Information: - Sam Spade is a fictional private detective and the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel, "The Maltese Falcon". Spade also appeared in three lesser-known short stories by Hammett. - Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade ("The Maltese Falcon"), Nick and Nora Charles ("The Thin Man"), and the Continental Op ("Red Harvest" and "The Dain Curse"). - The Continental Op is a fictional character created by Dashiell Hammett. He is a private investigator employed as an operative of the Continental Detective Agency's San Francisco office. His name is never mentioned in any story. - Red Harvest (1929) is a novel by Dashiell Hammett. The story is narrated by The Continental Op, a frequent character in Hammett's fiction, much of which is drawn from his own experiences as an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency (fictionalized as the Continental Detective Agency). The labor dispute in the novel was inspired by Butte's Anaconda Road Massacre. - The Thin Man (1934) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally published in the December 1933 issue of "Redbook". It appeared in book form the following month. - The Dain Curse is a novel written by Dashiell Hammett and published in 1929 . Before its publication in book form , it was serialized in Black Mask ( 1928 -- 29 ) . - Nick and Nora Charles are fictional characters created by Dashiell Hammett in his novel "The Thin Man". The characters were later adapted for film in a series of movies between 1934 and 1947; for radio from 1941 to 1950; for television from 1957 through 1959; as a Broadway musical in 1991; and as a stage play in 2009. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'the dain curse' exhibits the relationship of 'followed by'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - 1930 - 1933 - 1961 - 1991 - 27 - anaconda - before - black - character - curse - december - falcon - hard - harvest - he is - is - man - mask - may - may 27 - never - nick - novel - pinkerton - red - s - sam - san francisco - the dain curse - the following - the maltese falcon - the story
the maltese falcon

Ques:Information: - Time travel is the concept of movement (such as by a human) between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space, typically using a hypothetical device known as a time machine, in the form of a vehicle or of a portal connecting distant points in time. Time travel is a recognized concept in philosophy and fiction, but traveling to an arbitrary point in time has a very limited support in theoretical physics, and usually only in conjunction with quantum mechanics or wormholes, also known as Einstein-Rosen bridges. In a more narrow sense, one-way time travel into the future via time dilation is a well-understood phenomenon within the frameworks of special relativity and general relativity, but advancing a large amount of time is not feasible with current technology. The concept was touched upon in various earlier works of fiction, but was popularized by H. G. Wells' 1895 novel "The Time Machine", which moved the concept of time travel into the public imagination, and it remains a popular subject in science fiction. - Lord Kelvin's Machine is a science fiction novel by author James P. Blaylock. It was released in 1992 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,015 copies. The author's first book published by Arkham House, the novel is the third in Blaylock's Steampunk series, following "The Digging Leviathan" (1984) and "Homunculus" (1986). A substantially different novelette version first appeared in the Mid-December 1985 issue of "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine". - Homunculus is a comic science fiction novel by author James P. Blaylock . It was published in 1986 . It was the second book in Blaylock 's loose Steampunk trilogy , following The Digging Leviathan ( 1984 ) and preceding Lord Kelvin 's Machine ( 1992 ) . The book was originally published as an Ace paperback by the Berkeley Publishing Group and is included in the Adventures of Langon St. Ives collection . Blaylock used the book London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew to research the period setting . - Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H. P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House editions are noted for the quality of their printing and binding. The colophon for Arkham House was designed by Frank Utpatel. - The Digging Leviathan is a science fiction novel written by James Blaylock. It was first published in 1984 by Ace Books. The source was Blaylock's first novel "The Chinese Circus", which was never finished. - James Paul Blaylock (born September 20, 1950) is an American fantasy author. He is noted for a distinctive, humorous style, as well as being one of the pioneers of the steampunk genre of science fiction. Blaylock has cited Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens as his inspirations. - 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. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'homunculus ' exhibits the relationship of 'author'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - august derleth - donald wandrei - isaac asimov - james blaylock - one - paul - robert louis stevenson

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james blaylock