The thread about Azizi's location got me thinking -- who were the science fiction/fantasy authors you read while you were growing up (assuming that you did -- I'm still not through, myself)?

Mine included

Robert Heinlein
Isaac Asimov
Murray Leinster
Cordwainer Smith
Theodore Sturgeon
Jules Verne
EE Smith
Robert Howard
HP Lovecraft
Andre Norton
Edward Miller
Pat Frank
James White
Robert Bloch
Ray Bradbury
AE Van Vogt
L. Sprague Decamp
Poul Anderson
Jerry Pournelle
Spider Robinson
Dana Stabenow

and a bunch of others, the names of whom will come to me.