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Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

playwright, comedian, musician

  • Brentwood School, University of Cambridge

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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
So long, and thanks for all the fish
The Salmon of Doubt
Works (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Mostly Harmless / Young Zaphod Plays it Safe)
Hitchhiker's Trilogy (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe, and Everything)
Works (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / The Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Young Zaphod Plays it Safe)
Novels (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Mostly Harmless)
Life, the Universe and Everything
Mostly Harmless
The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Novels (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish)
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
The Time Traveller's Almanac
Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - A Trilogy in Five Parts
Last Chance to See
Novels (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency / Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul)
The deeper meaning of liff
Great humorous stories
Literature
The meaning of Liff
Life, the Universe and Everything (adaptation)
Novels (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe)
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams Double
Doctor Who
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Humorous Stories
The hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - omnibus 2
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Collection 5 Books Set
Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis 2
The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Boxset
The Utterly utterly merry comic relief Christmas book
Autostopem przez Galaktyke
À Boleia pela Galáxia
Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Iras celestiales
Trylogia Autostopem przez Galaktykę
Untitled
The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy
Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis
Guía del autoestopista galáctico
Restauracja na końcu wszechświata / Życie, wszechświat i cała reszta
Guida galattica per gli autostoppisti. Il ciclo completo
Novels (Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Mostly Harmless)
Iras celestiales
Not 1982. Not the 9 O'Clock News
Dirk Gently : The BBC Radio Collection
A Longa e Sombria Hora do Chá da Alma
Don't Panic : The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Complete Radio Series
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Secondary Phase
Illus. Hitch Hiker 12 Copy Pack
Shada
La vita, l'Universo e tutto quanto
The Salmon of Doubt / Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency / The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
I jeszcze jedno
היו שלום ותודה על הדגים
Heyu shalom ṿe-todah ʻal ha-dagim
Cześć i dzięki za ryby / W zasadzie niegroźna
Guida Galattica agli autostoppisti. Ciclo completo
ha-Misʻadah shebe-sof ha-yeḳum
La Città della Morte
ha-Ḥayim, ha-yeḳum ṿe-khol ha-sheʾar
Madrikh ha-ṭrempisṭ la-galaḳsyah
Tom DeLonge
Tom DeLonge (born 1975)

guitarist, singer, musician, composer, actor, record producer

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Jeff Noon
Jeff Noon (born 1957)

musician, painter, playwright

  • University of Manchester

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Vurt
Automated Alice
Vurt
Haunted Futures: Tomorrow is Coming
A Man of Shadows
Vurt
Vurt
Body Library
Pollen
2001
Nymphomation
Cobralingus
Needle in the Groove
Pixel Juice
Nymphomation
Alice im Automatenland
Pixelsalat
Vurt
La Aguja En El Surco
Gelb
Channel Sk1n
Creeping Jenny
Untitled 2
Pollen
Within Without
Falling Out of Cars
Vurt roman
A Man of Shadows (Nyquist Mysteries Book 1)
Nymphomation
Descendre en marche
Slow Motion Ghosts
El Rey Perdido
Gogmagog
Mappalujo
Needle in the groove
The Body Library (Nyquist Mysteries Book 2)
El Rey Perdido
El Rey Perdido
Man of Shadows, A
House with No Doors
Ludluda
Pollen
Needle in the Groove If Music Were a Drug, Where Would It Take You?
Gelb.
Otomatik Alice Gelecekten Masallar
Pollen roman
El Rey Perdido
TV Cialo
Simon Clark
Simon Clark (born 1958)

musician, lyricist

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The Night of the Triffids
Gaslight Arcanum
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures
Darkness Demands
The Tower
In this skin
Death's Dominion
The midnight man
Lucifer's Ark
This Rage of Echoes
Her Vampyrrhic Heart
Blood Crazy
Vampyrrhic
Vampyrrhic Rites
Darkness demands
Darker
The Fall
Nailed by the Heart
Nailed by the heart
King Blood
Midnight Bazaar A Secret Arcade Of Strange And Eerie Tales
Ghost monster
His Vampyrrhic Bride
London Under Midnight
Judas Tree
London under midnight
Whitby Vampyrhhic
Stranger
The tower
Ghost Monster
Hotel Midnight A Collection Of Short Stories
Darkness Demands
Inspector Abberline and the Gods of Rome
The puma's claw
The Bitten Word
Judas tree
Stranger
Whitby Vampyrrhic
Investment in the British fishing industry
Darker
The remuneration system in the fishing industry and its implications
Doctor Who, Novellas
Inspector Abberline and the just king
Vampyrrhic
Dr Who
Blood and Grit
Fourbodings
El Ejercito De Las Sombras (Hades)
Vengeance child
Exorcising Angels
Krovavai︠a︡ kupelʹ
De nacht van de triffids
Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan (1918-2002)

comedian, journalist, stage actor, film actor, poet, actor, musician, television actor, playwright

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Mussolini
Puckoon
Milligan's War
Adolf Hitler
Goblins
The Bible
The Essential Spike Milligan
Depression and How to Survive It
Monty, His Part in My Victory
Silly Verse for Kids
Adolf Hitler: my part in his downfall
The book of the Goons
The Lost Goon Shows
Frankenstein
The Hound of the Baskervilles According to Spike Milligan
The Goon Show scripts
"Rommel?"-"Gunner who?"
Dr. Who
Box 18
Wuthering Heights According to Spike Milligan
The Q Annual
Milligan's ark
Frankenstein According to Spike Milligan (According To...)
The Spike Milligan letters
Goodbye soldier
Badjelly the witch
Bible, the Old Testament According to Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan, a celebration
The Murphy
Where have all the bullets gone?
Unspun socks froma chicken's laundry
Black Beauty
William McGonagall, the truth at last
Milligans Meaning of Life
Startling Verse for All the Family
Spike Milligan
William McGonagall
Classic Adventures According to Spike Milligan
More Goon cartoons
The Looney
A dustbin of Milligan
A Children's Treasury of Milligan
It Ends With Magic
Milligans Meaning of Life
Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan (According To...)
Goodbye Soldier (War Biography)
The Magical World of Milligan
Hidden Words
Scunthorpe revisited, added articles and instant relatives
D.H. Lawrence's John Thomas and Lady Jane according to Spike Milligan
That's Amazing
Classic Adventures
More Spike Milligan letters
Open Heart University
A potboiling dustbin full of bits
The Goon Show Classics
Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan
Treasure Island According to Spike Milligan
Indefinite articles
William McGonagall meets George Gershwin
Peace Work
Condensed animals
Dip the puppy , a fairy story ; with, The terrible monster jelly
The family album
The bald twit lion
A mad medley of Milligan
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Small dreams of a scorpion
More Goon Show scripts
The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems (Poetry)
Sir Nobonk and the terrible, awful, dreadful, naughty, nasty dragon
Rommel? Gunner Who? ; Monty
Two Tales of Wonder
The Goon Show Classics Volume 21 "The Missing Battleship"
A book of bits or a bit of a book
Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan (According To...)
Spike Milligan at the Beeb
The 101 best and only limericks of Spike Milligan
Monty
Badjelly the witch
Dip the puppy
The Lost "Goon" Shows
Spike Milligan'sfurther transports of delight
A Children's Treasury of Milligan
Spike Milligan's transports of delight
The little pot boiler
The Goon Show and More Guests, Vol. 18
There's a lot of it about!
The Compulsive Spike Milligan
Gunner Milligan, 954024
The Milligan book of records
The bedside Milligan
Fleas, Knees and Hidden Elephants
The mirror running
The Goon cartoons
A book of bits
Floored masterpieces with worse verse
Values
Spike's Poems
The mini Milligan collection
Lady Chatterley According to Spike Milligan
Silly verse for kids and animals
The great McGonagall scrap book
Spike Milligan's The melting pot
Black Beauty according to Spike Milligan
Poems
Spike Milligan Cut-Out
Mon rôle dans la chute d'Adolf Hitler
Ifonly I were bald
The hound of the hound of Baskervilles according to Spike Milligan
Get in the Q annual
Puckoon. Eine irische Dorfgeschichte
Chill air
Milligan's ark
The bedsitting room
Selected War Memoirs of Spike Milligan (Penguin Modern Authors)
Wolf Tales: Wolves, Witches & Giants
World of Beachcomber (Comedy Club S.)
There's lot of it about!
M25
A book of bits, or
"Rommel
Milligan's War and Peace Memoirs
Frankenstein according to Spike Milligan
Lady Chatterley's lover according to Spike Milligan
Theb edsitting room
Milligan Preserved
D.H.Lawrence's John Thomas and Lady Jane
A Book of Milliganimals
Rommel? Gunner Who? (Abridged - 2 Audio Cassettes)
For Lucy Gates
Esquimau
The Bible According to Spike Milligan
The Goon Again
He's Innocent of Watergate or Dick's Last Stand
Live at Cambridge University (Comedy Club S.)
Mussolini, his part in my downfall
In a jam
Twelve poems that made December colder
Monty His Part in My Victory and Rommel? Gunner Who?
The war memoirs
Monty (War Biography)
Sunday - midnight
The Goon Show Compendium
The bedside Milligan, or, Read yourself to insomnia
Tombstone Humour
A dustbin of Millgan
The Best of Milligan's Wake (Comedy Club S.)
The Bedside Milligan or Read Your Way to Insomnia
Teeth
My mother
Milligan's Meaning of Life
The dancer
Scunthorpe Revisited
Rommel? Gunner Who?
Help I'm a Prisoner in a Toothpaste Tube
Open Heart University
Giant Tales
The Completely Essential Spike Milligan
Box 18:The Unpublished Spike Milligan
A book of bits or a bit of a book
A Collection of Spikes
Help, I'm a Prisoner in a Toothpaste Factory
Mon rôle dans la chute d'Adolf Hitler
Spike Milligan's Peace
Vivat Milligna
Letters
Poems for Toni Savage
Witch Tales
The Goon Shows
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)

television actor, film actor, film director, poet, musician, voice actor, photographer, actor, film producer, director, acting instructor

  • Antioch University, Antioch College

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Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home
I Am Spock
I am not Spock
Star Trek - Spock Vs Q
Come be with me
Will I think of you?
A lifetime of love
We are all children searching for love
Full Body Project
Warmed by love
You & I
Shekhina
Secret Selves
Vincent
Leonard Nimoy's Primortals Chronicles
These Words Are for You
Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 3, Episodes 6 & 7
Keith R. A. DeCandido
Keith R. A. DeCandido (born 1969)

musician

  • Fordham University

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Star Trek - The Brave and the Bold, Book One
Star Trek
Star Trek Deep Space Nine - Gateways - Demons of Air and Darkness
The Ultimate Alien
Star Trek - Articles of the Federation
Star Trek Myriad Universes - Echoes and Refractions
Star Trek The Next Generation - Q & A
Star Trek IKS Gordon - A Good Day to Die
Worlds of Star Trek Deep Space Nine - Volume Three - Ferenginar and The Dominion
Star Trek Gateways - What Lay Beyond
Star Trek - Mirror Universe - Shards and Shadows
Star Trek The Next Generation - A Time for War, A Time for Peace
Supernatural
Star Trek Corps of Engineers - What's Past
Resident Evil
Star Trek I.K.S. Gordon - Enemy Territory
Star Trek - A Singular Destiny
Star Trek New Frontier - No Limits
Star Trek - Seven Deadly Sins
House of Cards
Star Trek - Tales From the Captain's Table
Star Trek S.C.E. - Miracle Workers
Star Trek Klingon Empire - A Burning House
Star Trek Corps of Engineers - Wounds
Star Trek - Klingon Empire
Star Trek S.C.E. - Have Tech Will Travel
Klingon Art of War
Serenity - The Future is Worth Fighting For
Star Trek Deep Space Nine - Twist of Faith
Star Trek S.C.E. - Cold Fusion
Star Trek S.C.E. - Breakdowns
Farscape Vol. 3 Gone and Back
Tiberium Wars
Star Trek - Tales of the Dominion War
Heroes Reborn
Command & Conquer (tm)
Farscape
Farscape
Star Trek - The Brave and the Bold, Book Two
Farscape Omnibus Vol. 1
StarCraft : Ghost Academy, Volume 2
Mirror Image (Serenity)
Apocalypse 13
Otherwere : stories of transformation
Diplomatic Implausibility
Destruction of Illusions
Strange Detractors
Klingon Art of War
Farscape Vol. 7
The Four ???? of the Apocalypse
StarCraft
Sleepy Hollow
Tangled Roots
Imaginings
D'Argo's Quest
Farscape Uncharted Tales : d'argo's Lament
Wildfire
The Watcher's Guide Volume 3 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
The Xander years
Did You Say Chicks?!
Star Trek I.K.S. Gordon - Honor Bound
Bone Key
Spider-Man, Down These Mean Streets
Dragon Precinct
Star Trek The Next Generation - Diplomatic Implausibility
The Watcher's Guide Volumes 1 and 2 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Blackout
Young Hercules
Star Trek S.C.E. - Wildfire
CSI
Darkness Falls
The Deathless
X-Files: Trust No One (The X-Files (Prose))
Nuits de terreur
Cycle of Hatred
Nova
Cars - Rust Bucket Derby
Star trek, the next generation - enemy unseen
Articles of the Federation
Star Trek S.C.E. - Here There Be Monsters
Heart of the Dragon
Star Trek S.C.E. - War Stories, Book 1
ZLONK! ZOK! ZOWIE! the Subterranean Blue Grotto Guide to Batman '66 - Season One
Star Trek S.C.E. - Security
Under The Crimson Sun
Star Trek The Next Generation - Slings and Arrows - Enterprises of Great Pitch and Moment
Farscape
Star Trek S.C.E. - War Stories, Book 2
Star Trek S.C.E. - Breakdowns
Star Trek S.C.E. - Fatal Error
Star Trek S.C.E. - What's Past - Many Splendors
Leverage
Unearthed
Marvel's Warriors Three : Godhood's End
A Furnace Sealed: The Adventures of Bram Gold Book 1
A Long Time Ago
BIFF! BAM! EEE-YOW! the Subterranean Blue Grotto Guide to Batman '66 - Season Two
Alien
Blackout
The Ultimate Dragon
Gryphon Precinct
Cheiron's Warriors (Young Hercules)
Farscape
Liar Liar
Goblin Precinct
The 18th Race
Resident Evil
StarCraft
Buffy contre les vampires, tome 8
Tales from Dragon Precinct
Animal
Book 7
The Deathless
Baker Street Irregulars
The Ares Alliance (Young Hercules)
Gateways #4
Serenity
Farscape Omnibus Vol. 2
Gorkon Book Three
101 Best Graphic Novels
STARGATE SG-1 Kali's Wrath
Marvel Thor : Dueling with Giants
The Deathless (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Without a License: The Fantastic Worlds of Keith R.A. DeCandido
Supernatural
Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
World of Warcraft
El ciclo del odio. World of Warcraft
Farscape Vol. 6 : Compulsions
Articles of the Federation : Star Trek
Sleepy Hollow
STARCRAFT ACADEMIA DE FANTASMAS Vol. 1
Dragon's Lure
Marvel The Tales of Asgard Trilogy
Brave and the Bold
Red Sky at Morning
Supernaturel Kemik Anahtar
Hidden Universe Travel Guides : Supernatural
CSI : New York
Star Trek
Diplomatic Implausibility : Star Trek the Next Generation
I. K. S. Gorkon : Enemy Territory Bk. 3
CSI NY
Blackout
I. K. S. Gorkon : a Good Day to Die Bk. 1
Phoenix Precinct
Imaginings
Gorkon Book One : a Good Day to Die : Star Trek
Unicorn Precinct
Marvel Sif : Even Dragons Have Their Endings
Brave and the Bold Book Two
Xander Years
Star Trek : Corps of Engineers
Guilt in Innocence
Alien
Marvel the Tales of Asgard Trilogy
Serenity
Blackout
Nevermore
Star Trek : the Next Generation : Klingon Empire
El ciclo del odio. World of Warcraft
Ragnarok and roll
Brave and the Bold Book One
Tales of Capes and Cowls
Furnace Sealed
Tales of the Dominion War
Tales of the Dominion War
Icarus
OOOFF! BOFF! SPLATT! the Subterranean Blue Grotto Essays on Batman '66 - Season Three
Animal
Unicorn Precinct
Lost Era
Star Trek : Myriad Universes #2
Gorkon Book Two : Honor Bound : Star Trek
Goblin Precinct
Resident Evil
Supernatural - Ejder Yurek
Supernatural
Command and Conquer
Dragon Precinct
Star Trek : Deep Space Nine : Worlds of Deep Space Nine #3
Les métamorphoses d'Alex
Without a License
Mermaid Precinct
Farscape Vol. 9
Star Trek : the Next Generation : Time #9
Worlds of Deep Space Nine 3
Spider-Man
Guilt in Innocence: Book III in the Tales of the Scattered Earth
Time for War and a Time for Peace
Apocalypse
Genesis
Even Dragons Have Their Endings
Marvel Warriors Three : Godhood's End
Star Trek : Mirror Universe
Chou hen zhi lun
Nevermore
Desperate, Decaying Darkness
CSI fan zui xian chang: Niuyue
Marvel's Thor
Lucius Shepard
Lucius Shepard (1943-2014)

musician

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The End of the World -- stories of the apocalypse
The golden
The Atrocity Archives
The ends of the earth
Kalimantan
Barnacle Bill the spacer and other stories
The jaguar hunter
Great Tales of Madness and the Macabre
Beast of the Heartland and Other Stories
Life During Wartime (S.F. Masterworks)
Lucius Shepard SF Gateway Omnibus
The Fantasy Hall of Fame [30 stories]
Darkness
The Mammoth Book Of Angels and Demons
Life during wartime
Teeth
A handbook of American prayer
Green Eyes
The 1987 Annual World's Best SF
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010
The New Hugo Winners
The Dragon Griaule
Louisiana breakdown
Eternity and other stories
Valentine
Cinema Futura (edited by Mark Morris)
Orbit - Volume 3
The best of Lucius Shepard
The Taborin Scale A Novella Of The Dragon Griaule
Colonel Rutherford's colt
Aztechs
Floater
Viator Plus [signed tc]
Dagger Key and Other Stories
LE LIVRE ÉCORNÉ DE MA VIE
Viator
Trujillo
Softspoken
LES ATTRACTEURS DE ROSE STREET
The father of stones
Le calice du dragon
Trujillo and Other Stories
Sous des cieux étrangers
Dead Sea Fruit
The scalehunter's beautiful daughter
Endstation Louisiana
Beautiful blood
Sports and Music
Dorada
Ariel
La vie en temps de guerre
With Christmas in Honduras
CHASSEUR DE JAGUAR
Nantucket Slayrides
Petite Musique de nuit
Five Autobiographies and a Fiction
Vacancy
L'AUBE ECARLATE
Zone de feu emeraude / nouvelles
Cantata of death, weakmind & generation
Two Trains Running (eBook)
FIN DE LA VIE
Golden ?
Golden
Night Visions 11
Vacancy & Ariel
Bifrost, N° 40, Octobre 2005 : René Réouven : Crimes, châtiments et autres monstruosités