Samuel R Delany, Philip K Dick, Ursula K Le Guin, and (maybe) William Gibson.

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What scifi/fantasy authors would you be willing to defend as writers of high quality literature and not just genre fiction? What authors both have something to say, and say it well?

NB: I'm primarily looking for people who are by default filed in the SciFi ghetto, not "real" authors who have occasionally been filed in SF/fantasy. Because Kurt Vonnegut is widely acknowledged to be a virtuoso writer and has written a bunch of SF, but I'm not sure that most people think of him as a science fiction writer.

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Card also had some interesting early stuff: Wyrms, Hart's Hope and Treason. I haven't read any of them in quite a while, so I could have inaccurate memories. Maybe they sucked and I was too young to notice.

I wanted to say Dan Simmons for Hyperion, but it's just not quite there, you know? Astounding cultural depth, but still very much in a speculative fiction way.