With studied playfulness, Smith and Lovecraft borrowed each other's coinages of place names and the names of strange gods for their stories, though so different is Smith's treatment of the Lovecraft theme that it has been dubbed the ' Clark Ashton Smythos '.

Smith's weird stories form several cycles, called after the lands in which they are set: Averoigne, Hyperborea, Mars, Poseidonis, Zothique.

Amongst Smith's science fiction tales are stories set on Mars and the invented planet of Xiccarph.

Many of Smith's stories were published in six hardcover volumes by August Derleth under his Arkham House imprint.

Additionally, many of the Conan stories by Howard, de Camp and Carter used geographical place names from Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborean Cycle.

Smith's works consist of: a single novel, originally published in two volumes in edited form as The Planet Buyer, also known as The Boy Who Bought Old Earth ( 1964 ) and The Underpeople ( 1968 ), and later restored to its original form as Norstrilia ( 1975 ); and 32 short stories ( collected in The Rediscovery of Man ( 1993 ), including two versions of the short story " War No. 81-Q ").

Most of Smith's stories are set in an era starting some 14, 000 years in the future.

Still other stories claim that a secret line of hereditary protectors keep the Grail, or that it was hidden by the Templars in Oak Island, Nova Scotia's famous " Money Pit ", while local folklore in Accokeek, Maryland says that it was brought to the town by a closeted priest aboard Captain John Smith's ship.

Street and Smith's next innovation was the introduction of specialized genre pulps, each magazine focusing on a genre such as detective stories, romance, etc.

* Sartorias-deles — An iron-age magical planet on which most of Sherwood Smith's stories take place.

* The planet Shayol appears in Cordwainer Smith's stories.

Many of Smith's Hyperborean cycle stories were rejected as well.

Many of Clark Ashton Smith's short stories feature powerful wizards whose magic enables them to return from the dead.

A number of other Averoigne stories exist in outline form, uncompleted at the time of Smith's death.

The first space marine unit, the Galactic Marines, was used in E. E. Smith's Lensman series, published starting in 1937., but the lesser known Bob Olsen ( 1884-1956 ) also wrote a few stories and novelettes about Space Marines in Amazing Stories (" Captain Brink of the Space Marines ", November 1932 ; " The Space Marines and the Slavers ", December 1936 ).

The Instrumentality of Mankind is also the title of a paperback collection of short stories by Cordwainer Smith published in 1979 ( now superseded by the later The Rediscovery of Man, which collects all of Smith's short stories ).

This somewhat empty and sterile system was reformed and enlivened by the " Rediscovery of Man ", the backdrop against which Smith's novel Norstrilia and the majority of his short stories, covering thousands of years of fictional time, are set.

He has edited a number of collections of Smith's short stories, and co-edited The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith.

During the Golden Age of Science Fiction, Cordwainer Smith's parahuman underpeople ( humans derived from animal stock ) were an important part of his Instrumentality stories.

According to Smith's stories, the future continent of Zothique is bounded by sea to the west, south, and east ; its northern boundaries are dubious.

The following short stories are considered part of Smith's Hyperborean cycle:

The collection contains stories from Smith's major story cycles of Averoigne, Hyperborea, Poseidonis, and Zothique.

The main non-player characters of the module, the Amber family ( d ' Amberville in French, as an option ), are not actually in any of Smith's stories, and were created by the designer to provide a link to Averoigne.

Adam Smith's idea of the " invisible hand " can be understood as an attempt to describe the influence of the economy as a spontaneous order on people's actions.

Figurines of comic book or sci-fi / fantasy characters without movable parts have been referred to by the terms inaction figures ( originally used to describe Kevin Smith's View Askew figurines ) and staction figures ( a portmanteau of statue and action figures coined by Four Horsemen artists to describe Masters of the Universe figures ).

The band was reportedly named after a term Smith's father used to describe the neighborhood stoners, or possibly after Blind Melon Chitlin, a character from a Cheech & Chong album.

In public sermons later in Smith's life, he began to describe what he thought was the true nature of the Godhead in much greater detail.

Hysterical realism, also called recherché postmodernism, is a term coined in 2000 by the English critic James Wood in an essay on Zadie Smith's White Teeth to describe what he sees as a literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization and careful, detailed investigations of real specific social phenomena.

Smith's legendary status amongst Argyle fans was helped by his colourful personality, which included using poetry to describe his team's performance and wearing his tartan cap for good luck.

Those who ignore the effects of long run trade deficits may be confusing David Ricardo's principle of comparative advantage with Adam Smith's principle of absolute advantage, specifically ignoring the latter.

The Australian alternative rock band, The Go-Betweens dedicated a track off their 1994 album The Friends of Rachel Worth, When She Sang About Angels in reference to Smith's long time influence on themselves.

According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ), the Great Apostasy started not long after Jesus ' ascension and continued until Joseph Smith's First Vision in 1820.

In its early days, because of its long runway enabling safe takeoff rolls for fuel-heavy aircraft, Oakland was the departing point of several historic flights, including Charles Kingsford Smith's historic US-Australia flight in 1928, and Amelia Earhart's final flight in 1937.

In Parker v The Queen ( 1963 ), Chief Justice Sir Owen Dixon led a unanimous judgment which rejected a precedent of the House of Lords in DPP v Smith saying, " I shall not depart from the law on this matter as we have long since laid it down in this Court and I think that Smith's case should not be used in Australia as authority at all "; the following year the Privy Council upheld an appeal, applying the House of Lords precedent.

As long ago as 1933, Joe Smith's Second Interim Report on English Collocations highlighted the importance of collocation as a key to producing natural-sounding language, for anyone learning a foreign language.

Smith's second spell didn't last long, and he was replaced by David Kemp a few weeks into the following campaign.

One of his most memorable calls came in the 1925 Series, when Earl Smith's long fly ball to right field in Game 3 reached Washington outfielder Sam Rice's glove just as he fell over the wall into the outfield bleachers.

Because much of Smith's most well-known material had contained lyrics that were Satanic in nature, he had long been accused of Satanism and had long attempted to shed such perceptions.

Grant, according to his own statement " was not long in finding out that the objections to Smith's promotion were well grounded ," but he never stated the grounds of his complaint, and Smith, in the Battles and Leaders series, maintained that they were purely of a personal character.

Smith's hotel has long been a fixture of the town, and when he bought it around 1908.

Some of these dwarfed even the Feit – Thompson paper ; Aschbacher and Smith's paper on quasithin groups was 1221 pages long.

Many of Smith's films were acquired for distribution by Charles Urban for the Warwick Trading Company and the two began a long business relationship with a joint show of Smith and Méliès ' films at the Alhambra Theatre, Brighton in late 1898 and early 1899.

Russell resigned from Smith's Weekly after a dispute with the new editor, and not long after in October 1950 Smith's Weekly ceased publication.

Less than a year later, the Sellmans quit, along with a number of other long time board members like Tahahlita, because of Daniel's refusal to negotiate a settlement over the Tonopah site lawsuit related to Enid Smith's contested will.

To mark Sammi Smith's long career, a tribute album was released in her honor on September 26, 2006, titled Help Me Make It Through the Night: The Memorial Album.

She died in 1937 of blood poisoning, not long after attending Al Smith's presidential inauguration.

Smith's speech was sufficiently rousing that the Congressional Report shows it received " long continued applause.