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Film, Work of FictionBuffy the Vampire Slayer is a 1992 action-comedy-horror film about "valley girl" cheerleader Buffy (Kristy Swanson) chosen by fate to fight and kill vampire. The movie is a light parody which plays on the clichés of typical horror film. It also led to the darker and...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Written WorkThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a story for children written by J. R. R. Tolkien in the tradition of the fairy tale. Tolkien wrote the story in the late 1920s initially to amuse his three sons. It was first published on September 21, 1937 to wide critical...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Adapted Work, Award-Winning Work, Written WorkThe Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by the English academic and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as merely a sequel to Tolkien's earlier work, The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger story. It was written in stages...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Written Work, Award-Winning WorkThe Silmarillion is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic works, edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977, with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay, who later became a noted fantasy writer. The Silmarillion, along with J. R. R....
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Book, Work of Fiction, Written WorkThe Children of Húrin is an epic high fantasy novel which forms the completion of a tale by J. R. R. Tolkien. He wrote the original version of the story in late 1910s, revised it several times later, but did not complete it before his death in 1973. His son,...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Adapted Work, Written WorkA Wizard of Earthsea, first published in 1968, is the first of a series of books written by Ursula K. Le Guin and set in the fantasy world archipelago of Earthsea depicting the adventures of a budding young wizard named Ged. The tale of Ged's growth and development as...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Written WorkThe Tombs of Atuan is the second of a series of books written by Ursula K. Le Guin and set in her fantasy archipelago of Earthsea, first published in 1971. It follows on from A Wizard of Earthsea and is continued in The Farthest Shore. The Tombs of Atuan was a Newbery...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Written WorkThe Farthest Shore is the third of a series of books written by Ursula K. Le Guin and set in her fantasy archipelago of Earthsea, first published in 1972. It follows on from The Tombs of Atuan, which itself was a sequel to A Wizard of Earthsea. It is the Earthsea...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Written Work, Award-Winning WorkTehanu was the fourth of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea books. It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1990. Tehanu continues the stories of Tenar, the heroine of the second book of the Earthsea series The Tombs of Atuan, and Ged, the hero of the first book, A Wizard...
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Work of Fiction, Book, Written WorkTales from Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in 2001, is a collection of short stories from Le Guin's Earthsea world. The collection contains the following stories: Also included is an article titled "A Description of Earthsea". A common thread to...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Written WorkThe Other Wind is the sixth and (so far) last of a series of books written by Ursula K. Le Guin and set in her fantasy archipelago of Earthsea. It follows on from Tehanu, the fourth novel, and the short story "Dragonfly" from the fifth book Tales from Earthsea. The...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Written WorkThe Last Battle is the seventh and final novel in The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis. Lewis was awarded the Carnegie Medal for the book in 1956. In The Last Battle, Lewis brings The Chronicles of Narnia to an end. The book deals with the end of time in...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Written WorkThe Silver Chair is part of The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven fantasy novels written by C. S. Lewis. It was the fourth book published and is the sixth book chronologically. It is the first book, and one of two books in the series, in which the Pevensie...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Written WorkThe Magician's Nephew is a fantasy novel for children written by C. S. Lewis. It was the sixth book published in his The Chronicles of Narnia series, but is the first in the internal chronology. Thus it is an early example of a prequel and includes many references to...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Written WorkThe Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis. Written in 1950, it was published in 1952 as the third book of The Chronicles of Narnia. Current editions of the series are numbered using the internal chronological order making Dawn...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Written Work, Adapted WorkPrince Caspian: The Return to Narnia is a novel for children by C. S. Lewis, first published in 1951. It is the second book in the Chronicles of Narnia series, though in the overall chronological sequence it comes fourth. The four Pevensie children, Peter, Susan,...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Written WorkThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis. Written in 1950 and set in approximately 1940, it is the first book of The Chronicles of Narnia and is the best known book of the series. (Although it was written and published first,...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Written WorkThe Horse and His Boy is a novel by C. S. Lewis. It was published in 1954, making it the fifth of seven books published in Lewis' series The Chronicles of Narnia. The books in this series are sometimes ordered chronologically in relation to the events in the books as...
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Work of Fiction, FilmThe Seeker, titled The Dark Is Rising in the United Kingdom and The Seeker: The Dark is Rising in Canada, is a 2007 film adaptation of the second book in the five-book children's fantasy series The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper. The film is directed by David...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Written WorkTaran Wanderer is the fourth book in the Chronicles of Prydain series by Lloyd Alexander. It tells of Taran's search for his lineage through which he encounters many different people who each help to shape Taran as he learns about who he truly is. It is the only book...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Written WorkThe Black Cauldron is the second book in Lloyd Alexander's five-part novel series The Chronicles of Prydain (first published in 1964). The story centers on the adventures of Taran, an Assistant Pig-Keeper in the magical land of Prydain, as he joins in a quest to...
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Film, Work of Fiction, Quotation Source, Quotation Subject, Award-Winning Work, Award-Nominated Work2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. The film deals with thematic elements of human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, and is notable for its...
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Film, Work of Fiction, Award-Winning Work, Adaptation2010 is a science fiction film released in 1984 directed by Peter Hyams. Its full title is given on posters and DVD releases as 2010: The Year We Make Contact, although the subtitle does not appear in the film itself. It is based on the novel 2010: Odyssey Two by...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Written Work2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film version and published after the release of the film. The story is based in part on various short stories by Clarke, most notably "The...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Written Work, Adapted Work2010: Odyssey Two is a best-selling science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, which was released in January 1982. It is the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1983. The novel was turned into a 1984 film, 2010. ...
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Film, Book, Work of Fiction, Written WorkThe Hound of the Baskervilles is a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originally serialized in the Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902 and mainly set on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country. At the time of researching the novel, Conan Doyle was a...
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Fictional UniverseSherlock Holmes lives on for us all in current fiction and in the works of the originating author Arthur Conan Doyle. Almost every genre of fiction writing/films/tv has been graced by a visit from the penultimate deductive detective superstar in the past 100-plus...
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Film, Book, Work of Fiction, Written WorkThe Seven-Per-Cent Solution is the title of a 1974 novel by Nicholas Meyer. It is written as a pastiche of a Sherlock Holmes adventure, and was adapted for the cinema in 1976. The novel's full title is The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Written WorkThe Book of Three is the first of Lloyd Alexander's five-part novel series The Chronicles of Prydain (first published 1964). Inspired by Welsh mythology, it follows the adventures of Taran, a boy in the care of the enchanter Dallben, as he enters manhood while fighting...
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Book, Work of Fiction, Written WorkThe Castle of Llyr is the third volume in the children's fantasy series Chronicles of Prydain. Taran continues his adventures and encounters new friends and old enemies. The book is mostly lighthearted although the final scenes add depth and substance to Taran's...
