When she made it, the results, starring Margaret Rutherford, were popular and successful light comedies, but were disappointing to Christie herself ; nevertheless, Agatha Christie dedicated the novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side to Rutherford.

* Accel World, a Japanese light novel series by Reki Kawahara.

This picture, however, is undergoing revision in light of emerging novel roles for RNA.

It is less generally realized that his Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer ( 1964 ) was a similar exercise, exploring theological questions through correspondence addressed to a fictional recipient, " Malcolm ", though this work may be considered a " novel " only loosely in that developments in Malcolm's personal life gradually come to light and impact the discussion.

The breaking of rotation and boost invariance causes direction dependence in the theory as well as unconventional energy dependence that introduces novel effects, including Lorentz-violating neutrino oscillations and modifications to the dispersion relations of different particle species, which naturally could make particles move faster than light.

Alan Segal in his book Paul the Convert suggests that the Apostle Paul may have been an early adept of Merkabah mysticism in which case what was novel to Paul's experience of divine light on the road to Damascus was not the experience of divine light itself, but that the source of this divine light identified himself as the Jesus whose followers Paul was persecuting.

* Toaru Majutsu no Index, a Japanese light novel, manga, and anime series

In Niven's first novel, World of Ptavvs, the hyperdrive used by the Thrintun required a ship to be going faster than 93 % of the speed of light.

* Mayo Kagura, the protagonist of the light novel My-HiME Destiny

If it be accepted, as can hardly be denied, that the answers of the judges to the questions asked by the House of Lords in 1843 are to be read in the light of the then existing case-law and not as novel pronouncements of a legislative character, then the High Court's analysis in Stapleton's Case is compelling.

Though Saladin faded into history after the Middle Ages, he appears in a sympathetic light in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Talisman ( 1825 ).

Slayers was originally serialized in Dragon Magazine in 1989 as a light novel series written by Hajime Kanzaka, and with artwork by Rui Araizumi.

The light novel chapters were originally serialized in Newtype, and the illustrations were provided by Nobuteru Yuuki and Hirotoshi Sano.

There is also Sword Art Online ( ソードアート ・ オンライン, Sōdoāto Onrain ), a light novel series written by Reki Kawahara ; it is about 10, 000 people being trapped in a game world where in the game would mean an actual " death " in real life and the only way to escape is to complete the game.

Moonlight Sculptor by Nam-Hi-Sung is a Korean light novel about the adventures of " Weed " in a virtual reality game called Royal Road.

The discovery is first recorded in print in 1968: " An entirely novel kind of star came to light on Aug. 6 last year [...]".

In that novel he was able to satirise whole swaths of humanity while retaining a light touch.

Other anxieties about unstable identity appear throughout the novel: Robert's relationship with George has homosexual overtones, especially considered in light of his attraction to Clara, George's sister, who is described as looking identical to George.

Frederick Douglass praised the novel as " a flash to light a million camp fires in front of the embattled hosts of slavery ".

* For part of the history espoused in Clive Barker's novel Galilee, the city of Samarkand is held as a shining light of humanity, and one of the characters longs to go there.

* The fictional video game Sword Art Online, from the light novel series of the same name, is launched at 13. 00 on 6 November, 2022.

" Admitting " a certain reservation, even disappointment ," Anthony Boucher nevertheless concluded that Heinlein was " simply creating an agreeably entertaining light novel, and in that task he succeeds admirably.

In some respects Look to Windward serves as a loose sequel to the first Culture novel, Consider Phlebas: the GSV Lasting Damage fought in the Idiran-Culture War, and Ziller specially composes a work to commemorate the arrival of light from a supernova triggered during the war.

The moon had sunk below the black crest of the mountains and the land, seen through eyes that had grown accustomed to the absence of light, looked primeval, as if no man had ever trespassed before.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

Bushes and vines abetted the rocks in forming thorny detours for the struggling stranger, and without the direct light of the sun to act as compass, Pamela could no longer be positive of her direction.

Although they drew light ground fire they saw no signs of activity.

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.

For the young child this may be no more than providing food, light or movement.

The fast-opening of the shutter consists of a piece of aluminum foil ( approximately Af ) placed directly in front of the camera lens so that no light may pass into the camera.

In the light of these circumstances, as well as the fact that the issue at trial in this respect centered entirely on the Department's recommendation, which petitioner repudiated but which both the appeal board and the courts below found supported by the record, we find no relevancy in the hearing officer's report and notes.

With the source of light behind the copy, there is no loss of lumen output, as with conventional boards illuminated by means of reflected light.

But when what is new in a particular context is also fairly obvious, there is normally only light stress or no stress at all.

While the `` empirical psychoanalytic '' label which Fromm claims sheds no light on the validity of his underlying philosophy, it does increase the marketability of his product.

There were two front rooms, both dark behind their transoms, and there was no sound or light in the entire house to indicate that any of the occupants were awake.

The light shining through the grille dimly illumined the office beyond -- enough for him to see there was no one there.

There was no sound and apparently no movement in the room except the noiseless pulsation of the red light on the wall.

he'd hung another half of a blanket over the boarded window so no light would show through.

We discussed the candle and decided the hypothetical other bum would have left it burning to light his way to the window and because he'd have no reason to blow it out.

But, up to now, no one has attempted to analyze its inherent mathematical properties, or the numerical significance of its numbers -- singly or in combination -- and then tried to consider these in the light of Old Chinese cosmological concepts.

They are likely to have lived on areas of the ocean floor that received little or no light and fed on detritus that descended from upper layers of the sea to the bottom.

There are rather strict selection rules as to the electronic configurations that can be reached by excitation by light — however there are no such rules for excitation by collision processes.

As punishment God's vengeance would be directed against Israel, and the prophet warns his audience: " Is not the day of the LORD darkness, not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?

However, if light travels at finite speed, the Earth, and therefore the eye piece of the telescope, moves from E to E ′ during the time it takes light to travel from S to E. Consequently, the star will no longer appear in the center of the eye piece.

The course of the rays in the meridional section is no longer symmetrical to the principal ray of the pencil ; and on an intercepting plane there appears, instead of a luminous point, a patch of light, not symmetrical about a point, and often exhibiting a resemblance to a comet having its tail directed towards or away from the axis.