* In F. Paul Wilson's 2009 Repairman Jack novel Ground Zero, the recurring character of The Lady is revealed to be a manifestation of the Noosphere whose function is that of a " beacon " which informs a higher intelligence (" the Ally ") that sentient life exists in the area where she appears.

* In the novel All the Rage by F. Paul Wilson, the fourth of his Repairman Jack novels, a rogue rakosh ( a bipedal shark-demon, first introduced in Wilson's novel The Tomb ) disappears into the New Jersey Pine Barrens, assuming the identity of the ( previously only legendary, it is implied ) Jersey Devil.

* F. Paul Wilson, author of the Repairman Jack science fiction series

* In F. Paul Wilson's popular Repairman Jack series of novels, the titular hero's weapon shop of choice is " Isher Sporting Goods ".

* Bloodline ( Repairman Jack novel ), a 2007 sci-fi novel by F. Paul Wilson

Repairman Jack is a character in a series of novels by F. Paul Wilson.

Jack initially was just one protagonist in a string of related novels, but then gained his own series known as The Repairman Jack series.

Repairman Jack is a self-titled " fix-it " man, but not in the common workshop sense.

The Nightworld series, parent to the Repairman Jack series, already names Jack as a main fighter in the cosmic war.

There has been tentative news of a Repairman Jack movie based on the first novel ( The Tomb, or Rakoshi.

F. Paul Wilson, in early 2011, signed a contract to write an additional Repairman Jack trilogy after the completion of the main story arc is completed with The Dark at the End and the heavily revised Nightworld.

Repairman Jack has appeared in the following novels as an adult:

* Nightworld ( 1992, though his appearance here happens after all others-updated Borderlands Press edition released in June ' 06 and a fully revised edition capping off the Repairman Jack and Adversary Cycle series in May 2012 )

* Quick Fixes-Tales of Repairman Jack ( 2012, collection of all short stories )

Repairman Jack has appeared in the following Young Adult novels, set in the 1980s, as a teen-ager:

Early Repairman Jack Trilogy

In January, 2012 F. Paul Wilson began writing for the tech web site Byte, mostly in the persona of Repairman Jack.

* About Repairman Jack at Tor Books

* CRISSCROSS ( novel ), a 2004 Repairman Jack novel by F. Paul Wilson

* Legacies ( novel ), a 1998 Repairman Jack novel by F. Paul Wilson

The D & D magic system, in which wizards memorize spells that are used up once cast and must be re-memorized the next day, was heavily influenced by the Dying Earth stories and novels of Jack Vance.

Though the concept of a shared universe was not new or unique to comics in 1961, writer / editor Stan Lee, together with several artists including Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, created a series of titles where events in one book would have repercussions in another title and serialized stories would show characters ' growth and change.

The Marvel Comics company itself exists within the Marvel Universe, and versions of people such as Stan Lee and Jack Kirby have appeared in some of the stories, whereas characters like Steve Rogers, ( Captain America's alter ego ), have worked for Marvel.

One by one he discovered the authors that would influence his later work: Jack London and his stories of reincarnation and past lives, most notably The Star Rover ( 1915 ); Rudyard Kipling's tales of subcontinent adventure and his chanting, shamanic verse ; the classic mythological tales collected by Thomas Bulfinch.

He also continued to write follow-up stories to You Know Me Al, with the hero of that book, the headstrong but gullible Jack Keefe, experiencing various ups and downs in his major league career and in his personal life.

King often uses authors as characters, or includes mention of fictional books in his stories, novellas and novels, such as Paul Sheldon who is the main character in Misery and Jack Torrance in The Shining.

There is an extensive critical analysis of Le Fanu's supernatural stories ( particularly " Green Tea ", " Schalken the Painter " and " Carmilla ") in Jack Sullivan's book Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story From Le Fanu to Blackwood ( 1978 ).

* July 25 – Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.

* Jubilee ( collection ), a collection of short stories by Jack Dann

It was adapted by Howard B. Kreitsek from the stories " The Veldt ", " The Long Rain ", and " The Last Night of the World ", and directed by Jack Smight.

Giants figure in a great many fairy tales and folklore stories, such as Jack the Giant Killer, The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body, Nix Nought Nothing, Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon, Young Ronald, and Paul Bunyan.

Blumenschein stayed in Taos for three months, returning to New York to resume his career as an illustrator of popular magazines and books ( including two short stories by Jack London ), while Phillips remained in Taos.

To thank Great Ormond Street Hospital, Depp visited the hospital in November 2007 dressed in his Captain Jack Sparrow outfit and spent 4 hours reading stories to the children.

An Informal Biography of Scrooge McDuck by science fiction author Jack Chalker used names and events in the Barks stories ( and a very few non-Barks ones ) to create a life story for McDuck.

In his earliest appearances, he was less of a storyteller than an introducer, as most of his stories were actually told by Jack Kirby's Dr. E. Leopold Maas, an investigator of paranormal phenomena.

His editors, Al Feldstein and Harvey Kurtzman, who also drew covers and stories, gave assignments to such prominent and highly accomplished freelance artists as Johnny Craig, Reed Crandall, Jack Davis, Will Elder, George Evans, Frank Frazetta, Graham Ingels, Jack Kamen, Bernard Krigstein, Joe Orlando, John Severin, Al Williamson, Basil Wolverton, and Wally Wood.

Retailing for $ 1, it featured art by Neal Adams ' studio, Continuity Associates, as well as some stories by veteran illustrators Jack Sparling and Win Mortimer.

In a debate with Project Censored's Associate Director Mark Lowenthal, Jack Shafer wrote that Project Censored had " an overbearing left-wing bias -- a fact belied by its refusal to review stories from the right-wing or conservative press, the openly partisan nature of the stories that are selected and the leftist panel of judges who help select them.

* July 25-Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.

His earthy song, " Junker's Blues ", with its stories about needles and reefer and the Angola prison farm was recorded in 1940 by Champion Jack Dupree, who called Drive ' Em Down his " father ", citing him as " teaching me his style ".

In the first series, consisting of the first 28 books, Morgan le Fay sends Jack and Annie, two normal children from Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, on numerous adventures and missions with a magical tree house in order to help free Morgan from a spell, solve four ancient riddles to become Master Librarians, and save four ancient stories from being lost forever.

From the beginning the magazine emphasized interviews with celebrity cigar smokers, including cover stories on such luminaries as Rush Limbaugh, Bill Cosby, George Burns, Jack Nicholson, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Some of the art he did produce was specific to the stories and some examples of this are the covers he did for the Grafton publications of the Demon Princes novels by Jack Vance in the late 1980s, Star King, The Killing Machine, The Palace of Love, The Face and The Book of Dreams.