" Other important predecessors include Alfred Bester's two most celebrated novels, The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination, as well as Vernor Vinge's novella True Names.

His diverse Esperanto writings include instructional books, books for beginners, novels, short stories, poems, articles and non-fiction books.

Christie's novels include, Murder on the Orient Express ( 1934 ), Death on the Nile ( 1937 ), and And Then There Were None ( 1939 ).

His novels include:

Some of his novels about Dartmoor include:

Series of this type include the Famous Five ( 21 novels, 1942 – 1963, based on four children and their dog ), the Five Find-Outers and Dog, ( 15 novels, 1943 – 1961, where five children regularly outwit the local police ) as well as The Secret Seven ( 15 novels, 1949 – 1963, a society of seven children who solve various mysteries ).

Like Kafka's other novels, The Trial was never completed, although it does include a chapter which brings the story to an end.

Contemporary American writers in this tradition include Joyce Carol Oates, in such novels as Bellefleur and A Bloodsmoor Romance and short story collections such as Night-Side ( Skarda 1986b ) and Raymond Kennedy in his novel Lulu Incognito.

Other examples of design for entertainment purposes include novels, comic books, DVD covers, opening credits and closing credits in filmmaking, and programs and props on stage.

His works include a history of Russian literature, 2 novels and several collections of essays.

All the novels include humor and comedy, sometimes very black and juxtaposed with tragic deaths or losses.

After being rejected by four publishers, The Warrior's Apprentice was accepted by Baen Books, who agreed to a three-book deal to include the two other novels.

Authors of this genre include Stan Lee ( co-creator of Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Hulk ); Marv Wolfman, the creator of Blade for Marvel Comics, and The New Teen Titans for DC Comics ; Dean Wesley Smith ( Smallville, Spider-Man, and X-Men novels ) and Superman writers Roger Stern and Elliot S!

Notable females include Sela ( Tasha Yar's daughter ), Caithlin Dar ( Star Trek V: The Final Frontier ), Donatra ( Star Trek Nemesis ), Taris, and Toreth ( TNG: " Contagion " and " Face of the Enemy ", both played by Carolyn Seymour ) and the Romulan Commander in the TOS episode " The Enterprise Incident ," who is never referred to by name ( in Star Trek CCG and some noncanon novels, she is called " Commander Liviana Charvanek ").

The first and fourth novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Valley of Fear, each include a long interval of omniscient narration recounting events unknown to either Holmes or Watson.

MacInnes's other spy novels include Assignment in Brittany ( 1942 ), Decision at Delphi ( 1961 ), and Ride a Pale Horse ( 1984 ).

* The John Grimes novels by A. Bertram Chandler ( 1950's and 1960's ) include a rare positively depicted theocracy.

Works which are commonly included in the canon include works of fiction such as some epic poems, poetry, music, drama, novels, and other assorted forms of literature from the many diverse Western ( and more recently non-Western ) cultures.

Categories include novels and short fiction, artwork, dramatic presentations and various professional and fandom activities.

Some of Anderson's superhero novels include Enemies & Allies, about the first meeting of Batman and Superman and ' The Last Days of Krypton ', telling the story of how Krypton came to be destroyed and the choice two parents had to make for their son.

Shea, meanwhile, never wrote another Illuminatus !- related book, although many of his later novels include references to the themes of that work.

Other novels published in that period include several near-future science thrillers: Cosm ( 1998 ), The Martian Race ( 1999 ) and Eater ( 2000 ).

The later works include Pendennis, a sort of bildungsroman depicting the coming of age of Arthur Pendennis, a kind of alter ego of Thackeray's who also features as the narrator of two later novels, The Newcomes and The Adventures of Philip.

The increasingly popular Luis Sepúlveda has written stylish short novels like The Old Man Who Read Love Stories, and combines travel writing with imaginative fiction in Full Circle: a South American Journey.

The second consists of three novels by Lara Parker, Angelique's Descent, The Salem Branch, and Dark Shadows: Full Moon Rising ( to be released later in 2012 ) as well as Dreams of the Dark by horror authors Elizabeth Massie and Stephen Mark Rainey.

In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels The Wee Free Men and A Hat Full of Sky, a race of kilt-wearing fairies, warriors named the Nac Mac Feegle, call themselves " Pictsies ".

The Colour of Magic is one of the few of the thirty-nine Discworld novels to be divided into sections or chapters, some others being Pyramids, Going Postal, Making Money, and some of the books for younger readers, specifically The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents and the four Tiffany Aching books, The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith and I Shall Wear Midnight.

The series is based on The End of Day by Day novels and takes place three months after the events that occurred in the Tuatha de Danaan at the end of the original Full Metal Panic!

", and occasionally ' The Defendants ') are a type of fairy folk appearing in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels Carpe Jugulum, The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight and Snuff.

More conventional exponents of the big house novel include Elizabeth Bowen ( 1899 – 1973 ), whose novels and short stories include Encounters ( 1923 ), The Last September ( 1929 ), and The Death of the Heart ( 1938 ) and Molly Keane ( 1904 – 1996 ) ( writing as M. J. Farrell ), author of Young Entry ( 1928 ), Conversation Piece ( 1932 ), Devoted Ladies ( 1934 ), Full House ( 1935 ), and The Loving Without Tears ( 1951 ) among others.

She has starred in six Discworld novels ( Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade and Carpe Jugulum ), has appeared briefly in Wee Free Men, acted as a significant supporting character in A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, and I Shall Wear Midnight, and was referenced in three other Discworld books ( by name in Mort, and anonymously in Thief of Time as well as Going Postal ).

Nanny Ogg embarrasses Tiffany Aching, witch of the ' Chalk Steading ' ( novels: " The Wee Free Men ", " A Hat Full of Sky, " Wintersmith " and " I Shall Wear Midnight ") by talking about Roland, heir to the Baron of the Chalkland, and other romantic prospects.

In following suit of the novels The Killer Angels and Gods and Generals, The Last Full Measure was also planned to be made into a feature film by media mogul Ted Turner.

As with Wolfe's other novels, A Man In Full features a number of point-of-view characters.

Her novels include Furu Hausu ( フルハウス, " Full House ", 1996 ), which won the Noma literary prize for best work by a new author ; Kazoku Shinema ( 家族シネマ, " Family Cinema ," 1997 ), which won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize ; Gōrudo Rasshu ( ゴールドラッシュ, " Gold Rush " 1998 ), which was translated into English as Gold Rush ( 2002 ); and Hachi-gatsu no Hate ( 8月の果て, " The End of August ," 2004 ).

* Full Moon no Densetsu Indora ( vol. 1-2, cover and interior illustration, novels by Hisayuki Toriumi )

From 1933 he devoted all of his time to writing, completing five more novels: The Second Prince ( 1935 ), All Brides Are Beautiful ( 1936 ) ( also produced as a 1946 film called From This Day Forward ), Out of This Furnace ( 1941 ), Till I Come Back to You ( 1943 ) ( which had a life on Broadway as The World Is Full of Girls ), and There Comes a Time ( 1946 ).

He is author of the novels Lightpaths and Standing Wave, Better Angels, Empty Cities of the Full Moon, The Labyrinth Key, and Spears of God.

The novels Foreign Influence and Full Black by Brad Thor are based on this book.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

Lord Peter Wimsey was played by Ian Carmichael in a series of independent serials that ran from 1972 to 1975 and adapted five novels ( Clouds of Witness, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Five Red Herrings, Murder Must Advertise and The Nine Tailors ) and by Edward Petherbridge in 1987, in which three of the four major Wimsey / Vane novels ( Strong Poison, Have his Carcase and Gaudy Night ) were dramatised.

In his novels the Potteries are referred to as " the Five Towns "; Bennett felt that the name was more euphonious than " the Six Towns " so Fenton was omitted.

The Trumps and multiverse are restored and Corwin begins to relate the first Five novels to his son Merlin.

They also publish novels based on games such as Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering and Legend of the Five Rings.

These early writings also include two sketches for novels: Minunata călătorie a celor cinci cărăbuşi in ţara furnicilor roşii (" The Wonderful Journey of the Five Beetles into the Land of the Red Ants ") and Memoriile unui soldat de plumb (" The Memoirs of a Lead Soldier ").

The Famous Five is the name of a series of children's novels written by British author Enid Blyton.

Blyton only intended to write about 6 to 8 books in the series but, owing to their high sales and immense commercial success, she went on to write 21 full-length Famous Five novels.

Called Aunt Fanny by Julian, Dick and Anne, she is married to Uncle Quentin, and is, through most of Blyton's Famous Five novels, the principal maternal figure in the lives of the children.

Five more novels followed, and after Lofting's death in 1947, two more volumes of short unpublished pieces appeared.

Five more novels followed in quick succession: The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth ( 1857 ), White Lies ( 1857 ), Jack of all Trades ( 1858 ), The Autobiography of a Thief ( 1858 ), and Love Me Little, Love Me Long ( 1859 ).

* Theophilus Goon was the bumbling, bad-tempered local policeman in Enid Blyton's Five Find-Outers series of children's mystery novels.

Five books by Jaan Kross have been published in English translation, four novels and one collection of stories: The English translations appeared in the following order: The Czar's Madman 1992 ; Professor Martens ' Departure 1994 ; The Conspiracy and Other Stories 1995 ; Treading Air 2003 ; Sailing Against the Wind 2012.

In the first of Enid Blyton's Famous Five novels, the eponymous children express disappointment that their holiday will not, as usual, be spent at Polzeath.

: The Five Towns also refers to Stoke-on-Trent in Arnold Bennett's novels.

* A series of fiction novels by various authors based on the Legend of the Five Rings setting

He first began to sketch warships in his teens, and was notable in the 1890s for illustrating scientific romances by George Griffith and other authors, as well as for his own novels such as To Venus in Five Seconds ( 1897 ) and The Violet Flame ( 1899 ).