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Michael Moorcock's fantasy novel The War Hound and the World's Pain depicts a supernatural Grail quest set in the era of the Thirty Years ' War, and science fiction has taken the Quest into interstellar space, figuratively in Samuel R. Delany's 1968 novel Nova, and literally on the television shows Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1 ( as the " Sangraal ").
Typical of the genre are George R. Stewart's novel Earth Abides and Pat Frank's novel Alas, Babylon.
Apocalyptic fiction generally concerns the disaster itself and the direct aftermath, while post-apocalyptic can deal with anything from the near aftermath ( as in Cormac McCarthy's The Road ) to 375 years in the future ( as in By The Waters of Babylon ) to hundreds or thousands of years in the future, as in Russell Hoban's novel Riddley Walker and Walter M. Miller, Jr .' s A Canticle for Leibowitz.
It is also the setting for the classic post-apocalyptic novel, Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, under the fictitious name of Fort Repose.
Alas, Babylon is a 1959 novel by American writer Pat Frank ( the pen name of Harry Hart Frank ).
In the acknowledgements section at the beginning of his post apocalyptic novel One Second After William R. Forstchen credits " Alas, Babylon " as an influence in writing his novel about the small town of Black Mountain, NC.
Apart from incidents in Egypt, the novel charts Sinuhe's travels in then-Egyptian dominated Syria ( Levant ), in Mitanni, Babylon, Minoan Crete, and among the Hittites.
* Buddy Babylon: The Autobiography of Buddy Cole ( with Paul Bellini ) in 1998, a humor novel, ISBN 0-440-50828-2
Numerous commentators have pointed out the extensive similarities between the Titor story and Pat Frank's classic post-apocalyptic science fiction novel Alas, Babylon.
Any conversation is overheard by three cloaked Shadows, who accompany him at all times and control him as seen in the novel Babylon 5: The Passing of the Techno-Mages-Invoking Darkness.
She wrote one script during Babylon 5s first season, " By Any Means Necessary " as well as the prose Babylon 5 novel, To Dream in the City of Sorrows.
His story is continued in a series of comics and the novel Babylon 5: To Dream in the City of Sorrows.
At least one Babylon 5 novel contradicts Straczynski's statement, saying that Mollari saw a very bright ball of energy.
* Babylon 5: Legions of Fire-Armies of Light and Dark-a novel by Peter David.
* Babylon 5: Legions of Fire-The Long Night of Centauri Prime-a novel by Peter David.
* Babylon 5: Legions of Fire-Out of the Darkness-a novel by Peter David.
Hints about her death had also been stated by Straczynski in posts to the Babylon 5 newsgroup, and in the final novel of the Psi Corps Trilogy by J. Gregory Keyes.
* Teito Monogatari: A bestselling historical fantasy novel which inspired aspects of the story and mythology of Tokyo Babylon and X.
* Teito Monogatari: A bestselling historical fantasy novel which inspired aspects of the plot and mythology of Tokyo Babylon and X.
The protagonist of the novel even has a cameo appearance at the beginning of the Tokyo Babylon manga as Subaru's " helpful ambassador ".

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In 1983 political satirist / novelist Richard Condon (" The Manchurian Candidate ") wrote " A Trembling Upon Rome ," a novel of historical fiction about the life of Baldassare Cossa.
An Entwicklungsroman (" development novel ") is a story of general growth rather than self-cultivation.
An Erziehungsroman (" education novel ") focuses on training and formal schooling, while a Künstlerroman (" artist novel ") is about the development of an artist and shows a growth of the self.
The 1972 science fiction novel Cyborg, by Martin Caidin, told the story of a man whose damaged body parts are replaced by mechanical devices (" bionics ").
The Danish crime story The Rector of Veilbye by Steen Steensen Blicher was written in 1829, and the Norwegian crime novel Mordet på Maskinbygger Rolfsen (" The Murder of Engine Maker Rolfsen ") by Maurits Hansen was published in 1839.
In 1944, he published his first novel, Les innocents de Paris (" The Innocent of Paris "), in Switzerland.
Contemporaneously to English Gothic, parallel Romantic literary movements developed in continental Europe: the roman noir (" black novel ") in France, by such writers as François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil, Gaston Leroux, Baculard d ' Arnaud, and Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, Madame de Genlis and the Schauerroman (" shudder novel ") in Germany by such writers as Friedrich Schiller, author of The Ghost-Seer ( 1789 ) and Christian Heinrich Spiess, author of Das Petermännchen ( 1791 / 92 ).
La Malinche, in the name Marina (" for her Indian name is too long to be written "), also appears in the adventure novel Montezuma's Daughter ( 1893 ), by H. Rider Haggard.
The name was coined by Gell-Mann and is a reference to the novel Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce (" Three quarks for Muster Mark!
* In F. Paul Wilson's 2009 Repairman Jack novel Ground Zero, the recurring character of The Lady is revealed to be a manifestation of the Noosphere whose function is that of a " beacon " which informs a higher intelligence (" the Ally ") that sentient life exists in the area where she appears.
They adopted the term (" the Third Empire " – usually rendered in English in the partial-translation " the Third Reich "), first used in a 1923 novel by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, that counted the mediaeval Holy Roman Empire as the first and the 1871-1918 monarchy as the second, which was then to be followed by a " reinvigorated " third one.
Another more recent story involving travel to the future is Louis-Sébastien Mercier's L ' An 2440, rêve s ' il en fût jamais (" The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Were One "), a utopian novel in which the main character is transported to the year 2440.
* Van Diemen's Land is mentioned in Umberto Eco's novel " The Island of the Day Before " (" L ' isola del giorno prima ", 1994 ), a story about a 17th century Italian nobleman trapped at an island at the International Date Line.
" A more modern work to use this idea was Daniel F. Galouye's novel Simulacron-3, which was made into a German teleplay titled Welt am Draht (" World on a Wire ") in 1973.
* The first half of Miguel de Cervantes's landmark novel Don Quixote (" El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha " or " The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha ") — one of the earliest novels in the western literary tradition, is published and becomes Cervantes's first literary success.
The film for Leone was to have been a homage to classic writers from literature such as — Edgar Lee Masters ( Spoon River Anthology ), Ambrose Bierce (" An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge "), Mark Twain (" A military campaign that failed "), Stephen Crane ( The red badge of Courage ), and Margaret Mitchell ( Gone with the Wind ), of whose novel he had wanted to film a remake.
As part of the 19th-century evolution of the novel as a " democratic literary form ", Balzac wrote that " les livres sont faits pour tout le monde ," (" books are written for everybody ").
Two early examples are the " vapourization " of " unpersons " in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (" He did not exist ; he never existed "); and the reference to the Egyptian practice in the 1956 movie The Ten Commandments, in which the Pharaoh Seti orders the name of Moses be struck from every building and never mentioned by anyone.

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The term was popularized by Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture.
The term was popularized by Canadian author Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, concerning young adults during the late 1980s and their lifestyles.
In Peter David's 2007 Star Trek: The Next Generation novel, Before Dishonor, which is set after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis, Janeway is assimilated by a rogue faction of the Borg, and becomes the new Borg Queen.
A version of the life support belt later appeared in an early Star Trek: The Next Generation novel, The Peacekeepers, where they were referred to as " field-effect suits ".
Jack Kerouac's Beat Generation novel On the Road, some of which takes place in Denver, contains several references to Colfax.
The name came up in conversation with the novelist John Clellon Holmes who published an early Beat Generation novel, Go ( 1952 ), along with a manifesto in The New York Times Magazine: " This Is the Beat Generation " In 1954, Nolan Miller published his third novel, Why I Am So Beat ( Putnam ), detailing the weekend parties of four students.
* " Generation X's first great novel " ( Sunday Oregonian ).
He also wrote the novelization of the graphic novel Kingdom Come based on the story by Mark Waid, and a novel featuring the Marvel mutant superhero team Generation X.
This premise was later used, slightly modified, in the novel Logan's Run and adaptations of the novel as well as an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (" Half a Life ").
* Joshua Person – subject of the novel Generation Kill and the HBO mini-series based on the book
Clint was mentioned in the 1957 autobiographical novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac, the American novelist of the Beat Generation:
The non-canon Next Generation novel Vendetta by Peter David shows her as having returned to the Repulse after she leaves the Enterprise.
Being fans of Beat Generation literature, Fagen and Becker named the band after " Steely Dan III from Yokohama ", a strap-on dildo referred to in the William S. Burroughs novel Naked Lunch.
* Novelist Peter David named a shuttlecraft, the Chawla, after the astronaut in his 2007 Star Trek novel, Star Trek: The Next Generation: Before Dishonor.
* Douglas Coupland publishes the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularizing the term Generation X as the name of the generation.
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.
** Commander Cortin Zweller ( Star Trek: The Next Generation ; novel Section 31: Rogue )
** Ambassador Aubin Tabor ( Star Trek: The Next Generation ; novel Section 31: Rogue )
Tell England: A Study in a Generation is a novel written by Ernest Raymond and published in February 1922 in the UK about the First World War and the young men sent to fight in it.

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