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| x Tanith Lee |
Tanith Lee (born September 19, 1947) is a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy.
She is the author of over 70 novels and 250 short stories, a children's picture book (Animal Castle) and many poems. She has also written two episodes...
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Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born 31 December 1945) is an American science fiction writer.
She has won, among other awards, ten Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards. Willis most recently won a Hugo Award for All Seated on the Ground (August 2008)....
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| x Mary Rosenblum |
Mary Rosenblum (born 1952 in Levittown, New York) is a science fiction and mystery author. Mary Rosenblum grew up in Allison Park, "a dead little coal mining town outside Pittsburgh PA," and attended Reed College in Oregon, earning a biology degree....
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| x Anne McCaffrey |
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Anne Inez McCaffrey, born 1 April 1926 in the United States and long-term resident of Ireland, is an author of science fiction and fantasy novels, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series.
Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to...
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| x Nancy Kress |
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Nancy Kress (born January 20, 1948) is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo and Nebula-winning 1991 novella "Beggars in Spain" which was later expanded...
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| x C. J. Cherryh |
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Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is a United States science fiction and fantasy author. She has written more than 60 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award winning novels...
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| x Kathy Tyers |
Kathy Tyers (born July 21, 1952) is an American author and musician currently living in Bozeman, Montana.
Tyers was born in Long Beach, California and grew up in the Hollywood area. She obtained a degree in microbiology from Montana State University...
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| x Barbara Hambly |
Barbara Hambly (born August 28, 1951) is an award winning and prolific American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction. Her writing includes novels occurring within worlds of her own...
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Ann Carol Crispin is a science fiction writer and the author of over sixteen published novels. She has been writing since 1983. She has written several Star Trek novels, and created her own original science fiction series called StarBridge.
Two of...
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| x Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens |
Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens are a prolific husband and wife writing team, known mainly for their involvement with the Star Trek franchise. They have written several books both within and without Star Trek, and acted as executive story editors...
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| x Jennifer Roberson |
Jennifer Mitchell Roberson (born in Kansas City, Missouri, 26 October 1953) is an author of fantasy and historical literature.
Roberson has lived in Arizona since 1957. She grew up in Phoenix, but in 1999 relocated to Flagstaff. She obtained a...
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| x Virginia DeMarce |
Dr. Virginia DeMarce (born 28 November 1940) is a historian who specializes in early modern European history, as well as a prominent author in the 1632 series collaborative fiction project. She has done prominent genealogical work on the origins of...
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| x Rebecca Moesta |
Rebecca Moesta Anderson, born November 17, 1956 in Heidelberg, West Germany, is the author of several science fiction books. Although born in Germany, Rebecca was born to American parents and raised in Pasadena, California, where she lived until her...
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| x Mary Shelley |
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Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus ...
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| x Ayn Rand |
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Ayn Rand (pronounced /ˈaɪn ˈrænd/; born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum; February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels and for...
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| x Mary Doria Russell |
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Mary Doria Russell (born 1950) is an American novelist.
Russell was born in the suburbs of Chicago. Her parents were both in the military: her father was a Marine Corps drill instructor, and her mother was a Navy nurse. She graduated from Glenbard...
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| x Joan Slonczewski |
Joan Lyn Slonczewski (b. 1956, Hyde Park, New York; raised in Katonah, New York) is a biologist at Kenyon College and a feminist science fiction writer.
Slonczewski earned an A.B. in biology, magna cum laude, from Bryn Mawr College in 1977. She...
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| x Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (pronounced /ˈɜrsələ ˈkroʊbər ləˈɡwɪn/; born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, most notably in the genres of fantasy and science fiction....
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| x Doris Lessing |
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Doris May Lessing CH, OBE (née Tayler; born 22 October 1919) is a Iranian-born British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.
In 2007, Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was described by...
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| x Marge Piercy |
Marge Piercy (born 31 March 1936) is an American poet, novelist, and social activist.
Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a family deeply affected by the Great Depression. She was the first in her family to attend college, studying at the...
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| x Elaine Cunningham |
Elaine Cunningham (born August 12, 1957) is an American fantasy and science fiction author, especially known for her almost poetic literary style and her contributions to the Forgotten Realms campaign world, including the realms of Evermeet, Halruaa...
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| x Kate Wilhelm |
Kate Wilhelm (née Katie Gertrude Meredith; born June 8, 1928) is an American writer whose works include science fiction, mystery, and fantasy.
Wilhelm was born in in Toledo, Ohio.
Her work has been published in Quark (the anthology series), Orbit ...
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| x Janet Asimov |
Janet Asimov (maiden name Janet Opal Jeppson) (born August 6, 1926 in Ashland, Pennsylvania) is an American science fiction author, psychiatrist, and a psychoanalyst.
Janet Asimov started writing children's science fiction under the name J O Jeppson...
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| x Angela Carter |
Angela Carter (7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism and science fiction works.
Born to Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne, in 1940, Carter was evacuated as a child to live in...
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| x Nicola Griffith |
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Nicola Griffith (born 30 September, 1960 in Yorkshire, England) is a British science fiction author, editor and essayist. Griffith is a 1988 alum of the Michigan State University Clarion science fiction writing workshop and has won a Nebula Award,...
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| x Joanna Russ |
Joanna Russ (born February 22, 1937, New York City), born to teachers Evarett I. and Bertha Zinner Russis, is an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary...
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| x Elizabeth Moon |
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Elizabeth Moon (born March 7, 1945) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.
Moon was born Susan Elizabeth Norris and grew up in McAllen, Texas. Moon started writing when she was a child and attempted her first book, which was about her...
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| x Madeleine L'Engle |
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Madeleine L'Engle (November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American writer best known for her Young Adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many...
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| x Jeanne DuPrau |
Jeanne DuPrau (born 1944 in San Francisco, California) is an American writer, best known for The Books of Ember, a series of novels for young people. She lives in Menlo Park, California.
DuPrau received a BA in English Literature from Scripps...
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| x Jacqueline Susann |
Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918 – September 21, 1974) was an American author known for her best-selling novels. Her most notable work was Valley of the Dolls, a book that broke sales records and spawned a 1967 film and a short-lived TV series....
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| x Karin Lowachee |
Karin Lowachee is a Canadian author of science fiction.
Lowachee is the author of three novels, Warchild (2002), Burndive (2003), and Cagebird (2005). Warchild is noteworthy for its use of second-person point of view for the first several chapters...
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| x Judith Tarr |
Judith Tarr (born 1955) is an American author, best known for her fantasy books. She received her B.A. in Latin and English from Mount Holyoke College in 1976, and has an M.A. in Classics from Cambridge University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Medieval...
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| x Margaret Haddix |
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Margaret Peterson Haddix (born April 9, 1964) is an American author of many books, her most known series being the Missing series and the Shadow Children sequence. She is set to write the tenth and final book in Scholastic's 39 Clues series. Her...
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| x Sharon Shinn |
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Sharon Shinn (born 1957) is an American novelist who writes combining aspects of fantasy, science fiction and romance. She has published more than a dozen novels for adult and young adult readers. She works as a journalist in St. Louis, Missouri and...
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| x Joan D. Vinge |
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Joan D. Vinge (pronounced /ˈvɪndʒi/) (born 2 April 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland as Joan Carol Dennison) is an American science fiction author. She is known for such works as her Hugo Award-winning novel The Snow Queen and its sequels, her series...
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| x Monica Hughes |
Monica Hughes OC (November 3, 1925 – March 7, 2003), was a Canadian science fiction author. Her last name was Ince until she married Glen Hughes. She was born in Liverpool, England, and imigrated to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1952. Monica Hughes...
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| x Audrey Niffenegger |
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Audrey Niffenegger (born June 13, 1963 in South Haven, Michigan) is an American writer, artist and academic.
A film version of Niffenegger's debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife (2003), starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams, was released in August...
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| x Starhawk |
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Starhawk (born Miriam Simos) (June 17, 1951) is an American writer, anarchist activist, and self-described witch. She is well known as a theorist of Paganism, and is one of the foremost popular voices of ecofeminism. She is a columnist for both...
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| x Sheri S. Tepper |
Sheri Stewart Tepper (born July 16, 1929) is an American author of science fiction, horror and mystery novels; she is particularly known as a feminist science fiction writer, often with an ecofeminist slant.
Born near Littleton, Colorado, for most...
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| x Kathryn M. Drennan |
Kathryn M. Drennan is a writer, having worked for Carl Sagan on the mini-series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage in the early 1980s and for Michael Piller, producer at the time for Star Trek: The Next Generation, in the early 1990s. She also contributed...
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| x Marianne de Pierres |
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Marianne de Pierres is an Australian science fiction author.
Marianne de Pierres was born in Western Australia and now lives in Queensland with her husband, three sons and two cockatoos. She has a BA in Film and Television and a Postgraduate...
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| x Maureen F. McHugh |
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Maureen F. McHugh (born 1959) is a science fiction and fantasy writer.
Her first published story appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1989. Since then, she has written four novels and over twenty short stories. Her first novel,...
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| x Kage Baker |
Kage Baker (born June 10, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
She was born in Hollywood, California and has lived there and in Pismo Beach most of her life. Before becoming a professional writer she spent many years in theater,...
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| x Carol Emshwiller |
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Carol Emshwiller (b. 1921 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is a writer of avant garde short stories and science fiction who has won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award to the Philip K. Dick Award. Ursula Le Guin has called her "a major fabulist, a marvelous...
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| x Isobelle Carmody |
Isobelle Jane Carmody (born 16 June 1958) is an Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy, children's literature, and young adult literature.
Carmody began work on the highly acclaimed Obernewtyn Chronicles at the age of fourteen. She continued...
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| x Karen Traviss |
Karen Traviss is a science fiction author and full-time novelist from Wiltshire, England. Originally from the Portsmouth area, Traviss worked as both a journalist and defence correspondent before turning her attention to writing fiction. She also...
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| x Marianne Curley |
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Marianne Curley, (born 20 May 1959) is an Australian author best known for her Guardians of Time Trilogy and Old Magic books.
According to her official biography, Marianne Curley now lives in Coffs Harbour, on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales ...
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| x Catherine Asaro |
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Catherine Asaro is an American science fiction and fantasy author. She is best known for her books about the Ruby Dynasty set in the Skolian Empire, known as the Saga of the Skolian Empire.
Catherine Asaro was born in Oakland, California. She has a...
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| x Louise Lawrence |
Elizabeth Holden, better known by her pen name Louise Lawrence, is an English science fiction author, acclaimed during the 1970s and 1980s. She has been classified as a writer for young adults, though due to the content of her books some have...
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| x Hilary Bailey |
Hilary Bailey is a British writer and editor, born in 1936. She is the former wife of Michael Moorcock.
She edited volumes 7-10 of the New Worlds Quarterly series.
Her writings are varied, including a biography of Vera Brittain, a sequel to Jane...
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| x Vonda McIntyre |
Vonda Neel McIntyre (born Louisville, Kentucky, on August 28, 1948) is an American science fiction author.
Vonda N. McIntyre, daughter of H. Neel and Vonda B. Keith McIntyre, earned a degree in biology from the University of Washington in 1970. That...
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| x Nancy Farmer |
Nancy Farmer (born 1941) is a prominent children's book author from the United States.
Farmer was born in Phoenix, Arizona, took her B.A. at Reed College (1963) and later studied chemistry and entomology at the University of California, Berkeley....
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| x Leigh Brackett |
Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 18, 1978) was an American author, particularly of science fiction. She was also a screenwriter, known for her work on famous films such as The Big Sleep (1945), Rio Bravo (1959), The Long Goodbye ...
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| x Elizabeth Ann Scarborough |
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough was born March 23, 1947, and lives in the Puget Sound area of Washington. Elizabeth won a Nebula Award in 1989 for her novel The Healer's War, and has written more than a dozen other novels. She has collaborated with Anne...
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| x Kathryn H. Kidd |
Kathryn H. Kidd was Orson Scott Card's co-author in writing a novel named Lovelock. The novel was to be the first of a proposed trilogy, but the other volumes have not been published. An anticipated second installment by Kidd and Card called...
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| x Jane Lindskold |
Jane M. Lindskold is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels.
Jane M. Lindskold was born in 1962, at the Columbia Hospital for Women. She is the first of four siblings: Ann M. Lindskold Nalley, Graydon M. Lindskold...
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| x Johanna Sinisalo |
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Aila Johanna Sinisalo (born 22 June 1958, Sodankylä) is a Finnish science fiction and fantasy writer. She studied comparative literature and drama, amongst other subjects, at the University of Tampere. Professionally she worked in the advertising...
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| x Marilyn Sadler |
Marilyn Sadler is a children's writer with a deadpan sense of humor. She was born November 17. One of her best known works was made into a television movie, under the title Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century. That book is about a space girl who is sent...
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| x Jane Jensen |
Jane Jensen (b. 28 January 1963 in Palmerton, Pennsylvania) is the game designer of the popular and critically-acclaimed Gabriel Knight adventure games and author of the novels Judgement Day and Dante's Equation.
Jane Jensen was born Jane Elizabeth...
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| x Rhiannon Lassiter |
Rhiannon Lassiter was born on the 9th of February in 1977 in London to Mary Hoffman and Stephen Barber.
She started writing the first book of the Hex trilogy when she was seventeen, and sent the first chapters of the MS to Douglas Hill (a friend of...
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