In the introduction, Socrates muses about the perfect society, described in Plato's Republic ( c. 380 BC ), and wonders if he and his guests might recollect a story which exemplifies such a society.

The narrative structure allows for this diversity through simple stylistic devices such as the principle of ring composition, familiar since the time of Homer, in which the introduction and conclusion of a story or sub-plot is signalled by the repetition of some formulaic statement, facilitating the reader's comprehension of stories within stories in a kind of ' Chinese-box technique '— a structure that has no resemblance to the nine books artificially created by Alexandrian scholars.

And in an introduction to Tiptree's story in his Again, Dangerous Visions anthology, Harlan Ellison opined that " Wilhelm is the woman to beat this year, but Tiptree is the man.

* Luis Jerónimo de Cabrera, 4th Count of Chinchón and Jesuit's bark, for the story of its introduction into Europe

The introduction, titled " Why I Was Bachman ," details the whole Bachman / King story.

As a concentrated form of narrative prose fiction, the short story has been theorised through the traditional elements of dramatic structure: exposition ( the introduction of setting, situation and main characters ), complication ( the event that introduces the conflict ), rising action, crisis ( the decisive moment for the protagonist and his commitment to a course of action ), climax ( the point of highest interest in terms of the conflict and the point with the most action ) and resolution ( the point when the conflict is resolved ).

' The story he chose to tell turned out to be Strangers in Paradise, or ' this story about 2 girls and a guy who gets to know them ' ( from Moore's introduction to The Collected Strangers in Paradise, Volume One ), which used characters he'd developed during his time on the gag-a-day circuit.

Like the tale in the introduction to the fourth day, Panfilo's tale seems to derive from the story of Barlaam and Josaphat.

* In the Marvel Comics comic book series The X-Men, the Hellfire Club is a criminal organization that has played a prominent role in various story lines since its introduction during the Dark Phoenix Saga.

The term " Microcomputer " came into popular use after the introduction of the minicomputer, although Isaac Asimov used the term microcomputer in his short story " The Dying Night " as early as 1956 ( published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in July that year ).

It also appears in his Expanded Universe in 1980, but this version is the way it appeared in Astounding without the modifications: " I now see, as a result of the enormous increase in the art in 33 years, more errors in the ' 46 version than I spotted in the ' 40s version when I checked it in ' 46 ," he writes in the introduction to the story.

Damon Knight, in his introduction to the paper-back edition from the New English Library edition of The Past Through Tomorrow, Vol 1., compares the story to then-current power of Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters Union.

Unlike the series, in which the paintings merely accompanied an introduction to the upcoming story, the paintings themselves actually appeared in the three segments, serving major or minor plot functions.

The popularity of his tale was due to his additions to the story, including the pumpkin, the fairy-godmother and the introduction of glass slippers.

Some modern scholars argue that Cadmus was originally an autochthonous Boeotian hero and that only in later times, did the story of a Phoenician adventurer of that name become current, to whom was ascribed the introduction of the alphabet, the invention of agriculture and working in bronze and of civilization generally.

Their introduction and first appearance was in Terror of the Beagle Boys, in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 134, although in this story they only appear in the last frame and have no lines.

It is not a biographical movie, and in the introduction describes itself as " not the story of his life, but a fairytale about this great spinner of fairy tails.

Following on from the character development of Bond in his previous four novels, Fleming adds further background to Bond's private life in From Russia, with Love, largely around his home life and personal habits, with Bond's introduction to the story seeing him at breakfast with his housekeeper, May.

* Untitled Sandman Project ( 2013 ): Neil Gaiman announced via video in the San Diego Comic Con 2012 that he and JH Williams III would collaborate to produce the story that was previously hinted in Gaiman's introduction to Season of Mists and in Brief Lives of Dream's adventure prior to Preludes and Nocturnes which had exhausted him so much that it made Burgess ' actions capable of capturing him.

Walter Burkert notes that though the story of Hippodamia's abduction figures in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and on the chest of Cypselus ( c. 570 BCE ) that was conserved at Olympia, and though preparations for the chariot-race figured in the east pediment of the great temple of Zeus at Olympia, the myth of the chariot race only became important at Olympia with the introduction of chariot racing in the twenty-fifth Olympiad ( 680 BCE ).

Daniel Handler's introduction in Lemony Snicket's Unauthorized Autobiography continually introduces a new story about a page into the previous one, thus creating a confusing and inconsequential ( but not incorrect or self-contradictory ) storyline that is never finished, always dealing with the questions he is asked but never answering them.

Other topics this season include the murder of a prostitute ; a teacher accused of molesting a child, who commits suicide due to inflammation of the story from the press ; a woman with an intellectual disability getting pregnant and burying her child ; the introduction of Bobby Johnson, after his brother is killed in a drug shootout ; a scam involving another one of Virgil ’ s friends ; a bounty hunter ; and a serial rapist stalking Sparta.

As one character says in the introduction to the story, " punishment was never much of a deterrent and could scarcely have afforded comfort to a victim already dead ".

One story states that manufacturing delays deferred its introduction into the ST line until after the first STs had shipped.

This measure, which was intended to diminish opposition, was paralleled by the introduction of new courtly dignities, like that of panhypersebastos given to Nikephoros Bryennios, or that of sebastokrator given to the emperor's brother Isaac Komnenos.

In his 1991 introduction to the novel, Card discussed the influence of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series on the novelette and novel.

Isaac had been given letters of introduction to the director of the Paris Conservatoire, Luigi Cherubini, but he needed all his eloquence to persuade Cherubini even to give Jacob an audition.

Isaac Asimov, in his foreword to the Signet Classics 1984 edition, described Flatland as " The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions.

The editors of The Thomas Paine Reader, Michael Foot and Isaac Kramnick, in their introduction to Common Sense wrote:

* The second edition of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica is published with an introduction by Roger Cotes and an essay by Newton titled General Scholium where he famously states " Hypotheses non fingo " (" I feign no hypotheses ").

Jeremy thanked the " God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob " in his introduction, echoing Reggie White's dedication to his faith.

* Newton's Lunar Theory Review by Michael Nauenberg of Isaac Newton, Theory of the Moon's Motion ( 1702 ), with a and historical introduction by I. Bernard Cohen ( Dawson, 1975 ); and criticism of Nicholas Kollerstrom, Newton's Forgotten Lunar Theory: His Contribution to the Quest for Longitude ( Green Lion Press, Santa Fe, 2000 )

* Close Encounters With the Deity ( 1986 ), includes the novella “ The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis ” and thirteen stories from 1979-1986 with an introduction by Isaac Asimov

In the 1890s this issue was brought forcefully to the attention of European Catholics by Comptesse de Ravilliax's translation of a biography of Isaac Thomas Hecker by Paulist father Walter Elliott, with the introduction by Abbé Felix Klein drawing the most ire from the Vatican.

Eliakim Carmoly (" Ẓiyyon ," i. 46 ) concludes that the Isaac who was so violently attacked by Abraham ibn Ezra in the introduction to his commentary on the Pentateuch, and whom he calls in other places " Isaac the Prattler ", and " Ha-Yiẓḥaḳ ," was no other than Isaac Israeli.

In her introduction to the 1985 facsimile edition E. J. Ashworth writes that " The young Isaac Newton studied Sanderson's logic at Cambridge, and as late as 1704 " Thomas Heywood of St. John's College, Ashworth adds, recommended Newton " Sanderson or Aristotle himself ".

Isaac wrote a poem in his honour as introduction to this work.

The Fathers of this council signed the postulation for the introduction of the cause of beatification of Isaac Jogues and René Goupil, Jesuit martyrs, and of Catherine Tegakwitha, an Iroquois virgin.

Asimov's Mysteries, published in 1968, is a collection of 14 short stories by Isaac Asimov, all of them science fiction mysteries ( although, as Asimov admits in the introduction, some are only borderline ).

Rapid advancement in fluid mechanics began with Leonardo da Vinci ( observations and experiments ), Evangelista Torricelli ( invented the barometer ), Isaac Newton ( investigated viscosity ) and Blaise Pascal ( researched hydrostatics, formulated Pascal's law ), and was continued by Daniel Bernoulli with the introduction of mathematical fluid dynamics in Hydrodynamica ( 1738 ).

According to the first book's introduction Allen devised the New Laws in discussion with Asimov himself.

In the novelization's introduction, Asimov states that he was rather reluctant to write the book because he believed that the miniaturization of matter was physically impossible.

Asimov added a brief introduction to each story, explaining some aspect of the story's history and / or how it came to be written.

Since 1971, reprints have included an introduction by Asimov explaining that advancing knowledge of conditions on Mars have rendered some of the novel's descriptions of that world inaccurate.