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Military Personnel who wrote science fiction
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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?
Robert Mason
Robert Mason (born 1942)

military personnel, airman, veteran

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Muslim Minority-State Relations: Violence, Integration, and Policy (The Modern Muslim World)
Mercury Fate and Transport in the Global Atmosphere
Information services, economics, management, and technology
Study guide to accompany Statistical techniques in business and economics
Still Only One Earth
Basic statistics using Excel for Office XP
The Lean Supply Chain
Chickenhawk
Foreign Policy In Iran And Saudi Arabia Economics And Diplomacy In The Middle East
The Burning
Weapon
Reassessing Order and Disorder in the Middle East
Chickenhawk: Back in the World Again
The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered
Province of Lower-Canada, in appeal
Spanish Anarchists of Northern Australia
100 simplified theorems in geometry
Weapon
Basement Tectonics 7 (Proceedings of the International Conferences on Basement Tectonics)
Migration and Insecurity
Legacies of Violence
Solo
The English and Scottish Protestants happy tryumph over the rebels in Ireland
New Perspectives on Middle East Politics
Transnational Security Cooperation in the Mediterranean
No easy way out
Specification of Robert Mann Lowne
Central Themes in Employment Relations
Basement Tectonics 7
Gulf States and the Horn of Africa
Estadistica Para Administracion y Economia
Muslim Minority-State Relations
The tender leaves
Iguanas
Information Professionals Guide to Openin and Flexible Learning
Creative Communities
Leatherback Turtles
Heaven Is Real
Ecosystem Responses to Mercury Contamination
Poetic Insights of a Clairvoyant
Weapon
Gone to the Dawgs
Guardian Angel
Future Can Be Seen
Giant ore deposits
Foreign Policy in Iran and Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
MEMOIRS - Robert Gordon Mason
Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority
Estimation of Mercury Bioaccumulation Potential from Wastewater Treatment Plants in Receiving Waters - Phase 2
A digital dolly?
Solo
Liberal Consensus Reconsidered
Cultures in Refuge
Estimating Benefits of Regional Solutions for Water and Wastewater Service
Republican Party and American Politics from Hoover to Reagan
Basement Tectonics 8
See the Future
Sensing Angels
Midterms and Mandates
Abraham Accords
Evening with Edgar Allan Poe
Specification of Robert Mason
Central Themes in Employment Relations
Particular Description of the Town of Kelso
Marketing and Logistics Led Organizations
Chickenhawk
Republican Party and American Politics from Hoover to Reagan
David Graham
David Graham (1919-1994)

fighter pilot, flight instructor

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Down to a sunless sea
Down to a sunless sea
Seven years to sunset
Sidewall
Doug Beason
Doug Beason (born 1953)

military officer

  • United States Air Force Academy

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Elizabeth Moon
Elizabeth Moon (born 1945)

military officer

  • Rice University

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Infinite Stars
Alien Contact
Trading in Danger (Vatta's War #1)
Sassinak
The Speed of Dark
Change of command
Command Decision (Vatta's War #4)
Remnant Population
Engaging the Enemy
The Serrano succession
Victory Conditions (Vatta's War #5)
Moon Flights
Marque and reprisal
Generation warriors
Dragonwriter
Surrender None (The Legacy of Gird #1)
Victory Conditions (Vatta's War)
Command Decision (Vatta's War)
Warrior Women
Rules of engagement
Once a Hero
Heris Serrano (Serrano Legacy Omnibus Vol One) (aka The Serrano Legacy)
The Serrano connection
Lunar Activity
Moving Target (Vatta's War)
Hunting Party
The Deed of Paksenarrion (Books 1-3)
Sporting Chance
Change of Command (The Serrano Legacy)
Trading in Danger (Vatta's War)
Kings of the north
Liar's Oath (The Legacy of Gird)
Against the Odds (The Serrano Legacy)
Into the Fire (Vatta's Peace)
Engaging the Enemy (Vatta's War)
Rules of Engagement (The Serrano Legacy)
Victory Conditions
Crown of renewal
Cold Welcome (Vatta's Peace Book 1)
The Serrano Succession
Command Decision
The Serrano Legacy
Once a hero
The Serrano Connection
Elizabeth Moon Mixed
Cold Welcome: Vatta's Peace: Book 1
Cold Welcome (Vatta's Peace)
Rules of Engagement
Once a Hero
Victory Conditions
Rules of Engagement
Change of Command
Cold Welcome
Once a Hero
Deed of Paksenarrion
Command Decision
Planet Pirates
The Planet Pirates
Did You Say Chicks?!
Echoes of betrayal
Sheepfarmer's Daughter (The Deed of Paksenarrion)
Oath of Fealty (Paladin's Legacy #1)
Divided Allegiance (The Deed of Paksenarrion, Book 2)
The Deed of Paksenarrion
The Dragon Quintet
Phases
Liar's Oath (The Legacy of Gird #2)
Against the odds
A Legacy Of Honour
Surrender None (Legacy of Gird)
Command Decision (Vatta's War, Book 4)
Kings of the north
Once a hero
Oath of Gold (The Deed of Paksenarrion)
Hunting Party
The legacy of Gird
Crown Of Renewal
Limits Of Power
Sporting Chance
Oath of gold
Winning Colours
Shattered Shields (BAEN)
Once a Hero (Baen Book)
Heldin wider Willen
Wachablösung
Deed of Paksenarrion Book III
Echoes of Betrayal
Marque and Reprisal
Rules Of Engagement
Oath of Fealty Elizabeth Moon
Limits of power
Swords Against Darkness
Winning Colors
Waffenschwestern
Kings of the North
Against the Odds
Limits of Power (Paladin's Legacy)
Oath of Gold
Restos de Poblacion
Trading in Danger
Serrano Connection
Deeds of Youth
Winning Colours
Oath of Gold
Winning Colors
Moving Target
Oath of Fealty
Hunting Party, Book 1, Part 2
Hunting Party 1
Once a Hero a Bookclub
Crown of Renewal
Surrender none : the legacy of Gird
Karanligin Hizi
Surrender None a Book Club
Surrender None Lib/E
Heris Serrano, Tome 3 (French Edition)
Surrender None
Change of Command
Limits of Power
Serrano Legacy
Heris Serrano
Command Decision
Trading in Danger : Vatta's War
Surrender None
Hunting Party
Cold Welcome
Moon Flights
Against the Odds a Bookclub
Limits of Power
Sporting Chance
Oath of Gold
Liar's Oath
Sporting Chance
Beast of Tuksa (Illustrated Hardcover Edition)
Die Geschwindigkeit des Dunkels
Change of Command a Bookclub
Moving Target : Vatta's War
Sporting Chance, Part 1
Rules of Engagement a Bookclub
Remnant Population
Hunting Party
Hunting Party
Against the Odds
Serrano Legacy - Against the Odds
La velocidad de la oscuridad
Oath of Fealty
Liar?'s Oath a Bookclub
Kings of the North
Oath of Fealty
La vitesse de l'obscurité
Remnant Population
The Legacy of Gird (Paksenarrion Series combo volumes Book 2)
Most Recently Played
Against the Odds A (Aar)
Serrano Legacy - Against All Odds
Hunting Party
Engaging the Enemy
The Speed of Dark
Serrano Succession
Deeds of Honor
Crown of Renewal
Legacy of Honour
Against the Odds
Cold welcome
Philip George Chadwick
Philip George Chadwick (1893-1955)

military personnel, clerk

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Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin (born 1930)

air force officer, fighter pilot, astronaut, autobiographer, engineer, businessperson

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States Military Academy

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The return
Encounter with Tiber
Return
Welcome to Mars
Magnificent Desolation
No dream is too high
First on the moon
Reaching for the Moon
Mission to Mars
Men from earth
Guinness World Records 2017
Look to the stars
Return to earth
Reaching for the Moon
Buzz Aldrin Reaching for the Moon
Return to earth
Return to Earth
Paper astronaut
Men From Earth
Return to Earth
Space Atlas
The Everyday Space Traveler Discover 9 Lifeaffirming Insights Into The Wonders Of Inner And Outer Space
To the Moon and Back
Men from Earth-19.95
The Wright Stuff
Men from Earth
Investing in Our Future
Galileo for Kids
Space 2.0 Lib/E
Guinness Dünya Rekorlar Kitabi 2017
Die Rückkehr.
NASA
Space Encyclopedia
Space 2. 0
Beyond Flagpoles and Footprints
Return to Earth
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