Throughout the Dark ages, it is clear, the Greek world had been developing slowly but consistently.

All editions, however, agree that the cataclysm destroyed all government and society beyond a village scale, plunging the world into a Dark Age.

* The secondary / parallel world ( s ) is entered through a portal from the primary world ( e. g. Alice in Wonderland, The Chronicles of Narnia, His Dark Materials, Xanth, The Dark Tower, and Avantasia )

In some books, there is also a mysterious Dark Lord, often obsessed with taking over the world and killing the main hero.

In Dancer in the Dark, jump shots and dramatically-different color palettes and camera techniques were used for the " real world " and musical portions of the film, and in Dogville everything was filmed on a sound stage with no set where the walls of the buildings in the fictional town were marked as lines on the floor.

The fall of the Roman empire, and the succeeding Dark Ages brought instability to Western Europe and a near collapse of the trade network in the western world.

Merc 2000-characters are confronted there with aliens as the world turns into the near-future setting of Dark Conspiracy.

In the world of Myth, the forces of Light and Dark rule the world successively in a thousand-year cycle which has repeated since before recorded history.

The story follows the hero and the young heroine as they attempt to thwart the Dark Lord of Glaive ( Shadow Knight in the Japanese version ) and his sorcerer assistant, Julius, from destroying the Tree of Mana and dooming their world.

The world is threatened by a " Dark Lord " who conquers for Mana to rule supreme over the land.

Although the Gunslinger does not bring " The Pusher " with him into his own world ( as might be guessed based upon what has happened regarding the previous two doors ), his quest for the Dark Tower is not lost, because Roland does draw his third.

Each region serves as a game world that is divided into stage levels, and an eighth region is included as the final world, Dark Land.

* Thra — The world of The Dark Crystal.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

The intellectual leaders of this movement regarded themselves as a courageous elite, and regarded their purpose as one of leading the world toward progress and out of a long period of doubtful tradition, full of irrationality, superstition, and tyranny, which they believed began during a historical period they called the Dark Ages.

Barad-dûr ( Sindarin " Dark Tower ", sometimes given as The Barad-dûr ( Lugbúrz in Black Speech )) is the fortress of Sauron in the heart of the black land of Mordor and close to Mount Doom in the fantasy world of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

The video game Metroid Prime 2: Echoes involves a world, " Aether ", having an alternate self in the, " Dark " realm, universe, or dimension.

Comic fantasy may ignore all possible logic in search of humor, particularly if it is parodying other fantasies ' faulty world-building, as in Diana Wynne Jones's Dark Lord of Derkholm, or the illogic of the setting is integral to the comedy, as in L. Sprague de Camp's Solomon's Stone, where the fantasy world is populated by the heroic and glamorous figures that people daydream about being, resulting in a severe shortage of workers in the more mundane, day-to-day industries.

* The Black Knights in the video game Dark Souls are powerful recurring enemies scattered throughout the world of Lordran.

A number of video games are also set in the Dragonlance world: including Heroes of the Lance ( 1988 ), Dragons of Flame ( 1989 ), War of the Lance ( 1989 ), Dragonstrike ( 1990 ), Shadow Sorcerer ( 1991 ), Champions of Krynn ( 1990 ), Death Knights of Krynn ( 1991 ), and The Dark Queen of Krynn ( 1992 ).

Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward ( 1888 ) envisions the world of 2000 as interlinked with tubes for delivering goods, while Michel Verne's An Express of the Future ( 1888 ) questions the sensibility of a transatlantic pneumatic subway.

The country's mantra was " Brazil, the Country of the Future ," which the military government used as justification for a giant push into the Amazon to exploit its resources, thereby beginning to transform Brazil into one of the leading economies of the world.

* Gerard K. O ' Neill wrote a book named 2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future, which includes his predictions on the future world.

August Cieszkowski focused on Hegel's view of world history and reformed it to better accommodate Hegelian Philosophy itself by dividing it into Past, Present, and Future.

Future noir films that are set in a post-apocalyptic world "... restructure and re-represent society in a parody of the atmospheric world usually found in noir ’ s construction of a city — dark, bleak and beguiled.

" Future noir films often intermingle elements of the gothic thriller genre, such as Minority Report, which makes references to occult practices, and Alien, with its tagline ‘ In space, no one can hear you scream ’, and a space vessel, Nostromo, “ that hark back to images of the haunted house in the gothic horror tradition .” Bin Aziz states that films such as James Cameron ’ s The Terminator are a sub-genre of ‘ techno noir ’ that create "... an atmospheric feast of noir darkness and a double-edged world that is not what it seems.

Future international superstar, the French-Canadian Celine Dion, then only famous in the French-speaking world, was the winner of this Eurovision with the song, " Ne partez pas sans moi ", composed by Swiss-Turkish composer Atilla Şereftuğ with lyrics by Nella Martinetti.

* Future world champion John L. Sullivan begins his career by fighting as an amateur in his native Boston.

This world music trend was later exemplified on albums such as Ege Bamyasi ( the name meaning " Aegean okra " in Turkish ), Future Days and Saw Delight, and by incorporating new band members with different nationalities.

* In the novel 2045: A Story of Our Future, Peter Seidel portrays what the world could be like in 2045, if current trends in environmental destruction, population growth, and economic inequality continue.

Future world champions Joe Frazier and George Foreman, despite being big punchers, were unable to knock Chuvalo down, but they were the only two fighters to ever stop him, scoring technical knockout ( TKO ) victories.

The narrative of Phil Cousineau's documentary film Ecological Design: Inventing the Future asserts that in the decades after World War II, " The world was forced to confront the dark shadow of science and industry ...

With the next collection of poems, Framtidens skugga (" The Shadow of the Future ") ( whose original title was " Köttets mysterier " (" Mysteries of the Flesh ")), the visions that had exhorted Södergran culminate in poems speaking of a renewed world after the wars and catastrophes that now ravage the Earth-Raivola was, as stated earlier a war zone in 1918 and even later Edith was able to hear gunfire from her kitchen window.

Many readers point towards the short story " Genesis " ( anthologized in The Worlds of H. Beam Piper ) to suggest that the Terro-Human Future History universe is in fact an alternate world in the Paratime universe, where the Martians ' escape from Mars resulted in their forgetting their heritage and having to start over.

In just 15 years, Zoo Hannover GmbH ’ s ‘ Zoo of the Future ’ World Exposition Project has revolutionized the European zoo world.

When that happens, the people disappear from the real world and appear in a computer world ( as featured in the cult film Tron, the animated series Code: Lyoko, or the late 1980s live-action series Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future ).

MLOVE, a Confestival started in 2010, celebrated the disruption of the perception of what a tech conference should be, using a radically more interactive format that drew on a variety of influences outside of the traditional world of technology, including religion, micro-banking for developing countries and interactive art installations / workshops such as the Future Cube and a giant interactive video projection.

In this timeline, Future Static is known as one of the greatest heroes in the world and his powers have increased greatly during the last couple years.

Go Nagai worked on the anime's scenario along with Masaki Tsuji, a well-known film scenario and science-fiction writer whose name became well known in the anime world through his work on such series as Astro Boy, Attack No. 1, Captain Future, Urusei Yatsura, and Dr. Slump.

* The Future of Capitalism: how today's economic forces shape tomorrow's world ( 1996 ).

Future discovered oil, estimated by US Geology Survey, is as much as 6. 4 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > m³ ( 40 billion barrels ), ranking the province as the twelfth largest in the world.

She lists her political interests as criminal justice, foreign affairs, human rights, international development, penal reform, and prisons, and has written several books, including Creating Criminals: prisons and people in a market society ; Bricks of Shame: Britain's prisons ; Failures in Penal Policy ; Imprisoned by Our Prisons: a programme for reform ( Fabian Series ); The Prisons We Deserve and A Sin Against the Future: imprisonment in the world.