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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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Soldier of Sidon
Sword & citadel
The Fantasy Hall of Fame [30 stories]
Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space
The Dark Descent
Machines That Think
Wastelands -- Stories of the Apocalypse
Return to the Whorl
Pandora By Holly Hollander
In Green's jungles
Soldier of Arete
The Wizard
Nebula Winners Fourteen
Dark Forces
Stories
Nebula Award Stories Eight
The Urth of the new sun
New Atlantis, The - And Other Novellas of Science Fiction
Magicats!
The claw of the conciliator
Shadow & Claw
There Are Doors
Darkness
Soldier of the Mist
Speculations
The Knight
The sorcerer's house
The Ultimate Zombie
Again, Dangerous Visions
Peace
An evil guest
Isaac Asimov's Wonders of the World
The Fifth Head Of Cerberus
Year's Best Fantasy 6
The Wildside Book of Fantasy: 20 Great Tales of Fantasy
Innocents aboard
Endangered species
Nightside The Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun)
On Blue's waters
Lake of the long sun
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy And Horror 2012
Castleview
The Best of Gene Wolfe
Pirate Freedom
Storeys from the old hotel
The Devil in a forest
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011
Sailing to Byzantium/Seven American Nights (Tor Doubles, No 10)
Year's Best SF 9
Gene Wolfe's Book of Days
Starwater strains
Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores
CaldeĢ of the Long Sun
Strange Travelers
Free Live Free
Castle of days
Epiphany of the Long Sun
Latro in the mist
The Shadow of the Torturer
Book of the New Sun
The Citadel of the Autarch
Exodus from the long sun
Rags & Bones
Home fires
Litany of the Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun)
The Wizard Knight
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2012 Edition: A Tor.Com Original
The Mammoth Book Of Angels and Demons
The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories
The Sword of the Lictor
Bibliomen
Such a pretty face
A borrowed man
The castle of the otter
The land across
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
Weird Tales 290 Spring 1988 (Weird Tales)
Gene Wolfe, Interview
Empires of foliage and flower
Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazin 22. Folge
Season of Wonder
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]
The The Book of the New Sun : The Book Of The New Sun
Severian Of The Guild The Book Of The New Sun
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)
Book of the New Sun : Volume 1 Vol. 1
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
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937)

engineer, satirist, librettist, playwright, literary critic, opinion journalist

  • Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Institute

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Islanders ; and, The fisher of men
ŠœŃ‹
Essays
Soviet Russian literature
An outline of Russian literature
Modern Italian short stories
The epic of Russian literature
Russian theater, from the Empire to the Soviets
Three loves of Dostoevsky
The dragon
Modern Russian literature
IĶ”A boiĶ”usŹ¹
An outline of Russian literature
This thing called love
Les onze reĢpubliques sovieĢtiques
Russian theater
Zamyatin's We
Tri liĶ”uļø”bvi Dostoevskogo
From Chekhov to the revolution
A Soviet heretic
Izbrannye proizvedeniia
Izbrannye proizvedeniya
Litsa
Islanders and the Fisher of Men
Histoire de la littérature russe soviétique
Sochineniya
A godforsaken hole
Russian theater, from the Empire to the Soviets
Prose
LitĶ”sa
Sobranie sochineniÄ­
Tri liļø uļø”bvi Dostoevskogo
The dragon, and other stories
We
Le métier littéraire
Le bolcheĢvisme vu par un Russe
De Pierre le Grand aĢ€ LeĢnine
Nosotros / We
The islanders
EvgeniÄ­ Zamiļø aļø”tin
Izbrannye proizvedeniiĶ”a
Los cofrades de serapión
A godforsaken hole
Uezdnoe =
Gerbert Uėlls
L' inondation
MyĢ„
Liļø tļø”sa
En medio de la nada
Navodnenie
La caverne et autres nouvelles
Biz
Sobranie sochineniÄ­
We (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
Tecnica della prosa
Robert MaÄ­er
Izbrannye proizvedeniya v dvukh tomakh
The Dragon
Navodnenie = The flood
O tom, kak istselen byl otrok Erazm
Nechestivye rasskazy
MbI
RusŹ¹
Litsa
Islanders
Xian dai Eguo wen xue shi
Ogni sviatogo dominika
Nosotros
La inundación
Big Kids' Fairytales
Biz
We
Navodnenie = The flood
Mes
Ogni sviļø aļø”togo Dominika
Zhitie blokhi
FonarŹ¹
Povesti i rasskazy =
O tom, kak istselen byl otrok Erazm
Diktatöre Mektuplar
Ogni sv. Dominika
Biz
Uezdnoe
Uezdnoe
Vereshki
Morgen
Biz
Nechestivye rasskazy
Bich BozhiÄ­
Vereshki
[O tom, kak istĶ”selen byl otrok Erazm
Bich BozhiÄ­
The islanders
WE (Heathen Edition)
Soviet heretic
The dragon
Biz
Magara
Navodnenie
Obshchestvo pochetnykh zvonareĒ
The dragon, and other stories
Ostrovitıļø aļø”ne
Ostrovitiļø aļø”ne
Nos
Uezdnoe =
We / My
Ejderha
We : (Unabridged)
IA boius
We : (Annotated Edition)
Biz
Na kulichkakh
We
We
Nous autres
Los fuegos de Santo Domingo
Povesti; rasskazy
Sochineniya
We
Navodnenie
Biz
Na kulichkakh
Izbrannoe
Ogni sviĶ”atogo Dominika
De cómo se curó el doncel Erasmo
OstrovitiĶ”ane
OdolenŹ¹
Elektrik
Poresti I rasskosy
My
Le récit du plus important [par] Evguéni Zamiatine
Sobranie sochineniÄ­ v 5 tt
The dragon
Ostrovitane
Biz Digerleri
We (Dystopian Classic)
Sochineniļø iļø”a
SochineniiĶ”a
Impious tales
A Soviet heretic
Uezdnoe ;
We
PisŹ¹menno
Tanri'nin Kirbaci
Povesti i rasskazy
Ostrovityane
O tom, kak istļø sļø”elen byl otrok Erazm
Selected Short Stories
Ostrovitļø iļø”ane
Pierre Boulle
Pierre Boulle (1912-1994)

engineer

  • SupĆ©lec

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The marvelous palace and other stories
The whale of the Victoria Cross
The good Leviathan
Le sacrilège malais
The photographer
Because it is absurd (on earth as in heaven)
Time Out of Mind
My own River Kwai
Desperate games
Trouble in paradise
A noble profession
La planète des singes
E=mc²
Great War Stories
Ears of the jungle
Le pont de la rivière kwaï
Histoires charitables
An impartial eye
Contes de l'absurde suivis de E=mc²
Miroitements
La planeĢ€te des singes
La baleine des malouines
S.O.P.H.I.A
William Conrad
Sacrilege in Malaya
Le bon LeĢviathan
L' iĢ‚lon
Histoires perfides
La planeĢ€te des singes
An English Garner Ingatherings from Our History and Literature Vol. 1
Contes du futur
Les Oreilles de jungle
A nous deux, Satan!
L' épreuve des hommes blancs
Sacrilege in Malaya
Time out of mind, and other stories
Les oreilles de jungle
La Planete DES Singes (French Edition)
Contes de l'absurde
Le Professeur Mortimer
Garden on the moon
La baleine des Malouines
Etrange planète
Ears of the jungle
Histoires perfides
Le malheur des uns--
L'ilon
Other Side of the Coin
Planet of the Apes Artist Tribute
La planete des singes. Mit Materialien.
Garden on the moon
L'\Etrange Croisade de Frederic II
Quia absurdum (sur la terre comme au ciel)
Les vertus de l'enfer
The virtues of hell
L' univers ondoyant
Not the glory;
Aux Sources de la Riviere Kwai
L' eĢnergie du deĢspoir
Planet of the Apes Special Sales
Les vertus de l'enfer
QUIA ABSURDUM (SUR LA TERRE COMME AU CIEL)
E [equals] mc [square], récits
Face of a hero
Garden on the Moon
Les voies du salut
La Baleine des Malouines
Les jeux de l'esprit
For a noble cause
Les Coulisses du ciel
BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES
O planeta dos simios
Le Bon Léviathan
Virtues of Hell
Garden on the Moon
Le sacrilège malais
Le\Boulevard des Illusions
Test
Les oreilles de jungle
Les voies du salut. roman.
Le\Photographe
Un meĢtier de seigneur
La sacrilège malais, roman
L' Étrange croisade de l'empereur Frédéric II
Face of a hero;
The executioner
Time out of mind
Desperate Games
Les vertus de l'enfu
A Noble Profession
Pour l'amour de l'art
L' eĢnergie du deĢsespoir
Not the glory
Planet of the Apes
Les jeux de l'esprit
Time out of mind, and other stories
Histoires charitables
Le bourreau
Saving Face
Maymunlar Gezegeni
Pour l'amour de l'art
L' epreuve des hommes blancs
O planeta dos simios
The Chinese Executioner
El planeta dels simis
Executioner
O planeta dos simios
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Quia absurdum
Histoires charitables
The other side of the coin
An impartial eye
La face
Les jeux de l'espirit
White man's test
The other side of the coin
El planeta dels simis
Le sacrileĢ€ge malaism roman
Un métier de seigneur
THE VIRTUES OF HELL (by the author of Monkey Planet - Planet of the Apes)
In quel memorabile giorno
The Chinese Executioner
Mirrors of the sun
Histoires Perfides Six Nouvelles
O planeta dos simios
Time out of mind, and other stories
TIME OUT OF MIND AND OTHER STORIES. Selected and Translated from the French by Xan Fielding.
The garden on themoon
Le bon LeĢviathan
White Man's Test
Desperate Games
Le jardin de Kanashima
The Photographer
Les vertus de l'enfer : roman
La planeĢ€te des singes
William Conrad
La planète des singes
Kong
Les oreilles de jungle
Un Metier De Seigneur
Planet of the Apes Adult Coloring Book
Contes de l'absurde; suives de E=mc2
Sacrilege in Malaya (Fontana books)
S. O. P. H. I. A. ( Sophia )
Un métier de seigneur
L'enlèvement de l'obélisque
La face
המקצוע האצילי
Easy Readers - French
Quia absurdum (sur la terre comme au ciel)
L'Étrange croisade de l'empereur Frédéric II ...
Le bourreau
Contes de l'absurde; suives de E=mc2
William Conrad
De wonderen van de Gargantua
Les voies du salut
הנע×Øה ממלאיה
Les voies du salut
Jacques Cousteau
Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997)

zoologist, explorer, filmmaker, innovator, photographer, conservationist, oceanographer, inventor, Officer of the French Navy, marine biologist, engineer, biologist, film director, world traveler, producer

  • Ɖcole Navale, CollĆØge Stanislas de Paris

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Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Spring 1953 Selections
Challenges of the Sea
The silent world
The act of life
Invisible messages
The Living Sea
Quest for food
The Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau
The white caps
Three adventures: GalaĢpagos, Titicaca, the Blue Holes
Jacques Cousteau's Amazon journey
Octopus and squid, the soft intelligence
Provinces of the sea
The ocean world of Jacques Cousteau
The adventure of life
The Ocean Worls Of Jacques Cousteau The Adventure Of Life
The ocean world of Jacques Cousteau.
Dolphins
Instinct and intelligence
Guide to the sea and index
The silent world
The Cousteau almanac
Diving companions: sea lion, elephant seal, walrus
Nos amies les baleines
Jacques Cousteau's Calypso
Planète des baleines
Jacques Cousteau
Silent World
Attack and defense
The act of life
Vie et la mort des coraux
Window in the sea
The shark
Oasis in space
Captain Cousteau's underwater treasury
The whale
Riches of the sea
Oasis in space
Trésor englouti
The silent world
A sea of legends
Man re-enters the sea
Mammals in the sea
A Sea of Legend
World without sun
Three Adventures
Diving companions
Attack and defense
A Bill of Rights for Future Generations (Proceedings, No 34)
Quest for food
A la recherche de l'Atlantide
Les requins
Monde sans soleil
Diving for sunken treasure
Trois aventures de la Calypso
Dolphins
Attack and defense
Namibie
Le monde du silence
The Shark
The Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau
The ocean world of Jacques Cousteau
Islands at the edge
La planeĢ€te des baleines
The art of motion
Sea lion, elephant seal, walrus
La mer de Cortez
Life and Death in a Coral Sea
Atlas of the Oceans
Whales
Pharaohs of the sea
Les surprises de la mer
L' homme, la pieuvre et l'orchidée
The Art of Motion
Calypso
Un treĢsor englouti
Octopus and squid, the soft intelligence
Du grand large aux Grands Lacs
Par dix-huit meĢ€tres de fond
Octopus and Squid
L' iĢ‚le des esprits
The Underseas Discoveries of Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The sea in danger
The Cousteau United States Almanac of the Environment
The shark: splendid savage of the sea
Cap Horn a la turbovoile
Sea of Legends
Le monde sans soleil
Lost relics of the sea
The Cousteau Almanac of the Environment
The ocean world
The Living Sea
Les dauphins et la liberteĢ
The ocean world of Jacques Costeau
Encyclopédie Cousteau : le monde des océans
La vie et la mort des caraux
Outer and inner space
FrancĢ§ais, on a voleĢ ta mer
Guide to the sea and Index
La mer blesseĢe
Diving for sunken treasure
The shark
Saumons, castors et loutres
Oasis in Space (Abrams)
Les requins [par] Jacques-Yves Cousteau et Philippe Cousteau
Life at the Bottom of the World
Act of Life (Abrams)
La monde du silence
Le monde du silence
The silent world
Enciclopedia del mar
Life and death in a coral sea
The shark