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Also Known As sci-fi ā€¢ speculative fiction ā€¢ SF

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Rudolf Klein-Rogge stands beside a futuristic glass chamber containing Brigitte Helm, with a robot figure behind them, in a scene from Metropolis (1927), directed by Fritz Lang.
Flash Gordon
Lock Martin and Michael Rennie in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
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Stanley Kubrick stands in the foreground directing actors in white coats and silver boots on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey, with a futuristic orange set behind them.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and the Birth of Frankenstein
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Richard Matheson
American author and screenwriter
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Julius Schwartz
American editor
Stephen King smiling and wearing glasses and a light blue collared shirt.
Stephen King
American novelist
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Indian-born writer Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh
Indian-born writer
H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells
British author
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
American writer
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
British author and scientist
Ted Chiang
Ted Chiang
American author
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James Tiptree, Jr.
American author
Jules Verne
Jules Verne
French author
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
American author
Gene Wolfe, an older man with a bald head, large mustache, and glasses, wearing a light jacket and gold watch, poses with his hands folded in front of a stone wall.
Gene Wolfe
American writer
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
American novelist
Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta
American artist
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Stanisław Lem
Polish author
Nnedi Okorafor
Nnedi Okorafor
Nigerian American author
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Jack Arnold
American director
Anthony Horowitz
Anthony Horowitz
British author
Liu Cixin
Liu Cixin
Chinese author

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