Question: Who is the author of The Chaos Code?

Answer: Justin Richards

Answer: Justin C Richards

The Chaos Code

The Chaos Code

Matt Stribling, a 15-year-old boy on holiday from boarding school, finds his archaeologist father missing under mysterious circumstances. He discovers that his father has been working on an ancient code which may have caused the downfall of ancient civilizations. Now a madman has the code and wants to use it to dominate the world.

James A. Yorke

Together with Kathleen T. Alligood and Tim D. Sauer, he was the author of the book Chaos: An Introduction to Dynamical Systems.

Operation Chaos (novel)

Operation Chaos is a 1971 science fantasy fixup novel by American writer Poul Anderson. A sequel, Operation Luna, was published in 1999.

Chaos: Making a New Science

Chaos: Making a New Science is a debut non-fiction book by James Gleick that initially introduced the principles and early development of the chaos theory to the public. It was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, and was shortlisted for the Science Book Prize in 1989. The book was published on October 29, 1987 by Viking Books.

The Chaos Code

The Chaos Code

The Chaos Code is a 2007 science-fiction/fantasy novel for young teenagers by British author Justin Richards.

The novel won the Hull Children's Book Award in 2008.

CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the ...

Chaos Monkeys

Chaos Monkeys

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley is an autobiography written by American tech entrepreneur Antonio García Martínez. The book compares Silicon Valley to the "chaos monkeys" of society. In the book, the author details his career experiences with launching a tech startup, selling it to Twitter, and working at Facebook from its pre-IPO stage.

Science Adventure

Science Adventure

Science Adventure is a multimedia series consisting of interconnected science fiction stories, created mainly by Mages, Nitroplus, and Chiyomaru Studio. The main entries mostly take the form of visual novel video games, but side entries span across several different mediums.

The series currently consists of six mainline entries: the first part of the series, "Chaos;Head", was a visual novel released in 2008, and it is followed the visual novels by "Steins;Gate", "Robotics;Notes", "Chaos;Child", and "Anonymous;Code" as well as the upcoming "Steins;???". There is also the light novel series "Occultic;Nine" which was adapted into a visual novel. The series also includes several spin-off games based on "Chaos;Head", "Steins;Gate", "Robotics;Notes", and "Chaos;Child", as well as many spinoffs in other mediums including anime, manga, light novels, audio dramas, and stage plays.

The main entries and their spin-offs all take place in the same fictional universe, with focuses on several different science fiction themes. "Chaos;Head" and "Chaos;Child" focus on perception, "Steins;Gate" focuses on time travel, and "Robotics;Notes" focuses on robotics and augmented reality. The player can affect the course of the story by making certain choices: in "Chaos;Head" and "Chaos;Child" this is done by choosing what kind of delusions the player characters experience. The choices in the "Steins;Gate" games and "Robotics;Notes" are made via messages set by the player via an in-game cell phone and tablet computer, respectively.

The series is planned by Chiyomaru Shikura, the CEO of Mages, composed by Takeshi Abo and Zizz Studio, written by Naotaka Hayashi along with other writers, and features character designs by artists including Mutsumi Sasaki, Huke, and Tomonori Fukuda. The developers aimed to make the series set within reality, as Shikura felt it made it more relatable and believable. The series has been commercially and critically successful both in Japan and internationally, selling more than expected for the genre and helping establishing Mages (previously 5pb.) as a game developer.

The series is published by Mages and Nitroplus in Japan, and by JAST USA, PQube, Mages, and Spike Chunsoft internationally. The visual novels "Steins;Gate", "Steins;Gate 0", "Chaos;Child", "Steins;Gate Elite", "Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram", "8-bit ADV Steins;Gate", "Steins;Gate: My Darling's Embrace", "Robotics;Notes" "Elite", and "Robotics;Notes Dash" have been released officially in English. "Chaos;Head NoAH" and "Anonymous;Code" have also been announced for an English release.

Chaos;Child

Chaos;Child

Chaos;Child (stylized as ChäoS;Child) is a visual novel video game developed by 5pb. It is the fourth main entry in the "Science Adventure" series, and a thematic sequel to "Chaos;Head" (2008). It was released in Japan in 2014 for Xbox One, and later for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch. An English localization was released for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita by PQube in 2017, and for Windows by Spike Chunsoft in 2019.

The player takes the role of Takuru Miyashiro, the president of his school's newspaper club, who investigates the "Return of the New Generation Madness" serial murder case. He experiences delusions, and at multiple points throughout the story, the player gets the option to choose if Takuru should experience a positive or negative delusion, or neither: these choices affect the plot's direction, causing it to branch off from the main narrative into different routes.

The game was created to have "psycho-suspense" elements similar to "Chaos;Head", while also adding a larger amount of horror elements. For the game's aesthetic, the developers aimed for it to be "unmoving", in contrast to the previous game in the series, "Robotics;Notes" (2012). The music was composed by Takeshi Abo based on notes of his impressions of the story and emotional flow, to ensure a good relationship to the game's worldview. The English localization was handled by Adam Lensenmayer, whose experience with translating the "Science Adventure" game "Steins;Gate 0" (2015) ensured a smoother process, with a lot of communication with the developers.

"Chaos;Child" was well received by critics, but underperformed commercially; this led to the development of "Steins;???", which relates to the more popular "Science Adventure" game "Steins;Gate" similarly to how "Chaos;Child" relates to "Chaos;Head". Other "Chaos;Child" media includes an anime series, two manga, an audio drama, and the video game "Chaos;Child Love Chu Chu!!".

Plan for Chaos

Plan for Chaos is a science fiction novel by British writer John Wyndham, first published in 2009. Wyndham was working on it about the same time as The Day of the Triffids, but it was rejected by publishers on both sides of the Atlantic and never published in his lifetime. Wyndham himself abandoned it, telling Frederik Pohl in 1951: "I've messed about with the thing so much that I've lost all perspective". It was eventually re-discovered after the John Wyndham Archive was acquired by the University of Liverpool in the UK and was published on the fortieth anniversary of the author's death, under the planned US title Plan for Chaos; the planned UK title had been Fury of Creation.

Chaos Code

Chaos Code (カオスコード) is a fighting game series developed by FK Digital and published by Arc System Works. The first game known as Chaos Code: Sign of Catastrophe was released for Sega's RingWide arcade system board on August 4, 2011. A port for the PlayStation 3 was first released on December 19, 2012 on Hong Kong's PlayStation Network, followed by subsequent home releases in both Japan and North America in 2013 and the PAL region in 2014. A remastered version, Chaos Code: New Sign of Catastrophe, was released on arcades on June 6, 2013, and on PlayStation 4 and Windows on March

Sign of Chaos

Sign of Chaos is a fantasy novel by American writer Roger Zelazny, published in 1987. It is the third novel in the second Chronicles of Amber series, and the eighth book overall in the Amber series. The title of this book mirrors that of Sign of the Unicorn, the third book in the first Amber series.

The Patterns of Chaos

The Patterns of Chaos is a 1972 science fiction novel by British writer Colin Kapp. It originally appeared in If magazine, serialized in three parts. It combines grand space operatic themes of battle between space empires and intergalactic alien invasion with philosophical themes of predestination and destiny, and detailed character development of a tight set of central characters. Earth's Stellar Commando has placed their secret agent Commander Bron on a planet where they hope he will be able to find out the coordinates of a rival space empire, the Destroyers. Bron is there to impersonate a famous scientist of interest to the Destroyers, and has

Phil Hine

Growing up in Blackpool, Hine became involved with chaos magic theory in West Yorkshire in the 1980s. This was after he "picked up the fabled white edition of Liber Null by Peter J. Carroll" at Sorcerer's Apprentice bookshop

Lords of Chaos (book)

Norwegian paper who is now (as of 2005) an editor at Playboy. Moreover, Feral House editor Adam Parfrey clearly wanted to publish a popular book on the strange universe of black metal rather than a political polemic. Moynihan, in turn, has denied Coogan's allegations. Varg Vikernes, a primary focal point of the book, has criticized the book. Vikernes states that the authors of Lords of Chaos have no "insight into or even good knowledge about the subjects discussed" and "don't understand one bit what Black Metal was about in 1991 and 1992" and that they "have managed to fill the heads of a generation of metal fans with lies".

John C. Wright (author)

John C. Wright (born October 22, 1961) is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy novels. He was a Nebula Award finalist for his fantasy novel Orphans of Chaos. Publishers Weekly said he "may be this fledgling century's most important new SF talent" when reviewing his debut novel, The Golden Age.

Chaos Computer Club

The Chaos Computer Club France (CCCF) was a fake hacker organisation created in 1989 in Lyon (France) by Jean-Bernard Condat, under the command of Jean-Luc Delacour, an agent of the Direction de la surveillance du territoire governmental agency. The primary goal of the CCCF was to watch and to gather information about the French hacker community, identifying the hackers who could harm the country. Journalist Jean Guisnel said that this organization also worked with the French National Gendarmerie. The CCCF had an electronic magazine called Chaos Digest (ChaosD). Between 4 January 1993 and 5 August 1993, seventy-three issues were published.

John C. Wright (author)

Orphans of Chaos (2005) ; Fugitives of Chaos (2006) ; Titans of Chaos (2007)

Q&A (Symantec)

Noted SF author, Chaos Manor creator and Byte magazine columist Jerry Pournelle wrote fondly of Q&A; Write, claiming it as his sole word processor.

Lords of Chaos (book)

Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground is a book by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind. It is an account of the early Norwegian black metal scene, with a focus on the string of church burnings and murders that occurred in the country around 1993. A film adaptation of the book was directed by Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund in 2018. The book has been the subject of controversy  over the alleged political leanings of author Michael Moynihan, though Moynihan denies these allegations.

Justin Richards

The Chaos Code (2007) — Matt Stribling discovers that his father has been searching for an ancient code, rumoured to have brought down the fabled civilisation of Atlantis, which has now fallen into the hands of a madman using high-tech computers to decipher it. Matt and Robin must traverse the globe in their efforts to stop the Chaos Code from being reactivated. ; Monster Island (2011) — part of the Heroes series of novels for young boys together with teaching aids published by Heinemann. ; The Skeleton Clock (2011) — in an imagined future flooded London, the long-buried head of an immortal is uncovered and attempts to reunite some special chess men, a chess board, and a crucial piece of mechanism (the Skeleton Clock) to return himself to a body. ; The Suicide Exhibition, 2015.

Chronicles of Chaos (webzine)

Initially composed of four contributors from Canada and the USA in 1995, the staff eventually reached a stable set of nine writers in 1997, including the first European contributor. Near the year 2000, the European contingent was expanded by three new writers, with representatives from the Asian and African continents joining shortly after. This led to a core staff of twelve writers in 2002. In this period, founder Filicetti retired from his role as contributor, while co-founder Bromley moved on to form his own print publication, Unrestrained!, with fellow CoC contributor Adam Wasylyk. Meanwhile, various other writers departed or became part-time contributors due to other engagements. Some of Chronicles of Chaos' writing staff became contributors to magazines like Metal Hammer, Terrorizer, Unrestrained! and more. As a result, the e-mail issues became less regular, with as much as three month gaps. Between October 2002 and March 2003 the publication went on an unofficial hiatus for the only time in its history. Until 2003, the Chronicles of Chaos website served only as a static repository of plain text back issues, with the latest digest available for hypertext navigation.

Greg Sams

in the world dedicated to chaos theory. He became known for his fractal art, his designs adorning postcards, t-shirts and textiles all over the world. An enthusiast of the counterculture movement, such as the non-violent direct action street reclaiming events in the UK and elsewhere such as Reclaim the Streets, Sams began writing books that were promoted at these events, as well as during various trance music, psytrance and acid techno raves and free parties around the UK. Uncommon Sense - the State is Out of Date was published in 1998 to great acclaim, showing the importance of chaos theory in

Chaos magic

number of books on the subject that were particularly influential in spreading chaos magic techniques via the internet. Jaq D. Hawkins, from California, wrote an article on chaos magic for Mezlim magazine, coming into contact with Sherwin and other IOT members in the process. Hawkins later wrote the first chaos magic book intended for a general readership. In 1992, Jan Fries published Visual Magick, introducing his own blend of "freestyle shamanism", which has had influence on chaos magic. In 1981, Genesis P-Orridge established Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY), an art collective and magical order. P-Orridge had studied magic under


Question: Who is the author of August?

Answer: Gerard Woodward

August (Hamsun novel)

Twenty years have passed since the action in Wayfarers, and August has settled in his home village of Polden. August's identity is built on a grand delusion and he lives a good and simple life as a sailor who has just returned from America. August is a man who wants to make changes, improve, and renew everything.

Patricia Ryan (author)

"August" in SUMMER HEAT,	1998/08 (with Pamela Burford) ; "Santa, baby" in NAUGHTY OF NICE?,	2001/11 (with Sherrilyn Kenyon and Carly Phillips and Kathryn Smith) ; "Possessing Julia" in BURNING UP,	2003/07 (with Nina Bangs, Cheryl Holt and Kimberly Raye) ; "What happens in Vegas" in TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS,	2005/08 (with Toni Blake and LuAnn McLane)

Sidney Williams

Sidney Williams (born 1962) is an American author of six novels under his own name and three young adult novels under the pseudonym Michael August. He has also authored numerous short stories and comic book scripts. Williams received a Master of Fine Arts from Goddard College.

August (Hamsun novel)

August is the second novel in the Wayfarers trilogy, also known as the August trilogy, by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. The novel was published on October 1, 1930.

In August

In The August was a short story by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin first published in Russkaya mysl 1901, #8, August issue.

August Wilson

August Wilson

August Wilson ( Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". He is best known for a series of ten plays, collectively called "" (or "The Century Cycle")"," which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the African-American community in the 20th century. Plays in the series include "Fences" (1987) and "The Piano Lesson" (1990), both of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (1984) and "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" (1988). In 2006, Wilson was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

His works delve into the African-American experience as well as examinations of the human condition. Other themes range from the systemic and historical exploitation of African Americans, as well as race relations, identity, migration, and racial discrimination. Viola Davis said that Wilson's writing "captures our humor, our vulnerabilities, our tragedies, our trauma. And he humanizes us. And he allows us to talk." Since Wilson's death two of his plays have been adapted into films: "Fences" (2016) and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (2020). Denzel Washington has shepherded the films and has vowed to continue Wilson's legacy by adapting the rest of his plays into films for a wider audience. Washington said, "the greatest part of what's left of my career is making sure that August is taken care of".

August (Rossner novel)

August (Rossner novel)

August, is a novel written by Judith Rossner focused on a psychoanalyst and one of her analysands. The title refers to the month of August, when analysts leave the city for the month and thus leave some of their patients without the emotional support of the analytic relationship.

August Strindberg

August Derleth

August Derleth

August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the cosmic horror genre, as well as his founding of the publisher Arkham House (which did much to bring supernatural fiction into print in hardcover in the US that had only been readily available in the UK), Derleth was a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, science fiction, and biography.

A 1938 Guggenheim Fellow, Derleth considered his most serious work to be the ambitious "Sac Prairie Saga", a series of fiction, historical fiction, poetry, and non-fiction naturalist works designed to memorialize life in the Wisconsin he knew. Derleth can also be considered a pioneering naturalist and conservationist in his writing.

August Rush

August Rush

August Rush is a 2007 musical drama film directed by Kirsten Sheridan and produced by Richard Barton Lewis. The screenplay is by Nick Castle and James V. Hart, with a story by Paul Castro and Castle. A co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom and South Korea, it involves an 11-year-old musical prodigy living in an orphanage who runs away to New York City. He begins to unravel the mystery of who he is, all while his mother is searching for him and his father is searching for her. The many different sounds and rhythms he hears throughout his journey culminate in a major instrumental composition, which concludes the film ("August's Rhapsody").

Joe Augustyn

Joe Augustyn (born ) is an American screenwriter, film producer, and author.

Esta Spalding

Esta Alice Spalding is an American author, screenwriter and poet who won the Pat Lowther Award in 2000 for Lost August.

Black August (novel)

Black August is an adventure novel by the British writer Dennis Wheatley. First published in 1934, it is set in about 1960, when an economic and political crisis causes a collapse of civilization. It was the first (in order of publication) of Dennis Wheatley's novels to feature the character Gregory Sallust. He wrote several more Gregory Sallust novels, most of which were set in earlier periods.

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August is a novel by Claire North, a pseudonym of British author Catherine Webb, published in April 2014. It won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and was featured in both the Richard and Judy Book Club and the BBC Radio 2 Book Club.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

Upamanyu Chatterjee (born 1959) is an author and a retired Indian civil servant. His works include the novel English, August: An Indian story, The Last Burden, The Mammaries of the Welfare State and Weight Loss. In 2008, he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contribution to literature.

Benjamin August

Benjamin August (born c. 1979) is an American casting director and screenwriter known for Remember (2015), The Swimmer and The Thief. He won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards for Remember, a film directed by Atom Egoyan.

Benjamin August

Originally from Livingston, New Jersey, August graduated from Livingston High School in 1997. He later spent time teaching English as a second language in Vietnam, during which he wrote Remember, his first feature film screenplay. His other credits as a writer include Class Rank (2017) and The Billion Dollar Spy. His second screenplay, Class Rank, under director Eric Stoltz was released in 2016. As a producer, he worked at American game shows Don't Forget the Lyrics (2007-2008) and Fear Factor (2003, 2005). He previously worked as a casting director on Fear Factor. August appered as an actor in Broken Pipe Dreams and Replication Theory movies in 2007.

Ashley August

Ashley August is an American actress, spoken word artist, and poet perhaps best known for such films and television series as The Punisher (TV series), The Kindergarten Teacher (2018 film), Orange Is the New Black, Dream School and Meeting Molly.

Mark Coggins

Mark Coggins is the Choctaw and American author of a series of novels featuring private eye protagonist August Riordan. He is also a photographer.

August (name)

and literary translator ; August Sangret (1913–1943), Canadian soldier executed for murder ; August Schellenberg (1936-2013), Canadian First Nation actor ; August Schmidhuber (1901–1947), German Nazi SS officer executed for war crimes ; August Spies (1855–1887), American anarchist ; August Strindberg (1849–1912), Swedish writer, playwright and painter ; August Traksmaa (1893–1942), Estonian Army General and diplomat ; August Vaga (1893–1960), Estonian botanist ; August Volberg (1896–1982), Estonian architect and educator ; August Warberg (1842-1915), Swedish actor ; August Weismann (1834–1914), German evolutionary biologist ; August Wesley (1887–1942), Finnish journalist, trade unionist and revolutionary ; August Wilson (1945–2005), American playwright ; August Winding (1835–1899), Danish pianist and composer

The Road Leads On

August, who had to flee from Polden at the end of August (the second book in the trilogy), reappears fifteen years later in Segelfoss. He is now in his sixties, and he works for the town's largest merchant and eventually also consul, Gordon Tidemand, the son of Theodor at Bua (known from the books Children of the Age and Segelfoss Town). August is only referred to by the people of the town as Altmulig 'the Handyman', and his former desire to create development, change, and greatness seems to be gone. August is now a helper and indispensable handyman, who has apparently found his place under the consul's friendly hand. He grapples with religious musings and a hopeless infatuation with a young girl from a poor farmhouse. One day, Pauline, his wandering comrade Edevart's sister from Polden, comes to Segelfoss with a large sum of money, and August's uncontrollable urge to act is reawakened.

Black August (novel)

After the success of his novel The Forbidden Territory, published in January 1933, Wheatley wrote his next novel Such Power is Dangerous in about a fortnight, and it also sold well. However, writing Black August occupied him for forty weeks. In the novel he introduced the character Gregory Sallust, largely based on Gordon Eric Gordon-Tombe. Gordon-Tombe, whom Wheatley first met in 1917, introduced him to a hedonistic lifestyle, which they enjoyed together for a few years. Involved in illegal activities, Gordon-Tombe was murdered in 1922.

Per I. Gedin

In the years 1990–1993, he won the creativity for the August Award. The August Award is an annual Swedish literary award. The award is awarded to the Swedish New Year Book Publishers by the Swedish Publishers Association established since 1989. From 1992, the prize was awarded and given to three types of stories. The legal books, books for children, and adolescents’ books. This method of awarding was created and initiative by Per I. Gedin. In 1999, he was nominated as PhD in philosophy from the University of Stockholm and in 2012 he received the Övralid Award. The Övralid Award is a literary award given by the Övralid Foundation since 1945, in partnership with the Heidenstamsällskapet.

August Derleth Award

The August Derleth Award is one of the British Fantasy Awards bestowed annually by the British Fantasy Society. The award is named after the American writer and editor August Derleth. It was inaugurated in 1972 for the best novel of the year, was not awarded in 2011, and was resumed in 2012 for the best horror novel of the year.

August House

August House is an independent children's book publisher established in 1978 and currently headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. August House principally focuses on publishing children's folktales, picture books, early-grade chapter books, and storytelling resource materials. August House also manages two imprints: Story Cove, an interactive picture book and multimedia series geared towards helping teachers meet classroom Common Core Standards for reading, and LittleFolk, August House's picture book line. August House is home to authors Margaret Read MacDonald, Donald Davis, Martha Hamilton, Mitch Weiss, Willy Claflin, Heather Forest, Rob Cleveland, W. C. Jameson, and Pleasant DeSpain, among others, as well as the award-winning picture-book series Maynard Moose.


Question: Who is the author of Kite?

Answer: Melvin Burgess

Kiteworld

Kiteworld is a novel by Keith Roberts published in 1985.

Yellow Kite

An imprint of Hodder and Stoughton, Yellow Kite was founded in 2013 by Liz Gough, and become one of the first ever lists dedicated to the health and well-being genre. Yellow Kite began publishing in January 2014 and in its first year (Yellow Kite) had two Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers: One Million Lovely Letters by Jodi Ann Bickley and Black Rainbow by Rachel Kelly. It also had a New York Times bestseller with David Perlmutter’s Grain Brain. Publishing about a dozen non-fiction titles per year, its (stated) mission is to produce ‘books to help you live a good life’ covering inspirational self-help and memoir, mind, body and spirit, healthy eating, diet,

The Kite Rider

The Kite Rider is a children's novel by Geraldine McCaughrean.

The Kite Fighters

The Kite Fighters is a 2000 historical children's novel that was written by Linda Sue Park and illustrated by her father Eung Won Park. It was first published on March 20, 2000 through Clarion Books and follows two brothers in Korea during the 15th century.

The Kites of War

The Kites of War is a 1969 thriller novel by the British writer Derek Lambert. It is set on the Chinese-Indian frontier, where Lambert had worked as a foreign correspondent.

The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner is the first novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2003 by Riverhead Books, it tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy through the Soviet invasion, the exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the rise of the Taliban regime.

Hosseini has commented that he considers "The Kite Runner" to be a father-son relationship story, emphasizing the familial aspects of the narrative, an element that he continued to use in his later works. Themes of guilt and redemption feature prominently in the novel,<ref name="Guthmann"/> with a pivotal scene depicting an act of sexual assault inflicted upon Amir's friend Hassan, which Amir fails to prevent, and which ends their friendship. The latter half of the book centers on Amir's attempts to atone for this transgression by rescuing Hassan's son two decades later.

"The Kite Runner" became a bestseller after being printed in paperback and was popularized in book clubs. It appeared on the "New York Times" bestseller list for over two years, Reviews were generally positive, though parts of the plot drew significant controversy in Afghanistan. A number of adaptations were created following publication, including a 2007 film of the same name, several stage performances, and a graphic novel. The novel is also available in a multi-CD audiobook read by the author.

Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini (;Pashto/Dari ; born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan-American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician. His debut novel "The Kite Runner" (2003) was a critical and commercial success; the book and his subsequent novels have all been at least partially set in Afghanistan and have featured an Afghan as the protagonist.

Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, to a diplomat father, Hosseini spent some time living in Iran and France. When Hosseini was 15, his family applied for asylum in the United States, where he later became a naturalized citizen. Hosseini did not return to Afghanistan until 2003 when he was 38, an experience similar to that of the protagonist in "The Kite Runner". In later interviews, Hosseini admitted to feeling survivor's guilt for having been able to leave the country prior to the Soviet invasion and subsequent wars.

After graduating from college, Hosseini worked as a physician in California, a situation he likened to "an arranged marriage". The success of "The Kite Runner" meant he was able to retire from medicine in order to write full-time. His three novels have all reached various levels of critical and commercial success. "The Kite Runner" spent 101 weeks on "The New York Times" Best Seller list, including three weeks at number one. His second novel, "A Thousand Splendid Suns" (2007), spent 103 weeks on the chart, including 15 at number one while his third novel, "And the Mountains Echoed" (2013), remained on the chart for 33 weeks. In addition to writing, Hosseini has advocated for the support of refugees, including establishing with the UNHCR the Khaled Hosseini Foundation to support Afghan refugees returning to Afghanistan.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini, following the huge success of his bestselling 2003 debut "The Kite Runner". Mariam, an illegitimate teenager from Herat, is forced to marry a shoemaker from Kabul after a family tragedy. Laila, born a generation later, lives a relatively privileged life, but her life intersects with Mariam's when a similar tragedy forces her to accept a marriage proposal from Mariam's husband.

Hosseini has remarked that he regards the novel as a "mother-daughter story" in contrast to "The Kite Runner", which he considers a "father-son story" and friendships between men.<ref name="KH interview"/> It continues some of the themes used in his previous work, such as familial dynamics, but instead focusing primarily on female characters and their roles in contemporary Afghan society.

"A Thousand Splendid Suns" was released on May 22, 2007, and received favorable widespread critical acclaim from "Kirkus Reviews", "Publishers Weekly", and "Booklist", and became a number one "New York Times" Best Seller for fifteen weeks following its release. During its first week on sale, it sold over one million copies. Columbia Pictures purchased film rights in 2007, and a theatrical adaptation of the book premiered on February 1, 2017, at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, California.<ref name=lat/>

Crystal Kite Award

Crystal Kite Award

The Crystal Kite Award (also known as 'Crystal Kite Members Choice Award) is given by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) each year to recognize great books from the 70 SCBWI regions around the world. Along with the SCBWI Golden Kite Awards, the Crystal Kite Awards are chosen by other children's book writers and illustrators, making them the only peer-given awards in publishing for young readers.

Each SCBWI member votes for their favorite book from a nominated author in their region that was published in the previous calendar year.

Kite (1998 film)

Kite (1998 film)

Kite, known as in Japan, is a Japanese original video animation written and directed by Yasuomi Umetsu. Two 35-minute episodes were released on VHS on February 25 and October 25, 1998, respectively. However, subsequent releases, including all three DVD releases in the United States, have edited the OVA into a film.

Yellow Kite

Yellow Kite is an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, a British publishing house, now a division of Hachette.

The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner is the first novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2003 by Riverhead Books, it tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy through the Soviet invasion, the exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the rise of the Taliban regime. Hosseini has commented that he considers The Kite Runner to be a father-son relationship story, emphasizing the familial aspects of the narrative, an element that he continued to use in his later works. Themes of guilt and redemption feature prominently in the novel, with a pivotal scene depicting an act of sexual assault that happens against

Joseph Stanton

Tek Lum and others in the collaborative renshi poem What the Kite Thinks. In one of his recent books, The Important Books: Children’s Picture Books as Art and Literature, he examines the picture-books of such artist-writers as Maurice Sendak, Chris Van Allsburg, Arnold Lobel, and William Joyce. His new book, Looking for Edward Gorey, is the culmination of his many years of research into all things Gorey. His other books include Imaginary Museum: Poems on Art, A Field Guide to the Wildlife of Suburban O‘ahu: Poems, Cardinal Points: Poems on St. Louis Cardinals Baseball, What the Kite Thinks: A Linked Poem, Stan Musial: A Biography, and A Hawai‘i Anthology.

The Kite Runner (play)

The Kite Runner is a stage adaption of Afghan novelist's Khaled Hosseini's 2003 book, The Kite Runner. Aside from sharing the 2003 book as a source, it is unrelated to the 2007 film The Kite Runner. The play was adapted for the stage by Matthew Spangler and premiered at San Jose Repertory Theatre in 2009.

The Kite That Went to the Moon

"The Kite That Went to the Moon" was written in 1899 and first published by John Lane at The Bodley Head in London and New York in 1900 in the book of fairy tales, The Other Side of the Sun by Evelyn Sharp (suffragist)(1869–1955).

Melvin Burgess

upon any author. Burgess is one of six authors, all 1967 to 1996, who won the Carnegie Medal for their Guardian Prize-winning books. Kite (1997) features a boy who hatches a red kite egg. Burgess again attracted controversy in 2003, with the publication of Doing It, which dealt with underage sex. In the U.S. it was adapted as a television series, Life as We Know It. In other books such as The Ghost Behind the Wall (2000), Burgess has dealt with less realist and sometimes fantastic themes. Bloodtide (1999) and Bloodsong (2007) are post-apocalypse adaptations of Volsunga Saga. In 2001 Burgess wrote the novelisation of the film Billy Elliot, based on Lee Hall's screenplay.

Brian Kiteley

Brian Kiteley (September 26, 1956) is an American novelist, and writing teacher.

Yellow Kite

and practical personal development. In 2015, Yellow Kite published the biggest selling debut cookery book since records began – Deliciously Ella by healthy eating phenomena Ella Woodward. The book went on to sell more than a quarter of a million copies in 2015 and positioned Woodward as a brand author in the healthy eating arena. In 2016 Yellow Kite published Ella Woodward’s second book Deliciously Ella Every Day along with bestselling diet title The Sirtfood Diet and the debut book Keep It Real by Vogue Commissioning Editor and healthy eating "guru" Calgary Avansino. Its online wellbeing festival, launched in 2015 is now an annual event which celebrates its books and authors.

The Tiny Kite of Eddie Wing

The Tiny Kite of Eddie Wing is a children's picture book written by Maxine Trottier and illustrated by Al Van Mil, published in 1995 by Stoddart Publishing of Toronto. It tells the story of a boy's love for flying kites and an old man's love for poetry. The book has been reissued.

Red Kite, Blue Kite

Red Kite, Blue Kite is a 2013 children's book written by Ji-li Jiang and illustrated by Greg Ruth. Set in China, it follows the story of Tai Shan, a boy who enjoys flying kites. He readjusts with his situation when his father, referred to in the book as the Chinese word for father, "Ba Ba" (爸爸), is detained as part of the Cultural Revolution. He stays with an unrelated old woman, named Granny Wang, until he is reunited with his father. Publishers Weekly stated that the conflict was handled with "scrupulous honesty". Publishers Weekly recommended the book for older children due to the content of the plot. Kirkus Reviews stated "any child coping with separation from a loved one may find comfort in this story."

The Kite Runner

first novel by Khaled Hosseini" that "is simultaneously devastating and inspiring." A similarly favourable review was printed in Publishers Weekly. Marketing director Melissa Mytinger remarked, "It's simply an excellent story. Much of it based in a world we don't know, a world we're barely beginning to know. Well-written, published at the 'right time' by an author who is both charming and thoughtful in his personal appearances for the book." Indian-American actor Aasif Mandvi agreed that the book was "amazing storytelling. ... It's about human beings. It's about redemption, and redemption is a powerful theme." First Lady Laura Bush commended the story as "really great". Said Tayeb Jawad, the 19th Afghan ambassador to

And the Mountains Echoed

Khaled Hosseini was born in Afghanistan but left the country in 1976 at the age of 11, eventually moving to the United States where he worked as a doctor. He wrote his first novel, The Kite Runner, in 2003 and became a full-time writer a year and a half later. He published his second book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, in 2007. Both novels were successful, and by the time of his third publication they had together sold over 38 million copies across 70 countries. Hosseini first began to consider the plot of And the Mountains Echoed during a 2007 trip to Afghanistan

The Kite Runner

for all." Riverhead Books published The Kite Runner, ordering an initial printing of 50,000 copies in hardback. It was released on May 29, 2003, and the paperback edition was released a year later. Hosseini took a year-long absence from practicing medicine to promote the book, signing copies, speaking at various events, and raising funds for Afghan causes. Originally published in English, The Kite Runner was later translated into 42 languages for publication in 38 countries. In 2013, Riverhead released the 10th anniversary edition with a new gold-rimmed cover and a foreword by Hosseini. That same year, on May 21, Khaled Hosseini published another book called And the Mountains Echoed.

Christopher Forgues

Christopher "Chris" Forgues, (also known professionally as C.F. and Kites), is an artist and musician, best known for his graphic novel serial Powr Mastrs. He is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

Kite

The Kite Runner, a 2005 novel by Khaled Hosseini dramatizes the role of kite fighting in pre-war Kabul. ; The Peanuts cartoon character Charlie Brown was often depicted having flown his kite into a tree as a metaphor for life's adversities. ; "Let's Go Fly a Kite" is a song from the Mary Poppins film and musical. ; In the Disney animated film Mulan, kites are flown in the parade. ; In the film Shooter, a kite is used to show the wind direction and wind velocity.


Question: Who is the author of America's Secret War?

Answer: George Friedman

Michael Sayers

Books written with Alfred E. Kahn ; Sabotage! The Secret War Against America (1942, 1944) ; Taĭnai︠a︡ voĭna protiv Ameriki (1947) ; The Plot Against the Peace: A Warning to the Nation! (1945) ; The Great Conspiracy: The Secret War Against Soviet Russia (1946) ; Gran conspiración contra Rusia (1946, 1948) ; Grote samenzwering (1946) ; Groyse farshverung (1946) ; Gran conspiración contra Rusia (1948) ; Grande congiura (1948) ; Wielki spisek przeciwko ZSRR (1948) ; Velké spiknutí (1950) ; Tālāqu śérā (1981) ; Articles ; "Japan's Undercover Drive in America," Friday (February 14, 1941) ; Plays ; Kathleen (1955) ; Electra: the Legend (1997) ; The Neutrals (1998) ; Joan Saint Joan (1991) ; Screenplays ; Casino Royale (1967 film) ; Teleplays ; Der Spazierstock (1955)

Dark Invasion

Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America is a non-fiction book written by the American author, Howard Blum. It was published by Crown Publishing Group on February 11, 2014. The American edition was issued by Harper in 2014.

Joseph E. Persico

In 1977, following the end of Rockefeller's tenure, Persico published My Enemy My Brother: Men and Days of Gettysburg, an historical work of non fiction covering the American Civil War. In 1979, he published a novel, The Spiderweb, and a further nonfiction study, Piercing the Reich: The Penetration of Nazi Germany by American Secret Agents During World War II. Three years later he produced The Imperial Rockefeller, a biography of his former employer. This was followed by a biography of Edward R. Murrow. In 1995, he co-wrote Colin L. Powell's autobiography My American Journey. Throughout the 1990s, Persico continued to produce historical books (Casey: From the OSS to the CIA and Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial) as well as numerous articles on American history. In November 2001, he published Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage and in 2004, Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918, World War I and Its Violent Climax. In May 2013, he published his last book, Roosevelt's Centurions, through Random House.

Albert E. Kahn

Kahn used materials gained by his investigations of Nazi and German-American activities for The Hour as the basis of his first book, ''Sabotage! The Secret War Against America'' (1942), co-written with Michael Sayers. Reader's Digest printed excerpts from the book, and it became a bestseller. Kahn and Sayers also collaborated on The Plot Against The Peace (1945) and The Great Conspiracy: The Secret War Against Soviet Russia (1946), which became an international bestseller. In the latter, which explored the Moscow purge trials, the authors accepted as valid the Communist Party charges of treason against former Soviet opposition leaders, and the underlying allegation of plots to overthrow the Soviet state, assassinate Lenin, Stalin, Gorky, and others. Most historians,

Alex Abella

Alex Abella (born 1950) is an American author and journalist best known for his non-fiction works Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire (2008) and Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States (2003, with Scott Gordon).

Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War

Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War is a 2001 book written by "New York Times" journalists Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William Broad. It describes how humanity has dealt with biological weapons, and the dangers of bioterrorism. It was the 2001 "New York Times" #1 Non-Fiction Bestseller the weeks of October 28 and November 4.

Secret War (comics)

Secret War (comics)

Secret War is a 2004–2005 comic book storyline published by Marvel Comics, consisting of a central, five-issue miniseries written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by Gabriele Dell'Otto, and a number of tie-in books. It is loosely based on classified operations told to Bendis by an anonymous high-ranking officer in the United States Intelligence Community during Bendis' childhood.

The storyline involves a large-scale super-hero crossover featuring Marvel characters such as Spider-Man, Captain America, Wolverine, Daredevil, Luke Cage and Nick Fury fighting a wide array of supervillains who have received hi-tech armaments from a mysterious benefactor.

The first issue was published in April 2004, and though intended originally as a bimonthly publication, it faced long delays. It was completed with issue five's publication in December 2005.

The aftermath of the series was explored in stories in "The Pulse" and Bendis has gone on to use many of the same characters in his "New Avengers" titles. This event begins an eight-year-long series of cross-over events ending with "Avengers vs. X-Men".

The storyline in "Secret War" is unrelated to the original "Secret Wars" and "Secret Wars II" crossover limited series which Marvel published in the mid-1980s, although its title is clearly inspired by them. Those stories received their own spiritual successor in "Beyond!", published in 2006.

Bendis has noted that "Secret War" is connected to the "Secret Invasion" storyline, in which Skrulls have infiltrated several institutions of Earth.

Secret Wars

Secret Wars

Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars, commonly known as Secret Wars for short, is a twelve-issue American comic book crossover limited series published from May 1984 to April 1985 by Marvel Comics. The series was written by Jim Shooter, with art by Mike Zeck and Bob Layton. It was tied-in with a toy line of the same name from Mattel.

Laotian Civil War

Laotian Civil War

The Laotian Civil War (1959–1975) was a civil war in Laos which was waged between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government from 23 May 1959 to 2 December 1975. It is associated with the Cambodian Civil War and the Vietnam War, with both sides receiving heavy external support in a proxy war between the global Cold War superpowers. It is called the Secret War among the American CIA Special Activities Center, and Hmong and Mien veterans of the conflict.

The Kingdom of Laos was a covert theater for other belligerents during the Vietnam War. The Franco–Lao Treaty of Amity and Association (signed 22 October 1953) transferred remaining French powers to the Royal Lao Government (except control of military affairs), establishing Laos as an independent member of the French Union. However, this government did not include representatives from the Lao Issara anti-colonial armed nationalist movement.

The following years were marked by a rivalry between the neutralists under Prince Souvanna Phouma, the right wing under Prince Boun Oum of Champassak, and the left-wing Lao Patriotic Front under Prince Souphanouvong and half-Vietnamese future Prime Minister Kaysone Phomvihane. Several attempts were made to establish coalition governments, and a "tri-coalition" government was finally seated in Vientiane.

The fighting in Laos involved the North Vietnamese Army, U.S. troops and Thai forces and South Vietnamese army forces directly and through irregular proxies in a struggle for control over the Laotian Panhandle. The North Vietnamese Army occupied the area to use for its Ho Chi Minh Trail supply corridor and as a staging area for offensives into South Vietnam. There was a second major theater of action on and near the northern Plain of Jars.

The North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao eventually emerged victorious in 1975 in the slipstream of the victory of the North Vietnamese army and the South Vietnamese VietCong in Vietnam War. A total of up to 300,000 people from Laos fled to neighbouring Thailand following the Pathet Lao takeover.

After the communists took power in Laos, Hmong rebels fought the new government. The Hmong were persecuted as traitors and "lackeys" of the Americans, with the government and its Vietnamese allies carrying out human rights abuses against Hmong civilians. The incipient conflict between Vietnam and China also played a role with Hmong rebels being accused of receiving support from China. Over 40,000 people died in the conflict.

The Lao royal family were arrested by the Pathet Lao after the war and sent to labor camps, where most of them died in the late 1970s and 1980s, including King Savang Vatthana, Queen Khamphoui and Crown Prince Vong Savang.

George Friedman

George Friedman

George Friedman (, born February 1, 1949) is a Hungarian-born U.S. geopolitical forecaster, author, and strategist on international affairs. He is the founder and chairman of "Geopolitical Futures", an online publication that analyzes and forecasts the course of global events. Prior to founding Geopolitical Futures, he was chairman of its predecessor Stratfor, the private intelligence publishing and consulting firm he founded in 1996.

Secret Wars (adventure)

MHSP1 Secret Wars was written by Jeff Grubb, with a cover by Mike Zeck, and was published by TSR, Inc., in 1984 as two 16-page books, a large color map, and an outer folder.

The Secret Man (book)

The Secret Man: An American Warrior's Uncensored Story is a memoir by martial artist Frank Dux, published in 1996 by ReganBooks. In the book, Dux asserts he was recruited by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director William J. Casey in a public toilet to work on covert missions, including destroying a fuel depot in Nicaragua and a chemical weapons plant in Iraq. Dux's claims in the book have been contested by several notable figures, including CIA director Robert Gates, General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., Major General John K. Singlaub, as well as Soldier of Fortune magazine.

Alex Abella

States Marine who fought on the side of Fidel Castro. Abella's non-fiction work includes Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States (2003), co-authored with law professor and current Los Angeles Superior Court judge Scott Gordon. The book is set in Germany during World War II and follows a group of German-American agents trained in sabotage and terrorism. The author's most recent book, Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire (2008), is the first history of the foreign policy think tank founded by the United States Military and funded in part by the United States Government. In addition to his non-fiction books, Abella has been a contributing writer with the Los Angeles Times and now contributes to the Huffington Post.

James Gannon (author)

James Gannon is a freelance writer and producer of documentaries for NBC News. He has published many articles on a variety of subjects. He is the author of Stealing Secrets, Telling Lies: How Spies and Codebreakers Helped Shape the Twentieth century (2001). The book discusses key episodes of 20th-century espionage and cryptology involving the Zimmermann telegram; Enigma decryption and "Ultra"; the Battle of the Atlantic; Erwin Rommel; the Colossus computer; Frank Rowlett and Japan's Purple cipher; Allied Operation Overlord deceptions; World War II spies and spy organizations; Rudolf Roessler and the Lucy Spy Ring; Takeo Yoshikawa and Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor; Joseph J. Rochefort and the Battle of Midway; Richard Sorge; Donald Maclean; Klaus Fuchs; Venona; Oleg Penkovsky; and Ryszard Kukliński. A thread running through Gannon's book is the ubiquity of distortions in accounts of espionage and cryptology, and the readiness of unscrupulous individuals, agencies and countries to take credit for the achievements of others.

John H. Bryden

To date, his books have focused on World War II, including the area of chemical and biological warfare (Deadly Allies), signal intelligence (Best Kept Secret) and German secret intelligence (Fighting To Lose). His writing career was interrupted by his political career after his first two books. He subsequently published Fighting To Lose in 2014.

Charles Fraser-Smith

The Secret War of Charles Fraser-Smith, by Charles Fraser-Smith (Paternoster Press, ISBN: 0-85364-409-8) ; Secret Warriors – MI6, OSS, MI9, SOE & SAS, by Charles Fraser-Smith (Paternoster Press, ISBN: 0-85364-393-8) ; The Man Who Was 'Q', by David Porter (Paternoster Press, 1970, ASIN: B000PDLSX0) ; Official secret: The remarkable story of escape aids, their invention, production, and the sequel, by Clayton Hutton (Crown Publishers, 1961, ASIN: B0007DU032).

Richard Helms

Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The World Was Going Our Way. The KGB and the Battle for the Third World. Harmondsworth: Allen Lane 2005; NY: Basic Books 2005. ; Thomas Powers, Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda. NY: New York Review Books 2002, rev. 2004. ; Dana Priest and William M. Arkin, Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State. Boston: Little, Brown 2011. ; Jeffrey T. Richelson, A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century. Oxford University 1995. ; Abram N. Shulsky and Gary J. Schmitt, Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of intelligence. Washington: Potomac Books 1991, [1993], 3d ed. 2002.

Anthony Read

Rising: Biography of a City (1994), Colonel Z: The Secret Life of a Master of Spies (1984), and Kristallnacht: The Nazi Night of Terror. He also wrote "Conspirator: Churchill, Roosevelt, and Tyler Kent, Spy" with Ray Bearse. On his own he wrote The Devil's Disciples: Hitler's Inner Circle (2003) and The World on Fire: 1919 and the Battle with Bolshevism (2008). Read's solo non-fiction works followed a similar interest in World War II, but he occasionally wrote prose fiction. He was the main writer of a series of novels about The Baker Street Boys, a television show for which he wrote in the early 1980s.

Thomas Jordan (general)

Fishel, Edwin C. (1996) The Secret War for the Union: The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War. Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York ISBN: 0-395-74281-1, ISBN: 978-0-395-74281-5 This excellent and interesting book provides novel material on intelligence activities during the U.S. Civil War, and places it in clear and applicable context. ; Pirala, Antonio. Anales de la Guerra en Cuba (1895, 1896 and some from 1874) (Felipe González Rojas, Madrid). This is a detailed source for Jordan's actions in the Cuban Ten Year War.

James Risen

bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa. Risen has written four books: Wrath of Angels: The American Abortion War (Basic Books) (Judy Thomas, co-author) (1998); The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB (Random House) (Milt Bearden, co-author) (2003); State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration (The Free Press) (2006); and Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) (2014). State of War was a New York Times bestseller. Pay Any Price was also a New York Times bestseller. The Main Enemy was awarded the 2003 Cornelius Ryan Award for "best nonfiction book on international affairs" by the Overseas Press Club of America.

James Risen

Risen is the author of the book State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration (January 2006). The book conducted important investigations into Central Intelligence Agency activities. It states that the CIA carried out an operation in 2000 (Operation Merlin) intended to delay Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program by feeding it flawed blueprints for key missing components—which backfired and may actually have aided Iran, as the flaw was likely detected and corrected by a former Soviet nuclear scientist the operation used to make the delivery. In early 2003, The New York Times refrained from publication of the story after an

Secret Wars II (adventure)

MHSP2 Secret Wars II was written by Jeff Grubb, with a cover by John Byrne, and was published by TSR, Inc., in 1986 as two 32-page books, a large color map, and an outer folder.

Secret War (comics)

Secret War is a 2004–2005 comic book storyline published by Marvel Comics, consisting of a central, five-issue miniseries written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by Gabriele Dell'Otto, and a number of tie-in books. It is loosely based on classified operations told to Bendis by an anonymous high-ranking officer in the United States Intelligence Community during Bendis' childhood. The storyline involves a large-scale super-hero crossover featuring Marvel characters such as Spider-Man, Captain America, Wolverine, Daredevil, Luke Cage and Nick Fury fighting a wide array of super-villains who have received hi-tech armaments from a mysterious benefactor. The first issue was published in April 2004, and though intended originally as a bimonthly publication, it faced long delays. It was

Richard Miniter

Miniter's next book was based on research in Iraq, Kuwait, Egypt, Sudan, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines. Shadow War: The Untold Story of How America is Winning the War on Terror, became his second New York Times bestseller, debuting at number seven on the November 7, 2004 edition of the newspaper's non-fiction bestseller list.

State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration is documentary review written by Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist for The New York Times James Risen. The book was released on January 3, 2006. Risen writes in State of War that, "Several of the Iranian CIA agents were arrested and jailed, while the fate of some of the others is still unknown", after a CIA official in 2004 sent an Iranian agent an encrypted electronic message, mistakenly including data that could potentially identify "virtually every spy the CIA had inside Iran". The Iranian was a double agent and handed over the information to Iranian intelligence.


Question: Who is the author of Black?

Answer: Joyce Carol Oates

Bob Black

Robert Charles Black Jr. (born January 4, 1951) is an American anarchist and author. He is the author of the books The Abolition of Work and Other Essays, Beneath the Underground, Friendly Fire, Anarchy After Leftism, and Defacing the Currency, and numerous political essays.

Michael Black (literary critic)

Michael H. Black is a British author and held the position of University Publisher at Cambridge University Press.

The Black Book (Durrell novel)

The Black Book is a novel by Lawrence Durrell, published in 1938 by the Obelisk Press.

Black Man (novel)

Black Man (published as Thirteen in North America and later UK editions) is a 2007 science fiction novel by the British author Richard Morgan. It won the 2008 Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Black (novel)

Black: The Birth of Evil is a novel written by author Ted Dekker. It is the first book in the Circle Series, and is a part of the Books of History Chronicles. The book was published in 2004 by Thomas Nelson.

Cara Black (author)

Cara Black (author)

Cara Black (born November 14, 1951) is a bestselling American mystery writer. She is best known for her "Aimée Leduc" mystery novels featuring a female Paris-based private investigator. Black is included in the "Great Women Mystery Writers" by Elizabeth Lindsay 2nd edition. Her first novel "Murder in the Marais" was nominated for an Anthony Award for best first novel and the third novel in the series, "Murder in the Sentier", was Anthony-nominated for Best Novel.<ref name="carablack" />

Black Panther (character)

Black Panther (character)

Black Panther is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist-coplotter Jack Kirby. The character first appeared in "Fantastic Four" #52 (cover-dated July 1966) in the Silver Age of Comic Books. Black Panther's real name is T'Challa, and he is depicted as the king and protector of the fictional African nation of Wakanda. Along with possessing enhanced abilities achieved through ancient Wakandan rituals of drinking the essence of the heart-shaped herb, T'Challa also relies on his proficiency in science, rigorous physical training, hand-to-hand combat skills, and access to wealth and advanced Wakandan technology to combat his enemies.

Black Panther is the first protagonist of African descent in mainstream American comics, having debuted years before early black superheroes such as Marvel Comics' the Falcon (1969), Luke Cage (1972), and Blade (1973) or DC Comics' John Stewart in the role of Green Lantern (1971). In one comic book storyline, the Black Panther mantle is handled by Kasper Cole, a multiracial New York City police officer. Beginning as an impersonator, Cole would later take on the moniker of White Tiger and become an ally to T'Challa. The role of Black Panther and leadership of Wakanda was also given to T'Challa's sister Shuri while he was in a coma for a short time.

Black Panther has made numerous appearances in various television shows, animated films and video games. Chadwick Boseman portrayed the character in of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's films: "" (2016), "Black Panther" (2018), "" (2018), and "" (2019), and voiced alternate versions of the character in the first season of the animated series "What If...?" (2021).

Black Clover

Black Clover

The manga was first adapted into an original video animation produced by Xebec Zwei, released in 2017. An anime television series adaptation produced by Pierrot aired in Japan on TV Tokyo from October 2017 to March 2021. An anime film, titled "Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King", is set to premiere in Japanese theaters and on Netflix in March 2023.

In North America, the manga is licensed for English release by Viz Media, while the anime series is licensed by Crunchyroll.

List of African-American writers

List of African-American writers

This is a list of Black American authors and writers, all of whom are considered part of African-American literature, and who already have Wikipedia articles. The list also includes non-American authors resident in the US and American writers of African descent.

Black Beauty

Black Beauty

Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she was bedridden and seriously ill. The novel became an immediate best-seller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, but having lived long enough to see her only novel become a success. With fifty million copies sold, "Black Beauty" is one of the best-selling books of all time.

While forthrightly teaching animal welfare, it also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 58 on the BBC's survey "The Big Read". It is seen as a forerunner of the pony book.

William E. Cross Jr.

Cross published Shades of Black in 1991, which was largely a tribute to his experiences at the Africana Center at Cornell. He published this text with the help of Henry Louis Gates Jr., who motivated him to write the book, and Robert L. Harris who introduced him to Janet M. Francendese, a senior editor at Temple University Press. Cross relates that this book was his attempt to refocus black psychology away from that of self-hatred and the social pathology model which had largely prevailed during this time, and bring attention to the variability of one's identity and the phenomenon of identity

The Life and Times of Conrad Black

signed a few copies. Black is the author of numerous books and newspaper articles and has a reputation for the verbosity of his prose. 100 wordless black-and-white woodcut prints make up the book telling Black's life story. Walker based the images on photographs, many from newspapers or magazines and familiar to the public. He communicated with Black via email while Black was in prison in Florida; Black reviewed the woodcut images, rejecting some he felt were too controversial and making suggestions for others. Walker hand-printed the first edition of the book in a limited boxed edition of 13 copies, symbolic of the thirteen boxes Black removed from his

Paul Black (author)

Black grew up in the western suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. His passion for art and writing began early. By age twelve, he had advanced into adult level drawing classes. By high school, he had completed a book of poetry and his first novella. He attended University of Oklahoma where he earned a degree in graphic design and was a 2-time national champion gymnast.

Conrad Black

The book "The Establishment Man", sub-titled "A Portrait of Power", by Peter C.Newman, detailing Black's early career, was published in 1982 by McClelland and Stewart; ISBN: 0-7710-6786-0 ; The documentary film Citizen Black, which premiered at the 2004 Montreal and Cambridge film festivals, traces Black's life and filmmaker Debbie Melnyk's attempts in 2003 to interview Black, and her eventual interview. US prosecutors subpoenaed unused footage of a 2003 shareholders meeting for use in Black's trial. ; Canadian actor Albert Schultz portrayed Black in the 2006 CTV movie Shades of Black. ; Tom Bower's biography Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge (ISBN: 0007232349) was published in 2006 by HarperCollins. It was republished in August 2007 with an additional chapter reporting on the trial and its outcomes. ; A book, Robber Baron: Lord Black of Crossharbour, was published in 2007 by ECW press and written by George Tombs; ISBN: 978-1-55022-806-9 ; Canadian artist George Walker published the wordless novel The Life and Times of Conrad Black in 2013.

Cyril Black

on appeal the publisher, John Calder, won, and, in the view of The Times, Calder's success virtually ended book censorship in Britain. Black unsuccessfully campaigned against the publication of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. In 1970 he sued an American publisher and authors for libel. They had described him in print as "an evil person engaged in perversions". Black sought £1,000,000 damages and was awarded £43,000. He also brought successful lawsuits against Private Eye for suggesting that he profited from a conflict of interests between his local government and property-development activities, and Socialist Leader for calling him a racist. Black was chairman of Beaumont Properties Ltd from

Larry Neal

Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing (co-editor, with Amiri Baraka) (1968) ; Trippin': A Need for Change (co-author, with Amiri Baraka and A. B. Spellman) (1969)

Paul Black (author)

Paul Black (born 1957 in Hinsdale, Illinois ) is an American graphic artist, designer and writer of general and science fiction. He is best known for his near-future science fiction trilogy, The Tels.

Roger Furman

Furman was the author of a book called The Black Book. He taught courses of black drama at New York University, Rutgers, and Hartford University. The Roger Furman Theatre (at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) is named after him.

The Black Leather Jacket

The Black Leather Jacket is a book written by English journalist and author Mick Farren published in 1985.

Shahrazad Ali

Shahrazad Ali (born April 27, 1954) is an American author of several books, including a paperback called The Blackman's Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman. The book was controversial bringing "forth community forums, pickets and heated arguments among blacks in many parts" of the US when it was published in 1989.

David Muhammad

Muhammad is the author of the book The Black Studies Anthology - an ordinary level, academic course covering the subject areas of Black history, its economics, philosophy, psychology, education, and creative expression. In its first year, some 1700 copies were sold. Another edition is to be launched in 2015. He is a contributing writer to the T&T Mirror and Final Call newspaper, the most widely circulated international Black publication. His interest in Black consciousness became activated and focused when he began studying sociology at age 17.

The Black Book (Morrison book)

The Black Book is a collage-like book compiled by Toni Morrison published by Random House in 1974, which explores the history and experience of African Americans in the United States through various historic documents, facsimiles, artwork, obituaries, advertisements, patent applications, photographs, sheet music, and more. The book was co-edited by Roger Furman, Middleton A. Harris, Morris Levitt, and Ernest Smith, and features an introduction by Bill Cosby. Toni Morrison, who was then an editor at Random House, was The Black Books uncredited compiler, and a poem by her appeared on the book's slipcover. Morrison said it was important to include documents such as patents to demonstrate that African Americans were "busy, smart and not just minstrelized". The Black Book was nominated for a 1975 National Book Award, and received an award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts. In 2009, Random House published a 35th anniversary edition of The Black Book, containing Morrison's poem as the preface.

Black Flame (book)

The authors are South Africans. Michael Schmidt, a senior journalist with an activist background, is now a journalism trainer. Lucien van der Walt, an industrial sociologist who works on labour and left movements and capitalist restructuring, also has an activist background.

The Black Riders and Other Lines

The Black Riders and Other Lines is a book of poetry written by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). It was first published in 1895 by Copeland & Day.

Toni Morrison

developed and edited is The Black Book (1974), an anthology of photographs, illustrations, essays, and documents of black life in the United States from the time of slavery to the 1920s. Random House had been uncertain about the project but its publication met with a good reception. Alvin Beam reviewed the anthology for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, writing: "Editors, like novelists, have brain children – books they think up and bring to life without putting their own names on the title page. Mrs. Morrison has one of these in the stores now, and magazines and newsletters in the publishing trade are ecstatic, saying it will go like hotcakes."


Question: Who is the author of The Test?

Answer: Mary Tappan Wright

Christiana Morgan

Murray in the first publication of the test, and as late as 1941 the test was known as the "Morgan-Murray Thematic Apperception Test". When the current version of the test was published by the Harvard University Press in 1943, authorship was attributed to "Henry A. Murray, M.D., and the Staff of the Harvard Psychological Clinic." As it was further developed, Morgan's pictures were taken out as well as her co-authorship. Murray stated 1985, "Morgan asked to have her name removed as senior author of the 1943/1971 TAT because she disliked the obligation of making the academic responses". Morgan administered one of the earliest versions of the test to one of the first diagnosed anorexic patients in Boston.

The Test (Wright novel)

The Test is a novel by Mary Tappan Wright. It was first published in hardcover by Charles Scribner's Sons in February, 1904. It was Wright's second published novel and third published book.

The Test (Applegate novel)

The Test is the 43rd book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate. It was ghostwritten by Ellen Geroux. It is narrated by Tobias.

Joseph Torgesen

language difficulties of children with specific developmental reading disabilities (dyslexia). He is the author or co-author of over 230 books, book chapters, and articles on the psychology of reading, reading disabilities, and reading instruction. He is also the author, with Dr. Richard Wagner and Dr. Carol Rashotte, of two of the most widely used diagnostic tests for dyslexia, The Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processes and the Test of Word Reading Efficiency. In 2002, Dr. Torgesen was asked by Governor Jeb Bush of Florida to establish a center for reading research at Florida State University. The center was to have

A Test of the News

A Test of the News is a study of the objectivity and neutrality of press coverage, written by Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz, later editor of the New York Times. It was prepared with the assistance of Faye Albertson Lippmann, Lippmann's first wife. The subject was the portrayal of the Russian Revolution. The study appeared on August 4, 1920 as a 42-page supplement to The New Republic. In a kind of content analysis, the authors examined several thousand newspaper articles in more than 1,000 issues published over a period of three years, beginning in March 1917 and ending in March 1920.

Bechdel test

Bechdel test

The Bechdel test ( ) is a measure of the representation of women in film (and, by extension, in fiction in general). The test asks whether a film features at least two women talking to each other about something other than a man. The measure sometimes is enhanced by adding that the two female characters be named in the film.

Passing or failing the test is not necessarily indicative of how well women are represented in any specific work. Rather, the test is used as an indicator for the active presence of women in the entire field of film and other fiction, and to call attention to gender inequality in fiction. Media industry studies indicate that films that pass the test perform better financially than those that do not.

The test is named after the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, in whose 1985 comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For" the test first appeared. Bechdel credited the idea to her friend Liz Wallace and the writings of Virginia Woolf. After the test became more widely discussed in the 2000s, a number of variants and tests inspired by it emerged.

CRAAP test

CRAAP test

The CRAAP test is a test to check the objective reliability of information sources across academic disciplines. CRAAP is an acronym for Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose. is used mainly by higher education librarians at universities. It is one of various approaches to source criticism.

The Death of the Author

The Death of the Author

"The Death of the Author" (French: "La mort de l'auteur") is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915–1980). Barthes's essay argues against traditional literary criticism's practice of relying on the intentions and biography of an author to definitively explain the "ultimate meaning" of a text. Instead, the essay emphasizes the primacy of each individual reader's interpretation of the work over any "definitive" meaning intended by the author, a process in which subtle or unnoticed characteristics may be drawn out for new insight. The essay's first English-language publication was in the American journal "Aspen", no. 5–6 in 1967; the French debut was in the magazine "Manteia", no. 5 (1968). The essay later appeared in an anthology of Barthes's essays, "Image-Music-Text" (1977), a book that also included his "From Work to Text".

William Moulton Marston

William Moulton Marston

William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947), also known by the pen name Charles Moulton (), was an American psychologist who, with his wife Elizabeth Holloway, invented an early prototype of the lie detector. He was also known as a self-help author and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman.<ref name="NYT-20141023"/>

Two women, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston, and their polyamorous life partner, Olive Byrne, greatly influenced Wonder Woman's creation.

He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a 1968 nonfiction book by Tom Wolfe. The book is a popular example of the New Journalism literary style. Wolfe presents a firsthand account of the experiences of Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters, who traveled across the US in a colorfully painted school bus, "Furthur", whose name was painted on the destination sign, indicating the general ethos of the Pranksters. Kesey and the Pranksters became famous for their use of psychedelic drugs such as LSD in order to achieve expansion of their consciousness. The book chronicles the Acid Tests (parties with LSD-laced Kool-Aid), encounters with notable figures of the time (Hells Angels, Grateful Dead, Allen Ginsberg) and describes Kesey's exile to Mexico and his arrests.

Randy Elliot Bennett

Bennett is author or editor of nine books, as well as over 100 journal articles, chapters, and technical reports. Those publications have concentrated on several themes. The 1998 publication, Reinventing Assessment: Speculations on the Future of Large-Scale Educational Testing, presented a three-stage framework for how paper-and-pencil tests would gradually transition to digital form, eventually melding with online activities, blurring the distinction between learning and assessment, and leading to improvements in both pursuits. A series of subsequent publications built upon the work of Robert Glaser, Norman O. Frederiksen, Samuel Messick, James Pellegrino, Lorrie Shepard and others to create a unified model

The Test (2019)

The Test is a 2019 fiction novella by Sylvain Neuvel. An Iranian takes a British immigration test consisting of 25 questions.

Test-Tube Conceived

All titles written by Robert Calvert.

James Marcus Bach

James Marcus Bach is a software tester, author, trainer and consultant. He is a proponent of exploratory testing and the context-driven school of software testing and is credited with developing session-based testing. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Software Testing. Lessons Learned in Software Testing, a book he co-authored, has been cited over 130 times according to Google Scholar, and several of his articles have been cited dozens of times including his work on heuristics for testing and on the Capability Maturity Model. He has written numerous articles for IEEE Computer. In his autobiography, he reports that he worked as a software testing manager for Apple and Borland after

Edwin E. Wagner

Edwin E. Wagner is the principal proponent and author of "The Hand Test". Wagner has written over 200 publications in psychology including manuals, reviews, monographs, books and journal articles. Born in 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he received a B.A. in psychology (summa cum laude) (1956), M.A. in psychology (1957) and Ph.D. in psychology (1959) all from Temple University. Wagner's academic appointments include instructor at Pennsylvania State University and Temple University, Professor Emeritus at University of Akron, and Dean at Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in Huntsville, Alabama.

Test of the Warlords

CM1 Test of the Warlords was written by Douglas Niles, with a cover by Clyde Caldwell, and interior illustrations by Jeff Easley, and was published by TSR in 1984 as a 32-page booklet with an outer folder.

Steve Blinkhorn

Blinkhorn has been responsible for some of the most widely used ability and aptitude tests for recruitment and selection. He is also known as a critic of bad testing practice, in particular the abuse of personality tests (see papers). At the age of 37, he became one of the then youngest fellows of the British Psychological Society. He has been a member of the BPS's Test Standards Committee, and served on the Society's Fellowships Committee. He is one of three consulting editors for Selection & Development Review (SDR) (published by the BPS) alongside Victor Dulewicz and Neil Anderson. Blinkhorn was also a member of the panel formed by the BPS to investigate the polygraph and contributed a chapter to the book The Polygraph Test (1988), which

William Tester

William Tester (born April 26, 1960, in Charleston, South Carolina) is an American short story writer and novelist. He was raised on a cattle ranch in Florida and is a graduate of Columbia University (B.A., 1984) and Syracuse University (M.F.A., 1995). He published the novel Darling in 1991 (ISBN: 0-394-56872-9) and the story collection Head (ISBN: 1-889330-48-5) in 2000. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and The Mary McCarthy Prize. His short fiction and memoir excerpts have appeared in Esquire, Bomb, Nerve, TriQuarterly, The Quarterly, The North American Review, Witness and other literary journals. He taught writing at Columbia University, the State University of New York and Virginia Commonwealth University. He married artist and architectural designer Josefa Mulaire in May 1992.

Buros Center for Testing

Oscar Krisen Buros (1906-1978) was a professor of measurement and statistics in the Rutgers School of Education when he published a comprehensive review of psychological tests in 1938, called the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY). It has been updated regularly ever since, with 19 subsequent editions through 2017. In a profile in Time in 1939, Buros explained that he relied upon outside experts to provide reviews, utilizing 133 reviewers in the first edition, and 245 for the second edition. He indicated that he was motivated to start the project due to his belief that nine out of ten published tests were unreliable. He indicated that he

The Test (short story)

"The Test" (German: "Die Prüfung") is a short story by Franz Kafka that comprises a conversation between two men. The titular test, which has been described as an exercise in "question questioning", is a mental exercise by one of the conversants, who sees whether the other behaves the way he expects.

The Testing of Luther Albright

The Testing of Luther Albright is the debut novel of MacKenzie Scott, published in 2005 by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins.

Oscar Krisen Buros

Oscar Krisen Buros was the creator, editor, and publisher of The Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) and Tests in Print (TIP) series, Buros began an editorship in the 1930s that would extend for more than 40 years and significantly affect the history of the commercial testing industry. Often referred to as the Consumer Reports of the testing industry, Buros’ Yearbooks have been extremely influential on the quality of psychological and educational tests.

TestU01

An initial battery of randomness tests for RNGs was suggested in the 1969 first edition of The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth. Knuth's tests were then supplanted by George Marsaglia's Diehard tests (1996) consisting of fifteen different tests. The inability to modify the test parameters or add new tests led to the development of the TestU01 library.

Educational Testing Service

(structural equation modeling and confirmatory factor analysis); Paul Holland (differential item functioning, test equating, causal modeling); Howard Wainer (differential item functioning, Testlet Response Theory, statistical graphics); John Carroll (language testing and cognitive psychology); Michael Lewis (infant cognitive, social, and emotional development); Irving Sigel (children's cognitive development);  Herman Witkin (cognitive and learning styles); K. Patricia Cross (adult education); Samuel Ball (an evaluation researcher who documented the positive educational effects of Sesame Street); David Rosenhan (known for the Rosenhan experiment, which challenged the validity of psychiatric diagnosis); Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (the effects of poverty on infant, child, and adolescent development); and Anthony Carnevale (education and the workforce). Members of the ETS staff have been among the

Alan Baddeley

Baddeley has also part authored a number of neuropsychological tests including the Doors and People, Children's Test of Nonword Repetition (CN REP), the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test (RBMT), Autobiographical Memory Interview (AMI), Visual Patterns Test (VPT) and the Speed and Capacity of Language Processing Test (SCOLP). Baddeley was involved in the design of United Kingdom postcodes, and was one of the founders of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology.


Question: Who is the author of Darkness?

Answer: Bharati Mukherjee

Darkness, Tell Us

Darkness, Tell Us is a 1991 horror novel by American writer Richard Laymon. Originally published by Headline Features, it is currently available in a paperback edition from Leisure Fiction.

Daughter of Darkness (novel)

Daughter of Darkness is a 1972 psychological thriller written by Jan and Robert Lowell, a husband and wife who use the joint pseudonym J. R. Lowell.

Darkness (novel)

Darkness is a horror novel by John Saul published in 1991. Set in the fictional hamlet of Villejeune, Florida, a town shrouded by a dark, evil force. On the edge of an eerie swamp the townsfolk act out gruesome rituals to appease the dark spirit that lies within the watery fortress enveloping the village. The Andersons return to the town, and soon realize they must confront this evil head on.

Angel Leigh McCoy

* World of Darkness, Vol. II, contributing author; 1996 * Monsters of Norrath, co-author, August 2002 ; * Player's Handbook, co-author, July 2002 * Defender Sourcebook, co-author; 1999 ; * Survival Guide, contributing author; 1999 ; * Hunter: the Reckoning, contributing author; 1999 * The Medellín Agent, co-author; 1997 ; * Overlay Accessory Kit, contributing author; 1994 * Magic, contributing author; 1995 ; * Legends of Earthdawn, contributing author; 1995 * Aberrant: Project Utopia, White Wolf Publishing, contributing author; 1999 ; * Deadlands: Marshall Law, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, contributing author, 1996 ; * World of Necroscope: Book of Adventures, West End Games, contributing author;

Dan Wells (author)

A Night of Blacker Darkness, written as Frederick Whithers (author) and Cecil G. Bagsworth III (editor) (July 2011, Fearful Symmetry, ISBN: 978-1-4660-0075-9) ; The Hollow City (July 2012, Tor Books, ISBN: 978-0765331700) ; Extreme Makeover (November 2016, Tor Books, ISBN: 978-0-7653-8562-8) ; Ghost Station (November 2019, Audible Originals)

Dark (TV series)

Dark (TV series)

Dark is a German science fiction thriller television series co-created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese. It ran for three seasons from 2017 to 2020. The story follows characters from the fictional village of Winden, Germany, as they pursue the truth in the aftermath of a child's disappearance. They follow connections between four estranged families to unravel a sinister time travel conspiracy which spans several generations. The series explores the existential implications of time and its effect on human nature. It features an ensemble cast.

"Dark" debuted on 1 December 2017 on Netflix; it is the service's first German-language original series. The second season was released on 21 June 2019, while the third and final season was released on 27 June 2020.

"Dark" received critical acclaim, with praise for its tone, visuals, acting, casting, musical score, and the ambition and complexity of its narrative. The series' ending also received critical praise, with many calling it a "satisfying" conclusion. In 2021, the "BBC" ranked the series as the 58th greatest TV series of the 21st century.

Darkness at Noon

Darkness at Noon

Darkness at Noon () is a novel by Hungarian-born novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best known work, it is the tale of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government that he helped to create.

The novel is set between 1938 and 1940, after the Stalinist Great Purge and Moscow show trials. Despite being based on real events, the novel does not name either Russia or the Soviets, and tends to use generic terms to describe people and organizations: for example the Soviet government is referred to as "the Party" and Nazi Germany is referred to as "the Dictatorship". Joseph Stalin is represented by "Number One", a menacing dictator. The novel expresses the author's disillusionment with the Bolshevik ideology of the Soviet Union at the outset of World War II.

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked "Darkness at Noon" number eight on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, even though Koestler wrote it in German.

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad in which the sailor Charles Marlow tells his listeners the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior. The novel is widely regarded as a critique of European colonial rule in Africa, whilst also examining the themes of power dynamics and morality. Although Conrad does not name the river on which most of the narrative takes place, at the time of writing the Congo Free State, the location of the large and economically important Congo River, was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II. Marlow is given a text by Kurtz, an ivory trader working on a trading station far up the river, who has "gone native" and is the object of Marlow's expedition.

Central to Conrad's work is the idea that there is little difference between "civilised people" and "savages." "Heart of Darkness" implicitly comments on imperialism and racism. The novella's setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his fascination for the prolific ivory trader Kurtz. Conrad draws parallels between London ("the greatest town on earth") and Africa as places of darkness.

Originally issued as a three-part serial story in "Blackwood's Magazine" to celebrate the 1000th edition of the magazine, "Heart of Darkness" has been widely republished and translated in many languages. It provided the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film "Apocalypse Now". In 1998, the Modern Library ranked "Heart of Darkness" 67th on their list of the 100 best novels in English of the 20th century.

Darkness Visible (memoir)

Darkness Visible (memoir)

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness is a memoir by American writer William Styron about his descent into depression and the triumph of recovery. It is among the last books published by Styron and is among his most celebrated.

First published in December 1989 in "Vanity Fair", the book grew out of a lecture that Styron originally delivered at a symposium on affective disorders at the Department of Psychiatry of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Through the employment of anecdotes, speculation, and reportage, Styron reflects on the causes and effects of depression, drawing links between his own illness and that of other writers and public figures.

The Left Hand of Darkness

The Left Hand of Darkness

The Left Hand of Darkness is a science fiction novel by U.S. writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Published in 1969, it became immensely popular, and established Le Guin's status as a major author of science fiction. The novel is set in the fictional Hainish universe as part of the "Hainish Cycle", a series of novels and short stories by Le Guin, which she introduced in the 1964 short story "The Dowry of Angyar". It was fourth in sequence of writing among the Hainish novels, preceded by "City of Illusions", and followed by "The Word for World Is Forest".

The novel follows the story of Genly Ai, a human native of Terra, who is sent to the planet of Gethen as an envoy of the Ekumen, a loose confederation of planets. Ai's mission is to persuade the nations of Gethen to join the Ekumen, but he is stymied by a lack of understanding of their culture. Individuals on Gethen are "ambisexual", with no fixed sex; this has a strong influence on the culture of the planet, and creates a barrier of understanding for Ai.

"The Left Hand of Darkness" was among the first books in the genre now known as feminist science fiction and is the most famous examination of androgyny in science fiction. A major theme of the novel is the effect of sex and gender on culture and society, explored in particular through the relationship between Ai and Estraven, a Gethenian politician who trusts and helps Ai. When the book was first published, the gender theme touched off a feminist debate over the depiction of the ambisexual Gethenians. The novel also explores the interaction between the unfolding loyalties of its two main characters, the loneliness and rootlessness of Ai, and the contrast between the religions of Gethen's two major nations.

"The Left Hand of Darkness" has been reprinted more than 30 times, and received high praise from reviewers. In 1970 it was voted the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel by fans and writers, respectively, and was ranked as the third best novel, behind Frank Herbert's "Dune" and Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End", in a 1975 poll in "Locus" magazine. In 1987, "Locus" ranked it second among science fiction novels, after "Dune", and literary critic Harold Bloom wrote, "Le Guin, more than Tolkien, has raised fantasy into high literature, for our time".

Jim Kelly (author)

The Great Darkness 2018 ; The Mathematical Bridge 2019 ; The Night Raids 2020

The White Darkness (novel)

The White Darkness is a novel by Geraldine McCaughrean, published in 2005 by Oxford University Press. It won the 2008 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association.

Ellen Datlow

Nebula Awards Showcase 2009, Darkness: Two Decades of Horror (2010), Hauntings (2013), Queen Victoria's Book of Spells (with Terri Windling, Tor Books, 2013), Lovecraft's Monsters (2014), The Cutting Room (2014), The Monstrous (2015), Nightmares (Tachyon Publications, 2016), The Doll Collection (2016), Mad Hatters and March Hares (2017), The Devil and the Deep (2018), and When Things Get Dark (2021). She now edits The Best Horror of the Year, published by Night Shade Books. This is an annual compendium of selected horror fiction and poetry published in the previous year. It has included work by notable writers including Laird Barron, Stephen Graham Jones, Michael Marshall Smith, Joe R. Lansdale, and Nicholas Royle.

Jason Nahrung

The Darkness Within – with Mil Clayton, (Hachette Livre) ; Salvage, 2012, (Twelfth Planet Press) ; Blood and Dust, 2012, (Xoum Publishing)

Christopher Pike (author)

On November 25, 1996, his book Fall into Darkness was adapted into a television movie of the same name, produced by his company Christopher Pike Productions. His novels The Midnight Club and The Season of Passage have both been optioned, for a television series and film, respectively.

Those Who Walk in Darkness

Those Who Walk in Darkness is a novel by John Ridley, published in May 2003. It details the life of a member of an elite police task force in Los Angeles that hunts down superhumans known as metanormals. It was followed in 2006 by a sequel, What Fire Cannot Burn.

Touching Darkness

Touching Darkness is a young adult novel by Scott Westerfeld. The second book in his Midnighters series, it was released in 2005 through EOS Books, a now-defunct branch of HarperCollins.

James Hanley (novelist)

The Darkness, Covent Garden Press, 1973 ; Lost, Vancouver, Canada: William Hoffer, 1979

Darker (magazine)

Mikhail Parfenov — creator of the webzine ; Svyatoslav Loginov — veteran of Russian science fiction ; Mariya Galina — Russian horror writer and translator ; Alexei Sholokhov — Russian horror writer

Shining Darkness (novel)

Shining Darkness is a BBC Books original novel written by Mark Michalowski and based on the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble. It was published on 4 September 2008, alongside Ghosts of India and The Doctor Trap.

This Present Darkness

This Present Darkness is a Christian novel by well-known suspense, horror, and fantasy author Frank E. Peretti. Published in 1986 by Crossway Books, This Present Darkness was Peretti's first published novel for adults and shows contemporary views on angels, demons, prayer, and spiritual warfare as demons and angels interact and struggle for control of the citizens of the small town of Ashton. It is critical of Eastern and New Age spiritual practices, portraying meditation as a means of demonic possession. This book sold in excess of 2.5 million copies worldwide and remained on the CBA top best sellers list for over 150 consecutive weeks after its release. It has been instrumental in promoting belief in Territorial Spirits. Its title comes from Ephesians 6:12 (RSV). "For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places." Peretti followed This Present Darkness up with a sequel in 1988, Piercing the Darkness.

At the Gates of Darkness

At the Gates of Darkness is a 2009 fantasy novel by American writer Raymond E. Feist, the second book of his Demonwar Saga and the 26th book in his Riftwar Cycle. The book continues the events of the previous novel involving Pug's battle with Belasco and the Demon Horde.

City of Darkness (novel)

City of Darkness is a dystopian young adult novel by Ben Bova, first published in 1976.

Shades of Darkness

Shades of Darkness is a novel by Richard Cowper published in 1986.

The Lake of Darkness

"Frateretto calls me; and tells me Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness. Pray, innocent, and beware the foul fiend". The Lake of Darkness is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1980. It won the Arts Council National Book Award for Genre Fiction in 1981. The title comes from a quotation from Shakespeare's King Lear: