The Scifi Writer's Hall Of Fame

He started as a young boy reading pulp fantasy magazines in his fathers dime shop. Those stories, and his natural creative desire spurred him on to becomming a man who few would argue referring to as the greatest science fiction writer to this date. He was the father of the "Laws of Robotics" (In fact, the Oxford English Dictionary credits him with inventing the word), the author of over 80 books of fiction, and non-fiction, a professor of biochemistry, philosopher, punster, and noted lecturer. His most famous works to date include the classic "Foundation Series" consisting of seven novels writen between 1950, and 1992. Almost as famous, and certainly no less noteworthy were his "Galactic Empire Series" and "The Robot Novels". The three series loosly connect a future history of the galaxy, for the next 30,000 years. Asimov although authored many award winning short stories. Among them are "Nightfall", "The Martian Way", and "Bicentennial Man" Isaac Asimov died in 1993 at the age of 73.

John W. Campbell jr.

While he was one of the early writers of the genre, John Campbell stepped into scifi immortality when he took over as editor of Astounding Stories in 1938, and remoulded Science Fiction from the realm of pulp fiction, into a respected literary genre, read by millions of mainstream readers. Many of the most respected writers today credit Campbell with steering them on the road to success. In his early writing career, Campbell had his first scifi story, "When Atoms Fail" published in the Jan. 1930 issue of Amazing Stories. He also holds the distinction of using atomic weapons in a story, almost 6 years before work on such a project was even envisioned.