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Unicorns II
''Unicorns!'' is a themed anthology of fantasy short works edited by American writers Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, first published in 1982. Their follow-up anthology, ''Unicorns II'', debuted ten years later in 1992. ''Unicorns!'' It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in May 1982, and reprinted by the same publisher in November 1982, June 1984, and October 1984. It was reissued as an ebook by Baen Books in March 2013. The book has also been translated into German. The volume collects sixteen short stories by various science fiction authors, together with a historical essay on the role of unicorns in modern fiction by Avram Davidson. The stories were sourced from pulp magazines, with the exception of "The Unicorn" by T. H. White, which is a well-known chapter from his book, ''Once and Future King'', telling the story of "the hunting and killing of the beast of innocence". It also includes a bibliography of further reading. In his review of the anthology for ''Mythlor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vonda N
Vonda is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Vonda Kay Van Dyke, crowned the 1965 Miss America on September 13, 1964 * Vonda N. McIntyre (1948–2019), American science fiction author *Vonda Phelps, American child stage actress and dancer in the 1920s *Vonda Shepard (born 1963), American pop/rock singer *Vonda Ward Vonda is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Vonda Kay Van Dyke, crowned the 1965 Miss America on September 13, 1964 * Vonda N. McIntyre (1948–2019), American science fiction author * Vonda Phelps, American child stage actres ... (born 1973), American female boxer and NCAA basketball player See also * Vonda, Saskatchewan, located on Highway 27, a half-hour drive north east of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragons!
''Dragons!'' is a themed anthology of fantasy short works edited by American writers Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was first published in trade paperback by Ace Books in August 1993, and as an ebook by Baen Books in July 2013. The book collects ten novelettes and short stories by various authors, together with a general preface by the editors and a bibliography of further reading. Contents *"Preface" (Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann) *"Draco, Draco" (Tanith Lee) *" Two Yards of Dragon" (L. Sprague de Camp) *"Mrs. Byres and the Dragon" (Keith Roberts) *"A Handful of Hatchlings" ( Mark C. Sumner) *"Covenant With a Dragon" (Susan Casper) *"Paper Dragons" (James P. Blaylock) *"Up the Wall" (Esther M. Friesner) *"Lan Lung" ( M. Lucie Chin) *"Climacteric" (Avram Davidson) *"The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule" (Lucius Shepard Lucius Shepard (August 21, 1943 – March 18, 2014) was an American writer. Classified as a science fiction and fantasy writer, he often leaned into other gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magicats II
''Magicats II'' is a themed anthology of fantasy short works edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in December 1991. It was reissued as an ebook by Baen Books in March 2013. The book collects twelve novellas, novelettes and short stories by various authors. Contents *"Kreativity for Kats" (Fritz Leiber) *" Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats" ( Michael Bishop) *"Bright Burning Tiger" (Tanith Lee) *"I Love Little Pussy" (Isaac Asimov) *"The Boy Who Spoke Cat" (Ward Moore) *"The Jaguar Hunter" (Lucius Shepard) *"The Sin of Madame Phloi" (Lilian Jackson Braun) *"The Mountain Cage" (Pamela Sargent) *"May's Lion" (Ursula K. Le Guin) *"The Color of Grass, the Color of Blood" ( R. V. Barnham) *"A Word to the Wise" ( John Collier) *"Duke Pasquale's Ring" (Avram Davidson Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christiani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neal McPheeters
Neal (Neil) is a given masculine name and surname of Gaelic and Irish origin. The name is an Anglicisation of the Irish Niall which is of disputed derivation. The Irish name may be derived from words meaning "cloud", "passionate", "victory", "honour" or "champion". As a surname, Neil is traced back to Niall of the Nine Hostages who was an Irish king and eponymous ancestor of the Uí Néill and MacNeil kindred. Most authorities cite the meaning of Neal in the context of a surname as meaning champion. Surname *Abbie Neal (1918–2004), American country music entertainer *Adam Neal (born 1990), English rugby league player *Alice B. Neal (1828–1863), American writer *Arthur Neal (1903–1982), English footballer *Blaine Neal (born 1978), American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball *Bob Neal (Atlanta sportscaster) (born 1942), American sports broadcaster *Bob Neal (Cleveland sportscaster) (1916–1983), American sports broadcaster * Charles Lincoln Neal (also known as "Link") ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beverly Evans (author)
Beverly Daniel Evans Jr. (May 21, 1865 – May 7, 1922) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Early life Beverly Daniel Evans Jr. was born in Sandersville, Georgia. Evans received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Mercer University in 1881 and an Artium Magister degree from the same institution in 1882. Career Evans was in private practice in Georgia from 1884 to 1894, serving as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1886 to 1887. He was solicitor general of Georgia's Middle Judicial Circuit from 1890 to 1897. He was a judge of the Middle Judicial Circuit of Georgia from 1899 to 1904. He was a justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1904 to 1917. Federal judicial service On August 11, 1917, Evans was nominated by President Woodrow Wilson to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia vacated by Judge William Wallace Lambdin. Evans was confirmed by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman The Unicorn Loved
"The Woman the Unicorn Loved" is a 1981 science fiction short story by Gene Wolfe. It was first published in ''Asimov's Science Fiction''.Publication: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 8, 1981 at the ; retrieved December 2, 2017 Synopsis A is created by and gets loose on a college ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Norden (author)
''The Ultimate Solution'' is a 1973 alternate history novel by journalist and former ''Playboy'' interviewer Eric Norden, set in a world where the Axis forces won World War II and partitioned the world between them. The novel is noted for its particularly grim tone. Norden later wrote the 1977 Adolf Hitler-related science fiction novella '' The Primal Solution''. Plot A New York policeman is charged with finding a Jew who is reported to have suddenly appeared in the city decades after all Jews are thought to have been exterminated. There is a reference to a kind of second Wannsee Conference, held at Buckingham Palace in German-occupied London after the extermination of European Jews had been completed, setting up the extension of the Final Solution to the rest of the world; the last few hundred Jews are mentioned as having been discovered and killed by relentless Einsatzgruppen hunters in 1964, having hidden at the ruins of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. There is a Cold War betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Incorporated Knight
''The Incorporated Knight'' is a fix-up fantasy novel by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp, the first book in their sequence of two Neo-Napolitanian novels. Chapters 1-5 first appeared as L. Sprague de Camp's short stories "Two Yards of Dragon", "The Coronet", "Spider Love" and "Eudoric's Unicorn" in ''Flashing Swords!'', ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'' and ''The Year's Best Fantasy Stories'' in 1976-1977. The complete novel was first published in hardcover by Phantasia Press in August 1987, and in paperback by Baen Books in September 1988, with a trade paperback edition, also from Baen, following in 1991. An E-book edition was published by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form. Plot summary Squire Eudoric Damberson of Zurgau in the kingdom of Locania wishes to wed Lusina, the daughter of his former tutor, the magician Doctor Baldonius. The price is atta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Burnett Swann
Thomas Burnett Swann (October 12, 1928 - May 5, 1976) was an American poet, critic and fantasy author. His criticism includes works on the poetry of H.D. and Christina Rossetti. Poetry Swann's poetry consists largely of short, whimsical pieces evoking a naive innocence. Many of them were later incorporated into his novels and placed in the mouths of his characters - sometimes the same poem is spoken by two or three different characters in novels set centuries and continents apart. Poets also frequently appear as characters in his novels, always on the side of good: Sappho in ''Wolfwinter'' (1972); Robert Herrick in ''Will-o-the-Wisp'' (1977, serialized 1974); a fictionalized Charles Sorley in ''The Goat Without Horns'' (1971); and Thomas Chatterton in ''The Not-World'' (1975). Fiction Swann began writing fiction in 1958 with "Winged Victory", a science fiction story based on the famous headless statue known as the Winged Victory of Samothrace. In Swann's story the statue's he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Owen (author)
Frank Owen (1893–1968) was an American author, novelist and anthologist. He wrote 10 novels in the 1930s under the pseudonym Roswell Williams, a name which is sometimes erroneously listed as his real name. Owen is best known for his oriental fantasy short stories, many of which appeared in the magazine ''Weird Tales ''Weird Tales'' is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in late 1922. The first issue, dated March 1923, appeared on newsstands February 18. The first editor, Edwin Baird, pri ...''. Owen also co-wrote several children's collections with his wife, Ethel Owen. Bibliography Novels and collections * ''Coat Tales from the Pockets of the Happy Giant'' (with Ethel Owen, collection, 1927) * ''The Dream Hills of Happy Country'' (with Ethel Owen, collection, 1928) * ''House Mother'' (1929) * ''Pale Pink Porcelain'' (1929) * ''The Wind that Tramps the World'' (1929) * ''The Purple Sea'' (collectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon (; born Edward Hamilton Waldo, February 26, 1918 – May 8, 1985) was an American fiction author of primarily fantasy, science fiction and horror, as well as a critic. He wrote approximately 400 reviews and more than 120 short stories, 11 novels and several scripts for ''Star Trek: The Original Series''. Sturgeon's science fiction novel ''More Than Human'' (1953) won the 1954 International Fantasy Award (for SF and fantasy) as the year's best novel, and the Science Fiction Writers of America ranked "Baby Is Three" number five among the " Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time" to 1964. Ranked by votes for all of their pre-1965 novellas, Sturgeon was second among authors, behind Robert Heinlein. An overview of his work by science fiction critic Sam Moskowitz can be found in the collective biography ''Seekers of Tomorrow''. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted Sturgeon in 2000, its fifth class of two dead and two living writers. Bio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
