100+ Science Fiction Writers
The list starts with author and then a good first titles to read.
- Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Brian W. Aldiss -- Helliconia Spring
- Roger MacBride Allen -- The Depths of Time
- Kevin J. Anderson -- Heirs of the Force
- Poul Anderson -- The Boat of a Million Years
- Piers Anthony -- Split Infinity
- Catherine Asaro -- Primary Inversion
- Neal Asher -- The Skinner
- Isaac Asimov -- Caves of Steel or Foundation
- Kage Baker -- In the Garden of Iden
- J.G. Ballard -- Crash
- Iain Banks -- The Player of Games
- John Barnes -- The Sky So Big and Black
- Stephen Baxter -- Manifold: Time
- Greg Bear -- Eon
- Gregory Benford -- In the Ocean of Night
- Alfred Bester -- The Stars My Destination
- James P. Blaylock -- The Digging Leviathan
- Ben Bova -- Jupiter: a Novel
- Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- Marion Zimmer Bradley -- Heritage and Exile
- David Brin -- Sundiver
- Lois McMaster Bujold -- Shards of Honor
- Octavia Butler -- Parable of the Sower
- Orson Scott Card -- Ender’s Game
- Jack Chalker -- The Cybernetic Walrus
- C.J. Cherryh -- Downbelow Station
- Arthur C. Clarke -- 2001: a Space Odyssey or Childhood’s End
- Tony Daniel -- Metaplanetary
- Dennis Danvers -- Circuit of Heaven
- Samuel R. Delany -- Dhalgren
- Philip K. Dick -- The Man in the High Castle or The Scanner Darkly
- Gordon R. Dickson -- The Dragon and the George
- Thomas M. Disch -- The Genocides
- David Drake -- With the Lightnings
- Harlan Ellison -- Dangerous Visions
- Philip Jose Farmer -- To Your Scattered Bodies Go
- David Feintuch -- Midshipman’s Hope
- Jasper Fforde -- The Eyre Affair
- Eric Flint -- 1632
- Michael Flynn -- Firestar
- Alan Dean Foster -- The Tar-Aiym Krang
- C.S. Friedman -- Black Sun Rising
- David Gerrold -- A Matter for Men
- William Gibson -- Neuromancer
- Kathleen Ann Goonan -- Queen City Jazz
- Simon R. Green -- Deathstalker
- Joe Haldeman -- The Forever War
- Peter F. Hamilton -- The Reality Dysfunction Part I: Emergence
- Harry Harrison -- The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat
- Robert Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- James P. Hogan -- The Genesis Machine
- Nancy Kress -- Crossfire
- Ursula K. LeGuin -- The Left Hand of Darkness
- Stanislaw Lem -- The Cyberiad
- Ken MacLeod -- The Star Fraction
- Julian May -- The Many-Colored Land
- Paul J. McAuley -- Whole Wide World
- Anne McCaffrey -- Dragonflight
- Wil McCarthy -- The Collapsium
- Jack McDevitt -- The Engines of God
- Maureen McHugh -- China Mountain Zhang
- Sean McMullen -- Souls in the Great Machine
- Walter M. Miller -- A Canticle for Leibowitz
- L.E. Modesitt -- Adiamante
- Elizabeth Moon -- Remnant Population
- Larry Niven -- Ringworld
- Andre Norton -- The Time Traders
- Frederik Pohl -- Gateway
- Michael D. Resnick -- Kirinyaga: a Fable of Utopia
- Alastair Reynolds -- Revelation Space
- John Ringo -- A Hymn Before Battle
- Kim Stanley Robinson -- Red Mars
- Spider Robinson -- Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon
- Robert J. Sawyer -- Hominids
- Charles Sheffield -- Cold as Ice
- Sharon Shinn -- Archangel
- Robert Silverberg -- Lord Valentine’s Castle
- Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- Brian Stableford -- Inherit the Earth
- Michael Stackpole -- Fortress Draconis
- Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
- Bruce Sterling -- Schismatrix
- S.M. Stirling -- Island in the Sea of Time
- Theodore Sturgeon -- More than Human
- Sheri S. Tepper -- Grass
- Harry Turtledove -- How Few Remain
- Jules Verne -- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Joan D. Vinge -- The Snow Queen
- Vernor Vinge -- A Deepness in the Sky
- Kurt Vonnegut -- Cat's Cradle
- David Weber -- On Basilisk Station
- H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
- Scott Westerfeld -- The Risen Empire
- James White -- Beginning Operations
- Kate Wilhelm -- Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
- Tad Williams -- Otherland. City of Golden Shadow
- Walter Jon Williams -- The Rift
- Jack Williamson -- Humanoids
- Connie Willis -- To Say Nothing of the Dog
- Robert Charles Wilson -- Blind Lake
- David Wingrove -- The Middle Kingdom
- Gene Wolfe -- The Shadow of the Torturer (or Shadow & Claw)
- John C. Wrigh -- The Golden Age
- Timothy Zahn -- Conquerors’ Pride
