What's the name of this book?
I once read a book about an archaeological dig in the future. I think it was a kids book, with lots of pictures. They excavated a hotel room and found things like a ritual headdress (toilet seat) and speculated on other things, such as the remote control to the television. I think the initial setting for the story was that the civilization had been buried under mounds of junk mail. Please tell me the name of the story and/or author.
What's the name of the book (and author) that Charvaka gives Maietreya in the film Ship of Theseus, when Maietreya is suffering from liver cirrhosis?
What book does Charvaka read in the film Ship of Theseus. The alphabet one in which U is for Unilateralis Cordyceps?
What is the author’s name of the book “Indica”?
I recommend looking for the book either on Google Books or Worldcat.org.
Whats the name of author of a book called something like haven favel,favel haven,havel faven.?
The Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull "The series begins as 13-year-old Kendra and 11-year-old Seth Sorenson are traveling to their Grandpa and Grandma Sorenson's house while their parents are away on a 17-day Scandinavian cruise. When they get there, they also meet Dale, a relative, and Lena, the housekeeper. Grandma Sorenson is "mysteriously" missing. Grandpa Sorenson does not tell Kendra and Seth about Fablehaven being a secret preserve for magical creatures at first, but instead sets up a rather complex puzzle involving six keys and a locked journal for Kendra to solve. Once Kendra unlocks the mostly blank journal, she discovers the words "drink the milk". She and Seth drink the magical milk which opens their eyes to see a whole new, mystical world full of the magical beings of Fablehaven such as defeating an evil witch and a powerful demon, defending the preserve from an evil society, stopping a plague that changes creatures of light into creatures of darkness"
What is the name of the author of the book "The Wonder That Was India"?
Author: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
Can you publish a book under a company name or must the author's name be present? If so, can it be a fake name? Or partly Acronym?
A publisher can publish a book listing anyone as an author that they wish, as long it is not fraudulent. That means that I could publish a book under the name Buddha Buck (my legal name), Blaise Pascal (the name I prefer to go by online), Technoshaman Industries (a fictitious company name), Anonymous, or simply print and distribute the book with no author listed at all.It is common for authors of various sorts to use fake names for a variety of reasons.One reason is because women authors found it hard to sell their works under a woman’s name. Alice Sheldon used the name James Tiptree, Jr. She isn’t the only one.Some use pseudonyms to separate their writing from their known persona. The Federalist and Antifederalist Papers were written by known, prominent politicians of the day, but were published under pseudonyms so that responses to the papers wouldn’t be centered around personality issues.Some use pseudonyms to hide their identities out of fear of retaliation.Some use pseudonyms to put a label on a collaborative effort. The “Expanse” novels by James S.A. Corey are written by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. It helps separate their collaborative work from their individual work.Some use pseudonyms for market differentiation. Children’s book author Ursula Vernon does not want her fans accidentally buying her retellings of classic fairy tales (which are not suitable for children), so she publishes them under the name T. Kingfisher. Some prolific romance authors publish one style of romance under one name, a different style under a different name.At one point, Robert Heinlein was writing science fiction stories so fast that his major buyer, Amazing Science Fiction magazine, would publish two in the same issue, but under different names.Sometimes the book doesn’t really benefit from having a known author, but rather is the work product of a corporation. The owner’s manual for a major software product can be quite a hefty tome, but it doesn’t matter who it was written by. It doesn’t list an author. Other works list the author as the organization which commissioned the book. These, too, represent the viewpoint of the organization, and not of a particular author.Of course, if the actual writer wishes to get paid for their work, the publisher, or someone in the financial chain, needs to know who the writer is and how to get money to them. But that connection doesn’t have to be discernible from the final work itself.
When authors use pen names, who do you sign books at book signings?
Credit: Christian von Schack | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Salvatore Albert Lombino (born New York City, October 15, 1926) legally changed his name to Evan Hunter in 1952. Writing as Hunter, he published Blackboard Jungle (1954), and established himself as a serious novelist and screenwriter.When he started writing police procedurals in the mid-1950s, Hunter’s agent advised him that crime fiction published under the name Evan Hunter could hurt his literary reputation. So Hunter wrote fifty-five 87th Precinct novels as Ed McBain.What name did he use at book signings? In 1990, Evan Hunter attended a book signing at Waldenbooks & More at 11870 Santa Monica Boulevard in West Los Angeles and signed a stack of 87th Precinct paperbacks as Ed McBain.When he began writing crime fiction, Hunter published novels under several other names like Hunt Collins, Curt Cannon, Richard Marsten and so on.As the McBain moniker started to acquire cachet thanks to the 87th Precinct series, Hunter’s publishers reissued several of his earlier books under that name. Thereafter Hunter ditched his other pseudonyms and used Ed McBain exclusively for his crime fiction.Credit: WiggyToo | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Donald E. Westlake was another prolific crime fiction writer who pounded out over a hundred books under his own name and various pseudonyms. In-store book signings weren’t a thing when he first rolled a blank sheet of paper into his manual typewriter (he hated the hum of electric machines).In later years he stuck to Donald E. Westlake for his novels about the hapless crook John Archibald Dortmunder (The Hot Rock is my favorite among them), and used Richard Stark for his Parker novels.John Boorman based his 1967 cult classic Point Blank (Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn and Carroll O’Connor) on Richard Stark’s first Parker novel, The Hunter. Westlake, always the pragmatist, retitled his book Point Blank in the wake of the film’s success.Later editions of the Parker series carried snippets from reviews that mentioned the novels, still attributed to Richard Stark, were written by Donald E. Westlake. And Westlake is the name he used when signing and inscribing them.Obituary: Ed McBainDonald E. Westlake, Mystery Writer, Is Dead at 75