It appeared already in Heinlein's Red Planet and is a major plot element in Greg Bear's Moving Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, and S. C. Sykes ' books.

* In Greg Bear's The Forge of God ( 1987 ), alien aggressors inject two high-mass weapons made of neutronium and antineutronium into the Earth which orbit the Earth's core until they meet and annihilate, destroying the planet.

* Lamarckia — A planet in Greg Bear's novel Legacy, whose continent-sized superorganisms mimic Lamarckian evolution.

More recently, a collection of new stories in Halo: Evolutions and Greg Bear's first book of his Forerunner series Halo: Cryptum was released continuing to flesh out the stories.

Two additional books: Karen Traviss's Halo: Glasslands, the first in a new Post-Halo 3 series and Greg Bear's Book 2 of his Forerunner series entitled Halo: Primordium will be released in the near future.

* The name of the giant asteroid starship which serves as a venue for some of the action in science fiction author Greg Bear's The Way fictional universe ( Eon, Eternity, Legacy ).

* In Greg Bear's novel " Moving Mars ," " Eloi " are humans who seek to extend their lifespans beyond 1, 000 years, through the use of advanced medical nanotechnology and other enhancements.

Martin's book series, Song of Ice and Fire, and in Greg Bear's The Way novels.

* Ser, equivalent to " Sir " in Greg Bear's The Way novels

* Jill, a character ( artificial intelligence ) in Greg Bear's novels Queen of Angels, / ( Slant ), and Moving Mars.

In Greg Bear's books Eon and Eternity, new human consciousness is created in a virtual realm and the parents choose the race of their children when it is time for them to be ' birthed ' into the real physical world.

Luke Skywalker and his team of Jedi Knights rediscover the living world of Zonama Sekot ( first seen in Greg Bear's novel Rogue Planet ) and plead for that world's interference in the ongoing war.

Di Filippo argues that precursors of ribofunk fiction include H. G. Wells ' The Island of Doctor Moreau ; Julian Huxley's The Tissue Culture King ; some of David H. Keller's stories, Damon Knight's Natural State and Other Stories ; Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth's Gravy Planet ; novels of T. J. Bass and Varley ; Greg Bear's Blood Music and Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix.

* Bear's Fantasies, Greg Bear ( PSFS / Wildside Press )

Greg Bear's City at the End of Time ( 2008 ) shares a number of plot elements with The Night Land, and contains a specific reference to the Last Redoubt, giving William Hope Hodgson himself a cameo role in the story line.

Isaac Asimov's The Last Question, Greg Bear's Blood Music, and Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End provide diversions on this theme.

* Legacy ( 1995 novel ), a science-fiction novel in Greg Bear's The Way series

In other cases, such as Greg Bear's The Forge of God and Anvil of Stars, or Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix, aliens are presented as falling into a highly diverse spectrum, some easily relating with humans, others too alien for meaningful communication.

* Greg Bear used the concept of the Noösphere as the interaction space of his ' noöcytes ' when he expanded his short story Blood Music to a full length novel in 1985.

*" The Black Cat " was adapted and performed with " The Cask of Amontillado " as Poe, Times Two: Twin tales of mystery, murder ... and mortar -- a double-bill of short, one-man plays written and performed by Greg Oliver Bodine.

The short story Wang's Carpets, later expanded to the novel Diaspora, by Greg Egan, postulates a universe, complete with resident organisms and intelligent beings, embodied as Wang tiles implemented by patterns of complex molecules.

* " Singleton ", a short story by Greg Egan

*" Cocoon ", a short story by Greg Egan in his collection Luminous

Stiles also made short guest appearances on Murphy Brown, Mad About You, Mad TV, and Dharma & Greg.

* " Closer ", a short story by Greg Egan

In 1982, Young's comeback was cut short when he was defeated on points by future champion Greg Page.

In 1999, Hwang starred in a short film by Greg Pak called Asian Pride Porn, which combined humor and serious social commentary to parody the Asian fetish and the prevalence of Asian fetish pornography.

Nicklaus made a solid par-4 at the 72nd hole, and waited for the succeeding players, several of whom ( Tom Kite, Greg Norman ) were still in contention, to fall short.

The novel began as a short story entitled " Wang's Carpets " which originally appeared in New Legends, a collection of short stories edited by Greg Bear ( Legend, London, 1995 ).

The Way fictional universe is a trilogy of science fiction novels and one short story by Greg Bear.

Axiomatic ( ISBN 0-7528-1650-0 ) is a 1995 collection of short science fiction stories by Greg Egan.

Luminous is a collection of short science fiction stories by Greg Egan.

* " Oracle ", a short story by Greg Egan

* " Neighbourhood Watch " ( short story ), a short story by Greg Egan

The show was spun off from The Greg the Bunny Show, a series of short segments that aired on the Independent Film Channel, which were based on the Public-access television cable TV show Junktape.

In August 2005, Greg the Bunny returned to the IFC, in a series of short segments, spoofing both old and new movies such as Annie Hall, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, Fargo, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider and Pulp Fiction.

It was the end of an era for Australian cricket as Rod Marsh, Dennis Lillee and Greg Chappell retired at the end of the season, leaving the Australian team short on experience.

* His painting of The Caress is a central focus in a Greg Egan short story of the same name.

Their reign was short lived as in 1992 tragedy struck the club when the younger brother of Captain Greg Alexander, Ben, died in a car accident.

Our Lady of Chernobyl is a collection of short fiction by the Australian science fiction writer Greg Egan, published in 1995 by MirrorDanse, in Sydney.

In 2007, NASCAR is increasing marketing of the short tracks with the " NASCAR Home Tracks " campaign, with Greg Biffle, Elliott Sadler, and Carl Edwards featured in advertising to market short track racing.