The term may also apply to works of fiction purporting to be autobiographies of real characters, e. g., Robert Nye's Memoirs of Lord Byron.

In his story " Gulf ", science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein used a constructed language, in which every Basic English word is replaced with a single phoneme, as an appropriate means of communication for a race of genius supermen.

Canadian-born science fiction writer A. E. van Vogt reimagined Robert Graves ' Claudius story in his two novels Empire of the Atom and The Wizard of Linn.

Trilogy, speculative fiction novels by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, popularized Discordianism with various quotes and references.

Robert Silverberg said that Donald Wollheim was " one of the most significant figures in 20th century American science fiction publishing ", adding, " A plausible case could be made that he was the most significant figure — responsible in large measure for the development of the science fiction paperback, the science fiction anthology, and the whole post-Tolkien boom in fantasy fiction.

At one point in the earliest 1940s, approximately half of all the pulp sf and fantasy magazines in the U. S. were being edited by Futurians: Frederik Pohl at the Popular Publications offshoot Fictioneers, Inc. ( Astonishing Stories and Super-Science Stories ); Robert Lowndes at Columbia Publications, most notably with Science Fiction and Future Fiction ( though through the decade to come, Lowndes's responsibilities would expand to other types of fiction magazine in the chain ), and Donald Wollheim at the very marginal Albing Publications with the short-lived, micro-budgeted Cosmic Stories and Stirring Science Stories ( Wollheim soon moved on to Avon Books ; Doë " Leslie Perri " Baumgardt also worked on a romance fiction title for Albing ).

Aside from his thinly-veiled appearance in Robert Bloch's " The Shambler from the Stars ", Lovecraft continues to be used as a character in supernatural fiction.

Before the revelation of Sheldon's identity, Tiptree was often referred to as an unusually macho male ( see, e. g., Robert Silverberg's commentaries ) as well as an unusually feminist science fiction writer ( for a male ) — particularly for " The Women Men Don't See ", a story of two women who go looking for aliens to escape from male-dominated society on Earth.

This has been thought to make it suitable for human – computer communication, which led Robert A. Heinlein to mention the language in his science fiction novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ), and as a fully-fledged computer language in The Number of the Beast ( 1980 ).

Loglan was mentioned in a couple of science fiction works: Robert A. Heinlein ’ s well-known books The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and The Number of the Beast, and Robert Rimmer ’ s utopian book Love Me Tomorrow ( 1978 ).

The " Killer Joke " is discussed in Robert J. Sawyer's 1998 science fiction novel Factoring Humanity, set in 2017.

They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but his surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology.

Buzan says the idea was inspired by Alfred Korzybski's general semantics as popularized in science fiction novels, such as those of Robert A. Heinlein and A. E.

It was founded by Robert Zubrin and others in 1998 and attracted the support of notable science fiction writers and filmmakers, including Kim Stanley Robinson and James Cameron.

Author Robert Stone, a " master of a certain kind of paranoid fiction ", was a primary influence on the novel.

This idea was anticipated in part, down to the microscale, by science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein in his 1942 story Waldo.

Pulp fiction author Robert E. Howard wrote extensively about his romanticized version of the Picts, especially in his short stories revolving around the fictional character Bran Mak Morn, but also in many other of his stories.

Robert Anson Heinlein ( ; July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988 ) was an American science fiction writer.

An aging Robert Zubrin also appears as a background character in The Martian Race ( 1999 ) by Gregory Benford, a science fiction novel depicting early human explorers on Mars in the very near future.

Well-known writers of Western fiction include Zane Grey from the early 1900s and Louis L ' Amour from the mid 20th century.

In English fiction there are three well known stories that helped popularize the myth of buried pirate treasure: " The Gold-Bug " by Edgar Allan Poe, " Wolfert Webber " by Washington Irving and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux ( 6 May 186815 April 1927 ) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.

Louis Russell " Russ " Chauvenet ( February 12, 1920 – June 24, 2003 ) was a champion chess player and one of the founders of science fiction fandom.

During the 1950s and 1960s, he contributed novelettes and short stories to various digest size science fiction magazines, sometimes writing under the pseudonym Louis G. Daniels.

Mark Tiedemann, 2011Mark W. Tiedemann ( born 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri ) is an American science fiction and detective fiction author.

The novelette was written in 1970 by Jim Theis, a St. Louis, Missouri science fiction fan, at age 16.

In response, Felix Voorhies wrote the book Acadian Reminiscences: The True Story of Evangeline and other later works of fiction expanded upon the material of the poem, claiming the " real names " of the characters had been " Emmeline LaBiche " ( in Longfellow her full name is Evangeline Bellefontaine ) and " Louis Arceneaux " ( in the poem, Gabriel Lajeunesse ).

Well-known writers of Western fiction include Zane Grey from the early 1900s and Louis L ' Amour from the mid 20th century.

It began with a scene, an intimate confrontation between Louis and his third wife ..." Wolfe said Talese was the first to apply fiction techniques to reporting.

In English fiction there are three well known stories that helped to popularize the myth of buried pirate treasure: " Wolfert Webber " ( 1824 ) by Washington Irving, " The Gold-Bug " ( 1843 ) by Edgar Allan Poe and Treasure Island ( 1883 ) by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Pretty Baby is a 1978 historical fiction drama film directed by Louis Malle.

He previously co-chaired the science fiction convention Westercon 31, held in Los Angeles, CA in 1978, that was inspired by its Baskin-Robbins-esque number to hold the first " Ice Cream Social " at a regional science fiction convention ; a similar ice cream social had been held in 1969 at a Worldcon, St. Louiscon, the 27th World Science Fiction Convention in St. Louis, MO.

In the 1994 alternative history / science fiction novel The Guns of the South, Brown serves as the running mate to Robert E. Lee in the 1867 Confederate Presidential Election opposing Nathan Bedford Forrest and Louis Wigfall, and is elected vice president, but is killed during an assassination attempt against Lee on his inauguration day.

Louis Tracy ( 1863-1928 ) was a British journalist, and prolific writer of fiction.

Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.

He wrote primarily on military history, but also about Galway City, ships, historical figures in fiction, Robert Louis Stevenson and he even created a cartoon strip for the Cork Examiner.

The later poets Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, Emmanuel Hocquard, and to a degree Jean Daive, describe a shift from Heidegger to Ludwig Wittgenstein and a reevaluation of Mallarmé's notion of fiction and theatricality ; these poets were also influenced by certain English-language modern poets ( such as Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, William Carlos Williams, and George Oppen ) along with certain American postmodern and avant garde poets loosely grouped around the language poetry movement.

* The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery, 1959 ( fiction )

He was best known as the author of a biography of DeWitt Clinton, and co-author of a biographical history of St. Louis, Missouri but these have fallen from favour and he is most notable for the mixture of fiction and distorted facts that he published as Legends of the Missouri.

Originally intended to run only until the site-selection vote was taken at St. Louiscon, the 1969 Worldcon in St. Louis, Missouri, Brown decided to continue publishing Locus as a mimeographed general science fiction and fantasy newszine.

The Cat from Outer Space is a 1978 Disney comic science fiction film, starring Ronnie Schell, Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan, Roddy McDowall and McLean Stevenson.

Marryat and Stevenson both wrote grammatically correct Victorian fiction, even when their characters were pirates.