Please feel free to post replies - I am going to create a post for each author I read, but I don't want to prevent anyone from jumping in in the middle and having a conversation!
I've always been a fan of good Science Fiction, but I recently realized that while I've read a lot of the work of a few of the best, I haven't read many of the Grand Masters. A few months ago I set a goal of reading at least one book from each of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award winners from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Here are two links for those who are interested in joining me or following along.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Knight_Memorial_Grand_Master_Awardhttps://nebulas.sfwa.org/grand-masters/I hope that this thread will motivate me to keep going if I lose interest in this activity over the months and years it takes for me to finish. I'll try to post my thoughts about each author in a separate post as I work my way through, but I really hope to hear comments from other people who are interested or are thinking about joining me.
1975 Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988)
1976 Jack Williamson (1908–2006)
1977 Clifford D. Simak (1904–1988)
1978 —
1979 L. Sprague de Camp (1907–2000)
1980 —
1981 Fritz Leiber (1910–1992)
1982 —
1983 —
1984 Andre Norton (1912–2005)
1985 —
1986 Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008)
1987 Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)
1988 Alfred Bester (1913–1987)
1989 Ray Bradbury (1920–2012)
1990 —
1991 Lester del Rey (1915–1993)
1992 —
1993 Frederik Pohl (1919–2013)
1994 —
1995 Damon Knight (1922–2002)
1996 A. E. van Vogt (1912–2000)
1997 Jack Vance (1916–2013)
1998 Poul Anderson (1926–2001)
1999 Hal Clement (1922–2003)
2000 Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017)
2001 Philip José Farmer (1918–2009)
2002 —
2003 Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018)
2004 Robert Silverberg (1935–)
2005 Anne McCaffrey (1926–2011)
2006 Harlan Ellison (1934–2018)[7]
2007 James Gunn (1923–2020)
2008 Michael Moorcock (1939–)[8][9]
2009 Harry Harrison (1925–2012)[10][11]
2010 Joe Haldeman (1943–)[12]
2011 —
2012 Connie Willis (1945–)[13]
2013 Gene Wolfe (1931–2019)[14][15]
2014 Samuel Delany (1942–)[16]
2015 Larry Niven (1938–)[17]
2016 C.J. Cherryh (1942–)[18]
2017 Jane Yolen (1939–)[19]
2018 Peter S. Beagle (1939–)[20][21]
2019 William Gibson (1948–)[22]
2020 Lois McMaster Bujold (1949–)[23]
2021 Nalo Hopkinson (1960–)[24]