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Weyland (other)
Weyland or Weylandt may refer to: In mythology * Weyland or Wayland the Smith, a legendary smith in Germanic and Norse mythology ** Völundarkviða, the ''Lay of Weyland'', a Norse epic poem about the smith People * Bernadette Weyland, German politician * Thomas Weyland (1230–1298), British justice * Jacob Weyland (fl. 1705), Dutch explorer of the New Guinea coast who discovered Geelvink Bay * Richard Weyland (1780–1864), British politician * Joseph Weyland (1826–1894), German bishop * Paul Weyland (1888–1972), German anti-Semitic conman and agitator who organized an anti-Einstein campaign * Hermann Weyland (1888–1974), German botanist and chemist * Otto P. Weyland (1903–1979), American Air Force General * Marcel Weyland (born 1927), Polish-Australian translator * Jack Weyland (born 1940), American physicist and author * Joseph Weyland (born 1943), Luxembourgian diplomat * Wouter Weylandt (1984–2011), Belgian cyclist who died in the Giro d'Italia Ficti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayland The Smith
In Germanic mythology, Wayland the Smith ( ang, Wēland; , ; Old Frisian: Wela(n)du; german: Wieland der Schmied; goh, Wiolant; ''Galans'' (''Galant'') in Old French; gem-x-proto, Wēlandaz, italic=no from ', lit. "crafting one") is a master blacksmith originating in Germanic heroic legend, described by Jessie Weston as "the weird and malicious craftsman, Weyland".Weston, J. (1929). 'Legendary Cycles of the Middle Age', in Tanner, J.R. (ed.), ''The Cambridge Medieval History'' Vol. VI, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, p. 841f. Wayland's story is most clearly told in the Old Norse sources ''Völundarkviða'' (a poem in the ''Poetic Edda'') and ''Þiðreks saga''. In them, Wayland is a smith who is enslaved by a king. Wayland takes revenge by killing the king's sons and then escapes by crafting a winged cloak and flying away. A number of other visual and textual sources clearly allude to similar stories, most prominently the Old English poem ''Deor'' and the Franks C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prometheus (2012 Film)
''Prometheus'' ( ) is a 2012 science fiction horror film co-produced and directed by Ridley Scott, written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof and starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, and Charlize Theron. It is set in the late 21st century and centers on the crew of the spaceship ''Prometheus'' as it follows a star map discovered among the artifacts of several ancient Earth cultures. Seeking the origins of humanity, the crew arrives on a distant world and discovers a threat that could cause the extinction of the human species. Development of the film began in the early 2000s as a fifth installment in the ''Alien'' franchise. Scott and director James Cameron developed ideas for a film that would serve as a prequel to Scott's 1979 science-fiction horror film ''Alien''. In 2002, the development of ''Alien vs. Predator'' took precedence, and the project remained dormant until 2009 when Scott again showed interest. Spaihts wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weyland Ringtail Possum
The Weyland ringtail possum (''Pseudochirulus caroli'') is a species of marsupial in the family Pseudocheiridae. It is endemic to the western Central Cordillera of Papua Province, Indonesia. ''P. caroli'' is also "known from four localities west of the Star Mountains" and tends to live in montane forest or other hilly areas. Currently the Weyland ringtail is not endangered, but should be "monitored ecauseit could rapidly become threatened if either human encroachment Encroachment is to advance beyond proper limits, and may refer to: * Temporal encroachment * Structural encroachment * Encroachment (gridiron football), a penalty in American and Canadian football *Encroachment by human populations on natural sp ... or hunting were to increase significantly." References Possums Mammals of Western New Guinea Mammals described in 1921 Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Marsupials of New Guinea {{Diprotodont-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weyland Mountains
Weyland or Weylandt may refer to: In mythology * Weyland or Wayland the Smith, a legendary smith in Germanic and Norse mythology ** Völundarkviða, the ''Lay of Weyland'', a Norse epic poem about the smith People * Bernadette Weyland, German politician * Thomas Weyland (1230–1298), British justice * Jacob Weyland (fl. 1705), Dutch explorer of the New Guinea coast who discovered Geelvink Bay * Richard Weyland (1780–1864), British politician * Joseph Weyland (1826–1894), German bishop * Paul Weyland (1888–1972), German anti-Semitic conman and agitator who organized an anti-Einstein campaign * Hermann Weyland (1888–1974), German botanist and chemist * Otto P. Weyland (1903–1979), American Air Force General * Marcel Weyland (born 1927), Polish-Australian translator * Jack Weyland (born 1940), American physicist and author * Joseph Weyland (born 1943), Luxembourgian diplomat * Wouter Weylandt (1984–2011), Belgian cyclist who died in the Giro d'Italia Fiction * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Point Weyland
Point Weyland is a headland located on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia about west south-west of the town of Venus Bay and about north north-west of the town of Elliston. The point which is located within Anxious Bay is the southern extremity of the opening to Venus Bay. The point is described by one source as being "a conspicuous cliffy point, high, stands close SuthW stof the entrance of Venus Bay" and "rises to a height of , close Nrthand slopes inland toward Venus Bay". It was named by Matthew Flinders on 10 February 1802. The point has been within the boundary of the Venus Bay Conservation Park Venus Bay Conservation Park is a protected area located on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia immediately west of the town of Venus Bay. It consists of land on the Weyland Peninsula on the south side of Venus Bay, land on the n ... since 1977 while the waters adjoining its shoreline have been within a habitat protection zone in the West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Barnes
Steven Barnes (born March 1, 1952) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer. He has written novels, short fiction, screen plays for television, scripts for comic books, animation, newspaper copy, and magazine articles. Career Barnes wrote several episodes of ''The Outer Limits'' and ''Baywatch''. His " A Stitch In Time" episode of The Outer Limits won an Emmy Award. He also wrote the episode "Brief Candle" for ''Stargate SG-1'' and the '' Andromeda'' episode "The Sum of Its Parts". Barnes's first published piece of fiction, the 1979 novelette "The Locusts", was written with Larry Niven, and was a Hugo Award nominee.Award nominees [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Eugene Pournelle (; August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, a science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he worked in the aerospace industry, but eventually focused on his writing career. In an obituary in ''Gizmodo'', he is described as "a tireless ambassador for the future." Pournelle's hard science fiction writing received multiple awards. In addition to his solo writing, he wrote several novels with collaborators including Larry Niven. Pournelle served a term as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Pournelle's journalism focused primarily on the computer industry, astronomy, and space exploration. From the 1970s until the early 1990s, he contributed to the computer magazine ''Byte'', writing from the viewpoint of an intelligent user, with the oft-cited credo, "We do this stuff so you won't ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven (; born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer. His best-known works are ''Ringworld'' (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards, and, with Jerry Pournelle, ''The Mote in God's Eye'' (1974) and ''Lucifer's Hammer'' (1977). The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named him the 2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes the series ''The Magic Goes Away'', rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource. Biography Niven was born in Los Angeles. He is a great-grandson of Edward L. Doheny, an oil tycoon who drilled the first successful well in the Los Angeles City Oil Field in 1892, and also was subsequently implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal. Niven briefly attended the Califor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beowulf's Children
''Beowulf's Children'' is a science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, first published in 1995. It is a sequel to ''The Legacy of Heorot''. The book was published in the United Kingdom as ''The Dragons of Heorot'' in 1995. The novel concerns the actions and fate of the second generation of colonists on the planet Avalon. Plot summary As the story opens the second generation of Avalon's colonists are coming of age, and the potential for teenage rebellion has never been so strong. The original colonists (the "Earth-born"), although selected for optimal physical and mental attributes, suffered varying levels of brain damage due to the unforeseen effects of long periods of chemically and temperature-induced hibernation necessary to survive the long journey to Avalon. Their children (the "star-born") have no such disability; instead, they are geniuses with feeble-minded parents. The Grendel Wars (in which the Earth-Born's short-sighted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Legacy Of Heorot
''The Legacy of Heorot'' is a science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes, first published in 1987. Reproduction and fertility expert Dr Jack Cohen acted as a consultant on the book, designing the novel life cycle of the alien antagonists, the grendels. This is the first book in the Heorot series. It concerns the establishment of the first human colony on Avalon, the fourth planet of Tau Ceti. Plot summary Two hundred colonists arrive on Avalon, having made the 100-year journey from Earth in suspended animation on the starship ''Geographic''. The colonists, selected for their outstanding physical and mental acuity, make a terrible discovery: the suspended animation has damaged their intellect and reasoning skills. Some are only mildly afflicted, while others have serious intellectual disabilities; eight cannot be reanimated at all. The colonists build a settlement on an isolated island, and begin growing crops and stocking the nea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netrunner
''Netrunner'' is an out-of-print collectible card game (CCG) designed by Richard Garfield, the creator of '' Magic: The Gathering''. It was published by Wizards of the Coast and introduced in April 1996. The game took place in the setting for the '' Cyberpunk 2020'' role-playing game (RPG), but it also drew from the broader cyberpunk genre. In 2012, Fantasy Flight Games released '' Android: Netrunner'', a new card game based on ''Netrunner'', under license from Wizards of the Coast. The new game uses Fantasy Flight Games' Living Card Game release format (as used in their '' Warhammer: Invasion'', '' A Game of Thrones'', '' Call of Cthulhu'', and '' Lord of the Rings'' games), and shares the cyberpunk setting of their Android board game. Gameplay ''Netrunner'' depicts cyberspace combat between a global mega-corporation (the Corp) and a hacker (the Runner). The Corp aims to complete its secret agendas before the Runner can hack in and steal data. It isn't easy, though, as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Is Rising Sequence
''The Dark Is Rising Sequence'' is a series of five contemporary fantasy novels for older children and young adults that were written by the British author Susan Cooper and published from 1965 to 1977. The first book in the series, ''Over Sea, Under Stone'', was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, '' The Dark Is Rising''. ''The Dark Is Rising Sequence'' is used as an over-arching title in several omnibus, boxed-set, and coordinated editions; but the title of ''The Dark is Rising'' is also used for the whole series. The books depict a struggle between forces of good and evil called "The Light" and "The Dark", and draw upon Arthurian legends, Celtic mythology, Norse mythology and English folklore. Both magical and ordinary children are prominent throughout the series. It was inaugurated in 1965 with the U.K. publication by Jonathan Cape of ''Over Sea, Under Stone''. The sequels were published 1973 to 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
