they’re the people that keep blowing our
minds via the written word I have
committed even before setting a panty
paper the essential crime that contains
all other zelf cells welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 iconic
figures in sci-fi literature both
popular than the celestial homecare
omnibus better selling than 53 more
things to do in zero gravity and more
controversial than all on Kalu feeds
trilogy of philosophical blockbusters
where God went wrong for this list we’re
focusing only on science fiction authors
and not on the characters or beings they
created gorilla
number 10
Michael Crichton
this harvard-educated writer once
plagiarized George Orwell in college but
only to expose the unfair grading
techniques of one of his professors by
1969 the six foot nine Michael Crichton
had published the Andromeda Strain
which became the first of many sci-fi
novels to be adapted for the big screen
no Jeremy don’t let him cut off my arcs
no here that room is loafer doesn’t
matter blood does that’s the answer by
combining his medical knowledge with a
passion for writing the Chicago born
novelist composed classics like Jurassic
Park Congo and sphere before his 2008
death gifted and versatile Crichton even
directed several films I love your sight
no but you’re all covered in soot he was
and is a major influence in the sci-fi
genre a lot of my research is is
directed toward answering some kind of a
question and I’ve got the question
answered before I start to write the
book you did yeah so now the writing the
book is just a sort of number nine
William Gibson when I was a kid the
future almost always had a capital F
everything in it was new and future E
and it was unconsciously assumed to have
no past content cyberpunk and the phrase
noir profit go hand-in-hand when
describing this living legend of the
sci-fi genre good morning this is your
wake-up call
thank you for staying at the new Darwin
in the time is 10:30 a.m. by exploding
into the literary world with 1984’s
Neuromancer a story about a down-and-out
hacker Gibson won the sci-fi triple
crown the nebula hugo and philip k dick
awards what i do for these futures what
I would just take take the conditions of
the third world transfer them to say
Chicago it sold more than six million
copies giving enthusiastic readers a
heavy dose of mine stimulation
they would never forget
and the hits kept on coming when Gibson
managed to innovate the steampunk genre
with the difference engine in 1988
cyberpunk nor profit steampunk there is
a cool nickname out there that hasn’t
even been discovered yet and it belongs
to William Gibson technophobia or techno
philia are appropriate responses to our
situation I think the only appropriate
response is the most profound
ambivalence number eight George Orwell
his real name was Ehrich arthur Blair
and he created a dystopian legend that
freaked out paranoid citizens of the
world after 1984 with that one work
alone
George Orwell reached iconic status but
unfortunately he would pass away just
seven months after its publication
writing a book is a horrible exhausting
struggle like a long bout with some
painful illness one would never
undertake such a thing if one were not
driven by some demon one can neither
resist nor fully comprehend his
imagination left a firm imprint on the
sci-fi genre and his linguistic approach
proved that sometimes less is more
when a bomb is rich we never get our
rightful share boom farmer Joe’s sayings
and phrases he originated like
doublethink
cold war and thought police are part of
everyday language in principle the war
effort is always planned to keep society
on the brink of starvation his resume
extends far beyond his famous big
brother novel but for sci-fi lovers it’s
the work that will always endure
potentially or not to me
number seven arthur c clarke now space
is no longer all fiction the world has
seen the incredible achievements of the
last decade as one of the big three
writers of science fiction this British
novelist predicted online banking and
also penned the screenplay for Stanley
Kubrick’s 2001 a Space Odyssey open the
pod bay doors hell
I’m sorry Dave I’m afraid I can’t do
that although his dreams of space travel
were never achieved arthur c clarke
actually discovered an ancient temple in
sri lanka where he lived the last fifty
years of his life he’s been called the
prophet of the space age and helped
sci-fi fanatics embrace their inherent
nerdery he’s also one reason why many
recognize that science can be cool in
the world of the future Travel will be
for pleasure not necessity 2001 is the
work for which he is most known but
Clarke’s subsequent novels expanded on
that story’s premise thus establishing a
lasting legacy for all – and joy life is
common throughout the universe and that
probably intelligence is also common
this idea has not reached the public
which associate city purely with fiction
number 6 Ray Bradbury I suppose you
wonder why and called you all here I
want to identify myself I’m Ray Bradbury
but you’re very curious aren’t you to
find out how I fell in love with books
inspired by Edgar Allen Poe and thrilled
by Hollywood stars this Midwestern
American writer achieved both his
literary and Tinseltown dreams what is
it
but Sunday right market after moving to
Hollywood as a team Ray Bradbury sought
out famous writers and ultimately
published the Martian Chronicles the
year he turned 30 years old
I think perhaps he should do the honors
before long French new-wave filmmaker
Francois Truffaut brought Bradbury’s
work to a wider audience by memorably
adapting his 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury’s writing career continued for
more than 60 years and although he
didn’t identify himself as a sci-fi
writer he’s been tabbed as a Midwest
surrealist space travel is going to
enable us to live forever that’s its
most illiterate function yes we wish to
guard the gift of life number 5 Douglas
Adams III would say I’ve certainly
always been a sort of slightly sort of
dreamy sort of person this British
novelist created The Hitchhiker’s Guide
to the galaxy as a BBC Radio comedy in
1978
every saint mankind in 74 light-years
away
and published a book of the same name at
only 27 years of age Douglas Adams once
claimed that inspiration came from a
drunken night under the Austrian Stars
and his musings on science religion and
technology reached numerous media
platforms guys I’m delighted to tell you
that there are two thermonuclear
missiles heading right for us
I’ll go ahead take a vase imagine in
fact the hitch-hiker franchise became a
pop culture sensation and just a few
years after Adams untimely death a new
generation was introduced to his work
through a feature film what I would like
to be when I grow up is a clone so they
can be about half a dozen at me and one
would be a rock star
one would be an evolutionary biologist a
software engineer and one would probably
stay in bed all day watching movies
number four philip k dick
sorry quit your whole life is just a
dream this sci-fi legend made our list
but what list is he really on philip k
dick questioned our existence as human
beings and created alternate settings to
explore the relationship between
perceived truths and the unsolved
mysteries of life
many awards were presented during his
lifetime but the author’s popularity
heightened after his 1982 death chef’s
go to hell
go to heaven that’s when Blade Runner
and Total Recall film adaptations of his
stories were released his postmodernist
views inspired the essence of modern
sci-fi and equally mysterious writers
like the late Roberto bolaño if you’ve
won the philip k dick award you’ve won
something truly special i may be talking
about something that does not exist
therefore I’m free to say everything or
nothing number three Jules Verne
whoever descends into the crater of
snails yo cool can reach the center of
the earth
this French author has been called one
of the fathers of science fiction and
his influenced explorers astronauts
Surrealists and of course novelists oh
my gosh
Remo today everybody knows about a fish
called Nemo but he gets his name from
Verne’s Captain Nemo and 1870s 20,000
Leagues Under the Sea
I’m not what is called a civilized man
professor I have done with society for
reasons that seem good to me therefore I
do not obey its nose Verne also traveled
underground notably in his journey to
the center of the earth which may have
been scientifically flawed but
demonstrated the overwhelming power of
imagination
Bushmills a forest of mushrooms they may
be hundreds of years old but the slow if
you can eat delicious he took us on wild
adventures and proved just how fun
literature can be
number two isaac asimov we make up
futures it doesn’t matter whether we
really think they’ll come to pass or not
but we ask ourselves only will this be
interesting to deal with it well let’s
make a nice story prolific and
proficient in the ways of sci-fi this
Boston University professor became
another of the big three writers of his
genre a robot cannot harm a human being
the first law of robotics yeah I know
I’ve seen your commercials but doesn’t
the second law state that a robot has to
obey any order given by a human being
what if it was given in order to kill
impossible it would conflict with the
first law Isaac Asimov’s foundation
series about a Galactic Empire spanned
decades and his enormous contributions
to science fiction literature earned him
the one-time Hugo Award for the best
all-time series his 1941 short story
nightfall announced a shift in sci-fi
writing towards the human element
technically you can’t commit murder
Kenya does this make us friends like
many other Giants of the genre his work
was eventually adapted for the big
screen why did you do that that wasn’t
very funny just keeping you on your toes
I don’t have any toes you do now but
perhaps his most fitting tribute came in
1981 when an asteroid was named after
the Russian American author people who
are young people today know that when
they’re middle-aged life will be nothing
by what it is now and science fiction
gives them an opportunity to try on
different societies before we read up on
our top pick here are some honorable
mentions
and ER we’re entering your atmosphere we
need to slow down we can’t we’re one
unit now I’m not equipped to handle the
Gita pass you’re an atmosphere our
drones are our heat shield keep falling
let gravity do the work damn you damn
you
number one HG Wells
as the 20th century approached this
English writer rattled off four
important sci-fi novels the time machine
the island of dr. Moreau the Invisible
Man and the War of the Worlds
undoubtedly the big papa
of science fiction HG Wells wrote the
War of the Worlds forty years before
Orson Welles shocked the world with his
infamous radio broadcast Herbert George
Wells heavily influenced both American
and British writers during his lifetime
as George Orwell once said HG Wells was
too saying to understand the modern
world
do you agree with our list what do you
think is the most iconic figure in
sci-fi literature for more mind-blowing
top 10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com so long and
thanks for all the fish
minds via the written word I have
committed even before setting a panty
paper the essential crime that contains
all other zelf cells welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 iconic
figures in sci-fi literature both
popular than the celestial homecare
omnibus better selling than 53 more
things to do in zero gravity and more
controversial than all on Kalu feeds
trilogy of philosophical blockbusters
where God went wrong for this list we’re
focusing only on science fiction authors
and not on the characters or beings they
created gorilla
number 10
Michael Crichton
this harvard-educated writer once
plagiarized George Orwell in college but
only to expose the unfair grading
techniques of one of his professors by
1969 the six foot nine Michael Crichton
had published the Andromeda Strain
which became the first of many sci-fi
novels to be adapted for the big screen
no Jeremy don’t let him cut off my arcs
no here that room is loafer doesn’t
matter blood does that’s the answer by
combining his medical knowledge with a
passion for writing the Chicago born
novelist composed classics like Jurassic
Park Congo and sphere before his 2008
death gifted and versatile Crichton even
directed several films I love your sight
no but you’re all covered in soot he was
and is a major influence in the sci-fi
genre a lot of my research is is
directed toward answering some kind of a
question and I’ve got the question
answered before I start to write the
book you did yeah so now the writing the
book is just a sort of number nine
William Gibson when I was a kid the
future almost always had a capital F
everything in it was new and future E
and it was unconsciously assumed to have
no past content cyberpunk and the phrase
noir profit go hand-in-hand when
describing this living legend of the
sci-fi genre good morning this is your
wake-up call
thank you for staying at the new Darwin
in the time is 10:30 a.m. by exploding
into the literary world with 1984’s
Neuromancer a story about a down-and-out
hacker Gibson won the sci-fi triple
crown the nebula hugo and philip k dick
awards what i do for these futures what
I would just take take the conditions of
the third world transfer them to say
Chicago it sold more than six million
copies giving enthusiastic readers a
heavy dose of mine stimulation
they would never forget
and the hits kept on coming when Gibson
managed to innovate the steampunk genre
with the difference engine in 1988
cyberpunk nor profit steampunk there is
a cool nickname out there that hasn’t
even been discovered yet and it belongs
to William Gibson technophobia or techno
philia are appropriate responses to our
situation I think the only appropriate
response is the most profound
ambivalence number eight George Orwell
his real name was Ehrich arthur Blair
and he created a dystopian legend that
freaked out paranoid citizens of the
world after 1984 with that one work
alone
George Orwell reached iconic status but
unfortunately he would pass away just
seven months after its publication
writing a book is a horrible exhausting
struggle like a long bout with some
painful illness one would never
undertake such a thing if one were not
driven by some demon one can neither
resist nor fully comprehend his
imagination left a firm imprint on the
sci-fi genre and his linguistic approach
proved that sometimes less is more
when a bomb is rich we never get our
rightful share boom farmer Joe’s sayings
and phrases he originated like
doublethink
cold war and thought police are part of
everyday language in principle the war
effort is always planned to keep society
on the brink of starvation his resume
extends far beyond his famous big
brother novel but for sci-fi lovers it’s
the work that will always endure
potentially or not to me
number seven arthur c clarke now space
is no longer all fiction the world has
seen the incredible achievements of the
last decade as one of the big three
writers of science fiction this British
novelist predicted online banking and
also penned the screenplay for Stanley
Kubrick’s 2001 a Space Odyssey open the
pod bay doors hell
I’m sorry Dave I’m afraid I can’t do
that although his dreams of space travel
were never achieved arthur c clarke
actually discovered an ancient temple in
sri lanka where he lived the last fifty
years of his life he’s been called the
prophet of the space age and helped
sci-fi fanatics embrace their inherent
nerdery he’s also one reason why many
recognize that science can be cool in
the world of the future Travel will be
for pleasure not necessity 2001 is the
work for which he is most known but
Clarke’s subsequent novels expanded on
that story’s premise thus establishing a
lasting legacy for all – and joy life is
common throughout the universe and that
probably intelligence is also common
this idea has not reached the public
which associate city purely with fiction
number 6 Ray Bradbury I suppose you
wonder why and called you all here I
want to identify myself I’m Ray Bradbury
but you’re very curious aren’t you to
find out how I fell in love with books
inspired by Edgar Allen Poe and thrilled
by Hollywood stars this Midwestern
American writer achieved both his
literary and Tinseltown dreams what is
it
but Sunday right market after moving to
Hollywood as a team Ray Bradbury sought
out famous writers and ultimately
published the Martian Chronicles the
year he turned 30 years old
I think perhaps he should do the honors
before long French new-wave filmmaker
Francois Truffaut brought Bradbury’s
work to a wider audience by memorably
adapting his 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury’s writing career continued for
more than 60 years and although he
didn’t identify himself as a sci-fi
writer he’s been tabbed as a Midwest
surrealist space travel is going to
enable us to live forever that’s its
most illiterate function yes we wish to
guard the gift of life number 5 Douglas
Adams III would say I’ve certainly
always been a sort of slightly sort of
dreamy sort of person this British
novelist created The Hitchhiker’s Guide
to the galaxy as a BBC Radio comedy in
1978
every saint mankind in 74 light-years
away
and published a book of the same name at
only 27 years of age Douglas Adams once
claimed that inspiration came from a
drunken night under the Austrian Stars
and his musings on science religion and
technology reached numerous media
platforms guys I’m delighted to tell you
that there are two thermonuclear
missiles heading right for us
I’ll go ahead take a vase imagine in
fact the hitch-hiker franchise became a
pop culture sensation and just a few
years after Adams untimely death a new
generation was introduced to his work
through a feature film what I would like
to be when I grow up is a clone so they
can be about half a dozen at me and one
would be a rock star
one would be an evolutionary biologist a
software engineer and one would probably
stay in bed all day watching movies
number four philip k dick
sorry quit your whole life is just a
dream this sci-fi legend made our list
but what list is he really on philip k
dick questioned our existence as human
beings and created alternate settings to
explore the relationship between
perceived truths and the unsolved
mysteries of life
many awards were presented during his
lifetime but the author’s popularity
heightened after his 1982 death chef’s
go to hell
go to heaven that’s when Blade Runner
and Total Recall film adaptations of his
stories were released his postmodernist
views inspired the essence of modern
sci-fi and equally mysterious writers
like the late Roberto bolaño if you’ve
won the philip k dick award you’ve won
something truly special i may be talking
about something that does not exist
therefore I’m free to say everything or
nothing number three Jules Verne
whoever descends into the crater of
snails yo cool can reach the center of
the earth
this French author has been called one
of the fathers of science fiction and
his influenced explorers astronauts
Surrealists and of course novelists oh
my gosh
Remo today everybody knows about a fish
called Nemo but he gets his name from
Verne’s Captain Nemo and 1870s 20,000
Leagues Under the Sea
I’m not what is called a civilized man
professor I have done with society for
reasons that seem good to me therefore I
do not obey its nose Verne also traveled
underground notably in his journey to
the center of the earth which may have
been scientifically flawed but
demonstrated the overwhelming power of
imagination
Bushmills a forest of mushrooms they may
be hundreds of years old but the slow if
you can eat delicious he took us on wild
adventures and proved just how fun
literature can be
number two isaac asimov we make up
futures it doesn’t matter whether we
really think they’ll come to pass or not
but we ask ourselves only will this be
interesting to deal with it well let’s
make a nice story prolific and
proficient in the ways of sci-fi this
Boston University professor became
another of the big three writers of his
genre a robot cannot harm a human being
the first law of robotics yeah I know
I’ve seen your commercials but doesn’t
the second law state that a robot has to
obey any order given by a human being
what if it was given in order to kill
impossible it would conflict with the
first law Isaac Asimov’s foundation
series about a Galactic Empire spanned
decades and his enormous contributions
to science fiction literature earned him
the one-time Hugo Award for the best
all-time series his 1941 short story
nightfall announced a shift in sci-fi
writing towards the human element
technically you can’t commit murder
Kenya does this make us friends like
many other Giants of the genre his work
was eventually adapted for the big
screen why did you do that that wasn’t
very funny just keeping you on your toes
I don’t have any toes you do now but
perhaps his most fitting tribute came in
1981 when an asteroid was named after
the Russian American author people who
are young people today know that when
they’re middle-aged life will be nothing
by what it is now and science fiction
gives them an opportunity to try on
different societies before we read up on
our top pick here are some honorable
mentions
and ER we’re entering your atmosphere we
need to slow down we can’t we’re one
unit now I’m not equipped to handle the
Gita pass you’re an atmosphere our
drones are our heat shield keep falling
let gravity do the work damn you damn
you
number one HG Wells
as the 20th century approached this
English writer rattled off four
important sci-fi novels the time machine
the island of dr. Moreau the Invisible
Man and the War of the Worlds
undoubtedly the big papa
of science fiction HG Wells wrote the
War of the Worlds forty years before
Orson Welles shocked the world with his
infamous radio broadcast Herbert George
Wells heavily influenced both American
and British writers during his lifetime
as George Orwell once said HG Wells was
too saying to understand the modern
world
do you agree with our list what do you
think is the most iconic figure in
sci-fi literature for more mind-blowing
top 10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com so long and
thanks for all the fish
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