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You've just surfed onto the official page of JA Konrath, author of the Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels thrillers. Here you'll discover more than you've ever wanted to know about Joe, his books, his characters, and his pseudonym Jack Kilborn. So pour yourself a drink and stay a while. Jack Daniels #8
Stephen King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of contemporary horror , suspense , science fiction and fantasy fiction . His books have sold more than 350 million copies [ 7 ] and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books. As of 2011, King has written and published 49 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman , five non-fiction books, and nine collections of short stories . Many of his stories are set in his home state of Maine .
Richard Burton Matheson (born February 20, 1926) is an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy , horror , and science fiction genres. He is perhaps best known as the author of The Incredible Shrinking Man , What Dreams May Come , Bid Time Return (filmed as Somewhere in Time ), A Stir of Echoes , and I Am Legend , all of which have been adapted as major motion pictures, the last at least three times. Matheson has also written for several The Twilight Zone television show episodes such as " Nightmare at 20,000 Feet ", and adapted his 1971 short story "Duel" into a screenplay later that year for the Steven Spielberg –directed television movie of the same name .
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C. S. Lewis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 apologist from Belfast , Ireland. He is known for both his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters , The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy and his nonfiction, such as Mere Christianity , Miracles and The Problem of Pain .
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien , CBE ( / ˈ t ɒ l k iː n / , US / ˈ t oʊ l k iː n / ; [ 1 ] 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 Rings , and The Silmarillion . Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College, Oxford , from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature there from 1945 to 1959. [ 2 ] He was a close friend of C. S. Lewis —they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings . Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972. After his death, Tolkien's son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion .
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George R. R. Martin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Raymond Richard Martin [ 1 ] (born September 20, 1948), sometimes referred to as GRRM , [ 2 ] 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 fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of Thrones . Martin was selected by Time magazine as one of the "2011 Time 100", a list of the "most influential people in the world". [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ edit ] Biography George R.
Terry Goodkind (born in 1948 [ 2 ] ) is an American writer and author of the epic fantasy The Sword of Truth series as well as the contemporary suspense novel The Law of Nines , which has ties to his fantasy series, and The Omen Machine , which is a direct sequel thereof. Before his success as an author Goodkind worked primarily as a painter, as well as doing carpentry and woodworking. Goodkind is a proponent of Ayn Rand 's philosophical approach of Objectivism , [ 1 ] [ 3 ] with references to Rand's ideas and novels in his works. [ 4 ] The Sword of Truth series sold twenty-five million copies worldwide and was translated into more than twenty languages. [ 5 ] It was adapted into a television series called Legend of the Seeker , premiering November 1, 2008 but canceled after two seasons in May, 2010. [ 6 ] [ edit ] Biography
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Terry Pratchett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Terence David John " Terry " Pratchett , OBE (born 28 April 1948) [ 3 ] is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. [ 4 ] He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People , was published in 1971, and since his first Discworld novel ( The Colour of Magic ) was published in 1983, he has written two books a year on average. His latest Discworld book, Snuff is the third-fastest-selling novel since records began in the United Kingdom selling 55,000 copies in the first three days. [ 5 ] Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and as of August 2010 had sold over 65 million books worldwide in thirty-seven languages. [ 8 ] He is currently the second most-read writer in the UK, and seventh most-read non-US author in the US. [ 9 ]
The man who foresaw science fiction
It is September 1, 2660, and a genius sits in his study, resting up prior to a remarkable display of his scientific prowess. Tomorrow he will demonstrate to scientists that a dog three years technically dead, but preserved with rare elements, can be resuscitated back to life by a simple blood transfusion. He stretches, revealing a huge frame, much taller than the average human, his height approaching that of extraterrestrials.David Brin's Official Web Site: "Survival of the Fittest Ideas"
The following is excerpted from a speech that I gave at Brigham Young University in 1989, and later transcribed and lightly revised for publication in a small zine. Of special note is my prediction, even before the Berlin Wall fell, that our Cold War with the Soviet Union would give way to an era of dire strife with some version of frenetic, male-centered fundamentalism... such as we now see manifesting in a new century. While this early forecast may read a little rough (it was a speech, recall), it is an unusual view of our world's troubles, one that may bear further discussion. Since then I have further developed most of these themes, including the notion of criticism as an antidote to error and the idea that tolerance depends on openness. Naturally, we needn't look at this struggle over human hearts and minds as a "war."
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Glen David Brin , Ph.D. (born October 6, 1950) is an American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction . He has received the Hugo , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Locus , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Campbell [ 6 ] and Nebula Awards . [ 7 ] [ edit ] Biography Brin was born in Glendale, California in 1950. In 1973, he graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in astrophysics .Sir Arthur Charles Clarke , CBE , FRAS , Sri Lankabhimanya , (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, [ 2 ] and futurist , [ 3 ] famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] For many years, Robert A. Heinlein , Isaac Asimov , and Clarke were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction. [ 6 ] Clarke served in the Royal Air Force as a radar instructor and technician from 1941–1946.
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Robert A. Heinlein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Anson Heinlein ( / ˈ h aɪ n l aɪ n / HYN -lyn ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction writer . Often called the "dean of science fiction writers," [ 4 ] he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre. He set a standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality.www.asimovonline.com Isaac Asimov ( / ˈ aɪ z ə k ˈ æ z ɨ m ə v / EYE -zək AZ -i-məv ; born Eyzik Yudovitš Asimov Yiddish : אייזיק יודאָוויטש אסימאוו , Russian : Исаак Юдович Озимов , Isaak Yudovich Ozimov ; ; c. January 2, 1920 [ 1 ] – April 6, 1992) was a Russian American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University , 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 90,000 letters and postcards . [ 2 ] His works have been published in all ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (his only work in the 100s—which covers philosophy and psychology—was a foreword for The Humanist Way ). [ 3 ] Asimov is widely considered a master of hard science fiction and, along with Robert A.