De Camp, L. Sprague
1907--2000

wrote for Astounding's companion magazine Unknown

Recommended Reading (with Fletcher Pratt): The Incomplete Enchanter (1941)

Delany, Samuel R.
1942--
novelist, critic, and academic

Delany, the first science fiction writer to enter the field as a novelist rather than a short story writer, writes on a border between science fiction and fantasy, a middle ground he calls speculative fiction.

Openly homosexual, he is also rare as a black writer of science fiction.

Recommended Readings:

• The Jewels of Aptor (1962)
• Babel-17 (1966), winner of the Nebula
• The Einstein Intersection (1967), winner of Nebula
• Nova (1968), a recasting of the Prometheus myth

del Rey, Judy-Lynn
1943-1986
editor and anthologist

Worked at Galaxy
Moved to Ballantine books where she helped to form the Del Rey imprint

del Rey, Lester
working name of
1915--93
writer and editor, also collaborator with Frederik Pohl

Locus Magazine cites research by writer John Pierce that reveals that del Rey's real name is not Ramon Felipe San Juan Mario Silvio Enrico Smith Heathcourt-Brace Sierra y Alvarez-del Rey y de los Verdes as is generally reported but Leonard Knapp ("People & Publishing: Milestones" 60.1 (January 2008): 8).

Dick, Philip K.
1928-82
has been described as an intellectual with pulp origins.

Brian Aldiss calls him a hybrid of Dickens and Dostoevsky.

Recommended Readings:

• The Man in the High Castle (1962), an alternate history in which the Axis powers win World War II, winner of the Hugo
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), an apocalyptic tale of alien invastion
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), filmed by Ridley Scott as Blade Runner
• "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" filmed as Total Recall

Recommended Readings:

• the Dorsai series