science fiction authors

A giant of her field, and a huge influence on my reading and thoughts over the years. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html I can't say I read all of her work, but I loved what I read. I still have a copy of the...

Here's what I remember. The main character has had recurring dreams all his life about an alien planet and some sound that he associated with that planet Somewhere in the world a radio telescope detects a strange sound coming from space (perhaps from an alien incoming ship?) and the main...

Okay, this is an odd one, because I've been trying to find a book I read as a kid... and I actually know exactly what this book is called. But it doesn't help! The book was a sci-fi novel called "His Master's Voice". The problem is that is was most emphatically NOT the one written by Stanisław...

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/sci-fi-author-tech-advocate-012900671.html I used to read his column in Byte magazine all the time and liked his books with Larry Niven and his Janissaries series.

I remember reading a book (a series?) when I was a kid during the late 70s. I remember almost nothing about it other than the spaceship had a 'food replicator' that you only had to think about the food you wanted and it would be produced. However, as a result of someone in the family thinking...

Unfortunately, I can't remember a great deal about it, so I'm hoping someone here is familiar enough with it to recognise it from very sparse information. The premise, as I remember it, has a contemporary man (I'm thinking 80s, but maybe 70s) killed in some unique way and then being resurrected...

Noted science fiction author Sheri S. Tepper (Shirley Douglas) died on Saturday aged 87. While best known for sci-fi, often with feminist and ecological themes (such as The Gate to Women’s Country and Grass), she also authored mysteries (as A. J. Orde and B. J. Oliphant), horror novels (as E...

The prolific science fiction and fantasy writer Tanith Lee died on Sunday . She was 67. Tor obit. Guardian.

One of the pillars and mainstays of science fiction and its fandom has died. http://file770.com/?p=14391 :(

I have just heard it announced on the BBC that Iain M. Banks has died of his cancer today. They said he had been deeply moved by all the support expressed on his website, and also that he was recently presented by his publishers with copies of his last novel, having brought forward the...

TAM4 will be my first TAM, and my knowledge of these events is shakey. That said, it struck me as a really cool idea to invite sci-fi authors to speak at TAM. Obviously Asimov was sympathetic to our cause. Why not others? Who better to communicate the imagination and excitement of science...

Please feel free to expand on your answer- in your opinion what did he do right, what (if anything) did he do wrong. Also, do you prefer his adult novels or his teen fiction?