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Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton (1942-2008)

film producer, film director, television producer, basketball player, programmer, director

  • Harvard Medical School, Harvard University

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Eaters of the Dead
Novels (Congo / Eaters of the Dead / Sphere)
Jurassic Park
The Lost World
Sphere
A Case of Need
Timeline
Prey
Next
State of Fear
Congo
The Terminal Man
Pirate Latitudes
The Great Train Robbery
Micro
Five Patients
Michael Crichton's Jurassic World (Jurassic Park / Lost World)
Zero Cool
Jasper Johns
Electronic life
Drug of Choice
The Venom Business
Three Complete Novels (Andromeda Strain / Great Train Robbery / Terminal Man)
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 5 1994
Disclosure
Grave Descend
Rising Sun
Binary
Odds On
Dragon Teeth
Twister
Scratch One
Airframe
Michael Crichton Collection (Airframe / Lost World / Timeline)
Two Complete Novels (Disclosure / Rising Sun)
Reader's Digest--Volume 4 1997
Novels (Congo / Jurassic Park)
Dealing
Easy Go
Novels (Andromeda Strain / Terminal Man)
The Michael Crichton Collection (Andromeda Strain / Jurassic Park / Lost World)
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 1 - 1976
Novels (Andromeda Strain / Great Train Robbery)
Travels
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
Reader's Digest Condensed Books
Bestsellers by Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park / Rising Sun / Sphere)
Novels (Case of Need / Terminal Man)
Novels (Congo / Terminal Man)
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--91
The Kidnapping of Amir Hamza
First Words
Works (Terminal Man / Twister)
Dinosaur Hunter's Guide
Rising Sun / The Andromeda Strain / Binary
Philosophy and the Challenge of the Future
Westworld
My Training Journal
Michael Crichton
PAN NI XING SAN YAO
Reader's Digest Condensed Books (Terminal Man / Captain Bligh & Mr. Christian / Sunbird / Falcon for a Queen)
Reader's Digest Condensed Books
The Lost World [2/2]
La Dernière Tombe (Thriller)
El Mundo Perdido
Sfeer
Jurassic Park:Raptor attack
Czlowiek Terminal
Andromeda Evolution
Movie Collection
Jurassic Park (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Prey [1/2]
Reader's Digest Select Editions
The Lost World - the Successor to Jurassic Park (Century 1995)
Lost World
Jurassic Park Park Jurajski
Notaufnahme
Plan idealny
The Great Train Robbery; I Take Thee, Serenity; Bill W.; A Town Like Alice
Panstwo strachu
Drug of Choice (Large Print)
Airframe / Birds of Prey / The Partner / The Falconer
Odds on (Large Print)
Jurassic Park (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Grave Descend (Large Print)
Easy Go (Large Print)
Prey [2/2]
Michael Crichton Thriller Two
Time Life Book Digest
Un train d'or pour la Crimée
Sol Naciente
Volcano
X48 Lost World Dumpbin
Michael Crichton Boxed Set 2
Michael Crichton Omnibus
Five Patients the Hospital Explained
Mangiatori Di Morte
שוד הרכבת הגדול
Zeraʻ Andromedah
ha-Piraṭim
Shilṭon ha-paḥad
Esfera
הלאה
Jay Lake
Jay Lake (1964-2014)

programmer, manager

  • University of Texas at Austin

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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011
Mainspring
Steampunk
Clockwork Fables A Collection Of Steampunk Fairy Tales
The Mammoth Book Of Angels and Demons
Trial of Flowers
Pinion
Green
Subterranean
Kalimpura
Dogs in the Moonlight
Clarkesworld: Year Four
Escapement
Other Earths
Leviathan 4
Endurance
The Sky That Wraps Collected Short Fiction
Rocket Science
Realms 2: The Second Year of Clarkesworld Magazine
Greetings From Lake Wu
Kalimpura
Template - A Novel of the Archonate (Planet Stories)
The Lone star stories reader
The exquisite corpuscle
Escapement
Escapement
Endurance
Green
Mainspring
Green
Pinion
Polyphony
Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh
Green Universe Trilogy
Endurance
Polyphony
The Werewolf Megapack: 22 Classic and Modern Tales of Shape-Shifters!
The Fifth Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®
Fantasy For Good
Metatropolis
The Best of Subterranean
Last Drink Bird Head : A Flash Fiction Anthology for Charity
Last plane to Heaven
The 13th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 26 Great SF Stories!
The 10th Science Fiction MEGAPACK
Eighth Science Fiction Megapack
The Steampunk MEGAPACK®: 26 Modern and Classic Steampunk Stories
Launch Pad
Death Of A Starship
TEL
American Sorrows
Clarkesworld Issue 100
Last Plane to Heaven: The Final Collection
Footprints
Space Opera Megapack
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2
JADE
Steampunk Megapack
The Baby Killers [hc]
The River Knows Its Own
Madness of flowers
Straying From the Path
H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror
Clarkesworld Issue 129
The Stars Do Not Lie Hugo and Nebula Nominated Novella
The Specific Gravity of Grief
Polyphony
Green Grow the Rushes-Oh
Looking for Truth in a Wild Blue Yonder
Werewolf Megapack
Weird Tales #355
Starship Mechanic
Almost All the Way Home From the Stars: Seven Science Fiction Stories
A Water Matter: A Tor.Com Original (Green)
The Specific Gravity of Grief
Grants Pass
That Is Not Dead
The Speed of Time: A Tor.Com Original
Two Stories: A Tor.Com Original
Cats Steampunk Alphabet
Almost All the Way Home From the Stars: Science Fiction Short Stories
Edward
Spicy slipstream stories
Ken Liu
Ken Liu (born 1976)

linguist, poet, translator, lawyer, programmer, consultant, jurist

  • Harvard Law School, Harvard College

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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2014
The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty)
Broken Stars
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2021 Edition
The Wall of Storms (The Dandelion Dynasty)
Genius Loci
The Grace of Kings
The Wall of Storms
Grace of Kings
Grace of Kings
Lightspeed
Relics, Wrecks and Ruins
Unidentified Funny Objects 2
Timeshift: Tales of Time
Humanity 2.0
Dead Man's Hand
Sins and Other Worlds
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Star Wars - The Legends of Luke Skywalker
Made To Order
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories (Volume 1)
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories
Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 1
Unidentified Funny Objects 6
Lightspeed Magazine, September 2018 (Issue 100) (Volume 100)
Unidentified Funny Objects
The End Has Come
Invisible Planets [Paperback]
Escape Pod
Time Travel: Recent Trips
Love, Death + Robots : The Official Anthology
Invisible planets
Legends of Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight
The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories
Planetas invisibles
Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
In Situ
Clarkesworld
Invisible Planets
Vagabonds
Bridging Infinity (The Infinity Project Book 5)
Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding, Volume 2
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016
La gracia de los reyes
The Long List Anthology: More Stories from the Hugo Awards Nomination List (The Long List Anthology Series) (Volume 1)
Three-Body Problem Series
Veiled Throne
Kaleidoscope
Clarkesworld: Year Six
Funny Science Fiction
Hidden Girl and Other Stories
TOUTES LES SAVEURS
A la deriva en el mar de las Lluvias y otros relatos (Nova fantástica) (Spanish Edition)
Haha no kioku ni
Clarkesworld: Year Five
TOUTES LES SAVEURS
El zoo de papel y otros relatos
LA MENAGERIE DE PAPIER
Clarkesworld Issue 102
Timeshift
Coffee: 14 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic
OCEANS: The Anthology (Frontiers of Speculative Fiction) (Volume 2)
This Side of the Divide
Storie dal domani 5: I migliori racconti di Future Fiction 2018 (Italian Edition)
The Anderson Project: A Tor.Com Original
Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #1
Kami no dōbutsuen
Speaking Bones
Zwielicht 8
Wall of Storms
Speaking Bones
Estrellas rotas
Clarkesworld Issue 98
Remembrance of Earth's Past
Multiverses
Mono no aware
El trono velado
Invisible Planets
Mono no Aware e altre storie (Future Fiction Vol. 20) (Italian Edition)
Krallarin Merhameti
Die Götter von Dara
Invisible Planets
Die Schwerter von Dara
Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Arterial Bloom
Isolation
Star Wars : Journey to Star Wars : Die letzten Jedi
La gracia de los reyes
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Bifrost n° 83: Dossier Laurent Kloetzer (REV BIFROST) (French Edition)
Terra Nova: Antología de ciencia ficción contemporánea (Spanish Edition)
El Muro de las Tormentas
Die Götter von Dara: Seidenkrieger (Die Legenden von Dara 2) (German Edition)
Storie Dal Domani 4
Star Wars Episodio VIII Las leyendas de Luke Skywalker
Freestyle Graphics
El trono velado
Asian Monsters (Fox Spirit Books of Monsters) (Volume 3)
Wall of Storms
Legends of Luke Skywalker
The Wall of STorms by Ken Liu Unabridged CD Audiobook
Steampunk Universe
Star Wars Episodio VIII Las leyendas de Luke Skywalker
Die Schwerter von Dara - Seidenkrieger Band 1
Stray Skies
Ciudad Nómada y otros relatos
La chica oculta y otros relatos
Krolowie Dary
Speaking Bones
Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Beast Within 4
Dragons, Droids & Doom: Year One: Fantasy Scroll Magazine
Vagabond
Faszination Evangelium. Wo Franziskus weiter lebt.
First Contact: Digital Science Fiction Anthology (Digital Science Fiction Short Stories Series One) (Volume 1)
Crossed Genres Quarterly 01: Volume One of Crossed Genres quarterly editions
Veiled Throne
La gracia de los Reyes
La chica oculta y otros relatos
Pod sztandarem Dzikiego Kwiatu. Tom 2. Sciana burz
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky (born 1979)

artificial intelligence researcher, blogger, computer scientist

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Tochi Onyebuchi
Tochi Onyebuchi (born 1987)

lawyer, opinion journalist, jurist, computer scientist

  • Yale University, New York University Tisch School of the Arts

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Riot baby
Beasts made of night
Crown of thunder
Made To Order
War Girls
Goliath
Black Enough
Black Panther Legends
Rebel Sisters
Riot Baby
Goliath Sneak Peek
Crown of Thunder
L'architecte de la vengeance
Captain America
Captain America : Sentinel of Liberty Vol. 1
Corona de trueno
(S)kinfolk
Yūichi Suzumoto
Yūichi Suzumoto (born 1969)

video game developer

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Kinoko Nasu
Kinoko Nasu (born 1973)

video game developer

  • Hosei University

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John D. Rateliff
John D. Rateliff (born 1957)

independent scholar, game designer, role-playing game designer, expert, video game developer

  • Marquette University

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