An example of silicon based life forms takes place in the Alan Dean Foster novel Sentenced to Prism in which the protagonist Evan Orgell is trapped on a planet whose entire ecosystem is mostly silicon-based.

* Dark Star, a novelization of the 1974 film, by Alan Dean Foster

Alan Gerber and Dean Karlan of Yale University use an experimental approach to examine not whether the media are biased, but whether the media influence political decisions and attitudes.

* 1946 – Alan Dean Foster, American writer

* Prism ( planet ), a planet in the Humanx Commonwealth novels by Alan Dean Foster

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

All the episodes of this series were novelized by Alan Dean Foster and released in ten volumes under the Star Trek Logs banner.

The timeline in Voyages of the Imagination dates the events of the series to 2269-2270, assuming the events of the show represented the final part of Kirk's five-year mission, and using revised Alan Dean Foster stardates.

Notable past winners of WOTF include Stephen Baxter, Karen Joy Fowler, James Alan Gardner, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Jay Lake, Michael H. Payne, Patrick Rothfuss, Robert Reed, Dean Wesley Smith, Sean Williams, Dave Wolverton, Nancy Farmer, and David Zindell.

It stars Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law with supporting roles played by Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal and Alan Arkin.

* Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth novels

The main new works staged by the company have been The Little Mermaid by Anne Boyd ( 1985 ); Metamorphosis by Brian Howard ( 1985 ); Voss by Richard Meale ( 1986 ); Whitsunday by Howard ( 1988 ); Mer de glace by Richard Meale ( 1992 ); The Golem by Larry Sitsky ( 1993 ); The Eighth Wonder by Alan John ( 1995 ); Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Richard Mills ( 1999 ); Batavia by Richard Mills ( 2001 ); Love in the Age of Therapy by Paul Grabowsky ( OzOpera 2002 ); Lindy by Moya Henderson ( 2003 ); Madeline Lee by John Haddock ( 2004 ); Bliss ( 2010 ) by Brett Dean.

* Alan Dean Foster's 1983 novel The Man Who Used the Universe follows the machinations of a similarly obsessive and morally neutral man ; however his ultimate goal is not immediately apparent.

Car Wars was first published in a small ziplock-bag format in 1980, and cited Alan Dean Foster's short story, " Why Johnny Can't Speed ", as a primary inspiration.

Death by drowning, as in water escapes pioneered by Houdini ; Death by falling ; as a straitjacket escape hanging from a burning rope hundreds of feet in the air, as created by UK escape artist Alan Alan and in the US by Dorothy Dietrich ; Buried Alive, as done by Dean Gunnarson and others ; being Burned Alive or suffocated in the Chrysalis Escape both performed by Roslyn Walker.

Accompanied by his girlfriend Sloane Peterson ( Mia Sara ) and his best friend Cameron Frye ( Alan Ruck ), he creatively avoids his school's Dean of Students Edward Rooney ( Jeffrey Jones ), his resentful sister Jeanie ( Jennifer Grey ), and his parents.

: Many Italian Americans actors became well known in movies and TV, such as: Don Ameche, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anne Bancroft ( Anna Italiano ), Ernest Borgnine ( Ermes Borgnino ), Robert Alda, Alan Alda, Lou Costello, Frank Langella, Frankie Avalon ( Avallone ), Annette Funicello, James Darren ( Ercolani ), Jimmy Durante, Anthony Franciosa, Sal Mineo, Ben Gazzara, Harry Guardino, Aldo Ray ( DaRe ), Richard Conte, Bernadette Peters ( Lazzara ), Connie Stevens ( Concetta Ingoglia ), Richard Crenna, Dom DeLuise, Armand Assante, Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito, Joe Mantegna, John Travolta, Tony Danza, Alyssa Milano, Paul Sorvino, Mira Sorvino, Al Pacino, Liza Minnelli, Rene Russo, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Nicolas Cage ( Coppola ), Stanley Tucci, Marissa Tomei, John Turturro and Sylvester Stallone.

The Great Attractor is mentioned in the " Pip and Flinx " series by novelist Alan Dean Foster, in the book Flinx's Folly.

* Alan Dean Foster-The Approaching Storm

* Alan Dean Foster-Alien

* Alan Dean Foster – Splinter of the Mind's Eye

* The Deluge Drivers, 1982 science fiction novel by Alan Dean Foster

October 2003 marked the audiobook release of Interlopers, a novel written by Alan Dean Foster and narrated by Browder.

Many of Church's doctoral students have led distinguished careers, including C. Anthony Anderson, Peter B. Andrews, George A. Barnard, William W. Boone, Martin Davis, Alfred L. Foster, Leon Henkin, John G. Kemeny, Stephen C. Kleene, Simon B. Kochen, Maurice L ' Abbé, Isaac Malitz, Gary R. Mar, Michael O. Rabin, Nicholas Rescher, Hartley Rogers, Jr., J. Barkley Rosser, Dana Scott, Raymond Smullyan, and Alan Turing.

** The actor ; the true story of John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, 1953 – 1959 by Alan Stang, Western Islands ( 1968 )

However, the university has also contributed in other fields, such as by the work of mathematicians Paul Erdős, Horace Lamb and Alan Turing ; author Anthony Burgess ; philosophers Samuel Alexander, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alasdair MacIntyre ; the Pritzker Prize and RIBA Stirling Prize winning architect Norman Foster and composer Peter Maxwell Davies all attended, or worked in, Manchester.

* Foster, Alan, A History of Farnworth Church, its Parish and Village, 1981.

A 2000 film directed by Giles Foster starred Aidan Quinn ( as Miles Hendon ), Alan Bates, Jonathan Hyde, Jonathan Timmins and Robert Timmins.

One of the longer-running police dramas of the day, the series featured appearances by a number of actors, familiar and unfamiliar, among whom were Lynn Borden, Kim Darby, Antonio Fargas, Tiny Tim ( in the pilot TV-movie ), Randolph Mantooth, Cal Bellini, Sharon Gless, Dabbs Greer, Bernie Kopell, Frank Gorshin, Jess Walton, Pernell Roberts, Alan Oppenheimer, Dan Kemp, E. G. Marshall, Harrison Ford, John Schuck, Ingrid Pitt, Susan Saint James, Ivan Dixon, Harry Townes, Pat Hingle, Norman Alden, Anne Francis, David Carradine, Charo, Joseph Campanella, Bill Quinn, Bernard Fox, Tyler McVey, Robert Webber, Alan Hale, Jr., Marion Ross, Marcia Strassman, Susan Sullivan, Suzanne Pleshette, Bo Hopkins, James Hong, Jeanne Cooper, Paul Winfield, Harold Gould, James Farentino, Robert Reed, Bill Bixby, David Cassidy, David Hartman, Dana Elcar, Tina Louise, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Robert Karnes, Tyler MacDuff, Greg Mullavy, Rod Serling, Gene Raymond, Francine York, Peter Mark Richman, Jennifer Gan, Clu Gulager, Joel Grey, Van Williams, John Hoyt, Scott Glenn, William Windom, Joshua Bryant, Dorothy Malone, Robert Alda, Barbara Rush, Jack Kelly, Jason Wingreen, George Takei, George Wallace, John M. Pickard, Diana Muldaur, Jodie Foster, William Katt, Lee Grant, Steve Forrest, Susan Olsen, Michael Lerner, Edward Asner, Eddie Garrett, Darwin Joston, John Rubinstein, Jack Lord, Scott Marlowe, Norman Fell, Gavin MacLeod, Gary Collins, Johnny Seven, William Shatner, Bobby Darin, Martin Sheen, Cheryl Ladd, William Daniels, William Schallert, Burgess Meredith, Vic Tayback, Arch Johnson, James Drury, Ed Flanders, Bruce Lee and Ellen Corby ( Grandma Walton of TV fame ).

** Alan Broadbent & David Foster ( arrangers ) for " When I Fall in Love " performed by Natalie Cole with Nat King Cole

Yaddo has hosted more than 6, 000 artists, including Hannah Arendt, Newton Arvin, Milton Avery, James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, John Cheever, Aaron Copland, Kenneth Fearing, Jonathan Franzen, Daniel Fuchs, Steve Giovinco, Philip Guston, Daron Hagen, Ruth Heller, Patricia Highsmith, Langston Hughes, Ted Hughes, Alfred Kazin, Ulysses Kay, Stanley Kunitz, Jacob Lawrence, Alan Lelchuk, Robert Lowell, Flannery O ' Connor, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, Mario Puzo, Ned Rorem, Henry Roth, Philip Roth, Clyfford Still, Virgil Thomson, Colm Tóibín, Lionel Trilling, Anne Truitt, Byron Vazakas, and David Foster Wallace.

In 1976, Baio played the title character Bugsy Malone in the cult children ’ s gangster musical directed by Alan Parker, which also co-starred Jodie Foster.

* Narrative footnotes, which continue the story while commenting on it ( e. g. Nabokov's Pale Fire, House of Leaves, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, Alan Moore's From Hell, Cable & Deadpool by Fabian Nicieza, An Abundance of Katherines by John Green, Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer, many books by Robert Rankin and the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett ).

In the Star Trek Logs written by Alan Dean Foster, it has been hinted that the Caitians are an offshoot race of archaic Kzinti ( where both genders are intelligent ) who have renounced conquest.

There was a subsequent novelization of the film by Alan Dean Foster, as well as a video game based on the production.

Parsons would produce and engineer songs written by the two, and the Alan Parsons Project was born.

Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE ( born 12 April 1939 ) is a prolific English playwright.

James Alan McPherson ( born September 16, 1943 ) is an American short story writer and essayist.

Richardson was born in Southport, Lancashire, to Marian Georgina ( née Townsend ), a housewife, and William Alan Richardson, a marketing executive.

Thomas Alan " Tom " Waits ( born December 7, 1949 ) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor.

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman ( born 21 February 1946 ) is an English actor of stage and screen.

* Alan Sugar ( businessman, born in Hackney )

* Alan Bond ( businessman ) ( born 1938 ), Australian businessman

He has two brothers, Robert Alan Novoselic and Dillon Malloy Novoselic, and in 1973, Novoselic's sister Diana was born.

* Alan Williams ( born Alan James Williams, 23 December 1948, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire )-vocals, guitar

According to The Descendants of William Sabin, compiled by Gordon Alan Morris, Thomas J. Prittie, and Dixie Prittie, the first Caucasian child born in the county was Mary Stuart Sabin, daughter of Dr. Warren Sabin, c. 1812.

Alan Shearer OBE, DL ( born 13 August 1970 ) is a retired English footballer.

Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer.

Fry was born in Hampstead, London, on 24 August 1957, the son of Marianne Eve Fry ( née Newman ) and Alan John Fry, who was an English physicist and inventor.

Shepard was born in Derry, New Hampshire to Lieutenant Colonel Alan B. Shepard, Sr. and Renza ( née Emerson ) Shepard.

Alan was born in Dulwich, London, to Alfred Walter Bush ( 1869 – 1935 ), a director of the manufacturing chemists, W. J. Bush & Co., and his wife, Alice Maud Brinsley ( 1870 – 1951 ).

Alan Garner was born in the front room of his grandmother's house in Congleton, Cheshire, on 17 October 1934.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

Alan Bennett ( born 9 May 1934 ) is a British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author.

* Alan Watts, philosopher, born and raised in Chislehurst, moved to the United States in 1938.

* Winston Bazoomies ( Alan Sayag ) of Bad Manners was born and still lives in Stoke Newington.

* Alan Wheatley, who is probably best known for his role as the Sheriff of Nottingham in the TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood in the 1950s, was born in Tolworth.

Richard Alan Garcés Mendoza, Jr. ( born May 18, 1971 in Maracay, Venezuela ) is a former right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball.