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Charles Sheffield
Charles Sheffield (1935-2002)

mathematician, physicist

  • University of Cambridge

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Charles Sheffield Sf Gateway Omnibu
Microcosmic Tales
The Cyborg from earth
Far futures
Futurs pas possible
My Brother's Keeper
Great Science Fiction
The Spheres of Heaven
Godspeed
Proteus manifest
The web between the worlds
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Borderlands of science
The Billion Dollar Boy (Jupiter)
Higher education
Cold As Ice
The Ganymede Club
Between the strokes of night
Sight of Proteus
Resurgence
Convergence
Transcendence
The Amazing Dr. Darwin
Aftermath
The New Hugo Winners
The nimrod hunt
The heritage universe
Putting up Roots
Summertide
Man on Earth
Proteus in the underworld
Earth watch
Georgia On My Mind And Other Places
Divergence
Starfire
The Mind Pool
The selkie
Le démon de Malkirk et autres histoires
Analog Science Fiction, May 1978
Brother to Dragons
Erasmus Magister
Dancing with myself
Proteus Unbound
Convergent Series
Dark as day
Convergence
Proteus Combined
Trader's world
Education and society
The McAndrew Chronicles
How to save the world
Towering Yarns
Space careers
Charles Sheffield SF Omnibus
Science Fiction Special 41
Proteo
The compleat McAndrew
The Heritage Universe, Summertide, Divergence, Transcendence
The Judas cross
Hidden variables
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 1989
Space access and utilization beyond 2000
Les chroniques de McAndrew
Space Suits
The lady vanishes and other oddities of nature
One Man's Universe
Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman (born 1948)

physicist, astrophysicist

  • California Institute of Technology, Princeton University

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Ghost
The diagnosis
Einstein's dreams
Dance for two
Good Benito
Great ideas in physics
The Discoveries
Time for the stars
Reunion
Song of two worlds
A Sense of the Mysterious
The discoveries
Time travel and Papa Joe's pipe
Origins
Reunion
Ghost
A modern day Yankee in a Connecticut court
Problem book in relativity and gravitation
The Accidental Universe
The best American essays 2000
Ancient light
The Best American Science Writing 2005
Quantum Legacies
Beauty and the Brain
Greyhounds
Die Diagnose
Searching for stars on an island in Maine
Probable Impossibilities
Zeit für die Sterne
In praise of wasting time
Screening room
Southern Writers on Writing
Mr G A Novel About The Creation
Living with the Genie
Revealing the universe
Screening Room
Good Benito
Searching for stars on an island in Maine
Ancient Light
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
Origins
The world is too much with me
Mr g
Song of Two Worlds
Ada and the Galaxies
Mr. g
Yildizlarin Zamani
Good Benito
Los sueños de Einstein
Living with the Genie
Dance for Two
Senhor D.
Bay Tanri
Einstein'in Dusleri
Ghost
The accidental universe
Shuang ren wu
Những giấc mơ của Einstein
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine Lib/E
Ta oneira tou Ainstain =
Einstein's Dreams
In Praise of Wasting Time
Revealing the universe
Luz antigua
Aḥlām Aynshtāyin
Three Flames
George Saunders
George Saunders (born 1958)

translator, essayist, journalist, geophysicist, geological engineer

  • Syracuse University, Colorado School of Mines

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Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . .
Tenth of December
Lincoln in the Bardo
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
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
Alastair Reynolds
Alastair Reynolds (born 1966)

astrophysicist

  • University of St Andrews, Newcastle University

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Poseidon's Wake
On The Steel Breeze
On the Steel Breeze
Year's Best SF 14
Infinite Stars
Lightspeed
Other Worlds Than These
Federations
House of Suns
Terminal World
The Best Science Fiction of the Nineties
Pushing Ice
Eclipse 2
Absolution gap
Dead Man's Hand
The Best of Subterranean
Blue remembered Earth
Galactic North
Shadow Captain
Zima Blue and Other Stories
Aurora Rising
Revelation Space
Made To Order
Slow Bullets
The Prefect
Century rain
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories (Volume 1)
Chasm City
Revenger
Harvest of Time
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8 (Volume 8)
Postscripts #30/31 - Memoryville Blues [sligned slipcase]]
The Six Directions Of Space
Thousandth Night and Minlas Flowers
Diamond Dogs
Redemption Ark
DIAMOND DOGS/TURQUOISE DAYS
Inhibitor Phase
El desfiladero de la absolución
Blue Remembered Earth (Poseidons Children, Book 1)
Beyond the Aquila Rift
Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days
Zima Blue
Bridging Infinity
Love, Death + Robots : The Official Anthology
Troika
The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories
Bone Silence
Belladonna Nights and Other Stories
Espacio Revelación
War and Space: Recent Combat
Eversion
Machine Vendetta
Elysium fire
Deep Navigation
Bridging Infinity (The Infinity Project Book 5)
Harvest of time
Edge of Infinity
Revelation Space (S.F. Masterworks)
Revelation Space (Gollancz)
The Medusa Chronicles
Absolution Gap (Revelation Space Sequence)
Permafrost
Science Fiction: The Year's Best (2006 Edition)
Doctor Who
Aquila Yarigi'nin Ötesi
Deep Navigation, Second Edition
Janus
Okular
Ciudad abismo / Chasm City (Spanish Edition)
Unendlichkeit
Kesif Uzayi
Le Gouffre de l'absolution (French Edition)
Clarkesworld Issue 99
Unendlichkeit: Roman
The Year's Top Short SF Novels 7
Imagining the Spheres
Mammoth Books Presents Sleepover
Zima Mavisi
Arinma Geçidi - Kesif Uzayi Serisi 3
Duplikat
The Lowest Heaven
El Arca De La Redencion/ Redemption Ark
Best of British Science Fiction 2018
El Arca De La Redencion (Solaris)
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 (Volume 10)
La Terre Bleue de nos souvenirs
Downside Girls
Aurora
Enigma
Kefaret Gemisi - Kesif Uzayi Serisi 2
Century Rain
The Iron Tactician
Mammoth Books presents Merlin's Gun
Die Medusa-Chroniken
Elysium Fire Lib/E
Unendliche Stadt
L'Espace de la révélation
Träume von Unendlichkeit
Chasm City A2 Poster
Qima lan
La pluie du siècle