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Sima Qian
Sima Qian

historian, poet, astrologer, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer

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Shi ji gu shi
Shi ji gu shi
Shi ji gu shi
Shi ji gu shi
Shi ji gu shi
Shi ji gu shi
Shi ji gu shi
Shi ji
The Grand Scribe's Records
Shiki
Historical records
Shiki retsuden
Sagi pyongnim
The Cream of Classical Chinese Literature, Vol. 3 (Condensed, Chinese-English Edition; 8-Book Boxed Set)
The first emperor
Records of the grand historian of China
Tai shi gong su wang miao lun
Shiki kokujikai
Mémoires historiques
Grand Scribes Records (Grand Scribe's Records)
Istoric eskie zapiski
Shih chi so yin
Xiao He, Han Xin
Shi ji xuan (Zhongguo li dai san wen zuo jia xuan ji)
Shi ji jin shi
Shi ji lun wen
Shi ji jing hua lu
Shi ji hui zhu kao zheng
Les Mémoires historiques de Se-ma Tsʼien
Records of the Historians
Shiki kaichū kōshō kōho
Statesman, patriot, and general in ancient China, three Shih Chi biographies of the Ch'in dynasty (255-206 B.C.)
Shi ji (Gu dian ming zhu pu ji wen ku)
Sama Chon Sagi
War-lords
Records of the historian
Bai hua Shi ji
Shih chi
The First Emperor Selections From The Historical Records
Selections from Records of the historian
Shi ji xuan yi
Shi ji xuan yi (Gudaiwenshimingzhuxuanyicongshu)
Le chapitre 117 du Che-ki (biographie de SSeu-ma Siang-jou)
Shi ji jin zhu
Quan zhu quan yi Shi ji
Sagi pyongnim, Shi Ji
Gu xiang zhai Shi ji
Selections from Records of the historian
Ssǔ-ma Ch'ien's historiographical attitude as reflected in four late warring states biographies
Istoric eskie zapiskik
Shi ji ji jie suo yin zheng yi he ke ben
Shi ji
Statesman, Patriot and General in Ancient China (American Oriental Ser.; No. 17)
Xin jiao Shi ji san jia zhu
Bai hua Shi ji
Shi ji di gu shi
Shao nian ban shi ji
Lian Po, Lin Xiangru, Lu Zhonglian. xuan zi Shi ji
Er shi si shi jing hua
Shi ji gu shi all in one
Quan yi shi ji
Sima Qian san wen xuan ji (Bai hua san wen shu xi)
Shi ji dao du
Sagi
Shi ji zha ji
Selections from the Records of the Historian
Shi ji
Shi ji xuan jiang
Stories from "Records of the Historian"
Shi ji hui zhu kao zheng jiao ding
Shi ji tian guan shu jin zhu
guang zhu yu shi Shi ji jing hua
Shi ji xiang jie
A Comprehensive Mirror of Chinese History (Tzu Zhi Tung Jian)(Complete) (Volumes 1-20)
Ch'o nha ru l nakka ollin yo ngungdu l
Ssu-ma Ch'ien's historiographical attitude as reflected in four late Warring States biographies
Shi ji xuan ji
Cai se tu jie shiji
The Grand Scribe's Records: Volume 2
Sudur temdeglel-ece songġuġsan u̇liger
Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford (born 1941)

physicist, astronomer

  • University of California, San Diego, University of Oklahoma

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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
Artifact
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 Bradbury Chronicles
The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction
Fourth Planet from the Sun
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
Hitler victorious
Dragon Tales
What might have been, volumes 1 & 2
What Might Have Been
Alternate Wars
The stars in shroud
Murasaki
Shiva Descending
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
Nebula Awards Showcase 2000
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
Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy
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?
Backscatter
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
George Saunders
George Saunders (born 1958)

translator, essayist, journalist, geophysicist, geological engineer

  • Syracuse University, Colorado School of Mines

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Lincoln in the Bardo
Tenth of December
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008
The very persistent gappers of Frip
The brief and frightening reign of Phil
Pastoralia
The Best American Short Stories 2008
Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . .
In persuasion nation
The Braindead Megaphone
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012
In Persuasion Nation
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
Liberation Day
Fox 8
Builder and Blunderer: A Study of Emperor William's Character and Foreign Policy
Congratulations, by the way
The Story Prize
The braindead megaphone
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
George Saunders
Casebook of the Bizarre
BürgerKriegsLand fast am Ende. Erzählungen
Brain-Dead Megaphone
Samizdat
Honne, The Spirit Of The Chehalis
October Revolution
Red Bow
Bounty- Land
In Persuasion Nation
Treatise on Theatres
Zorro 8
Araligin Onu
Frip'in Aşırı Israrcı Pırtlakları
Zorro 8
Felicidades, por cierto
Phil'in Dehset Verici Kisa Saltanati
İç Savaş Diyarı Feci Düşüşte
Home
Samizdat; voices of the Soviet opposition
Pastoralien.
Deu de desembre
Orange Blossom Trail
Braindead Megaphone
Prestigious Presidential Papa Pope Poet
Swim in the Pond in the Rain
Wage determination in Canada
Diez de diciembre
THE RED BOW [MAGAZINE ARTICLE]
Secessiolàndia pel pedregar
Een duik in een vijver in de regen
Zehnter Dezember
Felicidades, por cierto
Moral and Social State of the Christian Community Before and after Constantine the Great
A Treatise on Theatres. by George Saunders
Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Interest arbitration and wage inflation in the federal public service
Arafta
Civil War Land in Bad Decline
Royal Air Force 1939-1945 (volume 3)
Pastoralya
Civilwarland in Bad Decline
Tilki 8
Generación quemada
Camberwell nostalgia!
Ways of seeing
The Spirit among Us
Moyez Gulamhussein Vassanji
Moyez Gulamhussein Vassanji (born 1950)

publisher, physicist

  • University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The book of secrets
The assassin's song
The in-between world of Vikram Lall
A Place Within
Amriika
Contemporary African Short Stories
Mordecai Richler
No new land
Uhuru Street
The gunny sack
The magic of Saida
The Magic of Saida
A Meeting of streams
Everything There Is
And home was Kariakoo
Elvis, Raja
The assassin's song
World of Wonders
Russell McCormmach
Russell McCormmach (born 1933)

historian, physicist

  • Washington State University, Case Western Reserve University

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Intellectual mastery of nature
Night thoughts of a classical physicist
Weighing The World The Reverend John Michell Of Thornhill
Speculative Truth
The Personality of Henry Cavendish Profile of a Historian of Science Archimedes
Historical studies in the physical sciences
The Second Physicist
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, 8 (Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences)
Historical studies in the physical sciences
H Study 1970 V2
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. Third Annual Volume 1971. Volume 3
HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Power lines
Weighing the World
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 7
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 6
Historical studies in the physical sciences
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 5
Personality of Henry Cavendish - a Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities
Intellectual Mastery of Nature - Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein Vol. 2
Night thoughts of a classical physicist
Liu Xiang
Liu Xiang

poet, historian, philosopher, astronomer, politician, librarian

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Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1878-1945)

physicist, chemist, biologist, explorer, anthropologist, linguist, cartographer, journalist, geologist, biochemist, mineralogist

  • Imperial St. Petersburg University

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Beasts, Men and Gods
Lenin
Beasts, Men and Gods
The Breath of the Desert the Account of a Journey Through Algeria and Tunisia
Oasis and Simoon
Puszcze polskie
The Fire of Desert Folk
Slaves of the sun
Beasts, men and gods
Lisowczycy
Lenin
In den Dschungeln der Wälder und Menschen
Lenin, god of the godless
De la présidence à la prison
The shadow of the gloomy East
Zwierzęta, ludzie, bogowie
The fire of desert folk
Unter dem Gluthauch der Wüste
Flammendes Afrika
Cień ponurego Wschodu
Sous le fouet du simoun [par] Ferdinand Antoni Ossendowski
From president to prison
Li︠u︡di, bogi, zveri
Beasts, men and gods
Karpaty i Podkarpacie
Sous le fouet du Simoun
Khu̇n, araatan, burkhad
Slaves of the sun
Man and mystery in Asia
Sklaven der Sonne
Tiere, Menschen und Go tter =
Lenin, god of the godless
Man and mystery in Asia, in collaboration with Lewis Stanton Palen
The breath of the desert
The shadow of the gloomy East
Im Sibirischen Zuchthaus
The life story of a little monkey
Bestias, hombres, dioses
The shadow of the gloomy East
Beasts, men and gods
Polesie
V ríši medveďov
Huculszczyzna
Mocni ludzie
Tiere, Menschen und Götter
Život a príhody šimpanzky
The lioness
Slaves of the sun
From president to prison
Man and mystery in Asia
Oasis and simoon