The Evolution of Science Fiction discussion

This topic is to nominate the authors the group would most like to read from the 1990's. Note here that the authors nominated should have written multiple books in the 1990's and ideally not just a single series of books. Maximum 3 nominations each. This thread closes on 30th September and the authors will then be put in a poll.

Nominations
Jonathan Lethem
Iain Banks
Kim Stanley Robinson
Lois McMaster Bujold
Connie Willis

Although I have a love hate relationship with his books, i'm going to nominate Iain Banks or Iain M Banks as he should be known for his sci-fi. There are 2 novels and also a few from the Culture series which can supposedly be read without having read the rest of the series.

The reason I picked Jonathan Lethem as 90's author and didn't pick any others is it would be tough to find another author who had as much impact on Science Fiction and literature as a whole than Lethem. He came on the scene with a splash with Gun, With Occasional Music that mixed SF, Fantasy, hard boiled detective fiction with a Philip K. Dick influence. He went on to write Amnesia Moon, As She Climbed across the Table, Girl in Landscape and the National Book Critics Circle Award winning non- SF novel Motherless Brooklyn in the 90's. He goes on to edit the three PKD Library Of America omnibus collections and co-edit PKD's Exegesis.

I can think of few writers who have had as much impact to bring Science Fiction into a respected literary light.

Lois McMaster Bujold has garnered four Hugo awards matching Heinlein's record and two Nebula awards and numerous other awards and nominations.

Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards.

I have read nothing by either of these two award winning authors, so that's why I nominate them.