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.

The novel was published in 1982, when A. D. Sakharov was in exile in Nizhny Novgorod.

The film Wrong is Right ( 1982 ) starring Sean Connery was loosely based on his novel, The Better Angels.

The word " cyberspace " ( from cybernetics and space ) was coined by science fiction novelist and seminal cyberpunk author William Gibson in his 1982 story " Burning Chrome " and popularized by his 1984 novel Neuromancer.

* Kiklop, a 1965 novel by Ranko Marinković, basis for the 1982 film ( see below )

His later author discoveries included Tanith Lee, Jennifer Roberson, Michael Shea, Ian Wallace, Tad Williams, Celia S. Friedman, and C. J. Cherryh, whose Downbelow Station ( 1982 ) was the first DAW book to win the Hugo Award for best novel.

BBC Radio produced a one-off dramatisation of the novel in 1982 starring Michael Pennington.

Kosiński wrote his novel Pin Ball ( 1982 ) for his friend George Harrison, having conceived of the idea for the book at least ten years before writing it.

Ribbentrop is also a key figure in the historical novel Famous Last Words by Timothy Findley ( Penguin Books 1982, ISBN 0-14-006268-8 ) and Harry Turtledove's alternate history series Worldwar where his Soviet counterpart Molotov frequently expresses contempt for his lack of intelligence.

The first part of this novel was originally published as the novella To Leave a Mark in the November 1982 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

The themes he developed in this early short fiction, the Sprawl setting of " Burning Chrome " ( 1982 ), and the character of Molly Millions from " Johnny Mnemonic " ( 1981 ) laid the foundations for the novel.

After viewing the first 20 minutes of landmark cyberpunk film Blade Runner ( 1982 ), which was released when Gibson had written a third of the novel, he " figured was sunk, done for.

The 1982 novel Friday, a more conventional adventure story ( borrowing a character and backstory from the earlier short story Gulf, also containing suggestions of connection to The Puppet Masters ) continued a Heinlein theme of expecting what he saw as the continued disintegration of Earth's society, to the point where the title character is strongly encouraged to seek a new life off-planet.

* W. P. Kinsella, novelist well known for his 1982 novel Shoeless Joe which was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams

The term has also been used in The Judas Mandala, a 1982 science-fiction novel by Damien Broderick, where the context of use is somewhat different from that defined above.

Gibson coined the term " cyberspace " in his short story " Burning Chrome " ( 1982 ) and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer ( 1984 ).

The comics explore religious fundamentalism through the person of William Stryker and his Purifiers, an anti-mutant group that emerged in the 1982 graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills.

In the followup 1982 novel, 2010: Odyssey Two, and the accompanying 1984 film, 2010, it is revealed that this action was caused by the computer having been programmed with two conflicting objectives: to fully disclose all its information, and to keep the true purpose of the flight secret from the crew ; this conflict caused HAL to become paranoid and eventually homicidal.

Smith also appeared in a number of films, often as himself ; The Candidate ( 1972 ),, The President's Plane Is Missing ( 1973, a made-for-television production of the Robert J. Serling novel of the same name ), Nashville ( 1975 ), Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ), the " The Odd Candidate " ( 1974 ) episode of the television series The Odd Couple ( playing himself ), the " Kill Oscar " episode ( 1977 ) of The Bionic Woman ( playing himself anchoring an ABC newscast ), and both V ( 1983 ) and the subsequent 1984 television series.

In 1982, Eastwood directed and starred alongside his son Kyle in Honkytonk Man, based on the eponymous Clancy Carlile's depression-era novel.

A notable example is the book Filth, where the tapeworm's internal monologue is imposed over the top of the protagonist's own internal monologue ( the worm's host ), visibly depicting the tapeworm's voracious appetite, much like the ' Climax of Voices ' in Gray's novel 1982, Janine.

The story of Anne and Richard is portrayed in the 1982 novel The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman, which presents a sympathetic portrayal of Richard.

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer is a 1982 novel by Philip K. Dick.

The novel was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1982.

:: 1917 – 18, 1918 – 19, 1930 – 31, 1931 – 32, 1933 – 34, 1936 – 37, 1938 – 39, 1946 – 47, 1956 – 57, 1959 – 60, 1965 – 66, 1966 – 67, 1967 – 68, 1969 – 70, 1971 – 72, 1972 – 73, 1976 – 77, 1978 – 79, 1979 – 80, 1981 – 82, 1982 – 83, 1984 – 85, 1989 – 90, 1993 – 94, 1994 – 95, 1995 – 96, 1997 – 98, 2001 – 02, 2003 – 04, 2010 – 11, 2011 – 12

The 1982 Chinese Census was much more thorough and well-conducted than the first two, and similar censuses have been conducted decennially in 1990, 2000, and 2010.

* 1982 – Justin Mentell, American artist and actor ( d. 2010 )

Major ENSO events were recorded in the years 1790 – 93, 1828, 1876 – 78, 1891, 1925 – 26, 1972 – 73, 1982 – 83, 1997 – 98 and 2009 – 2010, with 1997-1998 being one of the strongest ever.

Where the first day of the month starts on a Monday and the last day ends on a Sunday, this was observed in 2010 and can be traced back 11 years to 1999, 6 years back to 1993, 11 years back to 1982, 11 years back to 1971 and 6 years back to 1965 ; and so on twice 11 years consecutively and once six years either forward into the future or back into the past.

The People's Republic of China conducted censuses in 1953, 1964, 1982, 1990, 2000, and 2010.

* KKS Lech Poznań – men's football team ( Polish Champion: 1983, 1984, 1990, 1992, 1993, 2010 ; Polish Cup winner 1982, 1984, 1988, 2004, 2009 ; Polish SuperCup winner 1990, 1992, 2004, 2009 )

Pitcher Steve Carlton leads the team in Cy Young Award wins with four ( 1972, 1977, 1980, and 1982 ), while John Denny ( 1983 ), Steve Bedrosian ( 1987 ), and Roy Halladay ( 2010 ) each have one.

As of December 2010, five former premiers are alive, the oldest being John Cain ( 1982 – 1990, born 1931 ).

Following his commercial breakthrough with Alien ( 1979 ), his best-known works are sci-fi classic Blade Runner ( 1982 ), Thelma & Louise ( 1991 ), best picture Oscar-winner Gladiator ( 2000 ), Black Hawk Down ( 2001 ), Matchstick Men ( 2003 ), Kingdom of Heaven ( 2005 ), American Gangster ( 2007 ), Robin Hood ( 2010 ), and Prometheus ( 2012 ).

It was founded in 1982 by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, and until 2010 was owned by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the church.

* In Europe, the winters of early 1947, February 1956, 1962 – 1963, 1981 – 1982 and 2009 – 2010 were abnormally cold.

On June 28, 2010, the US Supreme Court held, in a 5 – 4 decision in McDonald v. Chicago, that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was incorporated under the Fourteenth Amendment, thus protecting the right of an individual to " keep and bear arms " from local governments, and all but declared Mayor Jane Byrne's 1982 handgun ban unconstitutional.

Feldman was married to Lauretta Sullivan ( 29 September 1935 – 12 March 2010 ) from January 1959 until his death in 1982.

Witten has been honored with numerous awards including a MacArthur Grant ( 1982 ), the Fields Medal ( 1990 ), the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics ( 2000 ), the National Medal of Science ( 2002 ), Pythagoras Award ( 2005 ), the Henri Poincaré Prize ( 2006 ), the Crafoord Prize ( 2008 ), the Lorentz Medal ( 2010 ) the Isaac Newton Medal ( 2010 ) and the Fundamental Physics Prize ( 2012 ).

One of his better known roles was in the 1982 science fiction cult classic Tron, in which he played Kevin Flynn, a video game programmer ( a role he reprised in late 2010 with the sequel Tron: Legacy ).

She also produced and starred in over 20 exercise videos released between 1982 and 1995, and once again in 2010.

Most of these pieces have been collected in King's five short story collections: Night Shift ( 1978 ), Skeleton Crew ( 1985 ), Nightmares & Dreamscapes ( 1993 ), Everything's Eventual ( 2002 ), and Just After Sunset ( 2008 ); and in King's four novella collections: Different Seasons ( 1982 ), Four Past Midnight ( 1990 ), Hearts in Atlantis ( 1999 ), and Full Dark, No Stars ( 2010 ).

* GAZ-3102-Volga sedan ( 1982 – 2010 )

Examples include Battlestar Galactica ( 1978, 2003 ), He-Man and the Masters of the Universe ( 1983, 2002 ), Hunter, Knight Rider ( 1982, 2008 ), La Femme Nikita ( 1997, 2010 ), Melrose Place, Beverly Hills 90210, V ( 1983, 2009 ), Hawaii Five-O ( 1968, 2010 ), and Charlie's Angels ( 1976, 2011 ).