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Melanie Rawn
Melanie Rawn (born 1954)

teacher, academic

  • Scripps College

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The Star Scroll (Dragon Prince)
Dragon Prince #1 (Dragon Prince)
Knights of the morningstar
Stronghold (Dragon Star, Book 1)
The Dragon Token (Dragon Star, Book 2)
The Diviner
Touchstone
Touchstone
Spellbinder
Sun-Runner's Fire (Dragon Prince, Book 3)
The Mageborn traitor
Skybowl
The ruins of Ambrai
The golden key
Elsewhens
Epic
Fire raiser
Thornlost
Drachenprinz 04. Der Schatten des Bruders.
Window Wall (Glass Thorns)
Drachenprinz 06. Der Brand der Wüste.
Drachenprinz 01. Das Gesicht im Feuer.
Drachenprinz 03. Das Band der Sterne.
Ruins of Ambrai (Exiles)
Drachenprinz 02. Die Braut des Lichts.
The Golden Key (Daw Book Collectors)
Drachenprinz 05. Die Flammen des Himmels.
Quantum Leap
Das Bildnis der Unsterblichkeit
Die Farben der Unendlichkeit
Playing to the Gods
The Captal's Tower (Exiles, Vol. 3)
Zeit der Wiederkunft
Fire raiser
Glass Thorns: Touchstone (Book One)
Melanie Rawn Mobile
Glass Thorns - Elsewhens (Book Two)
Dragon Prince / The Star Scroll / Sunrunner's Fire
Jack L. Chalker
Jack L. Chalker (1944-2005)

teacher

  • Towson University, Johns Hopkins University

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Medusa
The Web of the Chozen
And the Devil Will Drag You Under
Demons of the dancing gods
The messiah choice
Isaac Asimov's Masters of Science Fiction
The Identity Matrix
War of the Maelstrom (Changewinds Series, Book 3)
The demons at rainbow bridge
The run to Chaos Keep
The maze in the mirror
The Shadow Dancers (G.O.D. Inc., No. 2)
Ghost of the well of souls
Quest for the Well of Souls
Empires of Flux and Anchor
Vengeance of the dancing gods
Science Fiction Masterpieces
The Cybernetic Walrus
The red tape war
The birth of Flux & Anchor
Echoes of the well of souls
When the changewinds blow
The John W. Campbell Awards
Children of Flux & Anchor
Lilith
Gods of the well of souls
Balshazzar's serpent
Shadow of the well of souls
The Run to Chaos Keep (Quintara Marathon, Book 2)
Spirits of Flux and Anchor (Soul Rider, Bk. 1)
Priam's Lens
Twilight at the Well of Souls
Exiles at the Well of Souls
A War of Shadows
Masks of the Martyrs (Rings of the Master, Book 4)
Downtiming the Night Side
Jungle of Stars
Pirates of the Thunder (Rings of the Master, Book 2)
Cerberus
Masks of the martyrs
Midnight at Well Souls
The shadow dancers
Red Tape War
Soul Rider II-Can
The Labyrinth of Dreams
Soul Rider
The Ninety Trillion Fausts (Quintara Marathon)
The cybernetic walrus
Spirits of Flux and Anchor (Soul Rider Series, Book 1)
Dancers in the dark
Charon: a dragon at the gate
Lilith: A Snake in the Grass
Riders of the winds
Twilight at the Well of Souls
Labyrinth of Dreams (Labyrinth of Dreams G. O. D. Inc.)
The Return of Nathan Brazil
Demons of the dancing gods
Galaxy's Edge Magazine
Downtiming the Nightside
Warriors of the storm
Midnight at the Well of Souls
Songs Of The Dancing Gods
Quest for Well of Souls
Masters of flux & anchor
Empires of Flux and Anchor (Soul Rider Series, No 2)
Pirates of the thunder
WHEN THE CHANGEWINDS BLOW
Extraterrestrials & Eclipses
Hotel Andromeda
The Labyrinth of Dreams (G.O.D. Inc. #1)
The sea is full of stars
Exiles at the Well of Souls
Labyrinth of Dreams (G.O.D. Inc. No. 1)
The demons at rainbow bridge
Soul Rider #01
Soul Rider #02 Empire of Flux
The ninety trillion Fausts
The science-fantasy publishers
Ghost of the Well of Souls
Sea Is Full of Stars
The River of Dancing Gods
Hot-Wired Dodo (The Wonderlands Gambit , No 3)
The Moreau Factor
Lords of the Middle Dark
Songs of the Dancing Gods
Midnight at the Well of Souls
The four lords of the diamond
Dancers in the Afterglow
Melchior's fire
The March Hare network
The hot-wired dodo
Charon
The Changewinds
Quintara 2
Exiles at the Well of Souls
Dance Band on the Titanic
The birth of Flux & Anchor
The devil's voyage
The Return of Nathan Brazil
The March Hare network
Demons at Rainbow Bridge (Quintara Marathon)
Chalker Jack
Melchior's Fire
Masters of Flux & Anchor ( Soul Rider, Book 3 )
The Demons at Rainbow Bridge
Dancers in Afterglow
Return of Nathan Brazil (Book 4 of the Well of Souls)
Demons of the Dancing Gods
Horrors of the Dancing Gods
Balshazzar's Serpent
Quest for the Well of Souls
Dancing Gods
Kaspar's Box (The Three Kings)
The Cybernetic Walrus (The Wonderland Gambit, Book 1)
Kaspar's box
Soul Rider IV-Can
Demons of the Dancing Gods
War of the Maelstrom
The Return of Nathan Brazil
The Demons at Rainbow Bridge (The Quintara Marathon , No 1)
The Return of Nathan Brazil (The Well World)
Tales from Well World, No. 2
Twilight at the Well of Souls
The Quintara Marathon 1
And Devil Will Drag
Exiles Souls
The Ninety Trillion Fausts (Quintara Marathon)
Informal Biography of Scrooge McDuck
Exil Sechseck Welt.
Downtiming Night-Can
Run to Chaos
Children of Flux & Anchor (Soul Rider, Book 5)
Polnoch £ u kolodt Łsa dush
Soul Rider III-Can
Twilight at the Well of Souls (The Well World)
Rückkehr auf die Sechseck- Welt.
Soul Rider I-Can
90 trillion Fausts / Jack L. Chalker
Lilith: A Snake in the Grass
Downtiming the Night Side
Twilight at the Well of Souls
Masks of the martyrs
The Messiah Choice
SOUL BOOK FOUR RIDER
March Hare Network (#2) (The Wonderland Gambit , No 2)
The identity matrix
Medusa
The Run To Chaos Keep (The Quintara Marathon , No 2)
Warriors of the Storm (Rings of the Master, Book 3)
The Rings of the Master: Book 2
The Quintara Marathon 3
The Birth of Flux & Anchor (Soul Rider, Book Four)
Soul Rider I
The Watchers at the Well
War Of Melstrom36fl
Quintara 1
Masters of Flux & Anchor (Soul Rider, No 3)
The Rings of the Master, Book 4
Ppk27 Pirates Thundr F
Maze in the Mirror (G.O.D. Inc No. 3)
Quintara Book #1
Lords of the Middle Dark/Book One of the Rings of the Master
The four lords of the diamond
Sechseck-Welt-Trilogie
Cybernetic Walrus (Wonderland Gambit)
War Of Shadows/a
G.O.D. Inc. 3
When the Changewinds Blow (Changewinds, Bk. 1)
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)

naturalist, astrologer, protestant theologian, mathematician, astronomer, musicologist, physicist, cosmologist, music theorist, philosopher, teacher, inventor

  • University of Tübingen, Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren

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Selections from Kepler's Astronomia nova
Gesammelte Werke
Strena
Epitome astronomiae copernicanae
Opera omnia
Harmonies of the world
The harmony of the world
Dioptrice
Somnium
Selbstzeugnisse
Optics
Le secret du monde
Joannis Kepleri astronomi Opera omnia
Sixcornered Snowflake
Tertius interveniens
Warnung an die Gegner der Astrologie
Weltharmonik
Johannes Kepler in seinen Briefen
Johannes Kepler
Joannis Keppleri De stella nova in pede Serpentarii
Chilias logarithmorum ad totidem numeros rotundos
New astronomy
Ioannis Keppleri Harmonices mvndi libri v
Die astrologie des Johannes Kepler
Understanding Modern Taiwan
Nova stereometria doliorvm vinariorvm, in primis Austriaci, figuræ omnium aptissimæ et usus in eo virgæ cubicæ compendiosissimus & plane singularis
De cometis libelli tres
Tabvlæ Rudolphinæ
Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, quibus astronomiae pars optica traditur
Astronomia nova [aitiologetos (romanized form)], sev, Physica coelestis
Dissertatio cum nuncio sidereo
srodromus dissertationvm cosmographicarvm
Traum vom Mond
Ausszug au der uralten Messekunst Archimedis ..
Astronomiae pars optica traditur
Tabulæ Rudolphinæ, or, The Rudolphine tables
Des kaiserliches Mathematikers Johannes Kepler Unterredung mit dem Sternenboten
Joannis Kepleri Chilias logarithmorum ad totidem numeros rotundos
J. Keplers grundlagen der geometrischen optik
The secret of the universe =
Dioptrice Johannis Kepler
Epitome astronomiae Copernicanæ
Ioannis Keppleri Harmonices mundi
De fvndamentis astrologiæ certioribvs
Epitome astronomiæ copernicanæ vsitatâ formâ quæstionum & responsionum conscripta
Tabulae Rudolphinae
Nova Kepleriana
The Secret of the Universe
Joannis Keppleri Admonitio ad astronomos, rerumque colestium studiosos, de raris mirisq[ue], anni 1631
Les fondements de l'optique moderne
Epitome of Copernican astronomy, books 4 and 5, The organization of the world and the doctrine on the theoria ..
Ephemerides novae
Ad Vitellionem paralipomena
L' Harmonie du monde
Mysterium cosmographicum
Astronomia nova aitiologētos [romanized] seu Physica coelestis
Prodomus dissertationvm cosmographicarvm
L' étrenne
Concerning the More Certain Fundamentals of Astrology
Joannis Keppleri Somnium seu Opus posthumum de astronomia lunari
Harmonies Of The World (On the Shoulders of Giants)
Kurze Darstellung der Copernicanischen Astronomie in sieben Bänden
Tabulae Rudolphinae
Joannis Kepleri Dioptrice, seu, Demonstratio eorum quæ visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt
Epitome astronomiae copernicanae, usitatâ formâ quaestionum & responsionum conscripta, inq; VII. libros digesta ..
Kepler's conversation with Galileo's Sideral messenger
On the more certain fundamentals of astrology, Prague, 1601
Ioannis Kepleris ... Strena
Über die zuverlässigeren Grundlagen der Astrologie
Harmonices mvndi [di Giovanni Keppler]
Discurs von der grossen Conjunction oder Zusammenkunft Saturni unnd Jovis im fewrigen Zeichen dess Lo wenso da geschicht im Monat Julio dess MDCXXIII Jahrs..
Discussione col Nuncio sidereo e Relazione sui quattro satelliti di Giove
Weltharmonik, übersetzt und eingeleitet von Max Caspar
Dissertatio cum nuncio sidereo nuper ad mortales misso a Galilaeo Galilaeo
Epitome astronomiae Copernicanae usitata quaestionum..
Strena seu de niue sexangula..
Harmonices mundi..
Epitome astronomiae Copernicanae usitata forma quaestionum & responsionum conscriptae Libri V. VI. VII. quibus propriè Doctrina Theorica (post principia libro V. praemissa) comprehenditur
Harmonies Of The World
Tabulae Rudolphinae, quibus astronomicae scientiae, temporum longinquitate collapsae restauratio continetur, a Phoenice illo astronomorum Tychone ..
Neue Astronomie
The Six-Cornered Snowflake
Dissertatio cum nuncio siderea nuper ad mortales Misso a Galilae'o Galilaeo..
Somnium, Seu Opus Posthumum de Astronomia Lunari, Divulgatum A M. Ludovico Kepplero, ...
Etrenne Ou la Neige Sexangulaire
Tabulæ Rudolphinæ
Joh. Kepleri, mathem. cæe. & Jacobi Bartschi Tabulæ manuales logarithmicæ ad calculum astronomicum, in specie Tabb. Rudolphinarum compendiose tractandum mire utiles
Ioannes Keppleri Harmonices mundi libri V quorum
Weltharmonik (German Edition)
Epitome astronomiae Copernicanae usitata forma quaestionum & responsionum conscripta, inque Vll libros digesta, quorum tres hi priores sunt De doctrina sphaerica
Tychonis Brahei Dani Hyperaspistes
Concerning the more certain fundamentals of astrology: A new brief dissertation looking towards a cosmotheory together with a physical prognosis for ... of Christ, written to the philosophers, 1602
Keplers Elegie in obitum Tychonis Brahe
De stella nova in pede serpentarii..
Somnium ya da Ay Astronomisi
Ioh. Keppleri Somnium, seu Opus posthumum De astronomia lunari
Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, quibus Astronomiae pars optica traditur; potissimum de artificiosa observatione et aestimatione diametrorum deliquiorumque solis & lunae, cum exemplis insignium eclipsium
Neue Stereometrie der Fässer
Prodromus dissertationum cosmographicarum..
Astronomia nova aitiologetos [romanized]
Prodromus dissertationum cosmographicarum continens mysterium cosmographicum
Astronomia Nova
Astronomia nova aitologetos
Tajemnica kosmosu
Johannes Kepler: life and letters
Epistolae J. Keppleri & M. Berneggeri mutuae
Ioannis Kepleris Strena, seu, De niue sexangula
Tabulae Rudolphinae, quibus astronomicae scientiae..
Ioannis Keppleri Ad epistolam clarissimi viri D. Jacobi Bartschii ... præfixam ephemeridi in annum 1629, responsio
Ioannis Kepleri Dissertatio cum Nvncio sidereo nuper ad mortales misso à Galilæ'o Galilæo ..
Astrnomia nova aitiologestos
Weltharmonik
Dissertatio cum Nvncio sidereo nuper ad mortales misso
Joannis Keppleri Somnium seu Opus posthumun de astronomia lunari
The Almagest by Ptolemy; On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, by Copernicus; Epitome of Copernican Astronomy IV and V; The Harmonies of the World V, by Kepler. Great Books Vol. 16
Epitome astronomiae copernicanae, usitatâ formâ quaestionum & responsionum conscripta, inq; VII. libros digesta ...
Neue Astronomie
Astronomia nova aitiologētos, seu, Physica coelestis
Les fondements de l'optique moderne
DIE ASTROLOGIE DES JOHANNES KEPLER
Tajemnica Kosmosu
Dioptrice
Joh. Keppleri mathematici olim imperatorii Somnium, seu opus posthumum De astronomia lunari
Dioptrice
Tabvlae Rudolphinae
Astronomia nova
Johannes Kepler
Ioh. Keppleri Somnium, seu Opus posthumum De astronomia lunari
Ioannis Kepleri mathematici Caesarei Dissertatio cum Nuncio sidereo
Kepler's Somnium
Astronomia nova aitiologetos [romanized]
Prognosticon, von aller handt bedraulichen Vorbotten künftigen Übelstands in regiments und kirchensachen sonderlich von cometen und erdbidem auff das Jahr 1618 und 1619
Astronomia nova aitiologetos
Kosmische Harmonie
Joannis Keppleri ... De stella nova in pede Serpentarii
[Tabulæ Rudolphinæ
Tabulae Rudolphinae
Harmonies of the world
Kepler-Festschrift. 1971
Joannis Keppleri mathematici Eclogae chronicae ex epistolis doctissimorum aliquot virorum, & suis mutuis
De stella nova in pede Serpendarii
El secreto del universo
Joannis Kepleri... Chilias logarithmorum ad totidem numeros rotundos
Astronomia nova aitiologetos seu physica coelestis, tradita commentariis democibus stellae Martis, ex observationibus G.V. Tychonis Brahe plurium annorum pertinaci studis elaborate Pragae a Joanne Keplero
De cometis libelli tres
Tertivs interveniens
Kepler's conversation with Galileo's Sidereal messenger
Doctrina sphaerica
Joannis Kepleri Astronomi opera omnia
Joannis Keppleri harmonices mundi libri V...
Kepler's Traum vom Mond
Ungedruckte wissenschaftliche Correspondenz zwischen Johann Kepler und Herwart von Hohenburg. 1599
Mysterium cosmographicum
Prodromus Dissertationvm cosmographicarvm
Harmonices mundi libri V
Schriften zur Optik 1604-1611
Ungedruckte wissenschaftliche Correspondenz zwischen Johann Kepler und Herwart von Hohenburg. 1599
Ioannis Kepleri mathematici Caesarei Dissertatio cum Nuncio sidereo nuper ad mortales misso Galilaeo Galilaeo mathematico Patavino
Tychonis Brahei Dani Hyperaspistes
Ioannis Kepleri Sae. Cae. Mtis. mathematici Dioptrice, seu, Demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt
Tabulae Rudolphinae, quibus astronomicae scientiae, temporum longinquitate collapsae restauratio continetur, a Phoenice illo astronomorum Tychone ...
Opera omnia
The Major writings of Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler
Tychonis Brahei dani Hyperaspistes
Sämtliche Gedichte
Dissertatio cum Nvncio sidereo nuper ad mortales misso
Somnium
Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, quibus Astronomiae pars optica traditur
Ausszug auss der uralten messekunst Archimedis ...
Gründlicher Bericht vnd Bedencken, von einem vngewöhnlichen newen Stern, welcher im October dess 1604
Astronomia nova, seu Physica caelestis
Zwei wiederaufgefundene Prognostica von Johann Kepler auf die Jahre 1604 und 1624 / [herausgegeben] von Walther von Dyck
Johannes Kepler, 1571-1971
Ioannis Keppleri ... Ad epistolam clarissimi viri d. Jacobi Bartschii laubani lusati, medicinae candidati, praefixam Ephemeridi in annum 1629, responsio
Ioannis Keppleri Harmonices mundi libri V
Ioannis Kepleri Mathematici Caesarei Dissertatio, cum nuncio sidereo, nuper ad mortales misso a Galilaeo Galilaeo, Mathematico Patauino
Discurs welcher Gestalt allerhand Ulmische Mass-Sachen
Epitome astronomiae Copernicanæ
Astronomia nova ai'tiologe tos; seu physica coelestis, tradita commentariisde motibus stellae Martis, ex observationibus G.V. Tychonis Brahe ...
Prodromus dissertationvm cosmographicarvm
Tabulae Rudolphinae, or, the Rudolphine tables
Ungedruckte wissenschaftliche Correspondenz zwischen Johann Kepler und Herwart von Hohenburg
Discurs von der grossen Conjunction oder Zusammenkunfft Saturni vnnd Jovis im fewrigen Zeichen dess Löwen
(1) Strena, sive, De nive sexangula (1611) ; (2) Sidereus nuncius (1653) ; (3) Dialogus de calendario gregoriano (1726)
Der Traum, oder, Mond Astronomie
George Jewsbury
George Jewsbury (born 1941)

historian, history teacher, translator

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Yoon Ha Lee
Yoon Ha Lee (born 1979)

teacher, mathematician

  • Stanford University, Cornell University

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Edwin Abbott Abbott
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926)

theologian, school teacher, cleric, philologist

  • University of Cambridge

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Flatland
A Shakespearian grammar
Johannine Vocabulary
Johannine Grammar
Philochristus
Philomythus
Francis Bacon
St. Thomas of Canterbury
Onesimus
How to parse
Apologia
The kernel and the husk
Latin prose through English idiom
How to write clearly
Silanus the Christian
Hints on Home Teaching
Bible lessons
The Anglican career of Cardinal Newman
Diatessarica
The fourfold Gospel
Indices to diatessarica
Clue
Through nature to Christ
Bacon And Essex
The spirit on the waters
Cambridge sermons preached before the University
Contrast, or, A prophet and a forger
Hints on home training and teaching
Light on the gospel from an ancient poet
The corrections of Mark adopted by Matthew and Luke
Flatland/Sphereland
The good voices, a child's guide to the Bible
Via Latina
The message of the Son of man
Miscellanea Evangelica
Paradosis Or In The Night In Which He Was Betrayed
Newmanianism: A Preface to the Second Edition of Philomythus ; Containing a ..
From letter to spirit
English lessons for English people
The early life of Cardinal Newman
How to tell the parts of speech
Düzdünya
Bacon's Essays V1
The Authorship of the Fourth Gospel
Promus of Formularies and Elegancies (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594, Hitherto Unpublished)
Speculative Science Fiction Classics (16 Books)
"The Son of man"; or Contributions to the study of the thoughts of Jesus
The common tradition of the synoptic gospels
Fourfold Gospel
Fourfold Gospel; Section II
Miscellanea evangelica (II)
Platlando
Oxford sermons
St. Thomas of Canterbury
Johannine grammar
'Righteousness' in the Gospels
A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Pope
The Fourfold Gospel; Section II
Fourfold Gospel; Section I
The Fourfold Gospel; Section V
Bacon's Essays; Volume 1
Flächenland
Düzlemler Ülkesi
Fourfold Gospel; Section III
Notes on New Testament criticism
Fourfold Gospel; Section IV
Philomythus, an antidote against credulity
The Son of Man, or, Contributions to the study of the thoughts of Jesus
Diatessarica
Justin's Use of the Fourth Gospel
The common tradition of the synoptic Gospels
Parables for children
Hand-book of English grammar ...
Via latina
How to write clearly
English lessons for English people
The fourfold Gospel
Illusion in religion
Miscellanea evangelica
Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford (born 1955)

essayist, teacher

  • Binghamton University

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Alien Contact
Eclipse 2
The beyond
Stories
The Urban Fantasy Anthology
Bad Seeds
The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
Real Unreal
The Shadow Year
The girl in the glass
The fantasy writer's assistant
Impossible journey to the earthly paradise
Memoranda
The physiognomy
The drowned life
Crackpot Palace
The empire of ice cream
A natural history of hell
The portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
Vanitas
Gianni Montanari
Gianni Montanari (1948-2020)

translator, editor, teacher

  • University of Milan

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