Anne McCaffrey (1926 to 2011) was an American-born science fiction writer, resident in Ireland from 1970, who is best known for the Dragonriders of Pern series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award, both for the novellas that became her 1968 novel … Read more
Larry Niven is an American science fiction writer, born in Los Angeles in 1938, who is best known for “Ringworld” (1970), winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. Most of his solo work is hard science fiction set in his Known Space universe, and he has written many novels in collaboration, including "The Mote … Read more
Robert Anton Wilson (18 January 1932 to 11 January 2007) was an American novelist, essayist and futurist, best known as the co-author, with Robert Shea, of “The Illuminatus! Trilogy” (1975), a satirical science fiction adventure built out of conspiracy theories. He also wrote two further fiction trilogies and a long shelf of non-fiction on consciousness, … Read more
Samuel R. Delany (born 1 April 1942) is an American novelist, critic and memoirist, best known for the science fiction novels “Babel-17”, “The Einstein Intersection”, “Nova” and “Dhalgren” and for the Return to Nevèrÿon fantasy series. He has won four Nebula Awards and two Hugo Awards and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy … Read more
Ernest Cline is an American science fiction novelist and screenwriter, born in Ashland, Ohio, in 1972. He is the author of “Ready Player One”, “Armada” and “Ready Player Two”, and he co-wrote the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s 2018 film of “Ready Player One”. Cline grew up in Ashland in the 1970s and 1980s, absorbed in … Read more
Kim Stanley Robinson (born 1952) is an American science fiction writer best known for the Mars trilogy, about the settlement and terraforming of Mars. His novels often deal with ecology, politics and climate change, and they have won the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. Robinson was born in Waukegan, Illinois, on 23 March 1952 and … Read more
Neal Stephenson is an American writer of speculative fiction, born on 31 October 1959 in Fort Meade, Maryland. His novels have been classed as science fiction, historical fiction and cyberpunk, and he is best known for “Snow Crash”, “Cryptonomicon” and the three volumes of The Baroque Cycle. Stephenson comes from a family of engineers and … Read more
Orson Scott Card (born 24 August 1951) is an American writer best known for the science fiction novel “Ender’s Game” (1985) and its sequel “Speaker for the Dead” (1986), each of which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He is also the author of the fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker and has … Read more
Dan Simmons (born 1948, died 2026) was an American writer of science fiction, horror and historical fiction, best known for the Hyperion Cantos and for the Arctic horror novel “The Terror”. His books often mix genres within a single story, and his first novel, “Song of Kali” (1985), won the World Fantasy Award. Simmons was … Read more
Octavia E. Butler (1947 to 2006) was an American science fiction author who won Hugo, Locus and Nebula awards and in 1995 became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. She is best known for the time-travel novel “Kindred”, the Patternist and Xenogenesis series and the two Parable novels. Butler was born … Read more
