Looking through a list and picking out my favourite authors, I am struck with the sheer volume of time devoted to Sci-Fi over the course of some 60 years of reading, and the realisation that these represent about ten percent of the authors I could have read.

Douglas Adams (1952–2001)
Brian Aldiss (born 1925)
Poul Anderson (1926–2001)
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)
J. G. Ballard (1930–2009)
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?)
James Blish (1921–1975)
Robert Bloch (1917–1994)
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012)
John Brunner (1934–1995)
Algis Budrys (1931–2008)
Karel Čapek (1890–1938)
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008)
Hal Clement (1922–2003)
Groff Conklin (1904–1968)
L. Sprague de Camp (1907–2000)
Lester del Rey (1915–1993)
Philip K. Dick (1928–1982)
Howard Fast (1914–2003)
Robert A. Heinlein (1907 - 88)
Frank Herbert (1920 – 86), Dune
Henry Kuttner (1915–1958)
Glen A. Larson (born 1937)
Michael Moorcock (born 1939)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
Frederik Pohl (1919-2013)
Carl Sagan (1934–1996)
Robert Sheckley (1928–2005)
Robert Silverberg (born 1935)
Clifford D. Simak (1904–1988)
E. E. Smith (1890–1965)
Theodore Sturgeon (1918–1985)
A. E. van Vogt (1912–2000)
Donald A. Wollheim (1914–1990)
Roger Zelazny (1937–1995)

I find myself wondering how I ever managed to find time to work and raise a family.

Don T.