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Mike Resnick

1942 - 2020

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Michael Diamond Resnick (; March 5, 1942 – January 9, 2020) was an American science fiction writer and editor. He won five Hugo awards and a Nebula award, and was the guest of honor at Chicon 7. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mike Resnick has received more than 231,735 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Mike Resnick is the 4,323rd most popular writer (down from 3,907th in 2019), the 5,751st most popular biography from United States (down from 5,264th in 2019) and the 464th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

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  • 49.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Ivory
Maasai (African people), Ivory, Fiction
1988
Stalking the Unicorn
Unicorns, Elves, Fiction
1987
Kirinyaga
1998
Birthright
1997
Santiago
1986
Once a Fan..
2002
Birthright
Fiction, science fiction, general
1982
Foundation’s Friends
American Science fiction, Parodies, imitations, Science fiction, american
* Strip-Runner – novelette by Pamela Sargent * The Asenion Solution – short story by Robert Silverberg * Murder in the Urth Degree – short story by Edward Wellen * Trantor Falls – short story by Harry Turtledove * Dilemma – short story by Connie Willis * Maureen Birnbaum After Dark – short story by George Alec Effinger * Balance – short story by Mike Resnick * The Present Eternal – short story by Barry N. Malzberg * PAPPI – short story by Sheila Finch * The Reunion at the Mile-High – short story by Frederik Pohl * Plato's Cave – novelette by Poul Anderson * Foundation's Conscience – short story by George Zebrowski * Carhunters of the Concrete Prairie – novella by Robert Sheckley * The Overheard Conversation – short story by Edward D. Hoch * Blot – novelette by Hal Clement * The Fourth Law of Robotics – short story by Harry Harrison * The Originist – novella by Orson Scott Card Also contains prefaces by Ray Bradbury and Ben Bova and afterwords by Janet Asimov and Isaac Asimov
1989
John Boyes, King of the Wa-Kikuyu
Kikuyu (African people), Social life and customs, Description and travel
1911
Ivory
Maasai (African people), Ivory, Fiction
1988
Kirinyaga
Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction
1998
Santiago
American Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
1986
Santiago
American Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
1986
Foundation’s Friends
American Science fiction, Parodies, imitations, Science fiction, american
* Strip-Runner – novelette by Pamela Sargent * The Asenion Solution – short story by Robert Silverberg * Murder in the Urth Degree – short story by Edward Wellen * Trantor Falls – short story by Harry Turtledove * Dilemma – short story by Connie Willis * Maureen Birnbaum After Dark – short story by George Alec Effinger * Balance – short story by Mike Resnick * The Present Eternal – short story by Barry N. Malzberg * PAPPI – short story by Sheila Finch * The Reunion at the Mile-High – short story by Frederik Pohl * Plato's Cave – novelette by Poul Anderson * Foundation's Conscience – short story by George Zebrowski * Carhunters of the Concrete Prairie – novella by Robert Sheckley * The Overheard Conversation – short story by Edward D. Hoch * Blot – novelette by Hal Clement * The Fourth Law of Robotics – short story by Harry Harrison * The Originist – novella by Orson Scott Card Also contains prefaces by Ray Bradbury and Ben Bova and afterwords by Janet Asimov and Isaac Asimov
1989
John Boyes, King of the Wa-Kikuyu
Kikuyu (African people), Social life and customs, Description and travel
1911
Kirinyaga
Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction
1998
Ivory
Maasai (African people), Ivory, Fiction
1988
Birthright
Fiction, science fiction, general
1982
Foundation’s Friends
American Science fiction, Parodies, imitations, Science fiction, american
* Strip-Runner – novelette by Pamela Sargent * The Asenion Solution – short story by Robert Silverberg * Murder in the Urth Degree – short story by Edward Wellen * Trantor Falls – short story by Harry Turtledove * Dilemma – short story by Connie Willis * Maureen Birnbaum After Dark – short story by George Alec Effinger * Balance – short story by Mike Resnick * The Present Eternal – short story by Barry N. Malzberg * PAPPI – short story by Sheila Finch * The Reunion at the Mile-High – short story by Frederik Pohl * Plato's Cave – novelette by Poul Anderson * Foundation's Conscience – short story by George Zebrowski * Carhunters of the Concrete Prairie – novella by Robert Sheckley * The Overheard Conversation – short story by Edward D. Hoch * Blot – novelette by Hal Clement * The Fourth Law of Robotics – short story by Harry Harrison * The Originist – novella by Orson Scott Card Also contains prefaces by Ray Bradbury and Ben Bova and afterwords by Janet Asimov and Isaac Asimov
1989
John Boyes, King of the Wa-Kikuyu
Kikuyu (African people), Social life and customs, Description and travel
1911
Ivory
Maasai (African people), Ivory, Fiction
1988
Birthright
Fiction, science fiction, general
1982
Kirinyaga
Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction
1998
Santiago
American Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
1986

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mike Resnick ranks 4,323 out of 7,302. Before him are Uğur Mumcu, Maurice Sachs, Balamani Amma, Ivanka Trump, Philip Arthur Fisher, and Robin Sharma. After him are Lygia Fagundes Telles, Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Mordecai Richler, Herbert Achternbusch, Dorothee Sölle, and Franciszek Karpiński.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Mike Resnick ranks 392. Before him are Reiner Schöne, Eric Shinseki, Krister Kristensson, Tammy Faye Messner, Galina Kulakova, and Uğur Mumcu. After him are Gérard Pirès, Rubén Salazar Gómez, Marcia Wallace, Želimir Žilnik, Marty Balin, and Osman Nuri Topbaş. Among people deceased in 2020, Mike Resnick ranks 351. Before him are Juan Giménez, Adalet Ağaoğlu, Bobby Morrow, Òscar Ribas Reig, Goran Paskaljević, and Marc Fumaroli. After him are Papa Bouba Diop, Italo De Zan, Ashley Cooper, Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Hau Pei-tsun, and Maria Itkina.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mike Resnick ranks 5,751 out of 20,380. Before him are Rick Aviles (1952), Big Joe Turner (1911), Fred Alexander (1880), Philip Arthur Fisher (1907), Virginia Rappe (1895), and Sally Yates (1960). After him are Nelson A. Miles (1839), Brendan Eich (1961), Melville J. Herskovits (1895), Ann Sheridan (1915), Art Metrano (1936), and Michael Brandon (1945).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Mike Resnick ranks 464. Before him are James Blish (1921), Rube Goldberg (1883), Edna Ferber (1885), Diane Disney Miller (1933), Ivanka Trump (1981), and Philip Arthur Fisher (1907). After him are Helen Prejean (1939), Connie Willis (1945), Larry Collins (1929), Robert G. Ingersoll (1833), William Gaddis (1922), and William Wharton (1925).

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