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

The concept of reversed chirality also figured prominently in the plot of James Blish's Star Trek novel Spock Must Die !, where a transporter experiment gone awry ends up creating a duplicate Spock who turns out to be a perfect mirror-image of the original all the way down to the atomic level.

Moll Flanders and Defoe's final novel Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress ( 1724 ) are examples of the remarkable way in which Defoe seems to inhabit his fictional ( yet " drawn from life ") characters, not least in that they are women.

Afterwards, Lieberman wrote a poem about the experience and shared it with Norman Gimbel, who had long been searching for a way to use a phrase he had copied from a novel badly translated from Spanish to English, " killing me softly with his blues ".

They vary from short story collection to fix-up ( novel created from older short stories ) perhaps all the way to novel.

The novel was written in contemporary English for a mass audience, in the same way that mainstream Hollywood movies depicting the Second World War commonly depict German characters talking in English.

The novel also acts as a terrifying realization of some of Kant's fundamental ideas ; Sartre uses the idea of the autonomy of the will ( that morality is derived from our ability to choose in reality ; the ability to choose being derived from human freedom ; embodied in the famous saying " Condemned to be free ") as a way to show the world's indifference to the individual.

The MPEG's ( ISO's ) approach to standardization is novel, because it is not the encoder that is standardized, but the way a decoder interprets the bitstream.

While Gilbert emphasizes the similarities however, he agrees with all other commentators that Machiavelli was particularly novel in the way he used this genre, even when compared to his contemporaries such as Baldassare Castiglione and Erasmus.

In The Prince, the Discourses, and in the Life of Castruccio Castracani, he describes " prophets ," as he calls them, like Moses, Romulus, Cyrus the Great, and Theseus ( he treats pagan and Christian patriarchs in the same way ) as the greatest of new princes, the glorious and brutal founders of the most novel innovations in politics, and men whom Machiavelli assures us have always used a large amount of armed force and murder against their own people.

According to he was not the first person to ever explain religion in this way, but his description of religion was novel because of the way he integrated this into his general account of princes.

Iain M. Banks references this in his novel Against a Dark Background, when a character claims that the word onomatopoeia is spelled " just the way it sounds!

discover a way to produce embryonic-like stem cells from normal adult cells by using a novel " wrapping " procedure to deliver specific genes to adult cells to reprogram them into stem cells without the risks of using a virus to make the change.

It consists of a collection of statements about the role of the artist, art itself, and the value of beauty, and serves as an indicator of the way in which Wilde intends the novel to be read, as well as traces of Wilde's exposure to Taoism and the writings of the Chinese Taoist philosopher Chuang Tsu.

Originally the conch is portrayed as being very vibrant and colourful, but as the novel progresses, its colours begin to fade, the same way society begins to fade on the island.

One way might be a quest for an " earthly paradise "— a place like Shangri-La, hidden in the Tibetan mountains and described by James Hilton in his utopian novel Lost Horizon ( 1933 ).

* In Charles Dickens's novel " The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit " the character of Augustus leaves a note addressed to his betrothed to the effect that he has sailed away to Van Diemen's Land, " Ere this reaches you, the undersigned will be -- if not a corpse -- on the way to Van Dieman's Land ".

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.

Immersive virtual musical instruments build on the trend in electronic musical instruments to develop new ways to control sound and perform music such as evidenced by conferences like NIME and aim to represent musical events and sound parameters in a virtual reality in such a way that they can be perceived not only through auditory feedback, but also visually in 3D and possibly through tactile as well as haptic feedback, allowing the development of novel interaction metaphors beyond manipulation such as prehension.

American critic Samuel Rogers, however, notes that " without the training they gave Balzac, as he groped his way to his mature conception of the novel, and without the habit he formed as a young man of writing under pressure, one can hardly imagine his producing La Comédie Humaine.

Carlo Rubbia further proposed the concept of an energy amplifier, a novel and safe way of producing nuclear energy exploiting present-day accelerator technologies, which is actively being studied worldwide in order to incinerate high activity waste from accelerators, and produce energy from natural thorium and depleted uranium.

Essential to Zola ’ s concept of the experimental novel was dispassionate observation of the world, with all that it involved by way of meticulous documentation.

Though referred to as " the first modern vampire novel ", it is as a novel of social theme that I Am Legend made a lasting impression on the cinematic zombie genre, by way of director George A. Romero, who acknowledged its influence and that of its 1964 adaptation, The Last Man on Earth, upon his seminal film Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 ).

The adventure novel exhibits these " protagonist on adventurous journey " characteristics as do many popular feature films, such as Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Even if they do not mean to, advertisers, reviewers, scholars and aficionados sometimes give away details or parts of the plot, and sometimes — for example in the case of Mickey Spillane's novel I, the Jury — even the solution.

Each of these art forms, and the criticism thereof, is primarily concerned with a sole creative force: the author of a novel ( not, for example, his editor or type-setter ), the composer of a piece of music ( though sometimes the performers are given credence, akin to actors in film today ), or the painter of a fresco ( not his assistants who mix the colours or often do some of the painting themselves ).

* Stoneman and Black are other firemen that are mentioned in the novel, but do not have a large impact on the story.

Their main purpose in the novel is to show the reader the contrast between the firemen who do as they're told without question and someone like Montag, who formerly took pride in his job, but now realizes how damaging it is to society.

In the Rex Stout novel " Counterfeit for Murder " ( found in the < i > Homicide Trinity </ i >), character Hattie Annis states that Nero Wolfe " would do fine for Falstaff.

It is very difficult for the ordinary man to lose himself completely in the subject of a play or of a novel ; but for those who can do so, this method is unquestionably the best.

Algis Budrys described the novel as " an important, beautifully controlled, smoothly created book which will twist your mind if you give it the least chance to do so.

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Sometimes, authors who do not have the time or money to write a novella or novel decide to write short stories instead and work out a deal with a popular website or magazine ; such as Playboy, to publish them for profit.

In the novel, data privacy is reserved for corporate entities and individuals who may then conceal wrongdoing ; by contrast, normal citizens do not enjoy significant privacy.

Pioneers at the Japanese facility RIKEN were the first to use a giant gas catcher and novel electric fields to do this, which is becoming the standard technique.

* Ruins: on the New York Times best seller list ( The first X-Files novel to do so ) and voted the " Best Science Fiction Novel of 1996 "

" Early in the novel, Amerigo Bonasera declares “ I believe in America .” The novel then depicts a nation where Mafia and big business are two sides of the same coin: both are corrupt, tell the truth selectively, and do exactly as they wish.

There are multiple instances throughout the novel where significant moments do not have an emotional impact on Meursault.

The second half of the novel is related by its Gallic narrator from within the ranks of Crassus ' doomed army en route to do battle with Parthia.

Pattertwig and Aunt Gertrude do not appear in the final version of the novel.

He decides to start a new Jedi Academy, something he has been trying to do for six months before the start of the novel by finding old Jedi records and archives.

One of the first themes developed in the novel is the question of what is right to do in a moral-social or prisoner's dilemma, in which a person can either cooperate with others for a greater communal benefit or act solely to increase one's personal well-being.

Believing nothing honest and unsentimentalized had been written about the Bowery, Crane became determined to do so himself ; this would become the setting of his first novel.

The novel ’ s ideas do not intrude themselves upon the reader because the author is wholly in control of the implications of her imaginative structure.

Valjean and Cosette do not take refuge from Javert in a convent, as they do in the novel, and Valjean never stays at the Gorbeau house.

In some novels, the protagonists may be impossible to identify, because multiple plots in the novel do not permit clear identification of one as the main plot, such as in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle, depicting a variety of characters imprisoned and living in a gulag camp, or in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, depicting 15 major characters involved in or affected by a war.