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 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 elements -- the caution about a meeting, the willingness eventually to hold one -- were reflected in a letter from the President which Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson brought back to Russia late in February.

Both Zephaniah and Jeremiah urged King Josiah to enact religious reforms, which he eventually did.

Both Lumumba and Kasa-Vubu eventually arrived, and the soldiers listened to Kasa-Vubu ' religiously.

Both were reluctant to leave the city, but eventually both made their way to the Pope during the night.

Both companies grew, though eventually Clear Glass was sold to Dunlop Manufacturing.

Both had different ideas on the future personnel plans for the Cowboys and both wanted equal credit for the team's recent success ( eventually, Johnson would leave the team after the season ).

Both ports were eventually abandoned due to silting.

Both couples eventually dropped out due to scheduling conflicts, leaving Lopez and McConaughey to be the eventual stars.

Both the Idiqut and the Kara-Khanid states eventually submitted to the Kara Khitais.

Both Convair and Lockheed competed for the contract but in 1950, the requirement was revised, with a call for a research aircraft capable of eventually evolving into a VTOL ship-based convoy escort fighter.

Both artists began organizing a series of events in Ono's loft, and both Young and Ono claimed to have been the primary curator of these events, but Ono claims to have been eventually pushed into a subsidiary role by Young.

Both armies suffered heavy casualties, a harbinger of a bloody war of attrition by Grant against Lee's army and, eventually, the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia.

Both dwarf kingdoms would eventually be destroyed, along with nearly all of Beleriand, after the War of Wrath, with the dwarven refugees mainly resettling in Khazad-dûm.

Both of these realms would eventually be consumed by dragons — the Grey Mountains in 2590 by a horde and The Lonely Mountain in 2770 by the dragon Smaug.

Both visionaries were eventually declared saints.

Both Dooku and Grievous are eventually killed, leaving Gunray the last surviving Head of the Confederacy.

Both cities were settled by Ionian Greeks from Attica, and would eventually settle numerous colonies in Magna Graecia and Sicily, such as Cumae and Rhegium, and on the coast of Macedonia.

Both crushes are brief, and eventually Judith and Alistair fall for each other and, much later, marry.

Both reporters were eventually fired.

Both eventually became Christian music artists.

Both were attempting to attract a station on the new Fairbury Pontiac and Northwestern Railroad, which eventually became part of the Wabash Railroad.

Both girls began having their poems published as teenagers, and they eventually counted among their admirers Massachusetts poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier, New York Tribune newspaper editor Horace Greeley, and author Edgar Allan Poe, who pronounced Alice Cary's Pictures of Memory, " one of the most musically perfect lyrics in the English language.

Both these structures eventually became the Riverton Elementary School complex.

Both Richard and Betsy Ough lived long and fulfilling lives, eventually owning a dairy dying at the ages 90 and 96, respectively.