Title: V (franchise)
Content:  A number of factual books, covering all aspects of the saga including interviews, articles and episode guides, have been published, most notably the 6 volumes of The V Files, written By James Van Hise and Ed Gross, published by New Media Books/Psi Fi movie Press in the mid 1980s, and the two French books, V: l'autre guerre des mondes (V: The Other War of the Worlds) by Francis Valery, first published in paperback in 1993 by DLM editions (and reissued in 1995), covering the entire original saga up to and including, the unfilmed episode #20 "The Attack", and V: les miroirs du passe (V: The Mirrors of the Past), 
Title: Stanley Vestal
Content:  Stanley Vestal (August 15, 1887 – December 25, 1957) was an American writer, poet, biographer, and historian, perhaps best known for his books on the American Old West, including Sitting Bull, Champion of the Sioux.
Title: V.
Content:  V. is the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published in 1963. It describes the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a group of pseudo-bohemian artists and hangers-on known as the Whole Sick Crew, and the quest of an aging traveler named Herbert Stencil to identify and locate the mysterious entity he knows only as "V." It was nominated for a National Book Award.
Title: David Vostell
Content:  videos, documentaries, music, and more 1976 - 2016, Special Edition (on USB flash drive) ; 2018: Mercedes Guardado, La historia del Museo Vostell Malpartida, LB Publication, Editor David Vostell, The Wolf Vostell Estate, ISBN: 978-84-949836-2-7. ; 2018: Iris Brosch, Trilogy - A Warning for the 21st Century, Editions du Temple (on DVD and Blu-ray) ; 2018: Trilogy - A Warning for the 21st Century, Sagen, Soundtrack (on USB flash drive) ; 2019: The World of David Vostell 1976 - 2018, Sun Chariot Books, Cáceres 2019, ISBN: 978-84-949836-3-4. ; 2020: Queridísima. Mercedes Guardado y Wolf Vostell, LB Publication, Editor David Vostell, The Wolf Vostell Estate, Cáceres 2020, ISBN: 978-84-949836-5-8. ; 2020: The World of David Vostell. Short films, music videos, documentaries, music, and more 1976 - 2020, Limited Edition (on USB flash drive) 
Title: V (American magazine)
Content:  V was launched in September 1999 as the "younger sibling" publication to the limited-edition quarterly Visionaire. V releases four issues a year, one for each current seasonal collection; Spring Preview, Fall Preview, Winter Preview and Summer Preview. The magazine has a readership of 315,000 as of 2010. V is edited by Stephen Gan and features new American fashion displayed through shoots and editorials focusing more specifically on art, film, music and fashion. V has been noted for its inventive and progressive styling, as well as its reportage of cultural figures and global youth culture. Past contributors have included Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Hedi Slimane, Mario Testino, Mario Sorrenti, and Karl Lagerfeld. Interview subjects have included Joan Didion, Salman Rushdie, Robert Altman, Brooke Shields, and Norman Mailer. 
Title: V (franchise)
Content:  Didier Liardet, published by Yris Editions in 2011, this paperback features a full episode guide to both the 1980s original and the modern reboot, details the history of the show, and also includes photos of merchandise from the series over the years. In 2017, a book by Dan Copp entitled Fascist Lizards from Outer Space: The Politics, Literary Influences and Cultural Impact of Kenneth Johnson's V was published by McFarland & Company. Also of note is John L. Flynn's Future Threads: Costume Design for the Science Fiction World, published in 1985 by New Media books, which has instructions and patterns for creating several different Visitor costumes, among others.
Title: Ross Thomas (author)
Content: Warriors for the Poor: The Story of VISTA, Volunteers In Service to America (with William H. Crook, 1969) ; Spies, Thumbsuckers, Etc. (1989) 
Title: The Family of the Vourdalak
Content: Vampires: Stories of the Supernatural, Hawthorn Books, 1973. ISBN: 080158292X 
Title: Vallista
Content:  Vallista is the fifteenth book in Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series, set in the fantasy world of Dragaera. It was released in October 2017. Following the trend of the series, it is named after one of the Great Houses, and the personality characteristics associated with that House are integral to its plot.
Title: Vale of the Vole
Content:  Vale of the Vole is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, the tenth book of the Xanth series. It begins a trilogy including Heaven Cent and Man from Mundania. The novel was written as a satirical jab at the canalization of the Kissimmee River in Anthony's native state of Florida as a result of the effects of the 1947 Atlantic hurricane season. The protagonist of this story is Eskil "Esk" Ogre, only son of Tandy Nymph and Smash Ogre. His talent is to protest; when Esk says "No!" he really means it. Those he directs this talent at literally stop what they have intended to do. Esk goes to ask Good Magician Humfrey how to get rid of the Demoness Metria, who has seemingly threatened his family. Unfortunately, Humphrey has gone missing.

Question: Who is the author of Vast?
Answer: Linda Nagata.
Linda Webb Nagata.
Trey Shiels.