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Peter Watts
Peter Watts (born 1958)

zoologist, biologist, marine biologist

  • University of Guelph

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Blindsight
Behemoth
Starfish
Echopraxia
Upgraded
The Freeze-Frame Revolution
Beyond the rift
Maelstrom
Crysis
Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 1
Clarkesworld: Year Four
Blood Type: An Anthology of Vampire SF on the Cutting Edge
Firefall
The Colonel: A Tor.Com Original (Firefall)
Infinity's End
Behemoth : B-Max
Behemoth : Seppuku
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011
Made To Order
The Level Guide to the South West
Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3
Clarkesworld Issue 144
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 4
Peter Watts is an Angry Sentient Tumor
poklatkowa rewolucja
ブラインドサイト〈上〉 (創元SF文庫)
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2
ブラインドサイト〈下〉 (創元SF文庫)
British Rail Class 47s
Positive moves
Motor Vehicle Registration Marks of the British Isles
Tiempo profundo
Clarkesworld Issue 96
Vision ciega/ Blind Vision (Spanish Edition)
Bifrost, N° 61 : La science-fiction : questions et perspectives...
The Freeze-Frame Revolution Lib/E
LSD
Vision aveugle
Altered States
The Freeze-Frame Revolution
Peer Gynt
Person of Interest Novel 1
Doll's House and Other Plays
Legion
LSD Library
Normative economics and reality from a Christian standpoint
Marketing your small business
Kor Bakis
Visión ciega
Firefall Series
Gene Brewer
Gene Brewer (born 1937)

chemist, microbiologist

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

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K-Pax
On a beam of light
K-Pax III
K-Pax II
K-PAX
On a Beam of Light
Watson's God
Creating K-PAX -or- Are You Sure You Want To Be A Writer?
The American Way
K-Pax Omnibus
WRONGFUL DEATH
K-PAX REDUX
K-pax IV
En un rayo de luz
Ben And I
Murder On Spruce Island
K-Pax 2
Three Stories And A Novella
K-Pax V
Na Promieniu Swiatla
Made in Vermont
Becoming Human
Spheres of Europa
K-Pax (French Edition)
Jack C. Haldeman II
Jack C. Haldeman II (1941-2002)

biologist

  • Johns Hopkins University, University of Oklahoma

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Comets & Computers
Laughing Space
Tales from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far
Black holes & bug-eyed-monsters
Isaac Asimov's aliens & outworlders
Isaac Asimov's Masters of Science Fiction
There Is No Darkness
Earth invaded (Home team advantage / In the arena/ Pattern / Three times around)
Science Fiction Masterpieces
Tomorrow's TV
Vector Analysis
Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Zombie Vampires
High steel
Star Trek Adventures - Perry's Planet
Isaac Asimov's Choice
Fall of Winter
The Adventures of Science Fiction, Vol. 3
TV 2000
High steel
Vector analysis
Goals for the sixties in health facility construction
Staffing of State and local health departments, 1951
Astronauts & Androids
Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Zombie Vampires
New horizons for hospital research
Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway (born 1944)

philosopher, sociologist, historian, biologist

  • Yale University, Colorado College

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Simians, cyborgs, and women
Modest₋Witness@Second₋Millennium.FemaleMan₋Meets₋OncoMouse
The Haraway reader
How like a leaf
Primate visions
Crystals, fabrics, and fields
Monströse Versprechen
Ciencia Cyborgs y Mujeres
When species meet
A Cyborg Manifesto
Concrete Jungle
Saibōgu feminizumu
Joseph Samachson
Joseph Samachson (1906-1980)

biochemist, chemist

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Good digging
The fabulous world of opera
The armor within us
Mel Oliver and Space Rover on Mars
Amazing Stories Volume 29
Amazing Stories Volume 28
Feast of Demons
Grant Allen
Grant Allen (1848-1899)

naturalist, botanist, teacher

  • University of Oxford

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The British Barbarians
The Twelve Frights of Christmas
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century
Killing London
Falling in love
Science in Arcady
Colin Clout's calendar
Common sense science
In nature's workshop
Falling in love
The hand of God and other posthumous essays
The Woman Who Did
An African Millionaire
The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes
The Best Crime Stories of the 19th Century
Flowers and their pedigrees
Florence
Venice
Biographies of Working Men
Post-prandial philosophy
The Great Taboo
Paris
The colour-sense
The evolution of the idea of God
Vignettes from nature
Charles Darwin
The evolutionist at large
The story of the plants
Hilda Wade, a Woman With Tenacity of Purpose
Flashlights on nature
Michael's Crag
The colours of flowers
The tents of Shem
Miss Cayley's adventures
In all shades
Philistia
The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
The cruise of the Albatross, or, When was Wednesday the tenth?
Cities of Belgium
The plants
Anglo-Saxon Britain
Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Blood royal
What's bred in the bone
The duchess of Powysland
This mortal coil
Linnet
The type-writer girl
The lower slopes
Under sealed order
Wednesday the tenth
At market value
Babylon
Evolution in Italian art
Force and energy
Recalled to Life
Moorland idylls
The European tour
The hand of God
County and town in England, together with some annals of Churnside
The incidental bishop
Dumaresq's daughter
Belgium
The devil's die
The Attis of Caius Valerius Catullus
Twelve tales
The jaws of death
Kalee's shrine
George Paul Macdonell, in memoriam
Wolverden Tower
The scallywag
Tom, unlimited
Steampunk Six Pack
Tidal Thames
For Maimie's sake
A splendid sin
Physiological æsthetics
Librivox Short Mystery Story Collection Vol. 003
The Great Ruby Robbery
Rosalba
A bride from the desert
The reluctant hangman and other stories of crime
The beckoning hand
An army doctor's romance
The Adventure Of The Amateur Commission Agent
Pallinghurst Barrow
Plant life
My New Year's Eve among the Mummies Illustrated
Individualism and socialism
Nature studies
The Adventure Of The Cantankerous Old Lady
A terrible inheritance
The Adventure Of The Supercilious Attache
Side Lights
The Adventure Of The Impromptu Mountaineer
Ivan Greet's masterpiece, etc
Thames Valley Catastrophe Illustrated
The Adventure Of The Inquisitive American
Strange stories
Plain words on the woman question
The desire of the eyes and other stories
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Grant Allen : Volume 2-Fourteen Short Stories of the Strange and Unusual Including 'Wolverden Tower', ... and 'Pausodyne
The return of Aphrodite
Grant Allen - Babylon
Sir Theodore's guest, and other stories
Magdalen tower
Drowning for Liverpool (Victorian Viewpoints)
How It Feels to Die, by One Who Has Tried It; and Other Stories Illustrated
Hand and brain
The backslider
A problem in human evolution
The white man's foot
Cities of Northern Italy Volume 2
The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume Two
Paris
Florence
Plain words on the woman question
The British barbarians
The Duchess of Powysland
The European tour
The colours of flowers
Plain words on the woman question
The bold buccaneer
Linnet
County and town in England
What's bred in the bone
A bride from the desert
The evolution of the idea of God
In memoriam George Paul Macdonell
Individualism and socialism
Venice
Ngalalana mĕkĕl sakĕtip
Physiological aesthetics
Individualism and socialism ..
The woman who did
A glimpse of North Africa
Anglo-Saxon Britain
Vignettes from nature
The story of the plants
Charles Darwin
Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1871-1954)

explorer, anthropologist, archaeologist, inventor, ornithologist, naturalist, zoologist, illustrator

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Caught in the Organ Draft
The Bridge Of Light
Treasure of the Golden God
Dirigibles of Death
The American Indian
Minerals, metals and gems
Old civilizations of the new world
Shell collector's handbook
Getting together with Latin America
South and Central American trade conditions of to-day
The real story of the pirate
The boys' book of whalers
The book of camping
Panama
Jungle chums
The radio detectives
Harper's Gasoline Engine Book: How the Engine is Made, how to Use it at Home ..
The Home Radio: How to Make and Use it
America's ancient civilizations
Great conquerors of South and Central America
Gasolene Engines; Their Operation, Use and Care: A Comprehensive, Simple and ..
Foods America gave the world
The young collector's handbook
Islands And Their Mysteries
Strange sea shells and their stories
Our Indians
The American Indian, North, South and Central America
Harper's wireless book
The boy collector's handbook
They found gold
The trail of the white Indians
The amateur carpenter
Porto Rico past and present and San Domingo of today
Cuba of today
Isles of spice and palm
The Inquisition
Knots, splices and rope work
How to operate a motor car
My jungle trails
Cuba past and present
The deep sea hunters
Harper's book for young naturalists
The golden city
The real story of the whaler
Strange insects and their stories
Along New England shores
The Best of Amazing Stories: The 1929 Anthology (Amazing Stories Classics)
Before the conquerors
Brain Sinner, The, & Death from the Skies
The radio detectives under the sea
Panama of today
Strange customs, manners, and beliefs
Perfumes and spices, including an account of soaps and cosmetics
Harper's gasoline engine book
The book of the West Indies
Strange birds and their stories
Deep sea hunters in the frozen seas
Smugglers and smuggling
In Morgan's wake
The book of the sailboat
The real Americans
The boys' book of buccaneers
Rivers and their mysteries
Harpers Aircraft Book
In the wake of the buccaneers
Gasolene engines; their operation, use and care
...Strange fish and their stories
The home radio up to date
Secret treasure
The ocean and its mysteries
The Best of Amazing Stories: The 1927 Anthology (Amazing Stories Classics)
Barton's mills
Romantic and historic Virginia
In the Wake of the Buccaneers
The Knots Box Useful Knots For Every Situation Indoors And Out
Through the Crater's Rims
Under Peruvian skies
Thirty years in the jungle
The Book Of The West Indies
The home radio, how to make and use it
The strange story of our earth
The Book of the West Indies
Harper's Wireless Book; How to Use Wireless Electricity in Telegraphing, Telephoning and the Transmission of Power
In the Wake of the Buccaneers
Wonder plants and plant wonders
Deep Sea Hunters
Old Civilizations in the New World
Strange prehistoric animals and their stories..
Wonder creatures of the sea
The heart of old New England
Jury Rig
Harper's Wireless Book
Our Indians
South and Central American Trade Conditions of To-Day Including Mexico, Cuba, Haiti and Dominican Republic; With Maps and Diagrams
Harper's Gasoline Engine Book
Book of Camping
Book of the Sailboat;
Radio Detectives
Precious Stones and Their Stories - An Article on the History of Gemstones and Their Use
Knots, Splices and Rope-Work
Strange reptiles and their stories..
The American Indian
Harper's Aircraft Book: Why Aeroplanes Fly, How to Make Models, and All About Aircraft, Little and Big
The World of the Giant Ants, Illustrated Edition (Lost World-Lost Race Classics)
South and Central American Trade Conditions of To-day Including Mexico, Cuba, Haiti and Dominican Republic; With Maps and Diagrams
The World of the Giant Ants, Illustrated Edition
Mutiny on the Athol
Carib gold
Harper's Aircraft Book
The Trail of the Cloven Foot
Romantic and historic Maine
The Boys' Book Of Carpentry
Old civilization of the New world
Uncle Abner's legacy
Inca's Treasure House
Into the Green Prism & Wanderers of the Wolf Moon
Romantic and historic Florida
The Radio Detectives Southward Bound
I'll Learn'em
When the Moon Ran Wild
Gasolene Engines; Their Operation, Use and Care; a Comprehensive, Simple and Practical Work Treating of Gasolene Engines for Stationary, Marine or Vehicle Use . .
An American Crusoe
Vampires of the Desert
Strange creatures of the sea
Jamaica of today
West Indies of today
Beyond the Green Prism & Alcatraz of the Starways
American Crusoe
The boy adventurers in the forbidden land
Harper's Book for Young Naturalists
Beyond Infinity & Monsters of the Ray
A-B-C of automobile driving ..
Perfumes and spices, including an account of soaps and cosmetics
The radio detectives in the jungle
My boat trip through the Guiana wilderness
The treasure of Bloody Gut
Never a Dull Moment
The boy adventurers in the land of El Dorado
The boy adventurers in the unknown land
The boys' outdoor vacation book
Pets for pleasure and profit
Porto Rico past and present and San Domingo of today
The ocean and its mysteries
Panama, past and present
The Incas' treasure house
Lost treasure
The home radio
The book of the West Indies
The cruise of the Cormorant
Harper's book for young gardeners
The boys' book of carpentry
South and Central American trade conditions of today
The American Indian
Islands and their mysteries
Eduardo Gallego Arjona
Eduardo Gallego Arjona (born 1961)

botanist

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