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His short story " Light of Other Days " was a Hugo Award nominee in 1967, as was his novel The Ragged Astronauts in 1987.
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Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.
Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.
* William S. Burroughs, novelist, short story writer, essayist and spoken word performer
Some consider this more of a short story collection ; Milne didn't like it and considered The Day's Play as his first book.
* AM, short for Allied Mastercomputer, a fictional supercomputer in the short story " I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream "
Derleth also changed Alhazred's final fate, as described in his short story " The Keeper of the Key ", first published in May 1951.
For example, in the first editions of the collection The Mysterious Mr Quin ( 1930 ), in the short story " The Soul of the Croupier ," she described " Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery "; in later editions the passage was edited to describe " sallow men " wearing same.
* 1936 Love from a Stranger ( dramatised by Frank Vosper from the short story Philomel Cottage )
* 1939 Tea for Three ( dramatised by Margery Vosper from the short story Accident )
In the short story The Chocolate Box ( 1923 ) Poirot provides Captain Arthur Hastings with an account of what he considers to be his only failure.
As a result, Suchet will have filmed adaptations of every Poirot novel, and all but one Poirot short story.
Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).
Niece Mabel, widow of the mysteriously dead Geoffrey Denham, stars in the 1927 short story " The Thumb Mark of Saint Peter ".
* " The Tuesday Night Club " ( short story ) featured Miss Marple for the first time ever.
* The Thirteen Problems ( short story collection featuring Miss Marple, also published as The Tuesday Club Murders ) ( 1932 )
Miss Marple also appears in Greenshaw's Folly, a short story traditionally included as part of the Poirot collection The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding ( 1960 ).
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The book includes some material from the short story The Salesman's Tale, and some unpublished material cut from Prince of Chaos, notably Coral's pregnancy by Merlin.
* Moriarty by Modem, a short story by Jack Nimersheim, describes an alternate history where Babbage's Analytical Engine was indeed completed and had been deemed highly classified by the British government.
This short story follows Holmes as his program is rebooted on modern computers and he is forced to compete against his nemesis yet again in the modern counterparts of Babbage's Analytical Engine.
* Absalom is the name of a short science fiction story by Henry Kuttner about the conflict between a father and son over the son's education.
One ansible-like device which predates Le Guin's is the Dirac communicator in James Blish's 1954 short story " Beep ".
* The short story " There Are More Things " by Jorge Luis Borges from The Book of Sand refers to an amphisbaena and concerns a similar, though mostly undescribed, monster.
* Paul Auster's collection of short stories entitled True Tales of American Life contains a story (' Mathematical Aphrodisiac ' by Alex Galt ) in which amicable numbers play an important role.
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* Light cooking style: steaming, cooking for a short time, etc.
Gerald Duff, novelist and short story writer, has set several of his works in the territory of the Sabine, including the stories " Texas Wherever You Look ," " The Way a Blind Man Tracks Light ," and " Redemption ".
Light and other short wavelength electromagnetic radiation is produced by resonance on an atomic scale, such as electrons in atoms.
His son Alexander MacLeod is also a writer, whose debut short story collection Light Lifting was a Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist in 2010.
* In the short story " Creatures of the Light.
His regiment became part of the German 1st Light Division under General Erich Hoepner, who had taken part in the plans for the September 1938 German Resistance coup, cut short by Hitler's unexpected diplomatic success in the Munich Agreement.
There it serves as a comparison to the protagonist of the short story " Lend me your Light ", who is torn between his childhood home in Bombay and his new existence in Toronto: " I, Tiresias ,/ Blind and throbbing between two lives ..." ( Tales from Firozsha Baag: 180 ).
He appeared on the television show The Equalizer in the 1987 episode " First Light " and as the narrator of director Richard Kwietniowski's short film Ballad of Reading Gaol ( 1988 ), based on the poem by Oscar Wilde.
Light from synchrotron sources has a much higher flux at short wavelengths, and has been used to record CD down to 160 nm.
* Some writers have attempted to write a full or partial text for the imaginary The King in Yellow, including James Blish in his short story " More Light ", Lin Carter (" Tatters of the King ", 1986 ), and Thom Ryng ( The King in Yellow, 2000 ).
The area is relatively affordable, given the short commuting distance to both central London and Canary Wharf, via the Docklands Light Railway.
The short Pine River flows through downtown, past the Charlevoix South Pier Light Station, and into Lake Michigan
** The Queen Is Dead, a short film incorporating the Smiths songs " The Queen Is Dead ", " Panic ", and " There Is a Light That Never Goes Out " ( 1986 )
After three years the money ran out and, after a short time with a tool-making company in Leeds, he returned to London and joined the Electric Light and Power Company.
MGM produced a short film Van Gogh: Darkness Into Light, narrated by Dore Schary and showing the European locations used for the filming, to promote Lust for Life.
Subject of the short story " The Light of the World " by Ernest Hemingway.
He completed one major novel, " Light, Wind and Dreams ", based on the life of Robert Louis Stevenson, and controversial short stories about Micronesia.
Bose adapted this lecture into a short article called " Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quanta " and submitted it to the Philosophical Magazine.
However, as the Crimean winter fell over the Light Brigade's exposed position, food, fodder, clothing and shelter were all in short supply.
Lewis was wounded and two other British soldiers from the Somerset Light Infantry killed after being hit by a shrapnel from a British shell that had fallen short of its target in Mont-Bernanchon, France.
TriMet runs the MAX Light Rail ( short for Metropolitan Area Express ) system, and contracts with Portland and Western Railroad to operate the Westside Express Service ( WES ) commuter rail line.
In the 1970s, Prof. Emmerick produced a translation of a short, condensed Sanskrit version of the Sutra of Golden Light into English.
Before 1983 it was known as Municipal Light ( or " Muny Light " for short ).
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