His importance to early fandom is chronicled in his 1974 book The Immortal Storm by Sam Moskowitz and in the 1977 book The Futurians by Damon Knight. With Frederik Pohl and John Michel, 1938

The family plot of Damon Runyon is located at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, NY.

* Damon Runyon Elementary school in Littleton, Colorado, is named after him.

* The Damon Runyon Stakes is a thoroughbred horse race run every December at Aqueduct Race Track.

Damon Knight wrote, " As a science fiction writer she has few peers ; her work is not only technically brilliant but has a rare human warmth and richness.

There is evidence of Plautine imitation in Edwardes ’ Damon and Pythias and Heywood ’ s Silver Age as well as in Shakespeare's Errors.

Author and editor Damon Knight summed up the difficulty by stating that " science fiction is what we point to when we say it ", a definition echoed by author Mark C. Glassy, who argues that the definition of science fiction is like the definition of pornography: you don't know what it is, but you know it when you see it.

Afterwards, it follows Tom Hanks as United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller and seven other soldiers ( Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Adam Goldberg, and Jeremy Davies ) as they search for a paratrooper, Private First Class James Francis Ryan ( Matt Damon ), who is the last-surviving brother of four servicemen.

Writer Damon Runyon allegedly based the character Sky Masterson, the gambler-hero of " The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown " ( on which the musical " Guys and Dolls " is based ), on Thompson.

The widely worshiped Hindu goddess Durga, an aspect of Devi-Parvati, is a ten-armed warrior who rides the tigress ( or lioness ) Damon into battle.

* You're Another, a 1955 short story by Damon Knight, is about a man who discovers that he is an actor in a " livie ", a live-action show that is viewed by billions of people in the future.

Regularly appearing characters include Wakefield Damon, an older man, whose dialogue is characterized by frequent use of such expressions as " Bless my brakeshoes!

The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the short story Madame La Gimp by Damon Runyon.

However, Polynesta is found to be pregnant with Erostrato's child, but everyone thinks it is Dulipo's, and Damon has Dulipo imprisoned.

At this point, Damon realises that Polynesta truly is in love with Erostrato, and so forgives the subterfuge.

The character is meant to be Mafia accountant Otto Berman, best friend of writer Damon Runyon.

The title of Damon Knight's story To Serve Man is a double entendre, it can mean " to perform a service for humanity " or " to serve a human as food ".

Damon Graham Devereux Hill ( born 17 September 1960 ) is a retired British racing driver from England.

The last episode of season 6, episode 12, is used as a location where Vincent Chase and his crew run into Matt Damon on the way to Italy for a shooting.

Dogma is a 1999 American adventure fantasy comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also stars in the film along with an ensemble cast that includes Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Alan Rickman, Bud Cort, Salma Hayek, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, George Carlin, Janeane Garofalo, Alanis Morissette, and Jason Mewes.

* David Coulter, Multi-Instrumentalist and Producer / Music Supervisor ; ex-member of Test Dept and The Pogues, has played Musical Saw on numerous albums and live with a who's who of Contemporary Popular Music: Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, Tom Waits, Hal Willner, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithfull, Tim Robbins, The Tiger Lillies.

His career has not been without controversy, including being twice involved in collisions in the final race of a season that determined the outcome of the world championship, with Damon Hill in 1994 in Adelaide, and with Jacques Villeneuve in 1997 in Jerez.

It has been reported that Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, and Matt Damon may join the film.

Some observers ( such as Fort's biographer Damon Knight ) have suggested that Fort's distrust of authority has its roots in his father's treatment.

The publisher's website announced in April 2011 that April Derleth's children will take over the running of the publisher-Danielle Jacobs has been named President, and her brother Damon Derleth as Vice President.

Title # 7, Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter, has several references to the first series including a visit with Mrs. Baggert, who was Tom Sr .' s housekeeper, and other volumes feature a rocket named after the old family retainer Eradicate " Rad " Sampson, a radiation-detector ( the Damonscope ) named after Tom Sr .' s friend Mr. Damon, and a planetoid named in honor of Tom Swift Sr .' s father Barton.

She has been charged with the holy quest of stopping two fallen angels, Bartleby ( Ben Affleck ) and Loki ( Matt Damon ), from entering a church in New Jersey.

20-year-old Will Hunting ( Matt Damon ) of South Boston has a genius-level intellect but chooses to work as a janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and spend his free time with his friends Chuckie Sullivan ( Ben Affleck ), Billy McBride ( Cole Hauser ) and Morgan O ' Mally ( Casey Affleck ).

After Pirates Pryce has appeared in several large-scale productions, such as De-Lovely ( Pryce's second musical film ), a chronicle of the life of songwriter Cole Porter, for which Kevin Kline and Pryce covered a Porter song called " Blow, Gabriel, Blow ", The Brothers Grimm, Pryce's third film with Terry Gilliam, starred Matt Damon and Heath Ledger, and The New World, in which he had a cameo role as King James I.

Capp has credited his inspiration for vividly stylized language to early literary influences like Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and Damon Runyon, as well as Old-time radio and the Burlesque stage.

Silverstone has produced many race wins by British drivers, such as Peter Collins ( 1958 ), Jackie Stewart ( 1969, 1971 ), James Hunt ( 1977 ), John Watson ( 1981 ), Nigel Mansell ( 1987, 1991, 1992 ), Damon Hill ( 1994 ), Johnny Herbert ( 1995 ), David Coulthard ( 1999, 2000 ) and Lewis Hamilton ( 2008 ).

Coca-Cola has sponsored a documentary of San hunting entitled The Great Dance: A Hunter's Story ( 2000 ) directed by Craig and Damon Foster.

Past entertainment has included Bill Cosby, Sinbad, Incubus, Barenaked Ladies, Better than Ezra, Alan Jackson, Third Eye Blind, Randy Travis, Faith Hill, Collective Soul, Blues Traveler, Goo Goo Dolls, David Spade, Kevin Nealon, Damon Wayans and Jimmy Fallon.

The Anglican Canon Matthew Damon, Provost of Wakefield Cathedral, West Yorkshire, has claimed that the dance as well comes from the Catholic Latin mass.

Their music has been described as a cross between The Smiths and Serge Gainsbourg with Lightburn's singing voice being likened to Morrissey as well as Blur's Damon Albarn.

McElhone has a scriptwriter brother Damon who lives in Los Angeles, and two half-brothers, Alexander and Nicholas, who live in Stockholm.

In his film debut, Matt Damon has a small part — his sole line in the film being, " Mom, do you want my green stuff?

The college has two campuses, one in the town of Brighton and another, the Damon City Campus, in the City of Rochester.

Former British world champion Damon Hill aired doubts over Button's hopes to be a championship contender at Honda over the coming season, saying, " if he is serious ... he has to get himself in a car that is a championship contender.

In his Major League Baseball career, Damon has played for the Kansas City Royals ( 1995 – 00 ), Oakland Athletics ( 2001 ), Boston Red Sox ( 2002 – 05 ), New York Yankees ( 2006 – 09 ), Detroit Tigers ( 2010 ), Tampa Bay Rays ( 2011 ) and Cleveland Indians ( 2012 ).

At one time or another, the membership included Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, Cyril Kornbluth, James Blish, John Michel, Judith Merril, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Richard Wilson, Damon Knight, Virginia Kidd, and Larry T. Shaw.

Eisner said that on one occasion a man who Eisner described as " a Mob type straight out of Damon Runyon, complete with pinkie ring, broken nose, black shirt, and white tie, who claimed to have ' exclusive distribution rights for all Brooklyn " asked Eisner to draw Tijuana bibles for $ 3 a page.

In his " Books " column for F & SF, Damon Knight selected the novel as one of the 10 best SF books of the 1950s.

Other musicians, and at least one comedian, who have sung Numan's praises in recent years include Beck, Grant Nicholas, Tricky, Damon Albarn & Matt Sharp, Jarvis Cocker, Queens of the Stone Age, David Bowie, Noel Fielding and Afrika Bambaataa, who spoke of the influence Numan's music had on the fledgling American DJ scene: " In the late 70s and early 80s Gary had the rhythms that DJs wanted to get hold of and people waited for his records on the dance floor.

In his " Books " column for F & SF, Damon Knight selected The Man Who Sold the Moon as one of the 10 best sf books of the 1950's.

Around this time, Del Naja, with Davidge decanted into Ridge Farm studio with friends and band members of Lupine Howl ( made up of former members of the band Spiritualized, including Damon Reece who went on to be Massive Attack's permanent drummer and one of two live drummers ) towards a fourth Massive Attack LP, taking things even further into an experimental, psychedelic rock direction.

When Damon was 9, he moved to Turkey for three months before settling in Oldham, Essex, outside Colchester, in an area described by Albarn as " one of those burdgoening Thatcher experiments where they were building loads of small estates ".

" Damon and Jessica both attended a primary school nearby which, according to Damon, was burnt down seven times in a time period of 18 months by one of the teachers.

The city was also one of the filming locations for the movie Dogma, starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

** Mary Campbell ( Cathryn Damon )— The sister of Jessica Tate and one of the two main characters of the show.

Sugar had been referred to as " Runyonesque " ( in reference to Damon Runyon ) by Bob Costas, and " one of the foremost historians alive ," by the Boston Globe.

In 2003, Cam ' ron went on to appear in the Damon Dash produced film, Paid in Full, in which he played one of three main characters alongside Mekhi Phifer and Wood Harris.

In July 2008, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced that the " I'm Fucking Matt Damon " had received a Creative Arts Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics, competing against two songs from Flight of the Conchords, one from MADtv, and another from Phineas and Ferb.

Serling then sees Walden's medic, Specialist Ilario ( Matt Damon ), who also praises Walden ; by his account, Walden was the one who came up with the idea of the improvised incendiary.

On Inside the Actors Studio, Damon said that the regimen consisted of six and a half miles of running in the morning and again at night, a diet of chicken breast, egg whites, and one plain baked potato per day, and a large amount of coffee and cigarettes.

The decade started with Rob Reiner's Misery ( 1990 ), based on the book by Stephen King, with Kathy Bates as an unbalanced fan named Annie who terrorizes, in her care, an incapacitated author named Paul ( James Caan ); in one horrifying scene, she ' hobbles ' his ankles so that he can't escape, a battered wife who left her sadistic husband to find a better life was vengefully pursued in Sleeping with the Enemy ( 1991 ), Curtis Hanson's The Hand That Rocks the Cradle ( 1992 ), with Rebecca De Mornay as a nanny intent on seeking revenge against her dead obstetrician husband's patient ( Annabella Sciorra ), Unlawful Entry ( 1992 ) with Ray Liotta as cop being obsessed with a woman he saved, Barbet Schroeder's suspenseful Single White Female ( 1992 ), with Bridget Fonda and her obsessed roommate-from-hell Jennifer Jason Leigh, Harold Becker's Malice ( 1993 ) with Alec Baldwin and Nicole Kidman, and lastly Anthony Minghella's psychological thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley ( 1999 ) with Matt Damon being obsessed with, and then assuming the identity of, Jude Law.

* At the 2006 BET Awards when the show returned from one of its commercial breaks, the show's host Damon Wayans played a character very reminiscent to " Men on ..." critic Blaine Edwards.

A particularly audacious pass on Damon Hill in Canada was just one example of his strong racecraft.

Only eight drivers were classified finishers ( two of whom were five laps behind, one of whom was Coulthard ) and Damon Hill secured a victory ahead of team mate Ralf Schumacher to record the previously underperforming Jordan team's first Formula One win in its history, and a 1-2 to top it off.

Cooper was the first to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award twice ( in 1967 and 1970 ) and one of only three two-time winners in the award's history ( the others being Nigel Mansell in 1986 and 1992 and Damon Hill in 1994 and 1996 ).

Designed by Damon Slye, the game is a 3D vehicle simulation of the M1 Abrams tank, one of the first on the market.

The face of young private Ryan ( played by actor Matt Damon ) is slowly morphed back to an older private Ryan ( played by Harrison Young ), while at the same time the background is dissolved from a besieged city during World War Two, into a graveyard set in the modern day ; there is no doubt in the audience's mind that these two men are one and the same.