Between the 1960s and the late 1980s, as television news relegated newspaper reading to an occasional basis rather than daily, syndicators were abandoning long stories and urging cartoonists to switch to simple daily gags, or week-long " storylines " ( with six consecutive ( mostly unrelated ) strips following a same subject ), with longer storylines being used mainly on adventure-based and dramatic strips.

An agent of the ARM, Gil Hamilton, is the protagonist of Niven's sci-fi detective stories, a series-within-a-series gathered in the collection Flatlander ( Confusingly, " Flatlander " is also the name of an unrelated Known Space story.

As such, it is similar in structure to Bradbury's short story collection, The Illustrated Man, which also uses a thin frame story to link various unrelated short stories.

Most of his early science fiction stories were unrelated to each other, the exceptions being his " Johnny Black " tales about a black bear uplifted to human-level intelligence, and his " Drinkwhiskey Institute " stories, a series of tall tales involving time travel.

After this come three seemingly unrelated short stories.

Listeners found the sinister announcer much more compelling than the unrelated stories.

First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont.

Bahuchara Mata is a Hindu goddess with two unrelated stories both associated with transgender behavior.

The stories were unrelated to the video games until issue 32 of the Tomb Raider series, which adapted Angel of Darknesss plot.

Like the ' mad poet ' Navarth, he first appeared in the Demon Prince sequence but also is alluded to in a number of other unrelated stories.

While several characters are taken from stories in the manga, the story of the anime is unrelated to the manga.

New York Town was a critical success, drawing parallels to Joyce's Dubliners due to it being a series of short, unrelated stories centered around New York City, and Kirwan was praised for painting a picture of the everyday life of New Yorkers, although the appearance of guest singers such as David Johansen of the New York Dolls and Christine Ohlman was noted for highlighting the weakness in Kirwan's own voice.

# The Cat Who Had 14 Tales, 1988 ( ISBN 0-515-09497-8 ): an anthology of unrelated short stories involving various cats.

The film is named after a Stephen King short story of the same title, but aside from a single scene, the stories are unrelated.

An unrelated collection of stories by Isaac Asimov, also entitled I, Robot, was published in 1950.

Stephen King's novels and short stories form an intricate and highly developed mythos, drawing in part on the Lovecraftian, with characters such as the demonic Crimson King and Randall Flag appearing in several ( otherwise unrelated ) works, as well as a supernatural force known only as " The White ".

The stories are unrelated to the Blackthorne series.

As was the case in the second part of Great Space Battles, the book is a collection of many unrelated very short stories about dangerous planets and space disasters.

* Left to His Own Devices includes both the novel of the same name, printed for the first time, which forms part of the White Crow sequence, and also a few related and unrelated stories, some of which take place in the Weerde shared universe created by the collective Gentle belonged to, Midnight Rose.

Each week, the show featured unrelated stories of romance, usually with a comedic spin.

The stories are presented in what is regarded as Biblical chronological order in an attempt to allow the listener to connect the stories together to form one frame of reference regarding the Bible rather than just a series of unrelated stories.

If it were wholly random and unrelated, it would be 2.0, assuming the five classes were equal in n, which approximately they are.

Roughly 88 % of people affected with AVM are asymptomatic ; often the malformation is discovered as part of an autopsy or during treatment of an unrelated disorder ( called in medicine " an incidental finding "); in rare cases its expansion or a micro-bleed from an AVM in the brain can cause epilepsy, deficit or pain.

Some members of the laurel family, as well as the unrelated but visually similar mountain laurel and cherry laurel, have leaves that are poisonous to humans and livestock.

The distantly related Bunium persicum and the unrelated Nigella sativa are both sometimes called black cumin ( q. v.

False cognates are words that are commonly thought to be related ( have a common origin ) whereas linguistic examination reveals they are unrelated.

Mu Crucis is a double star where the unrelated components are about 370 light-years from Earth.

However, many other classification schemes, some of which are completely unrelated, also use colons and other punctuation in various functions.

Some plants of the completely unrelated genus Viburnum are sometimes inaccurately called " highbush cranberries " ( Viburnum trilobum ).

Ethologists are typically interested in a behavioral process rather than in a particular animal group, and often study one type of behavior ( e. g. aggression ) in a number of unrelated animals.

The movement to use computers more in education naturally includes many unrelated ideas, methods, and pedagogies since there are many uses for digital computers.

The Aztec and Inca traditions are unrelated to one another.

Like other forms of statistical analysis, badly specified econometric models may show a spurious correlation where two variables are correlated but causally unrelated.

" Milk stealers " that suckle from unrelated, sleeping females are not uncommon ; this often results in the death of the mother's pup, since a single female can only feed one pup.

Contrary to a popular misconception that software is either free or commercial, they are unrelated traits, since free software can be commercial and proprietary software can be non-commercial.

In propositional logic these are treated as two unrelated propositions, denoted for example by p and q.

These reports generally concern lighter issues unrelated to current news events, and the segments are repeated.

Rushton asserts that the " gains in IQ over time ( the Lynn-Flynn effect ) are unrelated to g ".

The cells are round and naked, around 70-100 μm in diameter, and resemble the unrelated Actinosphaerium.

In Poland, nearly six hundred unrelated families are known to bear the same Jastrzębiec coat of arms.

However states and nations are composed of thousands or millions of unrelated individuals.

Offshore corporate funds are used for non-US investors, which would otherwise be subject to more complex tax issues by investing in a tax-transparent entity such as a partnership, and US entities that do not pay tax such as state, corporate, private and union pension funds, which would otherwise be subject to unrelated business income tax in the United States.

In Italy, almost all Romance languages spoken as the vernacular ( other than standard Italian and other unrelated, non-Italian languages ) are termed " Italian dialects "; the only exceptions are Sardinian and Friulan, which the law recognises as official regional languages.