Brian W. Aldiss, a major British writer of sf and mainstream, now has a website devoted to his life and works.Issac Asimov is to many the Grand Master of science fiction.
J. G. Ballard is the acclaimed author of High-Rise, Crash, Concrete Island, and other novels. Empire of the Sun, which is based on Ballard's childhood experiences during the Second World War, was nominated for Britain's premier fiction award, The Booker Prize. Born in Shanghai, China, Ballard now lives in Shepperton, England.
Iain Banks was born in Scotland in 1954. Hailed as one of the major new UK science fiction writers in the 1980's, his works include the science fiction novels, Consider Phlebas, The Bridge, Use of Weapons, The State of the Art, and Feersum Endjinn. He has also written several mainstream/weird novels including The Wasp Factory, Walking on Glass, Canal Dreams, and Complicity.
Clive Barker sprang onto the horror scene with his six brilliant volumes of short stories entitled Clive Barker's Books of Blood. Since then he has shown that he is capable of writing novels and screenplays, as well as directing and producing movies. His artwork has been included in some of his books and has been collected in Clive Barker, Illustrator.His plays have recently been published in a volume entitled Incarnations. His most recent novel is Sacrament.
Stephen M. Baxter writes hard science fiction, creating innovative tales and novels in the tradition of Hal Clement and Robert Heinlein. Born in 1957, and raised in Liverpool, England, Baxter studied mathematics at Cambridge and received a Ph.D from Southampton. He works in information technology. His first novel Raft, was published in 1991 to great acclaim, and was followed by five others, including Anti-Ice and The Time Ships.
Michael Bishop was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1945 and his younger years were spent as an "air force brat." He attended the University of Georgia, where he received his B.A. in 1967 (with Phi Beta Kappa honors). The following year he earned an M.A. with a thesis on the poetry of Dylan Thomas. He taught English at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School in Colorado Springs from 1968 to 1972, and later at the University of Georgia. In 1975 his first novel A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire was published, the first of his novels that could be grouped as "the anthropological novels." This group would also include Stolen Faces, Transfigurations, No Enemy But Time, and Ancient of Days. Other novels he's written include Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas, The Secret Ascension, Count Geiger's Blues, and Brittle Innings. Bishop's short fiction has been collected in One Winter in Eden, Blooded on Arachne, Close Encounters With the Deity, Emphatically Not SF, and Almost At the City Limits of Fate.
Terry Bisson is the author of critically acclaimed novels such as Fire on the Mountain, Wyrldmaker, Talking Man, Voyage to the Red Planet, and Pirates of the Universe. His 1991 short story "bears Discover Fire" won the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, and the Theodore Sturgeon Award. Possibly his most famous short story is "They're Made Out of Meat." His short fiction has appeared in Omni, Playboy, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Bisson lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.
James P. Blaylock is a talented modern fantasist who lives in Orange, California, and teaches creative writing at Chapman University. He is the author of the World Fantasy Award winning story "Paper Dragons," and "Unidentified Objects," which was chosen for the O'Henry Award Prize Stories 1990. Blaylock has also authored several novels including The Digging Leviathan, The Magic Spectacles, the Philip K. Dick Award-winning Homunculus, The Last Coin, Land of Dreams, Night Relics, The Paper Grail, and All the Bells of Earth.
Poppy Z. Brite has lived all over the American South and has worked as a gourmet candy maker, an artist's model, a cook, and an exotic dancer. Her work began to appear in the horror small press while she was still in her teens, and she has rapidly become an important writer of horror fiction with stories in Borderlands, Women of Darkness, and Dead End: City Limits. Her first two novels, Lost Souls and Drawing Blood were published to great acclaim, and her controversial novel featuring two serial killers, Exquisite Corpse, was recently published. She is also the co-editor of the anthology Love in Vein.
Another Poppy Z. Brite site.
Louis McMaster Bujold is the author of the acclaimed Miles Vorkosigen series.
Pat Cadigan was born in Schenectady, New York, and now lives in Overland Park, Kansas. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Mindplayers, Synners, and Fools, the latter two of which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best novel in the United Kingdom. She has recently finished her fourth, Bunraku, a novel about future Japan based on the two novellas published on OMNI Online. She has written numerous short stories, and her collection Patterns has been hailed as one of the landmark collections of the decade. Her most recent book is another collection, entitled Dirty Work.
Jonathan Carroll is the author of eight novels including Land of Laughs, A Child Across the Sky, Sleeping in Flame, Outside the Dog Museum, After Silence, and From the Teeth of Angels. His distinctive and instantly recognizable blend of fantasy, magic realism, and horror, grounded in realistically and sympathetically depicted characters and situations have earned him the admiration of readers and critics. His short fiction is collected in the award-winning book The Panic Hand. He lives in Vienna, Austria.
Lewis Carroll was the creator of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. This site has the complete text of "Alice" with John Tenniel's illustrations and some music.
Robert W. Chambers was an influence on Clark Ashton Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, and James Blish and the author of much horror fiction in the late 1880s-early 1900s. Possibly his most famous piece fiction is the novel, The King in Yellow.
Avram Davidson was a native of Yonkers, New York, who published his first piece of science fiction in 1954. His work includes Nebula-nominated stories such as Rogue Dragon and Clash of Star-Kings as well as the Hugo award winning Or All the Seas with Oysters. He edited the magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from 1962 to 1964, winning a Hugo award for best magazine in 1963, and produced several of The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction series. His other works include Masters of the Maze, And on the Eighth Day, and And Don't Forget the One Red Rose. A recently discovered novella was first published on Omni online and is about to see print as a stand alone book from Tor Books.
Bradley Denton was born in 1958, grew up in Kansas, and received an M.A. in creative writing from the University of Kansas. His first novel, Wrack and Roll, was published in 1986, and he won the John W. Campbell memorial award for his 1992 novel, Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede. His most recent novels are Blackburn and Lunatics and his short fiction has been collected in two volumes: The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and A Conflagration Artist. These volumes won the World Fantasy Award for best collection. Denton lives in Austin, Texas.
Dr. Seuss, the creator of The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, and many other major contributions to children's literature is the subject of a website.
Greg Egan is an Australian writer who, in the last few years, has become a frequent contributor to Interzone and Asimov's Science Fiction, and has made sales as well to Pulphouse, Analog, Aurealis, Eidolon, and other publications. Several of his stories have appeared in various "best of the Year" series.
Harlan Ellison who resides in Los Angeles, is one of the most lauded fantasists in the United States and a consummate artist in the short story form. He has written or edited 62 books of fiction and essays (including the influential media critiques The Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat), more than thirteen hundred stories, and is the editor the landmark Dangerous Visions anthologies. The Essential Ellison, a 1,100 page retrospective of his 41-year career, is highly recommended. Ellison has won more Hugo and Nebula Awards than any other writer, as well as the P.E.N. award for journalism, the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award, and numerous others. His fiction has also appeared in The Best American Short Stories.
Gregory Frost lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia and is the author of four novels. His first three--Lyrec, Tain, and Remscela are fantasies; the fourth, A Pure Cold Light is a work of science fiction set in a dystopic alternate Philadelphia. His short stories have appeared in most of the major genre magazines and in various anthologies including Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Workshop Anthology, Snow White, Blood Red, and Black Swan, White Raven He reviews for The Washington Post and The Philadephia Inquirer and has taught story writing at Temple University and The University of Pennsylvania.
Neil Gaiman is a transplanted Briton who now lives in the American Midwest with his wife and children. He has worked as a journalist for a number of UK periodicals and newspapers. His graphic novels include Violent Cases, Black Orchid, and the award-winning Sandman series of graphic novels (for which one installment won the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story in 1991). He is coauthor (with Terry Pratchett) of the novel Good Omens. His short fiction has been collected in Angels and Visitations. One of his most recent projects was the marvelous collabora- tion with artist Dave McKean on Mr. Punch. He is currently working on a fantasy TV series for the BBC.
William Gibson is the man credited with coining the phrase cyberspace, and is seen as one of the founders of the cyberpunk movement in science fiction. A writer of both short stories and novels, his works include Virtual Light, Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Idoru, and The Difference Engine with Bruce Sterling. His short stories are collected in Burning Chrome. His short story "Johnny Mnemonic," published by OMNI in 1981 is the first of his works to be made into film. William Gibson lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Edward Gorey is one of my favorite creators of macabre art and text having authored such classics as The Gashleycrumb Tinies, The Sinking Spell, and The Doubtful Guest. I've been a collector since I first found one of his books while I was working in the college library in the early 1970s. You owe it to yourself to check out his work.
Steven Gould and Laura J. Mixon is a joint site for these two writers. They have each written sf and fantasy stories/novels on their own. Greenwar, about eco-terrorism, is their first collaborative literary effort.
Eileen Gunn is the author of a handful of odd sf/fantasy short stories including "Stable Strategies for Middle Management" about BIG BUGS, if I remember correctly, "Lichen and Rock," "Computer Friendly," and "fellow Americans." She now has a very odd, interesting home page that is worth more than a look.
Joe Haldeman was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He took a BS degree in physics and astronomy from the University of Maryland, and did postgraduate work in mathematics and computer science. He sold his first story to Galaxy in 1969, and by 1976 had garnered both the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award for his famous novel The Forever War, one of the landmark books of the 70s. He took another Hugo Award in 1977 for his story "Tricentennial," won the Rhysling Award in 1983 for the best science fiction poem of the year and won both the Nebula and the Hugo Awards in 1991 for the novella version of The Hemingway Hoax. His other books include a mainstream novel, War Year, the SF novels Mindbridge, All My Sins Remembered, There is No Darkness (written with his brother, SF writer Jack C. Haldeman II), Worlds, Worlds Apart, Buying Time, and The Hemingway Hoax, the "techno-thriller" Tools of the Trade, and the collections Infinite Dreams and Dealing in Futures. His most recent books are the SF novel Worlds Enough and Time, the mainstream novel, 1968, and a new collection, Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds. Haldeman lives part of the year in Boston, where he teaches writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the rest of the year in Florida, where he and his wife Gay make their home.
Robert A. Heinlein is a Grand Master of science fiction, and the author of Stranger in a Strange Land, Friday, and Have Spacesuit, Will Travel amongst many others.
Harvey Jacobs is the author of one of my favorite weird novels, The Juror. He is also the author of several other novels, most recently Beautiful Soup and that great piece of Americana, American Goliath. Jacobs has published numerous short stories, some in OMNI, others in Terri Windling and my fairy tale anthologies.
K.W. Jeter (Bladerunner 2) is one of the most respected sf writers working today. Jeter is the author of twelve novels, including his early precursor to the cyberpunk movement, Dr. Adder. Other Jeter novels are In the Land of the Dead, Farewell Horizontal, Wolf Flow, Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human, and Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night. His next book is The Kingdom of Shadows. His rare, horrific short stories have been published in Omni Magazine and in the anthologies, Alien Sex, A Whisper of Blood, and Little Deaths(UK).
John Kessel was born in 1950 in Buffalo, New York and is currently an Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University. He made his first sale in 1975, and has since become a frequent contributor to Omni, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and many other magazines and anthologies. His short fiction is collected in Meeting in Infinity and The Pure Product, the latter to be published late 1997. Kessel's first solo novel, Good News From Outer Space, was released in 1989 to wide critical acclaim. He won a Nebula Award in 1983 for his superlative novella "Another Orphan," which has been published as an individual book. His story "buffalo" won the 1991 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His other books include the novel Freedom Beach, written in collaboration with best friend James Patrick Kelly and a new novel, Corrupting Dr. Nice, which was released in January of 1997.
Stephen King lives in Maine with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King. Perhaps the most popular writer of our generation, Stephen King is known best for his novels of suspense, both supernatural and psychological. His most recent novels are Rose Madder and Insomnia. His serial novel The Green Mile was published in six monthly installments beginning March 1996. King's short stories have been published in venues as diverse as Omni, The New Yorker, Cemetery Dance, Shock Rock, Redbook, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and Prize Stories: The O.Henry Awards. He has published three collections of short stories: Night Shift, Skeleton Crew, and Nightmares and Dreamscapes and two collections of novellas: Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight.
Roberta Lannes is a writer and artist who has been publishing short horror stories since her smashing debut in Dennis Etchison's 1986 anthology Cutting Edge. She has been published in several Stephen Jones anthologies and several of my anthologies. Her first collection The Mirror of Night has recently been published by Silver Salamander Press.
Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the best-known and most universally respected sf writers in the world today. Her famous novel The Left Hand of Darkness may have been the most influential sf novel of its decade, and is one of the enduring classics of the genre. The Left Hand of Darkness won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 1970, as did Le Guin's The Dispossessed a few years later. Her novel Tehanu won her another Nebula in 1990, and she has also won three other Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award for her short fiction, as well as the National Book Award for Children's Literature for her novel The Farthest Shore, part of her acclaimed Earthsea trilogy. Her most recent books are the novel Searoad, and the collections, A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, Four Ways to Forgiveness, and Unlocking the Air.
Rosaleen Love has a deep and abiding interest in the history of wrong ideas. From a base in the history and philosophy of science she has moved towards writing both science fiction and science faction. As a feminist and a satirist, she cannot curb a willful inclination to satirize feminism. As a short story writer she has published two collections with the Women's Press, UK: The Total Devotion Machine and Evolution Annie. Her work has been included in mainstream as well as sf anthologies in Australia, Britain and the USA, eg. Heroines, Millennium, Alien Shores, Metaworlds, She's Fantastical, and Women of Wonder. She is always at work on a novel, but all her novels magically transform themselves into short stories at the stroke of midnight. She wonders if this is a blessing or a curse.
H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was one of the most influential horror authors of the 20th century. A lifelong resident of Providence, Rhode Island (except for two unhappy years in New York City), the atmosphere of his native New England and his philosophy of "cosmicism" permeate his stories. Some of Lovecraft's better-known tales and novels include The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Colour Out of Space, The Dunwich Horror, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and The Shadow Out of Time.
Anne McCaffrey is the author of the Pern series, the Planet Pirates Trilogy with Elizabeth Moon and Jodi Lynn Nye, the Crystal Singers trilogy, and The Ship Who... series beginning with The Ship Who Sang
Maureen McHugh, born in Ohio, spent some years living in Shijiazhuang in the People's Republic of China, an experience that has been one of the major shaping forces on her fiction to date. Upon returning to the United States, she made her first sale in 1989, and has since made a powerful impression on the SF world with a relatively small body of work, becoming a frequent contributor to Asimov's Science Fiction, as well as selling to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Alternate Warriors, Aladdin, and other markets. In 1992, she published one of the year's most widely acclaimed and talked-about first novels, China Mountain Zhang, which received the prestigious Tiptree Memorial Award. She has had stories in The Year's Best Science Fiction Tenth and (in collaboration with David B. Kisor) Eleventh Collections. Her most recent book is a new novel, Half the Day Is Night. She lives with her family in Twinsburg, Ohio.
A. A. Milne was the creator of Winnie the Pooh.
Michael Moorcock was born in London, England in 1939. He became involved in science fiction at an early age, and by 1964 had become the guiding hand behind the British science fiction magazine "New Worlds." Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Gloriana, and recipient of numerous British Fantasy Awards, Moorcock is probably best known for his Elric series, and his Eternal Champion series, but he is also the author of several far more "literary" novels such as The Brothel at Rosengasse and Mother London.
Kim Newman was born in London in 1959, but was brought up in Somerset. He is a freelance writer, film critic, and broadcaster. His nonfiction books include Nightmare Movies, the Bram Stoker Award-winning Horror: Best 100 Books (edited with Stephen Jones), and The BFI (British Film Institute) Companion to Horror. He is also author of the novels The Night Mayor, Bad Dreams, Jago, Anno Dracula, and The Bloody Red Baron. His short fiction has been collected in The Original Dr. Shade & Other Stories and Famous Monsters.
Joyce Carol Oates, in addition to being a respected novelist, short-story writer, playwright, poet, and essayist, is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. She has won the National Book Award for her novel, Them, and is the 1994 recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for Life Achievement in Horror Fiction. She is the author, most recently, of Zombie, an award-winning short novel about a serial killer, What I Lived For, nominated for the Pen/Faulkner Award, and First Love: A Gothic Tale. She has published two collections of dark fiction: Night-Side and Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque. Her short stories have appeared in Omni, Playboy, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and The Atlantic, as well as in literary magazines, and in anthologies such as Architecture of Fear; Dark Forces; Metahorror; Little Deaths; Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears; Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex; and she has had stories in Prize Stories: The O.Henry Awards, and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.
David Prill grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota and currently lives in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. He is the author of the very strange and very funny novel, The Unnatural about a kid on a farm in Minnesota who desperately wants to break the single-season embalming record. His second novel, Serial Killer Days is equally unusual--it's about the town of Standard Springs, which holds an annual fair around a particular annual event--for more than twenty years a serial killer has taken a victim from the town.
Kit Reed is an eclectic writer of science fiction novels and cross-genre short stories. She has also authored several suspense novels under the name Kit Craig. Her stories are collected in The Attack of the Giant Baby, Revenge of the Senior Citizens, Thief of Lives, and Weird Women, Wired Women.
Anne Rice is the author of "The Vampire Chronicles," the first of which (Interview with the Vampire) was made into a movie directed by Neil Jordan. Her other writing credits include "The Lives of the Mayfair Witches" trilogy, The Feast of All Saints, Cry to Heaven, and The Mummy. She has also written Exit to Eden, and Belinda under the name Anne Rampling, and a trilogy of erotica under the name A. N. Roquelaure. Her most recent novel is entitled Servant of the Bones. Anne Rice publishes a monthly news letter entitled "Commotion Strange."
Geoff Ryman, author of The Warrior Who Carried Life, The Child Garden, and Was has created a hypertext novel that is much more fun than most.
Melissa Scott is the author of Dreamships, Trouble and Her Friends, and the Silence Leigh trilogy Five Twelfths of Heaven, Silence in Solitude, and Empress of Earth amongst others, and has been the recipient of the John W. Campbell and James Tiptree Jr awards as well as being nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards.
Robert Silverberg is the author of several hundred short stories including the Nebula award winning "good News from the Vatican," and over seventy novels, including Nightwings, Dying Inside, Tower of Glass, Thorns, Downward to the Earth, Lord Valentine's Castle, and Shadrach in the Furnace. He has been the recipient of three Hugo awards, a Jupiter award, and five Nebula Awards (more than any other writer). A native New Yorker, Robert Silverberg now lives near San Francisco with his wife, the author Karen Haber.
another Robert Silverberg site
Dan Simmons who lives in Colorado, has received numerous awards throughout his writing career, including the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stoker Award. He is equally comfortable writing sf, fantasy, and horror. His novels include the horror novels Song of Kali, Carrion Comfort, Summer of Night, and Children of the Night; his science fiction novels include The Hollow Man, and The Hyperion Cantos, and he has written a mainstream novel called Phases of Gravity. His short fiction has been collected in the World Fantasy Award-winning volume, Prayers to Broken Stones and LoveDeath.
S. P. Somtow is a dazzling writer. His output is prodigious, yet each story seems to be as distinctive, and as entertaining, as the tale that follows. His novels include The Darkling Wind, The Wizard's Apprentice, Vampire Junction, and (for children) The Fallen Country. He was a composer and performer before turning to writing; he is also a screenwriter and a film director. He was born in Bangkok, Thailand, raised in Europe, educated at Eton and Cambridge, and currently resides in the U.S.
Bruce Sterling was one of the driving forces behind the revolutionary cyberpunk movement in science fiction. He is the author of Schismatrix, Islands in the Net, The Artifical Kid, Involution Ocean, The Difference Engine, written in collaboration with William Gibson, and Heavy Weather. His short fiction is collected in Crystal Express and Globalhead. He was the editor of the anthology Mirrorshades: the Cyberpunk Anthology. He is also the author of the nonfiction study of first amendment issues in the world of computer networking, The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier. He lives with his family in Austin, Texas.
Another Bruce Sterling site, this one an online index to his nonfiction writing including interviews, articles, rants, etc.
Peter Straub is the author of the novels Marriages, Under Venus, Julia, If You Could See Me Now, Ghost Story, Shadowland, Floating Dragon, The Talisman, (with Stephen King), Koko, Mrs. God, Mystery, and The Throat, and The Hellfire Club, as well as the collection Houses Without Doors, and two books of poetry, Open Air and Leeson Park and Belsize Square.
Susan Wade lives in Austin, Texas and is the author of several fantasy and science fiction short stories and novelettes (most of which have appeared in my anthologies) and one suspense novel, Walking Rain, which has been nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for an Edgar Award for First Novel.
Howard Waldrop is a National Treasure yet virtually unknown. He is a major fantastist of the 20th century who has been writing brilliant stories for years. Among his most famous are "The Ugly Chickens," "flying Saucer Rock and Roll," "Ike at the Mike," and "Night of the Cooters." His work has been collected in Howard Who?, All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past: Neat Stories by Howard Waldrop, and Night of the Cooters. He is also the author of two novels, The Texas-Israeli War:1999 with Jake Saunders and Them Bones. Howard doesn't have a phone, doesn't have a computer, but now, thanks to some of his friends and fans, he's got his own website. It's time you discovered him.
Tad Williams is the author of Tailchaser's Song, the Sorrow and Thorn trilogy, the novella Caliban's Hour, and most recently, Otherland: City of Golden Shadow, the first novel in a new quartet. Williams has been lead singer in a rock band and host of a syndicated radio show. He lives in San Francisco and London, England.
Walter Jon Williams was born in Minnesota and now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His stories have appeared in several volumes of The Year's Best Science Fiction. His novels include Ambassador of Progress, Knight Moves, Hardwired, The Crown Jewels, Voice of the Whirlwind, House of Shards, Days of Atonement, Aristoi, and Metropolitan. His short fiction has been gathered in the collection Facets. His next novel, City of Fire, will be published January 1996.
Roger Zelazny was considered one of the leaders of science fiction's "New Wave," and is known both for his emphasis on the psychology of his characters, and his use of the mythology of various cultures in many of his best know works. His credits include Lord of Light, This Immortal, Creatures of Light and Darkness, and the Amber series of novels. He was the recipient of six Hugo awards and two Nebulas. He died in June 1995 of cancer.
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