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John W. Campbell Award for the Best New Writer
The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer is awarded annually to the best new science fiction or fantasy writer whose first work of science fiction or fantasy appearing in a professional publication was published in the previous two calendar years. The prize is named in honor of science...
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Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Eugene Pournelle (born August 7, 1933) is an American science fiction writer, essayist and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte and has since 1998 been maintaining his own website/blog.
From the beginning,...
Tom Reamy
Tom Reamy (1935–1977) was an award-winning American science fiction and fantasy author and important figure in 1960s and 1970s science fiction fandom. Tom Reamy died prior to the publication of his first novel. His works are primarily dark fantasy....
P. J. Plauger
P. J. Plauger is an author and entrepreneur. He has written and co-written articles and books about programming style, software tools, and the C programming language.
He founded Whitesmiths, the first company to sell a C compiler and Unix-like...
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Spider Robinson
Spider Robinson (born November 24, 1948) is an American-born Canadian Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction author.
Born in the Bronx, New York City, Robinson attended Catholic high school, spending his junior year in a seminary, followed by...
Stephen R. Donaldson
Stephen Reeder Donaldson (born May 13, 1947, in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for his Thomas Covenant series. His work has attracted critical attention for its "imagination, vivid...
Barry B. Longyear
Barry B. Longyear born 1942 is a US writer and novelist who resides in Maine.
He is best known for the Hugo and Nebula Award winning novella "Enemy Mine", which was subsequently made into an identically titled movie and a novelization in...
S. P. Somtow
S. P. Somtow (a rearrangement of his real name Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul; Thai: สมเถา สุจริตกุล), b. December 30, 1952, is a Thai and American musical composer. He is also a science fiction, fantasy, and horror author writing in English.
Although...
Lisa Tuttle
Lisa Tuttle (born in Houston, Texas 1952) is a science fiction, fantasy, and on occasion horror author. From 1981 to 1987 she was married to fellow writer Christopher Priest. She has been a UK resident since 1980 and currently lives in Scotland with...
Alexis A. Gilliland
Alexis Arnaldus Gilliland (born August 10, 1931) is an American science fiction writer and cartoonist. He resides in Arlington, Virginia.
Gilliland won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1982, notably beating David Brin and Michael...
Paul O. Williams
Paul O. Williams (January 17,1935 - June 2, 2009) was an American science fiction writer and haiku poet. Williams was professor emeritus of English at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois.
His most notable science fiction works are a series of...
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R. A. MacAvoy
Roberta Ann (R. A.) MacAvoy (born December 13, 1949) is a fantasy and science fiction author in the United States. Several of her books draw on Celtic or Zen themes. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1984.
R. A. MacAvoy was...
Lucius Shepard
Lucius Shepard (born August 21, 1947 in Lynchburg, Virginia) is an American writer. Classified as a science fiction and fantasy writer, he often leans into other genres, such as magical realism. His work is infused with a political and historical...
Melissa Scott
Melissa Scott (born 1960, Little Rock, Arkansas) is a science fiction and fantasy author noted for her science fiction novels featuring LGBT characters and elaborate settings.
Scott studied history at Harvard College and Brandeis University, and...
Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American author, critic, public speaker and conservative political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel...
Judith Moffett
Judith Moffett (born 1942) is an American science fiction writer. She is also a poet and an academic.
She first wrote poetry and works about poets, like her 1984 book about James Merrill. She still writes for organizations like the Academy of...
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C. J. Cherryh
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...
Michaela Roessner
Michaela Marie Roessner is an American science-fiction writer publishing under the name Michaela Roessner. Born in San Francisco in 1950, she was raised in (successively) California, New York, Pennsylvania, Thailand, and Oregon. Trained as a visual...
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Kristine Kathryn Rusch (born June 1960) is an American writer. She writes under various pseudonyms in multiple genres, including science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, and mainstream.
Rusch won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2001 for her...
Julia Ecklar
Julia Ecklar (born 1964) is a John W. Campbell-award winning science fiction author and a singer and writer of filk music who recorded numerous albums in the Off Centaur label in the early 1980s, including Minus Ten and Counting, Horse-Tamer's...
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Laura Resnick
Laura Resnick (born in Chicago, 1962), is an award-winning fantasy writer. She was the winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction for 1993. The daughter of science fiction author Mike Resnick, she formerly wrote...
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Jeff Noon
Jeff Noon (born in 1957 in Droylsden, Manchester, England) is a novelist, short story writer and playwright whose works make extensive use of wordplay and fantasy. Noon's speculative fiction books have ties to the works of writers such as Lewis...
David Feintuch
David Feintuch (July 21, 1944-March 16, 2006) was a science fiction and fantasy author and attorney. He was the 1996 winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction. He wrote one major science fiction series, the Seafort...
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Michael A. Burstein
Michael A. Burstein is an American writer of science fiction. He was born in New York City, and grew up in the neighborhood of Forest Hills in the borough of Queens. He attended Hunter College High School in Manhattan. In 1991 he graduated from...
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Mary Doria Russell
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...
Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson (born December 20, 1960) is a Jamaican-born writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her science fiction and fantasy novels (Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon's Arms) and short stories such as those...
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow (pronounced /ˈkɒri ˈdɒktəroʊ/; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent...
Kristine Smith
Kristine Smith is an American science fiction and fantasy author. In 2001 she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She lives in northern Illinois.
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Jo Walton
Jo Walton (born December 1, 1964) is a Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002 and the World Fantasy award for her novel Tooth and Claw in 2004. Her novel Ha'penny was a co...
Wen Spencer
Wen Spencer (born in 1963) is an American Science fiction and fantasy writer whose books center around characters with unusual abilities, and which might be regarded as original variations on the standard vampire and werewolf themes. In 2003, she...
Jay Lake
Jay Lake (born June 6, 1964) is a science fiction and fantasy writer. In 2003 he was a quarterly first place winner in the Writers of the Future contest. In 2004 he won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction. He lives in...
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Elizabeth Bear
Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky (born September 22, 1971) is an American author. Writing under the name Elizabeth Bear, she works primarily in the genre of speculative fiction, and was a winner of the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer,...
John Scalzi
John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969) is an author and online writer, best known for his Hugo Award-nominated science fiction novel Old Man's War, released by Tor Books in January 2005, and for his blog Whatever, at which he has written daily...
Ted Chiang
Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American speculative fiction writer. He was born in Port Jefferson, New York and graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree. He currently works as a technical writer in the software industry and...
Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Joy Fowler (b. February 7, 1950, Bloomington, Indiana) is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the nineteenth century, the lives of women, and alienation.
She is best known as the...
Naomi Novik
Naomi Novik (born April 30, 1973) is an American novelist. She was born in New York in 1973, a first-generation American. Her father is of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry, and her mother is an ethnic Pole. She studied English Literature at Brown...
Mary Robinette Kowal
Mary Robinette Kowal (born February 8, 1969 in Raleigh, N.C., as Mary Robinette Harrison) is an American author and puppeteer. She also served as art director for Shimmer Magazine and currently serves as secretary of the Science Fiction and Fantasy...
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David Anthony Durham
David Anthony Durham has thus far built his reputation as an historical novelist. His first novel, Gabriel's Story, centered on African American settlers in the American West. Walk Through Darkness followed a runaway slave during the tense times...
