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The Book of the New Sun is a novel in four parts written by science fiction and fantasy author Gene Wolfe. It chronicles the journey and ascent to power of Severian, a journeyman torturer who is exiled from the Seekers for Truth and Penitence (the guild of torturers) for committing the one unforgivable act: showing mercy to his victim by allowing her to commit suicide and thereby avoid further excruciation. Following the exile, he takes a journey that culminates in his rising to the position of...

The Book of the Short Sun is a trilogy by Gene Wolfe, comprising On Blue's Waters, In Green's Jungles, and Return to the Whorl. It is the sequel to Wolfe's tetralogy The Book of the Long Sun, and has connections to The Book of the New Sun. Collectively, these books are sometimes called Wolfe's "Solar Cycle." The story, which is told by a narrator who identifies himself as Horn (the ostensible author of The Book of the Long Sun), is an account of a search "on three worlds" for Silk, the hero of...

Critical editions of musical scores by composers active in the United States.

The Bible is the collection of religious writings of Judaism and of Christianity. The exact composition of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denomination. Modern Rabbinic Judaism generally recognizes a single set of canonical books that comprise the Tanakh, the Jewish version of the Bible. The Christian Bible includes the same books as the Tanakh (referred to in this context as the Old Testament), but in a different order, together with specifically Christian books...

Nevi'im [נביאים] (Heb: Prophets) is the second of the three major sections in the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh, between the Torah and Ketuvim (writings). Nevi'im is traditionally divided into two parts: In the Jewish tradition, Samuel and Kings are each counted as one book. In addition, twelve relatively short prophetic books are counted as one in a single collection called Trei Asar or "The Twelve Minor Prophets". The Jewish tradition thus counts a total of eight books in Nevi'im out of a total...

The Tanakh (also Tanach, or , Tenakh or Tenak) is the Bible used in Judaism. The name "Tanakh" is a Hebrew notariqon or acronym formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the Tanakh's three traditional subdivisions: The Torah ("Teaching," also known as the Five Books of Moses), Nevi'im ("Prophets") and Ketuvim ("Writings") - hence T'aNaK'h. The elements of the Tanakh are incorporated in various forms in Christian Bible, where, with some variations, it is called the "Old Testament." According...

James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in 12 novel and two collections. The character has also been used in the longest running and second most successful film franchise to date, starting in 1962 with Dr. No. There have been 21 films in the EON Productions series to date, with the 22nd, Quantum of Solace, due for release in November 2008. In addition there have been two independent feature productions (a 1967 spoof version of Casino...

The Sprawl trilogy (also Neuromancer trilogy, Cyberspace trilogy) is William Gibson's first set of novel, composed of Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986) and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988). The novels are all set in the same fictional future, and subtly interlinked by shared characters and themes (which are not always readily apparent). The Sprawl trilogy shares this setting with Gibson's short stories "Johnny Mnemonic", "New Rose Hotel" and "Burning Chrome", and events and characters from the...

Nancy Drew is an amateur sleuth, the fictional heroine of a popular mystery series, primarily aimed at the children-young adult audience, and written under the collective pseudonym "Carolyn Keene". The series was created and outlined in detail in 1930 by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, with the first manuscripts written by Mildred A. Wirt Benson and edited by Stratemeyer's daughter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams. The Stratemeyer Syndicate had a strict non-disclosure...

Spy Gear Adventures is a series of children's book by Rick Barba. The series was published by Aladdin Books, and was based on the line of Spy Gear toys manufactured by Wild Planet Entertainment. There are six titles in the series about a group of spies called "Team Spy Gear". The main characters are brothers Jake and Lucas Bixby and their two best friends, Cyril Wong and Lexi Lopez. Through all six books they face a shadowy, unseen nemesis named Viper.

Lord Darcy is a detective in an alternate history, created by Randall Garrett. The first stories were asserted to take place in the same year as they were published, but in a world very different from our own. Magic is a codified scientific discipline, much involved with higher mathematics and possessed of theoretical and experimental underpinnings as sophisticated as those of our physics and chemistry. Licensed Sorcerers, possessed of the Talent and properly trained, achieve a wide range of...

The Tomorrow series is a series of invasion novels written by Australian author John Marsden, detailing a high-intensity invasion and occupation of Australia by a foreign power. The novels are told in first person perspective by the main character, a teenage girl named Ellie Linton, who is part of a small band of teenagers waging a guerrilla war on the enemy garrison in their fictional home town of Wirrawee. The name of the series is derived from the title of the first book, Tomorrow, When The...

The Five Find-Outers and Dog (not to be confused with The Famous Five), also known as the Enid Blyton Mystery Series, is a series of children's mystery books written by Enid Blyton and first published between 1943 and 1961. Set in the fictitious village of Peterswood, close to Marlow, Buckinghamshire, the children encounter a mystery every school holiday, always solving the puzzle before Mr Goon, the village policeman, much to his annoyance. Other recurring characters are: Minor characters...

Gor, the Counter-Earth, is the alternate-world setting for John Norman's Chronicles of Gor, a series of twenty six novels that combine philosophy, erotica and science fiction. The customs, terminology and imagery depicted in these books has inspired a related BDSM-influenced subculture. On- and off-line followers of this lifestyle are called Gorean. Gor is an intricately detailed world in terms of flora, fauna, and customs. John Norman — the pen-name of Dr. John Lange, a professor of...