Both novels had been seen as favourites to win leading up to the prize and the dramatic " literary battle " between two senior authors made front page news.

Both novels deal with an almost " primitive tech " replacing a current, worldwide use technology, in the sense of the reprogramming of the mind through ancient Sumerian chanting in Snow Crash ( which also uses allusions to Babylonian prostitutes passing an information virus like a sexually transmitted disease ), and the idea of nanotechnology propagating and communicating through sexual intercourse, passing from body to body like a virus.

Both novels use an ancient, almost primitive threat to modern, " Western " technology and ideology ( The Raft in Snow Crash and The Fists of Righteous Harmony in The Diamond Age ).

Both novels were later adapted into films within his lifetime.

Both novels eventually became popular Walt Disney films.

Both of these novels received Italian translations and releases ; the first in 2003, often with the added subtitle of The Genesis of Universe, and the second in 2004.

Both of these novels had protagonists ( Hayy in Philosophus Autodidactus and Kamil in Theologus Autodidactus ) who were autodidactic individuals spontaneously generated in a cave and living in seclusion on a desert island, both being the earliest examples of a desert island story.

Both The Coquette and Charlotte Temple are novels that treat the right of women to live as equals as the new democratic experiment.

Both novels were reprinted in omnibus version Pilgrim, ( Baen Dec. 1997 )

Both of those novels as well as Rabble in Arms are dedicated to Tarkington.

Both novels concern an Englishman's friendship with an Indian doctor, and a girl who goes out to the colonies, gets engaged and then breaks it off.

Both the House and the town feature prominently in Benson's Mapp and Lucia novels, as Mallards House and Tilling respectively.

Both of the Warner Fabian novels became best-sellers, and both were filmed: the latter as The Wild Party ( not related to a work of the same title by Joseph Moncure March ).

Both film and second series feature a newly designed starship and lack most of the crew from the Space Pirate series, but are noteworthy for the presence of Emeraldas, a female counterpart to Harlock who originally appeared in a series of Matsumoto-penned graphic novels.

Both his elder son Bryan Edgar Wallace ( 1904-1971 ) and his youngest daughter Penelope Wallace were also authors of mystery and crime novels.

Both authors also wrote novels separately.

Both are tongue-in-cheek contests that take place annually and in which entrants are invited " to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.

Both novels suggest that William the Marshal also wanted Eleanor to be liberated.

Both death dates are set in the future as of the time the novels were written.

Both were reprinted from the Revue des deux mondes, where many of his later novels also appeared.

Both novels feature typical McIlvanney characters-tough, often violent, men locked in a struggle with their own nature and background.

Both novels would inspire very different films that would both be released in 1964 by the same studio ( Columbia Pictures ).

Both during the main run of the series from 1963 to 1989 and after its cancellation, numerous novels, comic strips, comic books and other material were generated based on the characters and situations introduced in the show.

Both play male leads in two anime adapted from Key visual novels, Yuichi Aizawa of Kanon and Tomoya Okazaki of Clannad, respectively.

Both Lysle Rigger and Kitty Graves would play significant roles in Feist's Serpentwar novels.

Both these youths, who greatly admired Henrietta, were somewhat younger than she, as were also the neighboring Friedenwald boys, who were then studying medicine ; ;

Both plans also prohibited common directors, officers, or employees between Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware, on the one hand, and General Motors on the other.

Both the Latin and the Germanic words derive from the Proto-Indo-European root el -, meaning " red " or " brown ", which is also a root for the English words " elk " and another tree: " elm ", a tree distantly related to the alders.

Both ships were soon fighting enemies much more powerful than themselves and began to take severe damage: Captain Henry Darby on Bellerophon missed his intended anchor near Franklin and instead found his ship underneath the main battery of the French flagship, while Captain George Blagdon Westcott on Majestic also missed his station and almost collided with Heureux, coming under heavy fire from Tonnant.

Both Richard Schickel and Andrew Sarris have also written that many of the gags in his silent films needed the " intimacy of the camera " to work and could not have been performed on the stage to the same effect.

Both the first method for cladistic analysis and the school of taxonomy originated in the work of the German entomologist Willi Hennig, who referred to it as " phylogenetic systematics " ( also the title of his 1966 book ); the use of the terms cladistics and clade was popularized by other researchers.

Both nations continue to strengthen the bilateral relations especially in the fields of higher education, agriculture, industry and science and technology and have also held talks for military cooperation.

Both the short subject and the cartoon now appeared on the television rather than in the theater, and the " B " movie also found its outlet on the television.

Both types of cannibalism can also be fueled by the belief that eating a person's flesh or internal organs will endow the cannibal with some of the characteristics of the deceased.

Both schools also compete at the collegiate level, and the rivalry continues to be an Annapolis tradition.

Both women also sleepwalk.

Both the Jewish Bible and the New Testament also contain passages some have interpreted as describing same-sex relationships, for example David and Jonathan or the centurion and his servant ; these are likewise the subject of scholarly debate, with most arguing that the relationships depicted are platonic.

Both the colonies of Nova Scotia ( present-day Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ) and St. John's Island ( Prince Edward Island ) were affected by the American Revolutionary War, largely by privateering against American shipping, but several coastal communities were also the targets of American raiders.

Both Jesus and Paul seem to provide " exceptions " to marriage as being its ideal according to the purpose of God because of extraordinary circumstances (" because of the impending crisis "), see also Pauline privilege.

Both silicon carbide ( also known as carborundum ) and boron carbide are very hard materials and refractory.

Both Swedes and Danes also understand Norwegian better than they understand each other's languages.

Both the DSM-I and the DSM-II reflected the predominant psychodynamic psychiatry, although they also included biological perspectives and concepts from Kraepelin's system of classification.

Both McLean's grandfather and father were also named Donald McLean.

Both sides recognised the legitimacy and rightness, as expressions of the same faith, of the Assyrian Church's liturgical invocation of Mary as " the Mother of Christ our God and Saviour " and the Catholic Church's use of " the Mother of God " and also as " the Mother of Christ ".

Both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches recognize seven councils in the early centuries of the church, but Roman Catholics also recognize fourteen councils in later times called or confirmed by the Pope.

Both providers run an interconnected financial network that allows the processing of not only of debit cards at point of sale terminals but also credit cards and charge cards.

Both his wife, Isabella Andreini, and their son, Giambattista Andreini, were also distinguished in the arts.

Both rifles and shotguns also come in break-action varieties that do not have any kind of reloading mechanism at all but must be hand-loaded after each shot.

Both try to understand not just where and when people lived, but also their lifestyles, biographies, and motivations.

Both nations also attempt to maintain open communications at high levels of both Governments.