J A N U A R Y
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
British fantasy-writer and professor in english, (1892-1973).
Born January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, (South Africa).
Intro
Karel Capek
Czech science fiction writer (1890-1938).
Born January 9, 1890 in "Mal Svatonovice", east Bohemia.
Intro,
Encyclopedia,
Robot
Edgar Allen Poe
American writer and editor (1809-1849).
Born January 19, 1809 in Boston, USA.
Society.
Museum.
Essayes.
Biography.
Man of the crowd.
Short stories and poetry
Lewis Carroll.
(=Charles Lutwidge Dodgson).
English mathematician, writer, photographer (1832-1898).
Born January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, Cheshire, England.
Society.
Alice in wonderland.
Through the lookingglass
F E B U A R Y
William Seward Burroughs
American writer and poet (1914-1997).
Born February 5, 1914 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Intro.
Jules Verne
French science fiction writer (1828-1905).
Born February 8, 1828 in Nantes, France.
Biography.
Read his stories online.
Virtual library.
André Breton
French surrealist, poet, writer (1896-1966)
Born February 18, 1896 in Tinchebray (Orne), France.
Intro.
Surrealism.
M A R C H
Albert Einstein
German theoretical physicist and mathematician (1879-1955).
Born March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany.
Biography.
Archives.
Quotes
A P R I L
Samuel Ray Delany jr
American science fiction writer.
Born April 1, 1942 in New York, USA.
Information.
M A Y
Harlan Jay Ellison
American science fiction writer.
Born May 27, 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Webderland.
Intro.
Lost visions?
J U N E
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Dutch fantastic artist (1898-1972).
Born June 17, 1898 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands.
Intro.
Gödel, Escher, Bach.
Official site
Frederick Hoyle
English astronomer, matemathician and science fiction-writer, (1915-2001).
Born June 24, 1915 in Yorkshire, England.
Intro.
Interview.
Cosmic ancestry
George Orwell,
pseudonym for Eric Arthur Blair
English social and science fiction writer (1903-1950).
Born June 25, 1903 in Motihari/Bihar, India.
Resources.
1984.
Animal farm
Ray Harryhausen
American film animator, producer.
Born June 29, 1920 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Introduction
J U L Y
Franz Kafka
Czech writer (1883-1924).
Born July 3, 1883 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungaria.
Intro.
Kafkas Language.
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, and scientist (1856-1943).
Born July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika, Austria-Hungary.
Intro.
Museum.
Society.
Patents.
Lord Dunsany,
full name: Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.
Irish fantasy-writer, dramatist and chess-player (1878-1957).
Born July 24, 1878 in London, England.
Intro.
Official site.
Book of Wonder.
Stanley Kubrick
American film director (1928-1999).
Born July 26, 1928 in Bronx, New York, USA.
Officiel site.
Intro.
A U G U S T
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
English gothic writer (1797-1850).
Born August 8, 1797 in Somers Town, England.
Intro.
Frankenstein.
The last man.
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger
Austrian physicist. (1887-1961).
Born August 12, 1887 in Vienna, Austria.
Intro.
Schrödingers cat.
Schrödingers ring.
Brian Wilson Aldiss
English science fiction writer.
Born August 18, 1925 in Dereham, Norfolk, England.
Officiel site.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
American horrorwriter (1890-1937).
Born 9 am August 20, 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Archive.
Search.
Quotes.
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
German physicist who pioneered television, (1860-1940).
Born August 22, 1860 in Lauenburg, Pomerania (Germany).
Mechanical television.
Television pioneers.
Television history
Raymond Douglas Bradbury
American science fiction writer.
Born August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois, USA.
Official site.
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentinian poet and writer (1899-1986).
Born August 24, 1899 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Intro.
Life and works.
S E P T E M B E R
Stanislaw Lem
Polish science fiction writer.
Born September 12, 1921 in Lvov, Poland.
Official site.
Solaris.
Herbert George Wells
English science fiction writer, (1866-1946).
Born September 21, 1866 in Bromley, Kent, England.
Intro.
Timemachine.
World brain.
O C T O B E R
Sputnik
First satellite in space (4 oct 1957 - 4 jan 1958).
Launched October 4, 1957 from Baikonur, Kazakstan, USSR.
Intro.
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
American science fiction and fantasy-writer.
Born October 21, 1929 in Berkeley, California, USA.
Intro.
Official site.
N O V E M B E R
August Ferdinand Möbius
German mathematician and theoretical astronomer (1790-1868).
Born November 17, 1790 in Schulpforta, Sachsen, Germany.
Intro
Moebius strip
Topology.
Transformation
René François-Ghislain Magritte
Belgian surrealist artist (1898-1967).
Born November 21, 1898 in Lessines, Hainaut, Belgium.
Intro Biography
Clive Staples Lewis
English fantasy-writer (1898-1963).
Born November 29, 1898 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Intro.
Into the wardrobe.
Narnia.
D E C E M B E R
Arthur Charles Clarke
English science fiction writer
Born December 16, 1917 in Somerset, England.
Biography.
Quotes
Philip Kindred Dick
American science fiction writer (1928-1982)
Born December 16, 1928 in Chicago, USA.
Officiel site