Question: Information: - Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography. In 2016, "The New York Times" described her as "America's greatest living science fiction writer", although she herself has said she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist". - Speculative fiction is a broad umbrella genre denoting any narrative fiction with supernatural or futuristic elements; this encompasses the genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror, alternative history, magic realism, and superhero fiction, as well as combinations of the previous genres. It typically strays strongly from reality and so may feature fictional types of beings like mythical creatures and supernatural entities, technologies that do not exist in real life like time machines and interstellar spaceships, or magical or otherwise scientifically inexplicable elements. The term's popularity is sometimes attributed to Robert Heinlein, who referenced it in 1947 in an editorial essay, although there are prior mentions of speculative fiction, or its variant "speculative literature". - John Anthony Bellairs ( January 17 , 1938 -- March 8 , 1991 ) was an American author , best known for his fantasy novel The Face in the Frost and many gothic mystery novels for young adults featuring the characters Lewis Barnavelt , Anthony Monday , and Johnny Dixon . After earning degrees at University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago , Bellairs taught English at various midwestern and New England colleges for several years before turning full - time to writing in 1971 . He maintained a lifelong interest in archaeology , architecture , kitschy antiques , bad poetry , traveling to the UK , and studying history and Latin . His favorite authors included Charles Dickens , Henry James , C.V. Wedgwood , and Garrett Mattingly , as well as M.R. James , from whose ghost stories he occasionally borrowed elements to work into his own fiction . His first published work , St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies , was a collection of short stories satirizing the rites and rituals of Second Vatican Council - era Catholicism . The title story of St. Fidgeta grew out of stories Bellairs made up and shared with friends while living in Chicago . After committing one such story to paper , he sent it to the Chicago - based Catholic magazine the Critic , which published the story in its summer 1965 edition . The following year , the hagiography of St. Fidgeta was supplemented by eleven other humorous stories , including an essay on lesser - known popes of antiquity , a cathedral constructed over the course of centuries , and a spoof letter from a modern - day Xavier Rynne about the escapades at the fictional Third Vatican Council . The book remained out of print for decades until it was rereleased in a 2009 anthology . The Pedant and the Shuffly , his second book , was a short illustrated fable that detailed the chaotic encounter of the two title characters and logic . It was originally published in 1968 and rereleased in 2001 and 2009 . Bellairs undertook The Face in the Frost while living in Britain and after reading J.R.R.... - Science fiction (often shortened to SF, sci-fi or scifi) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas." It usually avoids the supernatural, and unlike the related genre of fantasy, historically science fiction stories were intended to have a grounding in science-based fact or theory at the time the story was created, but this connection is now limited to hard science fiction. - Fiction is the classification for any story or universe derived from imaginationin other words, not based strictly on history or fact. Fiction can be expressed in a variety of formats, including writings, live performances, films, television programs, animations, video games, and role-playing games, though the term originally and most commonly refers to the narrative forms of literature (see "literary" fiction), including the novel, novella, short story, and play. Fiction constitutes an act of creative invention, so that faithfulness to reality is not typically assumed; in other words, fiction is not expected to present only characters who are actual people or descriptions that are factually true. The context of fiction is generally open to interpretation, due to fiction's freedom from any necessary embedding in reality; however, some fictional works are claimed to be, or marketed as, historically or factually accurate, complicating the traditional distinction between fiction and non-fiction. Fiction is a classification or category, rather than a specific mode or genre, unless used in a narrower sense as a synonym for a particular literary fiction form. - Roger Bacon, OFM (or ', also ', "Brother Roger"), also known by the scholastic accolade (Latin for "wondrous doctor"), was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empirical methods. In the early modern era, he was regarded as a wizard and particularly famed for the story of his mechanical or necromantic brazen head. He is sometimes credited (mainly since the 19th century) as one of the earliest European advocates of the modern scientific method inspired by Aristotle and by later scholars such as the Arab scientist Alhazen. His linguistic work has been heralded for its early exposition of a universal grammar. However, more recent re-evaluations emphasise that Roger Bacon was essentially a medieval thinker, with much of his "experimental" knowledge obtained from books in the scholastic tradition. He was, however, partially responsible for a revision of the medieval university curriculum, which saw the addition of optics to the traditional "". A survey of how Bacon's work was received over the centuries found that it often reflected the concerns and controversies that were central to his readers. - Fantasy is a fiction genre set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Most fantasy uses magic or other supernatural elements as a main plot element, theme, or setting. Magic and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds. Fantasy is generally distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three, all of which are subgenres of speculative fiction. - The Face in the Frost is a short 1969 fantasy novel by author John Bellairs. Unlike most of his later works, this book is meant for adult readers. It centers on two accomplished wizards, Prospero ("and not the one you're thinking of") and Roger Bacon, tracking down the source of a great magical evil. The subject matter prompted Ursula K. Le Guin to say of the novel, ""The Face in the Frost" takes us into pure nightmare before we know itand out the other side." - The supernatural (Medieval Latin: "superntrlis": "supra" "above" + "naturalis" "natural", first used: 15201530 AD) includes all that cannot be explained by science or the laws of nature, including things characteristic of or relating to ghosts, gods, or other supernatural beings, or to things beyond nature. 'john bellairs' is related to which object entity through the relation of 'occupation'? Choices: - author - book - doctor - friar - literary - magic - novelist - prior - religion - science - science fiction writer - superhero - television - travel
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novelist