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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
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]
Yoon Ha Lee [1] (born 1979 in Houston, Texas) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, [2] known for his Machineries of Empire space opera novels and his short fiction. His first novel, Ninefox Gambit , received the 2017 Locus Award for Best First Novel .
These 3 science fiction authors inspired Elon Musk’s creation of SpaceX, fascination with AI, and quest to colonize Mars ... He said in a July Twitter Spaces Talk that xAI aims “to build a ...
Through Shirley, Gibson came into contact with science fiction authors Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner; reading Gibson's work, they realized that it was, as Sterling put it, "breakthrough material" and that they needed to "put down our preconceptions and pick up on this guy from Vancouver; this [was] the way forward."
Rebecca Parish [1] was born in Conway, Arkansas, in 1971. [2] She was adopted as a child by white parents, and raised in northern Texas. She has said that "being a black and Native kid in Fort Worth in the '70s and '80s was pretty limiting"; thus, she turned to reading and writing, especially science fiction, as a form of escape.
This group of accomplished science fiction authors help advise the XPRIZE team on envisioning the future. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] In May 2019, Taylor participated in a "Talks at Google" event where he shared insights into the inspirations behind his writings and discussed his plans for the upcoming years.
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America made him its 24th Grand Master in 2007, [4] and he was inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2015. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] His novel The Immortals was adapted into a 1970–71 TV series starring Christopher George.