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Every library borrower, or at least those whose taste goes beyond the five-cent fiction rentals, knows what it is to hear the librarian say apologetically, `` I'm sorry, but we don't have that book.

He even writes a book about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins.

For me it ’ s the book that does everything right, the example of what science fiction does when it works.

In the fiction book The Lord of the Rings, a series of beacons connects Gondor to Rhohan.

This book is a work of fiction.

It was also the first book containing the words " science fiction " in the title.

Although many of the descriptions in this book were written in an exaggerated manner or were plainly inventive fiction or 3rd-source misinterpretation, his notes are widely accepted as a useful guide to the cultural aspects and lifestyle of 17th-century Ottoman Empire.

Feminism has driven the creation of a considerable body of action-oriented science fiction with female protagonists: Wonder Woman ( actually originally created in 1941 ) and The Bionic Woman during the time of the organized women's movement in the 1970s ; Terminator 2 and the Alien tetralogy in the 1980s ; and Xena, Warrior Princess, comic book character Red Sonja and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

It may be debatable whether the book is an example of a False Document, but is included because it initially bore little or no indication that it was a work of fiction.

* Each chapter in Frank Herbert's science fiction novels Whipping Star, The Dosadi Experiment, and Dune variously begin with an aphorism, an excerpt from an official report ( or even a manual ), a quotation from a book about the events of the novel, etc.

Glorantha has been, so far, the background for 2 board-games ( White Bear and Red Moon / Dragon Pass and Nomad Gods ), two role-playing games ( RuneQuest and HeroQuest ), one video game ( King of Dragon Pass ), one comic book series ( Path of the Damned ), five novels or collections of fiction ( King of Sartar by Greg Stafford, The Collected / Complete Griselda by Oliver Dickinson, Gloranthan Visions by various authors, The Widow's Tale and Eurhol's Vale & Other Tales by Penelope Love, and numerous pieces of myth and fiction created by the Glorantha community, featuring in magazines such as Tales of the Reaching Moon.

Published in late 1939, biographer Philip Heselton noted that the book was " a very competent first work of fiction ", with strong allusions to the build-up which proceeded World War II.

His writing, particularly the so-called Cthulhu Mythos, has influenced fiction authors worldwide, and Lovecraftian elements can be found in novels, films, movies, music, video games, comic books ( e. g. the use of Arkham Insane Asylum in The Batman comic book series ), and even cartoons.

The book proved to be an enormous success and established Wyndham as an important exponent of science fiction.

" He stressed that since the book is a work of fiction and does not document real-world events, accusations of anti-Polish sentiment may result only from taking it too literally.

She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny.

As the paperback book came into fashion, lesbian themes were relegated to pulp fiction.

Loglan was mentioned in a couple of science fiction works: Robert A. Heinlein ’ s well-known books The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and The Number of the Beast, and Robert Rimmer ’ s utopian book Love Me Tomorrow ( 1978 ).

Several times during the development of the Oz series, Baum declared that he had written his last Oz book and devoted himself to other works of fantasy fiction based in other magical lands, including The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus and Queen Zixi of Ix.

* Intron Depot 1 ( 1992 ) ( science fiction – themed color illustration art book collecting his work from 1981 to 1991 )

The first book of Lewis's Space Trilogy, a rare example of theological science fiction, it features a philologist named Ransom who arrives by accident on Mars ( called Malacandra by the natives ).

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

Double Star is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first serialized in Astounding Science Fiction ( February, March, April 1956 ) and published in hardcover the same year.

Science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein described therapeutic waterbeds in his novels Beyond This Horizon ( 1942 ), Double Star ( 1956 ), and Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ).

For example, James M. Cain, author of The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity, is considered to be one of the defining authors of hard-boiled fiction.

Clinton Lawrence described the last Sector General book, Double Contact ( 1999 ), as " in a very positive way, a throwback to an earlier era in science fiction " since it is optimistic and depicts several advanced species working harmoniously.

* Space Chanty by R. A. Lafferty, an Ace Double science fiction novel, had a cover & interior art by Bodē.

Instead, her first big movie role was in the science fiction film Chameleon 3: Dark Angel in 2000, and since then she has had roles in a few other movies, such as Double Teamed.

Robert A. Heinlein's 1950s novels, such as The Puppet Masters, Double Star, and Starship Troopers, express the libertarian ideology that runs through much of Golden Age science fiction.

* Lawrence Smythe (" The Great Lorenzo ") was in Robert A. Heinlein's science fiction book Double Star ( 1956 ) hired to impersonate the politician and leader of the opposition Joseph Bonforte who had been injured in an attack by political opponents.

* Double Star, a 1956 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein inspired by I Was Monty's Double.

The 1943 war-time story " Nothing But Gingerbread Left ", written decades before by science fiction writer Henry Kuttner, has a very close premise.

" The novel has also been dismissed by a number of literary critics as " merely a sentimental novel ," while critic George Whicher stated in his Literary History of the United States that " Nothing attributable to Mrs. Stowe or her handiwork can account for the novel's enormous vogue ; its author's resources as a purveyor of Sunday-school fiction were not remarkable.

* Nothing Sacred ( novel ), a 2004 science fiction novel by Thomas W. Flynn

Without lapsing into moral or artistic simplism, shoddy craftsmanship, Madison Avenue venality, or either false or real naiveté, he nevertheless aspires to a fiction more democratic in its appeal than such late-Modernist marvels as Beckett's Texts for Nothing ...

Grosseto and Maremma have been settings for numerous works of fiction and movies, including the novels and associated films, such as The Easy Life ( 1962 ) with Vittorio Gassman ; La vita agra ( 1964 ), from the novel of the same name by Luciano Bianciardi, with Ugo Tognazzi ; An Ideal Place To Kill ( 1969 ) directed by Umberto Lenzi ; In viaggio con papà ( 1982 ), with Alberto Sordi ; Nothing Left to Do But Cry ( 1984 ), with Massimo Troisi and Roberto Benigni ; It's Happening Tomorrow ( 1988 ); Viola bacia tutti ( 1997 ) with Asia Argento ; The Talented Mr. Ripley with Matt Damon and Jude Law ; Emma sono io ( 2002 ); Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio ; Manuale d ' amore 3 ( 2011 ) with Robert De Niro and Monica Bellucci ; Swiss movie Summer Games, and some Leonardo Pieraccioni's movies.

To Say Nothing of the Dog: How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last is a 1997 comic science fiction novel by Connie Willis.

Vincenzo Natali ( born January 6, 1969 ) is an American-Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for writing and directing science fiction films such as Cube, Cypher, Nothing and Splice.

Colin Kapp ( 1928 – 3 August 2007 ) was a British science fiction author.

Soon after Summer of Night, Simmons, who had written mostly horror fiction, began to focus on writing science fiction, although in 2007 he returned with a work of historical fiction and horror, The Terror.

Father Christmas appears in many English-language works of fiction, including Robin Jones Gunn's Father Christmas Series ( 2007 ), Catherine Spencer's A Christmas to Remember ( 2007 ), Debbie Macomber's There's Something About Christmas ( 2005 ), Richard Paul Evans's The Gift ( 2007 ), C. S.

" Reading and playing: what makes interactive fiction unique " p. 276-298. in Williams, J. P., & Smith, J. H. ( 2007 ).

In 2007, Niven, in conjunction with a group of science fiction writers known as SIGMA, led by Pournelle, began advising the U. S. Department of Homeland Security as to future trends affecting terror policy and other topics.

* Patrimony ( novel ), a 2007 science fiction novel by Alan Dean Foster

By the time the series ended, The X-Files had become the longest-running science fiction series in U. S. television history, though it was subsequently surpassed by Stargate SG-1 in 2007 and by Smallville in 2011.

In other fictional television works, a January 1971 episode " By the Pricking of My Thumbs ..." of the British science fiction TV series Doomwatch featured a 16-year-old XYY boy expelled from school because of his genetic condition, a November 1993 episode " Born Bad " of the American police procedural TV series Law & Order portrayed a 14-year-old XYY sociopathic murderer, and the May 2007 season finale episode " Born To Kill " of the American police procedural TV series CSI: Miami depicted a 34-year-old XYY serial killer.

* Dreamland ( 2007 film ), a 2007 science fiction film

In 2007, BioWare released the science fiction RPG Mass Effect.

Eckert and other " post-Farmerian " writers ( denoting authors working with or in a similar vein as Eckert, who are admirers of Farmer's Wold Newton biographies and fiction ) have – through crossovers documented in Eckert's massive online Crossover Chronology ( published in book form by Black Coat Press in two volumes in 2010 as Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World ), and through parascholarly articles such as those appearing on the various WNU-themed websites online ; Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe ( edited by Win Scott Eckert, MonkeyBrain Books, 2005, a 2007 Locus Award finalist ) and in various issues of the pro-zine dedicated to and authorized by Farmer, Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer ( published by Michael Croteau, webmaster of the Official Philip José Farmer Home Page ) – brought numerous further fictional characters into the WNU.

In September 2007, the paperback fiction list was divided into " trade " and " mass-market " sections, in order to give more visibility to the trade paperbacks that were more often reviewed by the newspaper itself.

In 2007, the science fiction horror film Aliens vs.

Due to the success of the first Invasion, another science fiction themed event took place in Holt on 30 June 2007.

Examples of de Clerambault's syndrome ( erotomania ) in fiction include Ian McEwan's novel Enduring Love, which was later turned into a film also called Enduring Love ; the American movies Fatal Attraction and The Bodyguard, the Portuguese film O Fantasma ( 2001 ) and the French films Anna M. ( 2007 ) and Laetitia Colombani's À la folie ... pas du tout ( 2002 ).

* Graham Nelson — current Supernumerary Fellow ( 2007 —), mathematician, poet, and noted interactive fiction game designer.

* Megan Fox ( b. 1986 ), actress, best known for her role in the 2007 science fiction blockbuster Transformers

Other films have included the science fiction feature Gattaca ( 1997 ), the title role in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet ( 2000 ), the action thriller Assault on Precinct 13 ( 2005 ), and the crime drama Before the Devil Knows You're Dead ( 2007 ).

Some, such as Love Sky, have sold millions of print copies, and at the end of 2007 cell phone novels comprised four of the top five fiction best sellers.