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Sawyer, Robert
1960--
Canadian author of mostly hard science fiction

Recommended Reading: The Neanderthal Parallax Trilogy (2002-3)

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Schmitz, James
1911-81
American, World War II veteran

Wrote mostly space opera

Recommended Reading: The Witches of Karres (1947; exp. 1966)

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Sheffield, Charles
1935-2002

British physicist and author
Graduated from St. John's College of Cambridge University in England with double first class honors in mathematics and physics
Earned a doctorate in theoretical physics from American University in Washington, D.C.

Worked for the Office of Technology Assessment, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Earth Satellite Corp. before becoming a full time writer.

Past president of both the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the American Astronomical Society

Recommended Readings:

  • "Georgia on My Mind" (1993), winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula for Best Novelette
  • Brother to Dragons
  • The McAndrew Chronicles
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Sheldon, Alice
1915-1987
American psychologist and writer
PhD in experimental psychology
Worked for the C.I.A.
Died a suicide after killing her husband who was suffering from Alzheimer's

Wrote under several pseudonyms, most notably James Tiptree, Jr. and also Racoona Sheldon

 
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Sheldon, Raccoona
pseudonym for Alice Sheldon who also wrote as James Tiptree, Jr.
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Shelley, Mary
See Mary Shelley.

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Shepard, Lucius
1947--
American writer and poet
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Sherred, T. L.
1915-85
American techinical writer and author

Recommended Reading: "E for Effort" (1947)

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Shiras, Wilmar
1908-90
American writer

Recommended Reading: "In Hiding" (1948)

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Shute, Nevil
1899-1960
working name of Nevil Shute Norway
British writer and aeronautical engineer

Recommended Reading: On the Beach (1957), one of the first novels to portray the earth in the aftermath of nuclear war.
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Silverberg, Robert
1935--
American writer of both fiction and nonfiction

Recommended Reading:

  • Dying Inside (1972)
  • A Time of Changes (1971)
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Simak, Clifford
1904-88
American journalist and writer

Recommended Reading: Way Station (1963)

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Simmons, Dan
1948--
American teacher and writer

Recommended Reading: Hyperion Cantos
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Sladek, John
1937--2000
American nvolved in the British New Wave movement
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Slesar, Henry
1927--2002
American writer, also worked in advertising
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Slonczewski, Joan
1956--

biologist with a specialty in genetics and professor at Kenyon College in Ohio.

Recommended Reading: The Door Into Ocean
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Smith, Cordwainer
pseudonym of Paul Linebarger
1913-66
born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Grew up partially in China

PhD in political science from Johns Hopkins University

Most of his science fiction takes place in his Instrumentality of Mankind universe

Recommended Reading:

  • "Scanners Live in Vain" (1950)
  • "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell" (1962)
  • Norstrilia (1975)
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Smith, E.E. "Doc"
1890-1965

Father of the space opera--cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians in space.

Recommended Readings:

  • Skylark of Space (1928) in Argosy
  • the Gray Lensman series
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Stapledon, Olaf
1886-1950

With his writing, Stapledon turned scientific concepts into vast epic prose poems.

Recommended Readings:

  • Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future (1930)
  • Starmaker (1937), his masterpiece
  • Odd John (1935), a more accessible superman tale
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Sterling, Bruce
1954--
American essayist, editor, and writer
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Stevenson, Robert Louis
1850-94
Scottish author best known for mainstream literature

Recommended Reading: "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886)
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Stewart, George
1895-1980
American
PhD from the University of California, later professor of English there

Recommended Reading: Earth Abides (1949)

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Stoker, Bram
1847-1912
born in Ireland

Recommended Reading: Dracula (1897)
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Stuart, Don A.
pseudonym of John W. Campbell, Jr.

Stories Campbell wrote under this pseudonym tended to be varied in tone and more literary than the space opera stories he wrote under his own name.

Recommended Reading:

  • "Twilight" (1934)
  • "Who Goes There?" (1938), filmed as The Thing from Another World (1951) and later as The Thing (1982)
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Sturgeon, Theodore
1918-1985
American

Recommended Readings:

  • "Microcosmic God" (1941)
    "Killdozer!," the basis for Steven Spielberg's first feature, a made-for-television movie called Duel
  • "Thunder and Roses" 1957)
  • "And Baby is Three," expanded and novelized as More Than Human (1953)

 
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Swanwick, Michael
1950--
American

Recommended Reading: Stations of the Tide (1991), winner of a Nebula

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