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Robert A. Metzger
Robert A. Metzger (born 1956)

engineer

  • University of California, Los Angeles

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Alexander Dewdney
Alexander Dewdney (1941-2024)

mathematician, computer scientist, philosopher, film director

  • University of Waterloo

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Liu Cixin
Liu Cixin (born 1963)

engineer

  • North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power

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三体
Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 3)
Loosed Upon the World
The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
流浪地球
To Hold Up the Sky
球状闪电
地球往事三部曲
Einstein Equator (Chinese Edition)
Sheng cun shi yan
Messengers (Chinese Edition)
Three-Body Problem Series
Yu zhou wang shi
Butterfly
Mercury Sow (Chinese Edition)
Bai e ji wang shi ; Mo gui ji mu
Yu zhou tan suo
Yu zhou guan cha zhe
Hu die
Chao xin xing ji yuan
Tun shi di qiu
Zui zao de yu zhou, zui hao de di qiu
Qiu zhuang shan dian
Shan yang ren lei
The Cretaceous Past
Gu du de jin hua zhe
Xing ji yuan zheng
2018
Chong zi de shi jie
Qiong ding zhi xia
Bao bei bao bei wo ai ni
Ren he tun shi zhe
Tai kong you min
Zhongguo ke huan xiao shuo nian xuan
Ball Lightning
Bian xing zhan zheng
Dark Forest
Di san ci zheng jiu wei lai shi jie
Remembrance of Earth's Past
微纪元
Hold up the Sky
2.5 ci shi jie da zhan
Wei ji yuan
Liu lang di qiu
Artificial Intelligence Revolution
超新星纪元
La Forêt sombre
Jing zi =
Il problema dei tre corpi
Le Problème à trois corps
De hormigas y dinosaurios
Zhongguo tai yang
Shen du zhuang ji
View from the Stars
Dong wu yuan li de jiu shi zhu
Meng zhi hai
Zhan zheng bian zhong
Chao xin xing ji yuan
Chao xin xing ji yuan
Boule de foudre
Koniec smierci
Wai mian de yu zhou
Shan yang shi jie
Cixin Liu's the Butterfly
Three-Body Problem, Vol. 1
Of Ants and Dinosaurs
Circle
Era de la Supernova / Supernova Era
Quan pin dai zu se gan rao
Xing ji yi min
Dai shang ta de yan jing
Bosque Oscuro / the Dark Forest
Sea of Dreams
Vista Desde Las Estrellas / a View from the Stars
La Mort immortelle
Jing ge
Cixin Liu's the Wandering Earth
Cixin Liu's the Village Teacher
Cixin Liu's the Circle
Clarkesworld Issue 111
Weight of Memories
El bosque oscuro
Xiao shi de wei lai
Liu lang di qiu
Estuche Trilogía Los Tres Cuerpos
Supernova Era Sneak Peek
The mystery of the world's youth fantasy novel - when dinosaurs encounter ants
Wo shu jia shang de shen ming
Death's End
Tian shi shi dai
Of Ants and Dinosaurs
Taking Care of God
Yi hun you shu
Jenseits der Zeit
Shi jian yi min
Liu lang di qiu
Het einde van de dood
Wspomnienie o przeszlosci Ziemi 2 Ciemny las
Fin de la Muerte / Death's End
Shi yi fen zhi yi de wen ming
Problema de Los Tres Cuerpos (Edición Ilustrada) / the Three-Body Problem (il Lustrated Edition)
Problema de Los Tres Cuerpos / the Three-Body Problem
Xing ji zheng ba
Cixin Liu's for the Benefit of Mankind
Hei ke heng xing
Supernova Era
Wandering Earth
Estuche Trilogía de Los Tres Cuerpos : el Problema de Los Tres Cuerpos; el Bosque Oscuro; el Fin de la Muerte) / Three-Body Problem Boxed Set
Mo shi hao jie
Xiang Cun Jiao Shi
Shi jian yi min
Cixin Liu's the Devourer
Dai shang ta de yan jing
Cixin Liu's Sea of Dreams
Cixin Liu's Yuanyuan's Bubbles
Village Teacher
Weltenzerstörer
Cixin Liu The Village Teacher
Ölümün Sonu
Yuanyuan's Bubbles
Jesco von Puttkamer
Jesco von Puttkamer (1933-2012)

flight engineer, engineer

  • RWTH Aachen University

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Beteigeuze
Welt ohne Horizont
Der schlafende Gott
Der erste Tag der neuen Welt
Der Mensch im Weltraum
Raumstationen
Jahrtausendprojekt Mars
Apollo 11. Wir sehen die Erde. Der Weg von Apollo 11 zur Internationalen Raumstation
Apollo 8, Aufbruch ins All
Von Apollo zur ISS. Eine Geschichte der Raumfahrt
Deutschlands Arbeitsdienst
Der zweite Tag der neuen Welt: Die Raumfahrt auf dem Weg ins 3. Jahrtausend (German Edition)
Der zweite Tag der neuen Welt
Geoffrey A. Landis
Geoffrey A. Landis (born 1955)

flight engineer, engineer, astronomer

  • Brown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Launch Pad
Geoffrey A Landis: Short Stories, Volume 1
Mars Crossing: An Epic of Survival on the Red Planet
Isaac Asimov's Moons
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Ultimate Zombie
Speaking of the Fantastic III: Interviews with Science Fiction Writers
The New Hugo Winners
Red Sky
A Walk in the Sun
Futurs à gogos
Mythic Delirium: Volume Two: an international anthology of prose and verse
Laser beamed power
Deposition and characterization of ZnS/Si heterojunctions produced by vaccum evaporation
LE SULTAN DES NUAGES
The Year's Top Short SF Novels
Cat Tales 2
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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Sidhartha Ghosh
Sidhartha Ghosh (1948-2002)

scientist, engineer

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