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Catherine Asaro
Catherine Asaro (born 1955)

physicist, dancer, ballet dancer

  • Harvard University, University of California, Los Angeles

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Infinite Stars
Ascendant Sun
The final key
The Quantum rose
The Last Hawk
Catch the lightning
Irresistible Forces
Schism
The moon's shadow
Nebula awards showcase 2013
The radiant seas
Primary Inversion
Carnelians
The Ruby Dice (Skolian Empire)
Undercity
Alpha (Sunrise Alley)
The Radiant Seas
Spherical harmonic
The Bronze Skies (Major Bhaajan series Book 2)
Schism
The Radiant Seas (Skolian Web)
Radiant Seas Saga of the Skolian Empire
Diamond Star (Skolian Empire)
Carnelians
The Misted Cliffs
The charmed sphere
Best New Paranormal Romance
Alpha
Charmed Destinies
The Phoenix code
Skyfall
The Fire Opal (Lost Continent)
The veiled web
The night bird
The Lost Continent Collection
The Moon's Shadow
Vanished Seas
Skyfall
The Night Bird
The Fire Opal
The veiled web
The Misted Cliffs
The Dawn Star
The charmed sphere
Skyfall
Spherical Harmonic
Diamond star
Sunrise Alley
Primary Inversion Saga of the Skolian Empire
The Dawn Star (Misted Cliffs, Book 3)
Quantam Rose
Spherical Harmonic
Sunrise Alley
Fire Opal
Catch the Lightning
Misted Cliffs
Night Bird
Sunrise alley
Primary Inversion
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 1999 Double Issue
The Final Key
Catch The Lightning
The Phoenix Code
Dawn Star
Aurora in four voices
Das Sternenreich von Skolia. Jäger des Lichts
Aurora in four voices
Das Sternenreich von Skolia 01. Der PSI- Faktor
Herbert W. Franke
Herbert W. Franke (1927-2022)

photographer, information scientist

  • University of Vienna

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Zone Null
Das Gedankennetz
Der Orchideenkäfig
Zarathustra kehrt zurück
Einsteins Erben
Hiobs Stern
Planet der Verlorenen
Der Elfenbeinturm
Keine Spur von Leben…
Science Fiction Story Reader 2
Zentrum der Milchstraße
GEGEN UNENDLICH 14
Die Glasfalle
Sphinx_2
Der grüne Komet
Schule für Übermenschen
Endzeit
Der Atem der Sonne
Die Kälte des Weltraums
Cyber City Süd
Science Fiction Story Reader 4
Science Fiction Story Reader 8
Paradies 3000
Sirius Transit
Spiegel der Gedanken
Jupiter
Science Fiction Story Reader 6
Zweitausendvierundachtzig
Das Gutenberg-Konzil
Kontinuum 1
Kontinuum 3
Der Elfenbeinturm / Die denkenden Wälder
Kontinuum 2
SF international 3
SF International 1
Science Fiction Story Reader 12
Science Fiction Story Reader 10
Das Grosse Herbert W. Franke Lesebuch
Deneb
Antares
Kontinuum 5
Am Ufer winkt Unendlichkeit
Ein Kyborg namens Joe
Kontinuum 4
GEGEN UNENDLICH 12
SF international 2
Die Zukunftsmaschine
Computergraphik, Computerkunst
Phänomen Kunst
Die Atome
Kunst kontra Technik?
Neuland des Wissens
Transpluto
Dea Alba
Die Sprache der Vergangenheit
Tod eines Unsterblichen
Magie der Moleküle
Wildnis unter der Erde
Die Stahlwüste
Animation mit Mathematica
Astropoeticon
Computergrafik-Galerie
Ypsilon minus
Kunststoffe erobern die Welt
Die Welt der Mathematik
… nichts bleibt uns als das Staunen
Die geheime Nachricht
Geheimnisvolle Höhlenwelt
Wohin kein Auge reicht
Phänomen Technik
Triumph der Herzchirurgie
In den Höhlen dieser Erde
Der manipulierte Mensch
Sinnbild der Chemie
Apparative Kunst
Fahrt zum Licht
Die Moleküle, Bausteine unserer Welt
Technik in unserer Welt
Das P-Prinzip
Vorstoss ins Unbegreifliche
Kunst und Konstruktion
Wunderwaffen der Medizin
Flucht zum Mars
Wege zur Computerkunst
Auf der Spur des Engels
Ästhetische Information und Kunst
Digitale Visionen
Der Mensch stammt doch vom Affen ab
Computergraphik ― Computerkunst
Weltwunder der Natur
Vorstoß in die Unterwelt
Robots and human intelligence
Computer Science Art
Der Computer, ein neues Instrument der Raumgestaltung
Robert L. Forward
Robert L. Forward (1932-2002)

physicist, astrophysicist

  • University of Maryland

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Great Science Fiction
Camelot 30K
Timemaster
Saturn rukh
Dragon's egg
Starquake
Marooned on Eden
Saturn Rukh
Indistinguishable From Magic
Return to Rocheworld
The flight of the dragonfly
Martian Rainbow
Rescued from Paradise
Dragon's egg
Mirror Matter
Rocheworld
Return to Rocheworld
Huevo del dragón
Flight of the Dragonfly
The owl
Ocean Under the Ice
Meʻof ha-Shapirit
Das Drachenei
Martian Rainbow
Dragon's Egg/Starquake
Dragon's Egg
La magie du futur
Estrellamoto
Indistinguishable from magic
El Mundo de Roche
Jay Lake
Jay Lake (1964-2014)

programmer, manager

  • University of Texas at Austin

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Mainspring
Metatropolis
Steampunk
Clockwork Fables A Collection Of Steampunk Fairy Tales
The Best of Subterranean
Green
Last plane to Heaven
Dogs in the Moonlight
Clarkesworld: Year Four
Other Earths
Rocket Science
Launch Pad
Template - A Novel of the Archonate (Planet Stories)
Last Plane to Heaven: The Final Collection
The exquisite corpuscle
Escapement
Escapement
Mainspring
Madness of flowers
Polyphony
Polyphony
The Werewolf Megapack: 22 Classic and Modern Tales of Shape-Shifters!
The Fifth Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011
Fantasy For Good
The Mammoth Book Of Angels and Demons
Trial of Flowers
Pinion
Last Drink Bird Head : A Flash Fiction Anthology for Charity
The 13th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 26 Great SF Stories!
Subterranean
Kalimpura
The 10th Science Fiction MEGAPACK
Escapement
Eighth Science Fiction Megapack
Leviathan 4
Endurance
The Sky That Wraps Collected Short Fiction
The Steampunk MEGAPACK®: 26 Modern and Classic Steampunk Stories
Realms 2: The Second Year of Clarkesworld Magazine
Death Of A Starship
Greetings From Lake Wu
Kalimpura
TEL
The Lone star stories reader
American Sorrows
Clarkesworld Issue 100
Footprints
Space Opera Megapack
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2
Endurance
JADE
Steampunk Megapack
The Baby Killers [hc]
Green
The River Knows Its Own
Straying From the Path
H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror
Clarkesworld Issue 129
The Stars Do Not Lie Hugo and Nebula Nominated Novella
The Specific Gravity of Grief
Green
Green Grow the Rushes-Oh
Looking for Truth in a Wild Blue Yonder
Pinion
Werewolf Megapack
Weird Tales #355
Starship Mechanic
Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh
Almost All the Way Home From the Stars: Seven Science Fiction Stories
Green Universe Trilogy
A Water Matter: A Tor.Com Original (Green)
The Specific Gravity of Grief
Grants Pass
That Is Not Dead
The Speed of Time: A Tor.Com Original
Endurance
Two Stories: A Tor.Com Original
Cats Steampunk Alphabet
Almost All the Way Home From the Stars: Science Fiction Short Stories
Polyphony
Edward
Spicy slipstream stories
Jack C. Haldeman II
Jack C. Haldeman II (1941-2002)

biologist

  • Johns Hopkins University, University of Oklahoma

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Comets & Computers
Laughing Space
Tales from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far
Black holes & bug-eyed-monsters
Isaac Asimov's aliens & outworlders
Isaac Asimov's Masters of Science Fiction
There Is No Darkness
Earth invaded (Home team advantage / In the arena/ Pattern / Three times around)
Science Fiction Masterpieces
Tomorrow's TV
Vector Analysis
Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Zombie Vampires
High steel
Star Trek Adventures - Perry's Planet
Isaac Asimov's Choice
Fall of Winter
The Adventures of Science Fiction, Vol. 3
TV 2000
High steel
Vector analysis
Goals for the sixties in health facility construction
Staffing of State and local health departments, 1951
Astronauts & Androids
Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Zombie Vampires
New horizons for hospital research
Dennis E. Taylor
Dennis E. Taylor (born 1999)

programmer

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We Are Legion
For We Are Many
All These Worlds
Heaven’s River
Roadkill
A Change of Plans
The Singularity Trap
Nous sommes Légion
Explorations
Earthside
Nous sommes nombreux
The Bobiverse
Outland
Vladimir Obruchev
Vladimir Obruchev (1863-1956)

geologist, explorer, paleontologist, geographer, scientist

  • Saint Petersburg Mining Institute

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Zemli︠a︡ Sannikova
Istorii︠a︡ geologicheskogo issledovanii︠a︡ Sibiri
Fundamentals of Geology
Sannikov Land
Fundamentals of geology
Plutonia
Plutoniya. Zemlya Sannikova. (My First Collection)
Polevai͡a︡ geologii͡a︡
Plutonia
Moi puteshestviya po Sibiri
Vostochnaia Mongoliia
Grigoriĭ Nikolaevich Potanin
Plutoniya
Po goram i pustyni͡a︡m Sredneĭ Azii
V debri︠a︡kh T︠S︡entralʹnoĭ Azii
Dikie zhivotnye Rossii
Ot Ki︠a︡khty do Kulʹdzhi
Zanimatelʹnai͡a︡ geologii͡a︡
Zemlya Sannikova
Moi puteshestviya po Sibiri
Programma izdanīi͡a︡ trudov I͡A︡kutskoĭ ėkspedit͡s︡īi, snari͡a︡zhennoĭ na sredstva I.M. Sibiri͡a︡kova
Kratkīĭ geologicheskīĭ ocherk karavannago puti ot Kyakhtȳ do Kalgana
Osnory geologii
Plutonii͡a︡
Zolotoiskateli v pustyne
Puteshestviia v proshloe i budushchee
Moi puteshestvii͡a︡ po Sibiri
Izbrannye raboty po geografii Azii
Puteshestvii͡a︡ Potanina
Za taĭnami Plutona
Osnovy geologii
V staroĭ Sibiri
Izbrannye trudy
Proiskhozhdenie gor i materikov
Kukushkin
Plutonii︠a︡ ; Zemli︠a︡ Sannikova
Voprosy geologii Sibiri
Plutanii︠a︡ ; Zemli︠a︡ Sannikova
Sbornik instrukt͡siĭ i programmnykh ukazaniĭ po izuchenii͡u merzlykh gruntov i vechnoĭ merzloty
Ot K͡iakhty do Kulʹdzhi
Über die systematik der erzlagerstätten
Plutonia
Zeml i a Sannikova
Geologie von Sibirien
Shiberia shigen kenkyū
Geologicheskīi︠a︡ izsli︠e︡dovanīi︠a︡ v zolotonosnykh oblasti︠a︡kh Sibiri
Eduard Suess
Akademiku V.A. Obruchevu k pi͡atidesi͡atiletii͡u nauchnoĭ i pedagogicheskoĭ dei͡atelʹnosti
Die metallogenetischen epochen und gebiete von Sibirien
Polevai͡a geologii͡a
Erets Saniḳov
Materialy po geomorfologii i paleontologii
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