Stephen King's 1985 novel " The Tommyknockers " also makes reference to Altair 4, as a desolate wasteland.

In fact, the project was small, underfunded by United Artists, and well under the cultural radar during the early months of production, as Stephen King's source novel had yet to climb the bestseller list.

* Stephen King's The Dark Tower series mentions Discordia in several contexts ; one of the main characters, Mordred Deschain, is from Discordia, and the castle that is home to the main antagonist is called Castle Discordia.

The novel, which was praised by Stephen King, is similar to King's It in its focus on small town life, the corruption of innocence, the return of an ancient evil, and the responsibility for others that emerges with the transition from youth to adulthood.

* The protagonist of Stephen King's novel Duma Key exhibited symptoms of a condition similar to receptive aphasia after suffering brain damage in an industrial accident.

* Stephen King's novel Carrie ( 1974 ) is written in an epistolary structure, through newspaper clippings, magazine articles, letters, and excerpts from books.

* Stephen King's novel Carrie includes many excerpts from a fictional committee's findings on the events in the novel, as well as excerpts from a book on the events in the novel titled The Shadow Exploded.

Also in the 1970s, horror author Stephen King debuted on the film scene as many of his books were adapted for the screen, beginning with Brian De Palma's adaptation of King's first published novel, Carrie ( 1976 ), which was nominated for Academy Awards.

* William Harrison-Wallace in the Dollar Baby screen adaptation of Stephen King's The Death of Jack Hamilton ( 2012 ).

He has also signed on to direct, produce, and write an adaptation of Stephen King's sci-fi novel 11 / 22 / 63 that centers around an attempt to go back in time and stop the Kennedy Assassination.

* Lud ( city ), a city in Stephen King's Dark Tower series

* In Stephen King's 1980 novel Firestarter, the protagonist chooses Rolling Stone as an unbiased independent media source, through which she can expose the government agency hunting her.

At the beginning of Stephen King's career, the general view among publishers was such that an author was limited to a book every year, since publishing more would not be acceptable to the public.

Richard Bachman was also referred to in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of books.

* Rhea of the Cöos, a character in Stephen King's Dark Tower novels

In Stephen King's novel Misery the protagonist, Paul Sheldon, is forced to write a sequel to his book Misery's Child, in which the main character, Misery Chastain, dies.

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At one time, prominent science fiction authors were frequently recruited to write episodes of various series, such as William Gibson's and Stephen King's work on The X-Files.

* Maximum Overdrive, Stephen King's 1986 film, featured big rigs as its primary homicidal villains

The plot of Stephen King's 2003 novel Wolves of the Calla is loosely based on The Magnificent Seven ( Or, rather Seven Samurai ).

In his introduction to the 2003 revised edition of his novel The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, Stephen King revealed that the film was a primary influence for the Dark Tower series, and that Eastwood's character specifically inspired the creation of King's protagonist, Roland Deschain.

Some of which include Annie ( 1982 ), Clue ( 1985 ), and most notably, the 1990 horror miniseries Stephen King's It in which he stars as " Pennywise the Dancing Clown ", an alternate physical appearance of the titular antagonist, It.

Stephen King got the name Castle Rock from the fictional mountain fort of the same name in Lord of the Flies, using the name to refer to a fictional town that has appeared in a number of King's novels.

While he cared little for who should become King of Poland, the cause of protecting the King's father-in-law was a sympathetic one, and he hoped to use the war as a means of humbling the Austrians, and perhaps securing the long-desired Duchy of Lorraine from its duke, Francis Stephen, who was expected to marry Emperor Charles's daughter Maria Theresa, which would bring Austrian power dangerously close to the French border.

However, the following year she played Connie in Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive, noting it was " truly a dreadful film but I had a great part in it.

In the Wine-Dark Sea, book fifteen of the series, Stephen Maturin now has a Girolamo Amati and Aubrey a Guarneri.

In Stephen R. Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle, Aurelianus ( most often referred to as " Aurelius ") figures prominently, along with his brother Uther, in the second book of the series, Merlin.

Stephen Breyer, a U. S. Supreme Court Justice since 1994, divides the history of administrative law in the United States into six discrete periods, according to his book, Administrative Law & Regulatory Policy ( 3d Ed., 1992 ):

A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler.

Anyone Can Whistle is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.

Stephen Jay Gould's book Wonderful Life, published in 1989, brought the Burgess Shale fossils to the public's attention.

Stephen Cook asserts that the prophetic efforts of this book can be summed up in this passage " I have been the Lord your God ever since the land of Egypt ; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior " () Hosea's job was to speak these words during a time when that had been essentially forgotten.

On Elizabeth's death in 1603, the 1559 book, substantially that of 1552 which had been regarded as offensive by the likes of Bishop Stephen Gardiner as being a break with the tradition of the Western church, had come to be regarded in some quarters as unduly Catholic.

* In the book Faithful by Steward O ' Nan and Stephen King, describing the 2004 season of the Boston Red Sox, there is a chapter contributed by King, named " The Gloom is gone from Mudville ".

* Company ( musical ), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth

* Toulmin, Stephen, " Fall of a Genius ", a book review of " Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges ", in The New York Review of Books, 19 January 1984, p. 3ff.

Although Stephen Jay Gould's 1977 book Ontogeny and Phylogeny helps to reassess Haeckelian embryology, it does not address the controversy over Haeckel's embryo drawings.

Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman.

He kept all of the stories submitted to his magazine, even the ones he rejected ; Stephen King has stated that Ackerman showed up to a King book signing with a copy of a story King had submitted for publication when he was 11.

According to the Stephen Fried book Thing of Beauty, she locked herself in a bathroom for hours, shooting heroin.

* Lindisfarne plays a key role in " Conqueror ", the second book of the Time's Tapestry series by Stephen Baxter.

According to Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, in his book " The Two Faces of Islam ", “ some say that during this vagabondage Ibn Abdul Wahhab came into contact with certain Englishmen who encouraged him to personal ambition as well as to a critical attitude about Islam .” Specifically, Mir ’ at al Harramin, a Turkish work by Ayyub Sabri Pasha, written in 1888, states that in Basra, Abdul Wahhab had come into contact with a British spy by the name of Hempher, who “ inspired in him the tricks and lies that he had learned from the British Ministry of the Commonwealth .”

According to Stephen Kinzer's 2006 book Overthrow, in 1898 the chief of the French Canal Syndicate ( a group that owned large swathes of land across Panama ), Philippe Bunau Varilla, hired William Nelson Cromwell to lobby the U. S. Congress for the Panama Canal.

* Manifold: Origin, a 2001 science fiction book by Stephen Baxter

He also has one of the characters describe how the strange happenings are like a " Stephen King " novel in the book.

" King dedicated his 1989 book The Dark Half, about a pseudonym turning on a writer, to " the deceased Richard Bachman ", and in 1996, when the Stephen King novel Desperation was released, the companion novel The Regulators carried the " Bachman " byline.