This release, however, was missing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Shogun because the licenses from Douglas Adams ' and James Clavell's estates had expired.

* James Clavell's Shogun ( 1989, Dave Lebling )

In James Clavell's novel Shōgun, the character Goroda is a pastiche of Nobunaga.

* William Jardine and other Jardine tai-pans are fictionally portrayed in author James Clavell's popular fiction novels Tai-Pan ( 1966 ), Gai-Jin ( 1993 ), Noble House ( 1981 ) and Whirlwind ( 1987 ).

* The main setting of James Clavell's book Gai-Jin is in historical Yokohama.

" The author of James Clavell: A Critical Companion calls the novel " one of the most effective depictions of cross-cultural encounters ever written ", and " Clavell's finest effort ".

Two text-based adventure games with sparse graphics were produced for the Amiga and PC, and marketed as James Clavell's Shōgun, by Infocom, and Shōgun ( Mastertronic ).

He was the inspiration for the character of John Blackthorne in James Clavell's bestselling novel Shōgun.

* Cathay is mentioned several times by John Blackthorne, the protagonist in James Clavell's novel Shōgun.

Dirk Lochlin Struan is the fictional main character of James Clavell's 1966 novel Tai-Pan.

* This phrase is featured and examined in James Clavell's Gai-Jin: A Novel of Japan

The company was featured under the pseudonym " Rothwell-Gornt " in James Clavell's novel Noble House, which is a thinly disguised fictional account of the rivalry between Swire Group and Jardine Matheson, another Hong Kong trading house.

* The name given to the character Blackthorne in James Clavell's novel Shogun

His games include Zork I, II and III, Starcross, Suspect, Spellbreaker, The Lurking Horror and James Clavell's Shogun.

Reviews of the original eight-book series praised its scope and detailed worldbuilding, comparing it to Frank Herbert's Dune series, James Clavell's Shōgun and Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.

It was renamed to Samurai Swords in its first re-release to disambiguate it from other games with the same name ( in particular, James Clavell's Shogun, a wargame with a similar theme, released in 1983 ), and renamed again to Ikusa in its 2011 re-release under Hasbro's Avalon Hill banner.

* Roger Crosse, character in James Clavell's novel Noble House

* James Clavell's Shōgun

Jin-qua, is a character in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan.

As a tie-in, Linc Bartlett's ( Noble House ) ancestor appears in James Clavell's 1960 film, " Walk Like A Dragon ".

Ian Dunross is a fictional character in James Clavell's novel Noble House, and a minor character behind the scenes in Whirlwind.

Wong supported himself as a photographer and as a dancer ( appearing in rock videos with David Bowie, Donna Summer, and Janet Jackson, among others ) before scoring his first screen roles in 1985, appearing in a Hong Kong musical called Ge wu sheng ping ( aka Musical Dancer ) and in a screen adaptation of James Clavell's best-seller Tai-Pan.

The incident was the basis of James Clavell's novel Gai-Jin.

In 1988 he was featured as Four Finger Wu in James Clavell's Noble House television mini-series.

Of straight dramas, there are All The Way Home, which owes much of its poetic power to the James Agee novel, A Death In The Family ; ;

Cuarón's feature, Children of Men, an adaptation of the P. D. James novel starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine, received wide critical acclaim, including three Academy Award nominations.

The Triumph of Time is also the US title of James Blish's novel A Clash of Cymbals.

The line " There's this to say for blood and breath ,/ they give a man a taste for death " supplies the title for Peter O ' Donnell's 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for P. D. James ' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh series.

The 2009 novel Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy takes its title from Housman's poem " Reveille ", and a line from Housman's poem XVI " How Clear, How Lovely Bright ", was used for the title of the last Inspector Morse book The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter.

NASA's Advanced Automation for Space Missions study directly inspired the science fiction novel Code of the Lifemaker ( 1983 ) by author James P. Hogan.

The concept of reversed chirality also figured prominently in the plot of James Blish's Star Trek novel Spock Must Die !, where a transporter experiment gone awry ends up creating a duplicate Spock who turns out to be a perfect mirror-image of the original all the way down to the atomic level.

* " The Cyclops ", an episode of James Joyce's novel Ulysses

* Hawaii, 1966 ( based on the novel by James Michener, 1959 )

* 1933 – U. S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.

* 1914 – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, is serialised in The Egoist.

* Eve ( novel ), a novel by James Hadley Chase

The founder of the epistolary novel in English is said by many to be James Howell ( 1594 – 1666 ) with " Familiar Letters ", who writes of prison, foreign adventure, and the love of women.

An even earlier work was James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel, The Spy, written in 1821, about an American spy in New York during the Revolutionary War.

The primary literary influence on film noir was the hardboiled school of American detective and crime fiction, led in its early years by such writers as Dashiell Hammett ( whose first novel, Red Harvest, was published in 1929 ) and James M. Cain ( whose The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared five years later ), and popularized in pulp magazines such as Black Mask.

* How Is This Going to Continue ?, a novel by James Chapman, presents itself as the libretto to a musical work by a composer whose ( fictional ) entry in The Grove Dictionary of Music is quoted at length.

* In David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest, Lang is mentioned in tandem with James Cameron on page 48.

* In his novel Ulysses, James Joyce mentions the bird while the novel's main character is drifting into sleep.

* Galatea, a 1953 novel by James M. Cain

The Innocents ( Jack Clayton, 1961 ) based on the Henry James novel The Turn of the Screw and The Haunting ( Robert Wise, 1963 ) are two such horror-of-the-demonic films from the early 1960s, both made in the UK by American studios.

A darker image of the hillbilly is found in the film Deliverance ( 1972 ), based on a novel by James Dickey, which depicted the hillbilly as genetically deficient and murderous.

* 1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses ; this date is now traditionally called " Bloomsday ".

Directed by John Schlesinger and based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy, the film struck a chord with critics and audiences.

Directed by John Boorman, from a script that poet James Dickey had helped to adapt from his novel of the same name, it tells the story of a canoe trip gone awry in a feral, backwoods America.