question: What is the birth date of the person who wrote the science fiction novel "Cuckoo's Egg"?
answer: September 1, 1942
context: Title: C. J. Cherryh
  Passage: Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction.  She has written more than 60 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award-winning novels "Downbelow Station" (1981) and "Cyteen" (1988), both set in her Alliance-Union universe.  She is known for "world building," depicting fictional realms with great realism supported by vast research in history, language, psychology, and archeology.  Her series of fantasy novels set in the Alliance-Union universe, the Morgaine Stories, have sold in excess of 3 million copies.
  Title: Cédula de identidad (Costa Rica)
  Passage: In Costa Rica, in recent years, a cédula de identidad, has been a credit card-sized plastic card.  On one side, it includes a photo of the person, a personal identification number, and the card's owner personal information (complete name, gender, birth date, and others), and the user's signature.  On the reverse, it may include additional information such as the date when the ID card was granted, expiration date of the ID card, and other such as their fingerprints, and all the owner's information in matrix code.  Every Costa Rican citizen must carry an ID card immediately after turning 18.
  Title: Russell R. Winterbotham
  Passage: Russell Robert Winterbotham (August 1, 1904 – June 9, 1971) was an American writer of western and science fiction genre fiction, and the author of instructional pamphlets and several Big Little Books.  He also wrote crime stories and one science fiction novel ("The Other World") using the pen name J. Harvey Bond.  Another science fiction novel used the pseudonym Franklin Hadley.
  Title: Blindsight (Watts novel)
  Passage: Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006.  It garnered nominations for a Hugo Award for Best Novel, a John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and a Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.  The novel follows a crew of astronauts sent out as the third wave, following two series of probes, to investigate a trans-Neptunian Kuiper belt comet dubbed 'Burns-Caulfield' that has been found to be transmitting an unidentified radio signal to an as-yet unknown destination elsewhere in the solar system, followed by their subsequent first contact.  The novel explores questions of identity, consciousness, free will, artificial intelligence, neurology, game theory as well as evolution and biology.  "Blindsight" is available online under a Creative Commons license.  Its sequel "Echopraxia" came out in 2014.
  Title: Timescape
  Passage: Timescape is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer Gregory Benford (with unbilled co-author Hilary Foister, Benford's sister-in-law, who is credited as having "contributed significantly to the manuscript").  It won the 1981 Nebula and 1980 British Science Fiction Award, and the 1981 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.  The novel was widely hailed by both critics of science fiction and mainstream literature for its fusion of detailed character development and interpersonal drama with more standard science fiction fare such as time travel and ecological issues.
  Title: Wine of the Dreamers
  Passage: Wine of the Dreamers is a 1951 science fiction novel by American writer John D. MacDonald.  "Wine of the Dreamers" was his first science fiction novel and one of his earliest published novels altogether.  Though he later also wrote the science fiction novels "Ballroom of the Skies" and "The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything", MacDonald was primarily a writer of mysteries.  A later version was published under the name Planet of the Dreamers before reverting to the original title upon further printings.
  Title: Astro Boy (2003 TV series)
  Passage: Astro Boy (アストロボーイ・鉄腕アトム , Asutoro Bōi: Tetsuwan Atomu , lit.  "Astro Boy: Mighty Atom") is a remake of the 1960s anime series of the same name created by Osamu Tezuka, which was produced by his company, Tezuka Productions, Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan, Dentsu, and Fuji Television network.  It was also shown on Animax, who have broadcast the series across its respective networks worldwide, including Japan, Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Asia, and other regions.  It was created to celebrate the birth date of Atom/Astro Boy (as well as the 40th anniversary of the original TV series).  Under the original English name (instead of "Mighty Atom"), it kept the same classic art style as the original manga and anime, but was revisioned and modernized with more lush, high-quality, near-theatrical animation and visuals.  It combined the playfulness of the early anime with the darker, more serious and dramatic Science fiction themes of the manga and the 1980 series.  The anime broadcast in Japan on the same date as Atom's/Astro's birth in the manga (April 6, 2003) across Animax and Fuji Television.  It was directed by Kazuya Konaka and written by Chiaki J. Konaka at the beginning of the series.  Other writers included were Keiichi Hasegawa, Sadayuki Murai, Ai Ohta, Hirotoshi Kobayashi, Kenji Konuta, and Marc Handler, who was also executive story editor.
  Title: Women in speculative fiction
  Passage: In 1948, 10–15% of science fiction writers were female.  Women's role in speculative fiction (including science fiction) has grown since then, and in 1999, women comprised 36% of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's professional members. " Frankenstein" (1818) by Mary Shelley has been called the first science fiction novel, although women wrote utopian novels even before that, with Margaret Cavendish publishing the first ("The Blazing World") in the seventeenth century.  Early published fantasy was written by and for both genders.  However, speculative fiction, with science fiction in particular, has traditionally been viewed as a male-oriented genre.
  Title: Cuckoo's Egg
  Passage: Cuckoo's Egg is a science fiction novel by American writer C. J. Cherryh.  The book was published by DAW Books in 1985, and there was also a limited hardcover printing by Phantasia Press in the same year.  The book was nominated for the Hugo Award and longlisted the Locus Award for Best Novel.  It was later reprinted along with Cherryh's novel "Serpent's Reach" in the 2005 omnibus volume "The Deep Beyond".
  Title: Dragon's Egg
  Passage: Dragon's Egg is a 1980 hard science fiction novel by Robert L. Forward.  In the story, Dragon's Egg is a neutron star with a surface gravity 67 billion times that of Earth, and inhabited by cheela, intelligent creatures the size of a sesame seed who live, think and develop a million times faster than humans.  Most of the novel, from May to June 2050, chronicles the cheela civilization beginning with its discovery of agriculture to advanced technology and its first face-to-face contact with humans, who are observing the hyper-rapid evolution of the cheela civilization from orbit around Dragon's Egg.
citations: C. J. Cherryh Cuckoo's Egg