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1912- ; canadian He was born in Winnipeg, and hard to believe, was not invited to the World-scifi-convention taking place there in 1994. He began to write for Campbells Astounging and soon became known as good author, just like Asimov, De Camp, Heilein and Sturgeon. He stoped writing around 1950 and didn't produce anything for twenty years. When he restarted in 1968, his time was already long gone. Some of his really great works were Slan, The weapon shops of isher and The world of A. he got into contact with dianetics, a pseudo-science created by his scifi-collegue L. Ron. Hubbard. He never had anything to do with Scientology, but diantics was enough to end his career as a scifi-author. More about Alfred Elton Van Vogt.
1946 Slan 1947 The weapon Makers; One Against Eternity; The book of Ptath; two hundres million A.D. 1948 The world of A; The world of null-a 1950 The voyage of the space Beagle; Mission: Interplanetary; The House that stood still; The mating cry; Undercover Aliens 1951 The weapon Shops of Isher 1952 The mixed men; mission to the stars 1953 The universe Maker 1954 Planets for sale 1956 The Pawns of null-a; The Players of null-a 1957 Empire of the Atom; The mind Cage 1959 The War against the Rull; Siege of the Unseen; The three Eyes of Evil 1962 The Wizard of Linn; The violent Man 1963 The Beast 1965 Rogue ship 1966 The winged Men 1969 The Silkie 1970 Quest for the Future; Children of Tomorrow 1971 The Battle of Forever 1972 The Darkness on Diamondia 1973 Future Glitter; Tyranopolis 1974 The secret Galactics; Earth factor X; The Man with a thousand Names 1977 The anarchistic Colossus; Supermind; Supermind: i.q.10000 1979 Renaissance 1980 Cosmic Encounter 1983 Computerworld; Computer Eye 1984 Null A3
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1916-; american Most of his stories rely on the setting, the landscape. He is a master in creating new, different settings.
1950 The Dying Earth 1953 The Space Pirate; Vandals of the Void 1956 To Live Forever 1957 Big Planet 1958 The Language of Pao 1963 The Dragon Masters 1964 The Houses of Iszm; Son of the Tree; The star King; The Killing Machine 1965 Monster in Orbit; Space Opera 1966 The Blue World; The Brains of Earth 1967 The Palace of Love; The Last Castle 1968 City of the Chasch 1969 Emphyrio; servants of the Wankh; The Dirdir 1970 The Pnume 1973 The Anome; The Brave Free Men; Trullion: Alastor 2262 1974 The Asutra; The Gray Prince 1975 Showvoat World 1976 Mask: Thaery 1978 Wyst: Alastor 1716 1979 The Face; Morreion 1981 The Book of Dreams 1983 Cugel's Saga 1984 Thialto the Marvellous 1985 Lyonesse: The Green Pearld 1987 Araminta Station 1989 Lyonesse: Madouc 1991 Ecce and Old Earth 1992 Throy
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1948- ; american Joan D. Vinge and Vernor Vinge were married from 1972 to 1979. Most of her stories resemble fables. Many stories deal with growing up, and accepting the life one has.
1978 The Outcasts of Heaven Belt 1980 The Snow Queen 1982 Psion 1983 Retrun of the Jedi Storybook 1984 The Dune Storybook; World's End 1985 Ladyhawke; Mad May: Beyond the Thunderdome; Return to Oz; Santa Claus, the Movie 1988 Willow; Catspaw 1990 Tin Soldier 1991 The Summer Queen
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1947- ; american Vernor Vinge is a scientist that also writes scifi from time to time. He is a professor of mathematics at UC San Diego. He mostly writes hard scifi that is based in a well writtin plot. He also wrote cyberpunk novels before that term was even invented and space operas.
1969 Grimm's World 1976 The Witling 1981 True Names 1984 The Peace War 1986 Marooned in Realtime 1992 A Fire Upon the Deep
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1903-1969; englishman a.k.a John Beynon, John Beynon Harris, Wyndham Parkes, Lucas Parkes, Johnson Harris, (born as) John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Benon Harris. He started as a mediocre pulp author in pre WW2 england. He restarted his career after the war with a totally different style. He found a new editor, Michael Joseph, and published The Day of the Triffids in 1951, a book often called "the confortable catastrophy". The Midwich Cuckoos is more shocking, it was turned into a movie. The younger books show many of his deep emotions about the loss of the empire / its power.
1935 The Secret People 1936 Planet Plane; Stowaway to Mars 1945 Love in Time 1953 The Kraken Wakes; Out of the Deeps 1957 The Midwich Cuckoos; Village of the Damned 1959 The Outward Urge 1960 Trouble With Lichen 1968 Chocky 1979 Web
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1931- ; american Wolf seldomly wrote pure scifi. He might not be as well known as Heinlein or Asimov, but he is considered to be the best author by many.
1970 Operation Ares 1972 The Fifth Head of Cerberus 1975 Peace 1976 The devil in a Forest 1980 The Book of the New Sun: The Shadow of the Torturer 1981 The Book of the New Sun: The Claw of the Conciliator 1982 The Book of the New Sun: The Sword of the Lictor 1983 The Book of the New Sun: The Castle of the Autarch 1984 Free Live Free 1986 Soldier of the Mist 1987 The Urth of the New Sun 1988 There Are Doors 1989 Soldier of Arete; Seven American Nights 1990 Castelvier; Padora by Holly Holander; The Death of Doctor Island 1993 Nightside the Long Sun 1994 Lake of the Long Sun; Caldé of the Long Sun
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1937-1995; american 1962 was a great year for scifi: Delany, Disch, Le Guin and Zelazny published first stories. Zelazny started like a rocket, he didn't have a developement phase like the others. He wrote many good stories, but he never really delivered that great story everybody was waiting for him to deliver.. His novel Damnation Alley was turned into a (bad) movie, it never even came close to the original.
1966 The Immortal; The Dream Master 1967 Lord of Light 1967 Isle of the Dead; Creatures of Light and Darkness; Damnation Alley 1970 Nine Princes in Amber 1971 Jack of Shadows 1972 The Guns of Avalon 1973 Today We Chose Faces; To Die in Italbar 1975 Sign of the Unicorn 1976; Doorways in the Sand; The Hand of Overon; Bridge of Ashes; Des Iraw; My Name Is Legion 1978 Courts of Chaos 1979 Roadmarks 1980 Changeling 1981 Madwand; The Changing Land 1982 Coils; Eye of the Cat 1985 Trumps of Doom 1986 Blod of Amber 1987 A Dark Traveling 1988 Signs of Chaos 1989 Knight of Shadows 1990 The Black Throne; The Mask of Loki; The Graveyard Heart; Home Is the Handman 1991 Bring Me the Head of prince Charming; Prince of Chaos 1992 Flare 1993 A Night in the Lonesome October; If at Faust You Don't Succeed 1994 Wilderness |
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