The most famous science fiction authors 21 Articles

by Currie Jean

The best way to start your journey into science fiction literature is by perusing what's most famous. While the popularity of its authors doesn't necessary reflect the best a genre has to offer, you can trust a famous auth...read more

by John Devera

Fame and quality, in a perfect world, should travel hand-in-hand, but that is not always the case. In this case, concerning science fiction authors, the importance of an author usually involves his impact in the genre. H...read more

by Shane Dayton

There can be a major difference between the best authors of a genre, my favorite authors of a genre, and the most influential authors of a genre. While any top ten list like this will be somewhat controversial, here is a ...read more

by Stephen H

I enjoy all types of books, but have an enduring preference for science fiction. Isaac Asimov is the undisputed master in this genre and must surely be read by any serious science fiction fan. If you are yet to be introduc...read more

by Ernest Capraro

It really all began with Jules Verne. He wasn't the first to ever author a work of science fiction, nor even the first to sell thousands of copies. Mary Shelley beat him to that by decades, with Frankenstein. Verne, tho...read more

by Glenda K. Fralin

When I consider most famous science fiction, I think Frankenstein's monster. That brings to the foreground of science fiction authors name's such as Mary Shelley. Next is H. G. Wells "War of the Worlds." We include Sir ...read more

by Christine G.

SEVEN INVENTORS OF POSSIBLE FUTURES In 1926, pulp magazine editor Hugo Gernsback proposed the term "scientifiction" to describe stories that explored new directions for scientific fact. This was soon supplanted by "sci...read more

by David Riel

Who are the most famous science fiction authors? Are they living, working writers? Or are they writer's from science fiction's Golden Age? Or, are the most famous science fiction writers in fact writing outside the genre...read more

by Tim Harry

How can you measure the fame of one person? Is someone famous or just well-known? Within the world of Science Fiction literature there are five authors who I would say are more widely known than their counterparts, althoug...read more

by Gemma Wiseman

The most famous science fiction authors are famous for a variety of reasons. Classic science fiction authors are famous for establishing particular icons in the genre. 20th century authors are famous for manipulating and r...read more

by John Campbell

Science fiction literature deserves its place on our library shelves as an acknowledgment of the talent and creativity of some of our greatest ever writers. The imagination and originality we find in the writing of the gre...read more

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by Eric Haschert

John Campbell was the most influential Editor in the history of any genre specifically that of Science Fiction. John Campbell put the boy meets girl and save the human race for the race's sake into Science Fiction. John ...read more

by Ian Loft

Science fiction is a genre that has fascinated millions of readers globally for centuries and with the ease of global communication thanks to the Internet it seems there can be no stopping an avalanche of new authors publi...read more

by John Neely

Science fiction is sometimes thought of as something of a "geeky" genre and not something of interest in the wider arena. However, when you start to piece together some of the more famous writers who have wrote in this are...read more

by J Deborah Coss

Ray Bradbury spoke in 1970, at what was then called, Ventura Junior College. I was just 18 years old. My high-school, creative writing teacher had somehow gotten Bradbury to speak at our local community college. Back th...read more

by David Clary

THE SEVEN SCIENCE FICTION AUTHORS YOU MUST KNOW (AND WHY!) Go to any science fiction convention, and there are names that get dropped the way sports fans drop "The Babe" or "Jordan." They're referred to by a single name...read more

by C C Media

The most famous science fiction authors of any time period would have to be H.G. Wells.Born September 21,1866 as Herbert George Wells,he was an English writer most famous today for his science fiction novels The Time Machi...read more

by Gerald S.

Science fiction can trace its roots back at least as far as the nineteenth century, with such classic works as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and authors such...read more

by Martin Dansky

Here is a short review on a lesser known story about H.G. Wells, "The Star". What would do if a star came ever so close to the earth that every river would overflow its banks because our ice caps would melt but then th...read more

by V. Hughes

Picking science fiction's most famous authors is a daunting task. Is it the number of books written, the level of fandom they inspire, the quality of their writing as perceived by the masses or by the individual, or . . ....read more