Sonnack/Etc

The Big Three

• Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) [1939]
• Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) [1937]
• Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) [1939]

Other Best of Show

• Larry Niven (1938—) [1964]
• Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) [1971]

Early SF

• Alfred Bester (1913-1987) [1939]
• James Blish (1921-1975) [1940]
• Hal Clement (1922-2003) [1942]
• Fritz Leiber (1913-1992) [1934]
• Frederik Pohl (1919-2013) [1937]
• E.E. "Doc" Smith (1890-1965) [1928]
• Jack Williamson (1908-2006) [1928]

Second Wave

• Piers Anthony (1934—) [1967]
• John Brunner (1934-1995) [1951]
• Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) [1952]
• Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) [1952]
• Harry Harrison (1925-2012) [1951]
• Frank Herbert (1920-1986) [1952]
• Keith Laumer (1925-1993) [1962]
• Ursula K. Le Guin (1929—) [1962]
• H. Beam Piper (1904-1964) [1952]
• Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) [1952]
• James White (1928-1999) [1961]
• Roger Zelazny (1937-1995) [1954]

• Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) [1976]
• F.M. Busby (1921-2005) [1973]
• Jack L. Chalker (1944-2005) [1976]
• Alan Dean Foster (1946—) [1974]
• Anne McCaffrey (1926-2011) [1965]
• Jerry Pournelle (1933—) [1971]
• Spider Robinson (1948—) [1972]
• Fred Saberhagen (1930-2007) [1964]
• John Varley (1947—) [1974]

Modern SF

• Douglas Adams (1952-2001) [1977]
• Robert Asprin (1946-2008) [1977]
• Greg Bear (1951—) [1979]
• David Brin (1950—) [1980]
• Orson Scott Card (1951—) [1977]
• C.J. Cherryh (1942—) [1976]
• Stephen R. Donaldson (1947—) [1977]
• Greg Egan (1961—) [1983]
• Robert L. Forward (1932-2002) [1980]
• Neil Gaiman (1960—) [1986]
• William Gibson (1948—) [1977]
• James P. Hogan (1941-2010) [1977]
• Allen Steele (1958—) [1988]
• Neal Stephenson (1959—) [1984]
• Bruce Sterling (1954—) [1977]

Reference Points

• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
• Forbidden Planet (1956)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey & Planet of the Apes (1968)
• Star Wars & Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• The Matrix & The Sixth Sense (1999)

Author Sites

• Stephen R. Donaldson
• Greg Egan
• Neal Stephenson