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This Page will soon contain a list of the books featured or referenced in the first season of Fringe.
THE LAND OF LAUGHS
Published: 1980
Episode: Ability
The Land of Laughs is fantasy novel by Jonathan Carroll. The book concerns a schoolteacher who is researching the life of one of his favorite children’s book authors. He is warmly, and unexpectedly, greeted by the author’s adult daughter. All seems well until a dog begins talking to him, as the line between the author’s fantasy world and the reality of the schoolteacher’s life blurs.
CHILDHOOD’S END
Published: 1953
Episode: 1.19 “The Road Not Taken”
Childhood’s End is a science fiction novel by Sir Arthur C. Clarke, dealing with the role of Mind in the cosmos and the plausible implications of that role for the evolution of the human race. It was originally published in 1953 but first appeared as a 1950 short story titled “Guardian Angel” in Famous Fantastic Mysteries magazine. The original publication is the novel after the prologue, Earth and the Overlords, with some different text in certain places. A new first chapter was substituted in 1990, owing to anachronisms in the opening scene. (Clarke incorrectly estimated that the Moon landing would take place in the late 1970s). Editions since have appeared with the original opening or including both alternatives.
THE SEA HUNTERS II
Published: 2002
The Sea Hunters II: More True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks is a nonfiction work by adventure novelist Clive Cussler published in the United States in 2002. This work details the author’s continuing search for famous shipwrecks with his nonprofit organization NUMA. There is also a television series titled The Sea Hunters which is based on the book. It airs on the National Geographic Channel and History Television in Canada.
CADILLAC ORPHEUS
Published: 2008
Episode: The Road Not Taken
A darkly comic novel of class, struggle, and crime within three generations of an African- American family in the Deep South.
Jesmond Toak is a repo man in the fictional town of Johnsonville, Florida. A poor African-American in a hurricane alley on the coast, Jesmond has a troubled relationship with his father, Feddy, who is seeing a white woman who only sleeps with black men. Peaches Richmond, the woman Jesmond loves, is married to a threatening man they all call “Special Ed.” And their pastor’s gay son, Bayonne, has been implicated in the suicide by gas asphyxiation of his boyfriend, Smullian. As the deaths, disasters, and disappearances mount, Hurricane Aretha approaches.
Woodward ties together these unruly plot points with madcap glee and skill; it’s not every day one runs across the word “homunculus,” references to Kierkegaard, and the phrase “get kronked for Christ!” in the same book. As lyrical as Cormac McCarthy, as sexy as Zane, Woodward has crafted a genre-defying, present-day romp that reveals a side of Florida far removed from Disney World.
THE POWER ELITE
Published: 1956
Episode: The Road Not Taken
The Power Elite is a book written by the sociologist, C. Wright Mills, in 1956. In it Mills called attention to the interwoven interests of the leaders of the military, corporate, and political elements of society and suggested that the ordinary citizen was a relatively powerless subject of manipulation by those entities.
The structural basis of The Power Elite was that, following World War II, the United States was the leading country in military and economic terms.
The book is something of a counterpart of Mills’ 1951 work, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, which examined the growing role of middle managers in American society. While White Collar characterized middle managers as agents of the elite, The Power Elite did not differentiate them from the rest of the non-elite in society.[citation needed]
A main inspiration for the book was Franz Leopold Neumanns book Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism in 1942, a study of how Nazism came in position of power in a democratic state as Germany. Behemoth had a major impact on Mills and he claimed that Behemoth had given him the “tools to grasp and analyse the entire total structure and as a warning of what could happen in a modern capitalist democracy”. (C.Wright Mills:Power, Politics and People.New york .1963p.174).
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Another book was Firestarter by Stephen King
it was in The Road Not Taken
the book is, I’m not kidding, MAJORLY comparable to diff parts of Fringe!