Venus on the Half-Shell is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer, writing pseudonymously as "Kilgore Trout", a fictional recurring...

view the character as the author's own alter ego. In an homage to Vonnegut, Kilgore Trout is also the ostensible author of the novel Venus on the Half-Shell...

Venus on the Half-Shell and Others (ISBN 978-1-59606-128-6) is a collection mostly of science fiction author Philip José Farmer's pseudonymous fictional-author...

the centre, the goddess Venus (newly born in fully grown state, in accordance with tradition) stands nude in a giant scallop shell. The size of the shell...

of the unpublished prize-winning first novel of 20 years before) won him a third Hugo in 1972, for Best Novel. A 1975 novel, Venus on the Half-Shell, created...

(2007) ISBN 1-59606-128-6 Venus on the Half-Shell and Others (2008) includes novels Venus on the Half-Shell and The Adventure of the Peerless Peer plus other...

Vonnegut, an actual version of one of the fictional Trout's books, Venus on the Half-Shell (1975). Farmer's work is based on a moment in Vonnegut's God Bless...

told to children of the wizarding world. In the works of Kurt Vonnegut, Kilgore Trout has written a novel called Venus on the Half-Shell. In 1975 real-world...

The Birth of Venus, from Philip José Farmer's novel Venus on the Half-Shell (1975) Cyanure, from Spirou et Fantasio Dee Model, from Ken MacLeod's The...

Ninja Turtles Twelfth Night Venus on the Half-Shell Wallace and Gromit Where's Waldo? "The best comics of the '00s". The A.V. Club. 24 November 2009....

1968 – The subject has been described as in a "Venus-on-the-half-shell pose" (referring to The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli) or as "a Madonna turned...

"This Earth of Hours". The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: 12. Farmer, Philip José (1975). Venus on the Half-Shell. p. 101. Gordon, Rex (1956)...

often swam nude in the sea. A scallop shell, often found in Venus Anadyomenes, is a symbol of the female vulva. The subject never entirely disappeared in...

The Crouching Venus is a Hellenistic model of Venus surprised at her bath. Venus crouches with her right knee close to the ground, turns her head to the...

mollusc in the family Haliotidae, which once contained six genera but now contains only one genus, Haliotis. Other common names are ear shells, sea ears...

goddess Venus Genetrix, the founding goddess of the Julian gens. It was dedicated to the goddess on 26 September 46 BCE by Julius Caesar. The forum and...

BC) Venus Pudica Capitoline Venus Venus de' Medici Esquiline Venus Venus Felix Venus of Arles Venus Anadyomene (also here) Venus, Pan and Eros Venus Genetrix...

Venus and Mars (or Mars and Venus) is a panel painting of about 1485 by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. It shows the Roman gods Venus...

The hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), also known as the round clam, hard-shell (or hard-shelled) clam, or the quahog, is an edible marine bivalve mollusk...

The Pseudodon shell DUB1006-fL or Pseudodon DUB1006-fL (540,000-430,000 BP) is a fossil freshwater shell of Pseudodon vondembuschianus trinilensis found...

19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus, a name that was later attributed to at least one other woman similarly exhibited. The women were exhibited...

kraken of Nordic legend. The taxonomist Carl Linnaeus named the Venus shell as Venus dione, for the goddess of love and her mother, and named its parts using...

forgotten her mermaid heritage. Venus returns the shell, but Betty decides to stay on land because she has a human daughter. The three sisters learn that Mallick...

Vega Venus probes, launched in 1984. The first balloon was inserted into the atmosphere of Venus on 11 June 1985, followed by the second balloon on 15 June...

bivalve shell is the enveloping exoskeleton or shell of a bivalve mollusc, composed of two hinged halves or valves. The two half-shells, called the "right...

Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. Aphrodite's major symbols include seashells, myrtles, roses, doves, sparrows, and swans. The cult...

The Veneridae or venerids, common name: Venus clams, are a very large family of minute to large, saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs. Over 500 living...

Apple Venus Volume 1 is the thirteenth studio album by the English rock band XTC, released on February 17, 1999. It was the first on the band's own Idea...

of Venus Anadyomene stands on an opened half-shell, but this black Venus is surrounded by white cherubs and moves across the Middle Passage, urged on by...

tellin Psammotellina capensis (Cape Agulhas to Transkei) Veneridae – Venus shells Heart clam Dosinia lupinus orbignyi (Namibia to Eastern Cape) Dosinia...