Cadigan, Pat
1953--
American
Cyberpunk author |
| Recommended Reading: Synners (1989) |
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Campbell,
John W.
1910-1971
educated as an engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
Duke University
As editor of Astounding,
Campbell essentially shaped the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
As an author under
his own name he wrote space opera.
As Don A. Stuart he
wrote more meditative Wellsian fiction |
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Capek,
Karel
1890-1938
Czechoslovakian
Recommended Readings:
- R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (1920), a play which introduced the word
"robot," a Czech word for "work," into the English
language.
- War
With the Newts (1936).
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Card,
Orson Scott
1951--
Card moves easily
between science fiction and fantasy and has also published some mainstream work.
Recommended Readings:
- Ender's
Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won both the Hugo and the Nebula. A
third book, Xenocide, completes
the trilogy. Recently Card has
been writing prequels and parallel books in Ender's universe, including Ender's Shadow
- The
Lost Boys (1993)
- Tales of Alvin Maker, series of novels set in an alternate universe
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Carroll,
Lewis
1832-1898
pen name of Victorian mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
His most famous works:
- Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
- Through
the Looking Glass (1871
are not science fiction,
but in their surrealism relate to several aspects of science fiction.
Alice, like Gulliver
demonstrates C. S. Lewis' dictum: "To tell how odd things strick
odd people is to have an oddity too many." |
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Charnas, Suzy McKee
1939--
American writer and former teacher
Feminist |
Recommended Readings:
- "Unicorn Tapestry" (1980) winner of the Nebula
- "Boobs" (1989) winner of a Hugo
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Cherryh,
C.J.
Pseudonym of Carolyn Janice Cherry
1942--
American writer and former classics teacher
who also moves easily between science fiction and fantasy.
Recommended Readings:
- Downbelow Station (1981),
Hugo winning intelligent space opera
- Cyteen (1988), a trilogy that also won a Hugo
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Clarke, Arthur C.
See Arthur C. Clarke |
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Cogswell, Theodore
1918-87
American writer and academic |
| Recommended Reading: "The Spectre General" (1952) |
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Clemens, Samuel Langhorne
1835-1910
Wrote under the pseudonym Mark Twain |
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Conner, Mike
1951--
American |
| Recommended Reading: "Guide Dog" (1991), winner of a Nebula |
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Cooper, Susan
1935--
British, now living in the United States
Married to actor Hume Cronyn since 1996 |
| Recommended Readings: The Dark is Rising, juvenile fantasy series |
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Crichton, Michael
1942--2008
American best-selling author whose works move between science fiction and the mainstream
M.D. from Harvard Medical School
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Recommended Readings:
- The Andromeda Strain (1969)
- Jurassic Park (1990)
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Cross, John
1914-67
British writer of both fantasy and science fiction |
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Crowley, John
1942--
American writer of both science fiction and fantasy who has also worked in film |
| Recommended Reading: Little, Big (1981) |
