Between 1950 and 1960, van Vogt produced collections, notable fixups such as: The Mixed Men ( 1952 ) and The War Against the Rull ( 1959 ), and the two " Clane " novels, Empire of the Atom ( 1957 ) and The Wizard of Linn ( 1962 ), which were inspired ( like Asimov's Foundation series ) by the fall of the Roman Empire, specifically Claudius.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

In novels such as Taken at the Flood, After the Funeral and Hickory Dickory Dock he is even less in evidence, frequently passing the duties of main interviewing detective to a subsidiary character.

" Aside from Roger Ackroyd, the most critically acclaimed Poirot novels appeared from 1932 to 1942, including such acknowledged classics as Murder on the Orient Express, The ABC Murders ( 1935 ), Cards on the Table ( 1936 ), and Death on the Nile ( 1937 ).

This supplemental rule book includes the remaining elements from the Merlin novels, such as Broken Patterns, and allows players to create Constructs such as Merlin's Ghostwheel.

It became the expectation — rather than the exception — that those in the public eye should write about themselves — not only writers such as Charles Dickens ( who also incorporated autobiographical elements in his novels ) and Anthony Trollope, but also politicians ( e. g. Henry Brooks Adams ), philosophers ( e. g. John Stuart Mill ), churchmen such as Cardinal Newman, and entertainers such as P. T. Barnum.

Cyberpunk plots often center on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligences, and megacorporations, and tend to be set in a near-future Earth, rather than the far-future settings or galactic vistas found in novels such as Isaac Asimov's Foundation or Frank Herbert's Dune.

In addition there are large numbers of cultural artifacts such as vernacular novels, how-to books, and children's books, which are in the process of being analyzed for clues as to how the average Chinese ( if there was such as thing ) lived.

in novels such as Vice Versa ( 1882 ), where magic disrupts Victorian society with

The hero / detective of these novels is typically a traditional judge or similar official based on historical personages such as Judge Bao ( Bao Qingtian ) or Judge Dee ( Di Renjie ).

There are early mystery novels in which a police force attempts to contend with the type of criminal known in the 1920s as a homicidal maniac, such as a few of the early novels of Philip Macdonald and Ellery Queen's Cat of Many Tails.

Charles Dickens makes frequent use of the riverside and docklands in novels such as Our Mutual Friend and Great Expectations, and there is a memorable description of the docks, their buildings and people, in Joseph Conrad's The Mirror of the Sea.

Often, fictional depictions of Poe use his mystery-solving skills in such novels as The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl.

Tolkien's writing has such popularity that in the 1960s and afterwards, elves speaking an elvish language similar to those in Tolkien's novels ( like Quenya, and Sindarin ) became staple non-human characters in high fantasy works and in fantasy role-playing games.

The epistolary novel as a genre became popular in the 18th century in the works of such authors as Samuel Richardson, with his immensely successful novels Pamela ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1749 ).

The Grail features heavily in the novels of Peter David's Knight trilogy, which depict King Arthur reappearing in modern-day New York City, in particular the second and third novels, One Knight Only and Fall of Knight.

1848 edition of American Phrenological Journal published by Fowlers & Wells, New York City. In the Victorian age, phrenology as a psychology was taken seriously and permeated the literature and novels of the day.

In the first three novels — Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusions — there is or was a League of all Worlds ; in City of Illusions, it seems to have been conquered or fragmented by an alien race, called the Shing, from beyond the League.

Of six novels published as " Infocom Books " by Avon Books between 1989 – 1991, four were directly based on Zork: The Zork Chronicles by George Alec Effinger ( 1990 ), The Lost City of Zork by Robin W. Bailey ( 1991 ), Wishbringer by Craig Shaw Gardner and Enchanter, also by Bailey.

Gygax realized that novels set in Greyhawk could have a similar benefit for his campaign world and wrote Saga of Old City, the first in a series of novels that would be published under the banner Greyhawk Adventures.

After Gygax left TSR in 1985, he continued to write a few more Gord the Rogue novels, which were published by New Infinities Productions: Sea of Death ( 1987 ), City of Hawks ( 1987 ), and Come Endless Darkness ( 1988 ).

There is also another set of novels by various authors ( Isaac Asimov's Robot City, Robots and Aliens and Robots in Time series ), loosely connected to the Robots Series, but containing many inconsistencies with Asimov's books, which are not generally considered canon.

Among Japan's largest and most famous studios, Sunrise is renowned for several critically lauded and popular original anime series, such as Gundam, Armored Trooper Votoms, Vision of Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop, Witch Hunter Robin, My-HiME, My-Otome, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, as well as its numerous adaptations of acclaimed light novels including Dirty Pair, Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon and Accel World, and manga such as City Hunter, InuYasha, Outlaw Star, Yakitate !!

TSR published quite a number of fantasy and science fiction novels unconnected with their gaming products, such as L. Dean James ' " Red Kings of Wynnamyr " novels, Sorcerer's Stone ( 1991 ) and Kingslayer ( 1992 ); Mary H. Herbert's five " Gabria " novels ( Valorian, Dark Horse, Lightning's Daughter, City of the Sorcerers and Winged Magic ); and humorous fantasy fiction, including Roy V. Young's " Count Yor " novels Captains Outrageous ( 1994 ) and Yor's Revenge ( 1995 ).

Frank Miller ( born January 27, 1957 ) is an American writer, artist, and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300.

During the course of a long and varied career, he also tried his hand at writing experimental novels such as The Journal of Albion Moonlight and The Memoirs of A Shy Pornographer, as well as the radio play The City Wears A Slouch Hat.

The most common theme in Shute's novels is the dignity of work, spanning all classes, whether an Eastern European bar " hostess " ( Ruined City ) or brilliant boffin ( No Highway ).

Archer City and its Royal Theater are the basis for McMurtry's fictional towns of " Thalia " and " Anarene " in his novels, including The Last Picture Show.

Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr. ( born May 13, 1944 ) is an American writer, best known for his Tales of the City series of novels, set in San Francisco.

* The American author Armistead Maupin includes a quote from Religio Medici in the preface to the third in his Tales of the City novels, Further Tales of the City, first published in 1982.

Jin sets many of his stories and novels in China, in the fictional Muji City.

Bearing similarities to the novels Anthem by Ayn Rand and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the setting for the story is an ant colony in a park across a river from New York City, over the span of four days.

" 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.

It also features prominently in the science-fiction novels of Michael Flynn, particularly in The Wreck of the River of Stars ( 2003 ); this book is the tale of the last flight of a magnetic sail ship when fusion rockets based on the Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor have become the preferred technology.

The book itself went on to inspire the plot for a wide array of novels, from Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur ( 1880 ), a Science Fiction retelling in Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination, to Stephen Fry's contemporary The Stars ' Tennis Balls,

* Sandra McDonald's novels, The Outback Stars, The Stars Down Under and The Stars Blue Yonder, use Aboriginal myth extensively.

It was adapted by Paul Osborn from two novels -- Borden Deal's Dunbar's Cove and William Bradford Huie's Mud on the Stars.

Pebble in the Sky was also included in a number of omnibuses: first in 1952 in Triangle along with the others in the Empire series ( The Stars, Like Dust and The Currents of Space which had only been published earlier that year ), in 1978 in The Far Ends of Time and Earth along with The End of Eternity and the short story collection Earth Is Room Enough, and again with the Empire series novels in 2002 as The Empire Novels.

The initial novel was followed by a second, ongoing novels series, Banner of the Stars ( currently 4 volumes, aka Seikai no Senki ), which was adapted into three sequel series to the anime — Banner of the Stars ( 13 episodes, aka Seikai no Senki ), Banner of the Stars II ( 10 episodes, aka Seikai no Senki II ) and both adapting the second novel, two recap movies — Crest of the Stars Special Edition and Banner of the Stars Special Edition, and an OVA Crest of the Stars Lost Chapter ( aka Seikai no Danshō ).

For example, Stephen King's The Dark Half has epigraphs taken from the fictitious novels written by the protagonist ; Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair has quotations from supposedly future works about the action of the story ; John Green's The Fault in Our Stars has a quotation from a fictitious novel, An Imperial Affliction, which features prominently as a part of the story.

The main character is Rickhardt von Bek, of the von Bek family central to some of Moorcock's other fantasy novels, notably The War Hound and the World's Pain, The City in the Autumn Stars, and The Dragon in the Sword.

As of August 2010, eleven novels have been translated into and released in English, with volume sixteen, Tyrant's Stars, Parts One and Two, to be released on April 13, 2011.

" The Stars My Destination is, after all, the perfect cyberpunk novel: it contains such cheerfully protocyber elements as multinational corporate intrigue ; a dangerous, mysterious, hyperscientific McGuffin ( PyrE ); an amoral hero ; a supercool thief-woman ..." James Lovegrove called the it " the very best of Bester ", and Thomas M. Disch identified it as " one of the great sf novels of the 1950s ".

He is the author of six novels: the acclaimed Morvern Callar ( 1995 ), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award ; These Demented Lands ( 1997 ), winner of the Encore Award ; The Sopranos ( 1998 ), winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award ; The Man Who Walks ( 2002 ), an imaginative and surreal black comedy ; The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven ( 2006 ), and The Stars in the Bright Sky ( 2010 ), a sequel to The Sopranos.

" Scientology in itself would also be an interesting case for studying ' ufological ' strands-e. g., the relation between L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction novels and the Whole Track mythology, which is probably most evident in the case of Hubbard's unpublished novel Revolt in the Stars ," writes Lewis.

Most notable is the presence in both novels of the General Information service, although it is more sophisticated in Stars ( one need merely think a question for GI to place the knowledge in one's mind, as opposed to Trouble on Triton's GI which takes questions on machines similar to modern computers ).

Both novels also feature aboveground and institutionalized versions of gay male cruising spaces, although open to all genders and sexual preferences ; in Trouble on Triton the protagonist visits such a space in the form of an indoor club, while in Stars the protagonists visit one of their city's many parklike runs set aside for that purpose.

He acted in two adaptations of A. J. Cronin's novels, The Citadel ( 1938 ) and The Stars Look Down ( 1940 ), in addition to appearing in The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ) and Under Capricorn ( 1949 ), both of the later films were directed by Alfred Hitchcock.