de Camp, L. Sprague

wrote for Astounding's companion magazine Unknown

Key Work(with Fletcher Pratt): The Incomplete Enchanter (1941)

Delany, Samuel R.

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.

Key works:

• 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

Dick, Philip K.

has been described as an intellectual with pulp origins.

Brian Aldiss calls him a hybrid of Dickens and Dostoevsky.

• 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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Though best know for his Sherlock Holmes mysteries (a cocept lifted directly from the works of Edgar Allen Poe) Doyle also wrote The Lost World (1912), about stone age tribes living in a crater of a volcano in the Amazon Basin