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The realm of science fiction is a tight-knit community. While other genres have a wide appeal, science fiction has been, until very recently, solely a fan-driven genre. Although movies and TV have brought sci-fi to a wider audience and Internet sites and blogs have replaced fanzines, science fiction novels and short stories are still the mainstay of cutting-edge science fiction. The following list contains essential writers old and new who are well respected in the genre but aren’t as universally known (at least yet) as perhaps, say, Robert Heinlein or Isaac Asimov in the science fiction universe.