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Fantasy and science fiction
- Fantasy
- Cross-overs: writers of both science fiction and fantasy
- Humourous and satirical fantasy
- Lost (tv series)
- Science fiction
- Time travel and alternate history
- Women science fiction and fantasy authors
Fantasy
Award winners
- The Nebula Awards
- The Hugo Awards
- Mythopoeic Awards for fantastic and mythic literature
- Sir Julius Vogel awards - science fiction, fantasy & horror writing by New Zealanders
- World Fantasy Awards
Not just novels
Related subjects
- Tom Arden
- Sarah Ash
- James Barclay
- Legends of the Raven series.
- Clive Barker
- Mostly known for writing horror.
- Carol Berg
- Alice Borchardt
- Historical, werewolves and arthurian.
- Jonathan Carroll
- Fantasy and horror novels.
- Mark Chadbourn
- Age of Misrule books integrate Celtic mythology.
- David Coe
- Glen Cook
- Instrumentalities of the night series.
- Sara Douglass
- Writes fantasy in historical settings.
- David Eddings
- Best known for the Belgariad, Elenium and other sagas.
- Kate Elliott
- Steven Erikson
- David Farland
- Raymond Feist
- Riftwar sagas that began with Magician
- Jasper Fforde
- Humourous fantasy, best known for the adventures of Thursday Next
- David Gemmell
- Most recent series based on the Trojan War.
- Terry Goodkind
- Sword of Truth series was made into Legend of the Seeker TV series.
- Simon R. Green
- Novels of the Nightside series.
- Barbara Hambly
- Fantasy and historical fiction.
- Elizabeth Haydon
- Mike Jefferies
- Diana Wynne Jones
- Much of her work is written for young adults: Howl's Moving Castle was made into an animated film in 2004.
- J. V. Jones
Guy Gavriel Kay- Paul Kearney
- Katharine Kerr
- Deverry saga and the Westland cycle.
- Garry Kilworth
- Known for his animal stories but has also written a polynesian fantasy series: Navigator Kings.
- Katherine Kurtz
- Author of the Chronicles of the Deryni.
- Ellen Kushner
- Mercedes Lackey
- Books of the fantasy world Valdemar - young adult fiction.
- Tim LaHaye
- Christian fantasy fiction.
- Tanith Lee
- Both adult and young adult fantasy fiction.
- Ursula Le Guin
- Author of the Earthsea series and 2002 Nebula Grand Master awardee.
- Valery Leith
Holly Lisle- Elizabeth A. Lynn
- Patricia McKillip
- John Marco
- George R. R. Martin
- Rand Miller
- Books based on the computer game Myst.
- L. E. Modesitt
- Michael Moorcock
- Author of Dancers at the end of time.
- Philip Pullman
- Known for His dark materials series for young adults
- Katya Reimann
- Tielmaran chronicles
- Michael Scott Rohan
- Winter of the world series
- Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
- Collaborated with Anne McCaffrey on the Acorna novels
- Jan Siegel
- Judith Tarr
- Fantasy and historical fiction
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Author of
The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit - Harry Turtledove
- Aternate history and time travel.
- Jo Walton
- Margaret Weis
- Wrote several of the DragonLance novels.
- Martha Wells
- Tad Williams
- Memory, sorrow and thorn and Otherworld series.
- Philip G Williamson
- Janny Wurts
- Collaborated with Raymond Feist on the Daughter of the Empire trilogy in the Riftwar sagas.
Cross-overs
- Poul Anderson
- Mostly science fiction but Mother of kings is based in a Viking setting. Nebula Grand Master awardee.
- Piers Anthony
- Some humourous fantasy and science fiction.
- A. A. Attanasio
- Some arthurian fantasy and the Dominions of Irth series
- John Barnes
- Co-author of some books with astronaut Buzz Aldrin plus his own fantasy and sci-fi books.
- James Blaylock
- Fantasy, sci-fi and horror.
- Ray Bradbury
- Nebula Grand Master awardee
- Terry Brooks
- Best known for the fantasy series Shannara and Landover, but also writing Star Wars novels.
- Orson Scott Card
- Winner of two Nebula awards for books from his Ender series.
- C. J. Cherryh
- 1989 Hugo award for Cyteen.
- Storm Constantine
- Stories about the Wraeththu.
Stephen R. Donaldson- Author of the sci-fi Gap series and the fantasy series Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.
- Eric Flint
- Historical (Thirty Years war), fantasy and science fiction.
- Alan Dean Foster
- Mostly science fiction set in the Humanx Commonwealth but some fantasy.
- Mary Gentle
- Thomas Harlan
- Some historical fantasy set in Rome.
- Gwyneth Jones
- Katharine Kerr
- Well known for the Deverry books but has also done science fiction and cyber-punk.
- J. Gregory Keyes
- Fantasy and spin-off novels for Star Wars and Babylon 5.
- Anne McCaffrey
- Famous for the Dragons of Pern and Talents of Earth series.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- Award winning author of several series, best known for the Miles Vorkosigan adventures.
- Sean McMullen
- Titles include vampire fiction.
- Phillip Mann
- New Zealand author.
- Julian May
- Sagas of pliocene exile and Rampart Worlds trilogy.
Andre Norton- 2005 Nebula Grand Master awardee. From 2006, SFWA presented the inaugural Andre Norton Award for an outstanding young adult science fiction or fantasy book.
- Kristine Rusch
- The Fey series and also Star Trek and Star Wars novels.
- R. A. Salvatore
- Star Wars and fantasy novels.
- Brian Stableford
- Sheri S. Tepper
- Jack Vance
- Gene Wolfe
- Roger Zelazny
- Sarah Zettel
- Arthurian fiction.
- David Zindell
