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John Scalzi
John Scalzi (born 1969)

journalist, film critic, blogger

  • The Webb Schools, University of Chicago

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Head On: A Novel of the Near Future (Lock In Book 2)
Head on
Head On
Human Division #12
Old Man’s War
Agent to the Stars
Redshirts
The Last Colony
The Android's Dream
Metatropolis
The Ghost Brigades
Zoe's Tale
The End of All Things
The Best of Subterranean
Fuzzy Nation
The Sagan Diary
Uncle John's Presents Book of the Dumb 2 (Uncle Johns Presents)
The God engines
Zoe’s Tale
Lock In: A Novel of the Near Future (Lock In Series Book 1)
Human Division
The Collapsing Empire (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)
Head On
Tor.com
Unlocked
The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies 1
Resist: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against
The Rough Guide to the Universe 2
Fuzzy Nation
The Ghost Brigades
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency)
Last Emperox
Lock In
You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop
Lock In: A Novel of the Near Future
The human division
Zoe’s Tale
Metatropolis: Original Science Fiction Stories in a Shared Future
Love, Death + Robots : The Official Anthology
Fuzzy Nation
Lock In
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency Book 1)
El agente de las estrellas
Old Man's War
The Last Colony
THE KAIJU PRESERVATION SOCIETY
Old Man's War Series: (Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony, Zoe's Tale, The Human Division, The End of All Things)
Kaiju Preservation Society
The Last Colony (The Old Man's War series)
The Rough Guide to The Universe (Rough Guide Science/Phenomena)
The Kaiju Preservation Society
The Consuming Fire
Old Man's War
The Rough Guide to the Universe
Old Man's War
The collapsing empire
The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency)
Uncle John's presents Book of the dumb
Lock In
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded
Old Mans War
Zoé
The Consuming Fire
Metatropolis: Original Science Fiction Stories in a Shared Future
Lock In (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic)
Old Man's War Boxed Set I: Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony
The Ghost Brigades
Collapsing Empire
Questions for a Soldier
Old Man's War
Redshirts
Brigazile fantoma - Vol 2 Seria razboiul batranilor
Consuming Fire
La historia de ZoA
Human Division #9
Las Brigadas Fantasma
Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies
Subterranean
Kaiju Preservation Society Sneak Peek
Judge Sn Goes Golfing
Human Division #4
A Ultima Colonia (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Human Division #2
Human Division #3
Uncle John's Presents Book of the Dumb
Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi
Zoe's tale
Zoe'nin Oykusu
B-Team, The
End of All Things #3 : Can Long Endure
Head on - Signed / Autographed Copy
The consuming fire
Imparatorlugun Cöküsü
Interdependency Boxed Set
Le Vieil Homme et la guerre
Human Division #8
The Consuming Fire
24 Frames into the Future
The last Emperox
Collapsing Empire
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded
Las Brigadas Fantasma nº 02/06
Kirmizi Uniformalilar
Guerra do Velho
A Guerra é Para os Velhos
After the Coup
The God Engines
Zoe's Tale
Android's Dream
Human Division #11
End of All Things #1 : the Life of the Mind
Hayalet Tugay
Miniatures
Las Brigadas Fantasma
The Dispatcher
Questions for a Soldier
The Last Emperox
La Derniere colonie (Le Vieil homme et la guerre - Livre 3) (French Edition)
End of All Things #4 : to Stand or Fall
Yasli Adamin Savasi
Agent to the Stars
Human Division #5
Verrat - Das Imperium der Ströme 2
Sagan Diary, The
Fuzzy Nation
Agent to the Stars
End of All Things #2 : This Hollow Union
The dispatcher
Dispatcher, The
Kollaps - Das Imperium der Ströme 1
Human Division #10
The Last Emperox
Les enfermés une histoire orale du syndrome d'Haden
Les brigades fantômes
Das Syndrom: Roman
A Very Scalzi Christmas
Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One : the Dead City : Prologue Bk. 1
Ghost Brigades
Son Koloni
The Last Colony
Human Division #1
Die letzte Kolonie
Human Division #7
El visitante inesperado
Human Division #13
Die letzte Einheit
最後の星戦 老人と宇宙3
Forever War
Sendrom
El sue�o del androide
Human Division #6
Don't live for your obituary
Lock in Series
The President's Brain is Missing: A Tor.Com Original
Android's Dream, The
Razboiul batranilor - Vol 1 seria razboiul batranilor
Encarcerados
As Brigadas Fantasma
Galaktische Mission
Lock In
Metatropolis
Zoe's Tale
The Last Colony
The Dispatcher
The Kaiju Preservation Society
Fuzzy Nation
La Vieja Guardia nº 06/06 El final de todas las cosas
The Sagan Diary [SAGAN DIARY -OS]
Head On: A Novel of the Near Future (Lock in)
Old Man's War Boxed Set I
Uncle John's Presents Book of the Dumb 2
Murder by Other Means
Agent to the Stars
The Collapsing Empire
Old Man's War
Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi
Zwischen den Sternen
Geisterbrigaden
A Guerra do Velho
Le Brigate Fantasma
Xing jian qiu sheng ri zhi
˜Dasœ Imperium der Ströme
Your hate mail will be graded
Denise Jones, agente superhéroïque
Brigadot ha-refaʼim
מלחמת האדם הזקן
Gillian Rubinstein
Gillian Rubinstein (born 1942)

film critic

  • University of Oxford

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Answers to Brut
Across the Nightingale Floor
Grass for His Pillow (Tales of the Otori)
Brilliance of the moon
Space demons
Brilliance of the Moon, Episode 2
Galax-arena
Skymaze
Foxspell
The Harsh Cry of the Heron
Under the cat's eye
Heaven's net is wide
Across the nightingale floor
Across the nightingale floor
Beyond the Labyrinth
Grass for His Pillow (Tales of the Otori, Book 2)
Grass For His Pillow, Episode 1
Brilliance of the Moon, Episode 1
The Giant's Tooth
Brilliance of the Moon (Tales of the Otori, Book 3)
Dog in, cat out
Grass For His Pillow, Episode 2
Flashback
Shinkei
Across Nighingale Floor Pb a Fmt
Across the nightingale floor
Grass for his pillow
Pure Chance
Across the Nightingale Floor
ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE FLOOR
At Ardilla
Peanut the pony rat
The giant's tooth
Brilliance of the Moon (Tales of the Otori)
Jake And Pete
Sharon keep your hair on
The Pirates' Ship
Le Clan des Otori, tome 1
Melanie and the night animal
The harsh cry of the heron
Heavens Net Is Wide Lian Hearn
Tales of the Otori Trilogy
AFTER DARK
Heaven's Net Is Wide (The Tales of the Otori Series)
Annie's Brother's Suit and Other Stories
Across The Nightingale Floor, Episode 2
Across the Nightingale Floor, Episode 1
Grass For His Pillow The Way Through The Snow
Grass for His Pillow (Tales of the Otori 2)
The harsh cry of the heron
Prue Theroux
Der Clan der Otori 1. Das Schwert in der Stille
Accros The Nightingale Floor
Terra-Farma
El brillo de la luna
Suelo Del Ruisenor/across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori in Spanish)
Der Clan der Otori
Across The Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori (Library))
Leyendas de Los Otori
Mr. Plunkett's Pool
Across the Nightingale Floor X36 Mxd Dbn (Tales of the Otori Book 1)
El lamento de la garza
Tales of the Otori
Leyenda Otori II - Con La Hierba de Almohada
La red del cielo es amplia
Cesarz Ośmiu Wysp
Siegfried Kracauer
Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966)

journalist, architect, film critic, sociologist, opinion journalist, editing staff

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Werke
Der Detektiv-Roman
Le roman policier
From Caligari to Hitler
From Caligari to Hitler
Die Angestellten
Jacques Offenbach und das Paris seiner Zeit
Menschen im Büro
The mass ornament
From Caligari to Hitler
Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of his time
The mass ornament
History
Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time
Georg
Theorie des Films
History, the last things before the last
Theory of film
Berliner Nebeneinander
History
Le voyage et la danse
From Caligari to Hitler
From Caligari to Hitler
Frankfurter Turmhäuser
Die Angestellten
Totalitäre Propaganda
Das Ornament der Masse
From Caligari to Hitler
From Caligari to Hitler
From Caligari to Hitler
Die Entwicklung des Schmiedekunst in Berlin / Potsdam und einigen Städten der Mark vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zum Beginn des 19.Jahrhunderts
Jacques Offenbach und das Paris seiner Zeit
The salaried masses
Nature of film
Kino. Essays, Studien, Glossen zum Film
Correspondence
Der verbotene Blick
Offenbach and the Paris of his time
Theory of film
Schriften, 8 Bde., Kt, Bd.5/1-3, Aufsätze
Rues de Berlin et d'ailleurs
From Caligari to Hitler
Kleine Schriften zum Film
Le Roman policier
Satellite mentality
Schriften
De Caligari a Hitler
Ginster von ihm selbst geschrieben
Siegfried Kracauer's American writings
Ginster
Essays, Feuilletons, Rezensionen
Die Angestellten
Le Voyage et la Danse
Nature of film
Das Ornament der Masse
Strassen in Berlin und anderswo
Siegfried Kracauer Jacques Offenbach Und Das Paris Seiner Zeit (Siegfried Kracauer Schriften 8) (Siegfried Kracauer Schriften, 8)
Prima delle cose ultime
Kino, Essays
Jacques Offenbach
Romane und Erzählungen
Über die Freundschaft
Jacques Offenbach, ou, Le secret du Second Empire
Teoria Del Cine/ Theory of Film
Ginster
Über die Freundschaft
Offenbach and the Paris of his time
Propaganda And The Nazi War Film
Theoria tou Kinimatographou
Kino
Orpheus in Paris
Schriften, 8 Bde., Kt, Bd.4, Geschichte
Schriften
Strassen in Berlin und anderswo
Theory of film
Von Caligari zu Hitler
Die Entwicklung der Schmiedekunst in Berlin, Potsdam und einigen Städten der Mark vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts
Studien zu Massenmedien und Propaganda
Jacques Offenbach; ou, Le secret du second empire
Offenbach and the Paris of His Time
Die Angestellten
Das Ornament der Masse
Theory of film
Geschichte
From Caligari to Hitler
L'histoire, des avant-dernières choses
Appeals to the Near and Middle East
Les employés
Offenbakh i Parizh ego vremeni
Karigari kara Hittorā made
History, the last things before the last
Kim Newman
Kim Newman (born 1959)

journalist, film critic, playwright

  • University of Sussex

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Gaslight Arcanum
The Quorum
The bloody Red Baron
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror - Eleventh Annual Collection
The night mayor
Jago
Lovecraft's Monsters
Back in the USSA
Anno Dracula
Life's lottery
A book of wizards
Horror 100 Best Books
Cat people
Seven stars
Nightmare Movies
Dracula in Istanbul
Best New Horror #30 [Trade Paperback]
The vaccinator
Shadows over Innsmouth
Horror
Apocalypse movies
The Mammoth Book of the Mummy
Best New Horror #26
Der Agnostische Saal 1
Best New Horror 4 (Mammoth Book of Best New Horror)
Doctor Who
Anno Dracula
Dracula Cha Cha Cha
Cat People 2nd Rev Ed
Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories
The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School
Famous Monsters
Unforgivable Stories
Anno Dracula - 1895
In dreams
25th Anniversay Edition BEST NEW HORROR #1 [Trade Paperback] Edited by Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell
Witchfinder Volume 3 The Mysteries of Unland
The Original Dr. Shade and Other Stories
Bad Dreams
Anno-Dracula
Dead Travel Fast
Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s
The Man from the Diogenes Club
The Man From the Diogenes Club
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine
Quatermass and the Pit (BFI Film Classics)
Time and Relative
Wild West movies, or, How the West was found, won, lost, lied about, filmed, and forgotten
Doctor Who The Episode Guide
Seven Stars
Angels of Music
Johnny Alucard
Cell and Other Transmorphic Tales
Anno Dracula 36 Dump (P)
We Are The Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale
Anno Dracula - Johnny Alucard
Life's lottery
The BFI companion to horror
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club
Ghastly Beyond Belief
Horror
The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School
Anno Dracula
CAZADOR DE BRUJAS 3
Bloody Red Baron / Jago 33 Mix
Bare Bones #7
Something More Than Night
Silver Nails
Tales of the Shadowmen 4
Horror!
Anno Dracula - One Thousand Monsters
An English ghost story
Horror
Horror
Anno Dracula
The Hound of the D'Urbervilles
Science Fiction / Horror
Horror
THE SECOND EMPIRE MOVIE MISCELLANY
Science fiction/horror
La era de Drácula
The Boughs Withered
Mysteries of the Diogenes Club
Genevieve Undead
Time and Relative
English Ghost Story, An
El Año de Dracula
Hollywood Blues (Folio Science Fiction) (English and French Edition)
English Ghost Story
Beasts in Velvet
The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School
Horror
Andy Warhol's Dracula
Profesör Moriarty 2-Öldürülmesi Gereken Hikaye
Definitive Guide to Horror Movies
Secrets of the Drearcliff Grange School, The
Anno Dracula Signed 30th Anniversary Edition
Dracula Gunlukleri
Doctor Who (BFI TV Classics)
Vampire Genevieve
Horror
Quatermass and the Pit
The second Empire movie miscellany
Seminal Movies
Profesör Moriarty
FrightFest Guide to Vampire Movies
Man from the Diogenes Club, The
Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes
Anno Dracula 1999
Night Visions 11
Where the Bodies Are Buried Limited Edition S
Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School
Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel (1952-2022)

essayist, literary critic, film critic

  • University of Sheffield, London School of Economics and Political Science

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Eight months on Ghazzah Street
Bring Up the Bodies
Wolf Hall
The Mirror and the Light
Beyond Black
Vacant possession
A Change of Climate
Giving Up the Ghost
A Place of Greater Safety
An Experiment in Love
Every day is Mother's Day
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
The Giant O'Brien
Fludd
One Hundred And One
Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies - The Stage Adaptation
Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies
Mantel Pieces
Wolf Hall (adaptation)
Wolf Hall Trilogy (Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies / The Mirror & the Light)
Learning to talk
Memoir of My Former Self
Bring Up the Bodies [adaptation]
Matchbook Classics Box Set
Xwolf Hall Pb
Granta #4
Het boek Henry
Wolf Hall Trilogy 3 Books Collection Set By Hilary Mantel
Learning to Talk
Een veiliger oord 1
Comma
Wolf Hall Picture Book
Science of Flight
Curved Is the Line of Beauty
Woman Who Died of Robespierre
Révolution, Tome 1
Third Floor Rising
Ink in the Blood
King Billy Is a Gentleman
Vacant Possession
Three-Book Edition
Hilary Mantel Collection
School of English
How Shall I Know You?
Mens vs. natuur / Diane Cook ; De moord op Margaret Thatcher / Hilary Mantel
How Shall I Know You?
Complete Stranger
Holbein's Sir Thomas More
Talar-e gorg
Iain Johnstone
Iain Johnstone (1943-2023)

autobiographer, film critic, television producer

  • Crosfields School

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Fierce creatures
The man with no name
Tom Cruise All the World's A Stage
Tom Cruise
Dustin Hoffman (Film & Theatre Stars)
Dustin Hoffman
Cannes
Wimbledon 2000
Acheson's Haven
Fierce Creatures
Arnhem Report
Streep
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert (1942-2013)

film critic, journalist, reporter, presenter, television presenter

  • University of Cape Town, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

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Behind the Phantom's mask
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
Questions for the movie answer man
The perfect London walk
A kiss is still a kiss
Life itself
Scorsese by Ebert
The Pot and How to Use It
Two Weeks in the Midday Sun
The Great Movies
Roger Eberts Home Movie Companion 400
Roger Eberts Movie Yearbook 2013 Roger Eberts Movie Yearbook
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2000 (Roger Eberts Movie Yearbook, 2000)
The Tragedy of Hamlet with Connections
Roger Ebert's four-star reviews, 1967-2007
Roger Ebert's video companion.
Roger Ebert's Video Companion, 1994
The great movies III
A Horrible Experience Of Unbearable Length More Movies That Suck
Roger Ebert's video companion
Awake in the Dark
Roger Ebert'S Movie Yearbook 2001
Roger Ebert's movie home companion
Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion
Roger Ebert's Video Companion 1996 edition
I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005
Movie Home Companion
Las Grandes Peliculas (Ma Non Troppocine)
Your Movie Sucks
Roger Ebert'S Movie Yearbook 2002
Roger Ebert's video companion
The great movies II
The Bigger Little Book of Hollywood Cliches
The future of the movies
Grandes Peliculas 2/ Big Movies 2 (Ma Non Troppocine)
Awake in the Dark : The Best of Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert's movie yearbook 2006
Roger Ebert's movie yearbook 2009
Scorsese by Ebert
Insight
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2003
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 1999 (Serial)
Ebert's bigger little movie glossary
The great movies
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004 (Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook)
Roger Ebert's movie yearbook 2007
The Little book of Hollywood cliches
Ebert's Little Movie Glossary
Roger Ebert's Video Companion 1997 (Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook)
A kiss is still a kiss
The great movies IV
Ebert's little movie glossary
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006 (Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook)
Roger Ebert's book of film
Your Movie Sucks
The computer insectiary
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007 (Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook)
Images at the horizon
Images at the Horizon
Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion, 1989 Edition
An Illini century
Roger Ebert's Video Companion 1998 (Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook)
An Illini century
Ebert's Bests
Two weeks in the midday sun
Roger Ebert's pocket video guide
Roger Ebert's Video Companion 1995/Roger Ebert's Pocket Video Guide (Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook)
Die Zustandigkeit Der Tarifvertragsparteien Zum Abschlub Von Verbands- Und Firmentarifvertragen
Roger Ebert's movie home companion
Life Itself
Herzog by Ebert
Higman
Bth Behind Phantm Msk
The Real Tom Jones