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Brian Greene
Brian Greene (born 1963)

physicist, professor, actor, theoretical physicist, mathematician

  • University of Oxford, Harvard University

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AL and AL
Icarus at the edge of time
What Are You Optimistic About?
Until the End of Time
The fabric of the cosmos
The best American science and nature writing, 2006
New York Times Book of Science
The Hidden Reality
Stephen Hawking
Der Bielefelder Marienaltar: das Retabel in der Neust adter Marienkirche
The elegant universe
Fields, Strings and Duality
Der Stoff, aus dem der Kosmos ist
Optimal Happiness- Love Ain't Never Been Enough!
El Universo Elegante
L'universo elegante
De ontrafeling van de kosmos / druk 4
Wanton / the Dame / the Desired
Infinite Cosmos
Ying bin 900 ju dian
Cosmic Symphony
Science neoclassical Wencong
Lü you 900 ju dian
Why science matters
El universo elegante
Classroom talk
Andrew Robinson
Andrew Robinson (born 1942)

television actor, film actor, director, stage actor, actor, television producer

  • London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, New School

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Star Trek Deep Space Nine - A Stitch in Time
Stitch in Time
Clinical electrophysiology
Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Lem (1921-2006)

philosopher, essayist, satirist, futurist, poet, physician, researcher, playwright

  • Lviv University, Jagiellonian University

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Solaris
Dzienniki gwiazdowe
Eden
Fiasko
Głos pana
One Human Minute
Katar
Niezwyciężony
The Cyberiad
Mortal Engines
Kongres futurologiczny
Imaginary magnitude
Szpital Przemienienia
Pamiętnik znaleziony w wannie
Microworlds
Memoirs of a space traveller
The cosmic carnival of Stanisław Lem
Powrót z gwiazd
Opowieści o pilocie Pirxie
Doskonała próżnia
Astronauci
The Seventh Voyage
Truth and Other Stories
Fantastyka i futurologia
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
A Perfect Vacuum
Obłok Magellana
Phantastik und Futurologie
Głos Lema
Człowiek z Marsa
Essays
Return from the Stars
Mortal Engines
Investigation
SF international 2
Imaginary Magnitude
Soli︠a︡ris ; Ėdem ; Nepobedimyĭ
Ratujmy kosmos, i inne opowiadania
Sobranie sochineniĭ v desi︠a︡ti tomakh
Inwazja z Aldebarana
Bibliothèque du XXIe siècle
Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces
Creations
Highcastle
Pokój na ziemi
More Tales of Pirx the Pilot
Dialogi
Okamgnienie
Summa technologiae
Wielkość urojona
Opowiadania
Wizja lokalna
Wysoki zamek
Bajki robotów
Śledztwo
Maska
Powrót z gwiazd / Głos Pana
Mehr Phantastische Erzählungen
Rassledovanie
Die phantastischen Erzählungen
Lem über Lem
Die Jagd
Apokryfy
The World as Holocaust
Vom Nutzen des Drachen
Opowidania
Provokationen
Terminus
One Human Minute
Relatos Del Piloto Pirx
Rückkehr von den Sternen
Irrläufer
Wie die Welt noch einmal davonkam
Powrót z gwiazd
Tajemnica chińskiego pokoju
Golem XIV
Der Mensch vom Mars
Altruizin und andere kybernetische Beglückungen
Prowokacja
His Master's Voice
Przekladaniec
Rozprawy i szkice
Mondnacht
Provokationen
Aventuras estelares del piloto Pirx / Stellar adventures of the Pilot Pirx
Dylematy
Yıldız Güncesi
Opowieści o pilocie Pirxie
Mundos imaginarios - Estuche
Golem XIV [i.e. czternasty]
Dünya'da Barış
Relatos del Piloto Pirx
Zagadka
Pamietnik znaleziony w wannie
Śledztwo ; Katar
Opowiesci o pilocie pirxie
La voix du maitre
Prowokacja
Priklyucheniya Ijona Tikhogo
Retour des étoiles
Moj Poglad Na Literature
Mundos imaginarios - Estuche
Filozofia przypadku
Biblioteka XXI veka
Rasa drapieżców
Wizja lokalna
Mémoires d'Ijon Tichy
CIBERIADA - STANISLAW LEM
Perfect Vacuum
Star Diaries
Chain of Chance
Dzienniki gwiazdowe
The Investigation
Sorusturma
The Three Electroknights
Listy albo opór materii
Voyages électriques d'ijon tichy
Maska
Retorno de las estrellas
Futurological Congress
Astronavty
Wizja lokalna wyd. 2
Futurologicheskij kongress. Osmotr na meste. Mir na zemle
Solaris
Mortal Engines
Ṭayas he-ḥalal Pirḳes
Three Electroknights
Katar
Peace on Earth
Kongres futurologiczny
Provokation
Sade und die Spieltheorie
Sorusturma - SL9
The Futurological Congress
Powrot z gwiazd
Yildiz Güncesi
Listy
Niezwyciezony
Przekładaniec
Die Entdeckung der Virtualität
Golem XIV
Yildizlardan Dönüs
Professor A. Donda
Ritorno dall'universo
Siberya
Insanin Bir Dakikasi
Imaginary Magnitude
Biblioteka XXI wieku
Szpital Przemienienia
Fiasco
Kör Talih
El profesor A. Donda
Wysoki zamek
Fantastika i futurologiya. V 2 knigakh
Dönüsüm Hastanesi
Hospital of the Transfiguration
Solaris, Eden, Niezwyciezony
Star Diaries
Der Unbesiegbare. Roman. - Die Jagd. Erzählungen
Sayeret he-ḥalal Nitsaḥon
Opowiadania
Aden
Yıldızlardan Dönüş
Soliaris
The Chain of Chance (Katar), 1975 / Investigation, 1959 / Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, 1961 / (All in Russian Language)
Zvezdnye dnevniki Iĭona Tikhogo
Solyaris
Summa Technologiae
La Voz del Amo
Gelecekbilim Kongresi
Solaris / „Niezwyciężony“
Sława i Fortuna
Maska
Diabeł i arcydzieło
ʻEden
Summa Technologiae
Microworlds
Głos Pana
Sledztwo
Pokoj na Ziemi
Summa Technologiae
Star Diaries, The
Vacío perfecto
Śledztwo
Philosophie Des Zufalls
Sknocony kryminał
Transfer - SF-Roman
Fiasko
Rasskazy o pilote Pirkse. Fiasko
Solyaris. Edem
Fiasco
Ciberíada
Yenilmez
El congreso de futurología
Tales of Pirx the Pilot
Kongres futurologiczny ; Maska
Olumlu makineler
Dünya’da Bar??
Peace on Earth
Mehr phantastische Erzählungen
Philosophie des Zufalls
Summa technologiae
Zvezdnye dnevniki Ijona Tikhogo (Vneklassnoe chtenie)
Philosophie des Zufalls. Zu einer empirischen Theorie der Literatur
Mémoires trouvés dans une baignoire
Futurological Congress
El invencible
CONTES INOXYDABLES
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
Wysoki Zamek
Küvette Bulunan Günce
Paz en la tierra
Hayali Buyukluk
Fine del mondo alle 8
Mukemmel Bosluk
The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem (1973-01-01)
Lube czasy
Pokój na ziemi
Głos pana
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
Głos Pana
Pokoj na Ziemi
Ciemność i pleśń
Memoirs of a Space Traveler
Relatos del piloto Pirx
Mój pogląd na literaturę
Niezwycięzony
Kuheriada
Opowiadania wybrane
Vozvrashchenie so zvezd
Vtorzhenie s Alʹdebarana
Solaris
Smart obiekt
Powtórka
Szpital Prezemienienia
Le Bréviaire des robots
Das Hohe Schloss
The Magellanic Cloud, 1955. The Man from Mars, 1942. Astronauts, 1951 (IN RUSSIAN) / ( .   .  / Oblok Magellana - Czlowiek z Marsa - Astronauci)
Magellanovo oblako
Pamiȩtnik znaleziony w wannie
Czas nieutracony
Nouvelles aventures d'Ijon Tichy
Soli︠a︡ris
Bezsenność
Die Vergangenheit der Zukunft
Świat na krawędzi
Mémoires trouvés dans une baignoire
Fábulas de robots
Soli͡aris ; Nepobedimyĭ ; Zvezdnye dnevniki Iĭona Tikhogo
La fiebre del heno
Sex wars
Der Unbesiegbare
Vysokyĭ Zamok
Swiat na krawedzi
L'Invincibile
Polowanie
Niezwyciężony i inne opowiadania
Suplement
Pożytek ze smoka i inne opowiadania
La fiebre del heno
Bomba megabitowa
Iz vospominanii Iiona Tikhogo
Dziury w całym
Technologie und Ethik. Ein Lesebuch
Daniel Keyes
Daniel Keyes (1927-2014)

journalist

  • Brooklyn College, New York University

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The Hugo Winners [volume I]
Flowers for Algernon
The Magazine of fantasy and science fiction. A 30-year retrospective
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury (The Future in Question / Space Mail)
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume Two
Stories of Suspense
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Silver Level
The Hugo Winners, Volumes one and two
Prentice Hall Literature--Silver
Unveiling Claudia
Pearson Literature - California - Reading and Language
The minds of Billy Milligan
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Readers Companion--Silver Level
The Super Hugos
The touch
The experience of literature
The fifth Sally
American Science Fiction : Four Classic Novels 1960-1966
Algernon, Charlie and I, A Writer's Journey - Plus the Complete Original Short Novelette Version of "Flowers for Algernon"
The Milligan Wars
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1960
The First Men (Howard Fast) / Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes) / The Second Kind of Loneliness (George R. R. Martin)
Galaxy Science Fiction, Vol. 16, No. 4
The InterActive Reader
Kokoro no kagami
The Asylum Prophecies
24 ha-panim shel Bili Miligen
Billy Milligan'in Zihinleri
Space Mail
Kwiaty dla Algernona
Flores para Algernon
Algernon, Charlie et moi
Flowers for Algernon (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Charly
The Minds of Billy Milligan. 1/2
The Milligan Wars. 1/2
The Milligan Wars. 2/2
Alan Gratz
Alan Gratz (born 1972)

lecturer

  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Starfleet Academy - The Assassination Game
The dragon lantern
The League of Seven
Refugee
Something wicked
Samurai shortstop
Prisoner B-3087
The Brooklyn nine
Something Rotten
Allies
Ground Zero
Grenade
Fantasy baseball
Projekt 1065
Code of honor
Projekt 1065
Ban this book
The monster war
Resist
Brian Evenson
Brian Evenson (born 1966)

translator

  • Brigham Young University, University of Washington

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Immobility
The warren
Dead space
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2014
Altmann's tongue
Father of lies
The Open Curtain
Windeye
Understanding Robert Coover
Contagion and Other Stories
Dark property
The wavering knife
Fugue state
The Din of Celestial Birds
Post Road 3
Mountain R
The wavering knife
Fugue state
No exit
Donogootonka Or The Miracles Of Science A Cinematographic Tale
Raymond Carver's What we talk about when we talk about love
The open curtain
Betwixt The Between Impossible Realism
The drownable species
The other room
Contagion
Sebastiano Vassalli
Sebastiano Vassalli (1941-2015)

literary critic, professor, poet

  • University of Milan

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Chimera
The swan
Il neoitaliano
Amore lontano
L' alcova elettrica
Tout l'or du monde
La notte del lupo
La chimera
The swan
Terra d'acque
Il cigno
Ombre e destini
Il robot di Natale e altri racconti
Cuore di pietra
Stella avvelenata
La chimera
La notte della cometa
Labut́
La morte di Marx e altri racconti
Mareblù
Tempo di màssacro
Sangue e suolo
Dux
Il cigno
Gli italiani sono gli altri
The Night of the Comet
Il mio Piemonte
Un infinito numero
Mareblù
Il Lago d'Orta
Le due chiese
Io, Partenope
3012
Il millennio che muore
Marco e Mattio
Comprare il sole
Un nulla pieno di storie
Dio il diavolo e la mosca nel grande caldo dei prossimi mille anni
L' italiano
Tempo di mıassacro
Abitare il vento
Il confine
L' oro del mondo
Narcisso
L' arrivo della lozione
a a
Archeologia del presente
George Jewsbury
George Jewsbury (born 1941)

historian, history teacher, translator

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