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Originally Posted by meeera
I'd say that anyone who's been awarded Grand Master status should qualify. I'd rec To Say Nothing of the Dog (Willis), the Pern series (somewhat dated in parts, but still classics), anything by LeGuin, Bradbury's The Illustrated Man and of course Fahrenheit 451. And of course Bujold's Vorkosigan series.
Octavia Butler should be a GM but perhaps died before they got around to recognising her (they only award to living authors) - everything I've read by her is very well worth reading, but I think a good place to start is the Parable duology.
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meera. what we think of as science fiction is nearly 100 years old. It was born in the pulp magazines, and had different phases. I started this thread to look at authors from the "Cambrian Explosion" of the late 1930's, who published until they died.
I hadn't planned on covering the second wave of the 1960s, such as McCaffrey, Ellison, Zelanzny, Delaney, Le Guin, ect., not because they were not great writers of S/F, but because they constituted a different period in S/F.
Feel free to start a different thread for that period, or later.
(Yes, Bradbury is part of this period. along with Leiber. There are others.)