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Ryan North
Ryan North (born 1980)

engineer, programmer, cartoonist, caricaturist

  • University of Toronto, Carleton University

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Adventure Time, Vol. 4
Extreme Venomverse
Adventure Time
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1: Squirrel Power
Slaughterhouse-Five
the best of Dinosaur Comics
The unbeatable Squirrel Girl
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
Adventure Time Annual 2015
Marvel Rising
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
Adventure Time
How to Invent Everything
Gender and the Superhero Narrative
To Be or Not To Be
This Is How You Die
Spitball 8
How to Take over the World
How to Invent Everything
Hora de Aventuras #3
Adventure Time Vol. 3 Mathematical Edition
Midas Flesh Vol. 2
Hora de aventuras, 7
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 3
Adventure Time Vol. 2 Mathematical Edition
Midas
The Mystery of the Meanest Teacher
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 4
Hora de aventuras 4
Adventure Time
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 2
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 10
Hora de aventuras, 8
Hora de aventuras. 1
Power Pack
Adventure Time Vol. 6 Mathematical Edition
Fantastic Four the Ultimate Guide New Edition
Year of Marvels
Adventure Time #14
Adventure Time : Candy Capers
Adventure Time #8
Adventure Time #23
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Omnibus
Call Your Squirrelfriends
Darkhold
Adventure Time #32
Adventure Time #30
Fantastic Four
Adventure Time #33
Star Trek
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl One
Fantastic Four by Ryan North Vol. 3
Adventure Time #30
Midas Flesh Vol. 2
Adventure Time #26
Adventure Time Vol. 6
Adventure Time #2
Adventure Time #7
Adventure Time #3
Adventure Time #16
Adventure Time #27
Romeo y/o Julieta
Adventure Time #25
Romeo y/o Julieta
Adventure Time 3.
Adventure Time #15
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 12
Adventure Time - Mathematical Edition
Jughead 2
Adventure Time Bind-Up
Computational measures of the acceptability of light verb constructions
Fantastic Four by Ryan North Vol. 2
Adventure Time, Volume 2 (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Adventure Time #21
Adventure Time #31
Adventure Time Vol. 7 Mathematical Edition
Midas Flesh #8
Adventure Time Compendium Vol. 1
Bill and Ted's Most Triumphant Return #1 (of 6)
Secret Invasion
Adventure Time #12
Hora de Aventuras 6
Adventure Time #19
Adventure Time Vol. 5 Mathematical Edition
Spider-Verse
Jughead 3
Howard the Duck by Zdarsky and Quinones Omnibus
Adventure Time #29
Adventure Time #9
Slaughterhouse-Five
Adventure Time #34
Adventure Time #10
OGN. LA CHICA ARDILLA
Adventure Time #75
Romeo and/or Juliet
Adventure Time Vol. 7
Adventure Time Vol. 4 Mathematical Edition
Fantastic Four by Ryan North Vol. 1
Adventure Time Volume 1 (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Adventure Time (Boom Studios))
Adventure Time #22
Adventure Time #17
Stories from the Overworld #2
Adventure Time #33
Fantastic Four by Dan Slott Vol. 2
Adventure Time #20
Adventure Time #1
Adventure Time #35
Adventure Time #28
Adventure Time, Volume 4 (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Adventure Time #11
Fantastic Four by Ryan North Vol. 4
Adventure Time Vol. 8 Mathematical Edition
Adventure Time Vol. 17
Danger and Other Unknown Risks
Vernor Vinge
Vernor Vinge (1944-2024)

mathematician, computer scientist

  • University of California, San Diego, Michigan State University

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True Names
A Fire upon the Deep
Machines That Think
The Peace War
Rainbows End
Across Realtime
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought)
Marooned in Realtime
The collected stories of Vernor Vinge
The Witling
Great Science Fiction
Tatja Grimm's world
The children of the sky
Digital Rapture
Robotics Through Science Fiction
Grimm's world
Threats and Other Promises
The Tor SF Sampler
Der Zeitläufer
Eine Tiefe am Himmel
Au tréfonds du ciel
Histórias de Robôs - Volume 2
The Zones of Thought Series
The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
The Children of the Sky
Zones of Thought
ABISMO EN EL CIELO, UN
Fast Times at Fairmont High
Der Friedenskrieg
Tatja Grimm's World
Copiii cerului
Cookie monster
Tiempos Nuevos en Fairmont High
Analog 6
Children of the Sky
Un fuego sobre el abismo (Zones of Thought, #1)
After the Battle on Starship Hill
EL FINAL DEL ARCO IRIS
Naufragio en el tiempo real
Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
Glubina v nebe
De krochten van het heelal
Tutti i racconti
Grimm's World
Zones of Thought
La Captive du temps perdu
La Guerra de la Paz
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
Erick Wujcik
Erick Wujcik (1951-2008)

programmer, video game developer, role-playing game designer

  • Wayne State University

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Palladium Books presents -- Ninjas & superspies
Road Hogs (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness)
Ninjas and Superspies
Amber diceless role-playing
Shadow knight
Guide to the Universe/Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures
After the Bomb Role-Playing Game
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness
Shadow Knight (Amber Diceless Role Playing)
Mutants Down Under (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness Role Playing Game Supplement)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Rpg Accessory Pack
Mystic China
Transdimensional/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Mutants of the Yucatan (After the Bomb, Book 4)
The Palladium Book of Weapons and Assassins (Weapon Series, No 3)
Dragons & Gods (Palladium Fantasy RPG, 2nd edition)
Aliette de Bodard
Aliette de Bodard (born 1982)

software engineer, engineer

  • Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, Lycee Francais Charles de Gaulle

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Epic
Servant of the Underworld
Master of the House of Darts
The House of Binding Thorns
Harbinger of the Storm
Seven of Infinities
The House of Shattered Wings
Obsidian and Blood
Obsidian and Blood (Obsidian & Blood)
A Fantasy Medley 3
Meeting Infinity
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories
The Best of Uncanny
Mission
Harbinger of the storm
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8 (Volume 8)
Harbinger of the storm
Master of the House of Darts
The House of Sundering Flames
The Death of All Things
Cosmic Powers
Scattered Among Strange Worlds
Silk & Steel
The Citadel of Weeping Pearls
Fireheart Tiger
The Immersion Book of SF
The Long List Anthology Volume 3: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List (The Long List Anthology Series)
Nebula Awards Showcase 54
Knee-Deep in Grit
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3
Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders
The house of binding thorns
The Red Scholar's Wake
Entropic Angel
On a Red Station, Drifting
The Long List Anthology Volume 2: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List (The Long List Anthology Series)
The House of Binding Thorns (A Dominion of the Fallen Novel Book 2)
Scheherazade's Facade
Clarkesworld: Year Six
Infinity Wars (The Infinity Project)
In the Vanishers’ Palace
Clarkesworld Issue 145
Clarkesworld: Year Seven
Das Haus der gebrochenen Schwingen
The Tea Master and the Detective
The Year's Top Short SF Novels 6
Lullaby for a Lost World: A Tor.Com Original
Barcelona Tales
Clarkesworld Issue 129
Clarkesworld Issue 64
Clarkesworld Issue 69
Clarkesworld Issue 153
Asian Monsters (Fox Spirit Books of Monsters) (Volume 3)
Grimdark Magazine Issue #12
Clarkesworld Issue 78
Clarkesworld Issue 124
Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight
Andy Weir
Andy Weir (born 1972)

software developer, computer scientist, programmer

  • University of San Diego

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The Martian
Cheshire Crossing
Érase una Vez y Otras Mentiras / Cheshire Crossing
Project Hail Mary
Artemis
Lacero
Casey and Andy
The Egg
Project Hair Mary
The Martian
Egg and Other Stories, The
Project Hail Mary
The Martian
Sopravvissuto. The martian
James Moriarty, Consulting Criminal
Artemis
Artemis AUTOGRAPHED by Andy Weir Available 11/14/17 Limited Quantity Available
Artemis
Devoradores de estrelas
Artemis
El marciano
20 ans de légendes
Marsjanin
Andy Weir's 3-Book Collection Set (Project Hail Mary, Artemis, the Martian)
Martian
Randomize
El marciano
Érase una vez y otras mentiras
Der Astronaut
David Gaider
David Gaider (born 1971)

blogger, video game developer

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Dragon Age
Dragon Age
Dragon Age
Dragon Age
Dragon age
Dragon Age The Calling
Stolen Throne
Until We Sleep
Dragon Age Omnibus
Dragon Age Collection : (the Stolen Throne, the Calling, Asunder, the Masked Empire, Last Flight)
Asunder
David Gaider Dragon Age Series 5 Books Collection Set
Dragon Age - the Calling
Calling
Dragon Age - the Stolen Throne
DDragon Age Library Edition Volume 1
Greg Costikyan
Greg Costikyan (born 1959)

computer scientist, essayist, blogger, role-playing game designer

  • Brown University

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Toon
One Quest, Hold the Dragons (Cups and Sorcery, No 2)
The Willow Game
First contract
Another Day, Another Dungeon (Cups and Sorcery, Book 1)
By the sword
By The Sword (Magic of the Plains)
Star Wars
Uncertainty in games
Paranoia (Paranoia - the RPG)
Horsemen of the Apocalypse
谜
Tabletop
Another day, another dungeon
Sources of Uncertainty
Paranoia [BOX SET]
Paranoia XP