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A to Z: Influential Science Fiction Authors

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)

About Author /

Sunni K Brock writes about music, science, technology, art, food, and pop culture. Her fiction and poetry combine science fiction, horror, fantasy, and sometimes erotica. As one-half of the team of JaSunni Productions, LLC and Cycatrix Press, she creates genre film and printed media with her husband, Jason V Brock. If she had spare time, she would spend it researching genealogy, shopping at the farmer’s market, building tricked-out computers, and conducting experiments on controlled randomness.

3 Comments

  • Pixel Scroll 8/5/17 Nine Pinterests In Amber | File 770
    8 years ago

    […] ALPHABET MALES. The Nameless Digest’s “A to Z: Influential Science Fiction Authors” has photos of 26 authors in alphabetical order – including a rare one of a clean-shaven Larry […]

  • Bonnie McDaniel
    8 years ago

    Y’all forgot Ursula K. Le Guin, Lois McMaster Bujold, C.L. Moore and so many other female-type people…

  • Bonnie McDaniel
    8 years ago

    Whoops, sorry, just saw Ursula. Still…only one woman out of 20?

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