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Jizzle (book)
''Jizzle'' () is a collection of science-fiction short stories by John Wyndham, published in 1954. The collection contains: Stories *"Jizzle" *"Technical Slip" *"A Present from Brunswick" *"Chinese Puzzle" *"Esmeralda" *"How Do I Do?" *"Una" *"Affair of the Heart" *"Confidence Trick" *"The Wheel" *"Look Natural, Please!" *"Perforce to Dream" *"Reservation Deferred" *"Heaven Scent" *"More Spinned Against" Plot summaries ;Jizzle: the title story Jizzle refers to a monkey purchased by a man working in a circus side-show. The monkey, apparently named Jizzle as a mis-pronunciation of ''Giselle'', has the ability to draw portraits of anyone placed in front of her, and her new owner exploits this talent in the circus. Jealousy builds up between the monkey and the man's wife, culminating when the man finds a picture Jizzle has drawn of his wife apparently sleeping with his friend. After his wife leaves, as a result of the picture, the man begins to tire of Jizzle and mistreats her, eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jizzle
Jizzle may refer to: * Jizzle (artist) Jerreh Jallow (born 14 August 1994), proffesionaly known as Jizzle) is a Gambian Afro-pop artist. He won the artist of the year award at the Whasahalat Music Awards in 2018. He has also been nominated for the All Africa Music Awards Best artist ..., Gambian Afropop singer * ''Jizzle'' (book), by John Wyndham (1954) * "Jizzle" (song), by Jeezy featuring Lil Jon (2010) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wyndham
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (; 10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969) was an English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Some of his works were set in post-apocalyptic landscapes. His best known works include ''The Day of the Triffids'' (1951), filmed in 1962, and ''The Midwich Cuckoos'' (1957), which was filmed in 1960 as '' Village of the Damned'', in 1995 under the same title, and again in 2022 in Sky Max under its original title. Wyndham was born in Warwickshire and spent most of his childhood in private education in Devon and Hampshire. He tried several careers before publishing a novel and several short stories. He saw action during World War II and went back to writing afterwards, publishing several very successful novels, and influencing a number of other writers who followed him. On the plausibility of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' is an American television anthology series created, hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, aired on CBS and NBC between 1955 and 1965. It features dramas, thrillers and mysteries. Between 1962 and 1965 it was renamed ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour''. Hitchcock himself directed only 18 episodes during its run. By the time the show premiered on October 2, 1955, Hitchcock had been directing films for over three decades. ''Time'' magazine named ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' as one of "The 100 Best TV Shows of All Time". The Writers Guild of America ranked it #79 on their list of the 101 Best-Written TV Series, tying it with '' Monty Python's Flying Circus'', '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' and '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. In 2021, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked it 18th on its list of 30 Best Horror TV Shows of All Time. A series of literary anthologies with the running title ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' were issued to capitalize on the success of the telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' Episodes
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pied Piper Of Hamelin
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (german: der Rattenfänger von Hameln, also known as the Pan Piper or the Rat-Catcher of Hamelin) is the title character of a legend from the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Lower Saxony, Germany. The legend dates back to the Middle Ages, the earliest references describing a piper, dressed in multicolored ("pied") clothing, who was a rat catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe. When the citizens refuse to pay for this service as promised, he retaliates by using his instrument's magical power on their children, leading them away as he had the rats. This version of the story spread as folklore and has appeared in the writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Brothers Grimm, and Robert Browning, among others. The phrase "pied piper" has become a metaphor for a person who attracts a following through charisma or false promises. There are many contradictory theories about the Pied Piper. Some suggest he was a symbol of hope to the peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argosy (magazine)
''Argosy'', later titled ''The Argosy'', ''Argosy All-Story Weekly'' and ''The New Golden Argosy'', was an American pulp magazine from 1882 through 1978, published by Frank Munsey until its sale to Popular Publications in 1942. It is the first American pulp magazine. The magazine began as a children's weekly story–paper entitled ''The Golden Argosy''. In the era before the Second World War, ''Argosy'' was regarded as one of the "Big Four" pulp magazines (along with ''Blue Book'', ''Adventure'' and ''Short Stories''), the most prestigious publications in the pulp market, that many pulp magazine writers aspired to publish in.Lee Server, ''Danger Is My Business: an illustrated history of the Fabulous Pulp Magazines''. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. (1993) (pp. 22-6, 50) John Clute, discussing the American pulp magazines in the first two decades of the twentieth century, has described ''The Argosy'' and its companion ''The All-Story'' as "the most important pulps of their er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Best Of John Wyndham
''The Best of John Wyndham'' is a paperback collection of science fiction short stories by John Wyndham, published after his death by Sphere Books, first in 1973. Michael Joseph Limited has published the book as a hardcover under the title ''The Man from Beyond and Other Stories'' in 1975. For the 1977 Sphere paperback edition it was split into two parts, both containing the full bibliography and the introduction by Leslie Flood. Contents *''The Best of John Wyndham 1932-1949'' () ** "The Lost Machine" (1932) ** "The Man from Beyond" (1934) **"The Perfect Creature" (1937) **"The Trojan Beam" (1939) **"Vengeance by Proxy" (1940) **"Adaptation (1949) *''The Best of John Wyndham 1951-1960'' () **"Pawley's Peepholes" (1951) **"The Red Stuff" (1951) **"And the Walls Came Tumbling Down" (1951) **"Dumb Martian" (1952) **"Close Behind Him" (1952) **"The Emptiness of Space" (1960) Plots * "The Lost Machine" is the posthumous history of an artificial intelligence's experiences on the barb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arachne
Arachne (; from , cognate with Latin ) is the protagonist of a tale in Greek mythology known primarily from the version told by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE–17 CE), which is the earliest extant source for the story. In Book Six of his epic poem ''Metamorphoses'', Ovid recounts how the talented mortal Arachne, daughter of Idmon, challenged Athena, goddess of wisdom and crafts, to a weaving contest. When Athena could find no flaws in the tapestry Arachne had woven for the contest, the goddess became enraged and beat the girl with her shuttle. After Arachne hanged herself out of shame, she was transformed into a spider. The myth both provides an aetiology of spiders' web-spinning abilities and is a cautionary tale warning mortals not to place themselves on an equal level with the gods. Biography According to the myth as recounted by Ovid, Arachne was a Lydian maiden who was the daughter of Idmon of Colophon, who was a famous dyer in purple. She was credited to have in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tales Of Gooseflesh And Laughter
''Tales of Gooseflesh and Laughter'' is a collection of science fiction short stories by British writer John Wyndham, published in 1956 by Ballantine Books. Contents The collection contains: * "Chinese Puzzle" * "Una" * "The Wheel" * "Jizzle" * "Heaven Scent" * "Compassion Circuit" * "More Spinned Against" * "A Present from Brunswick" * "Confidence Trick" * "Opposite Numbers" * "Wild Flower" "Opposite Numbers", "Wild Flower" and "Compassion Circuit" also appear in ''The Seeds of Time'', the rest of the material is also contained in ''Jizzle (book), Jizzle''. 1956 short story collections Short story collections by John Wyndham Ballantine Books books {{Sf-book-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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