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This type holds information about people or organizations (including corporate entities) that have created fictional universes. Specifically, it connects creators to the universe or universes they have created. This type has "person" as an...
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| Frank Herbert |
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Topic | Dune universe |
Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8 1920 – February 11 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. He is best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. The ''Dune'' saga, set in the distant future and taking place over millennia, deals with themes such as human survival and evolution, ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics and power. Dune itself is the "best-selling science fiction novel of all time," and the series is...
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| J. Michael Straczynski |
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Topic | Babylon 5 |
Joseph Michael Straczynski (born July 17, 1954) is an award-winning American writer/producer of television series, novel, short stories, comic book, and radio drama. He is also a playwright, journalist and author of a well-regarded tome on scriptwriting. He was the creator, executive producer and head writer for the science fiction TV series Babylon 5 and its spin-off Crusade. Straczynski wrote 91 out of the 110 Babylon 5 episodes, notably including an unbroken 59-episode run through all of the...
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| Larry Niven |
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Topic | Known Space |
Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938 Los Angeles, California) is a US science fiction author. Perhaps his best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes The Magic Goes Away series, rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource. Niven...
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| Gene Roddenberry |
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Film writer | Star Trek |
Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry, (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American screenwriter and producer. He became best known as the creator of what would become the science fiction universe of Star Trek. He would also become one of the first people to be "buried" in space. Roddenberry was a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. Roddenberry was sometimes referred to as the "Great Bird of the Galaxy...
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| Leiji Matsumoto |
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Topic | Leijiverse |
is a well-known creator of several anime and manga series.
Matsumoto is famous for his space opera such as Space Battleship Yamato. Many such as Toshio Okada and Eiichiro Oda have remarked in interviews that the Romanticism prevalent in his work has inspired them both. His style is characterized by tragic heroes; tall, slender, fragile-looking heroines with strong wills and in some cases, god-like powers; and a love of analog gauges and dials in his spacecraft. These prominent gauges and dials...
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| Alastair Reynolds |
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Topic | Revelation Space universe |
Alastair Preston Reynolds (born in 1966 in Barry, South Wales) is a Welsh science fiction author. He specialises in dark hard science fiction and space opera. He spent his early years in Cornwall, moved back to Wales before going to Newcastle, where he read Physics and Astronomy. Afterwards, he earned a PhD from St Andrews, Scotland. In 1991, he moved to Noordwijk in the Netherlands where he met his wife Josette (who is from France). There, he worked for the European Space Research and...
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| George R. R. Martin |
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Topic | A Song of Ice and Fire |
George Raymond Richard Martin (born September 20, 1948), sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for his A Song of Ice and Fire series.
As a youth, Martin became an avid reader and collector of comic books. Fantastic Four #20 (Nov 1963) features a letter to the editor he wrote while in high school. He credits the attention he received from this letter, as well as his following interest in fanzine, with his...
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| Kouta Hirano |
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Topic | Hellsing |
is a Japan mangaka born in Adachi-ku, Tokyo, Japan, most famous for his manga Hellsing.
Starting his career first as a mangaka's assistant (self-described as "horrible" and "lazy" in said assistant position), and later an H manga artist, he went on to enjoy somewhat limited success with other relatively unknown manga titles such as Angel Dust, Coyote, Gun Mania and Hi-Tension. His first major success came with his manga series Hellsing, which got its start and was subsequently serialized in a...
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| Isaac Asimov |
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Topic | The Foundation Series |
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992), , originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as Айзек Азимов, was a Russia-born American author and professor of biochemistry, a highly successful writer, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books.
Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcard. His works have been published in nine of the ten...
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| John Scalzi |
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Topic | The Old Man's War-verse |
John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969) is an author and online writer, best known for his Hugo Award-nominated science fiction novel Old Man's War, released by Tor Books in January 2005, and for his blog Whatever, at which he has written daily on a number of topics since 1998. He has also written a number of non-fiction books.
Scalzi was born in California and spent his childhood there, primarily in the Los Angeles suburbs of Covina, Glendora and Claremont. Scalzi went to high school with...
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| Arthur C. Clarke |
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Topic | The Space Odyssey series |
Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (16 December 1917–19 March 2008), was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, a collaboration which led also to the film of the same name; and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World.
Clarke served in the Royal Air Force as a radar instructor and technician from 1941-1946, proposed...
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| Robert Asprin | Topic | Thieves World |
Robert Lynn Asprin (June 28, 1946 – May 22, 2008) was an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his humorous MythAdventures series.
Robert Asprin was born in St. Johns, Michigan, and attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan from 1964 through 1965. From 1965 through 1966 he served in the United States Army. He was active in the early years of the Society for Creative Anachronism under the name "Yang the Nauseating" and co-founded the Great Dark Horde in...
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| Lynn Abbey | Topic | Thieves World |
Lynn Abbey (born September 18, 1948) is an American author. Born in Peekskill, New York, she began publishing in 1979 with the novel Daughter of the Bright Moon and the short story "The Face of Chaos," part of a Thieves World shared world anthology. She received early encouragement from Gordon R. Dickson.
In the 1980s she married Robert Asprin and became his co-editor on the Thieves World books. She also contributed to other shared world series during the 1980s, including Heroes in Hell and...
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| Piers Anthony | Topic | Xanth |
Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born August 6, 1934 in Oxford, England) is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his long-running series set in the fictional realm of Xanth.Many of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list. He is one of the most prolific science fiction/fantasy authors of all time. He has claimed that one of his greatest achievements has been to publish a book for...
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| Lee David Zlotoff | Topic | MacGyver |
Lee David Zlotoff is a producer, director and screenwriter best known as the creator of the TV series MacGyver. He started as a screenwriter writing for Hill Street Blues in 1981. He then became a producer of Remington Steele in 1982.
Zlotoff created MacGyver, which ran on ABC between 1985 and 1992 and was sold throughout the world. He then produced The Man from Snowy River TV series (Australia title: "Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River" American title: "Snowy River: The McGregor Saga''...
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| George Lucas |
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Topic | Star Wars |
George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an Academy Award-winning American film director, producer, screenwriter and chairman of Lucasfilm. He is the creator of the epic Star Wars saga and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones. Today, Lucas is one of the American film industry's most financially successful independent directors/producers, with an estimated net worth of $3.6 billion.
Lucas was born in Modesto, California, the son of Dorothy Ellinore (née Bomberger) and...
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| Ian Fleming |
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Topic | James Bond |
Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was a British author, journalist and Second World War Navy Commander. Fleming is best remembered for creating the character of James Bond and chronicling his adventures in twelve novels and nine short stories. Additionally, Fleming wrote the children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and two non-fiction books.
Ian Fleming was born in Mayfair, London, to Valentine Fleming, a Member of Parliament, and his wife Evelyn St. Croix Fleming (née...
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| Chris Carter |
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Topic | The X-Files |
Chris Carter (Christopher Carl Carter) (born October 13, 1956) is an American screenwriter and producer, best known as the creator of The X-Files.
He was born in Bellflower, California to William and Catherine Carter. In college, he majored in journalism, graduating from California State University Long Beach in 1979. His brother, W. Craig Carter, is a Lord Foundation Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT.
Carter began writing for Surfing magazine out of college. For the next...
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| William Gibson |
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Topic | The Sprawl |
William Ford Gibson (born 17 March 1948) is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. In 1982, Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" and popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). Gibson is best known for depicting a visualised, worldwide communications network before it became ubiquitous in the 1990s, and he is credited with anticipating and establishing the conceptual foundations of the Internet and the...
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| Dan Simmons |
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Topic | Hyperion Cantos |
Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois) is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle.
He spans genres such as science fiction, horror and fantasy, sometimes within the same novel: a typical example of Simmons' ability to intermingle genres is Song of Kali (1985), winner of World Fantasy Award. He is also a respected author of mysteries and thrillers.
His most...
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| Bill Watterson | Topic | Calvin and Hobbes |
William B. "Bill" Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is an American cartoonist, and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes and select Target: The Political Cartoon Quarterly Magazine drawings.
Watterson was born in Washington, D.C., where his father, James G. Watterson, worked as a patent examiner while going to George Washington University Law School, before becoming a patent attorney in 1960. The family moved to Chagrin Falls, Ohio, where his mother Kathryn became a city council...
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| Javier Grillo-Marxuach |
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Topic | Middleverse |
Javier "Javi" Grillo-Marxuach , born October 28, 1969 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a television screenwriter and producer, best known for his work as writer and producer on the first two seasons of the ABC television series Lost, though he has also written for a number of other series including Charmed and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. He received a BA in 1991 from Carnegie Mellon and has an MFA from USC.
In 2006, he left the Lost team, and began working as a co-executive producer for...
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| Joss Whedon |
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Topic | Firefly |
Joss Hill Whedon (born Joseph Hill Whedon on June 23, 1964 in New York) is an Academy Award-nominated and Hugo Award winning American writer, director, executive producer, and creator and head writer of the well-known television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly. He has also written several film script and comic book series. After finishing at Winchester College in England, he went on to receive a film degree from Wesleyan University in 1987.
After moving to Los Angeles,...
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| Paul Abbott | Topic | Shameless |
Paul Abbott (born February 22, 1960 in Burnley, Lancashire) is a BAFTA award-winning English television scriptwriter. Abbott became one of the most critically and commercially successful working in Britain today, following his work on many popular series, including Coronation Street, Cracker and Shameless, the latter of which he created. As well as Shameless, he is responsible for the creation of some of the most highly-acclaimed television dramas of the 1990s and 2000s, including Reckless and...
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