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Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk (1918-1994)

political scientist, philosopher, literary critic, historian, journalist, peace activist

  • University of St Andrews, Duke University

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The princess of all lands
Watchers at the strait gate
The Dark Descent
Dark Forces
The Surly Sullen Bell
Eliot and His Age
The Color of Evil
Ghosts
Academic freedom
The Sword of Imagination
Old House of Fear
Lord of the hollow dark
Edmund Burke
A program for conservatives
The American cause
The conservative mind, from Burke to Santayana
Ancestral shadows
The Politics of Prudence
America's British culture
John Randolph of Roanoke
The Century's Best Horror Fiction. Volume 2
The political principles of Robert A. Taft
Decadence and Renewal in the Higher Learning
The Essential Russell Kirk
Redeeming the Time
Beyond the dreams of avarice
The roots of American order
The wise men know what wicked things are written on the sky
The Portable conservative reader
The conservative mind : from Burke to Eliot / Russell Kirk
Prospects for conservatives
The intemperate professor
The conservative Constitution
The Assault on religion
Rights and duties
Enemies of the Permanent Things: Observations of Abnormity in Literature and Politics
Economics
Gateway to the Stoics
St. Andrews
What Shadows We Pursue
A creature of the twilight: his memorials
Randolph of Roanoke
Confessions of a bohemian Tory
The intelligent woman's guide to conservatism
Orestes Brownson
What Is Conservatism?
Fiction # 169
Off the Sand Road
Modern age
Lord Acton on revolution
保守主义思想
Muhafazakar Anlayış
Objections to conservatism
Collected Letters of John Randolph to Dr. John Brockenbrough
Government's role in solving societal problems
Russell Kirk's Concise Guide to Conservatism
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
Hannu Rajaniemi
Hannu Rajaniemi (born 1978)

entrepreneur, businessperson, physicist

  • University of Oulu, University of Edinburgh

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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Three
The Quantum thief
The Fractal Prince
Invisible Planets
The causal angel
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3
The Quantum Thief
Summerland
Hannu Rajaniemi
The New Voices of Science Fiction
The quantum thief
Tiempo profundo
The quantum thief
Invisible Planets
El ladrón cuántico
Jean le Flambeur Trilogy
Kwantowy zlodziej
Clockwork World
The quantum thief
Aivolisäkkeen gonadotrofisten hormonien jakautuminen koe-eläimessä ja sitoutuminen kohdekudoksiin
I Built a City in China
Kvantový zloděj
Rajaniemi
Collected Fiction (eBook)
Jack Cohen
Jack Cohen (1933-2019)

biologist

  • University of Birmingham, University of Hull

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The Globe
The Science of Discworld
Heaven
Darwin's Watch
Judgement Day
Wheelers
Stop working & start thinking
Spermatozoa, antibodies and infertility
Figments of reality
The Collapse of Chaos
Reproduction
Living embryos
Animal reproduction
The Privileged Ape
What Does a Martian Look Like
Oracle
Published work in developmental biology
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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Christopher Kastensmidt
Christopher Kastensmidt (born 1972)

computer engineer

  • Rice University

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Mario Cavaliere
Mario Cavaliere (born 1996)

political scientist

  • University of Erlangen–Nuremberg

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Travis Baldree
Travis Baldree

narrator, actor, video game developer, entrepreneur

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