Rory Culkin Rory Culkin Rory Hugh Culkin (born July 21, 1989) is an American actor who is known for his roles in "Scream 4", "You Can Count on Me" and M. Night Shyamalan's "Signs" and is the younger brother of actors Macaulay Culkin and Kieran Culkin. Culkin was born in New York City, the son of Patricia Brentrup and Christopher 'Kit' Culkin, a former stage actor with a long career on Broadway. Culkin is the youngest of eight children; he has four brothers: Shane (b. 1976), Macaulay (b. 1980), Kieran (b. 1982), and Christian (b. 1987), and three sisters: Jennifer (1970–2000) Dakota
City at the End of Time books include characters who dream of cities in the far future (the Kalpa, and the Last Redoubt in "The Night Land") which are surrounded by encroaching chaos. The Kalpa also draws on Arthur C. Clarke's future city, Diaspar in his 1956 novel, "The City and the Stars". Influences of other past works on "City at the End of Time" include H. P. Lovecraft's novella "The Shadow Out of Time" (1936), in which people exchange personalities in dreams across time, and Olaf Stapledon's "Last and First Men" (1930), in which the last of humanity in the deep future mentally contact people