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Orange County has been the setting for numerous written works and motion pictures, as well as a popular location for shooting motion pictures. ==Literature== (Alphabetical by author's last name) *James P. Blaylock's modern fantasy novel, ''All the Bells on Earth'', is set in Orange, California. *Several of the stories in Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon's collection, ''A Model World'', are set in Orange County. Chabon studied creative writing at UC Irvine. *Several scenes from Clive Cussler's novels take place in various places throughout Orange County, including Disneyland. *The classic novel ''Two Years Before the Mast'' by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., describes journeys along the California coast in the early 19th century and the trading of goods for cow hides with the local residents. The south Orange County city of Dana Point takes its name from the author, as the cliffs around the harbor were a favorite location of his. *Philip K. Dick's science fiction novel ''A Scanner Darkly'' (1977) was also set in Orange County. *A number of novels by best-selling fiction and horror author Dean Koontz, a resident of Newport Beach, are set in the area. *San Juan Capistrano is the home of pulp writer Johnston McCulley's first ''Zorro'' novellas. The first was titled ''Curse of Capistrano'', but was later changed to the ''Mask of Zorro'', due to the popularity of the movie. *From his first novel, ''Laguna Heat'', to more recent books such as ''California Girl,'' mystery-writer T. Jefferson Parker has set many of his novels in Orange County. *Orange County is the place in which Kim Stanley Robinson's ''Three Californias Trilogy'' is set. These books depict three different futures of Orange County (survivors of a nuclear war in ''The Wild Shore'', a developer's dream gone mad in ''The Gold Coast'', and an ecotopian utopia in ''Pacific Edge''). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Orange County, California, in popular culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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