query: Science fiction book written in the 1980

positive: Bloodthirst (novel) Bloodthirst is a Star Trek: The Original Series novel written by J.M. Dillard, published by Pocket Books.  The novel's story focuses on a manmade virus which causes its victims to suffer many of the characteristics of vampires, including light sensitivity and a thirst for blood.

positive: Cachalot (novel) Cachalot (1980) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster.

positive: Chain of Attack Chain of Attack is a Star Trek: The Original Series novel written by Gene DeWeese.

positive: Children of the Thunder Children of the Thunder is a 1988 science fiction novel by John Brunner.The novel explores several themes: environment degradation of the modern world (which Brunner believed was shortening his own life), paternal irresponsibility (in the form of accepting cash for donating sperm to a sperm bank), and conservative (fascist) tendencies in British politics.

positive: Corona (novel) Corona is a Star Trek: The Original Series novel written by Greg Bear.

positive: Cosmos (Carl Sagan book) Cosmos (1980) is a popular science book by astronomer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan. Its 13 illustrated chapters, corresponding to the 13 episodes of the Cosmos TV series, which the book was co-developed with and intended to complement, explore the mutual development of science and civilization. One of Sagan's main purposes for the book and television series was to explain complex scientific ideas to anyone interested in learning.

positive: Dinosaur Park (novel) Dinosaur Park is a science-fiction novel by Hayford Peirce first published by Tor in 1989 under the title The Thirteenth Majestral and republished as Dinosaur Park in 1994.  The nondescript cover of the original book had no relation to the story.  The 1992 Italian edition had a cover featuring dinosaurs, which were indeed in the story, and in June 1994 Tor reissued the book under its new title, using the same cover as the Italian edition.

positive: Direct Descent Direct Descent (1980) is a short science fiction novel by Frank Herbert.  It was based on the short story "Pack Rat Planet" published in 1954 in Astounding Science-Fiction.

positive: Dragon's Egg Dragon's Egg is a hard science fiction novel written by Robert L. Forward and published in 1980. In the story, Dragon's Egg is a neutron star with a surface gravity 67 billion times that of Earth, and inhabited by cheela, intelligent creatures the size of a sesame seed who live, think and develop a million times faster than humans.

positive: Emergence (novel) Emergence is a science fiction novel written by David R. Palmer. It first appeared as a novella published in Analog Science Fiction in 1981.  Analog also published Part II, 'Seeking,' in 1983.  The completed novel then was published by Bantam in 1984.  The plot follows a precocious 11-year-old orphan girl, living in a post-apocalyptic United States.

positive: Endworld Endworld is a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by David L. Robbins. The first book was published in 1986.  As of 2014, there have been 29 novels written in the series. David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel spin-off to this series called Blade.The series begins 100 years after World War III, a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union.

positive: Gods of Riverworld Gods of Riverworld (1983) is a science fiction novel, the fifth and last in the series of Riverworld books by Philip José Farmer.

positive: Golem100 Golem100 is a novel by science fiction author Alfred Bester.  Currently out of print, it was published by Simon & Schuster in 1980, ISBN 0-671-25321-2. It was based on Bester's short story "The Four-Hour Fugue".

positive: Golem XIV Golem XIV is a science fiction novel written by Polish author Stanisław Lem, published in 1981.  In 1985 it was translated in English by Harvest Books in the collection Imaginary Magnitude.

positive: Good News (novel) Good News is a 1980 novel by Edward Abbey.It is set in a Phoenix, Arizona of the near future after the economy and government have collapsed. Small bands of people (including Jack Burns, the hero from an earlier Abbey novel The Brave Cowboy) are trying to live freely, but a would-be military dictator has other plans and is trying to set up a dictatorship using Phoenix as his base.Good News is Abbey's only work of science fiction.

positive: Halfway Human Halfway Human (1998) is a science fiction novel written by Carolyn Ives Gilman. It was nominated for the 1998 Tiptree Award, and placed second on the Locus Readers Poll for Best First Novel in 1999.The novel follows the life of Tedla, an asexual being from an evolutionary offshoot of humanity. It is neither male nor female and refers to itself as a “bland.” On its home planet blands are kept at a near-slave class, considered to be not human and much less important than either male or female.

positive: In Iron Years In Iron Years is a collection of science fiction stories by Gordon R. Dickson.  It was first published by Doubleday in 1980.  Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines Fantasy and Science Fiction, If, Galaxy Science Fiction and Astounding.

positive: La Foire aux immortels The Carnival of Immortals (Original: La Foire aux Immortels; also published in English as Gods in Chaos) is a science fiction graphic novel from 1980 written and illustrated by the Yugoslavian born French cartoonist and storyteller Enki Bilal. It is the first part of the Nikopol Trilogy, followed up by La Femme piège (The Woman Trap) in 1986 and ending with Froid Équateur (Equator Cold) in 1992.

positive: Liege-Killer Liege Killer is the first book in a science fiction trilogy written by American writer Christopher Hinz.   The book and its sequels Ash Ock and The Paratwa are set  in Human Colonies in orbit around a desolated post apocalyptic Earth. The Paratwa the antagonists of the books are the result of experimentation on human embryos in the near future. The result of which produces a new species: the Paratwa, a single consciousness occupying telepathically linked bodies.

positive: Lost Dorsai Lost Dorsai is a science fiction novella by Gordon R. Dickson. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1981 and was also nominated for the Nebula Award in 1980.

positive: Lost Dorsai (collection) Lost Dorsai is a collection of science fiction stories by Gordon R. Dickson from his Childe Cycle series.  It was first published by Ace Books in 1980.  The collection includes two stories that originally appeared in the anthology series Destinies, one that appeared in the magazine Analog Science Fiction and Fact and an excerpt from Dickson's novel The Final Encyclopedia.

positive: Marooned in Realtime Marooned in Realtime is a 1986 murder mystery and time-travel science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge, about a small, time-displaced group of people who may be the only survivors of a technological singularity or alien invasion.  It is the sequel to the novel The Peace War (1984) and the novella The Ungoverned (1985).

positive: Mockingbird (Tevis novel) Mockingbird is a science fiction novel by Walter Tevis, published in 1980 by Doubleday. It was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Novel.

positive: Nebula Winners Thirteen Nebula Winners Thirteen is a 1980 anthology of short stories edited by Samuel R. Delany. The included works had won the Nebula Award and were originally published in 1977.  The stories had originally appeared in the magazines The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Analog and the anthology 2076: The American Tricentennial, edited by Edward Bryant.

positive: Neuromancer Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, a seminal work in the cyberpunk genre and the first winner of the science-fiction "triple crown" — the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. It was Gibson's debut novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy. The novel tells the story of a washed-up computer hacker hired by a mysterious employer to pull off the ultimate hack.

positive: Players at the Game of People Players at the Game of People is a science fiction novel by John Brunner. It was first published in the United States by Nelson Doubleday in 1980.

positive: Riddley Walker Riddley Walker is a science fiction novel by Russell Hoban, first published in 1980. It won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel in 1982, as well as an Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award in 1983. It was additionally nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1981.Hoban began writing the novel in 1974, inspired by the medieval wall painting of the legend of Saint Eustace at Canterbury Cathedral.

positive: Rimrunners Rimrunners is a science fiction novel written by C. J. Cherryh and set in her Alliance-Union universe, in which humanity has split into three major power blocs: Union, the Merchanter's Alliance and Earth.  Chronologically, the book follows immediately after the author's award-winning Downbelow Station and is one of Cherryh's series of "Merchanter" novels.The book was nominated for a Locus Award, and the cover art, by Don Maitz, won the 1990 Hugo Award for Best Original Artwork.

positive: Roderick (novel) Roderick, or The Education of a Young Machine is a 1980 science fiction novel by John Sladek. It was followed in 1983 by Roderick at Random, or Further Education of a Young Machine. The two books were originally intended as a single longer novel, and were finally reissued together in 2001 as The Complete Roderick. It was included in David Pringle's book Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels.

positive: Serpent's Reach Serpent's Reach is a 1980 science fiction novel by the United States science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh.  The book was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Novel in 1981 and is set in the author's Alliance-Union universe.  Specific placement of the novel within the Alliance-Union timeline is difficult because two of Cherryh's works provide contradictory dates.

positive: Shadow and Claw Shadow and Claw is an omnibus of the first two volumes of The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe.  It was first published in 1983 in the UK under the title The Book of the New Sun, Vols. I & II by Sidgwick & Jackson.  The first US edition was published by Orb Books in 1994.  It has also been reprinted by Orion Books, under the title The Book of the New Sun: Volume 1: Shadow and Claw, as the first volume of their Fantasy Masterworks series.

positive: Space Pirates (novel) Lure of the Novamen is a science fiction novel written by Kenneth Bulmer, volume 8 in the Ryder Hook series. As of December 2005, it remains unpublished in English. It was published in German translation as Weltraum-Piraten in 1988. Therefore it is usually but falsely referenced to as Space Pirates, because this is the literal translation of the German title only.

positive: Speaker for the Dead Speaker for the Dead is a 1986 science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and an indirect sequel to the novel Ender's Game.  This book takes place around the year 5270, some 3,000 years after the events in Ender's Game. However, because of relativistic space travel, Ender himself is only about 35 years old.This is the first book to discuss the Starways Congress, a high standpoint Legislation for the human colonies.

positive: Starquake (novel) Starquake is a science fiction novel written by Robert L. Forward and published in 1989 (ISBN 0-595-16748-9). The novel is about the life of the Cheela civilization, creatures who live on a neutron star named Dragon's Egg, struggling to recover from a disastrous starquake.  The novel was listed by theoretical physicist Sean M. Carroll as his favorite science fiction novel.

positive: Sundiver Sundiver is a 1980 science fiction novel by David Brin. It is the first book of his Uplift trilogy, and was followed by the Hugo and Nebula award winning novel Startide Rising in 1983.

positive: Swayang Professor Shonku Swayang Professor Shonku (None other than Professor Shonku) is a Professor Shonku series book written by Satyajit Ray and published by Ananda Publishers in 1980. Ray wrote the stories on Professor Shanku in Bengali magazine Sandesh and Anandamela. This book is a collection of three of Shonku stories.

positive: Terran Trade Authority The Terran Trade Authority is a science-fiction setting originally presented in a collection of four large illustrated science fiction books published between 1978 and 1980. This series was written by Stewart Cowley.The books formed a connected space-opera milieu, describing the future history of mankind's expansion into the galaxy, presented in the guise of official handbooks by the trade organization from which the setting takes its name.

positive: The 1980 Annual World's Best SF The 1980 Annual World's Best SF is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, the ninth volume in a series of nineteen. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in May 1980, followed by a hardcover edition issued in September of the same year by the same publisher as a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club. For the hardcover edition the original cover art of Jack Gaughan was replaced by a new cover painting by Gary Viskupik.

positive: The Abode of Life The Abode of Life is a Star Trek: The Original Series novel written by Lee Correy.

positive: The Best Science Fiction of the Year 9 The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Terry Carr, the ninth volume in a series of sixteen. It was first published in paperback by Del Rey Books in August 1980, and in hardcover by Gollancz in October of the same year.The book collects fourteen novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction, notes and concluding essays by Carr and Charles N. Brown.

positive: The Book of the New Sun The Book of the New Sun (1980 – 1983) is a series of four science fantasy novels or one four-volume novel by the American author Gene Wolfe. Alternatively, it is a series comprising the original tetralogy, a 1983 collection of essays, and a 1987 sequel.

positive: The Brave Little Toaster The Brave Little Toaster is a 1980 novel by Thomas M. Disch intended for children or as put by Disch, A Bedtime Story for Small Appliances. The story centers on a gang of five household appliances—a Tensor lamp, electric blanket, alarm clock/antique radio Hoover vacuum cleaner, and Sunbeam toaster—on their quest to find their owner, referred to as the Master.The story first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (August 1980).

positive: The Digging Leviathan The Digging Leviathan is a science fiction novel written by James Blaylock. It was first published in 1984 by Ace Books. The source was Blaylock's first novel The Chinese Circus, which was never finished.

positive: The Golden Man (collection) The Golden Man is a collection of science fiction stories by Philip K. Dick.  It was first published by Berkley Books in 1980.  The stories had originally appeared in the magazines If, Galaxy Science Fiction, Beyond Fantasy Fiction, Worlds of Tomorrow, Science Fiction Stories, Orbit Science Fiction, Future, Amazing Stories and Fantasy and Science Fiction

positive: The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale (1985) is a dystopian novel, a work of speculative fiction, by Canadian author Margaret Atwood.  Set in the near future, in a totalitarian Christian theocracy which has overthrown the United States government, The Handmaid's Tale explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain agency.

positive: The Last Defender of Camelot The Last Defender of Camelot is an anthology of short stories written by science fiction/fantasy writer Roger Zelazny.

positive: The Magic Labyrinth The Magic Labyrinth (1980) is a science fiction novel, the fourth in the series of Riverworld books by Philip José Farmer.

positive: The Many-Colored Land The Many-Colored Land  is the first book of the Saga of Pliocene Exile (known as the Saga of the Exiles in the UK and the Commonwealth) by American author Julian May. It sets the series up by introducing the story of each of the characters. The main purpose of the book is to provide information for the rest of the series, only beginning the main storyline in its final part.

positive: The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five is a 1980 science fiction novel by Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing. It is the second book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series, the first being Shikasta (1979). It was first published in the United States in January 1980 by Alfred A.

positive: The Priests of Psi The Priests of Psi (1980) is a collection of five short stories written by science fiction author Frank Herbert.  All of the works had been previously published in magazine or book form.

positive: The Ringworld Engineers The Ringworld Engineers is a 1979 science fiction novel by Larry Niven.  It is the first sequel to Niven's award-winning Ringworld and was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1981.

positive: The Shadow of the Torturer The Shadow of the Torturer is a science fantasy novel by Gene Wolfe, published by Simon & Schuster in 1980.  It is the first of four volumes in The Book of the New Sun which Wolfe had completed in draft before The Shadow of the Torturer was published.

positive: The Sirian Experiments The Sirian Experiments is a 1980 science fiction novel by Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing. It is the third book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series and continues the story of Earth's evolution, which has been manipulated from the beginning by advanced extraterrestrial civilisations. It was first published in the United States in December 1980 by Alfred A. Knopf, and in the United Kingdom in March 1981 by Jonathan Cape.

positive: Time Jumper Time Jumper is a 1980 science fiction novel written by William Greenleaf and published by Leisure Books.

positive: Timescape Timescape is a 1980 novel by science fiction writer Gregory Benford (with unbilled co-author Hilary Foister, Benford's sister-in-law, who is credited as having "contributed significantly to the manuscript"). It won the 1980 Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards, and the 1981 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

positive: To the Stars (trilogy) The To the Stars trilogy is a series of science fiction novels by Harry Harrison, first published in 1980 (Homeworld) and 1981 (Wheelworld and Starworld). The three books were re-published in an omnibus edition in 1991.

positive: Two to Conquer Two To Conquer is a fantasy science fiction novel written by Marion Zimmer Bradley as part of the Darkover series set at the end of Ages of Chaos, in the period of Darkover's history known as the Hundred Kingdoms.  The book's introduction places it two hundred years after the events in the book entitled Stormqueen!.

positive: VALIS trilogy The VALIS trilogy is a set of science fiction/philosophical novels by author Philip K. Dick which include VALIS (1978), The Divine Invasion (1980), and The Owl in Daylight (unfinished/unpublished). The "trilogy" may also include Radio Free Albemuth (1985) and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982). Dick's first novel about the VALIS concept originally titled "VALISystem A" (written 1976), was published as Radio Free Albemuth after Dick's death in 1982.

positive: West of Eden West of Eden is a 1984 science fiction novel by American writer Harry Harrison.

positive: White Light (novel) White Light is a work of science fiction by Rudy Rucker published in 1980 by Virgin Books in the UK and Ace books in the US.

positive: Wild Seed (novel) Wild Seed is a science fiction novel by writer Octavia Butler. Although published in 1980 as the fourth book of the Patternist series it is the earliest book in the chronology of the Patternist world. The other books in the series are, in order within the Patternist chronology:Mind of My Mind (1977), Clay's Ark (1984), Survivor (1978), and Patternmaster (1976).

negative: A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess published in 1962. Set in a near future English society that has a subculture of extreme youth violence, the novella has a teenage protagonist, Alex, who narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming him. When the state undertakes to reform Alex—to "redeem" him—the novella asks, "At what cost?". The book is partially written in a Russian-influenced argot called "Nadsat".

negative: Assignment in Eternity Assignment in Eternity, is a collection of four mixed science fiction and fantasy novellas by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in hardcover by Fantasy Press in 1953, with some of the stories somewhat revised from their original magazine publications, as follows: Gulf (written and published in 1949 in Astounding Science Fiction, October–November 1949).

negative: AstroTown AstroTown is a small science-fiction eBook written in 2009 by Saulo Fonseca and published in 2010 by Smashwords. The book was written in English, but is also available in German and Portuguese versions, translated directly by the author.

negative: Battlefield Earth (novel) Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 is a 1982 science fiction novel written by the Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. He also composed a soundtrack to the book called Space Jazz.The subsequent film adaptation, released in 2000, was a commercial failure and was criticized as one of the "worst films ever made".

negative: Bill, the Galactic Hero Bill, the Galactic Hero is a satirical science fiction novel by Harry Harrison, first published in 1965.Harrison reports having been approached by a Vietnam veteran who described Bill as "the only book that's true about the military."

negative: Blue Remembered Earth Blue Remembered Earth is a science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds, first published by Gollancz on 19 January 2012. It describes the efforts of two adult siblings to solve a mystery in the pseudo-utopian 2160s. The novel is the first of the Poseidon's Children trilogy, which follows humanity's development over many centuries, with the intention of portraying a more optimistic future than anything Reynolds had previously written.

negative: Brave New World Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 ".F.—\After Ford"—in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that combine profoundly to change society.

negative: Cloud Atlas (novel) Cloud Atlas is a 2004 novel, the third book by British author David Mitchell. It consists of six nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the nineteenth century to a distant, post-apocalyptic future. It won the British Book Awards Literary Fiction Award and the Richard & Judy Book of the Year award, and was short-listed for the 2004 Booker Prize, Nebula Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, and other awards.A film adaptation of the same name was released in 2012.

negative: Devil to the Belt Devil to the Belt is an omnibus release from 2000 containing two novels by science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh, Heavy Time (1991), and Hellburner (1992).  The books are set in Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe and are prequels to her Hugo Award–winning 1981 novel Downbelow Station.  Both of the included works were nominated for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in their respective years of eligibility.

negative: Donald A. Wollheim Donald Allen Wollheim (October 1, 1914 – November 2, 1990) was an American science fiction editor, publisher,  writer, and fan. As an author, he published under his own name as well as under pseudonyms, including David Grinnell.A founding member of the Futurians, he was a leading influence on science fiction development and fandom in the 20th century United States.

negative: Edison's Conquest of Mars Edison's Conquest of Mars is an 1898 science fiction novel by American astronomer and writer Garrett P. Serviss. It was written as a sequel to Fighters from Mars, an unauthorized and heavily altered version of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds. It has a place in the history of science fiction for its early employment of themes and motifs that later became staples of the genre.The book features Thomas Edison as the primary character, though neither Edison nor H. G.

negative: Ellen Asher Ellen Asher is an American science fiction editor who served as editor-in-chief of the Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC) for thirty-four years, from February 8, 1973, through June 1, 2007. She grew up in New York City and began editing science fiction at New American Library from 1970 to 1972.As editor-in-chief of the SFBC, she oversaw the publication of anthologies like The Dragon Quintet, Vampire Sextet, Fair Folk, and Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural.

negative: Flash Gordon (film) Flash Gordon is a 1980 British/American Space opera action film, based on the comic strip of the same name created by Alex Raymond. The film was directed by Mike Hodges, and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It stars Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Topol, Max von Sydow, Timothy Dalton, Brian Blessed, and Ornella Muti. The screenplay was written by Lorenzo Semple, Jr., with a story adaptation by Michael Allin.

negative: Flinx in Flux Flinx in Flux (1988) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The book is fifth chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series.Flinx finds a woman unconscious on a riverbank deep in the jungles of Alaspin where he has gone to release Pip’s offspring. The woman, Clarity Held, turns out to be a research scientist last working on the inhospitable world of Longtunnel.

negative: Galaxy Science Fiction Galaxy Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by an Italian company, World Editions, which was looking to break into the American market. World Editions hired as editor H. L.

negative: Gnome Press Gnome Press was an American small-press publishing company primarily known for publishing many science fiction classics.The company was founded in 1948 by Martin Greenberg and David A. Kyle. Many of Gnome's titles were reprinted in England by Boardman Books. Martin Greenberg of Gnome Press was a New York science fiction fan and member of the Hydra Club, not to be confused with the later Martin H. Greenberg the SF anthologist. David A.

negative: Harrison Bergeron "Harrison Bergeron" is a satirical and dystopian science-fiction short story written by Kurt Vonnegut and first published in October 1961. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, the story was republished in the author's Welcome to the Monkey House collection in 1968. The story was written as a satire to offer a critique on people's claims that we should all be equal.

negative: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third novel in the Harry Potter series, written by J. K. Rowling. The book follows Harry Potter, a young wizard, in his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

negative: Hugo Award for Best Related Work The Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was once officially known as the Science Fiction Achievement Award. The award has been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction" and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing".

negative: Invitation to the Game Invitation to the Game is a science-fiction book written by Monica Hughes. It has recently been published as The Game.The book is a hard science fiction dystopian novel set in 2154, a time when machines and robots perform most jobs and children go to government schools. Because of this, very few people are employed, with many people living on a social welfare system for support. The unemployed people have nothing to look forward to, except various illicit drugs.

negative: Jewels from the Moon Jewels from the Moon and The Meteor That Couldn't Stay is a 1964 children's science fiction book written by Eleanor Cameron and illustrated by Vic Dowd. Although the book features characters from Cameron's five Mushroom Planet books, it is tangential to the series. In fact, it is little known even to fans of the series because it was designed as a school reading book and was distributed in that manner by the American Book Company.

negative: Kemlo The Kemlo series is a collection of children's science fiction novels written by Reginald Alec Martin, under the pseudonym of E. C. Eliott. The first book, Kemlo and the Crazy Planet was published in 1954; the fifteenth and final book in the series, Kemlo and the Masters of Space, was published in 1963.

negative: Los Angeles Times Book Prize Since 1980, the Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of annual book prizes. The Prizes "currently have nine single-title categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller (category added in 2000), poetry, science and technology (category added in 1989), and young adult fiction (category added in 1998).

negative: Malcolm Edwards Malcolm John Edwards (born 3 December 1949) is a British editor and critic in the science fiction field. He received his degree from the University of Cambridge. He is currently Deputy CEO at the Orion Publishing Group. Edwards resides in London with his wife, the CEO of a public relations company.

negative: Mystery in Space Mystery in Space is the name of two science fiction American comic book series published by DC Comics and a standalone Vertigo anthology released in 2012. The first series ran for 110 issues from 1951 to 1966, with a further 7 issues continuing the numbering during a 1980s revival of the title. An 8-issue limited series began in 2006. Together with Strange Adventures, Mystery In Space was one of DC Comics' major science fiction anthology series.

negative: National Book Award for Fiction The National Book Award for Fiction is one of four annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by United States citizens. Since 1987 the awards have been administered and presented by the National Book Foundation, but they are awards "by writers to writers". The panelists are five "writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field".General fiction was one of four categories when the awards were re-established in 1950.

negative: New England Science Fiction Association The New England Science Fiction Association, or NESFA, is a science fiction club centered in the New England area.  It was founded in 1967, "by fans who wanted to do things in addition to socializing".  NESFA is currently registered as a non-profit literary organization under IRS section 501(c)(3).The organization holds regular meetings (at their dedicated site, the NESFA Clubhouse) of and for members and other interested parties.

negative: Northwest Smith Northwest Smith is a fictional character, and the hero of a series of stories by science fiction writer C. L. Moore.

negative: Outline of science fiction The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to science fiction:Science fiction – genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology, often in a futuristic setting. Exploring the consequences of such innovations is the traditional purpose of science fiction, making it a "literature of ideas".

negative: Perry Rhodan Perry Rhodan is the name of a science fiction series published since 1961 in Germany, as well as the name of the main character. It is a space opera, dealing with several themes of science fiction. Having sold over one billion copies (in pulp booklet format) worldwide, it is the most successful science fiction book series ever written.

negative: Peter Nicholls (writer) Peter Nicholls (born 1939) is an Australian literary scholar and critic. He is the creator and a co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (with John Clute).Born in Melbourne, Victoria, he spent two decades (from 1968 to 1988) as an expatriate, first in the US, and then the UK.Nicholls' early career was as a literary academic, originally with The University of Melbourne.

negative: Phoenix 2772 Phoenix 2772 (火の鳥2772 愛のコスモゾーン, Hi no Tori 2772: Ai no Kosumozōn, lit. Firebird 2772: Love's Cosmozone) is a 1980 Japanese animated science fiction feature film directed by Taku Sugiyama and written by Osamu Tezuka, based on Tezuka's manga series Phoenix (Hi no Tori). An "international version" called Space Firebird was dubbed in Hong Kong and then released in the UK in 1980. An edited version was released in the United States in 1983.

negative: Planet Pirates Planet Pirates is a science fiction trilogy written by Anne McCaffrey and two co-authors separately, Elizabeth Moon and Jody Lynn Nye. The three novels were published as paperback originals by Baen Books in 1990 and 1991, although the Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC) issued hardcover editions of each within several months.

negative: Professor Challenger George Edward Challenger, better known as Professor Challenger, was a fictional character in a series of fantasy and science fiction stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Unlike Conan Doyle's laid-back, analytical character, Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger was an aggressive, dominating figure.

negative: Schrödinger's Kitten "Schrödinger's Kitten" is a 1988 novelette by George Alec Effinger, which won both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award, as well as the Japanese Seiun Award. It was later expanded into a novel, published in 1992 under the same name. It was originally published in Omni.The story utilizes a form of the many worlds hypothesis, and is named after the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment.

negative: Science fiction film Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception and time travel, along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar space travel or other technologies.

negative: Science fiction magazine A science fiction magazine is a publication that offers primarily science fiction, either in a hard copy periodical format or on the Internet.Science fiction magazines traditionally featured speculative fiction in short story, novelette, novella or (usually serialized) novel form, a format that continues into the present day. Many also contain editorials, book reviews or articles, and some also include stories in the fantasy and horror genres.

negative: Science fiction opera Science-fiction opera is a subgenre of science fiction. It refers to operas whose subject-matter fits in the science fiction genre. Like science-fiction literature, science-fiction operas may be set in the future and involve intergalactic travel or alien invasion. Other science-fiction operas focus on a dystopian view of the future. Like Lorin Maazel's opera 1984, they may be based on a previously written science fiction book.

negative: Scott Saunders Space Adventure The Scott Saunders Space Adventure series are a series of young-adult science-fiction novels written by amateur astronomer Patrick Moore.As its title indicates the series depicts the adventures and trials of young astronaut Scott Saunders. The series consist of six books published from 1977-1980.

negative: Skeleton Crew Skeleton Crew is the second collection of short fiction by Stephen King, published by Putnam in June 1985. A limited edition of a thousand copies was published by Scream/Press in October 1985 (ISBN 978-0910489126), illustrated by J. K. Potter, containing an additional short story, "The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson," which had originally appeared in Rolling Stone magazine (July 19 – August 2, 1984), and was later incorporated into King's 1987 novel The Tommyknockers.

negative: Susan Wood (science fiction) Susan Joan Wood (August 22, 1948 – November 12, 1980) was a Canadian literary critic, professor, author and science fiction fan and editor, born in Ottawa, Ontario.Wood discovered science fiction fandom while she was studying at Carleton University in the 1960s. Wood met fellow fan Mike Glicksohn of Toronto at Boskone VI in 1969. Wood and Glicksohn married in 1970 (she subsequently sometimes published as Susan Wood Glicksohn), and they published the fanzine Energumen together until 1973.

negative: Sutherlin Alliance Sutherlin Alliance is a science-fiction novel written by James Spix and published in 2002.  Written as a fast paced adventure story (much like that of the Star Wars: X-Wing series) it pits the overwhelming forces of a mighty empire against the small but determined group of combatants in a war for control of the galaxy.

negative: Tas (series) The Tas series is a pair of children's science fiction novels written by Reginald Alec Martin, under the pseudonym of E. C. Eliott. The books were illustrated by A. Bruce Cornwell. They are set, at least at the beginning, at the Woomera Rocket Range in Australia.

negative: Telzey Amberdon Telzey Amberdon is the fictional character of the eponymous science fiction short story (and novella) series by James H. Schmitz, taking place in his "The Federation of the Hub" fictional universe in mid-4th millennium. She is introduced as a fifteen-year-old genius, a first-year law student, living on the colonised planet Orado (whose name comes from Eldorado by a pun). By interaction with alien psychic animals on a resort planet, she discovers that she has psychic powers.

negative: The 1981 Annual World's Best SF The 1981 Annual World's Best SF is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, the tenth volume in a series of nineteen. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in May 1981, followed by a hardcover edition issued in August of the same year by the same publisher as a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club.

negative: The Best Science Fiction of the Year 8 The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Terry Carr, the eighth volume in a series of sixteen. It was first published in paperback by Del Rey Books in July 1979, and in hardcover by the same publisher in conjunction with the Science Fiction Book Club in August 1979.

negative: The Book of Fritz Leiber The Book of Fritz Leiber is a collection of short stories and articles by Fritz Leiber. It was first published in paperback in January 1974 by DAW Books. It was later gathered together with The Second Book of Fritz Leiber into the hardcover omnibus collection The Book of Fritz Leiber, Volume ! & !! (Gregg Press, 1980)..The book consists of ten fantasy, science fiction and horror short stories alternating with nine related articles, together with a foreword by the author.

negative: The Book of Predictions The Book of Predictions was a book published in 1980 and written by David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace, and Irving Wallace, the authors of The Book of Lists.  Written in the same type of style (i.e., lists), it includes lists of predictions by scientists, science fiction authors, politicians, and others.  Other contents include:  "18 Greatest Predictors of All Time" including the Great Pyramid of Cheops, Mother Shipton, Nostradamus, and Edgar Cayce.

negative: The Book of Sand (book) The Book of Sand (original Spanish title: "El libro de arena") is a 1975  short story collection by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986). In the author's opinion, the collection, written in his last days — and while blind — is his best book.

negative: The Book of the Long Sun The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996) is a series of four science fantasy novels or one four-volume novel by the American author Gene Wolfe. It is set in the same universe as The Book of the New Sun series that Wolfe inaugurated in 1980, and the Internet Science Fiction Database catalogs them both as sub-series of the "Solar Cycle", along with other writings.The Long Sun story is continued in The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001), a series of three novels or one in three volumes.

negative: The Book of the Short Sun The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001) is a series of three science fantasy novels or one three-volume novel by the American author Gene Wolfe. It continues The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996): they share a narrator and Short Sun recounts a search for Silk, the Long Sun hero.

negative: The Butterfly Kid The Butterfly Kid is a science fiction novel by Chester Anderson originally released in 1967. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1968. The novel is the first part of the Greenwich Village Trilogy, with Michael Kurland writing the second book (The Unicorn Girl) and the third volume (The Probability Pad) written by T.A. Waters.

negative: The Council Wars The Council Wars is an in-progress book series by John Ringo, published by Baen.  It is a combination of science fiction, military science fiction, and high fantasy.

negative: The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World (1998, ISBN 0-684-82405-1) is an overview of the interactions between science fiction and the real world, written by Thomas M. Disch, a noted author in the field.  It is neither a history of science fiction nor a collection of personal anecdotes, but contains some of each, and is written somewhat conversational style, designed to appeal to both a relative newcomer to science fiction and an expert in the field.

negative: The History of the Galaxy Expansion: The History of the Galaxy (Russian: "История Галактики", Istoriya Galaktiki) is a science fiction book series by Russian writer Andrey Livadny. With the plot span between 23rd and 39th centuries, it embraces several novels, tales and stories, some of which are within the five collected stories.There are several basic plotlines that have the most impact on the series.These include devastating interstellar wars, contacts with alien races, collapse and rebirth of civilizations, etc.

negative: The Honour of the Knights The Honour of the Knights is a science fiction novel written by Stephen J Sweeney, the First Edition of which is licensed under Creative Commons. It was first published in 2009 and is the first book in the Battle for the Solar System novel trilogy. Sweeney wrote the novel after losing his job during the collapse of Lehman Brothers investment bank in 2008.

negative: The House of the Scorpion The House of the Scorpion (2002) is a science fiction novel by Nancy Farmer. It features Matteo Alacrán, a young clone raised by a drug lord of the same name, usually called "El Patrón". It is a story about the struggle to survive as a free individual. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and was named a Newbery Honor Book and a Michael L. Printz Honor Book.

negative: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth. The novel expresses and discusses libertarian ideals. It is respected for its credible presentation of a comprehensively imagined future human society on both the Earth and the moon.Originally serialized in Worlds of If (December 1965, January, February, March, April 1966), the book was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1966.

negative: The Queen of Zamba The Queen of Zamba is a science fiction novel written by L. Sprague de Camp, the first book of his Viagens Interplanetarias series and its subseries of stories set on the fictional planet Krishna. It was written between November 1948 and January 1949 and first published in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction as a two-part serial in the issues for August and September 1949.

negative: The Ragged Edge of Science The Ragged Edge of Science is a science book by L. Sprague de Camp, illustrated by Don Simpson. It was first published by Owlswick Press in 1980.The book is a collection of twenty-two articles (two of them book reviews) on various curiosities and wonders exploring the boundaries between science and pseudo-science.

negative: The Second Book of Fritz Leiber The Second Book of Fritz Leiber is a collection of short stories and articles by Fritz Leiber. It was first published in paperback in January 1975 by DAW Books. It was later gathered together with The Book of Fritz Leiber into the hardcover omnibus collection The Book of Fritz Leiber, Volume ! & !! (Gregg Press, 1980)..The book consists of five fantasy, science fiction and horror short stories alternating with six related articles, together with a foreword by the author.

negative: The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (Documents Relating to) The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire is a 1983 science fiction novel by Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing. It is the fifth book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series and comprises a set of documents that describe the final days of the Volyen Empire, located at the edge of our galaxy and under the influence of three other galactic empires, the benevolent Canopus, the tyrannical Sirius, and the malicious Shammat of Puttiora.

negative: The Sholan Alliance The Sholan Alliance Series is a series of science-fiction novels written by author Lisanne Norman.  Eight books in the series have been released so far; there is a ninth book planned.

negative: The World Beyond the Hill The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence (1989) is a book about the history of science fiction, written by Alexei Panshin and Cory Panshin. It took them about ten years to research and write, though they had made earlier attempts at writing a book on the genre.It was first published in hardcover by Jeremy P.

negative: The Worst Band in the Universe The Worst Band In The Universe is a science fiction children's book written and illustrated by Graeme Base published in 1999 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc..  The book comes with a CD containing music based on a music competition that occurs in the middle of the story.

negative: Thomas M. Disch Thomas Michael Disch (February 2, 1940 – July 4, 2008) was an American science fiction author and poet. He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book – previously called "Best Non-Fiction Book" – in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nominations and nine Nebula Award nominations to his credit, plus one win of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, a Rhysling Award, and two Seiun Awards, among others.In the 1960s, his work began appearing in science-fiction magazines.

negative: Tisab Ting Tisab Ting, or, The Electrical Kiss is an 1896 Canadian science fiction novel, written by Ida May Ferguson of New Brunswick under the pseudonym "Dyjan Fergus." The book is set in late 20th century Montreal and features an "electrical genius": a "learned Chinaman" who woos and wins a Canadian wife through his superior scientific knowledge as embodied in "the Electrical Kiss".

negative: Tor Books Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tom Doherty Associates LLC publishing company, based in New York City, US. It is noted for its science fiction and fantasy titles, and publishes the online science fiction magazine Tor.com.

negative: Transmigration (novel) Transmigration is a science fiction book written in 1970 by J. T. McIntosh.The hero discovers he is both cursed with bad luck and blessed with a miraculous power - the power to occupy other people's minds - provided he dies first.   A series of freak accidents bring him closer and closer to death, until at last he does die - but miraculously transmigrates into the nearest body around.

negative: Trapped (Gardner novel) Trapped is a science fiction novel written by the Canadian author James Alan Gardner and published in 2002 by HarperCollins Publishers under its various imprints. The book is the sixth installment in Gardner's "League of Peoples" series of novels, set in the mid-25th century.

negative: Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (US /ˈɜrsələ ˈkroʊbər ləˈɡwɪn/; born October 21, 1929) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays.

negative: Winston Science Fiction The Winston Science Fiction set comprises 35 science fiction juvenile novels by famous science fiction authors such as Poul Anderson, Arthur C. Clarke, Ben Bova, and Lester del Rey, one anthology, and one non-fiction book Rockets through Space: The Story of Man's Preparations to Explore the Universe by del Rey which details the factual science and technology of rocket flight. The set was published by The John C. Winston Company between 1952 and 1960, then by Holt, Rinehart & Winston until 1961.

negative: World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr, the fifth volume in a series of seven. It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in 1969, followed by a hardcover edition issued in September of the same year by the same publisher as a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club.The book collects nineteen novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by the editors.

negative: Young-adult fiction Young-adult fiction or young adult literature, often abbreviated as YA, is fiction written, published, or marketed to adolescents and young adults. The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) of the American Library Association (ALA) defines a young adult as someone between the ages of twelve and eighteen.


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positive: Detroit-style pizza Detroit-style pizza is a style of pizza developed in Detroit, Michigan. It is a square pizza similar to Sicilian-style pizza that has a thick deep-dish crisp crust and toppings such as pepperoni and olives, and is served with the marinara sauce on top. The square shaped pizza is the result of being baked in a square pan, which is often not a pizza pan.

negative: 2009 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl The 2009 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl was a National Collegiate Athletic Association bowl game (previously the Motor City Bowl game) played at 1:00 PM EST on December 26, 2009 at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan and aired on ESPN.The game was the 13th installment of the bowl game played in Detroit. The Marshall Thundering Herd of Conference USA defeated the Ohio Bobcats, champion of the East Division of the Mid-American Conference, 21–17, giving the Thundering Herd a seven-win season.

negative: 2013 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl The 2013 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl is an American college football bowl game that was played on December 26, 2013 at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. The 17th edition of Little Caesars Pizza Bowl featured the Pittsburgh Panthers from the Atlantic Coast Conference against the Bowling Green Falcons from the Mid-American Conference. It was one of the 2013–14 bowl games that concluded the 2013 FBS football season.Pittsburgh defeated Bowling Green by a score of 30–27.

negative: Benedetti's Pizza Benedetti's Pizza is a Mexican fast food pizza delivery and restaurant chain headquartered in Colima, Colima, founded by Felipe Baeza in 1983. It currently holds 135 franchised stores in 19 Mexican states, looking after 650 by 2014. It is currently the largest pizza chain in Mexico.It specialises in seafood pizzas, but also serves as a family restaurant, offering sandwiches, burgers, fajitas, salads, Mexican traditional dishes and various desserts.

negative: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Bloomfield Hills is a city located in Metro Detroit's northern suburbs in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan, 20.2 miles (32.5 km) northwest of downtown Detroit. The city is almost completely surrounded by Bloomfield Township. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,869.

negative: Buddy's Pizza Buddy's Pizza is an independent pizza restaurant chain based in Detroit, Michigan. Founded in 1946, the chain has an annual revenue of US $20 million. The chain's nine restaurants have a total of 400 employees. Buddy's has been called one of the five best pizzerias in the United States by the Food Network. They have bocce ball league play every Saturday morning at their original location on Conant St.

negative: Campania Campania (Italian pronunciation: [kamˈpaːnja]) is a region in southern Italy. The region at the end of 2014 had a population of around 5.869 million people, making it the third-most-populous region of Italy; its total area of 13,590 km2 (5,247 sq mi) makes it the most densely populated region in the country.

negative: Chicago-style pizza Chicago-style pizza refers to several different styles of pizza developed in Chicago. Arguably the most famous of these is known as deep-dish pizza. The pan in which it is baked gives the pizza its characteristically high edge and a deep surface for the large amounts of cheese and chunky tomato sauce.

negative: Clinton Township, Macomb County, Michigan Clinton Township is a charter township and a census-designated place (CDP) of Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan.  It is a part of Metro Detroit.  As of the 2010 census, the township had a total population of 96,796, and is Michigan's most populous township. It is also the tenth largest municipality in Michigan. The township is also home to very broad economic diversity.

negative: Comerica Park Comerica Park is an open-air ballpark located in Downtown Detroit. It serves as the home of the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball, replacing historic Tiger Stadium in 2000.The park is named after Comerica Bank, which was founded in Detroit and was based there when the park opened. Comerica's headquarters have since been moved to Dallas, though the bank still retains a large presence in Detroit. The stadium's seating capacity is 41,574.

negative: Cottage Inn Pizza Cottage Inn Pizza is an American regional franchise pizza delivery corporation headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The first Cottage Inn restaurant opened in Ann Arbor in 1948 and remains the company's flagship today. There are currently over 50 franchised stores in Michigan and Ohio.

negative: Detroit Detroit (/dɨˈtrɔɪt/) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the largest city on the United States–Canada border. It is the seat of Wayne County, the most populous county in the state. Detroit's metropolitan area, known as Metro Detroit, is home to 5.3 million people, making it the fourteenth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the second-largest in the Midwestern United States (behind Chicago).

negative: Detroit Financial District The Detroit Financial District is a United States historic district in downtown Detroit, Michigan. The district was listed on the U.S.

negative: Detroit Metropolitan Airport Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (IATA: DTW, ICAO: KDTW), usually called Detroit Metro Airport, Metro Airport locally, or simply DTW, is a major international airport in the United States covering 7,072-acre (11.050 sq mi; 2,862 ha) in Romulus, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. It is Michigan's busiest airport, and one of the largest air transportation hubs in the country.The airport serves as Delta Air Lines' second-busiest hub.

negative: Domino's Pizza Domino's Pizza, Inc. /ˌdɒmɨnoʊz/ (simply known as Domino's) is an American restaurant chain and international franchise pizza delivery corporation headquartered at the Domino Farms Office Park (the campus being owned by Domino's Pizza co-founder Tom Monaghan) in Ann Arbor Charter Township, Michigan, United States, near Ann Arbor, Michigan.

negative: East Jefferson Avenue Residential TR The East Jefferson Avenue Residential District in Detroit, Michigan includes the Thematic Resource (TR) in the multiple property submission to the National Register of Historic Places which was approved on October 9, 1985. The structures are single-family and multiple-unit residential buildings with construction dates spanning nearly a century, from 1835 to 1931. The area is located on the lower east side of the city.

negative: Ford Field Ford Field is a multi-purpose indoor stadium located in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, United States, owned by the Detroit/Wayne County Stadium Authority. It is primarily used for American football as the home field of the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL) as well as the annual Quick Lane Bowl college football bowl game. The regular seating capacity is approximately 65,000, though it is expandable up to 70,000 for football and 80,000 for basketball.

negative: Gatti's Pizza Gatti's Pizza (formerly Mr. Gatti's) is a Southeastern United States pizza-buffet chain. Gatti's Pizza, founded in 1964 is owned by Blue Sage Capital, a private equity investment firm. The corporate offices are in Austin, Texas.

negative: Greek pizza Greek pizza  can refer to either of two styles of pizza.One usage refers to a pizza with typically (or stereotypically) Greek ingredients as toppings. These include toppings such as feta cheese, olives (e.g., Kalamata), onion, tomato, green bell pepper, gyros meat and spinach, but often lack any tomato sauce.

negative: Happy's Pizza Happy's Pizza is an American regional chain of restaurants, serving pizza, ribs, chicken, seafood, sandwiches, pasta and salad.

negative: History of Detroit The city of Detroit, the largest city in the state of Michigan, developed from a small fur trading post of New France to a world-class industrial powerhouse and the fourth largest American city by the mid 20th century.  The city, settled in 1701, is the first European settlement above tidewater in North America. After a devastating fire in 1805, Augustus B. Woodward devised a street plan similar to Pierre Charles L'Enfant's design for Washington, D.C.

negative: Hungry Howie's Pizza Hungry Howie's Pizza, Inc. is the 11th largest pizza chain in the United States, with 575 locations.  Its products include pizza, calzone-style subs, chicken wings and tenders, bread, and salads. The corporation headquarters is located in Madison Heights, Michigan in Metro Detroit.

negative: Jet's Pizza Jet's Pizza is an American pizza franchise restaurant. It was founded in 1978 in Sterling Heights, Michigan, and operates primarily in the state of Michigan.

negative: List of Michigan State Historic Sites in Wayne County, Michigan The following is a list of Michigan State Historic Sites in Wayne County, Michigan. Sites marked with a dagger (†) are also listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wayne County, Michigan. Those with a double dagger (‡) are also designated National Historic Landmarks.

negative: List of United States cities by population The following is a list of the most populous incorporated places of the United States. As defined by the United States Census Bureau, an "incorporated place" includes a variety of designations, including city, town, village, borough, and municipality. A few exceptional Census Designated Places (CDPs) are also included in the Census Bureau's listing of incorporated places.

negative: List of islands in the Detroit River The following is a description of islands in the Detroit River.  The Detroit River is a river in the Great Lakes system, about 32 miles (51 km) long and 0.5–2.5 miles (0.8–4.0 km) wide.  The river serves as a major shipping channel, jointly controlled by the United States and Canada, and is a major component of the Canada–United States border.  Ownership and control of the islands varies by their geographic location along the river.

negative: List of restaurants in New York City This is a list of restaurants in New York City. A restaurant is a business  which prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money, either paid before the meal, after the meal, or with an open account. New York City is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York metropolitan area.This list is based upon restaurants or restaurant chains that originated in New York City.

negative: Little Caesars Little Caesars is the third largest pizza chain in the United States, behind Pizza Hut and Domino's Pizza. The Little Caesars headquarters is located in the Fox Theatre building in Downtown Detroit, Michigan.

negative: Little Caesars Pizza Bowl The Little Caesars Pizza Bowl (known as the Motor City Bowl until 2009) was a post-season college football bowl game that was played annually from 1997 to 2013. The first five games (1997–2001) were played at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan, and moved to the 65,000-seat Ford Field in downtown Detroit, Michigan in 2002—both the past and present homes of the Detroit Lions.

negative: Live in Detroit, MI Live in Detroit, MI is a live album (2-CD set) by the band King Crimson, released by the Discipline Global Mobile through the King Crimson Collectors' Club in October 2001. Recorded in Detroit, Michigan at the Eastown Theatre on November 13, 1971. The packaging erroneously credits the CD as being from December 13, 1971.

negative: Livingston County, Michigan Livingston County is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population was 180,967. The county seat and most populous city is Howell. The county was set off in 1833, but for three years remained a part of Shiawassee and Washtenaw counties. It was organized in 1836. As one of Michigan's "Cabinet counties", a group of counties whose names honor members of President Andrew Jackson's Cabinet, it is named after former U.S.

negative: Macomb County, Michigan Macomb County is a county located in the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population was 840,978, making it the third-most populous county in the state. Of Michigan's five largest counties, Macomb experienced the most population growth (6.7%) between 2000 and 2010. The county seat is Mt. Clemens.Macomb County is part of the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area.

negative: Madison Heights, Michigan Madison Heights is a city in Oakland County of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a suburb of Detroit. As of the 2010 census, its population was 29,694.

negative: Marian Ilitch Marian Bayoff Ilitch (born January 7, 1933)  is an American businesswoman who is the co-founder of Little Caesars Pizza with her husband, Mike Ilitch.

negative: Metro Detroit The Detroit metropolitan area, often referred to as Metro Detroit, is a major metropolitan area located in Southeast Michigan, consisting of the city of Detroit and its surrounding area. There are several definitions of the area, including the official statistical areas designated by the Office of Management and Budget, a federal agency of the United States. Metro Detroit is known for its automotive heritage, arts, entertainment, popular music, and sports.

negative: Michigan Michigan /ˈmɪʃɨɡən/ is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Midwestern United States. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake". Michigan is the tenth most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area (the largest state by total area east of the Mississippi River). Its capital is Lansing, and the largest city is Detroit.Michigan is the only state to consist of two peninsulas.

negative: Mike Ilitch Michael Ilitch, Sr. (born July 20, 1929) is an American entrepreneur, founder and owner of the international fast food franchise Little Caesars Pizza.  He owns the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League and Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball.Ilitch has been at the center of Detroit's downtown redevelopment efforts; he purchased and renovated the Fox Theatre and relocated his business headquarters (Ilitch Holdings) there.

negative: Mr. Jim's Pizza MrJims.Pizza is a U.S. chain of pizza restaurants based in Farmers Branch, Texas. Jim Johnson opened the first restaurant in Detroit, Michigan in 1975. There are currently 42 locations in Louisiana, Texas, North Carolina, Nevada and Wyoming, with the majority located in northern Texas. MrJims.Pizza is widely known for their crust. Their hand stretched pizza dough is made fresh in the store daily from flour containing 100% spring wheat.

negative: Neapolitan pizza Neapolitan pizza (Italian: pizza napoletana) is made with tomatoes and Mozzarella cheese.

negative: Neighborhoods in Detroit Neighborhoods in Detroit provides a general overview of neighborhoods and historic districts within the city.Downtown Detroit is the city's central business district and a residential area, bordered by M-10 (Lodge Freeway) to the west, the Interstate 75 (I-75, Fisher Freeway) to the north, I-375 (Chrysler Freeway) to the east, and the Detroit River to the south.

negative: Oakland County, Michigan Oakland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan and located northwest of Detroit, in that city's metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,202,362, making it the second-most populous county in Michigan, behind neighboring Wayne County. The county seat is Pontiac. The county was founded in 1819 and organized in 1820.Oakland County is composed of 61 cities, townships and villages, and is part of the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area.

negative: Pizza Pizza (English /ˈpiːtsə/; Italian: [ˈpittsa]) is a flatbread generally topped with tomato sauce and cheese and baked in an oven. It is commonly topped with a selection of meats, vegetables and condiments. The term was first recorded in the 10th century, in a Latin manuscript from Gaeta in Central Italy.

negative: Pizza (TV series) Pizza was an Australian television series on the Australian television network SBS. The series has a spin-off feature length movie, Fat Pizza, released in 2003, and a best-of highlights video/DVD that featured previously unreleased footage and a schoolies exposé, released in 2004. In addition to this, a theatre show entitled "Fat Pizza", starring several characters from the show, toured the Australian east coast.

negative: Pizza Corner Pizza Corner is an international franchise of pizzeria chains that offers a wide range of pizzas, pastas and side dishes from chicken wings to salads. Pizza Corner operates as both standalone restaurants or combined with other Global Franchise Architects brands such as Coffee World or Cream & Fudge.

negative: Pizza Hut Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international franchise, known for pizza and side dishes. It is now corporately known as Pizza Hut, Inc. and is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., the world's largest restaurant company.In 2015, the company had more than 6,000 Pizza Hut restaurants in the United States, and 5,139 store locations in 94 other countries and territories worldwide. Pizza Hut has a total of 11,139 branches worldwide.

negative: Pizza Pizza Pizza Pizza Limited is a franchised Canadian pizza fast-food restaurant, with its headquarters in Etobicoke, Toronto. Its restaurants are mainly located in the province of Ontario. Other locations operate in Quebec, Nova Scotia, and in western Canada. Franchises in western Canada are mostly run through Alberta-based subsidiary Pizza 73, and in non-traditional locations such as university campuses and movie theatres throughout Canada.

negative: Pizza delivery Pizza delivery is a service in which a pizzeria or pizza chain delivers a pizza to a customer. An order is typically made either by telephone or over the internet to the pizza chain, in which the customer can request pizza type, size and other products alongside the pizza, commonly including soft drinks. Pizzas may be delivered in pizza boxes or delivery bags, and deliveries are made with either an automobile, motor scooter, or bicycle.

negative: Pizza in the United States Many regional variations of pizza the United States have been developed, many bearing only a casual resemblance to the Italian original. Pizza became most popular in America after soldiers stationed in Italy returned from World War II.  During the latter half of the 20th century, pizza in the United States became an iconic dish of considerable popularity. The American slang terms za and slice can also refer to pizza.

negative: Planning and development in Detroit Planning and development in Detroit includes efforts aimed at enhancing Detroit's economy and quality of life. In 1970, the private group "Detroit Renaissance" began to facilitate development in the city, while its successor, Business Leaders for Michigan, has continued to facilitate development into the 21st century.

negative: Plano, Texas Plano (/ˈpleɪnoʊ/ PLAY-noh) is a city in the state of Texas, located mostly within Collin County; a small portion extends into Denton County.The city's population was 269,776 at the 2010 census, making it the ninth most populous city in the state of Texas (Corpus Christi is ranked at #8 and Laredo is ranked at #10) and the 70th most populous city in the United States. Plano is twenty miles northeast of downtown Dallas.

negative: Pontiac, Michigan Pontiac /ˈpɒnᵗiæk/ is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, located in Metro Detroit. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 59,515. It is the county seat of Oakland County.Named after Chief Pontiac, the city was best known throughout its history for its General Motors automobile manufacturing plants including Fisher Body, Pontiac East Assembly (a.k.a.

negative: Populous: The Beginning Populous: The Beginning is a strategy and god-style video game. It is the third entry in the Populous video game series, developed by Bullfrog Productions in 1998.

negative: Populous Populous is a computer game designed by Peter Molyneux for Bullfrog, released originally for the Amiga in 1989, and is regarded by many as the first  god game. It is the first game in the Populous series, preceding Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods and Populous: The Beginning.

negative: Populous (company) Populous (formerly HOK Sport Venue Event) is a global architectural firm specializing in the design of sports facilities and convention centers, as well as planning of major special events.The firm enjoys a dominant role in the design of sporting stadiums and arenas, including such globally prominent facilities as the new Yankee Stadium in New York, Wembley Stadium in London, Stadium Australia in Sydney, Wimbledon Centre Court, Minneapolis' Target Field, San Francisco's AT&T Park, Duluth's AMSOIL Arena, Chicago's United Center arena, Busch Stadium in St.

negative: Populous (series) Populous is a series of video games developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts. The first game in the series – Populous was released in 1989. At the time, it was hailed as revolutionary, and it coined the term "god game".

negative: Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods is a 1991 strategy video game in the Populous series for the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS-based computers, developed by Bullfrog Productions. Populous II was remade and remastered for the Nintendo DS in 2008. Populous II is a direct sequel to Bullfrog's earlier game Populous and is one of the company's most notable games.Like its predecessor, Populous II is a god game, where the player is guiding his people in battle against the followers of an enemy god.

negative: Quad City-style pizza Quad City-style pizza is a unique pizza style that originates from the Quad Cities region of the United States. The crust has a nutty taste, the tomato sauce is spicy, the toppings are under the cheese, and the pizza is cut into strips.

negative: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit (Latin: Archidioecesis Detroitensis) is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church covering (as of 2005) the Michigan counties of Lapeer, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair, and Wayne.  It is the metropolitan archdiocese for the Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Detroit, which includes all dioceses in the state of Michigan.

negative: ShowBiz Pizza Place ShowBiz Pizza Place was a restaurant pizza chain founded in 1980 by Robert L. Brock and Creative Engineering. The brand emerged following a separation between Brock and Pizza Time Theatre, owners of the Chuck E. Cheese's franchise. ShowBiz Pizza restaurants entertained guests through a large selection of arcade games, coin-operated rides, and animatronic stage shows as a way to provide a complete package of food and entertainment.

negative: Sicilian pizza Sicilian pizza is pizza prepared in a manner that originated in Sicily, Italy. In the United States, the phrase Sicilian pizza is often synonymous with thick-crust or deep-dish pizza derived from the Sicilian Sfincione.

negative: Sikeston, Missouri Sikeston /ˈsaɪkstən/ is a city located both in southern Scott County and northern New Madrid County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is situated just north of the "Missouri Bootheel", although many locals consider Sikeston a part of it. By way of Interstate 55, Interstate 57, and U.S. Route 60, Sikeston is close to the halfway point between St. Louis, Missouri and Memphis, Tennessee and three hours from Nashville, Tennessee. The city is named after John Sikes, who founded it in 1860.

negative: Southfield, Michigan Southfield is a city in Oakland County of the US state of Michigan. It is a northern suburb of Detroit, MI. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 71,739.  A part of Metro Detroit's upscale office market, the city's marque is a cluster of five golden skyscrapers – known as the "Golden Triangle" – that form the contemporary 2,200,000 square feet (204,400 m2) Southfield Town Center office complex with a Westin Hotel and a conference center.

negative: Sports in Detroit Detroit, Michigan is home to four professional American sports teams. It is one of twelve cities in the United States to have teams from the four major North American sports.All but one of the area's teams compete within the city of Detroit.

negative: St. Clair County, Michigan St. Clair County is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan bordering the St. Clair River. As of the 2010 census, the population was 163,040. It is the 13th-most populous county in the state, and the county seat is Port Huron, located at the north end of the St. Clair River at Lake Huron. The county was created September 10, 1820, and its government was organized in 1821.St. Clair County is part of the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area.

negative: Sterling Heights, Michigan Sterling Heights is a city in Macomb County of the U.S. state of Michigan, and one of Detroit's core suburbs. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 129,699.  It is the second largest suburb in Metro Detroit, and the fourth largest city in Michigan.

negative: Super Bowl XL Super Bowl XL was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Seattle Seahawks and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2005 season. The Steelers defeated the Seahawks by the score of 21–10.

negative: Taylor, Michigan Taylor is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 63,131 at the 2010 census. Taylor was originally known as Taylor Township and residents of the township voted to incorporate as the City of Taylor in May 1968.

negative: Tom Monaghan Thomas Stephen "Tom" Monaghan (born March 25, 1937) is an American  entrepreneur & Autodidact who founded Domino's Pizza in 1960. He owned the Detroit Tigers from 1983 to 1992.Monaghan is Roman Catholic and sold Domino's in 1998 and subsequently dedicated his time and considerable fortune to Catholic causes.

negative: Tourism in metropolitan Detroit Tourism in metropolitan Detroit, Michigan is a significant factor for the region's culture and for its economy, comprising nine percent of the area's two million jobs. About 15.9 million people visit Metro Detroit annually, spending an estimated $4.8 billion. Detroit is one of the largest American cities and metropolitan regions to offer casino resort hotels. Leading multi-day events throughout Metro Detroit attract super-sized crowds of hundreds of thousands to over three million people.

negative: Wayne County, Michigan Wayne County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,820,584, making it the 19th-most populous county in the United States. The 2014 Census update listed the county's population at 1,764,804. The county seat is Detroit, the most populous city in Michigan and 18th-most populous city in the United States.

negative: West Covina, California West Covina is a city in Los Angeles County, California, located 19 miles (31 km) east of Downtown Los Angeles in the eastern San Gabriel Valley and is part of Greater Los Angeles. The population for the city was 106,098 at the 2010 census. The city is the sixty-second most populous city in California.West Covina is a centre for malls, shops, movie theaters, restaurants and diversity.