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SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY POETRY:
2.4 Science Fiction Poetry Authors
by
JONATHAN VOS POST
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2.4  Science Fiction Poetry Authors


65 major Science Fiction authors who also wrote significant Science Fiction Poetry include: 

    

  1. Brian Aldiss
    2. 

  2. Kingsley Amis (*)
    3. 

  3. Chester Anderson (*)
    4. 

  4. Poul & Karen Anderson
    5. 

  5. Isaac Asimov (*)
    6. 

  6. Greg Benford
    7. 

  7. Michael Bishop
    8. 

  8. James Blish (*)
    9. 

  9. Reginald Bretnor (*)
    10. 

  10. John Brunner
    11. 

  11. Orson Scott Card
    12. 

  12. Dr. Christine M. Carmichael
    13. 

  13. Arthur C. Clarke
    14. 

  14. Stanton A. Coblentz
    15. 

  15. George Robert Ackworth Conquest (1917-???)
    16. 

  16. John Creasy (1908-???)
    17. 

  17. L. Sprague de Camp
    18. 

  18. Gordon Dickson
    19. 

  19. Thomas Disch
    20. 

  20. George Alec Effinger
    21. 

  21. Suzette H. Elgin
    22. 

  22. Harlan Ellison
    23. 

  23. Carol Emshwiller
    24. 

  24. Philip Jose Farmer
    25. 

  25. Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961) (*)
    26. 

  26. John M. Ford
    27. 

  27. Janet Fox
    28. 

  28. Robert Frazier
    29. 

  29. Esther Friesner
    30. 

  30. Randall Garrett (*)
    31. 

  31. Phyllis Gotlieb
    32. 

  32. Felix C. Gottschalk
    33. 

  33. Joe Haldeman
    34. 

  34. Harry Harrison
    35. 

  35. Frank Herbert (*)
    36. 

  36. L. Ron Hubbard (*)
    37. 

  37. John Inouye
    38. 

  38. John Jakes (*)
    39. 

  39. George Clayton Johnson
    40. 

  40. Virginia Kidd
    41. 

  41. Stephen King
    42. 

  42. Dean Koontz
    43. 

  43. Henry Kuttner (*)
    44. 

  44. Geoffrey A. Landis
    45. 

  45. Alan P. Lightman
    46. 

  46. Alice M. Lightner
    47. 

  47. Jeffrey G. Liss
    48. 

  48. Robert A. W. Lowndes
    49. 

  49. Duncan Lunan
    50. 

  50. Bruce McAllister
    51. 

  51. Ann McCaffrey
    52. 

  52. Marge Piercy
    53. 

  53. Frederik Pohl
    54. 

  54. Jonathan Vos Post
    55. 

  55. Fred Saberhagan
    56. 

  56. Pamela Sargent
    57. 

  57. Hilbert Schenck Jr.
    58. 

  58. Lucius Shepard
    59. 

  59. John Sladek
    60. 

  60. Olaf Stapleton (*)
    61. 

  61. Theodore Sturgeon (*)
    62. 

  62. Steve Rasnic Tem
    63. 

  63. Gene Van Troyer
    64. 

  64. George Henry Weiss "Francis Flagg" (1898-1946) (*)
    65. 

  65. Roger Zelazny (*)
    66. 

(*)=deceased.

66 other significant Science Fiction Poetry authors include: 

    

  1. Diane Ackerman
    2. 

  2. Duane Ackerson
    3. 

  3. Dick Allen
    4. 

  4. Ivan Arguelles
    5. 

  5. Hope Athearn
    6. 

  6. Lee Ballentine
    7. 

  7. Ruth Berman
    8. 

  8. John Gregory Betancourt
    9. 

  9. Sue C. Bever
    10. 

  10. Bruce Boston
    11. 

  11. David Bunch
    12. 

  12. Jack Butler
    13. 

  13. David Calder
    14. 

  14. Siv Cedering
    15. 

  15. G. O. Clark
     P.O. Box 72364
     Davis, CA 95617
     e-mail G. O. Clark
          Poetry and reviews published in many sci fi magazines,
     including Pirate Writings, StarLine, Tale of the Unanticipated,
     Magazine of Speculative Poetry, etc. 
          Published in many magazines over the past 18 years, 
     and sci fi magazines over the past 5 years.
          the Locus online index lists a number of his works 
  16. 

  17. Marion Cohen (American Mathematical Monthly, published poems in magazines 
      including Space & Time)
    18. 

  18. Michael R. Collings
    19. 

  19. S. R. Compton
    20. 

  20. Adam Cornford
    21. 

  21. Keith Allen Daniels
    22. 

  22. Andrew Darlington
    23. 

  23. Harry Davidov
    24. 

  24. Thomas G. Digby
    25. 

  25. Peter Dillingham
    26. 

  26. Sonya Dorman
    27. 

  27. James S. Dorr
    28. 

  28. Roger Dutcher
    29. 

  29. Marianne Dyson
    30. 

  30. Helen Ehrlich
    31. 

  31. Joey Froehlich
    32. 

  32. Terry Garey
    33. 

  33. Albert Goldbarth
    34. 

  34. Scott E. Green
    35. 

  35. John Grey
    36. 

  36. Marilyn Hacker
    37. 

  37. Michael Hamburger
    38. 

  38. Elissa Malcohn (Hamilton)
    39. 

  39. Rochelle Holt
    40. 

  40. Andrew Joron
    41. 

  41. the late Millea Kenin
    42. 

  42. David Kopaska-Merkel
    43. 

  43. Lisa Lepovetsky
    44. 

  44. David Lunde
    45. 

  45. George MacBeth
    46. 

  46. F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
    47. 

  47. Stephen Edward McDonald
    48. 

  48. Adrianne Marcus
    49. 

  49. Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr.
    50. 

  50. Susan Palwick
    51. 

  51. Peter Payack
    52. 

  52. Kathryn Rantala
    53. 

  53. Wendy Rathbone
    54. 

  54. Peter Redgrove
    55. 

  55. Thomas A. Rentz, Jr.
    56. 

  56. John Calvin Razmerski
    57. 

  57. Mark Rich
    58. 

  58. Chuck & Sue Rothman
    59. 

  59. Wayne Allen Sallee
    60. 

  60. Lorraine Schein
    61. 

  61. John Oliver Simon
    62. 

  62. Marge Simon
    63. 

  63. Steve Sneyd
    64. 

  64. W. Gregory Stewart
    65. 

  65. William John Watkins
    66. 

  66. Leilah Wendell
    67. 

  67. t. (sic) Winter-Damon
    68. 

 
SFWA Member and award-winning author Michael Swanwick deserves mention in any 
definitive study of 20th-century doggerel for his "Economics", 
The New York Review of Science Fiction, No.63, Nov 1993, p.20.  
Mr. Swanwick is "the man who found at last a rhyme, however tortured, for the 
word 'Orange.'"

George Alec Effinger parodied the relationship between the scientific method and 
the psychopathology of the creative writer in his story "f(x)=(11/15/67), x=her, f(x)=/=0" , 
Mixed Feelings, New York: Harper & Row, 1974, p.79: 

     "Imagination is the lifeblood of science, as research and experimentation are 
     its nerves and sinews.  The scientist as artist: no mere contradiction in terms, 
     but a true picture of the necessary role of the creative spark in the pageant of 
     technological development.  At Science Seminary in Iowa, we were trained in the 
     many techniques used by the other schools, particularly the liberal arts branches.  
     We read by candlelight.  We were made to stare blankly from attic windows, our 
     instructors walking among us to position our fingers in thoughful attitudes on 
     our chins and cheeks.  We learned to use hunger and frustration effectively. 
     Perhaps this is the reason that today those of us who made it through the 
     Seminary are apt to be more dependably erratic, or spontaneous, or whatever 
     constitutes true orginality.  Though (no doubt, no doubt!) we are harder to work with.
 
Within prose Science Fiction, the appearence of a poem from a computer is almost 
invariably held to be a sign of severe dysfunction. Examples include HAL 9000 
singing "Daisy" in 2001, Asimov's positronic robot reciting Gilbert & Sullivan 
when incapacitated on Mercury, Alfred Bester's murderous android in "Fondly Farenheit", 
H. Nearing Jr.'s "The Poetry Machine" (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fall 1950), 
J. G. Ballard's "Studio 5, the Stars", and numerous examples from Stanislas Lem 
(especially "The First Sally (A) or Trurl's Electronic Bard" in The Cyberiad, 
New York: Avon, 1976).

	"'We are using poetry to try to tell you what happens scientifically,' 
	     Shiyai said.'
	'Poetry and science.  Never the twain shall meet,' Wopolsa said.
	'Not in the Pluriverse we know,' Grrindah said.  'But there is a realm where 
	     they do.'"
[Philip JosÄ Farmer, The Unreasoning Mask, Berkeley, 1983, p.153; 
also has "the alaraf drive" obliquely citing Poe].

Ben Bova, in The High Road, New York: Pocket, 1983, p.23 says:
 
     "It may seem self-serving to describe science fiction writers as poets, 
     but in the largest sense of the word, the romantic traditions of poetry 
     have been carried forward in our times by the writers who have pictured a 
     brighter, saner, grander world than we live in--and these are the writers 
     of modern science fiction."

	William Burroughs famously stated that "Language is a virus from outer space."
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