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Sri Krishna Kirtan
Sri Krishna Kirtan is a medieval Bengali Vaishnava poem on the love of Radha and Krishna, attributed to Baru Chandidas, and the earliest surviving early medieval Bengali literary work.
Sri Ramayana Darshanam
Sri Ramayana Darshanam (ಶ್ರೀ ರಾಮಾಯಣ ದರ್ಶನಂ) is a modern Kannada epic poem in which Kuvempu retells Valmiki's Ramayana, winning the 1968 Jnanpith Award, the first for Kannada.
Sri Ramayana Kalpavruksham
Sri Ramayana Kalpavruksham, also rendered Srimadramayana Kalpavrukshamu, is a Telugu epic poem by Viswanatha Satyanarayana that retells Valmiki's Ramayana; written from 1931 to 1961, it won the first Jnanpith Award given to a Telugu writer.
Sri Thanonchai
Si Thanonchai (ศรีธนญชัย) is one of the oldest Thai folktales, about a cunning trickster from central Thailand who outwits others with wit and wordplay, known abroad as Xiang Miang and Thmenh Chey.
Srikanta
Srikanta (শ্রীকান্ত) is an autobiographical novel in four parts by the Bengali writer Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, published between 1917 and 1933, following the wanderer Srikanta and his love for Rajlakshmi.
Srikrishna Charitam
Srikrishna Charitam (ശ്രീകൃഷ്ണചരിതം), also called Sreekrishna Charithram, is a twelve-canto Manipravalam kavya in Malayalam attributed to the eighteenth-century poet Kunchan Nambiar, retelling the Krishna story of the Srimad Bhagavatam's tenth canto.
Srimanta Sankaradeva Award
The Srimanta Sankaradeva Award is a national-level award instituted by the Government of Assam in 1986, honoring national and international distinction in literature, art, culture, and journalism.
Sringara Naishadhamu
Sringara Naishadhamu (శృంగార నైషధము) is a 15th-century Telugu poem by Srinatha adapting Sriharsha's Sanskrit Naishadhiya Charita, retelling the Nala and Damayanti love story from the Mahabharata.
SS-GB
SS-GB, Len Deighton's 1978 alternate history novel, imagines a Nazi-occupied Britain in November 1941, where Scotland Yard detective Douglas Archer investigates a physicist's murder under SS rule; adapted by the BBC in 2017.
SSN (novel)
SSN (SSN: Strategies of Submarine Warfare), 1996 techno-thriller novel by Tom Clancy with Martin H. Greenberg, based on the 1996 submarine-simulator game; USS Cheyenne (SSN-773), Captain Mackey, US-China Spratly Islands war, non-Ryanverse standalone.
St Crispin's Day Speech
The St Crispin's Day speech, Henry V's 'band of brothers' oration in Act 4 Scene 3 of Shakespeare's Henry V, delivered before Agincourt (1415); its Quarto and Folio versions differ, and its sources run from chronicles to Lancelot Andrewes' 1599 sermon.
Staffrider poetry
Staffrider poetry is the body of poems published in Staffrider, an anti-apartheid South African literary magazine issued by Ravan Press in Johannesburg from 1978 to 1993.
Stag Dance (novel)
Stag Dance (Random House, March 11, 2025) is the title novella of Torrey Peters's collection Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories, set at an illegal Montana logging camp where lumberjacks hold a dance at which some attend as women; it was a 2026 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Stag's Leap
Stag's Leap is a 2012 poetry collection by the American poet Sharon Olds recounting the end of her roughly thirty-year marriage; it won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Stannis Baratheon
Stannis Baratheon, Lord of Dragonstone and claimant king in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones (played by Stephen Dillane): second Baratheon brother, dutiful commander, Melisandre ally, dies onscreen in season 5 but lives in the books.
Stanze per la giostra
Stanze per la giostra is an unfinished narrative poem in ottava rima by Angelo Poliziano, begun in 1475 to celebrate Giuliano de' Medici's joust and abandoned in 1478 after his murder in the Pazzi conspiracy.
Star Trek: Titan
Star Trek: Titan is a series of ten Star Trek novels published by Pocket Books between 2005 and 2017, following Captain William T. Riker and the crew of the U.S.S. Titan.
Star Wars: Lost Stars
Star Wars: Lost Stars, Claudia Gray's 2015 young adult canon novel (Journey to The Force Awakens), follows Thane Kyrell and Ciena Ree from the Imperial Academy to opposite sides of the Galactic Civil War, ending at the Battle of Jakku; adapted into a Yusaku Komiyama manga.
Star Wars: The High Republic
Star Wars: The High Republic, originally Project Luminous, is Lucasfilm's multimedia publishing initiative set about 200 years before The Phantom Menace, launched January 2021 with Light of the Jedi, told in three phases against the Nihil, Drengir, and Nameless.
Star Wars: The Old Republic (novel series)
Star Wars: The Old Republic novel series, Del Rey tie-in fiction for BioWare's MMORPG: Fatal Alliance (Sean Williams, 2010), Deceived (Paul S. Kemp, 2011), Revan and Annihilation (Drew Karpyshyn, 2011-2012), now under the Legends banner.
Star Wars: Thrawn
Star Wars: Thrawn is Timothy Zahn's 2017 Del Rey canon novel telling Grand Admiral Thrawn's Imperial origin story, reintroducing the Legends character to canon, with sequels Alliances and Treason and a 2018 Marvel comic adaptation.
Stardust (2007 film)
Stardust is a 2007 British-American fantasy adventure directed by Matthew Vaughn, based on Neil Gaiman's novel, starring Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Robert De Niro.
Stargirl (novel)
Stargirl is Jerry Spinelli's 2000 Knopf YA novel about eccentric Stargirl Caraway and narrator Leo Borlock at Mica High, Arizona, an ALA Top Ten Best Book, New York Times bestseller, with sequel Love, Stargirl and Disney+ adaptations.
Stark Industries
Stark Industries, also known as Stark International, Stark Enterprises, Stark Resilient, and Stark Unlimited, is the fictional Marvel Comics conglomerate founded by Howard Stark and run by Tony Stark (Iron Man), first appearing in Tales of Suspense #40 and once the Marvel Universe's leading weapons maker.
Starling House
Starling House is a 2023 Southern Gothic fantasy novel by Alix E. Harrow (Tor), a Reese's Book Club pick and NYT bestseller set in fictional Eden, Kentucky, where Opal cleans the haunted mansion of Arthur Starling.
Stars Hollow
Stars Hollow is the fictional Connecticut town created by Amy Sherman-Palladino as the setting of Gilmore Girls and its 2016 revival. Founded in-show in 1779, population under 10,000, 30 miles from Hartford, inspired by Washington Depot, filmed on the Warner Bros. Burbank lot.
Stars in fiction
Stars in fiction: astronomical stars as symbols, settings, and plot devices, from Homeric and mythological starlore through exotic-star science fiction (Niven, Clarke, Anderson) to Liu Cixin's three-body problem and the astronomy-fiction feedback loop.
Stasiland
Stasiland is a 2003 work of literary journalism by Australian writer Anna Funder that recounts life in East Germany under the Stasi and won the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize.
Static Poems
Static Poems (Statische Gedichte) is a 1948 poetry collection by German poet and physician Gottfried Benn that restored him to German literature after his wartime publishing ban.
Station Eleven (miniseries)
Station Eleven is a 2021 American post-apocalyptic drama miniseries on HBO Max, adapted by Patrick Somerville from Emily St. John Mandel's 2014 novel and starring Mackenzie Davis and Himesh Patel.