Top 10 Most Influential Science Fiction Writers
Submitted by mwilliams on Fri, 2008-03-07 01:03.Science fiction’s ten most influential—as opposed to greatest—authors and why they rank as such. Was it really blasphemy to leave Philip K. Dick off the list?
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I tend to think of Dick as more influential than Card or Adams. But it's all pretty subjective. There are a number of candidates for "most influential."
Off the top of my head:
Ursula Le Guin
Larry Niven
Robert Silverberg
Greg Bear
And really, the single most influential person in science fiction was not an author. It was an editor: John W. Campbell. More than anyone on that list of authors, Campbell defined science fiction for decades.
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Get Card off the list! Kingrat is right, Card is barely crawling in the shadow of Dick.
More suggestions:
Kim Stanley Robinson
Stanislaw Lem