The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF
Ursula K. Le Guin, J.G. Ballard, Bruce Sterling, Anne McCaffrey, Arthur C. Clarke, Rudy Rucker, James Tiptree Jr., Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Kate Wilhelm, Poul Anderson, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Bryant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rudyard Kipling, Gene Wolfe, David G. Hartwell, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert A. Heinlein, John M. Ford, Gordon R. Dickson, Isaac Asimov, Ian Watson, Alfred Bester, John Sladek, Hilbert Schenck, Randall Garrett, Theodore L. Thomas, Bob Shaw, Clifford D. Simak, James Blish, Hal Clement, Cordwainer Smith, Tom Godwin, Lewis Padgett, Don A. Stuart, Dean Ing, Donald Kingsbury, George Turner, Raymond Z. Gallun, Robert L. Forward, Raymond F. Jones, Philip Latham, Miles John Breuer, Richard Grant