Italo Calvino
Italian writer and journalist
science fiction
Alfred Bester
American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor
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
Edwin A. Abbott
English schoolmaster, theologian, and Anglican priest, best known as the author of the novella Flatland .
Douglas Adams
English author, screenwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist
Kingsley Amis
English novelist, poet, critic and teacher
Isaac Asimov
American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University
Cyrano de Bergerac
French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist