Fictional universe creator
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This type holds information about people or organizations (including corporate entities) that have created fictional universes. Specifically, it connects creators to the universe or universes they have created. This type has "person" as an...
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| Frank Herbert |
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Person | Dune universe |
Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8 1920 – February 11 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. He is best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. The ''Dune'' saga, set in the distant...
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| J. Michael Straczynski |
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Person | Babylon 5 |
Joseph Michael Straczynski (known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or jms), born July 17, 1954, is an award-winning American writer/producer working in a variety of media, including television series, novel,...
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| Larry Niven |
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Person | 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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| Gene Roddenberry |
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Film writer | Star Trek |
Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry, (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American screenwriter and producer. He became best known as the creator of what would become the science fiction universe of Star Trek. He would also become one of the...
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| Leiji Matsumoto |
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Person | Leijiverse |
is a well-known creator of several anime and manga series.
Matsumoto is famous for his space opera such as Space Battleship Yamato. Many such as Toshio Okada and Eiichiro Oda have remarked in interviews that the Romanticism prevalent in his work...
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| Alastair Reynolds |
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Person | Revelation Space universe |
Alastair Preston Reynolds (born in 1966 in Barry, South Wales) is a Welsh 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...
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| George R. R. Martin |
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Person | 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 A Song of Ice and Fire series.
As a youth, Martin became an...
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| Kouta Hirano |
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Person | Hellsing |
is a Japan 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 assistant position), and later an H manga artist, he went on to...
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| Isaac Asimov |
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Person | The Foundation Series |
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992), , originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as Айзек Азимов, was a Russia-born American author and professor of biochemistry, a highly successful writer, best known for his works of...
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| John Scalzi |
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Person | 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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| Arthur C. Clarke |
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Person | 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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| Robert Asprin | Person | 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 series.
Robert Asprin was born in St. Johns, Michigan, and attended the University of Michigan at Ann...
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| Lynn Abbey | Person | 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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| Piers Anthony | Person | 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 series set in the...
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| Lee David Zlotoff | Person | 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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| George Lucas |
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Person | Star Wars |
George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an Academy Award-winning American film director, producer, screenwriter and chairman of Lucasfilm. He is the creator of the epic Star Wars saga and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones....
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| Ian Fleming |
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Person | James Bond |
Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was a British author, journalist and Second World War Navy Commander. Fleming is best remembered for creating the character of James Bond and chronicling his adventures in twelve novels and nine...
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| Chris Carter |
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Person | The X-Files |
Christopher Carl Carter (born October 13, 1956) is an American screenwriter, film director and producer, best known as the creator of The X-Files.
He was born in Bellflower, California to William and Catherine Carter. In college, he majored in...
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| William Gibson |
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Person | The Sprawl |
The Maker (Spanish El hacedor) is a collection of prose poem by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, published in 1960 as the ninth volume of his Obras completas (Complete Works), a project he began in 1953. It was published in English as Dreamtigers...
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| Dan Simmons |
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Person | Hyperion Cantos |
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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| Bill Watterson | Person | Calvin and Hobbes |
William B. "Bill" Watterson II (born July 5, 1958), an American cartoonist, is the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes and select Target: The Political Cartoon Quarterly drawings.
Watterson was born in Washington, D.C., where his father,...
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| Javier Grillo-Marxuach |
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TV Writer | Middleverse |
Javier "Javi" Grillo-Marxuach , 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, though he has also...
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| Joss Whedon |
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Musical Artist | Firefly |
Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon (born June 23, 1964 in New York City) is an Academy Award-nominated and Hugo Award winning American writer, director, executive producer, occasional actor, and creator and head writer of the well-known television program...
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| Paul Abbott | Person | Shameless |
Paul Abbott (born February 22, 1960 in Burnley, Lancashire) is a BAFTA award-winning English television scriptwriter. Abbott became one of the most critically and commercially successful working in Britain today, following his work on many popular...
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| Octavia E. Butler |
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Person | Xenogenesis |
Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of very few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to...
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| Christina Jennings | TV Program Creator | 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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| Enid Blyton |
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Person | The Famous Five |
Enid Mary Blyton (August 11 1897 – November 28 1968) was a popular and prolific British children's writer. She was one of the most successful children's storytellers of the twentieth century.Once described as a "one woman fiction machine", she is...
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| Roald Dahl |
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Film writer | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novel, short story writer and screenwriter, born in Wales of Norwegian parents, who rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for both children and adults, and became one of the world...
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| Dave Gibbons |
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Person | Watchmen | |