* 1845: Margaret: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, Blight and Bloom ; Including Sketches of a Place Not Before Described, Called Mons Christi, a Transcendentalist novel ( revised 1851 )

Today, Horton is most remembered for his 1926 account " The Blight of Asia " relating, among a variety of topics, the Great Fire of Smyrna that ravaged the city of Smyrna starting on 13 September 1922, two days after the Consul general's departure from his post there on 11 September, and that lasted for 4 days.

Upon the disbanding of the Legion after the Blight and the loss of Outpost Allon, Dyrk chose to join the Science Police, following in the footsteps of his older brother Omar.

Despite the fact that Brite's first novel was criticized by some mainstream sources for allegedly " lack a moral center: neither terrifyingly malevolent supernatural creatures nor ( like Anne Rice's protagonists ) tortured souls torn between good and evil, these vampires simply add blood-drinking to the amoral panoply of drug abuse, problem drinking and empty sex practiced by their human counterparts ", many of these so-called " human counterparts " identified with the teen angst and goth music references therein, keeping the book in print.

The surname Stark was later used in King's novel The Dark Half, in which an author's malevolent pseudonym, " George Stark ", comes to life.

Other werewolves are decidedly more willful and malevolent, such as those in the novel The Howling and its subsequent sequels and film adaptations.

* In the 1960 novel World of the Gods by Pel Torro ( a psedonym of Lionel Fanthorpe ), a malevolent shapeshifting alien takes on the physical form of Professor Challenger, believing him to be a real-life Earth scientist, and is then forced to remain in this form for the rest of the novel.

In particular, the 2001 monolith was capable of faster-than-light transmission, and was generally portrayed as both less malevolent and more of a thinking entity than the one seen in this novel ( in particular, Dave Bowman's transcendence as a star child is now explained as a mundane case of being uploaded onto a computer ).

The novel ends with him turned into a demon of sorts, a malevolent free spirit determined to bring doom on those who have abused him and his loved ones for so long.

Deep within the Old Forest was the Withywindle Valley, a dark, evil and malevolent place which was the root of all the terrors of the forest.

" Other important predecessors include Alfred Bester's two most celebrated novels, The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination, as well as Vernor Vinge's novella True Names.

Concern about the rapid pace of technological change crystallized around the concept of the technological singularity, popularized by Vernor Vinge's novel Marooned in Realtime and then taken up by other authors.

Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space series, Peter F. Hamilton's Void, Night's Dawn and Pandora's Star series, and Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky are newer examples of this genre.

Vernor Vinge's True Names, published in 1981, imagines a virtual world which is probably the first to represent a metaverse.

The poem was referenced in Vernor Vinge's hard science fiction novel A Fire Upon the Deep.

* Manhattan features in Vernor Vinge's 1985 science-fiction novella The Ungoverned.

The small size of Usenet in its youthful days, and Spencer's early involvement, made him a well-recognised participant ; this is commemorated in Vernor Vinge's 1992 novel A Fire Upon the Deep.

* Another name for stasis ( fiction ) in Vernor Vinge's Peace Authority science fiction series

In Vernor Vinge's book Marooned in Realtime, flying personal autons, autonomous robotic devices, serve the " High-Techs " as bodyguards or sensory enhancement.

This " something else " is the sum of all human knowledge, a concept similar to Vernor Vinge's technological singularity.

* Canberra, a fictional planet mentioned in Vernor Vinge's science fiction books.

Vernor Vinge's short story " The Ungoverned " depicts anarcho-capitalists defending against an invading government.

A more limited form of stasis field is the " bobble ", found in Vernor Vinge's Peace Authority setting.

* Invisible Hand, a starship in Vernor Vinge's 1999 novel, " A Deepness in the Sky "

* In Vernor Vinge's 1972 short story " Long Shot ", the story of an attempt at embryo space colonization is told from the point of view of the artificial intelligence bearing the embryo through interstellar space.

A Fire Upon the Deep is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge, a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a conversation medium resembling Usenet.

The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

The Bussard ramjet is a theoretical method of spacecraft propulsion proposed in 1960 by the physicist Robert W. Bussard, popularized by Poul Andersons novel Tau Zero, Larry Niven in his Known Space series of books, Vernor Vinge in his Zones of Thought series, and referred to by Carl Sagan in the television series and book Cosmos.

* Vernor Vinge in the novel Marooned in Realtime, p. 174 ( although the object is described as being a naked black hole ).

science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge.

* Sherkaner Underhill, fictional non-human character in the novel A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge

* Vernor Vinge uses it in his novel Rainbows End to illustrate the struggle between encouraging technological advancement and protecting the world from new weapons technologies.

The Peace War is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge, about authoritarianism and technological progress.

Marooned in Realtime is a 1986 murder mystery and time-travel science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge, about a small, time-displaced group of people who may be the only survivors of a technological singularity or alien invasion.

The mathematician Vernor Vinge popularized his ideas about exponentially accelerating technological change in the SF novel Marooned in Realtime ( 1986 ), set in a world of rapidly accelerating progress leading to the emergence of more and more sophisticated technologies separated by shorter and shorter time intervals, until a point beyond human comprehension is reached.

The 1984 novel The Peace War by Vernor Vinge features a " Peace Authority " created when military research scientists develop a device called a " bobbler " and use it to take over the world and enforce world peace in a very similar fashion.

* Vernor Vinge-A Fire Upon the Deep

* In A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge, the destruction of a human civilization is preceded by an RKV assault.

Vinge's novel, A Deepness in the Sky ( 1999 ), is a prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep set 20, 000 years earlier and featuring Pham Nuwen.

* The Snow Queen: The fable inspired Joan D. Vinge's science-fantasy novel which added interstellar travel, sea-dwelling sentient mammals, and a galaxy-wide conspiracy to the basic love story.

Vinge's more recent novel A Deepness in the Sky involves a stateless nonhuman society.