* Wicked ( musical ), a Broadway and West End musical based on Gregory Maguire's novel

According to the revisionist version of the Oz history chronicled in Gregory Maguire's novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the slippers were given to Nessarose, the future Wicked Witch of the East, by her father.

While not exactly a villain, Dorothy is not the hero in Gregory Maguire's revisionist 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

* In author Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West ( a 1995 revisionist novel based on the inhabitants of Oz ) and in the 2003 Broadway musical Wicked ( based on Maguire's novel ), the Wizard is a tyrannical ruler who uses deceit and trickery to hide his own shortcomings.

Tip makes a cameo appearance In Son of a Witch, the second volume of " The Wicked Years ", Gregory Maguire's revisionist take on Oz.

In Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch, Quadling Country is described as a largely undeveloped, swampy region, with the ruddy-faced Quadlings being portrayed as artistic and sexually free.

In Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch, this area is called the Vinkus, and it is revealed that " Winkie " is considered a derogatory term.

In Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, she is initially called " Galinda ," and ( through her mother ) is descended from the noble clan of the Arduennas of the Upland.

The love triangle between Glinda, Fiyero and Elphaba is what primarily distinguishes the Wicked musical incarnation of Glinda from Gregory Maguire's novel.

In Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novels, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch, the Emerald City is a much darker place than in Baum's novels.

In Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch, the Gillikin Country is simply called ' Gillikin '.

The Tin Woodman is a minor character in author Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, its 2003 Broadway musical adaptation and Maguire's 2005 sequel Son of a Witch.

Oz is roughly rectangular in shape, and divided along the diagonals into four countries: Munchkin Country ( but commonly referred to as ' Munchkinland ' in adaptations ) in the East, Winkie Country ( called " The Vinkus " in Gregory Maguire's Wicked and its sequel Son of a Witch ) in the West ( sometimes West and East are reversed on maps of Oz, see West and East below ), Gillikin Country in the North, and Quadling Country in the South.

When the house lands, it crushes the Wicked Witch of the East ( in Gregory Maguire's book, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, she is given a name, Nessarose ), ruler of the Munchkins.

A somewhat sinister version of Tik-Tok is a minor character in Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

The Cowardly Lion is a minor character in author Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and its 2003 Broadway musical adaptation.

A skittish and fearful lion cub is seen at Shiz University in Gregory Maguire's novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

Gregory Maguire's most recent book, A Lion Among Men, is told primarily from the Lion's viewpoint, and its plot is centered around Brrr's account of his own origins, or lack thereof ( he is unsure, as his narration begins, of the whereabouts of his parents, herd, etc.

In that film adaptation, as in Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and its musical adaptation Wicked, the Witch of the West is the sister of the Wicked Witch of the East, although this is neither stated nor implied in the original novel.

* Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West takes the familiar Oz story and inverts it, with the Wicked Witch ( given the name Elphaba in homage to L. Frank Baum ) as the novel's protagonist and Dorothy as a hapless child.

Lurline also appears in Wicked, Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel set in Oz ; she is sometimes called " Lurlina ".

* In Gregory Maguire's novel Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba's adoptive father, Frex, is the seventh son of a seventh son.

In 1995, Gregory Maguire published Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, a revisionist look at the land and characters of Oz.

Gregory Maguire, author of the revisionist Oz novels Wicked and Son of a Witch, has written that The Emerald City of Oz " is suffused with an elegiac quality " and compares its tone with that of The Last Battle, the final volume of C. S. Lewis ' Chronicles of Narnia.

In his revisionist Oz novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Son of a Witch, and A Lion Among Men, Gregory Maguire portrays a very different version of the Land of Oz.

Both Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and the musical Wicked ( based on the book ), follow the model of the 1939 movie in giving the name " Glinda " to the character who grows up to become The Good Witch of the North.

In Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch, " Pastorius " was the widower of Ozma the Bilious, who died from an apparently accidental poisoning, and father to Ozma Tippetarius, who was approximately the same age as Elphaba.

Gregory Benford had a form of plasma-based life exist in the accretion disk of a primordial black hole in his novel Eater.

* Mars Direct is the mission mode used in Gregory Benford's novel, The Martian Race, and in Geoffrey A. Landis's novel Mars Crossing, as well as Zubrin's own novel, First Landing.

* The Monk, a 1796 Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis

For example, a stationary projector in the front would have projected an image of a church courtyard while a moving projector from behind would project the image of the phantom The Bleeding Nun, an image which came from the novel The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis.

An aging Robert Zubrin also appears as a background character in The Martian Race ( 1999 ) by Gregory Benford, a science fiction novel depicting early human explorers on Mars in the very near future.

After being translated into English by Gregory Zilboorg, the novel was published in 1924.

* The Snark, fictional alien machine that visits Earth in the novel In the Ocean of Night ( 1977 ) by Gregory Benford

* Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, a novel by Gregory Maguire based on L. Frank Baum's story

Also in 1965, he played detective Ted Casselle in the Hitchcockian thriller Mirage, with Gregory Peck and Diane Baker, a film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based on a novel by Howard Fast.

Richard Arman Gregory compared the novel to Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure.

* The Guns of Navarone ( film )-a 1961 film starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn, based on the novel

* Artifact, a 1985 science fiction novel by Gregory Benford

* David Gregory Roberts, Shantaram ( 2003 ) A novel.

The review by Gregory Feeley called the novel " intellectually provocative, high-octane entertainment ", and was quoted the following year in the front matter of the novel's paperback edition, which sold more than 15 million copies in the United States.

A woman named Virginia Dare appears in Gregory Keyes ' fantasy novel The Briar King.

The novel was adapted for the screenplay of a 1959 film featuring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and Fred Astaire, and a 2000 television film starring Bryan Brown, Armand Assante and Rachel Ward.

Other writers who have made use of the theme include Donald Barthelme ( in his novel Snow White ), Gregory Maguire ( in his novel Mirror Mirror ), Jane Yolen ( in her story " Snow in Summer ," published in Black Swan, White Raven ), Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald ( in their story " The Queen's Mirror ," published in A Wizard's Dozen ), Anne Sexton ( in her poem " Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ," published in Transformations ), Gail Carson Levine ( in Fairest ), and A. S. Byatt ( in her essay " Ice, Snow, Glass ," published in Mirror, Mirror on the Wall ).

** Marooned ( film ), a 1969 film starring Gregory Peck and Richard Crenna, based on the novel

* The canonization of Pope Gregory XVII is part of the plot of Anthony Burgess's novel Earthly Powers

In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Bluebeard, Sidi Barrani is the site where Dan Gregory ( the tormenting magazine illustrator and Nazi sympathizer ) is killed on December 7, 1940, when 30, 000 British troops defeat nearly 80, 000 Italian soldiers.