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.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

Scott and Mark created a short demo, which ended up becoming the first four rooms of Space Quest I, at which point Ken gave the project a green-light.

The demo for Space Quest 6 is actually a short game unto itself.

Their first submission, The Magic Quest, was a short adventure intended to demonstrate the style of game.

" Moore and Henry Kuttner also have Northwest Smith hum the song in their 1937 short story " Quest of the Starstone ," which quotes several lines of lyrics.

In 2006 he took the lead role in a BBC production of Random Quest adapted from the short story by John Wyndham and the next year played Ted Heath in Margaret Thatcher-The Long Walk to Finchley, also for the BBC.

Anderson wrote one sequel short story, " Quest ," which originally appeared in Ares magazine in the same issue that saw the original publication of the wargame.

Laser Quest, with corporately-owned sites across North America, have operated the North American Challenge ( or NAC for short ) since 1995 and many local tournaments throughout the year.

In 2011, Kara-Murza published his first book, " Reform or Revolution: The Quest for Responsible Government in the First Russian State Duma ", which recounts the unsuccessful attempt by the Constitutional Democratic Party to form a government during the short existence of the first Russian Parliament in April – July 1906.

In May 2012, Kraft Foods licensed Postum to Eliza ’ s Quest Food, after a short period where manufacturing was suspended, and Postum is being sold through the Postum. com website.

Their first submission, The Magic Quest, was a short adventure intended to demonstrate the style of game.

* Quest ( 1996 film ), an animated short

Malik Isaac Taylor ( born November 20, 1970 ), better known by his stage name Phife Dawg, is an American rapper of Trinidadian descent, and a member of the acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest with high school classmates Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad ( and for a short time Jarobi White ).

Princess Quest features several short anime video clips, as well as spoken dialog ( in Japanese ) throughout the game.

* Watch a short video summarizing the 2010 Yukon River Quest from the `` Globe & Mail `` newspaper in Canada.

The title of Bodkin ’ s short ( 54 pages ) book, The Quest for Salvation in an Ancient and a Modern Play, substantiates one of her chief concerns.

During its short life, the C64GS came bundled with a cartridge with four games: Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O ' Fun, International Soccer, Flimbo's Quest and Klax.

* 1973-Start of the Quest clay animation short.

A short spin-off series of 4 Endless Quest: Crimson Crystal Adventures books were also released during 1985.