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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

Index Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, or SFWA is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization of professional science fiction and fantasy writers. [1]

74 relations: Adweek, Alan E. Nourse, Andre Norton, Andre Norton Award, Andrew J. Offutt, Andy Duncan (writer), Anne McCaffrey, Author Emeritus, Barbara Hambly, Barbie, Barry N. Malzberg, Ben Bova, BookExpo America, Bud Sparhawk, C. J. Henderson, Cat Rambo, Catherine Asaro, Charles Sheffield, Damon Knight, Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Dave Truesdale, Enfield, Connecticut, Exploitation fiction, Fantasy, Frederik Pohl, Gordon R. Dickson, Greg Bear, Horror Writers Association, Io9, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jack Williamson, James E. Gunn (writer), Jane Yolen, Jean Rabe, Jeffe Kennedy, Jerry Pournelle, Joe Haldeman, John Scalzi, Lawrence M. Schoen, Lisa Tuttle, Locus (magazine), Marta Randall, Michael Capobianco, Mike Resnick, Mishell Baker, Mystery Writers of America, Nebula Award, Neil Clarke (editor), Nonprofit organization, Norman Spinrad, ..., North American Science Fiction Convention, Open Book Alliance, Outline of science fiction, Paul Levinson, Poul Anderson, Publishers Weekly, Ray Bradbury Award, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Silverberg, Robin Wayne Bailey, Russell Davis (writer), Sarah Pinsker, Sexism, Sharon Lee (writer), Steven Gould, Steven H Silver, Tansy Rayner Roberts, The Daily Dot, The Guardian, Todd McCaffrey, Victoria Strauss, Worldcon, Young adult fiction, 501(c)(3) organization. Expand index (24 more) »

Adweek

Adweek is a weekly American advertising trade publication that was first published in 1978.

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Alan E. Nourse

Alan Edward Nourse (August 11, 1928 – July 19, 1992) was an American science fiction (SF) writer and physician.

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Andre Norton

Andre Alice Norton (born Alice Mary Norton, February 17, 1912 – March 17, 2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, who also wrote works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction.

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Andre Norton Award

The Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy is an annual award presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) to the author of the best young adult or middle grade science fiction or fantasy book published in the United States in the preceding year.

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Andrew J. Offutt

Andrew Jefferson Offutt (August 16, 1934 – April 30, 2013) was an American science fiction and fantasy author.

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Andy Duncan (writer)

Andy Duncan (born 21 September 1964) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer whose work frequently deals with Southern U.S. themes.

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Anne McCaffrey

Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) was an American-born writer who emigrated to Ireland and was best known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series.

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Author Emeritus

Author Emeritus was an honorary title annually bestowed by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America upon a living writer.

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Barbara Hambly

Barbara Hambly (born August 28, 1951) is an American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction.

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Barbie

Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy company Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959.

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Barry N. Malzberg

Barry Nathaniel Malzberg (born July 24, 1939) is an American writer and editor, most often of science fiction and fantasy.

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Ben Bova

Benjamin William "Ben" Bova (born November 8, 1932) is an American writer.

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BookExpo America

BookExpo America (commonly referred to within the book publishing industry as BEA) is the largest annual book trade fair in the United States.

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Bud Sparhawk

John C. "Bud" Sparhawk (born August 11, 1937) is an American science fiction writer.

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C. J. Henderson

Chris "C.J." Henderson (December 26, 1951 – July 4, 2014) was an American writer of horror, hardboiled crime fiction and comic books.

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Cat Rambo

Cat Rambo (born 1963) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and editor.

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Catherine Asaro

Catherine Ann Asaro is an American science fiction and fantasy author.

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Charles Sheffield

Charles Sheffield (25 June 1935 – 2 November 2002) was an English-born mathematician, physicist and science fiction writer who served as a President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and of the American Astronautical Society.

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Damon Knight

Damon Francis Knight (September 19, 1922 – April 15, 2002) was an American science fiction author, editor and critic.

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Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

The Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award is a lifetime honor presented annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) to no more than one living writer of fantasy or science fiction.

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Dave Truesdale

David A. Truesdale is an American editor and literary critic known for controversial opinions.

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Enfield, Connecticut

Enfield is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.

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Exploitation fiction

Exploitation fiction is a type of literature that includes novels and magazines that exploit sex, violence, drugs, or other elements meant to attract readers primarily by arousing prurient interest without being labeled as obscene or pornographic.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

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Frederik Pohl

Frederik George Pohl Jr. (November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning more than 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led and articles and essays published in 2012.

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Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon Rupert Dickson (November 1, 1923 – January 31, 2001) was a Canadian-American science fiction writer.

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Greg Bear

Gregory Dale "Greg" Bear (born August 20, 1951) is an American writer and illustrator best known for science fiction.

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Horror Writers Association

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is a worldwide non-profit organization of professional writers and publishing professionals dedicated to promoting the interests of Horror and Dark fantasy writers.

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Io9

io9 is a blog launched in 2008 by Gawker Media, which focuses on the subjects of science fiction, fantasy, futurism, science, technology and related areas.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (Tolkien pronounced his surname, see his phonetic transcription published on the illustration in The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One. Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988. (The History of Middle-earth; 6). In General American the surname is also pronounced. This pronunciation no doubt arose by analogy with such words as toll and polka, or because speakers of General American realise as, while often hearing British as; thus or General American become the closest possible approximation to the Received Pronunciation for many American speakers. Wells, John. 1990. Longman pronunciation dictionary. Harlow: Longman, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

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Jack Williamson

John Stewart Williamson (April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006), who wrote as Jack Williamson, was an American science fiction writer, often called the "Dean of Science Fiction" after the death of Robert Heinlein in 1988.

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James E. Gunn (writer)

James Edwin Gunn (born July 12, 1923) is an American science fiction writer, editor, scholar, and anthologist.

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Jane Yolen

Jane Hyatt Yolen (born February 11, 1939) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and children's books.

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Jean Rabe

Jean Rabe (born June 19, 1957) is a fantasy and science fiction author and editor who has worked on the Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, and BattleTech series, as well as many others.

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Jeffe Kennedy

Jeffe Kennedy is a fantasy and erotic romance author who has published 19 novels, including the fantasy romance series The Twelve Kingdoms from Kensington Books.

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Jerry Pournelle

Jerry Eugene Pournelle (August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American science fiction writer, essayist, and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s.

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Joe Haldeman

Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author.

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John Scalzi

John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969) is an American science fiction author and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

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Lawrence M. Schoen

Lawrence M. Schoen (born July 27, 1959) is an American author, publisher, psychologist, hypnotist, and expert in the Klingon language.

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Lisa Tuttle

Lisa Gracia Tuttle (born September 16, 1952 in Houston, Texas) is an American-born science fiction, fantasy, and horror author.

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Locus (magazine)

Locus: The Magazine of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field, is an American magazine published monthly in Oakland, California.

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Marta Randall

Marta Randall (born 1948 in Mexico City) is an American science fiction writer.

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Michael Capobianco

Michael Victor Capobianco (born November 12, 1950) is an American science fiction writer.

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Mike Resnick

Michael Diamond Resnick (born March 5, 1942) is an American science fiction writer under the name Mike Resnick.

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Mishell Baker

Mishell Baker is an American writer of fantasy and urban fantasy.

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Mystery Writers of America

Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is an organization of mystery and crime writers, based in New York City.

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Nebula Award

The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States.

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Neil Clarke (editor)

Neil Clarke (born 1966) is an editor and publisher of science fiction and fantasy.

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Nonprofit organization

A non-profit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity or non-profit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view.

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Norman Spinrad

Norman Richard Spinrad (born September 15, 1940) is an American science fiction author, essayist, and critic.

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North American Science Fiction Convention

NASFiC, a.k.a. the North American Science Fiction Convention, is a science fiction convention scheduled only during years where the Worldcon is being held outside the North American continent.

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Open Book Alliance

The Open Book Alliance was an organization formed in 2009 to contest the Google Book Search Settlement, which it believe could allow Google, the Association of American Publishers and the Authors’ Guild collectively "to monopolize the access, distribution and pricing of the largest digital database of books in the world".

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Outline of science fiction

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to science fiction: Science fiction – a genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology, often in a futuristic setting.

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Paul Levinson

Paul Levinson (born March 25, 1947) is an American writer and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City.

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Poul Anderson

Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author who began his career in the 1940s and continued to write into the 21st century.

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.

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Ray Bradbury Award

The Ray Bradbury Award (full name "Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation") is presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to recognize excellence in screenwriting, in place of the discontinued Nebula Award for Best Script.

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Robert J. Sawyer

Robert James Sawyer (born April 29, 1960) is a Canadian science fiction writer.

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Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is an American author and editor, best known for writing science fiction.

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Robin Wayne Bailey

Robin Wayne Bailey (born 1952) is an American writer of speculative fiction, both fantasy and science fiction.

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Russell Davis (writer)

Russell Davis (born 1970) is an American author born in Missouri.

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Sarah Pinsker

Sarah Pinsker is a science fiction and fantasy short fiction author whose stories have appeared in publications such as Asimov's Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Lightspeed, along with multiple "year's best" collections.

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Sexism

Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender.

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Sharon Lee (writer)

Sharon Lee (born September 11, 1952) is an American science fiction, fantasy and mystery author who lives in Winslow, Maine since 1988.

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Steven Gould

Steven Charles Gould (born February 7, 1955) is an American science fiction writer and teacher.

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Steven H Silver

Steven H Silver (born April 19, 1967, Hinsdale, Illinois) is an American science fiction fan and bibliographer, publisher, and editor.

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Tansy Rayner Roberts

Tansy Rayner Roberts (born 22 May 1978) is an Australian fantasy writer.

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The Daily Dot

The Daily Dot is a digital media company covering Internet culture and life on the web.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Todd McCaffrey

Todd J. McCaffrey (born 27 April 1956 as Todd Johnson) is an Irish American author of science fiction best known for continuing the Dragonriders of Pern series in collaboration with his mother Anne McCaffrey.

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Victoria Strauss

Victoria Strauss (born September 10, 1955 in Exeter, New Hampshire) is the author of nine fantasy novels for adults and young adults, including the Stone series (The Arm of the Stone and The Garden of the Stone) and the Way of Arata series (The Burning Land and The Awakened City).

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Worldcon

Worldcon, or more formally the World Science Fiction Convention, the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS), is a science fiction convention.

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Young adult fiction

Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction published for readers in their youth.

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501(c)(3) organization

A 501(c)(3) organization is a corporation, trust, unincorporated association, or other type of organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy_Writers_of_America

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