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The Things won the 2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story, [1] and was a finalist for the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, [2] the 2011 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, [3] and the 2011 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction. [4] The audio version was a finalist for the 2010 Parsec Award for short fiction. [5]
Don Robertson (March 21, 1929 – March 21, 1999) [1] was an American novelist. He wrote 18 published novels. Robertson is probably best known for his trio of novels featuring Morris Bird III: The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread, The Sum and Total of Now, and The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened.
The e-book was published serially at e-book retailers between 9–30 June 2015 as novella-length episodes. [2] The episode titles with the release dates are: [3] The Life of the Mind (9 June)
A postmodern understanding of the term differs in that: . The idea of an "end of history" does not imply that nothing more will ever happen. Rather, what the postmodern sense of an end of history tends to signify is, in the words of contemporary historian Keith Jenkins, the idea that "the peculiar ways in which the past was historicized (was conceptualized in modernist, linear and essentially ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 January 2025. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling. In Christian belief, the Last Judgement is an apocalyptic event where God makes a final ...
"The Things They Left Behind" is short story by American writer Stephen King, originally published in the compilation Transgressions: Volume Two edited by Ed McBain and published by Forge Books. It is one of three stories that is also available on audiobook compilation, in the "Transgressions" series, titled Terror's Echo and read by John ...
The End of History and the Last Man is a 1992 book of political philosophy by American political scientist Francis Fukuyama which argues that with the ascendancy of Western liberal democracy—which occurred after the Cold War (1945–1991) and the dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)—humanity has reached "not just ... the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of ...
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...