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Howard Waldrop

Howard Waldrop (born September 15, 1946, in Houston, Mississippi) is a science fiction author who works primarily in short fiction.

Jerome L. Walton

Jerome L. Walton is the name of a fictitious American science fiction author whose career was described by Steven H Silver in the 1999 April Fool's edition of SF Site, a science fiction and fantasy review Web site.


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Aaron Duran

Duran organized a failed effort in 2008 to rename Portland's 42nd Avenue to Douglas Adams Boulevard in honor of science fiction author Douglas Adams.

Arthur Chandler

A. Bertram Chandler (1912–1984), British-Australian science fiction author

Begbroke

More recently it was the home of science fiction author Brian Aldiss.

Benford

Gregory Benford, American science fiction author and astrophysicist

Bill Keith

William H. Keith, Jr. (born 1950), action/adventure and military science fiction author

Charles Ezra Sprague

Sprague was the maternal grandfather of science fiction author L. Sprague de Camp.

Clarke Award

Arthur C. Clarke Award, given yearly to a science fiction author for a novel published in the United Kingdom.

Doctorow

Cory Doctorow (born 1971), blogger, activist and science fiction author

Edward Llewellyn

Edward Llewellyn-Thomas (1917–1984), English scientist, professor and (under name Edward Llewellyn) science-fiction author

Ellen Klages

She got involved in writing fiction while working at the Exploratorium, in San Francisco, when she was selected to co-author a children’s science activity book with science fiction author Pat Murphy.

Georges Pichard

Less scrutinized for its erotic emphasis are the collaborations Pichard did with science-fiction author Jean-Pierre Andrevon, La Reserve and Édouard from 1974 and Ceux–là from 1977, published in Charlie Mensuel.

Grennell

Dean Grennell (1923–2004), firearms expert and science fiction author

Hohmann transfer orbit

Hohmann was influenced in part by the German science fiction author Kurd Lasswitz and his 1897 book Two Planets.

Hokusai

Hokusai inspired the Hugo Award winning short story by science fiction author Roger Zelazny, "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai", in which the protagonist tours the area surrounding Mt. Fuji, stopping at locations painted by Hokusai.

Howard Roffman

The book, Heir to the Empire by noted science fiction author Timothy Zhan stayed on the The New York Times Best Seller list for nineteen weeks, paving the way for a highly successful re-launch of the franchise.

International Pageant of Pulchritude

The title of the pageant was parodied by science-fiction author Keith Laumer in his story "Retief and the Pangalactic Pageant of Pulchritude".

Involuntary park

Involuntary park is a neologism coined by science fiction author and environmentalist Bruce Sterling to describe previously inhabited areas that for environmental, economic or political reasons have, in Sterling's words, "lost their value for technological instrumentalism" and been allowed to return to an overgrown, feral state.

J. Steven York

York also collaborated with author Dean Wesley Smith on a pair of novellas based on the Bolo stories of late science-fiction author Keith Laumer, which were published in the anthologies Old Guard and Cold Steel, from Baen Books.

Jean-Pierre Andrevon

Jean-Pierre Andrevon (born September 19, 1937 in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère) is a French science fiction author.

Kenneth Wright

Lester del Rey (1915–1993), American science fiction author who used the pen name "Kenneth Wright"

Kinsman, Ohio

Leigh Brackett, noted female pioneer science fiction author (The Long Tomorrow and many more)

Lester Smith

L. Neil Smith, Libertarian science fiction author and political activist

Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex

"Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" is a 1971 essay in which science fiction author Larry Niven details the problems that Superman would face in sexual intercourse and reproducing with "a human woman designated LL for convenience," using arguments based on humorous reconciliation between physics, biology, and the abilities of Kryptonians as presented in Superman comic books.

Millville, Wisconsin

Millville was the birthplace of science fiction author Clifford D. Simak, who often set his stories in Millville, notably in Way Station and All Flesh is Grass. In Time and Again the hero goes back in time to nearby Bridgeport, Wisconsin.

My Last Duchess

Science fiction author Eric Flint uses portions of "My Last Duchess" in his book 1634: The Galileo Affair (2004).

Neil Smith

L. Neil Smith (born 1946), American libertarian science fiction author and political activist

Paul Williams

Paul O. Williams (1935–2009), American science-fiction author and poet

Rasch

Carlos Rasch (born 1932, Curitiba, Brazil), a Brazilian-German science fiction author

Sepulcidae

It was named by his colleague and a science-fiction author Kirill Eskov after fictional entities called sepulki, found in Stanisław Lem's The Star Diaries and Observation on the Spot.

Skylab 2

The Skylab Expedition 1 patch was designed by Kelly Freas, a well-known artist highly regarded in the science fiction community, who was suggested to NASA by science fiction author and editor Ben Bova.

The Alien Encounters

Described by leading science fiction author David Wingrove in his Science Fiction Source Book as a "Deathly dull B-movie UFO story with dire effects and no real encounters at all...Endless desert scenes and interminable talk-overs disguise crank concerns of writer/director James T. Flocker", the film received generally poor reviews.

The Amazing Transparent Man

Leading science fiction author David Wingrove commented in his Science Fiction Source Book that "Its cheap-budget origins show throughout. Amazing claims too much for what is essentially a thriller involving an escaped criminal..."

The Forge of God

It features a character, Lawrence Van Cott, that is modelled on science fiction author Larry Niven, whose full name is "Laurence van Cott Niven".

To Your Scattered Bodies Go

Burton quickly attracts a group of companions: the neanderthal Kazzintuitraabemss (nicknamed Kazz), the science fiction author Peter Jairus Frigate, and Alice Liddell.

Travis Taylor

Travis S. Taylor, American science fiction author, scientist, and host of Rocket City Rednecks television show

Vinge

Vernor Vinge (born 1944), a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author

Zajdel

Janusz Zajdel (1938–1985), Polish science fiction author, second in popularity in Poland after Stanisław Lem