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Abbott, Edwin
1939-1926
British clergyman and academic
Recommended Reading: Flatland (1884), about a two-dimensional society. The work is science fiction in content, but not in form, being straight expository prose.
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Adams, Douglas
1952-2001
British scriptwriter and novelist

Recommended Reading: The Hitchhiker's Trilogy, actually a series of 5 novels
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Adams, Richard
1920--
British
Recommended Reading: Watership Down, told from the point of view of rabbits.
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Aldiss, Brian
1925--
British novelist, critic, historian

Recommended Readings: History and Criticism

  • Billion Year Spree (1973)
  • update with David Wingrove Trillion Year Spree (1986)
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Alexander, Lloyd
1924--2007
American

Best known for his young adult fantasy series The Chronicles of Prydain

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Anderson, Kevin J.
1962--
American

Collaborates with Brian Herbert on prequels to Frank Herbert's Dune.

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Anderson, Poul
1926-2001

bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Minnesota
Golden Age through the Modern Era
hard science fiction

Named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1967
Inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2000

Recommended Readings:

  • Brain Wave (1954)
  • Tau Zero (1970)
  • Technic History series
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Anthony, Piers
1934--
British writer of both science fiction and fantasy

Author of many series novels, most notably the Magic of Xanth (fantasy) and The Apprentice Adept (science fiction and fantasy)

Recommended Reading: Macroscope (1969)

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Asaro, Catherine
1955--
Astrophysicist and writer

Her ongoing series is the Saga of the Skolian Empire.

Recommended Reading: The Quantum Rose, winner of the Nebula
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Asimov, Isaac
See Isaac Asimov

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Atwood, Margaret
1939--
Canadian novelist

Recommended Reading: The Handmaid's Tale
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