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SciFi's Most Notable People
People important to the Science Fiction world
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03/19/2013

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George Lucas
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Directed the Star Wars Films
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Philip K. Dick
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Author who wrote "Blade Runner", "Total Recall", "A Scanner Darkly", "Minority Report", "Paycheck", "Next", "Screamers", and "The Adjustment Bureau".
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Douglas Adams
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Wrote "Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” series
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Orson Scott Card
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Wrote "The Ender’s Game" saga
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Robert Heinlein
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Wrote "Stranger in a Strange Land", "Starship Troopers"
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William Gibson
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Controversial science fiction writer who is known as the father of the modern “Cyber Punk” novel. Wrote "Neuromancer","Pattern Recognition" ,
"Spook Country" and "Zero History"
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Ray Bradbury
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Wrote "Fahrenheit 451″ , “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” “Dandelion Wine,” “The Martian Chronicles”
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Frank Herbert
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Wrote “Dune" series
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Arthur C. Clarke
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Known for his Space Odyssey series, particularly the novel “2001: A Space Odyssey
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Isaac Asimov
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Wrote "The Foundation Series", the Robot series, "Nightfall", "The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science", "I, Robot", "Planets for Man"
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Jules Verne
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Wrote “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” and “Around the World in 80 Days
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H.G. Wells
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Wrote “The Time Machine,” “The War of the Worlds,” “The Invisible Man”
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Ridley Scott
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Directed Alien & Blade Runner
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Stanley Kubrick
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Directed 2001: A Space Odyssey , A Clockwork Orange , Dr. Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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