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Otto Piene was a German-American artist specializing in kinetic and technology-based art, often working collaboratively.
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Jane Webb Loudon, full name Jane Wells Webb Loudon, is an English futurological writer, one of the pioneers of the science fiction genre, an artist and amateur botanist.
At the age of 20, Loudon wrote the novel that brought her fame, "The Mummy!" (1827). Set in the year 2126, the novel describes an England filled with advanced technology, including automated lawyers and steam-powered surgeons, coffee makers, and an information highway resembling the modern Internet.
Loudon was married to the well-known horticulturist John Claudius Loudon, and they wrote several books together, and she also published her own very successful series of books with titles such as Gardening for Women, A Lady's Companion to the Flower Garden.
Bram Stoker, birth name Abraham Stoker, is an Irish writer, theater business manager and critic.
Stoker attended Dublin University and Trinity College, where he studied mathematics. He served for ten years at Dublin Castle and also worked as a drama critic for the Dublin Evening Mail (later Evening Mail) newspaper, where he met the actor Sir Henry Irving. From 1878 until Irving's death 27 years later, Stoker was his manager and accompanied him on his American tours, and later published his biography.
Stoker became world famous for his gothic horror novel Dracula, which was first published in 1897. The theme of mysterious and romantic vampires was and still is very popular in society. Stoker's novel has been reprinted many times, and the story itself has inspired countless interpretations and screen adaptations. Stoker wrote several other novels, including The Mystery of the Sea (1902), The Jewel of the Seven Stars (1903), and The Lady with the Shroud (1909).
