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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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Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space
An evil guest
Endangered species
A borrowed man
The Fantasy Hall of Fame [30 stories]
The Dark Descent
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
Dark Forces
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
Darkness
Soldier of the Mist
Speculations
The Knight
The sorcerer's house
The Ultimate Zombie
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
Nightside The Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun)
On Blue's waters
Lake of the long sun
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy And Horror 2012
Castleview
The Best of Gene Wolfe
Pirate Freedom
Storeys from the old hotel
The Devil in a forest
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011
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
Such a pretty face
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
Dante's Disciples
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
Clifford Stoll
Clifford Stoll (born 1950)

astronomer, computer scientist

  • University of Arizona

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The Cuckoo’s Egg
Silicon snake oil
High-tech heretic
Die Wüste Internet. Jubiläums- Edition. Geisterfahren auf der Datenautobahn
LogOut
Die Wüste Internet. Geisterfahrten auf der Datenautobahn
Hiroshi Mori
Hiroshi Mori (born 1957)

engineer, essayist

  • Nagoya University

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Yume deai masho
Daigaku no hanashi o shimashō ka
Fai wa kowareta ne
Daun tsu hevun =
Fūin saido =
Kokū no gyaku matorikusu
Shiki
Takai x takai
Sukoshi kawatta ko arimasu =
Kuroneko no sankaku =
Soshite futari dake ni natta
Natsu no repurika =
Subete ga F ni naru =
Na ba tea =
Ochite iku bokutachi =
Genwaku no shi to shito =
Dokidoki fenomenon =
Nejire yashiki no ridon =
Kuchiru chiru ochiru
Kōsaku shōnen no hibi =
Sukai kurora =
Aka midori kuro shiro
Konya wa parashūto hakubutsukan e =
Michi naki michi =
Kuroneko no sankaku
Okusama wa nettowāka =
Sunao ni ikiru hyaku no kōgi
Mao zhi jian zhu jia =
Tsumetai misshitsu to hakasetachi =
Madoromi shōkyo =
Chikyūgi no suraisu =
Kai no higeki
I ta nanoni yume no yo
Tsuki wa yūetsu no debaisu
Shi ta wa asonde kureta yo
Raymond Smullyan
Raymond Smullyan (1919-2017)

mathematician, pianist, philosopher, computer scientist, magician, chess composer

  • Princeton University, University of Chicago

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Detective stories
Satan, cantor, and infinity
The lady or the tiger? and other logic puzzles
This book needs no title
The chess mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
To Mock a Mockingbird and Other Logic Puzzles
What is the name of this book?
Forever undecided
Gödel's incompleteness theorems
The chess mysteries of the Arabian knights
Who Knows?
The tao is silent
Logical labyrinths
Theory of Formal Systems
First-order logic
Alice in puzzle-land
The Riddle of Scheherazade
Set theory and the continuum problem
A Beginners Guide To Mathematical Logic
5000 B.C. and other philosophical fantasies
Diagonalization and self-reference
Recursion theory for metamathematics
Some Interesting Memories
Ça y est, je suis fou!!
King Arthur in search of his dog and other curious puzzles
Four Lives
A beginner's further guide to mathematical logic
The magic garden of George B
A Spiritual Journey
Mixed Bag
The Gödelian puzzle book
Reflections
Juegos de Ajedrez y Los Misticos Caballos
In Their Own Words
Rambles Through My Library
The lady or the tiger?
Carlo Emilio Gadda
Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973)

poet, engineer, politician

  • Polytechnic University of Milan

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Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana
Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana
That Awful Mess on Via Merulana (Quartet Encounters)
I Luigi di Francia
L' Adalgisa
Cognizione del dolore
Le bizze del capitano in congedo e altri racconti
Lettere a Gianfranco Contini
La cognizione del dolore
Giornale di guerra e di prigionia
Il castello di Udine
Il castello di Udine
I viaggi la morte
L' Adalgisa
Eros e Priapo
Giornale di guerra e di prigionia
L' ingegner fantasia
La meraviglie d'Italia. Gli anni
Adalgisa
Racconto italiano di ignoto del novecento
L' affreux pastis de la rue des Merles
La Meccanica
Carlo Emilio Gadda e Italo Calvino
Il primo libro delle favole
Il palazzo degli ori
La Connaissance de la douleur
La connaissance de la douleur
Lettere a Piero / Carlo Emilio Gadda . Quattro saggi su Gadda
Novella seconda
That awful mess on Via Marulana
L'affreux pastis de la rue des Merles
Taccuino di Caporetto
Il guerriero, l'amazzone, lo spirito della poesia nel verso immortale del Foscolo
L' Adalgisa
Quev pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana
Eros e Priapo
Per favore, mi lasci nell'ombra
Gadda al microfono
La meccanica
Le Bizze del Capitano in congedo
Die Erkenntnis des Schmerzes. Roman
Accoppiamenti giudiziosi
L'Art d'écrire pour la radio
I racconti accoppiamenti guidiziosi
Eros et Priape
La Verità sospetta
Le guerrier, l'amazone, l'esprit de la poésie dans les vers immortels de Foscolo
Die Liebe zur Mechanik. Roman
Le meraviglie d'Italia
Quer Pasticcaccio Brutto De VI
L'Adalgisa. Disegni milanesi
Les colères du capitaine en congé libérable
La Madonna dei filosofi
I miti del somaro
L' Adalgisa
Frankreichs Ludwige
Die gräßliche Bescherung in der Via Merulana. Roman
Les merveilles d'Italie
La cognizione del dolore
A un amico fraterno
La cognizione del dolore
La Milano disparsa di C.E. Gadda
Carissimo Gianfranco
Il tempo e le opere
Lettere agli amici milanesi
List und Tucke
Novelle dal ducato in fiamme
Journal de guerre et de captivité
Meditazione milanese
Il tempo e le opere
La Connaissance de la douleur
Cara Anita, caro Emilio
La madonna dei filosofi
Lettere a una gentile signora
Verso la Certosa
Novella seconda
Un fulmine sul 220
Il castello di Udine
Azoto e altri scritti di divulgazione scientifica
Le premier livre des fables
Lettere alla sorella, 1920-1924
Norme per la redazione di un testo radiofonico
Disegni milanesi
Scritti vari e postumi
Les Années - Vers la Chartreuse
Verso la certosa
L'Adalgisa
I racconti
I viaggi la morte
Des accouplements bien réglés
La madone des philosophes
"Col nuovo sole ti disturberò"
Vier t"ochter und jede eine k"onigin
La cognizione del dolore
Il "mio" Gadda
Die Wunder Italiens
Dos Relatos Y Un Ensayo
Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana
Acquainted with grief
Giornale di guerra e di prigionia
Il castello di Udine
Accoppiamenti giudiziosi, 1924-1958
Il primo libro delle favole
Meditazione milanese
Gonnella buffone
Carlo Emilio Gadda
Le Château d'Udine
Saggi, giornali, favole e altri scritti
La meccanica
Quer pasticciaccio brutto de Via Merulana
Un radiodramma per modo di dire e scritti sullo spettacolo
Gadda
A un amico fraterno
"Se mi vede Cecchi, sono fritto"
Il guerriero, l'amazzone
El zafarrancho aquel de Via Merulana
I racconti accoppiamenti giudiziosi
Cara Anita, caro Emilio
I racconti Accoppiamenti giudiziosi, 1924-158
Le Meraviglie d'Italia
I littoriali del lavoro e altri scritti giornalistici, 1932-1941
Le bizze del capitano in congedo e altri racconti
Eros e Priapo
Romanzi e racconti
El Aprendizaje del Dolor
"Sono il pero e la zucca di me stesso"
Romanzi
Poesie
La cognizione del dolore, con un saggio introduttivo di Gianfranco Contini
I Luigi di Francia
Opere di Carlo Emilio Gadda
That awful mess on Via Merulana
El zafarrancho aquel de Via Merulana
La casa dei ricchi
Die grässliche Bescherung in der Via Merulana
Il castello di Udine
Bibliografia e indici
I sogni e la folgore
Gadda
Per Carlo Emilio Gadda, 1893-1993
Accoppiamenti giudiziosi
Tirinnanzi
Hugh Lofting
Hugh Lofting (1886-1947)

illustrator, civil engineer

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Westminster

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Doctor Dolittle's zoo
Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary
Doctor Dolittle's caravan
Animal Friends and Adventures
Doctor Dolittle in the moon
Doctor Dolittle's post office
Doctor Dolittle's garden
The story of Mrs. Tubbs
The twilight of magic
Doctor Dolittle and His Friends
Junior great books -- Series 4, first semester, volume one
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Gub Gub's book
The Story of Dr. Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle and the secret lake
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle
The voyages of Doctor Dolittle [adaptation]
The Story of Dr. Dolittle
Story of Doctor Doolittle
Doctor Dolittle Stories
Los Viajes De Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle's magical cure
Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby adventures
Doktor Dolittle und seine Tiere.
Doctor Dolittle in trouble
Doctor Dolittle
Five Classic Animal Adventures
The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle
Doctor Dolittle's great adventure
The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle
Doktor Dolittles Tieroper.
Two Adventures With Doctor Dolittle
Porridge poetry
Introducing Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle tales.
Historia Del Doctor Dolittle/Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Los Viajes del Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Doolittle's circus
The Story of Dr. Dolittle
The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle
Doctor Dolittle to the rescue
Doctor Dolittle saves the day
Doctor Dolittle omnibus
Doktor Dolittles schwimmende Insel
The Story Of Dr. Doolittle
Doctor Dolittle in trouble
Doctor Doolittle's return
Doctor Dolittle's Birthday Book
The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle
Children's Favorites - Volume I
Dr Dolittle Omnibus (Children's Omnibuses)
Dr. Dolittle's Bag of Books
Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Voyages/dr. Dolittle
Doktor Dyregod
Voyages of Dr. Doolittle
Porridge poetry, cooked, ornamented and served up
Doktor Dolittle i jego zwierzęta
Noisy Nora
Story of Doctor Doolittle
Compass Classic Readers: Doctor Dolittle (Level 1 with Audio CD)
Dr. Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle En La Luna
Story of Dr Dolittle
Doktor Dolittle und seine Tiere
Doktor Dolittle i jego zwierzęta
Tommy, Tilly and Mrs. Tubbs
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Doktor Dolittle auf der Drachenkopfinsel
Doctor Dolittle The Complete Collection, Vol. 1
La Caravana Del Dr. Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle the Complete Collection Volumes 1-4
Doctor Dolittle the Complete Collection, Volume 3
The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Dalmatian Press Adapted Classic)
Doctor Dolittle the Complete Collection, Volume 4
Huckleberry Finn, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Black Beauty, The Story of Doctor Doolittle, and Peter Pan
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (Classic Reprint)
Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle the Complete Collection, Vol. 2
The Story of Doctor Dolittle, condensed and adapted
Doctor Dolittle's Bedtime Stories
Podroze Doktora Dolittle (In Polish)
Doktor Dolittle’nin Hikayesi
DOCTOR DOLLITLE'S CARAVAN, DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S GARDEN, DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S CIRCUS AND DOCTOR DOLITTLE IN THE MOON.
Voyages of Dr Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle the Complete Collection, Vol. 4
Dr Dolittle Picture Book 1
Doctor Dolittle Super Pack
Doktor Dolittle'in Hikayesi
Story of Dr. Dolittle
Voyages of Dr. Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle's Great Adventure
Doctor Dolittles Puddleby Adventure
Voyages of Dr. Dolittle
The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle
Doliṭ be-Limpopo
Harpatḳaʼot Doḳṭor Duliṭel
Story of Doctor Dolittle
The Adventures of Doctor Dolittle
História Do Doutor Dolittle (Coleção Duetos)
The Story Of Doctor Doolittle
Doctor Dolittle the Complete Collection, Vol. 3
Doktor Dolittle und seine Tiere
Dr Dolittle Picture Book 2
Shou yi li xian ji
Doctor Dolittle the Complete Collection, Volume 1
Stories of Doctor Dolittle
Doktor Dolittle i jego zwierzęta
Voyages of Doctor Doolittle
The Story of Doctor Doolittle
Doktor Dolittle'in Serüveni - Dünya Çocuk Klasikleri
Story of Doctor Doolittle
The Story of Dr Dolittle
Voyages of Dr Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle's Return,Doctor Dolittle's Circus,Doctor Dolittle's Zoo,Doctor Dolittle's Caravan,Doctor Dolittle's Garden,Doctor Dolittle in the Moon
Doctor Dolittle and the Pirates
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle the Complete Collection, Volume 2
Voyage of Dr. Dolittle
Doktór Dolittle i jego zwierzęta
Story of Dr. Dolittle (HarperCollins Children's Classics)
Doritoru Sensei kōkaiki
Dr. Dolittle Slipcase
Doktor Dolittles rasende Retter. .
Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary
Story Of Doctor Dolittle, The
Bravest Man in the World
Doctor Dolittle : The Complete Collection, Vol. 1
Storia Del Dottor Dolittle
Tao Lide bo shi
Doktor Dolittles schwimmende Insel
La historia del doctor Dolittle
Les Voyages du docteur Dolittle
Doctor Doolittle and the Green Canary
THE STORY OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE
Dr Dolittle Board Book 2
Doritoru sensei no tanoshii ie
The Story of Dr. Dolittle
הדאר של דוליטל הרופא
Masʻot Doḳṭor Duliṭl
דוליטל הרופא ומאורעותיו
Dr. Dolittle und seine Tiere
Duliṭl ha-rofe
ʻAlilot Dulitl ha-rofe
Doktor Dolittle und seine Tiere
Doḳṭor Duliṭl ṿeha-agam ha-neʻelam
Doḳṭor Duliṭl ha-melekh
Greg Costikyan
Greg Costikyan (born 1959)

computer scientist, essayist, blogger, role-playing game designer

  • Brown University

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Another Day, Another Dungeon (Cups and Sorcery, Book 1)
First contract
By the sword
By The Sword (Magic of the Plains)
Toon
Star Wars
One Quest, Hold the Dragons (Cups and Sorcery, No 2)
Uncertainty in games
Paranoia (Paranoia - the RPG)
The Willow Game
Horsemen of the Apocalypse
谜
Tabletop
Another day, another dungeon
Sources of Uncertainty
Paranoia [BOX SET]
Paranoia XP
Roberto Costantini
Roberto Costantini (born 1952)

engineer

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The root of all evil
The deliverance of evil
The Deliverance of Evil (Commissario Balistreri Trilogy) [Paperback] Costantini, Roberto.
Ballando nel buio
Tu sei il male
Una donna in guerra
Het kwaad vergeet niet
La falena e la fiamma
Tu es le mal
Il male non dimentica
Da molto lontano
Alle radici del male
De wortels van het kwaad
Anche le pulci prendono la tosse