Top 100 Science Fiction Writers of All Time

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	Author	Rate
1	Arthur C. Clarke	Current rating 9.61
2	Isaac Asimov	Current rating 9.52
3	Ray Bradbury	Current rating 9.50
4	Philip K. Dick	Current rating 9.48
5	J.R.R. Tolkien	Current rating 9.41
6	Roger Zelazny	Current rating 9.39
7	Robert Silverberg	Current rating 9.33
8	Robert A. Heinlein	Current rating 9.14
9	Bruce Sterling	Current rating 9.05
10	Ursula K. Le Guin	Current rating 8.95
11	Stephen R. Donaldson	Current rating 8.95
12	Harlan Ellison	Current rating 8.88
13	Larry Niven	Current rating 8.83
14	Kurt Vonnegut	Current rating 8.83
15	Gene Wolfe	Current rating 8.75
16	Frank Herbert	Current rating 8.75
17	Connie Willis	Current rating 8.66
18	Neal Stephenson	Current rating 8.61
19	Stephen King	Current rating 8.52
20	Carl Sagan	Current rating 8.47
21	Douglas Adams	Current rating 8.40
22	Jerry Pournelle	Current rating 8.37
23	William Gibson	Current rating 8.30
24	Richard Adams	Current rating 8.22
25	Piers Anthony	Current rating 8.17
26	Timothy Zahn	Current rating 8.16
27	Terry Brooks	Current rating 8.09
28	Harry Harrison	Current rating 8.09
29	David Brin	Current rating 8.07
30	Kim Stanley Robinson	Current rating 8.05
31	Joe Haldeman	Current rating 8.01
32	Poul Anderson	Current rating 7.99
33	Gregory Benford	Current rating 7.87
34	Gentry Lee	Current rating 7.86
35	Anne McCaffrey	Current rating 7.76
36	Edgar Rice Burroughs	Current rating 7.72
37	John Wyndham	Current rating 7.64
38	Michael Moorcock	Current rating 7.61
39	Fritz Leiber	Current rating 7.59
40	James Blish	Current rating 7.50
41	Ben Bova	Current rating 7.50
42	David Eddings	Current rating 7.50
43	Allen Steele	Current rating 7.42
44	Fred Saberhagen	Current rating 7.42
45	Nigel D. Findley	Current rating 7.42
46	Marion Zimmer Bradley	Current rating 7.38
47	Tanith Lee	Current rating 7.35
48	Robert Anton Wilson	Current rating 7.35
49	A.C. Crispin	Current rating 7.23
50	Walter Irwin	Current rating 7.22
51	Michael Crichton	Current rating 7.22
52	C. S. Lewis	Current rating 7.22
53	Edwin A. Abbott	Current rating 7.16
54	L. Frank Baum	Current rating 7.10
55	Jack Williamson	Current rating 6.99
56	Jack L. Chalker	Current rating 6.96
57	John Varley	Current rating 6.95
58	Jules Verne	Current rating 6.86
59	Orson Scott Card	Current rating 6.77
60	James P. Hogan	Current rating 6.67
61	Alan Dean Foster	Current rating 6.65
62	Greg Bear	Current rating 6.62
63	Julian May	Current rating 6.60
64	David Gerrold	Current rating 6.57
65	Frederik Pohl	Current rating 6.54
66	Jack Vance	Current rating 6.45
67	Jean M. Auel	Current rating 6.45
68	Clifford D. Simak	Current rating 6.44
69	Samuel R. Delany	Current rating 6.43
70	Robert E. Howard	Current rating 6.37
71	Lawrence Watt-Evans	Current rating 6.37
72	Gordon R. Dickson	Current rating 6.34
73	Lisa Goldstein	Current rating 6.26
74	C. J. Cherryh	Current rating 6.26
75	Harry Turtledove	Current rating 6.26
76	John Brunner	Current rating 6.22
77	John Maddox Roberts	Current rating 6.22
78	Andre Norton	Current rating 6.21
79	Stephen Baxter	Current rating 6.15
80	Brian Aldiss	Current rating 6.15
81	William Shatner	Current rating 6.03
82	Dan Simmons	Current rating 5.92
83	James, Jr. Tiptree	Current rating 5.84
84	Stanislaw Lem	Current rating 5.78
85	Tim Powers	Current rating 5.77
86	R. A. Salvatore	Current rating 5.77
87	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro	Current rating 5.65
88	Steven Barnes	Current rating 5.60
89	Philip Jose Farmer	Current rating 5.60
90	Spider Robinson	Current rating 5.52
91	Ellen Kushner	Current rating 5.42
92	Michael Bishop	Current rating 5.37
93	John Barnes	Current rating 5.37
94	H. G. Wells	Current rating 5.37
95	Robert Lynn Asprin	Current rating 5.30
96	Terry Pratchett	Current rating 5.30
97	Katherine Kurtz	Current rating 5.25
98	Alfred Bester	Current rating 5.17
99	Theodore Sturgeon	Current rating 5.10
100	Tim Powers	Current rating 5.00

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