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The Relic is a 1997 American monster-horror film directed by Peter Hyams and based on the best-selling 1995 novel Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The film stars Penelope Ann Miller , Tom Sizemore , Linda Hunt , and James Whitmore .
Forrest James Ackerman [1] (November 24, 1916 – December 4, 2008) was an American magazine editor; science fiction writer, and literary agent; a founder of science fiction fandom; a leading expert on science fiction, horror, and fantasy films; [2] a prominent advocate of the Esperanto language; and one of the world's most avid collectors of genre books and film memorabilia. [3]
Relic is a 1995 novel by American authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, [1] and the first in the Special Agent Pendergast series. As a horror novel and techno-thriller , it comments on the possibilities inherent in genetic manipulation , and is critical of museums and their role both in society and in the scientific community.
John Paul Scott (January 3, 1927 [1] – February 22, 1987 [2]) was an American criminal who is noted as the only escapee from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary known to have reached the San Francisco shore by swimming. He was recaptured almost immediately.
College of One: The Story of How F. Scott Fitzgerald Educated the Woman He Loved (1967) Confessions of a Hollywood Columnist (1969) Garden of Allah (Crown, 1969) [17] A State of Heat (1972, memoir) How to Marry Super Rich: Or, Love, Money and the Morning After (1974) For Richer, for Poorer (1975) The Real F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thirty-Five Years ...
Reliquary is the 1997 New York Times best-selling sequel to Relic, by American authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The legacy of the blood-maddened Mbwun lives on in Reliquary, but the focus is shifted from the original museum setting to the tunnels beneath the streets of New York City. The book is the second in the Special Agent ...
Matthew Joseph Bruccoli was born in 1931 in The Bronx, New York to Joseph Bruccoli and Mary Gervasi. [3] He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1949. He studied at Cornell University, where one of his professors was the noted author Vladimir Nabokov, [4] and at Yale University.
Scott was born in Littlehampton [1] in Sussex, England, migrating to Australia during his childhood and residing mainly in Melbourne since 1959. [2] He attended Monash University , where he was a contemporary of fellow poets Alan Wearne and Laurie Duggan .