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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 meditatitve Wellsian fiction such as "Twilight"
and "Who Goes There?," a
seminal story that was the basis for the film The
Thing
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Capek,
Karel
Czechoslovakian
Key Works:
- 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
Card moves easily
between science fiction and fantasy.
Key Works:
- 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)
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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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Cherryh,
C.J.
classics teacher
who also moves easily between science fiction and fantasy.
Key Works:
- Downbelow Station (1981),
Hugo winning intelligent space opera
- Cyteen
(1988), a trilogy that also won a Hugo
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Clarke,
Arthur C.
telecommunications
and satellite expert
Native of England, he lives in Sri Lanka.
Author of lyrical
science fiction with a philosophical and religious bent, Clarke is best
known as the author of 2001: a Space Odyssey
(1968), a novel based on a screenplay by Clarke and Stanley M. Kubrick
which was itself inspired by Clarke's short story "The
Sentinel."
Clarke wrote two sequels:
2010: Odyssey Two (1982, also
filmed) and 2061: Odyssey Three.
Other key works include:
- Rendezvous
With Rama
(1973), winner of the Hugo and the Nebula
- Imperial
Earth (1976)
- The
Fountains of Paradise
(1978), winner of Hugo and Nebula
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