2007-05-30 06:32:43 · 12 answers · asked by gary k 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Ray Bradbury is the first and greatest of them all.
Frank Herbert (Dune Trilogy), Robert Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land), Kurt Vonegut and CS Lewis are close followers.
2007-05-30 06:39:46 · answer #1 · answered by John B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do a search for the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. These are the acknowledged grand masters of science fiction and include writers and those in film.
Every year they add someone still living to the SF Hall of Fame and someone who is dead. Sometimes they add two in each category.
By the way, Mary Shelley is credited with having the first science fiction novel published (thirty years before the earliest Jules Verne). You may remember Frankenstein.
If you want the Grand Masters of Fantasy, do a search for the Gandalf Award.
2007-05-30 07:24:29 · answer #2 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells are the unofficial triumvirate of the modern science fiction genre and subsequently the greatest science fiction writers of all time. Wikipedia, although its credibility is constantly questioned by professional scholars, offers an abridged list of science fiction writers that you can check out at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction_writer
Enjoy! :-)
2007-05-30 06:51:33 · answer #3 · answered by Penny Pincher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My sought after technological know-how fiction author overall is Harry Harrison. whether, the main influential technological know-how fiction writers have been in all probability H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. additionally, why is that this question in the astronomy & area class?
2016-10-30 05:32:09 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Issac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Phillip Dick, Piers Anthony, Kurt Vonnegut
2007-05-30 06:40:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Ray Bradbury.
2007-05-31 01:48:49 · answer #6 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heinlein, Asamov, and Herbert are going to be a great core of Sci-Fi writters.
Larry Niven has written a pleathora of novels based in a world he calls the Known Universe (this universe contains the novel Ringworld about which people have gone nuts trying to figure out how to actually make one... no seriously look it up!)
And although badmouthed for his creation of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard has done some excelent writting, the best probaley being Battlefield Earth (please please please don't base this book on that miserable excuse for a john travolta movie that came out nearly a decade ago now)
Oh Oh oh and Don't forget Arthur C Clarke, another great Sci-Fi writter....
Man too many to choose just one best!
2007-05-30 07:28:00 · answer #7 · answered by Graham 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isaac Asimov and Neil Gaiman.
2007-05-30 06:40:54 · answer #8 · answered by Helen Scott 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how is it that no one has mentioned Harlan Ellison. I think he's among the greatest. As are Asimov, H.G.Wells, Heinlein, Bradbury, and the team of Pohl and Kornbluth. Thanks.
2007-05-30 07:26:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Robert Heinlein is excellent.
2007-05-30 06:40:30 · answer #10 · answered by Chemist of Carnage 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋