Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

As a result, Suchet will have filmed adaptations of every Poirot novel, and all but one Poirot short story.

By 14 he had already written a short adventure novel called The Black Diamonds which was lost for years until published in 2002.

As philosophers of Voltaire's day contended with the problem of evil, so too does Candide in this short novel, albeit more directly and humorously.

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 ").

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.

The most widespread subgenre of the detective novel became the whodunit ( or whodunnit, short for " who done it?

Pitman's short book about his desperate escape from a Caribbean penal colony for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion, his shipwrecking and subsequent desert island misadventures was published by J. Taylor of Paternoster Street, London, whose son William Taylor later published Defoe's novel.

They vary from short story collection to fix-up ( novel created from older short stories ) perhaps all the way to novel.

* Theodore Sturgeon's short novel, Some of Your Blood ( 1961 ), consists of letters and case-notes relating to the psychiatric treatment of a non-supernatural vampire.

Many works have been inspired by the novella, including novel sequels, short films, and a feature film called Flatland.

In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades.

Contemporary American writers in this tradition include Joyce Carol Oates, in such novels as Bellefleur and A Bloodsmoor Romance and short story collections such as Night-Side ( Skarda 1986b ) and Raymond Kennedy in his novel Lulu Incognito.

Awards are offered in the following genres: drama / screenplay, essay, the novel, short fiction, Nonfiction, and poetry.

* 1816 – Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.

Up the Walls of the World published in 1978 was her first full length novel, up until then she worked and built a reputation only in the field of short stories.

* Kappa, a short novel by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

In 1837 he completed a short novel, Scorpion and Felix, a drama, Oulanem, and some poems, none of which was published.

On October 4, 1973, he published his first work, a manga adaptation of Prosper Merimee's short novel Mateo Falcone, titled A Gun Report.

He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works ( 55 novels in total, plus four " lost " novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings ), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.

The whimsical Svetz series consists of a collection of short stories, The Flight of the Horse, and a novel, Rainbow Mars, which involve a nominal time machine sent back to retrieve long-extinct animals, but which travels, in fact, into alternate realities and brings back mythical creatures such as a Roc and a Unicorn.

As a short, possibly not the best method, I looked up `` Word '' in the Concordance and noted that the Bible claims from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22 to be God's personal message to man.

1938's Violent is the Word for Curly was a quality Chase-directed short that featured the musical interlude, " Swingin ' the Alphabet ".

* Noank is mentioned in Theodore Dreiser's short story A Doer of the Word.

Word methods identify a series of short, nonoverlapping subsequences (" words ") in the query sequence that are then matched to candidate database sequences.

Earthsea is a fictional realm originally created by Ursula K. Le Guin for her short story " The Word of Unbinding ", published in 1964.

A WWII short story called ' The News in English ' from Graham Greene's book The Last Word ( 1990 ) is set on a winter morning in Crowborough.

In 1938, the Three Stooges made a short called Violent Is the Word for Curly, a takeoff on the name of this then-popular film.

The church's official statement on the interpretation of the Word of Wisdom is short: it reaffirms the long-standing meaning of " hot drinks " and extends the substances covered by prohibition:

* Mr Campion's Lady ( 1965 )-Sweet Danger, The Fashion in Shrouds and Traitor's Purse ; also a short story A Word in Season and a preface by the author.

" The Word of Unbinding " is a short story by Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in the January 1964 issue of Fantastic, and reprinted in collections such as The Wind's Twelve Quarters.

Martin has played Wanda the Word Fairy in numerous short segments on Sesame Street She appeared in one episode from Season 5 ( 1988 ) titled " UNICEF ".

In particular, Sam Spud, Gawain's Word and the short segments featuring Fred Newman are highly reminiscent of the old Electric Company

The alphabet song performed in a classroom scene was inspired by the " Swinging the Alphabet " song from The Three Stooges short Violent Is the Word for Curly.

Stephen King's short stories " Word Processor of the Gods " and " Sorry, Right Number " were amongst them.

" Word Processor of the Gods " is a short story by Stephen King first published in the January 1983 issue of Playboy magazine under the title " The Word Processor ", and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew.

The term tooltip originally came from older Microsoft applications ( like Microsoft Word 95 ), which had a toolbar where moving the mouse over the buttons ( the Toolbar icons ) displayed these tooltips, a short description of the function of the tool in the toolbar.

This is a short list of some of the songs that were made hits on Word Records over the years

" The Last Word " is a short story by author Graham Greene, written in 1988 ( see 1988 in literature ).

It first appeared in The Independent but can also be found in collections of his short fiction, notably the Penguin edition of The Last Word and Other Stories, for which it is the lead story.

He may have been best known as the announcer for the weekly Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio broadcast, Music and the Spoken Word: he wrote, produced, and announced the radio broadcasts, including a short inspirational message.

The sketch, which closed the show except for " Word Dance Part II ", was nearly identical to the short story, except that at the end he cleverly avoids being shot.

A stage adaptation of The Pastures of Heaven done as a collaboration between the California Shakespeare Festival and Word for Word ( a company that stages short stories literally word for word ) premiered in Orinda, California, in June 2010.