Sheldon's two novels, produced toward the end of her career, were not as critically well-received as her best-known stories but continued to explore similar themes.

Stories earlier in the timeline feature technology such as Bussard ramjets, Drouds ( wires capable of directly stimulating the pleasure centers of the brain ) and explore how organ transplantation technology enables the new crime of organlegging ( as well as the general sociological effects of widespread transplant technology ), while later stories feature hyperdrive, invulnerable starship hulls, stasis fields, molecular monofilaments, transfer booths ( teleporters used only on planetary surfaces ), the lifespan-extending drug boosterspice, and the tasp which is an extension of the wirehead development which works without direct contact.

Some stories explore the relationships among child-rearing, pair-bonding ( romantic love ), and sexual activity.

While Le Guin often has used otherworldly perspectives to explore political and cultural themes, she also has written fiction set much closer to home ; many of her short stories are set in our world in the present or near future.

Most of these stories occur between episodes and seasons of the television series, however, some are set outside the timeline of the show to explore in depth other areas of Buffy's history.

Heinlein, writing in the days when computers were big, clunky, and rare, did not fully explore their potential in this story, which he did in later stories.

The intended effect is most often either horrific or comedic, though many of these stories explore the medical, ethical, legal, and other issues that would surround the procedure.

In 1832, Poe began writing short stories – including " The Masque of the Red Death ", " The Pit and the Pendulum ", " The Fall of the House of Usher ", and " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " – that explore previously hidden levels of human psychology and push the boundaries of fiction toward mystery and fantasy.

Season Three's Dominion stories explore the connection between Odo and his people, and their conflicting attitudes toward " solid " sentient lifeforms.

In 1994, Lee published Bellydancer: Stories, a collection of 15 short stories that explore a range of feminist themes, with allegories focusing primarily on the " bellydancer ," an archetype of survival.

The rewards for these sidequests include a payment of meseta for the job, the chance to explore the stories behind Pioneer 2's NPC residents, the opportunity to obtain special weapons that can't be found anywhere else ( such as the God Hand and Soul Eater ), and whatever weapons, experience, and meseta one can get while fighting on these missions.

I can explore the stories behind the songs.

More than 10 hours in length, the documentary has nine episodes that explore the Civil War through personal stories and photos.

She reported that when her son was ill, he spent the day making up stories about images in magazines and she asked Murray if pictures could be employed in a clinical setting to explore the underlying dynamics of personality.

Examiners are encouraged to explore information obtained from the TAT stories as hypotheses for testing rather than concrete facts.

The Port William stories allow Berry to explore the human dimensions of the decline of the family farm and farm community, under the influence of expanding post-World War II agribusiness.

Students use primary sources to explore Seattle's stories, gather evidence to crack history mysteries, and explore facts and myths about Seattle's past.

The stories sparked considerable interest in the puffers, and many books explore their now vanished world.

Biopunk stories explore the struggles of individuals or groups, often the product of human experimentation, against a backdrop of totalitarian governments and megacorporations which misuse biotechnologies as means of social control and profiteering.

Subsequent stories alternate between past and future, allowing Tezuka to explore his themes in both historical and science fiction settings.

In a similar vein, to explore new markets, in the mid-1970s it produced a four-volume series, with somewhat better production values and printing aimed at the emerging collector market, containing classic stories of the Disney characters by Carl Barks and Floyd Gottfredson ( Best of Walt Disney's Comics ).

Like any healthy, active four-year old, Koko is very confident and likes to play, sing, dance, listen to stories, explore the world and discover things, places and people.

In the stories, Alice, her friends, and occasionally her father, travel in space and time, explore distant planets, deal with aliens, fight space pirates and make scientistic discoveries.

Although Coppola insisted that this was purely coincidental, for not only was the script for The Conversation completed in the mid-1960s ( before the election of Richard Nixon ) but the spying equipment used in the film was discovered through research and the use of technical advisers and not, as many believed, by revelatory newspaper stories about the Watergate break-in.

In its primary and more technical meaning ' myth ' refers to a story or group of stories that serve to explain how a particular society views their world.

The stories had contradictions, perhaps, but they were so technical that nobody who could have interfered with Mariner program progress was likely to care about them or even notice.

Not only was the script for The Conversation completed in the mid-1960s ( before the Nixon Administration came to power ) but the spying equipment used in the film was discovered through research and the use of technical advisers and not, as many believed, by revelatory newspaper stories about the Watergate break-in.

Copies of this guidebook were provided to the authors of the stories published in Tales of Riverworld and Quest To Riverworld, as this book summarizes the chronology, characters, geography and technical details of the Riverworld universe.

After the wars, he moved to Tampere where he studied at technical school, becoming a building contractor, and wrote short stories that were published in various magazines.

From the year Beccafumi was engaged in continuing this pavement, he made very ingenious improvements in the technical processes employed, and laid down scenes from the stories of Ahab and Elijah, of Melchisedec, of Abraham and of Moses.

Similarly, the language arts questions on the test analyze the skills needed to function well in society, including reading and interpreting recipes, newspaper articles, advertisements, short stories, as well as technical skills such as reading manuals and instruction guides.

Edmund Cooper ( April 30, 1926-March 11, 1982 ) was an English poet and prolific writer of speculative fiction, romances, technical essays, several detective stories, and a children's book.

It is based in part on the fact that, in the early days of cinema, technical matters forced screenwriters to divide their stories into sequences, each the length of a reel ( about ten minutes ).

Boucher and McComas selected the collection as one of the best sf books of 1953, praising the stories ' " humor, technical ideas, science-fictional thinking and all-around excellence.

At times he could appear puzzled by unfamiliar foreign names and confused by news stories containing technical matters he did not understand.

He specialized in stories about technical issues and first-person experiences in competition machines ranging from NASCAR stock cars to Formula One cars.

The second was the photo-novels that presented side stories to " Destiny Astray " as well as technical files on the mobile Suits and how to construct them in models.

Do Jump uses clowning, aerial dance, tumbling, partner acrobatics, physical theater, and minimal technical aspects to tell complex stories.

`` I've been in government and I can tell some pretty hairy stories about personnel difficulties, so I know what a problem he was ''.

According to Holmes, it was an encounter with the father of one of his classmates that led him to take up detection as a profession, and he spent the six years following university working as a consulting detective, before financial difficulties led him to take Watson as a roommate, at which point the narrative of the stories begins.

The differences between the two stories can cause difficulties when readers, expecting them to be similar, find that they are not.

Certain cover stories, that present special difficulties or call for a special literary skill, are written by Senior Editor Whittaker Chambers.

The stories address sensitive dilemmas in the lives of Indians or Indian immigrants, with themes such as marital difficulties, miscarriages, and the disconnection between first and second generation United States immigrants.

In fact, this collaboration benefited Lane's career as much as her mother ' smany of Lane's most popular short stories and her two most commercially successful novels were written at this time and were fueled by material which was taken directly from her mother's recollections of Ingalls-Wilder family folklore — Let the Hurricane Roar ( later retitled Young Pioneers ) and Free Land, both addressed the difficulties of homesteading in the Dakotas in the late 19th century, and how the " free land " in fact cost many homesteaders their life savings.

These stories enable participants to make sense of the difficulties and challenges they face ; by listening to stories, members of organizations learn from each other's experiences, adapt the recipes used by others to address their own difficulties and problems.

Titled A Little Stone ( John Lehmann, London, August 1950 ), which excluded two of Bowles ' most famous short stories, " Pages From Cold Point " and " The Delicate Prey ", on the advice of Cyril Connolly and Somerset Maugham, that if they were included in the collection distribution and / or censorship difficulties might ensue.

Minor stories or tidbits include: Mary taking a political stance in season nine by sending her husband to the voting booth and attending rallies, sending Lucy a baby shower gift, going through job training in London, relocating to Chicago following her divorce, and, helping Simon with his financial difficulties.

Kate Betts, seen as Wintour's likely successor, had broadened the magazine's reach by commissioning stories with a more hard-news edge, about women in politics, street culture and the financial difficulties of some major designers.

Recognized assessment methods of attachment styles, difficulties or disorders include the Strange Situation Procedure ( devised by developmental psychologist Mary Ainsworth ), the separation and reunion procedure and the Preschool Assessment of Attachment, the Observational Record of the Caregiving Environment, the Attachment Q-sort and a variety of narrative techniques using stem stories, puppets or pictures.

According to the stories of pilgrims, by praying by his body, many have been cured and helped in lessening the difficulties in their lives.

These stories have obvious difficulties.

' He was able to recollect for younger Hispanos a sense of place and enlighten them with stories of the difficulties of living in Tierra Amarilla, a town which became famous during the Tierra Amarilla Court House raid.

Also in 2003, Le Rénovateur published stories about working in garment sweat shops, film censorship at the beginning of the socialist revolution, and the difficulties of being gay in Vientiane.

Both stories are driven by the difficulties of changing an existing economic paradigm, and postulate that a fresh start may be necessary to overcome old thinking about money and possessions.

This created some difficulties with continuity, as Furman had to write stories that would not contradict upcoming reprints from the US.

This conflict undoubtedly informs the Retief stories, in which stubborn and often ignorant superiors mired in bureaucracy cause him endless difficulties in the carrying out of his duties.