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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
Eric Frank Russell
Eric Frank Russell (1905-1978)

engineer

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The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction
The Hugo Winners [volume I]
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume Two A
The Hugo Winners, Volumes one and two
Microcosmic Tales
Fifty short science fiction tales
Science Fiction A to Z
Creations
Intergalactic empires
Three to Conquer
Men, Martians and Machines
Invasions
Starships
Faszination der Science Fiction
Wasp
Young extraterrestrials
Next of Kin
The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Third Series
Friends, robots, countrymen
Exiles (... And Then There Were None by Eric Frank Russell / Gypsy by Poul Anderson / Profession by Isaac Asimov)
Isaac Asimov presents the golden age of science fiction. Sixth Series
Science Fiction. The Great Years
The Mammoth Book of Classic Science Fiction
The Best of Eric Frank Russell
TV 2000
The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Fifth Series
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 3 (1941)
The Seven Deadly Sins and Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction (Seven Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction / Seven Deadly Sins of Science Fiction)
The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Second Series
The Great Explosion
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 10 (1948)
The Century's Best Horror Fiction. Volume 2
Somewhere a Voice
Weird Legacies
Isaac Asimov presents the great science fiction stories -- volume 5, 1943
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 9 (1947)
Sentinels from Space
Like nothing on earth
Great World Mysteries
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 12 (1950)
Dreadful Sanctuary
… And Then There Were None
Entities
With a Strange Device
Sinister Barrier
Flying Saucers
Sentinels from Space
The Seven Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction
Next of Kin
WASP
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 (1952)
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 17 (1955)
Isaac Asimov Presents Volume 7
Astounding Science Fiction - April 1959
Deep space
The Space Willies / Six Worlds Yonder
Die besten Stories von 1943
Dark Tides
The Mindwarpers
Far stars
Dreadful Sanctuary
Fantastic Reading
Like Nothing on Earth
Science Fiction Hall of Fame, The Novellas. Book 3
Leben ohne Ende/Störfaktor - Zwei SF-Romane in einem Band
Astounding Science Fiction
Major Ingredients
Wasp
Guerre aux invisibles
Invasion of the Robots
GUERRE AUX INVISIBLES
5 Unearthly Visions
Plus X
Ve Sonra Hic Kalmadi
Guêpe/Plus X
Men Martins and machines
Sentinelle de l'espace
Sentinels from Space / The Ultimate Invader
Flucht ins Heute/ Der Stich der Wespe:
Gedanken-Vampire - SF-Roman
Somewhere a voice,and other stories
Mindwarpers
Compleat Collected SSF Works of Eric Frank Russell 1905-1978
Prisonniers des étoiles
Vergangenheit mal 2
Best of Eric Frank Russell
DARKER TIDES - THE WEIRD TALES OF ERIK FRANK RUSSELL
The Best of Eric Frank Russell
Deep space
Best Eric F Russell
Gedanken-Vampire
The great explosion
Three to Conquer / Doomsday Eve (Classic Ace Double, D-215)
Wasp
The mindwarpers
With a Strange Device (The Mindwarpers)
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
Keigo Higashino
Keigo Higashino (born 1958)

engineer

  • Osaka Prefecture University

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The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
Namiya Zakkaten no kiseki
The devotion of suspect X
Naoko
赤い指
悪意
Journey Under the Midnight Sun
The devotion of suspect X
Malice
Malice
パラレルワールド・ラブストーリー
Salvation of A Saint
Dōkyūsei
容疑者Xの献身 (Yōgisha X no kenshin)
Salvation of a saint
Ano koro bokura wa aho deshita
探偵ガリレオ
Niji o ayatsuru shōnen
Newcomer
私が彼を殺した
Aru tozasareta yuki no sansō de
Malice
片想い
Henshin
Tenku no hachi
Uso o mouhitotsu dake
Shukumei
危険なビーナス
A Midsummer's Equation
Hōkago
Shimei to tamashii no rimitto
The Devotion of Suspect X
Bunshin
Crucifix of Nothingness
Satsujin genba wa kumo no ue
Chō satsujin jiken
麒麟の翼
恋のゴンドラ
Hakuba sansō satsujin jiken
Kairōtei satsujin jiken
白夜行
The devotion of suspect X
Journey under the Midnight Sun
Gakuseigai no satsujin
Kaishou shou setsu
A Midsummer's equation
Night Vision [Japanese Edition]
Hannin no inai satsujin no yoru
The name of the game is a kidnapping
Byakuyakō
Salvation of a Saint
Juichimoji no Satsujin
眠りの森
Namiya chaphwajŏm ŭi kichŏk
嘘をもうひとつだけ
Mi mi
探偵倶楽部
虚像の道化師
Kyozō no dōkeshi
Platina Data in Japanese
卒業
Manatsu no hōteishiki
Satsujin no mon
Tong ji sheng
Bi ye qian sha ren you xi
The Lakeside Murder Case
Charenji?
Ore wa hijōkin
祈りの幕が下りる時
Utsukushiki kyōki
Verda˜chtige Geliebte
手紙
Dying eye
Chen Shui de Sen Lin
Gēmu no na wa yūkai
Samayou yaiba
Tokio
Shinobu Sense ni sayonara
Meitantei no jubaku
Tabun saigo no goaisatsu
Kleine Wunder um Mitternacht
La devoción del sospechoso X
Himitsu
Kamen sansō satsujin jiken
Tegami
Malice
Meitantei no okite
Yoake no machi de
The devotion of suspect X
Salvation of a saint
Utsuro na jūjika
Gen'ya
Fang xue hou
Yochimu
Wei Xian Weinasi
さまよう刃
Ryūsei no kizuna
Tantei kurabu
Garireo no kunō
ナミヤ雑貨店の奇蹟
流星の絆
La maison où je suis mort autrefois
Inori no maku ga oriru toki
Bulutesi de xin zang =
The Devotion of the Suspect X
ガリレオの苦悩
The devotion of suspect X
Seijo no kyūsai
Reikusaido
Kokushō shōsetsu
Hakugin jakku
Tenshi no mimi
Ayashii hitobito
真夏の方程式
Jūji yashiki no piero
夜明けの街で
Under the Midnight Sun
Da gai shi zui hou de zhao hu =
Jie you za huo dian
Bian shen =
浪花少年探偵団
Chōjin keikaku
Yu zhi meng
Under the midnight sun
Le Nouveau
Kaishō shōsetsu
Xu xiang de chou jue
Ping xing shi jie de ai qing gu shi =
Baima shan zhuang sha ren shi jian
Ji feng hui xuan qu
Myŏng tʻamjŏng ŭi chŏju
Sha ren zhi men
Suteki na Nipponjin
Shimei to tamashii no rimitto
Huan ye
Li ming zhi jie
Filastrocca per l'assassino
Jie chi bai yin =
Liu xing zhi ban
Bin si zhi yan
Ano koro no dareka
Satsujin no mon
Lian ai lan che
Lap'ŭllasŭ ŭi manyŏ
Hei xiao xiao shuo
[Pijŏnggŭn]
Shen tan Jialilüe
Dan lian
Charenji
Wihŏmhan pinŏsŭ
Dang shi de mou ren
Mukashi boku ga shinda ie
Bang jia you xi
Jin ji mo shu
Burakku shōman to na mo naki machi no satsujin
Meng huan hua =
Salvation of a saint
Zhen xia fang cheng shi
Bei lun 13
11 zi mi an
Wo sha le ta
E yi =
Qi lin zhi yi
Bai ye xing =
Xian yi ren X de xian shen
Bai ye xing
Wo de huang dang de qing chun
Namiya zakkaten no kiseki
Chinmoku no parēdo
Hanyŏrŭm ŭi pangjŏngsik
Xin can zhe
Maryoku no taidō
Mo qiu
Li ming po xiao de jie dao =
Xue yan zhui zhu
Tian kong zhi feng
Akai yubi
Hong shou zhi
Mo qiu
Tian shi zhi er =
Xue sheng jie sha ren =
Bin si zhi yan =
Mei li de xiong qi =
Masukarēdo ibu =
Yejimong
Tiao zhan
Purachina dēta =
Yongŭija X ŭi hŏnsin
Shi yi zi sha ren =
E yi
Dochira ka ga kanojo o koroshita
Neʼemanuto shel he-ḥashud x.
Kakkō no tamago wa dare no mono
Leng ku no dai ke lao shi =
Qi dao luo mu shi
Bi ye
Ch'ŏn'gong ŭi pyŏl
Masukarēdo hoteru =
Sheng nü de jiu shu =
Dang qi dao luo mu shi
Ren yu chen shui de jia
Shinzanmono
Jia mian qian ye
Jie you za huo dian =
Komikku Higashino Keigo misuterī
Kindan no majutsu
Shippū rondo
Bai ma shan zhuang sha ren shi jian
Unter der Mitternachtssonne
Masukarēdo naito =
Setsuen cheisu
Chō, satsujin jiken
Cham chanŭn sup
Ming zhen tan de jia suo =
Jia mian shan zhuang sha ren shi jian =
Bai jin shu ju
Liu xing zhi ban
Kong zhong sha ren xian chang
The devotion of suspect X
Ningyo no nemuru ie
Paradokkusu sātīn
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
Liu Cixin
Liu Cixin (born 1963)

engineer

  • North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power

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三体
超新星纪元
Butterfly
Yu zhou tan suo
Dai shang ta de yan jing
Jing ge
Weight of Memories
Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 3)
Loosed Upon the World
The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
流浪地球
To Hold Up the Sky
球状闪电
地球往事三部曲
La Forêt sombre
Einstein Equator (Chinese Edition)
Sheng cun shi yan
Jing zi =
Il problema dei tre corpi
Le Problème à trois corps
Messengers (Chinese Edition)
Three-Body Problem Series
Yu zhou wang shi
De hormigas y dinosaurios
Mercury Sow (Chinese Edition)
Bai e ji wang shi ; Mo gui ji mu
Zhongguo tai yang
Shen du zhuang ji
View from the Stars
Dong wu yuan li de jiu shi zhu
Meng zhi hai
Zhan zheng bian zhong
Chao xin xing ji yuan
Chao xin xing ji yuan
Boule de foudre
Koniec smierci
Wai mian de yu zhou
Shan yang shi jie
Yu zhou guan cha zhe
Hu die
Cixin Liu's the Butterfly
Three-Body Problem, Vol. 1
Of Ants and Dinosaurs
Circle
Era de la Supernova / Supernova Era
Quan pin dai zu se gan rao
Xing ji yi min
Chao xin xing ji yuan
Tun shi di qiu
Bosque Oscuro / the Dark Forest
Sea of Dreams
Vista Desde Las Estrellas / a View from the Stars
La Mort immortelle
Cixin Liu's the Wandering Earth
Cixin Liu's the Village Teacher
Zui zao de yu zhou, zui hao de di qiu
Qiu zhuang shan dian
Shan yang ren lei
Cixin Liu's the Circle
The Cretaceous Past
Clarkesworld Issue 111
Gu du de jin hua zhe
El bosque oscuro
Xiao shi de wei lai
Liu lang di qiu
Xing ji yuan zheng
Estuche Trilogía Los Tres Cuerpos
2018
Supernova Era Sneak Peek
The mystery of the world's youth fantasy novel - when dinosaurs encounter ants
Wo shu jia shang de shen ming
Chong zi de shi jie
Qiong ding zhi xia
Death's End
Tian shi shi dai
Of Ants and Dinosaurs
Taking Care of God
Bao bei bao bei wo ai ni
Yi hun you shu
Jenseits der Zeit
Shi jian yi min
Liu lang di qiu
Ren he tun shi zhe
Tai kong you min
Zhongguo ke huan xiao shuo nian xuan
Het einde van de dood
Wspomnienie o przeszlosci Ziemi 2 Ciemny las
Fin de la Muerte / Death's End
Ball Lightning
Bian xing zhan zheng
Shi yi fen zhi yi de wen ming
Problema de Los Tres Cuerpos (Edición Ilustrada) / the Three-Body Problem (il Lustrated Edition)
Dark Forest
Problema de Los Tres Cuerpos / the Three-Body Problem
Di san ci zheng jiu wei lai shi jie
Remembrance of Earth's Past
Xing ji zheng ba
微纪元
Cixin Liu's for the Benefit of Mankind
Hei ke heng xing
Supernova Era
Wandering Earth
Estuche Trilogía de Los Tres Cuerpos : el Problema de Los Tres Cuerpos; el Bosque Oscuro; el Fin de la Muerte) / Three-Body Problem Boxed Set
Hold up the Sky
2.5 ci shi jie da zhan
Mo shi hao jie
Artificial Intelligence Revolution
Xiang Cun Jiao Shi
Shi jian yi min
Cixin Liu's the Devourer
Dai shang ta de yan jing
Cixin Liu's Sea of Dreams
Cixin Liu's Yuanyuan's Bubbles
Wei ji yuan
Village Teacher
Weltenzerstörer
Cixin Liu The Village Teacher
Ölümün Sonu
Liu lang di qiu
Yuanyuan's Bubbles
Jacques Bergier
Jacques Bergier (1912-1978)

journalist, chemical engineer, ufologist, translator, spy, chemist, literary critic, French resistance fighter, opinion journalist

  • Science Faculty of Paris

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Admirations
Extraterrestrial visitations from prehistoric times to the present
L' espionnage scientifique
Extraterrestrial intervention: the evidence
Visa pour une autre terre
La grande conspiration russo-américaine
Los extraterrestres en la historia
Secret doors of the earth
Extraterrestrial visitations from prehistoric times to the present
Retorno de Los Brujos
The morning of the magicians
Secret armies
O plasma, quarto estado da matéria
La Guerre secrète du pétrole
Les empires de la chimie moderne
Les frontieres du possible
Extraterrestrial Visitations From Prehistoric Times to the Present
Les Chefs-d'oeuvre du rire
Je ne suis pas une légende
Rire avec les savants
Morning of the Magicians
La troisième guerre mondiale est commencée
Entretiens avec Jacques Bergier, le dernier des magiciens
Agents secrets contre armes secrètes
L'énergie H.
Visa pour demain
Le Matin Des Magiciens (French Edition)
Tình báo khoa học
L'Espionnage industriel
Le livre de l'inexplicable
Le Livre des anciens astronautes
L'espionnage stratégique
Le Livre du mystère
Vous êtes paranormal
Encyclopédie des sciences et des techniques
The Morning of the Magicians
L'espionnage politique