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Top authors writing 20th century sci-fi
Ward Wagher
13 ratings 4.46 ·
action-adventure · fiction · time-travel · adult · military · violent-conflict · book · alternate-history · historical · ww2 · sci-fi · 20th-century
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William Peter Grasso
57 ratings 4.32 ·
historical · alternate-history · book · violent-conflict · historical-fiction · war · adult · military · fiction · 20th-century · ww2 · male-mc · sci-fi · action-adventure · political-intrigue · politics · espionage
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Colin Gee
18 ratings 4.22 ·
fiction · military · war · adult · sci-fi · book · violent-conflict · alternate-history · technothriller · ww2 · historical-fiction · 20th-century · historical · action-adventure
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Robert Merle
59 ratings 4.17 ·
20th-century · book · adult · fiction · dystopia · sci-fi · violent-conflict · war · literary · classics · historical · audiobook · contemporary · post-apocalyptic · drama · historical-fiction · action-adventure · political-intrigue · suspense · espionage
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Grant Naylor
66 ratings 4.12 ·
book · satire · space · adult · action-adventure · comedy · humor · fiction · audiobook · male-author · contemporary · sci-fi · 20th-century · space-opera · robots · time-travel · dystopia · classics · aliens · literary
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Steven Owen Godersky
50 ratings 4.12 ·
sci-fi · 20th-century · audiobook · historical · classics · anthologies · fiction · literary · adult · dystopia · action-adventure · space · satire · male-author · exploration · futuristic
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Joseph McElroy
16 ratings 4.06 ·
adult · fiction · philosophy · 20th-century · book · sci-fi · postmodernism · literary-fiction · historical · cyberpunk · contemporary · philosophical · literary · classics · anthologies · urban
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Leah A. Zeldes
16 ratings 4.00 ·
anthologies · fiction · adult · sci-fi · 20th-century · historical · action-adventure · humor · dark-fantasy · fantasy · steampunk · contemporary · time-travel · victorian · paranormal · industrial-era · law-enforcement · historical-fiction · horror · survival
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Byron Tetrick
28 ratings 4.00 ·
fiction · adult · anthologies · historical · witches-wizards · 20th-century · sci-fi · action-adventure · earth · dystopia · historical-fiction · horror · law-enforcement · alternate-history · audiobook · sword-sorcery · murder · aliens · mystery · epic
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Karel Čapek
162 ratings 3.98 ·
fiction · adult · classics · literary · sci-fi · 20th-century · historical · satire · book · drama · literary-fiction · humor · anthologies · action-adventure · philosophy · dystopia · audiobook · male-author · war · violent-conflict
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Andrei Platonov
38 ratings 3.97 ·
historical · 20th-century · adult · literary-fiction · classics · fiction · literary · politics · historical-fiction · sci-fi · communism · book · dystopia · action-adventure · fairy-tale · philosophy · male-author · retellings · satire · violent-conflict
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Monique Wittig
20 ratings 3.95 ·
adult · female-author · fiction · lgbtq · romantic-love · feminism · 20th-century · book · wlw · sci-fi · literary-fiction · action-adventure · literary · classics · female-mc · politics · retellings · historical · philosophy · contemporary
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Thomas Pynchon
285 ratings 3.87 ·
fiction · adult · postmodernism · literary-fiction · classics · historical-fiction · satire · humor · 20th-century · literary · audiobook · sci-fi · contemporary · book · male-author · comedy · philosophy · war · action-adventure · violent-conflict
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Michael Dobson
20 ratings 3.85 ·
adult · war · ww2 · sci-fi · military · fiction · historical · alternate-history · book · 20th-century · historical-fiction · violent-conflict · political-intrigue · espionage
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Andy Warhol
67 ratings 3.85 ·
classics · historical · substance-abuse · sci-fi · 20th-century · book · fiction · humor · literary · literary-fiction · adult
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Anna Kavan
57 ratings 3.84 ·
adult · fiction · 20th-century · historical · sci-fi · anthologies · literary-fiction · female-author · book · literary · classics · madness · mental-illness · horror · psychological · contemporary · apocalyptic · spirituality · university · unreliable-narrator
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Leonard Peikoff
107 ratings 3.82 ·
classics · young-adult · literary · sci-fi · 20th-century · book · philosophy · politics · fiction · university · female-author · literary-fiction · drama · historical-fiction · dystopia · philosophical · audiobook · high-school · spirituality · personal-growth
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William Sloane
22 ratings 3.77 ·
fiction · mystery · adult · horror · historical · sci-fi · pulp · spooky · gothic · cosmic-horror · classics · literary · industrial-era · book · 20th-century · terror · supernatural · western · ghosts · literary-fiction
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John Joseph McGuire
13 ratings 3.77 ·
sci-fi · audiobook · fiction · adult · book · 20th-century · historical · colonization · literary · action-adventure · classics · space-opera · post-apocalyptic · aliens · humor · western · anthologies · industrial-era · space
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Phillip R. Burger
38 ratings 3.76 ·
sci-fi · 20th-century · book · classics · action-adventure · literary · audiobook · historical · pulp · fiction · adult · hollow-earth · coming-of-age · children · young-adult · space · industrial-era · dark · lost-world · horror
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George E. Simpson
12 ratings 3.75 ·
fiction · adult · book · mystery · 20th-century · sci-fi · ww2 · historical · suspense · action-adventure · supernatural · war · military · time-travel · violent-conflict · horror · historical-fiction · alternate-history
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MacDonald Harris
7 ratings 3.71 ·
book · sci-fi · historical · action-adventure · fiction · adult · 20th-century · historical-fiction · literary-fiction · time-travel · retellings · philosophy · literary · classics
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Jay D. Blakeney
3 ratings 3.67 ·
20th-century · book · fiction · sci-fi · historical · adult · space-opera · post-apocalyptic · action-adventure · time-travel
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John Picha
7 ratings 3.57 ·
dieselpunk · sci-fi · adult · fiction · pulp · anthologies · historical · 20th-century · industrial-era · steampunk · action-adventure · noir · super-powered · book · dystopia · space · contemporary · robots · crime · mystery
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Katharine Burdekin
18 ratings 3.56 ·
20th-century · book · sci-fi · feminism · lgbtq · fiction · literary-fiction · adult · action-adventure · literary · classics · utopia · post-apocalyptic · female-author · historical-fiction · historical · apocalyptic · time-travel · contemporary · politics
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Mark Phillips
10 ratings 3.40 ·
adult · sci-fi · law-enforcement · book · action-adventure · fiction · mystery · 20th-century · historical · paranormal · noir · police-procedural · audiobook · pulp · comedy · humor
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Arthur Leo Zagat
3 ratings 2.67 ·
adult · fiction · action-adventure · sci-fi · 20th-century · pulp · historical · post-apocalyptic · book · violent-conflict · invasion · anthologies · aliens · historical-fiction · dystopia · space-opera
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