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Herbert W. Franke
Herbert W. Franke (1927-2022)

photographer, information scientist

  • University of Vienna

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Zone Null
Das Gedankennetz
Der Orchideenkäfig
Zarathustra kehrt zurück
Einsteins Erben
Hiobs Stern
Planet der Verlorenen
Der Elfenbeinturm
Keine Spur von Leben…
Science Fiction Story Reader 2
Zentrum der Milchstraße
GEGEN UNENDLICH 14
Die Glasfalle
Sphinx_2
Der grüne Komet
Schule für Übermenschen
Endzeit
Der Atem der Sonne
Die Kälte des Weltraums
Cyber City Süd
Science Fiction Story Reader 4
Science Fiction Story Reader 8
Paradies 3000
Sirius Transit
Spiegel der Gedanken
Jupiter
Science Fiction Story Reader 6
Zweitausendvierundachtzig
Das Gutenberg-Konzil
Kontinuum 1
Kontinuum 3
Der Elfenbeinturm / Die denkenden Wälder
Kontinuum 2
SF international 3
SF International 1
Science Fiction Story Reader 12
Science Fiction Story Reader 10
Das Grosse Herbert W. Franke Lesebuch
Deneb
Antares
Kontinuum 5
Am Ufer winkt Unendlichkeit
Ein Kyborg namens Joe
Kontinuum 4
GEGEN UNENDLICH 12
SF international 2
Die Zukunftsmaschine
Computergraphik, Computerkunst
Phänomen Kunst
Die Atome
Kunst kontra Technik?
Neuland des Wissens
Transpluto
Dea Alba
Die Sprache der Vergangenheit
Tod eines Unsterblichen
Magie der Moleküle
Wildnis unter der Erde
Die Stahlwüste
Animation mit Mathematica
Astropoeticon
Computergrafik-Galerie
Ypsilon minus
Kunststoffe erobern die Welt
Die Welt der Mathematik
… nichts bleibt uns als das Staunen
Die geheime Nachricht
Geheimnisvolle Höhlenwelt
Wohin kein Auge reicht
Phänomen Technik
Triumph der Herzchirurgie
In den Höhlen dieser Erde
Der manipulierte Mensch
Sinnbild der Chemie
Apparative Kunst
Fahrt zum Licht
Die Moleküle, Bausteine unserer Welt
Technik in unserer Welt
Das P-Prinzip
Vorstoss ins Unbegreifliche
Kunst und Konstruktion
Wunderwaffen der Medizin
Flucht zum Mars
Wege zur Computerkunst
Auf der Spur des Engels
Ästhetische Information und Kunst
Digitale Visionen
Der Mensch stammt doch vom Affen ab
Computergraphik ― Computerkunst
Weltwunder der Natur
Vorstoß in die Unterwelt
Robots and human intelligence
Computer Science Art
Der Computer, ein neues Instrument der Raumgestaltung
Jay Lake
Jay Lake (1964-2014)

programmer, manager

  • University of Texas at Austin

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Mainspring
Metatropolis
Steampunk
Clockwork Fables A Collection Of Steampunk Fairy Tales
The Best of Subterranean
Green
Last plane to Heaven
Dogs in the Moonlight
Clarkesworld: Year Four
Other Earths
Rocket Science
Launch Pad
Template - A Novel of the Archonate (Planet Stories)
Last Plane to Heaven: The Final Collection
The exquisite corpuscle
Escapement
Escapement
Mainspring
Madness of flowers
Polyphony
Polyphony
The Werewolf Megapack: 22 Classic and Modern Tales of Shape-Shifters!
The Fifth Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011
Fantasy For Good
The Mammoth Book Of Angels and Demons
Trial of Flowers
Pinion
Last Drink Bird Head : A Flash Fiction Anthology for Charity
The 13th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 26 Great SF Stories!
Subterranean
Kalimpura
The 10th Science Fiction MEGAPACK
Escapement
Eighth Science Fiction Megapack
Leviathan 4
Endurance
The Sky That Wraps Collected Short Fiction
The Steampunk MEGAPACK®: 26 Modern and Classic Steampunk Stories
Realms 2: The Second Year of Clarkesworld Magazine
Death Of A Starship
Greetings From Lake Wu
Kalimpura
TEL
The Lone star stories reader
American Sorrows
Clarkesworld Issue 100
Footprints
Space Opera Megapack
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2
Endurance
JADE
Steampunk Megapack
The Baby Killers [hc]
Green
The River Knows Its Own
Straying From the Path
H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror
Clarkesworld Issue 129
The Stars Do Not Lie Hugo and Nebula Nominated Novella
The Specific Gravity of Grief
Green
Green Grow the Rushes-Oh
Looking for Truth in a Wild Blue Yonder
Pinion
Werewolf Megapack
Weird Tales #355
Starship Mechanic
Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh
Almost All the Way Home From the Stars: Seven Science Fiction Stories
Green Universe Trilogy
A Water Matter: A Tor.Com Original (Green)
The Specific Gravity of Grief
Grants Pass
That Is Not Dead
The Speed of Time: A Tor.Com Original
Endurance
Two Stories: A Tor.Com Original
Cats Steampunk Alphabet
Almost All the Way Home From the Stars: Science Fiction Short Stories
Polyphony
Edward
Spicy slipstream stories
Alexander Dewdney
Alexander Dewdney (1941-2024)

mathematician, computer scientist, philosopher, film director

  • University of Waterloo

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Dennis E. Taylor
Dennis E. Taylor (born 1999)

programmer

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We Are Legion
For We Are Many
All These Worlds
Heaven’s River
Roadkill
A Change of Plans
The Singularity Trap
Nous sommes Légion
Explorations
Earthside
Nous sommes nombreux
The Bobiverse
Outland
Huw Millward
Huw Millward

video game developer

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Konrad Fiałkowski
Konrad Fiałkowski (1939-2020)

computer scientist

  • Warsaw University of Technology

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Greg Costikyan
Greg Costikyan (born 1959)

computer scientist, essayist, blogger, role-playing game designer

  • Brown University

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First contract
Another Day, Another Dungeon (Cups and Sorcery, Book 1)
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
Ellen Ullman
Ellen Ullman (born 1949)

programmer, computer scientist

  • Cornell University

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