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Mary Shelley (1789-1851)
Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1823)

Jules Verne (1828-1905)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
The Lost World (1912)

H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
The Time Machine (1895)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896)
The Invisible Man (1897) *National Book Award Winner
The War of the Worlds (1897)

Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951)
Short Stories

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
Barasoom Series
Tarzan Series
Venus Series
Caspak Series

H. P. Lovecraft (1980-1937)
“The Color Out of Space” (1927)
“The Call of Cthulhu” (1928)
Whisperer in the Darkness (1931)
At the Mountains of Madness (1936)
The Shadow Out of Time (1936)

J.R.R. Tolkein (1892-1973)
The Hobbit (1937)
The Lord of the Rings (1954)

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
Brave New World (1932)

Murray Leinster (1896-1975)
First Contact (1945) *Retro Hugo Award Winner in 1996

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
Space Trilogy (1938-1945)
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956)

George Orwell (1903-1950)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Robert A. Heinlein (1908-1988)
The Puppet Masters (1951)
Double Star (1956) *Hugo Award Winner
Starship Troopers (1959) *Hugo Award Winner
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) *Hugo Award Winner
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966) *Hugo Award Winner

Mervyn Peake (1911-1968)
Gormenghast Series (1946-1956)

Pierre Boulle (1912-1994)
The Planet of the Apes (1963)

Alfred Bester (1913-1987)
The Demolished Man *Hugo Award Winner

Theodore Sturgeon (1915-1985)
“Baby Is Three” (1952)
More Than Human (1953)

Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)
Childhood’s End (1953)
The City and the Stars (1956)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Rendezvous with Rama (1973)

Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
A Clockwork Orange (1962)

Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007)
A Wrinkle in Time (1962) *Newbery Award Winner

Frederik Pohl (1919-2013)
Gateway (1977) *Hugo Award Winner *Nebula Award Winner

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
“Nightfall” (1941)
I, Robot (1950)
Foundation Series (1942-1953) *Hugo Award Winner

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
The Martian Chronicles (1950)

Frank Herbert (1920-1986)
Dune (1965) *Nebula Award Winner *Hugo Award Winner

P. D. James (1920-2014)
The Children of Men (1992)

Stanisław Lem (1921-2006)
Solaris (1961)

James Blish (1921-1975)
Cities In Flight (1950-1958)
A Case of Conscience (1958) *Hugo Award Winner
Star Trek novelizations (1967-1977)

Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
Player Piano (1952)
The Sirens of Titan (1959)
Cat’s Cradle (1963)
Slaughterhouse Five (1969)

Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923-1996)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) *Hugo Award Winner

Judith Merril (1923-1997)
The Tomorrow People (1960)

Rod Serling (1924-1975)
Short Stories
On Rod Serling’s “The Mighty Casey”
On Rod Serling’s “Escape Clause”
On Rod Serling’s “Walking Distance”
On Rod Serling’s “The Fever”
On Rod Serling’s “Where Is Everybody?”
On Rod Serling’s “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street”
On Rod Serling’s “The Lonely”
On Rod Serling’s “Mr. Dingle, The Strong”
On Rod Serling’s “A Thing About Machines”
On Rod Serling’s “The Big, Tall Wish”
On Rod Serling’s “A Stop At Willoughby”
On Rod Serling’s “The Odyssey of Flight 33”
On Rod Serling’s “Dust”
On Rod Serling’s “The Whole Truth”

Richard Matheson (1926-2013)
I Am Legend (1954)

Daniel Keyes (1927-2014)
Flowers for Algernon (1959) *Nebula Award Winner

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
Ubik (1969)
A Scanner Darkly (1977)

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) *Hugo Award Winner *Nebula Award Winner

Charles Beaumont (1929-1967)
Short Stories

Gene Wolfe (1931-2019)
Book of the New Sun Series (1980–1983)

Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
Contact (1985)

Harlan Ellison (1934-2018)
Collected Stories

Lois Lowry (1937- )
The Giver (1993)

Larry Niven (1938- )
Ringworld (1970) *Hugo Award Winner *Nebula Award Winner

Margaret Atwood (1939- )
The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)

Michael Crighton (1942-2008)
Jurassic Park (1990)

C.J. Cherryh (1942- )
Downbelow Station (1981) *Hugo Award Winner
Cyteen (1988) *Hugo Award Winner

Samuel R. Delany (1942- )
Dhalgren (1975)
Babel-17 (1966) *Nebula Award Winner
The Einstein Intersection (1967) *Nebula Award Winner

Craig Harrison (1942- )
The Quiet Earth (1982)

Joe Haldeman (1943- )
The Forever War (1974) *Hugo Award Winner *Nebula Award Winner

Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006)
Kindred (1979)
Dawn (1987)

Stephen King (1947- )
The Dark Tower Series (1982-2012)

Robert Jordan (1948-2007)
Wheel of Time Series (1990-2013)

William Gibson (1948- )
Neuromancer (1984) *Hugo Award Winner *Nebula Award Winner

Dan Simmons (1948- )
Hyperion (1989) *Hugo Award Winner

George R. R. Martin (1948- )
A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones Series (1996-Present)

Haruki Murakami (1949- )
1Q84 (2009)

Orson Scott Card (1951- )
Ender’s Game (1985) *Hugo Award Winner *Nebula Award Winner

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952– )
Mars Trilogy (1992-1996)

Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

Kazuo Ishiguro (1954- )
Never Let Me Go (2005)

Iain Banks (1954-2013)
Culture Series

Stephen Baxter (1957- )
Xelee Series (1991-2018)
Manifold: Time Trilogy (1999-2002)

Neal Stephenson (1959- )
Snow Crash (1992)
Cryptonomicon (1999)

Peter Hamilton (1960- )
The Night’s Dawn Trilogy (1996-1999)

Neil Gaiman (1960- )
The Sandman Series (1989)
Neverwhere (1996)
Stardust (1999)
American Gods (2001) *Hugo Award Winner *Nebula Award Winner
Coraline (2002) *Hugo Award Winner *Nebula Award Winner
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013)

Suzanne Collins (1962- )
The Hunger Games Series (2008-2010)

Cixin Liu (1963- )
The Three-Body Problem (2008) *Hugo Award Winner

Martha Wells (1964- )
All Systems Red (2017)

J. K. Rowling (1965- )
Harry Potter Series (1997-2007) *Hugo Award Winner

Alastair Reynolds (1966- )
Revelation Space (2000)

Ann Leckie (1966- )
Ancillary Mercy (2015) *Hugo Award Winner *Nebula Award Winner

Ted Chiang (1967- )
Arrival/”Story of Your Life” (1998)

Jeff VanderMeer (1968- )
Southern Reach Trilogy (2014)

John Scalzi (1969- )
Old Man’s War Series (2005-2015) *Hugo Award Winner
Redshirts (2012) *Hugo Award Winner

James S.A. Corey
Pen name of Daniel Abraham (1969-) and Ty Franck (1969-)
The Expanse Series (2011-Present)

Adrian Tchaikovsky (1972- )
Children of Time (2016)

Andy Weir (1972- )
The Martian (2011)

Emily St. John Mandel (1979- )
Station Eleven (2014)

Pierce Brown (1988- )
Red Rising Series (2014-Present)

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