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Joan Slonczewski
Joan Slonczewski (born 1956)

biologist, molecular biologist, microbiologist

  • Yale University, University of Pennsylvania

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A Door into Ocean
The wall around Eden
The children star
The Children Star (Elysium Cycle)
Still Forms on Foxfield
Brain plague
The highest frontier
A Door Into Ocean (Elysium Cycle)
Daughter of Elysium
Brain Plague (Elysium Cycle)
The Helix and the Hard Road
The Highest Frontier
Galaxy's Edge Magazine, Issue 33, July 2018
Analog
Door into Ocean, A
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May 1998
Brain Plague - An Elysium Cycle Novel
Daughter of Elysium - an Elysium Cycle Novel
Children Star - an Elysium Cycle Novel
Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford (born 1941)

physicist, astronomer

  • University of California, San Diego, University of Oklahoma

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100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
The End of the World -- stories of the apocalypse
In the Ocean of Night
Other Worlds Than These
Artifact
The Martian race
Against infinity
COSM
Furious gulf
Heart of the Comet
Beyond Infinity
Foundation's Fear
Again, Dangerous Visions
Great sky river
Isaac Asimov's Wonders of the World
Loosed Upon the World
The Bradbury Chronicles
The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction
Fourth Planet from the Sun
Meeting Infinity
Eater
Far futures
Year's Best SF 9
Alternate Empires
Great Science Fiction
Shipstar: A Science Fiction Novel
Mathenauts
If the stars are gods
Chiller
Free Space
What might have been, volumes 1 & 2
What Might Have Been
Alternate Wars
The stars in shroud
Murasaki
Shiva Descending
Jupiter Project
The sunborn
Find the changeling
In alien flesh
Bowl of Heaven and Shipstar
Timescape
Glorious
Matter's end
Bowl of heaven
Skylife
Across the Sea of Suns
Worlds vast and various
Heroes in hell
Mammoth Dawn
Nebula Awards Showcase 2000
The Mars Girl & As Big as the Ritz
New Dimensions 5
Immersion and other short novels
Sailing Bright Eternity
Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy
Gregory Benford SF Gateway Omnibus
UNDER THE WHEEL (Alien Stars; V. 3)
Swift Thoughts
Science Fiction and the Dismal Science
Rewrite
Of space/time and the river
Nuclear War
Sentinels in Honor of Arthur C Clarke
The Best of Gregory Benford
Iceborn
Gregory Benford Sf Omnibus
Microcosms
Nebula awards showcase 2000
The wonderful future that never was : flying cars, mail delivery by parachute, and other predictions from the past
Beyond Human
Popular mechanics
Beyond Human
The Key
Creations
Galaxy's Edge Magazine
Galaxy's Edge Magazine, Issue 33, July 2018
Galaxy's Edge Magazine. Issue 31, March 2018
Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazin 17. Folge
Deep time
Galaxy's Edge Magazine
Hitler victorious
Dragon Tales
A Darker Geometry
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories (Volume 1)
Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 10, September 2014 (Galaxy's Edge)
Galaxy's Edge
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, VOL. 4 (What Might Have Been, No. 4)
Bart Science Fiction Triplet # 1
Nebula Award Stories 10
New Ball Games for the Future
Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 22, September 2016 (Galaxy's Edge)
The New Hugo Winners
Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 13, March 2015 (Galaxy's Edge)
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories
The Berlin Project
Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 14, May 2015 (Heinlein Special)
Second Creation
The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year, 1989
Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 3 July 2013
Shadows of Eternity
Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 3, July 2013 (Galaxy's Edge)
Galaxy's Edge Magazine
Tides of Light
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN VOLUMES III AND IV
Far Orbit
What Might Have Been, Volumes I & II
Beyond the Fall of Night
Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 2
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN VOLS. 1 AND 2
Seeing Ear Theatre
Against/Beyond Fall of Night a Pbp
Starship Century
The Best of Gregory Benford
Final Now
Science Fiction
Threads of Time
Mammoth Books Presents Anomalies
Devorador
Zeitschaft - SF-Roman
In the Ocean
Anomalies: a Collection of Short Fiction
Clarkesworld Issue 102
What might have been?
Backscatter
What Might Have Been , Volumes 1 & 2, Alternate Empires, Alternate Heroes
What Might Have Been Volumes I & II
Glorious
What might have been
Science Fiction Theater
Popular Mechanics the Wonderful Future That Never Was
Quantum Special: No. 1
Grace Immaculate
Deeper Than the Darkness
Beyond the Fall of Night
Time's rub
En el océano de la noche
The sunborn
En el océano de la noche
El corazón del cometa
Nofzeman
La sphère
Stars in Shroud-Can
Centigrade 233
We could do worse
Robert E. Vardeman
Robert E. Vardeman (born 1947)

physicist, engineer

  • University of New Mexico

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The Klingon Gambit
Mutiny on the Enterprise
The flame key
Echoes of Chaos (The Weapons of Chaos, Bk. 1)
The infinity plague
A plague in paradise
The War of Powers
Vor
The skeleton lord's key
To Demons Bound
Masters of Space 2
Road to the stars
Demon of the Dark Ones
The Quaking Lands (The Jade Demons, Book 1)
Death's Acolyte (Swords of Raemllyn, No 4)
In the Shadow of Omizantrim (War of Powers, No 5)
The Fallen Ones (The War of Powers, Book 4)
For Crown And Kingdom (Swords of Raemllyn, No 6)
Masters of space
The ruins of power
Crystal Clouds (The Jade Demons, No 3)
Ancient Heavens (War of the Powers) Robert E. Vardeman
The Klingon Gambit
The Yoke of Magic (Swords of Raemllyn, No 2)
The Destiny Stone (War of Powers, Book 3)
Mutiny on Enterprise Star Trek
Space Vectors (Biowarriors, No 3)
The glass warrior
Crisis at Starlight (Biowarriors, No 2)
Hell Heart
Mutiny on the Enterprise
Gene Roddenbery's Xander in Lost Universe
Blood Fountain
Key of ice and steel
Demon of the Dark Ones
Cenotaph Road
Sos the rope
DESTINY STONE
To demons bound
Iron Tongue (Cenotaph Road, #4)
A symphony of storms
Blood Fountain
A Yoke of Magic (Swords of Raemllyn, Bk. 2)
Sorcerer's Skull (Cenotaph Road #2)
The Sundered Realm
Deathfall
God of War
World Of Mazes (Cenotaph Road No 3)
The White Fire (Jade Demons, No 4)
The sorcerer's skull
Grimm, Grit, and Gasoline
World Of Mazes (Cenotaph Road, #3)
Cenotaph Road
Alien death fleet
The Resonance of Blood
The Jade Demons Quartet
Alien Web (Masters of Space, No 2)
Phantoms on the Wind (Demon Crown, No 2)
Sorcerer's Skull
Dark Legacy
The Demon Crown Trilogy
Istu Awakened
Death Channels
The Stellar Death Plan (Masters of Space, No 1)
The Screaming Knife
God of War II
The Accursed
Statistical Quality Wave Site
Equations of Chaos (The Weapons of Chaos Book 2)
God of War II
To demons bound
Rocket's Red Glare
Plague in Paradise (Masters of Space, No 3)
Fate of the Kinunir
Dark legacy
BattleTech Legends
The destiny stone
God Of War
Khozyaeva kosmosa
Intergalactic orgy (Beeline late night library)
The Stink of Flesh
Pillar of Night (Cenotaph Road No 6)
Ogre Castle
Sqa with Spc Excel Set
Sandcats of Rhyl
Gateway to Rust and Ruin
Funland Kill Zone
Demons Bound Raemllyn #1
Masters Of Space
The sundered realm
Colors of Chaos (Weapons of Chaos, Book 3)
The keys to paradise
Swords of Raemllyn, Book 2
The Black Nebula
Klingon Gambit
The long walk
Fire and Fog (Cenotaph Road #5)
VOR
Keys To Paradise Book II
Colors of chaos
Symphony of Storms (Demon Crown, No. 3)
The colors of chaos
Equations of chaos
The Infinity Plague (Biowarriors, Book 1)
Klingon Gambit
The beasts of the mists
The weapons of chaos
Swords of Raemllyn
Tales from the Otherverse
Sandcats of Rhyl
To demons bound
For crown and kingdom
In the sea nymph's lair
Death's acolyte
The stellar death plan
Blue Kingdoms: Buxom Buccaneers
Outer space embrace
Weapons of Chaos
A Yoke of magic
The genetic menace
Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Pournelle (1933-2017)

journalist, essayist, political scientist

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Infinite Stars
Footfall
The Legacy of Heorot
The Mote in God's Eye
Janissaries
Lucifer's Hammer
Oath of fealty
Inferno
Starswarm
High Justice
The gripping hand
There Will Be War
West of Honor
King David's spaceship
Man Kzin Wars III
Codominium
Exile-and Glory
Man-Kzin wars II
Prince of mercenaries
Beowulf's children
Go tell the Spartans
Birth of Fire
Fires of freedom
Blood and Iron
SAURON DOMINIUM (WARWORLD 3) (War World, No. 3)
New voices in science fiction
Day of the tyrant
Armageddon!
Storms of Victory
Exiles to Glory
Falkenberg's Legion
Far Frontiers
Tran
Men of War #02
L. Ron Hubbard presents Writers of the future. Volume 34
Invasion (Warworld 4)
The houses of the Kzinti
After Armageddon
Janissaries III
Prince of Sparta
The Endless Frontier
Warrior
Guns of Darkness
A Spaceship for the King (Daw UQ1042)
Lord of Janissaries
Exiles to glory
Call to Battle!
FUTURE HISTORY
There Will Be War, #04
The prince
BLOOD VENGEANCE (War World)
The Crash of empire
Planet of the Apes Omnibus 1
Nebula Award Stories Sixteen
The Children's Hour
The Survival of freedom
Men of War
The Stars at war
Black holes and other marvels
Outies
Republic and Empire (Imperial Stars, Vol 2)
Flucht vom Planet der Affen
Higher Education (Jupiter)
The Science fiction yearbook
The Endless frontier
2020 vision
2020 vision
A step farther out
Another Step Farther Out
The burning city
Burning tower
Escape from hell
The Mercenary
Far Frontiers, Volume 2, Summer 1985
Clan and Crown
Red Dragon
DEATH'S HEAD REBELLION (WARWORLD 2) (War World II)
Far Frontiers
Starborn and Godsons
Der Held von Avalon/Raumstation Abercrombie - Zwei SF-Romane in einem Band
PC Hardware
Pournelle's PC communications bible
Escape from Hell
The users guide to small computers
The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye
Red Heroin
War World II
The Best of Jerry Pournelle
There Will Be War Volume X
ADV MICROLAND (Pournelle Users Guide, No 11)
Adventures in microland
War World I
The Secret of Black Ship Island
Mamelukes
Juramento de fidelidad
Mutual Assured Survival
1001 computer words you need to know
El Tercer Brazo
Imperial Star
Blood Feuds (War World)
Jerry Pournelle's Windows With an Attitude
War World III
Jerry Pournelle's Guide to DOS and Easy Computing
Lucifer's Hammer Part 2 Of 2
USER GD SMALL CMPT (Pournelle Users Guide)
There Will Be War (Tor Science Fiction No 30)
Tanri'nin Gözündeki Zerre
Cities in Space
Fallen angels
Oath Of Fealty
The endless frontier; v.2
Imperial Stars (Stars at War, Vol 1)
The burning eye
That Buck Rogers Stuff
Black Holes
Niven/Pournelle Mixed X10 S/W
Twenty-Twenty Vision
BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES, ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES, CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES & BATTLE FOR PLANET OF THE APES (4 Movie Novelizations)
Wrath of God
THE BURNING CITY
Warrior (There Will Be War Volume 5)
The Endless Frontier, Vol. 1
Black Holes
Football
Warrior
Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway (born 1944)

philosopher, sociologist, historian, biologist

  • Yale University, Colorado College

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Simians, cyborgs, and women
Modest₋Witness@Second₋Millennium.FemaleMan₋Meets₋OncoMouse
The Haraway reader
How like a leaf
Primate visions
Crystals, fabrics, and fields
Monströse Versprechen
Ciencia Cyborgs y Mujeres
When species meet
A Cyborg Manifesto
Concrete Jungle
Saibōgu feminizumu
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky (born 1979)

artificial intelligence researcher, blogger, computer scientist

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Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623-1673)

philosopher, physicist, poet, essayist, lady-in-waiting

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Margaret Cavendish
Political writings / Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of New Castle ; edited by Susan James
The philosophical and physical opinions
Ground of natural philosophy
The philosphical and physical opinions
The blazing world and other writings
The description of a new world, called the blazing world and other writings
Bell in Campo
Margaret Cavendish
The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World
The Norton Anthology of English Literature -- Seventh Edition -- Volume 1B
Paper bodies
The Cavalier in Exile: Being the Lives of the First Dvke & Dvtchess of Newcastle
Observations upon experimental philosophy
The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World
The Description of New Blazing World and Other Writings (N Y U Press Women's Classics)
Assaulted and Pursued Chastity
Sociable letters
Sociable letters, 1664
The convent of pleasure and other plays
Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions (Broadview Literary Texts)
The Blazing World and Other Writings
The sociable companions, or, The female wits
The life of William Cavendish
The life of the (1st) Duke of Newcastle
Grounds of natural philosophy
The lives of William Cavendishe, Duke of Newcastle, and of his wife, Margaret Duchess of Newcastle
Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, Abridged
The life of the Duke of Newcastle
The life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle; to which is added the true relation of my birth, breeding and life
"The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays
The cavalier and his lady
The lives of William Cavendishe, Duke of Newcastle, and of his wife, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle
Sociable Letters
Poems and fancies, 1653
The description of a new world
Philosophical letters
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World (Broadview Editions)
Assaulted And Pursued Chastity
The life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, to which is added the true relation of my birth, breeding and life
The Life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle
The Contract
The life of the (1st) Duke of Newcastle, & other writings
CCXI sociable letters
Orations of divers sorts accommodated to divers places
De vita et rebus gestis nobilissimi illustrissimique principis, Guilielmi ducis Novo-Castrensis, commentarii
Orations of divers sorts, accommodated to divers places
Blazing World Anotated
Blazing World an Illustrated
The life of William Cavendish, duke of Newcastle
The Blazing World
The lives of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, and of his wife, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle
Blazing World Illustrated
Lives of William Cavendishe, Duke of Newcastle
Grounds of natural philosophy : divided into thirteen parts: with an appendix containing five parts
Blazing World an Annotated
Blazing World Annatoted Version
Philosophical letters
The life of the thrice noble, high, and puissant prince William Cavendishe, Duke, Marquess, and Earl of Newcastle ..
Poems, or, several fancies in verse
A true relation of the birth, breeding, and life, of Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle
Blazing World Llustrated
Orations of divers sorts, accommodated to divers places. VVritten by the thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent princess, the Dutchess of Newcastle
Blazing World Be Annotated
Blazing World Annotated
The Blazing World
The cavalier and his lady
The cavalier in exile
The worlds olio
Poems, and fancies
The sociable companions
Playes
Natures pictures drawn by fancies pencil to the life
The presence
Poems and phancies
CCXI sociable letters
Poems, or, Several fancies in verse
A piece of a play
The Life of the thrice noble High and Puissant Prince, William Cavendish, Duke, Marquess, and Earl of Newcastle ...
The life of the Duke of Newcastle and other writings
The description of a new world, called the blazing world
The Life of the Duke of Newcastle
CCXI
The life of William Cavendish
Poems and fancies, 1653
The convent of pleasure
The bridals
Plays never before printed
Poems and fancies
David Langford
David Langford (born 1953)

physicist, literary critic, editor, science fiction fan

  • University of Oxford

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