List of Scottish science fiction writers

A

• Gilbert Adair
• Mea Allan
• William Archer
• Marion Arnott
• Kate Atkinson
• William Auld

B

• Allan Baillie
• David Baillie
• Andrew Balfour
• Iain Banks
• Robert Barr
• Eric Temple Bell
• Margot Bennett
• Julie Bertagna
• Chris Boyce
• Christopher Brookmyre
• George MacKay Brown
• John Brunner
• Jonathan Burke
• Ron Butlin

C

• J Storer Clouston
• Michael Cobley
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• JJ Connington

D

• Florence Dixie
• Dougal Dixon
• Diane Duane – resident in Scotland for a period
• Robert Ellis Dudgeon
• Dave Duncan
• Hal Duncan

E

• Margaret Elphinstone

F

• Michel Faber – Dutch writer resident in Scotland; has used Scotland as a setting
• Matthew Fitt

G

• Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
• Lewis Grassic Gibbon
• Gary Gibson
• Richard Gordon
• Stuart Gordon
• Alan Grant
• John Grant
• Alasdair Gray
• Stephen Greenhorn
• Neil M Gunn
• Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie

H

• JBS Haldane
• Owen Hall
• Peter Hamilton
• Ronald Hingley

J

• William James
• Richard Jobson

K

• Chris Kelso
• James Kennaway
• Cam Kennedy
• Philip Kerr
• William King

L

• Archibald Lamont
• Alan W. Lear
• David Lindsay
• Eric Linklater
• Duncan Lunan

M

• Stuart MacBride
• Hugh MacColl
• J. T. McIntosh (James Murdoch MacGregor)
• F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
• Compton Mackenzie
• Alistair MacLean
• Ken MacLeod
• Graham McNeill
• Angus MacVicar
• Donald Malcolm
• Colin Manlove
• Bruce Marshall
• Troy Kennedy Martin
• David I. Masson
• Robert Duncan Milne
• William Minto
• Naomi Mitchison
• Steven Moffat
• Dan Morgan
• Grant Morrison
• Peter Morwood – resident in Scotland for a while

N

• Bill Napier
• Ian Niall (John McNeillie)
• Joseph Shield Nicholson
• Hume Nisbet
• Lisanne Norman

O

• Margaret Oliphant
• George Orwell – English writer of Scottish extraction; wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four while living in Isle of Jura
• Walter Owen

P

• James Peddie
• David Pringle

Q

• Frank Quitely

R

• Hannu Rajaniemi – Finnish writer; long-term resident in Scotland
• Gordon Rennie
• Terence Roberts (Ivan T. Sanderson)
• Michael Scott Rohan
• Archie Roy
• Brian Ruckley

S

• Ivan T. Sanderson (Terence Roberts)
• Graham Seton
• Michael Shea
• Catherine Helen Spence
• Gordon Stables
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Charles Stross
• Martin Swayne

T

• John Taine (Eric Temple Bell)
• Ismar Thiusen (John MacNie)
• Ruthven Todd

U

• Thomas Urquhart

W

• David Walker
• Irvine Welsh
• Gordon Williams

Y

• Jane Yolen – American writer; long-term resident of Scotland

See also

• List of science fiction writers
• List of Scottish writers

References

Footnotes

Online resources

• Books from Scotland, Scottish Science fiction
• SF Encyclopedia