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  <name><![CDATA[John Grant]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[John Grant is author of some seventy books, of which about twenty-five are fiction, including novels like &lt;i&gt;The World&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Hundredfold Problem&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Far-Enough Window&lt;/i&gt; and most recently &lt;i&gt;The Dragons of Manhattan&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Leaving Fortusa&lt;/i&gt;. His “book-length fiction” &lt;i&gt;Dragonhenge&lt;/i&gt;, illustrated by Bob Eggleton, was shortlisted for a Hugo Award in 2003; its successor was &lt;i&gt;The Stardragons&lt;/i&gt;. His first story collection, &lt;i&gt;Take No Prisoners&lt;/i&gt;, appeared in 2004. He is editor of the recent anthology &lt;i&gt;New Writings in the Fantastic&lt;/i&gt;, which was shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award. His novella &lt;i&gt;The City in These Pages&lt;/i&gt; has recently appeared from PS Publishing.

In nonfiction, he coedited with John Clute &lt;i&gt;The Encyclopedia of Fantasy&lt;/i&gt; and wrote in their entirety all three editions of &lt;i&gt;The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney’s Animated Characters&lt;/i&gt;; both encyclopedias are standard reference works in their field. Among his latest nonfictions have been &lt;i&gt;Discarded Science&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Corrupted Science&lt;/i&gt;; he is currently working on their companion volume, &lt;i&gt;Bogus Science&lt;/i&gt;, on a book about &lt;i&gt;film noir &lt;/i&gt;, and on “a cute rhyming book for kids about a velociraptor”.

As John Grant he has received two Hugo Awards, the World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, and a number of other international literary awards. He has written books under other names, even including his real one: as Paul Barnett, he has written a few books (like the space operas &lt;i&gt;Strider’s Galaxy&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Strider’s Universe&lt;/i&gt;) and for a number of years ran the world-famous fantasy-artbook imprint Paper Tiger, for this work earning a Chesley Award and a nomination for the World Fantasy Award.
]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Mark Helprin, Christopher Priest, Sinclair Lewis, John Fowles, Ed McBain, John Brunner]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Aberdeen</hometown>  <born_at>01/01/1949</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Discarded Science: Ideas That Seemed Good at the Time...]]></title>
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  <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
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  <published>2006</published>  
  
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        <book id="2302116">
  <title><![CDATA[Corrupted Science: Fraud, Ideology and Politics in Science]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Grant]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.54</average_rating>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters from Mickey Mouse to Aladdin]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Grant]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Walt Disney Company]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.43</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>14</ratings_count>
  <published>1987</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Encyclopedia of Fantasy]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Grant]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.55</average_rating>
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  <published>1997</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Science Fiction Art Techniques]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Grant]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ron Tiner]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.55</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>11</ratings_count>
  <published>1996</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Tides of Treachery (Joe Dever's Legends of Lone Wolf, #3*)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Grant]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joe Dever]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>7</ratings_count>
  <published>1991</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[New Writings in the Fantastic]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Grant]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Thomas Marcinko]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gavin Salisbury]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Bushore]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Cyril Simms]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Steve Redwood]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Vera Nazarian]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Donna Gagnon]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Holden Herbert]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Paul Finch]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Barbara Nickless]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[M.F. Korn]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Hertzan Chimera]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Derek J. Goodman]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Edd Vick]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Naomi Alderman]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ian Watson]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jamie Shanks]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Greg Story]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Toiya Kristen Finley]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Bryan Berg]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Andrew Magowen]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Andrew Hook]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Hugh Spencer]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[J. Todd Owton]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lisa Silverthorne]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Paul L. Bates]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Roberto Quaglia]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Stephen Kilpatrick]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Stuart Jaffe]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Vincent L. Scarsella]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Greg Beatty]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[E. Sedia]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Liza Granville]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Scott Emerson Ball]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gary McMahon]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Peter Hagelslag]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.60</average_rating>
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        <book id="711688">
  <title><![CDATA[The Chesley Awards for Science Fiction and Fantasy Art: A Retrospective]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Grant]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>6</ratings_count>
  <published>2003</published>  
  
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        <book id="3517951">
  <title><![CDATA[Take No Prisoners]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Grant]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.25</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>4</ratings_count>
  <published>2004</published>  
  
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        <book id="6325881">
  <title><![CDATA[Albion: Other Works by John Grant]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[John Grant]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.67</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3</ratings_count>
  <published>2001</published>  
  
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