List of science-fiction authors


is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative, futuristic and scientific concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. The genre often explores human responses to the consequences of projected or imagined scientific advances.
Science fiction is related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction, and it contains many subgenres. The genre's precise definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Major subgenres include hard science fiction, which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction, which focuses on social sciences. Other notable subgenres are cyberpunk, which explores the interface between technology and society, climate fiction, which addresses environmental issues, and space opera, which emphasizes pure adventure in a universe in which space travel is common.

A

  • Dafydd ab Hugh
  • Alexander Abasheli
  • Edwin Abbott Abbott
  • Kōbō Abe
  • Robert Abernathy
  • Dan Abnett
  • Daniel Abraham
  • Forrest J Ackerman
  • Douglas Adams
  • Robert Adams
  • Ann Aguirre
  • Jerry Ahern
  • Jim Aikin
  • Alan Burt Akers
  • Tim Akers
  • Brian Aldiss
  • David M. Alexander
  • Grant Allen
  • Roger MacBride Allen
  • Hans Joachim Alpers
  • Steve Alten
  • Genrich Altshuller
  • Kingsley Amis
  • Paul Rafaelovich Amnuél
  • Charlie Jane Anders
  • Chester Anderson
  • Kevin J. Anderson
  • Poul Anderson
  • Jean-Pierre Andrevon
  • Arlan Andrews
  • Patricia Anthony
  • Piers Anthony
  • Christopher Anvil
  • K. A. Applegate
  • E.L. Arch
  • Eleanor Arnason
  • Robert Arthur
  • Catherine Asaro
  • Neal Asher
  • Francis Leslie Ashton
  • Pauline Ashwell
  • Isaac Asimov
  • Janet Asimov
  • Nancy Asire
  • Robert Asprin
  • Francis Henry Atkins
  • A. A. Attanasio
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Ayerdhal

    B

  • Richard Bachman
  • Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Hilary Bailey
  • Robin Wayne Bailey
  • Kage Baker
  • Scott Baker
  • J. G. Ballard
  • Edwin Balmer
  • Iain M. Banks
  • Michael A. Banks
  • Raymond E. Banks
  • Marek Baraniecki
  • Miquel Barceló
  • René Barjavel
  • Wayne Barlowe
  • Arthur K. Barnes
  • John Barnes
  • Steven Barnes
  • William Barnwell
  • Donald Barr
  • João Barreiros
  • Max Barry
  • William Barton
  • T. J. Bass
  • Harry Bates
  • L. Frank Baum
  • John Baxter
  • Stephen Baxter
  • Georgy Baydukov
  • Barrington J. Bayley
  • Elizabeth Bear
  • Greg Bear
  • Jerome Beatty Jr
  • Charles Beaumont
  • Vladimir Beekman
  • Ugo Bellagamba
  • Edward Bellamy
  • Alexander Belyaev
  • Andrei Belyanin
  • Don Bendell
  • Gregory Benford
  • Donald R. Bensen
  • J. D. Beresford
  • Fyodor Berezin
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Jack Bertin
  • Alfred Bester
  • Bruce Bethke
  • Ambrose Bierce
  • Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
  • Eando Binder and Otto
  • John Birmingham
  • David Bischoff
  • Michael Bishop
  • Terry Bisson
  • Jerome Bixby
  • Malorie Blackman
  • Jayme Lynn Blaschke
  • James Blaylock
  • James Blish
  • Robert Bloch
  • Alexander Bogdanov
  • Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
  • Kevin Bokeili
  • John Boland
  • Nelson S. Bond
  • Pierre Bordage
  • François Bordes
  • Anthony Boucher
  • Pierre Boulle
  • Sydney James Bounds
  • Louis Henri Boussenard
  • Ben Bova
  • Leigh Brackett
  • Ray Bradbury
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • Gillian Bradshaw
  • Johanna Braun
  • Mark Brandis
  • Reginald Bretnor
  • Miles J. Breuer
  • David Brin
  • Jason V Brock
  • Damien Broderick
  • Max Brooks
  • Terry Brooks
  • John Brosnan
  • Eric Brown
  • Fredric Brown
  • James Cooke Brown
  • Rosel George Brown
  • Simon Brown
  • John Brunner
  • Steven Brust
  • Edward Bryant
  • Valery Bryusov
  • Tobias S. Buckell
  • Algis Budrys
  • Vitaly Bugrov
  • Lela E. Buis
  • Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Faddey Bulgarin
  • Kenneth Bulmer
  • Kir Bulychev
  • Chris Bunch
  • David R. Bunch
  • Anthony Burgess
  • Sue Burke
  • Yuli Burkin
  • Arthur J. Burks
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Michael A. Burstein
  • F. M. Busby
  • Aleksandr Bushkov
  • Jim Butcher
  • Octavia E. Butler
  • Stuart J. Byrne

    C

  • Pat Cadigan
  • Jack Cady
  • Martin Caidin
  • Italo Calvino
  • Jack Campbell
  • John W. Campbell, Jr.
  • Karel Čapek
  • Paul Capon
  • Orson Scott Card
  • Joseph Carne-Ross
  • Terry Carr
  • Lin Carter
  • Cleve Cartmill
  • Jeffrey Carver
  • Jay Caselberg
  • Beth Cato
  • Hugh B. Cave
  • Franci Cerar
  • Jack L. Chalker
  • Becky Chambers
  • Joël Champetier
  • A. Bertram Chandler
  • Suzy McKee Charnas
  • Daína Chaviano
  • J. Kathleen Cheney
  • C. J. Cherryh
  • Ted Chiang
  • Charles Chilton
  • Nadia Chonville
  • John Christopher
  • Richard Chwedyk
  • Massimo Citi
  • Charles Heber Clark
  • Arthur C. Clarke
  • Jo Clayton
  • Hal Clement
  • John Cleve
  • Mark Clifton
  • Ernest Cline
  • Mildred Clingerman
  • Brenda Clough
  • Martha deMey Clow
  • John Clute
  • Stanton A. Coblentz
  • Theodore Cogswell
  • Frona Eunice Wait Colburn
  • Allan Cole
  • Robert William Cole
  • Eoin Colfer
  • Erroll Collins
  • Suzanne Collins
  • D. G. Compton
  • Michael Coney
  • Groff Conklin
  • Storm Constantine
  • Glen Cook
  • Hugh Cook
  • Paul Cook
  • Rick Cook
  • Brenda Cooper
  • Edmund Cooper
  • Alfred Coppel
  • James S. A. Corey
  • Larry Correia
  • Juanita Coulson
  • Richard Cowper
  • Erle Cox
  • John G. Cramer
  • Michael Crichton
  • Robert Cromie
  • John Crowley
  • Andrew Crumey
  • Ray Cummings
  • Philippe Curval
  • Julie E. Czerneda

    D

  • Roald Dahl
  • Brian Daley
  • John Dalmas
  • Tony Daniel
  • Jack Dann
  • Maurice Georges Dantec
  • Dennis Danvers
  • Henry Darger
  • Clark Darlton
  • James Dashner
  • Avram Davidson
  • Chan Davis
  • Vox Day
  • L. Sprague de Camp
  • Antonio de Macedo
  • James De Mille
  • Marianne de Pierres
  • Stephen Dedman
  • Lester del Rey
  • Miriam Allen deFord
  • Samuel R. Delany
  • Bradley Denton
  • Charles Derennes
  • August Derleth
  • A.J. Deutsch
  • Graham Diamond
  • Philip K. Dick
  • Terrance Dicks
  • Gordon R. Dickson
  • Charles Willard Diffin
  • Lyuben Dilov
  • Dougal Dixon
  • William C. Dietz
  • Thomas M. Disch
  • Cory Doctorow
  • Alfred Döblin
  • Stephen R. Donaldson
  • Alain Dorémieux
  • Sonya Dorman
  • Candas Dorsey
  • Ian Douglas
  • Terry Dowling
  • Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Debra Doyle
  • Gardner Dozois
  • David Drake
  • Tananarive Due
  • Catherine Dufour
  • Jacek Dukaj
  • Jean-Claude Dunyach
  • Nictzin Dyalhis

    E

  • C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  • G. C. Edmondson
  • George Alec Effinger
  • Ivan Antonovich Efremov
  • Greg Egan
  • Phyllis Eisenstein
  • Gordon Eklund
  • Suzette Haden Elgin
  • E. C. Eliott
  • William B. Ellern
  • Harlan Ellison
  • Roger Elwood
  • Victor Rousseau Emanuel
  • Carol Emshwiller
  • M. J. Engh
  • George Allan England
  • Inge Eriksen
  • Steven Erikson pseudonym of Steve Rune Lundin
  • Walter Ernsting
  • Andreas Eschbach
  • Kelley Eskridge
  • Valerio Evangelisti
  • Christopher Evans
  • E. Everett Evans

    F

  • Paul W. Fairman
  • Jane Fancher
  • Lionel Fanthorpe
  • Ralph Milne Farley
  • Philip José Farmer
  • Nabil Farouk
  • Howard Fast
  • John Russell Fearn
  • Cynthia Felice
  • Brad Ferguson
  • Paul Di Filippo
  • Sheila Finch
  • Jack Finney
  • Eliot Fintushel
  • Nicholas Fisk
  • Francis Flagg
  • Camille Flammarion
  • Eric Flint
  • Homer Eon Flint
  • Michael Flynn
  • Charles L. Fontenay
  • Jeffrey Ford
  • John M. Ford
  • William R. Forstchen
  • E. M. Forster
  • Robert L. Forward
  • Richard Foss
  • Alan Dean Foster
  • M. A. Foster
  • Karen Joy Fowler
  • Gardner Fox
  • Randall Frakes
  • Leo Frankowski
  • Herbert W. Franke
  • Yves Fremion
  • C. S. Friedman
  • Oscar J. Friend
  • Esther Friesner

    G

  • Neil Gaiman
  • Raymond Z. Gallun
  • Arnould Galopin
  • Daniel F. Galouye
  • Charles E. Gannon
  • James Alan Gardner
  • Martin Gardner
  • Richard Garfinkle
  • Randall Garrett
  • Laurent Genefort
  • Mary Gentle
  • Peter George
  • Hugo Gernsback
  • David Gerrold
  • Mark S. Geston
  • Edward Gibson
  • Gary Gibson
  • William Gibson
  • John Ulrich Giesy
  • Alexis A. Gilliland
  • John Glasby
  • John Gloag
  • Molly Gloss
  • Dmitry Glukhovsky
  • Parke Godwin
  • Tom Godwin
  • Jacques Goimard
  • H. L. Gold
  • Lee Gold
  • Stephen Goldin
  • Lisa Goldstein
  • Kathleen Ann Goonan
  • Rex Gordon
  • Richard Gordon
  • Phyllis Gotlieb
  • Ron Goulart
  • Steven Gould
  • Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville
  • Charles L. Grant
  • Claudia Gray
  • Dominic Green
  • Nunsowe Green
  • Roland J. Green
  • Simon R. Green
  • A. T. Greenblatt
  • Colin Greenland
  • William Greenleaf
  • Percy Greg
  • Lois Gresh
  • George Griffith
  • Nicola Griffith
  • Jon Courtenay Grimwood
  • Ken Grimwood
  • Alexander Gromov
  • Martin Grzimek
  • Wyman Guin
  • Eileen Gunn
  • James E. Gunn

    H

  • PJ Haarsma
  • Karen Haber
  • H. Rider Haggard
  • Ronald M. Hahn
  • Isidore Haiblum
  • Jack C. Haldeman II
  • Joe Haldeman
  • Austin Hall
  • Barbara Hambly
  • Edmond Hamilton
  • Peter F. Hamilton
  • Elizabeth Hand
  • Otfrid von Hanstein
  • Lee Harding
  • Charles L. Harness
  • Clare Winger Harris
  • Harry Harrison
  • M. John Harrison
  • Henry Hasse
  • Simon Hawke
  • Peter Heck
  • Robert A. Heinlein
  • Zenna Henderson
  • Joe L. Hensley
  • Brian Herbert
  • Frank Herbert
  • Paul van Herck
  • Philip E. High
  • Douglas Hill
  • Ernest Hill
  • Matt Hill
  • Charles Howard Hinton
  • Christopher Hinz
  • Morioka Hiroyuki
  • Christopher Hodder-Williams
  • P. C. Hodgell
  • William Hope Hodgson
  • E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Lee Hoffman
  • James P. Hogan
  • Ludvig Holberg
  • Elizabeth Holden
  • Robert Holdstock
  • H. H. Hollis
  • Nalo Hopkinson
  • Shinichi Hoshi
  • Rokheya Sakhawat Hossain
  • Hayden Howard
  • Robert E. Howard
  • Hugh Howey
  • Fred Hoyle
  • L. Ron Hubbard
  • Marek Huberath
  • Matt Hughes
  • Monica Hughes
  • Edna Mayne Hull
  • Cyril Hume
  • Stephen Hunt
  • Kameron Hurley
  • Dave Hutchinson
  • Aldous Huxley