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Janet Morris

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Janet Ellen Morris (born May 25, 1946) is an American author of fiction and nonfiction, best known for her fantasy and science fiction and her authorship of a non-lethal weapons concept for the U.S. military. [1]

48 relations: Author, Šuppiluliuma I, Baen Books, Bangsian fantasy, Bantam Books, Biographical novel, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bulgaria, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Charles N. Brown, Chris Morris (author), Council on Foreign Relations, Cruiser Dreams, David Drake, Dream Dancer, Earth Dreams, Fantasy, Heroes in Hell, Heroes in Hell (book), High Couch of Silistra, Historical fiction, Hittites, Infrasound, John B. Alexander, Locus (magazine), Merovingen Nights, Morgan horse, Moscow, New York Academy of Sciences, Non-lethal weapon, Sacred Band of Thebes, Sam Nunn, Science fiction, Shared universe, Silistra, Tempus (novel), The Carnelian Throne, The Golden Sword, The Sacred Band of Stepsons, The Stalk, Thieves' World, Thoroughbred, Threshold (Morris novel), Trust Territory (novel), United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, Universal Publishers (United States), War World, Wind from the Abyss.

Author

An author is the creator or originator of any written work such as a book or play, and is thus also a writer.

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Šuppiluliuma I

Suppiluliuma I or Suppiluliumas I was king of the Hittites (r. c. 1344–1322 BC (short chronology)).

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Baen Books

Baen Books is an American publishing house for science fiction and fantasy.

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Bangsian fantasy

Bangsian fantasy is a fantasy genre which concerns the use of famous literary or historical individuals and their interactions in the afterlife.

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Bantam Books

Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by parent company Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group.

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Biographical novel

The biographical novel is a genre of novel which provides a fictional account of a contemporary or historical person's life.

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Bloomberg Businessweek

Bloomberg Businessweek is an American weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. Businessweek was founded in 1929.

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Bulgaria

Bulgaria (България, tr.), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (Република България, tr.), is a country in southeastern Europe.

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Center for Strategic and International Studies

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is an American think tank based in Washington, D.C., in the United States.

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Charles N. Brown

Charles Nikki Brown (June 24, 1937 – July 12, 2009) was an American publishing editor, the co-founder and editor of Locus, the long-running news and reviews magazine covering the genres of science fiction and fantasy literature.

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Chris Morris (author)

Christopher Crosby Morris (born 1946) is an American author of fiction and non-fiction, as well as a lyricist, musical composer, and singer-songwriter.

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Council on Foreign Relations

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), founded in 1921, is a United States nonprofit think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.

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Cruiser Dreams

Cruiser Dreams is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer Janet Morris, the second in her Kerrion Space trilogy.

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David Drake

David Drake (born September 24, 1945) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature.

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Dream Dancer

Dream Dancer is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer Janet Morris, the first in her Kerrion Space trilogy.

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Earth Dreams

Earth Dreams is a 1982 science fiction novel by American writer Janet Morris, the third in her Kerrion Space trilogy.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

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Heroes in Hell

Heroes in Hell is a series of shared world fantasy books, within the genre Bangsian fantasy, created and edited by Janet Morris and written by her, Chris Morris, C. J. Cherryh and others.

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Heroes in Hell (book)

Heroes in Hell is an anthology book and the first volume of its namesake series, created by American writer Janet Morris.

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High Couch of Silistra

High Couch of Silistra (renamed as Returning Creation for the integral edition of the series) is a science fiction novel, the first book in the Silistra quartet by American writer Janet Morris.

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Historical fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past.

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Hittites

The Hittites were an Ancient Anatolian people who played an important role in establishing an empire centered on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia around 1600 BC.

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Infrasound

Infrasound, sometimes referred to as low-frequency sound, is sound that is lower in frequency than 20 Hz or cycles per second, the "normal" limit of human hearing.

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John B. Alexander

John B. Alexander (born 1937) is a retired United States Army colonel.

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Locus (magazine)

Locus: The Magazine of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field, is an American magazine published monthly in Oakland, California.

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Merovingen Nights

Merovingen Nights is a series of shared universe science fantasy books set in writer C. J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe.

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Morgan horse

The Morgan horse is one of the earliest horse breeds developed in the United States.

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Moscow

Moscow (a) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.1 million within the urban area.

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New York Academy of Sciences

The New York Academy of Sciences (originally the Lyceum of Natural History) was founded in January 1817.

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Non-lethal weapon

Non-lethal weapons, also called less-lethal weapons, less-than-lethal weapons, non-deadly weapons, compliance weapons, or pain-inducing weapons are weapons intended to be less likely to kill a living target than conventional weapons such as knives and firearms.

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Sacred Band of Thebes

The Sacred Band of Thebes (Ancient Greek: Λόχος, Hieròs Lókhos) was a troop of select soldiers, consisting of 150 pairs of male lovers which formed the elite force of the Theban army in the 4th century BC.

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Sam Nunn

Samuel Augustus Nunn Jr. (born September 8, 1938) is an American lawyer and politician.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Shared universe

A shared universe or shared world is a set of creative works where more than one writer (or other artist) independently contributes a work that can stand alone but fits into the joint development of the storyline, characters, or world of the overall project.

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Silistra

Silistra (Силистра Dârstor) is a port city in northeastern Bulgaria.

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Tempus (novel)

Tempus With His Right Side Companion Niko is a novelized collection of fourteen previously-published short stories in the Sacred Band series by Janet Morris.

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The Carnelian Throne

The Carnelian Throne is a science fantasy novel by American writer Janet Morris.

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The Golden Sword

The Golden Sword, published in 1977, is a science fantasy novel by American writer Janet Morris, the second title in her High Couch of Silistra series.

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The Sacred Band of Stepsons

The Sacred Band of Stepsons is a fictional ancient cavalry unit created by Janet Morris and based on the historical Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite strike force of paired lovers and friends that flourished during the fourth century BC in ancient Greece, where sexuality was a behavior, not an identity.

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The Stalk

The Stalk is a science fiction novel by American writers Chris Morris and Janet Morris, published in 1994.

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Thieves' World

Thieves' World is a shared world fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin in 1978.

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Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing.

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Threshold (Morris novel)

Threshold is a 1990 science fiction novel by American writers Chris Morris and Janet Morris.

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Trust Territory (novel)

Trust Territory is a science fiction novel by American writers Chris Morris and Janet Morris, published in 1992.

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United States Senate Committee on Armed Services

The Committee on Armed Services (sometimes abbreviated SASC for Senate Armed Services Committee on its Web site) is a committee of the United States Senate empowered with legislative oversight of the nation’s military, including the Department of Defense, military research and development, nuclear energy (as pertaining to national security), benefits for members of the military, the Selective Service System and other matters related to defense policy.

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Universal Publishers (United States)

Universal Publishers is the parent publishing company of three non-fiction book imprints specializing in nonfiction, how-to, technical and academic titles (Universal-Publishers, BrownWalker Press & Dissertation.com).

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War World

War World is a series of collaborative science fiction books set in the CoDominium universe of Jerry Pournelle, some novels being co-authored by John F. Carr and Don Hawthorne, as well as Larry Niven and S. M. Stirling.

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Wind from the Abyss

Wind from The Abyss is a science fantasy novel by American writer Janet Morris, published in 1978.

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Janet E. Morris, Janet Ellen Morris.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Morris

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