"Lord John Grey (character) Lord John William Grey is a fictional character created by Diana Gabaldon. He is a recurring secondary character in Gabaldon's ""Outlander"" series of novels, and the main character of the ""Lord John"" series of historical mystery novels and novellas. Secretly homosexual ""in a time when that particular predilection could get one hanged"", the character has been called ""one of the most complex and interesting"" of the hundreds of characters in Gabaldon's ""Outlander"" novels. Grey first appears in the second ""Outlander"" novel ""Dragonfly in Amber"" (1992) as a sixteen-year-old English soldier who chances upon Jamie and Claire"
"is a Roman Catholic. The ""Outlander"" series focuses on 20th-century nurse Claire Randall, who time travels to 18th-century Scotland and finds adventure and romance with the dashing James Fraser. Set in Scotland, France, the West Indies, England and North America, the novels merge multiple genres, featuring elements of historical fiction, romance, mystery, adventure and science fiction/fantasy. The ""Lord John"" series is a sequence of novels and shorter works that center on Lord John Grey, a recurring secondary character in Gabaldon's ""Outlander"" series. The spin-off series currently consists of five novellas and three novels, which all take place between 1756 and"
"Lord John Grey into the ""Lord John"" series, a sequence of novels and shorter works that can be generally categorized as historical mysteries. The ""Outlander"" series focuses on 20th-century British nurse Claire Randall, who time travels to 18th-century Scotland and finds adventure and romance with the dashing Highland warrior Jamie Fraser. The ""Outlander"" series has been released in unabridged (read by Davina Porter) and abridged audiobooks (read by Geraldine James). Several of the ""Lord John"" books have been released in audiobook form, read by Jeff Woodman. In 2010 Gabaldon adapted the first third of ""Outlander"" into a , illustrated by"
"on April 9, 2016. On June 1, Starz renewed the series for a third and fourth season, which adapt the third and fourth ""Outlander"" novels, ""Voyager"" and ""Drums of Autumn"". The 13-episode third season premiered on September 10, 2017, and concluded on December 10, 2017. The 13-episode fourth season premiered on November 4, 2018, and Starz has renewed the series for a fifth and sixth season. In 1946, former World War II nurse Claire Randall and her husband Frank are visiting Inverness, Scotland, when she is carried back in time to the 18th century from the standing stones at Craigh"
"Diana Gabaldon Diana J. Gabaldon (; born January 11, 1952) is an American author, known for the ""Outlander"" series of novels. Her books merge multiple genres, featuring elements of historical fiction, romance, mystery, adventure and science fiction/fantasy. A television adaptation of the ""Outlander"" novels premiered on Starz in 2014. Gabaldon was born on January 11, 1952, in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States, the daughter of Jacqueline Sykes and Tony Gabaldon (1931–1998), an Arizona state senator from Flagstaff for sixteen years and later a supervisor of Coconino County. Her father was of Mexican ancestry, and her mother was of English descent. Gabaldon"
"2011, and the novella ""A Plague of Zombies"" was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America for the “Best Short Mystery Story” the same year. Reviewing the ""Lord John"" series, ""Publishers Weekly"" said that ""Gabaldon's prose is crisply elegant"" and that she ""brings an effusive joy to her fiction that proves infectious even for readers unfamiliar with her work or the period."" Diana Gabaldon Diana J. Gabaldon (; born January 11, 1952) is an American author, known for the ""Outlander"" series of novels. Her books merge multiple genres, featuring elements of historical fiction, romance, mystery, adventure"
"""Outlander"" novel ""Dragonfly in Amber"" (1992) as a sixteen-year-old English soldier who chances upon Jamie and Claire Fraser on the eve of the Battle of Prestonpans. The character returned, as an adult, in ""Voyager"" (1993) and ""Drums of Autumn"" (1996). When Gabaldon was invited to write a short story for the 1998 British anthology ""Past Poisons: An Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime"", she was interested in the challenge of writing a shorter work but hesitant to use any of the main characters from the ""Outlander"" series for fear of creating ""a stumbling block in the growth of the"
"2013 in Scotland. The series premiered in the US on August 9, 2014. It was picked up for a second season on August 15, 2014, and for a third and fourth season on June 1, 2016. On May 9, 2018, Starz renewed the series for a fifth and sixth season. In 2010 Gabaldon adapted the first third of ""Outlander"" into """", illustrated by Hoang Nguyen. The same year, a 14-song cycle based on ""Outlander"" was released under the title """". Outlander (novel) Outlander (published in the United Kingdom as Cross Stitch) is the first in a series of eight historical"
"Outlanders Outlanders is a long-running series of science-fiction novels created by Mark Ellis and published by Gold Eagle, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises. Set in the same fictional universe as the Deathlands series but separated by a century, Outlanders follows the adventures of a core group of explorers, Kane, Grant, Brigid Baptiste and Domi who operate out of a secret military base known as the Cerberus Redoubt. Although both Deathlands and Outlanders bear the ""James Axler"" byline, the latter series is primarily (although not exclusively) written by its creator Mark Ellis whereas multiple authors produce Deathlands. Two hundred years after"
"original story releasing in Fall 2016. Created in 1996 by Mark Ellis, ""Outlanders"" is the official spin-off series from ""Deathlands"", although it established an identity distinct from Deathlands with the first novel, ""Exile To Hell"". Outlanders provided a more expansive and complete backstory for the ""Axlerverse"" and the causes for the nuclear holocaust rather than relying on the ""US vs. USSR"" template. Deathlands Deathlands is a series of novels published by Gold Eagle Publishing. The first novel ""Pilgrimage to Hell"" was first published in 1986. This series of novels was first written by Christopher Lowder, under the pen name ""Jack"
"""The War Games"" (and finding him attractive in a kilt) as the inspiration for her first novel, ""Outlander"", a time travel story let in 18th century Scotland. Consequently, she named the novel's male protagonist Jamie. She says that the character's surname, Fraser, is a coincidence, as the PBS station on which she watched ""Doctor Who"" habitually cut off the episode's credits. She did not learn Hines' name until several years after ""Outlander"" was published. Up until 2007, Hines was the only surviving Second Doctor companion actor not to have acted in a Big Finish Productions ""Doctor Who"" audio play. (The"
"Hoang Nguyen. The ""Lord John"" series is a sequence of novels and shorter works that center on Lord John Grey, a recurring secondary character from the ""Outlander"" novels. The spin-off series currently consists of five novellas and three novels, which all take place between 1756 and 1761, during the events of Gabaldon's ""Voyager"". They can be generally categorized as historical mysteries, and the three novels are shorter and focus on fewer plot threads than the main ""Outlander"" books. Several of the ""Lord John"" books have been released in audiobook form, read by Jeff Woodman. Core characters include: In June 2013,"
"in the bank heist film ""#211"" (2018), based upon the real-life ""Battle of North Hollywood"" in 1997, and """" (2018), a remake of the 1985 George Romero zombie film. Sophie Skelton Sophie Skelton (born 7 March 1994) is a British actress best known for her role as Brianna Randall Fraser in the Starz drama series ""Outlander"". Skelton was born and raised in Woodford, Greater Manchester, England, the daughter of entrepreneurial children's toy inventors. She began dancing at the age of three, eventually training in ballet at the Royal Academy, before moving into musical theater and stage productions. Her first professional"
"Caitriona Balfe Caitríona Balfe (; born 4 October 1979) is an Irish actress and former model. She is best known for her role as Claire Fraser in the Starz drama series ""Outlander"", for which she has won two People's Choice Awards, two Saturn Awards, an Irish Film and Television Award and has received four Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. In 1999, while studying drama at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Balfe was offered work as a fashion model in Paris. She was featured both in advertising campaigns and on runways for brands"
"of the Irish language and is conversational in French. She is a patron of the organisation ""World Child Cancer"". She is engaged to Tony McGill. Caitriona Balfe Caitríona Balfe (; born 4 October 1979) is an Irish actress and former model. She is best known for her role as Claire Fraser in the Starz drama series ""Outlander"", for which she has won two People's Choice Awards, two Saturn Awards, an Irish Film and Television Award and has received four Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. In 1999, while studying drama at the DIT Conservatory of"
"primary antagonists of the sequel series Outlanders, except there are now only a small number of technologically adept superhuman barons instead of the hundreds of lesser kingpins). Another notable group are the mutants- humanoid beings that have adapted and gained inhuman powers, psionic and otherwise, due to radiation exposure and natural selection. There are a few notable villains in this list, which include: The series had begun as a joint project by Christopher Lowder (pen name ""Jack Adrian"") and Laurence James (pen name ""James Axler""), with the first book called ""Pilgrimage To Hell"". Laurence James then solely wrote the Deathlands"
"Starz ordered 16 episodes of a television adaptation, and production began in October 2013 in Scotland. The series premiered in the US on August 9, 2014 with Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan starring as Claire and Jamie. It was picked up for a second season on August 15, 2014, and for a third and fourth season on June 1, 2016. On May 9, 2018, Starz renewed the series for a fifth and sixth season. In 2010, a 14-song cycle based on ""Outlander"" was released under the title ""Outlander: The Musical"". With music by Kevin Walsh and lyrics by Mike Gibb,"
"like embroidery"" and wanted a more ""adventurous"" title. When her second book was finished, Gabaldon resigned her faculty position at Arizona State University to become a full-time author. , the ""Outlander"" series comprises eight published novels. The eighth installment, ""Written in My Own Heart's Blood"", was released on June 10, 2014. Gabaldon has also published ""The Exile (An Outlander Graphic Novel)"" (2010). The ""Lord John"" series is a spin-off from the ""Outlander"" books, centering on a secondary character from the original series. Gabaldon lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with her husband Doug Watkins, with whom she has three adult children: Gabaldon"
"would have been a more accurate representation of conditions as I described them in Scotland."" Gabaldon was able to rework all of the dates for the UK edition, but the American version was too far along in production to change. ""Publishers Weekly"" said of ""Outlander"", ""Absorbing and heartwarming, this first novel lavishly evokes the land and lore of Scotland, quickening both with realistic characters and a feisty, likable heroine."" The novel won the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award for Best Romance of 1991. In June 2013, Starz ordered 16 episodes of a television adaptation, and production began in October"
"Key Out of Time Key Out of Time is a science fiction novel by American writer Andre Norton, the fourth in her series ""The Time Traders"". It was first published in 1963, and as of 2012, had been reprinted in 17 editions with cover changes, as well as twice in a combined edition with ""The Defiant Agents"". It is part of Norton's Forerunner universe. ""Key Out of Time"" continues the series’ premise, an encounter between Western heroes, and the Russian Communists, and the Baldies, a mysterious alien race that used time travel to alter Earth. Events in the previous novel,"
"Outlander (film) Outlander is a 2008 independent science fiction-action film starring Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, John Hurt, and Ron Perlman, and written and directed by Howard McCain. The plot is loosely based on the 9th-century epic poem ""Beowulf"", adapted to a science-fiction backstory involving a spaceship crashing in Iron Age Norway. The film was a box-office failure, grossing US$7 million compared to a budget estimated at $47 million, though it has since become a minor cult classic. A spacecraft crashes in a lake in Vendel-era Scandinavia. The only surviving occupant – a human – retrieves a distress beacon"
"Trail of Fire (Four Outlander Tales) is a collection of ""Outlander"" short works released in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand in late 2012 and expected to be released in the United States and Canada in early 2014. It includes two previously-published ""Lord John"" novellas, ""The Custom of the Army"" (2010) and ""Lord John and the Plague of Zombies"" (2011), as well as the previously published ""Outlander"" short story ""A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows"" (2012) and novella ""The Space Between"" (2013). According to Gabaldon, the volume is delayed in the US and Canada until February 2014"
"Mark Ellis (American author) Mark Ellis is an American novelist and comic-book writer who under the pen name James Axler has written scores of books for the ""Outlanders"" paperback novel series and other books, as well as numerous independent comics series. Ellis became a full-time freelance writer in 1986. In 1980, he married Melissa Martin, a graphic designer and writer who serves as his business partner. In the mid-to-late 1980s Ellis worked as the primary writer for Adventure Publications' line of comic magazines, scripting such diverse titles as ""Ninja Elite"", ""Warriors"", ""Netherworlds"", and ""Star Rangers"", working with legendary comics artist"
"1761, during the events of Gabaldon's ""Voyager"". They can be generally categorized as historical mysteries, and the three novels are shorter and focus on fewer plot threads than the main ""Outlander"" books. The ""Outlander"" series has been released in unabridged (read by Davina Porter) and abridged (read by Geraldine James) audiobooks. Several of the ""Lord John"" books have been released in audiobook form, read by Jeff Woodman. A television adaptation of the ""Outlander"" series premiered on Starz in the US on August 9, 2014. Gabaldon made a cameo appearance as Iona MacTavish in the August 2014 episode ""The Gathering"". Gabaldon"
"by Ellis who had already authored several novels in the Deathlands series. The “Axlerverse”, a term coined by Mark Ellis, is inclusive of events in both Outlanders and Deathlands—however there is very little in the way of a cohesive fictional universe in the latter series. Deathlands did not develop much depth in the way of setting and Ellis introduced many new concepts to make the Axlerverse into a plausible fictional world, particularly important in the books published post-2001. Outlanders has established a reputation for featuring strong yet sexy female characters both in the books and on the covers, particularly those"
"Seven Out of Time Seven out of Time is a science fiction novel by author Arthur Leo Zagat. It was originally serialized in the magazine ""Argosy"" beginning in 1939. It was first published in book form in 1949 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 2,612 copies. The novel is written as a first-person narrative, the narrator being a young attorney from New York named John March. While investigating the disappearance of Evelyn Rand, a young heiress, March is transported across time and space. He finds himself on a strange world which is inhabited by bizarre tentacled creatures who claim"
"this series and the above Outlanders titles is available as part of the Outlanders article. James Axler James Axler is a house name used by the publishing company Gold Eagle Publishing, the action adventure series published by Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. The name was first used for the ""Deathlands"" series, which began in 1986 with ""Pilgrimage to Hell"", co-written by Christopher Lowder (under the pseudonym ""Jack Adrian"") and Laurence James. James went on to write the next 32 novels before dying on 9 February 2000. Under his own name and under the pen names James Darke, James McPhee, and James Axler,"
"produced by artist Cliff Nielsen. Other writers who have contributed to the Outlanders series are Mel Odom and Victor Milan. The Outlanders series is also available on audiobook, through a company named Graphic Audio. Outlanders Outlanders is a long-running series of science-fiction novels created by Mark Ellis and published by Gold Eagle, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises. Set in the same fictional universe as the Deathlands series but separated by a century, Outlanders follows the adventures of a core group of explorers, Kane, Grant, Brigid Baptiste and Domi who operate out of a secret military base known as the Cerberus"
"is a paid consultant for the show, and wrote the screenplay for the 2016 season 2 episode ""Vengeance Is Mine"". In 2010 Gabaldon adapted the first third of ""Outlander"" into """", illustrated by Hoang Nguyen. The same year, a 14-song cycle based on ""Outlander"" was released under the title """". Gabaldon's ""Outlander"" won the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award for Best Romance of 1991. ""A Breath of Snow and Ashes"" (2005) debuted at #1 on ""The New York Times"" Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller List and won the Quill Award for Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror. In 2007, ""The Montreal Gazette"" noted that Gabaldon's"
"into his own novels"". Grey has been called ""one of the most complex and interesting"" of the hundreds of characters in Gabaldon's ""Outlander"" novels. ""Publishers Weekly"" described him as ""a competent and likable sleuth"" in 2003. In 2015, Fandomania named him among their ""Top 10 Crushworthy LGBT Characters in Sci-Fi/Fantasy"". Lord John Grey (character) Lord John William Grey is a fictional character created by Diana Gabaldon. He is a recurring secondary character in Gabaldon's ""Outlander"" series of novels, and the main character of the ""Lord John"" series of historical mystery novels and novellas. Secretly homosexual ""in a time when that"
"– which they now believe vital to their survival. They will stop at nothing to wrest these ""secrets"" from their abductees. Horrified by their inhumanity and ruthlessness, the seven vow to stop them at any cost. As the creatures suffer an attack by mindless monsters which they themselves created, John March and Evelyn Rand are transported back to 20th-century America. March decides to publish a record of their experiences in the hope of changing the direction of human civilization. Seven Out of Time Seven out of Time is a science fiction novel by author Arthur Leo Zagat. It was originally"
"companion from 21st century Scotland named Heather McCrimmon, who is a descendant of Jamie. The character of Jamie McCrimmon inspired author Diana Gabaldon to set her ""Outlander"" series in Jacobite Scotland, and to name its protagonist ""Jamie"". The story Gabaldon was watching was ""The War Games"". (Gabaldon's character's surname is ""Fraser""; however, Gabaldon has stated that she did not derive this name from Frazer Hines, since the PBS station on which she viewed ""Doctor Who"" habitually cut off the credits, and so she did not learn Frazer Hines's name until some years later.) Jamie McCrimmon James Robert McCrimmon, usually simply"
"Lane placing it within contemporary feminist discourses, and appended with the subtitle ""A Lost Feminist Utopian Novel."" Lane was also the first to suggest in her introduction a ""Utopian Trilogy"" of novels by Gilman, including ""Moving the Mountain"" (1911), ""Herland"", and ""With Her in Ourland"", all of which had been published serially in ""The Forerunner."" Herland (novel) Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination. It"