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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
His science fiction writings in particular earned him a number of Hugo and Nebula awards, which along with a large readership, made him one of the towering figures of the genre. For many years Clarke, Robert Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction. [7] Clarke was a lifelong proponent of space travel.
Many of the most enduring science fiction tropes were established in Golden Age literature. Space opera came to prominence with the works of E. E. "Doc" Smith; Isaac Asimov established the canonical Three Laws of Robotics beginning with the 1941 short story "Runaround"; the same period saw the writing of genre classics such as the Asimov's Foundation and Smith's Lensman series.
Cummings is identified as one of the "founding fathers" of the science fiction genre. [2] His most highly regarded fictional work was the novel The Girl in the Golden Atom published in 1922, which was a consolidation of a short story by the same name published in 1919 (where Cummings combined the idea of Fitz James O'Brien's The Diamond Lens with H. G. Wells's The Time Machine) [3] and a ...
Sturgeon's "The Perfect Host" was the cover story in the November 1948 Weird Tales An early version of Sturgeon's first novel, The Dreaming Jewels, was the cover story in the February 1950 issue of Fantastic Adventures Sturgeon's novella The Incubi of Parallel X was the cover story in the September 1951 Planet Stories Sturgeon's novella Granny Won't Knit took the cover of the May 1954 Galaxy ...
Benford has an identical twin brother, James (Jim) Benford, with whom he has collaborated on science fiction stories. [10] Both got their start in science fiction fandom, with Gregory being a co-editor of the science fiction fanzine Void. Benford has said he is an atheist. [11] He has been a long-time resident of Laguna Beach, California. [8]
Passage is a science fiction novel by Connie Willis, published in 2001.The novel won the Locus Award for Best Novel in 2002, [1] was shortlisted for the Nebula Award in 2001, [2] and received nominations for the Hugo, Campbell, and Clarke Awards in 2002.
Moore was an active member of the Tom and Terri Pinckard Science Fiction literary salon and a frequent contributor to literary discussions with the regular membership, including Robert Bloch, George Clayton Johnson, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Norman Spinrad, A. E. van Vogt, and others, as well as many visiting writers and speakers.