Avram Davidson (1923–1993)

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1. Gardner Dozois

   Author of The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection

2. Poul Anderson

   Author of The Broken Sword, The Day of Their Return, Time and Stars

3. Avram Davidson

   Author of The Other Nineteenth Century, Rork!, Strange Seas and Shores

4. Lin Carter

   Author of Discoveries in Fantasy, The Man Who Loved Mars, Golden Cities, Far

5. Isaac Asimov

   Author of The Gods Themselves, Nine Tomorrows, The Early Asimov or Eleven Years of Trying

6. Jack Vance

   Author of Big Planet, Ecce And Old Earth, To Live Forever

7. Gene Wolfe

   Author of The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Endangered Species, Innocents Aboard

8. Frederik Pohl

   Author of Gateway, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, Man Plus

9. L. Sprague de Camp

   Author of Lest Darkness Fall, The Fallible Fiend, Land of Unreason

10. Brian W. Aldiss

    Author of Earthworks, Barefoot in the Head, Space, Time and Nathaniel

11. Fritz Leiber

    Author of The Wanderer, Conjure Wife, The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich

12. R. A. Lafferty

    Author of Nine Hundred Grandmothers, Fourth Mansions, The Devil Is Dead

13. Philip José Farmer

    Author of The Gates of Creation, Behind the Walls of Terra, Flight to Opar

14. John Brunner

    Author of Players at the Game of People, Interstellar Empire, Age of Miracles

15. A. E. van Vogt

    Author of Slan, The Book of Ptath, The Battle of Forever

16. Clifford D. Simak

    Author of Way Station, The Fellowship of the Talisman, Why Call Them Back from Heaven?

17. James Branch Cabell

    Author of Jurgen : A Comedy of Justice, Figures of Earth : A Comedy of Appearances, Something About Eve : A Comedy of Fig-Leaves

18. James Blish

    Author of A Case of Conscience, The Seedling Stars, And All the Stars a Stage

19. Lord Dunsany

    Author of The King of Elfland's Daughter, The Charwoman's Shadow, The Collected Jorkens, Vol. 1: The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens and Jorkens Remembers Africa

20. David G. Hartwell

    Author of The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF, Year's Best SF 9, Year's Best SF 5