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List Of Dimension X Episodes
'' Dimension X'' was an NBC radio program broadcast on an unsponsored, sustaining basis from April 8, 1950, to September 29, 1951. The first 13 episodes were broadcast live, and the remainder were pre-recorded. Fred Wiehe and Edward King were the directors. Norman Rose Norman Rose (June 23, 1917 – November 12, 2004) was an American actor, film narrator and radio announcer whose velvety baritone was often called "the Voice of God" by colleagues. He was best known as the narrator's voice in the fictitious coffee ... was heard as both announcer and narrator.Widner, James F. and Meade Frierson, III. ''Science Fiction on Radio: A Revised Look at 1950–1975''. AFAB, 1996. See also * List of ''X Minus One'' episodes References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dimension X Episodes, List Of Lists of radio series episodes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fletcher Pratt
Murray Fletcher Pratt (25 April 1897 – 10 June 1956) was an American writer of history, science fiction, and fantasy. He is best known for his works on naval history and the American Civil War and for fiction written with L. Sprague de Camp. Life and work According to de Camp, Pratt was born near Tonawanda, New York. The son of Robert M. and Alice Horton Pratt, he attended public schools in Buffalo and graduated from high school in 1915 at the Griffith Institute in Springville, New York, where his father operated a trucking delivery service between Springville and Buffalo. Following high school he attended Hobart College in Geneva, New York for one year. In February 1916 the Associated Press reported that he had been arrested for burglary in Geneva after a series of midnight cash drawer robberies that allegedly netted him less than $25. He was reported to have told police that his father did not supply him with enough funds to survive at Hobart. On February 23 the ''Buffa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimension X (radio Program) , a location in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
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Dimension X may refer to: *''Dimension X (radio program)'' a US radio drama that ran from 1950 to 1951 *'' Dimension X (video game)'' 1984 Atari 8-bit family game from Synapse Software *Dimension X (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' is an American media franchise created by the comic book artists Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It follows Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael, four anthropomorphic turtle brothers (named after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
There Will Come Soft Rains (short Story)
"There Will Come Soft Rains" is a science fiction short story by author Ray Bradbury written as a chronicle about a lone house that stands intact in a California city that has otherwise been obliterated by a nuclear bomb, and then is destroyed in a fire caused by a windstorm. The title is from a 1918 poem of the same name by Sara Teasdale that was published during World War I and the Spanish flu pandemic. First published in 1950 about future catastrophes in two different versions in two separate publications, a one-page short story in ''Collier's'' magazine and a chapter of the fix-up novel ''The Martian Chronicles'', the author regarded it as "the one story that represents the essence of Ray Bradbury". Bradbury's foresight in recognizing the potential for the complete self-destruction of humans by nuclear war in the work was recognized by the Pulitzer Prize Board in conjunction with awarding a Special Citation in 2007 that noted, "While time has (mostly) quelled the lik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pebble In The Sky
''Pebble in the Sky'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1950. This work is his first novel — parts of the ''Foundation'' series had appeared from 1942 onwards in magazines, but ''Foundation'' was not published in book form until 1951. The original ''Foundation'' books are also a string of linked episodes, whereas this is a complete story involving a single group of characters. Publication history ''Pebble in the Sky'' was originally written in the summer of 1947 under the title "Grow Old with Me" for '' Startling Stories'', whose editor Sam Merwin, Jr. had approached Asimov to write a forty thousand word short novel for the magazine. The title was an adaption of Robert Browning's ''Rabbi ben Ezra'', the first few lines of which (starting "Grow old along with me! / The best is yet to be...") were included in the final novel. It was rejected by ''Startling Stories'' on the basis that the magazine's emphasis was more on adventure than sci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Vincent Benét
Stephen Vincent Benét (; July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, ''John Brown's Body'' (1928), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and for the short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1936) and " By the Waters of Babylon" (1937). In 2009, Library of America selected his story "The King of the Cats" (1929) for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of ''American Fantastic Tales'', edited by Peter Straub. Life and career Early life Benét was born on July 22, 1898 in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania to James Walker Benét, a colonel in the United States Army. His grandfather and namesake led the Army Ordnance Corps from 1874 to 1891 as a brigadier general and served in the Civil War. His paternal uncle Laurence Vincent Benét was an ensign in the United States Navy during the Spani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Carter (writer)
Paul Carter may refer to: Sports * Paul Carter (1910s pitcher) (1894–1984), Major League Baseball pitcher * Paul Carter (1930s pitcher) (1900–?), American Negro leagues baseball player * Paul Carter (squash player) (born 1963), English squash player * Paul Carter (darts player) (born 1974), English darts player * Paul Carter (basketball) (born 1987), American basketball player * Paul Carter (rugby league) (born 1992), Australian rugby league footballer Others * Paul Carter (entrepreneur) (1927–1979), American entrepreneur and businessman in Chattanooga, Tennessee * Paul Carter (academic) (born 1951), British historian, writer, artist and interdisciplinary scholar at the University of Melbourne * Paul Carter (artist) (1970–2006), Scottish artist * Paul D. Carter (born 1980), Australian teacher and author * Paul Carter (songwriter) (born 1988), English songwriter and music producer * Sir Paul Carter (politician), British politician See also * Paul Carter Harrison Paul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Roads Must Roll
"The Roads Must Roll" is a 1940 science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It was selected for ''The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964'' anthology in 1970. The story is set in the near future, when "roadtowns" (wide rapidly moving passenger platforms similar to moving sidewalks, but reaching speeds of 100 mph) have replaced highways and railways as the dominant transportation method in the United States. Heinlein's themes are technological change and social cohesion. The fictional social movement he calls "functionalism" (which is unrelated to the real-life sociology, sociological theory functionalism (sociology), of the same name), advances the idea that one's status and level of material reward in a society must and should depend on the functions one performs for that society. Plot summary In the first section of the narrative, a stormy meeting takes place at a Sacramento Sector Guild Hall of the technicians working "down inside", am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Martian Chronicles
''The Martian Chronicles'' is a science fiction fix-up novel, published in 1950, by American writer Ray Bradbury that chronicles the exploration and settlement of Mars, the home of indigenous Martians, by Americans leaving a troubled Earth that is eventually devastated by nuclear war. Synopsis The book projects American society immediately after World War II into a technologically advanced future where the amplification of humanity's potentials to create and destroy have both miraculous and devastating consequences. Events in the chronicle include the apocalyptic destruction of both Martian and human civilizations, both instigated by humans, though there are no stories with settings at the catastrophes. The outcomes of many stories raise concerns about the values and direction of America of the time by addressing militarism, science, technology, and war time prosperity that could result in a global nuclear war (e.g., " There Will Come Soft Rains" and " The Million-Year Picnic" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Vance
John Holbrook Vance (August 28, 1916 – May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer. Though most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance, he also wrote several mystery novels under pen names. Vance won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1984, and he was a Guest of Honor at the 1992 World Science Fiction Convention in Orlando, Florida. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America made him its 15th SFWA Grand Master, Grand Master in 1997, and the EMP Museum#Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted him in 2001, its sixth class of two deceased and two living writers. His most notable awards included Hugo Awards in 1963 for ''The Dragon Masters'', in 1967 for ''The Last Castle (novella), The Last Castle'', and in 2010 for his memoir ''This Is Me, Jack Vance!''; the Nebula Award in 1966, also for ''The Last Castle''; the Jupiter Award (science fiction award), Jupiter Award in 1975 and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villiers Gerson
Villiers may refer to: Places France * Villiers, Indre, in the Indre ''département'' * Villiers, Vienne, in the Vienne ''département'' * Villiers-Adam, in the Val-d'Oise ''département'' * Villiers-au-Bouin, in the Indre-et-Loire ''département'' * Villiers-aux-Corneilles, in the Marne ''département'' * Villiers-Charlemagne, in the Mayenne ''département'' * Villiers-Couture, in the Charente-Maritime ''département'' * Villiers-en-Bière, in the Seine-et-Marne ''département'' * Villiers-en-Bois, in the Deux-Sèvres ''département'' * Villiers-en-Désœuvre, in the Eure ''département'' * Villiers-en-Lieu, in the Haute-Marne ''département'' * Villiers-en-Morvan, in the Côte-d'Or ''département'' * Villiers-en-Plaine, in the Deux-Sèvres ''département'' * Villiers-Fossard, in the Manche ''département'' * Villiers-Herbisse, in the Aube ''département'' * Villiers-le-Bâcle, in the Essonne ''département'' * Villiers-le-Bel, in the Val-d'Oise ''département'' * Villiers-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mars Is Heaven!
"Mars Is Heaven!" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury, originally published in 1948 in ''Planet Stories''. "Mars Is Heaven!" was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the best science fiction short stories published before the creation of the Nebula Awards. As such, it was published in ''The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929–1964''. It also appears as the sixth chapter of ''The Martian Chronicles'', revised as "The Third Expedition." Plot summary It is 1986 and the third exploratory spaceship from Earth is landing on Mars. The crew is shocked to discover a Rockwellian small town, eerily similar to those they left on Earth. The strangely familiar people in the town believe it is 1926. Crew members soon discover old friends and deceased relatives in the town. Those who had been ordered to stay behind and guard the rocket abandon their posts in order to join the reunions and festivities. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
