Aliette de Bodard is a French-American speculative fiction writer. She is of French and Vietnamese descent, born in the US, and grew up in Paris. A graduate of École Polytechnique, she works as a software engineer specializing in image processing and is a member of the Written in Blood writers group.
Brent Weeks is an American fantasy writer, born on March 7, 1977 in Whitefish, Montana. He graduated from Hillsdale College in 2000 with a degree in English, then worked as a teacher and a bartender before writing full time. His debut, The Way of Shadows, opened the Night Angel trilogy in 2008 and reached the New York Times bestseller list in 2009. He followed it with the five-book Lightbringer series, beginning with The Black Prism in 2010, and returned to the Night Angel world with Night Angel...
Carrie Vaughn writes fantastic fantasy and science fiction, with books like Unfettered and Dangerous Women showcasing her skill. If you enjoy epic stories with strong characters, you'll want to check out her work.
George Raymond Richard Martin (born 20 September 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction and horror. His early work includes the novels Dying of the Light (1977), Fevre Dream and The Armageddon Rag, and the story collections Sandkings and Tuf Voyaging. From the mid-1980s he also wrote for television, on the revived The Twilight Zone and on Beauty and the Beast, where he became a co-supervising producer. He is best known for the epic fantasy sequence A Song...
John Joseph Adams is the series editor of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and the New York Times bestselling editor of more than forty anthologies, such as Wastelands, A People’s Future of the United States, and Out There Screaming (with Jordan Peele)-https://www.johnjosephadams.com/about/
Juliet Marillier writes sweeping fantasy stories that often explore Celtic mythology and strong female characters. Her books, like the Sevenwaters series, are perfect for readers who enjoy rich world-building and deeply felt adventures.
Kate Elliott is a pseudonym of Alis A. Rasmussen, an American fantasy and science fiction writer.
Mary Robinette Kowal is a Hugo and Nebula award-winning author whose work often blends science fiction and historical settings. You might know her from her collection, The Best of Uncanny, which showcases her skill in crafting compelling stories. She's a fantastic choice if you enjoy smart, character-driven speculative fiction.
Melanie Rawn is the author of the epic fantasy series The Dragon Prince. Her work often features intricate world-building and compelling characters.
Michael John Moorcock is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, a seminal influence on the field of fantasy in the 1960s and 1970s.
As editor of the controversial British science fiction magazine New Worlds, from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction "New Wave" in the UK and indirect...
N. K. Jemisin (born September 19, 1972, in Iowa City, Iowa) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of the Inheritance Trilogy, the Dreamblood duology, the Broken Earth trilogy and the Great Cities duology, along with numerous short stories. Her Broken Earth trilogy — The Fifth Season (2015), The Obelisk Gate (2016) and The Stone Sky (2017) — made her the first author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel in three consecutive years, and the...
Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years.
American science fiction and fantasy writer
Patrick Rothfuss (born June 6, 1973) is an American author, best known for his epic fantasy series The Kingkiller Chronicle. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, he matriculated at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, initially studying chemical engineering before switching to English.
Rothfuss spent nearly a decade working on his debut novel, [The Name of the Wind][1], which was published in 2007 to critical acclaim. The novel won the Quill Award and became a New York Times Bestseller. The...
Robert Paul "Tad" Williams (born March 14, 1957 in San Jose, California) is an American fantasy author based in California. His works, which span epic fantasy, science fiction, urban fantasy, comics, and scripts, have sold tens of millions of copies worldwide and significantly influenced a generation of writers. Williams is known for his genre-defining and genre-blending contributions to literature, including his breakthrough novel [Tailchaser's Song][1], the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series...
Trudi Canavan is an Australian fantasy author, born in Melbourne and raised in the suburb of Ferntree Gully. She worked as a graphic designer and for the magazine Aurealis before writing full time. Her debut, The Magicians' Guild (2001), began the Black Magician trilogy, followed by the Age of the Five trilogy, the Traitor Spy trilogy and the Millennium's Rule series. She won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story in 1999 and for Best Fantasy Novel in 2009 with The Magician's Apprentice...
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (née Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. Her work was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. Frequently...
