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The probable earliest example of something like space rock is a song written in the 1940s by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger for a BBC radio show called You're Only Young Once. The song is called Space Girl and parodies most of the major themes of 1940s science fiction. (A version was recorded on "The World of Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger" volume 2: Songs from the radio ballads in 1971 on Argo Records label). A much shorter version of the same so ...

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Space rock, Space rock - Oddity: Odd ditty, Space rock - Early space rock, Space rock - Examples of space rock

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The blade has an edge capable of cutting through virtually anything, but its most distinctive feature is that it is sentient (if not sapient), with a mind and will of its own, and feeds on souls of those it kills. Elric loathes the sword, but is almost helpless without the strength and vitality it confers him. Stormbringer’s hunger for souls is such that it frequently betrays Elric, turning in his hands and killing friends and lovers, adding to Elric’s guilt and self-loathing even as he ...

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The term "steampunk" was originally a tongue in cheek variant of "cyberpunk". The prototypical "steampunk" stories were essentially cyberpunk tales that were set in the past, using steam-era technology rather than the ubiquitous cybernetics of cyberpunk but maintaining those stories' "punkish" attitudes towards authority figures and human nature. Originally, like cyberpunk, steampunk was typically dystopian, often with noir and pulp fiction themes, as it was a variant of cyberpunk. As the genre developed, it came to adopt more of the broadly appealing utopian sensibiliti ...

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Steampunk, Steampunk - Origin, Steampunk - Early steampunk, Steampunk - Types of steampunk, Steampunk - Historical steampunk, Steampunk - Fantasy steampunk, Steampunk - Other forms, Steampunk - Steampunk as a subculture, Steampunk - Bibliography, Steampunk - Modern steampunk, Steampunk - Quasi-Victorian science fiction, Steampunk - Classic SF novels inspirations for steampunk, Steampunk - Comics / graphic novels, Steampunk - Steampunk role-playing game material, Steampunk - In media, Steampunk - In films, Steampunk - In television, Steampunk - In video games, Steampunk - In music

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The publication of pulp science fiction magazines starting in 1926 (and becoming especially prolific in the 1930s) created a new market for planetary romances, and had a strong effect on later incarnations of the genre. Some pulps, such as Planet Stories and Startling Stories, were primarily dedicated to publishing planetary romances, while existing fantasy pulps like Weird Tales began to publish science fiction romances next to their usual horror and sword and sorcery fare. One of the most outstanding writers in this vein was C. L. Moore, t ...

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Planetary romance, Planetary romance - Prototypes and Characteristics, Planetary romance - Edgar Rice Burroughs and Sword and Planet stories, Planetary romance - Planetary Romance and Science Fiction

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The hill from which Notting Hill takes its name is probably the hill up and down which Ladbroke Grove passes, which has its summit near the point where St John's Church now stands. Alternatively, some writers suggest that Notting Hill can refer to nearby Campden Hill, but the local place name and map evidence is against this. The name is very old, and is usually said to derive from the Saxon personal name Cnotta, as in Cnotta's Hill. In early times, the area was entirely rural, and it fell within the northern part of the parish of Ken ...

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The concept of parallel universes figures prominently in many science fiction and fantasy novels. For some it serves primarily as a plot device, a means to put characters into an unfamiliar situation, or a framework that usually lies in the background for continuity purposes. For others it is a major theme and focus of the work. It is sometimes used as the basis for exploring "what if" scenarios, such as in alternative history stories. Among the more famous fictional "multiverses" is that of Michael Moorcock. On developing his concept ...

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Parallel universe, Parallel universe - Science, Parallel universe - Fiction

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In the book, God is the creator of all things and resides at the center of creation on the eternal "Isle of Paradise." He is an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, infinite and eternal personality, and exists in a Trinity of three persons. The basic and most fundamental teaching throughout The Urantia Book is that God is the loving "Father" of all living beings - even those existing in eternity, absonity, and finite creations. Coincident with this idea is the familial relationship of all universe citizens as well as th ...

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The Urantia Book, The Urantia Book - Overview of The Urantia Book, The Urantia Book - Topic Summaries, The Urantia Book - Cosmology, The Urantia Book - Origin history and destiny of earth, The Urantia Book - Philosophy, The Urantia Book - Comparisons to religious thought, The Urantia Book - Consideration as literature, The Urantia Book - Mysterious origin, The Urantia Book - Critics Views, The Urantia Book - The Urantia Book in popular culture

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The central premise of Exalted is that gods have the ability to infuse ordinary mortals with a shard of their divine soul, exalting the individual into a demigod. The original Terrestrial Exalted were chosen by one of the five Elemental Dragons. In terms of raw power, the Dragon-Blooded are clearly the weakest of the five types of Exalted, but they compensate for their individual shortcomings with coordinated teamwork and sheer numbers (the Dragon-Blooded are the only Exalted type who are able to increase their numbers by breed ...

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Terrestrial Exalted, Terrestrial Exalted - Overview, Terrestrial Exalted - Gameplay

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The original UK master tape for the album was apparently lost or destroyed some time after the original release. The album was eventually released on CD in Britain on the Dojo label as a vinyl dub, with some of the tracks transferred at the wrong speed. A better-quality version was later released on the Canadian label Griffin Music, apparently taken from a first-generation copy of the original master. The Dojo CD's booklet does not reproduce the fold-out cover design; the Griffin CD does, but ...

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Warrior on the Edge of Time, Warrior on the Edge of Time - Packaging, Warrior on the Edge of Time - A tale of two CDs, Warrior on the Edge of Time - Track listing

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World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1975. The 1975 WFC, held in Providence, Rhode Island, was chaired by Kirby McCauley. Judges were Ramsey Campbell, Edward L. Ferman, David G. Hartwell, Fritz Leiber and Gahan Wilson. Winner: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, Patricia A. McKillip A Midsummer Tempest, Poul Anderson Merlin's Ring, H. Warner M ...

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World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - Award winners and finalists, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1975, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1976, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1977, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1978, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1979, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1980, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1981, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1982, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1983, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1984, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1985, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1986, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1987, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1988, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1989, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1990, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1991, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1992, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1993, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1994, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1995, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1996, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1997, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1998, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1999, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 2000, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 2001, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 2002, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 2003, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 2004, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 2005

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World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement - 1975. Robert Bloch World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement - 1976. Fritz Leiber World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement - 1977. Ray Bradbury World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement - 1978. Frank Belknap Long World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement - 1979. Jorge Luis Borges World Fantasy Award ...

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Timeline of fictional historical events - 1800s. Early 1800s June - Bernardo Leonardo buys the town from the Indians for $14,800,000. (Clerks: The Animated Series episode 1) 1801 Tenant Mr Lockwood begins to visit his landlord Heathcliff and gradually begins to discover the story of the Wuthering Heights. The combined forces of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson and Ralph Abercromby capture Egypt from the occupation of the French Consulate. Among their ...

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Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity (and, by extension, the general theory) very explicitly permits a kind of time dilation that would ordinarily be called time travel. The theory holds that, relative to a stationary observer, time appears to pass more slowly for faster-moving bodies: for example, a moving clock will appear to run slow; as a clock approaches the speed of light its hands will appear to nearly stop moving. The effects of this sort of time dilation are discussed in the popular "twin paradox" which asks the question, ...

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Time travel, Time travel - Physics, Time travel - The equivalence of time travel and faster-than-light travel, Time travel - Special spacetime geometries, Time travel - Using wormholes, Time travel - Using Quantum Entanglement, Time travel - The possibility of paradoxes, Time travel - Time travel and the direction of time, Time travel - Time travel and the anthropic principle, Time travel - Time travel in fiction, Time travel - Types of time travel, Time travel - Gradual and instantaneous, Time travel - Time travel or space-time travel?

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It was originally published as a serial in the British underground comic Near Myths in 1978, and was later continued in pssst! magazine, but interrupted, with less than half of it complete, in 1982. Between 1987 and 1989 the story was completed and published as nine standard comic books by Valkyrie Press, and was subsequently published in the United States by Dark Horse Comics. The story is adult in tone, with many mythological, historical and political references, and a little explicit sex. Its genesis owes something to ...

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The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright - Publishing history, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright - Synopsis, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright - Awards

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The story starts with the burial of Jerry Cornelius's father, a Nobel-prize-winning scientist who has developed the "Final Programme"—a design for a perfect, self-replicating human being. A group of scientists including Dr. Smiles and the formidable Miss Brunner (who consumes her lovers) try to persuade Cornelius to locate the microfilm containing his father's Final Programme, which is bel ...

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Norman Spinrad - Novels. The Solarians (1966) Agent of Chaos (1967) The Men in the Jungle (1967) Bug Jack Barron (1969) The Iron Dream (1972) Passing through the Flame (1975) Riding the Torch (1978) A World Between (1979) Songs from the Stars (1980) The Mind Game (1980) The Void Captain's Tale (1983) Child of Fortune (1985)See also:

Norman Spinrad, Norman Spinrad - Selected Works, Norman Spinrad - Novels, Norman Spinrad - Collections, Norman Spinrad - Teleplays, Norman Spinrad - External link

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Growing as a trickle more than a flood, New Wave began in 1964, when Michael Moorcock took over as editor for the British science fiction magazine New Worlds. While the American magazines Amazing Stories with Cele Goldsmith as editor and the respected The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction had had a tendency to publish unusually literary stories, Moorcock turned this into a concerted policy. Nor would any other periodical seek as consistently to distance itself from tradi ...

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New Wave science fiction, New Wave science fiction - Predecessors, New Wave science fiction - History, New Wave science fiction - After-effects, New Wave science fiction - Other Significant New Wave authors, New Wave science fiction - Reference

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She was born in 1858 at 38, Lower Kennington Lane in Kennington, Surrey (now in Greater London), the daughter of a schoolteacher, John Collis Nesbit, who died in March 1862, before her fourth birthday. Her sister Mary's ill health meant that the family moved around constantly for some years, living variously in Brighton, Buckinghamshire, France (Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Tours, Poitiers, Angouleme, Bordeaux, Arcachon, Pau, Bagneres de Bigorre, and Dinan in Brittany), Spain and Germany, before settling for three years at Halstead Hall in Halstead in north-west Kent, a location which late ...

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Edward E. Kramer is the editor of ROC Books' Dark Love and Grails anthologies, HarperPrism's The Sandman: Book of Dreams (with Neil Gaiman), Random House's The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams (with James O'Barr), Tor Books' Free Space, Avon Books' Forbidden Acts, White Wolf's Elric: Tales of the White Wolf and Pawn of Chaos: Tales of the Eternal Champion (based on the works and characters of Michael Moorcock), Dante's Disciples, Tombs, the Dark DestinySee also:

Edward E. Kramer, Edward E. Kramer - Biography, Edward E. Kramer - Civil Rights Action

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Arioch, Lord of the Seven Darks, Lord of the Higher Hell, The Knight of Swords: One of the mightiest Dukes of Hell and a Chaos Lord. He is the perennial patron of the Melniboné emperors and is responsible for much of their sorcerous powers and long rule. He finds Elric to be one of his sweetest servants, as Elric's moral dilemmas provide him with much sport. Cymoril: Elric's cousin and consort. He hopes to one day make her empress. She above all tries to understand and help Elric, but like the Melniboné subjects he rul ...

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Elric of Melniboné, Elric of Melniboné - Related Characters, Elric of Melniboné - Elric's saga, Elric of Melniboné - Books, Elric of Melniboné - Original comics, Elric of Melniboné - Music, Elric of Melniboné - Adaptations, Elric of Melniboné - References to Elric

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The 1989 2nd edition saw a complete revision of the Players Handbook and the Dungeon Master Guide. The Monster Manual replaced by the Monstrous Compedium loose leaf binder which was in turn replaced by the Monstrous Manual (1993) The second edition expanded the number of books, most notably with the "Complete Handbook" or "Complete Book of" series, which featured handbooks for almost every race and class; gnomes and halflings shared one handbook, and the only specialist wizard to receive his own handbook wa ...

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Dungeons & Dragons manuals, Dungeons & Dragons manuals - Current v3.5 Dungeons and Dragons, Dungeons & Dragons manuals - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition, Dungeons & Dragons manuals - 2nd Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons & Dragons manuals - 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons & Dragons manuals - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1977, Dungeons & Dragons manuals - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition 1989, Dungeons & Dragons manuals - Core books, Dungeons & Dragons manuals - 'The Complete Handbook' Series, Dungeons & Dragons manuals - Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition v3.0 & v3.5, Dungeons & Dragons manuals - Core books, Dungeons & Dragons manuals - Builder Book Series, Dungeons & Dragons manuals - Races Book Series, Dungeons & Dragons manuals - Environmental Series, Dungeons & Dragons manuals - Adult-only books, Dungeons & Dragons manuals - Eberron Series, Dungeons & Dragons manuals - Other books

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