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...n untitled photograph to an old magazine advertisement to an out-of-print novel to an antique postcard to an obsolete computer program. It is not p... ...rican Publishers); • authors (e.g., The Authors Guild, Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illust... ...n Mifflin Company); • authors (e.g., The Authors Guild, Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America); • libraries and archives (e.g., Library Cop... .... Berard (181) (describing a group of users who are interested in a radio series whose original right holders were known, but also known to be decea... ...ook, or a movie studio that wishes to create a film version of an obscure novel. There are a few other important aspects about this particular categ... ...ir use of works for scholarship and commentary purposes); Heitmann (182) (novelist and playwright afraid to quote someone for fear of being sued, but... ... 212 Ramos (39). 213 Perkins (205). 214 Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (“SFFWA”) (607). 215 SFFWA (607). 216 ... ...k, if it wanted to make additional derivative works (such as a television series based on the original motion picture it created), it would need per... ...‘Joint Sports Claimants’’) and motion pictures and syndicated television series (‘‘Program Suppliers’’) requesting commencement of a cable rate ad...
...arried, she could have been more. Except for Noppawan, who was a flagrant novelty, he couldn't quite decipher how whores and wives were all that diff... ...d to rise without his presence enthralled him. Having lots of money was a novelty and flaunting this novelty to patrician and plebian, proletariat an... ...unate enough to wander into such an animal sanctuary. Learning had been a series of refreshing stimuli slapping up against him like a cool breeze. It... ...g round eyes so eagerly on the savage world around you. Personally it is a novelty to me and I don't mind it at all. Do you remember how you felt when... ...f a wind through a cracked door or that numb sensation of lying alone, the fantasy of his masturbation eluding him, and his semen flowing on his skin ...
... am, back at a truth I learned long ago and have used in more than one of my novels: Nothing enters my life that isn’t caused or allowed by God, nothi... ...n writing (or should be). I had, and still have, much to learn about writing novels, but one thing I know, I need to continually work at my craft, lea... ...allen out of God’s hands. But the promise above is a living promise. I write fantasy, psychological horror, science fiction, romance. All of these are... ...w SF writers are religious, let alone Christian. They worship humanity. Many fantasy writers kneel at the altar of Gaia. And nowadays, most of the hea... ...e. Some of us write humor while others present the truth through legends and fantasy. Once our manuscript is complete, we market our message according... ...g enough to read the scripture verse on my desk, then quickly put together a series of stories about Christmas and mailed them to the editor of our sm... ...er, 63 the first to grab my pompoms and do the believe in yourself cheer. A series of stumbles landed me in the dark and I packed away my pompoms. Th... ...mpoms. The darkness hit me a few years ago, with the publication of my first novel. I thought I was walking in the daylight, on the right path, no stu... ...n early America. Christine Duncan is the author of the Kaye Berreano mystery series. She resides with her husband in Colorado. Visit Christine online ...
... - J.Cross/Stone 2 THE MYSTERY OF JAMIESON STONE A Novel by Jonathan Cross ... .... He had chosen Colombia University -- the name alone was ironic and somehow fed into the fantasy of his double life. After graduating with top honor... ...” Greene asked as if he were referring to a completed installment of a weekly TV dramatic series. “Who told you that Mr. Stone’s tragic death, whic... ...g neatly. Something for everyone, he mused. He tried to sleep, but his mind raced with a series of incongruities. What was the intruder looking for... ...peration.” “The ‘Cipher of Satan’,” he scoffed. “Even the name sounds like a Steven King novel.” “That may be so, but you can’t dismiss the possibi... ...d to the beach. The sun was about to set into a dark blue ocean as they walked between a series of sand dunes. The small group reached the ocean’s e...
... the mirror. Then a couple seconds later it was gone and there was nothing novel to see. It was just a reflection of himself staring back at him, this... ...eir marriage] Nawin? [As the marriage was new, her irritation was new; and novel and so it seemed to transcend the barrier of the door to mix sweetly ... ...er. It was one which, even with the right artist, would not work well as a series, let alone as one image and yet there it was projected onto the canv... ...hem, were the right one to depict it. As this was not a given second but a series of changes in a few minutes of a man's life, he soon saw these scene... ...ught, which the movement of those images brought down upon him. Within one series of loosely concatenated images, one dream, he (he or something simil... ...again with a mischievous grin, he thought of this use of the source of the fantasy for pleasure, the Laotian, without much compunction. Then he thoug... ...le are filthy rich, and I guess seeing large literal animals is a bit of a novelty in cities like Bangkok where they are so used to the open exhibitio... ...a woman was more sordid as a consequence. In this morning encounter with a fantasy and a hand had he not, despite himself, been enraptured by that dar... ...ether the phantom of that tacit, gentle soul of a woman and the possessive fantasy of the rough and naughty Laotian were trying to overtake him. They ...
... prominently, it’s very unusual,” she said. Mitch nodded, “It’s usually accompanied by a series of hieroglyphs. And look at it, it has detailing in... ...ey ring and handed it to Bob. “It’s for this locker here,” he said as he walked over to a series of lockers at the Rai Aren & Tavius E. 34 back... ... her face. Finally, she performed a detailed examination of Axiana’s eyes to complete the series of tests. “Your eyes are showing signs that somethi... ...ld be outcasts, left with nothing, shunned by our families and our society. It was just a fantasy, Zhek!” She took a deep breath, letting her words ... ...have led them to pursue their passion in storytelling. Secret of the Sands is their first novel. They are currently working on the sequel, Destiny o...
...mythology as a backdrop to delve into the meanings of life and religion. -McNally Robinson Rai Aren and Tavius E. have crafted a fast-paced, exciting novel overflowing with mystery and intrigue. The tension is constant. The characters fully developed. And the plot gripping. Ancient history and present day relevance are so expertly intertwined, that you might forget you are...
...ng the hard work of this author. Author Acknowledgments This is my second novel but without the usual suspects, the novel would still be sitting arou... ... to thank Meredith for reading and critiquing the very first draft of this novel. Your suggestions and questions helped improve the story. I must th... ...k JD Hollyfield, my gifted, talented and awesome cover artist. You make my novel shine. I want to thank Dianne Dykstra for all the discussions we had... ...s. I thought you might like the story. There are a few more books in that series if you wish to read them.” “May I, please?” Eagerly, Laylah handed h... ... books by authors Elissa Malcohn, K.L. Nappier, and other science fiction/fantasy/paranormal authors, Lakisha can be found writing down the adventure...
... mauled tunic had separated as the soldiers lifted him, and Ben had seen the series of slashes upon the mage’s body. They were so evenly spaced that t... ...n-fiction, and was a 2002 Independent eBook Awards Finalist. Barbara’s first fantasy novel is The Blue Flame, the first book in this series. The Silve... ...n, and was a 2002 Independent eBook Awards Finalist. Barbara’s first fantasy novel is The Blue Flame, the first book in this series. The Silver Angel,... ...ist. Barbara’s first fantasy novel is The Blue Flame, the first book in this series. The Silver Angel, the third book in the series, due out in 2004, ...
...Her published novels include, The Blue Flame, The Emerald Dagger, and The Silver Angel, the first three fantasy novels in her Daradawn series. She has also co-authored, Shadow Worlds, a science fiction suspense work with Darrell Bain, and ...
...A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad is a publication of ... ...ting period of my life have come to me through my books; and I know that a novelist lives in his work. He stands there, the only reality in an invente... ...ate terms; in a tone of regret. My answer is that if it be true that every novel contains an element of autobiography—and this can hardly be denied, s... ...bscure, sun-bathed existence, demand to ex- press itself in the shape of a novel, except on the ground of that mysterious fellowship which unites in a... ...p-leather of the sublime caballero. His was a very noble, a very unselfish fantasy, fit for nothing except to raise the envy of baser mor- tals. But t... ...ars to be the only roof over my head. To return to the Electronic Classics Series, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/ faculty/jmanis/ jimspdf.htm To return ...
...The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of... ...hop by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Documen... ...bund, an actress, a dancer—though she, it is true, did not say very much—a novelist, a mechanical ex- pert of some sort, a railway peer, geniuses, hai... .... There had been even attempts at epigram. Athanasian epi- grams. Bent the novelist had doubted if originally there had been a Third Person in the Tri... ...t little Phoebe!” said the bishop. “Kitty,” said Lady Ella, “has written a novel.” “Already! “ “With elopements in it—and all sorts of things. She’s h... ...ad it in him to make some re- sounding appeal. He might of course preach a series of thump- ing addresses and sermons, rather on the lines of “Fors Cl... ...ological ideas that for the most part they would understand by that only a fantasy of some great coming of angels and fiery chariots and judgments, an...
...lated from the Russian by R. S. T ownsend A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, trans. R. S. Townsend ... .... R. S. Townsend, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...went on to read T olstoi, and T urgenev’s powerful and antipathetic fellow-novelist, Dostoievsky, and many other Russian writers: but as he was the gr... ...his realism or his irony he cast a tinge of that mixed modern and oriental fantasy which belonged to his temperament. He suffered in youth, and suffer... ...ch longs to gain dramatic free- dom, but cannot achieve it. It is one of a series of portraits, 4 Virgin Soil wonderfully traced psychological studie... ...st mid-century, of which the most moving figure is the hero of the earlier novel, Dimitri Rudin. If we cared to follow T urgenev strictly in his growt... ...tions, we ought to begin with his Sportsman’s Note Book. But so far as his novels go, he is the last writer to be taken chronologically. He was old en...
...edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Don Quixote: Part One by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. Jo... ...Ormsby, 1922 ed., the Pennsylva- nia State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201- 1291 is a Portable D... ...ether with all the devices of pastoral poetry for investing with an air of novelty the idea of a dispairing shepherd and inflexible shepherdess. As a ... ...t against him on his return to Spain. To checkmate him Cervantes drew up a series of twenty-five questions, covering the whole period of his captivity... ... before he could find a publisher bold enough to undertake a venture of so novel a character; and so little faith in it had Francisco Robles of Madrid... ...uing the adventures of Don Quixote, he set to work to write more of these “Novelas Exemplares” as he afterwards called them, with a view to making a b... ...d since there is no hope Of happiness for me in life or death, Still to my fantasy I’ll fondly cling. I’ll say that he is wise who loveth well, 120 D... ...hile that night without the knowledge of her parents; and holding all this fantasy that he had constructed as solid fact, he began to feel uneasy and ...
... Wells (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publicatio... ...ent by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Documen... ...There after his tragic death came his old friend White, the journalist and novelist, under a promise, and found these papers; he found them to the ex-... ...hing of leaves, a snorting and slob- bering, grunting and sucking, a whole series of bestial sounds. He halted for a little while, and then drew neare... ...n sees his line, his in- tention. Yet though we are all of us writing long novels— White’s world was the literary world, and that is how it looked to ... ...ite fell back on his professionalism. “It does not make a book. It makes a novel into a treatise, it turns it into a dissertation.” But even as White ... ... idea of universal responsibility had already grown into the extraordinary fantasy that he was, as it were, an uncrowned king in the world. T o be nob...
...The World Set Free by H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of t... ...ree by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Documen... ...was written in 1913 and published early in 1914, and it is the latest of a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories which all turn on the pos... ...ing States. But for a long time men did not realise the importance of this novelty. They would not recognise, they were not able to recognise that any... ...he law is concerned with the question whether these patent rights have the novelty the plantiff claims for them. What that admission may or may not st... ...ction 5 FREDERICK BARNET’S WANDER JAHRE is one of those autobio- graphical novels that were popular throughout the third and fourth decades of the twe... ...foresight that brought back to that ex-monarch’s mind his half-forgot- ten fantasy of Leblanc as a fisherman under a green umbrella. About five o’cloc...
... ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine ... ... Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Do... ...ng characters of a class too long unheeded by the pens of writers who seek novelty as their chief object. Perhaps this forgetfulness is only prudence ... ...tistic. I have found the oasis that you and I have dreamed of when reading novels,—nature luxuriant and adorned, rolling lines that are not confused, ... ... twist their tails in curious convolutions around rich vases, and Japanese fantasy embroiders its de- signs of many colors; where sofas and reclining-... ...mirror, where the stream seems to sleep until it reaches in the distance a series of cascades falling among huge rocks, where little weeping willows w... ...” as they called him. His marriage had made Sibilet as irreproachable as a novel of Miss Edgeworth’s, and presented him, more- over, in the light of a...
... Romance of the Shallows by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Rescue by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pen... ...e by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...n the world’s great storm of theyear 1914. AUTHOR’S NOTE OF THE THREE LONG NOVELS of mine which suffered an interruption, “The Rescue” was the one tha... ...y, impossibly different, as if in another universe, as if presented by the fantasy of a fevered memory. He saw her in a luminous perspective of palati... ...ensely alive. She felt alive in a flush of strength, with an impression of novelty as though life had been the gift of this very moment. The danger hi... ...omise with the nominal commander, but the mate was so demoral- ized by the novelty of the assaults made upon his respectability that the young defende... ...stared at the wisps of white vapour floating above Belarab’s stockade. The series of sharp detonations ceased and their combined echoes came back over...
...s of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsd... ...y Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylva- nia State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201- 1291 is a Portable D... ...r, that, namely, of Pro- fessor Teufelsdrockh the Discloser. Of both which novelties, as far as might be possible, we resolved to master the sig- nifi... ...e, as if sure to hear some- thing noteworthy. Nay, perhaps to hear a whole series and river of the most memorable utterances; such as, when once thawe... ...ithin me to shape an answer. Ever, in my distresses and my loneliness, has Fantasy turned, full of longing (sehnsuchtsvoll), to that unknown Father, w... ...hrough the watery albumen; and out of vague Sensation grows Thought, grows Fantasy and Force, and we have Philosophies, Dynasties, nay Poetries and Re... ...otable enough. Fit emblem of many a Conquering Hero, to whom Fate (wedding Fantasy to Sense, as it often elsewhere does) has malignantly appended a ti... ...ret. Nor are Sacred Books wanting to the Sect; these they call Fashionable Novels: however, the Canon is not completed, and some are canonical and oth... ...s a private individual, to open another Fash- 196 Sartor Resartus ionable Novel. But luckily, in this dilemma, comes a hand from the clouds; whereby ...
...T PLACES OF THE HEART BY H. G. WELLS 1922 A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells is a publ... ...t by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Docu- m... ...just the body and powers of an ape, a little improved, a little adapted to novel needs. That brings me to my point. Can his mind and will be any- thin... ... Section 1 ection 1 ection 1 ection 1 ection 1 NO WISE MAN goes out upon a novel expedition without mis- givings. And between their first meeting and ... ... doing that. But in the general confusion old Cassidy will get away with a series of hauls that may run into millions. Which will last his time—damn h... ...ointed to the midsummer sunrise,” said Dr. Martineau, unheeded. “These are novel ideas,” said the father of the family in the reproving tone of one wh... ...scales. A memory of Swedengorg’s Heaven and Hell mingled with the Egyptian fantasy. Now at last it was possible to know some- thing real about this ma...
...Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a pu... ...haniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Do... ...angry with her, from mere de spair of doing anything for her comfort. The fantasy occurred to me that she was some desolate kind of a creature, doome... ...tal army of crusaders had ever marched before. Fourier’s works, also, in a series of horribly tedious volumes, attracted a good deal of my attention, ... ...isible scene of earth and 51 Hawthorne sky. There was, at such moments, a novelty, an unwonted aspect, on the face of Nature, as if she had been take... ...it had a bloom. Priscilla’s smile, like a baby’s first one, was a wondrous novelty. Her imper fections and shortcomings affected me with a kind of pl... ...th nothing genuine about him save the wicked ex pression of his grin. The fantasy of his spectral character so wrought upon me, together with the con... ...ue. Altogether, by projecting our minds outward, we had imparted a show of novelty to existence, and contemplated it as hopefully as if the soil be n... ...s in the best par lor, it struck me that here was the fulfilment of every fantasy of an imagination revelling in various methods of costly self indu...