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His best-known story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" was published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (November 1963). Ray Nelson and artist Bill Wray adapted the story as their comic "Nada" published in the comic book anthology Alien Encounters (No. 6, April 1986), and director John Carpenter adapted it as his film They Live (1988).
First edition (publ. Tor Books) Cover art by Stephan Martiniere. The Free Lunch is a 2001 novel by Spider Robinson.The title is a reference to the adage "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch", popularized by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein in his 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.
Free Lunch is a Junior Library Guild selection [2] and was generally well-received, including starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, [3] Publishers Weekly, [4] and School Library Journal. [5] Kirkus Reviews called the book "A mighty portrait of poverty amid cruelty and optimism."
Also note lunch time in Spain can be as late as 3:00 p.m., which conditions mid-morning customs. In the Basque Country, in particular, it is common to have a mid-morning snack consisting of high-protein food like eggs, bacon, or cured meat on bread, called "hamarretako" (lit. ' 10 o'clock (snack) ') or "hamaiketako" (lit. ' 11 o'clock (snack) ').
Joy in the Morning is a novel by English humorist P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 22 August 1946 by Doubleday & Co., New York and in the United Kingdom on 2 June 1947 by Herbert Jenkins, London. [1] Some later American paperback editions bore the title Jeeves in the Morning.
This book was well received in general, with readers awarding it 4 stars out of 5 on average on the Barnes & Noble website [1] and an average of 4.6 stars out of 5 on the Borders website. [2] It was also well received by book reviewers. [3] [4] [5] A sequel, Lunch with Buddha, was released in Fall 2012.
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The nearly indigent "free lunch fiend" was a recognized social type. An 1872 New York Times story about "loafers and free-lunch men" who "toil not, neither do they spin, yet they 'get along'", visiting saloons, trying to bum drinks from strangers: "Should this inexplicable lunch-fiend not happen to be called to drink, he devours whatever he can, and, while the bartender is occupied, tries to ...