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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. Although also a short story author, he is best known for his novels, most notably Dune and...
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| x J. Michael Straczynski |
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Babylon 5 |
Joseph Michael Straczynski (born July 17, 1954), known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or JMS, is an award-winning American writer/producer. He works in a variety of media, including films, television...
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| x Larry Niven |
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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,...
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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 screenwriter and producer. He is best known as the creator of Star Trek, an American sci-fi series known for its influence on popular culture.
Roddenberry was...
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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 is also known as a manga artist Miyako Maki (牧 美也子, Maki Miyako).
Matsumoto...
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| x Alastair Reynolds |
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Revelation Space universe |
Alastair Preston Reynolds (born in 1966 in Barry, Wales) 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...
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| x George R. R. Martin |
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A Song of Ice and Fire |
George Raymond Richard Martin (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 ongoing epic A Song of Ice and Fire series.
George R. R....
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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 mangaka born in Adachi, 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...
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| x Isaac Asimov |
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The Foundation Universe |
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992; originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as Айзек Азимов), born in Russia to Jewish parents, was an American author and professor of biochemistry, best known for his works of science...
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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 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...
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| x Arthur C. Clarke |
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The Space Odyssey series |
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. Clarke is the last surviving member of...
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| x Robert Asprin |
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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 and Phule's Company series.
Robert Asprin was born in St. Johns, Michigan, and attended the University of...
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| x Lynn Abbey | Thieves World |
Lynn Abbey (born September 8, 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....
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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 Academy Award-winning American film producer, screenwriter, director and chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the epic Sci-Fi franchise Star Wars and the...
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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 and journalist. Fleming is best remembered for creating the character of James Bond and chronicling Bond's adventures in twelve novels and nine short stories. Additionally,...
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| x Chris Carter |
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The X-Files Universe |
Chris Carter may refer to:
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| x William Gibson |
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The Sprawl |
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later...
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| x Dan Simmons |
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Hyperion |
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...
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| x Bill Watterson |
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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 cartoon series. He also produced several drawings for Target: The Political Cartoon Quarterly.
Watterson was born in...
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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, best known for his work as writer and producer on the first two seasons of the ABC television series Lost...
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| x Joss Whedon |
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Firefly |
Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon (pronounced /hwiːdən/; born June 23, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated and Hugo Award winning American writer, director, executive producer, occasional actor, and creator and head writer of the television programs Buffy...
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| x Paul Abbott | Shameless |
Paul Abbott (born 22 February 1960) is a BAFTA award-winning English television screenwriter. Abbott became one of the most critically and commercially successful television writers working in Britain today, following his work on many popular series...
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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 won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science...
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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, amongst other nominations.
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| x Enid Blyton |
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The Famous Five |
Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was a British children's writer known as both Enid Blyton and Mary Pollock. She was one of the most successful children's storytellers of the twentieth century. Once described as a "one-woman...
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| x Roald Dahl |
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Chocolate Factory Universe |
Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer and screenwriter, born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After serving in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace, he...
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| x Dave Gibbons |
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Watchmen |
Dave Gibbons (born April 14, 1949) is a British 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 Moore (born 18 November 1953 in Northampton) is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed comic book series Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He has also written a novel, Voice of the Fire,...
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| x John Ryan |
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Captain Pugwash |
John Gerald Christopher Ryan (born 4 March 1921, Edinburgh) is a British animator and cartoonist, best known for his character Captain Pugwash.
Ryan expressed his love of writing and drawing early in life, creating his first book, Adventures of...
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| x Stephenie Meyer |
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Twilight (series) |
Stephenie Meyer (née Morgan, born December 24, 1973) is an American author, known for her vampire romance series Twilight. The Twilight novels have sold over 42 million copies worldwide, with translations into 37 different languages around the globe...
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| x J. K. Rowling |
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Harry Potter Universe |
Joanne "Jo" Murray OBE (née Rowling; born 31 July 1965), who writes under the pen name, J. K. Rowling, is a British author, best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was conceived whilst on a train trip from...
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| x Aaron Sorkin |
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The West Wing |
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an American screenwriter, producer and playwright, whose works include A Few Good Men, The American President, The West Wing, Sports Night and The Farnsworth Invention.
After graduating from Syracuse...
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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.
A 1992 graduate of Sylvania Southview High School, Eric often created home...
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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 |
British writer. Wrote "The Wasp factory", which was his first novel. Writes SF as "Iain M. Banks".
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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. He was born in Canada, then moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota as a teenager. He is probably most famous for his Childe Cycle and the Dragon Knight...
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| x H. P. Lovecraft |
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Cthulhu Mythos |
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, known then simply as weird fiction.
Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror; the idea that life is...
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| x Andrzej Sapkowski |
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The Witcher universe |
Andrzej Sapkowski, born June 21, 1948 in Łódź, is a Polish fantasy writer. Sapkowski studied economics, and before turning to writing, he had worked as a senior sales representative for a foreign trade company. His first short story, The Witcher ...
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| x Greeks |
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The Greeks (Greek: Έλληνες, IPA: [ˈe̞line̞s]), also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in diaspora communities around the world.
Greek colonies and communities...
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| x Tobin Wolf | ThunderCats |
Ted "Tobin" Wolf (July 21, 1922 - June 21, 1999) was an American who was responsible for creating the animated television series ThunderCats. He was also an inventor with several patents to his name. Wolf died in 1999, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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| x Roger Sweet |
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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 (pronounced /ˈtɒlkiːn/) (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 the...
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| x Aztec |
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Aztec mythology |
Aztec is a term used to refer to certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who achieved political and military dominance over large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries...
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| x Susan Cooper | The Dark is Rising |
Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is a British author best known for The Dark Is Rising, an award-winning five-volume fantasy saga set in and around England and Wales. The books incorporate traditional British mythology (Arthurian and folkloric...
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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 | ||
| x Cordwainer Smith |
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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 also a noted East Asia scholar and expert in...
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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.
Moon was born Susan Elizabeth Norris and grew up in McAllen, Texas. Moon started writing when she was a child and attempted her first book, which was about her...
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| Familias Regnant universe | |||
| x Neal Stephenson |
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Quicksilver Universe |
Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known for his speculative fiction works, which have been variously categorized science fiction, historical fiction, maximalism, cyberpunk, and postcyberpunk. He has also written...
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| x Jules Verne |
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Nemo Universe |
Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand...
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| x Harry Harrison |
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Stainless Steel Universe |
Harry Harrison is the pen name of Henry Maxwell Dempsey (born March 12, 1925), 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 ...
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| x Robert Silverberg |
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Majipoor universe |
Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is a prolific American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
Silverberg was born in Brooklyn, New York. A voracious reader since...
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| x Clive Staples Lewis |
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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 an Irish novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian...
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| Narnian Multiverse | |||
| x Orson Scott Card |
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Enderverse |
Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American author, critic and public speaker. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won...
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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 the author of two series of stories. Hamilton is known for her New York Times-bestselling Anita Blake series, featuring a female necromancer turned...
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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 has a Master's Degree in history specializing in West...
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| x Robert Santos |
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James Balboa: A Wii Sports Tale | |
