The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

British actor Ian McNeice's interpretation of the Baron in the 2000 Sci-Fi Channel miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune ( and its sequel, 2003's Children of Dune ) is, though dramatic, somewhat lighter and more eloquent in comparison to Lynch's version, and therefore more consistent with the novel.

The term has also been used in The Judas Mandala, a 1982 science-fiction novel by Damien Broderick, where the context of use is somewhat different from that defined above.

The century began while the translatio imperii of 962 was still somewhat novel and ended in the midst of the Investiture Controversy.

The number 18 has special meaning in Judaism ( it means Alive in Gematria ) and was relevant to early drafts of the novel which had a somewhat greater Jewish emphasis.

Also significant within the Culture novel cycle is that the book shows a number of Minds acting in a decidedly non-benevolent way, somewhat qualifying the godlike non-corruptibility and benevolence they are ascribed in other Culture novels.

In the former novel, Lazarus is revealed at the end of the novel as the father of protagonist Colin " Richard Ames " Campbell ; whereas in the latter novel, Maureen as narrator tells a somewhat different version of Lazarus ' visit to Earth in 1916-18 and reveals that Lazarus ( as Woodrow " Bill " Smith ) was the backup pilot of the first lunar expedition.

It is a dark novel about the lack of freedom for women, and it raised a debate in the parliament called " The Hertha debate ", which contributed to the new law of legal majority for adult unmarried women in Sweden in 1858, and was somewhat of a starting point for the real feminist movement in Sweden.

In Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune, the Bene Gesserit are a secretive matriarchal order who have achieved somewhat superhuman abilities through physical and mental conditioning and the use of the drug melange.

Cecil is a sophisticated and " superior " Londoner who is desirable in terms of rank and class, even though he despises country society ; he is also somewhat of a comic figure in the novel, as he gives himself airs and is quite pretentious.

Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess ' Stardust was released by Vertigo as a heavily illustrated novel, rather than a regular comic, and Vertigo has also experimented with the dimensions of their OGNs, releasing several that are of a non-comic-book-standard size, including Dave Gibbons ' The Originals and Mat Johnson's Incognegro ( which also featured somewhat experimental artwork, namely art-by Warren Pleece-that was fully black and white, with no " halftones or grays ").

This final novel, titled Stopover: Tokyo ( a. k. a. Right You Are, Mr. Moto ) is a more conventional spy story and a somewhat darker tale than the earlier novels.

At the time of the EP's release this was a somewhat novel concept, as most punk bands in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas focused on politics, social and personal issues in their music.

The story of Chatterton had inspired one of the three episodes of Vigny's luminous philosophical novel Stello ( 1832 ), in which Vigny examines the relation of poetry to society and concludes that the poet, doomed to be regarded with suspicion in every social order, must remain somewhat aloof and apart from the social order.

" with all due allowance for its somewhat limited range of subject, Son Excellence Eugene Rougon is the one existing French novel which gives the reader a fair general idea of what occurred in political spheres at an important period of the Empire.

In the source novel Horseman, Pass By, the Bannons ' housekeeper Alma is a black woman and her role in the story is somewhat larger ; in the film, Alma is played by Patricia Neal and the part is comparatively small.

Chariton's novel exists in only one ( somewhat unreliable ) manuscript, from the 13th century.

" Allan Bloom has referred to the novel as being " hardly literature ," one having a " sub-Nietzschean assertiveness excites somewhat eccentric youngsters to a new way of life.

" The Lost Army ," a recently published historical novel by Gary S. Chafetz, presents additional and somewhat compelling circumstantial evidence that Mubarak was indeed involved.

He had a rich fund of appealing if somewhat short-breathed melody, commanded an increasingly rich harmonic vocabulary, and was a master of brilliant and novel orchestral effect.

* The 1999 film, " Onegin ", is an English adaptation of Pushkin's work, directed by Martha Fiennes, starring Ralph Fiennes as Onegin, Liv Tyler as Tatiana, and Toby Stephens as Lensky. The film compresses the events of the novel somewhat: for example, the Naming Day celebrations take place on the same day as Onegin's speech to Tatiana.

In addition to the usual mainframe practice of writing and submitting programs in batch, SAS offered the option, somewhat novel at the time, of a windowed programming environment, where the program being written or edited appeared in one window, the program output appeared in another window, and the program log appeared in a third window.

BBC Radio 7 broadcast the six-part series, an abridged reading by Rufus Sewell of the original Doctor Syn novel, from January 4th 2010 to January 11th.

Because these paired books had to fit a fixed total page length, one or both were usually abridged to fit, and Wollheim often made other editorial alterations — as witness the differences between Poul Anderson's Ace novel War of the Wing-Men and its definitive revised edition, The Man Who Counts.

Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published ( in abridged form ) as a serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ( October, November 1959, as " Starship Soldier ") and published hardcover in December, 1959.

Apart from the radio broadcasts, Douglas Adams recorded both unabridged and abridged readings of the first novel for the audiobook market.

This is the only book in the five novel series not to have also had a prior, abridged edition read by Stephen Moore.

In particular, his 2005 novel Secret Stories ( published in the U. S. in an abridged edition as Secret Story ( 2006 )) both exemplifies and satirizes Liverpudlian speech, characters, humor, and culture.

Derek Jacobi performed two separate readings of the novel, both as abridged versions, one for Dove Audio ( 1986 ) and one for CSA Word ( 2007 ).

In May 1964 Saga: The Magazine For Men printed an abridged version of the novel.

In the UK, the novel was serialised as an abridged version in the weekly Women's Pictorial magazine in six instalments from February 16 ( Volume 29, Number 736 ) to March 23, 1935 ( Volume 29, Number 741 ) under the title Mystery in the Air.

In the US the novel was serialised in Ladies ' Home Journal in two abridged installments from July ( Volume XCIII, Number 7 ) to August 1976 ( Volume XCIII, Number 8 ) with an illustration by Fred Otnes.

The novel was serialised in the Star Weekly Novel, a Toronto newspaper supplement, in two abridged instalments from 9-16 March 1963 under the title The Mirror Crack'd with each issue containing a cover illustration by Gerry Sevier.

The digital radio station BBC 7 broadcast ( now BBC Radio 4 Extra ) an abridged version of the novel, voiced by Lorelei King, in five 30-minute episodes in February and October 2007.

The novel was first serialised in the weekly magazine Woman's Own in seven abridged instalments from November 15 to December 27, 1969, illustrated with uncredited photographic montages.

In the UK the novel was first serialised in the weekly magazine John Bull in seven abridged instalments from March 21 ( Volume 93, Number 2438 ) to May 2, 1953 ( Volume 93, Number 2444 ) with illustrations by William Little.

* David Shrayer-Petrov (), Herbert and Nelly ( a novel, in Russian, abridged 1986 ; complete 1992, 2006 ).

Yates would have appeared in The Killing Stone by actor Richard Franklin, but the novel was never published, although an abridged recording by Franklin based on the book appeared in 2002.

Random House abridged the novel into an audiobook read by Keith Szarabajka, which ran approximately three hours.

Klement also negotiated for The Saturday Evening Post to serialize an abridged version of the novel, and he agreed to give Asimov half the payment for it.

In the 1970s MGM sold its rights to The Forty Days of Musa Dagh and after several abortive attempts, the novel was finally turned into a movie in 1982, directed by Sarky Mouradian with screenplay by Alex Hakobian, but it was a low-budget, low-profile production that seriously abridged the original.

The abridged version of the novel was first published in the United States in 1912 in chapbook form as Poems and a Dream of X ( New York: R. H. Paget, 1912 ), in an extremely limited print run.

In this edition, the 200, 000 word novel was condensed to a 20, 000 word novelette, originally for the purpose of establishing copyright ; also included was a novelette entitled Mutiny, an abridged version of the story "' Prentices ' Mutiny ," and thirteen of Hodgson's poems, which were later included in his other posthumously published books of poetry.

In the US the novel was serialised in Ladies Home Journal in two abridged instalments from July ( Volume XCII, Number 7 ) to August 1975 ( Volume XCII, Number 8 ) with an illustration by Mark English.

The novel was first serialised in the UK weekly magazine Woman's Own in five abridged instalments from 20 November, – 18 December 1965 illustrated with specially posed photographic layouts by Abis Sida Stribley.

The novel was first serialised in the US in Collier's Weekly in three abridged instalments from 20 July ( Volume 138, Number 2 ) to 17 August 1956 ( Volume 138, Number 4 ) with illustrations by Robert Fawcett.