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Mia Couto
Mia Couto (born 1955)

biologist, journalist, poet

  • Eduardo Mondlane University

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Last Flight Of The Flamingo
Contemporary African Short Stories
Under the frangipani
The Tuner Of Silences
Every man is a race
Terra sonâmbula
A river called time
The Blind Fisherman
Sleepwalking land
Voices made night
E se Obama fosse africano?
Woman of the ashes
Woman of the Ashes
Vinte e zinco
Pensageiro frequente
Jerusalém
Pensatempos
A confissao da leoa
Trilogía de Mozambique
Cronicando
Terre somnanbule
O país do queixa-andar
Confession of the lioness
Sebastiao Salgado
O outro pé da sereia
Vozes anoitecidas
Cada homem é uma raça
El último vuelo del flamenco
Estórias abensonhadas
O último voo do flamingo
Cronicando
Vozes anoitecidas
Confessions of the lioness
Contos do nascer da terra
La Véranda au frangipanier
Terra Sonambula (Uma Terra sem amos)
Mar me quer
A varanda do frangipani
Venenos de Deus, remédios do Diabo
Sleepwalking Land
O Ultimo Voo Do Flamingo
LAST FLIGHT OF THE FLAMINGO; TRANS. BY DAVID BROOKSHAW
O gato e o escuro
Idades cidades divindades
Venenos de Deus, remédios do diabo
O fio das missangas
Chronique des jours de cendre
Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra
Terra sonâmbula
As areias do imperador
Raíz de orvalho e outros poemas
Raiz de Orvalho e outros poemas
L'accordeur de silences
Na berma de nenhuma estrada e outros contos
Idades cidades divindades
Mar me quer
Tradutor de chuvas
O menino no sapatinho
Terra Sonambula
O desanoitecer da palavra
A confissão da leoa
O país do queixa andar
Na berma de nenhuma estrada
Pensatempos
Cada homem é uma raça
Poisons de Dieu, remèdes du diable
A Varanda De Frangipani
Vagas e lumes
Antes de nascer o mundo
A chuva pasmada
Essas mulheres
El cartògraf d'absències
Poemas escolhidos
A chuva pasmada
Estórias abensonhadas
O beijo da palavrinha
Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra
Essa história está diferente
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
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Die Wüste Internet. Geisterfahrten auf der Datenautobahn
Robert E. Vardeman
Robert E. Vardeman (born 1947)

physicist, engineer

  • University of New Mexico

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The Resonance of Blood
Death Channels
The Screaming Knife
The Klingon Gambit
Mutiny on the Enterprise
Cenotaph Road
Sos the rope
DESTINY STONE
To demons bound
Iron Tongue (Cenotaph Road, #4)
A symphony of storms
The flame key
Blood Fountain
Echoes of Chaos (The Weapons of Chaos, Bk. 1)
The infinity plague
A Yoke of Magic (Swords of Raemllyn, Bk. 2)
A plague in paradise
The War of Powers
Vor
Sorcerer's Skull (Cenotaph Road #2)
The skeleton lord's key
To Demons Bound
Masters of Space 2
Road to the stars
The Sundered Realm
Demon of the Dark Ones
The Quaking Lands (The Jade Demons, Book 1)
Deathfall
God of War
Death's Acolyte (Swords of Raemllyn, No 4)
In the Shadow of Omizantrim (War of Powers, No 5)
The Fallen Ones (The War of Powers, Book 4)
World Of Mazes (Cenotaph Road No 3)
For Crown And Kingdom (Swords of Raemllyn, No 6)
Masters of space
The White Fire (Jade Demons, No 4)
The ruins of power
Crystal Clouds (The Jade Demons, No 3)
The sorcerer's skull
Ancient Heavens (War of the Powers) Robert E. Vardeman
The Klingon Gambit
Grimm, Grit, and Gasoline
The Yoke of Magic (Swords of Raemllyn, No 2)
World Of Mazes (Cenotaph Road, #3)
Cenotaph Road
The Destiny Stone (War of Powers, Book 3)
Alien death fleet
Mutiny on Enterprise Star Trek
The Jade Demons Quartet
Alien Web (Masters of Space, No 2)
Phantoms on the Wind (Demon Crown, No 2)
Sorcerer's Skull
Dark Legacy
Space Vectors (Biowarriors, No 3)
The Demon Crown Trilogy
Istu Awakened
The glass warrior
The Stellar Death Plan (Masters of Space, No 1)
Crisis at Starlight (Biowarriors, No 2)
God of War II
The Accursed
Statistical Quality Wave Site
Equations of Chaos (The Weapons of Chaos Book 2)
God of War II
To demons bound
Rocket's Red Glare
Plague in Paradise (Masters of Space, No 3)
Fate of the Kinunir
Dark legacy
BattleTech Legends
The destiny stone
God Of War
Hell Heart
Mutiny on the Enterprise
Khozyaeva kosmosa
Gene Roddenbery's Xander in Lost Universe
Intergalactic orgy (Beeline late night library)
The Stink of Flesh
Pillar of Night (Cenotaph Road No 6)
Ogre Castle
Sqa with Spc Excel Set
Sandcats of Rhyl
Gateway to Rust and Ruin
Funland Kill Zone
Demons Bound Raemllyn #1
Masters Of Space
The sundered realm
Colors of Chaos (Weapons of Chaos, Book 3)
The keys to paradise
Swords of Raemllyn, Book 2
The Black Nebula
Klingon Gambit
The long walk
Blood Fountain
Key of ice and steel
Fire and Fog (Cenotaph Road #5)
VOR
Keys To Paradise Book II
Colors of chaos
Symphony of Storms (Demon Crown, No. 3)
The colors of chaos
Equations of chaos
The Infinity Plague (Biowarriors, Book 1)
Klingon Gambit
The beasts of the mists
The weapons of chaos
Swords of Raemllyn
Tales from the Otherverse
Sandcats of Rhyl
Demon of the Dark Ones
To demons bound
For crown and kingdom
In the sea nymph's lair
Death's acolyte
The stellar death plan
Blue Kingdoms: Buxom Buccaneers
Outer space embrace
Weapons of Chaos
A Yoke of magic
The genetic menace
Marcelo Gleiser
Marcelo Gleiser (born 1959)

physicist, astronomer, journalist, astrophysicist

  • King's College London, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

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Kinship
The Best American Science Writing 2003
What Are You Optimistic About?
A Tear at the Edge of Creation
The dancing universe
The Prophet and the Astronomer
A Harmonia Do Mundo
Alastair Philip Wiper
A dança do universo
The simple beauty of the unexpected
The island of knowledge
Cartas a um jovem cientista
Dos Elétrons ao Amor
O fim da terra e do céu
Fluctuation driven electroweak phase transition
Danca do Universo - Dancing Universe
Great Minds Don't Think Alike
O caldeirão azul
Island of Knowledge, The
Dawn of a Mindful Universe
Blind Spot
Merlin Sheldrake
Merlin Sheldrake (born 1986)

biologist

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Kinship
Entangled Life
Entangled Life : the Illustrated Edition
Verweven leven
La red oculta de la vida
A trama da vida
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?
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
Yuri Herrera
Yuri Herrera (born 1970)

political scientist, editing staff

  • National Autonomous University of Mexico

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Kingdom Cons
SIgns proceeding the end of the world
Trabajos del reino
The transmigration of bodies
Lunatics, lovers & poets
Kingdom cons
Señales que precederán al fin del mundo
Silent Fury
El incendio de la mina El Bordo (Largo recorrido) (Spanish Edition)
Three Novels
La estación del pantano
La transmigración de los cuerpos
Diez Planetas
Signs Leading up to the End of the World
Dünyanın Sonunu Önceleyen İşaretler
Abgesang des Königs
Symádia prin to télos tou kosmou
Tiempos Irredentos - Unrepentant Times
Kralligin Isleri
Ten Planets
Bedenlerin Göçü
Voortekenen van het einde van de wereld