Stephen King's 1985 novel " The Tommyknockers " also makes reference to Altair 4, as a desolate wasteland.

In fact, the project was small, underfunded by United Artists, and well under the cultural radar during the early months of production, as Stephen King's source novel had yet to climb the bestseller list.

* Stephen King's The Dark Tower series mentions Discordia in several contexts ; one of the main characters, Mordred Deschain, is from Discordia, and the castle that is home to the main antagonist is called Castle Discordia.

The novel, which was praised by Stephen King, is similar to King's It in its focus on small town life, the corruption of innocence, the return of an ancient evil, and the responsibility for others that emerges with the transition from youth to adulthood.

* The protagonist of Stephen King's novel Duma Key exhibited symptoms of a condition similar to receptive aphasia after suffering brain damage in an industrial accident.

* Stephen King's novel Carrie ( 1974 ) is written in an epistolary structure, through newspaper clippings, magazine articles, letters, and excerpts from books.

* Stephen King's novel Carrie includes many excerpts from a fictional committee's findings on the events in the novel, as well as excerpts from a book on the events in the novel titled The Shadow Exploded.

Also in the 1970s, horror author Stephen King debuted on the film scene as many of his books were adapted for the screen, beginning with Brian De Palma's adaptation of King's first published novel, Carrie ( 1976 ), which was nominated for Academy Awards.

* William Harrison-Wallace in the Dollar Baby screen adaptation of Stephen King's The Death of Jack Hamilton ( 2012 ).

He has also signed on to direct, produce, and write an adaptation of Stephen King's sci-fi novel 11 / 22 / 63 that centers around an attempt to go back in time and stop the Kennedy Assassination.

* Lud ( city ), a city in Stephen King's Dark Tower series

* In Stephen King's 1980 novel Firestarter, the protagonist chooses Rolling Stone as an unbiased independent media source, through which she can expose the government agency hunting her.

At the beginning of Stephen King's career, the general view among publishers was such that an author was limited to a book every year, since publishing more would not be acceptable to the public.

Richard Bachman was also referred to in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of books.

* Rhea of the Cöos, a character in Stephen King's Dark Tower novels

In Stephen King's novel Misery the protagonist, Paul Sheldon, is forced to write a sequel to his book Misery's Child, in which the main character, Misery Chastain, dies.

* Stephen King's Official Web Site

At one time, prominent science fiction authors were frequently recruited to write episodes of various series, such as William Gibson's and Stephen King's work on The X-Files.

* Maximum Overdrive, Stephen King's 1986 film, featured big rigs as its primary homicidal villains

The plot of Stephen King's 2003 novel Wolves of the Calla is loosely based on The Magnificent Seven ( Or, rather Seven Samurai ).

In his introduction to the 2003 revised edition of his novel The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, Stephen King revealed that the film was a primary influence for the Dark Tower series, and that Eastwood's character specifically inspired the creation of King's protagonist, Roland Deschain.

Some of which include Annie ( 1982 ), Clue ( 1985 ), and most notably, the 1990 horror miniseries Stephen King's It in which he stars as " Pennywise the Dancing Clown ", an alternate physical appearance of the titular antagonist, It.

Stephen King got the name Castle Rock from the fictional mountain fort of the same name in Lord of the Flies, using the name to refer to a fictional town that has appeared in a number of King's novels.

While he cared little for who should become King of Poland, the cause of protecting the King's father-in-law was a sympathetic one, and he hoped to use the war as a means of humbling the Austrians, and perhaps securing the long-desired Duchy of Lorraine from its duke, Francis Stephen, who was expected to marry Emperor Charles's daughter Maria Theresa, which would bring Austrian power dangerously close to the French border.

However, the following year she played Connie in Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive, noting it was " truly a dreadful film but I had a great part in it.

Stephen Baxter has imagined perhaps some of the most unusual exotic life-forms in his Xeelee series of novels and stories, including supersymmetric photino-based life that congregate in the gravity wells of stars, entities composed of quantum wave functions, and the Qax, who thrive in any form of convection cells, from swamp gas to the atmospheres of gas giants.

The name Daedalus is used in James Joyce's novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses, though spelled differently in the last name of the character Stephen Dedalus.

He has also written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury (" J. Frederick George "), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury.

* Whist is often enjoyed by Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin whilst at sea in the Aubrey – Maturin series of novels by Patrick O ' Brian.

* Patrick O ' Brian: Series of novels featuring Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin in the British Navy set in the Napoleonic Wars

Stephen King published four novels under the name Richard Bachman because publishers didn't feel the public would buy more than one novel per year from a single author.

Indeed, some novels go so far as to posit a love-affair between Matilda and Stephen, e. g. the Janna Mysteries by Felicity Pulman, set during the civil war between Stephen and Matilda.

* Castle Rock ( Stephen King ), the fictional Maine town in use in many Stephen King novels, stories, and novellas

The Drawing of the Three is the second book in The Dark Tower series of novels written by Stephen King and published by Grant in 1987.

The book itself went on to inspire the plot for a wide array of novels, from Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur ( 1880 ), a Science Fiction retelling in Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination, to Stephen Fry's contemporary The Stars ' Tennis Balls,

After production of Fire and Ice wrapped, Bakshi attempted several projects that fell through, including adaptations of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man, Eric Rücker Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novels and an anthropomorphic depiction of Sherlock Holmes.

Patrick O ' Brian, CBE ( 12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000 ), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey – Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centred on the friendship of English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish – Catalan physician Stephen Maturin.

Blue Eye was the home of the fictional character Bob Lee Swagger, protagonist of various novels by film critic and author Stephen Hunter.

The character appears in a positive light in novels like Gillian Bradshaw's Hawk of May, Thomas Berger's Arthur Rex, Hal Foster's comic strip Prince Valiant, and Stephen R. Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle.

* American writer Stephen King has written a seven-volume series of epic fantasy novels called The Dark Tower, concerning the thousand-year quest of Roland Deschain, of Eld, based in part on Browning's Childe Roland.

A fictional town of Ludlow, Maine is also the setting of the novels and films Pet Sematary and The Dark Half by Stephen King.

Bangor or its alter ego Derry are the fictional settings for so many novels and stories by Stephen King that the city has become the capital of Transylmainia, a gothic horror-scape King invented largely by himself ( with some help from the 1960s television show Dark Shadows ).

An author of novels, short stories, and plays, Mitchell is best known for his 1947 novel, Who Has Seen The Wind, which has sold close to a million copies in North America, and the radio series and later a collection of short stories 1961, Jake and the Kid, which subsequently won the Stephen Leacock Award.

* Stephen King mentions the town in novels The Stand, in which it is the hometown of character Dayna Jurgens, and The Talisman.

The beginnings of an Anglo-Welsh tradition are found by some in the novels of Allen Raine ( Anne Adalisa ( Evans ) Puddicombe ) ( 1836 – 1908 ), from Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, whose work, Stephen Thomas Knight proposes, " realised a real, if partial, separate identity and value for a Welsh social culture ".

The Friends of Abingdon's Unicorn Theatre, housed in the old Abbey buildings, is the site of first productions of many stage adaptations of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, by Stephen Briggs.