I decided to make a list of science fiction and fantasy authors based on my reading history, organized by the starting letter of their last name. (That’s normal, right?)
This is off the top of my head and while I read a lot my memory isn’t the best. I have certainly forgotten many authors, and of course there are many more that I have not yet read. And I haven’t put everyone in here, but focused on the ones engraved into my longer-term memory banks. (As such, it tends toward the classics.) Even so, I was surprised to find that most letters have at least some entries.
Most, but not for Q, U, and X.
Here’s my list in progress. Who am I missing?
A is for Asimov, Atwood, Adams, Abercrombie, Andrews, Addison, Anders, Anthony
B is for Butler, Bradbury, Bujold, Banks, Bacigalupi, Bester, Butcher, Burroughs, Baum, Bull, Beukes, Bradley
C is for Crowley, Chiang, Card, Crichton, Arthur C. Clarke, Cronin, Chambers, Corey, Susanna Clarke, Carroll, Cooper, Cherryh
D is for Delany, Dick
E is for El-Mohtar
F is for Farmer, Farland, Feist, Fforde, Flint, Foster
G is for Grant, Gibson, Gladstone, Gaiman, Gabaldon, Green, Goldman
H is for Harrison, Herbert, Huxley, Heinlein, Haldeman, Hamilton, Hobb, Hopkinson
I is for Ishiguro
J is for Jemisin, Jordan, Diana Wynne Jones
K is for King, Kowal, Kingfisher, Kay, Kurtz
L is for Leckie, Lem, Ken Liu, Le Guin, Lewis, Lem, Lunch, Cixin Liu, L’Engle, Lowry, Lord, Leiber
M is for McCarthy, Miller Jr, Muir, Martine, Miéville, Martine, McGuire, McCaffrey, Matheson, Moorcock, Milne, Macdonald, McKinley
N is for Niven, Novik, Norton
O is for Okorafor, Orwell
P is for Pournelle, Pratchett, Pullman
Q is for …
R is for Robinson, Rothfuss, Rowling
S is for Scalzi, Shelley, Stephenson, Simmons, Sagan, Stross, Samatar, Sanderson, Sawyer
T is for Tolkien, Tchaikovsky, Tiptree Jr., Tepper
U is for …
V is for Vonnegut, Verne, VanderMeer, Vinge
W is for Weir, HG Wells, Martha Wells, Willis, Whitehead, Walton, Williams, TH White, Wilhelm
X is for …
Y is for Yolen, Yu
Z is for Zelazny
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