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 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 CPUs feature integrated FPUs and MMUs.

Both films feature Al Pacino in what has become a fruitful working relationship.

Both genres are based on the terrifying side of Middle Ages, and both frequently feature the same elements ( castles, ghost, monster, etc .).

Both dams also feature significant environmental re-mediation efforts ( such as fish ladders ).

Both standards feature backward compatibility with the GM specification, but are not compatible with each other.

Both uniforms will feature the " Mets " script, player numerals and names in blue outlined in orange, and both be worn only with the team's traditional blue cap with orange crest ( although the orange button on top of the cap has been retained ), blue undersleeves, belts and socks.

Both flags feature the Union Jack in one corner, both have royal blue background, and both have the Southern Cross as a prominent feature.

Both feature prominent lead synthesizer lines with minimalistic guitar chords and solos.

Both UK and Australian soap operas feature comedy elements, often by way of affectionate comic stereotypes such as the gossip or the grumpy old man, presented as a sort of comic foil to the emotional turmoil that surrounds them.

Both languages have the dual for nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verbs ; very few known living Indo-European languages retain this feature as a productive aspect of the grammar ( see Slovenian grammar or Lithuanian grammar for other ones ).

Both were developed jointly by Nintendo and Namco and feature classic Namco characters including Pac-Man and Blinky.

Both stones feature a rider sitting atop an eight-legged horse, which some scholars view as Odin.

Both albums also feature many James Brown samples, which became very prominent in Hip Hop in ensuing years.

Both editions feature new digital transfers personally supervised by Wenders.

Both shells have been used as coding base and model for many derivative and work-alike shells with extended feature sets.

* Both stories feature Maria / Juliet's false death and Tony / Romeo's suicidal response to his mistaken belief that his love is dead.

Both versions feature Eric Clapton on guitar.

Both these methods are useful as they are either cheaper or free, effective, safe and feature low thermal inertia transfer methods, meaning the chemist does not have to wait for a bath to cool down after use.

Both Jefferson and George Washington considered the avenue an important feature of the new capital.

Both the fair and the song are focal points of the 1944 feature film Meet Me in St. Louis starring Judy Garland, which also inspired a Broadway musical version.

Both also feature a small Peugeot Boutique, and they are popular places for Peugeot fans to visit.

* Both versions of the " Children's Television Sausage Factory " animation feature likenesses of Jonothan Gebert, Kevin Somers, Marc Baillon and Christine McGlade exiting the school bus, as well as a likeness of Les Lye as the security guard at the door of the TV studio.

Both AltiVec and SSE feature 128-bit vector registers that can represent sixteen 8-bit signed or unsigned chars, eight 16-bit signed or unsigned shorts, four 32-bit ints or four 32-bit floating point variables.

Both compositions feature the same " timeless " sound in that they do not employ any of the musical techniques of the period in which they were composed, with the intent that they be difficult to define as belonging to a particular era.