Waldrop, Howard
1946--
American writer of mostly short fiction

Recommended Reading: "The Ugly Chickens" (1980)

Weinbaum, Stanley G.
1902-1935
degree in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin

Recommended Reading: "A Martian Odyssey" (1934), containing perhaps the first fully realized extraterrestrial being in literature

Wells, H[erbert].G[eorge].
1866-1946

Wells wrote what he called "scientific romances."

Wells can be said to have invented most categories of science fiction.

Recommended Readings:

• The Time Machine (1895)
• The First Men in the Moon (1901)
• The War of the Worlds (1897)
• The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896)
• The Invisible Man (1897)

Whedon, Joss
1965--
Writer and director
Creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly

See also WHEDONesque: a fan site devoted to Whedon and his creations.

Wilhelm, Kate
1928--

writer of both science fiction and mainstream fiction.

Recommended Reading: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1976), a Hugo winner about cloning

Williamson, Jack
1908--2006
American writer and academic
B.A. and an M.A. in English at Eastern New Mexico University; PhD from the University of Colorado
Taught at Eastern New Mexico University

Received the Grand Master Award in 1976

Recommended Reading: "With Folded Hands" (1947)

Willis, Connie
1945--
American writer

noted for both short stories and novels; has won many Hugos and Nebulas

Recommended Readings:

• "Fire Watch" (1982)
• Doomsday Book (1992), about time travel back to the time of the Black Death, won both Hugo and Nebula
• To Say Nothing of the Dog, a comic novel set in the same universe, won the Nebula

Wolfe, Gene
1931--
American writer, veteran of the Korean War

Recommended Reading: The Book of the New Sun (1980-87), a series of science fantasy novels set in the same universe

Wyndham, John
1903-69
Most common pen name of John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris
British writer

Recommended Reading:

• The Day of the Triffids (1951)
• The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), filmed as Village of the Damned