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Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ (1937-2011)

essayist, women's rights activist, journalist

  • Cornell University, Yale School of Drama

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The Dark Descent
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
Microcosmic Tales
Nebula Award Stories Eight
Speculations
To write like a woman
Again, Dangerous Visions
The Two of Them
New Worlds Nine
Extra (ordinary) people
On Strike Against God
And Chaos Died
The Adventures of Alyx
How to suppress women's writing
Nebula Award Stories
We Who Are About To...
The Country You Have Never Seen
The Female Man
The Zanzibar cat
The hidden side of the moon
The Future is Female!
Magic mommas, trembling sisters, puritans & perverts
New Dimensions II
Kittatinny
Picnic on Paradise
What are we fighting for?
L'Autre Moitié de l'homme
Nouvel abrégé de philosophie, Terminale
The Future is Female 2!
Biology of mammalian germ cell mutagenesis
The Hidden Side of the Moon
Des gens (extra)ordinaires
Materials Science
Univers 04
Extra (Ordinary) People
WomanSpace
Swords Against Darkness
Histoire de la philosophie
Alyx
Science Fiction Story Reader 12
Joanna Russ : Novels and Stories
Somebody's trying to kill me and I think it's my husband
Cómo acabar con la escritura de las mujeres
Exploring Chess
Com destruir l'escriptura de les dones
COUNTRY YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN: ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
Country You Have Never Seen
Les methodes en philosophie
Alyx
Picnic on Paradise
Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans, and Perverts
Female Man
Trouble in the Archives
El hombre hembra
Female Man
Adventure Alyx P
On Strike Against God
Extra(Ordinary) People
Houston, Houston, Do You Read?/Souls (Tor Double, No 11)
Dissertation & commentaire de texte philosophiquesterminales l-es-s
Woman Space
El hombre hembra
Almas
Dear colleague
Daniel Keyes
Daniel Keyes (1927-2014)

journalist

  • Brooklyn College, New York University

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The experience of literature
The InterActive Reader
The Hugo Winners [volume I]
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Silver Level
The Hugo Winners, Volumes one and two
Prentice Hall Literature--Silver
Flowers for Algernon
The Magazine of fantasy and science fiction. A 30-year retrospective
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury (The Future in Question / Space Mail)
Unveiling Claudia
Pearson Literature - California - Reading and Language
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume Two
The minds of Billy Milligan
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Readers Companion--Silver Level
The Super Hugos
The touch
Stories of Suspense
The fifth Sally
American Science Fiction : Four Classic Novels 1960-1966
Algernon, Charlie and I, A Writer's Journey - Plus the Complete Original Short Novelette Version of "Flowers for Algernon"
The Milligan Wars
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1960
The First Men (Howard Fast) / Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes) / The Second Kind of Loneliness (George R. R. Martin)
Galaxy Science Fiction, Vol. 16, No. 4
Kokoro no kagami
The Asylum Prophecies
24 ha-panim shel Bili Miligen
Billy Milligan'in Zihinleri
Space Mail
Kwiaty dla Algernona
Flores para Algernon
Algernon, Charlie et moi
Flowers for Algernon (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Charly
The Minds of Billy Milligan. 1/2
The Milligan Wars. 1/2
The Milligan Wars. 2/2
Brian Stableford
Brian Stableford (1948-2024)

literary critic, researcher

  • University of York

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The Vampire Archives
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers
Shadows over Baker Street
The Werewolves of London
Architects of Emortality
The carnival of destruction
Young Blood
Shadows over Innsmouth
Man in a Cage
Kiss the Goat
Empire of Fear
The Werewolves of London
The Haunted Bookshop and Other Apparitions
The Carnival of Destruction
Beyond the Mountains of Madness
Young Blood
Grave Predictions
The Wildside Book of Fantasy: 20 Great Tales of Fantasy
The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires
The Cassandra Complex
Scientific romance in Britain 1890-1950
The angel of pain
The Florians
Historical dictionary of fantasy literature
By Blood We Live
The third millennium
The mysteries of modern science
Inherit the earth
The Last Days of the Edge of the World
The Science in science fiction
Science Fact and Science Fiction
Isaac Asimov's utopias
Future man
Journey to the Center
Sociology of Science Fiction
Masters of Science Fiction
The Mind-Riders
The Fenris Device
Dark Ararat
Architects of Emortality
Optiman
Black Wings III - New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror
Paradox of the Sets
Realms of Tartarus
Once Upon a Future: The Third Borgo Press Book of Science Fiction Stories
Scientific romance in Britain, 1890-1950
The paradox of the sets
The Cassandra Complex (Emortality)
The Gates of Eden
The city of the sun
The Walking Shadow
The Halcyon drift
The Dedalus book of femmes fatales
Halcyon drift
The empire of fear
The Angel of Pain
The Dedalus book of decadence (moral ruins)
The Florians (Daedalus Mission, Bk. 1)
Firefly
The city of the sun
The Dedalus book of British fantasy
Designer genes
The New Faust at the Tragicomique
The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence (The Black Forrest)
Inherit the Earth (Emortality)
The Dedalus book of decadence (moral ruins)
Wildeblood's Empire
The Last Days of the Edge of the World
Rhapsody in Black
The Face of Heaven
Tales of the Wandering Jew
The Steampunk MEGAPACK®: 26 Modern and Classic Steampunk Stories
Heterocosms
The Tarantulas' Parlor
The face of heaven
Firefly
The empire of fear
Salamander's Fire
Dislocations: Nine Stories of Speculation and Imagination
Tree Turf And Ornamental Pesticide Guide
The third millennium
Cinema Futura (edited by Mark Morris)
The way to write science fiction
The Snuggly Satyricon
Sexual chemistry
Year zero
Tales of the Shadowmen 5
John Carter Of Mars
Streaking
Inherit the earth
The paradise game
The Angel of Pain
Journey to the Centre
Wildebloods empire
Five Star Science Fiction/Fantasy - Asgard's Conquerors
Space, Time, and Infinity: Essays on Fantastic Literature
Snuggly Sirenicon
The Dictionary of science fiction places
The gates of Eden
Slaves of the Death Spiders and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature
The Tree of Life
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts)
The A to Z of fantasy literature
The A to Z of Fantasy Literature (The A to Z Guide Series Book 46)
Balance of Power
Man in a cage
Cradle of the sun
The empire of fear
The Monster MEGAPACK®: 22 Modern & Classic Tales of Monsters
The Cosmic Perspective and Other Black Comedies
The Red Sorcerer
Dark Ararat (Emortality)
Omega Expedition
Isoline and the Serpent-Flower
The Wayward Muse
Chimera's Cradle
Historical dictionary of science fiction literature
Rouletabille at Krupp's
The A to Z of Science Fiction Literature (A to Z Guides)
Frankenstein in London
Man in a Cage
To Challenge Chaos
Promised Land
Chimera's Cradle (The Books of Genesys)
Serpent's Blood
The Fountains of Youth (Emortality)
Prince Bonifacio
Salome and Other Decadent Fantasies
The werewolves of London
Swan Song
Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction
The Mysterious Force
Algebraic fantasies and realistic romances
SERPENT'S BLOOD (GENESYS)
The Cure for Love and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
The Mind-Riders
The Man Who Lost Himself
Space, time, and infinity
Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction
Complications and Other Stories
Halcyon drift
The Giant Book of Fantasy and the Supernatural
The Dragon Man
Invaders from the Centre
Le troisième millénaire
Swan Songs
The Eleventh Hour
The Centre Cannot Hold
Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction
Firefly: A Novel of the Far Future
The Navigators of Space
Opening minds
The Best of Both Worlds and Other Ambiguous Tales
The Stones of Camelot
The Golden Fleece and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
The Angel of Lust
L'énigme de Floria
Ever Smaller
Omega Expedition
The fountains of youth
The Terror of Madame Atomos
The Elusive Shadows
Exotic Encounters: Selected Reviews
Weird Fiction in France
Ombre de Frankenstein
Halcyon Drift
Day Of Wrath
The Last Days of the Edge of the World
Sherlock Holmes and the Vampires of Eternity
Sang du serpent
Valdemar's Daughter / The Mad Trist
Paradise Game
Das Machtgleichgewicht.
A clash of symbols
An Inhabitant of the Planet Mars
Adventures of Captain Cap
The Bald Giants
Journey to the center
World above the World
Zeitsprünge
The Truths of Darkness
Vampires of Atlantis
The Vampire Lord Ruthwen
Wildeblood's empire
Genesys- Trilogie 2. Das Feuer des Salamanders
The Secret of Zippelius
Paradies des Untergangs
Slaves of the Death Spiders and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature (I.O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy & Criticism of Literature, No. 38.)
Changelings and Other Metamorphic Tales
The Blue Peril
Merkeze Seyahat -Asgrad Üclemesi-1
Univers 1985
Fountains of Youth
Posthumous Correspondence
Sar Dubnotal vs Jack the Ripper
Vampire of the Val-De-Grace
Critical Threshold
The Sacred Fire
The Kingdom Of The Beasts
Glorious perversity
The Merchants of Health
The Womb of Time
Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist Across the Solar System
Future man
Embrasser le bouc
The Alchemy of Blood
The paradise game
Year Zero
War Games
A Vision of Hell
An International Mission to the Moon
Science Fact and Science Fiction
The Supreme Progress
Pharaoh's Wife
The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence the Black Feast
Ortog
Genesys- Trilogie 3. Das Rätsel der Chimäre
Das Paradox der fremden Wesen
Babels, Balloons and Innocent Eyes
Halyartes
Dedalus Book of Decadence
TALES OF ENCHANTMENT AND DISENCHANTMENT
Pawns of Chaos
Paris Before the Deluge
Spirits of the Vasty Deep
Mephistophela
Chimera's Cradle
The Emerald Princess
Cradle of the Sun
The City of the Sun
Tangled Web of Time
Promised Land: Hooded Swan, Book Three
Midnight!!
Dark Ararat
Science Fact and Science Fiction
Curse of the Coral Bride
Portals of Paradise
THE THIRD MILLENIUM
Martian Epic
Automata
Germans on Venus
Slumming in Voodooland
Prelude to Eternity
Masks in the Tapestry
The Walking Shadow
The Omega expedition
Tales of the Shadowmen 4
Serpent's blood
Outside the human aquarium
Cassandra Complex
The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2001
Conqueror of Death
Designer Genes: Tales of the Biotech Revolution
The Dedalus Book of Decadence (Moral Ruins)
Beginning Operations : A Sector General Omnibus
Carnival of destruction
Stirring Stories
Swan Songs
Critical Threshold
Against the New Gods and Other Essays on Writers of Imaginative Fiction
The Blind Worm
New Atlantis
The encyclopedia of science fiction
Melusine
An Oasis of Horror: Decadent Tales and Contes Cruels
Yesterday's bestsellers
Asgard's Conquerors : A Science Fiction Novel
The Couple
The Incredible Adventure and Other Interstellar Excursions
Narrative Strategies in Science Fiction and Other Essays on Imaginative Fiction
Nora, The Ape-Woman
In the Flesh and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
The French Fantasy Treasury
Panic in Paris
The Quiet Dead
After the Revelation
The Death of Broceliande
The Exploits of Professor Tornada
To challenge Chaos
The science in science fiction
Architects of Emortality
Empire of Fear
Puteshestvie k T ŁSentru
The Mirror of Present Events
Swan Song
News from the Moon
Slaves of the death spiders
Mysterious Fluid
Creators of Science Fiction
Nightmares of an Ether-Drinker
The Soul-Drinker
Journey to the Land of the Fourth Dimension
Selbstmord im All
Further Beyond: A Lovecraftian Science Fiction Novel
Les Fleurs Du Mal / The Undead (Wildside Double #4
Space, Time, and Infinity
The Crazy Corner
Wildeblood's Empire
The Insubstantial Pageant
News of the Black Feast and Other Random Reviews
The Clock of the Centuries
Sheena and Other Gothic Tales
War Games
In the Kingdom of the Beasts (Dies Irae, #2)
The days of glory
Asgard's heart
Castaways of Tanagar
El imperio del miedo
Dictionary of Science Fiction Places
Sexual Chemistry
The last days of the edge of the world
The Third Millennium : A History of the World
Asgard's conquerers
Writing fantasy & science fiction, and getting published
El Hombre Futuro
Serpent's Blood
Asgard's secret
Critical threshold
El imperio del miedo
Tales of the Wandering Jew
Vijay Mishra
Vijay Mishra (born 1945)

literary scholar, cultural studies scholar, scholar of English, man of letters

  • Lelean Memorial School, Victoria University of Wellington

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The gothic sublime
Devotional poetics and the Indian sublime
Bollywood Cinema
Dark side of the dream
Literature of the Indian Diaspora
Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy
Annotating Salman Rushdie
Tat niranjana
Rama's banishment
Rama's Banishment
What Was Multiculturalism?
Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature
Intelligent Nanobiosystems in Medicine and Healthcare, Volume 1
Drug Delivery and Pharmaceutical Applications of Nanomaterials
You Dying Me Dying
V. S. Naipaul and World Literature
Treatment of Breast Cancer with Natural Products
Literature of the Indian diaspora
Nanotechnology-Based Approaches for Targeting and Delivery of Drugs and Genes
You Only Think, but I Have Celebrated Life
Intelligent Nanobiosystems in Medicine and Healthcare, Volume 2
Matthew Johnson
Matthew Johnson (born 1962)

archaeologist, anthropologist

  • University of Cambridge

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Zombies
Extermination
An archaeology of capitalism
Housing culture
Drifters Volume 6
Irregular Verbs
Circumcision, Public Health, Genital Autonomy and Cultural Rights
Irregular Verbs
Conservatism and Ideology
Lived Experience in the Later Middle Ages
American dreams, American realities
Behind the castle gate
Gantz Omnibus Volume 6
Gantz Omnibus Volume 8
Crisis of the Twenty-First Century
Bibliographia Liturgica =
Houston Genetic City
Ideas of Landscape
The Xanue
COVID, Cancer, and Christ
Foreign Policy of Mass Society
Good Grammar [Grades 6-12]
Protest - Analysing Current Trends
Human Data Interaction, Disadvantage and Skills in the Community
Blackest Spells
Gantz Omnibus Volume 7
Finding Success the First Year
Precariousness, Community and Participation
My Memories of My Life in Maine
Gantz Omnibus Volume 4
Bigfoot
Legacy of Marxism
SAP Material Master - a Practical Guide
Behind the Castle Gate
Gantz Omnibus Volume 9
Drifters Omnibus Volume 1
Explaining and Resisting Trumpism Post-2020
Precariat
Protest
Forest Brides
Drifters Omnibus Volume 2
Undermining Racial Justice
Gantz Omnibus Volume 5
Best News Ever
Property Rights in Outer Space
Eucharistic Love
Too Short to Box with God
GMO Free Diet
COVID-19 and the Politics of Fear
Answers to Your Biggest Questions about Teaching Middle and High School ELA
Circumcision, Public Health, Genital Autonomy and Cultural Rights
Planning for CLIL
Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
Behind the Castle Gate
Planning for CLIL
Gantz Omnibus Volume 11
Gantz Omnibus Volume 3
Surveys in Combinatorics 2021
Elephant Coloring Book for Kids
Legacy of Marxism
Living and Working in Wartime China
Archaeological Theory
Another Star in the Sky
Mask of Wander
Undermining Racial Justice
Archaeological Theory
Learning 2D Game Development with Unity
Gantz Omnibus Volume 10
Trumpism
SAP® material master
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 53 2024
Precariat
Militarism and the British Left, 1902-1914
Bold and the Bulge
Swimmer to Coach
Gantz Omnibus Volume 12
Deadman's Tome Book of Horrors I
Positive Parenting with a Plan
Precariousness, Community and Participation
Fall From Earth
Ingeborg Weber
Ingeborg Weber (born 1941)

scholar of English

  • Goethe University Frankfurt

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Der englische Schauerroman
Anarchismus
Virginia Woolf, The waves
Evolution und Literatur
Weiblichkeit und weibliches Schreiben
Yvor Winters
Yvor Winters (1900-1968)

poet, literary critic, journalist

  • University of Chicago, Stanford University

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The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
In defense of reason
The function of criticism
The collected poems of Yvor Winters
The selected poems of Yvor Winters
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Selected poems
Yvor Winters
The collected poems of Yvor Winters ; with an introduction by Donald Davie
The selected letters of Yvor Winters
Collected poems
Primitivism and decadence
Maule's curse
Forms of discovery
The magpie's shadow
On modern poets
Quest for reality
The giant weapon
In Defense Of Reason
The poetry of W.B. Yeats
The early poems of Yvor Winters, 1920-28
The Poetry Of Yvor Winters
The anatomy of nonsense
Uncollected poems of Yvor Winters, 1919-1928
Before disaster
The immobile wind
Uncollected Poems, 1929-1957
The bare hills
Poems
Uncollected Poems 1919-1928
Yvor Winters: uncollected essays and reviews
The brink of darkness
The poetry of J.V. Cunningham
Poets of the Pacific
In defense of reason. Primitivism and decadence
Twelve poets of the Pacific
Three poems
The journey and other poems
Quest for reality
The uncollected poems of Yvor Winters, 1929-1957
Aspects de la littérature américaine
A House
Uncollected essays and reviews
The proof
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The function of criticism
The function of criticism
The function of criticism
Poets of the Pacific
Collected poem
Collected poems
The brink of darkness
In defense of reason. Primitivism and decadence : a study of American experimental poetry. Maule's curse : seven studies in the history of American obscurantism. The anatomy of nonsense. The significance of The bridge by Hart-Crane, or What are we to think of Professor X?
In defense of reason
Laurel, archaic, rude
In defense of reason. Primitivism and decadence
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)

poet, playwright

  • University of Oxford

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Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror
Sightlines 9
Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Bronze
Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Reader's Companion -- Bronze Level
Prentice Hall Literature--Bronze
Prentice Hall Literature--Bronze
Reader's Companion--Bronze Level
The highwayman
Collected poems
Tales of the Mermaid Tavern
The torch-bearers
Poems
The wine-press
The magic casement
Sherwood
William Morris
Watchers of the Sky
Forty Singing Seamen
Drake, an English epic, books I-XII
The unknown God
The Highwayman (Visions in Poetry)
The avenue of the allies and Victory
Open boats
...The last voyage
Beyond the desert
A Belgian Christmas eve
The minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
The edge of the abyss
Prentice Hall Literature--Sample Selections--Bronze
The lord of misrule
Two worlds for memory
Rada
A poet's anthology of poems
Mystery ships
Horace
Poems of the new world
What is England doing?
A salute from the fleet
Orchard's bay
A Belgian Christmas eve, being "Rada" rewitten and enlarged as an episode of the great war
Walking shadows
The secret of Pooduck Island
A letter to Lucian, and other poems
The opalescent parrot
The New morning
No other man
The Golden Hynde
Daddy fell into the pond, and other poems for children
Le sort du sous-marin allemand
...The book of earth
Sherwood; or, Robin Hood and the three kings
Forty singing seamen
The secret of Pooduck Island
Portrait of Horace
A Book of Princeton Verse 1916
A tale of old Japan
Pageant of Letters
The Enchanted Island
Voltaire
The flower of old Japan
Drake
Pageant of letters
The secret of Pooduck Island
The poems of Alfred Noyes
If judgement comes
Shadows on the down and other poems
The Wine Press a Tale of War
Collected poems in one volume
The secret of Pooduck island
The loom of years
Nine selections from Alfred Noyes
The elfin artist and other poems
The Golden hynde, and other poems
Some aspects of modern poetry
The Magic Casement - An Anthology of Fairy Poetry
Selected verse
If judgment comes
Shadows on the down and other poems
The enchanted island, and other poems
The golden book of Catholic poetry
Shadows on the down
Collected Poems of Alfred Noyes
Robin Hood
Tennyson
The Forest of Wild Thyme: A Tale for Children Under Ninety
The accusing ghost of Roger Casement
Walking shadows
The New Morning, and Rada
Drake, an English epic
New essays and American impressions
Drake, an English epic, books 1-12
The devil takes a holiday
The forest of wild thyme
Open boats
Dick Turpin's ride
The return of the scare-crow
The edge of the abyss
The Lord Of Misrule And Other Poems
Ballads and poems
Youth and memory
IF judgment Comes Collected poems
Wizards
The hidden player
A book of Princeton verse, 1916
The accusing ghost, or, Justice for Casement
The flower of old Japan, and other poems
Collected Poems of Alfred Noyes V1
Walking shadows
Songs of shadow-of-a-leafand other poems
The edge of the abyss
The torch-bearers
The avenue of the allies and Victory
Collected poems
The avenue of the allies and Victory
A salute from the fleet and other poems
Some aspects of modern poetry
The wine press
Alfred Noyes
The magic casement
A salute from the Fleet, and other poems
Rada
Songs of Shadow-of-a-leaf and other poems
The wine press
Some aspects of modern poetry
Horace
The flower of old Japan
The unknown God
The incompleat gardener
Collected poems by Alfred Noyes
The opulescent parrot
Voltaire
Pageant of letters
Selected verse including A victory dance and other poems old and new
The return of the scare-crow
The golden book of Catholic poetry
Collected poems
The torch-bearers ...
Le sort du sous-marin allemand
The strong city
The new morning
The elfin artists and other poems
The prayer for peace
Open boats
The wine press
Mystery ships
The wine press
The last voyage
The strong city
The sun cure
The accusing ghost
The last man
Poems
The avenue of the allies and Victory
Dick Turpin's ride, and other poems
Open boats
The avenue of the allies and Victory
Rada
The golden hynde, and other poems
The torch-bearers
The New morning
The unknown God
Two Christmas poems
Mystery ship (trapping the "U" boat)
Selected verse including A victory dance and other poems old and new
The carol of the fir tree