"the suite and that the movements on either side are in mirror images. Thus Mars involves motion and Neptune is static; Venus is sublime while Uranus is vulgar, and Mercury is light and ""scherzando"" while Saturn is heavy and plodding. This hypothesis is lent credence by the fact that the two outer movements, Mars and Neptune, are both written in rather unusual quintuple meter. Holst suffered neuritis in his right arm, which caused him to seek help from several amanuenses in scoring ""The Planets"". This is clear from the number of different hands apparent in the full score. Neptune was"
"own mortality, and decides he needs to name a successor. The Planet Express staff each expects one of them will be named, but Farnsworth reveals that his successor will be a 12-year-old clone of himself, Cubert Farnsworth. Cubert decides that being an inventor is not an appealing career choice. He makes cutting remarks about Farnsworth and his inventions, which include a time travel machine and a translator which turns words into an incomprehensible, dead language (French). A depressed Farnsworth makes a recording telling his crew that he has been lying about his age; he is actually 160, the age when"
"ages to more than eighty years. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart has the project evacuated and begins a hunt for the Master. The Doctor explains that Kronos is a ""chronovore"", a creature from outside time that feeds on it, attracted from the vortex to ancient Atlantis using a crystal trident larger than one seen to have been used by the Master. The Doctor suspects capturing the chronovore is the Master’s purpose, and that this represents a danger to the entire Universe. Meanwhile, Atlantean High Priest of Kronos, Krasis, is transported through interstitial time by the Master and brought to an office at the"
"become unbalanced and end the universe. The Elders believe since they are now immortal they would be the only beings in the universe to survive and would be supreme beings in the new universe. The plan, however, is thwarted by Galactus' Heralds the Silver Surfer and Nova. Galactus captures and consumes five of the Elders (Champion, Collector, Gardener, Grandmaster and Runner) but three other Elders (Astronomer, Possessor and Trader) are sucked into a black hole and pass through it into a mystical universe. Two Elders avoid the wrath of Galactus and his hunger, The Contemplater and the Obliterator. Both meet"
"unnamed old man, whom Ian and Barbara refer to as the Doctor, says that he and his granddaughter are wanderers in the fourth dimension, exiled from their own planet. Refusing to let Ian and Barbara leave, the Doctor sets the TARDIS in flight and ends up in the Stone Age. Za, the leader of a primitive Paleolithic tribe, attempts to make fire. A young woman called Hur warns him that if he fails to do so, the stranger called Kal will be made leader. After exiting the TARDIS, the Doctor is kidnapped by Kal, who witnesses him light a match."
"who call themselves Horologists. Atemporals are beings who are naturally immortal and either come back 49 days after the death of their previous host body into the body of a child who was already dying, or are able to transfer their souls into dying children when new bodies wear out, unlike the Anchorites who achieve their immortality by draining the souls of psychically gifted children into something called ""Black Wine"" which halts the ageing process. Holly is naturally skeptical but after she is almost killed by a group of Anchorites she decides to work with Marinus and the Horologists. Marinus"
"Elders of the Universe and is close to his fellow Elder En Dwi Gast (the Grandmaster). He apparently came to self-awareness billions of years ago, on the planet Cygnus X-1. He is an enormously powerful being who wielded the Power Primordial and, though at first he took the appearance of an old human, his true form is a powerful alien. For millions of years, the Collector lived on an unknown world with his wife and child, spending his days in thought and contemplation. Over three billion years ago, when his wife, Matani Tivan, lost the will to live and relinquished"
"is a ""mountain of trouble."" Hollis Woods - A 12-year-old foster girl who keeps moving from family to family and has the talent to draw which moves through the story with her adventures. The Regans - Old man, Izzy, and Steven. They want Hollis to be a part of her family even though she pushes them away. Josie - An elderly retired art teacher who adores Hollis. She develops Alzheimer's disease and Hollis must learn to be responsible and to protect her. Beatrice - Josie's cousin who she is very close to. She is also a retired art teacher like"
"how the aging universe continued expanding and its spacetime fabric weakened. With the galaxies burnt out, humanity dispersed across the cosmos, where they encountered the Typhon, an inexplicable entity that was destroying the decaying universe. It consumed matter and replaced space-time with emptiness and inconsistencies beyond the laws of physics. The resulting Chaos spread rapidly, driving some humans back to ancient Earth with its rekindled sun. In an attempt to fend off the approaching Typhon, leaders of the dying Earth sent for Polybiblios, a human living with the Shen, an ancient alien race. Polybiblios returned to Earth with his adopted"
"Harlequin character featuring in Walter C. DeBill jr.'s ""He Who Comes at the Noontime"" (2006). See Haddath. The brightest star of Lyra constellation mentioned as the sidereal abode of unnamed furry aliens who visited the Earth in Paleocene Epoch. A planet in the ""twenty-third nebula"" and the supposed birthplace of Great Cthulhu. A black hole, home of the Great Old One ""Haiogh-Yai"". It is orbited by a dark planet hosting the monolith city of ""Thalu"", made of titanic blocks, and homeworld of the ""Voorlak"", lizard or leech-like servants of this mysterious entity. An alien planet orbiting a ""purple swollen Sun"""
"with each other being seemingly the last known surviving Elders and plot their revenge against the universe. Despite this setback, the eight Elders continue their plot against Galactus. While the five Elders within Galactus inflict a fatal case of ""cosmic indigestion"" upon him, the three Elders in the mystical realm conspire with the cosmic entity the In-Betweener to restore him in exchange for him returning them to their home reality and his promise to kill Galactus. Using the Silver Surfer, Mister Fantastic, and the Invisible Woman (whom Galactus had sent in search of the Infinity Gems), the In-Betweener is restored"
"upon The Ancient—who is the messenger of the moon goddess, who came to earth in the form of a hare. He tells the bat and squirrel that the only way to prevent doom befalling the world is to convince their kinds to join together to battle the Hobbers. To Vesper's shock, The Ancient reveals that it was not the Starwife who took away the bats' power to see into the future, but their very own Warden of the Great Book, Hrethel. He also tells Ysabelle that because the high priest dipped the silver acorn into the blood of the squirrels"
"have reached the literal ""end of the world"", and that Jonni Future is a witch. A recurrent theme is Jermaal's unrequited lust for Jonni. Jonni's uncle came and went at his pleasure from the 20th century to the Crepusculum, a time billions of years in the future when the whole solar system teeters on the brink of collapse and several planets have already disintegrated in a maelstrom of asteroids. He made these journeys via a portal located in his home. After his death, he leaves his home to his ethnobotanist niece, Jonni. She inherits the house, she learns, on the"
"Elders of the Universe The Elders of the Universe are a group of supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Collector was the first Elder to appear, and featured in ""Avengers"" #28 (May 1966), but the idea that he was a member of a group known as the Elders was not introduced until ""Avengers"" #174 (August 1978). The Elders of the Universe are the last survivors of otherwise extinct races. Each discovered that they had potentially infinite lifespans, dependent on maintaining the will to continue living. They are thus known for their personal obsessions (such as"
"Old Hundredth (short story) ""Old Hundredth"" is a science fiction short story by British writer Brian Aldiss. It was first published in ""Airs of the Earth"" in 1963 and has been anthologised many times. It was included in ""The Golden Age of Science Fiction"". In the far distant future, the Moon has left Earth; Earth and Venus orbit each other. Humans have left Earth, but the planet is inhabited by a mixture of animals and Impures; intelligent creatures created by human experimenters on Venus. Dandi, a giant sloth-like creature, wanders the planet. She is the ward of, and mentally linked"
"into the monster's arrival on Earth (though it should be noted that events of this telling of the story fundamentally invalidate any earlier versions, to the extent that tying them together becomes impossible). The monster had accidentally been bonded to Stanley by Stanley's demon-worshiping grandfather, also named Stanley Dover; Dover Sr. had summoned the Beast in order to use it to grant him immortality, but he had been roped into babysitting his grandson at the time he performed the ritual and the bond was transferred to the infant instead. Discovering the bond, the grandfather locked the younger Stanley in a"
"to a nearby planetoid with an Earth-type atmosphere. All communications are blocked, and the shuttlecraft is totally inoperable. Soon afterward, a young man calling himself Cochrane appears. He tells the party that he has been marooned on the planet for years and that a damping field is preventing their systems from working. Cochrane takes them to a shelter built from material salvaged from his crashed ship, and in the course of their visit, Kirk notices a glowing mass resembling the phenomenon that brought them to the planetoid. Cochrane calls this entity ""the Companion"", and explains that as an old man,"
"and the more down-to-earth Puffy. Dooley tells Claus it is his destiny to deliver toys to the children of the world every Christmas Eve, which the elves will make in their large workshops. Donner and Blitzen are joined by six other reindeer and fed magic food that allows them to fly. When Christmas Eve comes, Claus is approached by the oldest of elves, the Ancient One, who renames him as ""Santa Claus"". Centuries pass as the mythology of Santa is created, until the 20th century, where Santa is exhausted by the ever-growing workload every year due to the world's increasing"
"take much more than they need, and they each lose eighty years. 78-year-old Grandma Georgina vanishes, having become ""-2"". Charlie and Mr Wonka journey to 'Minusland', then Mr. Wonka restores her with a sprayable compound that makes people older. Grandma Georgina has become 358 years old. Using a cautious dose, the three are restored to their original age. Finally, the President of the U.S. invites the family and Mr Wonka to the White House, as a thank you for their space rescue. A follow-up to the book was planned, called ""Charlie in the White House"". Charlie's family and Mr. Wonka"
"on his plan. In battling Dawly, however, it turns out that Dawly is responsible for the mishap that caused the universe to be 'born old'. When Dawly's family is brought before the Guardians, Ganthet shields Jordan's mind, allowing him to retain his memory of one of the biggest secrets of the Guardians. After the destruction of Coast City (in the ""Reign of the Supermen"" storyline), the subsequent ""insanity"" of Hal Jordan, and the destruction of the Main Power Battery, the Guardians decide to focus all of their remaining power into Ganthet, recognising that he was the only one of them"
"the day because she is working late. However, despite Karen's warnings, Espen walks to an old ricked pier and suddenly disappears. Karen runs after and discovers that a mysterious old man who calls him self Old Erik, an old Norwegian name for the devil has kidnapped Espen and tries to swim after his old boat to a mysterious island where she sees that oddly the moon has been shattered. Karen is confronted and hunted by various dangerous creatures and monsters like trolls, Huldra and mythological talking wolves from the Norse mythology and Norwegian folk tales, sees old ruined villages where"
"a young man in his mid-twenties who is over a hundred years old). Both are attempting to reject their nature as supernatural predators – George by strictly managing his transformations and their effect on others, Mitchell by abstaining from blood-drinking. Despite a long history of antipathy between the werewolf and vampire races, Mitchell and George have formed a deep friendship, they have low-profile, low-status jobs as hospital porters and live as housemates. Moving into a new house together, they discover that it already has an occupant – Annie Sawyer, the ghost of a young woman in her mid-twenties. Annie had"
"to have routinely sent his former crews on suicide missions. A self-described mad scientist, the Professor is a senile, amoral, deranged, and unpredictable old man (160 years old as of ""A Clone of My Own""), with very thick glasses and a gift for creating doomsday devices and atomic supermen. He has put at least one parallel universe in peril with his inventions and visited dozens more (see ""The Farnsworth Parabox""). The Professor teaches at Mars University and has worked for Momcorp on several occasions, but spends most of his time inventing ridiculous devices and sending the Planet Express delivery crew"
"elder of sorts summoned a multitude of creatures to attack her. As she swam away she passed several different settlements until she came across one whose leader knew of dolphins from ancestral stories. The elder then proceeded to explain why there were tiny humans with magical powers all over the place. Meanwhile, the archaeologist Tkett, along with Chissis (a former researcher who has regressed to an advanced primal dolphin state) takes the last remaining sled of the colony to investigate a deep water disturbance. He hopes to come across a left-over space ship rumbling around the ocean floor which he"
"and he says to just go because someone is after him. When they ask who is after him, he tells them the sun. The old man starts talking about the seventeen-year locusts that are on their way and other wild theories about people and evil, more specifically, genetic evil. He is talking about people who are born evil. When they stop to fix a flat tire, the old man continues telling the boy his strange theories but the aunt is starting to tire of it. She apparently thinks the heat has gotten to him. When she can't take him anymore,"
"(Beanie mentions that he'll be forty years old upon their return to Earth, and Captain Forbes also mentions that, although the process will slow their ageing, they will still age.) Among the crew members are Lani Miyori (a communications specialist) and Luz Sansone, a fellow communications tech who takes an immediate liking to Beanie. Also aboard are Dr. Sally Arthur, a 24-year-old M.D., Huxley Welles, an 18-year-old navigator, and Dr. Leland Eugene, the ship's psychiatrist. The crew arrives aboard the ""Earth*Star Voyager"", and are met by Captain Forbes (the commanding officer), Brody (the ship's resident physical fitness instructor - crew"
"year, this unseen entity grows to monstrous proportions, requiring the two men to make frequent modifications to their residence. People begin to notice a trend of cattle mysteriously disappearing. Wilbur's grandfather dies, and his mother disappears soon afterwards. The colossal entity eventually occupies the whole interior of the farmhouse. Wilbur ventures to Miskatonic University in Arkham to procure their copy of the ""Necronomicon"" – Miskatonic's library is one of only a handful in the world to stock an original. The ""Necronomicon"" has spells that Wilbur can use to summon the Old Ones, but his family's copy is damaged and lacks"
"which causes him to age prematurely. At his lair on an abandoned oil-rig (which he shares with the scientist's other creations: six childish clones, a dwarf named Martha, and a brain in a vat named Irvin), he uses a dream-extracting machine to steal dreams from children. The children are kidnapped for him from a nearby port city by a cyborg cult called the Cyclops, who in exchange he supplies with mechanical eyes and ears. Among the kidnapped is Denree (Joseph Lucien), the adopted little brother of carnival strongman One (Ron Perlman). After the carnival manager is stabbed by a mugger,"
"to age, a process that cannot be halted. Eventually they wither to dusty shells but unfortunately for them they remain conscious. Unable to bear the thought of murdering her lovers, Miriam imprisons them in steel-encased chests to keep with her for eternity. The novel begins when John, her most recent companion suddenly begins to age. Miriam is surprised at the brief amount of time that John lasted (only about 200 years). She has been secretly following the work of Dr. Sarah Roberts, a brilliant young physician whose research may hold the key to immortality for her lover. John becomes too"
"imaginary book invented, like Byatis, by Bloch): Byatis, the serpent-bearded, the god of forgetfulness, came with the Great Old Ones from the stars, called by obeisances made to his image, which was brought by the Deep Ones to Earth. He may be called by the touching of his image by a living being. His gaze brings darkness on the mind; and it is said that those who look upon his eye will be forced to walk into his clutches. He feasts upon those who stray to him, and from those upon whom he feasts he draws a part of their"
"strange old man and hear Susan's voice coming from inside what appears to be a police box. Pushing their way inside, the two find that the exterior is camouflage for the dimensionally transcendental interior of the TARDIS. The old man, whom Susan calls ""Grandfather"", kidnaps Barbara and Ian to prevent them from telling anyone about the existence of the TARDIS, taking them on an adventure in time and space. The first Doctor, says cultural scholar John Paul Green, ""explicitly positioned the Doctor as grandfather to his companion Susan."" He wore long white hair and Edwardian costume, reflecting, Green says, a"
"to age within their respective incarnations to what would appear to a human to be old age; both conflicts are suggested within the series to last hundreds if not thousands of Earth years. In ""The Daleks' Master Plan"", the First Doctor is able to resist the effects of the Time Destructor better than his companions, who are visibly aged by it; one of them, Sara Kingdom, ages to dust before the Destructor device can be reversed. The Fourth Doctor is briefly aged 500 years in ""The Leisure Hive"", leaving him an old man but still active. A similar situation occurred"
"with the things she has seen contributing to her pessimistic world view. She also takes great pleasure in making other people's lives miserable, with stunts such as ""stealing"" her niece's red Porsche. Although Diana is a pensioner, Cole was just 48 when she took the role. Tom Ballard (Graham Crowden) - an optimistic, jolly old man; in many ways the polar opposite of Diana. However, he shares her sense of justice (and her enjoyment of troublemaking) and the two become good friends (but often with an uneasy relationship). Tom affects a mild dementia and frequently takes imaginary trips to other"