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message 1: by Jim (new)

Jul 08, 2017 04:33AM

Any topics dealing with SF books, stories, or whatever that originated between 1960 & 1979.

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message 2: by Jim (last edited Jun 29, 2021 09:27AM) (new)

Sep 26, 2018 05:11AM

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Feb 08, 2019 06:25AM

Hold for future.

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Feb 08, 2019 06:26AM

SF Authors by Period Lists
This list shouldn't be considered complete nor is it strictly limited to influential SF authors & editors. 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.

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.

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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message 5: by Jim (last edited Jun 08, 2020 04:06AM) (new)

Feb 08, 2019 06:27AM

# books
group read --- Author's name --- Writing period --- Comments
A
- Kobo Abe (1950s-1990s, died 1993) - best known SF is Inter Ice Age 4.
1 - Douglas Adams (1970s-2001) - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
- Robert Adams (1970-1990) - Horseclan series
- Alan Burt Akers - see Kenneth Bulmer
- Brian W. Aldiss (1950s & up) - grandmaster of SF
- Kingsley Amis (1950s-1980s, died 1995) - mostly thrillers, literary fiction, horror, & comedy. The Alteration is alternate timeline SF.
- Poul Anderson (1950s-2000) - grandmaster of SF
- Piers Anthony (1960s & up) - Macroscope & others
- Christopher Anvil (1960s-2000s, died 2009) - Pandora's Legions, Interstellar Patrol, & Interstellar Patrol II: The Federation of Humanity are his best known books.
- Eleanor Arnason (1970s & up) - SF novels & short stories, best known for her omnibus A Woman of the Iron People & short story collection Hidden Folk.
3 - Isaac Asimov (1939-1990s) - Foundation, I, Robot, & many more
- Janet Asimov (1970s & up) - best known for herThe Norby Chronicles written with 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.

B
- J.G. Ballard (1960s-2000s) - Crash, The Drowned World, & more.
- 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.
- William Barton (1970s & up) - Best known for his Starover series starting with Iris. Has written quite a few novels with Michael Capobianco
- Barrington J. Bayley (1950s-2000s, died 2008) - short stories & novels. Best known for his The Soul of the Robot series.
- Charles Beaumont (1950-1970)
1 - Gregory Benford (1970s & up)
2 - Alfred Bester (1950s-1990s) - The Stars My Destination, The Demolished Man, & many others.
- 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.
- Michael Bishop (1970s & up) - short stories & his most popular novel is No Enemy But Time.
- 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. 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 Hugo.
- 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. 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, & more.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley (1970s-1990s) - 'Darkover' & 'Avalon' series plus.
- 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.
1 - Fredric Brown (1940s-1970s) - Martians, Go Home, What Mad Universe, & others.
- John Brunner (1950s-1990s) - Stand on Zanzibar, The Sheep Look Up, The Shockwave Rider, & more.
- Algis Budrys (1950s-2000s) - Rogue Moon, Who?, & many others.
- Kenneth Bulmer aka Alan Burt Akers (1950s-1990s, died 2005) - many pseudonyms & 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).
- 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.
- David R. Bunch (1950s-1990s, died 2000) - short stories only Bunch! is his most popular collection.
- Anthony Burgess (1950s-1990s) - A Clockwork Orange & The Wanting Seed plus others.
- F.M. Busby (1950s-1990s) - 'Demu', 'Rissa Kerguelen', & 'Holzein' (Rebel) series & more. Many short stories.
1 - Octavia E. Butler (1970s-2000s) - 'Patternist', 'Parable', 'Xenogenesis' series, Kindred & more.

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- Martin Caidin (1950s-2000) Cyborg (6 Million $ Man) & more. Action oriented.
- John W. Campbell Jr. (1930s-1970s) - Who Goes There? (The Thing movies) & others. Most influential editor 1940s-1960s.
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.
- Jeffrey A. Carver (1970s & up) - SF, fantasy, & YA. 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.
- A. Bertram Chandler (1940s-1980s, died 1984) - SF short stories & novels. Best known for his John Grimes series that begins with The Road to the Rim. Father-in-law of horror author Ramsey Campbell.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adrian Cole (Christopher Synnot) (1970s & up) - mostly fantasy with SF elements.
- 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?
- 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.
- Richard Cowper (1970s-1980s, died 2002) - best known SF novels are The Twilight of Briareus, Clone, & short stories.
- Michael Crichton (1960s-2000s) - Jurassic Park,The Andromeda Strain, Sphere, & many other popular SF novels that have been turned into movies.
- John Crowley (1970s & up) - Engine Summer is SF, but most of his works are fantasy.

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- Brian Daley (aka Jack McKinney) (1970s-1990s) Star Wars novelizations, Floyt & Fitzhugh series, Tron, & the Coramonde fantasy series. Robotech as Jack McKinney.
- John Dalmas (1970s & up) (pseudonym of John Robert Jones) - Best known for The Regiment series.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lester del Rey (1950s-1970s) - The Runaway Robot, The Mysterious Planet, & more. Fantasy & influential editor.
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, & 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.
- Thomas M. Disch (1960s-2000s) - Camp Concentration, The Genocides, & more.
- Stephen R. Donaldson (1970s & up) - best known for his Thomas Covenant & other fantasy, but the Gap series is SF.
- 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, a lot of SF & fantasy.

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message 6: by Jim (last edited Mar 07, 2019 07:06AM) (new)

Feb 08, 2019 06:28AM

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- 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.
- 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.
- E. Everett Evans (1950s-1970s) - Man of Many Minds, The Planet Mappers, & more. Wrote Masters Of Space with E.E. "Doc" Smith.

F
- 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.
- Cynthia Felice (1970s-1990s) - SF & literature. Best known SF is Godsfire. Has written with Connie Willis.
- 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.
- 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.

G
- Daniel F. Galouye (1950s-1970s, died 1976) - Dark Universe, Simulacron 3, & several others as well as 2 short story collections.
- 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.
- Peter George (1960s) - Best known for Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
- 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.
1 - Tom Godwin (1950s-1970s) - best known for The Cold Equations and Other Stories.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.

H
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
- Douglas Arthur Hill (1970s-2000s, died 2007) - best known for his 'Last Legionary' series which starts withGalactic Warlord.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.

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- Carl Jacobi (1920s-1990s) - horror, fantasy, crime, & SF short stories.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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message 7: by Jim (last edited Mar 07, 2019 07:07AM) (new)

Feb 08, 2019 06:29AM

# books
group read --- Author's name --- Writing period --- Comments

K
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- Stephen King (1970s & up) - mostly horror & fantasy, some of his books have an SF basis, most notably The Stand.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Michael Kurland (1960s & up) - writes in many genres. Psi Hunt, The Unicorn Girl, Transmission Error, & others are SF.

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- R.A. Lafferty (1960s-1990s) - many short stories (200?) & several dozen novels. Mostly 'Tall Tales' style SF stories.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 - 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.
- Jacqueline Lichtenberg (1970s & up) - Best known for her Sime/Gen novels starting with House of Zeor.
- 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.
- Jean Lorrah (1970s & up) - Star Trek novels & Savage Empire series (more fantasy than SF), as well as other fantasy & franchise works.
- 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.
- George Lucas (1970s & up) - best known for Star Wars.
- 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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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Anne McCaffrey (1960s-2010s, died 2011) - Restoree (1967) was her first SF novel. Best known for her Pern & Brain Ship series. Also wrote YA.
- Vonda N. McIntyre (1970s & up) - best known for Dreamsnake & Star Trek movie novelizations.
- 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.
- P. Schuyler Miller (1930s-1970s, died 1974) - short SF & critic/reviewer.
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.
- 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.
- Donald Moffitt (1970s-2010s, died 2015) - best known for his first The Jupiter Theft & last Children of the Comet SF novels.
- Thomas F. Monteleone (1970s & up) - SF & horror author & editor.
- 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.
- 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.

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- 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.
- 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.

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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.
- 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.

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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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- Tim Powers (1970s & up) - best known for The Anubis Gates & On Stranger Tides.
- 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.
- 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".
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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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.

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message 9: by Jim (last edited Mar 07, 2019 07:10AM) (new)

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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- James H. Schmitz (1940s-1970s, died 1981) - best known for short stories The Best of James H. Schmitz & James H. Schmitz Resurrected: Selected Stories of James H. Schmitz. He also wrote novels such as the The Witches of Karres & the 'Hub Universe' series which begins with A Tale of Two Clocks.
- 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.
- Bob Shaw (1950s-1990s, died 1996) - prolific both short stories & novels. Best known for hisOrbitsville series.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.
- Norman Spinrad (1960s & up) - best known for The Iron Dream & Bug Jack Barron. Also writes horror.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.

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- 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.
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.
- 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.
- Lisa Tuttle (1960s & up) - best known for historical mysteries, horror, & fantasy, she has written Lost Futures which is SF.

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- Steven Utley (1970s & up) - short SF stories. His most popular collection is The 400-Million-Year-Itch.

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- 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.
- 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.
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).

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- 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.
- 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.
- Manly Wade Wellman (1920s-1980s, died 1986) - mostly known for fantasy, horror, & weird fiction, The Beyonders is one of his few SF novels.
- James White (1950s-1990s, died 1999) - Best known for his Sector General series which starts with Hospital Station.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
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.
- 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.

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- 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.
- Samuel Youd (1960s-1990s) - He wrote as John Christopher & his books are almost always filed under that pseudonym.

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- 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.

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