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Top authors writing 20th century sci-fi

Ward Wagher

4.46 · 13 ratings
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

4.32 · 57 ratings
alternate-history · fiction · book · war · military · historical-fiction · violent-conflict · adult · historical · action-adventure · ww2 · male-mc · sci-fi · 20th-century · political-intrigue · espionage · politics
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Colin Gee

4.22 · 18 ratings
sci-fi · military · adult · violent-conflict · war · book · alternate-history · fiction · 20th-century · historical-fiction · historical · ww2 · technothriller · action-adventure
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Sarah Stewart

4.21 · 43 ratings
fiction · sci-fi · humor · 20th-century · children · middle-grade · female-author · historical-fiction · adult · historical · cats · anthologies · realistic · book · animals · female-mc · children-books
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Robert Merle

4.17 · 67 ratings
adult · 20th-century · fiction · book · war · violent-conflict · dystopia · sci-fi · literary · classics · drama · contemporary · audiobook · historical · historical-fiction · action-adventure · post-apocalyptic · futuristic · suspense · survival
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P.J. Plauger

4.17 · 12 ratings
fiction · sci-fi · anthologies · adult · 20th-century · transhumanism · historical · philosophy · technology
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Grant Naylor

4.16 · 76 ratings
audiobook · contemporary · male-author · space · adult · sci-fi · 20th-century · comedy · space-opera · satire · action-adventure · humor · fiction · book · time-travel · cyberpunk · dystopia · literary · classics · robots
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Steven Owen Godersky

4.12 · 50 ratings
sci-fi · literary · 20th-century · audiobook · adult · historical · anthologies · classics · fiction · space · dystopia · action-adventure · exploration · satire · male-author · futuristic
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Joseph McElroy

4.06 · 18 ratings
fiction · adult · philosophy · literary-fiction · book · postmodernism · 20th-century · sci-fi · classics · urban · anthologies · historical · cyberpunk · philosophical · contemporary · literary
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Stephen Jay Gould

4.04 · 178 ratings
20th-century · animals · book · time-travel · sci-fi · action-adventure · adult · fiction · historical · historical-fiction
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Monique Wittig

4.03 · 34 ratings
romantic-love · feminism · sci-fi · 20th-century · female-author · adult · book · lgbtq · wlw · fiction · philosophy · literary · politics · retellings · contemporary · myths · historical · literary-fiction · classics · female-mc
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Stephen James Walker

4.00 · 20 ratings
sci-fi · adult · fiction · anthologies · 20th-century · historical · book · romantic-love · time-travel · supernatural · mlm · journalism · alternate-history · action-adventure
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Leah A. Zeldes

4.00 · 16 ratings
adult · fiction · anthologies · historical · sci-fi · 20th-century · action-adventure · humor · time-travel · victorian · dark-fantasy · female-author · historical-fiction · horror · law-enforcement · alternate-history · witches-wizards · robots · fantasy · aliens
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Byron Tetrick

4.00 · 28 ratings
fiction · adult · anthologies · action-adventure · witches-wizards · historical · 20th-century · sci-fi · fantasy · murder · aliens · alternate-history · mystery · robots · apocalyptic · steampunk · crime · industrial-era · futuristic · victorian
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Clara McKenna

4.00 · 42 ratings
crime · audiobook · amateur-sleuth · edwardian · historical-fiction · historical · adult · industrial-era · cozy · law-enforcement · female-mc · investigator · murder · mystery · fiction · romance · book · animals · 20th-century · sci-fi
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Karel Čapek

4.00 · 210 ratings
fiction · classics · literary · adult · sci-fi · historical · 20th-century · book · satire · drama · literary-fiction · anthologies · humor · dystopia · philosophy · action-adventure · war · male-author · audiobook · violent-conflict
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Loren Eiseley

3.97 · 33 ratings
literary · 20th-century · space-opera · sci-fi · philosophy · male-author · adult · historical · dystopia · audiobook · horror · literary-fiction · psychological · anthologies · action-adventure · fiction · religion · classics · spirituality · single-planet
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Ross Douthat

3.92 · 48 ratings
historical · sci-fi · ww2 · comedy · 20th-century · book · young-adult · fiction
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Thomas Pynchon

3.91 · 322 ratings
fiction · adult · literary-fiction · historical-fiction · postmodernism · satire · classics · literary · humor · 20th-century · book · sci-fi · audiobook · contemporary · male-author · philosophy · mystery · comedy · action-adventure · war
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Michael Dobson

3.85 · 20 ratings
sci-fi · 20th-century · historical-fiction · military · historical · adult · violent-conflict · ww2 · war · book · alternate-history · fiction · political-intrigue · espionage
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Anna Kavan

3.80 · 68 ratings
fiction · adult · 20th-century · historical · sci-fi · anthologies · literary-fiction · female-author · literary · madness · classics · book · horror · mental-illness · psychological · spirituality · unreliable-narrator · university · apocalyptic · magical-realism
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William Sloane

3.79 · 24 ratings
horror · adult · historical · sci-fi · fiction · mystery · book · spooky · 20th-century · industrial-era · cosmic-horror · literary · pulp · classics · gothic · dark-fantasy · literary-fiction · north-america · male-author · dark
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John Joseph McGuire

3.77 · 13 ratings
sci-fi · adult · audiobook · fiction · literary · 20th-century · historical · book · action-adventure · classics · colonization · space-opera · space · industrial-era · anthologies · post-apocalyptic · western · aliens · humor
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Phillip R. Burger

3.76 · 38 ratings
20th-century · book · sci-fi · action-adventure · literary · classics · historical · audiobook · fiction · pulp · hollow-earth · coming-of-age · children · young-adult · space · industrial-era · earth · space-opera · dark · lost-world
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John Picha

3.57 · 7 ratings
dieselpunk · sci-fi · adult · fiction · pulp · historical · 20th-century · industrial-era · steampunk · action-adventure · anthologies · noir · super-powered · book · dystopia · contemporary · robots · space · crime · mystery
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Katharine Burdekin

3.56 · 18 ratings
feminism · 20th-century · book · sci-fi · literary-fiction · adult · lgbtq · fiction · post-apocalyptic · utopia · action-adventure · literary · classics · historical · historical-fiction · female-author · politics · time-travel · contemporary · apocalyptic
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Mark Phillips

3.40 · 10 ratings
action-adventure · fiction · mystery · adult · sci-fi · law-enforcement · book · paranormal · 20th-century · historical · pulp · comedy · humor · noir · police-procedural · audiobook
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Arthur Leo Zagat

2.67 · 3 ratings
sci-fi · fiction · action-adventure · adult · post-apocalyptic · 20th-century · book · historical · pulp · historical-fiction · dystopia · space-opera · violent-conflict · anthologies · aliens · invasion
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