The stories that constitute the Known Space series were originally conceived as two separate series: the Belter stories, featuring solar-system colonization and slower-than-light travel with fusion-powered and Bussard ramjet ships, and the Neutron Star / Ringworld series of stories, set much further into the future, which feature faster-than-light ships using " hyperdrive ".

Battered Silicon Dispatch Box has issued in 2009 four new volumes of stories by August Derleth under a joint imprint with Arkham House which constitute Arkham House's only output since 2006.

In stand-up comedy the comedian usually recites a fast-paced succession of humorous stories, short jokes called " bits ", and one-liners, which constitute what is typically called a monologue, routine or act.

Rituals, the collective interpersonal behavior and values as demonstrated by that behavior, constitute the fabric of an organization's culture The contents of myths, stories, and sagas reveal the history of an organization and influence how people understand what their organization values and believes.

The stories about the livings and doings of these beings, and their interaction with humans, constitute the major part of Scandinavian folklore.

The Vibhanga section ( s ) of Vinaya Pitaka constitute ( s ) a commentary on these rules, giving detailed explanations of them along with the origin stories for each rule.

Written under the Michael Collins pen name, his Dan Fortune stories constitute one of the longest-running private detective series written, beginning in 1967 with Act of Fear, which earned a 1968 Edgar Award, for Best First Novel.

Rabbi Trugman explains that it is through oral tradition that the meanings of the Torah, its commandments and stories, are known and understood.

Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group.

Folklore ( or lore ) consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group.

The hagiography of oral stories about his life, that were posthumously compiled in writing by his disciples, describe his spiritual powers and knowledge, miracle working, and ability to predict the future.

The late dates of the manuscripts may reflect a longer oral tradition for the Fenian stories.

The stories of Isaac, like other patriarchal stories of Genesis, are generally believed in liberal Western scholarship to have " their origin in folk memories and oral traditions of the early Hebrew pastoralist experience.

There is a wealth of stories and additional information about Moses in the Jewish apocrypha and in the genre of rabbinical exegesis known as Midrash, as well as in the primary works of the Jewish oral law, the Mishnah and the Talmud.

The nature of memory — both individual and community — is as much a part of the practice of oral history as are the stories collected.

Although Scott had attained celebrity through his poetry, he soon tried his hand at documenting his researches into the oral tradition of the Scottish Borders in prose fiction – stories and novels – at the time still considered aesthetically inferior to poetry ( above all to such classical genres as the epic or poetic tragedy ) as a mimetic vehicle for portraying historical events.

Short stories date back to oral story-telling traditions which originally produced epics such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

In Europe, the oral story-telling tradition began to develop into written stories in the early 14th century, most notably with Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron.

The stories thus preserved are also referred to as tradition, or as part of an oral tradition.

These stories were preserved by oral tradition until they were written down some 250 years after the events they describe.

Roots of the genre come from different oral stories passed down in European cultures.

Children's literature has its roots in the stories and songs that adults told their children before publishing existed, as part of the wider oral tradition.

" Literature " is a highly ambiguous term: at its broadest, it can mean any sequence of words that has been preserved for transmission in some form or other ( including oral transmission ); more narrowly, it is often used to designate imaginative works such as stories, poems, and plays ; more narrowly still, it is used as an honorific and applied only to those works which are considered to have particular merit.

Before the invention of the printing press, stories were passed on via oral tradition.

Other parts of Maya oral tradition ( such as animal tales and many moralising stories ) do not properly belong to the domain of mythology, but rather to legend and folk tale.

It exists mainly as a mixture of mythological stories and historical legends recorded in local annals such as the Chronicles of Huayang compiled in the Jin Dynasty ( 265 – 420 ), and oral literature such as the folk stories of Emperor Duyu 杜宇 who lost his kingdom and died a miserable death.

In other words, oral stories are built out of set phrases which have been stockpiled from a lifetime of hearing and telling stories.

In oral traditions, stories are kept alive by being re-told again and again.

When and where oral tradition was pushed back in favor of print media, the literary idea of the author as originator of a story's authoritative version changed people's perception of stories themselves.

Alternate history or alternative history is a genre of fiction consisting of stories that are set in worlds in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world.

* Paradox: The Magazine of Historical and Speculative Fiction, frequently publishes alternate history stories.

Images and stories of flight have appeared throughout recorded history, such as the legendary story of Icarus and Daedalus.

However the outback and the history of its exploration and settlement provides Australians with a culturally valued backdrop, and stories of swagmen, squatters, and bushrangers are central to the national ethos.

Kings is " history-like ," but it mixes legends, folktales, miracle stories and fiction in with the annals, and its primary explanation for all that happens is God's offended sense of what is right ; it is therefore more fruitful to read it as theological literature in the form of history.

The story has an interesting interpretive history ( see below ) and has become well-known through popular children's stories.

From the Ancient Greeks and Romans to Napoleon's France and Elizabethan England, much of history is filled with stories of entertainment based on games of chance.

Some songs are about history or stories of famous capoeiristas.

From his religious training, Mather viewed the importance of texts for elaborating meaning and for bridging different moments of history — linking, for instance, the Biblical stories of Noah and Abraham with the arrival of such eminent leaders as John Eliot ; John Winthrop ; and his own father, Increase Mather.

Smith's stories describe a long future history of Earth.

On the Nature of Animals, (" On the Characteristics of Animals " is an alternative title ; usually cited, though, by its Latin title ), is a curious collection, in 17 books, of brief stories of natural history, sometimes selected with an eye to conveying allegorical moral lessons, sometimes because they are just so astonishing:

According to Hugh S. Pyper, the biblical " founding myths of the Exodus and the exile, read as stories in which a nation is forged by maintaining its ideological and racial purity in the face of an oppressive great power ", entered " the rhetoric of nationalism throughout European history ", especially in Protestant countries and smaller nations.

Modern history has refuted these claims, suggesting these stories later circulated under Flavian rule as part of a propaganda campaign to diminish success under the less reputable Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and to maximize achievements under Emperor Claudius ( 41 – 54 ) and his son Britannicus.

PBS telecast the series, beginning in January 1980 ; the general format was that of Dr. Friedman visiting and narrating a number of success and failure stories in history, which Dr. Friedman attributes to capitalism or the lack thereof ( e. g. Hong Kong is commended for its free markets, while India is excoriated for relying on centralized planning especially for its protection of its traditional textile industry ).

An unfortunate episode in fanzine history occurred in 1981 when Star Wars director George Lucas threatened to sue fanzine publishers who distributed zines featuring the Star Wars characters in sexually explicit stories or art.

Most of its releases begin with these stories then add background material to explain the settings ( often as alternate worlds whose history diverges from our own ), adventures, and other game material.

The book describes its own structure around ten " toledot " sections ( the " these are the generations of ..." phrases ), but many modern commentators see it in terms of a " primeval history " ( chapters 1 – 11 ) followed by the cycle of Patriarchal stories ( chapters 12 – 50 ).

In composing the Patriarchal history the Yahwist drew on four separate blocks of traditional stories about Abraham, Jacob, Judah and Joseph, combining them with genealogies, itineraries and the " promise " theme to create a unified whole.

Genesis is perhaps best seen as an example of " antiquarian history ", a type of literature telling of the first appearance of humans, the stories of ancestors and heroes, and the origins of culture, cities and so forth.

An always extant being called Qfwfq narrates all of the stories save two, each of which is a memory of an event in the history of the universe.