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.

" In 1995 he directed the short feature entitled Evidence that featured, like the Qatsi Trilogy, a soundtrack composed by his friend Philip Glass.

*" Evidence " ( short story ) ( 1946 ), a short story by Isaac Asimov

Evidence of the quality of timber in the area is supported by a prize winning short leaf pine displayed at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis.

In the Teeth of the Evidence is a collection of short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers first published by Victor Gollancz in 1939.

* Final Proof ; or, the Value of Evidence ( short story collection ; 1898 )

* In Isaac Asimov's short story " Evidence " from 1946, in which a lawyer is suspected of being a humanoid robot, Dr. Calvin says that people have been observing humans all their lives, and therefore " it would be impossible to palm something merely nearly right off on us ".

" Evidence " is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov.

Evidence to support this comes from the early nucleus of the village which was located a very short distance from the path.

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Evidence of their stay are the sally ports in Caponiers 1 & 2, and the short tunnel leading from the encircling line to Drop Redoubt Road.

An early use of the term " fundie " was Isaac Asimov's short story " Evidence ", first published in book form in the collection, I, Robot, published in 1950.

The first such mention appears to be his short story ' Evidence ', published in in 1946 ; the story mentions that governments have formed four regions.

He wrote: The Origin and Scope of the American Doctrine of Constitutional Law ( 1893 ); Cases on Evidence ( 1892 ); Cases on Constitutional Law ( 1895 ); The Development of Trial by Jury ( 1896 ); A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law ( 1898 ), and a short life of John Marshall ( 1901 ); and edited the twelfth edition of Kent's Commentaries and the Letters of Chauncey Wright ( 1877 ), and A Westward Journey with Mr. Emerson ( 1884 ).

* Getting the Evidence ( 1917 )( short )(* as Beatrice Joy )

Asimov also explored the idea of the cyborg in relation to robots in his short story " Segregationist ", collected in The Complete Robot.

* In " Heredity " ( 1941 ), a short story by Isaac Asimov, twin brothers who have been raised separately on Earth and Ganymede must work together to operate a Martian fungus farm.

* " Strikebreaker " ( short story ), science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, first published in the January 1957 issue of The Original Science Fiction Stories

Isaac Asimov, whose specialties included both science fiction and humor and who was a self-described " punster ", wrote a short story called " Shah Guido G .", referring to the story's Atlantean ruler.

*" Franchise " ( short story ), a 1955 short story by Isaac Asimov

* Marooned Off Vesta, first published short story by Isaac Asimov

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 ).

*" Runaround ", a short story by Isaac Asimov, is set in this year.

Trantor was first mentioned in a short story by Asimov, ' Black Friar of the Flame ', later collected as The Early Asimov, Volume 1.

In the Asimov canon, where events of this time are depicted mainly from a Foundation perspective, the Fall of Trantor is mentioned only as a piece of faraway news and in various later short references.

If all works are included, in total, there are fourteen novels and dozens of short stories written by Asimov, and seven novels written by other authors after his death, expanding the time spanned in the original trilogy ( roughly 550 years ) by more than twenty thousand years.

However, when Asimov decided decades later to retroactively integrate the universe of his Foundation and Galactic Empire novels with that of his Robot stories, a number of changes and minor discrepancies surfaced — the character R. Daneel Olivaw was established as having existed for some 20, 000 years, with the original Robot novels featuring the character occurring not more than a couple of millennia after the early-21st century Susan Calvin short stories.

The Robot series is a series of short stories and novels by Isaac Asimov featuring positronic robots.

Another short story ( found in The Early Asimov anthology ), " Mother Earth ", is set about a thousand years before the robot novels, when the Spacer worlds chose to become separated from Earth.

Bicentennial Man ( 1999 ) was the first theatrical movie adaptation of an Asimov story or novel, based on both Asimov's original short story and its novel expansion The Positronic Man.

Pebble in the Sky was originally written in the summer of 1947 under the title " Grow Old with Me " for Startling Stories, whose editor Sam Merwin, Jr. had approached Asimov to write a forty thousand word short novel for the magazine.

In reality, this is because Asimov wrote the original Robot and Foundation short stories as separate series.

Asimov himself made slight modifications to the first three in various books and short stories to further develop how robots would interact with humans and each other.

The anthology, entitled Foundation's Friends, included tributes to Thiotimoline, a fictional substance Asimov wrote about during his Ph. D. studies, as well as many tributes to robotics, a term coined by Asimov in the 1941 short story " Liar!