a quick cheat sheet to help recognize authors common to this group, although not every entry can be nominated for a group read.

I made the list originally in alphabetical order & then split them out into the periods we use here for group reads. Don't take the dates as gospel. They're roughly accurate for the majority of their SF works & you may find one or two outside them. In front of their names, I put how many books &/or short stories we've read by them in this group as of Jan2019.

You can find the group read period lists in the "What This Folder Is For" topic in each period folder.
Pre 1920: Old & Proto SF
1920-1939: The Pulp Era
1940-1959: The Golden Age of SF
1960-1979: New Wave
1980-1999:
2000-Present

Pay attention to death dates. Many authors have works repackaged, so the first publishing date is long after their deaths. For the purposes of group reads, we try to use the period in which the work was written even though we often rely on publishing dates.

For further details, you can click on the author & book links to see what GoodReads has on them or check out the following.
Fantastic Fiction
Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB)
The Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide

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# books
group read --- Author's name --- Writing period --- Comments
A
- Dafydd ab Hugh (1980s-1990s) - Still alive, just hasn't written anything. Best known for Doom & Star Trek franchise books, but also writes fantasy.
1 - Edwin A. Abbott (1880s-1900s) - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
- Kobo Abe (1950s-1990s, died 1993) - best known SF is Inter Ice Age 4.
- Dan Abnett (1990s & up) - mostly writes comics & gaming fiction including Warhammer & Dr. Who franchise novels.
1 - Douglas Adams (1970s-2001) - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
- Robert Adams (1970-1990) - Horseclan series
- Ann Aguirre (2000s & up) - UF, PNR, YA, fantasy & SF. Best known for Enclave, the first in her Razor series which is YA SF dystopian.
- Jerry Ahern (1980s & up) - Best known for his Survivalist series that begins with Total War, post apocalyptic action (gun porn). His first series was 'They Call Me Mercenary' which starts with The Killer Genesis using the pseudonym Axel Kilgore. It's pretty much the same, just lacks the SF elements.
- J.H. Rosny Aîné (1880s-1930s, died 1940) - Best known SF novel is Ironcastle, translated by Philip José Farmer. Also wrote Quest for Fire.
- Alan Burt Akers - see Kenneth Bulmer
- Brian W. Aldiss (1950s & up) - grandmaster of SF
- Roger MacBride Allen (1980s & up) - best known for his Star Wars franchise novels, he's also written the 'Chronicles of Solace' trilogy which starts with The Depths of Time.
- Steve Alten (1990s & up) - best known for his Meg series. He also writes horror & thrillers.
- Kingsley Amis (1950s-1980s, died 1995) - mostly thrillers, literary fiction, horror, & comedy. The Alteration is alternate timeline SF.
- Charlie Jane Anders (2000s & up) (aka Charles Anders) - SF & fantasy short stories & novels. All the Birds in the Sky & The City in the Middle of the Night are their most popular. (Pronoun usage is gender neutral as the author self-identifies as genderqueer.) They are an editor of io9 website, as is their partner Annalee Newitz.
- Kevin J. Anderson (1980s & up) - SF, fantasy, & horror genres. He's written several Star Wars & Dune books.
- Poul Anderson (1950s-2000) - grandmaster of SF
- Christopher Anvil (1960s-2000s, died 2009) - Pandora's Legions, Interstellar Patrol, & Interstellar Patrol II: The Federation of Humanity are his best known books.
- K.A. Applegate (1990s & up) - best known for her Animorphs series, starting with The Invasion, & other YA books. Wife of Michael Grant, another YA author best known for his Gone series YA dystopia.
- Eleanor Arnason (1970s & up) - SF novels & short stories, best known for her omnibus A Woman of the Iron People & short story collection Hidden Folk.
- Piers Anthony (1960s & up) - Macroscope & others
- Nathan Archer (1980s & up) Pseudonym for Lawrence Watt-Evans) Predator & Star Trek franchise novels as well as others.
- Catherine Asaro (1990s & up) - Skolian Empire
- Neal Asher (1990s & up) - Best known for his Agent Cormac series starting with Gridlinked, many other series. Also short stories.
3 - Isaac Asimov (1939-1990s) - Foundation, I, Robot, & many more
- Janet Asimov (1970s & up) - best known for herThe Norby Chronicles written with her husband Isaac Asimov. Also wrote standalone novels under her own name & J.O. Jeppson, a pseudonym.
- Robert Lynn Asprin (1970s-2000s, died 2008) - best known for humorous fantasy such as the M.Y.T.H series, he also wrote Phule's Company series which is SF.
- A.A. Attanasio (1980s & up) - mostly writes horror, but his Radix is SF.
1 - Margaret Atwood (1980s & up) - The Handmaid's Tale, MaddAddam series, & more

# books
group read --- Author's name --- Writing period --- Comments
B
1 - Paolo Bacigalupi (2000s & up) - YA - The Windup Girl, Ship Breaker series & more.
- Darrell Bain (2000s & up) - SF short stories & novels: Oops! Darrell Bain's Latest Collection of Short Stories, Samantha's Talent, & Alien Infection. He has also written the The Sex Gates trilogy with Jeanine Berry.
- Kage Baker (1990s-2000s, died 2010) - Best known for her Company series that starts with In the Garden of Iden, Mendoza in Hollywood, & The Empress of Mars.
- J.G. Ballard (1960s-2000s) - Crash, The Drowned World, & more.
- Edwin Balmer (1920s-1930s, died 1959) - Best known for coauthoring When Worlds Collide with Philip Wylie. Also wrote mysteries & other genres.
1 - Iain M. Banks (1980s & up) - Culture series
- René Barjavel (1940s-1970s) - most works in French. Only La Nuit des temps (The Ice People) (1968) is currently available in English. Also wrote short stories.
- John Barnes (1980s & up) - artist & author in several genres, best known for Directive 51, the first of his Daybreak series.
- Steven Barnes (1980s & up) - SF, horror, scripts. He has written several books with Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle. Also written Star Wars, Star Trek, & an Assassins Creed novel. Best known for his Lion's Blood series.
- Paul Barnett (Paul Le Page Barnett) (1980s & up) - Under this name, he's written Strider's Galaxy & Strider's Universe. See John Grant, the pseudonym under which he is best known. (Not to be confused with John Grant, the children's illustrator & author.)
1 - Laird Barron (2000 & up) - Horror/weird only?
- William Barton (1970s & up) - Best known for his Starover series starting with Iris. Has written quite a few novels with Michael Capobianco
- Stephen Baxter (1990s & up) - mathmetician & aerospace engineer, SF & Fantasy.
- Elizabeth Bear (2000s & up) - SF, fantasy, & historical. Best known for Karen Memory & New Amsterdam series.
- Greg Bear (1980s & up) - hard SF, married to Astrid, Poul Anderson's daughter.
- Charles Beaumont (1950-1970) - TV scripts for Hitchcock & Serling's Twilight Zone plus short stories in Bradbury anthologies.
- Edward Bellamy (1880s-1898 died) - Best known for Looking Backward: 2000-1887 & Equality.
- Alexander Belyaev (1920s-1930s, died 1942) - best known works translated to English are The Amphibian & Professor Dowell's Head.
1 - Gregory Benford (1970s & up)
- Jeanine Berry (2000s & up) - best known works are The Sex Gates trilogy & the Transexual Anthology with Darrell Bain. She has also written the Scent of Magic, an SF book.
- Tony Bertauski (2010s & up) - best known for his The Annihilation of Foreverland & Claus: Legend of the Fat Man series.
2 - Alfred Bester (1950s-1990s) - The Stars My Destination, The Demolished Man, & many others.
- John Gregory Betancourt (1980s & up)
- Ambrose Bierce (1870s-1910s) - mostly horror/weird & short stories.
- Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1950s-1990s, died 2002) - most prolific for short stories in the 1950s, novels in the 60s-70s. Monument is best known SF. Also wrote mysteries.
- John Birmingham (2000s & up) - best known for his "Axis of Time" series which starts with Weapons of Choice. His "Dave vs. the Monsters" series (monsters through dimensional portal, humor) starts with Emergence.
- David Bischoff (1970s & up)
- Michael Bishop (1970s & up) - short stories & his most popular novel is No Enemy But Time.
- Terry Bisson (1980s & up) - SF, YA, short stories, & alternate history. Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories is short stories, Fire on the Mountain best known alternate history. Wrote franchise novels such as Star Wars & novelizations of several movies. He also wrote the "Real Adventures of Jonny Quest" with David Bischoff as Brad Quentin.
- Malorie Blackman (1990s & up) - Best known for her Noughts & Crosses series, YA dystopian romance.
- James Blish (1950s-1970s) - "After Such Knowledge" & "Cities In Flight" series plus.
- Robert Bloch (1940s-1990s, died 1994) - horror & mystery writer most famous for Psycho. A correspondent with H.P. Lovecraft. He & Andre Norton wrote The Jekyll Legacy together. He also teamed up with Harlan Ellison in Partners in Wonder for several Jack the Ripper stories.
- J.F. Bone - (1950s-1970s) - The Lani People & 31 short stories. We read the short story Pandemic, but "Triggerman" won him his only Hugo & is his most anthologized story.
- Pierre Boulle (1940s-1980s) - The Bridge Over the River Kwai (not SF), Planet of the Apes, Garden on the Moon, & others.
- Ben Bova (1960s & up) - "The Grand Tour of the Universe" series & many more. Also influential editor.
- Leigh Brackett (1940s-1970s) - The Long Tomorrow, 'Skaith' & 'Eric John Stark' series, & more. Wife of Edmond Hamilton.
3 - Ray Bradbury (1940s-2000s) - Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, & many more.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley (1970s - 1990s) - 'Darkover' & 'Avalon' series plus.
- David Brin (1980s & up) - 'Uplift' series, The Postman, & more.
- Terry Brooks (1970s & up) - mostly fantasy (Shannara, 'Word & Void') with SF elements. Street Freaks is YA SF.
- John Brosnan (1970s - 2000s, died 2005) - best known for The Sky Lords trilogy.
- Eric Brown (1980s & up) - Horror, SF, YA, & other genres. Best known for his Helix series & Bengal Station series that begins with Necropath.
1 - Fredric Brown (1940s-1970s) - Martians, Go Home, What Mad Universe, & others.
- Pierce Brown (2010 & up) "Red Rising" series.
- John Brunner (1950s-1990s) - Stand on Zanzibar, The Sheep Look Up, The Shockwave Rider, & more.
- Tobias S. Buckell (2000s & up) - SF & fantasy. Best known for his Xenowealth series which starts with Crystal Rain & his Arctic Rising series. He's also written quite a number of HALO franchise books.
- Algis Budrys (1950s-2000s) - Rogue Moon, Who?, & many others.
2 - Lois McMaster Bujold (1980s & up) - 'Vorkosigan' series. Also writes fantasy.
- Mikhail Bulgakov (1920s-1930s, died 1940) - The Fatal Eggs (1923) is his only SF novel that I know of.
- Kenneth Bulmer aka Alan Burt Akers (1950s-1990s, died 2005) - used many pseudonyms & wrote in many genres, often franchise novels. To Outrun Doomsday & Cycle of Nemesis are standalone SF. Whirlpool Of Stars is the first of his Hook series Tully Zetford. Best known for his Dray Prescott series using Alan Burt Akers which starts with Transit to Scorpio (Dray Prescot, #1).
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1871) - His only proto-SF is The Coming Race. He's best known for being a popular, bad writer (e.g., 'It was a dark & stormy night...'). There's even a contest named for him.
- Kir Bulychev (1960s-1980s, died 2003) - (aka Krill Bulychev, both pseudonyms for historian Mozheyko) - Best known works in English are Those Who Survive & Alice: The Girl From Earth.
- Chris Bunch (1980s & up) - best known for the 'Sten' series & several others with Allan Cole, but he's also written on his own & some fantasy. Mostly action/military.
- David R. Bunch (1950s-1990s, died 2000) - short stories only. Bunch! is his most popular collection.
- Katharine Burdekin (1920s-1930s) - Best known for Swastika Night, Proud Man, & The End of This Day's Business, her few books deal with fascist worlds of the future. (aka Murray Constantine)
- Anthony Burgess (1950s-1990s) - A Clockwork Orange & The Wanting Seed plus others.
1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1910s-1950) - Tarzan, Barsoom, Pellucidar, & Venus series plus.
- F.M. Busby (1950s-1990s) - 'Demu', 'Rissa Kerguelen', & 'Holzein' (Rebel) series & more. A lot of short stories.
1 - Octavia E. Butler (1970s-2000s) - 'Patternist', 'Parable', 'Xenogenesis' series, Kindred & more.

# books
group read --- Author's name --- Writing period --- Comments
C
- Pat Cadigan (1980s & up) - Mindplayers, Synners, & more. Cyberpunk?
- Martin Caidin (1950s - 2000) Cyborg (6 Million $ Man) & more. Action oriented.
- John W. Campbell Jr. (1930s-1970s) - Who Goes There? (The Thing movies) & others. Very influential editor 1940s-1960s.
1 - Karel Capek (1920s-1940) - R.U.R. (Robots), War with the Newts, & more.
- Michael Capobianco (1990s & up) - mostly known for his novels with William Barton. He also wrote Burster.
1 - Orson Scott Card (1970s & up) - Ender's Game series & many others. Also fantasy.
- Lin Carter (1960s-1980s) - fantastic SF, usually more fantasy. Influential fantasy editor.
- Cleve Cartmill (1940s-1950s, died 1964) - Best known for his short story "Deadline" which described the atomic bomb before it was public. He wrote other short stories & several novels such as The Space Scavengers.
- Jeffrey A. Carver (1970s & up) - SF, fantasy, & YA. He's best known for his Chaos Chronicles series that starts with Neptune Crossing & the Star Rigger series that starts with Panglor.
- Jack L. Chalker (1970s - 2000s) - "Well of Souls", "Four Lords of the Diamond", & many other series & books.
- Becky Chambers (2010s & up) - best known for The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.
- Suzy McKee Charnas (1970s & up) - Best known for her Holdfast Chronicles series which starts with Walk to the End of the World. (Fems caused the apocalypse.)
1 - C.J. Cherryh (1970s & up) - Downbelow Station, Foreigner series, & many more.
1 - Ted Chiang (1990s & up) - mostly shorter SF, The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Stories of Your Life and Others, & more.
- John Christopher (pseudonym of Samuel Youd) (1960s-1990s) - Tripod series & many other YA SF & fantasy novels.
4 - Arthur C. Clarke (1950s-2000s) - Childhood's End, Rendezvous with Rama, 2001: A Space Odyssey, many short stories.
- Jo Clayton (1970s-1990s, died 1998) - best known for her Diadem from the Stars series.
- Hal Clement (1940s-2000s, died 2003) - SF short stories & novels. Best known for his short stories & early novels Needle & Mission of Gravity.
- John Cleve (1980s) pseudonym of Andrew J. Offutt who published the Spaceways series starting with Of Alien Bondage.
- Mark Clifton (1950s-1960s, died 1963) - SF short stories & several novels. His best known novel is They'd Rather Be Right written with Frank Riley.
1 - Ernest Cline (2010 & up) - Ready Player One & Armada so far.
- Adrian Cole (Christopher Synnot) (1970s & up) - mostly fantasy with SF elements.
- Allan Cole (1980s & up) - Sten w/Chris Bunch. (AKA Allan George Cole) action oriented, thriller & fantasy genres.
- Mark Clifton (1950s-1960s, died 1963) - SF short stories & several novels. His best known novel is They'd Rather Be Right written with Frank Riley.
- Max Allan Collins (1990s & up) - multiple genres, novelization of Waterworld is SF.
- Suzanne Collins (2000s & up) - The Hunger Games trilogy is SF. "Underland" series are YA fantasy.
- D.G. Compton (1960s-1990s) - best known for The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe.
- Michael G. Coney (1960s-2000s, died 2005) - Hello Summer, Goodbye & Cat Karina are his most popular novels. He also wrote short stories.
- Glen Cook (1970s & up) fantasy only?
- Brenda Cooper (2000s & up) - SF, fantasy, & YA. Often writes short stories with Larry Niven. Best known novel is Edge of Dark, the first of her Glittering Edge series.
- Edmund Cooper (1950s-1970s) - aka Richard Avery the pseudonym he used for his Expendables series which starts with The Deathworms of Kratos. He used other pseudonyms & wrote speculative fiction & poetry.
1 - James S.A. Corey (2010 & up) - Expanse series. SF pseudonym for Daniel Abraham fantasy author who also usesM.L.N. Hanover for UF books.
- Richard Cowper (1970s-1980s, died 2002) - best known SF novels are The Twilight of Briareus & Clone. Also wrote short stories.
- Michael Crichton (1960s-2000s) - Jurassic Park,The Andromeda Strain, Sphere, & many other popular SF novels that have been turned into movies.
- A.C. Crispin (1980s-2000s, died 2013) - best known for her Star Wars, Star Trek, books & V, which became a movie & TV series. She also wrote the Starbridge series with other authors.
1 - Blake Crouch (2000s up) - Dark Matter & more usually horror with SF & fantastic elements.
- John Crowley (1970s & up) - Engine Summer is SF, but most of his works are fantasy.
- Andrew Crumey (1990s & up) - mostly speculative literature. Mobius Dick, Music, in a Foreign Language, & Sputnik Caledonia are SF.
- Julie E. Czerneda (1990s & up) - best known for her debut SF novel A Thousand Words for Stranger.

# books
group read --- Author's name --- Writing period --- Comments
D
- Brian Daley (aka Jack McKinney) (1970s-1990s) Star Wars novelizations, Floyt & Fitzhugh series, Tron, & the Coramonde fantasy series. Robotech as JM.
- John Dalmas (1970s & up) (pseudonym of John Robert Jones) - Best known for The Regiment series.
- Tony Daniel (1990s & up) - (Not to be confused with Tony S. Daniel comic book author.) SF novels & short stories. Best known for Metaplanetary: A Novel of Interplanetary Civil War & Superluminal.
- Maurice G. Dantec (1990s & up) - writes in French, only a few of his novels have been translated to English: Babylon Babies, Cosmos Incorporated, & Grand Junction.
- Dennis Danvers (1990s & up) - Circuit of Heaven & Adult Children of Alien Beings. Also writes UF & historical.
- Clark Darlton (1950s-2000s, died 2005) - Wrote in novels & short stories in German, but translated to French, Dutch, & English. Best known works in English are The Rebels of Tuglan & Escape to Venus.
- James Dashner (2000s & up) - YA SF & children books. Best known for The Maze Runner series.
- Peter David (aka David Peters) (1980s & up) - SF in books, comic books, movies, & TV. He's written several Star Trek books.
1 - L. Sprague de Camp (1940s-1990s) - Lest Darkness Fall SF, a lot of fantasy. Famous for editing the Lancer editions of REH's Conan books with Lin Carter & his fantasy with Fletcher Pratt.
- John DeChancie (1980s & up) - Skyway trilogy, but best known for the Castle Perilous series, comedic fantasy. Also wrote the Dr. Dimension comedic SF books with David Bischoff.
- Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (1859-1890s, died 1889) French author of mostly mystery & horror. Tomorrow's Eve is SF.
- James De Mille (1888, died 1880 not a typo) - A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder
- Lester del Rey (1950s-1970s) - The Runaway Robot, The Mysterious Planet, & more. Also wrote fantasy & was an influential editor.
1 - Samuel R. Delany (1960s & up) - Dhalgren, Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection
- Joe Dever (1980s & up) - mostly games, fantasy, & YA, his "Freeway Warrior" which starts with Highway Holocaust is SF.
- Marianne de Pierres (2000s & up) - Best known for her Night Creatures series which is SF/UF/Dystopia & her SF Parrish Plessis series that starts with Nylon Angel.
4 - Philip K. Dick (1950s-1980s) - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner), The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, Ubik, & many more.
- Terrance Dicks (1970s -2000s) - best known for Dr. Who novelizations.
- Gordon R. Dickson (1950s-1990s) best known for his Dorsai! (SF military) series, & his fantasy series The Dragon and the George. Time Storm, Wolfling & many other SF books. He wrote the Hoka series with Poul Anderson.
- William C. Dietz (1980s & up) - Best known for his franchise novels (Halo, Mass Effect, Star Wars) & his Legion of the Damned series.
- Paul Di Filippo (1980s & up) - best known for The Steampunk Trilogy.
- J.M. Dillard (1980s & up) - Her real name is Jeanne Kalogridis under which she writes historical novels. Under this pseudonym, she is best known for her Star Trek franchise novels.
- Thomas M. Disch (1960s-2000s) - Camp Concentration, The Genocides, & more. Campy & sardonic.
- Cory Doctorow (1990s & up) - SF, fantasy, & YA both novels & short stories. Little Brother is his most popular book.
- Stephen R. Donaldson (1970s & up) - best known for his Thomas Covenant & other fantasy, but also wrote the Gap series which is SF.
1 - Arthur Conan Doyle (1880s-1920s) - Best known for Sherlock Holmes, he also wrote The Lost World & other Professor Challengers stories.
- Ian Douglas (1980s & up) - pseudonym of William H. Keith Jr. (see more under his entry) - Best known for his Star Carrier series which starts with Earth Strike, he's also written other military SF.
- Debra Doyle (1990s & up) - often writes with her husband James D. Macdonald. 2 Tom Swift novels & their Mage Worlds series is space opera with magic in it. Writes a lot of fantasy.
- Gardner Dozois (1970s-2018 died) - Best known for editing "The Year's Best Science Fiction" since 1984 & other anthologies. He also wrote Strangers.
- David Drake (1970s & up) - Best known for "Hammer's Slammers", a military SF series, he's written a lot of SF & fantasy.

# books
group read --- Author's name --- Writing period --- Comments
E
- George Alec Effinger (1970s-1990s, died 2002) - husband of Barbara Hambly. Best known for his "Marid Audran" series that starts with When Gravity Fails.
- Greg Egan (1990s & up) - many hard SF books.
- Richard Mace Elam (1950s-1960s, died 2013) - YA SF, best known for his short SF stories in "Boy's Life". A collection of his stories is Young Readers Science Fiction Stories.
- Suzette Haden Elgin (1970s-1990s) - best known for her Native Tongue trilogy which focuses on feminist language.
- Harlan Ellison (1950s -2018 died) - many short stories & scripts. Also edited anthologies including Partners in Wonder where he collaborated writing short stories with many of the greats.
- Ru Emerson (1980s-1990s) - mostly fantasy, one of the first D&D books Keep on the Borderlands. Her only SF is Voices of Chaos with A.C. Crispin, is the 7th of the latter's Starbridge series.
- Carol Emshwiller (1950s-2000s, died 2019) - SF short stories & novels. Best known for The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Vol. 1 & The Mount.
- M.J. Engh (1970s-1990s) - Arslan & Wheel of the Winds (first published SF as Jane Beauclerk). Also wrote YA mystery.
- Steven Erikson (1990s & up) - best known for his fantasy series "Malazan Book of the Fallen", he's also written SF such as Rejoice, A Knife to the Heart & The Devil Delivered and Other Tales.
- Andreas Eschbach (1990s & up) - best known in English for The Carpet Makers. Most of his works are in German.
- Kelley Eskridge (1990s & up) - so far only the novel Solitaire & some short stories in Dangerous Space.
- E. Everett Evans (1950s-1970s) - Man of Many Minds, The Planet Mappers, & more. Wrote Masters Of Space with E.E. "Doc" Smith.

# books
group read --- Author's name --- Writing period --- Comments
F
- Michel Faber (2000s & up) - SF, fantasy, horror, & historical. Best known for The Book of Strange New Things.
- Jane S. Fancher (1980s & up) - Best known SF is Groundties, the first of that trilogy. Often writes with C.J. Cherryh, especially short stories.
- Philip José Farmer (1960s-1990s) - the World of Tiers & River World series & many more. He also got permission from Vonnegut to write Venus on the Half-Shell as Kilgore Trout.
- John Russell Fearn (1930s-1950s, died 1960)- prolific pulp author, both SF novels & short stories, as well as other genres. Books include The Golden Amazon series. He used many pseudonyms alone & with other authors in the pulps: Volsted Gridban (also used by E.C. Tubb), & more.
- Cynthia Felice (1970s-1990s) - SF & literature. Best known SF is Godsfire. Has written with Connie Willis.
- Lionel Fenn (1980s-1990s) - see Charles L. Grant. Under this pseudonym that often isn't connected to him, he's written the Diego (gun slinger time tripping) series as well the Kent Montana series & possibly more.
- Brad Ferguson (1980s-1990s) - The World Next Door & Star Trek franchise novels.
- Sheila Finch (1980s & up) - The Guild of Xenolinguists is a collection of her short stories. The Garden of the Shaped is the first book of her Shaper Exile trilogy.
- Jack Finney (1950s-1990s) - Best known for Invasion of the Body Snatchers & Time and Again.
- Nicholas Fisk (1960s-1990s, died 2016) - YA SF & fantasy, Grinny, A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair, Space Hostages, & Trillions. Pseudonym of David Higginbottom.
- Eric Flint (1990s & up) best known for alternate time line histories such as 1632.
- Michael F. Flynn (1990s & up) - Hard SF possibly best known for his Firestar series.
- John M. Ford (1970s-2000, died 2006) - fantasy, UF, & SF, often a blend such as The Dragon Waiting (alternate history). Growing Up Weightless is SF as are his Star Trek franchise novels.
- William R. Forstchen (1980s & up) - best known for his current One Second After trilogy, realistic post apocalyptic.
- Robert L. Forward (1980-1990s) - Best known for his Cheela & Rocheworld series plus standalones like Camelot 30K. Hard SF, physicist & aerospace engineer.
- Alan Dean Foster (1970s & up) - Best known for novelizations of popular movies (Alien, The Black Hole, The Chronicles of Riddick) he also has several popular series such as 'Pip & Flinx', starts with The Tar-Aiym Krang. Also writes fantasy & other genres.
- Karen Joy Fowler (1980s & up) - literature, historical, fantasy, & SF both novels & short stories. Sarah Canary is her most popular SF novel. What I Didn't See and Other Stories has some SF stories in it.
- Gardner Francis Fox (1940s-1980s, died 1986) - pulp author 10 Gardner Francis Fox Planet Stories Collected & Illustrated, best known for his S&S such as Kyrik: Warlock Warrior & Kothar stories.His SF like Escape Across The Cosmos is usually action oriented.
- Randall Frakes (1980s-1990s) - only SF so far are The Terminator (with Bill Wisher & (arguably) James Francis Cameron) & Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
- James Frey (2000s & up) - best known for his fiction book A Million Little Pieces which he passed off as nonfiction to Oprah. As Pittacus Lore, he & Jobie Hughes have written the Lorien Legacies, YA SF best known for I Am Number Four. He has also written other YA SF/fantasy, literature, & thrillers.
- C.S. Friedman (1980s & up) - Writes SF (This Alien Shore & the In Conquest Born series) plus fantasy.
- Esther M. Friesner (1980s & up) - mostly writes fantasy, but has written several Star Trek tie-in books & one in McCaffery's Dragonflight series.

# books
group read --- Author's name --- Writing period --- Comments
G
1 - Neil Gaiman (1990s & up) - fantasy/speculative fiction. We read American Gods in 2016.
- Daniel F. Galouye (1950s-1970s, died 1976) - Dark Universe, Simulacron 3, & several others as well as 2 short story collections.
- James Alan Gardner (1990s & up) - Short SF stories, "League of People" series, & a couple of NF books on computer programming languages.
- Richard Garfinkle (1990s & up) - few books so far: Celestial Matters, All of an Instant, & a couple more.
- Randall Garrett (1940s-1980s, died 1987) - short stories & novels, SF & fantasy. Best known for his Lord Darcy trilogy which is alternate history.Anything You Can Do ... is also SF. His Gandalara series (with his wife, Vicki Ann Heydron) is more fantastic than SF, IMO.
- W. Michael Gear (1980s & up) - SF & historical fiction. Best known for his Spider trilogy. Often collaborates with his wife, Kathleen O'Neal Gear.
- Mary Gentle (1980s & up) - Ash: A Secret History is shelved as SF-alternate history by some, but her Golden Witchbreed are SF. She's also written a lot of short stories.
- Peter George (1960s) - Best known for Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
- Hugo Gernsback (1910s-1950s) - Namesake of the Hugo award. Coined the term Science Fiction. He did write several novels, but is chiefly remembered for giving SF writers a place to publish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ge...
- David Gerrold (1970s & up) - The Man Who Folded Himself & Star Trek novels plus many others. A Matter for Men is the first of the Chtorr series.
- Gary Gibson (2000s & up) - His Shoal series starts with Stealing Light & he's written a couple of others.
3 - William Gibson (1980s & up) - best known as the father of the Cyberpunk subgenre with Neuromancer, the first of his Sprawl novels.
- Dmitry Glukhovsky (2000s & up) - Metro 2033 can be read for free on his website & was made into an Xbox game. He's also written (so far) 2 other books in the series & FUTU.RE.
- Parke Godwin (1970s-2000s, died 2013) - best known for YA fantasy, he's written Waiting for the Galactic Bus & co-wrote The Masters of Solitude & Wintermind with Marvin Kaye.
1 - Tom Godwin (1950s-1970s) - best known for The Cold Equations and Other Stories.
- Kathleen Ann Goonan (1990s & up) - best known for Queen City Jazz, the first of her Nanotech Cycle series & In War Times.
- James Goss (2000s & up) - best known for writing Dr. Who novels.
- Ron Goulart (1960s & up) - Writes SF & other genres including franchise books like Battlestar Galactica & Flash Gordon. He's also a comic book guru. Possibly best known for ghost/cowriting William Shatner TekWar.
- Steven Gould (1990s & up) - best known for his book:Jumper|47970] series. He's also written 7th Sigma which is also YA SF. Married to Laura J. Mixon with whom he wrote Greenwar.
- Charles L. Grant (1960s-2000s, died 2006) - very prolific both short stories & novels using many names. Best known for horror, he's also written in the X Files franchise under his real name. As Lionel Fenn (1980s-1990s) he's written the Diego (gun slinger time tripping) series as well the Kent Montana series. Married to Kathryn Ptacek, a horror author.
- John Grant (1980s & up) - Pseudonym of Paul Le Page Barnett, aka Paul Barnett (see separate entry). He is best known for his nonfiction books about science, SF, fantasy, & noir, he has also written short stories (Take No Prisoners) & novels such as Judge Dredd: The Hundredfold Problem. He's also written Earthdoom! with David Langford. (Not to be confused with John Grant, the children's illustrator & author.)
- Michael Grant (2000s & up) YA author best known for his Gone series YA dystopia. Husband of K.A. Applegate (1990s & up) - best known for her Animorphs series, starting with The Invasion, & other YA books.
- Rob Grant (1990s & up) - writes with Doug Naylor as Grant Naylor in the Red Dwarf franchise. Also popular for his SF books Incompetence, Fat, Colony, & more.
- Roland J. Green (1970s & up) - best known for his fantasy works, he's also written thrillers & SF such asSquadron Alert is the first of his "Starcruiser Shenandoah" series & others. He's also written in Jerry Pournelle's Janissaries series.
- Simon R. Green (1990s & up) - Best known SF is the space opera Deathstalker series & its spin-offs. Also writes fantasy, S&S.
- Colin Greenland (1980s & up) - Fantasy & SF both novels & short stories. Best known for his "Tabitha Jute" (Plenty) series which starts with Take Back Plenty, & the standalone Harm's Way.
- Lois H. Gresh (1990s & up) - most popular for her books about various SF & fantasy series, she's also written Technolife 2020: A Day in the World of Tomorrow a blend of fiction & nonfiction plus other fantasy & horror. She also wrote Computers Of Star Trek withRobert E. Weinberg (He writes mostly horror.)
- George Chetwynd Griffith (1890s-1900s, died 1906) - A Honeymoon in Space, The Outlaws of the Air, and Other Stories : 16 Works of George Chetwynd Griffith, & several others.
- Nicola Griffith (1990s & up) - Ammonite & Slow River, writes in other genres besides SF, too.
- Jon Courtenay Grimwood (1990s & up) - Pashazade is the first of his Arabesk trilogy, End of the World Blues, 9Tail Fox, & more. Blends action, SF, & other elements. Also writes UF.
- Ken Grimwood (1970s-1990s, died 2003) - best known for Replay. Only published 5 novels, unexpected death.
- James E. Gunn (1950s & up) - many short stories & dozens of books such as The Joy Machine & Gift From The Stars.

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- P.J. Haarsma (2000s & up) - the "Softwire" series which starts with Virus on Orbis 1.
- Karen Haber (1980s & up) - best known for The Mutant Season which she wrote with her husband Robert Silverberg, she continued the series on her own. Together they edited Universe 1 & Universe 2 anthologies.
- Jack C. Haldeman II (1970-1990s) - Perry's Planet & several other books & short stories. Coauthored There Is No Darkness with his younger brother, Joe Haldeman.
- Joe Haldeman (1970s & up), best known for The Forever War, a rebuttal to Starship Troopers. Many other good SF novels such as Mindbridge & All My Sins Remembered.
- Barbara Hambly (1980s & up) - mostly an excellent fantasy author, but has written Star Wars & Star Trek franchise novels. Wife of George Alec Effinger.
- Edmond Hamilton (1920s-1970s) - Prolific space opera & other SF. Wrote the Captain Future series & Starwolf trilogy plus others such as City at World's End & The Valley of Creation. Married to Leigh Brackett.
- Peter F. Hamilton (1980s & up) - SF & YA fantasy. Probably best known for his Commonwealth Saga (Pandora's Star) & Night's Dawn (The Reality Dysfunction) series.
- Elizabeth Hand (1990s & up) - mostly horror/fantasy, although she has written some franchise novels: Star Wars Boba Fett & X-Files.
- Lee Harding (1960s-1980s) - YA & SF both novels & short stories, founded the Melbourne Science Fiction Club. Edited several anthologies.
- Charles L. Harness (1950s-1990s) - The Paradox Men is one. Better known in the UK than US, although he is a US author.
- Clare Winger Harris (1920s) Possibly the first woman to publish SF under her own name, 11 stories collected in Away from the Here and Now: Stories in Pseudo-Science.
1 - Thea von Harbou (1900s-1950s) - best known for writing the screen play of Metropolis by her husband, Fritz Lang. Most books in German.
2 - Harry Harrison (1960s-1990s) - best known for The Stainless Steel Rat, Deathworld 1, Bill, the Galactic Hero, & Eden series. He also wrote Make Room! Make Room! which became the movie "Soylent Green" (1973). He also lampooned John W. Campbell Jr.'s writing & editing style in Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers.
- M. John Harrison (1970s & up) - short stories & novels, often satire. Best known for the Light & Viriconium series.
- Henry Hasse (1930s-1970s) - best known for his short stories. One novel, "The Stars Will Wait" (1968) is in the ISFDB, but not on GR.
- Simon Hawke (1970s & up) - He was born Nicholas Yermakov & some books filed under that. Best known SF are books in the Star Trek & Predator franchises, but he's also written the 'Time Wars' series & others Also writes fantasy & thrillers.
- John Twelve Hawks (2000s & up) - Best known for his Fourth Realm series that begins with The Traveler.
4 - Robert A. Heinlein (1940s-1980s) - Grandmaster of SF, best known for Stranger in a Strange Land & his Juveniles in the 1950s. He wrote a lot of short stories in the 1940s-50s & very long, preachy novels from 1970 until his death in 1988. Spider Robinson, his fanboy, finished his last 2 novels long after his death.
- Zenna Henderson (1960s-1970s) - Best known for her "People" series & many short stories.
- Brian Herbert (1980s & up) - son of Frank Herbert with whom he wrote Man of Two Worlds. He's continued Frank's Dune series with Kevin J. Anderson.
1 - Frank Herbert (1950s-1980s) - best known for Dune & it's many subsequent novels, many of which are written with or by his son, Brian Herbert. He also wrote the Pandora series & other SF short stories & novels.
- Tracy Hickman (1980s & up) - mostly fantasy & YA, also writes some magical SF space opera with Margaret Weis . They have an SF series, Starshield, that starts with The Mantle of Kendis-Dai. He also writes with his wife Laura Hickman who writes fantasy, horror, & YA.
- Douglas Arthur Hill (1970s-2000s, died 2007) - best known for his 'Last Legionary' series which starts withGalactic Warlord.
1 - James Hilton (1920s-1950s) - Lost Horizon (1930) is speculative fiction that we read. Best known for Good-Bye, Mr. Chips which was also made into a movie. (Not to be confused with James Hilton, a new thriller author.)
- Christopher Hinz (1980s & up) - best known for his Paratwa series.
- Russell Hoban (1980s-2000s, died 2011) - children's books, fantasy & SF from 1967 (The Mouse and His Child). In the 1980s, he started writing SF (Riddley Walker) & short stories. In 1999 he wrote some poems.
1 - William Hope Hodgson (1900s-1910s died in WWI) - we read The House on the Borderland, speculative/horror fiction.
- James P. Hogan (1970s-2000s) - Best known for his Giants series that starts with Inherit the Stars & standalones such as Voyage from Yesteryear & The Proteus Operation.
- Robert Holdstock (1960s-2000s, died 2009) - Best known for fantasy & action thrillers. He wrote & cowrote many under pseudonyms. His best known SF is Where Time Winds Blow & Eye among the blind.
- Nalo Hopkinson (1990s & up) - Best known for her first book, Brown Girl in the Ring, & Midnight Robber.
- Robert E. Howard (1920s-1936, died 1936) - best known for his Conan stories which are S&S. Also wrote in many other genres (boxing, humor, historical, & more) including SF, although most are short stories that are difficult to get. He also corresponded with many authors of his time (Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, Robert Bloch, H.P. Lovecraft, & more. Many works published well after his death.
- Hugh Howey (2000s & up) - best known for his Wool series which changed him from a self-published author into an International success.
- Fred Hoyle (1960s-1980s) - theoretical physicist & astronomer, he famously rejected the Big Bang Theory. Wrote many SF books & stories. Best known for The Black Cloud (1959).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle
- L. Ron Hubbard (1930s-1980s) He died in 1986, but many books were published well after his death. Best known for creating the Church of Scientology & Dianetics. Also an SF author & editor. "Mission Earth" is his only series plus many standalones. He also edited many anthologies in the "Writers of the Future". Good friends with both John W. Campbell Jr. & A.E. van Vogt.
- Tanya Huff (1980s & up) - writes mostly UF & fantasy, but the "Confederation" series is SF & starts with Valor's Choice.
- Denis Hughes (1950s, died 2008) - prolific pulp author of SF novels as well as other genres. Best known SF is as Gill Hunt (also used by John Brunner & E.C. Tubb. He also wrote Maid of Thuro as with John Lane, one of his pseudonyms.
- Monica Hughes (1970s-1990s, died 2003) - YA & inspirational, her best known SF is Invitation to the Game & the first of her 'Isis' series, The Keeper of the Isis Light.
- Ryan Hughes (1980s & up) - pseudonym of Jerry Oltion for SF novels such as Hard Crash. Under his real name, he is a prolific short story author, he's also written novels including Star Trek & Asimov's Robot City franchise novels.
- Gill Hunt (1950s) - pseudonym used by John Brunner, E.C. Tubb, & Denis Hughes as pulp authors for novels such as Hostile Worlds.
- Stephen Hunt (1990s & up) - The Court of the Air is the first in his Jackelian steampunk series which he is best known for.
- Kameron Hurley (2000s & up) - Her best known book is nonfiction, The Geek Feminist Revolution, a collection of essays. She's also written The Stars Are Legion & The Mirror Empire which is the first of her 'Worldbreaker Saga' series.
- Dave Hutchinson (1980s & up) - best known for his 'Europe' series in the 2000s, he started writing short stories 2 decades earlier & recently published Acadie.
- Aldous Huxley (1920s-1950s, died 1963) - best known for Brave New World & Island utopian societies. He also wrote nonfiction & poetry.

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- Dean Ing (1980s & up) - SF thrillers like his Quantrill trilogy that starts with Systemic Shock.
- Kazuo Ishiguro (1990s & up) - Best known for his SF novel Never Let Me Go.
- Emmi Itäranta (2010s & up) - Memory of Water, a YA dystopia is her only novel so far.

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- Carl Jacobi (1920s-1990s) - horror, fantasy, crime, & SF short stories.
- P.D. James (1992, died 2014) - mostly mystery & historical, but The Children of Men is SF.
- N.K. Jemisin (2000s & up) - fantasy & SF, both novels & short stories. The Fifth Season is the first of her "Broken Earth" series.
- P.C. Jersild (1980s) - A Living Soul & After the Flood.
- K.W. Jeter (1970s & up) - SF & horror, his Infernal Devices series is steampunk. He's also written various franchise novels, best known for his contributions to Star Wars.
- Xia Jia (2010s & up) - Chinese, short stories only?
- George Clayton Johnson (1960s-1990s, died 2015) - best known for co-authoring Logan's Run with William F. Nolan. He wrote a lot of short stories & contributed many Twilight Zone Scripts and Stories.
- Kenneth C. Johnson (2000s & up) - only The Man of Legends & The Darwin Variant novels so far. He's also written in the V franchise as well as numerous scripts for SF shows such as the Hulk, Bionic Woman, & more.
- D.F. Jones (1960s-1970s) - best known for his Colossus trilogy.
- Gwyneth Jones (1970s & up) - best known for Proof of Concept & her Bold as Love series.
- Raymond F. Jones (1940s-1970s) - best known for This Island Earth which became a movie & many short stories.
- Diana Wynne Jones (1970s-2000s, died 2011) - primarily YA & fantasy author such as Howl's Moving Castle, The Homeward Bounders & A Tale of Time City are arguably SF.

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- Janet Kagan (1980s-1990s) - a novel Hellspark, several collections of short stories including Mirabile, & a Star Trek novel Uhura's Song.
- Jeanne Kalogridis (1980s & up) - is her real name under which she writes historical novels. Under the pseudonym J.M. Dillard she is best known for her Star Trek franchise novels.
- Colin Kapp (1960s-1980s, died 2007) - Patterns Of Chaos, The Ion War, & other space operas. He also wrote the Cageworld series that starts with Search for the Sun.
- Drew Karpyshyn (2000s & up) - video game scripts & franchise novel tie-ins for Star Wars, Mass Effect, & others both in SF & fantasy.
- Marvin Kaye (1970s & up) - co-wrote The Masters of Solitude & Wintermind with Parke Godwin. Also writes mysteries, horror & fantasy, novels & short stories. He has edited a lot of anthologies.
- Alexander Kazantsev (1940s - 1970s) Russian without many works translated to English. The Destruction of Faena is, as well as a collection of his short stories on his arctic adventures, Against the Wind.
- Andrew Keith (1980s-1990s, died 1999) - best known for his franchise novels such as BattleTech. As Keith William Andrews, he is best known for his Freedom's Rangers series. He also wrote "Fifth Foreign Legion" series starting with March or Die with his brother, William H. Keith Jr..
- William H. Keith Jr. (1980s & up) - Publishes under the pseudonym of Ian Douglas (see more under his entry) - Best known for his Warstrider series, he's also written other military SF. Brother of Andrew Keith with whom he wrote "Fifth Foreign Legion" series starting with March or Die.
- Joseph E. Kelleam (1930s-1970s) - short stories & space opera, Hunters Out of Space.
- David H. Keller (1920s-1960s) - a psychiatrist & his stories reflect that. He wrote both novels & short stories.
- James Patrick Kelly (1980s & up) - Hugo & Nebula award winner, writes novels & short stories. Also has 2 podcasts & started an ezine.
- Steven L. Kent (2000s & up) - best known for his Clone series that starts with The Clone Republic.
- Katharine Kerr (1980s & up) - primarily fantasy & UF, she has written some SF such as Polar City Blues with Kate Daniel & Resurrection.
- John Kessel (1980s & up) - Pride and Prometheus, The Moon and the Other, & other novels. He's also contributed to comics & written quite a few short stories starting in the late 1970s.
- Alexander Key (1960s-1970s, died 1979) - best known for YA such as the SF classic The Forgotten Door, an old favorite of mine, The Incredible Tide & others. He also wrote Escape to Witch Mountain.
- Daniel Keyes (1960s-1990s) - best known for the short story & novel Flowers for Algernon which became the movie "Charly" (1968).
- Greg Keyes (1990s & up) - Fantasy, UF, & SF. Most SF is in franchises such as Star Wars. He's also written novelizations of movies such as Interstellar.
- Caitlín R. Kiernan (1990s & up) - best known for horror & fantasy, both novels & short stories. Her Agents of Dreamland series is SF.
- Sara King (2010s & up) - Fantasy, UF, & SF, her Zero series starts with Forging Zero.
- Stephen King (1970s & up) - mostly horror & fantasy, some of his books have an SF basis, most notably The Stand.
- T. Jackson King (1980s & up) - best known forEarth Vs. Aliens, the first of his "Aliens" series, Retread Shop, & Stellar Assassin. He's also written Ancestor's World, with A.C. Crispin the sixth of her Starbridge series.
- Donald Kingsbury (1980s & up) - Courtship Rite, Psychohistorical Crisis, & more.
- Rudyard Kipling (1880s-1930s, died 1936) - best known for various stories about India including The Jungle Book, he also wrote some SF stories which are collected in The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling.
- Annette Curtis Klause (1990s & up) - YA, mostly fantasy & UF, Alien Secrets is SF.
- Gérard Klein (1950s & up) - many works only in French or translated to languages other than English. Best known for The Overlords Of War & his Starmaster's Gambit series, he's also written numerous short stories.
- Otis Adelbert Kline (1920s-1930s) - wrote & edited 'weird' tales, had a feud with Edgar Rice Burroughs, very similar writing. Agent for Robert E. Howard.
- Nigel Kneale (1950s-1970s) - best known for the Quatermass BBC series which also became 4 books.
- Damon Knight (1940s-1990s) - very influential SF author & editor with many novels & short stories. Husband of Kate Wilhelm, another very influential SF author & editor. They helped create the Clarion Writers Workshop & helped many aspiring authors. His best known short story is To Serve Man which was also one of the original Twilight Zone episodes.
- E.E. Knight (2000s & up) - best known for his Vampire Earth series in which aliens invade our world through dimensional portals. Also writes a YA dragon fantasy series & has written a Tomb Raider book.
- Dean Koontz (1970s & up) - a very popular & prolific author of horror, thrillers, SF, & fantasy books, often blending the genres. He's also written short stories & poetry.
- C.M. Kornbluth (1930s-1950s, died 1958) - best known for his short stories, especially The Little Black Bag, he also wrote novels, some coauthored with Frederik Pohl.
- Tom Kratman (2000s & up) - best known for his A Desert Called Peace series, he's also written with John Ringo.
- Nancy Kress (1980s & up) - Hugo & Nebula award winner. SF & fantasy, best known for Beggars in Spain. Wife of Charles Sheffield, another SF author.
- Michael P. Kube-McDowell (1980s & up) - best known for his Star Wars franchise novels, he's also contributed to others plus his 'Trigon Disunity' series which start with Emprise & other novels.
- Mike Kupari (2010s & up) - best known for military adventures, he's also written 2 SF books in Her Brother's Keeper series.
- Michael Kurland (1960s & up) - writes in many genres. Psi Hunt, The Unicorn Girl, Transmission Error, & others are SF.
- Henry Kuttner (1930s-1950s, died 1958) - many short stories & novels alone & with his wife C.L. Moore (1930s - 1980s, died 1987). Also wrote as Lewis Padgett & other pseudonyms. Who wrote what is often a matter of discussion since it's believed she wrote several stories published under his name. Very prolific & influential team.

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- Mercedes Lackey (1980s & up) - mostly fantasy, UF, & YA with only a few SF works including a Brainship novel with Anne McCaffrey The Ship Who Searched, the Shipscat series, & a novella or two. VERY prolific.
- R.A. Lafferty (1960s-1990s) - many short stories (200?) & several dozen novels. Mostly 'Tall Tales' style SF stories.
- Louis L'Amour (died 1988) - Influential only, but The Haunted Mesa(1987) possibly has some SF elements. About 50 out of 5000 GR reviews shelve it as SF.
- Arthur H. Landis (1960s-1980s) - A World Called Camelot series & a couple of nonfiction books.
- David Langford (1970s & up) - Fantasy & SF, novels & short stories, also an editor of Ansible & other magazines. The Leaky Establishment & The Space Eater are his 2 most popular novels. Different Kinds of Darkness is his most popular collection of short stories.
- Sterling E. Lanier (1960s-1980s, died 2007) - best known for Hiero's Journey & as the editor who helped get Dune published.
- Glen A. Larson (1970s-1980s, died 2014) - Best known for Battlestar Galactica & Knight Rider series.
- Keith Laumer (1950s-1990s, died 1993) - best known for his Bolo & Retief! series, he wrote many other books & short stories. A stroke in 1971 pretty much ruined him.
- André Laurie (1870s-1900s, died 1907) - The Conquest of the Moon. Also wrote with Jules Verne.
- Stephen R. Lawhead (1980s & up) - best known for fantasy, multiple genres including SF & YA. Dream Thief & his "Empyrion" books (The Search for Fierra) are SF. His "Howard" children's series (1980s) is SF, but none are listed on Goodreads.
3 - Ursula K. Le Guin (1950s to 2010s, died 2018) - Multiple award winner, possibly best known for her Hainish (SF) & Earthsea (fantasy) series, & The Lathe of Heaven (2 movies) she wrote many more plus short stories. Gender, environment, & political themes.
- Ann Leckie (2000s & up) best known for Ancillary Justice & it's sequels. Current secretary for the SFWA.
- Fonda Lee (2010s & up) - fantasy & SF. Zeroboxer & her Exo series are SF.
- Gentry Lee (1980s & up) - wrote a few SF novels on his own, but mostly wrote with Arthur C. Clarke. Worked with Carl Sagan creating Cosmos, the TV show.
- Sharon Lee (1980s & up) - best known for the "Liaden Universe" books with her husband Steve Miller (Agent of Change is first). The two seem to write most as a team with Lee getting top billing.
- Stan Lee (1940s to death 2018) - wrote no SF novels, but inspired many with his, Jack Kirby, & Steve Ditko comic book characters especially from the 1960s on.
- Tanith Lee (1970s-2000s, died 2015) - SF & fantasy books & short stories.
- Yoon Ha Lee (2000s & up) - SF & children's, best known for his "Machineries Of Empire" trilogy that starts with Ninefox Gambit.
- Fritz Leiber (1930s-1990s, died 1992) - coined the term (S&S). Most famous for his Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (S&S), he also wrote horror & SF both novels & short stories. The Wanderer & The Big Time are his best known SF books.
- Murray Leinster (1910s-1970s) - The Sidewise Award for Alternate History took its name from his story, “Sidewise in Time.” He also wrote westerns, mysteries, & more. Best known for his Med Ship series & many short stories.
1 - Stanislaw Lem (1950s-1980s, died 2006) - Polish author best known in the US for Solaris.
- Edward M. Lerner (1990s & up) - science & SF short stories & novels, some coauthored with Larry Niven.
- Madeleine L'Engle (1940s-2000s, died 2007) - best known SF is the Time quintet which starts with A Wrinkle in Time. She won several awards including the Newbery Medal.
- Milton Lesser (1950s-1960s, died 2008) - pseudonym of Stephen Marlowe. Best known for his detective & mystery novels under his real name & various pseudonyms, he wrote mostly SF short stories & some novels as Milton Lesser. Recruit for Andromeda & The Star Seekers are his 2 best known.
- Doris Lessing (1940s-2000s, died 2013) - mostly fiction with social commentary. Best known SF is probably The Memoirs of a Survivor & her Canopus in Argos: Archives series,Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta is the first.
1 - Jonathan Lethem (1990s & up) - primarily a mystery & 'literary' novelist, we read Amnesia Moon which is post apocalyptic SF similar to PKD's work.
- David D. Levine (2000s & up) - best known for his Arabella of Mars series, he's also written the "Space Magic" series of which Tk'Tk'Tk is the best known.
- Paul Levinson (1990s & up) - SF short stories & novels. The Plot to Save Socrates & The Silk Code are two of his best known.
1 - C.S. Lewis (1930s-1960s) - essayist & Christian apologist, he's best known for his Narnia (fantasy) & Cosmic trilogy (SF) that stars with Out of the Silent Planet.
- Shariann Lewitt (1980s & up) - Interface Masque & Rebel Sutra are her most popular books.
- Jacqueline Lichtenberg (1970s & up) - Best known for her Sime/Gen novels starting with House of Zeor.
- Brad Linaweaver (1980s & up) - Moon of Ice is his best known novel. He's also written the Doom series with Dafydd ab Hugh & written Battlestar Galactica franchise novels.
1 - David Lindsay (1920s-1930s, died 1945) - best known for A Voyage to Arcturus which we read in this group.
1 - Cixin Liu (1990s & up) - one of the leading Chinese SF authors. We read The Three-Body Problem in this group.
1 - Ken Liu (2010s & up) - we read The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories in this group. He's also written a Star Wars novel & fantasy.
1 - Jack London (1900s-1916 died) - Best known for his Yukon & Pacific Island stories, he also wrote The Iron Heel which we read in this group.
- Amelia Reynolds Long (1930s) - She primarily wrote SF short stories in & around the 1930s. Also a mystery & 'weird' fiction author. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1...
- Frank Belknap Long (1930s-1970s, died 1994) - horror, fantasy, & SF, often a mix. Best known for his short stories, although he published almost 30 novels. Died broke.
- Barry B. Longyear (1980s & up) - also writes mysteries. Best known for Enemy Mine, part of a trilogy that was made into a movie in 1985.
- Pittacus Lore (2010s & up) - 2 authors who write the Lorien Legacies & other series, YA SF best known for I Am Number Four. James Frey (see his entry) & Jobie Hughes (has written only one other book At Dawn in the 'literary' genre.)
- Jean Lorrah (1970s & up) - Star Trek novels & Savage Empire series (more fantasy than SF), as well as other fantasy & franchise works.
- H.P. Lovecraft (1900s-1930s, died 1937) - best known for horror writing in the Cthulhu Mythos. Arguably his biggest influence on SF was his personal correspondence with so many of the foundational authors: Robert Bloch, August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, Henry Kuttner, Fritz Leiber, Frank Belknap Long, C.L. Moore, & others.
- Nathan Lowell (2010s & up) - best known for his first novel Quarter Share (2007).
- Robert A.W. Lowndes (1930s-1970s, died 1998) - His best known novel is Mystery of the Third Mine & he wrote many short stories. Edited many SF magazines.
- Lois Lowry (1980s & up) - YA author, best known for The Giver, a dystopian novel, the first of a quartet.
- George Lucas (1970s & up) - best known for Star Wars.
- Nicole Luiken (1980s & up) - YA SF, best known for her Violet Eyes series.
- Sergei Lukyanenko (1990s & up) - Writes in Russian. Best known for his UF Night Watch series, The Genome is his best known SF in English.
- Richard A. Lupoff (1960s & up) - mystery & SF author of novels, short stories & screenplays. book:Circumpolar!|2522944], Sun's End, & more.
- Elizabeth A. Lynn (1970s & up) - fantasy & SF, A Different Light & The Sardonyx Net are her best known SF.

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- James D. Macdonald (1990s & up) - often writes with his wife Debra Doyle. 2 Tom Swift novels & their Mage Worlds series is space opera with magic in it. Writes a lot of fantasy.
- John D. MacDonald (1950s-1980s, died 1986) Best known for his Travis McGee series & other mysteries, but he also wrote several SF books. The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything is probably the best known & was made into a movie in 1980. Other Times, Other Worlds is a collection of SF short stories.
- Katherine Anne MacLean (1950s & up) - mostly short stories during the Golden & New Age, also wrote some novels. Missing Man lengthened from a short story. Married for 6 years around 1960 to David Mason, an SF & fantasy author.
- Ian R. MacLeod (2000s & up) - The Light Ages is steampunk, the first of his Aether series. Snodgrass and Other Illusions: The Best Short Stories of Ian R. MacLeod.
- Ken MacLeod (1990s & up) - SF & YA fantasy. Cosmonaut Keep is the first of his "Engines of Light" series. Newton's Wake: A Space Opera & Learning the World: A Scientific Romance are standalones.
- Tom Maddox (1980s-1990s)
- Barry N. Malzberg (1960s & up) - Won the first John W Campbell award, wrote 30 books & over 200 stories in mystery & SF genres.
- Stephen Marlowe (1950s-1960s, died 2008) - Best known for his detective & mystery novels under his real name, he wrote mostly SF short stories & some novels under the pseudonym of Milton Lesser. Recruit for Andromeda & The Star Seekers are his 2 best known.
- David Marusek (2000s & up) - He's written the Counting Heads series & has a short story collection Getting to Know You plus others.
- George R.R. Martin (1970s & up) - Best known for Game of Thrones, Dying of the Light is SF. Also writes horror Fevre Dream.
- Richard Matheson (1950s & up) - best known for The Shrinking Man (SF), I Am Legend (SF-horror), & Hell House (horror). He also wrote Nightmare At 20,000 Feet (Twilight Zone episode starring William Shatner) & the short story "Steel" which was both a Twilight Zone episode (starring Lee Marvin) & the basis for the movie starring Hugh Jackman.
- David Mason (1950s-1970s, died 1974) - Married for 6 years around 1960 to Katherine Anne MacLean. Little of note save that Asimov included his short story "Road Stop" in Thinking Machines & the other 4 authors are very well known.
- Susan R. Matthews (1990s & up) - best known for her "Juristiction" series starting with An Exchange of Hostages.
- Julian May - (1980s-2010s, died 2017) - Best known for her first SF novel, The Many-Coloured Land. Also wrote fantasy & some horror.
- Paul J. McAuley (1980s & up) - Fairyland stands alone. Four Hundred Billion Stars is the first of a series of that name. He's also written a Dr. Who novel.
- Anne McCaffrey (1960s-2010s, died 2011) - Restoree (1967) was her first SF novel. Best known for her Pern & Brain Ship series. Also wrote YA.
- Wil McCarthy (1990s & up) - The Collapsium is his most popular & the first in "Queendom of Sol" series. Bloom Murder in the Solid State stand alone.
- Jack McDevitt (1980s & up) - Best known for his Academy & Alex Benedict series.
- Ian McDonald (1980s & up) - SF & YA.
- Maureen F. McHugh (1990s & up) - best known for China Mountain Zhang & After the Apocalypse (SS).
- Vonda N. McIntyre (1970s & up) - best known for Dreamsnake & Star Trek movie novelizations.
- Jack McKinney (1980s-1990s) (aka Brian Daley) - Robotech series
- Sean McMullen (1980s & up) - Best known for Souls in the Great Machine (This book combined his first 2 books.) the first in his "Greatwinter" series. He also writes YA fantasy.
- Mike McQuay (1980s-1990s, died 1995) - SF & thrillers. Best known for Escape from New York, contributing to the Mack Bolan (action) series & others. Suspicion is in Asimov's Robot City.
- John Meaney (1990s & up) - Best known SF is Paradox, the first of his "Nulapeiron Sequence". Also writes horror, fantasy, & blends.
- R.M. Meluch (1970s & up) - most popular novel is The Myriad, the first of her "Tour of the Merrimack" series.
- Robert Merle (1960s-1970s, died 2004) - wrote in French. Malevil & The Day of the Dolphin are his best known books translated to English.
- Judith Merril (1950s-1970s, died 1997) - short stories, a few novels, & editor.
- A. Merritt (1910s-1940s) - SF & fantasy. Best known for The Moon Pool.
- Melinda Metz (1990s & up) - YA SF, fantasy, & romance. The Outsider is the first of her "Roswell High" SF series.
- Stephenie Meyer (2000s & up) - UF, YA, fantasy & SF. Best known for her YA UF Twilight series. Her SF books include The Host trilogy.
1 - China Miéville (2000s & up) - SF, fantasy, & YA. Best known for Perdido Street Station. We read The City & the City.
- Victor Milán (1980s-2010s, died 2018) - SF, fantasy, & thrillers.
- P. Schuyler Miller (1930s-1970s, died 1974) - short SF & critic/reviewer.
- Steve Miller (1980s & up) - best known for the "Liaden Universe" books with his wife Sharon Lee (Agent of Change is first). The two seem to write most as a team with Lee getting top billing.
1 - Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959-1980s, died 1996) - some short story collections, but primarily known for A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) which we read.
- Robert Duncan Milne (1870s-1890s) - best known for Into the Sun & Other Stories.
- Edward Page Mitchell (1870s-1880s, died 1927) - best known for The Clock That Went Backwards, a time travel story that predated The Time Machine. Wrote speculative & horror short stories.
- Syne Mitchell (2000s & up) - Murphy's Gambit was her first SF book & series.
- Naomi Mitchison (1920s-1980s, died 1999) - novels & short stories, children & adult, generally 'inspirational'. Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962) & Solution Three (1975) are both adult SF.
- Laura J. Mixon (1980s & up) - Astropilots is her first book. Glass Houses is the first of her "Avatars Dance" series. She's married to Steven Gould with whom she wrote Greenwar.
- L.E. Modesitt Jr. (1980s & up) - first 8 books were SF starting with The Fires of Paratime, but in 1991 he published his first fantasy in the Recluce series & is best known for it. He still writes both SF & fantasy, usually novels, but has 2 SS collections, a steampunk series, & a mystery-thriller, The Green Progression.
- Donald Moffitt (1970s-2010s, died 2015) - best known for his first The Jupiter Theft & last Children of the Comet SF novels.
- Travis Mohrman (2010s & up) - best known for his post apocalyptic Down The Path series & Singular Points.
- Thomas F. Monteleone (1970s & up) - SF & horror author & editor.
- Elizabeth Moon (1980s & up) SF & fantasy, best known for Vatta's War SF series, as well as the Planet Pirates series with Anne McCaffrey.
- Michael Moorcock (1960s & up) - very influential author & editor best known for his Elric fantasy series. Best known SF is probably Behold the Man. Married to Hilary Bailey, editor of New Worlds anthologies.
- C.L. Moore (1930s - 1980s, died 1987) - wrote alone & with her husband Henry Kuttner. Who wrote what is often a matter of discussion since it's believed she wrote several stories published under his name. Very prolific & influential team.
- Ward Moore (1940s-1970s, died 1978) - Bring the Jubilee is alternate history, Greener Than You Think is apocalyptic SF.
- Daniel Keys Moran (1980s & up) - Emerald Eyes is the first of his "Continuing Time" series. The Armageddon Blues & The Ring are standalones.
1 - Richard K. Morgan (2000s & up) - best known SF is his Takeshi Kovacs series that starts with Altered Carbon which we read. Also writes fantasy.
- Chris Moriarty (2000s & up) - Spin State is the first of the "Spin" series. At this time, his only other novels are a YA fantasy series.
- Janet E. Morris (1970s & up) - SF & fantasy author. Dream Dancer is SF/fantasy.
- William Morrison (1940s-1960s) - pseudonym for Joseph Samachson, a chemist. Comics & pulps.
- James K. Morrow (1980s & up) - Towing Jehovah is the first of his "Godhead" trilogy. This Is the Way the World Ends & City of Truth are standalones. He also writes fantasy.
- Peter Morwood (1980s-1990s) - fantasy & SF, best known for his Star Trek & Seaquest DSV franchise novels, he's also written the Space Cops trilogy with Diane Duane which starts with Mindblast.
- Pat Murphy (1980s & up) - The City, Not Long After is SF, also writes fantasy & YA.

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1 - Ramez Naam (2010s & up) - known for his Nexus trilogy.
- Linda Nagata (1990s & up) - Best known for her Red trilogy.
- Doug Naylor (1980s & up) - mostly known for writing Red Dwarf, a British SF-comedy TV show. Last Human is his most popular book & in that franchise. Writes with Rob Grant as Grant Naylor
- Grant Naylor (1990s & up) - Doug Naylor & Rob Grant writing together in the Red Dwarf franchise.
- Annalee Newitz (2010s & up) - SF & nonfiction. Autonomous is her most popular SF book. They are an editor of io9 website, as is their partner Charlie Jane Anders.
- Larry Niven (1960s & up) - best known for his Ringworld & Known Space series. The latter contains many short stories & novels. Often writes with other authors such as Jerry Pournelle, Edward M. Lerner, & Steven Barnes.
2 - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle - often write together. We've read The Mote in God's Eye & Lucifer's Hammer by the duo.
- William F. Nolan (1960s & up) - Best known for Logan's Run which he wrote with George Clayton Johnson. Many other novels & short stories including the humorous SF detective novel Space for Hire.
- Jeff Noon (1990s & up) - best known for the Vurt trilogy.
- Lisanne Norman (1990s & up) - best known for her Sholan Alliance series that starts with Turning Point.
- John Norman (1960s & up) - Best known for his Gor series which is fantasy/erotica. His Telnarian series is more SF. Not for feminists!
- Andre Norton (1950s-2000s, died 2015) - many SF & fantasy novels. Possibly best known for her Witch World series, but very popular for the Time Traders, Hosteen Storm, & others. Many were shelved as 'Juveniles', but featured adult main characters.
- Alan E. Nourse (1950s-1990s, died 1992) - He was an MD & best known for Star Surgeon & The Bladerunner.
- Philip Francis Nowlan (1930s, died 1940) - created Buck Rogers. Armageddon 2419 A.D., The Airlords of Han, & Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Complete Newspaper Dailies, Vol. 1: 1929-1931 are his most popular books.
- Eric S. Nylund (1990s & up) - Video games, also writes SF, fantasy, & YA. Best known for Halo: The Fall of Reach & other books in that franchise.

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- Robert C. O'Brien (1970s, died 1973) - Best known for his YA fantasy, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, but he also wrote Z for Zachariah (YA SF) & A Report from Group 17.
- Kevin O'Donnell Jr. (1970s & up) - best known for his series "Journeys of McGill Feighan" which starts with Caverns which are SF/fantasy. Mayflies & War Of Omission are SF.
- Kathleen O'Malley (1990s) - best known for writing 2 of the Starbridge series (Silent Passion: A StarBridge Story & Silent Songs (StarBridge #5)) with A.C. Crispin, she has also written Star Trek & Alien franchise novels.
1 - E.V. Odle (1923) - The Clockwork Man is his only published novel known for the first appearance of a cyborg.
- Andrew J. Offutt (1960s-2000s, died 2013) (aka John Cleve) mostly S&S under his real name & SF as John Cleve. Also published a lot of porn under other names.
- Nnedi Okorafor (2000s & up) - best known for Binti. SF, fantasy, & YA.
- Bob Olsen (1920s-1950s, died 1956) - space opera: Captain Brink of the Space Marines & The Four Dimensional Escape: A Fourth-Dimensional Short Science Fiction Story.
- Jerry Oltion (1980s & up) - prolific short story author, he's also written novels including Star Trek & Asimov's Robot City franchise novels. He's also written SF novels such as Hard Crash as Ryan Hughes.
- Rebecca Ore (1980s & up) - best known for her Becoming Alien series.
- George Orwell (1949) (pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair) - 1984

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- Lewis Padgett (1930s-1950s, died 1958) - pseudonym for Henry Kuttner &/or his wife C.L. Moore. Who wrote what is often a matter of discussion since it's believed she wrote several stories published under his name. Very prolific & influential team.
- David R. Palmer (1980s & up) - best known for Emergence both short story & novel.
- Edgar Pangborn (1950s-1970s, died 1976) - best known for his "Post-Holocaust Stories" starting with Davy.
- Alexei Panshin (1960s-1980s, still alive) - Best known for Rite of Passage & Star Well. Reviews & nonfiction about SF. Often writes with his wife, Cory Panshin.
- Cory Panshin (1970s) - Best known for Earth Magic which she wrote with her husband Alexei Panshin. Reviews & nonfiction about SF.
- James Patterson (2000s & up) - Best known for his mystery-thrillers, he also writes the Maximum Ride YA SF series that starts with The Angel Experiment.
- Stel Pavlou (2000s & up) - SF thrillers such asDecipher & Gene
- Charles Pellegrino (1990s & up) - Dust & Flying to Valhalla. Dyson Sphere & The Killing Star with George Zebrowski.
- Steve Perry (1980s & up) - mostly thrillers & adventure in various genres including Star Wars, Aliens, & other franchises.
- Emil Petaja (1960s-1970s) - considered himself a 'weird fiction' author, although they're often shelved as SF.
- Marge Piercy (1970s) - literature, poems, & a few SF novels such as Woman on the Edge of Time & He, She and It. Still alive, this seems to be the only time period in which she wrote SF.
- Daniel Pinkwater (1970s & up) - Children's books, some are SF.
1 - H. Beam Piper (1940s-1960s, died 1964) - Best known for his numerous short stories & Little Fuzzy. We've read Time And Time Again, his first short story.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1830s-1840s, died 1849) - proto SF, mostly short stories.
1 - Frederik Pohl (1940s-2000s, died 2013) - Prolific author of novels & short stories, also influential editor of several magazines including, Galaxy, If, & Super Science Stories. Best known novels (besides anthologies) are his Heechee series starting with Gateway & Space Merchant series starting with The Space Merchants.
- Arthur Porges (1950s-2000s, died 2006) - best known for short stories in the 1950s-1960s, The Ruum and Other Science Fiction Stories.
- Jerry Pournelle (1960s-2000s, died 2017) - often writes with Larry Niven. Also writes on his own. Most popular books are military SF such as King David's Spaceship & Janissaries.
- Gareth L. Powell (2000s & up) - Best known for his Embers of War series.
- Tim Powers (1970s & up) - best known for The Anubis Gates & On Stranger Tides.
1 - Vina Jie-Min Prasad (2017 & up) - we read Fandom for Robots.
- E. Hoffmann Price (1920s-1980s, died 1988) - best known for his short stories & as an editor, toward the end of his life he wrote almost a dozen novels. Operation Misfit is the first of his only SF novel series, "Operation".
- Terry Pratchett (1960s to 2000s, died 2015) - Best known for his Discworld series.
- Fletcher Pratt (1940s-1960s) - Invaders From Rigel, Alien Planet, but mostly wrote fantasy & nonfiction war books. Most famous for his war games & literary club "Trap Door Spiders" that Isaac Asimov fictionalized into his Black Widowers stories. Also co-wrote fantasy with L. Sprague de Camp.
- Robert Presslie (1950s-1960s) - Wrote only short stories. His stories are available on the Internet Archive HERE.
- Paul Preuss (1980s-1990s) - best known for writing "Arthur C Clarke's Venus Prime" series which starts with Breaking Strain.
2 - Christopher Priest (1970s & up) - mostly known as a literary & fantasy author, but he also wrote The Space Machine. We've read The Prestige & The Inverted World.

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- Brad Quentin (1990s) - Terry Bisson & David Bischoff writing the "Real Adventures of Jonny Quest"
- Christopher George Quick (2010s & up) book:Planetfall Origins|37934006]
- W.T. Quick (aka Margaret Allan) (1980s & up) - best known for Dreams trilogy that starts with Dreams of Flesh and Sand.
- Daniel Quinn (2001) - the only SF novel or story I found is After Dachau.

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- Hannu Rajaniemi (2000s & up) - best known for The Quantum Thief.
- Ayn Rand (1930s-1950s, died 1982) - best known for her philosophy 'objectivism', Anthem & Atlas Shrugged are her only 2 SF works.
- Bill Ransom (1980s-1990s) - not very well known for his own SF novels such as Viravax, he cowrote the Pandora Sequence with Frank Herbert. It starts with The Jesus Incident.
- Robert Reed (1980s & up) - best known for his Marrow series.
- Philip Reeve (2000s & up) - best known for his Mortal Engines series.
- Mike Resnick (1960s & up) - Prolific author including the Starship series which starts with Starship: Mutiny & many others. He's also edited Galaxy's Edge & Jim Baen's Universe magazines. Father of Laura Resnick, a UF author.
- Alastair Reynolds (1990s & up) - best known for his Revelation Space series.
- Mack Reynolds (1950s-1980s, died 1983) - best known for his short stories in the 50s-60s, most of his books are now out of print. I particularly liked his Joe Mauser: Mercenary From Tomorrow series.
- Frank Riley (1950s) - They'd Rather Be Right with Mark Clifton & some short stories.
- Duane Rimel (1930s-1980s, died 1996) - best known for his short stories, he only wrote one novel "Time Swap" (1969) as 'Rex Weldon'. The author Rex Weldon is associated with porn books on GR. Duane W. Rimel is associated with Lovecraft, which seems correct, but also with a porn book. They may be correct. See the ISFDB page.
- John Ringo (2000 & up) - Military SF, horror, & UF. Empire of Man series with David Weber.
- J.D. Robb (1990s & up) - pseudonym of Nora Roberts. Under this name, she wrote the "In Death" series starting with Naked in Death. It is a near future romance-mystery series.
- Adam Roberts (2000 & up) - SF, historical, & fantasy. His most popular novels are Jack Glass & Yellow Blue Tibia. He's also written quite a few short stories.
- Keith Roberts (1960s-1990s, died 2000) - best known for Pavane, many short stories, & being difficult to work with.
- Frank M. Robinson (1950s-2000s, died 2014) - The Dark Beyond the Stars, Waiting, & The Power were his best known novels. He also wrote a lot of short stories.
1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (1970s & up) - best known for his Red Mars trilogy. We read the first book.
- Spider Robinson (1970s & up) - Best known for his Callahan's Crosstime Saloon series & Stardance trilogy which he wrote with his wife, Jeanne Robinson (1948-2010). He is a Robert A. Heinlein fanboy & finished up 2 of his novels posthumously.
- Justina Robson (1990s & up) - best known for her Quantum Gravity series starting with Keeping It Real which is a blend of UF & SF.
- Kelly Robson (2010s & up) - only Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach so far.
- Joel Rosenberg (1980s-2000s, died 2011) - SF seems limited to his Metsada Mercenary Corps series which starts with Ties of Blood and Silver. Best known for his fantasy D&D series, Guardians of the Flame.
- Christopher Rowley (1980s & up) - best known for his fantasy series Bazil Broketail, he's also written SF the Vang series which begins with Starhammer & others including the Heavy Metal Pulp: Pleasure Model.
- Rudy Rucker (1980s & up) - best known for his cyberpunk 'Ware' series which starts with Software.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch (1980s & up) - writes in multiple genres including YA books. She's also written in the Star Wars universe. The Disappeared is her most popular SF book & the first of her Retrieval series. She's also written the Tenth Planet series & other books with her husband, Dean Wesley Smith.
- Joanna Russ (1960s-1980s, died 2011) - best known for her utopian satire The Female Man & her nonfiction How to Suppress Women's Writing.
- Eric Frank Russell (1930s-1970s, died 1978) - Best known for his short stories, his novel Wasp & Sinister Barrier.
1 - Mary Doria Russell (1990s & up) - best known for The Sparrow which we read.
- Richard Paul Russo (1980s & up) - SF short stories & novels. Ship of Fools & The Rosetta Codex are standalones. Destroying Angel is the first of his 'Lt. Frank Carlucci' series.
- Geoff Ryman (1980s & up) - best known for Air & The Child Garden.

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- Fred Saberhagen (1960s -2000s, died 2007) - wrote SF, fantasy, & horror. Best known SF is hisBerserker series. Other authors also added to the universe.
- Carl Sagan (1985, died 1996) - only wrote one SF novel, Contact. He was best known for his TV show Cosmos.
- Nick Sagan (2000s & up) - best known for his Idlewild series, he's also written several Star Trek episodes.
- Pamela Sargent (1970s & up) - best known for her short stories, The Best of Pamela Sargent, & The Shore of Women as well as her Earthseed trilogy.
- Joseph Samachson (aka William Morrison) (1940s-1960s) - a chemist who wrote for the comics & pulps. He also published several novels such as Dead Man's Planet.
- Robert J. Sawyer (1980s & up) - Best known for Flashforward which was turned into a TV series. Many other novels & short stories.
1 - John Scalzi (2000s & up) - best known for Old Man's War which we read as a group. Lock In & Redshirts are also popular. He wrote an update to H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy titled Fuzzy Nation.
- Rod Serling (1960s-1970s, died 1975) - best known for his TV shows "the Twilight Zone" & "Night Gallery". He wrote many of the stories for both & more. He also wrote one novel Requiem for a Heavyweight. His work was often a mix of fantasy, SF, & horror.
- William Shatner (1980s & up) - Best known in SF circles as Captain Kirk from the original Star Trek. His best known SF is the TekWar series which is often attributed more to Ron Goulart. He is associated with many Star Trek novels & other books, although there is some doubt as to how much he actually has written or contributed.
- Bob Shaw (1950s-1990s, died 1996) - prolific both short stories & novels. Best known for hisOrbitsville series.
- Nisi Shawl (1990s & up) - mostly short stories many collected in Filter House & one SF novel Everfair which is alternate history/steampunk.
1 - Robert Sheckley (1950s-1990s, died 2005) - best known for his short stories, his novel Immortality, Inc. was the basis of the SF film "Freejack" (1992). He is the father of Alisa Kwitney a YA fantasy & horror author.
- Charles Sheffield (1970s-1990s, died 2002) - mathematician and physicist, his most popular book is Aftermath. He is the husband of Nancy Kress.
1 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (died 1851) - Frankenstein (1818) & The Last Man (1836)
- Joel Shepherd (2000s & up) - best known for his Cassandra Kresnov series that starts with Crossover.
- Lucius Shepard (1980s-2000s, died 2014) - Many short stories that often mix SF, fantasy, & horror as do some of his novels such as Green Eyes. His most popular book is Life During Wartime.
1 - M.P. Shiel (1890s-1930s, died 1947) - we read The Purple Cloud, his most popular novel in this group.
- John Shirley (1970s & up) - Sf & horror, he's also contributed to many franchises, BioShock: Rapture. Eclipse is the first of his "Song Called Youth" series. In Extremis: The Most Extreme Short Stories of John Shirley
- Robert Silverberg (1950s & up) - Extremely prolific author & the editor of many anthologies, his ISFDB page is the longest I've read. He writes SF, mystery, & fantasy as well as nonfiction & more. His most popular SF novel is Dying Inside. He also wrote erotic novels under the pseudonym Don Elliott such as The Flesh Peddlers. He is married to Karen Haber.
1 - Clifford D. Simak (1930s-1980s, died 1988) - Way Station & City are his most popular SF novels. Wrote many short stories & fantasy.
1 - Dan Simmons (1980s & up) - best known for the Hyperion books in SF. Writes in many other genres, too.
- Johanna Sinisalo (2000s & up in English translations) - fantasy & SF. Best known for The Core of the Sun.
- Curt Siodmak (1940s-1980s, died 2000) - best known SF novel is Donovan's Brain. Screenwriter for The Wolfman (1941) & many other films.
- John Sladek (1960s-1990s, died 2000) - SF & humor. Best known for his short stories & Roderick novels.
- William Sleator (1970s-2000s, died 2011) - YA SF novels: Interstellar Pig, Singularity, & The Boy Who Reversed Himself.
- Joan Slonczewski (1980s & up) - Best known for the first book in her Elysium Cycle, A Door Into Ocean, she is also popular for The Highest Frontier & other novels.
- Clark Ashton Smith (1910-1960s, died 1961) - best known for his contributions to Weird Tales. He wrote many short stories & has 2 novels, although both were published 40 years after his death.
- Cordwainer Smith (1950s-1960s, died 1966) - Best known for his short stories (one published in 1928). The Game of Rat and Dragon might be his best known. Norstrilia was originally published as 2 books. (pseudonym of Paul M.A. Linebarger)
- Dean Wesley Smith (1980s & up) - best known for his Star Trek novelizations, She's also written the Tenth Planet series & other books with his wife, Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
- E.E. "Doc" Smith (1920s-1960s, died 1965) - Best known for his Lensman & Skylark series. His work was appended by several other authors decades after his death.
- George O. Smith (1940s-1970s, died 1981) - Best known for his Venus Equilateral series which are a collection of short stories. He also published about a dozen novels of which Space Plague is the most popular.
- L. Neil Smith (1980s & up) - Best known for hisThe Adventures of Lando Calrissian Star Wars novels, he's also written The Probability Broach which is the first of his North American Confederacy series.
- Norman Spinrad (1960s & up) - best known for The Iron Dream & Bug Jack Barron. Also writes horror.
- Dana Stabenow (1990s & up) - best known for her mystery-thrillers, her SF Star Svensdotter series starts with Second Star.
- Brian Stableford (1960s & up) - SF, fantasy, horror, YA, & nonfiction, his work is often a blend of genres. His Hooded Swan & Asgard series are probably his most popular SF.
- Michael A. Stackpole (1980s & up) - has written a lot of franchise novels in the Star Wars & Battle Tech universe. Also writes fantasy & horror.
- Olaf Stapledon (1930s-1940s, died 1950) - very influential for his sweeping galactic viewpoint in Star Maker & Last and First Men which was new at the time.
- Christopher Stasheff (1960s-2000s, died 2018) - SF & fantasy, often a blend such as in his best known & first novel, The Warlock in Spite of Himself.
- John Steakley (1980s-1990, died 2010) - Best known for Armor (1984) which we read. His only other novel Vampire$ (1990) is horror & became a movie in 1998.
- Allen M. Steele (1980s & up) - best known for Arkwright & his Coyote series. Awarded the Heinlein Award for promoting space exploration with Orbital Decay.
2 - Neal Stephenson (1980s & up) - well known author of SF & fantasy. We've read Snow Crash & The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer.
- Bruce Sterling (1970s & up) - Schismatrix Plus is a compilation of all his works in his Mechanist Shapers series. Islands in the Net is his most popular novel. His work is often classified as cyberpunk. He's also written The Difference Engine with William Gibson, the father of cyberpunk.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1870s-1890s, died 1894) - best known SF work is The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
1 - George R. Stewart (1949) - primarily nonfiction & literature, his only SF book is Earth Abides which we have read.
- G. Harry Stine (1950s-1990s, died 1997) - started the first model rocket company, MMI. Best known for the original Star Trek The Abode of Life which he wrote as Lee Correy. He also wrote the Warbots series.
- S.M. Stirling (1980s & up) - best known for the first of his Change series, Dies the Fire, he also writes fantasy & UF.
- Charles Stross (1980s & up) - best known for The Atrocity Archives, the first of his Laundry Files series. He's written a lot of others.
- Arkady Strugatsky (died 1991) & Boris Strugatsky (died 2012) (1960s-1990s) - were brothers that wrote together. They're best known for Roadside Picnic & Hard to Be a God.
1 - Theodore Sturgeon (1930s-1980s, died 1985) - We've read his most popular book More Than Human. He's also well known for his short stories & the novels Venus Plus X, The Dreaming Jewels, & The Cosmic Rape. A good friend of Robert A. Heinlein. They belonged to the same nudist colony.
- Daniel Suarez (2000s & up) - best known for hisDaemon series.
- Michael Swanwick (1980s & up) - fantasy & SF, best known for Stations of the Tide.
- Jonathan Swift (1700s, died 1745) - some consider Gulliver's Travels proto SF.

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group read --- Author's name --- Writing period --- Comments
T
- Andrius B. Tapinas (2010 & up) - mostly a translator from English to Lithuanian, only novel so far is Hour of the Wolf, the first of a series.
- Dennis E. Taylor (2010s & up) - best known for his Bobiverse trilogy that starts with We Are Legion - We Are Bob.
- Travis S. Taylor (2000s & up) - SF, fantasy, & YA. Best known for his Warp Speed series & "Tau Ceti Agenda" series that starts with One Day on Mars.
1 - Adrian Tchaikovsky (2000s & up) - fantasy, horror, & SF. Best known for Children of Time which we have read.
- Sheri S. Tepper (1980s-2000s, died 2016) - mostly a fantasy author, her Arbai trilogy which starts with Grass is SF.
- Walter Tevis (1950s-1980s, died 1984) - best known for Mockingbird & The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976 movie starring David Bowie). He also wrote The Hustler (not SF, 1961 movie starring Paul Newman & Jackie Gleason).
- Theodore L. Thomas (1950s-1970s, died 2006) - best known for his short stories & the 2 novels he wrote with Kate Wilhelm: The Clone (1965) & The Year of the Cloud (1970).
- Robert Thurston (1970s & up) - best known for his BattleTech & other franchise novels, he's also written quite a few short stories.
- Lavie Tidhar (2000s & up) - Central Station & The Bookman Histories series.
- Patrick Tilley (1980s & up) - best known for his Amtrak Wars series starting with Cloud Warrior, he also wrote Fade Out (1975).
1 - James Tiptree Jr. (1960s-1980s) - best known for writing under a male name, her short stories, & her novel Her Smoke Rose Up Forever which we read.
- J.R.R. Tolkien (1930s-1970s, died 1973) - fantasy author, best known for The Hobbit or There and Back Again & The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Very influential for epic storytelling across genres.
- Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1920s) - only 2 SF novels, Aelita & The Garin Death Ray.
- Karen Traviss (2000s & up) - best known for her Star Wars & Halo franchise novels, she's also written City of Pearl the first in her Wess'Har series & other novels.
- E.C. Tubb (1950s-2000s, died 2010) - prolific pulp author, both SF novels & short stories, as well as other genres. Best known for his Dumarest series that begins with The Winds of Gath. He used many pseudonyms alone & with other authors in the pulps: Volsted Gridban (also used by John Russell Fearn), Gill Hunt (also used by John Brunner & Denis Hughes), Bryan Shaw (also used by John Russell Fearn & others), & more.
- Wilson Tucker (1940s-1970s, died 2006) - action & SF. Many short stories & novels such as The Year of the Quiet Sun, The Long Loud Silence, & a collection of his short stories, The Best of Wilson Tucker.
- George Turner (1970s-1990s, died 1997) - best known for Drowning Towers & Brain Child, he also wrote the Beloved Son trilogy.
- Harry Turtledove (1980s & up) - SF (subgenre alternate-histories) & fantasy. His most popular books are The Guns of the South & In the Balance. (aka Eric G. Iverson)
- Lisa Tuttle (1960s & up) - best known for historical mysteries, horror, & fantasy, she has written Lost Futures which is SF.
- John Twelve Hawks (2000s & up) - Best known for his Fourth Realm series that begins with The Traveler.
- Kathy Tyers (1980s & up) - best known for her Star Wars franchise novels, she has also written the Firebird series & others.

# books
group read --- Author's name --- Writing period --- Comments
U
- Steven Utley (1970s & up) - short SF stories. His most popular collection is The 400-Million-Year-Itch.

# books
group read --- Author's name --- Writing period --- Comments
V
- Jean-Christophe Valtat (2010s & up) - Steampunk novels Aurorarama & Luminous Chaos are his best known.
- Jack Vance (1940s-2000s, died 2013) - mostly SF & fantasy, also wrote mystery & won an award. Best known for The Dying Earth series (wizards in space), many short stories, Emphyrio, & more.
- Steve Vance (1970s & up) - SF, fantasy, horror. I'm particularly fond of his first novel Planet of the Gawfs.
2 - A.E. van Vogt (1940s-1990s, died 2000) - prolific author of short stories & novels. Besides short story compilations, he is possibly best known for his Slan, Null-A, & Isher (fantasy Weapons Shop) series & standalone novels The Silkie & Mission To The Stars. A giant of the Golden Age of SF. Friend of John W. Campbell Jr. & L. Ron Hubbard. We've read The World of Null-A & The Voyage of the Space Beagle.
1 - Jeff VanderMeer (1980s & up) - We've read his best known book Annihilation, the first of his Southern Reach trilogy.
- Robert E. Vardeman (1970s & up) - Sf & fantasy, often a blend. He's written several franchise books including Star Trek & BattleTech. The Sandcats of Rhyl is one of his SF standalone novels.
- James Van Pelt (1990s & up) - Summer of the Apocalypse (post apocalyptic) & Pandora's Gun (YA) are 2 of his most popular SF novels. He's also written short stories.
- John Varley (1970s & up) - SF, both short stories & novels. He's best known for his Gaea trilogy which starts with Titan & his first novel The Ophiuchi Hotline which is the first of the Eight Worlds series.
1 - Lyn Venable (1950s) - less than a dozen short stories only. We read Time Enough At Last which was made into one of the original Twilight Zone episodes. See this topic for more.
3 - Jules Verne (1850s-1900s) - Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, & his short storyIn the Year 2889.
- Joan D. Vinge (1970s & up) - best known for herThe Snow Queen series & Cat series that starts with Psion. She's also written novelizations of popular films.
1 - Vernor Vinge (1960s & up) - Best known for A Fire Upon the Deep, the second in his Queng Ho series, which we have read.
- Voltaire - Micromegas (1753) is a proto SF short story.
4 - Kurt Vonnegut (1950s-2000s, died 2007) - Best known for Slaughterhouse-Five, we've read 2 novels (The Sirens of Titan & Galápagos) plus 2 short stories (2BR02B & Harrison Bergeron).

# books
group read --- Author's name --- Writing period --- Comments
W
- Karl Edward Wagner (1970s-1990s, died 1994) - Best known for his Kane series which are horror, fantasy, & S&S. Some stories & novels feature aliens such as Bloodstone. He wrote a lot of horror short stories & edited "The Year's Best Horror Stories" from 1980-1994.
- Jo Walton (2000s & up) - fantasy & SF. Her two best known SF novels are My Real Children & The Just City.
- Donald Wandrei (1920s-1980s, died 1987) - SF, fantasy, & weird stories, often a mix such as in The Web of Easter Island.
- Ian Watson (1970s & up) - many SF novels & short stories. His most popular are short story compilations & the novels The Embedding & Space Marine.
- Lawrence Watt-Evans (1980s & up) - SF & fantasy, often a blend such as in The Cyborg and the Sorcerers. Also writes as Nathan Archer under which he's written Predator & Star Trek franchise novels as well as others.
- Peter Watts (1990s & up) - best known for Blindsight & Starfish.
- David Weber (1990s & up) - best known for his Honor Harrington series that starts with On Basilisk Station. Other authors have also written in the 'Honorverse' which has several spin-off series & books. He's written a lot of other SF, fantasy, & YA books & series.
- Stanley G. Weinbaum (1930s, died 1935) - almost all his works published about or after his death. Mostly known for his short stories, The Black Flame is the most popular of his 3 novels.
- Howard Weinstein (1980s & up) - best known for franchise novels in the Star Trek & V universes.
1 - Andy Weir (2010s & up) - Best known for The Martian which became a popular film in 2015 & we have read.
- Manly Wade Wellman (1920s-1980s, died 1986) - mostly known for fantasy, horror, & weird fiction, The Beyonders is one of his few SF novels.
- Margaret Weis (1980s & up) - mostly fantasy & YA, also writes some magical SF space opera such as the Star of the Guardians which starts with The Lost King. Often co-authors with Tracy Hickman. They have an SF series, Starshield, that starts with The Mantle of Kendis-Dai.
4 - H.G. Wells (1890s-1940s, died 1946) - Best known for The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, & The Island of Doctor Moreau. We've read the last 3 plus one of his short stories, The Diamond Maker.
- Martha Wells (1990s & up) - SF & fantasy. Her Murderbot Diaries starting with All Systems Red are popular SF.
- Chuck Wendig (2000 & up) - SF, fantasy, & UF. Aftermath, a Star Wars novel, is his most popular.
- K.D. Wentworth (1980s-2010s, died 2012) - SF, many short stories & some novels. Black on Black is the first of her Heyoka Blackeagle series.
- Scott Westerfeld (1990s & up) - SF & YA. Uglies is the first of his "Uglies" series which is YA SF.
- Suzanne Weyn (1980s & up) - YA SF, fantasy, & thrillers. The Bar Code Tattoo is her most popular book.
- G. Willow Wilson (2010s & up) - mostly fantasy & comics. Alif the Unseen is her most popular SF novel.
- James White (1950s-1990s, died 1999) - Best known for his Sector General series which starts with Hospital Station.
- Steve White (1990s & up) - action SF & space opera. Best known for co-authoring the Starfire series which starts with Insurrection.
- Sonny Whitelaw (2000s & up) - SF, best known for her Stargate books, she has also written The Rhesus Factor & Ark Ship.
- Kate Wilhelm (1950s - 2018 died) - very influential SF author & editor with many novels & short stories. Wife of Damon Knight, another very influential SF author & editor. They helped create the Clarion Writers Workshop & helped many aspiring authors.
- Liz Williams (2000s & up) - SF, fantasy, & horror, often a blend such as in her novel The Poison Master.
- Sean Williams (1990s & up) - SF, fantasy, & YA - His most popular books are Star Wars, but he has written others such as the SF YA novel Twinmaker.
- Tad Williams (1980s & up) - Fantasy, YA, UF, & SF. He has only written a few SF books including City of Golden Shadow & River of Blue Fire.
- Walter Jon Williams (1980s & up) - SF & fantasy. His most popular book is Destiny's Way, a Star Wars novel. The next is Hardwired, the first of a series by the same name, followed by This is Not a Game, the first of his Dagmar Shaw series.
- Jack Williamson (1930s-1990s, died 2006) - His most influential novel is probably The Humanoids which is one of his most popular along with ".Darker Than You Think & The Legion of Space. He wrote many others & a lot of short stories. He is credited with coining the terms "genetic engineering" & "terraforming. Very influential on other authors as outlined in The Williamson Effect, an anthology in which some of the best authors contributed stories & tell how he influenced them.
- Michael Z. Williamson (2000s & up) - military SF. His most popular book is Freehold, the first of his series by the same name.
1 - Connie Willis (1970s & up) - her most popular book is Doomsday Book which we have read.
- Colin Wilson (1960s-1990s) - Best known for his philosophical book The Outsider, he also wrote the horror/SF book The Mind Parasites, The Space Vampires, & The Philosopher's Stone.
- F. Paul Wilson (1970s & up) - Best known for fantasy, conspiracies, & horror such as in The Tomb, the first of his Repairman Jack series. His ICE Sequence series, which starts with Panacea, is SF.
- Robert Anton Wilson (1970s-1990s, died 2007) - Best known for The Illuminatus! Trilogy cowritten with Robert Shea, he also wrote Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy & others.
- Robert Charles Wilson (1980s & up) - Best known for the Spin trilogy, he's written many other SF & fantasy novels plus a dozen or so short stories.
- David Wingrove (1980s & up) - SF & fantasy, his most popular book is The Middle Kingdom, the first of his Chung Kuo series (Chinese in the future.)
1 - Gene Wolfe (1960s & up) - Fantasy & SF, his most popular book is The Shadow of the Torturer which is pretty much fantasy except for references to space travel. We read it. The Fifth Head of Cerberus is SF.
- Jack Womack (1980s & up) - SF, cyberpunk. Ambient is one of his most popular & the first book in a series of the same name. Random Acts of Senseless Violence is the 5th of the same series. (GR uses "Dryco" for the series name.)
- John C. Wright (2000s & up) - SF & fantasy. The Golden Age is the first book in a series of the same name & his most popular book.
- Philip Wylie (1930s-1970s, died 1971) - Best known for When Worlds Collide which was made into the 1951 movie, he also wrote Gladiator which is what Superman & pretty much ever comic hero ever after was based on.
- John Wyndham (1930s-1960s, died 1969) - best known for The Day of the Triffids, The Chrysalids, & The Midwich Cuckoos all of which have been made into movies. Very prolific both novels & short stories.

# books
group read --- Author's name --- Writing period --- Comments
X
- Tianna Xander (2010s & up) - steamy adult novels, mostly fantasy. Her D.A.R.E series is SF & starts with Ruby Dare. Time Temptress is time travel through fantasy means.

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group read --- Author's name --- Writing period --- Comments
Y
- Nicholas Yermakov see Simon Hawke (1970s & up) - He was born Nicholas Yermakov & some books filed under that. Best known SF are books in the Star Trek & Predator franchises, but he's also written the 'Time Wars' series & others Also writes fantasy & thrillers.
- Yoss (2000s & up) (pen name of José Miguel Sánchez Gómez) - Best known for A Planet for Rent & Super Extra Grande.
- Samuel Youd (1960s-1990s) - He wrote as John Christopher & his books are almost always filed under that pseudonym.
- Charles Yu (2000s & up) - SF, best known for his short stories & his novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.

# books
group read --- Author's name --- Writing period --- Comments
Z
- Timothy Zahn (1980s & up) - best known for his Star Wars novels, he's also written other SF series & books. Dragon and Thief is the first of his Dragonback series while The Icarus Hunt is a standalone.
1 - Yevgeny Zamyatin (1920s, died 1937) - Best known for We which we read.
- George Zebrowski (1970s & up) - Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia,Brute Orbits, Stranger Suns, & theOmega Point Trilogy are his most popular books. He's also written some Star Trek novels.
2 - Roger Zelazny (1960s-1990s, died 1995) - SF & fantasy, often wrote blends.Lord of Light, This Immortal, &Jack of Shadows are his most popular SF books. We've read the first & Doorways in the Sand.
- David Zindell (1980s & up) - Neverness is his most popular book & might be a prequel to his "A Requiem for Homo Sapiens" starting with The Broken God.

There are over 600 authors in this list. As of 2019, we've only read the works of about 75 authors, about 100 novels & over a dozen short stories as a group. Here I've broken out the authors that we've read into 2 posts. This is Part 1.

A - L
# books
group read --- Author's name --- Writing period --- Comments
A
1 - Edwin A. Abbott (1880s-1900s) - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
1 - Douglas Adams (1970s-2001) - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
3 - Isaac Asimov (1939-1990s) - Foundation, I, Robot, & many more
1 - Margaret Atwood (1980s & up) - The Handmaid's Tale, MaddAddam series, & more

B
1 - Paolo Bacigalupi (2000s & up) - YA - The Windup Girl, Ship Breaker series & more.
1 - Iain M. Banks (1980s & up) - Culture series
1 - Laird Barron (2000 & up) - Horror/weird only?
1 - Gregory Benford (1970s & up)
2 - Alfred Bester (1950s-1990s) - The Stars My Destination, The Demolished Man, & many others.
3 - Ray Bradbury (1940s-2000s) - Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, & many more.
1 - Fredric Brown (1940s-1970s) - Martians, Go Home, What Mad Universe, & others.
2 - Lois McMaster Bujold (1980s & up) - 'Vorkosigan' series. Also writes fantasy.
1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1910s-1950) - Tarzan, Barsoom, Pellucidar, & Venus series plus.
1 - Octavia E. Butler (1970s-2000s) - 'Patternist', 'Parable', 'Xenogenesis' series, Kindred & more.

C
1 - Karel Capek (1920s-1940) - R.U.R. (Robots), War with the Newts, & more.
1 - Orson Scott Card (1970s & up) - Ender's Game series & many others. Also fantasy.
1 - C.J. Cherryh (1970s & up) - Downbelow Station, Foreigner series, & many more.
1 - Ted Chiang (1990s & up) - mostly shorter SF, The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Stories of Your Life and Others, & more.
4 - Arthur C. Clarke (1950s-2000s) - Childhood's End, Rendezvous with Rama, 2001: A Space Odyssey, many short stories.
1 - Ernest Cline (2010 & up) - Ready Player One & Armada so far.
1 - James S.A. Corey (2010 & up) - Expanse series. SF pseudonym for Daniel Abraham fantasy author who also usesM.L.N. Hanover for UF books.
1 - Blake Crouch (2000s up) - Dark Matter & more usually horror with SF & fantastic elements.

D
1 - L. Sprague de Camp (1940s-1990s) - Lest Darkness Fall SF, a lot of fantasy. Famous for editing the Lancer editions of REH's Conan books with Lin Carter & his fantasy with Fletcher Pratt.
1 - Samuel R. Delany (1960s & up) - Dhalgren, Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection
4 - Philip K. Dick (1950s-1980s) - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner), The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, Ubik, & many more.
1 - Arthur Conan Doyle (1880s-1920s) - Best known for Sherlock Holmes, he also wrote The Lost World & other Professor Challengers stories.

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F

G
1 - Neil Gaiman (1990s & up) - fantasy/speculative fiction. We read American Gods in 2016.
3 - William Gibson (1980s & up) - best known as the father of the Cyberpunk subgenre with Neuromancer, the first of his Sprawl novels.
1 - Tom Godwin (1950s-1970s) - best known for The Cold Equations and Other Stories.

H
1 - Thea von Harbou (1900s-1950s) - best known for writing the screen play of Metropolis by her husband, Fritz Lang. Most books in German.
2 - Harry Harrison (1960s-1990s) - best known for The Stainless Steel Rat, Deathworld 1, Bill, the Galactic Hero, & Eden series. He also wrote Make Room! Make Room! which became the movie "Soylent Green" (1973). He also lampooned John W. Campbell Jr.'s writing & editing style in Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers.
4 - Robert A. Heinlein (1940s-1980s) - Grandmaster of SF, best known for Stranger in a Strange Land & his Juveniles in the 1950s. He wrote a lot of short stories in the 1940s-50s & very long, preachy novels from 1970 until his death in 1988. Spider Robinson, his fanboy, finished his last 2 novels long after his death.
1 - Frank Herbert (1950s-1980s) - best known for Dune & it's many subsequent novels, many of which are written with or by his son, Brian Herbert. He also wrote the Pandora series & other SF short stories & novels.
1 - James Hilton (1920s-1950s) - Lost Horizon (1930) is speculative fiction that we read. Best known for Good-Bye, Mr. Chips which was also made into a movie. (Not to be confused with James Hilton, a new thriller author.)
1 - William Hope Hodgson (1900s-1910s died in WWI) - we read The House on the Borderland, speculative/horror fiction.

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L
3 - Ursula K. Le Guin (1950s to 2010s, died 2018) - Multiple award winner, possibly best known for her Hainish (SF) & Earthsea (fantasy) series, & The Lathe of Heaven (2 movies) she wrote many more plus short stories. Gender, environment, & political themes.
1 - Stanislaw Lem (1950s-1980s, died 2006) - Polish author best known in the US for Solaris.
1 - Jonathan Lethem (1990s & up) - primarily a mystery & 'literary' novelist, we read Amnesia Moon which is post apocalyptic SF similar to PKD's work.
1 - C.S. Lewis (1930s-1960s) - essayist & Christian apologist, he's best known for his Narnia (fantasy) & Cosmic trilogy (SF) that stars with Out of the Silent Planet.
1 - David Lindsay (1920s-1930s, died 1945) - best known for A Voyage to Arcturus which we read in this group.
1 - Cixin Liu (1990s & up) - one of the leading Chinese SF authors. We read The Three-Body Problem in this group.
1 - Ken Liu (2010s & up) - we read The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories in this group. He's also written a Star Wars novel & fantasy.
1 - Jack London (1900s-1916 died) - Best known for his Yukon & Pacific Island stories, he also wrote The Iron Heel which we read in this group.

There are over 600 authors in this list. As of 2019, we've only read the works of about 75 authors, about 100 novels & over a dozen short stories as a group. Here I've broken out the authors that we've read into 2 posts. This is Part 2.

M - Z
# books
group read --- Author's name --- Writing period --- Comments
M
1 - China Miéville (2000s & up) - SF, fantasy, & YA. Best known for Perdido Street Station. We read The City & the City.
1 - Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959-1980s, died 1996) - some short story collections, but primarily known for A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) which we read.
1 - Richard K. Morgan (2000s & up) - best known SF is his Takeshi Kovacs series that starts with Altered Carbon which we read. Also writes fantasy.

N
1 - Ramez Naam (2010s & up) - known for his Nexus trilogy.
2 - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle - often write together. We've read The Mote in God's Eye & Lucifer's Hammer by the duo.

O
1 - E.V. Odle (1923) - The Clockwork Man is his only published novel known for the first appearance of a cyborg.

P
1 - H. Beam Piper (1940s-1960s, died 1964) - Best known for his numerous short stories & Little Fuzzy. We've read Time And Time Again, his first short story.
1 - Vina Jie-Min Prasad (2017 & up) - we read Fandom for Robots.
2 - Christopher Priest (1970s & up) - mostly known as a literary & fantasy author, but he also wrote The Space Machine. We've read The Prestige & The Inverted World.

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R
1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (1970s & up) - best known for his Red Mars trilogy. We read the first book.
1 - Mary Doria Russell (1990s & up) - best known for The Sparrow which we read.

S
1 - John Scalzi (2000s & up) - best known for Old Man's War which we read as a group. Lock In & Redshirts are also popular. He wrote an update to H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy titled Fuzzy Nation.
1 - Robert Sheckley (1950s-1990s, died 2005) - best known for his short stories, his novel Immortality, Inc. was the basis of the SF film "Freejack" (1992). He is the father of Alisa Kwitney a YA fantasy & horror author.
1 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (died 1851) - Frankenstein (1818) & The Last Man (1836)
1 - M.P. Shiel (1890s-1930s, died 1947) - we read The Purple Cloud, his most popular novel in this group.
1 - Clifford D. Simak (1930s-1980s, died 1988) - Way Station & City are his most popular SF novels. Wrote many short stories & fantasy.
1 - Dan Simmons (1980s & up) - best known for the Hyperion books in SF. Writes in many other genres, too.
2 - Neal Stephenson (1980s & up) - well known author of SF & fantasy. We've read Snow Crash & The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer.
1 - George R. Stewart (1949) - primarily nonfiction & literature, his only SF book is Earth Abides which we have read.
1 - Theodore Sturgeon (1930s-1980s, died 1985) - We've read his most popular book More Than Human. He's also well known for his short stories & the novels Venus Plus X, The Dreaming Jewels, & The Cosmic Rape. A good friend of Robert A. Heinlein. They belonged to the same nudist colony.

T
1 - Adrian Tchaikovsky (2000s & up) - fantasy, horror, & SF. Best known for Children of Time which we have read.
1 - James Tiptree Jr. (1960s-1980s) - best known for writing under a male name, her short stories, & her novel Her Smoke Rose Up Forever which we read.

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2 - A.E. van Vogt (1940s-1990s, died 2000) - prolific author of short stories & novels. Besides short story compilations, he is possibly best known for his Slan, Null-A, & Isher (fantasy Weapons Shop) series & standalone novels The Silkie & Mission To The Stars. A giant of the Golden Age of SF. Friend of John W. Campbell Jr. & L. Ron Hubbard. We've read The World of Null-A & The Voyage of the Space Beagle.
1 - Jeff VanderMeer (1980s & up) - We've read his best known book Annihilation, the first of his Southern Reach trilogy.
1 - Lyn Venable (1950s) - less than a dozen short stories only. We read Time Enough At Last which was made into one of the original Twilight Zone episodes. See this topic for more.
3 - Jules Verne (1850s-1900s) - Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, & his short storyIn the Year 2889.
1 - Vernor Vinge (1960s & up) - Best known for A Fire Upon the Deep, the second in his Queng Ho series, which we have read.
4 - Kurt Vonnegut (1950s-2000s, died 2007) - Best known for Slaughterhouse-Five, we've read 2 novels (The Sirens of Titan & Galápagos) plus 2 short stories (2BR02B & Harrison Bergeron).

W
1 - Andy Weir (2010s & up) - Best known for The Martian which became a popular film in 2015 & we have read.
4 - H.G. Wells (1890s-1940s, died 1946) - Best known for The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, & The Island of Doctor Moreau. We've read the last 3 plus one of his short stories, The Diamond Maker.
1 - Connie Willis (1970s & up) - her most popular book is Doomsday Book which we have read.
1 - Gene Wolfe (1960s & up) - Fantasy & SF, his most popular book is The Shadow of the Torturer which is pretty much fantasy except for references to space travel. We read it. The Fifth Head of Cerberus is SF.

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Y

Z
1 - Yevgeny Zamyatin (1920s, died 1937) - Best known for We which we read.
2 - Roger Zelazny (1960s-1990s, died 1995) - SF & fantasy, often wrote blends.Lord of Light, This Immortal, &Jack of Shadows are his most popular SF books. We've read the first & Doorways in the Sand.