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The Adversary Cycle
The Adversary Cycle is a series of seven novels written by American author F. Paul Wilson. While it was originally known as "The Nightworld Cycle" (this name is even printed in the front of some early editions of ''Nightworld''), John Clute, in his section on F. Paul Wilson's work in ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'', kept referring to "the Adversary." The author liked that better and so renamed the cycle. Novels The seven novels that comprise The Adversary Cycle are (in chronological order): *'' The Keep'', July 1981, *''The Tomb'', November 1984, *''The Touch'', April 1986, *''Reborn'', May 1990, *''Reprisal'', August 1991, *'' Nightworld'', May 1992, *''Signalz'', July 2020, ISBN 978-1-951510-43-5 However, the book series does not fall into a strict chronological order, with alternative orderings suggested. For example, Wilson's websiteWilson, F.P. (2015). The Adversary Cycle. RepairmanJack.com (F. Paul Wilson's official site). Available at: http://repairmanjack.c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Clute
John Frederick Clute (born 12 September 1940) is a Canadian-born author and critic specializing in science fiction and fantasy literature who has lived in both England and the United States since 1969. He has been described as "an integral part of science fiction's history"Davis, MattheJohn Clute: Yakfests of the Empyrean, ''Strange Horizons,'' 18 September 2006. and "perhaps the foremost reader-critic of sf in our time, and one of the best the genre has ever known." He was one of eight people who founded the English magazine '' Interzone'' in 1982 (the others included Malcolm Edwards, Colin Greenland, Roz Kaveney, and David Pringle). Clute's articles on speculative fiction have appeared in various publications since the 1960s. He is a co-editor of ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' (with Peter Nicholls) and of ''The Encyclopedia of Fantasy'' (with John Grant), as well as the author of ''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Science Fiction,'' all of which won Hugo Awards for Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction
''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' (SFE) is an English language reference work on 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 unive ..., first published in 1979. It has won the Hugo Award, Hugo, Locus Award, Locus and BSFA Award, British SF Awards. Two print editions appeared in 1979 and 1993. A third, continuously revised, edition was published online from 2011; a change of web host was announced as the launch of a fourth edition in 2021. History The first edition, edited by Peter Nicholls (writer), Peter Nicholls with John Clute, was published by Granada plc, Granada in 1979. It was retitled ''The Science Fiction Encyclopedia'' when published by Doubleday (publisher), Doubleday in the United States. Accompanying its text were numerous black and white photo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Keep (F
A keep is fortified tower in a castle. Keep, KEEP, or The Keep may also refer to: Literature * The Keep, a fictional location on Arrakis in the 1965 ''Dune'' series * ''The Keep'' (Wilson novel), a 1981 novel by F. Paul Wilson ** ''The Keep'' (comics), a 2006 limited series based on the Wilson novel * ''The Keep'' (Egan novel), a 2006 novel by Jennifer Egan Music * ''The Keep'' (Happy Rhodes album) (1995) * ''The Keep'' (Tangerine Dream album), a 1997 soundtrack album Places * The Keep, Brighton, opened 2013, an archive and historical resource centre in East Sussex, England * The Keep, Dorchester, (c. 1880), a museum and former barracks in Dorset, England Software * Google Keep, a 2013 note-taking software program * Keep (app), a 2015 Chinese mobile fitness app Other uses * Keep (surname), including a list of people with the name *KEEP, a radio station in Texas, U.S. * ''The Keep'' (film), a 1983 horror film based on the Wilson novel * ''The Keep'' (Mayfair Games), a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reborn (novel)
''Reborn'' is the fourth volume in a series of six novels known as The Adversary Cycle written by American author F. Paul Wilson Francis Paul Wilson (born May 17, 1946, in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American medical doctor and author of horror, adventure, medical thrillers, science fiction, and other genres of literary fiction. His books include the Repairman Jack n .... It was first published in March 1990 by Dark Harvest. In 2009, a revised edition was published. Plot summary Almost immediately after being slain by Glaeken (Trismaegistus) in a castle keep in Romania in the Spring of 1941, Rasalom has opportunistically entered the body of a clone that grows within a woman hired by the scientist in charge of a project seeking to create a genetically enhanced super-soldier for the U.S. Army. The story actually begins in 1968 when Jim Stevens, an apparently normal man, finds that he is heir to the fortune of a recently deceased brilliant scientist by the name of Doctor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightworld (novel)
''Nightworld'' is the seventh and final volume in a series of novels known as ''The Adversary Cycle'' written by American author F. Paul Wilson. First published in 1992 by New English Library in England (May) and Dark Harvest in US (August). ''Nightworld'' completes ''The Adversary Cycle'', which consists of seven books: '' The Keep'', '' The Tomb'', '' The Touch'', ''Reborn'', ''Reprisal'', '' Signalz'', and ''Nightworld''. ''Nightworld'' was heavily revised for its reprinting in 2012 to include the events that happened in the subsequently written novels in the ''Repairman Jack'' series, set in the same shared fictional universe. Plot Rasalom returns in reincarnated form to transform the Earth into unrelenting hell. Rasalom is shortening the daylight hours and letting loose a plague of ever-more-fearsome flesh-eating monsters that prey on the world's populace during the ever-lengthening nights. Whole communities turn on one another; riots break out over food; gangs wage war on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Repairman Jack
Repairman Jack is a character in a series of novels by F. Paul Wilson. Jack initially was just one protagonist in a string of related novels, but then gained his own series known as The Repairman Jack series. This series of novels uses realistic, thriller-like situations to tell a story with a broad supernatural theme. It is technically a spin-off branch of the aforementioned larger, overarching supernatural horror series, The Adversary Cycle. Introduction Repairman Jack is a self-titled "fix-it" man, but not in the common workshop sense. He is something of an underground mercenary, hired by everyday people to fix situations that cannot be dealt with through legal means (e.g. by blackmail). He is careful about who he agrees to do fix-its for, preferring innocent, desperate citizens being victimized with no one else to turn to. Jack adamantly refuses to take murder for hire jobs and almost never becomes involved in cases involving domestic issues between couples, kidnappings or mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Series Introduced In 1981
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horror Novel Series
Horror may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Genres * Horror fiction, a genre of fiction **Japanese horror, Japanese horror fiction ** Korean horror, Korean horror fiction *Horror film, a film genre * Horror comics, comic books focusing on horror * Horror punk, a music genre * Horrorcore, a subgenre of hip hop music based on horror * Horror game, a video game genre ** Survival horror, a video game subgenre of horror and action-adventure * Horror podcast, a podcast genre Films * ''Horror'' (2002 film), an American film by Dante Tomaselli * ''#Horror'', a 2015 American film by Tara Subkoff *''Horror'', Italian title for the 1963 Italian-Spanish film '' The Blancheville Monster'' Fictional characters * Horror (''Garo''), fictional monsters in the Tokusatsu series ''Garo'' * Horror icon, a significant person or fictional character in a horror genre Music Groups and labels * Ho99o9 (pronounced Horror), an American hip hop group * The Horrors, an English rock band Albums an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
