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This is a list of science-fiction writers, ordered alphabetically by nationality.

American

  • Poul Anderson
  • Isaac Asimov
  • Edward Bellamy
  • Alfred Bester
  • James Blish
  • Anthony Boucher
  • Ray Bradbury
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Octavia E. Butler
  • John W. Campbell
  • Samuel R. Delany
  • Philip K. Dick
  • Harlan Ellison
  • Hugo Gernsback
  • William Gibson
  • Horace Gold
  • Robert A. Heinlein
  • Frank Herbert
  • N.K. Jemisin
  • C.M. Kornbluth
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Madeleine L’Engle
  • H.P. Lovecraft
  • Frederik Pohl
  • Neal Shusterman
  • Bruce Sterling
  • Theodore Sturgeon

British

  • Brian W. Aldiss
  • J.G. Ballard
  • Arthur C. Clarke
  • Michael Moorcock
  • Olaf Stapledon
  • H.G. Wells

Canadian

  • A.E. Van Vogt

French

  • Jules Verne

Polish

  • Stanislaw Lem

Russian

  • Yevgeny Zamyatin
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