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Atlan (novel)
''Atlan'' is a fantasy novel by British writer Jane Gaskell. It was first published in 1965. It is the second book in the ''Atlan'' series set in prehistoric South America and Atlantis. The first book in the series was '' The Serpent'', and ''Atlan'' is followed by two more books, '' The City'' and ''Some Summer Lands''. Plot summary ''Atlan'' is told from the first person point of view of the main character, Cija. Following the events of '' The Serpent'', Cija has married Zerd, a half-human, half- reptilian warlord. Zerd's army has conquered the hidden continent of Atlan (a clear reference to Atlantis Atlantis ( grc, Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, , island of Atlas (mythology), Atlas) is a fictional island mentioned in an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works ''Timaeus (dialogue), Timaeus'' and ''Critias (dialogue), Critias'' ...) and Zerd now rules as its Emperor with Cija by his side. Zerd has not given up his philandering ways and the couple become estran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Gaskell
Jane Gaskell (born July 7, 1941 in Lancaster, EnglandSharon Yntema, ''More Than 100: Women Science Fiction Writers''. Crossing Press, 1988. (pp. 51-52).) is a British fantasy writer. She wrote her first novel, ''Strange Evil'', at age 14. It was published two years later and was described by John Grant as "a major work of the fantastic imagination", comparing it to George MacDonald's ''Lilith'' and David Lindsay's ''A Voyage to Arcturus''.John Grant, "Gaskell, Jane" in ''St. James Guide To Fantasy Writers'', ed. David Pringle, London, St. James Press, 1996, , (p. 224-6). China Miéville lists ''Strange Evil'' as one of the top 10 examples of weird fiction whilst John Clute called it "an astonishingly imaginative piece of fantasy by any standards.""Gaskell, Jane", ''The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, John Clute & John Grant, ed., p.190 Gaskell's horror novel ''The Shiny Narrow Grin'' (1964) featured a sympathetic, tormented vampire and was described by Brian Stableford as one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy Novel
Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Magic, the supernatural and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds. Fantasy literature may be directed at both children and adults. Fantasy is a subgenre of speculative fiction and is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the absence of scientific or macabre themes, respectively, though these genres overlap. Historically, most works of fantasy were written, however, since the 1960s, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic novels, video games, music and art. Many fantasy novels originally written for children and adolescents also attract an adult audience. Examples include ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', the '' Harry Potter'' series, '' The Chronicles of Narnia'', and ''The Hobbit''. History Beginnings Stories invo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sword & Sorcery
Sword and sorcery (S&S) is a subgenre of fantasy characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures. Elements of romance, magic, and the supernatural are also often present. Unlike works of high fantasy, the tales, though dramatic, focus on personal battles rather than world-endangering matters. Sword and sorcery commonly overlaps with heroic fantasy. Origin American author Fritz Leiber coined the term "sword and sorcery" in 1961 in response to a letter from British author Michael Moorcock in the fanzine ''Amra'', demanding a name for the sort of fantasy-adventure story written by Robert E. Howard. Moorcock had initially proposed the term "epic fantasy". Leiber replied in the journal ''Ancalagon'' (6 April 1961), suggesting "sword-and-sorcery as a good popular catchphrase for the field". He expanded on this in the July 1961 issue of ''Amra'', commenting: Since its inception, many attempts have been made to provide a precise definition of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hodder And Stoughton
Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette. History Early history The firm has its origins in the 1840s, with Matthew Hodder's employment, aged 14, with Messrs Jackson and Walford, the official publisher for the Congregational Union. In 1861 the firm became Jackson, Walford and Hodder; but in 1868 Jackson and Walford retired, and Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton joined the firm, creating Hodder & Stoughton. Hodder & Stoughton published both religious and secular works, and its religious list contained some progressive titles. These included George Adam Smith's ''Isaiah'' for its ''Expositor’s Bible'' series, which was one of the earliest texts to identify multiple authorship in the Book of Isaiah. There was also a sympathetic ''Life of St Francis'' by Paul Sabatier, a French Protestant pastor. Matthew Hodder made frequent visits to North America, meeting with the Moody Press and making links with Scribners and Fleming H. Revell. The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Serpent (novel)
''The Serpent'' is a novel by British writer Jane Gaskell. It was first published in 1963. It is the first part of the ''Atlan'' series, a set of four (or five) fantasy novels set in prehistoric times. The following novels are '' Atlan, The City'' and '' Some Summer Lands''. The stories are set in Atlantis and South America. ''The Serpent'' was also published split into two books, titled ''The Serpent'' and ''The Dragon'', hence the confusion over the numbering of the volumes. Plot summary The protagonist of the novel is Cija (pronounced 'kee-yah'), the illegitimate child of the Dictatress of a small kingdom and a priest of high rank. The story itself is written from her point of view. She was kept in a tower and looked after by servants until she turned 17; until that time she had not met any men and believed that men were extinct and women ruled the world. She was also raised to believe she was a goddess, related to the gods of her country, to whom she refers to as her "cousin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The City (1966 Novel)
The City may refer to: Places *"The City", a term for a city centre *"The City", a term used for New York City *"The City", a term for Manhattan, New York City *"The City", a term for the City of Chicago, particularly as distinct from the various suburban municipalities and communities surrounding it, making-up the rest of the "Chicagoland" metropolitan region and outlying hinterlands *"The City", a term for Boston, Massachusetts *"The City", a term for the City of London, the historic core of London, England; also used to refer to the British financial services sector *"The City", a term for San Francisco, California *The City, Buckinghamshire, England * The City Shopping Center, a former name of The Outlets at Orange in Orange, California Fictional cities * The City (''The Tick''), the fictional setting of ''The Tick'' comic books and TV series * The City (''Transmetropolitan''), a fictional megacity in the Vertigo comic '' Transmetropolitan'' * "The City", the setting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1965 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1965. Events *February 10 – Soviet fiction writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to five and seven years, respectively, for "anti-Soviet" writings. *February 20 – While Soviet author and translator Valery Tarsis is abroad, the Soviet Union negates his citizenship. *March 26 – Harold Pinter's play ''The Homecoming'' receives its world première at the New Theatre, Cardiff, from the Royal Shakespeare Company under Peter Hall. Its London première follows on June 3 at the Aldwych Theatre, with Vivien Merchant, Pinter's wife at this time, appearing. It also appears in print this year. *May 26 – The world première of '' A High Wind in Jamaica'', a film from Richard Hughes's 1929 novel, featuring the future novelist Martin Amis, son of Kingsley Amis, as a teenage actor. *June 11 – International Poetry Incarnation, a performance poetry event, takes place at London's Royal Alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southern subregion of a single continent called America. South America is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest. The continent generally includes twelve sovereign states: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela; two dependent territories: the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; and one internal territory: French Guiana. In addition, the ABC islands of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Ascension Island (dependency of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, a British Overseas Territory), Bouvet Island ( dependency of Norway), Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantis
Atlantis ( grc, Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, , island of Atlas (mythology), Atlas) is a fictional island mentioned in an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works ''Timaeus (dialogue), Timaeus'' and ''Critias (dialogue), Critias'', wherein it represents the antagonist naval power that besieges "Ancient Athens", the Counterfactual history, pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state in ''The Republic (Plato), The Republic''. In the story, Athens repels the Atlantean attack unlike any other nation of the Ecumene, known world, supposedly bearing witness to the superiority of Plato's concept of a state. The story concludes with Atlantis falling out of favor with the deities and submerging into the Atlantic Ocean. Despite its minor importance in Plato's work, the Atlantis story has had a considerable impact on literature. The allegorical aspect of Atlantis was taken up in utopian works of several Renaissance writers, such as Francis Bacon's ''New Atlantis'' and Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Reptilian Humanoids
Reptilian humanoids are fictional organisms of varied species in folklore, science fiction, fantasy, and conspiracy theories. Mythology * Boreas ( Aquilon to the Romans): the Greek god of the cold north wind, described by Pausanias as a winged man, sometimes with serpents instead of feet. * Cecrops I: the mythical first King of Athens was half man, half snake * Dragon Kings: creatures from Chinese mythology sometimes depicted as reptilian humanoids * Some djinn in Islamic mythology are described as alternating between human and serpentine forms. * Echidna, the wife of Typhon in Greek mythology, was half woman, half snake. * Fu Xi: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology * Glycon: a snake god who had the head of a man. * The Gorgons: Sisters in Greek mythology who had serpents for hair. * The Lamia: a child-devouring female demon from Greek mythology depicted as half woman, half serpent. * Nāga (Devanagari: नाग): reptilian beings (king cobras) from Hindu mytholog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1965 American Novels
Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson, sworn in for a full term as President of the United States. ** Indonesian President Sukarno announces the withdrawal of the Indonesian government from the United Nations. * January 30 – The Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill, state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place in London with the largest assembly of dignitaries in the world until the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II. * February 4 – Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoism, Lysenkoist theories are now treated as pseudoscience. * February 12 ** The African and Malagasy Republic, Malagasy Common Organization ('; OCA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1965 Fantasy Novels
Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson, sworn in for a full term as President of the United States. ** Indonesian President Sukarno announces the withdrawal of the Indonesian government from the United Nations. * January 30 – The Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill, state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place in London with the largest assembly of dignitaries in the world until the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II. * February 4 – Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoism, Lysenkoist theories are now treated as pseudoscience. * February 12 ** The African and Malagasy Republic, Malagasy Common Organization ('; OCA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
