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John Gribbin
John Gribbin (born 1946)

physicist, astrophysicist, astronomer, journalist

  • University of Sussex, University of Cambridge

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The science of Philip Pullman's His dark materials
Ragnarok
Q is for quantum
Richard Feynman
In search of SUSY
Companion to the cosmos
The Omega Point
Fire on Earth
Fitzroy
Hyperspace
Hothouse earth
In the beginning
Alone in the universe
Stuff of the universe
He knew he was right
Schrödinger's kittens and the search for reality
The little book of science
Unveiling the edge of time
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat
Timewarps
In search of the big bang
Time & space
In search of the double helix
ANALOG ANNUAL
Almost everyone's guide to science
The birth of time
Origins
The Scientists
Galaxies
The Origins of the Future
Blinded by the light
Future Worlds
Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries Tag
The scientists
The Fellowship
In search of the edge of time
Science
Weather
The origins of the future
Annus mirabilis
The case of the missing neutrinos
The human genome
The death of the Sun
Our changing universe
Spacewarps
The reason why
Deep Simplicity
Time and Space
The Birth of Time
FELLOWSHIP: THE STORY OF A REVOLUTION
Curie (1867-1934) in 90 minutes
The pocket Darwin
Space
Hothouse earth
Astronomy for the amateur
The monkey puzzle
The monkey puzzle
The strangest star
The Jupiter effect
On physics
Children of the ice
Quantum Physics
Ben Bova Presents Father to the Man
Companion to the Cosmos
Forecasts, famines and freezes
Inventing the Future
El Pequeño Libro De La Ciencia (Paidos Asterisco)
Weather force
Hothouse Earth
Future weather and the greenhouse effect
Timewarps
The universe
Stardust
Future weather
XTL
Birth of Time, The
Spacewarps
Deep simplicity
Father to the Man
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat
The Hole In The Sky
Watching the weather
Eyewitness Science
Empire of the sun
The Future of Cosmology
The hole in the sky
Stardust
Our changing planet
The fellowship Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the story of a scientific revolution
Watching the Universe
Get a Grip on Physics
Science
The digital revolution
Halley (1656-1742) in 90 minutes
Double planet
In search of the double helix
Winds of change
In Search of the Big Bang
In search of Schrödinger's cat
Op Zoek naar Schrödingers Kat
Schrödinger's kittens and the search for reality
HOW FAR IS UP?: MEASURING THE SIZE OF THE UNIVERSE
Deep simplicity
The fellowship
Double Planet
Richard Feynman
The Fellowship
The omega point
Der Weltraum. Von Urknall, Schwarzen Löchern und fremden Welten. Bildband aus der BBC Edition
This shaking earth
Galaxy formation
Asi de Simple
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Genesis
Darwin
Space
Weather force
Ice Age
Future worlds
Quantum Physics: A Beginner's Guide to the Subatomic World
The fellowship
The hole in the sky
Time and space
Climatic threat
OUR CHANGING PLANET
Future weather and the greenhouse effect
Time Travel
Diccionario del Cosmos
The Britannica Guide to the 100 Most Influential Scientists
Get a Grip on New Physics
The Redundant Male
Our Changing Universe
Blinded by the Light
Climate and mankind
Get a grip on physics
Just look at... weather
Schrödingers Kätzchen und die Suche nach der Wirklichkeit
Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution
Historia de La Ciencia 1543-2001
La terre-serre
Carbon Dioxide, Climate and Man
Deep Simplicity
In Search of the Edge of Time
In Search of Superstrings
The Hole In The Sky; Man's Threat to the Ozone Layer (New Sciences)
Father to the man
In search of the big bang
Empire of the Sun
You Are Made of Stardust
White holes
Cosmos An Illustrated Guide to Our Solar System and the Universe
The Jupiter effect
Nuestro Universo
Science
Wissenschaft für die Westentasche
The first chimpanzee
The Jupiter effect reconsidered
The one per cent advantage
Quantum Physics
Innervisions
Le Chat de Schrödinger
Ice age
The Omega Point
Jupiter Effect
Stardust
Weather force
Richard Feynman
Schrödinger's kittens
Our changing climate
FITZROY: THE REMARKABLE STORY OF DARWIN'S CAPTAIN AND THE INVENTION OF THE WEATHER FORECAST
El Nacimiento Del Tiempo
Reunion
In search of the multiverse
Spacewarps
Darwin (1809-1882) in 90 minutes
Being human
Fisica Cuantica
Forcast Famine Frz
In the Beginning
Big numbers
In the beginning
DEEP SIMPLICITY: CHAOS, COMPLEXITY AND THE EMERGENCE OF LIFE
Genesis
Time and the Universe
Beyond the Jupiter effect
The strangest star
A Brief History of Science
Galileo (1564-1642) in 90 minutes
Mendel (1822-1884) in 90 minutes
Our changing planet
The Jupiter effect
Dazzling discoveries
Genesis
Father to the Man Uk
IN SEARCH OF SUPERSTRINGS: SYMMETRY, MEMBRANES AND THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
Faraday (1791-1867) in 90 minutes
Newton (1642-1727) in 90 minutes
In search of the multiverse
Evolution
Em Busca de Susy
Big Numbers
The strangest star
Time Warps
Innervisions (Roc)
Science for Everyone
En Busca de Susy
Big Bang
The matter myth
The expanding universe
The stuff of the universe
Watching the Weather
Flower hunters
In search of Schro dinger's cat
Almost Everyone's Guide to Science
XTL
Unveiling the edge of time
Too Hot to Handle?
Fire on Earth
Ben Bova presents
Ragnarok
Men Who Measured the Universe
Stardust
Planeta duplo
FitzRoy
Being Human
Auf dem Weg zur Weltformel.
Ice Age
En busca de la frontera del tiempo
Cosmology
Reunion
Weather j Gribbin/m Kelly
Double Planet
Children's History of Science
Being Human
Fire on Earth
Newton (1642-1727) in 90 minutes
Auf der Suche nach Schrödingers Katze
Fire on earth
How the brain works
Leonard Mlodinow
Leonard Mlodinow (born 1954)

physicist, mathematician

  • University of California, Berkeley

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Titanic Cat
A Briefer History of Time
The Drunkard's Walk
Feynman's Rainbow
The Grand Design
The last dinosaur
Stephen Hawking
Euclid's Window
Elastic
The Upright Thinkers
Subliminal
War of the Worldviews
Emotional
Stephen Hawking
O andar do bêbado
Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford (born 1941)

physicist, astronomer

  • University of California, San Diego, University of Oklahoma

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Artifact
The Bradbury Chronicles
Fourth Planet from the Sun
Hitler victorious
What might have been, volumes 1 & 2
Shiva Descending
Nebula Awards Showcase 2000
Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy
Backscatter
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
The End of the World -- stories of the apocalypse
In the Ocean of Night
Other Worlds Than These
The Martian race
Against infinity
COSM
Furious gulf
Creations
Heart of the Comet
Beyond Infinity
Foundation's Fear
Galaxy's Edge Magazine
Again, Dangerous Visions
Great sky river
Isaac Asimov's Wonders of the World
Loosed Upon the World
The wonderful future that never was : flying cars, mail delivery by parachute, and other predictions from the past
Galaxy's Edge Magazine, Issue 33, July 2018
The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction
Meeting Infinity
Eater
Far futures
Galaxy's Edge Magazine. Issue 31, March 2018
Year's Best SF 9
Alternate Empires
Great Science Fiction
Shipstar: A Science Fiction Novel
Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazin 17. Folge
Deep time
Mathenauts
If the stars are gods
Chiller
Free Space
Galaxy's Edge Magazine
Dragon Tales
What Might Have Been
Alternate Wars
The stars in shroud
Murasaki
A Darker Geometry
Jupiter Project
The sunborn
Find the changeling
In alien flesh
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories (Volume 1)
Bowl of Heaven and Shipstar
Timescape
Glorious
Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 10, September 2014 (Galaxy's Edge)
Matter's end
Galaxy's Edge
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, VOL. 4 (What Might Have Been, No. 4)
Bart Science Fiction Triplet # 1
Nebula Award Stories 10
New Ball Games for the Future
Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 22, September 2016 (Galaxy's Edge)
Bowl of heaven
The New Hugo Winners
Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 13, March 2015 (Galaxy's Edge)
Skylife
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories
Across the Sea of Suns
The Berlin Project
Worlds vast and various
Beyond Human
Heroes in hell
Mammoth Dawn
The Mars Girl & As Big as the Ritz
Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 14, May 2015 (Heinlein Special)
Popular mechanics
Second Creation
New Dimensions 5
Immersion and other short novels
Beyond Human
Sailing Bright Eternity
The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year, 1989
Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 3 July 2013
Shadows of Eternity
Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 3, July 2013 (Galaxy's Edge)
Galaxy's Edge Magazine
Tides of Light
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN VOLUMES III AND IV
Far Orbit
Gregory Benford SF Gateway Omnibus
UNDER THE WHEEL (Alien Stars; V. 3)
Swift Thoughts
Science Fiction and the Dismal Science
What Might Have Been, Volumes I & II
Beyond the Fall of Night
Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 2
Rewrite
Of space/time and the river
Nuclear War
The Key
Sentinels in Honor of Arthur C Clarke
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN VOLS. 1 AND 2
Seeing Ear Theatre
The Best of Gregory Benford
Against/Beyond Fall of Night a Pbp
Starship Century
The Best of Gregory Benford
Final Now
Science Fiction
Threads of Time
Mammoth Books Presents Anomalies
Devorador
Zeitschaft - SF-Roman
In the Ocean
Anomalies: a Collection of Short Fiction
Clarkesworld Issue 102
What might have been?
Iceborn
Gregory Benford Sf Omnibus
What Might Have Been , Volumes 1 & 2, Alternate Empires, Alternate Heroes
What Might Have Been Volumes I & II
Microcosms
Glorious
What might have been
Science Fiction Theater
Popular Mechanics the Wonderful Future That Never Was
Quantum Special: No. 1
Grace Immaculate
Deeper Than the Darkness
Beyond the Fall of Night
Time's rub
En el océano de la noche
The sunborn
En el océano de la noche
Nebula awards showcase 2000
El corazón del cometa
Nofzeman
La sphère
Stars in Shroud-Can
Centigrade 233
We could do worse
David Eagleman
David Eagleman (born 1971)

neuroscientist, psychologist

  • Rice University, Albuquerque Academy

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Sum
Sum
Incognito
Livewired
Runaway Species
Incognito
Brain
Brain and Behavior
The brain
Livewired
Sum
Dethronement
Incógnito
Runaway Species, The
La especie desbocada
Incognito - Beynin Gizli Hayati
El cerebro. Nuestra historia
Incógnito
Ve... Sonraki Hayattan Kirk Oyku
Le-sikum
Beyin Senin Hikayen
Canli Devre;Durmaksizin Degisen Beynin Icyüzü
Incognito
Fall of the Self
SUM. Cuarenta historias desde la otra vida
David Eagleman Collection 3 Books Bundle Set
Safety Net
Yaratıcı Tür
Mózg incognito
Sum
Incognito
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
Premee Mohamed
Premee Mohamed (born 1999)

scientist

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And What Can We Offer You Tonight
She Walks in Shadows
The Reinvented Heart
Giftmas 2018 Advent Anthology
Broken Darkness
Beneath The Rising
A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods
The Annual Migration of Clouds
Giftmas 2018 Advent Anthology
Third Flatiron Best of 2017 (Third Flatiron Anthologies Book 21)
The Apple-Tree Throne
Principia Ponderosa
These Lifeless Things
Void Ascendant
La migrazione annuale delle nuvole
No Shit, There I Was
[sarah] Cavar
[sarah] Cavar

scientist, researcher, poet

  • University of California, Davis

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bugbutter
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves
CO/NOTATIONS
Failure to Comply
Mad Scientist Journal
A Hole Walked In
The Dream Journals
Out of Mind & Into Body
Kurd Lasswitz
Kurd Lasswitz (1848-1910)

physicist, philosopher, teacher

  • University of Wrocław

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Sternentau
Nie und immer
Auf zwei Planeten
Great Science Fiction
Empfundenes und Erkanntes
Die lehre Kants von der idealtät des raumes und der zeit im zusammenhange mit seiner kritik des erkennens allgemeinverständlich dargestellt
Aspira
Geschichte der Atomistik vom Mittelalter bis Newton
Seifenblasen
Wirklichkeiten
Die Lehre Kants von der Idealtät des Raumes und der Zeit
Gustav Theodor Fechner
Atomistik und Kriticismus
Atomisk und Kriticismus
Geschichte der Atomistik von Mittelalter bis Newton
Die Lehre Kants von der Idealität des Raumes und der Zeit
Prost, Der Faust-Tragödie (-n)ter Teil
Bilder aus der Zukunft
Aspira
Auf zwei Planeten
Zend-avesta
Traumkristalle