- Neal Asher - A mix of cyberpunk, space opera and mystery (Fav Author eonsim)
- Isaac Asimov
- Margaret Atwood â The Handmaid’s Tale is a classic, and Oryx and Crake is pretty excellent too.
- Ian M. Banks - Culture series grand space opera (love them âmattw)
- Greg Bear - Hard science fiction, often destroys earth
- Orson Scott Card - Space opera with religious overtones (I find annoying eonsim) (I don’t Jim) Also does modern day semi horror fairytales and historical epics
- CJ Cherryh - Large range of SF from hard to space opera (pretty good âmattw)
- David Feintuch
- William Gibson - Cyberpunk
- Peter F. Hamilton - Hard SF (Fav Author eonsim)
- Robert Heinlein
- Frank Herbert - Giant worms and lots of sand
- Anne McCaffery - Space opera
- Jack McDevitt
- Richard Morgan - A dark mix of cyberpunk, and detective work (Fav Author eonsim)
- John Ringo - Military SF
- Neal Stephenson - Cyberpunk {Good story telling, filthy mind, and quite a lecturer (and not in a good way) – brehaut}
- David Weber - Military SF and Space opera (Fav Author eonsim)
- Jane Yolen
- Larry Niven
