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The Black Unicorn
1987 novel by Terry Brooks
The Black Unicorn is the second novel in the "Magic Kingdom of Landover" series by Terry Brooks, and the follow-up to "Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold!". Published in 1987, the book revolves around the evil wizard Meeks, attempting to wrest control of the kingdom from Ben Holiday, the High Lord and the appearance of a mythical black unicorn in the kingdom. Plot. Ben Holiday, court magician Questor Thews and the sylph Willow each have a vivid, prophetic dream. Ben dreams that Miles Bennett, his former law partner back in Chicago is in trouble. Questor dreams of the location of two ancient books of magic and Willow dreams of a black unicorn containing great power and a golden bridle that can harness the animal. Only the half-dog court scribe Abernathy voices his misgivings about the dreams. Upon returning to the old world, Ben discovers that Miles is fine. Suspicious, he hurries back to Landover. Unbeknownst to him, Meeks (the evil wizard that originally sent Ben into Landover) has stowed away in Ben's clothing using his magic, returning as well. At the castle, Ben finds that Questor has found the books of magic, though they seem useless. One is filled with illustrations of unicorns and the other appears burned from the inside. Willow is still missing. That night, Ben is attacked by Meeks. The old wizard casts a glamour over each of them, so that Meeks appears as Ben and Ben appears as a common peasant.

Question: Who is the author of The Black Unicorn?
Answer: Terry Brooks, Terence Dean Brooks
Time (xkcd)
Long-form xkcd strip by Randall Munroe
"Time" is the 1,190th strip of Randall Munroe's webcomic "xkcd". Beginning with a single frame published at midnight on March 25, 2013, the image was updated every 30 minutes until March 30, 2013, and then every hour for 118 days (123 days in total), ending on July 26 with a total of 3,102 unique images. Each image represented a single frame in a larger story. The strip's story, set 11,000 years in the future in the basin of the Mediterranean Sea during a supposed recurrence of the Zanclean flood, features two characters journeying uphill to discover where the rising water is originating. By the end of the story, the characters return home to save their people. Described by Glen Tickle of "Geekosystem" as Munroe's "magnum opus", "Time" attracted significant attention and was well received online; several projects, wikis and web communities were built about it. In 2014, it won the Hugo Award in the Best Graphic Story category. Plot. "Time" begins with two stick figures, a woman and a man, building a sand castle complex on a beach. The woman notes that the sea (visible on the right side of the frame) is rising. After construction is completed, and after temporarily stopping the sea from eroding the castle away, the two decide to go on a journey to discover the cause behind the rising sea level.

Question: Who is the author of Time?
Answer: Randall Munroe, Randall Patrick Munroe, Thing Explainer
Johnny, My Friend
Johnny, My Friend (Swedish: "Janne, min vän") is the first novel by the Swedish author Peter Pohl. It was published in Sweden in 1985. The English translation by Laurie Thompson was published in 1991. Plot summary. "Johnny, My Friend" is narrated by 12-year-old Krille. Krille is a naive youth, having grown up in a safe, supporting family in 1950s Stockholm. A new boy, Johnny, appears in Krille's life, and quickly impresses the neighborhood boys with his bicycling prowess. His popularity aside, Johnny is a bit of a mystery, rarely saying anything about his life. The boys of the neighborhood do not know where he lives, and sometimes he disappears for long periods, only to turn up again without explanation. Krille determines to solve the mystery of Johnny. Translations. The novel has been translated into 11 languages:
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Question: Who is the author of Johnny, My Friend?
Answer: Peter Pohl
Opening Night (novel)
1951 detective novel by Ngaio Marsh
Opening Night is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the sixteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1951. It was published in the United States as Night at the Vulcan. Plot summary. The novel is one of the theatrical ones for which Marsh was best known, and concerns the murder of an actor backstage on opening night of a new play in London. The play is being performed at the Vulcan Theatre; it was formerly known as the Jupiter Theatre, renamed after an infamous murder recounted in the Alleyn short story "I Can Find My Way Out". The old crime is referenced in the text. Martyn Tarne, a young and inexperienced actress from New Zealand, finds herself involved in a play where her own heredity plays a significant role in a minor part. As the understudy for a minor role, Martyn is caught up when Inspector Roderick Alleyn begins investigating a murder made to appear a suicide. The book also sees the return of Lord Michael Lamprey. A child witness in "A Surfeit of Lampreys" (American title "Death of a Peer"), he was a civilian eager to join the police force in "I Can Find My Way Out", and he appears in "Opening Night" as a police constable attached to the CID. Television adaptation. "Opening Night" was one of four Alleyn novels adapted for South Pacific Television in 1977 as Ngaio Marsh Theatre; Alleyn was played by George Baker. References.

Question: Who is the author of Opening Night?
Answer: Ngaio Marsh, Edith Ngaio Marsh, Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh
Chicago (manga)
Japanese manga series by Yumi Tamura
 is a Japanese near-future action manga series written and illustrated by Yumi Tamura. It was serialized in Shogakukan's "Bessatsu Shōjo Comic" magazine from the November 2000 issue (released in October) to the May 2001 issue (released in April). Shogakukan collected the individual chapters into two bound volumes published under the Flower Comics imprint. Viz Media licensed the manga for an English-language release in North America, first serialized in "Animerica Extra" magazine and later published in graphic novel format. Overview. It is the middle of the 21st century and Tokyo is expanding more and more, filling the ground of Tokyo Bay with landfills to make room for the bursting population. But suddenly, Tokyo suffers its greatest earthquake since the first quarter of the 20th century, and the landfill liquefies, creating untold damage in the newly made urban area. It is there that the members of Self-Defense Force Rescue Squad Four are sent, to locate survivors and assist in any way possible. But what they dig up is a plot of murder and destruction—one that wipes out nearly the entire squad and leaves its two surviving members, the fierce tomboy Rei and her cool, handsome partner Uozumi, in a fight for their lives well after the rubble from the quake has been cleaned up. There is only one place where they can find the work that keeps them alive, and the support so they can start uncovering the mystery that killed their squad: that's in the south-Shinjuku bar called Chicago. Rescues Inc..

Question: Who is the author of Chicago?
Answer: Yumi Tamura, Tamura Yumi
Box the Pony
Box the Pony is a 1997 play co-written by Australian actress Leah Purcell and Scott Rankin. It is a semi-autobiographical one-woman show, set in an Aboriginal community in Queensland. It has played at Sydney's Belvoir Street Theatre, the Sydney Opera House, the 1999 Edinburgh Festival and in 2000 at the Barbican in London. Notes. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Box the Pony?
Answer: Leah Purcell, Leah Maree Purcell, Scott Rankin
The Last Hawk
Book by Catherine Asaro
The Last Hawk is a 1997 science fiction novel by Catherine Asaro. The novel is an installment in the Saga of the Skolian Empire series and details the life of Kelricson Garlin Valdoria Skolia during his eighteen years of imprisonment on the planet Coba
It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1998. Plot. The novel opens when Kelric Valdoria crash lands on the planet Coba. An ancient culture with similarities to the Raylicans, Coba is one of the many isolated and forgotten planets of the former Ruby Empire. Kelric makes several unsuccessful attempts to escape and eventually ends up in jail. It is there he spends his time (particularly while in isolation) learning the dice game Quis. Eventually, Kelric is released and joins one of the "estates" - small matriarchical provinces or city-states that comprise the population of Coba. These estates have special dedicated communes that exclusively play Quis, called Calanya. Kelric becomes a member of one of these communes, known as the "Calani". The society of Coba has, for centuries, replaced war and aggression with competition in Quis. The Quis also double as an information network, with players revealing information about themselves and their estate while at the same time learn about others. Finally, as an information-exchange network, Quis allows technology to improve on Coba at an astounding rate.

Question: Who is the author of The Last Hawk?
Answer: Catherine Asaro, Catherine Ann Asaro
A New Life (novel)
1961 novel by Bernard Malamud
A New Life is a semi-autobiographical campus novel by Bernard Malamud first published in 1961. It is Malamud's third published novel. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of A New Life?
Answer: Bernard Malamud
The Outdoor Survival Handbook
The Outdoor Survival Handbook is a 1992 survival book by Ray Mears. First published as "The Complete Outdoor Handbook"; The book is divided into four sections, one for each season with chapters on clothing, survival skills and tools for each. Includes illustrations by Paul Bryant. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of The Outdoor Survival Handbook?
Answer: Ray Mears, Raymond Paul Mears
By the Gods Beloved
1905 novel by Emma Orczy
By The Gods Beloved, first published in the UK in 1905, was a novel by Baroness Orczy. It was released under the title The Gates of Kamt in the US. The novel is in the tradition of Rider Haggard's 1887 "She", and concerns a lost race of ancient Egyptians. In her autobiography, "Links in the Chains of Life", Orczy comments:
"The book that gave me more pleasure to write than any of the others is By the Gods Beloved, not only because I could allow my imagination to go roaming in hitherto unexplored realms but because I could give it full sway in picturesque descriptions of places that did not really exist, and in people and characters who could have no attributes that were entirely normal and modern." Plot summary. Background
Mark Tankerville and Hugh Emmett became firm friends whilst at school at St Paul's, their friendship cemented by many afternoons spent at Hugh's house in Hammersmith in the company of his father, one of the greatest archaeologists and Egyptologists of his generation. Mr Tankerville keeps the boys entertained with stories and theories about the people of Ancient Egypt and teaches them how to speak and understand the language of ancient Kamt. When they finish school, Mark goes to Oxford to study medicine while Hugh stays at home to help his father with his research. During this period Mr Tankerville and Mark's Uncle both die. After college Mark is unemployed but living off a small fortune left to him by a distant relative.

Question: Who is the author of By the Gods Beloved?
Answer: Emma Orczy, Baroness Orczy, Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci, Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozalia Maria Jozefa Borbala Orczy de Orci, Emmuska Orczy, Emma Baroness von Orczy, Emma Barstow
Millennial Rites
1995 novel by Craig Hinton
Millennial Rites is an original novel written by Craig Hinton and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Sixth Doctor and Mel. Plot. The Doctor and Mel land in London, 1999, to celebrate the New Year. But other forces are making deadlier preparations to ring in the new millennium: a software firm is about to run a program that will change the very fabric of reality, while an ancient entity from the universe's origins is due for resurrection. When Anne Travers' fear of the Great Intelligence, and millionaire Ashley Chapel's research combine, London is set to be transformed into a terrifying place inhabited by unimaginable dangers. Outside references. The first half of the novel was based on Craig's time working at IBM's Warwick Software Development Lab. A blast of psychic energy released in the novel is felt all across the globe by those attuned to such things. These include "a thoughtful man levitating in a voluminous blue cloak" in New York and "a blond-haired man in a dirty beige trenchcoat" drinking Guinness in a Dublin pub. The book makes reference to The Library of St. John the Beheaded created by Andy Lane, who had attended the same university as Craig Hinton. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Millennial Rites?
Answer: Craig Hinton, Craig Paul Alexander Hinton
What's Become of Waring
What's Become of Waring is the fifth novel by the English writer Anthony Powell. It is his final novel of the 1930s, and the only one not published by Powell's first employer and publisher, Duckworth. Published in 1939, Powell's book was overshadowed by international events, limiting sales. Nonetheless, it marks a significant step in Powell's development, anticipating his masterpiece, "A Dance to the Music of Time", via the introduction of the self-effacing first-person narrator. The title of the book is also the first line of the poem "Waring" by Robert Browning. Plot introduction. "What’s Become of Waring" is set in large part in the publishing firm of Judkins and Judkins, and informed by Powell's experiences with both Duckworth and Warner Brothers. Dinner parties and seances abound, featuring unusual and uncomfortable mixtures of guests. Coincidence, often noted as a significant feature of "Dance", here plays a larger role than in any of Powell's other early fiction. The novel shows clearly the relative thinness of the curtain of civility with which society wraps itself and how easily that fabric frays. Plot summary. The novel is narrated by an anonymous publishing firm employee, who is himself working on a book about Stendhal and violence. At a seance, an apparent warning is received that something is wrong with bestselling travel writer, T.T. Waring. Waring, anticipating Thomas Pynchon in his insistence on privacy and anonymity, is soon confirmed dead.

Question: Who is the author of What's Become of Waring?
Answer: Anthony Powell
Go (Kaneshiro novel)
2000 Japanese novel by Kazuki Kaneshiro
GO is a novel written by Kazuki Kaneshiro and published in 2000 by Kodansha. "GO" received a Naoki Prize, an award of high praise in Japan. A film adaptation was released in 2001 that won numerous awards in Japan. An English translation by Takami Nieda was released by AmazonCrossing in 2018. The story's protagonist is Sugihara, who is a zainichi chosenjin (North Korean nationals in Japan), who falls in love with a Japanese girl. The story revolves around Korean/Chinese racism in Japan with Sugihara changing his Korean name from Lee and moving to a Japanese school from a Japanese Korean school. Summary. Sugihara, who was a zainichi chosenjin, began studying at a Japanese high-school. Since his father was an ex-pro boxer, Sugihara knew how to fight other Japanese boys who challenges him to a fight because of his nationality. He became friends with a boy whose father is a yakuza and Sugihara's friend invited him to a party where Sugihara meets a girl who would only let him know of her family name: Sakurai. Sugihara never tells Sakurai of his ancestry for he is afraid of her possibility of having racist feelings. One day when one of Sugihara's Korean friends were killed by another Japanese high-school student, Sugihara brought together all his courage to tell Sakurai of his Korean heritage... Characters. Sugihara
Main protagonist.

Question: Who is the author of Go?
Answer: Kazuki Kaneshiro
The Burning (novel)
2000 novel by Justin Richards
The Burning is a BBC Books original novel written by Justin Richards and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Eighth Doctor. It is the beginning of a run of books in which the amnesiac Doctor is stuck on Earth without a functioning TARDIS. Plot. In the late 19th century, the village of Middleton is on the verge of bankruptcy due to the tin mine running out, when a huge fissure opens in the moorlands. After a visitor called Roger Nepath offers to buy the mine and visits the fissure with the lord of the manor, Lord Urton's personality changes, and allows Nepath to move into his manor house with his sister Patience. The amnesiac Doctor arrives at the village and befriends Professor Dobbs from The Society of Psychical Research during his research into the fissure. Dobbs's assistant Gaddis claims to have empathic powers, which lead him to point along the fissure, where he is chased off by Urton. The Doctor notices that the water in a dam near the fissure has become warm and acidic, suggesting that it has been heated. Returning to the Fissure they find Gaddis's corpse horribly burnt, which fascinates the Doctor. Nepath later holds an auction to fund his purchase, and demonstration a metal that returns to its original shape when destroyed, which Nepath gives the Doctor a sample of. The army gives Nepath a large amount of money for him to create self repairing guns for the army, which Nepath uses to buy more mining equipment.

Question: Who is the author of The Burning?
Answer: Justin Richards, Justin C Richards
I Have a Special Plan for This World
2000 single by Current 93
"I Have a Special Plan for This World" is a longform single by the English band Current 93. The lyrics are taken from a poem of the same name by the author Thomas Ligotti and spoken by David Tibet. Additional sound treatments are credited to Current 93. The single was released on limited edition vinyl and CD in 2000 on David Tibet's Durtro label. There was an additional special release in February 2007, when three test pressings were made in black vinyl. These featured signed and personalized sleeves with gold ink drawing and hand written labels done in black ink. Musically, "I Have a Special Plan for This World" was a temporary return of sorts by Current 93 to their experimental post-industrial roots, using various unconventional musical instruments and techniques (including synthesised drones and found sound) while dispensing almost entirely with the minimal acoustic guitar and piano melodies that characterised the group's sound at that point. There was, however, some continuity musically as the single expanded upon both the nihilistic themes and experimental sonic motifs that appeared in the Inmost Light trilogy of albums from five years prior. Though initially released to little critical reception, the single has since gained a cult following, along with the band itself, through forums such as Rate Your Music.

Question: Who is the author of I Have a Special Plan for This World?
Answer: Thomas Ligotti
Tokyo (novel)
2004 novel by Mo Hayder
Tokyo is a 2004 novel by British crime writer Mo Hayder. It was short-listed for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award, as well as several others. (For the US market, the title was changed to The Devil of Nanking, which had been Hayder's working-title for the book.) "Tokyo" was reviewed by the internationally read UK newspaper, the Guardian as well as by Kirkus Reviews under its US title. Plot introduction. The story is about a young woman (nicknamed 'Grey' by a fellow mental hospital patient) who is obsessed with the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanjing (Nanking), which resulted in the Rape of Nanjing. She travels to Japan in order to find a professor said to have rare footage of the massacre detailing an event that she could not otherwise prove occurred. The professor decides that he will only show her the tape if she was to procure an unknown ingredient of Chinese medicine from the local yakuza group. After being recruited into a host club, Grey finds her chance. Major themes. The book deals with the evils of ignorance, Grey being a home-schooled child whose mother heavily censored everything she came into contact with, the politics of modern-day yakuza, and the glitzy underground night-life of Tokyo, as well as the build-up and reality of the Rape of Nanking and the effect it still has today. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Tokyo?
Answer: Mo Hayder, Beatrice Clare Dunkel, Clare Damaris Bastin, Candy Davis, Theo Clare, Clare Dunkel
Eater (novel)
2000 novel by Gregory Benford
Eater is a hard science fiction novel by American writer Gregory Benford. It was published in May 2000 by Eos. Heavy on the physics information, "Eater" describes humankind's encounter with a cosmic intelligence that comes in the form of a small black hole. Plot summary. In the early 21st century, astronomers detect what appears to be a distant gamma-ray burster, a black hole engulfing another star many light years away. The data are bizarre and troubling, because only 13 hours later, a second burster appears, which, given the great distance between stars, would be impossible. Eventually, the astronomers realize that the black hole, rather than being incredibly far from us, is actually heading towards the Solar System, and moving our way at considerable speed. Stranger still, it seems to be moving under its own will; it is an intelligent being itself. This age-old cosmic being reveals that it had been born seven billion years ago and had become a wandering entity, feeding on asteroids, planets and various space debris, projecting itself forward in space through the process. Through the billions of years of its existence across the expanse of time and space, this intelligent entity has learned of many ancient civilizations in the universe. The black hole eventually sends a message to the people of Earth; it "desires converse". The black hole is willing to share the knowledge it had gained throughout the ages in return for the chance to "chat" with the humans. But eventually, something about the nature of the life-form is revealed.

Question: Who is the author of Eater?
Answer: Gregory Benford, Gregory Albert Benford
Something Special (short story)
"Something Special" is the only published short story by Iris Murdoch. It first appeared in 1957 in a collection entitled "Winter's Tales 3", and after inclusion in anthologies in Japan (1971, 1972), England (1979) and Finland (1990) it was republished separately by Chatto &amp; Windus in 1999. Yvonne Geary, the 24-year-old daughter of a Dublin shopkeeper, is courted by a young Jewish man, Sam Goldman, who takes her out for the night. After an unpleasant scene at a rowdy public house Sam decides to take Yvonne into his confidence.

Question: Who is the author of Something Special?
Answer: Iris Murdoch, Jean Iris Murdoch, Dame Iris Murdoch