* In the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Alien Bodies, the Time Lord Homunculette has a sonic monkey wrench.

Among the musicals, Camelot came from T. H. White's The Once And Future King, and novels were the sources of the less than momentous Tenderloin and Do Re Mi.

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

" Aside from Roger Ackroyd, the most critically acclaimed Poirot novels appeared from 1932 to 1942, including such acknowledged classics as Murder on the Orient Express, The ABC Murders ( 1935 ), Cards on the Table ( 1936 ), and Death on the Nile ( 1937 ).

She presented the character as a bold and eccentric old lady, different from the prim and birdlike character Christie created in her novels.

BBC Radio 4 dramatised all of the novels from 1993-2001 with June Whitfield as Miss Marple.

The original 256-page game book was published in 1991 by Phage Press, covering material from the first five novels ( the " Corwin Cycle ") and some details-sorcery and the Logrus-from the remaining five novels ( the " Merlin Cycle "), in order to allow players to roleplay characters from the Courts of Chaos.

This supplemental rule book includes the remaining elements from the Merlin novels, such as Broken Patterns, and allows players to create Constructs such as Merlin's Ghostwheel.

* In John Christopher's 1967-68 trilogy of novels The Tripods, an alien race known as " the Masters " live in three huge, domed arcologies built on Earth to use as a base from which to colonise the planet.

It is unknown when dual wielding was first used in fiction, but it was likely from early western novels before spilling over into other works.

Many titles for novels and films have been drawn from Housman's poetry.

* Benjamin Franklin " Hawkeye " Pierce, the fictional character from the M * A * S * H novels, film, and television program

The Booker Prize Foundation announced in January 2010 the creation of a special award called the " Lost Man Booker Prize ," with the winner chosen from a longlist of 22 novels published in 1970.

His writings from this period included a series of historical novels, featuring a fictional naval officer from Guernsey, Richard Delancey, during the Napoleonic era.

A model to other writers of hard science fiction, Clarke postulates advanced technologies without resorting to flawed engineering concepts ( as Jules Verne sometimes did ) or explanations grounded in incorrect science or engineering, or taking cues from trends in research and engineering ( which dates some of Larry Niven's novels ).

The Claudine books are a series of four early novels by the French author Colette published from 1900-1904.

* Charon ( The Three Worlds ), a fictional human species from Ian Irvine's arc of novels, The Three Worlds Cycle

* Cassiopeia Black, a pure-blood witch from Harry Potter novels

It has been argued that the approach of Mrs Gaskell transferred the focus of attention away from the ' difficult ' novels, not just Charlotte's, but all the sisters, and began a process of sanctification of their private lives.

* Kage Baker has written a series of novels about The Company in which orphans from various eras ( who fit certain physical requirements ) are recruited by a time-traveling corporation, augmented and turned into immortal cyborgs, and trained to rescue valuable artifacts from history.

Stemming from this, the Parliament of England decided that, to ensure the stability and future prosperity of Great Britain, full union of the two parliaments and nations was essential before Anne's death and used a combination of exclusionary legislation ( the Alien Act of 1705 ), politics, and bribery to achieve it within three years under the Act of Union 1707.

* Alien and Sedition Acts and Related Resources from the Library of Congress

The 1997 Rolf de Heer film, Epsilon, also known as Alien Visitor, an alien in female form descends to Earth from Epsilon in the Southern Cross, and inspires an Outback traveler to better his planet.

* Cash from Ben 10: Alien Force

Individual movies from Alien to Midnight Run were pastiched.

* Taiwan's Museum of Alien Studies: a new view of the extraterrestrial, from Erenlai

Examples include Alien, Pandorum, The Fly, Event Horizon, Apollo 18, Doom, Pitch Black, The Mist, and It Came from Outer Space.

* Prometheus ( the film includes " The Derelict " spacecraft and the " Space Jockey " designs from the first Alien film, as well as original extraterrestrial murals created exclusively for the new movie.

Spader filed for divorce from Kheel in 2004 and,, has plans to marry his girlfriend ( and former Alien Hunter co-star ), Leslie Stefanson, with whom he had a child in August 2008.

* In the United States, in 1798, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which prohibited newspapers from publishing “ false, scandalous, or malicious writing ” against the government, including any public opposition to any law or presidential act.

However, simultaneously an Alien entity known as the Ly-cilph, a non-corporeal race from a distant galaxy, comes into contact with the dying man.

In the single-player game, the player assumes the role of a Marine named Bitterman taking part in " Operation Alien Overlord ", a desperate attempt to protect Earth from an alien invasion by launching a counter-attack on the home planet of the hostile cybernetic Strogg civilization.

During World War II, Judge Louis E. Goodman dismissed the case against native Californian Masaaki Kuwabara and 25 other draft resisters from Tule Lake Segregation Center on due process grounds. His decision for the defense was unique among the Japanese-American draft resistance cases, and foreshadowed the cases on the Japanese evacuation and California's anti-Japanese Alien Land Law yet to be tried before the Supreme Court:

Meanwhile, the Republicans accused Federalists of destroying republican values, not to mention political support from immigrants, with the Alien and Sedition Acts, some of which were later declared unconstitutional after their expiration by the Supreme Court ; they also accused Federalists of favoring Britain in order to promote aristocratic, anti-republican values.

The Naturalization Act of 1798, part of the Alien and Sedition Acts, was passed by the Federalists and extended the residency requirement from five to fourteen years.

His first major film as director, Dark Star ( 1974 ), was a science fiction black comedy that he cowrote with Dan O ' Bannon ( who later went on to write Alien, borrowing freely from much of Dark Star ).

Together with John De Lancie, another ex-actor from the Star Trek series, Nimoy created Alien Voices, an audio-production venture that specializes in audio dramatizations.

He received his Resident Alien Visa from the American Consulate when his birth certificate arrived from England.

California also passed an Alien Land Act which barred aliens, especially Asians, from holding title to land.

* In the Ben 10: Ultimate Alien episode " Escape from Aggregor ," Dr. Animo mind-controlled a Yeti to attack Ben while he prepares a bomb that would turn anyone in the radius of the explosion into Yetis.

" What I really want to do is update an iconic image from the ' 50s and bring in more of the sci-fi sensibility of Alien or John Carpenter's The Thing.

There were allegations that the film was plagiarized from a 1967 script, The Alien, by celebrated Indian Bengali director Satyajit Ray.

: Alien creatures from the planet Morodia.