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Damon Knight
Damon Knight (1922-2002)

literary critic, journalist, editor, critic, poet

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100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
Galaxy
Science Fiction of the forties
Supermen
The Magazine of fantasy and science fiction. A 30-year retrospective
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury (The Future in Question / Space Mail)
Fifty short science fiction tales
The Second Omni book of science fiction
Why do birds
Time Waits For Winthrop
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume Two
Beyond the barrier
A pocketful of stars
Laughing Space
One side laughing
The Seventh Galaxy Reader
In search of wonder
A Century of Science Fiction
Three novels: Rule golden, Natural state, [and] The dying man
The world and Thorinn
Isaac Asimov presents the golden age of science fiction. Sixth Series
A science fiction argosy
The observers
Far out
The Clarion awards
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 22 (1960)
Far out
Dimension X
A for Anything
A century of great short science fiction novels
The Futurians
Two novels
Off centre
Nebula Award Stories
Orbit 14
In Search of Wonder
Tomorrow's children
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 15 (1953)
Orbit 15
First voyages
Orbit 16
Damon Knight's Orbit 12
Out of this world
The other foot
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 12 (1950)
Orbit 16
Late Knight edition
Worlds to come
Damon Knight's orbit 7
A for anything
Best stories from Orbit, volumes 1-10
Thirteen French science-fiction stories
One hundred years of science fiction
A reasonable world
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 18 (1956)
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 21 (1959)
A century of great short science fiction novels
Orbit 3
In deep
Science Fiction of the Thirties
A Shocking Thing
Orbit 5
Turning on
Cities of wonder
Tomorrow and Tomorrow; Ten Tales of the Future,
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 16 (1954)
Hell's Pavement
The best of Damon Knight
Beyond tomorrow
Turning points
Orbit 21
Cv
Orbit 17
Perchance to dream
First contact
Orbit Fifteen
Reasonable World
Cities of wonder
Damon Knight SF Gateway Omnibus
Orbit Twenty
Orbit Eighteen
One Hundred Years of Science Fiction
Toward infinity
The Worshippers
A century of science fiction
Science fiction of the thirties
Nebula award stories
Damon Knight SF Omnibus (eBook)
Orbit
Hell's cartographers : some personal histories of science fiction writers
Turning Points
Toward Infinity
Doorway to Kal-Jmar
Dimension X
The Shape of things
The people maker
Rule Golden and Double Meaning
Nebula Award stories
Nebula award series, 1965
A for anything
First flight
Rule Golden and Other Stories
The best of Damon Knight
Analogue men
Science fact/fiction
The man in the tree
The Future in Question
Happy Endings
Creating short fiction
The golden road
Giants
TV 2000
The Last Man on Earth
Cosmic Stories, March 1941
The 1987 Annual World's Best SF
Orbit 10
Humpty Dumpty
Western classics from the great pulps
Space Science Fiction Super Pack
CV
Hell's pavement
Better than one
Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940
Perchance to Dream
Charles Fort
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1964
The dark side
DimensionX
Masters of Evolution / Fire in the Heavens
Charles Fort: prophet of the unexplained
Beyond the Barrier
Perchance to dream
Tomorrow X 4
Why dobirds
Worlds to Come
Creating short fiction
Turning on
Damon Knight's Collection 1
World without children and The Earth Quarter
Towards Infinity
Orbit
Earth Quarter & Envoy to New Worlds
Anthology of Sci-Fi V21, the Pulp Writers
The best of Damon Knight
Tomorrow and tomorrow
Orbit 19
Best Damon Knight
Worlds to come
Web of the Worlds & Rule Golden
Le paveĢ de l'enfer
Off centre
Orbit Two
The World and Thorinn
Mind Switch
Beyond the Barrier
A pocketful of stars
Turning On
World Without Children and the Earth Quarter
Orbit
Special Delivery by Damon Knight, Science Fiction, Adventure
First Contact
In Deep
The World and Thorin
Westerns of the 40's : classics from the great pulps
NEBULAS AWARD STORIES 1
The Other Foot
Orbit 9
Far Out
Off Centre
Beyond tomorrow
DARK SIDE, THE.
Cities of wonder
Nine new SF stories especially written for Orbit 4 (A Berkley medallion book)
Hell's Pavement
Orbit: No. 4
Humpty Dumpty
Orbit 2
Futurians
Man in the Tree
Los mundos
Orbit Thirteen
Orbit 11
The dark side
Three Novels
5 Unearthly Visions
Voorbij De Barriere
Why Do Birds
Double Meaning
Cv
A century of science fiction
Beyond the Barrier
The Man In The Tree
Toward Infinity
Turning Points
In Deep
Orbit 6
The world and Thorinn
In Search of Wonder
Perchance to Dream
The Other Foot
Isaac Asimov PraĢˆsentiert Sagenwelt Der Fantasy
Special Delivery by Damon Knight, Science Fiction, Adventure
The Metal Smile
Special Delivery
The World and Thorinn
for Anything
Natural State
A century of science fiction;
Damon Knight's collection
Special Delivery
In Search of Wonder
Tout et n'importe quoi
Analogue Men
Damon Knight's Collection 4. Neue Science Fiction Stories
Observers
Tomorrow X 4. A Stellar Quartet of Short Science Fiction Novels
The Mote in Time's Eye
Rule Golden
Mind switch
De 10 Sterkste Korte Verhalen Van Damon Knight
Orbit
Thirteen French science-fiction stories
Nebula Award Stories 1965
Die Analog-Maschine
Worshippers
The man in the tree
The Dark Side
Elsewhere X 3
The Metal Smile
Better Than One
Pocketful of Stars
Charles Fort
DARK SIDE, THE.
The Worshippers by Damon Knight, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
First Contact
Worshippers
Turning on
First Flight
The Best of Damon Knight
CITIES OF WONDER
Special Delivery
A Century of Science Fiction
Three novels
Reasonable World
Passée la barrière du temps
The goldenroad
Computer streiten nicht
Panne in der Hölle
Ne vivez pas dans le passé
Les Univers
LE PAVÉ DE L'ENFER
Monad
Humpty Dumpty
Lafferty in Orbit
Towards infinity
A pocketful of stars
Yet more Penguin science fiction
Orbit 13
Nebula Award Stories 1965
Far out
Three novels
Worlds to come
Natural State And Other Stories
The dark side
Zweibeiner sehen dich an
Lester del Rey
Lester del Rey (1915-1993)

editor, literary critic, journalist

  • George Washington University

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The End of the World -- stories of the apocalypse
Machines That Think
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume Two A
Science Fiction of the forties
Microcosmic Tales
One Hundred
Yesterday's Tomorrows
Where do we go from here?
The Golden Years of Science Fiction
Assignment in Tomorrow
Police Your Planet
Rocket Jockey
Invasions
Robots
Those Amazing Electronic Thinking Machines!
The Seventh Galaxy Reader
The Science Fiction Roll of Honor
Isaac Asimov presents the great science fiction stories -- Volume 1, 1939
The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Third Series
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year -- fifth annual collection
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction Firsts
The Great Science Fiction Stories. Volume 7, 1945
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year -- Fifth Annual Collection
The Runaway Robot
Best science fiction stories of the year
The golden years of science fiction -- fourth series
Nerves
Mission to the Moon
The Sky Is Falling
Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction [9 stories]
Early Del Rey
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 3 (1941)
The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Second Series
Rockets Through Space
The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction
Star Short Novels (Little Men / For I Am a Jealous People! / To Here and the Easel)
The best of Lester del Rey
Badge of Infamy
The world of science fiction, 1926-1976
Attack from Atlantis
Jupiter
Pstalemate
Best science fiction stories of the year -- fourth annual collection
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 2 (1940)
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 6 (1944)
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 4 (1942)
Tunnel Through Time
Robots and changelings
Moon of Mutiny
Best Science Fiction of the Year
Weeping May Tarry
Prisoners of space
The Eleventh Commandment
Fantastic science-fiction art, 1926-1954
Outpost of Jupiter
Best science fiction of the year ; fourth annual collection
World of Science Fiction 1926-1976
The Early Del Rey Vol 2
Robots and Magic
The year after tomorrow
Mortals and Monsters
Police Your Planet
Mission to the moon
Moon of mutiny
The Military MEGAPACK ®
The Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories
Fantastic Stories Present the Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #1
Baker's dozen -- 13 short science fiction novels
The Science Fiction Novel Super Pack No. 1: Fifteen hundred pages of fiction
Great Classic Science Fiction Lib/E
Friends, robots, countrymen
Worlds of If Super Pack #2
The Last Man on Earth
Infinity Science Fiction, June 1957
Best science fiction stories of the year -- third annual collection
Preferred Risk
The First Science Fiction Novel MEGAPACK®
Once upon a time
Rocks and what they tell us
Marooned on Mars
Battle on Mercury
Space Science Fiction Super Pack
The 13th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 26 Great SF Stories!
Where Do We Go From Here? Book 1
The Robot MEGAPACK®: 19 Gear-Grinding Robot Stories!
Space Science Fiction, May 1952
Tales of Time Travel - Book Five
“...and some were human”
Space Flight
Ninth Science Fiction Megapack
Novels (Man Who Lived Forever / No More Stars)
Science Fiction Hall of Fame
The Mysterious Planet
The Other Side of the Clock
Rockets to Nowhere
Novelets of Science Fiction (Belmont SF, L92-567)
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year -- second annual collection
The infinite worlds of maybe
The Best of Galaxy Volume Five
Gods and Golems
Devils and Demons Megapack
Preferred Risk
Eleventh Comandment
Lester del Rey Collection - Includes Dead Ringer, Let 'em Breathe Space, Pursuit, Victory, No Strings Attached, & Police Your Planet
The Life Watch & Creatures of the Abyss
Day of the Giants (Bonus Edition)
Attack from Atlantis
Fantastic science-fiction art 1926-1954
War and Space
Step to the stars
Las Lágrimas Pueden Tardar
Third Time Travel Megapack
The Alien MEGAPACK®: 25 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories
The Fantasy MEGAPACK ®
No Strings Attached
Rocket from infinity
Police Your Planet
Badge of Infamy
Badge of Infamy
Invasion of the Robots
Lester del Rey - Boxed Set
Let'em Breathe Space!
Victory
World of Science Fiction, 1926-1976
World of Science Fiction, 1926-1976
A pirate flag for Monterey
The mysterious sky
Badge of Infamy
Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. Seven: Lester del Rey
Psi
Pursuit
Lester Del Rey Cassette
Let 'Em Breathe Space
Police Your Planet
Rocket from Infinity
The Fifth Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: Lester del Rey
Battle on Mercury (Winston Science Fiction) (Volume 12)
The 13th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: Lester del Rey (Vol. 2) (Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®s)
Tunnel Through Time
Lester del Rey Collection
Outpost of Jupiter
... and It Comes Out Here
Sky Is Falling
13th Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack
Gods and Golems (Science Fiction Stories)
Dead Ringer
Das elfte Gebot ] [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1981] Del Rey, Lester
The mysterious sea
The mysterious earth
Cave of Spears
Ice City of the Gorgon & When the World Tottered
Step to the Stars
The Early Del Rey Vol 1
Pursuit
Best SF Stories of the Year 2
Mirage for Planet X & Police Your Planet
Die besten Stories / von Lester DelRey.
Let 'em Breathe Space!
Space flight
The Lester del Rey Scifi Collection
Police Your Planet
Victory
Tunnel Through Time
Runaway Robot
Zvezdnaya politsiya
It's your atomic age
World of Sci Fic 1926-76
Once Upon a Time
Jaque mate psíquico
The man without a planet
DJUNA
DJUNA (born 1971)

film critic

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Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness (born 1971)

literary critic, journalist

  • University of Southern California

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Monsters of Men : Chaos Walking
A Monster Calls. Patrick Ness, Siobhan Dowd
Le Chaos En Marche. Tome 1
Los demás seguimos aquí
The Knife of Never Letting Go
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Different for Boys
Crash of Hennington
Mexico and its religion;
New World 02
A Monster Calls
New World 1
The Crane Wife
Crash of Hennington
Umut Bicagi
Die Nacht des Kranichs
Sorgu ve Sır
El cuchillo en la mano
New World (FREE short Story)
Insan Denen Canavar
Patrick Ness - Collection
Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody
El cuchillo en la mano
Rest of Us Just Live Here
Chaos Walking Movie Tie-In Edition
Un Monstruo Viene A Verme
Sorgu ve Yanit
Mais do que Isso
Son Ötesi
New World (FREE Short Story)
Un monstruo viene a verme
Burn
Chaos Walking
Le Chaos En Marche Vol 2, Le Cercle ET LA Fleche (French Edition)
Het mes dat niet wijkt (Chaos trilogie #1)
Darllen Yn Well
More Than This
Quelques minutes après minuit
Sette minuti dopo la mezzanotte
Mundo Em Caos - Serie Mundo em Caos - Vol.1
Monster Calls : Special Collectors' Edition
The Ask and the Answer : Chaos Walking
Canavarin Cagrisi
Monsters of Men
Un monstruo viene a verme
Briesmoņcilvēki [Latvian]
Topics about Which I Know Nothing
Ask and the Answer
Chaos Walking
Monsters of Men
La pregunta y la respuesta
La pregunta y la respuesta
Class
La pregunta y la respuesta
Doctor Who : Tip of the Tongue
Release
Kaos Yürüyüsü Serisi
El cuchillo en la mano / The Knife of Never Letting Go
Patrick Ness - The Chaos Walking Trilogy
Bogof 2009 Picture Book Pack
La Guerre Du Bruit/Le Chaos En Marche 3 (French Edition)
Libre
Release
De hombres a monstruos
Monster Calls, A
Monster Calls
More Than This
Ask and the Answer, The
Nous autres simples mortels
De hombres a monstruos
And the Ocean Was Our Sky
Chaos Walking 2 in 1 Omnibus (Chaos Walking)
Algis Budrys
Algis Budrys (1931-2008)

opinion journalist, editor, publisher, critic, journalist, literary critic, editing staff

  • Columbia University, University of Miami

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Galaxy
One Hundred
Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume Two B
Assignment in Tomorrow
Robots
Mutants (Barney / The Better Choice / Lost Love / Prone)
The Seventh Galaxy Reader
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 23 (1961)
L. Ron Hubbard Presents The Best of Writers of the Future
Rogue moon
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XXI
The furious future
Some Will Not Die
Hard landing
Benchmarks
Blood and burning
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XXII
Who?
Writing to the point
Michaelmas
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol. 20
Non-literary influences on science fiction
The Falling Torch
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume III
The unexpected dimension
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 18 (1956)
Who?
The Iron Thorn / Michaelmas / Hard Landing
Flying Saucers
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 17 (1955)
The Second IF Reader of Science Fiction
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 16 (1954)
Who?
ROGUE MOON (CORONET BOOKS)
L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers Of The Future The Years Thirteen Best Tales From The Writers Of The Future International Writers Program
Entertainment
False night
Burning World
Citadel
Outposts
Between the Dark and the Daylight
Never Meet Again
Unexplained
Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night
Edge of the Sea
Rogue Moon
Falling Torch
Hard Landing
Stoker and the Stars
Star Descending
Algis Budrys Sf Omnibus
Desire No More
Die, Shadow!
Short Fiction
Algis Budrys Super Pack
Who?
Budrys' inferno
The falling torch
Who?
Some will not die
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume VIII
Science Fiction Gems
Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #2
Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956
If, February 1958
All Time Favorite Science Fiction Stories Vol. III Audiobook
Space Mail, Volume II
Masters of Darkness III
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future XVII
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future (L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol 15)
The Death Machine
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XXIII
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume V
The Iron Thorn
Analog Science Fiction, May 1978
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XIX
The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year, 1989
Canciones que cantan los muertos
Man of earth
Worlds to Come
TWELVE GREAT CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION
Five Fantastic Stories
Selmis menulis
Galaxy Science Fiction, March 1954
The Amsirs and the Iron Thorn
Aterrizaje de Emergencia
Who?
Furious Future
Harte Landung (p1t)
Unexpected Dimension
Benchmarks Concluded 1987-1993
MICHAELMAS
THE FALLING TORCH by Algis Budrys 1st printing 1959
Astounding Science Fiction, Vol. 56, No. 3
Writers of the Future
Benchmarks Continued 1975-1982
MICHAELMAS
Who?
Firegod and Three More Stories
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol. VI
Benchmarks
Blood and Burning
Iron Thorn
Address: Centauri & If these be Gods
Writers of the Future Volume 24
Barbarians and Three More Stories
Rag and Bone Men
Underestimation
Barbarians
Man of earth
Some Will Not Die
Burning World, The, & Forever is Too Long
Michaelmas
Some Will Not Die [Unabridged MP3 CD] by Algis Budrys
Zwischen zwei Welten
Benchmarks Revisited 1983-1986
Riya's Foundling
Einige werden überleben
Electric Gene Machine
L. Ron Hubbard presents the best of writers of the future
Cycle repair and maintenance
David Langford
David Langford (born 1953)

physicist, literary critic, editor, science fiction fan

  • University of Oxford

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Carlos Gardini
Carlos Gardini (1948-2017)

journalist, literary critic, translator

  • Facultad de FilosofĆ­a y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires

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Fabulas Invernales
Pf-cuentos De Vendavalia
El libro de las voces
Cuentos De Vendavalia
SinfoniĢa cero
Mi cerebro animal
El libro de la Tierra Negra
Tríptico de Trinidad
Primera liĢnea
VoĢrtice
El libro de la tribu
Juegos malabares
Premio UPC 1996 Novela Corta de La Ciencia Ficcion
Cuentos de vendavalia
Comunicaciones de Marketing Integradas
La ventaja definitiva
Fábulas invernales
Belcebú en llamas
John Clute
John Clute (born 1940)

literary critic

  • New York University

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Appleseed
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Interzone
SCORES: REVIEWS, 1993-2003
Look at the Evidence
Strokes
Science Fiction
Interzone
Tesseracts 8
Interzone
SF, science fiction
Interzone
Interzone
Interzone
The encyclopedia of science fiction
Science fiction
Interzone, the 4th anthology
Pardon this intrusion
The Encyclopedia of fantasy
The book of end times
Canary Fever Reviews
Sternentanz
The disinheriting party
Tesseracts 8