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Charles Sheffield
Charles Sheffield (1935-2002)

mathematician, physicist

  • University of Cambridge

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Microcosmic Tales
The Cyborg from earth
Far futures
My Brother's Keeper
Great Science Fiction
Godspeed
Proteus manifest
The web between the worlds
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
The Billion Dollar Boy (Jupiter)
Higher education
Cold As Ice
The Ganymede Club
Between the strokes of night
Sight of Proteus
Resurgence
Convergence
Transcendence
The Amazing Dr. Darwin
Aftermath
Putting up Roots
Summertide
Proteus in the underworld
Georgia On My Mind And Other Places
Divergence
Starfire
The Mind Pool
Dancing with myself
Convergent Series
Dark as day
Trader's world
The McAndrew Chronicles
How to save the world
Charles Sheffield SF Omnibus
The compleat McAndrew
The Judas cross
Hidden variables
Charles Sheffield Sf Gateway Omnibu
The lady vanishes and other oddities of nature
Borderlands of science
Earth watch
Space access and utilization beyond 2000
Futurs pas possible
The Spheres of Heaven
The New Hugo Winners
The nimrod hunt
The heritage universe
Man on Earth
The selkie
Le démon de Malkirk et autres histoires
Analog Science Fiction, May 1978
Brother to Dragons
Erasmus Magister
Proteus Unbound
Convergence
Proteus Combined
Education and society
Towering Yarns
Space careers
Science Fiction Special 41
Proteo
The Heritage Universe, Summertide, Divergence, Transcendence
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 1989
Les chroniques de McAndrew
Space Suits
One Man's Universe
Vernor Vinge
Vernor Vinge (1944-2024)

mathematician, computer scientist

  • University of California, San Diego, Michigan State University

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A Fire upon the Deep
Machines That Think
The Peace War
Rainbows End
Across Realtime
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought)
Marooned in Realtime
The collected stories of Vernor Vinge
True Names
The Witling
Great Science Fiction
Tatja Grimm's world
The children of the sky
Digital Rapture
Robotics Through Science Fiction
Threats and Other Promises
Der Zeitläufer
The Zones of Thought Series
The Children of the Sky
Tatja Grimm's World
Children of the Sky
Zones of Thought
Grimm's world
The Tor SF Sampler
Eine Tiefe am Himmel
Au tréfonds du ciel
Histórias de Robôs - Volume 2
The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
Zones of Thought
ABISMO EN EL CIELO, UN
Fast Times at Fairmont High
Der Friedenskrieg
Copiii cerului
Cookie monster
Tiempos Nuevos en Fairmont High
Analog 6
Un fuego sobre el abismo (Zones of Thought, #1)
After the Battle on Starship Hill
EL FINAL DEL ARCO IRIS
Naufragio en el tiempo real
Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
Glubina v nebe
De krochten van het heelal
Tutti i racconti
Grimm's World
La Captive du temps perdu
La Guerra de la Paz
Fred Hoyle
Fred Hoyle (1915-2001)

astronomer, physicist, mathematician, astrophysicist, researcher

  • University of Cambridge, Bingley Grammar School

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The Black Cloud
Laughing Space
Into deepest space
Great Science Fiction
Fifth planet
The inferno
Comet Halley
A for Andromeda
Seven Steps to the Sun
A for Andromeda
Element 79
The Expert Dreamers
The molecule men
The incandescent ones
Rockets in Ursa Major
The Westminster disaster
Fifth Planet
Into deepest space
A for Andromeda
Comet Halley
October the First Is Too Late
Three Classic Novels
The planet of death
The energy pirate
The giants of universal park
Ankoku seiun
Astronomy
Highlights in astronomy
Life on Mars?
Astronomical origins of life
Of Men And Galaxies (Great Minds)
Archaeopteryx, the primordial bird
The intelligent universe
The Nature of the Universe
The theory of cosmic grains
From Stonehenge to modern cosmology
The new face of science
Of men and galaxies
The origin of the universe and the origin of religion
Home is Where the Wind Blows
The origin of the universe and the origin of religion
Man and Materialism
The new face of science
Diseases from space
Lifecloud, the origin of life in the universe
Our place in the cosmos
Commonsense in nuclear energy
Ten faces of the universe
Ossian's ride
Home is where the wind blows
On Stonehenge
The physics-astronomy frontier
Man and materialism
A different approach to cosmology
Commonsense in nuclear energy
Astronomy and cosmology
The nature of the universe
Energy or extinction?
Andromeda breakthrough
Fifth planet
Nicolaus Copernicus
The incandescent ones
The Frontiers of Knowledge
Frontiers of astronomy
Man in the universe
Nicolaus Copernicus: an essay on his life and work
Seven Steps to the Sun
Le nuage de la vie
Man in the universe. --
Space travellers
A for Andromeda
Common sense in nuclear energy
Evolution from space
Man in the Universe (Bampton Lectures in America)
Lifecloud
Evolution from Space
Ice
Political Shakespeare
The relation of biology to astronomy
Astronomy today
Evolution from space
The Westminster disaster
The small world of Fred Hoyle
Diseases from Space
Frontiers of astronomy
Steady-State Cosmology Re-Visited
The cosmogony of the solar system
The origin of life
Andromeda Breakthrough
Cosmic life-force
Lectures on cosmology and action at a distance electrodynamics
The cosmagony of the solar system
Andromeda breakthrough
Some recent researches in solar physics
Living comets
Vindication of Cosmic Biology
Some recent researches in solar physics
A contradiction in the argument of Malthus
Origin of Life
Origen y Destino de Las Estrellas
Action at a distance in physics and cosmology
Lifecloud
October the first is too late
Evolution from space (the Omni lecture) and other papers on the origin of life
Ossian's Ride
Intelligent Universe
The physics-astronomy frontier
'Mathematics of Evolution'
Our Place in the Cosmos
Ice, the ultimate human catastrophe
Frontiers of astronomy
Galaxies, nuclei, and quasars
Andromeda Breakthough
The Andromeda Anthology
October the first is too late
Astronomy
Encounter with the future
Ice
Frontiers Of Astronomy
From grains to bacteria
The Incandescent Ones
Lectures on cosmology and action at a distance electrodynamics
Viruses from space and related matters
The quasar controversy resolved
Encounter with the future
A decade of decision
Ice
Andromeda breakthrough
Facts and dogmas in cosmology and elsewhere
Astronomy
A for Andromeda
Facts and Dogmas in Cosmology and Elsewhere
Man and materialism
October the First is Too Late
Evolucion de La Vida Desde El Espacio Exterior
Steady-state cosmology re-visited
Frozen Planet of Azuron
A contradiction in the argument of Malthus: The St. John's College Cambridge lecture 1962-63 delivered at the University of Hull 17 May 1963
The universe
Of Men and Galaxies
The Universe According to Hoyle
Nature of the Universe
Man and materialism
Rockets in Ursa Major
Man in the universe
Proofs that life is Cosmic
Astronomy Today
Les Incandescents
Energi eller undergang?
Living comets
October the First Is Too Late (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
Some recent advances in solar physics
Galaxies, nuclei and quasars
Galaxies, nuclei and quasars
Home Is Where the Wind Blows
The Anglo-Austrian Telescope
The nature of the universe
Fifth Planet (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
The nature of the universe
Living Comets
Frontiers of astronomy
Origin of the Universe and the Origin of Religion
Ossian's ride
Our Place In The Cosmos
Of men and galaxies
Rockets in Ursa Major
The nature of the universe
Some recent researches in solar physics
Galazies, nuclei and quasars
A contradiction in the argument of Malthus
A decade of decision
Andromeda Anthology
La nube negra
A for Andromeda
Viruses from space and related matters
La nube negra
Man in the universe
Different Approach to Cosmology
A contradiction in the argument of Malthus
Michael F. Flynn
Michael F. Flynn (1947-2023)

statistician

  • Marquette University, La Salle University

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Eifelheim
The Nanotech Chronicles
In the country of the blind
Rogue star
Falling Stars
The UNMASKING MARRIED TO A RAPIST
The black sheep's bride
Ceramic figures
Lodestar
Running the dog
Donald Kingsbury
Donald Kingsbury (born 1929)

mathematician

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The Mammoth Book of Fantastic Science Fiction
Far futures
Psychohistorical Crisis
The moon goddess and the son
Baker's dozen -- 13 short science fiction novels
Courtship rite
Courtship rite
Geta
THE MAN KZIN WARS: Book (4) (iv) Four
Geta
Populist Moments and Extractivist States in Venezuela and Ecuador
Die Riten der Minne. Roman.
Courtship Rite
Parade nuptiale
Courtship Rite
Alexander Dewdney
Alexander Dewdney (1941-2024)

mathematician, computer scientist, philosopher, film director

  • University of Waterloo

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Angela Steinmüller
Angela Steinmüller (born 1941)

mathematician

  • Humboldt University of Berlin

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Dionys Burger
Dionys Burger (1892-1987)

mathematician, physicist

  • Utrecht University

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Bolland
Galileo Galilei
De vreemde zeemeermin en andere verhalen
Silvestergespräche eines Sechsecks
Sphereland