HONOR

Annual science fiction awards, named after Hugo Gernsback.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Forrest J. Ackerman	Author	24-Nov-1916	4-Dec-2008	Mr. Science Fiction
Brian Aldiss	Author	18-Aug-1925		Supertoys Last All Summer Long
Poul Anderson	Author	25-Nov-1926	31-Jul-2001	Tau Zero
Isaac Asimov	Author	2-Jan-1920	6-Apr-1992	Foundation
Greg Bear	Author	20-Aug-1951		Eon
Alfred Bester	Novelist	18-Dec-1913	30-Sep-1987	The Stars My Destination
James Blish	Author	23-May-1921	30-Jul-1975	Cities in Flight
Ben Bova	Author	28-Nov-1932		Science fiction writer
Ray Bradbury	Author	22-Aug-1920	5-Jun-2012	Fahrenheit 451
David Brin	Novelist	6-Oct-1950		The Uplift War
John Brunner	Author	24-Sep-1934	25-Aug-1995	The Shockwave Rider
Lois McMaster Bujold	Novelist	2-Nov-1949		The Vorkosigan Saga
Octavia Butler	Novelist	22-Jun-1947	24-Feb-2006	Patternmaster
John W. Campbell	Editor	8-Jun-1910	11-Jul-1971	Editor of Astounding, 1938-71
Orson Scott Card	Novelist	24-Aug-1951		Ender's Game
C. J. Cherryh	Author	1-Sep-1942		Cyteen and Downbelow Station
Arthur C. Clarke	Novelist	16-Dec-1917	19-Mar-2008	2001: A Space Odyssey
Hal Clement	Novelist	20-May-1922	29-Oct-2003	Mission of Gravity
Philip K. Dick	Novelist	16-Dec-1928	2-Mar-1982	Blade Runner
Gordon R. Dickson	Novelist	1-Nov-1923	31-Jan-2001	Dorsai
Harlan Ellison	Author	27-May-1934		I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
Philip Jose Farmer	Author	26-Jan-1918	25-Feb-2009	Riverworld saga
Phil Foglio	Artist	1-May-1956		Dragon magazine cartoonist
Frank Kelly Freas	Artist	22-Aug-1922	2-Jan-2005	Illustrator of science fiction and fantasy
Neil Gaiman	Cartoonist	10-Nov-1960		DC Comics epic Sandman series
Hugo Gernsback	Author	16-Aug-1884	19-Aug-1967	Founded Amazing Stories in 1926
William Gibson	Author	17-Mar-1948		Pioneer of Cyberpunk science fiction
Ursula K. Le Guin	Novelist	21-Oct-1929		The Left Hand of Darkness
Joe Haldeman	Novelist	9-Jun-1943		The Forever War
Robert A. Heinlein	Author	7-Jul-1907	8-May-1988	Starship Troopers
Frank Herbert	Author	8-Oct-1920	11-Feb-1986	Dune
Peter Jackson	Film Director	31-Oct-1961		The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Duncan Jones	Film Director	30-May-1971		Moon
Daniel Keyes	Novelist	9-Aug-1927		Flowers for Algernon
Stephen King	Novelist	21-Sep-1947		The Shining
C. M. Kornbluth	Novelist	23-Jul-1923	21-Mar-1958	The Space Merchants
Fritz Leiber	Author	24-Dec-1910	5-Sep-1992	Ship of Shadows
George R. R. Martin	Novelist	20-Sep-1948		Song of Ice and Fire series
Anne McCaffrey	Author	1-Apr-1926	21-Nov-2011	Pern series
Walter M. Miller, Jr.	Novelist	23-Jan-1923	9-Jan-1996	A Canticle for Leibowitz
Larry Niven	Author	30-Apr-1938		Ringworld and Known Space series
Christopher Nolan	Film Director	30-Jul-1970		Memento
Frederik Pohl	Author	26-Nov-1919		Futurian science fiction writer
Kim Stanley Robinson	Novelist	23-Mar-1952		Mars Trilogy
J. K. Rowling	Author	31-Jul-1965		Author of Harry Potter series
Kristine Kathryn Rusch	Author	1960		Science fiction and fantasy author, editor
Carl Sagan	Astronomer	9-Nov-1934	20-Dec-1996	Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos
John Schoenherr	Artist	5-Jul-1935	8-Apr-2010	Owl Moon
Robert Silverberg	Novelist	15-Jan-1935		Nightwings
Clifford D. Simak	Novelist	3-Aug-1904	25-Apr-1988	City and The Visitors
Neal Stephenson	Novelist	31-Oct-1959		Snow Crash
Bruce Sterling	Author	14-Apr-1954		Schismatrix
Charles Stross	Novelist	18-Oct-1964		Accelerando
Theodore Sturgeon	Author	26-Feb-1918	8-May-1985	More Than Human
Jack Vance	Novelist	28-Aug-1916		The Dying Earth
John Varley	Novelist	1947		Wrote Titan, Wizard, and Demon
Joan D. Vinge	Author	2-Apr-1948		Eyes of Amber
Vernor Vinge	Author	10-Feb-1944		A Fire Upon The Deep
Connie Willis	Author	31-Dec-1945		Doomsday Book, Lincoln's Dreams
Roger Zelazny	Novelist	13-May-1937	14-Jun-1995	Damnation Alley

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