An agent of the ARM, Gil Hamilton, is the protagonist of Niven's sci-fi detective stories, a series-within-a-series gathered in the collection Flatlander ( Confusingly, " Flatlander " is also the name of an unrelated Known Space story.

Rudolf's Kunstkammer was not a typical " cabinet of curiosities "-a haphazard collection of unrelated specimens.

" Francis James Child indeed retitled Child ballad 102 ; though it was titled The Birth of Robin Hood, its clear lack of connection with the Robin Hood cycle ( and connection with other, unrelated ballads ) led him to title it Willie and Earl Richard's Daughter in his collection.

As such, it is similar in structure to Bradbury's short story collection, The Illustrated Man, which also uses a thin frame story to link various unrelated short stories.

For instance, in Chinese, the subtitle is not a translation of an Eternal Golden Braid, but a seemingly unrelated phrase Jí Yì Bì ( 集异璧, literally " collection of exotic jades "), which is homophonic to GEB in Chinese.

The term, which occasionally has other meanings, came into use during World War II, when a number of aircraft started to encounter the effects of compressibility, a collection of several unrelated aerodynamic effects that " struck " their planes like an impediment to further acceleration.

To achieve happiness, you must not seek happiness directly, you must strangely motivate yourself towards things unrelated to happiness, like the collection of stamps.

Soon the project looked less like a new operating system and more like a huge collection of new technologies ; QuickDraw GX, SOM and OpenDoc became core components of the system, while completely unrelated technologies like a new file management dialog box ( the " open dialog ") and " themes " support appeared as well.

When one is in accordance with the Way they are able to treat the world holistically, while one outside of the Way can only see the world as a collection of unrelated units.

* Schwanengesang ( Swan song ), a poem by Johann Senn, set to music by Franz Schubert, unrelated to the above collection

Since 1990, Occidental has gone from a collection of unrelated businesses to one that focuses on oil and gas.

Often a general theme is used to give the magazine some unity instead of being just a collection of unrelated comics, and this also gets reflected in the layout.

As was the case in the second part of Great Space Battles, the book is a collection of many unrelated very short stories about dangerous planets and space disasters.

The indiction was first used to date documents unrelated to tax collection in the mid-fourth century.

This is in contrast to looking at a collection of " truths " which are outside and unrelated to the reader.

There is a collection of cycads which look like palms but are unrelated.

Schubert also set to music a poem named Schwanengesang by Johann Senn, unrelated to this collection ( number D744 in the Deutsch catalogue ).

The book is unrelated to the Birthright of man, a nonfiction collection of quotations compilled by Jeanne Hersch.

It seems safest to regard it as a collection of unrelated or loosely related chapters and shorter works, which could be subdivided into five categories.

They seem to be a collection of unrelated plotlines, but all of which involve a werewolf named Waldemar Daninsky.

As part of the redesigned magazine, Ignatius also led the charge to integrate the print and digital divisions more closely, and gave each edition of HBR a distinct theme and personality, as opposed to being a collection of academically superlative, yet mostly unrelated articles.

It seems safest to regard it as a collection of unrelated or loosely related chapters and shorter works, which could be subdivided into five categories.

The show was described as a collection " unrelated sketches loosely tied together by a large man with a gravelly voice and a slightly foreign sounding accent.

The extension implements a collection of unrelated additions to the protocol.

Between the 1960s and the late 1980s, as television news relegated newspaper reading to an occasional basis rather than daily, syndicators were abandoning long stories and urging cartoonists to switch to simple daily gags, or week-long " storylines " ( with six consecutive ( mostly unrelated ) strips following a same subject ), with longer storylines being used mainly on adventure-based and dramatic strips.

The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame device of " the Illustrated Man ", a vagrant with a tattooed body whom the unnamed narrator meets.

Most of his early science fiction stories were unrelated to each other, the exceptions being his " Johnny Black " tales about a black bear uplifted to human-level intelligence, and his " Drinkwhiskey Institute " stories, a series of tall tales involving time travel.

After this come three seemingly unrelated short stories.

Listeners found the sinister announcer much more compelling than the unrelated stories.

First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont.

Bahuchara Mata is a Hindu goddess with two unrelated stories both associated with transgender behavior.

The stories were unrelated to the video games until issue 32 of the Tomb Raider series, which adapted Angel of Darknesss plot.

Like the ' mad poet ' Navarth, he first appeared in the Demon Prince sequence but also is alluded to in a number of other unrelated stories.

While several characters are taken from stories in the manga, the story of the anime is unrelated to the manga.

New York Town was a critical success, drawing parallels to Joyce's Dubliners due to it being a series of short, unrelated stories centered around New York City, and Kirwan was praised for painting a picture of the everyday life of New Yorkers, although the appearance of guest singers such as David Johansen of the New York Dolls and Christine Ohlman was noted for highlighting the weakness in Kirwan's own voice.

# The Cat Who Had 14 Tales, 1988 ( ISBN 0-515-09497-8 ): an anthology of unrelated short stories involving various cats.

The film is named after a Stephen King short story of the same title, but aside from a single scene, the stories are unrelated.

Stephen King's novels and short stories form an intricate and highly developed mythos, drawing in part on the Lovecraftian, with characters such as the demonic Crimson King and Randall Flag appearing in several ( otherwise unrelated ) works, as well as a supernatural force known only as " The White ".

The stories are unrelated to the Blackthorne series.

* Left to His Own Devices includes both the novel of the same name, printed for the first time, which forms part of the White Crow sequence, and also a few related and unrelated stories, some of which take place in the Weerde shared universe created by the collective Gentle belonged to, Midnight Rose.

Each week, the show featured unrelated stories of romance, usually with a comedic spin.

The stories are presented in what is regarded as Biblical chronological order in an attempt to allow the listener to connect the stories together to form one frame of reference regarding the Bible rather than just a series of unrelated stories.