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| x Frank Herbert |
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Dune universe |
Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. Though also a short story author, he is best known for his novels, most notably Dune and its...
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| x J. Michael Straczynski |
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Babylon 5 |
Joseph Michael Straczynski (IPA: /strəˈzɪn.ski/, born July 17, 1954), known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or JMS, is an American writer and television producer. He works in films, television series,...
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| x Larry Niven |
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Known Space |
Laurence van Cott Niven ( /ˈnɪvən/; born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big...
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| x Gene Roddenberry |
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Star Trek |
Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist, best known for creating the American science fiction series Star Trek. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up...
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| x Leiji Matsumoto |
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Leijiverse |
Leiji Matsumoto (松本 零士, Matsumoto Reiji, born Akira Matsumoto January 25, 1938 in Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan) is a well-known creator of several anime and manga series. His wife Miyako Maki (牧 美也子, Maki Miyako) is also known as a manga artist.
Matsumoto...
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| x Alastair Reynolds |
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Revelation Space universe |
Alastair Preston Reynolds (born 1966) is a British 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...
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| x George R. R. Martin |
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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 A Song of Ice and Fire, his bestselling series of epic...
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| x Kouta Hirano |
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Hellsing |
Kouta Hirano (平野 耕太, Hirano Kōta, born July 14, 1973) is a Japanese manga artist born in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan, most famous for his manga Hellsing.
Starting his career first as a manga artist's assistant (self-described as "horrible" and "lazy" in...
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| x Isaac Asimov |
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The Foundation Universe |
Isaac Asimov (/ˈaɪzək ˈæzɨməv/ EYE-zək AZ-i-məv; born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov, Russian: Исаак Юдович Озимов; Yiddish: אייזיק יודאָוויטש אסימאוו; c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston...
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| x John Scalzi |
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The Old Man's War-verse |
John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969) is an American author and online writer, and president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is best known for his Hugo Award-nominated science fiction novel Old Man's War, released by...
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| x Arthur C. Clarke |
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The Space Odyssey |
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS, Sri Lankabhimanya, (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and as a host...
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| x Robert Asprin |
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Thieves' World fictional shared universe |
Robert Lynn Asprin (June 28, 1946 – May 22, 2008) was an American science fiction and fantasy author and active fan, best known for his humorous MythAdventures and Phule's Company series.
Robert Asprin was born in St. Johns, Michigan, and attended...
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| x Lynn Abbey | Thieves' World fictional shared universe |
Lynn Abbey (born September 18, 1948; birth name Marilyn Lorraine Abbey) is an American computer programmer and author.
Born in Peekskill, New York, Abbey was daughter of Ronald Lionel (an insurance manager) and Doris Lorraine (a homemaker; maiden...
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| x Piers Anthony | 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 novel series set in the...
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| x Lee David Zlotoff | 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...
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| x George Lucas |
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Star Wars |
George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American film producer, screenwriter, director, and entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Lucasfilm. He is best known as the creator of the space opera franchise Star Wars...
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| x Ian Fleming |
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James Bond |
Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was an English author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer. Fleming is best known for creating the fictional spy James Bond and the series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the...
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| x Chris Carter |
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The X-Files Universe |
Christopher Carl Carter (born October 13, 1956) is an American screenwriter, film director and producer. He is the creator of The X-Files and Millennium.
Upon the creation and production of The X-Files in 1993, Chris Carter started a production...
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| x William Gibson |
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The Sprawl |
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982) and later...
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| x Dan Simmons |
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Hyperion |
Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) 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...
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| x Bill Watterson |
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Calvin and Hobbes |
William "Bill" Boyd Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is an American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. Watterson stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes at the end of 1995 with a short...
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| x Javier Grillo-Marxuach |
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Middleverse |
Javier "Javi" Grillo-Marxuach ( listen (help·info)), born October 28, 1969 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a television screenwriter and producer, known for his work as writer and producer on the first two seasons of the ABC television series Lost, as...
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| x Joss Whedon |
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Buffyverse |
Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon ( /ˈwiːdən/; born June 23, 1964) is an American screenwriter, executive producer, director, comic book writer, occasional composer and actor, founder of Mutant Enemy Productions and co-creator of Bellwether Pictures. He is...
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| x Paul Abbott |
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Shameless |
Paul Abbott (born 22 February 1960) is a BAFTA award-winning English television screenwriter and producer. Abbott has become one of the most critically and commercially successful television writers working in Britain today, following his work on...
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| x Octavia E. Butler |
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Xenogenesis |
Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She has won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first...
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| x Christina Jennings | ReGenesis |
Christina Jennings is a chairman and Co-CEO of Shaftesbury Films. She has won both a Genie and a Gemini Award, among other nominations.
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| x Enid Blyton |
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Famous Five universe |
Enid Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was a British children's writer also known as Mary Pollock.
She is noted for numerous series of books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups. Her books have enjoyed huge...
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| x Roald Dahl |
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Chocolate Factory Universe |
Roald Dahl ( /ˈroʊ.ɑːl ˈdɑːl/, Norwegian: [ˈɾuːɑl dɑl]; 13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter.
Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he served in the British Royal Air...
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| x Dave Gibbons |
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Watchmen |
Dave Gibbons (born 14 April 1949) is an English comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has...
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| x Alan Moore |
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Watchmen |
Alan Oswald Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell....
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| x John Ryan | Captain Pugwash |
John Gerald Christopher Ryan (4 March 1921 – 22 July 2009) was a British animator and cartoonist, best known for his character Captain Pugwash. His brother was Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher Columba Ryan.
Ryan was born in Edinburgh. He...
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| x Stephenie Meyer |
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Twilight |
Stephenie Meyer (née Morgan; /ˈmaɪ.ər/ MY-ər; born December 24, 1973) is an American children's author and producer, best known for her vampire romance series Twilight. The Twilight novels have gained worldwide recognition and sold over 100 million...
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| x J. K. Rowling |
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Harry Potter universe |
Joanne "Jo" Rowling, ( /ˈroʊlɪŋ/) OBE, FRSL (born 31 July 1965), better known as J. K. Rowling, is a British novelist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple...
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| x Aaron Sorkin |
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The West Wing Universe |
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an Academy and Emmy award winning American screenwriter, producer, and playwright, whose works include A Few Good Men, The American President, The West Wing, Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,...
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| x Eric Kripke |
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Supernatural |
Eric Kripke (born April 24, 1974 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American television writer, director, and producer. He is best known for creating the television series Supernatural. He recently created the long awaited science fiction television series...
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| x Killinggänget | Glenn Killing universe |
Killinggänget (literally "The Kid-Goat Gang") is a Swedish comedy group, started in 1991. It is named after Glenn Killing, a character played by Henrik Schyffert who has appeared in many of their shows.
The group is notable for their evolution from...
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| x Iain Banks |
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The Culture |
Iain Banks (born on 16 February 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife) is a Scottish writer. He writes mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies. In 2008, The...
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| x Gordon R. Dickson |
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Dorsai |
Gordon Rupert Dickson (November 1, 1923 – January 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author.
Dickson was born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1923. After the death of his father, he moved with his mother to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1937. He served...
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| x H. P. Lovecraft | Cthulhu Mythos |
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) — known as H. P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction.
Lovecraft's guiding aesthetic and philosophical...
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| x Andrzej Sapkowski |
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The Witcher universe |
Andrzej Sapkowski, born 21 June 1948 in Łódź, is a Polish fantasy writer. He is best known for his best-selling book series The Witcher.
Sapkowski studied economics, and before turning to writing, he had worked as a senior sales representative for a...
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| x Greeks |
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The Greeks (Greek: Έλληνες) have been called by several names, both by themselves and by other people. The most common native ethnonym is Hellenes (Έλληνες); the name Greeks (Graeci) was used by the Romans and gradually in all European languages....
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| x Tobin Wolf | ThunderCats |
Theodore Walter "Tobin" Wolf, also called "Ted" Wolf (July 21, 1922 - June 21, 1999), was an American writer who was responsible for creating the animated television series ThunderCats. He was also an inventor with several patents to his name. Wolf...
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| x Roger Sweet | Masters of the Universe |
Roger Sweet is an American designer. He grew up in Akron, Ohio and graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and the Institute of Design in Chicago, Illinois. He served as a lead designer at Mattel throughout much of the 1970s and 1980s and...
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| x J. R. R. Tolkien |
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Middle-earth |
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE ( /ˈtɒlkiːn/, US /ˈtoʊlkiːn/; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of...
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| x Aztec |
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Aztec mythology |
The Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica from the 14th to 16th centuries. "Aztec" (Nahuatl pronunciation: [astekaʔ]) is the...
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| x Susan Cooper | The Dark is Rising |
Susan Mary Cooper (23 May 1935 – ) is an English-born American author of children's books. She is best known for The Dark Is Rising, a five-volume contemporary fantasy series set in England and Wales, which incorporates British mythology, such as...
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| x Arkady Strugatsky |
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Noon Universe |
The brothers Arkady (Russian: Арка́дий; August 28, 1925 – October 12, 1991) and Boris (Russian: Бори́с; born April 14, 1933) Strugatsky (Russian: Струга́цкий; alternate spellings: Strugatskiy, Strugatski, Strugatskii) are Soviet-Russian science...
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| x Boris Strugatsky | Noon Universe |
Boris Strugatsky is an author.
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| x Cordwainer Smith | Instrumentality |
Cordwainer Smith – pronounced CORDwainer – was the pseudonym used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (July 11, 1913–August 6, 1966) for his science fiction works. Linebarger was a noted East Asia scholar and expert in psychological...
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| x Elizabeth Moon |
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Vatta's War |
Elizabeth Moon (born March 7, 1945) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Her novel The Speed of Dark won the 2003 Nebula Award.
Moon was born Susan Elizabeth Norris and grew up in McAllen, Texas. She started writing when she was a...
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| x Neal Stephenson |
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Quicksilver Universe |
Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction.
Difficult to categorize, his novels have been variously referred to as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and postcyberpunk....
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| Foreworld | |||
| x Jules Verne |
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Nemo Universe |
Jules Gabriel Verne (French pronunciation: [ʒyl vɛʁn]; February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Journey to the...
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| x Harry Harrison |
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Stainless Steel Universe |
Harry Harrison (born March 12, 1925) is an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the basis for the film Soylent Green (1973). He is also (with Brian Aldiss)...
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| x Robert Silverberg |
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Majipoor universe |
Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula awards. He is a 1999 inductee into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
Silverberg was born in...
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| x C. S. Lewis | Malacandra universe |
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian...
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| x Orson Scott Card |
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Enderverse |
Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its...
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| x Michael Moorcock |
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Eternal Champion Multiverse |
Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939, in London) is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published a number of literary novels.
Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple...
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| x Laurell K. Hamilton |
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Anitaverse |
Laurell Kaye Hamilton (born February 19, 1963) is an American fantasy and romance writer. She is best known as the author of two series of stories.
Her New York Times-bestselling Anita Blake series centers on Anita Blake, a professional zombie...
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| x Eric Flint |
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1632 multiverse |
Eric Flint (born 1947) is an American author, editor, and e-publisher. The majority of his main works are alternate history science fiction, but he also writes humorous fantasy adventures.
Flint worked on a Ph.D. in history specializing in southern...
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| x Robert Santos |
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