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Sample of authors
McCaffrey, Anne
The American author Anne McCaffrey has gained great international popularity with stories that are a wilful mixture of SF (science fiction) and fantasy. That applies primarily to the books about the planet Pern, situated in another solar system. The stories in these include space ships, advanced technology and journeys between different planets, and the author herself called them SF. But they...
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Futrelle, Jacques
The American journalist and author Jacques Heath Futrelle made sure there was room for his wife in a lifeboat before he went down with the Titanic. He was only thirty-seven years old when he drowned, taking six or seven recently finished short stories about the original amateur sleuth, the super-intelligent genius Professor Augustus S.F.X Van Dusen, known as The Thinking Machine, into the...
