Terror Firma seemed to contradict the events of the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel War of the Daleks by John Peel, in which an unmerged Davros is placed on trial by the Dalek Prime, a combination of the Dalek Emperor and the Dalek Supreme.

In the 1959 novel, Emperor Fu Manchu, he reveals he attended Heidelberg, the Sorbonne, and Edinburgh.

* Robert Graves ' novel I, Claudius is written as a recently-discovered autobiography penned by the late Emperor.

The Southern Temple has been a popular subject of wuxia fiction, first appearing in the 1893 novel Shengchao Ding Sheng Wannian Qing, where it is attacked by the Qianlong Emperor with the help of the White Eyebrow Taoist.

* Andreas Seiler's novel Real Wizard ( 2008 ) is an attribution to the 1, 000 year old myth, with aspects of life and death of the Emperor.

Emperor Go-Daigo appears in the alternate history novel Romanitas by Sophia McDougall.

St Clement is also the hero of an early Christian romance or novel that has survived in at least two different versions, known as the Clementine literature, where he is identified with Emperor Domitian's cousin Titus Favius Clemens.

In the Jedi Prince novel series, a group of impostors calling themselves the Prophets of the Dark Side install a three-eyed mutant named Trioculus as Emperor by claiming that he is Palpatine's son.

The novel establishes that she previously was an " Emperor's Hand " — a special agent — for Emperor Palpatine.

Unlike the Emperor, Thrawn preferred to use existing technologies in novel ways rather than spend billions of credits on super weapons that might or might not have worked ( like the Death Star, Eye of Palpatine or even the Darksaber ).

Nicephorus III is also a fictional Byzantine Emperor ruling in the beginning of the 14th century in Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel Agent of Byzantium.

* Lost Diaries: From the Diary of Emperor Titus ( 1913 ), an English novel by Maurice Baring

* In the 1985 Contact ( novel ) ( by Carl Sagan ), the character Xi Qiaomu — who had been involved in excavations of the tomb of Emperor Qin during the Cultural Revolution — is visited by a personified alien in the form of the Emperor Qin.

* Emperor ( novel series ), a book series by Conn Iggulden

He is Padishah Emperor of the known universe in Herbert's 1965 novel Dune.

I, Claudius ( 1934 ) is a novel by English writer Robert Graves, written in the form of an autobiography of the Roman Emperor Claudius.

In this novel Yourcenar recreated the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world, the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, the son and heir of Antoninus Pius, his successor and adoptive son.

* Theodora and the Emperor ( 1952 ) by Harold Lamb is a historical fiction novel that follows the events of the Nika riots closely, using timelines and characters based on historical documents.

* The Yongzheng Emperor is mentioned in Qing Dynasty writer Wenkang ( 文康 )' s wuxia novel Ernü Yingxiong Zhuan ( 兒女英雄傳 ).

* The Yongzheng Emperor is featured as an important character in Tong Hua's novel Bu Bu Jing Xin and he had a romantic relationship with the protagonist Ma ' ertai Ruoxi.

* The Yongzheng Emperor appears in the romance fantasy novel series Meng Hui Da Qing ( 梦回大清 ) by Yaoye ( 妖叶 ).

As featured within this novel, Nüwa is very highly respected since the time of the Xia Dynasty for being the daughter of the Jade Emperor ; Nüwa is also regularly called the " Snake Goddess ".

* In the Chinese novel Bu Bu Jing Xin, centering the rivalry of Kangxi Emperor's sons for the throne during the 18th century Qing Dynasty, which will results the monarch's fourth son Yinzhen as Yongzheng Emperor.

A man known as Emperor Draygon, however, has revived the forbidden ways of science and combined them with magic.

* 1805: Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte settles the École on Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, in the Quartier Latin, in central Paris (), as a military academy and gives its motto Pour la Patrie, les Sciences et la Gloire ( For the Nation, science and glory ).

One difference between mythology and science is exemplified in Chinese mythology: Shennong and Huangdi ( often known as " the Yellow Emperor ") were supposedly friends and fellow scholars, despite the 500 years or seventeen or eighteen generations between the first Shennong and Huangdi ; and, that together they shared the alchemical secrets of medicine, immortality, and making gold.

Van Swieten also expanded the library's collection, notably with books on science, as well as older books from the libraries of monasteries that had been dissolved under the decrees of Emperor Joseph II.

Dalek Emperor may refer to one of several characters in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who:

Among others, the science fiction author Philip K. Dick and the Roman Emperor Claudius appear as characters in the novel.

Emperor Cartagia is a fictional character from the universe of the science fiction television series Babylon 5, played by Wortham Krimmer.

In the episode " The Sound of Drums " of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, an object or location called " the Cruciform " is mentioned, as having been captured from the Time Lords by the Dalek Emperor.

In the 1974 film Flesh Gordon, a ribald parody of the science fiction adventures of Flash Gordon, the villain " Emperor Wang " directs a " sex ray " at Earth which causes the planet's inhabitants to become uncontrollably sexually aroused.

After independence from Portugal, declared by the King's son in 1822, D. Pedro I ( who became the new country's first Emperor ), the policies concerning higher learning, science and technology in Brazil came to a relative standstill.

He appeared in two episodes of the science fiction TV series Babylon 5: first as the Emperor of Centauri ( who also had the name Turhan ), and later as a Minbari Ranger named Turval.

Padishah Emperor is the title given to the hereditary rulers of the Old Empire in the science fiction Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.

Emperor of the Fading Suns is a science fiction " grand-scale " space strategy computer game made by Holistic Design in 1996.

The Emperor himself, who was an avid amateur scientist and enthusiastic supporter of all branches of science, contributed with several of the collections of the art of Ancient Egypt, botanical fossils, etc., which he acquired during many of his trips abroad.

Some Los Angeles area science fiction fans worked behind the camera in various capacities, while others served as background extras in the production, most notably in the orgy scenes in Emperor Wang's palace.

Early on, the focus of the museum was centered on natural sciences, partially because Count Sternberk was a botanist, mineralogist, and eminent phytopaleontologist, but also because of the natural science slant of the times, as perpetrated by Emperor Joseph II of Austria.

According to legend, the relic was given to the cathedral by Charlemagne who received it as a gift from Emperor Constantine VI during a crusade to Jerusalem, however this legend was pure fiction ( Charlemagne never went to the Holy Land ) – probably invented in the 11th century to authenticate some relics at the Abbey of St Denis.

Lu, after initially submitting to Emperor Guangwu and made the Prince of Dai ( as Emperor Guangwu maintained the fiction that Lu was actually from imperial lineage ), eventually rebelled again, but, unable to succeed, eventually fled to Xiongnu in 42.

* Karen Mercury's historical fiction The Four Quarters of the World ( Medallion Press, 2006 ) depicts the rise and fall of Tewodros as seen through the eyes of his European captives, using primary sources from eyewitnesses to create an unbiased portrait of the Emperor.

* When the Emperor Dies by Mason McCann Smith is another work of historical fiction based around the rise, reign and fall of Emperor Tewodros.

In 1981 Herbert released God Emperor of Dune, which was ranked as the # 11 hardcover fiction best seller of 1981 by Publishers Weekly.

Emperors of the Principate, emulating Augustus in his fiction of a republican government, created the idea of the Emperor as a concentration of the various civil and military offices upon one individual, nevertheless hiding any autocratic or despotic connotations by the preservation of the Senate and other facets of the Republican period, such as the annual paired consulship.

Academics disagree over the historicity of Emperor Ming's dream ; Tang Yongtong sees a possible nucleus of fact behind the tradition, and Henri Maspero rejects it as propagandistic fiction.

Domitian made himself extremely unpopular by his autocratic manner, which was a departure from the traditional fiction that the Emperor was merely first among equals ( primus inter pares ).