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Susan Sto Helit


Susan Sto Helit (also spelled Sto-Helit), once referred to as Susan Death, is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" series of fantasy novels. She is the "granddaughter" of Death, the Disc's Grim Reaper, and, as such, has "inherited" a number of his abilities. She appeared in three "Discworld" novels: "Soul Music", "Hogfather", and "Thief of Time". She is also referred to (though not by name)
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and become Duke and Duchess of Sto Helit (whose family motto is "Non Temetis Messor": "Don't Fear the Reaper.") Susan is their only child. She is first introduced as a sixteen-year-old pupil at the Quirm College for Young Ladies in "Soul Music", shortly after the death of her parents. Initially blaming Death for not saving them, she has come to accept that he was only able to grant them an eternal moment in his domain, which they had refused.
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After graduating—and despite technically being the current Duchess of Sto Helit—she begins a teaching career, first as a governess (in "Hogfather") and then as a schoolteacher (in "Thief of Time"). She insists on being addressed as ""Miss" Susan". She was 16 years old when first encountered in "Soul Music" and, since the novels take place roughly in real time, was roughly 18/19 years old in "Hogfather", and 21 years old during her final appearance
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Reaper chose to turn over his Lifetimer. This allowed Mort to stay in the world of the living. After the events of "Mort", Mort leaves Death's service and marries Ysabell. The couple are given the title of Duke and Duchess of Sto Helit, and later also become the parents of Susan Sto Helit. They subsequently meet their end after a freak accident sends their carriage plunging into a ravine, as revealed in "Soul Music". They had discussed this with Death and had turned down his offer to
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master about his gaffe, Mort tries various unsuccessful methods to fix the situation. After fighting and losing to Death, Mort is given an extra lease on life when the Grim Reaper chooses to turn over his Lifetimer, allowing Mort to stay in the world of the living. After the events of "Mort", Mort leaves Death's service and marries Ysabell. The couple are given the title of Duke and Duchess of Sto Helit, and they later become the parents of Susan Sto Helit. They subsequently meet their end after
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University), and most other higher education institutions on the Disc do not admit females, there is no clear lifelong aim for the school's alumnae. Susan Sto Helit describes it as "an education in, well, education" ("Hogfather"). It appears that those students who do not marry upon leaving school generally go into the teaching profession themselves, or become governesses. Staff include Miss Butts, the Headmistress; Miss Delcross, the Biology mistress; and "Iron Lily", the gym mistress. Sto
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no concept of death, and therefore engineers for Susan to foil their plan instead. After removing all of the Auditors' human agents from the Tooth Fairy's country, Susan saves the Hogfather from being destroyed by a group of Auditors who have taken the forms of dogs. She later kills Mr. Teatime by impaling him with the poker she uses to threaten monsters. "Thief of Time" sees Susan once again in conflict with the Auditors, who are now attempting to stop time, so they can catch up with the paperwork
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in "Thief of Time". At the beginning of "Soul Music", Susan is studying at Quirm College. When Death takes a holiday from his work in an attempt to forget his more troubling memories, a metaphysical vacancy is created in the post, and Susan is 'sucked in', as Death's butler Albert puts it, forcing her to temporarily assume the role. At first, she desires to use her power to help humanity, but as the book progresses, she comes to realise that she is
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as ""Helpfulness Personified"." Susan is a "slightly built young woman"; both Mustrum Ridcully and Terry Pratchett himself have described her as being "attractive in a skinny way". Her hair is pure white, but with a streak of black running through it from end to end. Although its natural state is a frizzy mass reminiscent of a dandelion, it rearranges its style of its own accord depending on Susan's mood; it tends to form a tight bun while she is working. In "The
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""; however, unlike those of her grandfather, the words which Susan speaks in this voice are often (if not always) enclosed within quotation marks, particularly in "Hogfather". Susan has inherited Death's perfect memory, which includes the ability to ""remember the future"", and an instinctive knowledge of the nature of Death's work, which gives her considerable assistance during her brief time doing her grandfather's job in "Soul Music". In order to keep her from going insane, her
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the child that there is no monster. Susan, on the other hand, simply hands the child a suitable weapon with which to assault the monster, or, in the event of an "actual" monster, assaults it herself. Monsters from a wide area have come to dread the fireplace poker she uses for this task, although as word of Susan has quickly spread among the city's resident monsters, she lately has only needed to deal with newcomers. Her practical nature is quite similar to Granny Weatherwax's "headology
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of a primordial music that was responsible for bringing the universe into existence. Imp takes the new name "Buddy", as "Imp Y Celyn" literally means "bud of holly", and Lias starts calling himself "Cliff". Meanwhile, Death is upset over the deaths of his adopted daughter Ysabell and her husband, his former apprentice Mort. Their daughter, Susan Sto Helit, was initially raised with an awareness of Death as her grandfather, but they later withheld the truth from her and she forgot about it
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speculated that it is older than the Disc itself, although evidence for this is scarce. In the novel "Sourcery" it survives many magical attacks; other, newer towers do not. In the same novel it became important for the heroic wizard Rincewind, as towers help wizards fulfill their potential. Around the top of it a magical species of raven has developed that is much more intelligent than usual. Quoth, the raven from "Soul Music" and all the books featuring Susan Sto Helit, is one of these.
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time and space Susan has inherited from her grandfather. Susan's role as a caregiver to children, combined with her no-nonsense style and almost magical flair for stick-like weaponry (e.g. her grandfather's scythe, field hockey sticks, a fireplace poker), can be seen as a parody of Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins also had a very similar attitude while actively encouraging positive imagination (Susan tends to say things like ""Real children don't go hoppity-skip unless they're on drugs""),
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her inherited gifts upon entering the Tooth Fairy's castle. This is because the laws of reality within the castle are based on the beliefs of children, which do not include a concept of death; hence the part of Susan which is derived from Death does not exist there. In "Thief of Time", Susan finds herself unable to walk through walls while time is being held in stasis. She speculates that the energy of the glass clock which is holding time static is in some way interfering with her power. Due
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of a kingdom ruled by Queen Kelirehenna, which includes Sto Helit, Sto Kerrig and the Eight Protectorates. Her authority is exercised through a Mayor. The kingdom was one of the first places outside Ankh-Morpork to adopt its own stampings for the post. Astolat is a legendary location in Arthurian mythology, and "Sto lat" is also a traditional Polish song equivalent to "Happy Birthday to You" ("sto lat" literally means "hundred years"). Sto Helit is a duchy within Sto Lat, which
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in part to her education at Quirm College for Young Ladies, Susan possesses various practical skills, some of which contribute to her success as a governess and later a teacher: she is accomplished in the fields of Mathematics and Logic (priding herself on her ability to mentally calculate the square root of 27.4), is multilingual, and has considerable knowledge of Discworld culture. She is also a competent swimmer, being versed in four swimming strokes and several lifesaving techniques. Despite coming from a technically purely human background, Susan has inherited
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abilities from her adoptive Grandfather through more-than-conventional means: her mother, Ysabell, was merely adopted into Death's family; her father, Mort, merely married into Death's family; whereas Susan was conceived and born in Death's family. In the novels, it is said ""some things were inherited through more than genetics...some things were inherited through the soul...some things were in the bones"." Susan's most obvious character trait is being sensible, an attribute carefully cultivated by her
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took children on magical adventures (Susan does so to teach geography), introduced children to supernatural creatures (Susan employs such beings as guest speakers, including her own grandfather), and had a magic umbrella (which, while not used as a blunt object, was magical much like Death's scythe). Neither character openly acknowledges her magical powers. Both tend toward being actively insulted when reminded of their use. The link between Susan and Mary Poppins is explicitly alluded to in "Hogfather", when Susan states that "
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Thief of Time is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 26th book in his "Discworld" series. It was the last Discworld novel with a cover by Josh Kirby. The Auditors hire young clockmaker Jeremy Clockson to build a perfect glass clock, without telling him that this will stop time and thereby eliminate human unpredictability from the universe. Death discovers their plans, but cannot act against them directly, so he instead sends his granddaughter Susan Sto Helit. Meanwhile, Lu-Tze of the History Monks leads
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parents as a counterbalance to the influence of her grandfather. Initially, this manifested itself as a refusal to admit the supernatural side of the world (beyond basic magic) even existed. This is not surprising, given the fact that her parents had informed her from a very early age that there were no such things as the Soul Cake Duck, the Hogfather or the Tooth Fairy. It has even been suggested that her parents chose to name her Susan specifically because of the sensible and conventional connotations of the name. This upbringing
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himself to defeat Mr. Teatime, who resides in a realm created by children's belief where death (and thus Death) does not exist, he appears at his granddaughter's place of work dressed as the Hogfather. As he had planned, Susan Sto Helit is unable to resist her curiosity and tries to find the Hogfather. She visits the Hogfather's Castle of Bones, only to find the hung-over Bilious, the "Oh God" of Hangovers. In an attempt to cure Bilious from his hangovers, Susan visits
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to be attended to personally, an important aspect of all reality. Before Mort arrived she shared her home with Albert, Death's manservant. Susan Sto Helit is Mort and Ysabell's daughter and only child. When she first appears as a schoolgirl in "Soul Music", Susan has just inherited the duchy on the death of her parents. From the time she was a small child until the start of the book, when she is sixteen, her parents have hidden her background from her and brought her up to be
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"Thief of Time", she is able to identify the historical anomalies created by the History Monks' reconstruction of the shattered timeline. The latter novel also reveals that Susan possesses a sort of hyperawareness of the world around her, in that she is ""aware of every step of the rocks beneath [her] feet and the stars overhead"." On various occasions, unusual circumstances have rendered some or all of Susan's powers useless: In "Hogfather", she becomes completely human and finds herself bereft of
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"She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps, she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella"." In "The Art of Discworld", Pratchett describes Susan as "rather chilly", and Susan herself admits in "Thief of Time" that she finds it difficult to relate to other humans on a personal level because the supernatural parts of her mind tend to view mortal creatures as nothing more than "a temporary collection of atoms that [will] not
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presents. While Death attempts to fill in for the Hogfather, his granddaughter Susan Sto Helit tries to find and rescue the Hogfather. The Auditors of Reality, a group of "celestial bureaucrats" attempt to eliminate the Hogfather, a jolly god-like creature who grants children's wishes on Hogswatchnight (December 32nd) and brings them presents which in their view creates chaos in the universe. Forbidden to interfere directly, they pay the Assassin's Guild to kill the Hogfather instead. The task is given to Mr. Teatime who has
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at the end of "Mort", when her father invites Death to her christening. She is one of the "Discworld" series' principal protagonists. Being both human and supernatural, Susan is frequently (and reluctantly) forced away from her "normal" life to do battle with various malign supernatural forces or, barring that, to take on her grandfather's job in his absence. Death tends to employ her in his battles against the Auditors of Reality, particularly in situations where he has no power or influence.
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adoptive" granddaughter, Susan has inherited certain of his abilities: She can ""walk through walls and live outside time and be a little bit immortal"." As well as being able to find any living creature, Susan can sense whether or not an entity is human. She can understand the intentions of the Death of Rats even though she cannot directly interpret its speech, and has the ability to use her grandfather's voice to command or intimidate others. This speech is indicated, similar to Death's,
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As the series progresses, she also begins to take on roles educating children, so that, as Pratchett mentions in "The Art of Discworld", she has "ended up, via that unconscious evolution that dogs characters, a kind of Goth Mary Poppins". Susan is the daughter of Ysabell, Death's adopted daughter (introduced in "The Light Fantastic"), and Mort, who was briefly Death's apprentice in the book "Mort". At the end of "Mort" they leave Death's domain
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'. When other adults point out that children should find these exercises too hard to do, Susan acknowledges this but points out that she hasn't told the children this and so far they seem not to be bothered about it. Using her powers as a teaching aid in her career as a schoolteacher, Susan is sufficiently successful as to have parents clamouring in large numbers to have their child included in her class. Her approach to history and geography, subjects which children often find rather dull, has particularly captured her class's
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be around in another few decades". She has yet to demonstrate much affection for others, though her relationship with her grandfather, once strained, improves over the course of the series. Despite this, she finds herself unable to trust him completely because of the way he occasionally manipulates her into helping him. Though Susan was previously infatuated with rocker Imp Y Celyn ("Soul Music"), "Thief of Time" ended with an unspecified "perfect moment" between Susan and Lobsang Ludd, the new anthropomorphic personification of
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Time. Though the moment itself was not described, Ludd caught her attention by levitating metallic silver and gold stars and setting them spinning about near the ceiling of the Stationery Cupboard, and dimming the lighting to velvety darkness, both rather romantic gestures. Also, Myria (later known as Unity) bluntly questioned Susan as to whether or not she had romantic intentions in regard to the boy, to which Susan responded with the defensive attitude she usually reserves for her fondness of chocolates. In the Cosgrove Hall animation of "Soul Music
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and she is not actively trying to avoid their specific notice. During her time at Quirm College, she unconsciously used this power to avoid being asked questions in subjects in which she had no interest, such as Literature and History. Unfortunately, this caused the teachers of these subjects to believe that Susan was not attending their classes, and she was reported to the headmistress on several occasions. She solved this problem by using her power to erase the headmistress' memory of her supposed misconduct. She possesses a unique perspective on life
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aforementioned upbringing in which imagination and creativity were not encouraged to any degree, making it more of an environmentally instilled trait than an inherited one. Susan has, on several occasions, demonstrated rather unusual attitudes toward school and education in general: In "Soul Music", she cites school as one of the greatest obstacles to education, and in "Hogfather", she compares being educated to having a communicable sexual disease, in that "It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass
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she find it unsettling. Because of this insight, she has a knack for putting problem children (such as those who try to get around her rules) in their place. As the novels progress, Susan proves to be quite good at handling small children, a skill that is attributed to her sensible and practical nature. This is reflected in her novel approach to children's problems. When a child complains about a monster in the cupboard or under the bed, most parents would go to great lengths to carefully explain to
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Art of Discworld", Paul Kidby draws Susan in Edwardian clothing, which he feels fits well with her job as a nanny in "Hogfather". Susan has a very striking physical presence, which both Lu-Tze and Lobsang Ludd have remarked upon, and despite her relative youth, she projects a sense of great age. She possesses a birthmark on her cheek that shows itself only when she blushes; it consists of three finger-like lines that were left on her father when Death slapped him in "Mort"
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mind represses much of the knowledge provided by this memory, but even so, parts of it occasionally permeate her consciousness, generally manifesting as premonitions or intuitive insights into forthcoming events. In "Hogfather", she states that the fragmented nature of such foresight makes the power largely unhelpful. Like Death or experienced witches, Susan can make herself completely unnoticeable to humans if she so chooses, though some people, such as Albert or Mustrum Ridcully, who are used to such things, are still able to see her if they concentrate
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was given to Mort in "Mort", after he'd saved Queen Kelirehenna. After his death in "Soul Music", his duchy apparently was passed to his daughter, Susan. She works as a teacher now, but, apparently, as of "Thief of Time", she still is duchess of Sto Helit. The Ramtops are the Discworld's principal mountain range. Across their vast extent, from the Hub to the Rim, they incorporate elements from virtually every noted mountain range on our world, from the
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of having been born Death's granddaughter and attempting to avoid too much contact with the supernatural world, she appears to have accepted and even embraced her heritage: she admits, albeit grudgingly, that she is not completely human, frequently uses her powers to provide teaching aids, and views herself as an exception to the rules of normal human society, as evidenced by her willingness to investigate the personal papers of her employer, Madame Frout, without her knowledge. In following with her practical outlook on life, Susan does not have
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and fused, becoming the new personification of Time, allowing history to recommence from where it had left off, and their mother to go on a long honeymoon with Wen. This new personification has been romantically linked with Susan Sto Helit, Death's granddaughter. Appeared in "Thief of Time." Unlike our concept of the Tooth Fairy, the Discworld Tooth Fairy is operated as a franchise. Tooth collection is subcontracted to ordinary young women who walk the streets at night with money, ladders and pliers (the pliers are necessary
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a great deal of patience with people who behave in an inefficient or unfocussed fashion. She also has a certain distrust for philosophy, disliking its attempts to oversimplify an inherently complicated world. She appears to have a preference for the colour black, in that most of her childhood drawings were done in this colour (mentioned in "Soul Music"). This fixation is not as extreme as that which her mother possessed for the colour pink, and may in fact be a characteristic inherited from Death, who made most of the
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decorations for his Domain black. She has an intense fixation on chocolate (provided there is no nougat in it), one about which she is very defensive. Another aspect of her personality which may stem from her relationship with Death is the fact that she is, by her own admission, "not very musical" (her grandfather also possessed a distinct lack of talent in the field of music, making several unsuccessful attempts to learn how to play the violin and the banjo). This may be the result of her
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powerless to interfere, and discovers the inevitability of death and destiny. Much to her relief, she is released from the position following the return of her grandfather, who breaks the rules to save the rock star Imp Y Celyn and his band. In "Hogfather", the Auditors employ Mr Teatime, an assassin who attempts to destroy the Hogfather using teeth found at the Tooth Fairy's castle to control children. Death cannot enter the Tooth Fairy's castle because it is constructed from the imaginations of children, who have
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the summoning wizard. This may be wishful thinking on the part of the wizards as, in "Eric", Death appears outside the circle, behind the wizards, and in "Reaper Man" a wizard comments that he believes Death only stays in the circle for the look of the thing. The Rite is not tuned to Death himself, but rather whoever happened to be doing the job; Mort (then Death's apprentice) was almost forced to respond to the summons, and Susan Sto Helit (his granddaughter)
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day that trolls celebrate Troll New Year. Sometimes, in a city where both dwarfs and trolls live (e.g. Ankh-Morpork), the two groups are careful enough to plan their celebratory marches so that they are on the same street. Some people (e.g. Susan Sto Helit), after carefully studying history books, point out that the Battle of Koom Valley seemed to have been repeated several times. The name comes from the Welsh word "cwm", which means "valley". Borogravia is located Rimwards of Überwald
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Soul Music is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the sixteenth book in the "Discworld" series, first published in 1994. Like many of Pratchett's novels it introduces an element of modern society into the magical and vaguely late medieval, early modern world of the Discworld, in this case Rock and Roll music and stardom, with near disastrous consequences. It also introduces Susan Sto Helit, daughter of Mort and Ysabell and granddaughter of Death. A young harpist, Imp Y Celyn from Llamedos (spelled backwards,
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attention. Parents generally see the occasional need to clean their children's clothing of dried-in bloodstains or ground-in swamp mud as more than compensated for by the broad education being received. A child's description of one of the classic battles from Ankh-Morpork's long history, for example, might be sufficiently vivid and detailed to make the parent think that the description could not have been improved upon if the child had actually seen the battle at first hand—which in fact he has, given the flexibility of
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often their pets, all of which are direct violations of Guild protocol. Senior assassins regarded him as a young man to watch, preferably from a distance. When the Auditors of Reality need someone to assassinate The Hogfather (the Discworld equivalent to Father Christmas), they choose Mr Teatime. He commissions the help of a cadre of lowlifes, ranging from big Banjo Lilywhite to the locksmith Mr Brown, and sets about putting his plan into action, which pits him against Susan Sto Helit and her grandfather, Death. Most of
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-Morpork and was the mentor of the young Sam Vimes ("Night Watch"). Quirm is most significant as the location of the Quirm College for Young Ladies (formerly attended by Susan Sto Helit) and the birthplace of Leonard of Quirm (the Disc's Leonardo da Vinci). Quirm is a quiet and peaceful town, and for this reason is a popular holiday destination. It is also where Morporkians go when they retire (including Lord Vetinari's aunt, Lady Roberta Meserole). In this regard, it
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class twit in "Mort", and Brenda Rodley, the swamp dragon-breeding dowager duchess in "Guards! Guards!". In "Sourcery", Quirm was destroyed by wizards during a magical war, but was presumably restored by Coin when he put everything back as it was before the war. The Quirm College for Young Ladies is an educational institution located in Quirm. In the books, Susan Sto Helit, Lady Sybil Ramkin and Miss Perspicacia Tick were educated there. The school's headmistress and founder is Miss
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production. The film's tagline is: ""A story of reality, fantasy and the bits in the middle"". The series closely follows the plot of the novel, which, like many of Pratchett's novels, introduces an element of modern society into the magical and vaguely late medieval / early modern world of the Disc - in this case rock and roll music and stardom - with nearly disastrous consequences. It also introduces Susan Sto Helit, daughter of Mort and Ysabell and granddaughter of Death. Soul Music is
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in the role, he has developed a fascination with humanity, even going so far as to create a house for himself in his personal dimension. Characters that often appear with Death include his butler Albert; his granddaughter Susan Sto Helit; the Death of Rats, the part of Death in charge of gathering the souls of rodents; Quoth, a talking raven (a parody of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", although it flat-out refuses to say "Nevermore"); and the Auditors of Reality,
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debut as Betty in "Fingersmith" in 2005. In 2006, she starred as Susan Sto Helit in a two-part adaptation of Terry Pratchett's novel "Hogfather". In 2008, Dockery played Kathryn in Channel 4's "The Red Riding Trilogy" and played the guest lead of tormented rape victim Gemma Morrison in BBC's "Waking the Dead". In 2009, she appeared in the two-part "Cranford" Christmas special for the BBC, and she also starred as the lead character, as the
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, in that she lacks the normal human ability to ignore things which do not fit in with a logical world-view: in "Soul Music", she is able to acknowledge the enormous size of the rooms in Death's Domain, whereas most humans can only deal with the incomprehensible vastness by pretending it is not there; "Hogfather" reveals that she shares the ability of witches, wizards and young children to see things which are invisible to most people, such as the tooth fairy, monsters and bogeymen; in
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Disc, the power of belief blurs the line between godhood and mortality. Many very human characters, such as Mort, Susan Sto Helit, Lobsang Ludd, Jeremy Clockson, Tiffany Aching, and Pteppic have permanently or momentarily assumed the roles of gods, or at least of anthropomorphic personifications. Tooth Fairies and the History Monks are groups of humans who play godlike roles. The total number of gods on the Disc is effectively infinite. Of those, the number powerful enough to fully manifest is about 3000, according to "The
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, much like Death has for humans. The role is eventually delegated to Banjo Lilywhite by Susan Sto Helit. Appears in "Hogfather". The personification of Winter, he appears in "Wintersmith", where he believes he's fallen in love with Tiffany Aching. At his core he is the elemental personification of ice. Originally just a shape in the snow, with two violet eyes, he later formed a "snowman" out of all the elements that make a human body. He creates snowflakes and icebergs, and
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. She is forced to find the son of Time, whom Death cannot influence or even see, because—being only ""mostly human""—the boy is not subject to death (though it turns out he is also ""mostly not"" human). She is aided in her mission to stop the Auditors by Lu-Tze (a philosopher/James Bond-parody) and Myria LeJean/Unity (a former Auditor who has become human). Time's husband, Wen the Eternally Surprised, describes her
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, and which glow when she is angry. In "Soul Music", she complains that, as Death's granddaughter, she should have been born with better cheekbones. She also has a Look (always capitalised) which can be rather disconcerting, even to those in authority, such as her grandfather and the headmistress of the school in which she teaches. In the television special, her Look is shown as being able to turn her face into something rather similar to a skeleton's. Despite only being Death's "
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has instilled in her a certain lack of romanticism; her personal appraisal of "a poem about daffodils" is, ""Apparently the poet had liked them very much."" She can be relied upon to keep her head in a crisis, something she tends to view as a character flaw. Latterly, she accepts that she is part of the same world as the Hogfather and the Tooth Fairy—she just wishes she wasn't. Indeed, in "Hogfather", she is seen to be making an immense
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it on". She has expressed a fondness for children, as long as they are "not raw" (hopefully), meaning that although the idea of having children herself does not appeal to her, she enjoys spending time with those of other people. She also demonstrates an insight into the more disturbing aspects of childhood nature, as she enjoys listening to the sound of children playing while she is reading, but always positions herself at such a distance that she is unable to hear what the children are saying, lest
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", but has not been given a voice credit for either. In the "Hogfather" TV series the voice was credited to Dorckey Hellmice (an anagram of Michelle Dockery who played Susan Sto Helit in the same TV series), while in the "Discworld 2" game, the voice is credited as Katherine the Crocodile. The Death of Rats also appears in Discworld Noir. In Cosgrove Hall's 1996 animated "Soul Music", Albert was voiced by Bryan Pringle. In BBC Radio 4's 2004 adaptation of "
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Queen of Hearts, Captain Hook, Cruella de Vil, and Lord Voldemort) haunting children's dreams. The sequence is called "". Terry Pratchett's Susan Sto Helit character satirizes Mary Poppins in various ways, most explicitly in the novel "Hogfather". In "The Simpsons" season 8 episode "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious", Marge hires a new housekeeper for the family named Shary Bobbins (voiced by Maggie Roswell), who, though she attempts to help the Simpsons become better people, is ultimately driven to alcoholism.
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you were being chased by a monster, a psychiatrist will convince you that there are no monsters coming after you, whereas a headologist will hand you a large stick and a chair to stand on. The Headology approach is also very similar to Susan Sto Helit's practical approach to children's problems; since the child already believes in Bogeymen, then you may as well go along with it and teach them that they can also very firmly believe in the fireplace poker, too. Because of her reluctance to openly use magic,
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effort to remain 'normal', carefully limiting her use of her inherited powers and forcing herself to act in as 'human' a way as possible. She mentions having great difficulty in remembering things which other humans take for granted, such as the purpose of doorknobs, the way to fall asleep and how to forget things, but argues that, if she were to abandon this struggle, and give herself fully to her supernatural side, she would lose her humanity. In "Thief of Time", though still resentful
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", though the two are used in different fashions. Her approach in other areas is also unusual. For example, in her role as a governess she has found that her charges' reading progress has been greatly enhanced by using interesting books which are slightly too difficult for them, and which therefore present something of a challenge. Parents have reservations about her choice of General Tacticus' "Campaigns" as a reader, since it may be argued that children under ten do not necessarily need to be able to spell 'disembowelled
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he goes out into the world to stop the second Glass Clock (under the pretext of being shown the Way of Mrs Cosmopilite), which was being constructed by his then unknown temporal double, Jeremy Clockson. It is revealed after time stops that he can make his own time, and pairs up with Susan Sto Helit to stop the Clock. He finds out about his "brother" (who is actually him, just having led a different life and born a second after him) and after touching him, they combine
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Hogfather


Warren played Mr. Teatime, Michelle Dockery played Susan Sto Helit, Rhodri Meilir played Bilious, and Tony Robinson (who narrated several audiobook versions of the Discworld novels) played the shop keeper Vernon Crumley. Terry Pratchett himself had a brief cameo as the toy-maker. The US debut was on 25 November 2007 on ION Television, the Australian on 23 and 24 December 2007 on Channel Seven, and the German on 25 December 2007 on ProSieben. The novel entered the UK Top 10 charts at #1 as hardback in October
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Discworld characters


in fact, all women in disguise. By the end of the book, Polly is a seasoned soldier, and it turns out, not the important one in the unit. At the end of the book, Polly has left the army, but rejoins as a sergeant when Borogravia is invaded again. Daughter of King Olerve the Bastard of the Sto Plains kingdom of Sto Lat, and the last person between the Duke of Sto Helit and the throne, she was saved from assassination by Mort, who found himself unable to
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Discworld (world)


emerging out of the Sto Plains like 'a geological pimple', left there by the retreating Ice Giants. The castle is built into this rock. Its most recent king before the present monarch was King Olerve, who was shot with a crossbow by an assassin hired by the original Duke of Sto Helit, a thoroughly nasty man who staged a bid for the succession, thwarted only by Mort in "Mort". At the end of "Mort", Princess Keli became Queen. Politically, Sto Lat is the capital
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Death (Discworld)


Sto Helit. Neil Pearson voices him in the Sky One adaptation of "Hogfather". The New Death appears in "Reaper Man" when he comes to collect the old Death, then known as "Bill Door". The New Death is the old Death's replacement as a result of the plot by the Auditors to rid the world of sloppy thinking. The New Death comes from human belief, but is quite different from the original, having been formed from modern Discworlders who think of death as being a malevolent force
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Mort


as he travels to collect the soul of a king, who is due to be assassinated by the scheming Duke of Sto Helit. After Mort unsuccessfully tries to prevent the assassination, Death warns him that all deaths are predetermined, and that he cannot interfere with fate. Later on, Death assigns Mort to collect the soul of Princess Keli, daughter of the murdered king, but he instead kills the assassin the Duke had sent after her. Keli lives, but shortly after the assassin's death people begin acting as if
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Mort


wins the duel, he spares Mort's life and sends him back to the Disc. Death convinces the gods to change the original reality so that Keli rules in place of the Duke, who was inadvertently killed during Death and Mort's duel. Mort and Ysabell – who have fallen in love over the course of the story – get married, and are made Duke and Duchess of Sto Helit by Keli, while Cutwell is made the Master of the Queen's Bedchamber. Death attends Mort and Ysabell's reception, where he
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Helit (a.k.a. Susan Death), who is also a human who inherited qualities from an anthropomorphic personification. Lobsang inherited powers directly from his parent; she, indirectly from a foster grandparent (Death). However, unlike Susan, who is mostly human, Lobsang is "mostly not" human—he has the mindset and "infuriating smile" of a God, and thinks in 18 dimensions—he claims that even seeing in only 4 is hard, making it difficult to maintain corporeal form. His incarnation of Jeremy
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Susan Visvanathan


Berlin,2011. She was the Research Excellence Fellow at the Central European University (CEU), Budapest (2018-2019). She also writes fiction during winter and summer breaks from the university, extending sociological and theoretical concerns in the more vivid prose of literary fiction including short stories and novels. Literary Critic Bruce King's book Rewriting India:Eight Authors (Oxford University Press,2014), has a chapter on the literary and fictional writings of Susan Visvanathan. He writes,"Susan Visvanathan's fiction is purposefully anti-autobiographical and is based on
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Susan Geason


Susan Dorothy Geason (born 23 August 1946) is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction for adults and teenagers. Born in New Norfolk, Tasmania, to Urban James and Joan Susan (née Oakford) Geason, she grew up in Queensland and graduated from the University of Queensland with a BA in History and Politics. While living in Canada, she completed a Masters degree in Political Theory at the University of Toronto. In 1980–81 Geason wrote a number of articles on education for "The National Times". From
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Helite Tsunami


The Helite Tsunami () is a French high-wing, single-place, rigid-wing hang glider that was designed by Gérard Thevenot and produced by La Mouette under the Helite brand. The Tsunami was developed from the La Mouette Top Secret as a rigid wing competition hang glider. Thevenot decided to market it under his "Helite" brand which was also used for a line of powered parachutes. Available c. 2003, the aircraft is now out of production and the brand is no longer used. The aircraft is made
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Susan E. Connolly


Susan E. Connolly is an Irish fiction and non-fiction writer who has worked in comics, screenwriting, short fiction and novels. Connolly was born Susan Elizabeth Connolly in Ireland where she was educated and completed a degree in Veterinary Medicine and a diploma in Statistics at University College Dublin. She is now studying for a PhD in St John's College, University of Cambridge, in the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit. While in UCD Connolly worked as the Science & Technology Editor as well as the Comment & Opinion Editor for "
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Susan Brantly


Susan Brantly is an American scholar in Scandinavian literature and a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Susan Brantly received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in German and Scandinavian from Harvard University in 1980, her Master of Arts Degree in Scandinavian Literature from the University of Minnesota in 1983, and her Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literature from Yale University in 1987. That same year, she began working in the Scandinavian Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin, where she is currently a professor. Contemporary Swedish historical fiction remains a central
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Helite Skydancer


The Helite Skydancer is a French powered parachute that was designed and produced by La Mouette of Messigny-et-Vantoux under their Helite brand. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft. The aircraft is no longer advertised for sale by either La Mouette or Helite. In 2015 Helite was singularly a producer of air bag products. The aircraft was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of
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Susan Hubbard


Susan Hubbard is an American fiction writer and professor at the University of Central Florida. She has written seven books of fiction, and is a winner of the Associated Writing Program Prize for Short Fiction and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for best prose book of the year by an American woman. She has co-edited a fiction anthology, "100% Pure Florida Fiction" (University Press of Florida) and has written more than 30 short stories published in nationally and internationally circulated journals, including "Ploughshares, TriQuarterly",
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Susan Steinberg (author)


Susan Steinberg is an American writer. She is the author of the short story collections "Hydroplane", "The End of Free Love", and "Spectacle". Steinberg holds a B.F.A. in Painting from Maryland Institute College of Art and an M.F.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She teaches English at the University of San Francisco. She was a fiction editor at Pleiades, from 2000 until 2006. Susan Steinberg was the 2010 United States Artists, Ziporyn Fellow in Literature. She was the recipient of a
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Susan Palwick


Susan Palwick (born 1961 in New York City) is an American writer and professor emerita of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. She began her professional career by publishing "The Woman Who Saved the World" for "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine" in 1985. Raised in northern New Jersey, Palwick attended Princeton University, where she studied fiction writing with novelist Stephen Koch, and she holds a doctoral degree from Yale. In the 1980s, she was an editor of "The Little Magazine" and then
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Susan Shreve


Creative Writing program at George Mason University in 1980, where she teaches fiction writing. She is the co-founder and the former chairman of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. She lives in Washington, DC. Susan Shreve was born May 2, 1939 in Toledo, Ohio, but moved with her family to Washington, DC at the age of three. She attended and graduated from Sidwell Friends School in 1957. Susan received a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1961, and an MA in English from the
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Susan Lewis


Dr. Susan Lewis, played by Sherry Stringfield, is a fictional doctor on the television show "ER". Susan is one of ER's original characters, first seen in Season 1 as an eager resident. Hailing from Sevenacre Rapids, Illinois, Susan led somewhat of an eventful childhood. She was bullied for being overweight, later to which she discovered her best friend Linda Turley was behind the bullying. Susan attended Arizona State University, graduating from Jefferson College with first class honours. She left County General Hospital and the series
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Rita (2009 Italian film)


- Artistic Direction 9th Concorto Film Festival | 2010 22 Aug – 29 Aug | Italy Special Jury Mention 8th Imaginaria Film Festival | 2010 24 Aug – 29 Aug | Italy Jury Mention 16th Aye Aye Film Festival Nancy-Lorraine | 2010 3 Sep – 11 Sep | France Best Sound 3rd Festival Internacional Curtametraxes Bueu | 2010 Bueu International Shortfilm Festival 6 Sep – 11 Sep | Spain Best Short Fiction Film 17th Altin Koza Film Festival | 2010 Golden Boll Film Festival 20 Sep – 26 Sep | Turkey Special Jury Mention 7th Filmfest Eberswalde |
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Susan Higginbotham


Susan Higginbotham is an American historical fiction author and attorney. She has written on the Middle Ages and the Wars of the Roses. Susan Higginbotham earned her undergraduate degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, and her master's degree in English literature from Hunter College in New York City. She received her law degree from Campbell University, and began working for a legal publisher, a position she still holds today. Higginbotham is married, with two teenage children. They live in Apex, North Carolina. Higginbotham began working on her first novel
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Susan Calvin


while he puts one of the novel's characters in a league with the three aforementioned ladies (Chapter 4: The Century Syndrome). It is unclear whether Clarke is referring to Calvin in the sense of Asimov's fictional character or as a character who existed in his fictional universe. Susan Calvin also appears in David Wingrove's illustrated fiction "The Immortals of Science Fiction" (1980). Here she is interviewed, along with nine other famous science fiction characters. In November 2009, the Isaac Asimov estate announced the upcoming
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Susan Hampton


has a son and two granddaughters. Her work as a Writer-in-Residence included the Australian National University, the University of Canberra, the University of New England, and Varuna Writer's Retreat, where she taught editing. In 1977 she was a joint winner of the Patricia Hackett Prize (Westerly), and in 1979 won the Dame Mary Gilmore Award for poetry. She also won the Shire of Eltham Short Story Award. Susan has also edited trade fiction and non-fiction books including ‘Stravinsky's Lunch’
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The Mother of Us All


The Mother of Us All is an opera by Virgil Thomson to a libretto by Gertrude Stein. It chronicles the life of Susan B. Anthony, one of the major figures in the fight for women's suffrage in the United States. In fanciful style, it brings together characters, fictional and non-fictional, from different periods of American history. The opera premiered on 7 May 1947 at Columbia University's Branders Matthews Hall with soprano Dorothy Dow as Susan B. Anthony. Soprano Shirlee Emmons was awarded an Obie Award for her portrayal
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Susan Ioannou


Susan Ioannou (born 1944) is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Ioannou was born in Toronto. As a young child, she wrote fiction, but by her teen years, she wrote more poetry than fiction. In 1966 she received her bachelor's degree and a year later, her master's degree from the University of Toronto. Ioannou taught English at Bloor Collegiate Institute, for six years during the 1970s. In 1973, she was the Vice-President of the Ontario Council of Teachers of English
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The Fringe of the Unknown


" (from "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", Jun. 1969) 8. "Dinosaurs Today" (original title: "Dinosaurs in Today's World") (from "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", Mar. 1968)br 9. "Mammoths and Mastodons" (from "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", May 1965)br 10. "Death Comes to the Megafauna" (from "If Worlds of Science Fiction", Sep. 1971)br 11. "Xerxes' Okapi" (original title
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Susan Visvanathan


Susan Visvanathan (born 1957) is an Indian sociologist, social anthropologist and a fiction writer. She is well known for her writings on religious dialogue and sociology of religion. Her first book "Christians of Kerala: History, Belief and Ritual among the Yakoba"(Oxford University Press) is a pathbreaking work in the field of sociology of religion. She is a Professor of Sociology and former chairperson at Centre for the Study of Social Systems at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Susan Visvanathan studied at Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Susan Wood (literary scholar)


Women's APA" and of WisCon. Wood earned a B.A. (1969) and an M.A. (1970) from Carleton University and a Ph.D. (1975) from the University of Toronto. She joined the English Department at the University of British Columbia in 1975 and taught Canadian literature, science fiction and children's literature. She was the Vancouver editor of the "Pacific Northwest Review of Books" (Jan.-Oct. 1978) and also edited the special science fiction/fantasy issue of "Room of One's Own". She
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Bircham International University


jurisdictions. In 2003, South Florida's "CityLink" magazine reported that Oregon education officials said that Bircham was "totally bogus". In July 2007, the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) of Mexico issued a notice stating that degrees lacking RVOE (Official Recognition from the Mexican Government) will not be validated by the SEP. Degrees via online or distance learning issued by foreign institutions like Bircham University will not be recognized by the SEP. In April 2008 the "Nairobi Business Daily" reported that Bircham International University was
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Susan Hampton


Susan Hampton (1949–) is a poet who lives in Davistown, NSW. Susan Hampton was born in Inverell New South Wales in 1949, and lived in Annandale in Sydney for many years. She has taught writing at UTS and other universities. Currently she lives in Davistown near Gosford on the Central Coast north of Sydney with her partner. She has written eight books including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, and her work is collected in many anthologies. Several of her books have won national awards. Her work
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Susan Sizemore


Susan Sizemore is an American author of both romance and science fiction novels. Susan Sizemore began writing her own stories as a child. As an adult, she wrote fan fiction set in the "Star Trek" universe. She later began writing original romance novels. In 1991, when she was about 40, she won the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award, presented to a previously unpublished author. Three days later, she sold her debut novel, a time-travel romance called "Wings of the Storm".
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Susan Wood (literary scholar)


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. "Energumen" won the
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French Resistance


work in Germany. Under the law of 16 February 1943, all able-bodied Frenchmen aged 20–22 who were not miners, farmers or university students had to report to the STO to do two years labour in Germany. As the occupation went on, service with the STO was widened, with farmers and university students losing their exempt status until 1944, when all fit men aged 18–60 and women aged 18–45 were being called up for service with the STO. Men over 45 and all women serving in the STO were guaranteed not
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Quantum fiction


volume, not by way of subject matter or futurism, but defined by Delany's technique of "reflecting the radical uncertainty of quantum fiction in his world view and fictive discourse." Discussion about the emerging genre of quantum fiction is the subject of 21st century academic papers and some university courses. In 2006, in a dissertation about quantum mechanics and modern fiction, Samuel Sean Kinch discusses the work of Nicholas Mosley as quantum fiction and cites Susan Strehle's "Fiction in the Quantum Universe" as an organized analysis of the emerging
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Society of Experimental Psychologists


conduct plenary sessions in which members can present papers. It holds meetings every spring, scheduled by a member at the host university who serves as the chair of the SEP for that year. The meetings are open to all members and to students and faculty from the host university who are invited by the chair. Membership in the SEP is by invitation only and is considered to be a great honor because it represents significant accomplishment in the field of experimental psychology. The SEP currently admits at least 6 new members annually from among the
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