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Cordwainer Smith
Cordwainer Smith (1913-1966)

psychologist, military officer, soldier, diplomat

  • Johns Hopkins University

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Science Fiction A to Z
Intergalactic empires
The Rediscovery of Man
Norstrilia
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 22 (1960)
We the Underpeople
The instrumentality of mankind
The Rediscovery of Man
The best of Cordwainer Smith
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 12 (1950)
Space lords
You Will Never Be the Same
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 21 (1959)
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 17 (1955)
Space lords; science fiction
The planet buyer
The best of Cordwainer Smith
The best of Cordwainer Smith
Psychological warfare
Quest of the Three Worlds
Far Eastern governments and politics
When the People Fell
The China of Chiang K'ai-shek
The Planet Buyer
The political doctrines of Sun Yat-sen
The Underpeople
El Juego de La Rata y El Dragon
Quest of Three Worlds
Space Lords (Pyramid SF, R-1183)
Government in republican China
Instrumentality Mankind
Galaxy Magazine, April 1960 (Volume 18, No. 4)
Quest of the 3 Worlds
Galaxy Magazine, October 1963 Leinster/Cordwainer/Wm Tenn (Volume 22, No. 1)
Draft statement of a ten-year China and Indochina policy, 1956-1966
Far Eastern governments and politics
Xin li zuo zhan yao lue
Space lords
Government in republican China
The political doctrines of Sun Yat-sen
Quest of the three worlds
Sun Yat-sen and the Chinese Republic
Es España otra China?
Chinghiz Aitmatov
Chinghiz Aitmatov (1928-2008)

politician, diplomat, journalist, translator

  • Maxim Gorky Literature Institute

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Das Kassandramal
Белый пароход
Ранние журавли
Du meine Pappel im roten Kopftuch
Sedʹmoe izmerenie
Плаха
Dvoret︠s︡ bez t︠s︡ari︠a︡
UT, Nr.1, Dshamilja
UT, Nr.57, Ein Tag länger als ein Leben
Liebesgeschichten. Dshamilja / Du meine Pappel im Roten Kopftuch / Aug in Auge
UT, Nr.25, Der weiße Dampfer
UT, Nr.76, Die Träume der Wölfin
Dshamilja. Großdruck
Der Junge und das Meer. Roman
Liebesgeschichten
UT, Nr.16, Abschied von Gülsary
UT, Nr.90, Goldspur der Garben
Dshamilja
UT, Nr.6, Du meine Pappel im roten Kopftuch
UT, Nr.32, Die Klage des Zugvogels
Dshamilja. Erzählung
Ein Tag länger als ein Leben
Liebesgeschichten. Sonderausgabe
Abschied von Gülsary
Felduntersuchungen und Laborversuche für die geotechnische Bemessung
Der erste Lehrer
Erzählungen
Kindheit in Kirgisien.
Erwin Wickert
Erwin Wickert (1915-2008)

diplomat

  • Humboldt University of Berlin, Dickinson College

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Vom politischen Denken der Chinesen
The middle kingdom
Die glücklichen Augen. Geschichten aus meinem Leben
Das Gipfelgespräch
Mut und Übermut
Der fremde Osten
Der Kaiser und der Grosshistoriker
Der Auftrag des Himmels
Sonate mit dem Paukenschlag
Middle Kingdom Inside China Today
China von innen gesehen
Cäsar und der Phönix
Die Frage des Tigers
Knut Hamsun und die grosse Konferenz von Changʻan
Hiroshima
Der Auftrag, Roman
Das muß ich Ihnen schreiben
Fata Morgana über den Strassen
Zappas oder Die Wiederkehr des Herrn
Der verlassene Tempel
Der Klassenaufsatz Alkestis
Dramatische Tage in Hitlers Reich
Der Purpur
The heavenly mandate
Robinson und seine Gäste
Robinson and seine Gäste
Konfuzius
Von der Wahrheit im historischen Roman und in der Historie
China
Der Klassenaufsatz
China in der Wandlung
Keith Laumer
Keith Laumer (1925-1993)

military officer, diplomat

  • University of Illinois system

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100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
The Mammoth Book of New World Science Fiction
One Hundred
Cosmic Knights
Dinosaur Beach
The Ultimax Man
Time Trap
A plague of demons
Those Amazing Electronic Thinking Machines!
The Seventh Galaxy Reader
Star colony
Young extraterrestrials
The Long Twilight
The great science fiction series
The Great Time Machine Hoax
Diplomat at Arms
Earthblood
Five Fates
A trace of memory
The Glory Game
The Time Bender
The Shape Changer
Retief
Thinking machines
Retief's Ransom
The house in November
Retief and the Warlords
Retief’s War
The world shuffler
Galactic Odyssey
A plague of demons and other stories
Bolos
Greylorn
Earthblood & other stories
The invaders
Star Treasure
The other sky
Retief of the CDT
Retief to the rescue
The Best of Keith Laumer
It’s a mad, mad galaxy
Envoy to New Worlds
Reward for Retief
Once There Giant-Can
Once there was a giant
Night of delusions
The Monitors
The house in November ; The other sky
The infinite cage
Retief to the Rescue
Nine by Laumer
Hoax in Time
Bolo
Zone Yellow
it could be ANYTHING
Worlds of the Imperium
The Galaxy Builder
Catastrophe planet
The Second IF Reader of Science Fiction
Timetracks
Science Fiction Story Reader 4
The Breaking Earth
The best of the Bolos
Galactic Diplomat
The day before forever
Five fates
Knight of Delusions
Retief
Worlds of the Imperium
Future Imperfect
The triumphant
The Return of Retief
Beyond the Imperium
The stars must wait
Chrestomathy
Future imperfect
Keith Laumer Super Pack
Legions of Space
Keith Laumer Super Pack
Night of the Trolls
The Ultimax Man
Worlds of the Imperium
Odyssey
Earthblood & other stories
Walls
Night of the Trolls
Beyond the Imperium
The monitors
Worlds of the Imperium, Retief - Envoy to New Worlds, Bolo
Long Remembered Thunder
Trace of Memory
Greylorn
Retief
It Could Be Anything
King of the City
Retief of the Red-Tape Mountain
Frozen Planet
Cocoon
Planet run
The undefeated
Catastrophe planet
The unconquerable
Rogue Bolo
Fantastic Stories Present the Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #1
The Fifth Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®
Worlds of If Super Pack #3
Favorite Science Fiction Stories
Worlds of If Super Pack #2
Imperium
Bolos
Worlds of If Super Pack #1
Galactic Odyssey
Science Fiction Gems, Volume Five
Science Fiction Gems
Retief Unbound
Bolos
Old Guard
Bolo Brigade
The other side of time
Back to the Time Trap
The big show
The 12th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®
Retief!
Keith Laumer
Assignment in nowhere
The Undefeated
Bolos
Retief at Large
Retief
Alien minds
Deadfall
Retief in the Ruins
Fantastic Stories Presents the Worlds of If Super Pack #2
Judson's Eden
Retief and the pangalactic pageant of pulchritude
Purple Book
The infinite cage
Retief at Large
The Keith Laumer Scifi Collection, Greylorn, It Could Be Anything, Gambler's World, Retief
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, August 1969
Retief and the Rascals
Bolo
Earth Quarter & Envoy to New Worlds
Worlds Imperium-Can
Dinosaur Beach
Science Fiction Special 18
If, November 1961
A Hoax in Time & Inside Earth
Retief and the Pangalactic Pageant of Pulchritude
Retief
The Compleat Bolo
Bolos
Keith Laumer MEGAPACK
The house in November
Keith Laumer's Retief
Gambler's World
The Time Bender
Enemies from Beyond
The Glory Game
Gambler's World
Beyond the Imperium
End As a Hero
Trace of Memory
Worlds of the Imperium
End as a Hero
Der Zwischenbereich
The Day Before Forever and Thunderhead
A God Named Smith & Worlds of the Imperium
Analog 6
Ultimax
Bolo
Retief and the pangalactic pageant of pulchritude
Isaac Asimov Präsentiert Sagenwelt Der Fantasy
Imperium
Assignment in nowhere
Retief and the pangalactic pageant of pulchritude
Retief: Emissary to the Stars
Galaxy Builder 27fl
Cultural Exchange
Het Laatste Bevel
Fat Chance
The Monitors
The long twilight
Retief
Ant with the Human Soul, The & Night of the Trolls
Retief! (A Collection of Stories)
Retief
Earthblood
The house in November; a science fiction novel.
How to Design and Build Flying Models
Worlds of the Imperium
Earthblood
Works of Keith Laumer (4 Works)
Cultural Exchange and Two More Stories
How to design and build flying models
Doorstep
Retief unbound
Alien Minds
Envoy to New Worlds
Retief Unbound
Envoy to New Worlds / Flight from Yesterday
Desert and the Stars and Three More Stories
Land Beyond the Lens & Diplomat-at-Arms
The Great Time Machine Hoax
The Universe Twister
Retief!
Bolo
The Best Of The Bolos Their Finest Hour
WORLDS of the IMPERIUM
Other Sky & House
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1967 (Volume 33, No. 1)
Last stand
Amazing Stories July 1962 Laumer's A Trace of Memory begins (Volume 36, No. 7)
Zeitlabyrinth
Duizend jaar schemering
The other side of time
The World Around Us Tennessee
A plague of demons
Retief's war
Earthblood
End As A Hero 27flcan
The 'IF' reader of science fiction
Bolo Rising
Night of delusions
The World shuffler
Star Colony 24fl
FANTASTIC Stories of Imagination, July 1963 (Vol 12 No 7)
Galactic odyssey
Nine by Laumer
Earthblood
Researching Your Market
Julius Vogel
Julius Vogel (1835-1899)

politician, journalist, diplomat

  • University College School, Royal School of Mines

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Anno domini 2000
Great Britain and her colonies
Anno Domini 2000, or, Woman's destiny
Enrique Gaspar
Enrique Gaspar (1842-1902)

diplomat, translator, dramaturge

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The time ship
La chismosa
El onceno, no estorbar
Atila
Serafina la devota
Los niños grandes
El anacronópete
La escala del matrimonio
El sueño de un soltero
La rebaja del tio Paco
El estómago
La tribu salvaje
La levita
Las personas decentes
La huelga de hijos
La eterna cuestión
El haba de San Ignacio
La nodriza
La lengua
La casa de baños
Serafina la devota
La lengua
Lola
Las sábanas del cura
La gran comedia
Don Ramón y el señor Ramón
!No lo quiero saber!
Las personas decentes
El onceno, no estorbar
La chismosa
!Pobres mujeres!
El piano parlante
Majaderías
El jugador de manos
Lola
Las circunstancias
La huelga de hijos
Las circunstancias
Corregir al que yerra
La escala del matrimonio
La casa de baños
La nodriza
Problema
Pobres mujeres!
Más majaderías
Moneda corriente
La eterna cuestión
Las sábanas del cura
La lengua
Los niños grandes
Candidito
La chismosa
La cola de paja
La levita
!No lo quiero saber!
El estómago
La resurrección de Lázaro
La casa de ban os
Cuestión de forma
La can-canomanía
!Pobres mujeres!
Alfonso Hernández Catá
Alfonso Hernández Catá (1885-1940)

journalist, diplomat

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La voluntad de Dios: Novelas
El ángel de Sodoma
Pelayo Gonzalez, algvnas de sus ideas, algvnos de sus hechos, sv mverte
Martierra
Cuentos olvidados de Alfonso Hernández Cata
Mitología de Martí
Compañeros de viaje
La juventud de Aurelio Zaldi var
Los frutos ácidos y otros cuentos
Martierra
El corazón
La muerte nueva
Los frutos ácidos
Una mala mujer
Cuentos pasionales
El placer de sufrir
El placer de sufrir
Los frutos ácidos
Pelayo González
El corazón
Zoologia Pintoresca
Cuentos pasionales
Libro de amor
Un cementerio en las Antillas
La noche clara
Manicomio
Sus mejores cuentos
Los frutos acidos y otros cuentos
La muerte nueva
Una mala mujer
Fuegos fátuos
La juventud de Aurelio Zaldívar
La voluntad de Dios
Mitología de Martí
Don Cayetano el informal
Piedras preciosas
Cuentos y noveletas
Cuentos
Fuegos fatuos
... Manicomio
Pelayo González
Novela erótica
Cuentos pasionales
El bebedor de lágrimas
La madrastra
Los frutos ácidos
Vladimír Henzl
Vladimír Henzl (1910-1978)

translator, opinion journalist, diplomat, playwright

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