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Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones (born 1972)

academic

  • Texas Tech University, Florida State University

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Zombies
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy And Horror 2012
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010
Mapping the interior
Mongrels
Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022
Mongrels: A Novel
My Hero
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror
Bad Seeds
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories
Bleed into me
The Only Good Indians
Ledfeather
The fast red road
The bird is gone
All the beautiful sinners
It Came From Del Rio
Demon Theory
Growing Up Dead in Texas
The Mythic Dream
Bleed Into Me A Book Of Stories
Seven Spanish Angels
The ones that got away
MONGRELS- PB
The Last Final Girl
The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti
Blood Type: An Anthology of Vampire SF on the Cutting Edge
The gospel of Z
Faster Redder Road
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Not for Nothing
Death's Realm
Nightmares Unhinged
Night of the Mannequins
It Came from the Multiplex
Don't Fear the Reaper
Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016
The New Black: A Neo-Noir Anthology
After the people lights have gone off
Mapping the Interior
Flushboy
The bird is gone
Tor. com Publishing Editorial Spotlight #3
Suspended in Dusk II
The Only Good Indians
Wait for Night
Bleed into me
The least of my scars
The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction (Issue Five)
Blood Business
El único indio bueno
Road Kill
Men, Women, and Chainsaws
Içerinin Haritasi
Night Cyclist
All the Beautiful Sinners
El único indio bueno
The Midnight Exhibit Vol. 1
Seven Spanish Angels
Attack of the 50 Foot Indian
Flushboy
Ledfeather
Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth
Un bon indien est un indien mort
Mestizos
Weird Tales 359
All the Beautiful Sinners
Memorial Ride
Zombie Bake-Off
Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman
Children of Lovecraft
Sterling City
Mestizos
Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly
Washed in the Blood
The Night Cyclist
Mongrels
Melezler
Weird Tales #359
Chapter Six
Bird Is Gone
Growing Up Dead in Texas
Psi-Wars
States of Grace
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Mongrels
Tribulations
The Only Good Indians
Terror at 5280'
Cyber World
Rudy Rucker
Rudy Rucker (born 1946)

mathematician, computer scientist

  • Swarthmore College, Rutgers University

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Mad Professor
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder
All the visions ; Space baltic
The secret of life
Hylozoic
Where the Lost Things Are
Year's Best SF 14
Infinity and the mind
The Fourth Dimension
Freeware
Seek!
Software (Ware Tetralogy #1)
Frek and the elixir
Geometry, relativity, and the fourth dimension
The hacker and the ants
Surfing the Gnarl (Outspoken Authors #7)
Mathenauts
Realware
Gnarl!
Mind Tools
The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul
Postsingular
Artificial life lab
Wastelands 2
Mathematicians in Love
White light
Wetware
Mondo 2000
As Above, So Below
Jim and the Flims
The Sex Sphere
Spaceland
Nested scrolls
Semiotext(e) SF
Master of space and time
Saucer wisdom
The ware tetralogy
Software engineering and computer games
The hollow earth
Spacetime Donuts
Transreal!
Million Mile Road Trip
Transreal Cyberpunk
The Big Aha
57th Franz Kafka
Totem Poles
Rudy Rucker's cellular automata laboratory
Hollow Earth & Return to The Hollow Earth
Return to the Hollow Earth
Loco: A Tor.Com Original
Live robots
Superlative Light
The UFO Show
Good Night, Moon: A Tor.Com Original
Notes for Return to the Hollow Earth
Turing & Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel
Notes for Juicy Ghosts
Complete Stories (Volume 1)
Complete Stories (Volume 2)
Wikiworld and Other Stories
Notes for The Big Aha
Transreal Trilogy: Secret of Life, White Light, Saucer Wisdom
Heath Math Level 1 Student Text
Billy's Picture Book
Heath Math Level 3 Student Txt
Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory: A Tor.Com Original
Moldies & meatbops: Three *ware novels
Juicy Ghosts
Heath Math Level K Student Text
Brian Stableford
Brian Stableford (1948-2024)

literary critic, researcher

  • University of York

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Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers
Architects of Emortality
Historical dictionary of fantasy literature
By Blood We Live
The Last Days of the Edge of the World
Shadows over Innsmouth
Firefly
The Dedalus book of British fantasy
The New Faust at the Tragicomique
Tales of the Wandering Jew
Salamander's Fire
Snuggly Sirenicon
Slaves of the Death Spiders and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature
The A to Z of fantasy literature
The A to Z of Fantasy Literature (The A to Z Guide Series Book 46)
The Cosmic Perspective and Other Black Comedies
Frankenstein in London
Prince Bonifacio
The Haunted Bookshop and Other Apparitions
Algebraic fantasies and realistic romances
Space, time, and infinity
Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction
The Dragon Man
Opening minds
Ombre de Frankenstein
The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy
Stirring Stories
Slaves of the death spiders
Sheena and Other Gothic Tales
Writing fantasy & science fiction, and getting published
The Vampire Archives
Grave Predictions
The Wildside Book of Fantasy: 20 Great Tales of Fantasy
Shadows over Baker Street
The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires
The Cassandra Complex
The Werewolves of London
Scientific romance in Britain 1890-1950
The angel of pain
The carnival of destruction
The Florians
The third millennium
The mysteries of modern science
Inherit the earth
The Science in science fiction
Science Fact and Science Fiction
Isaac Asimov's utopias
Future man
Journey to the Center
Sociology of Science Fiction
Masters of Science Fiction
The Mind-Riders
The Fenris Device
Dark Ararat
Architects of Emortality
Optiman
Black Wings III - New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror
Paradox of the Sets
Realms of Tartarus
Once Upon a Future: The Third Borgo Press Book of Science Fiction Stories
Scientific romance in Britain, 1890-1950
The paradox of the sets
The Cassandra Complex (Emortality)
Young Blood
The Gates of Eden
The city of the sun
The Walking Shadow
The Halcyon drift
The Dedalus book of femmes fatales
Halcyon drift
The empire of fear
The Angel of Pain
The Dedalus book of decadence (moral ruins)
The Florians (Daedalus Mission, Bk. 1)
The city of the sun
Designer genes
The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence (The Black Forrest)
Inherit the Earth (Emortality)
The Dedalus book of decadence (moral ruins)
Wildeblood's Empire
The Last Days of the Edge of the World
Rhapsody in Black
The Face of Heaven
The Steampunk MEGAPACK®: 26 Modern and Classic Steampunk Stories
Heterocosms
The Tarantulas' Parlor
The face of heaven
Firefly
Man in a Cage
The empire of fear
Dislocations: Nine Stories of Speculation and Imagination
Tree Turf And Ornamental Pesticide Guide
The third millennium
Cinema Futura (edited by Mark Morris)
The way to write science fiction
The Snuggly Satyricon
Sexual chemistry
Year zero
Tales of the Shadowmen 5
John Carter Of Mars
Streaking
Inherit the earth
The paradise game
The Angel of Pain
Kiss the Goat
Journey to the Centre
Wildebloods empire
Five Star Science Fiction/Fantasy - Asgard's Conquerors
Space, Time, and Infinity: Essays on Fantastic Literature
The Dictionary of science fiction places
The gates of Eden
The Tree of Life
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts)
Balance of Power
Man in a cage
Cradle of the sun
The empire of fear
The Monster MEGAPACK®: 22 Modern & Classic Tales of Monsters
The Red Sorcerer
Dark Ararat (Emortality)
Omega Expedition
Empire of Fear
Isoline and the Serpent-Flower
The Wayward Muse
Chimera's Cradle
Historical dictionary of science fiction literature
Rouletabille at Krupp's
The A to Z of Science Fiction Literature (A to Z Guides)
Man in a Cage
To Challenge Chaos
Promised Land
The Werewolves of London
Chimera's Cradle (The Books of Genesys)
Serpent's Blood
The Fountains of Youth (Emortality)
Salome and Other Decadent Fantasies
The werewolves of London
Swan Song
Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction
The Mysterious Force
SERPENT'S BLOOD (GENESYS)
The Cure for Love and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
The Mind-Riders
The Man Who Lost Himself
Complications and Other Stories
Halcyon drift
The Giant Book of Fantasy and the Supernatural
Invaders from the Centre
The Carnival of Destruction
Le troisième millénaire
Swan Songs
The Eleventh Hour
The Centre Cannot Hold
Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction
Firefly: A Novel of the Far Future
The Navigators of Space
The Best of Both Worlds and Other Ambiguous Tales
The Stones of Camelot
The Golden Fleece and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
The Angel of Lust
L'énigme de Floria
Ever Smaller
Omega Expedition
The fountains of youth
The Terror of Madame Atomos
The Elusive Shadows
Exotic Encounters: Selected Reviews
Weird Fiction in France
Halcyon Drift
Day Of Wrath
The Last Days of the Edge of the World
Sherlock Holmes and the Vampires of Eternity
Sang du serpent
Valdemar's Daughter / The Mad Trist
Paradise Game
Das Machtgleichgewicht.
A clash of symbols
An Inhabitant of the Planet Mars
Adventures of Captain Cap
The Bald Giants
Journey to the center
World above the World
Zeitsprünge
The Truths of Darkness
Vampires of Atlantis
The Vampire Lord Ruthwen
Wildeblood's empire
Genesys- Trilogie 2. Das Feuer des Salamanders
The Secret of Zippelius
Paradies des Untergangs
Slaves of the Death Spiders and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature (I.O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy & Criticism of Literature, No. 38.)
Changelings and Other Metamorphic Tales
The Blue Peril
Merkeze Seyahat -Asgrad Üclemesi-1
Univers 1985
Beyond the Mountains of Madness
Fountains of Youth
Posthumous Correspondence
Sar Dubnotal vs Jack the Ripper
Vampire of the Val-De-Grace
Critical Threshold
The Sacred Fire
The Kingdom Of The Beasts
Glorious perversity
The Merchants of Health
The Womb of Time
Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist Across the Solar System
Future man
Embrasser le bouc
The Alchemy of Blood
The paradise game
Year Zero
War Games
A Vision of Hell
An International Mission to the Moon
Science Fact and Science Fiction
The Supreme Progress
Pharaoh's Wife
The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence the Black Feast
Ortog
Genesys- Trilogie 3. Das Rätsel der Chimäre
Das Paradox der fremden Wesen
Babels, Balloons and Innocent Eyes
Halyartes
Dedalus Book of Decadence
TALES OF ENCHANTMENT AND DISENCHANTMENT
Pawns of Chaos
Paris Before the Deluge
Spirits of the Vasty Deep
Mephistophela
Chimera's Cradle
The Emerald Princess
Cradle of the Sun
The City of the Sun
Tangled Web of Time
Promised Land: Hooded Swan, Book Three
Midnight!!
Dark Ararat
Science Fact and Science Fiction
Curse of the Coral Bride
Portals of Paradise
THE THIRD MILLENIUM
Martian Epic
Automata
Germans on Venus
Slumming in Voodooland
Prelude to Eternity
Masks in the Tapestry
The Walking Shadow
The Omega expedition
Tales of the Shadowmen 4
Serpent's blood
Young Blood
Outside the human aquarium
Cassandra Complex
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2001
Conqueror of Death
Designer Genes: Tales of the Biotech Revolution
The Dedalus Book of Decadence (Moral Ruins)
Beginning Operations : A Sector General Omnibus
Carnival of destruction
Swan Songs
Critical Threshold
Against the New Gods and Other Essays on Writers of Imaginative Fiction
The Blind Worm
New Atlantis
The encyclopedia of science fiction
Melusine
An Oasis of Horror: Decadent Tales and Contes Cruels
Yesterday's bestsellers
Asgard's Conquerors : A Science Fiction Novel
The Couple
The Incredible Adventure and Other Interstellar Excursions
Narrative Strategies in Science Fiction and Other Essays on Imaginative Fiction
Nora, The Ape-Woman
In the Flesh and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
The French Fantasy Treasury
Panic in Paris
The Quiet Dead
After the Revelation
The Death of Broceliande
The Exploits of Professor Tornada
To challenge Chaos
The science in science fiction
Architects of Emortality
Empire of Fear
Puteshestvie k T ŁSentru
The Mirror of Present Events
Swan Song
News from the Moon
Mysterious Fluid
Creators of Science Fiction
Nightmares of an Ether-Drinker
The Soul-Drinker
Journey to the Land of the Fourth Dimension
Selbstmord im All
Further Beyond: A Lovecraftian Science Fiction Novel
Les Fleurs Du Mal / The Undead (Wildside Double #4
Space, Time, and Infinity
The Crazy Corner
Wildeblood's Empire
The Insubstantial Pageant
News of the Black Feast and Other Random Reviews
The Clock of the Centuries
War Games
In the Kingdom of the Beasts (Dies Irae, #2)
The days of glory
Asgard's heart
Castaways of Tanagar
El imperio del miedo
Dictionary of Science Fiction Places
Sexual Chemistry
The last days of the edge of the world
The Third Millennium : A History of the World
Asgard's conquerers
El Hombre Futuro
Serpent's Blood
Asgard's secret
Critical threshold
El imperio del miedo
Tales of the Wandering Jew
Hans-Harald Müller
Hans-Harald Müller (born 1943)

Germanist, literary scholar, man of letters

  • University of Hamburg

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Fremde Welten (German Edition)
Leo Perutz
Intellektueller Linksradikalismus in der Weimarer Republik
Der Krieg und die Schriftsteller
What is narratology?
Theodor Plievier
Barockforschung, Ideologie und Methode
Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Germanistik in Porträts
Wissenschaft ohne Universität, Forschung ohne Staat
Strukturalismus in Deutschland
100 Jahre Germanistik in Hamburg
Praktizierte Germanistik
Der Nachlass Wilhelm Scherers in Berlin
Ernst Jünger im 20. Jahrhundert
Disziplinentwicklung als community of practice
Richard A. Bermann alias Arnold Höllriegel
Lewis Call
Lewis Call (born 1949)

historian, social scientist

  • University of California, San Diego, University of California, Irvine

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Bdsm In American Science Fiction And Fantasy
Bdsm in American Science Fiction and Fantasy
Postmodern Anarchism
Readings in Modern World History
Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon
A. J. Hartley
A. J. Hartley (born 1964)

theatrical director, dramaturge

  • University of Durham

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Act of Will
Will power
Steeplejack
Steeplejack: Book 1 in the Steeplejack series
Guardian
What time devours
Firebrand
Darwen Arkwright & the school of shadows
Firebrand: Book 2 in the Steeplejack series
Guardian: Book 3 in the Steeplejack series
Steeplejack: Book 1 in the Steeplejack series
Instinct
Act of Will
Steeplejack Series
Firebrand: Book 2 in the Steeplejack series
Burning Shakespeare
Hideki Smith, Demon Queller
Will Power
Macbeth
Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact
Tertiary Deep-Marine Reservoirs of the North Sea Region
Chains
Trinity
Written Stone Lane
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Prozhorlivoe vremi͡a
Mirrors Shattered
Mirroculist Mission
Impervious
Tears of the Jaguar
Hideki Smith
Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark
Sonja Klimek
Sonja Klimek (born 1980)

literary scholar, Germanist, editor

  • University of Münster, University of Fribourg

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Paradoxes Erzählen
Funktionen der Fantastik
Grundfragen der Lyrikologie 2
Gedichte von Jan Wagner
Metalepsis in Popular Culture
Vladimir Obruchev
Vladimir Obruchev (1863-1956)

geologist, explorer, paleontologist, geographer, scientist

  • Saint Petersburg Mining Institute

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Plutonia
Zemli︠a︡ Sannikova
Fundamentals of Geology
Sannikov Land
Fundamentals of geology
Plutonia
Plutoniya. Zemlya Sannikova. (My First Collection)
Polevai͡a︡ geologii͡a︡
Plutonia
Moi puteshestviya po Sibiri
Vostochnaia Mongoliia
Grigoriĭ Nikolaevich Potanin
Plutoniya
Po goram i pustyni͡a︡m Sredneĭ Azii
V debri︠a︡kh T︠S︡entralʹnoĭ Azii
Dikie zhivotnye Rossii
Ot Ki︠a︡khty do Kulʹdzhi
Zanimatelʹnai͡a︡ geologii͡a︡
Zemlya Sannikova
Moi puteshestviya po Sibiri
Programma izdanīi͡a︡ trudov I͡A︡kutskoĭ ėkspedit͡s︡īi, snari͡a︡zhennoĭ na sredstva I.M. Sibiri͡a︡kova
Kratkīĭ geologicheskīĭ ocherk karavannago puti ot Kyakhtȳ do Kalgana
Osnory geologii
Plutonii͡a︡
Zolotoiskateli v pustyne
Puteshestviia v proshloe i budushchee
Moi puteshestvii͡a︡ po Sibiri
Izbrannye raboty po geografii Azii
Puteshestvii͡a︡ Potanina
Za taĭnami Plutona
Osnovy geologii
Istorii︠a︡ geologicheskogo issledovanii︠a︡ Sibiri
V staroĭ Sibiri
Izbrannye trudy
Proiskhozhdenie gor i materikov
Kukushkin
Plutonii︠a︡ ; Zemli︠a︡ Sannikova
Voprosy geologii Sibiri
Plutanii︠a︡ ; Zemli︠a︡ Sannikova
Sbornik instrukt͡siĭ i programmnykh ukazaniĭ po izuchenii͡u merzlykh gruntov i vechnoĭ merzloty
Ot K͡iakhty do Kulʹdzhi
Über die systematik der erzlagerstätten
Zeml i a Sannikova
Geologie von Sibirien
Shiberia shigen kenkyū
Geologicheskīi︠a︡ izsli︠e︡dovanīi︠a︡ v zolotonosnykh oblasti︠a︡kh Sibiri
Eduard Suess
Akademiku V.A. Obruchevu k pi͡atidesi͡atiletii͡u nauchnoĭ i pedagogicheskoĭ dei͡atelʹnosti
Die metallogenetischen epochen und gebiete von Sibirien
Polevai͡a geologii͡a
Erets Saniḳov
Materialy po geomorfologii i paleontologii