* The cyberpunk novelists William Gibson and Bruce Sterling co-authored a steampunk novel of alternative history titled The Difference Engine in which Babbage's Difference and Analytical Engines became available to Victorian society.

In her published novel, Pathways, Voyager producer Jeri Taylor provided an alternative story much more similar to the events in " The First Duty " by moving the accident to Paris ' Starfleet Academy years and making his fellow cadets the victims of his recklessness.

In an alternative history novel by S. M. Stirling, Marching Through Georgia, it is mentioned that Roosevelt retired after his second term and Willkie became his successor as President.

The second half of each novel is devoted to a courtroom scene, during which Mason arrives at the alternative explanation and proves it to the satisfaction of the court.

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The novel within the novel details an alternative to this history in which the Allies overcome the Axis and bring stability to the world.

In How Few Remain, an alternative history novel by Harry Turtledove, the town is mentioned as the only Confederate town taken by the US during the Second Mexican War.

* Nashville, NC and its surrounding area are prominent settings for the alternative history novel The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove.

In the 18th century the bridge chapel was inexplicably used as a bawdy house and had two further storeys, now removed ; this alternative use has been highlighted in the historical novel ' Not Just a Whore ', by local St Ives resident K M Warwick.

* In the alternative history novel, Lest Darkness Fall, by L. Sprague de Camp, the protagonist, a 20th Century man who falls into Dark Age Rome, develops a semaphore system to warn of invasion.

It is considered to be an " alternative society " or " alternative culture " novel.

Kingsley Amis wrote " The Alteration " ( 1976 ), an alternative history novel about the effects of a contested " War of the English Succession " ( c 1509 ), where the birth and reign of Prince Arthur Tudor and Katherine of Aragon's son, " Stephen II ", leads Henry VIII to attempt to usurp his nephew's throne.

Arthur is also the principal character of an alternative history novel by the eccentric English writer Frederick Rolfe (' Baron Corvo '), entitled Hubert's Arthur, posthumously published by A. J.

Teagarden's trombone style was largely self-taught, and he developed many unusual alternative positions and novel special effects on the instrument.

* In 2009, Portuguese writer José Saramago wrote a novel entitled Cain, which tells an alternative version of the murder of Abel and the life of Cain afterwards.

Even a purely historical work selectively reveals backstory to the audience, a backstory which may receive alternative creative emphasis in each rendition of a novel, play, or film, while each shares key elements — however differently they may be depicted and revealed — which are factors of timing, style and story telling art of a given media while the whole of a backstory goes to facts.

The first few pages of the novel deal with a sourcerer's father who cheats death by making a prophecy that Death must honour ; the alternative is to risk destroying the Discworld.

Johnson's novel V: The Second Generation, an alternative sequel to the first miniseries which disregards V: The Final Battle and V: The Series, ( because of his non involvement with them ) was released on February 5, 2008.

He has published three volumes of his memoirs including Stamp Album ( written in tribute to his late mother ), a novel entitled The Night, and a cookbook co-written with Elizabeth Buxton to provide alternative recipes for those who are wheat and dairy-intolerant.

Nonetheless The Naked Lunch remained the title used for the 1968 and 1974 Corgi Books editions, and the novel is often known by the alternative name, especially in the UK where these editions circulated.

In 1983, the alternative rock band The Alarm released the song, " The Stand ," with lyrics directly inspired by the novel.

* Geta, a 1982 science-fiction novel by Donald Kingsbury which has the alternative title Courtship Rite

Harris's million-selling first novel Fatherland in 1992, an alternative history set in a world where Germany has won World War II, enabled him to become a novelist full-time.

She writes ,“ In our own time, when religion is debased, an electronic game show, an insult to the thirsty soul, Buechner's novel proves again the power of faith, to lift us up, to hold us straight, to send us on again .”

There are some who perceive the boomerang-shaped machines of the 1953 film, which bear little resemblance to the tripods of the novel, as reference to the flying-machines although the look of these machines actually simply derive from the complication of making convincing tripod effects, and were given " invisible legs " to give the machines support and lift from the ground.

Variety wrote: " Based on the novel by Arthur Hailey, over-produced by Ross Hunter with a cast of stars as long as a jet runway, and adapted and directed by George Seaton in a glossy, slick style, Airport is a handsome, often dramatically involving $ 10 million epitaph to a bygone brand of filmmaking " but added that the film " does not create suspense because the audience knows how it's going to end.

Powered by eight engines with four contra-rotating propellors, the Reindeer can best be imagined to resemble the Bristol Brabazon, whose future development would also have included jet power ; Shute notes this late in the novel.

Three years after the film and six years after Nevil Shute's original novel ( No Highway ) there were two fatal crashes of the world's first jet passenger airliner, the de Havilland Comet.

Undoubtedly even the old Southern stalwart Richmond has felt the new wind: William Styron mentions in his latest novel an avenue named for Bankhead McGruder, a Civil War general, now renamed, in typical California fashion, `` Buena Vista Terrace ''.

on the fatal battlefield of Poltava, to quote from the novel, `` the wreath he twined for himself slipped down upon his people ''.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

For a time, urging Breasted to give up his public relations work and take up writing instead, he hoped to persuade him to become his assistant in research for the labor novel ; ;

The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.

Krim was able to get an advance for a novel, and time and opportunity to write at Yaddo, but it was no good.

He was thinking his way into a new novel, a big one, one that people had been waiting for.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

The commission also approved a novel plan that would eliminate traffic hazards for pedestrians in the project.

Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

The novel begins with the droogs sitting in their favorite hangout ( the Korova Milkbar ), drinking milk-drug cocktails, called " milk-plus ", to hype themselves for the night's mayhem.

He also adapted Kenneth Grahame's novel The Wind in the Willows for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall.

During these visits Shelley wrote the poem " Mont Blanc ", Byron wrote " The Prisoner of Chillon " and the dramatic poem Manfred, and Mary Shelley, who found the scenery overwhelming, conceived the idea for the novel Frankenstein in her villa on the shores of Lake Geneva in the midst of a thunderstorm.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

The novel is most noted for its careful description of the dig site and house, which showed the author had spent much of her own time in very similar situations herself.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

At the beginning of the novel, Rieux's wife, who has been ill for a year, leaves for a sanatorium.

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.