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This is a list of fantasy authors, authors known for writing works of fantasy, fantasy literature, or related genres of magic realism, horror fiction, science fantasy. Many of the authors are known for work outside the fantasy genres.
Speculative fiction portal; These writers have been named Grand Masters by officers and past presidents of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). From 2002 the honor has marked by presentation of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award during the Nebula Awards ceremony (although it is not one of the Nebula Awards, which are voted by all SFWA members).
The Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award is a lifetime honor presented annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) to a living writer of fantasy or science fiction. It was first awarded in 1975, to Robert Heinlein. In 2002, it was renamed after Damon Knight, the founder of SFWA, who had died that year. [1]
Best known as a writer of fiction in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. Other work: television graphic artist, professional musician in United States Air Force bands, robotics computer programmer, and a technical writer specializing in software documentation for mainframe relational database management systems.
For this anthology, forty science fiction and forty fantasy stories are selected. The guest editor selects ten from each genre for inclusion, after reading the works without knowledge of the author or original place of publication. The runners-up, the other sixty stories, are listed in the appendix.
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, doing business as Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association and commonly known as SFWA (/ ˈ s ɪ f w ə / or / ˈ s ɛ f w ə /) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization of professional science fiction and fantasy writers. While SFWA is based in the United States, its membership is open to ...
American women science fiction and fantasy writers (722 P) L. H. P. Lovecraft (7 C, 20 P) Σ. American fantasy writer stubs (38 P) Pages in category "American fantasy ...
A useful book for looking up authors is A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction, by Baird Searles, Martin Last, Beth Meacham, and Michael Franklin (1979). It also tells you whom else you might like if you like one author. Other invaluable works include The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, edited by John Clute