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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, doing business as Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, commonly known as SFWA (/ ˈ s ɪ f w ə / or / ˈ s ɛ f w ə /) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization of professional science fiction and fantasy writers. While SFWA is based in the United States, its membership is open to ...
N. K. Jemisin. Nora Keita Jemisin[1] (born September 19, 1972) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her fiction includes a wide range of themes, notably cultural conflict and oppression. [2][3] Her debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and the subsequent books in her Inheritance Trilogy received critical acclaim.
Robert Anson Heinlein (/ ˈ h aɪ n l aɪ n /; [2] [3] [4] July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer.Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", [5] he was among the first to emphasize scientific accuracy in his fiction, and was thus a pioneer of the subgenre of hard science fiction.
sfwa.org. The Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award is a lifetime honor presented annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) to a living writer of fantasy or science fiction. It was first awarded in 1975, to Robert Heinlein. In 2002, it was renamed after Damon Knight, the founder of SFWA, who had died that year.
Cyrano de Bergerac, one of the earliest SF writers, ca. 1654. John Birmingham, 2009. Ray Bradbury, 1975. Lois McMaster Bujold, 2009. Edgar Rice Burroughs, c. 1920. Octavia Butler, 2005. Richard Bachman (pseudonym of Stephen King) Paolo Bacigalupi (born 1972) Hilary Bailey (1936–2017)
Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction author and a multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. [2][3] Born in Pasadena, California, Butler was raised by her widowed mother.
—Ursula K. Le Guin Le Guin refused a Nebula Award for her story "The Diary of the Rose" in 1977, in protest at the Science Fiction Writers of America's revocation of Stanisław Lem's membership. Le Guin attributed the revocation to Lem's criticism of American science fiction and willingness to live in the Eastern Bloc, and said she felt reluctant to receive an award "for a story about ...
Speculative fiction portal; These writers have been named Grand Masters by officers and past presidents of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). From 2002 the honor has marked by presentation of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award during the Nebula Awards ceremony (although it is not one of the Nebula Awards, which are voted by all SFWA members).