Science Fiction Authors A - K

• This page comprises some of the information I originally prepared for the Science Fiction Foundation

Jump Straight to authors sites listed alphabetically:
• A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • Jump to L-Z

• Book editor Lou Anders kindly 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: www.brianwaldiss.com
Author of novels such as Hothouse, Non Stop and his much-applauded alternate history The Malacia Tapestry.

Lou Anders
Official: 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.

• 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

Scott Edelman
Official: www.scottedelman.com
Scott Edelman (the writer) has published more than 75 short stories in magazines such as PostScripts, The Twilight Zone, Absolute Magnitude, The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives, Science Fiction Review and Fantasy Book, and anthologies such as Crossroads: Southern Tales of the Fantastic, Men Writing SF as Women, MetaHorror, Once Upon a Galaxy, Moon Shots, Mars Probes, Summer Chills, and Forbidden Planets. Upcoming stories will appear in the anthologies Nation of Ash and Aim For the Head. He has been nominated three times as a Stoker Award finalist in the category of Short Story.
Scott Edelman (the editor) currently edits both Science Fiction Weekly (www.scifi.com/sfw/), the internet magazine of news, reviews and interviews, and SCI FI, the official print magazine of the SCI FI Channel. He was the founding editor of Science Fiction Age, which he edited during its entire eight-year run from 1992 through 2000. He also edited Sci-Fi Entertainment for almost four years, as well as two other sf media magazines, Sci-Fi Universe and Sci-Fi Flix. He has been a four-time Hugo Award finalist for Best Editor.

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.