Philip K. Dick - master of
shifting realities and paranoia
Larry Niven - the man who brought us
the Ringworld universe, he has the best conceived alien races I've read
about
Robert Silverberg
- prolific author whose writing spans both fantasy and sf
Alfred Bester
- the winner of the first Hugo Award for Best Novel and one of the best
kept secrets in scifi
Arthur C. Clarke - the
author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, he invented satellites as fiction before
they were a reality
Vernor Vinge -
a Computer Science professor by trade, his works like A Fire Upon the Deep
are truly amazing
David Gerrold - the
man who is keeping the world waiting for the fifth War with the Chtorr
book, he also wrote the great "Trouble With the Tribbles" Star
Trek episode
Fritz Leiber - author of the
hilarious A Spectre is Haunting Texas and other great works
Robert Sawyer - Canada's only native
full time sf writer, he won a Nebula award for The Terminal Experiment
David Brin - author
of the Uplift series and The Postman