The Cask of Amontillado Poe may have borrowed Montresor's family motto "Nemo me impune lacessit" from James Fenimore Cooper, who used the line in "The Last of the Mohicans" (1826). Poe wrote his tale, however, as a response to his personal rival Thomas Dunn English. Poe and English had several confrontations, usually revolving around literary caricatures of one another. Poe thought that one of English's writings went a bit too far, and successfully sued the other man's editors at "The New York Mirror" for libel in 1846. That year English published a revenge-based novel called "1844, or, The Power of the S.F." Its plot
The Last Days of Dinosaurs (book) The Last Days of Dinosaurs (book) The Last Days of Dinosaurs (in Czech original "Poslední dny dinosaurů") is a science-fiction thriller from Czech writer and science promoter Vladimír Socha. Its story is about four audacious people who undergo a time travel to the very end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago. Not only must they find a way how to evade the Armageddon caused by the giant asteroid (Chicxulub) impact, they also have to save themselves from the dangerous theropod dinosaurs (like "Tyrannosaurus" or "Dakotaraptor") and even a mad scientist who wants to change the course of evolution