This work was originally planned to be a single book, and then planned as a six-and then seven-volume series.

* American writer Stephen King has written a seven-volume series of epic fantasy novels called The Dark Tower, concerning the thousand-year quest of Roland Deschain, of Eld, based in part on Browning's Childe Roland.

Six years later, they produced a seven-volume series adapting the arc's first half from 2000 to 2002.

Stephen King's seven-volume Dark Tower series hinges upon the existence of multiple parallel worlds, many of which are King's own literary creations.

The original fifty-issue Love and Rockets Volume One has also been reprinted in its entirety in both a fifteen-volume paperback library, and more recently a seven-volume mass-market paperback series by Fantagraphics.

Recently, the issue of a " second generation of postmateralism " appearing on the scene of worldwide civil society, to a large extent conceived as their " positive ideological embodiment ", has been brought up by cultural scientist Roland Benedikter in his seven-volume book series Postmaterialismus ( 2001 – 2005 ).

He is the main antagonist of King's seven-volume Dark Tower series, as well as the novels Insomnia and Black House.

* Tempus, the fictional commander of the Sacred Band of Stepsons in the Thieves World shared-universe series, the Sacred Band of Stepsons seven-volume saga, and the book-length novelization of short stories titled Tempus

Later that year Vesalius asked Johannes Oporinus to help publish the seven-volume De humani corporis fabrica ( On the fabric of the human body ), a groundbreaking work of human anatomy he dedicated to Charles V. Most believe it was illustrated by Titian's pupil Jan Stephen van Calcar.

In 1543, Vesalius asked Johannes Oporinus to help publish the seven-volume De humani corporis fabrica ( On the fabric of the human body ), a groundbreaking work of human anatomy he dedicated to Charles V and which most believe was illustrated by Titian's pupil Jan Stephen van Calcar, though others believe was illustrated by different artists working in the studio of Titian, and not from Van Calcar himself.

Francis Parkman ( September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893 ) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America.

To describe its origin as being either Palladian or Venetian is not accurate ; the motif was first used by Donato Bramante ( Ackerman ) and later mentioned by Sebastiano Serlio ( 1475 – 1554 ) in his seven-volume architectural book Tutte l ' opere d ' architettura et prospetiva expounding the ideals of Vitruvius and Roman architecture, this arched window is flanked by two lower rectangular openings, a motif that first appeared in the triumphal arches of ancient Rome.

Nihon Ōdai Ichiran grew into a seven-volume text which was completed in 1650.

His major work in this format is the seven-volume manga version of his tale Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, which he created from 1982 to 1994 and which has sold millions of copies worldwide.

Although a liberal himself, he wrote his seven-volume history with such a masterly balance that Catholics, liberals and socialists could quote from it with equal respect in their newspapers or sometimes even in their political gatherings.

Later, in his seven-volume History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Civil War, ( 1893 – 1900 ), James Ford Rhodes identified slavery as the central — and virtually only — cause of the Civil War.

In 2002, the August Sander Archive and scholar Susanne Lange published a seven-volume collection comprising some 650 of Sander's photographs, August Sander: People of the 20th Century.

Milligan wrote and edited many books, including Puckoon and his seven-volume autobiographical account of his time serving during the Second World War, beginning with Adolf Hitler: My part in his downfall.

This French text is a translation of Hayashi Gahō's seven-volume Imperial chronology, first circulated in Kyoto in 1652 and reprinted in the early 19th century as a standard reference work for use by Tokugawa scholar-bureaucrats.

The first three of what were then expected to be a seven-volume set were published in 1968, 1969, and 1973.

Also, a number of new anthologies of Yiddish songs have been compiled, including a seven-volume anthology edited by Sinai Leichter, published by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

* List of Wainwrights, 214 fells ( hills and mountains ) described in A. Wainwright's seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells

Fake is a seven-volume Boys ' Love ( shōjo with homosexual male themes ) manga by Sanami Matoh.

The seven-volume manga details their adventures as police in a violent city and delves into each one's past, as well as developing their slowly building relationship.

* Éditions de l ' Oiseau-Lyre-The company Éditions de l ' Oiseau-Lyre publishes a seven-volume edition of surviving Magnus Liber Organi components.

Next, Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks ( 1990 – 1991 ); he also created a cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 ), a road movie, Wild at Heart ( 1990 ), and a family film, The Straight Story ( 1999 ) in the same period.

In the Prelude to Dune prequel series by Brian Herbert and Anderson, it is established that Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is the son and heir of Dmitri Harkonnen and his wife Victoria.

He is featured in 1965's Dune, the original novel in the science fiction series, as well as the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy ( 1999 – 2001 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

In Dune: House Corrino ( published in 2001 and the third novel in the Prelude to Dune prequel series by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson ), Piter De Vries discovers the Harkonnen heritage of Lady Jessica and her newborn son Paul, and attempts to kidnap and ransom the infant.

The pilot episode of the prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise, " Broken Bow " ( 2001 ) describes the Klingon language as having " eighty polyguttural dialects constructed on an adaptive syntax ".

Grammer supplied the voices for " Stinky Pete the Prospector " in 1999 Disney / Pixar film Toy Story 2, Vladimir in the Fox animated movie Anastasia, Rothbart in Barbie of Swan Lake, Zozi the Bear in the subsequently produced prequel Bartok the Magnificent, and the title character in the short-lived animated series Gary the Rat.

The Baroque Cycle, Stephenson's next novel, is a series of long historical novels set in the 17th and 18th centuries, and is in some respects a prequel to Cryptonomicon.

* Silent Hill: Origins, the fifth installment of the Silent Hill survival horror series and prequel to the original 1999 game

The general theme of the season was a refocus on the prequel concept of the series, with many episodes making reference to themes, concepts, and characters from past series.

Like Enterprise, the new film ( which did contain an indirect reference to the series: Scotty believes he has been " exiled " to the remote Starfleet outpost, where Kirk and the older Spock encounter him, as punishment for losing Admiral Archer's beagle-whom Kirk is quite familiar with-in a transporter mishap ) also adopted a prequel concept, with a different approach.

As explained by Pocket Books editor Margaret Clark, it was decided to scale back the number of books published not due to low sales or lack of interest in the prequel series, but due to the fact that the televised series often conflicted with planned literary plotlines, or beat the book series to the punch entirely.

According to the 2009 film Star Trek and the prequel comic series Star Trek: Countdown, Romulus ( and presumably Remus ) is destroyed in 2387 by a star going supernova.

The Lunar series, despite the relatively narrow circulation the two titles on the Mega-CD received, was critically acclaimed and became a cult classic, with both games receiving remakes for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn in the late ' 90s ; and a prequel to the series for the Nintendo DS in 2005.

Slayers Special is a spin-off prequel series of 30 novels published from 1991 to 2008.

In 1992, the series spawned a prequel, the film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, a commercial failure in America, but a success in Japan.

Prophet's Power, numbered as the second book in the series, is actually a prequel to the first, Hard Crash ; thus it is harder for readers to understand what happened in the story.

Perhaps the most explicit reference to the Holocaust in the film series would be in the prequel film X-Men: First Class, in which a fourteen year old Magneto suffers Nazi human experimentation during his time in the camps and witnesses his mother's death by gunshot.

The series would not be a sequel or prequel to the existing movie or television franchise and Joss Whedon will have no involvement in the project.

Dabel Brothers are adapting the series as comics, beginning with the prequel New Spring.

The later prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise describes the warp engine technology as a ' Gravimetric Field Displacement Manifold ' ( Commander Tucker's tour, " Cold Front "), and describes the device as being powered by an anti-matter / matter reaction which powers the two separate nacelles ( one on each side of the ship ) to create a displacement field ( the aforementioned " bubble ") The episode also firmly establishes that many other civilizations had warp drive before humans ; First Contact co-writer Ronald D. Moore suggested that Cochrane's drive was in some way superior to forms that existed beforehand, and was gradually adopted by the galaxy at large.

He is portrayed in the original trilogy by Alec Guinness and in the prequel trilogy by Ewan McGregor, and is voiced by James Arnold Taylor in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie and television series.