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Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943)

journalist, historian, political scientist

  • Harvard University, Colby College

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The Winchester Reader
Team of Rivals
Leadership In Turbulent Times
Lyndon Johnson and the American dream
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys
Wait Till Next Year
No Ordinary Time
Great God Pan
Every four years
Wait Till Next Year Reading Group Guide
No Ordinary Time Reading Group Guide
Naomi Novik
Naomi Novik (born 1973)

programmer

  • Brown University, Columbia University

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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy And Horror 2012
The Dragon Book
Warriors
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Uprooted
Unfettered
His Majesty's Dragon
Zombies vs. Unicorns
Unfettered III: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy
Throne of Jade
Black powder war (Temeraire Book 3)
Throne of jade
Victory of eagles
In his majesty's service
Black Powder War
Empire of Ivory (Temeraire, Book 4)
Unfettered II: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy
The Best of Uncanny
Victory of Eagles (Temeraire, Book 5)
Warriors 2
His majesty's dragon
The Mythic Dream
Spinning Silver
Victory of Eagles
Blood Of Tyrants
The Last Graduate
Crucible of gold
A Deadly Education
Empire of Ivory
Victory of Eagles (Temeraire)
Tongues of Serpents
Black Powder War (Temeraire, Book 3)
Temeraire
The Last Graduate
The Last Graduate
Empire of Ivory
Crucible Of Gold
Naomi Novik 2 Books Collection Set
Tongues of serpents
Tongues of serpents
Temeraire; Throne of Jade
The Last Graduate
The Golden Enclaves
Blood of Tyrants: A Novel of Temeraire
Deadly Education, A (epub)
Empire of Ivory
Throne of jade (Temeraire, Book 2)
El imperio de marfil
Blood of Tyrants
A Deadly Education
League of dragons
Una educación mortal/ A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik 3 Books Collection Set
Throne of Jade
Throne of Jade (Temeraire, Book 2)
Temeraire Vol 1-3 Box Set With Bonus Poster
Fildisi Imparatorlugu - Temeraire Serisi - 4
Victory of Eagles
Spinning Silver - Limited Edition
La Fileuse d'argent
TEMERAIRE T1 LES DRAGONS DE SA MAJESTE
Langues de serpents - Téméraire tome 6
TEMERARIO I. EL DRAGÓN DE SU MAJESTAD (BOLSILLO)
Le trésor des Incas. Téméraire, tome 7
His Majesty's Dragon
Spinning Silver
Téméraire - L'intégral Volume 1
Empire of ivory
Kökler
Tongues of Serpents
Das kalte Reich des Silbers
Crucible of Gold
Die Feuerreiter Seiner Majesta t
Throne of Jade
TEMERARIO IV
Barut Savasi - Temeraire Serisi 3
O dragão de sua majestade
League of Dragons
Un cuento oscuro
Blood of tyrants
TEMERARIO 3. LA GUERRA DE LA PÓLVORA (BOLSILLO)
Scholomance – Der letzte Absolvent
Empire of Ivory
Black Powder War
League of Dragons (The Temeraire Series)
His Majestys Dragon Temeraire Hardcover
Le trésor des Incas. Téméraire, tome 7
Tongues of Serpents
Black Powder War
His Majesty's Dragon
Temeraire
Temeraire
Témériare - tome 2 Le trône de Jade
His Majesty's Dragon
Yesim Taht - Temeraire Serisi 2
Crucible of Gold
Langues de serpents
De Buskruit Oorlog
Temeraire Series Books 1-3
League of Dragons
テメレア戦記II 翡翠の玉座
Cuento Oscuro
Trono de Jade
Majestelerinin Ejderhasi - Temeraire Serisi 1
Golden Age and Other Stories
Die Feuerreiter Seiner Majesta t
Langues de serpents
La victoire des aigles - Téméraire - tome 5
Spinning Silver
Blood of Tyrants
Temeraire -Par Les Chemins De La Soie tome 3
Téméraire, tome 5
Téméraire - tome 6 Langues de serpents
Téméraire, Tome 7 : Le Trésor des Incas
Das dunkle Herz des Waldes
Krew tyranów
Drachenwacht: Roman
Téméraire, Tome 8 : Le Sang des tyrans
Black Powder War
Téméraire, Tome 4 : L'Empire d'ivoire
Drachensieg
Drachenfeind
Drachen Wacht: Roman
Smoki Jego Krolewskiej Mosci (Polish Edition)
Die Feuerreiter Seiner Majesta t
Drachenglanz
Peter Watts
Peter Watts (born 1958)

zoologist, biologist, marine biologist

  • University of Guelph

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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011
Blood Type: An Anthology of Vampire SF on the Cutting Edge
Blindsight
Behemoth
Starfish
Echopraxia
Upgraded
The Freeze-Frame Revolution
Made To Order
Beyond the rift
Maelstrom
Crysis
Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 1
Clarkesworld: Year Four
The Level Guide to the South West
Firefall
Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3
Clarkesworld Issue 144
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 4
The Colonel: A Tor.Com Original (Firefall)
Peter Watts is an Angry Sentient Tumor
poklatkowa rewolucja
ブラインドサイト〈上〉 (創元SF文庫)
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2
ブラインドサイト〈下〉 (創元SF文庫)
British Rail Class 47s
Infinity's End
Positive moves
Motor Vehicle Registration Marks of the British Isles
Tiempo profundo
Clarkesworld Issue 96
Vision ciega/ Blind Vision (Spanish Edition)
Bifrost, N° 61 : La science-fiction : questions et perspectives...
The Freeze-Frame Revolution Lib/E
LSD
Behemoth : B-Max
Vision aveugle
Altered States
The Freeze-Frame Revolution
Peer Gynt
Person of Interest Novel 1
Doll's House and Other Plays
Legion
Behemoth : Seppuku
LSD Library
Normative economics and reality from a Christian standpoint
Marketing your small business
Kor Bakis
Visión ciega
Firefall Series
Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton (1942-2008)

film producer, film director, television producer, basketball player, programmer, director

  • Harvard Medical School, Harvard University

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Congo
Eaters of the Dead
Novels (Congo / Eaters of the Dead / Sphere)
Novels (Congo / Jurassic Park)
Jurassic Park
The Lost World
Sphere
A Case of Need
Timeline
Prey
Next
State of Fear
The Terminal Man
Pirate Latitudes
The Great Train Robbery
Micro
Five Patients
Michael Crichton's Jurassic World (Jurassic Park / Lost World)
Zero Cool
Jasper Johns
Electronic life
Drug of Choice
The Venom Business
Three Complete Novels (Andromeda Strain / Great Train Robbery / Terminal Man)
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 5 1994
Disclosure
Grave Descend
Rising Sun
Binary
Odds On
Dragon Teeth
Twister
Scratch One
Airframe
Michael Crichton Collection (Airframe / Lost World / Timeline)
Two Complete Novels (Disclosure / Rising Sun)
Reader's Digest--Volume 4 1997
Dealing
Easy Go
Novels (Andromeda Strain / Terminal Man)
The Michael Crichton Collection (Andromeda Strain / Jurassic Park / Lost World)
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 1 - 1976
Novels (Andromeda Strain / Great Train Robbery)
Travels
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
Reader's Digest Condensed Books
Bestsellers by Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park / Rising Sun / Sphere)
Novels (Case of Need / Terminal Man)
Novels (Congo / Terminal Man)
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--91
The Kidnapping of Amir Hamza
First Words
Works (Terminal Man / Twister)
Dinosaur Hunter's Guide
Rising Sun / The Andromeda Strain / Binary
Philosophy and the Challenge of the Future
Westworld
My Training Journal
Michael Crichton
PAN NI XING SAN YAO
Reader's Digest Condensed Books (Terminal Man / Captain Bligh & Mr. Christian / Sunbird / Falcon for a Queen)
Reader's Digest Condensed Books
The Lost World [2/2]
La Dernière Tombe (Thriller)
El Mundo Perdido
Sfeer
Jurassic Park:Raptor attack
Czlowiek Terminal
Andromeda Evolution
Movie Collection
Jurassic Park (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Prey [1/2]
Reader's Digest Select Editions
The Lost World - the Successor to Jurassic Park (Century 1995)
Lost World
Jurassic Park Park Jurajski
Notaufnahme
Plan idealny
The Great Train Robbery; I Take Thee, Serenity; Bill W.; A Town Like Alice
Panstwo strachu
Drug of Choice (Large Print)
Airframe / Birds of Prey / The Partner / The Falconer
Odds on (Large Print)
Jurassic Park (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Grave Descend (Large Print)
Easy Go (Large Print)
Prey [2/2]
Michael Crichton Thriller Two
Time Life Book Digest
Un train d'or pour la Crimée
Sol Naciente
Volcano
X48 Lost World Dumpbin
Michael Crichton Boxed Set 2
Michael Crichton Omnibus
Five Patients the Hospital Explained
Mangiatori Di Morte
שוד הרכבת הגדול
Zeraʻ Andromedah
ha-Piraṭim
Shilṭon ha-paḥad
Esfera
הלאה
Inkeri Kontro
Inkeri Kontro (born 1984)

physicist

  • University of Helsinki

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She Walks in Shadows
Ken Liu
Ken Liu (born 1976)

linguist, poet, translator, lawyer, programmer, consultant, jurist

  • Harvard Law School, Harvard College

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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2014
In Situ
Lightspeed
Relics, Wrecks and Ruins
Unidentified Funny Objects 2
Timeshift: Tales of Time
Humanity 2.0
The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty)
Dead Man's Hand
Sins and Other Worlds
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Star Wars - The Legends of Luke Skywalker
Made To Order
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories (Volume 1)
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories
Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 1
Broken Stars
Unidentified Funny Objects 6
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2021 Edition
Lightspeed Magazine, September 2018 (Issue 100) (Volume 100)
Unidentified Funny Objects
The End Has Come
Invisible Planets [Paperback]
Escape Pod
The Wall of Storms (The Dandelion Dynasty)
Time Travel: Recent Trips
Genius Loci
Love, Death + Robots : The Official Anthology
Invisible planets
Legends of Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight
The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories
Planetas invisibles
Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
Clarkesworld
Invisible Planets
Vagabonds
Bridging Infinity (The Infinity Project Book 5)
Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding, Volume 2
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016
La gracia de los reyes
The Long List Anthology: More Stories from the Hugo Awards Nomination List (The Long List Anthology Series) (Volume 1)
Three-Body Problem Series
Veiled Throne
Kaleidoscope
Clarkesworld: Year Six
Funny Science Fiction
Hidden Girl and Other Stories
TOUTES LES SAVEURS
A la deriva en el mar de las Lluvias y otros relatos (Nova fantástica) (Spanish Edition)
Haha no kioku ni
Clarkesworld: Year Five
TOUTES LES SAVEURS
El zoo de papel y otros relatos
LA MENAGERIE DE PAPIER
Clarkesworld Issue 102
Timeshift
The Grace of Kings
Coffee: 14 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic
OCEANS: The Anthology (Frontiers of Speculative Fiction) (Volume 2)
This Side of the Divide
Storie dal domani 5: I migliori racconti di Future Fiction 2018 (Italian Edition)
The Anderson Project: A Tor.Com Original
Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #1
Kami no dōbutsuen
Speaking Bones
Zwielicht 8
The Wall of Storms
Wall of Storms
Speaking Bones
Estrellas rotas
Clarkesworld Issue 98
Remembrance of Earth's Past
Multiverses
Mono no aware
El trono velado
Invisible Planets
Mono no Aware e altre storie (Future Fiction Vol. 20) (Italian Edition)
Krallarin Merhameti
Die Götter von Dara
Invisible Planets
Die Schwerter von Dara
Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Arterial Bloom
Isolation
Star Wars : Journey to Star Wars : Die letzten Jedi
La gracia de los reyes
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Bifrost n° 83: Dossier Laurent Kloetzer (REV BIFROST) (French Edition)
Terra Nova: Antología de ciencia ficción contemporánea (Spanish Edition)
El Muro de las Tormentas
Die Götter von Dara: Seidenkrieger (Die Legenden von Dara 2) (German Edition)
Storie Dal Domani 4
Star Wars Episodio VIII Las leyendas de Luke Skywalker
Freestyle Graphics
El trono velado
Asian Monsters (Fox Spirit Books of Monsters) (Volume 3)
Wall of Storms
Legends of Luke Skywalker
The Wall of STorms by Ken Liu Unabridged CD Audiobook
Steampunk Universe
Star Wars Episodio VIII Las leyendas de Luke Skywalker
Die Schwerter von Dara - Seidenkrieger Band 1
Stray Skies
Ciudad Nómada y otros relatos
La chica oculta y otros relatos
Grace of Kings
Krolowie Dary
Grace of Kings
Speaking Bones
Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Beast Within 4
Dragons, Droids & Doom: Year One: Fantasy Scroll Magazine
Vagabond
Faszination Evangelium. Wo Franziskus weiter lebt.
First Contact: Digital Science Fiction Anthology (Digital Science Fiction Short Stories Series One) (Volume 1)
Crossed Genres Quarterly 01: Volume One of Crossed Genres quarterly editions
Veiled Throne
La gracia de los Reyes
La chica oculta y otros relatos
Pod sztandarem Dzikiego Kwiatu. Tom 2. Sciana burz
Premee Mohamed
Premee Mohamed (born 1999)

scientist

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She Walks in Shadows
And What Can We Offer You Tonight
The Reinvented Heart
Giftmas 2018 Advent Anthology
Broken Darkness
Beneath The Rising
A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods
The Annual Migration of Clouds
Giftmas 2018 Advent Anthology
Third Flatiron Best of 2017 (Third Flatiron Anthologies Book 21)
The Apple-Tree Throne
Principia Ponderosa
These Lifeless Things
Void Ascendant
La migrazione annuale delle nuvole
No Shit, There I Was
Kinoko Nasu
Kinoko Nasu (born 1973)

video game developer

  • Hosei University

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