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.

In novels such as The City and the Stars and the story " The Sentinel " ( upon which 2001: A Space Odyssey was based ) Clarke presents ultra-advanced technologies developed by hyperintelligences limited only by fundamental science.

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 ).

While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life, and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898, so that initially he gained fame as the author of such novels as, Far from the Madding Crowd ( 1874 ), The Mayor of Casterbridge ( 1886 ), Tess of the d ' Urbervilles ( 1891 ), and Jude the Obscure ( 1895 ).

The Wessex rustics who play critical but generally secondary roles in Hardy's later novels, like The Return of the Native and The Mayor of Casterbridge, claim the centre stage in Under the Greenwood Tree.

After using his friendship with the Mayor to get partnered with NYPD detective Kate Beckett under the pretense of conducting research for a new character, Castle plans a new series of novels starring a new character, a detective based on Beckett.

* Tess Brock, daughter of Tyler Brock and eventual wife of Culum Struan. Also known as Hag Struan in later novels.

* The novels of Thomas Hardy ( 1840 – 1928 ) often use the dialect in dialogue, notably Tess of the D ' Urbervilles ( 1891 ).

The village featured in several novels of Thomas Hardy, most notably, Tess of the D ' Urbervilles.

She is best known for writing a series of novels set in Baltimore and featuring Tess Monaghan, a reporter ( like Lippman herself ) turned private investigator.

In addition to the Tess Monaghan novels, Lippman wrote 2003's Every Secret Thing, which has been optioned for the movies by Academy Award – winning actor Frances McDormand.

He later published the Plateau Mont-Royal Chronicles, a cycle of six novels including The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant ( La grosse femme d ' à côté est enceinte, 1978 ) and The Duchess and the Commoner ( La duchesse et le roturier, 1982 ).

* June 27 – Richard Pike Bissell, author of short stories and novels ( d. 1977 )

In the Kushiel novels ( a series, beginning with " Kushiel's Dart " Tor, 2001 ), by Jacqueline Carey, the " Dàlraida " of the Kingdom of Alba figure prominently in a Royal marriage and subsequent alliance with France ( known in the series as Terre d ' Ange ).

The St. Lawrence River is at the heart of many Quebec novels ( Anne Hébert's Kamouraska, Réjean Ducharme's L ' avalée des avalés ), poems ( in works of Pierre Morency, Bernard Pozier ), and songs ( Leonard Cohen's Suzanne, Michel Rivard's L ' oubli, Joe Dassin's Dans les yeux d ' Emilie ), and Andre Gagnon's Le Saint-Laurent ).

Ibn al-Astarkuwi or al-Ashtarkuni ( d. 1134 ) also wrote in the genre maqamat, comparable to later European picaresque novels.

The Cellamare conspiracy is the subject of one of Alexandre Dumas ' novels, The Conspirators ( Le Chevalier d ' Harmental ).

* Aldébaran-4 — From the ongoing series of graphic novels " Les Mondes d ' Aldébaran " by Léo.

Gabriele d ' Annunzio wrote his first novels in the symbolist manner.

* Coeur d ' Alene is mentioned repeatedly in the Northwest Trilogy of novels by Harold Covington as the place where the Northwest revolt began.

* Mary Jane Holmes ( d. 1907 ), a local author of about forty novels in the 19th Century.

In the aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair-which exacerbated Mirbeau ’ s pessimism-he published two novels judged to be scandalous by self-styled paragons of virtue: Le Jardin des supplices ( Torture Garden ( 1899 ) and Le Journal d ' une femme de chambre ( Diary of a Chambermaid ) ( 1900 ), then Les Vingt et un Jours d ' un neurasthénique ( 1901 ).

The novel is partly an origin story, with a huge cast of characters swarming around-many of whom become the central figures of later novels in the series-and partly an account of the December 1851 coup d ' état that created the French Second Empire under Napoleon III as experienced in a large provincial town in southern France.

His more serious novels include Madelon ( 1863 ), L ' Infâme ( 1867 ), the three that form the trilogy of the Vieille Roche ( 1866 ), and Le roman d ' un brave homme ( 1880 ) – a kind of counterblast to the view of the French workman presented in Émile Zola's L ' Assommoir.

His son, Gilbert Augustin Thierry ( 1843 – 1915 ), who began a literary career by articles on Les Révolutions d ' Angleterre ( 1864 ) and some Essais d ' histoire religieuse ( 1867 ), afterwards confined himself to the writing of novels.

His later novels include La Terre promise ( 1892 ); Cosmopolis ( 1892 ), a psychological novel, with Rome as a background ; Une Idylle tragique ( 1896 ); La Duchesse bleue ( 1897 ); Le Fantôme ( 1901 ); Les Deux Sœurs ( 1905 ); and some volumes of shorter stories — Complications sentimentales ( 1896 ), the powerful Drames de famille ( 1898 ), and Un Homme d ' affaires ( 1900 ).

Those three novels by Dumas are together known as the d ' Artagnan Romances.

* Young Blades, television series which is a sequel to the novels, centered on the son of d ' Artagnan

French author of dozens of flagellation novels including: Nouveax Contes de Fouet ( 1907 ), The Conjugal Whip ( Le fouet conjugal ) ( 1908 ), Le Fouet dominateur ou L ' École des vierges, Les Mystéres du Fouet ( both 1909 ), The Humiliations of Miss Madge ( 1912 ), Les Malheurs de Colette ( 1914 ), Visites fantastiques au pays du fouet ( 1922 ), Le Precepteur ( 1923 ), Memories d ' une Fouettee ( 1924 ), et al.

Much of its early history is unknown, although recent Trek novels have revealed that most of Earth's governments founded United Earth by signing the historic Traite d ' Unification in 2123 ( however, according to the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Attached ", Australia didn't join until 2150 ).

Olivier d ' Athos de la Fère, Comte de la Fère is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père.

René d ' Aramis de Vannes ( born René d ' Herblay ) is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père.