Key Works:
- Eon
- Queen of Angels (1990)
- Moving Mars
- Darwin's Radio
Key Work: Looking Backward (1888), about a man who wakes up in the year 2000 in the Boston of the future. In this work Bellamy predicts future technological developments without grasping their possible social repercussions.
Benford,
Gregory
professor of physics at the University of California at Irvine
Key Work: Timescape (1980),a Nebula winner.
Benford is now writing a series of novels which take place in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe.
Key Work: The Demolished Man (1952)
Key Work: "Tunesmith"
Bishop,
Michael
interested in anthropology and the alien
Key Work: No Enemy But Time (1982),a Nebula winner
critic and academic scholar
Key Works:
- A Case of Conscience (1958) and Black Easter; in these novels Blish uses science fiction to tackle religious issues first raised by C.S. Lewis in his Perelandra Trilogy.
- Cities in Flight (1970) set the model for stories set on generational space ships.
- "A Work of Art"
An Argentinian and a practitioner of magical realism, Borges wove fantastic elements into his stories.
Key Work: Ficciones, or Fictions (1944; trans. 1962)
One of the best known science fiction writers of his generation, Bradbury tends to write science fiction that verges on fantasy.
Key Works:
- The Martian Chronicles (1951), a series of linked short stories
- "The Fireman," novelized as Fahrenheit 451 (1954)
Bradley,
Marion Zimmer
d.
1999
founder of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine
Key Works:
- Darkover novels, a series of 21 sword-and-sorcery novels dealing with a race of beings with strange psionic powers and a fear of technology.
- Myths recast in
the feminine point of view
- The Mists of Avalon (1982), Arthurian legend from point of view of Guinevere, and its prequel The Forest House (1994)
- The Firebrand, the story of the Trojan War told from Cassandra's point of view
Key Works:
- Startide Rising
Key Work: The Coming Race (1871), a utopia about an underground race of supermen.
author of the Miles Vorkosigan Saga, a series of linked novels and stories about a mutant, his family, his adventures, and galactic political intrigue
Key Works:
- Barrayar
- Falling Free
- Mirror Dance
Key Work: A Clockwork Orange (1962)
Burroughs,
Edgar Rice
1875-1950
Author of some 70 books, Burroughs was one of the commercially successful authors of the 20th century.He wrote what would today be called science fantasy.
Though probably best known today as the author of Tarzan of the Apes (1912), A Princess of Mars (1912), his first published story, introduced Barsoom (Mars) and brought interplanetary adventure into science fiction to stay.
At the Earth's Core (1914) introduced Pellucidar, where the hollow Earth lit by a miniature sun harbors savage tribes and fantastic creatures.
Other Key Works:
- Pirates of Venus (1932) and sequels
- The Moon Maid (1923) and sequels
- The Land That Time Forgot (1924) and sequels
black feminist
Key Works:
- Xenogenesis trilogy
Key Work: Erewhon [nowhere spelled backwards](1872), a satirical utopia.
