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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I'd echo prior commenters' sentiments that Bradbury, Gibson, Dick, Atwood and LeGuin are all writers that (at one time or another) have piqued my interest as an almost dyed-in-the-wool lit snob.

The one name I'm surprised not to see is JG Ballard. Some don't consider him sci fi, actually, for whatever reason: because he writes about the current day, actual universes, actual technologies (sometimes). But man, can that guy write a sentence. And spin a nightmare-inducing alternate-reality yarn.