After Ray Bradbury, Ursula is my top choice.
Read on: http://www.thealienonline.net/ao_030.asp?tid=1&scid=7&iid=1333

She's a good choice. I'm still waiting for Frank Herbert, though. How can Dune not be recognized? He has other stuff, but Dune is amazing.

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LeGuin to become 20th SF Grand Master
Congratulations to Ursula on her well deserved award
Submitted by: Ariel
On: 11.01.2003


Fans of Ursula K. LeGuin will be delighted to learn that she is to be awarded the highest honour bestowable by SF fandom when she is named a Science Fiction Grand Master during the Nebula Awards weekend in Philadelphia April 18-20, 2003.

LeGuin's career spans forty years, during which time she has written seventeen novels, including her best-loved Earthsea sequence as well as sf classics such as The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed. She has also penned innumerableshort stories, essays, poems and criticial works, making her a true genre all-rounder.

She will become the twentieth Grand Master, joining such luminaries as Robert A. Heinlein, Jack Williamson, Clifford D. Simak, L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber, Andre Norton, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, Ray Bradbury, Lester del Rey, Frederik Pohl, Damon Knight, A.E. van Vogt, Jack Vance, Poul Anderson, Hal Clement, Brian Aldiss and Philip Jos� Farmer.

Source: SciFi Wire, Locus Online, others