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The Ascension Factor
1988 novel by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom
The Ascension Factor (1988) is the fourth and final science fiction novel set in the by the American author Frank Herbert and poet Bill Ransom. It takes place about twenty five years after "The Lazarus Effect". It completes the story of the humans descended from those left by the voidship Earthling on the planet Pandora approximately 480 years earlier. Plot summary. Twenty-five years after the hibernation tanks were retrieved from orbit releasing multiple Earth organisms into Pandora's ecosystem, the sixth Raja Flattery clone, who went into hibernation when the voidship Earthling (from the earlier novel "Destination: Void") was launched. Banking on the respect Pandorans bore for his training as a Chaplain/Psychiatrist he has established himself as a totalitarian dictator styling himself "the Director". He maintains some semblance of order through violent suppression of opposition and government control of food production and distribution, often withholding rations to suppress attempted popular revolts. He also controls mass media including fake news reports blaming rebel activity for mass murder of civilians and food destruction when murders are perpetrated by his own security forces and the food is not destroyed as it is safely in underground government storage silos. Towards the end of the book, the protagonists speculate that there is no organised resistance, merely individual people engaging in one off acts of disobedience, that serve to disrupt Flattery's control.

Question: Who is the author of The Ascension Factor?
Answer: Bill Ransom, Frank Herbert, Frank Patrick Herbert, Franklin Patrick Herbert, Franklin Herbert, Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr.
Assumption (short story)
Samuel Beckett's first published story
"Assumption" is Samuel Beckett's first published story, appearing in "Transition" magazine in June 1929, in the same issue as James Joyce's "Work in Progress". References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Assumption?
Answer: Samuel Beckett, Samuel Barclay Beckett, Andrew Belis, Sam Beckett, Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe, Samuel Beḳeṭ
The Pianoplayers
1986 novel by Anthony Burgess
The Pianoplayers is a 1986 novel by Anthony Burgess that draws on memories of his early life in Manchester in the 1920s and 1930s; particularly, the novel focuses on the life of his father Joe, a pub and cinema pianist. The child narrator Ellen Henshaw and her father Billy have a series of picaresque adventures in Manchester and Blackpool, culminating in the death of Billy as he attempts to break the world record for non-stop pianoplaying; later in life, Ellen travels the world setting up 'schools of love' and becomes the most sought after 'companion' in France. The novel was first published by Hutchinson in the UK and Arbor House in the US. A new edition with an introduction and notes by Will Carr was published as part of the Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess by Manchester University Press in 2017. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of The Pianoplayers?
Answer: Anthony Burgess, John Anthony Burgess Wilson, John Burgess Wilson, Joseph Kell
Sweetness (novel)
Book by Torgny Lindgren
Sweetness () is a 1995 novel by Swedish author Torgny Lindgren. It won the August Prize in 1995. Brothers. The final confession (Ukrainian: Брати. Остання сповідь) is a 2013 Ukrainian drama film directed by Viktoria Trofimenko. The film is based on Torgny Lindgren's novel Sweetness, which was published in 1995. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Sweetness?
Answer: Torgny Lindgren, Gustav Torgny Lindgren
Bonaparte à Malte
2008 book by Frans Sammut
Bonaparte à Malte is a 2008 book by Maltese writer Frans Sammut, with an introduction by Dr Paul Borg Olivier. The Maltese original, "Bonaparti f'Malta", was published in 1997. Citing contemporary documents from Malta's archives, it provides a detailed account of the six days Napoleon Bonaparte spent in Malta in 1798, as well as an analysis of the political situation under the Order of St John of Jerusalem and the political and cultural consequences of Bonaparte's conquest of Malta. In the words of fellow writer and former Prime Minister of Malta, Alfred Sant, Napoleon and his impact on Malta were "enduring subjects of [Sammut's] interests and research". It is the first account in the French language of those six days. At the Eighth Congress of the International Napoleonic Society, Sammut gave a presentation, "The Enlightenment in Malta and the Coming of Bonaparte", based on his research for "Bonaparte à Malte". Sammut argued that Napoleon, despite his brief stay in Malta, made a determined effort to bring the country into the modern era. He issued numerous decrees to thoroughly reorganize Malta's government and society and tirelessly worked to review the nation's laws and regulations. The abolition of noble titles and privileges and the ending of slavery were the first measures he implemented. He ordered the expulsion of the Inquisitor and the release of the Order's political prisoners, including the Maltese patriot, Mikiel Anton Vassalli, who shared his Enlightenment ideals and whom he described as "the most intelligent prisoner (ever) locked in a cell".

Question: Who is the author of Bonaparte à Malte?
Answer: Frans Sammut
Nice People (play)
Nice People was a 1921 Broadway four-act comedy written and staged by Rachel Crothers, produced by Samuel H. Harris and starring Tallulah Bankhead and Francine Larrimore. After working with Bankhead in "39 East", Crothers wrote "Nice People" expressly for her. The general manager was William G. Norton, the scenic was designed by Navon Bergman, and John Kirkpatrick was the stage manager. It ran for 120 performances from March 2, 1921 to June, 1921, at the Klaw Theatre. It was included in Burns Mantle's "The Best Plays of 1920-1921". It was also Katharine Cornell's Broadway debut. It was adapted into the 1922 silent film "Nice People", now believed to be lost. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Nice People?
Answer: Rachel Crothers
Control (novel)
1982 novel by William Goldman
Control is a 1982 novel by William Goldman. The book was a runner up on "The New York Times" best seller list. Although Goldman was a noted screenwriter and many of his novels had been adapted into films there was no interest in adapting "Control". Goldman later wrote the novel "was such a neat idea for a movie. I felt sure that somebody would want to make it. It was about trying to control the future by controlling the past. There was never a phone call about "Control"." References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;
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Question: Who is the author of Control?
Answer: William Goldman, S. Morgenstern, Harry Longbaugh
Falling (Provoost novel)
1994 novel by Anne Provoost
Falling (1994) (orig. Dutch Vallen) is a novel by the Flemish author Anne Provoost. Background. This was Anne Provoost's second novel and quickly gained an international reputation. Among the awards it won were two for young people's literature, representing the area of speciality that the author has made her own. In this case it addresses the threat posed by the racist ideology of right-wing parties following the recent electoral successes of the Vlaams Blok after its shift to an aggressive policy on immigration. Anne Provoost was later to make the plea not to try to protect the young by shielding them from discussion of uncomfortable issues in her essay "Hopelessness and consolation; growing up, willing or not" (2000). She has also perceived the additional threat to civil liberties by forms of right-wing religious fundamentalism and advised organising to resist this danger too. Plot summary. Anne Provoost's novels are invariably related from the point of view of a young person caught up in problems of adult making which they have difficulty comprehending. In this case, the teenage Lucas is taken on a long summer visit to his late grandfather’s home in the Ardennes by his mother. He has been brought up by her in ignorance of the fact that during World War II his grandfather had informed on the nuns in the local convent who were harbouring Jewish children. He is therefore at a loss to understand the conflicting attitudes he encounters in the town.

Question: Who is the author of Falling?
Answer: Anne Provoost
Road (play)
Play by Jim Cartwright
Road is the first play written by Jim Cartwright, and was first produced in 1986 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, directed by Simon Curtis. The play explores the lives of the people in a deprived, working class area of Lancashire during the government of Margaret Thatcher, a time of high unemployment in the north of England. Despite its explicit nature, it was considered extremely effective in portraying the desperation of people's lives at this time, as well as containing a great deal of humour. Set on a road on a busy night, the audience delve into the houses on the street and the characters' lives. The play is often performed on a promenade, allowing the audience to follow the narrator (Scullery) along the road and visit different sets and the different homes of the characters. The play has won a number of awards and was voted the 36th best play of the 20th century in a poll by the Royal National Theatre. Film adaptation. "Road" was later directed by renowned director Alan Clarke for the BBC2 anthology series "ScreenPlay". It starred many young actors who later became well-known, including Jane Horrocks, David Thewlis, Moya Brady and Lesley Sharp. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Road?
Answer: Jim Cartwright
Love All
Love All is the first novel by the journalist, writer and artist Molly Parkin, originally published in 1974. Publication history. The book was originally submitted as a 750-word outline to publishers Blond &amp; Briggs. Although editorial staff disliked it, a secretary commented that she liked it, and it was picked up for publication. It was published in the UK in 1974 by Blond &amp; Briggs, with reprints in 1997, 1979 (twice) and 1980 by Star. Critical reception. "Love All" was reviewed by the "Daily Telegraph" which said that it was "written with the lightest of touches and a mirthful exhilarated sense of its own libidousness...quite the funniest novel I have read in a long while". Another review, in the "Irish Times", in a reference to the sexual content of the book, called it "disgusting". References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Love All?
Answer: Molly Parkin
Finder (novel)
1994 fantasy novel by Emma Bull
Finder is a fantasy novel written by Emma Bull and published in 1994. Setting. The Borderlands setting of Finder is the collaborative creation of several authors, including Will Shetterley—Emma Bull's husband. It posits the abrupt intrusion of Elfland, a walled territory of unspecified extent, into the everyday World. Erratic leakage of magical effects across its edge has left an abandoned zone, The Borderlands, including at least one abandoned settlement: Bordertown. Though not so large a place as Minneapolis, where the author's "War for the Oaks" is set, this context puts Finder into the urban fantasy category. Bordertown is populated by misfits from both World and Elfland, living in a near-anarchy that includes volunteer collectives running restaurants, grouchy artisans making paper, and assorted artists making odd adornments, all sympathetically described. Characters and plot summary. The main point-of-view character has renamed himself 'Orient', in the sense of 'align directions', on arrival in Bordertown. He is nicknamed "Finder" for his magical gift that lets him—or compels him to—locate things and people. His working partner is Tick-Tick, an elf woman whose gift for making and fixing technical things was as disturbing to her parents as Orient's talent was to his. A mysterious death opens the plot, making it something of a murder mystery as well as fantasy, and Orient's collaboration with volunteer cop Sunny Rico and her working partner Linn, also an elf, adds a police procedural element.

Question: Who is the author of Finder?
Answer: Emma Bull
Magic (novel)
1976 psychological horror novel by William Goldman
Magic is a psychological horror novel written by William Goldman. It was published in the United States in August 1976 by Delacorte Press. In 1978 Richard Attenborough directed a feature film adaptation of the story that starred Anthony Hopkins and Ann-Margret. Plot summary. The novel concerns a man named Corky Withers, a shy, odd-tempered and alcoholic magician, whose lackluster performances start to turn around when he adds a foul-mouthed ventriloquist's dummy, Fats, to the show. It chronicles Corky's childhood and adolescence, and his deep love for a high-school crush named Peggy Ann Snow. The novel is written kaleidoscopically, changing time period, location, and point of view swiftly and leaving important information, such as the identity of Fats the dummy, unknown for extended periods of time. Background. Goldman had the idea for a novel about a ventriloquist for a number of years before writing it. He says his editor suggested he cut the sequence where Corky's father talks about seeing Bronko Nagurski making a comeback in a football game, which Goldman had seen as a boy, but the author refused because he was so moved by it. Reception. Producer Joseph E. Levine paid $1 million for the film rights and to do the screenplay. The novel was well-received. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;
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Question: Who is the author of Magic?
Answer: William Goldman, S. Morgenstern, Harry Longbaugh
The Sun Chemist
1976 book by Lionel Davidson
The Sun Chemist is a thriller by Lionel Davidson. Plot summary. Letters in the archive correspondence of Chaim Weizmann, first president of Israel, hint that, in his profession as a distinguished organic chemist, Weizmann had stumbled on a method for the cheap synthesis of petroleum. Now, decades later, a world buffeted by oil shocks and perpetually rising prices would welcome such a chemical miracle. But Weizmann's laboratory notebooks must be found first, and an unseen and powerful enemy will stop at nothing to keep them hidden.

Question: Who is the author of The Sun Chemist?
Answer: Lionel Davidson
Lotte's Gift
Lotte's Gift is a play by David Williamson. It was written as a deliberate attempt by Williamson to try something in a different style and was written as a vehicle for guitarist Karin Schaupp. Background. Karin Schaupp approached Williamson in 2002 to write the project. She wanted to act in a production that combined drama with her musical skills. Williamson was enthusiastic and started asking Schaupp about her family history. When the guitarist told her about her grandmother Lotte, Williamson decided to structure the story around three generations of women in her family. The play premiered at the 2006 Noosa Festival as "Strings Under Her Fingers". It was subsequently reworked as "Lotte's Gift". References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Lotte's Gift?
Answer: David Williamson, David Keith Williamson
E (novel)
2000 novel by Matt Beaumont
e (originally subtitled "The Novel of Liars, Lunch and Lost Knickers") is a comic novel by Matt Beaumont first published in 2000. Written in the epistolary tradition, it consists entirely of e-mails written between the employees of an advertising agency and some of their business partners. Thus, the novel is a multiple-perspective narrative where events are seen through the eyes of various people working for the agency, from temp to CEO. "e" centres on corporate business structures, leadership, creativity, headhunting for and firing people to keep up appearances, work efficiency, business ethics, and all kinds of human weaknesses which stall progress by having employees waste their time and energy on unimportant things and which eventually prevent success. Beaumont worked as a copywriter himself before embarking on a literary career, and "e" is his debut novel. Plot summary. The setting of "e" is the very beginning of the new millennium inside the London office of Miller Shanks, a prominent (fictitious) international advertising agency. When the novel opens two major projects are under way: the shooting, on location in Mauritius, of a commercial for a porn channel; and preparations for a sales pitch, with Coca-Cola as the company's prospective client. While the Coca-Cola advertising campaign is supposed to be kept confidential, David Crutton, the chief executive officer, is astonishingly computer illiterate and inadvertently sends carbon copies of every single one of his e-mails to the Helsinki office of Miller Shanks.

Question: Who is the author of E?
Answer: Matt Beaumont
Genma Wars
Japanese science fiction media franchise
 is a Japanese science fiction manga and novel franchise that began in 1967. It was a collaboration in "Weekly Shōnen Magazine" by science fiction writer Kazumasa Hirai and manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori. It was adapted into a 1983 anime film, a 2002 anime television series, and a 1983 laserdisc video game called "Bega's Battle" in North America. Plot. The series tells the story of the battle between the Earth's defenders and a demonic entity named Genma Daioh. Its first protagonist is Jo Azuma, a Japanese highschool student of the 1970s who suddenly finds out he has psychic powers and is being called along with other psychics around the globe. They are gathered by Vega, an alien cyborg warrior, and Luna, the princess of Transylvania, who have discovered the presence of Genma traveling towards the Earth with the intention to conquer it. In order to stop him, Luna and Vega train Azuma and all the other psychics to defeat Genma and thwart his destructive plans. However, despite initial victories, the manga ends in an ambiguous cliffhanger, hinting that the psychics are defeated and the Earth will be destroyed. After the premature end of the manga, the story was expanded upon by other series of the franchise, featuring time travel and battles in other realities. This is first shown in the sequel "New Genma Wars", which takes place in 1999, after Genma's victory has turned the Earth into a post-apocalyptic wasteland ruled by the demon.

Question: Who is the author of Genma Taisen?
Answer: Kazumasa Hirai
The Doubtful Guest
1957 book by Edward Gorey
The Doubtful Guest is a short, illustrated book by Edward Gorey, first published by Doubleday in 1957. It is the third of Gorey's books and shares with his others a sense of the absurd, meticulous cross-hatching, and a seemingly Edwardian setting. The book begins with the sudden appearance of a strange, penguin-like creature in a turn-of-the-century manor house. An aristocratic family struggles to coexist with the creature, who is by turns despondent and mischievous. By the final page, the guest has stayed for seventeen years, and shows "no intention of going away". Description. Like Gorey's other works, "The Doubtful Guest" follows the traditions of surrealism and nonsense verse. It contains fourteen pages, each with an image and a rhyming couplet. Gorey began sketches and notes for "The Doubtful Guest" around 1955, referring to the story as "A Peculiar Visitor". The title eventually became "The Visit", and finally "The Doubtful Guest". Gorey claimed the book was intended for children, although Doubleday declined to release it as a children's book. Reception. Edmund Wilson, in the 1959 "New Yorker" article that first introduced Gorey to a wide readership, wrote that "The Doubtful Guest" was the first of Gorey's books to give a full picture of "the morbid Edwardian household".

Question: Who is the author of The Doubtful Guest?
Answer: Edward Gorey, Edward St. John Gorey, Edward Saint John Gorey, O. Mude, Regera Dowdy, Aedwyrd Goré, Garrod Weedy, Dogear Wryde, E.D. Ward, Ogdred Weary, Eduard Blutig
Amazon (video game)
1984 video game
Amazon is an interactive fiction graphic adventure game. The game was published by Telarium in 1984 and written by Michael Crichton. Development. Best-selling novelist and director Michael Crichton was a computer hobbyist who taught himself the programming language BASIC. In the early 1980s he, programmer Stephen Warady, and artist David Durand began developing an Apple II graphic adventure game based on Crichton's novel "Congo"; he sometimes programmed game sequences which Warady converted into much faster assembly language. They worked on the project for 18 months and, before Crichton found a publisher, Spinnaker Software approached him about adapting his novels for its Telarium division's new "bookware" games. The author revealed the game, amazing Spinnaker, and signed a contract in late 1983. Crichton did not realize, however, that he had already sold all adaptation rights to "Congo" to another party. The team revised the game (renamed "Amazon"), moving the setting from Africa to South America and changing a diamond mine to an emerald mine; the novel's Amy the talking gorilla became Paco the talking parrot. Because the game was mostly complete, Telarium was able to port it to the Commodore 64 before "Amazon"'s release. Crichton later said that he was disappointed with the game due to technological limitations at the time of its development. Reception. "Amazon" was the best-selling Telarium title with as many as 100,000 copies sold, the majority likely for the Commodore 64.

Question: Who is the author of Amazon?
Answer: Michael Crichton, John Michael Crichton, Michael Douglas, Jeffery Hudson, John Lange
Faith (novel)
1994 novel by Len Deighton
Faith is a 1994 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the first novel in the final trilogy of three about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence officer working for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). "Faith" is part of the "Faith, Hope and Charity" trilogy, being followed by "Hope" and "Charity". This trilogy is preceded by the "Game, Set and Match" and the "Hook, Line and Sinker" trilogies. Deighton's novel "Winter" (1987) is a prequel to the nine novels, covering the years 1900-1945 and providing the backstory to some of the characters. The novel is set in 1987, when Soviet control of Eastern Europe is beginning to falter. It picks up the story from the end of "Spy Line" and "Spy Sinker", with Fiona and Bernard Samson returning to London Central to rebuild their careers and marriage after recuperating with Bret Rensselaer in California. Plot summary. Dicky Cruyer, who is now acting Director of Operations, sends Bernard and another agent into East Germany to meet Verdi, a KGB defector who has promised to supply access to the KGB mainframe and wanted to see Bernard. Upon discovering a corpse at the meeting point they realise that they have been set up. After killing a Stasi agent and being sheltered by one of Fiona's networks they escape back to West Berlin. Dicky is desperate for the Verdi operation to succeed in order to secure Operations permanently and angle for the soon to be vacant Deputy Director General position.

Question: Who is the author of Faith?
Answer: Len Deighton, Leonard Cyril Deighton