* Atlas Shrugged, a novel by Ayn Rand

In the novel Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand condemns nihilism quite aggressively.

Their next film, Cloud Atlas, based on the novel of the same name by David Mitchell and co-written and co-directed by Tom Tykwer, is scheduled for release on October 26, 2012.

* October 12 – Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged is published.

Ayn Rand is mentioned by name a few times in Illuminatus !, and her novel is alluded to by Hagbard who says, " If Atlas can Shrug and Telemachus can Sneeze, why can't Satan Repent?

He is also comparable to a degree to Ragnar Danneskjold, a libertarian pirate in the Ayn Rand novel Atlas Shrugged, which receives several mentions in the chronicles.

* Atlas Shrugged ( 1957 novel )

: Not to be confused with Zedelghem, a fictional place in the novel Cloud Atlas

The actor was also announced as part of the cast of the Wachowskis ' ambitious adaptation of David Mitchell's novel Cloud Atlas during the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

Assessing the novel's legacy, philosopher Douglas Den Uyl described The Fountainhead as relatively neglected compared to her later novel, Atlas Shrugged, and said, " our problem is to find those topics that arise clearly with The Fountainhead and yet do not force us to read it simply through the eyes of Atlas Shrugged.

After the publication of Rand ’ s most explicitly philosophical novel, Atlas Shrugged, and sensing an interest on the part of Rand ’ s readers in further philosophic education, Branden created in 1958 the Nathaniel Branden Institute ( NBI ) to disseminate Rand ’ s philosophy of Objectivism, by offering live and taped lecture courses by Rand, Branden, and a variety of other Objectivist intellectuals ( including Alan Greenspan, whom Branden had brought into Rand ’ s fold ).

* John Galt, the hero character from Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged

When Rand's final novel, Atlas Shrugged, became a best-seller, Random House decided to republish We the Living.

Some accuse LaVey of paraphrasing the Nine Satanic Statements from Rand's Atlas Shrugged without acknowledgement, though others maintain that LaVey simply was drawing inspiration from the novel.

* Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged is known in Modern Hebrew translation as Mered HaNephilim ( מרד הנפילים, literally: the revolt / rebellion of the Nephilim )

* David Mitchell's novel, Cloud Atlas, echoes the story in many ways, most explicitly through the character Luisa Rey.

It is not, as noted in the Atlas of Venezuela: A Spatial Image ( Atlas de Venezuela: Una imagen espacial, also known as El Atlas de Petróleos de Venezuela ), an ecosystem of " paleodunas ", literally ' old dunes ,' formed in an environment with a much drier climate than the current one, but a mechanism of dune formation that acts only in the dry season since the lowering of the water level of the Orinoco at the rivers ' lowest point, especially that of those that originate in the llanos, extensive beaches of fine sand are left behind, that the trade winds very quickly will transfer to the southeast, forming what now constitutes el Parque Nacional Santos Luzardo ( the Santos Luzardo National Park ), which takes its name from one of the main characters in the famous novel Doña Bárbara by Rómulo Gallegos.

According to Jonathan Chait of The New Republic, Verity kept a passage from Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged on his desk, including the line " How well you do your work.

He portrays Orren Boyle in Atlas Shrugged ( 2011 ), the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's novel of the same name.

* Ayers Music Publishing Company, a fictional company in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged

* James Taggart ( Atlas Shrugged ), fictional character in the novel Atlas Shrugged

* Atlas ( mythology ), a Titan who bore the spheres of the heavens ; inspiring the widely used image of a man carrying a celestial sphere on his back or shoulders ( also known as Atlas Telamon or " enduring Atlas ")

* Atlas ( moon ), a moon of Saturn

* Atlas ( crater ), a prominent impact crater on the Moon

* Atlas ( star ), a triple star system in the Pleiades cluster

* Atlas ( anatomy ), the topmost cervical vertebra of the spine

* Atlas Bear ( Ursus arctos crowtheri ), an extinct subspecies of the Brown Bear

* Atlas beetle ( Chalcosoma atlas ), a rhinoceros beetle species

* Atlas Flycatcher ( Ficedula speculigera ), a songbird species sometimes included in the Eurasian Pied Flycatcher

* Atlas Moth ( Attacus atlas ), a large saturniid moth species

* Atlas Turtle ( Colossochelys atlas ), a prehistoric giant tortoise, formerly in the genus Testudo

* Atlas ( topology ), a collection of local coordinate charts in mathematics

* Atlas Computer ( Manchester ) ( 1962 – 1971 ), an early computer built at the University of Manchester

** Titan ( computer ), also known as the Atlas 2, its successor

* The Atlas ( video game ), a Japan-exclusive strategy video game

* Atlas ( album ), an album by Mexican electro-pop band Kinky

* Atlas ( band ), a rock band from Christchurch, New Zealand

* Atlas ( film ), a 1961 movie by Roger Corman

* Atlas Games ( company ), a publisher of role-playing and card games

* Atlas ( magazine ), Turkish monthly magazine on geography, environment, history and culture

* Atlas Comics ( 1950s ), the company that evolved into Marvel Comics

* Atlas ( comics series ), a comic book series by Dylan Horrocks

* Atlas ( DC Comics ), a fictional character published by DC Comics