Clive Gladstone Robertson ( born 17 December 1965 in Devizes, Wiltshire, England ) is a British actor perhaps best known for his roles on the soap opera Sunset Beach, the Canadian science fiction series Starhunter, and the 2010 science fiction computer game Darkstar: The Interactive Movie.

Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything – the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series – features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.

This idea was used by Steven Spielberg for his science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which features the lost Flight 19 aircrews as alien abductees.

The 1987 science fiction action film RoboCop features a cyborg protagonist.

These features may place Smith's works within the Dying Earth subgenre of science fiction.

One of the earliest examples of detective fiction is Voltaire's Zadig ( 1748 ), which features a main character who performs feats of analysis.

* Me2, an episode of the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, in which gazpacho also features significantly.

Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights ( 1847 ) transports the Gothic to the forbidding Yorkshire Moors and features ghostly apparitions and a Byronic hero in the person of the demonic Heathcliff while Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre ( 1847 ) adds The Madwoman in the Attic ( Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar 1979 ) to the cast of Gothic fiction.

Ubisoft's 2009 historical fiction action-adventure open world stealth video game Assassin's Creed II ( Assassin's Creed series ) features Leonardo's version of the painting as a purchasable item in the Forli art merchant.

The first book of Lewis's Space Trilogy, a rare example of theological science fiction, it features a philologist named Ransom who arrives by accident on Mars ( called Malacandra by the natives ).

Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction.

Like many of Dick's novels, it utilizes an array of science fiction concepts and features several layers of reality and unreality.

In parallel with these magical developments, the setting's early 21st century features technological and social developments associated with cyberpunk science fiction.

This access can be the total sensory immersion common to cyberpunk fiction, or a sensory enhancement by which the virtual features of one's physical surroundings can be perceived and manipulated.

O ' Donnell ( aka Barry Malzberg ), 1971, takes place at a New York City science fiction convention and features broad parodies of many SF fans and authors.

This " market week " features prominently in the fiction of Chinua Achebe.

* The NBC science fiction drama series Heroes features a dog named Mr. Muggles, who is owned by the Bennet family.

It features a character, Lawrence Van Cott, that is modelled on science fiction author Larry Niven, whose full name is " Laurence van Cott Niven ".

* Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day, in a parody of serial fiction, features a young men's organization, the " Chums of Chance ", whose Charter includes a paraphrase of Star Trek's Prime Directive, " never to interfere with legal customs of any locality at which we may have happened to touch.

As such, Dune is representative of a general trend beginning in 1960s American science fiction in that it features a character who attains godlike status through scientific means.

Nimoy is also a frequent and popular reader for " Selected Shorts ", an ongoing series of programs at Symphony Space in New York City ( that also tours around the country ) which features actors, and sometimes authors, reading works of short fiction.

The Culture is a fictional interstellar anarchist, and utopian society created by the Scottish writer Iain M. Banks which features in a number of science fiction novels and works of short fiction by him, collectively called the Culture series.

Quint argues that Cleopatra ( not Antony ) fulfils Virgil's Dido archetype ; " woman is subordinated as is generally the case in The Aeneid, excluded from power and the process of Empire-building: this exclusion is evident in the poem's fiction where Creusa disappears and Dido is abandoned ... woman's place or displacement is therefore in the East, and epic features a series of oriental heroines whose seductions are potentially more perilous than Eastern arms ", i. e., Cleopatra.

* C. P. Snow's Death Under Sail ( 1932 ), his first novel, after which he turned to mainstream fiction ; it features unusually complex characters for a mystery of this period

The lyrics up to this point ( most of them written by Peart ) were heavily influenced by classical poetry, fantasy literature, science fiction, and the writings of novelist Ayn Rand, as exhibited most prominently by their 1975 song " Anthem " from Fly By Night and a specifically acknowledged derivation in 2112 ( 1976 ).

The Burnaby campus has been prominently featured in science fiction television series such as Stargate SG-1, Battlestar Galactica, and Andromeda.

* A poster of Daffy is prominently displayed in Michael Garibaldi's quarters in the science fiction TV series Babylon 5.

The science fiction franchise Star Trek prominently featured a resistance group called the Maquis.

This is especially true during adolescence .” Little Women became “ the paradigmatic text for young women of the era and one in which family literary culture is prominently featured .” Adult elements of women ’ s fiction were in Little Women, such as “ a change of heart necessary ” for the female protagonist to evolve in the story.

Over the next century, the site and historical legacy of the Bastille featured prominently in French revolutions, political protests and popular fiction, and it remained an important symbol for the French Republican movement.

She also features prominently in the book The Captive Queen of Scots by Jean Plaidy, in the short story " Antickes and Frets " by Susanna Clarke, in her 2006 collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories and The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare by Arliss Ryan, and is the main character in the Jan Westcott historical / biographical fiction novel The Tower and The Dream.

Such multiverses have been featured prominently in science fiction since at least the mid-20th century.

The Askafroa is, by any name, quite obscure, and consequently not prominently featured in modern fiction, although the online role-playing game Dark Age of Camelot features enemies in the form of Askefruer / Askafroa.

Such considerations are found prominently though not exclusively in the hard science fiction genre.

Beggs features prominently in The Great War, a trilogy of fiction novels in the alternate history genre by author Harry Turtledove.

' Pataphysics and ' pataphysicians feature prominently in several linked works by science fiction writer Pat Murphy.

Nicolas Poussin's Arcadia and the inscription also figure prominently in the fiction work by Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link.

This area of the Moon featured prominently in ' Behemoth ', the second episode of the 1973 BBC science fiction mini-series Moonbase 3.

The Coalsack figures prominently in the Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's science fiction novel The Mote in God's Eye and its sequels, The Gripping Hand and Outies.

The station has featured prominently in several science fiction television series, including

Pezza figures prominently in folk lore and fiction.

The legend of Ys has been used repeatedly in fantasy fiction, prominently by Robert W. Chambers in " The Demoiselle d ' Ys ", one of the stories in The King in Yellow, Chambers ' best-known work.

Neural mods feature prominently in Greg Egan's first science fiction novel, Quarantine.

Buckaroo Banzai and several other members of Team Banzai are prominently featured in the Battletech universe, a science fiction world taking place in the 31st century.

The knot features prominently as a motif in the hard science fiction novel Picoverse by Robert A. Metzger.

Those tailored for combat are known as BattleMechs and, with other less common forms such as WorkMechs and ProtoMechs, are central to BattleTech wargaming and feature prominently in most spinoffs and related fiction.

They also appeared prominently in episodes written by acclaimed science fiction authors William Gibson and Tom Maddox.