From 1976 to 1980, Watterson attended Kenyon College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, while developing his art skills and contributing cartoons to the college newspaper.

Children of Dune is a 1976 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, third in a series of six novels set in his Dune universe.

* 1920 – Daniel F. Galouye, science fiction author ( d. 1976 )

Soon after the release of the movie Logan's Run in 1976, rudimentary live role-playing games based on the movie were run at US science fiction conventions.

The lyrics up to this point ( most of them written by Peart ) were heavily influenced by classical poetry, fantasy literature, science fiction, and the writings of novelist Ayn Rand, as exhibited most prominently by their 1975 song " Anthem " from Fly By Night and a specifically acknowledged derivation in 2112 ( 1976 ).

The source code and commentary were originally produced in May 1976 as a set of lecture notes for Lions ' computer science courses ( 6. 602B and 6. 657G ) at the University of New South Wales Department of Computer Science.

* " Ladies And Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis " ( 1976 ) was a short story by science fiction author Kate Wilhelm about a television show in which contestants ( including a B-list actress who is hoping to revitalize her career ) attempt to make their way to a checkpoint after being dropped off in the Alaskan wilderness, while being filmed and broadcast around the clock through an entire weekend.

The first and most referenced volume, The Will to Knowledge ( previously known as An Introduction in English – Histoire de la sexualité, 1: la volonté de savoir in French ) was published in France in 1976, and translated in 1977, focusing primarily on the last two centuries, and the functioning of sexuality as an analytics of power related to the emergence of a science of sexuality ( scientia sexualis ) and the emergence of biopower in the West.

This series includes, for example, Ethel Lina White's novel The Wheel Spins ( 1936 ), which Alfred Hitchcock — before he went to Hollywood — turned into a much-loved movie entitled The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), and Ira Levin's ( born 1929 ) science fiction thriller The Boys from Brazil ( 1976 ), which was filmed in 1978.

Parliament-Funkadelic stage shows ( particularly the P-Funk Earth Tour of 1976 ) were expanded to include imagery from science fiction and a stage prop known as the Mothership.

Sutherland found himself in demand as a leading man throughout the 1970s in films such as the Venice-based psychological horror film Don't Look Now ( 1973 ), the war film The Eagle Has Landed ( 1976 ), Federico Fellini's Casanova ( 1976 ) and the thriller Eye of the Needle ( which was filmed on location on the Isle of Mull, West Scotland ) and as the ever-optimistic health inspector in the science fiction / horror film Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1978 ) alongside Brooke Adams and Jeff Goldblum.

Perkins also hosted television's Saturday Night Live in 1976 and was featured in his only science fiction film, the box office-smash and space opus, Walt Disney's The Black Hole, in 1979.

In 1972 Catmull made his earliest contribution to the film industry, an animated version of his left hand which was eventually picked up by a Hollywood producer and incorporated in the 1976 movie Futureworld, the science fiction sequel to the film Westworld and the first film to use 3D computer graphics.

* February 11-Daniel F. Galouye, American science fiction author ( died 1976 )

At Western Michigan, Allen worked at the student radio station WIDR and received a bachelor of science degree in communications specializing in radio and television production in 1976 with a split minor in philosophy and design.

A key character in the 1965 science fiction novel Dune, Jessica also plays an important role in the later novel Children of Dune ( 1976 ).

In 1976, structural engineer Reuben VandeKraats made the decision to add a more complex building style to the newly designed science and art wings of the school.

The Dark Side of the Sun is a science fiction novel by Terry Pratchett, first published in 1976.

One of the earliest pen-and-paper games to reference the term was Gamma World published by TSR in 1980 ( the same company that originated Dungeons and Dragons )., while its predecessor Metamorphosis Alpha, published in 1976 is classified as science fiction, highlighting some of the confusion between the two genres.

It was awarded the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for best science fiction novelette of 1976.

After graduating from Elmira Free Academy in 1974, Collins attended Corning Community College where she earned an associate degree in mathematics / science in 1976.

Later, she received another degree in Cinematography from the New York School of Visual Arts, and, in 1976, she received a doctorate in political science.

The sixth series from 1976, designed by Ernst and Ursula Hiestand, depicted persons from the world of science.

Rosemary Sutcliff's 1976 historical fiction novel Blood Feud depicts Basil II from the point of view of a member of his recently created Varangian Guard.

He returned to Canada in 1976 to finish a law degree at the University of Toronto, and became interested in fiction writing.

In 1971, after the publication of The People's War, the Calders moved to Edinburgh, where he published Russia Discovered, a survey of 19th-century Russian fiction in 1976, and, three years later, became staff tutor in Arts with the Open University.

Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.

After the Shaw trial, Garrison wrote three books on the Kennedy assassination, A Heritage of Stone ( 1970 ), The Star Spangled Contract ( 1976, fiction, but based on the JFK assassination ), and the best-seller, On The Trail of The Assassins ( 1988 ).

From 1969 to 1976, Gordon Lish served as fiction editor for Esquire and became known as " Captain Fiction " because of the authors whose careers he assisted.

He published Bestseller, an exploration of English popular fiction, Aspects of English History ( 1957 ), The Devil's Decade ( 1973 ), his history of the 1930s, and Union Power ( 1976 ).

* John Joseph Adams ( born 1976 ), American science fiction / fantasy editor

The novel was not published until shortly after Christie's death in 1976, some thirty-six years after it was originally written.

It was originally serialized in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1976, and was the last Dune novel to be serialized before book publication.

In Muriel Spark's 1976 novel The Takeover the eccentric Hubert Mallindaine believes himself to be a direct descendant of Caligula.

This novel was adapted into a TV series, The Six Million Dollar Man, in 1973, and a spin-off, The Bionic Woman in 1976.

It is said to have at least two moons, one being the copper-coloured Pazithi Gallifreya ( first named in Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible ); the novel Lungbarrow also places Karn ( setting of The Brain of Morbius, 1976 ) in Gallifrey's solar system, along with a frozen gas giant named Polarfrey and an " astrological figure " of " Kasterborous the Fibster ".

* Galatea, a 1976 novel by Philip Pullman

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.

In 1985's novel The Vampire Lestat by author Anne Rice ( who penned Interview ... s screenplay and the 1976 novel of the same name ) suggests that its antihero Lestat inspired and nurtured the Grand Guignol style and theatre.

In the 1976 Ira Levin novel The Boys from Brazil and its 1978 film adaptation, Josef Mengele uses cloning to create copies of Adolf Hitler.

Kosiński himself addressed these claims in the introduction to the 1976 reissue of The Painted Bird, saying that " Well-intentioned writers critics, and readers sought facts to back up their claims that the novel was autobiographical.

Radio Free Albemuth is a novel by Philip K. Dick, written in 1976 and published posthumously in 1985.

The first novel was filmed as At the Earth's Core ( 1976 ), directed by Kevin Connor and starring Doug McClure as David Innes and Peter Cushing as Abner Perry.

She appeared in the 1975 screen adaptation of the Hans Fallada novel, Every Man Dies Alone directed by Alfred Vohrer, released in English as Everyone Dies Alone in 1976 and for which she won an award for best actress at the International Film Festival in Carlsbad, then in Czechoslovakia.

Hoffman next starred in Marathon Man ( also 1976 ), a film based on William Goldman's novel of the same name, opposite Laurence Olivier and Roy Scheider.

The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 ), a western inspired by Asa Carter's 1972 novel of the same name, has lead character Josey Wales ( Eastwood ) as a pro-Confederate guerilla who refuses to surrender his arms after the American Civil War and is chased across the old southwest by a group of enforcers.

In 1974, the novel Spy Story was published, followed in 1976 by Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy ( also known as Catch A Falling Spy in North America ).

" Likewise, on the 1976 edition dust jacket to Catch a Falling Spy, the novel features " Deighton's familiar hero, our bespectacled Englishman ".

In 1976, Deighton's novel Spy Story was filmed with Michael Petrovitch as ' Patrick Armstrong '; it is unrelated to Saltzman's Harry Palmer films.

In 1976 he appeared in the screen adaptation by Tom Mankiewicz of the Jack Higgins novel The Eagle Has Landed as Oberst ( Colonel ) Kurt Steiner, the commander of a Luftwaffe paratroop brigade disguised as Polish paratroopers, whose mission was to kidnap or kill the then-British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, alongside co-stars Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter and Donald Pleasence.

She came to international prominence for her roles as Holly Sargis in Terrence Malick's 1973 film Badlands, and as Carrie White in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie ( based on the first novel by Stephen King ) for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination.

In 1976, she acted in the movie Captain Pantoja and the Special Service ( Pantaleon y las Visitadoras ), directed by Mario Vargas Llosa, author of the novel.