A glimpse of three of four vague figures, at the most.

A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.

Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

Some of the stumps are as much as three feet long, but most of them have been flattened by the pressure of the overlying sediments.

Long observation has taught Mason that most landscape can be reduced to three essential planes: a foreground in sharp focus -- either a light area with dark accents or a dark one with lights ; ;

Radio broadcasts had not begun and most devotees of baseball attended the games near home, in the town park or a pasture, with perhaps two or three trips to the city each season to see the Cubs or the Pirates or the Indians or the Red Sox.

The most valuable player award was split three ways, among Glen Mankowski, Gordon Hartweger and Tom Kieffer.

Although modern scholars have expressed surprise that `` the simple magic square of three '', a mere `` mathematical puzzle '', was able to exert a considerable influence on the minds and imaginations of the cultured Chinese for so many centuries, they could have found most of the answers right within the square itself.

These three cell layers consist of the melanophores ( occupying the deepest layer ), the guanophores ( forming an intermediate layer and containing many granules, producing a blue-green colour ) and the lipophores ( yellow, the most superficial layer ).

The exact number and placement of Endosymbiotic theory | endosymbiotic events is currently unknown, so this diagram can be taken only as a general guide It represents the most parsimonious way of explaining the three types of endosymbiotic origins of plastids.

In most jurisdictions, the court system is divided into at least three levels: the trial court, which initially hears cases and reviews evidence and testimony to determine the facts of the case ; at least one intermediate appellate court ; and a supreme court ( or court of last resort ) which primarily reviews the decisions of the intermediate courts.

These three differ from each other in the way they treat vowels: abjads have letters for consonants and leave most vowels unexpressed ; abugidas are also consonant-based, but indicate vowels with diacritics to or a systematic graphic modification of the consonants.

Gestation lasts between 90 and 110 days, producing one to five cubs ( most often two or three ) during the rainy season, when termites are active.

The depth of water at the apex of the ridge is less than in most places, while the bottom of the ridge is three times as deep.

The three most common arsenic allotropes are metallic gray, yellow and black arsenic, with gray being the most common.

His successor Joe Darling won the next three series in 1899, 1901 – 02 and the classic 1902 series, which became one of the most famous in the history of Test cricket.

The valleys in the north and northeast are usually deep and narrow, but in the Coastal Plain they are broad and in most cases rise in three successive terraces above the stream.

* 1612 – The " Samlesbury witches ", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused for practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in English history.

Amara seems to have been a Buddhist, and most of his work was destroyed, with the exception of what is the celebrated Amara-Kosha ( Treasury of Amara ), a vocabulary of Sanskrit roots, in three books, and hence sometimes called Trikanda or the " Tripartite ".

* When 2000 was approaching, at least three large Swedish magazines ranked penicillin as the most important discovery of the millennium.

" The Chicago Daily Tribune called it “ One of the most spectacular crimes of the 20th century, and what is believed to be the first airplane kidnap murder on record .” Because it occurred somewhere over three Missouri counties, and involved interstate transport of a stolen airplane, it raised questions in legal circles about where, by whom, and even whether he could be prosecuted.

Abimelech was most prominently the name of a polytheistic king of Gerar who is mentioned in two of the three wife-sister narratives in Genesis.

AppleTalk was at that time the most used networking system in the world, with over three times the installations of any other vendor.

" These criteria for autobiography generally persisted until recent times, and most serious autobiographies of the next three hundred years conformed to them.

More recent methods of scholarship, such as textual criticism, have been influential in suggesting that John the Apostle, John the Evangelist and John of Patmos were three separate individuals.

During this period he also edited the influential Avon Fantasy Reader for eighteen issues, and the Avon Science Fiction Reader for three.

Munch was enthralled by the vast display of modern European art, including the works of three artists who would prove influential: Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec — all notable for how they used color to convey emotion.

The former — whose screenplay was written by the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo, disguised by a front — features a bank holdup sequence shown in an unbroken take over three minutes long that proved widely influential.

Nowadays, these three schools are the most influential around the world.

Stafford first tried to sell the game to established publishers, but despite being accepted by three different game companies, each attempt ended in failure ; eventually he founded his own game company in 1974, the influential Chaosium, to publish his game.

Mary Stewart produced an influential quintet of Arthurian novels, with Merlin as the protagonist in the first three: The Crystal Cave ( 1970 ), The Hollow Hills ( 1973 ) and The Last Enchantment ( 1979 ).

Jeff Riggenbach described The Moon is a Harsh Mistress as " unquestionably one of the three or four most influential libertarian novels of the last century " in the Mises Daily.

James was influential in the founding of the American Society for Psychical Research ( ASPR ) in New York City in 1885, three years after the British Society for Psychical Research ( SPR ) was inaugurated in London, leading to systematic, critical investigation of paranormal phenomena.

Rudolf's legacy has traditionally been viewed in three ways: an ineffectual ruler whose mistakes led directly to the Thirty Years ' War ; a great and influential patron of Northern Mannerist art ; and a devotee of occult arts and learning which helped seed the scientific revolution.

Beside the first three Spaghetti Westerns by Leone, a most influential film was Sergio Corbucci's Django starring Franco Nero.

He also compiles three of the most influential books in western history:

This will remain an influential legal text on both sides of the Atlantic for three centuries.

In 1998, McConnell was named as one of the three most influential people in the software industry by Software Development Magazine, along with Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds.

; Roptat: One of the three most influential men in Basilica, along with Volemak and Gaballufix.

The Codes listed three stages of food insecurity: near-scarcity, scarcity and famine, and were highly influential in the creation of subsequent famine warning or measurement systems.

Adolphe Paul Oppé published an influential article in 1904, which made three crucial claims: No chasm or vapor ever existed ; no natural gas could create prophetic visions ; and the recorded incidents of a priestess undergoing violent and often deadly reactions was inconsistent with the more customary reports.

Although he was rejected by the French Academy three times ( 1867, 1868, 1869 ), Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, the most influential critic of the day, set the seal of approval on the poet by devoting no less than three major articles in 1863 to reviews of Gautier's entire published works.

It was around this time that the three brothers were introduced by Albrecht von Blumenthal to poet Stefan George's influential circle, Georgekreis, from which many notable members of the German resistance would later emerge.

One of the influential names in the late 1970s – early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCamon had three New York Times bestsellers ( The Wolf's Hour, Stinger, and Swan Song ) and 5 million books in print.

In The Force Unleashed, three influential senators — Bail Organa of Alderaan, Garm Bel Iblis of Corellia, and Mon Mothma of Chandrila — meet in secret to form the Alliance to Restore the Republic, more commonly referred to as the Rebel Alliance.

September 1999 saw the release of Coverkill, an album consisting entirely of cover versions from bands that were especially influential to Overkill, such as Black Sabbath ( featured no less than three times ), Kiss, Motörhead, Manowar, and The Ramones.

This monastery, with its three churches, has been described as one of the most important and influential architectural constructions of Middle Byzantine Constantinople.