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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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The Dark Descent
Dark Forces
Darkness
The Ultimate Zombie
An evil guest
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy And Horror 2012
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011
Such a pretty face
Dante's Disciples
The Fantasy Hall of Fame [30 stories]
Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space
Machines That Think
Wastelands -- Stories of the Apocalypse
Return to the Whorl
Sword & citadel
Pandora By Holly Hollander
In Green's jungles
Soldier of Arete
The Wizard
Nebula Winners Fourteen
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
Soldier of the Mist
Speculations
The Knight
The sorcerer's house
Again, Dangerous Visions
Peace
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
Soldier of Sidon
Endangered species
Nightside The Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun)
On Blue's waters
Lake of the long sun
Castleview
The Best of Gene Wolfe
Pirate Freedom
Storeys from the old hotel
The Devil in a forest
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
Caldé 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
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
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
Eric Frank Russell
Eric Frank Russell (1905-1978)

engineer

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The Hugo Winners [volume I]
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume Two A
The Hugo Winners, Volumes one and two
Microcosmic Tales
Fifty short science fiction tales
Science Fiction A to Z
Creations
Intergalactic empires
Three to Conquer
Men, Martians and Machines
Invasions
Starships
Faszination der Science Fiction
Wasp
Young extraterrestrials
Next of Kin
The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction
The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Third Series
Friends, robots, countrymen
Exiles (... And Then There Were None by Eric Frank Russell / Gypsy by Poul Anderson / Profession by Isaac Asimov)
Isaac Asimov presents the golden age of science fiction. Sixth Series
Science Fiction. The Great Years
The Mammoth Book of Classic Science Fiction
The Best of Eric Frank Russell
TV 2000
The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Fifth Series
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 3 (1941)
The Seven Deadly Sins and Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction (Seven Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction / Seven Deadly Sins of Science Fiction)
The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Second Series
The Great Explosion
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 10 (1948)
The Century's Best Horror Fiction. Volume 2
Somewhere a Voice
Weird Legacies
Isaac Asimov presents the great science fiction stories -- volume 5, 1943
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 9 (1947)
Sentinels from Space
Like nothing on earth
Great World Mysteries
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 12 (1950)
Dreadful Sanctuary
… And Then There Were None
Entities
With a Strange Device
Sinister Barrier
Flying Saucers
Sentinels from Space
The Seven Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction
Next of Kin
WASP
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 (1952)
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 17 (1955)
Isaac Asimov Presents Volume 7
Astounding Science Fiction - April 1959
Deep space
The Space Willies / Six Worlds Yonder
Die besten Stories von 1943
Dark Tides
The Mindwarpers
Far stars
Dreadful Sanctuary
Fantastic Reading
Like Nothing on Earth
Science Fiction Hall of Fame, The Novellas. Book 3
Leben ohne Ende/Störfaktor - Zwei SF-Romane in einem Band
Astounding Science Fiction
Major Ingredients
Wasp
Guerre aux invisibles
Invasion of the Robots
GUERRE AUX INVISIBLES
5 Unearthly Visions
Plus X
Ve Sonra Hic Kalmadi
Guêpe/Plus X
Men Martins and machines
Sentinelle de l'espace
Sentinels from Space / The Ultimate Invader
Flucht ins Heute/ Der Stich der Wespe:
Gedanken-Vampire - SF-Roman
Somewhere a voice,and other stories
Mindwarpers
Compleat Collected SSF Works of Eric Frank Russell 1905-1978
Prisonniers des étoiles
Vergangenheit mal 2
Best of Eric Frank Russell
DARKER TIDES - THE WEIRD TALES OF ERIK FRANK RUSSELL
The Best of Eric Frank Russell
Deep space
Best Eric F Russell
Gedanken-Vampire
The great explosion
Three to Conquer / Doomsday Eve (Classic Ace Double, D-215)
Wasp
The mindwarpers
With a Strange Device (The Mindwarpers)
Eduardo Vaquerizo
Eduardo Vaquerizo (born 1967)

flight engineer

  • Technical University of Madrid

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Geoffrey A. Landis
Geoffrey A. Landis (born 1955)

flight engineer, engineer, astronomer

  • Brown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
The Ultimate Zombie
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Speaking of the Fantastic III: Interviews with Science Fiction Writers
The New Hugo Winners
Red Sky
Launch Pad
Geoffrey A Landis: Short Stories, Volume 1
A Walk in the Sun
Futurs à gogos
Mars Crossing: An Epic of Survival on the Red Planet
Mythic Delirium: Volume Two: an international anthology of prose and verse
Isaac Asimov's Moons
Laser beamed power
Deposition and characterization of ZnS/Si heterojunctions produced by vaccum evaporation
LE SULTAN DES NUAGES
The Year's Top Short SF Novels
Cat Tales 2
Emilio Bueso
Emilio Bueso (born 1973)

engineer

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Extraños eones
Esta noche arderá el cielo
Noche cerrada
Diástole
Cenital
Diástole
Ahora intenta dormir
Neil Druckmann
Neil Druckmann (born 1978)

creative director, computer scientist

  • Florida State University, Carnegie Mellon University

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Henrique Marangon
Henrique Marangon (born 1978)

game designer, computer scientist, director, animator, television producer, designer

  • The Art Institute of Houston

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Five Nights at Freddy's Collection
The Silver Eyes (Five Nights At Freddy's #1)
The twisted ones
The fourth closet
1:35 AM (Five Nights at Freddy's
Five Nights at Freddy's Character Encyclopedia (an AFK Book) (Media Tie-In)
Twisted Ones
Fourth Closet (Five Nights at Freddy's #3)
Fetch (Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights #2)
Step Closer (Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights #4)
Into the Pit (Five Nights at Freddy’s
Fetch (Five Nights at Freddy’s
Five Nights at Freddy's The Freddy Files
The Cliffs (Five Nights at Freddy's
The Freddy files
Five nights at freddy's
Prankster (Five Nights at Freddy's
The Puppet Carver (Five Nights at Freddy's
Five Nights at Freddy’s
=deez nuts
Blackbird (Five Nights at Freddy's
Into the Pit (Five Nights at Freddy’s
Count The Ways
Gumdrop Angel
How to Draw Five Nights at Freddy's
Zwyrodniali
Into the Pit (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #1)
Tales from the Pizzaplex #3
Official Five Nights at Freddy's Coloring Book
Security Breach Files
Five Nights at Freddy's Fazbear Frights Four Book Boxed Set
Into the Pit (Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights #1)
Friendly Face (Five Nights at Freddy's
Survival: Security logbook
Five Nights At Freddys Series 3 Books Collection Set By Scott Cawthon
Silver Eyes Graphic Novel
Felix the Shark (Five Nights at Freddy's
Tales from the Pizzaplex #2
Gumdrop Angel (Five Nights at Freddy's
Five Nights at Freddy's
Bunny Call (Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights #5)
The Fourth Closet
Five Nights at Freddy's (4 Book Boxed Set)
Five Nights at Freddy's. Los otros animatrónicos
Fetch
Lally's Game
The Twisted Ones (Exclusive Book) (Five Nights at Freddy's Series #2) Realese Date ( June 27 2017)
Fourth Closet (Five Nights at Freddy's Graphic Novel #3)
The Freddy Files Wszystko co chcesz wiedziec o swiecie FNAF-A
five nights at freddy's fazbear frights grafic novel collection #1
Srebrne oczy Five Nights at Freddy's
Freddy Files
Silver Eyes Graphic Novel
Fazbear Frights Box Set
Czwarty schowek
Twisted Ones (Five Nights at Freddy's Graphic Novel #2)
The Twisted Ones (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Five Nights at Freddy's)
Eduard Uspensky
Eduard Uspensky (1937-2018)

poet, film producer, playwright, presenter, engineer, television presenter

  • Moscow Aviation Institute

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