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Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe (1931-2019)

mechanical engineer, editor, military engineer

  • Texas A&M University, University of Houston

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The Fantasy Hall of Fame [30 stories]
Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space
Sword & citadel
In Green's jungles
Soldier of Arete
The Wizard
The Urth of the new sun
Shadow & Claw
The Knight
The sorcerer's house
Peace
The Fifth Head Of Cerberus
Year's Best Fantasy 6
Innocents aboard
Soldier of Sidon
Endangered species
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy And Horror 2012
Castleview
The Best of Gene Wolfe
Storeys from the old hotel
The Devil in a forest
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011
Starwater strains
Epiphany of the Long Sun
The Shadow of the Torturer
Book of the New Sun
Rags & Bones
The Wizard Knight
The Mammoth Book Of Angels and Demons
Such a pretty face
The land across
Weird Tales 290 Spring 1988 (Weird Tales)
Season of Wonder
The The Book of the New Sun : The Book Of The New Sun
Severian Of The Guild The Book Of The New Sun
Book of the New Sun : Volume 1 Vol. 1
The Dark Descent
Machines That Think
Wastelands -- Stories of the Apocalypse
Return to the Whorl
Pandora By Holly Hollander
Nebula Winners Fourteen
Dark Forces
Stories
Nebula Award Stories Eight
New Atlantis, The - And Other Novellas of Science Fiction
Magicats!
The claw of the conciliator
There Are Doors
Darkness
Soldier of the Mist
Speculations
The Ultimate Zombie
Again, Dangerous Visions
An evil guest
Isaac Asimov's Wonders of the World
The Wildside Book of Fantasy: 20 Great Tales of Fantasy
Nightside The Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun)
On Blue's waters
Lake of the long sun
Pirate Freedom
Sailing to Byzantium/Seven American Nights (Tor Doubles, No 10)
Year's Best SF 9
Gene Wolfe's Book of Days
Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores
Caldé of the Long Sun
Strange Travelers
Free Live Free
Castle of days
Latro in the mist
The Citadel of the Autarch
Exodus from the long sun
Home fires
Litany of the Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun)
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2012 Edition: A Tor.Com Original
The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories
The Sword of the Lictor
Bibliomen
A borrowed man
The castle of the otter
Young Wolfe
The book of the short sun
Operation Ares
Orbit 10
Other Voices, Other Doors
Letters home
Last Drink Bird Head : A Flash Fiction Anthology for Charity
Damon Knight's Orbit 12
The Best of Galaxy 2
Plan(e)t engineering
Ultimate Egoist Vol. 1
Fantasy : the Best of the Year
Gene Wolfe, Interview
Empires of foliage and flower
Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazin 22. Folge
Wolfe Archipelago
Science Fiction Story Reader 2
A Walking Tour of the Shambles
Interlibrary Loan
Orbit 3
Soldier of the Mist
Univers 05
Silhouettes
Fugue State / The Death of Doctor Island
Dante's Disciples
Bone Swans
The old woman whose rolling pin is the sun
The Very Best of Gene Wolfe [signed slipcase]
Reading and Interview/Audio Cassettes/No 4151, No 4152
Gene Wolfe Reads a Solar Labryinth and the Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories
Lexicon Urthus A Dictionary For The Urth Cycle
Reading and Interview
13 Horrors - A Devil's Dozen Stories Celebrating 13 Years of the World Horror Convention
Pack especial Gene Wolfe
Histórias de Robôs - Volume 2
La quinta cabeza de cerbero
Le livre du long soleil, Tomes 1 à 4 : Intégrale
Soldier of Arete
Unternehmen Ares.
Wolfe at the Door
Taps & Sighs
Complete Book of the New Sun
Soldat des brumes
Pazur Łagodziciela
Özerkin Hisari / Yeni Günes Kitabi 4
Universe 3
For Rosemary
The Claw of the Lictor
Gate of Horn, Book of Silk
Liktorun Kilici
Third Annual Best Horror Stories of the Year
X10 Shrinkwrap G Wolfe
Hero As Werwolf
Paz
Fiction # 227
Christmas Inn: (A Special Publication for Postscripts Subscribers - Chapbook Number One)
Der Teufel hinter den Wäldern
Soldat des brumes, L'intégrale Tome 1 : Soldat des brumes ; soldat d'Aretê
Uzlastiricinin Pençesi
Shadows of the New Sun
The Sword of the Lictor (#3 New Sun)
Nova 1 - An Anthology of Original Science Fiction Stories
Wolfe at the Door
On Blue's Waters
Free Live Free
Robert E. Vardeman
Robert E. Vardeman (born 1947)

physicist, engineer

  • University of New Mexico

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Cenotaph Road
The flame key
The Sundered Realm
Demon of the Dark Ones
God of War
World Of Mazes (Cenotaph Road No 3)
Crystal Clouds (The Jade Demons, No 3)
Grimm, Grit, and Gasoline
Cenotaph Road
The Jade Demons Quartet
Sorcerer's Skull
God of War II
God of War II
To demons bound
Dark legacy
The destiny stone
Pillar of Night (Cenotaph Road No 6)
Fire and Fog (Cenotaph Road #5)
The Klingon Gambit
Mutiny on the Enterprise
Sos the rope
DESTINY STONE
To demons bound
Iron Tongue (Cenotaph Road, #4)
A symphony of storms
Blood Fountain
Echoes of Chaos (The Weapons of Chaos, Bk. 1)
The infinity plague
A Yoke of Magic (Swords of Raemllyn, Bk. 2)
A plague in paradise
The War of Powers
Vor
Sorcerer's Skull (Cenotaph Road #2)
The skeleton lord's key
To Demons Bound
Masters of Space 2
Road to the stars
The Quaking Lands (The Jade Demons, Book 1)
Deathfall
Death's Acolyte (Swords of Raemllyn, No 4)
In the Shadow of Omizantrim (War of Powers, No 5)
The Fallen Ones (The War of Powers, Book 4)
For Crown And Kingdom (Swords of Raemllyn, No 6)
Masters of space
The White Fire (Jade Demons, No 4)
The ruins of power
The sorcerer's skull
Ancient Heavens (War of the Powers) Robert E. Vardeman
The Klingon Gambit
The Yoke of Magic (Swords of Raemllyn, No 2)
World Of Mazes (Cenotaph Road, #3)
The Destiny Stone (War of Powers, Book 3)
Alien death fleet
The Resonance of Blood
Mutiny on Enterprise Star Trek
Alien Web (Masters of Space, No 2)
Phantoms on the Wind (Demon Crown, No 2)
Dark Legacy
Space Vectors (Biowarriors, No 3)
The Demon Crown Trilogy
Istu Awakened
Death Channels
The glass warrior
The Stellar Death Plan (Masters of Space, No 1)
The Screaming Knife
Crisis at Starlight (Biowarriors, No 2)
The Accursed
Statistical Quality Wave Site
Equations of Chaos (The Weapons of Chaos Book 2)
Rocket's Red Glare
Plague in Paradise (Masters of Space, No 3)
Fate of the Kinunir
BattleTech Legends
God Of War
Hell Heart
Mutiny on the Enterprise
Khozyaeva kosmosa
Gene Roddenbery's Xander in Lost Universe
Intergalactic orgy (Beeline late night library)
The Stink of Flesh
Ogre Castle
Sqa with Spc Excel Set
Sandcats of Rhyl
Gateway to Rust and Ruin
Funland Kill Zone
Demons Bound Raemllyn #1
Masters Of Space
The sundered realm
Colors of Chaos (Weapons of Chaos, Book 3)
The keys to paradise
Swords of Raemllyn, Book 2
The Black Nebula
Klingon Gambit
The long walk
Blood Fountain
Key of ice and steel
VOR
Keys To Paradise Book II
Colors of chaos
Symphony of Storms (Demon Crown, No. 3)
The colors of chaos
Equations of chaos
The Infinity Plague (Biowarriors, Book 1)
Klingon Gambit
The beasts of the mists
The weapons of chaos
Swords of Raemllyn
Tales from the Otherverse
Sandcats of Rhyl
Demon of the Dark Ones
To demons bound
For crown and kingdom
In the sea nymph's lair
Death's acolyte
The stellar death plan
Blue Kingdoms: Buxom Buccaneers
Outer space embrace
Weapons of Chaos
A Yoke of magic
The genetic menace
George Saunders
George Saunders (born 1958)

translator, essayist, journalist, geophysicist, geological engineer

  • Syracuse University, Colorado School of Mines

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The very persistent gappers of Frip
The brief and frightening reign of Phil
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
Tenth of December
Lincoln in the Bardo
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008
Pastoralia
The Best American Short Stories 2008
Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . .
In persuasion nation
The Braindead Megaphone
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012
In Persuasion Nation
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006
Liberation Day
Fox 8
Builder and Blunderer: A Study of Emperor William's Character and Foreign Policy
Congratulations, by the way
The Story Prize
The braindead megaphone
George Saunders
Casebook of the Bizarre
BürgerKriegsLand fast am Ende. Erzählungen
Brain-Dead Megaphone
Samizdat
Honne, The Spirit Of The Chehalis
October Revolution
Red Bow
Bounty- Land
In Persuasion Nation
Treatise on Theatres
Zorro 8
Araligin Onu
Frip'in Aşırı Israrcı Pırtlakları
Zorro 8
Felicidades, por cierto
Phil'in Dehset Verici Kisa Saltanati
İç Savaş Diyarı Feci Düşüşte
Home
Samizdat; voices of the Soviet opposition
Pastoralien.
Deu de desembre
Orange Blossom Trail
Braindead Megaphone
Prestigious Presidential Papa Pope Poet
Swim in the Pond in the Rain
Wage determination in Canada
Diez de diciembre
THE RED BOW [MAGAZINE ARTICLE]
Secessiolàndia pel pedregar
Een duik in een vijver in de regen
Zehnter Dezember
Felicidades, por cierto
Moral and Social State of the Christian Community Before and after Constantine the Great
A Treatise on Theatres. by George Saunders
Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Interest arbitration and wage inflation in the federal public service
Arafta
Civil War Land in Bad Decline
Royal Air Force 1939-1945 (volume 3)
Pastoralya
Civilwarland in Bad Decline
Tilki 8
Generación quemada
Camberwell nostalgia!
Ways of seeing
The Spirit among Us
Eduardo Vaquerizo
Eduardo Vaquerizo (born 1967)

flight engineer

  • Technical University of Madrid

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J. Rodolfo Wilcock
J. Rodolfo Wilcock (1919-1978)

linguist, poet, translator, journalist, literary critic, engineer

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Antología de la literatura fantástica
The Temple of Iconoclasts
El Templo Etrusco
L' abominevole donna delle nevi
La sinagoga degli iconoclasti
Italienisches Liederbuch
El Ingeniero
Persecución de las musas menores
Los DOS Indios Alegres
La Sinagoga de Los Iconoclastas
Parsifal
Libro de poemas y canciones ..
L' ingegnere
Il libro dei mostri
Le chaos
El caos
Le nozze di Hitler e Maria Antonietta nell'inferno
Il reato di scrivere
I due allegri indiani
Ensayos de poesía lírica
Il tempio etrusco
El delito de escribir
La Synagogue des iconoclastes
Lo stereoscopio dei solitari
Le stéréoscope des solitaires
El Estereoscopio De Los Solitarios
Sexto
Frau Teleprocu
La Boda de Hitler y Maria Antonieta en el Infierno (Emece Cruz del Sur)
Teatro inédito
Traidores, Los
Sexto
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
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky (born 1979)

artificial intelligence researcher, blogger, computer scientist

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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