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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
Peter Watts
Peter Watts (born 1958)

zoologist, biologist, marine biologist

  • University of Guelph

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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011
Starfish
Clarkesworld: Year Four
Blindsight
Behemoth
Echopraxia
Upgraded
The Freeze-Frame Revolution
Made To Order
Beyond the rift
Maelstrom
Crysis
Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 1
The Level Guide to the South West
Blood Type: An Anthology of Vampire SF on the Cutting Edge
Firefall
Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3
Clarkesworld Issue 144
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 4
The Colonel: A Tor.Com Original (Firefall)
Peter Watts is an Angry Sentient Tumor
poklatkowa rewolucja
ブラインドサイト〈上〉 (創元SF文庫)
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2
ブラインドサイト〈下〉 (創元SF文庫)
British Rail Class 47s
Infinity's End
Positive moves
Motor Vehicle Registration Marks of the British Isles
Tiempo profundo
Clarkesworld Issue 96
Vision ciega/ Blind Vision (Spanish Edition)
Bifrost, N° 61 : La science-fiction : questions et perspectives...
The Freeze-Frame Revolution Lib/E
LSD
Behemoth : B-Max
Vision aveugle
Altered States
The Freeze-Frame Revolution
Peer Gynt
Person of Interest Novel 1
Doll's House and Other Plays
Legion
Behemoth : Seppuku
LSD Library
Normative economics and reality from a Christian standpoint
Marketing your small business
Kor Bakis
Visión ciega
Firefall Series
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
Catherine Asaro
Catherine Asaro (born 1955)

physicist, dancer, ballet dancer

  • Harvard University, University of California, Los Angeles

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Ascendant Sun
The Misted Cliffs
The charmed sphere
Best New Paranormal Romance
Charmed Destinies
Irresistible Forces
The Fire Opal (Lost Continent)
The night bird
The Lost Continent Collection
Spherical harmonic
The Night Bird
The Fire Opal
The Misted Cliffs
The Dawn Star
The charmed sphere
Spherical Harmonic
The Dawn Star (Misted Cliffs, Book 3)
Fire Opal
Night Bird
Dawn Star
Infinite Stars
The final key
The Quantum rose
The Last Hawk
Catch the lightning
Alpha
Schism
The moon's shadow
The Phoenix code
Nebula awards showcase 2013
The radiant seas
Skyfall
Primary Inversion
Carnelians
The Ruby Dice (Skolian Empire)
Undercity
Alpha (Sunrise Alley)
The veiled web
The Radiant Seas
The Moon's Shadow
Vanished Seas
Skyfall
The veiled web
The Bronze Skies (Major Bhaajan series Book 2)
Schism
Skyfall
The Radiant Seas (Skolian Web)
Radiant Seas Saga of the Skolian Empire
Diamond star
Sunrise Alley
Primary Inversion Saga of the Skolian Empire
Quantam Rose
Spherical Harmonic
Sunrise Alley
Diamond Star (Skolian Empire)
Catch the Lightning
Misted Cliffs
Sunrise alley
Primary Inversion
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 1999 Double Issue
The Final Key
Catch The Lightning
Carnelians
The Phoenix Code
Aurora in four voices
Das Sternenreich von Skolia. Jäger des Lichts
Aurora in four voices
Das Sternenreich von Skolia 01. Der PSI- Faktor
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)
Lewis Call
Lewis Call (born 1949)

historian, social scientist

  • University of California, San Diego, University of California, Irvine

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Bdsm In American Science Fiction And Fantasy
Bdsm in American Science Fiction and Fantasy
Postmodern Anarchism
Readings in Modern World History
Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon
Vladimir Obruchev
Vladimir Obruchev (1863-1956)

geologist, explorer, paleontologist, geographer, scientist

  • Saint Petersburg Mining Institute

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Plutonia
Zemli︠a︡ Sannikova
Fundamentals of Geology
Sannikov Land
Fundamentals of geology
Plutonia
Plutoniya. Zemlya Sannikova. (My First Collection)
Polevai͡a︡ geologii͡a︡
Plutonia
Moi puteshestviya po Sibiri
Vostochnaia Mongoliia
Grigoriĭ Nikolaevich Potanin
Plutoniya
Po goram i pustyni͡a︡m Sredneĭ Azii
V debri︠a︡kh T︠S︡entralʹnoĭ Azii
Dikie zhivotnye Rossii
Ot Ki︠a︡khty do Kulʹdzhi
Zanimatelʹnai͡a︡ geologii͡a︡
Zemlya Sannikova
Moi puteshestviya po Sibiri
Programma izdanīi͡a︡ trudov I͡A︡kutskoĭ ėkspedit͡s︡īi, snari͡a︡zhennoĭ na sredstva I.M. Sibiri͡a︡kova
Kratkīĭ geologicheskīĭ ocherk karavannago puti ot Kyakhtȳ do Kalgana
Osnory geologii
Plutonii͡a︡
Zolotoiskateli v pustyne
Puteshestviia v proshloe i budushchee
Moi puteshestvii͡a︡ po Sibiri
Izbrannye raboty po geografii Azii
Puteshestvii͡a︡ Potanina
Za taĭnami Plutona
Osnovy geologii
Istorii︠a︡ geologicheskogo issledovanii︠a︡ Sibiri
V staroĭ Sibiri
Izbrannye trudy
Proiskhozhdenie gor i materikov
Kukushkin
Plutonii︠a︡ ; Zemli︠a︡ Sannikova
Voprosy geologii Sibiri
Plutanii︠a︡ ; Zemli︠a︡ Sannikova
Sbornik instrukt͡siĭ i programmnykh ukazaniĭ po izuchenii͡u merzlykh gruntov i vechnoĭ merzloty
Ot K͡iakhty do Kulʹdzhi
Über die systematik der erzlagerstätten
Zeml i a Sannikova
Geologie von Sibirien
Shiberia shigen kenkyū
Geologicheskīi︠a︡ izsli︠e︡dovanīi︠a︡ v zolotonosnykh oblasti︠a︡kh Sibiri
Eduard Suess
Akademiku V.A. Obruchevu k pi͡atidesi͡atiletii͡u nauchnoĭ i pedagogicheskoĭ dei͡atelʹnosti
Die metallogenetischen epochen und gebiete von Sibirien
Polevai͡a geologii͡a
Erets Saniḳov
Materialy po geomorfologii i paleontologii