The heroine of Liar-Soft's 2008 visual novel Shikkoku no Sharnoth: What a Beautiful Tomorrow, Mary Clarissa Christie, is based on the real-life Christie.

On November 9, 2008, a radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, starring Robert Lonsdale as Paul Bäumer and Shannon Graney as Katczinsky.

* Affinity ( film ), a 2008 feature film based on Sarah Waters ' novel

It had been hoped that patient adherence to antipsychotics would be higher with the atypicals, but a 2008 review found that the data have failed to substantiate the notion that novel antipsychotic drug use leads to improved medication compliance and favorable clinical outcomes.

In 2008, while promoting his third novel, Hackman confirmed that he had retired from acting.

Alastair Reynolds also uses ringworlds in his 2008 novel House of Suns.

* Daedalus's Labyrinth served as a central plot element in Rick Riordan's 2008 novel, The Battle of the Labyrinth.

A fictional journal written by La Malinche and discovered in an archeological dig is a central element in a 2008 adventure novel The Treasure of La Malinche by Jeffry S. Hepple.

* Chip Kidd's 2008 novel The Learners is about the Milgram experiment, and features Stanley Milgram as a character.

Following this, Stephenson published a novel titled Anathem ( 2008 ), a very long and detailed work, perhaps best described as speculative fiction.

In 2008, King published both a novel, Duma Key, and a collection, Just After Sunset.

* In the 2008 novel Kobayashi Maru by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels, Admiral Valdore attempts once again to cause conflict in the region approximately one year after the incident involving the Aenar, this time using " Telecapture ", designed to take over and control enemy ships.

In 2008, The Chemical Brothers ' music was featured in a movie adaption of Irvine Welsh's best-selling novel Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance.

The perceived deficiency of any account of Aeneas ' marriage to Lavinia or his founding of the Roman race led some writers, such as the 15th-century Italian poet Maffeo Vegio ( through his Mapheus Vegius widely printed in the Renaissance ), Pier Candido Decembrio ( whose attempt was never completed ), Claudio Salvucci ( in his 1994 epic poem The Laviniad ), and Ursula K. Le Guin ( in her 2008 novel Lavinia ) to compose their own supplements.

* Andreas Seiler's novel Real Wizard ( 2008 ) is an attribution to the 1, 000 year old myth, with aspects of life and death of the Emperor.

* Resolution ( novel ), a 2008 novel by Robert B. Parker, a Western, sequel to Appaloosa

The Shire Hall and surrounding area were used as a location for the 2008 Doctor Who Christmas special and in 2011 The Interactives graphic novel.

* The story of the Battle of Carrhae is the centrepiece of Ben Kane's novel The Forgotten Legion ( 2008 ).

* Chris Kirwan, Chris Kirwan's novel Shadowers Crossing ( 2008 ISBN 978-0-9558709-0-3 ) features Ethelfleda's final, successful fortification at Castle Rock, Runcorn, in AD 915.

A less sympathetic picture is given in Sandra Worth's Lady of the Roses ( 2008 ) as well as in Marjorie Bowen's 1929 novel Dickon where she is portrayed as a schemer who is at the very heart of the various conspiracies against Richard III.

The 2008 interquel novel Paul of Dune explores both Paul's childhood before Dune and his life between the novels Dune and Dune Messiah.

In 2008, DiCaprio starred in Body of Lies, a spy film based on the novel of the same name by David Ignatius, set in context of the Middle East and the War on Terror, unfolding the story of three men battling a terrorist organization, and each other.

* The Night Sessions, a 2008 novel by Ken MacLeod, is set in this year.

Books for younger readers both have historical settings: Joseph Bruchac's The Arrow Over the Door ( 1998 ) ( grades 4-6 ) is set in 1777 ; and Beth Kanell's young adult novel, The Darkness Under the Water ( 2008 ), concerns a young Abenaki-French Canadian girl during the time of the Vermont Eugenics Project, 1931-1936.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

Service on the remaining 850 MHz AMPS markets was discontinued along with 850 MHz D-AMPS service on February 18, 2008, except in areas where service was provided by Dobson Communications.

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

By 2008, numerous service areas and petrol stations had been constructed along all Croatian motorways.

In May 2008, residents along the western Ethiopian border reportedly discovered that the government had agreed to demarcate this boundary when Sudanese soldiers forced them out of their homes.

* My Sister's a Pop Star ( 2006 ), I'm SO Not a Pop Star ( 2008 ), and the third book in the series, My Life on TV ( 2010 ), by American author Kimberly Greene, use blog posts to move the plot along and introduce key changes in the protagonist's thinking.

Agriculture accounted for 4. 3 % of GDP in 2008 and along with the food industry occupied roughly 7. 7 % of the labor force.

A thorough vulnerability assessment, along with proposed mitigations, was published in 2008, and is currently being pursued within the IETF.

In 2008, he played an MIT lecturer in the film 21, along with Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, and Jim Sturgess.

* September 1, 2008, Gustav made landfall along the Louisiana coast near Cocodrie in southeastern Louisiana.

In November 2008 the two countries increased security along their land border and deployed warships to the Bay of Bengal during a dispute over oil and gas exploration in a disputed portion of the Bay of Bengal.

Bomhard ( 2008 ) suggests a differentiation of Proto-Nostratic by 8, 000 BCE, the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution in the Levant, over a territory spanning the entire Fertile Crescent and beyond into the Caucasus ( Proto-Kartvelian ), Egypt and along the Red Sea to the Horn of Africa ( Proto-Afroasiatic ), the Iranian Plateau ( Proto-Elamo-Dravidian ) and into Central Asia ( Proto-Eurasiatic, to be further subdivided by 5, 000 BCE into Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Altaic ).

As of 2008, English-language official Chinese state media no longer uses the term " People's Liberation Army Navy ", instead the term " Chinese Navy " along with the usage of the prefix " CNS " for " Chinese Navy Ship " is now employed.

On February 13, 2008, Clemens appeared before a Congressional committee, along with Brian McNamee, and swore under oath that he did not take steroids ; that he did not discuss HGH with McNamee ; that he was not at a party at José Canseco's where steroids were the topic of conversation ; that he was only injected with B-12 and lidocaine ; and that he never told Pettitte that he had taken HGH.

The world's oldest leather shoe, made from a single piece of cowhide laced with a leather cord along seams at the front and back, was found in a cave in Armenia in 2008 and is believed to date to 3, 500 B. C.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Senegalese counterpart Abdoulaye Wade had a joint press conference along with a close meeting in Feb 2008 in the city of Mashhad, both side pledged to expand the bilateral ties in the fields of economy, tourism and politics in addition to increase the efforts for empowering the OIC.

Then, during the third quarter of 2008 the national GDP contracted for the first time in 15 years and, in February 2009, it was confirmed that Spain, along other European economies, had officially entered recession.

In May 2008, residents along the western Ethiopian border reportedly discovered that the government had agreed to demarcate this boundary when Sudanese soldiers forced them out of their homes.

When naming its top five Mario Kart tracks of all time in 2008, 1UP. com named Battle Mode Course 4 at number three and Rainbow Road – along with its subsequent versions in the series – at number one.

In 2008, he was posthumously awarded the Darwin-Wallace Medal, along with 12 other recipients.

Increasing numbers of migrants from Burma, Laos, and Cambodia as well as nations such as Nepal, India, along with those from the West and Japan have pushed the number of non-nationals residing in Thailand to close to 2 million in 2008, up from about 1. 3 million in the year 2000.

Since 2008, Vanuatu ( along with Tonga, Kiribati and Papua New Guinea ) has sent seasonal workers to Australia through the Australian government-funded Pacific Seasonal Workers Pilot Scheme ( PSWPS ).

Agriculture accounted for 4. 3 % of GDP in 2008 and along with the food industry occupied roughly 7. 7 % of the labor force.

At the time of its liquidation, Westwood employed a third of the original Westwood Studios personnel, some of which formed Petroglyph Games in April 2003, along with three of them ( Brett Sperry, Adam Isgreen and Rade Stojsavljevic ) forming Jet Set Games development studio in 2008, both based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

MGM released the sequel directly to DVD on July 29, 2008 along with the 25th Anniversary Edition DVD of WarGames.