Michael Shaara

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Michael Shaara (June 23, 1928 – May 5, 1988) was an American author of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction. He was born to an Italian immigrant father (the family name was originally spelled Sciarra, which in Italian is pronounced in a similar way) in Jersey City, New Jersey, graduated in 1951 from Rutgers University, where he joined Theta Chi, and served as a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division prior to the Korean War. Before Shaara began selling science fiction stories to fiction magazines during the 1950s, he was an amateur boxer and police officer. He later taught literature at Florida State University while continuing to write fiction. The stress of this and his cigarette smoking caused him, at the early age of 36, to have a heart attack, from which he recovered completely. His novel about the Battle of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975. Shaara died of a heart attack in 1988 aged fifty-nine. Shaara's children, Jeffrey and Lila, are also novelists. In 1997, Jeffrey Shaara established the annual *Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction*, awarded at Gettysburg College. **Source**: [Michael Shaara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shaara) on Wikipedia.

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The Killer Angels
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Conquest Over Time
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Horror Gems. Volume Twelve
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Science Fiction Gems
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Citizen Jell
Representative edition published 2014
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Anthology of Sci-Fi V35
Representative edition published 2013
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Wainer by Michael Shaara, Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy
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Histórias de Robôs - Volume 3
Representative edition published 2005
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Spark Notes The Killer Angels
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The Civil War Trilogy
Representative edition published 1999
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For the Love of the Game
Representative edition published 1999
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Friends, robots, countrymen
Representative edition published 1998
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The Noah conspiracy
Representative edition published 1994
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Machines That Think
Representative edition published 1992
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Robots
Representative edition published 1989
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Monsters
Representative edition published 1989
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Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 18 (1956)
Representative edition published 1988
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Election day 2084
Representative edition published 1984
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Soldier boy
Representative edition published 1982
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Wild Inventions
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Herald
Representative edition published 1981
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The broken place
Representative edition published 1981
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Killer Angels
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Conquest over Time
Representative edition published 2021
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