In the essay The Dragon in my Garage from the book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle In the Dark, Carl Sagan uses the example of an invisible dragon breathing heatless fire that someone claims lives in his garage.

* The Dark in the Piazza Tim Parks essay on Morante from The New York Review of Books

* On Dark Fantasy — author Lucy Snyder's essay on the differences between " pure " horror and dark fantasy.

In Frank Miller's comic Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again, Superman touches on the theme of the essay when asked about sex by Lara, his teenage daughter by Wonder Woman.

Moorcock's most recent revisions to the piece add mention of such authors as Pratchett and Rowling and drop those whose names would be less familiar today ( Moorcock also has claimed that Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials deserved credit, though the essay was written and revised before those books were published ).

" Biographer Joseph Wood Krutch described the essay as " a rather highly ingenious exercise in the art of rationalization ".

* Sir Thomas More: A Man for One Season, essay by James Wood.

There is also a booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Wood, Chaplin ’ s 1940 New York Times defense of his movie, a reprint from critic Jean Narboni on the film ’ s final speech, and Al Hirschfeld ’ s original press book illustrations.

He was so weak that the Under-Secretary, Robert Wood, author of an essay on The Original Genius of Homer, would have postponed the business, but Granville said that it " could not prolong his life to neglect his duty ", and quoted the speech of Sarpedon from Iliad xii.

" Biographer Joseph Wood Krutch described the essay as, " a rather highly ingenious exercise in the art of rationalization than literary criticism.

Hysterical realism, also called recherché postmodernism, is a term coined in 2000 by the English critic James Wood in an essay on Zadie Smith's White Teeth to describe what he sees as a literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization and careful, detailed investigations of real specific social phenomena.

Wood introduced the term in an essay on Zadie Smith's White Teeth, which appeared in the July 24, 2000 issue of The New Republic Wood uses the term to denote the contemporary conception of the " big, ambitious novel " that pursues " vitality at all costs " and consequently " knows a thousand things but does not know a single human being.

In an essay in About Time, a critical analysis of classic Doctor Who, Lawrence Miles and Tat Wood suggest that Planet 14 may be Telos, placing that planet as the fourteenth in our own solar system, after Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mondas, Mars, the time-looped planet mentioned in Image of the Fendahl, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, " Cassius " ( mentioned in The Sun Makers as a planet beyond Pluto ) and " Xena " ( a name popularly used for the dwarf planet Eris prior to its official naming ; in the essay, Miles and Wood confuse it with Sedna, another trans-Neptunian object discovered by the same team of astronomers ).

Eliot ’ s essay “ Hamlet and His Problems ” in his book The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism discusses his view of Shakespeare ’ s incomplete development of Hamlet ’ s emotions.

* Superflat Japanese Postmodernity — essay by Hiroki Azuma.

He was appreciated for a number of essay books ( primarily about science ) and for a number of science fiction novels like Rymdväktaren, or " The Space Guardian " and Nyaga.

Roger Luckhurst points out that Ballard's essay " Which Way to Inner Space?

The idea of a unified spacetime is stated by Edgar Allan Poe in his essay on cosmology titled Eureka ( 1848 ) that " Space and duration are one.

Book II of the Experimenta Nova is an extended philosophical essay in which von Guericke puts forward a view of the nature of Space similar to that later espoused by Newton.

Lovecraft began writing " The Colour Out of Space " immediately after finishing his previous short novel, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and in the midst of final revision on his horror fiction essay " Supernatural Horror in Literature ".

* Space and Human Survival: My Views on the Importance of Colonizing Space Sylvia Engdahl's essay, links and books

In 1894 Alexander Macfarlane circulated his essay " The Imaginary of Algebra ", which used hyperbolic angles to generate hyperbolic versors, in his book Papers on Space Analysis.

* Berenson, Margaret Mathews, “ Reinventing Silverpoint: An Ancient Technique for the 21st Century ” essay, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY 2009

Originally published in the Christian Herald and entitled “ Will We Lose God in Outer Space ,” Lewis ’ s essay on the subject was first published in 1958 and later became titled “ Religion and Rocketry .” The essay was written in partial response to the writings of Professor Fred B. Hoyle, the Cambridge astronomer and founder of the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge.

" In his essay New age Music made Simple, and in introducing the 200th broadcast of the " Hearts of Space " radio program, Hill has referred to space music as a sub-category of New Age.

Hill's partner Anna Turner ( co-host and original co-producer of " Music from the Hearts of Space ") wrote in her 1989 essay entitled " Space Music ", that " New Age Space music carries visions in its notes ; it is transcendent inner and outer space music that opens, allows and creates space ... this music speaks to our present moment, to the great allegory of moving out beyond our boundaries into space, and reflexively, to the unprecedented adventures of the psyche that await within.

In her book The New Age Music Guide, author, editor and music critic P. J. Birosik classifies Space music as a subgenre of New Age music, as does Dallas Smith, writer, teacher and recording artist in his essay New Age Jazz / Fusion.

In his essay We're All Just Floating in Space, Lyle Zynda analyzes this episode's interpretation of existential meaninglessness, arguing that both River and Early perceive physical objects as divorced from the meanings with which others imbue them.

The essay does, however, speak in more positive terms of Jakob Wilhelm Hauer and his German Faith Movement which was loyal to Hitler.

* Camus, The Fall, and the Question of Faith, a short essay on Camus ' use of religious imagery

* Pendle Hill Pamphlets — publishes two pamphlets written and illustrated by Eichenberg, Art and Faith ( 1952 ) and Artist on the Witness Stand ( 1984 ), and the biographical essay Letting That Go, Keeping This ( 2001 ) by Philip Harnden

In a magazine essay entitled ' Religious Faith and Modern Scepticism ', she saw spiritual problems as " the beginning of a wider and deeper insight-a larger faith and increased knowledge.

He may be the most well-known theological advocate of theistic evolution as author of the essay " Evolution: The Disguised Friend of Faith?

* The Christian Faith: an essay on the structure of the Apostles ' Creed.

As a reaction Riesser in 1831 published an essay " Stellung der Bekenner des mosaischen Glaubens in Deutschland " ( On the Position of Confessors of the Jewish Faith in Germany ) and founded the journal " Der Jude, periodische Blätter für Religions-und Gewissensfreiheit " ( The Jew, Periodical for Freedom of Religion and Thought ) in 1832.

* Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves ( essay, " The Belly Unbuttoned ") ( 2005 )

* Faith Wilding's essay ' Where is Feminism in Cyberfeminism?

In 1915, he wrote what is probably his best known essay, " Visión de Anáhuac ( 1915 )," with its famous epigraph, " Viajero: has llegado a la región más transparente del aire ", the source of the title of Carlos Fuentes's novel La región más transparente.

When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.

Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).

Important as was Mr. O'Donnell's essay, his thesis is so restricting as to deny Faulkner the stature which he obviously has.

Faulkner's total works today, and in fact those of his works which existed in 1946 when Mr. Cowley made his comment, or in 1939, when Mr. O'Donnell wrote his essay, reveal no such simple attitude toward the South.

J. T. Shotwell was appalled by such spurious history as that which attributed the fall of the Carolingian empire to the woolen trade, and he urged Adams to `` transform his essay into a real history, embodying not merely those facts which fit into his theory, but also the modifications and exceptions ''.

Oersted remodeled Ritter's notes into an essay in French which was submitted to the Institut De France for its annual prize of 3,000 francs.

He uses methods of argument throughout his essay which lampoon then-influential William Petty and the social engineering popular among followers of Francis Bacon.

Although he had demonstrated no previous interest in film as a profession, Kurosawa submitted the required essay, which asked applicants to discuss the fundamental deficiencies of Japanese films and find ways to overcome them.

He quotes, in his essay " Death of the Author " ( 1968 ), that " it is language which speaks, not the author ".

Pierre Bourdieu's essay " The Field of Cultural Production " depicts the publishing industry as a " space of literary or artistic position-takings ," also called the " field of struggles ," which is defined by the tension and movement inherent among the various positions in the field.

Appended to the last book, however, is a self-contained essay on aesthetics, which Dürer worked on between 1512 and 1528, and it is here that we learn of his theories concerning ' ideal beauty '.

Sartre, popularly understood as misreading Heidegger ( an understanding supported by Heidegger's essay " Letter on Humanism " which responds to Sartre's famous address, " Existentialism is a Humanism "), employs modes of being in an attempt to ground his concept of freedom ontologically by distinguishing between being-in-itself and being-for-itself.

She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir's 1959 essay, The Lolita Syndrome, which described Bardot as a " locomotive of women's history " and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France.

Plutarch criticised Herodotus in his essay " On The Malignity of Herodotus ", describing Herodotus as " Philobarbaros " ( barbarian-lover ), for not being pro-Greek enough, which suggests that Herodotus might actually have done a reasonable job of being even-handed.

Category came into use with Aristotle's essay Categories, in which he discussed univocal and equivocal terms, predication, and ten categories:

Michael Parenti, in his 1996 essay which examines the role of progressive media in the use of the term, " The JFK Assassination II: Conspiracy Phobia On The Left ", states,

Complete copies have laid in the three page essay " The Price of Poetry ", on Smith's verse, by David Warren Ryder, which was printed to accompany the book.

An essay on the gradual destruction of Siberia's culture and individuality, the film combines footage that Marker shot in Siberia, old newsreel footage, cartoons, stills and, at one point, an illustration of Alfred E. Neuman from Mad Magazine, all accompanied by Marker's signature commentary, which takes the form of a letter from the director to his audience.

Michael Mehaffy wrote an introductory essay on Christopher Alexander's built work in the online publication " Katarxis 3 ", which includes a gallery of Alexander's major built projects to date ( September 2004 ).

This powerful essay ... revolves around a remarkable deathbed scene in which a dying blind philosopher, Saunderson, rejects the arguments of a providential God during his last hours.

* The American Deists: Voices of Reason & Dissent in the Early Republic by Kerry S. Walters ( University of Kansas Press, 1992 ), which includes an extensive bibliographic essay

One of Thomas ' most popular works was the short essay A Child's Christmas in Wales, which after being released as part of a recording, in which Thomas read his own work, became his most popular prose work in America.