Science Fiction Authors A - K
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• Book editor Lou Anders
sent me this great link for a very articulate summation of the history of
the speculative fiction literary field, the important movements, and a possible
new direction on the asimovs.com site. "It sets a nice context for why Perdido Street Station is important," says Lou.
Science Fiction Authors : General Sites
Author
Web
A fully searchable author database, and constantly updated.
Eidolon SF
Online: Australian Science Fiction Authors
Bibliographic and biographical detail on Australian
genre writers.
Mark/Space Anachron Library: Cyberpunk
Authors
Features bibliographies for specific authors with (other
reviewers') reviews of the books, and links to related sites. No search
engine when last visited, however.
Greyware
Authors
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Authors,
brought to you by the authors themselves. They offer free Home Pages to
Science Fiction Wristers Association and Horror Writers Association members.
The Internet
Speculative Fiction DataBase
A phenomenal resource for science fiction on the web
containing over 12,000 author bibliographies, based on roughly 10,000 novel
entries and more than 36,000 short fiction entries. It features content
listings of more than 3,800 magazines (including complete runs of Asimov's,
Analog, Interzone, Science Fiction Age, and others). The site also features
an extensive list of forthcoming books, nearly 15,000 award entries (including
the Aurora, British Fantasy Awards, Campell, Clarke, Hugos, Lambda, Locus
Poll, Mythopoeic, Nebulas, Phillip K. Dick, Prometheus, SFBC, SF Chronicle,
Tiptree, Hall of Fame, HOMer, and WFA awards), and has a series of Top 100
lists based on award information.
Mark/Space Anachron Library: Science
Fiction Authors.
Features bibliographies for specific authors
with (other reviewers') reviews of the books, and links to related sites.
No search engine when last visited, however.
Resources
for SF and Fantasy Writers
A collection of information for budding authors.
The SF Hub
Link: www.sfhub.ac.uk
Launched April 2005, this is the first subject portal for science fiction scholars. Created by The University of Liverpool Library with the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Board, the SF Hub aims to facilitate research into science fiction and its related literary genres.
The SF Hub is based on the wealth of research resources in the Science Fiction Collections of The University of Liverpool's Special Collections and Archives, including the renowned Science Fiction Foundation Collection. Its advanced search tools will enable you to find the resources you need amongst the extensive collections of books, journals, fiction magazines, fanzines, journal articles and archives at Liverpool University.
SFFNet
An excellent resource for science fiction authors
comprising members home pages, message boards and much more. Recommended.
See also: Statistics
Reference
Spaceflight:
the Science Fiction and Fantasy Biography Site
This site is designed primarily for the literary
researcher to quickly locate vital statistics and personal data on deceased
members of the F&SF community. George Willick's Spacelight includes background
information on scores of deceased SF authors, ranging from Douglas Adams
to Roger Zelazny. Chronologically speaking, their death dates range from
those of Jules Verne to the late Fred Hoyle.
Author Sites: A
Douglas Adams
Official: Go • Douglas
Adams: FAQ
Biographical information on the late (and much-missed)
author, computer games, cds, videos. Mostly pointers to other sources of
information. (Nathan Torkington).
• The
Douglas Adams Worship Page
Includes FAQs, fan club information and searchable
indexes to the Hitch-hiker novels.
• Douglas
Adams's "Starship Titanic" website
Brian W. Aldiss
Official: Go
Author of novels such as Hothouse,
Non Stop and his
much-applauded alternate history The
Malacia Tapestry.
Lou Anders
Official: http://www.louanders.com
Author and editor with many contributions to
a varirty of magazines I've worked on over the years including Star
Trek Monthly, Babylon
5 and more. Has even become his own comics character!
Piers Anthony
Official: Hi Piers
The official homepage of Piers Anthony and Xanth
including the Xanth timeline, family tree, bibliography, and more.
News: news:alt.fan.piers-anthony
• The
Land of Xanth
• Xanth
thread
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov's professional career spanned 53
years and includes the Foundation trilogy and his world-famous stories about
robots. Asimov coined Three Laws of Robotics which have been used or influenced
many other writers and media films and television.
• News: news:alt.books.isaac-asimov
• Isaac Asimov
Online
Comprehensive guide; includes pointers to various
bibliographies, pointers to information about Asimov on the Internet (including
speeches, timelines, reviews), biographical information and much else.
Coming soon will be the debut of a completely revised site, with many improvements,
plus much, much more. The new site will feature the
world's most extensive bibliography of Asimov's writings, which by its nature
is the largest bibliography for a single author that has ever existed.
• In Memory of Isaac Asimov
Bibliography, book reviews, interviews, essays,
video and audio clips (various formats - .mov, .avi, .mpeg, realaudio, etc.),
art, photos, news (mostly about movie deals), books...
• The
Spoiler-laden Guide to Asimov
• Asimov Seminar
• Asimov's
Foundation
Fiona Avery
Official: www.FionaAvery.com
Fiona Avery is a screenwriter,
comics writer and author working in Los Angeles, California.
In 1999, she penned four
episodes of Crusade, the spin-off
series to Babylon
5. Two of the four episodes
were produced before Crusade's
untimely end. In 2000, she penned a script
titled Essence for Earth: Final Conflict's
fourth season. She has a radio drama adaptation at Seeing
Ear Theater. Kim Stanley Robinson's The Lucky
Strike was adapted by Fiona Avery.
her work includes short stories and comics.
Robert Asprin
News: news:alt.fan.asprin
• Robert
Asprin
AuthorSites: B
J. G. Ballard
Fan: J.
G. Ballard
Compiled by Jim Goddard
Iain M. Banks
• The
Iain M. Banks Resources page
James Barclay
Official: Go
James is the author of the extremely popular
Chronicles of the Raven. Soon you will also also be able to visit the Raven's
own site at www.the-raven.co.uk.
Launching soon.
Clive Barker
Official: Go
News: alt.books.clive-barker
• Clive
Barker Info Fan Pages
Steven Barnes
• Official: Steven
Barnes's Virtual World
A detailed guide to Steve's work and life, with the
occasional column and movie reviews.
Paul Barnett (aka John Grant)
• Official: Go
The official website of the award-winning Scottish-born
editor and writer, now resident in the United States. Under his own name
Paul has worked editorially on at least 1000 books, and possibly two or
three times that number. He is also Commissioning Editor of Paper Tiger,
the world's leading publisher of fantasy/sf art books, and Editor of the
scurrilous e-zine The Paper Snarl.
As a writer -- mainly under the nom de plume John Grant -- he has published
over 50 books, including about 20 novels and children's books. His best-known
nonfiction books are probably The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated
Characters and (with John Clute) The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. His fictions
include Albion, The World, the two space operas [so far] in the Leonie Strider
series and the twelve novels in the Legends of Lone Wolf series.
Paul has received the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Mythopoeic
Society Scholarship Award, the Locus Award, the J. Lloyd Eaton Award and
a British Science Fiction Association Special Award (all as John Grant).
To subscribe (free) to The Paper Snarl please e-mail papersnarl@aol.com
with the single-word subject line SUBSCRIBE.
Stephen Baxter
Official: The
Baxterium
Creator of the Xeelee saga which first began in Interzone,
Baxter offers hard science fiction at its most critically acclaimed, Baxter's
work includes his sequel to HG Wells' The Time Machine, The Time Ships.
• Stephen
Baxter-Page
• Barrington J. Bayley
"A good Barrington Bayley story," Charles Platt
is quoted as saying here, "will give you an idea which is unlike
anything you've ever read anywhere else. And there are very few
writers I can say that about."
Greg Bear
• Greg
Bear
Edward Bellamy
• Edward
Bellamy
Gregory Benford
Official: Go
Benford may be well known for his SF, but he's
actually working scientist and a professor of physics at the University
of California, Irvine since 1971. He specialises in astrophysics and plasma
physics theory and was presented with the Lord Prize in 1995 for achievements
in the sciences. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Phi Beta Kappa. Over
the years, he has been an advisor to the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, the United Sates Department of Energy, and the White House
Council on Space Policy, and has served as a visiting fellow at Cambridge
University. Currently he holds research grants from NASA and the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory.
He is the author of 140 research papers in his field, and has also published
in biology and climate change. His first book-length work of non-fiction,
Deep Time (1999), examines his work in long duration messages from a broad
humanistic and scientific perspective.
Enid Blyton
Link:
www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk
Okay, perhaps better known for The Famous Five, but hey, if Noddy isn't
fantasy what is?
Ray Bradbury
• Ray
Bradbury Online
• Ray
Bradbury: Americans in Europe - an Interview with Ray Bradbury
• Ray
Bradbury Central
Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Darkover
David Brin
Official: www.kithrup.com/brin
• The
Works of David Brin
Includes pages on the Uplift Universe, Species
and Patronymics, Characters, and a Gallery of Bookcovers, Pictures and Art.
• David
Brin Fan Page
• David Brin
Terry Brooks
Official: Go
• Anne's
Shannara Page
• The
Druid History Library
Lois McMaster Bujold
Official: www.dendarii.com
Compiled by Michael Bernardi
William S. Burroughs
• The William S. Burroughs
Files InterWebZone
Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Edgar
Rice Burroughs: Motes and Quotes
A treasure trove of tidbits, tales, and trivia.
• Edgar
Rice Burroughs: A Collector's Bibliography
A chronological listing of titles plus quotes
pictures and other links.
• From
Africa to Mars...
• Tarzan
of the Comics
Part of the Comics and Stories web site devoted
to International comics. A fascinating history of the Edgar Rice Burroughs
character's comics appearances.
• Andrew
M. Butler
Author of the Pocket Essential Philip K Dick
and Cyberpunk.
AuthorSites:
C
Pat Cadigan
Official: www.wmin.ac.uk/~fowlerc/patcadigan.html
Cyberpunk author, first published in the 1970s.
Site compiled by Chris Fowler
Ramsey Campbell
Official: www.herebedragons.co.uk/campbell
Orson Scott Card
Official: Hatrack River:
The Official Orson Scott Card Website
Best known in SF circles for his Ender novels,
which begin with Ender's Game, Card has also written several fantasy works,
in particular The Seventh Son saga set in an alternate eighteenth-century
America.
Jeanne Cavelos
Official: Jeanne Cavelos
Jeffrey A. Carver
Official: www.starrigger.net
The latest info on the books, TV show, advice
to writers of the author of Strange Attractors, Neptune Crossing and other
sf.
Mark Chadbourn
Official: www.markchadbourn.com
Mark Chadbourn is an established writer of horror and dark, urban fantasy.
He is also the editor of At The World's End, the Alien Online news and
commentary 'zine.
Greg Cox
Official: www.gregcox-author.com
The New York Times bestselling author of
numerous Star Trek novels, including The Q
Continuum and To Reign in Hell. He wrote the
official movie novelizations of Daredevil and
Undrworld, and has also written for such popular
series as Alias, Farscape, X-Men, Iron Man, Xena,
Roswell, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Greg also works as a Consulting Editor for Tor Books,
where he has edited such authors as Richard Matheson,
Harry Harrison, Tony Daniel, Rosemary Edghill, Graham
Joyce, Keith R. A. DeCandido, and many others.
Suzy McKee Charnas
Official: Go
Charnas' first novel, Walk to the End of the
World, was a John W. Campbell Award finalist and began an unforeseen four-book
cycle that didn't end until The Conqueror's Child was published in 1999,
completing a futurist, feminist epic of proportions "that would have paralyzed
me with terror if I had seen the scope of it from the beginning," writes
the author on her web site. "In addition, over the intervening twenty-five
years, I've written four Young Adult fantasies; two vampire novels; a
mainstream novel about art, ghosts, and land fraud set in New Mexico;
a clutch of shorter stories; two plays, and the complete revision of the
libretto to a musical, Nosferatu, which has yet to be performed in its
new version."
Leslie Charteris
Ansible
#163 reminded us that the author had some of his Saint stories ghosted
by sf authors (including Henry Kuttner and Harry Harrison). Now David
Pringle argues on stylistic grounds that the 1946 'Charteris' novel The
Saint Sees It Through is actually the work of Theodore Sturgeon.
CJ Cherryh
• Official: C J Cherryh
Arthur C. Clarke
Patron of the Science Fiction Foundation. Described
by John Clute as "one of the most influential and prolific SF writers."
Author of works such as the short story The Sentinel in 1951, which provided
the basis for the screenplay 2001: A Space Odyssey plus novels such as
A Fall of Moondust, Childhood's End, the Rama series and sequels to 2001.
• The
Arthur C. Clarke Foundation
"Dedicated to the major scientific themes of
Arthur C. Clarke's life and work.". Designed by CequelPlus. This contains
a new additional set of pages on The
Arthur C. Clarke Foundation and the National Curriculum
• The
Unauthorised Arthur C. Clarke home page
Simon Clark
Official: www.bbr-online.com/nailed/
Allan Cole
• Allan Cole's World
Storm Constantine
• Storm
Constantine Official Web Site
• Inception:
The Storm Constantine Information Service
• John
Clute
Novelist and critic in the literature of the
fantastic. Trustee of the Telluride Institute, Telluride, Colorado since
1986 and The Science Fiction Foundation since 1997
Michelle Crean
• Official: Go
Michael Crichton
• Official: Michael
Crichton Web Site
AuthorSites: D
Roald Dahl
Official: Go
Brian Daley
Official: www.brian-daley.com
• Samuel R. Delany
• Erin Cashier Denton
Erin's work has been published on the bookface.com web site.
Philip K. Dick
Science Fiction Foundation Membership Secretary Andrew M. Butler is the author of the Pocket Essential Philip K Dick and Cyberpunk.
Unofficial: www.philipkdick.com
• Philip Kindred Dick FAQ
David Drake
• Official: Go
Dinotopia
• Official: Dinotopia: The Official Website
• Dave Duncan's Web site
A useful guide to the work of this fantasy author.
AuthorSites: E
David Eddings
• The Official Eddings Web Ring
A collection of Eddings sites
• The Unofficial David Eddings Book Page
• Jack's David and Leigh Eddings Page
• The Mallorean Tavern
• The Unofficial Belgariad Homepage
• The World of David Eddings Resource Site
• Count Zero's David Eddings Fan Site
E.R. Eddison
• Official
Harlan Ellison
• Official: Ellison Webderland
While Harlan Ellison does not use the web himself, this is his official site. An extremely thorough resource.
AuthorSites: F
• Lionel Fanthorpe
A former journalist and teacher, Lionel is President of The Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena and President of the British UFO Research Association. His showbiz career started with Anglia TV and BBC Look East way back in the 1950s. He's now a popular TV and Radio presenter and celebrity guest on chat shows.
• Robert L. Forward
Alan Dean Foster
• Alan Dean Foster site by Mystic Girke
• Alpha Ralpha Boulevard: Alan Dean Foster
• S. Fowler Wright
Dedicated to the works of Sydney Fowler Wright.
AuthorSites: G
• Steve Gallagher
Official: Go
Horror and thriller author. Steve also contributed to the BBC TV show Bugs and has written several scripts for the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-inspired period drama, Murder Rooms, also for the BBC.
Added 13/4/02
• David Gemmell
• Mary Gentle
Author of the award-winning Ash, a stunning medieval history. Visit her site and adopt one of her pigs.
• William Gibson Links welcome!
Mainstream influential cyberpunk author whose works include Burning Chrome, Count Zero and Neuromancer.
• John Grant
see Paul Barnett, above. To subscribe (free) to The Paper Snarl please e-mail papersnarl@aol.com with the single-word subject line SUBSCRIBE.
• Simon R. Green
Simon R. Green has no official connection to the indicated site, although he knows of its existence and occasionally sends updates about his work in progress.
According to this web site, after years of publishers' rejection letters, Green sold an incredible seven novels in 1988, just two days after he started working at Bilbo's bookshop in Bath (this after three and a half years of being unemployed). This was followed in 1989 by two more, and a commission to write the bestselling novelization of the Kevin Costner film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, which has sold more than 370.000 copies.
This eventually led to his most current bestselling SF/Space Opera series: The Deathstalker Saga, a series of five books, of which he himself admits has gotten kind of got out of hand, since it was supposed to be three 500-page books...
Green made his long-awaited return to Fantasy with the sequel to Blue Moon Rising: Beyond the Blue Moon.
October 2000: One of Green's old short stories, Manslayer, is being reprinted in a new anthology, Swords Against the Millennium. Ed. Mike Chin, publisher Alchemy Press. Most specialist shops should be able to get it, if not try Andromeda Bookshop in Birmingham, UK. Manslayer, Green's first professional sale, was written in 1977, and sold in 1978. It appeared in a little-seen magazine Airgedlamh, and was never seen again. "BR>
• Nicola Griffith
Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Official: www.j-cg.co.uk
AuthorSites: H
Jack Haldeman
• Official: www.sff.net/people/jack.haldeman
Joe Haldeman
• Official: Go
Joe Haldeman, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author. His work is well known for its complexity and depth of theme. He has written a number of highly praised short stories. His novels include the classic Forever War and Forever Peace.
M. John Harrison
• Official: Go
Author of the The Committed Men (1971), The Centauri Device and more. A prolific UK-based author, Harrison recently published a further novel, Signs of Life; and a collection of short stories, Travel Arrangements. He has reviews fiction and nonfiction forγ the Spectator and the Times Literary Supplement; and has collaborated with the director Simon Pummel on a short animated film for C4 called Ray Gun Fun. He has written short fiction with Simon Ings.
• Tara Harper
Robert A. Heinlein
One of SF's best known authors, perhaps best known for Starship Troopers, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Stranger in a Strange Land. His work was extensive and includes adult and juvenile fiction.
• Robert A. Heinlein
Recently overhauled, this site offers a huge amount of Heinlein-related information in its Archives. There are now three basic reference documents there: a biography, a bibliography, and a newly expanded catch-all FAQ. There's a whole host of new stuff, too, and some outdated and otherwise inappropriate material has been removed.
• The Illustrated Heinlein
This is an absorbing illustrated list of Robert A. Heinlein's published fiction, sorted by publication date.
• The Quotable Heinlein
• The alt.fan.heinlein newsgroup
• Frank Herbert
• The Fedaykin
A good source for information about Frank Herbert and his various works. Maintained by Christian Gilmore.
Brian Hodge
• Official: Go
Auhor of The Convulsion Factory, Prototype, The Darker Saints and other novels and short stories.
James P. Hogan
• Official: Go
Bulletin Board: http://www.jamesphogan.com/bb.html
Hogan told his fans 12 October 2000 that he has been swamped by a heavy travel schedule, moving into a place that hebought in Florida to use when in the US, instead of the apartment he's been renting there, doing what one can for various friends and relatives who have been sick, and despite it all, finishing his latest book.
"Remember the original Leslie Charteris "Saint" books from the 1930's?" he asked his fans. "I used to devour them as a teenager, and after hearing me talk about them, my sons decided to give them a try and thought they were great. One day while we were driving, the youngest, Joe, said, "Why don't you create a space-going Saint? The idea appealed to me: a time when humanity is past its current idiotic phase of cultural negativism and technophobia, vigorously expanding across the Solar System. Every type of habitat, lifestyle, social, political, or economic experiment what an environment to turn loose an adventurer in to tell any kind of story you want!
"My agent, Eleanor Wood, liked the idea; so did Jim Baen. So that's what I've been doing for a while now. The first two stories are finished, entitled, His Own Worst Enemy and The Plague of Akhnaton (the latter possibly to be renamed The Khal of Tadzhikstan, to avoid future confusion). Both will go into a novel-size volume, title and release date still to be decided."
Baen Books recently re-issued Realtime Interrupt (August 2000), Thrice Upon a Time (November 2000), and the Czech Republic edition of Inherit the Stars (December 2000), which will be followed by the others in the 'Giants' series. The new Baen Books hardback The Legend that was Earth came out in October 2000, followed by an Easton Press leather-bound, limited signed edition. The next major work looks like being be a much-requested sequel to Cradle of Saturn, which Eleanor Wood and Jim Baen are currently pushing Hogan for.
Liz Holliday
• Official: www.sff.net/people/Liz
Tom Holt
Fan: http://hem.passagen.se/gumby/holt/
• Kim Hunter
Author of an extraordinary number of novels, but his recent fantasy series, The Red Pavillions, is recommended: I don't read much fantasy these days but was suitably impressed by Knight's Dawn last year, and the upcoming Wizard's Funeral maintains the same standard.
AuthorSites: I
Matt Irvine
Official: www.smallspace.demon.co.uk
Among other things he's now a Robot Wars judge but was once Designer on Blake's 7 and Doctor Who and is now also a writer of a variety of features for magazines
AuthorSites: J
Gwyneth Jones
Official: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gwynethann or www.boldaslove.co.uk
• Graham Joyce
Works include Smokin' Poppy.
AuthorSites: K
• Guy Gavriel Kay
Official: Guy Gavriel Kay: Bright Weavings
Paul Kearney
Official: Go
Paul Kearney is best known for his superb Monarchies of God epic fantasy series, and his stand-alone novels.
Crawford Killian
Official: Crawford Kilian's Web site
Michael P. Kube-McDowell
Official: Go
Kathryn Kurtz
Official: The Official Katherine Kurtz Deryni site
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