The Brentford Trilogy - The Brentford Trilogy Wikipedia contains spoilers The Brentford Trilogy is a series of five novels by writer Robert Rankin. They humourously chronicle the lives of a couple of drunken middle-aged layabouts, Jim Pooley and John Omally, who confront the forces of darkness in the environs of West London, usually with the assistance of large quantities of beer from their favourite public house, The Flying Swan, which is a fictionally quintessential British public house on a par with George Orwell's Moon Under Water, another famous fictional and idealised drinking place. Amongst other characters are such gems as their mentor, Professor Slocombe, who is no slouch in the area of the magical arts himself, Neville the part-time barman, Small Dave the Postman, and Old Pete. The novels in.
Robert Rankin - the occult, urban legends, running gags, and outrageous characters. He has written: The Brentford Trilogy (1981 - 1997) Armageddon: The Musical (1988) They Came and Ate Us: Armageddon II: The B Movie (1991) The Suburban Book of the Dead: Armageddon III: The Remake (1992) The Book of Ultimate Truths (1993) Raiders of the Lost Carpark (1994) The Greatest Show Off Earth (1994) The Most Amazing Man Who Ever Lived (1995) The Garden of Unearthly Delights (1995) A Dog Called Demolition (1996) Nostradamus Ate My Hamster (1997) Sprout Mask Replica (1997) The Dance of The Voodoo Handbag (1998) Apocalypso (1998) Snuff Fiction (1999) Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls (1999) Waiting for Godalming (2000) Web Site Story (2001) Fandom of the Operator (2001) Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse (2002) The Witches.
London Borough of Ealing - East Acton Greenford Hanwell Little Ealing North Acton Northolt Norwood Green Perivale South Acton Southall Along with the Brentford, the Borough of Ealing is the setting for much of the action in Robert Rankin's series of comedic novels, The Brentford Trilogy, which currently weighs in at six volumes..
Karl Urban - Éomer, in the second and third films of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy based on the books by J. R. R. Tolkien. Prior to that, Urban was seen on the internationally-syndicated American television show Xena: Warrior Princess in which he played both Cupid and Julius Caesar. That show was filmed in New Zealand..
Keanu Reeves - commercially most successful film starring Reeves is the 1999 sci-fi hit The Matrix. Reeves has reprised his role from that movie for the sequel, The Matrix Reloaded, which performed better at the box office than its predecessor. Reeves will also appear in the third movie of the trilogy, The Matrix Revolutions. Filmography The Matrix Revolutions, 2003 The Matrix Reloaded, 2003 ''The Animatrix: Kid's Story, (voice) 2003 Mayor of Sunset Strip (documentary), 2003 Hard Ball, 2001 Sweet November, 2001 The Gift, 2000 The Watcher. 2000 The Replacements, 2000 The Matrix, 1999 Me and Will, 1998 The Devil's Advocate, 1997 The Last Time I Committed Suicide, 1997 Feeling Minnesota, 1996 Chain Reaction, 1996 A Walk in the Clouds, 1995 Johnny Mnemonic, 1995 Speed, 1994 Little Buddha, 1993 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, 1993.
Ken MacLeod - thanked for his advice in at least one of the latter's books. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Bibliography 1.1 Fall Revolution sequence 1.2 Engines of Light trilogy 2.
Kew - the Royal Botanic Gardens. Quote I am His Majesty's dog at Kew. Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? Nearest places: Brentford Gunnersbury Chiswick Mortlake Barnes Nearest tube station: Kew Gardens tube station There are other Kews scattered around the former British Empire which were named after the original in London. Kew is one of Melbourne's wealthier "green and leafy" suburbs There is a Kew in New South Wales There is a Kew Gardens in New York.
Kew Bridge - in 1771 and her son, now George II moved in. Kew became the regular summer residence of the royal family. The first bridge was inaugurated on 1 June 1759 by the Prince of Wales driving over it with his mother and a number of other royals. It was opened to the public 3 days later and such was the excitement that over 3,000 people crossed in one day. Tolls ranged from 1 penny for each pedestrian to 1shilling and sixpence for a coach and 4. The first bridge was built by Robert Tunstall of Brentford who owned the ferry. An Act of Parliament was required to allow this to happen. It was constructed with two stone arches at each end and 7 timber arches in between. These proved costly to maintain.
Kevin MacDonald - MacDonald Kevin MacDonald is the author of a scholarly trilogy on the subject of Anti-Semitism. He is a Professor of Psychology at California State University Long Beach. The three titles are: A People That Shall Dwell Alone, Separation and Its Discontents, and The Culture of Critique. They propose and discuss Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy..
Khuzdul - Axes of the Dwarves! The Dwarves are upon you! Among the languages of Middle-earth, Khuzdul is unique in belonging to a separate language phylum, not related to the languages of Elves or Men. For the The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, the linguist David Salo used what little is known of the Khuzdul to create enough of a language for use in the movies. This is usually referred to as neo-Khuzdul by Tolkienists..
King Crimson - material for their next album, Starless and Bible Black. By early 1974, the album was finished. Most of the album was actually recorded from gigs the band played in 1973, with only two tracks ("The Great Deceiver" and "Lament") being studio productions, a fact which emphasizes King Crimson's essentially live nature. Fripp never felt that recordings of any sort were adequate to capture the atmosphere and energy of a live performance. Another recording of live gigs, USA, was released soon afterwards. It was around this time that David Cross decided he had had enough, and left, leaving the remaining trio to record and release Red in mid-1974. In some ways, Red was the end of an era for King Crimson. Fripp took a lengthy sabbatical following its release, and when the.
Kim Stanley Robinson - the "humanist", or literary, camp of science fiction authors in the 1980s, but whose Mars trilogy is a solid example of hard science fiction. His fiction frequently delves into ecological and utopian themes with a political sophistication and point of view rarely seen elsewhere in the field. The utopian novels Robinson's utopias are strikingly different in that the society portrayed is dynamic and subject to flaws and outside pressures, rather than the static perfection displayed in more classic utopias, in which literary values take a back seat to the political argument. His utopian novels include the Three Californias trilogy, which consists of the post-disaster novel The Wild Shore (1984, his first), the future dystopia The Gold Coast (1988), and the "ecotopia" Pacific Edge (1990); and the Mars trilogy, composed of Red.
Kobayashi Masaki - story removed--look for the 164 minute version if you wish to see all four). Kobayashi also directed The Human Condition, a trilogy on war clocking in at nine and a half hours; the film is nearly impossible to find except in metropolitan areas. External Links Kobayashi Masaki's IMDb Listing See also: Cinema of Japan.
Krzysztof Kieslowski - made several commercially successful films in the French language, filmed both in Poland and in France. His commercial motion pictures were co-written by him and although fiction, were also social commentaries, centered on a variety of moral issues. In 1990, he received international acclaim with the film La double vie de Véronique (The Double Life of Véronique) starring Irene Jacob. Irene Jacob and Krzysztof Kieslowski His last work, a trilogy, is regarded by many as the finest single collection of films ever made. Critic, Roger Ebert calls the work a masterpiece. Also made in both France and Poland, the trilogy was titled Trois Couleurs (Three Colors), each based on a different color of the French flag and representing its social slogan evolving from the Revolution. Written by Kieslowski with his friend.
J. R. R. Tolkien - wrote fiction and poetry for his entire adult life, and this latter pursuit has enhanced his fame. Outside academia, most people have come to know Tolkien as the author of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and of its precursor, The Hobbit . The enduring popularity and influence of these Middle-earth works have established Tolkien's reputation as the father of the modern high fantasy genre. He also did much critical work on Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. He belonged to the literary discussion group The Inklings, and had a close friendship with C. S. Lewis. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Biography 2 Writings 2.1 Published in JRRT's lifetime 2.2 Published after JRRT's death 3 Languages 4 Books about Tolkien and Tolkien's worlds 5 Works based on Tolkien's worlds.
J. G. Ballard - story collections Note: This is a partial list. The Atrocity Exhibition The Drowned World The Crystal World Terminal Beach Vermilion Sands High Rise -- part of so-called "dystopian trilogy" (w/ "Concrete Island" and "Crash") Concrete Island Crash Cocaine Nights Super-Cannes Running Wild War Fever -- a compilation of essays and stories The Unlimited Dream Company The Wind That Came From Nowhere Empire of the Sun -- historical novel, based on his own adolescence in a Japanese P.O.W. camp in Shanghai. See also: Brian Aldiss.
J. M. W. Turner - having been committed to a mental asylum. Possibly due to the load placed on the family by these problems, the young Turner was sent in 1785 to stay with his uncle on his mother's side in Brentford, which was then a small town west of London on the banks of the Thames. It was here that he first expressed an interest in painting. A year later he went to school in Margate in Kent to the east of London in the area of the Thames estuary. At this time he had been creating many paintings, which his father exhibited in his shop window. He went to the Royal Academy of Art when he was only fifteen years old. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the president of the academy at that time, chaired the.
James Branch Cabell - to see the Redeemer). The Silver Stallion is a sequel that deals with the adventures of the knights in Manuel's company after his departure. Though now largely forgotten by the general public, his work was very influential on later authors of fantastic fiction: Robert A. Heinlein's Job, A comedy of Justice has an appearance of the Slavic god Koschei (from Jurgen), and Fritz Leiber's Swords of Lankhmar was also influenced by Jurgen. Jack Vance's Dying Earth books show considerable stylistic resemblances to Cabell; Cugel the Clever in those books bears a strong resemblance, not least in his opinion of himself, to Jurgen. Other works include: Something about Eve The Cream of the Jest Domnei Smirt, Smith, Smire (trilogy) Quotes "...In the early part of the 20th century, there was a fantasy.
James Blish - antigravity device known as the 'spindizzy'. Since the device became more efficient as its field of influence was increased, entire cities were lifted from Earth and sent roving amongst the stars. The stories were pure space opera, and could have continued as a series indefintely, were it not for Blish setting the end of the Universe in 4004 AD (the chronology in early editions of They Shall have Stars differed somewhat from the later reprints, showing that this had not been planned by Blish at the beginning of the series). Another group of novels were (apparently retrospectively) declared by Blish to be a trilogy, each dealing with an aspect of the price of knowledge, and given the overall name by Blish of 'After Such Knowledge' (the title taken from a T.S..
Jan Kjærstad - Window"). He has received a number of prizes, the most important being the Nordic Council Literature Prize, which he received for the trilogy about the TV personality Jonas Wergeland (The Seducer, The Conqueror and The Discoverer). Kjærstad's books are complex and humorous, showing an outstanding ability to visualize modern life and its many interdependencies, reminiscent of a less computer-focused Neal Stephenson. His books have been translated to English, German, Danish, Swedish, and Hungarian, among others. Bibliography The Earth Turns Quietly ("Kloden dreier stille rundt", Short stories, 1980) Mirrors ("Speil", Novel, 1982) Homo Falsus or the Perfect Murder ("Homo Falsus eller det perfekte mord", Novel, 1984) The Great Fairy Tale ("Det store eventyret". Novel, 1987) The Matrix of Man ("Menneskets matrise", Essays, 1989) The Arabian Nights, vols 1 and 2 ("Tusen og.
