* 1987 – Vernor Vinge, Marooned in Realtime

Concern about the rapid pace of technological change crystallized around the concept of the technological singularity, popularized by Vernor Vinge's novel Marooned in Realtime and then taken up by other authors.

In Vernor Vinge's book Marooned in Realtime, flying personal autons, autonomous robotic devices, serve the " High-Techs " as bodyguards or sensory enhancement.

* Vernor Vinge in the novel Marooned in Realtime, p. 174 ( although the object is described as being a naked black hole ).

Its sequels are " The Ungoverned ", which was a novella published in his collection True Names and Other Dangers, and the novel Marooned in Realtime.

Marooned in Realtime won the Prometheus Award in 1987 and was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel that same year.

Example contract corporations in this story include Big Al's Protection Racket ( a police service ) and Justice, Inc. Anarcho-capitalism is also discussed in Vinge's novels The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime, which both occur in the same literary milieu as " The Ungoverned ".

In his Marooned in Realtime, which posits a society with few remaining Earthlings, artificial womb technology is discussed as necessary to rebuild the population of Earth, since a sufficient rate of natural reproduction would be unfeasible.

The mathematician Vernor Vinge popularized his ideas about exponentially accelerating technological change in the SF novel Marooned in Realtime ( 1986 ), set in a world of rapidly accelerating progress leading to the emergence of more and more sophisticated technologies separated by shorter and shorter time intervals, until a point beyond human comprehension is reached.

* Vernor Vinge, Marooned in Realtime

The Ungoverned is a 1985 science fiction novella by Vernor Vinge, set between his novels The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime.

Brierson is also the protagonist of Marooned in Realtime.

His films include To Hell and Back, the autobiography of Audie Murphy, who is considered the most decorated soldier in the military history of the United States ; John Wayne's war film The Green Berets ( 1968 ), and opposite Gregory Peck in the space story Marooned about three stranded astronauts.

The player usually first discovers the alphabet in the first Commander Keen game, Marooned on Mars, where Keen telepathically hears an alien inside a shrine say: " It is too bad you cannot understand the Standard Galactic Alphabet, human ".

* Yvonne Rousseau's Minmers Marooned and Planet of the Marsupials: The Science-Fiction Novels of Cherry Wilder ( 1997 ) is the third in Nimrod's Babel Handbook series.

Then in Series 3, episode 2 (" Marooned "), his guitar is shown to be a black, electric guitar — according to Lister it is a " genuine Les Paul copy.

Caidin's 1964 novel Marooned tells the story of an American astronaut who is stranded in space and NASA's attempt to rescue him.

His " Marooned ," a water colour, is in the National Gallery of British Art.

" Marooned Off Vesta " is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov.

Marooned is a 1969 American film directed by John Sturges and starring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, and Gene Hackman.

One episode, The Marooned Mastersons, was never broadcast but is available on Jim Sweeney's website.

* 1986 Marooned

* Harold Johns ( artist ), cartoonist, assistant to Frank Hampson on Dan Dare ( British science fiction comic hero ) and largely drew the story Marooned on Mercury

Her last film role was in Marooned ( 1969 ), a science fiction drama.

In the mid-1960s he worked on pre-production for an adaptation of Martin Caidin's novel Marooned but budgetary constraints made him eventually shelve it.

* Marooned ( novel ), a 1964 novel by Martin Caidin

** Marooned ( film ), a 1969 film starring Gregory Peck and Richard Crenna, based on the novel

The novel was the basis for the movie Marooned made in 1969.

Library of Congress # 74-80703 ), the character Steve Austin referenced back to Caidin's own previous novel, Marooned: " A friend of mine wrote about it — did you ever read the book, Marooned?

* Marooned on Mars ( 1952 ) by Lester del Rey.

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

* " Marooned " ( instrumental ), a 1994 instrumental track by Pink Floyd on their album The Division Bell

* Marooned, a song by Running Wild from their album Death or Glory

Shanley wrote two songs for the movie, " Marooned Without You " and " The Cowboy Song ", the former used thematically throughout and the latter performed by Tom Hanks on the ukulele.

In 1975, Slayton was medically cleared, and made his only space flight on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, which may have been partially inspired by Marooned.

In the 1980s, Marooned was redistributed under the name Space Travelers by Film Ventures International, an ultra-low-budget production company that prepared quickie television and video releases of films that were in the public domain or could be purchased inexpensively.

* An American Family Marooned on the Planet Pluto ( short story mentioned in Timequake )

Plans for outfitting an Apollo Command / Service Module ( CSM ) as a space rescue vehicle date back to November 1965 when North American Rockwell technicians conceived the possibility of a rescue mission for astronauts trapped in lunar orbit., After a rescue mission in Earth orbit was depicted in the 1969 film Marooned, the company revived the concept in November 1970.

Rukavishnikov couldn't sleep, however, and thought about the book Marooned which featured an American space crew stranded in orbit.

In " Marooned ," one of the main characters becomes lost alone in space and has flashbacks about events from the Pluto through Zephyr Campaigns ( in no particular order ); it appears intended to take place in the midst of the Klendathu Campaign.

Marooned navy officers, consisting mostly of Cantonese and Hokkien tribesmen, set up their small gangs near river estuaries, mainly to protect themselves.