In our first installment of “AtoZ”, we are spotlighting one influential science fiction author for each letter of the alphabet.
Isaac Asimov (born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov; circa January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – present) Philip José Farmer (January 26, 1918 – February 25, 2009) William Ford Gibson (March 17, 1948 – present) Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) Dean Charles Ing (1931 – present) George Clayton Johnson (July 10, 1929 – present) Damon Francis Knight (September 19, 1922 – April 15, 2002) Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) Laurence van Cott Niven ( April 30, 1938 – present) Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) known by his pen name George Orwell Frederik George Pohl, Jr. (November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) Daniel Quinn (October 11, 1935 – present) Kim Stanley Robinson (March 23, 1952 – present) Robert Silverberg (January 15, 1935 – present) Harry Norman Turtledove (June 14, 1949 – present) Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (October 21, 1929 – present) Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) Herbert George “H. G.” Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) Robert Franklin Young (June 8, 1915 – June 22, 1986) Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) 
Y’all forgot Ursula K. Le Guin, Lois McMaster Bujold, C.L. Moore and so many other female-type people…
Whoops, sorry, just saw Ursula. Still…only one woman out of 20?