Although we don't generally think of Mary Shelley as a sci-fi writer (after all, she was writing in the 1800s and is largely associated with Romanticism), she's responsible for bringing us one of t...

Wells, who was born in 1866 and died in 1946, was trained as a zoologist. His scientific background fed right into his writing. Though he's known as a science fiction writer, he was also a teacher,...

Along with H.G. Wells, Jules Verne is considered to be the second founding figure of modern sci-fi. He was a French writer who published most of his work between the mid-19th and the early 20th cen...

Asimov was a biochemistry professor for most of his life, though he did so well with his science fiction writing that eventually he turned to writing full time. Asimov was an extremely prolific wri...

If there's one writer who is responsible for bringing science fiction to the general masses, it's Ray Bradbury. He was an American writer who wrote many of the classics of the genre, including Fahr...