Books
- Chimeras were mentioned in the Harry Potter books. In "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," it is described to have a lion head, a goat body, and dragon tail. The Ministry of Magic classifies them as XXXXX (very dangerous). It is said that Bellerophon (not mentioned by name) was the only one who ever managed to kill a Chimera and shortly after fell to his death from the winged horse due to exhaustion. Also, in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", Elphias Doge is said to have encountered Chimeras in Greece.
- The Chimera was featured as a story element in its first appearance in Tomb Of Dracula #26 Appears in: 2 issues later. CHIMERA - magic power item in three pieces (serpent's tail, lion's head, goat's body), created ?30000? (20000 more likely) years ago in Atlantis by C'Thunda, used against Kull, involved in the times of the Black Plague, sought in recent times by Dracula + Dr. Sun + David Eschol, destroyed by Sheila Wittier to prevent Dracula or Dr. Sun from using it. Apparently, in Tomb of Dracula#26, King Kull appeared or was referenced in a flashback. The cosmic-powered Chimera and a Legion of Doom unlike any other item in creation, that causes havok for our heroes.
- Conan encounters a Chira like beast in the Marvel Comic adaption of The Flame Winds of Wan Tengri by Norvell Page.
- In Alan Dean Foster's Mad Amos short story, "Witchen Woes," Amos Malone defeats a "kitchen witch" in a cooking contest by making "chimera chili." He later commented that the hardest part of the recipe was finding chimera meat.
- In James Patterson's novel part of the Women's Murder Club series 2nd Chance, the murderer uses a chimera symbol.
- In Laurell K. Hamilton's novel Narcissus in Chains, part of the Anita Blake series, the antagonist is known as Chimera, a panware capable of shifting into several were-animals. Those animals included lion, cobra, leopard, wolf and bear.
- In Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy, Grand Admiral Thrawn's flagship was called the Chimaera.
- In Piers Anthony's Chthon, a chimera kills stragglers from a party of travellers. Quote: "The chimera is the enemy you *don't* see".
- In Marjorie Liu's Dirk and Steele series, the book The Fire King the main male character Karr is a Chimera, being the offspring of two shape shifters of different animals. His mother was a dragon and his father was a lion.
- Amazonean warrior women ride Chimea in Wonder Woman; Amazons Attack!.
- In nthWORD, chimeras are regularly used to illustrate stories, including "Me and Sally" by David Henry Sterry in issue #5 and "Being Jewish in a Small Town" by Lyn Lifshin in issue #7.
- In the first installment of the book series Percy Jackson & the Olympians: "The Lightning Thief", the main protagonist Percy Jackson battles the Chimera and his mother, Echidna at the top of Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
- In the series by Laini Taylor "Daughter of Smoke and Bone" the chimera (spelled chimaera) being these creatures who raised the main protagonist, Karou, from birth.
- See also Chimera (novel) for various books with this title
Read more about this topic: Chimera In Popular Culture
Famous quotes containing the word books:
“All ... forms of consensus about “great” books and “perennial” problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of “what is already known.” Those great books don’t only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“Be a little careful of your Library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here & get books that will open your eyes, & your ears, & your curiosity, & turn you inside out or outside in.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“New eyes each year
Find old books here,
And new books, too,
Old eyes renew....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)