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Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

playwright, comedian, musician

  • Brentwood School, University of Cambridge

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Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
So long, and thanks for all the fish
The Salmon of Doubt
Works (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Mostly Harmless / Young Zaphod Plays it Safe)
Hitchhiker's Trilogy (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe, and Everything)
Last Chance to See
Works (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / The Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Young Zaphod Plays it Safe)
Novels (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Mostly Harmless)
Life, the Universe and Everything
Novels (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency / Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul)
The deeper meaning of liff
Mostly Harmless
The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Novels (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish)
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Great humorous stories
Literature
The meaning of Liff
The Time Traveller's Almanac
Life, the Universe and Everything (adaptation)
Novels (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe)
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams Double
Doctor Who
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Humorous Stories
The hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - omnibus 2
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Collection 5 Books Set
Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis 2
The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Boxset
The Utterly utterly merry comic relief Christmas book
Autostopem przez Galaktyke
À Boleia pela Galáxia
Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen
Iras celestiales
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus
Trylogia Autostopem przez Galaktykę
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - A Trilogy in Five Parts
Untitled
The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy
Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis
Guía del autoestopista galáctico
Restauracja na końcu wszechświata / Życie, wszechświat i cała reszta
Guida galattica per gli autostoppisti. Il ciclo completo
Novels (Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Mostly Harmless)
Iras celestiales
Not 1982. Not the 9 O'Clock News
Dirk Gently : The BBC Radio Collection
A Longa e Sombria Hora do Chá da Alma
Don't Panic : The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Complete Radio Series
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Secondary Phase
Illus. Hitch Hiker 12 Copy Pack
Shada
La vita, l'Universo e tutto quanto
The Salmon of Doubt / Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency / The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
I jeszcze jedno
היו שלום ותודה על הדגים
Heyu shalom ṿe-todah ʻal ha-dagim
Cześć i dzięki za ryby / W zasadzie niegroźna
Guida Galattica agli autostoppisti. Ciclo completo
ha-Misʻadah shebe-sof ha-yeḳum
La Città della Morte
ha-Ḥayim, ha-yeḳum ṿe-khol ha-sheʾar
Madrikh ha-ṭrempisṭ la-galaḳsyah
John Shirley
John Shirley (born 1953)

musician, film editor, lyricist

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Shadows 4
Spider Moon
Cellars
Darkness Divided
Doyle After Death
Dark Love
Shock Rock
The Second Omni book of science fiction
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011
Evolve Two
Crawlers
The Mammoth Book Of Angels and Demons
Demons
City come a-walkin'
A Splendid Chaos
War Lord (John Constantine Hellblazer)
Black Glass
The Chopping Block
Really, really, really, really weird stories
Road War (Traveler, No 5)
Semiotext(e) SF
Constantine
New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird
Doom
Gurdjieff
Future Games
Steel egg
Borderlands
Doom
And the Angel With Television Eyes
Canterbury Cathedral
The Other End
New taboos plus A state of imprisonment and "Why we need forty years of hell" and "Pro is for Professional" outspoken interview
The brigade
Brave New Love
Living Shadows: Stories
Wetbones
Forever midnight
Eclipse Corona
Resident Evil
Three-Ring Psychus
Silicon Embrace
Altered States: a cyberpunk sci-fi anthology
The Complete Aliens Omnibus
...And the Angel With the Television Eyes/Box in My Head
Eclipse (Song Called Youth Book 1)
In Darkness Waiting
Bioshock
Bleak history
BioShock
A Talent for revenge
The Unspoken
New noir
Dracula in Love
Eclipse Penumbra (A Song Called Youth-Book 2)
Eclipse
Eclipse Penumbra
Bioshock - Rapture
Zboyz In The Robot Graveyard
Borderlands
Batman
Wetbones
The View from Hell
The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu
Subterranean (John Constantine Hellblazer)
Eclipse Penumbra: A Song Called Youth Trilogy Book Two
The Exploded Heart
Doom
Nightmare's Realm
Predator
Ralph Compton Prairie Fire, Kansas
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016
Black Butterflies
Eclipse Corona (Song Called Youth)
Ralph Compton Red Trail
Demons (Cemetery Dance Novella, No. 9)
Wetbones
Borderlands
The Crow
New Taboos (Outspoken Authors Book 11)
Eclipse (A Song Called Youth - Book One) (Song Called Youth)
Broken circle
Eclipse Penumbra 2 (A Song Called Youth - Book Two)
Eclipse Corona: A Song Called Youth Trilogy Book Three
Aliens
Subterranean
Eclipse
A Song Called Youth
BORDER WAR
The Vault of Punk Horror
BioShock
Heatseeker
City Come A-Walkin'
In darkness waiting
Lovecraft Alive! (A Collection of Lovecraftian Stories)
Z-Boyz in the Robot Graveyard
Eclipse Penumbra (A Song Called Youth Series Book 2)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Dracula in Love
In Extremis: The Most Extreme Short Stories of John Shirley
Spectral Realms No. 9
Wyatt in Wichita
Fred Remembered
What October Brings
The other end
Eclipse Corona (A Song Called Youth Series Book 3)
The savvy studio owner
Shroud 7: The Quarterly Journal of Dark Fiction and Art
Ralph Compton Broken Rider
Eclipse Penumbra
Sick Things: An Anthology of Extreme Creature Horror
Eclipse Penumbra
Everything is broken
New Taboos
Heatseeker
Teachers and parents
Fly in my eye
Night Visions 10
Bleak history
Mothers Day Ov
Christopher Brookmyre
Christopher Brookmyre (born 1968)

musician, journalist

  • University of Glasgow

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Not the End of the World
Country of the Blind
Be My Enemy
Quite Ugly One Morning
All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye
Where The Bodies Are Buried
One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night
Attack Of The Unsinkable Rubber Ducks
Boiling a Frog
A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil
Black widow
Flesh Wounds
Bred in the bone
Where the Bodies Are Buried
One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night
Cliff House ARC
Cliff House
Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil
Jaggy Splinters
Bred in the Bone
Quite Ugly One Morning
The Sacred Art of Stealing
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
Dead girl walking
Places in the Darkness
Bedlam
When the devil drives
Pandaemonium
The last hack
Bloody Scotland
A snowball in hell
24 Stories
All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye
Fallen Angel
First Cut
Boiling a Frog a Home Edn
Last Day of Christmas
Want you gone
One Fine Day C Book Club
All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye
Brookmyre Mixed B D/Bx48 2For10
Un matin de chien
One Fine Day Middle Night B Bclub
Snowball in Hell
Brookmyre Novel
Bedlam
Dead Girl Walking
Boiling a Frog C Book Club
Quite Ugly One Morning B D/Bx18
Cliff House
Quite Ugly One Morning Hb D/Bx9
Boiling Frog C 2For�10 d/Bx48 B/l
Country of the Blind
Dunkle Freunde
Wer schlafende Hunde weckt
One Fine Day Middle Night C D/B18
She Knows
Not End of World Hb Filler S/Wx6
When the Devil Drives
Big Boy Did It and Ran Away C Bcl
Not the End of the World
Le royaume des aveugles
Wer andern eine Bombe baut
Dein Ende
Cut
Be My Enemy
All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye
Brookmyre Novel 2005 A
Header Not the End of the
Marcus Sedgwick
Marcus Sedgwick (1968-2022)

illustrator, musician

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She Is Not Invisible
Revolver
Vampires And Volts
She is not invisible
Mister Memory
Mister Memory
Revolver
Killing the Dead
She Is Not Invisible
Mister Memory
Mister Memory
She Is Not Invisible
A Christmas wish
White crow
The dark horse
The Dark Flight Down
The Ghosts of Heaven
Everywhere
The book of Dead Days
Midwinterblood
The Foreshadowing
My Swordhand Is Singing
Cowards
A Love Like Blood
Dread Desert
Witch hill
A Love Like Blood
Snowflake, AZ
The emperor's new clothes
Diamonds And Doom
Cudweeds Birthday
Dark Flight Down (Book of Dead Days)
Doctor Who
Fright forest
Blood Red, Snow White
Ghosts And Gadgets
White crow
Lunatics And Luck
Midwinterblood
Flood And Fang
Ghosts And Gadgets
Monster mountains
Vampires And Volts
Diamonds And Doom
Floodland
Revolver
La Amenaza del Caballo Oscuro
The Ghosts of Heaven
Floodland
Dark Satanic Mills
A Winter's Tale
The Book of Dead Days
OUTREMER
The Book of Dead Days
Terror Town (Elf Girl and Raven Boy)
Saint death
Blood red snow white
A love like blood
Het boek van de dode dagen
The Dark Horse
Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black
Blood red, snow white
Floodland
Floodland
Flut und Fangzahne
Foreshadowing
Cudweed in outer space
The kiss of death
El Libro de Los Dias Malditos
Love Like Blood
No es invisible
El Ultimo Invierno del Fantasma
Midwinterblood
The Emperor's new clothes
The Ghosts of Heaven
Scarlett Hart
Floodland
Creepy caves
Midwinterblood
The dead days omnibus
Ghosts of Heaven
The book of Dead Days
Saint Death
Niezauważalna
My Swordhand is Singing
Puck of Pook's Hill
El último invierno del fantasma
Kiss of Death
Los monstruos que merecemos
The truth is dead
Killing the dead
Monstruos y mareas
De donkere trap
Saint Death
Emperors New Clothes
Book of Dead Days
Raven Mysteries 3
Swordhand Omnibus Ebook
Disputes et disparitions
The Dark Horse (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Book of Dead Days
Monsters We Deserve
The kiss of death
White crow
Dark Flight Down
El diamant maleït
She Is Not Invisible
Edgar sacré lascar, Tome 3
Untitled Marcus Sedgwick 5 of 5 Untitled Marcus Sedgwick 5 Of 5
El diamant maleït
Canavar Daglari<br>cüce Kiz ve Kuzgun Oglan
Magic and mayhem
Snow
Fright Forest
Midwinterblood
Kilic Tutan Elin Sarkisi
El diamant maleït
Una festa monstruosa
Witch Hill PROOF
Ravencave
Chalados y chamba
Snowflake, AZ
Elf Girl and Raven Boy Fright Forest
Una festa monstruosa
Wrath
La forêt des maudits
The Dark Horse
Together We Win
Marcus Sedgwick Chapter Sampler
Fright forest
Wrath 30 Copy Class Set
Wrath 15 Copy Class Set
Dead Days Omnibus Ebook
Scream Sea
Ullals passats per aigua
Una festa monstruosa
Dead Days
Blood Red, Snow White
White Crow
White Crow
Cudweed's Birthday
Be the Change : Be Kind
Ghosts of Heaven
Witch Hill
Kiss of Death
Flood and fang
Erets ha-mabul
Kanli Bir Kis Gecesi
Dark Peak
Foreshadowing
Blood Red, Snow White
Flood and fang
Cudweed's Time Machine
Les jours sombres
Be the Change : Be Calm
Le livre des damnés, Tome 2 (French Edition)
Blood Red Snow White
Ghosts of Heaven
Midwinterblood (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
All in Your Head
Midwinterblood, Free Chapter Sampler
Monsters We Deserve
Doctor Who: The Spear of Destiny: Third Doctor (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts Book 3)
Brian Garfield
Brian Garfield (1939-2018)

musician

  • University of Arizona

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Hopscotch
Death wish
Death sentence
The Crime of My Life
Checkpoint Charlie
Death wish
Great Stories of the American West
The Paladin
The thousand-mile war
The Romanov succession
Recoil
Line of succession
Wild times
Western films
Necessity
Kolchak's gold
What of Terry Conniston?
The Meinertzhagen Mystery
Manifest destiny
Relentless
19th International Congress on High-Speed Photography and Photonics
Valley of the shadow
Apache Canyon
Tripwire
The Vanquished
Deep cover
The hit
Last Hard Men
Thousand-Mile War, The
The Proud Riders
The Villiers touch
Sweeney's Honor
I, Witness
Last Hard Men,the
The Arizonans
The hit and The marksman
The threepersons hunt
Arizona
The lawbringers
Checkpoint Cha
Fear in a Handful of Dust
La Grande Traque
Deep cover
Ten Thousand Mile War
RECOIL (Fawcett Crest Book)
Vultures in the sun
Sweeny's Honor
Complete Guide to Western Films
Oyunun kurallari
A déguster froid
The last bridge
Bugle and Spur
Sliphammer
Melchior La Carte
Arizonans,the
Hopscotch
Justice at Spanish Flat
Neumolimyĭ
Smertelʹnoe zhelanie
Der Teufel schiesst schneller
Marc-Uwe Kling
Marc-Uwe Kling (born 1982)

musician, comedian, Liedermacher, cabaret performer

  • Free University Berlin

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Views
QualityLand
Das NEINhorn
Der Tag, an dem Papa ein heikles Gespräch führen wollte
QualityLand 2.0
Das Känguru-Manifest
Der Spurenfinder
Der Tag, an dem die Oma das Internet kaputt gemacht hat
Die Känguru-Tetralogie
Die Känguru-Offenbarung
Die Känguru-Chroniken
Qualityland
Die Känguru-Apokryphen
Der Tag, an dem der Opa den Wasserkocher auf den Herd gestellt hat
Afterwork mit Sisyphos
Mo Foster
Mo Foster (1944-2023)

bassist, guitarist, session musician

  • University of Sussex

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A Blues For Shindig
Seventeen Watts?
17 watts?
Play like Elvis!
British Rock Guitar
Play Like Elvis
Ana Paula Maia
Ana Paula Maia (born 1976)

musician

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Enterre seus mortos
Assim na terra como embaixo da terra
Saga of brutes
O habitante das falhas subterrâneas
De ganados y hombres
Wolves
A guerra dos bastardos
Carbón Animal
Entre rinhas de cachorros e porcos abatidos
Carvão animal
De gados e homens
Of Cattle and Men