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His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).
Seven stories are inspired by a nursery rhyme: And Then There Were None by Ten Little Indians ; One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ; Five Little Pigs by This Little Piggy ; Crooked House by There Was a Crooked Man ; A Pocket Full of Rye by Sing a Song of Sixpence ; Hickory Dickory Dock by Hickory Dickory Dock, and Three Blind Mice by Three Blind Mice.
Four stories in the Three Blind Mice collection ( 1950 ) feature Miss Marple: Strange Jest, Tape-Measure Murder, The Case of the Caretaker, and The Case of the Perfect Maid.
* The stories which comprise the collection Quest of the Three Worlds:
It also resembles an incident described in the earlier tale of " The Three Apples ", one of the stories narrated in the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ).
In fact, several stories and books describing the aftermath of a total American victory in the Third World War — such as " Sam Hall " and its loose sequel " Three Worlds to Conquer " as well as " Shield "— are scarcely less bleak than the above-mentioned depictions of a Soviet victory.
In the United Kingdom, Thomas Hardy wrote dozens of short stories, including " The Three Strangers " ( 1883 ), " A Mere Interlude " ( 1885 ) and " Barbara of the House of Grebe " ( 1890 ).
The Anishinaabe, who speak Ojibwa, one of the Three Fires Society, have many stories about thunderbirds.
Three later stories were written by Hilda Brabban.
The device is also used to great effect in stories such as " The Three Apples " and " The Seven Viziers ".
Many of Asimov's robot-focused stories involve robots behaving in unusual and counter-intuitive ways as an unintended consequence of how the robot applies the Three Laws to the situation in which it finds itself.
When these stories and several others were compiled in the anthology I, Robot, " Reason " and " Robbie " were updated to acknowledge all the Three Laws, though the material Asimov added to " Reason " is not entirely consistent with the Three Laws as he described them elsewhere.
Asimov's stories test his Three Laws in a wide variety of circumstances leading to proposals and rejection of modifications.
Science fiction scholar James Gunn writes in 1982, " The Asimov robot stories as a whole may respond best to an analysis on this basis: the ambiguity in the Three Laws and the ways in which Asimov played twenty-nine variations upon a theme ".
The robots in Asimov's stories, being Asenion robots, are incapable of knowingly violating the Three Laws but, in principle, a robot in science fiction or in the real world could be non-Asenion.
Characters within the stories often point out that the Three Laws, as they exist in a robot's mind, are not the written versions usually quoted by humans but abstract mathematical concepts upon which a robot's entire developing consciousness is based.
This concept is largely fuzzy and unclear in earlier stories depicting very rudimentary robots who are only programmed to comprehend basic physical tasks, where the Three Laws act as an overarching safeguard, but by the era of The Caves of Steel featuring robots with human or beyond-human intelligence the Three Laws have become the underlying basic ethical worldview that determines the actions of all robots.
Three times during the narrative, he tells stories to his friends, and two stories are presented in the text as short stories by Gordon Lachance, complete with attribution to the magazines in which they were published.
Three stories tall and of middling size.
Three weeks later it was stolen from Agnew's gallery, a theft that was highly publicised at the time, and for years the newspapers printed stories about claimed sightings of the painting.

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Its rapid production schedule was inspired by UK series Drop The Dead Donkey, where each episode was written and taped in a single week and scripts were closely based on the real news stories of the preceding seven days.
Grigory Petrovich Danilevsky, who wrote historical and early SF novels and stories wrote Mertvec-ubiytsa ( Dead murderer ) in 1879.
The plots share the same basic structure progressing in the same sequence: the stories begin at Bag End, the home of Bilbo Baggins ; Gandalf sends the protagonist into a quest eastward ; Elrond offers a haven and advice ; the adventurers escape dangerous creatures underground ( Goblin Town / Moria ); they engage another group of elves ( The Elf King's realm / Lothlórien ); they traverse a desolate region ( Desolation of Smaug / the Dead Marshes ); they fight in a massive battle ; a descendant of kings is restored to his ancestral throne ( Bard / Aragorn ); and the questing party returns home to find it in a deteriorated condition ( having possessions auctioned off / the scouring of the Shire ).
In 1964, " Tralala ", " The Queen Is Dead " and four other loosely linked short stories appeared in Selby's first novel, Last Exit to Brooklyn.
* Many of Edward D. Hoch's stories, including " The Problem of the Covered Bridge " ( and every Sam Hawthorn story ), " The Witch is Dead ," " The Flying Fiend ", " The Leopold Locked Room ", and " The Tomb at the Top of the Tree.
After teaming with SF writer Fletcher Pratt in " City of the Living Dead " in the May, 1930 issue of Science Wonder Stories, he wrote " The Voyage of the ' Asteroid '", which appeared in the Summer 1932 issue of Wonder Stories Quarterly, and The Man Who Awoke, a series of stories that was later published as a novel.
A number of his stories, notably " The Dead Valley ", were published in a collection entitled Black Spirits and White ( Stone & Kimball, 1895 ).
Following Judge Dredd's resignation and his replacement by the ex-Judge Kraken ( recounted in the Judge Dredd stories Tale of the Dead Man and Countdown to Necropolis respectively ), the sisters of Death-Phobia and Nausea-used their powers to influence Kraken and rescue the Dark Judges from Limbo.
* Mr. Right Is Dead ( novella and five short stories ) ( Simon & Schuster, 1965 )
" This version, by writer Joe Gill and artist Tony Tallarico, was played at least initially for camp, with stories like " The Giant Mummy Who was Not Dead ".
The collection as a whole displays an overall plan, beginning with stories of youth and progressing in age to culminate in The Dead.
* Dead Caulfields, A fan site with information on Salinger's works, including details about the uncollected and / or unpublished shorts stories.
In 2007 they appeared in two consecutive stories in Judge Dredd Megazine, focusing on the clan's earlier adventures: Before They Wuz Dead ( an Angel Gang story ) and Pizen Impossible ( a Fink solo story ), both by Simon Spurrier and Steve Roberts.
" Dead Easy " ( aka " Fat Tuesday "), a zombie movie planned as the first film, and " Body Count ", planned as the third installment, were the original stories to be told.
Before publication in 1990, five of the stories, including " The Things They Carried ," " Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong ," " The Ghost Soldiers ," and " The Lives of the Dead ," had been published in Esquire.
The stories " The Things They Carried ", " On The Rainy River ", " How To Tell A True War Story ", " Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong ", " The Man I Killed ", and " Lives of the Dead " were adapted for the theatre in March 2011 by the Eastern Washington University Theatre Department as part of the universities ' Get Lit!
Lindskoog claimed that The Dark Tower resembled stories by other writers, including A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L ' Engle ( 1962 ) and The Planet of the Dead by Clark Ashton Smith ( 1932 ).
** Dead Romance ( re-issue of the Virgin title, includes short stories " Toy Story " and " Grass ")
The stories here were illustrated novellas, rather than actual comic strips, titled The Day Of The Dead ( which was published in a paperback edition ) and Cloak Of Evil, they were popular but problems with the site led to its closure in 2002.
His evocative and haunting stories in Rubber Blanket, notably " Near Miss ," " Dead Dog ," " Discovering America ," and " Big Man ," set the stage for his work to come.
Several of his short stories, such as " The Upper Berth " ( 1886 ; written in 1885 ), " For the Blood Is the Life " ( 1905, a vampiress tale ), " The Dead Smile " ( 1899 ), and " The Screaming Skull " ( 1908 ), are often-anthologized classics of the horror genre.
:* The Book of the Dead ( 1991 ) ( collection of short stories set in this world )
* One Day Closer to Death: Eight Stabs at Immortality ( collection, 1998 ); all but one of the stories in here appeared in either The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians or A Conflagration Artist
Except for the last story in the book, Mirror Image, none of the stories are related to his Robot and Foundation series, and only a few ( The Last Question, The Dead Past, and Anniversary ) mention the Multivac computer.

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