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The 21st century brought more examples of vampire fiction, such as J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series, and other highly popular vampire books which appeal to teenagers and young adults. Such vampiric paranormal romance novels and allied vampiric chick-lit and vampiric occult detective stories are a remarkably popular and ever ...
The Queen of Fortune holds the Wheel of Fortune, from an early manuscript of Troy Book. Troy Book is a Middle English poem by John Lydgate relating the history of Troy from its foundation through to the end of the Trojan War. It is in five books, comprising 30,117 lines in ten-syllable couplets.
It is adapted from the 2019 board game, Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon. Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon (2023, EA), an epic first-person, open-world RPG in the Tainted Grail lore, set long after King Arthur's death. SWORN (2024), a co-op roguelike action game with 3D cartoony, grimdark visuals for 1-4 players. Quest to take back Camelot ...
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
The Vatican named Schindler's List among the most important 45 films ever made. [151] A Channel 4 poll named Schindler's List the ninth greatest film of all time, [6] and it ranked fourth in their 2005 war films poll. [152] The film was named the best of 1993 by critics such as James Berardinelli, [153] Roger Ebert, [88] and Gene Siskel. [154]
Captain Pausert is a well-intentioned but inexperienced merchant traveler from the planet Nikkeldepain, voyaging solo on the old pirate chaser Venture.While on the planet Porlumma, the captain is moved by sympathy to purchase three young sisters – Maleen (about 14 years old), Goth (9 or 10), and the Leewit (5 or 6) – who had been enslaved while visiting another planet on a jaunt of their own.
Sleeping Beauty The Musical (2019), a two act musical with book and lyrics by Ian Curran and music by Simon Hanson and Peter Vint. [97] Hex (2021) is a musical with book by Tanya Ronder, music by Jim Fortune and lyrics by Rufus Norris that opened at the Royal National Theatre in December 2021.
Science-fiction writer Dan Simmons wrote his Hugo Award winning 1989 novel Hyperion based on an extra-planetary group of pilgrims. Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins used The Canterbury Tales as a structure for his 2004 non-fiction book about evolution titled The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution. His animal pilgrims ...