* Riddley Walker, a 1980 novel by Russell Hoban, utilizes Punch and Judy characters as quasi-political symbols.

Apocalyptic fiction generally concerns the disaster itself and the direct aftermath, while post-apocalyptic can deal with anything from the near aftermath ( as in Cormac McCarthy's The Road ) to 375 years in the future ( as in By The Waters of Babylon ) to hundreds or thousands of years in the future, as in Russell Hoban's novel Riddley Walker and Walter M. Miller, Jr .' s A Canticle for Leibowitz.

Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker ( 1980 ) also has religious or mystical themes, while Orson Scott Card's post-apocalyptic anthology The Folk of the Fringe deals with American Mormons after a nuclear war.

* Cult writer Russell Hoban, author of Riddley Walker and the Frances the Badger children's books, was born and grew up in Lansdale.

The novels " The Herb of Grace " ( US title: Pilgrim's Inn ) ( 1948 ) by British author Elizabeth Goudge, and Riddley Walker ( 1980 ) by American author Russell Hoban, incorporate the legend into their plot.

Riddley Walker is a science fiction novel by Russell Hoban, first published in 1980.

Riddley Walker is set about two thousand years after a nuclear war has devastated world civilizations.

Though its premise is similar to other post-apocalyptic novels such as A Canticle for Leibowitz, Riddley Walker is unusual in its style and focus.

Riddley Walker is set in the far future ; two millennia after a nuclear war which changed human society deeply.

In November 2007 Riddley Walker was produced by Red Kettle in Waterford, Ireland, to positive reviews.

" The Rapture of Riddley Walker " is the eighth song on the Clutch album From Beale Street to Oblivion ( 2007 ).

* Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker

* Riddley Walker Annotations

* Russell Hoban on Riddley Walker ( The Guardian, 26 November 2010 )

James's various ghost stories, The Cloud of Unknowing, Count Eric Stenbock, and Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker.

* Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban.

* The 1980 science-fiction book Riddley Walker features characters rolling hash cigarettes in " rizlas ," one of the only forms of post-dark-age technology having survived global nuclear disaster.

is redolent of the linguistic novelty and post-apocalyptic scope of the Russell Hoban novel Riddley Walker.

* The construction of a swazzle is described and its use explained in Russell Hoban's novel Riddley Walker.

Atlantis is also home to several sea turtles – two Loggerhead sea turtles, two Kemp's Riddley sea turtles, and a Giant Green Sea Turtles which was added in March 2011.

While the unfamiliar language is a projection of how historical linguistics might apply in the future, it also provides clues to the nature of life in Riddley's world ( e. g., being " et " by wild dogs is a common fate ), and creates suspense as the reader gradually becomes accustomed to the idiosyncratic narration, and comes to understand some of the references of which Riddley is unaware.

* Punch-While the authorized narrative of society, The Eusa Show, appropriates many of the familiar puppets from the Punch and Judy show, Punch himself is suppressed until Riddley happens to find an ancient Punch puppet which sets him on his journey.

The main action of the story begins when the young narrator, Riddley, stumbles upon efforts to recreate a weapon of the ancient world.

The first person narrator, Riddley, writes in a distinct form of English whose spelling often resembles a phonetic transliteration of a Kentish accent.

It might have been easier for her if Kitti Walker hadn't been everything that Blanche was not.

Walker said he was considering filing a motion for a new trial which would contend that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence and that there were several errors in trial procedure.

The jury, which was locked up in a motel overnight, was canvassed at the request of Walker after the verdict was announced.

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

This early version ran on the Marinchip Systems 9900 computer ( Marinchip Systems was owned by Autodesk co-founders John Walker and Dan Drake ).

Authors Martin Walker and Bob Woodward state Clinton's innovative use of sound bite-ready dialogue, personal charisma, and public perception-oriented campaigning was a major factor in his high public approval ratings.

The five-string banjo was popularized by Joel Walker Sweeney, an American minstrel performer from Appomattox Court House, Virginia.

T-Bone Walker states that as a boy, he was employed by Jefferson to lead him around the streets of Dallas ; he would have been of the appropriate age at the time.

" Unit operations was introduced into the course by William Hultz Walker in 1905.

In 1779, New Pennacook Plantation was granted to Timothy Walker, Jr. and his associates at what would be incorporated in 1800 as Rumford, Maine, the site of Pennacook Falls.

Prior to the 1995 season, the Rockies acquired free-agent outfielder Larry Walker, previously of the Montreal Expos, who replaced Kingery as the 4th member of the " Blake Street Bombers "— named after the street on which the new ballpark ( Coors Field ) was located — along with Galarraga, Bichette, and third baseman Vinny Castilla, who had played sparingly with the major-league club during the previous season.

Helton was blossoming into a young developed hitter, batting. 320 with 35 homers and 113 RBI ; Castilla, Walker, and Bichette also hit more than 30 homers each.

In addition, Walker, who had been with the team since 1995 and was widely regarded as the best player in team history, was now 37 years old, and injuries prevented him from playing much of the time.

Ratings reached a low of 8 million in February 1973, Pat Phoenix quit as Elsie Tanner, Violet Carson ( Ena Sharples ) was written out for most of the year due to illness, and Doris Speed ( Annie Walker ) took two months ' leave.

The original cast was created by Tony Warren, with the characters of Ena Sharples ( Violet Carson ), Elsie Tanner ( Patricia Phoenix ) and Annie Walker ( Doris Speed ) as central figures.

Flockhart's last appearance on television was as Kitty Walker, opposite Sally Field, Rachel Griffiths and Matthew Rhys, in the ABC prime time series Brothers & Sisters, which premiered in September 2006 in the time slot after Desperate Housewives.

By age nine, she was appearing on The Cas Walker Show on both WIVK Radio and WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee.

On October 3, 1849, Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore delirious, " in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance ", according to the man who found him, Joseph W. Walker.

The first published discovery to receive subsequent confirmation was made in 1988 by the Canadian astronomers Bruce Campbell, G. A. H. Walker, and Stephenson Yang.

During the recording of the third album, Gibson was let go after a dispute over money and Walker left since touring was keeping him away from his family too much.