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Jack Vance
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Aka John Holbrook Vance, Peter Held, John Holbrook, Ellery Queen, John van See, Alan Wade.

The author was born in 1916 and educated at the University of California, first as a mining engineer, then maj…

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Michael John Moorcock is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels.

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Pseudonym A. A. Craig, Michael Karageorge, Winston P. Sanders, P. A. Kingsley.

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C.J. Cherryh
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Currently resident in Spokane, Washington, C.J. Cherryh has won four Hugos and is one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed authors in the science fiction and fantasy field. She is the aut…
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Iain M. Banks
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Iain M. Banks is a pseudonym of Iain Banks which he used to publish his Science Fiction.

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