Jules Verne  - Not bad Sci-Fi for the mid-late 1800's ;-)

H.G. Wells  - A Time Machine in the late 1800's?

George Orwell  - Is Big Brother watching?  
-- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
   -- Benjamin Franklin

Ira Levin  - Author of "This Perfect Day"- his first novel after 'Rosemary's Baby' about a young man fighting a desperate battle for freedom in a world benumbed by chemistry & computerization.  Be sure to touch your RFID bracelet to the scanner as you enter...

Chalmers Johnson  - Author of "The Sorrows of Empire"

Barbara Ehrenreich- Author of "Nickle and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America"

                 

Up!  Up!  (roll over...   lie down...  beg...)
Robert Nathan - Author of"TheWEANS"- an archeological team 2000 years from now
discovers the remains of American society.  They keep finding metal plates which say "US 1" The Weans at Amazon.com

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - You want to steal a mirror?  Oh, OK.  That's 'taking a leak' in Indiana...

James Howard Kunstler - he believe there are big changes coming to our culture due to the scarcity of resources
    The Long Emergency
    World Made by Hand: A Novel

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