Top 10 Science Fiction Authors

1. Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury (b. 1920) entered science fiction as a teenage Los Angeles fan frantic to sell John W. Campbell and become a major science fiction writer. Read More.

2. William Tenn

William Tenn regarded as the finest satirist in the history of the field with an ingenious command of narrative. Read More








3. Walter Miller

Walter Miller was the author of the Hugo winning novel, A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ (1960) generally regarded as one of the ten finest works to ever emerge from the genre. Read More








4. Fredric Brown

Fredric Brown was the only writer to achieve equal prominence in the mystery and science fiction. Read More









5. Susan Forest

Susan Forest, a Canadian, has published science fiction intermittently since 1990 Y,A fantasy published that year won recognition in her country. Read More.








6. Fredrik Pohl

Frederik Pohl (b. 1919) has been at the center of science fiction for three-quarters of a century. Read More.

7. Damon Knight

In 1995 Damon Knight was named an SFWA Grand Master and a year after his death the award was renamed the “Damon Knight Grand Master Award”. Read More.

8. Robert sheckley

Robert Sheckley was adapted and shaped by Horace Gold, the editor of GALAXY magazine, to enact the most characteristic voice of GALAXY. Read More.

9. Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg is regarded as the greatest living writer of science fiction, an SFWA Grandmaster, ex-President (in the 1960’s) of that organization, winner of five Nebulas. Read More.

10. C. M. Kornbluth

Cyril Kornbluth was the youngest and perhaps the most brilliant of that great group of satirists whom Horace Gold drafted to become the characteristic voice of his magazine. Read More.