Help us find and connect next week's Connection Finder profiles: Science Fiction Authors [closed]

Question

Our next WikiTree Challenge Guest Star is Lois McMaster Bujold, Hugo-award winning science fiction author, so we're looking at Science Fiction Authors in the Connection Finder next week, starting with Arthur C. Clarke, author of Childhood's End and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Here's who we're getting started on:

• C.S. Lewis (Out of the Silent Planet, 1939 Hugo Award Winner)
• Ayn Rand (Anthem, 1939 Hugo Award Winner)
• Marion Zimmer Bradley (Sword of Aldones, 1963 Hugo Award Winner) (needs picture)

Can you help with these profiles, or expand their families? Adding relatives in any direction helps with connections. Every missing relative you add will make our connections to them closer.

Who else should we feature? Do they need a profile?

All profiles we feature need a good biography and a connection to the big tree. We also want each one to have an image, and the image needs to have proper source attribution explaining why it's in the public domain or why we have the right to display it.

We can't feature everyone mentioned (we only have room for eleven per week), but if we don't feature a profile you work on, we may use it sometime in the future. And, of course, all contributions help improve our shared tree.

We'll make a final decision on which ones to feature early next week.

Please reply here with what you're working on so that we don't duplicate our efforts. Thank you!

Help us plan other themes to feature for the rest of 2022 here.

Comments

Question - Are you only looking for Hugo-award winning science fiction authors?

I hadn't noticed this before, but today I noticed the following:

"(Help us find and connect next week's Connection Finder profiles: Hugo Award Winners)"

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Hello Russell,

That was our original intent, but we decided to broaden it in case the Hugos weren't well recognized.

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That make sense.  Thanks for the clarification.

Answer 1

From Sweden: Karin Boye (with Kallocain) or Harry Martinson (with Aniara).

They are both connected and provided with portraits.

Comments

Thanks, Eva.

Answer 2

Philip K Dick

Jules Verne

HG Wells

Octavia Butler

Also FYI Marion Zimmer Bradley is exceptionally problematic.

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It would seem she is. Thanks, C.

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So is Ayn Rand.

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Yep, I am not much of a fan of Rand, either; half-baked philosopher, terrible writer. If someone tells me they like Ayn Rand I know they're probably a terrible person, so it's useful for telling who to avoid, at least.

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Her philosophy is vile. Instead, how about Ursula K Le Guin? (Kroeber-15, connected)

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Thanks for suggesting Jules Verne. It's a nice opportunity to have him in a feature.

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Also, Ayn Rand has been featured previously. Count me with those not particularly happy to see her featured repeatedly.

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Please choose kroeber-15 !! She's my favorite SF writer.

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Thanks, everyone.

Answer 3

If you are going add C.S. Lewis then also add J.R.R Tolkien.

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I wouldn't consider Tolkien's books science fiction. But Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet trilogy qualifies.

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Shoot. Wrong author. I meant Ray Bradbury. He wrote The Martian Chronicles (1950) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953). I read Fahrenheit 451 when I was younger.

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Tolkien is a fantasy writer.  If the topic is science fiction, please consider adding a separate celebration of fantasy/sword and sorcery writers versus adding him next week.

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Ray Bradbury would definitely be a good choice

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Thanks, Eileen.

Answer 4

There are some more science fiction authors listed in Quest for Great-Grandparents: Space Opera Edition. Other candidates include:

• Douglas Adams
• Damon Knight
• Frederik Pohl
• Mary Shelley
• Clifford D. Simak
• Theodore Sturgeon
• Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• Stanley G. Weinbaum

I would second the nominations of Bradbury, Clarke, Wells, and Verne. Together with Isaac Asimov (who we may have featured too recently to include here), they're probably the most influential. I would also add Mary Shelley, since many regard Frankenstein as the first science fiction story. (Although there are other contenders.)

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Mary Shelley is a great choice!

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another vote for Clifford D Simak

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and Douglas Adams

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I'll add my vote for Douglas Adams ... love his quirky humor.

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Thanks everyone!

Answer 5

One of the earliest sci-fi novels, Niels Klim's Underground Travels was written by Norwegian-Danish writer Ludvig Holberg & published in 1741. Bio could use some work, but otherwise seems good to go!

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Another great option I was pleased to see is connected is the Czech writer Karel Čapek, an excellent writer best known for giving us the word robot. Also could do with some bio work if anyone wants to take up the job. Would love to see him featured

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Roger's suggestion of Edgar Rice Burroughs reminded me of yet another option (with the same surname), albeit a controversial figure: beat poet & postmodernist author, known as a major instigator & inspiration for the cyberpunk & new wave subgenres of sci-fi, William S. Burroughs. Is connected, with bio, & photo, so looks good to go.

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Thanks, Thomas.

Answer 6

My father's personal favorite, Edgar Rice Burroughs - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Burroughs-446.  He has good set of ancestors on WikiTree.

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I enjoyed the Barsoom books that I have read.

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Thanks, Roger.

Answer 7

I second the motion for Octavia Butler. Butler-7765

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We've made a lot of progress on this unconnected tree this week - if anyone wants to jump in and help, you'd be so welcome!

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Thanks, Kate.

Answer 8

A few of my favourites already stated Simak, Philip k Dick another is John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris but hes not connected and John Christopher aka Sam Youd who has no profile looks like I might be busy

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just added Sam Youd / John Christopher

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Thanks, Heather.

Answer 9

My favourite  SciFi author is C J Cherryh who already has a profile [[Cherry-4063|Carolyn (Cherry) Cherryh]] but there may be more to add.

Comments

Thanks, JG.

Answer 10

Franz Werfel, noted for his sf classic, Stern der Ungeborenen (Star of the Unborn)

Comments

Thanks, Mendel.

Answer 11

Ursula K. Le Guin

Comments

Thanks, Cristina.

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Yes, Ursula Le Guin!  She and Vonda McIntyre were good friends.  Thanks for bringing her up.

Answer 12

Robert Heinlein

A.E. Van Vogt

James Blish

Poul Anderson

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Heinlein-42  I second this nomination!

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Thanks Barbara and Cheryl.

Answer 13

Consider author Vonda N McIntyre. She won the Hugo award  several years back. Her work dreamsnake is outstanding as well as her StarTrek conversion of screen plays to novels and original StarTrek work. I will put her in my tree.

Comments

Thanks, Julia.

Answer 14

'John Wyndham' was my favourite as a teen (The Chrysalids etc), and there's lots of room for improvement here (Harris-31028). Also Aldous Huxley (Brave New World). Maybe Albert Camus? (The Plague)

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Camus is well known in my country and studied at school. IMO calling La Peste sci-fi is a stretch, and he is definitely not a science-fiction author. It would be great to fit him in another literary topic soon however.

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Thanks, Judith and Isabelle.

Answer 15

Ray Bradbury

Jules Verne

Rod Serling

Comments

Thanks, Susanna.

Answer 16

FYI: American Sci-fi author Theodore Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo. We have his Waldo line well-documented through the American Colonial Progenitor named Cornelius Waldo (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Waldo-2) born 1624 in Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England. 

Back beyond Cornelius we fall into flimsy unsourced territory and soon there after we are 100% dead-ended. I just can't get anywhere on this line, though I did find some Waldoes and Waldows around London who I profiled. I hope you can include him. Any help on Theodore Sturgeon's Waldo line in England would be appreciated!

Also, yes, please include Ursula LeGuin as an important Sci-fi writer...such a productive powerhouse of imagination and humanity. Sadly she passed away in 2018. 

Comments

Thanks, R.

Answer 17

You can't forget authors like Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, Edgar Rice Burroughs, to name a few.

Comments

Thanks, Janet.

Answer 18

Phyllis Eisenstein

Her profile needs help connecting it to the global WikiTree.

Comments

Thanks, Judi.

Answer 19

One name not previously referenced is Gene Roddenberry who wrote the original Star Trek series.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Roddenberry-40

The Star Trek enterprise has lived long and prospered and is well known. Gene's profile is connected, has his picture, etc.

https://www.mopop.org/generoddenberry

Comments

Thanks, Russell.

Answer 20

Anne McCaffrey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McCaffrey

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Sadly, Anne is not now Connected. I've been taking a look, but haven't yet seen an easy way to do it.   She also has only a bare bones biography, and no now has a picture.

edited to update status

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Maybe not for this project, but I will flesh out her biography and add a picture for her.  She is my favorite Sci-fi author.

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She's definitely one of mine (it's why I started working on her family) - and Todd carries on her legacy quite well.

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Both Anne and her son Todd should show as Connected by tomorrow.

Todd is still, at this moment of posting, black locked, as I'm waiting for the Project to PPP his profile and open it as a Living Notable.  He has a basic bio (because of being Living), and a picture.

I've added a picture to Anne's profile, but haven't really touched her bio - just attached her ex-husband, and added Todd.
The Connection right now goes through the ex-husband's line - so there's still opportunity for someone else to better it through her own lines.  But for now, she's eligible for next week's theme if she's chosen for inclusion.

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Thank you!

As I was looking through the list of nominees, I saw several with whom she co-authored.

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A goodly part of my bookshelves hold her books.  (I think I "fell in love" when I first read "The Smallest Dragonboy", and again when I got to Menolly, and yet again when I first read "Petaybee" (with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough).) 

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Both Ann and son Todd qualify as sci-fi authors, but Anne's the one with the Hugo Award.