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Annual science fiction awards, named after Hugo Gernsback.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Forrest J. Ackerman
Author
24-Nov-1916 4-Dec-2008 Mr. Science Fiction
Brian Aldiss
Author
18-Aug-1925   Supertoys Last All Summer Long
Poul Anderson
Author
25-Nov-1926 31-Jul-2001 Tau Zero
Isaac Asimov
Author
2-Jan-1920 6-Apr-1992 Foundation
Greg Bear
Author
20-Aug-1951   Eon
Alfred Bester
Novelist
18-Dec-1913 30-Sep-1987 The Stars My Destination
James Blish
Author
23-May-1921 30-Jul-1975 Cities in Flight
Ben Bova
Author
28-Nov-1932   Science fiction writer
Ray Bradbury
Author
22-Aug-1920 5-Jun-2012 Fahrenheit 451
David Brin
Novelist
6-Oct-1950   The Uplift War
John Brunner
Author
24-Sep-1934 25-Aug-1995 The Shockwave Rider
Lois McMaster Bujold
Novelist
2-Nov-1949   The Vorkosigan Saga
Octavia Butler
Novelist
22-Jun-1947 24-Feb-2006 Patternmaster
John W. Campbell
Editor
8-Jun-1910 11-Jul-1971 Editor of Astounding, 1938-71
Orson Scott Card
Novelist
24-Aug-1951   Ender's Game
C. J. Cherryh
Author
1-Sep-1942   Cyteen and Downbelow Station
Arthur C. Clarke
Novelist
16-Dec-1917 19-Mar-2008 2001: A Space Odyssey
Hal Clement
Novelist
20-May-1922 29-Oct-2003 Mission of Gravity
Philip K. Dick
Novelist
16-Dec-1928 2-Mar-1982 Blade Runner
Gordon R. Dickson
Novelist
1-Nov-1923 31-Jan-2001 Dorsai
Harlan Ellison
Author
27-May-1934   I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
Philip Jose Farmer
Author
26-Jan-1918 25-Feb-2009 Riverworld saga
Phil Foglio
Artist
1-May-1956   Dragon magazine cartoonist
Frank Kelly Freas
Artist
22-Aug-1922 2-Jan-2005 Illustrator of science fiction and fantasy
Neil Gaiman
Cartoonist
10-Nov-1960   DC Comics epic Sandman series
Hugo Gernsback
Author
16-Aug-1884 19-Aug-1967 Founded Amazing Stories in 1926
William Gibson
Author
17-Mar-1948   Pioneer of Cyberpunk science fiction
Ursula K. Le Guin
Novelist
21-Oct-1929   The Left Hand of Darkness
Joe Haldeman
Novelist
9-Jun-1943   The Forever War
Robert A. Heinlein
Author
7-Jul-1907 8-May-1988 Starship Troopers
Frank Herbert
Author
8-Oct-1920 11-Feb-1986 Dune
Peter Jackson
Film Director
31-Oct-1961   The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Duncan Jones
Film Director
30-May-1971   Moon
Daniel Keyes
Novelist
9-Aug-1927   Flowers for Algernon
Stephen King
Novelist
21-Sep-1947   The Shining
C. M. Kornbluth
Novelist
23-Jul-1923 21-Mar-1958 The Space Merchants
Fritz Leiber
Author
24-Dec-1910 5-Sep-1992 Ship of Shadows
George R. R. Martin
Novelist
20-Sep-1948   Song of Ice and Fire series
Anne McCaffrey
Author
1-Apr-1926 21-Nov-2011 Pern series
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Novelist
23-Jan-1923 9-Jan-1996 A Canticle for Leibowitz
Larry Niven
Author
30-Apr-1938   Ringworld and Known Space series
Christopher Nolan
Film Director
30-Jul-1970   Memento
Frederik Pohl
Author
26-Nov-1919   Futurian science fiction writer
Kim Stanley Robinson
Novelist
23-Mar-1952   Mars Trilogy
J. K. Rowling
Author
31-Jul-1965   Author of Harry Potter series
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Author
1960   Science fiction and fantasy author, editor
Carl Sagan
Astronomer
9-Nov-1934 20-Dec-1996 Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos
John Schoenherr
Artist
5-Jul-1935 8-Apr-2010 Owl Moon
Robert Silverberg
Novelist
15-Jan-1935   Nightwings
Clifford D. Simak
Novelist
3-Aug-1904 25-Apr-1988 City and The Visitors
Neal Stephenson
Novelist
31-Oct-1959   Snow Crash
Bruce Sterling
Author
14-Apr-1954   Schismatrix
Charles Stross
Novelist
18-Oct-1964   Accelerando
Theodore Sturgeon
Author
26-Feb-1918 8-May-1985 More Than Human
Jack Vance
Novelist
28-Aug-1916   The Dying Earth
John Varley
Novelist
1947   Wrote Titan, Wizard, and Demon
Joan D. Vinge
Author
2-Apr-1948   Eyes of Amber
Vernor Vinge
Author
10-Feb-1944   A Fire Upon The Deep
Connie Willis
Author
31-Dec-1945   Doomsday Book, Lincoln's Dreams
Roger Zelazny
Novelist
13-May-1937 14-Jun-1995 Damnation Alley


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