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The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who...

Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science...

Debrett's (/dəˈbrɛts/) is the ultimate authority on Britain’s titled aristocracy, and has been recording the biographical details of its membership since...

An Ex Libris from ex-librīs (Latin for 'from the books (or library)'), also known as a bookplate (or book-plate, as it was commonly styled until the early...

The belagines were written laws which, according to Jordanes, were given to the Goths by Dicineus / Dekaineos, the Dacian-Getic legislator, Zalmoxian priest...

Al-Khisal (Arabic: الخصال, romanized: al-Khiṣāl) or The Book of Characters by Ibn Babawayh is a book about morals and religious beliefs. Al-Khisal contains...

The Spacing Guild is an organization in Frank Herbert's science fiction Dune universe that possesses a monopoly on interstellar travel and banking. Guild...

Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective is a game originally published by Sleuth Publications in 1981. Multiple expansions and reprints of the game have...

Children's literature portal Novels portal The Emperor's Code is the eighth book in The 39 Clues series written by Gordon Korman. The book's cover, revealed...

The Oxford Companion to Music is a music reference book in the series of Oxford Companions produced by the Oxford University Press. It was originally conceived...

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, or: how violence develops and where it can lead (original German title: Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder:...

Children's literature portal The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship is a children's picturebook illustrated by Uri Shulevitz that retells an Eastern...

The Evolution of Cooperation is a 1984 book written by political scientist Robert Axelrod that expands upon a paper of the same name written by Axelrod...

Nick Carter is an Italian comic strip created in 1972 as a semi-animated cartoon, for Gulp!, one of the most popular Italian TV shows of that decade. The...

The Dark Talent is a juvenile fiction novel written by Brandon Sanderson and published in September 2016 by Tor Books. The book is named after its main...

The Scholomance (Romanian: Șolomanță [ʃoloˈmantsə], Solomonărie [solomonəˈri.e]) was a fabled school of black magic in Romania, especially in the region...

On a Pale Horse is a fantasy novel by Piers Anthony, first published in 1983. It is the first of eight books in the Incarnations of Immortality series...

Perceforest or Le Roman de Perceforest is an anonymous prose chivalric romance, written in French probably around 1340 with lyrical interludes of poetry...

Netherland (2008) is a novel by Joseph O'Neill. It concerns the life of a Dutchman living in New York in the wake of the September 11 attacks who takes...

After Dachau is a 2001 novel written by American author Daniel Quinn. The story is narrated by a young rich man, heir to a huge sum of money. He devotes...