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It! (short story)
Short story by Theodore Sturgeon
"It" is a horror short story by American writer Theodore Sturgeon, first published in "Unknown" of August 1940 (volume 3, number 6). The story deals with a muck-monster that emerges from a swamp, and terrorizes a family who lives nearby. The creature has no emotions, and is simply curious about the things that it observes. Its terrifying strength allows it to grab animals and people and tear them apart, to see how they work. Ultimately, the creature is revealed to have formed around a human skeleton. P. Schuyler Miller described "It" as "probably the most unforgettable story ever published in "Unknown"". The story was published in book form in Sturgeon's first short story collection, "Without Sorcery" (1948). The story inspired many similar characters in comic books, including Swamp Thing and Man-Thing. Similar characters. Plant-based swamp monsters similar to that in the story appear in various comic books. Among these characters are Hillman Comics' the Heap in "Airboy Comics", who debuted in what was intended as a one-time appearance in the feature "Skywolf" in "Air Fighters" #3 (December 1942). Early depictions of the Heap look highly similar to the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies character Gossamer, an orange-furred, practically featureless monster in sneakers who menaced Bugs Bunny in the 1946 animated short "Hair-Raising Hare" before going on to other appearances (and named "Rudolph" in one).

Question: Who is the author of It!?
Answer: Theodore Sturgeon, E. Waldo Hunter, Edward Hamilton Waldo, Ted Sturgeon
Positions (book)
1972 book by Jacques Derrida
Positions is a 1972 book by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Summary. "Positions" consists of a collection of interviews. Derrida talks about his earlier works and their relationships. He said that his 1962 essay, "", already contained many elements of his thought, that would be further elaborated. He added: "that essay can be read as the other side (recto or verso, as you wish) of "Speech and Phenomena"." On the relationship between his three foundational works of 1967, Derrida explained: " "Speech and Phenomena" is perhaps the essay which I like most. Doubtless I could have bound it as a long note to one or the other of the other two works. "Of Grammatology" refers to it and economizes its development. But in a classical philosophical architecture, "Speech..." would come first: in it is posed, at a point which appears juridically decisive for reasons that I cannot explain here, the question of the privilege of the voice and of phonetic writing in their relationship to the entire history of the West, such as this history can be represented by the history of metaphysics and metaphysics in its most modern, critical and vigilant form: Husserl's transcendental phenomenology." Notes. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Positions?
Answer: Jacques Derrida, Jackie Derrida, Jackie Elie Derrida, Jackie Élie Derrida, J. Derrida
Out of This World (Watt-Evans novel)
1993 novel by Lawrence Watt-Evans
Out of This World (1993) is the first fantasy novel in "The Worlds of Shadow" trilogy by Lawrence Watt-Evans. Plot introduction. The premise of the novel is that parallel universes do exist. Some have intelligent non-human life, while others are populated by English-speaking humans. Prior to the events of the novel, one such reality is overrun by a malevolent force known as Shadow. The World of Shadow is a typical high fantasy realm where magic exists and men fight with sword and sorcery. Although pockets of resistance against Shadow exist, their reality has all but been conquered by evil. Another reality, the Galactic Empire, soon finds that they are being invaded by minions who serve Shadow, and declare war. The Galactic Empire is depicted as a science fiction realm of yester-year, akin to Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers. Many planets are colonized by the technologically advanced Empire, and telepaths serve in their military forces. Once the conflict with Shadow began, the Empire uses their telepaths to establish contact with the World of Shadow. The World of Shadow, in turn, use magic to stay in contact with the Galactic Empire. Although both realities share a common enemy, little progress is made in the way of a true alliance due to vast cultural differences. The Empire view the people of Shadow as brute barbarians who could be of no use in a real war, while the people of Shadow consider the Empire and their fascist ways as "possibly the lesser of two evils".

Question: Who is the author of Out of This World?
Answer: Lawrence Watt-Evans
There But For The
2011 novel by Ali Smith
There But For The is a 2011 novel by Scottish author Ali Smith, first published in the UK by Hamish Hamilton and in the US by Pantheon, and set in 2009 and 2010 in Greenwich, London. It was cited by both "The Guardian" book review and the "Publishers Weekly" as one of the best books of the year. and was also longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction. Plot introduction. The story revolves around Miles Garth, an 'ethical consultant' who attends an ‘annual alternative dinner party’ at an upper-middle class household in Greenwich. After the main course Miles goes upstairs, locks himself in the spare bedroom and refuses to leave indefinitely. Eventually becoming a minor celebrity when crowds gather outside the window, Miles highlights the effects of a consumerist and celebrity-based culture as various attempts are made to capitalise on his presence within the room. The name 'Miles' is replaced by 'Milo' as Garth is henceforth positioned as some form of new spiritual leader for the 'disenfranchised'. The book is divided into four main narrative parts:
Reception. Upon release, "There But For The" was generally well-received among the British press. On "The Omnivore", in an aggregation of British critic reviews, the book received a score of 3.5 out of 5. "Culture Critic" gave it an aggregated critic score of 94 percent based on British press reviews. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of There But For The?
Answer: Ali Smith
Fellowship (short story)
"Fellowship" (German: "Gemeinschaft") is a short story by Franz Kafka. Five people appear to enjoy being a group, but when a sixth person hopes to join, he is refused admittance. He perseveres, and after some time the others come to respect his interest in the group, but they still reject him. In his "Letters to Felice" Kafka referred to the story as autobiographical in nature. Michael Greenberg has argued that this story is about the unavoidable paradox involved in needing human contact. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Fellowship?
Answer: Franz Kafka, František Kafka, Kafka
Of a Boy
2002 novel by Sonya Hartnett
Of a Boy (What The Birds See in the UK and US) is a 2002 novel by Sonya Hartnett about a lonely and troubled youth. Plot. The omnipresent narrator follows the plight of nine-year-old Adrian in his suburban life in 1977. At age eight, his parents separated and he was taken away from his Mother Sookie as she was "unfit to care for him". He therefore lives with his Grandmother Beattie and Uncle Rory. Adrian spends his days thinking of things that unsettle him such as sea monsters and growing purple hair. One of the things that most disturb him is the fact that three children, surnamed Metford, disappear from a neighborhood near his around the beginning of the book. Shortly after the disappearance of the Metford children, a twelve-year-old girl called Nicole moves in across the street from Adrian. She has no friends and doesn't attend school, but she mystifies Adrian and he soon becomes obsessed with her as he loses his only friend Clinton. The novel ends tragically with Adrian and Nicole falling beneath a pool cover (while trying to find the abducted children) in winter and being unable to break through to the air. The story ends with Adrian's grandmother believing him to be abducted, just as the Metford children. Reception.

Question: Who is the author of Of a Boy?
Answer: Sonya Hartnett, Cameron S. Redfern, Sonya Louise Hartnett
Before (short story)
"Before" is a short story by American writer Gael Baudino, written deliberately in a style similar to William Faulkner's: the foreword to the story says, "the sometimes strange syntax and editorial elisions are intentional in this homage to Faulkner." It concerns Greta Harlow, a young woman living in a Lee's Corners, a small town in fictional Oktibushubee County. She is raped and impregnated by Jimmy White, son of a prominent and wealthy businessman. An elderly wealthy woman, Mrs. Gavin, counsels her on how to abort the baby. The story ends with Greta debating whether to follow through with the abortion or not. Lee's Corners, Sophonsiba Gavin, and Greta's child, Magic, all play key parts in Baudino's most recent book, "The Borders of Life" (written as Gael Kathryns).

Question: Who is the author of Before?
Answer: Gael Baudino
Stand by Your Screen
Stand By Your Screen was a 1968 play written by Roy Minton and directed by Alan Clarke. Plot. Christopher Gritter John Neville revolts against the suburban conformity of his parents. Performances. First broadcast London Weekend Television 8 December 1968. It was 52 mins long. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Stand By Your Screen?
Answer: Roy Minton
Sandy (novel)
Book by Alice Hegan Rice
Sandy is the third book written by Alice Hegan Rice, and was the second best-selling novel in the United States in 1905. It was originally published in serial form in "The Century Magazine" from December 1904 through May 1905, and first appeared in novel form in April 1905. The novel is based on the boyhood stories of S. S. McClure, publisher of "McClure's" magazine, and his upbringing in Ireland and early struggles in the United States. Plot. A contemporary synopsis of the novel's plot describes it as follows:
This is the story of a young Irish boy named Sandy Kilday, who at the age of sixteen, being without home or relatives, decides to try his luck in the new country across the ocean. Accordingly, he slips aboard one of the big ocean liners as a stowaway, but is discovered before the voyage is half over and in spite of his entreaties is told he must be returned by the next steamer. Sandy, however, who has a winning way and sunny smile, arouses the interest of the ship's doctor, who pays his passage and gives him some money with which to start his new life. On the voyage Sandy has made friends with a lad in steerage named Ricks Wilson, who earns his living by peddling, and he decides to join him in this career. Sandy has also been deeply impressed by the face of a lovely young girl who is one of the cabin passengers and when he discovers that she is Miss Ruth Nelson of Kentucky he decides to make that state his destination.

Question: Who is the author of Sandy?
Answer: Alice Hegan Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan
The Interior (novel)
Book by Lisa See
The Interior is the second novel in Lisa See's Red Princess series. The first is "Flower Net" and the third is "Dragon Bones". In "The Interior" Chinese MPS inspector Liu Hulan and David Stark, an American attorney who loves her and is the father of her unborn child, try to find out whether Miaoshan, the daughter of Hulan's old friend Suchee, hanged herself or was murdered. Plot summary. "Flower Net" ends on March 14, 1997. The setting of "The Interior" is summer 1997—China "post- Deng Xiaoping", a period characterized by "an unholy alliance between post-Deng Communism ('market socialism') and American capitalism", the China of Jiang Zemin. In the novel the narrator speaks about the times in more personal terms: "As the saying went, the blade of grass points where the wind blows. The only problem was that the wind was blowing in so many directions these days no one could completely protect himself". The plot centers on the conniving of American and Chinese businessmen to exploit poorly paid Chinese workers, especially women, for profit and power. See describes in great detail the dangers women face because they work in an American toy factory, located in a remote part of the interior of China, that lacks adequate safety protections and is a virtual fire trap. Miaoshan was working at the toy factory before her death.

Question: Who is the author of The Interior?
Answer: Lisa See
Aida (musical)
Musical by Elton John and Tim Rice
Aida (also known as "Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida") is a musical based on the opera of the same name written by Antonio Ghislanzoni with music by Giuseppe Verdi. It has music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice, and book by Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, and David Henry Hwang, and was originally produced by Hyperion Theatricals. "Aida" premiered on Broadway on March 23, 2000, running for 1,852 performances until September 5, 2004. It was nominated for five Tony Awards and won four, including Best Original Score. It was also named by "Time" as one of the top ten theatre productions of the year. The original Broadway cast recording won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. A song from the show, "Written in the Stars", recorded by Elton John and LeAnn Rimes, reached No. 2 in the "Billboard" US adult contemporary music chart. Background. The show is based on Giuseppe Verdi's Italian-language opera of the same name, the libretto of which was written by Antonio Ghislanzoni. The musical originated from a children's storybook version of Verdi's opera written by the soprano Leontyne Price. The book featured illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. In 1994 the book rights were acquired by the Walt Disney Company for a proposed animated feature film. However, Elton John chose not to pursue another animated project after "The Lion King", so Disney executives suggested a Broadway adaptation instead.

Question: Who is the author of Aida?
Answer: Linda Woolverton, David Henry Hwang, Robert Falls
Knock (short story)
Short story by Fredric Brown
"Knock" is a science fiction short story by American writer Fredric Brown. It begins with a piece of Flash fiction based on the following passage by Thomas Bailey Aldrich:
&lt;templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" /&gt;Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell! Fredric Brown condensed this text into "a sweet little action story that is only two sentences long". "Knock" then goes on to elaborate on those two sentences and build a more complete plot around them. It was published in the December 1948 issue of "Thrilling Wonder Stories". There have been three different radio adaptations ("Dimension X", "X Minus One" and Sci Fi Channel's "Seeing Ear Theatre"). The story was reprinted in '
Plot summary. The first two lines are a complete story by themselves:
&lt;templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" /&gt;The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door ... Reception. The story won the 2012 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award; James Nicoll, however, describes it as "fairly conventional". References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Knock?
Answer: Fredric Brown, Fredric William Brown
Mode series
Quartet of novels by Piers Anthony
The Mode series is a quartet of novels by Piers Anthony. Like many of Anthony's other fictional works, it explores many themes and ideas. This series has themes of violence, the abuse of power, sexism and male dominance, gender roles, the environment, integrity and personal honor, sapient animal life, parallel and alternative evolution, space travel, alternate dimensions, paradox, obscure concepts in physics and mathematics, sexual assault and abuse, child and adolescent sexuality, and suicide. Though initially marketed as fantasy, the "Mode" series is similar to the "Incarnations of Immortality" and the "Apprentice Adept" series, blending fantasy and science fiction. Mode theory. "Mode", in the series, is another word for "reality" or "universe." The philosophy is heavily inspired by eastern philosophies. The Virtual Mode is like a three-dimensional plane that cuts across many realities. It requires five points, represented both by anchor modes and anchor persons, to hold it in place. When someone hears the call of the Virtual Mode, he may reach out with his mind and set his anchor point, thereby becoming an anchor person. When two or more persons act in tandem to attach the Virtual Mode, both will become anchors. Only anchor persons may travel freely on the Virtual Mode; other travelers must remain in contact with the anchors lest they become lost in one of the non-anchor modes. In addition, only objects from anchor modes may be transported on the Virtual Mode; any other materials will remain in their mode of origin.

Question: Who is the author of Mode?
Answer: Piers Anthony, Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob
Stations (poetry collection)
Stations is a collection of prose poems by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 1975. This particular collection presents a style of writing which was then new to Heaney, known as "verse paragraphs" or prose poems. He believed this style of poetry was his own invention, but halfway through writing the collection, while teaching in an American university in 1971, English poet, Geoffrey Hill published a collection of poetry called "Mercian Hymns", which were presented in this style of "prose poems". In Heaney's own words "What I had regarded as stolen marches in a form new to me, had been headed off by a work of complete authority". However, upon his return to Ireland, Heaney completed and published "Stations" in 1975. It includes 21 poems. Among the collection are poems such as "Nesting Grounds", "England's Difficulty" and "Cloistered," which return to Heaney's childhood, although the difference between these and earlier poems being that while previously they were written with a child's eye view, now many of these poems were written from an adult's perspective of their childhood self, particularly "Nesting Ground," which shows a more cautious side to Heaney's childhood. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Stations?
Answer: Seamus Heaney, Seamus Justin Heaney, Seamus Heaney
Dilemma (novel)
Novel by Jon Cleary
Dilemma is a 1999 novel from Australian author Jon Cleary. It is the sixteenth book featuring Sydney detective Scobie Malone. Synopsis. Malone is called in to investigate a murder but the main suspect disappears and isn't arrested until four years later. At the trial he is being prosecuted by one of Malone's old friends who is implicated in the original murder when new evidence comes to light. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Dilemma?
Answer: Jon Cleary, Jon Stephen Cleary
Stiff (novel)
1994 Crime novel by Australian writer Shane Maloney
Stiff is a 1994 Australian crime thriller novel, written by Shane Maloney. It is the first novel in a series of crime thrillers following the character of Murray Whelan, as he investigates crimes in the Melbourne area in the course of trying to keep his job with the Australian Labor Party. Synopsis. In the mid-1980s Murray Whelan is working as the electoral officer in the office of Victorian State MP Charlene Wills, who is also the state's Minister for Industry. His job is to look after Wills's electoral constituents, those "ordinary voters desperately seeking redress from bureaucratic inanity or government indifference." In the meantime he and his wife were over in "everything but name", as she works as an independent contractor in Canberra advising in the Federal Government’s Office of the Status of Women. Their young son Redmond is still in the family home but Whelan thinks that may only be the case for the short-term future. On the political front there are rumours that a local councillor, with affiliations with the Meat Packers Union, is looking to challenge Wills for her seat in Parliament. When the body of Ekrem Bayraktar is found in a freezer at Pacific Pastoral meat packing works at Coolaroo in Melbourne's outer north, Wills's ministerial advisor, Angelo Agnelli, sees a possible problem arising for Wills and orders Whelan to go out and investigate.

Question: Who is the author of Stiff?
Answer: Shane Maloney
All in a Day
Book by Mitsumasa Anno
All in a Day is a 1986 children's picture book written and illustrated by Mitsumasa Anno. It features illustrations by Anno and several other internationally known illustrators: Eric Carle, Raymond Briggs, Nicolai Ye. Popov, Akiko Hayashi, Gian Calvi, Leo and Diane Dillon, Zhu Chengliang and Ron Brooks. Description. Ten artists illustrate the simultaneous moments on January 1 in the lives of children in nine locations on Earth. Information about planetary rotation, world time zones and seasons follows the inviting full-colour wordless picture vignettes. The inspiration for this book arose when Anno was overwhelmed by the sunset on earth at Uskudar in Istanbul. Anno then realized that the sun which was just setting in front of him was at the very same time, a rising sun in some other country. This meant that this same sun was going down in a country at war and at that same time, it was rising in a country at peace. Review. "School Library Journal" said it was "a great success at conveying the warmth, richness, and variety of people" and Booklist noted that it "promotes peace and mutual understanding among children around the world." References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of All in a Day?
Answer: Mitsumasa Anno
State of Change
1994 novel by Christopher Bulis
State of Change is an original novel written by Christopher Bulis and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". The novel features the Sixth Doctor and Peri, although the dimensional instability of the realm they are currently visiting causes the Doctor to briefly regress through his first five incarnations; the Sixth Doctor also spends a great deal of time allowing the personality of the Third Doctor to take control of his body when he is forced to fight. Plot. 10 BC. The Doctor and Peri land in ancient Rome, specifically in the tomb of Cleopatra. But something is very wrong: The tomb walls depict steam-driven galleys and other disturbing anachronisms. The time travellers discover that Rome has advanced far beyond its natural means, and they must recruit the aid of Ptolemy Caesar to prevent his half-siblings, Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene II, from waging a potentially world-ending war with each other. But the anomalies don't just end with Rome, as The Doctor and Peri experience changes of their own...
Continuity. It is implied at the end of the novel, when the Dominion is transported to a newly created duplicate of Earth in a distant star system, that this is the same planet as Mondas - the eventual home of the Cybermen.

Question: Who is the author of State of Change?
Answer: Christopher Bulis