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Norb Vonnegut is an American novelist of financial thrillers. He is also a Wall Street commentator/blogger. Before he began blogging, Norb worked for financial institutions such as Morgan Stanley and Paine Webber.
Don Sturdy is the protagonist in a series of children’s adventure novels written under the house name of Victor Appleton. All but one of the books (Don Sturdy in the Land of the Giants by Howard Roger Garis) were written by John W. Duffield.
Tom Swift is the protagonist in a series of juvenile science fiction/adventure, written under the house pseudonym Victor Appleton. The character was created by Stratemeyer Syndicate founder Edward Stratemeyer. The series has a focus on science, inventions and technology. Interestingly, the taser (which is actually an acronym for “Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle”) was inspired […]
Victor Appleton is a house pseudonym created by Stratemeyer Syndicate, the group that created such franchises as Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. Victor Appleton is the name used most notably for the Tom Swift series as well as the Don Sturdy series. The Victor Appleton books would fall into the children’s/juvenile adventure book genres.
Acorna is the protagonist in a series of fantasy novels by authors Anne McCaffrey, Margaret Ball and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. Acornia is a Unicorn girl with special powers such as healing, making things grow, purifying water and air, detecting venom, mineral deposits, metal deposits and chemical imbalances and telepathic communication. The series would also spawn […]
The Petaybee series consists of two young adult sci-fi trilogies by novelists Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. The series is focused on a major who goes by the name Yana. Yana is a disabled soldier who is sent to a glacial planet called Petaybee to spy, but it turns out that the planet is […]
The Talents universe is a series of science fiction novels by Irish author Anne McCaffrey. The series is comprised of the Talents sub-series, the Tower and Hive sub-series and the Barque Cat series. The series is about a society created around telepathics and telekinetics who are integral to this interstellar society.
The Dragonriders of Pern universe is a series of science fiction novels by Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey. Pern is a planet that has been settled by colonists from Earth, who have lost the technology of Earth and now live in a world similar to medieval times. But before the Earth’s technology had been lost, […]
Anne McCaffrey (1926-2011) was an American-Irish novelist of science fiction, fantasy and planetary romance. She is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series and the novel The Ship Who Sang. She got the inspiration for another one of her well known novels, Restoree, when she saw how women were portrayed in science fiction, while […]
Michael Palmer (1942-2013) was an American novelist of medical thrillers. Before becoming a novelist, Michael Palmer spent 20 years practicing medicine. Palmer didn’t originally want to be an author, but after reading Coma by Robin Cook (a fellow Wesleyan grad), he realized he could too. As of this writing, all of his novels have made […]