Science Fiction

Science Fiction

Scifi Artists Jim Burns: The pre-eminent hard science fiction artist today. His work is strongly based in reality; devising eerily familiar alien based worlds and strange organic technology. Boris Vallejo: Boris Vallejo, along with Julie Bell, are world reknowned sci-fi artists who paint idealized visions of the male and female form. A must see for any so-called science fiction fan. Don Maitz: Delicate and serene, his images are fantastical blends of dream, myth and science caught in the amber of his paints.. Syd Mead: World reknowned futurist and designer of the next century, Mead has created world that have been lived in from Blade Runner to Star Wars and beyond A master.   Michael Whelan: Whelan's fantasy art is muscular and dramatic; perfect for his role as chronicler of the great fantasy series of today.	Scifi Authors Orson Scott Card : A deeply religious author who writes carefully constructed novels that reinforce and question his own deeply held morality. The tales of Alvin Maker is a classic of alternate universe fantasy Storm Constantine: Part of a new migration of British science fiction writers that has taken the arrogance and raw energy of punk and brought it to the the old-guard genre. Her Wraethru saga is a post-apocalyptic, gender bending science fantasy. Harlan Ellison  Curmudgeonly brilliant author of numerous genre titles, a master short story writer and brilliant writer of commentary social and antisocial.  William Gibson: Very few novels have hit me with the impact that Neuromancer did. I have read it once a year for the past 12 years and still get as much out of it as I did then. As influential to the 1990's as Catcher In The Rye was to the 1960's. A guidebook to the new technologies though written on an old typewriter before the micro-computer revolution. Invented the term Cyberpunk. Frank Herbert: Though the sequels were serviceable and the other series were enjoyable too, Dune was the only masterpiece Herbert ever wrote. An awe-inspiring meditation on the Messianic need for salvation and the dangers that it holds. Ursula K. Leguin Herbert: One of the greatest writers to have ever written in science fiction. A poet of uncommon ability whose philosopher's soul captures the deep recesses of space and the even deeper recesses of collective myth and fantasy. Mike Resnick: Author of Santiago and over a dozen set in the set universe, a universe of vistas from African myths and grand pulpish intrigue and adventure. Neil Stephenson: Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash was a virus on the face of science fiction. If Gibson's Neuromancer blew the covers off an old man's genre then Stephenson blew the cover to smithereens. It was a blend of cyberpunk sheen off a post-apocalyptic Bug Bunny cartoon. Gene Wolfe: A great writer that just happens to write in the ghetto of genre literature. If he wrote in Spanish, he would be as well respected as Garcia-Marquez. A writer's writer. More invention in one paragraph of the New Sun series than in an entire Terry Brooks novel. Roger Zelazny: The Amber series is a great fantasy epic. They are told in a breezy minimalist tone similar to a hard-boiled mystery novel that really captures the characters well. Sadly Mr. Zelazny died not long ago, but left this and many other tales to enjoy.