H. G. Wells
English writer
british science fiction writers
Jo Walton
Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus , which is considered an early example of science fiction
C. S. Lewis
British writer and lay theologian
Roald Dahl
British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician
J. G. Ballard
English novelist, short story writer, satirist, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World . In the late 1960s, he produced a variety of experimental short stories , such as those collected in the controversial The Atrocity Exhibition . In the mid-1970s, Ballard published several novels, among them the highly controversial Crash , a story about car crash fetishism, and High-Rise , a depiction of a luxury apartment building’s descent into violent chaos