* Wolfpack, a Battletech novel written by Robert N. Charrette

A popular classic of mecha in games is the MechWarrior series of video games, which takes place in the Battletech universe.

It is from Battletech that the term ' mech ( a contraction of Battlemech ) was popularized, but ' mech is not to be confused with the more general term of Mecha.

Michael A. Stackpole ( born November 27, 1957 ) is a science fiction and fantasy author best known for his Star Wars and Battletech books.

It is not clearly explained how they find themselves in the future other than some sort of time warp, either intentional or inadvertent, but he occupies himself in that era as a professor at the New Avalon Institute of Science on the world of New Avalon within the Federated Suns successor state and is also a Battlemech designer, having designed the Hatchetman and Axeman mechs according to the sourcebooks Battletech Technical Readout 3025 and Battletech Technical Readout 3050.

He is also featured as a character in some of the Battletech novels written by Michael Stackpole.

* The Particle projection cannon is a powerful ion cannon that is commonly seen in the Battletech universe.

Blaine Lee Pardoe is an award winning author, known primarily for writing the Battletech and MechWarrior: Dark Age series of science fiction books, business management books, military history works on a number of Great War topics, and true crime ( Secret Witness ) works.

* In the Battletech Universe, almost every warrior of each of the Clan factions is born in an artificial uteri.

The setting is also known through the PC-game incarnations published by Activision in 1997 and 1999, developed after Activision lost the rights to the Battletech / MechWarrior series.

The DCMS, for most of the timeline of the Battletech universe, is usual slightly less technologically advanced in comparison to the other Successor states.

Though always coming out of each scathed and battered the CCAF in the Battletech universe is renowned for its ability to rebuild quickly and respond with earnest vigor.

MechAssault takes place in the Battletech universe, a science-fiction universe that often centers around pitched battles between human factions in control of combat robots, called BattleMechs.

Many of the factions from Classic Battletech were introduced into the game and the game has several original factions as well.

Rationale: to illustrate Battletech mecha, universe, book in question and charactertistic style of book covers.

# No free alternative can exist because all Battletech mecha designs are copyrighted

# No free alternative can exist because all Battletech mecha designs are copyrighted

# No free alternative can exist because all Battletech mecha designs are copyrighted

A jewel-encrusted copy of the book appears in Linda Fairstein's 2008 novel, Lethal Legacy.

In 2000, Collins brought back the character of Madison Castelli in a new novel, Lethal Seduction.

Television movies from Granada and ITV Studios America include: Molly Shannon in 12 Days of Christmas Eve ; Jason Priestly in The Reality Of Love ; Farrah Fawcett in Hollywood Lives, based on Jackie Collins ’ best selling novel ; Anne Heche in Dead Will Tell ; Melanie Griffith in Lethal Seduction ; Aidan Quinn and Mary-Louise Parker in Unexpected Journey ; and Susan Sarandon in Icebound.

Before that, he had a long stint on Dazzler, wrote the Deadly Foes of Spider-Man and Lethal Foes of Spider-Man mini-series, the Howard The Duck movie adaptation comic and various issues of several Marvel titles, including Avengers, Daredevil, Iron Man and What If ?, as well as the Deathtrap: The Vault graphic novel.

With the birth of his first child pending, Grey felt compelled to complete his next novel and his first Western, The Heritage of the Desert.

* Heritage ( Doctor Who ), a novel in the BBC Books series

The town of Snowfield in George Eliot's Adam Bede is also said to be based in Wirksworth ; Dinah Morris, a character in that novel, is based on Eliot's aunt, who lived in Wirksworth and whose husband ran the silk mill, now Wirksworth Heritage Centre.

The first novel in The Heritage of Shannara reveals the gathering of the chosen Ohmsfords to meet with the shade of Allanon, then focuses on Par and Coll Ohmsford as they attempt to retrieve the Sword of Shannara.

In 1955, he wrote a novel " Heritage ", which was technically a fiction, but which dealt with the trials of boy who grows up largely neglected and ignored by his famous parents.

The novel includes an etymology taken from the first edition of the American Heritage Dictionary that derives the phrase Mumbo Jumbo from the Mandingo mā-mā-gyo-mbō, meaning a " magician who makes the troubled spirits of ancestors go away.

Summertide ( 1990 ) is a science fiction novel by Charles Sheffield written within the Heritage Universe.

* The Heritage ( 1960, novel )

Heritage is a BBC Books original novel written by first-time novelist Dale Smith and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

* Following the events of Justin Richards's novel Sometime Never ..., it is uncertain whether or not the events of Heritage actually take place as described, or whether Mel Bush is actually still alive.

Cover of the Doctor Who Past Doctor Adventures novel Heritage.

The monastery, which features prominently in Hermann Hesse's novel Beneath the Wheel, was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1993.

Michael Slade's novel Kamikaze has many instances of yubitsume as a punishment for failing the kumicho ( Godfather ) of the local Yakuza.

In The Luck of Barry Lyndon, a novel serialised in Fraser's in 1844, Thackeray explored the situation of an outsider trying to achieve status in high society, a theme which he developed more successfully in Vanity Fair with the character of Becky Sharp, the artist's daughter who rises nearly to the heights by manipulating the other characters.

The novel has since achieved a cult status, aided by the global success of the film.

An attempt to visit Barsoom takes them to an apparently different version of Mars seemingly under the colonial rule of the British Empire ; but near the end of the novel, Heinlein's recurring character Lazarus Long hints that they had traveled to Barsoom, and that its " colonial " status was an illusion imposed on them by the telepathically adept Barsoomians:

His novel Mountaintop Love (《 上山 ． 上山 ． 愛 》), about a mother and daughter who fall in love with the same man, though several years apart, solidified Li's status as a serious novelist.

Because of the status of the extant original texts of Satyricon, the true intent of Petronius ' novel is unknown.

This aspect of the novel, plus Cleland's presumed offence at Westminster School, lack of intimate friends, and his unmarried status have aided conjecture that he was homosexual, as has his bitter falling out with friend Thomas Cannon, author of the pamphlet Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd ( 1749 ), the earliest surviving published defence of homosexuality in English ( Gladfelder ).

) Because of its status as the first novel written by a Latin American and one emulated by generations of Mexican novelists, El Periquillo Sarniento appears on many " must-read " lists for graduate programs in Latin American literature, and it is of equal interest to students of Latin American history.

The novel takes place during the Bourbon Restoration, which brought profound changes to French society ; the struggle by individuals to secure a higher social status is a major theme in the book.

It has achieved the status of the archetypal modern African novel in English, and is read in Nigeria and throughout Africa.

The first half of the novel is mostly backstory in Teri's voice, leading up to the day when she passed her test for " full adulthood ", a legal status that can apparently be reached at any age by passing an educational and psychiatric exam, which gives her the right to marry, hold property, vote, and so forth.

A symptom of trouble is that over the course of the week described in the novel, the five poet-magicians of the " Magic House " of the village of Horned Lamb all die or lose their status as members of the poet-magician estate.

The restoration / revival programme, fully funded by the NLCP, was launched in April 2002, and implemented by Bombay Municipal Corporation ( BMC ) now called Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation ( BMC ), the Government of Maharashtra and as a result the status of the lake has undergone a major shift from the hypertrophic condition to mesotrophic condition by adopting a novel technique of aeration and bioremediation.

The storyline of Trading Places — a member of society trading places with another whose socio-economical status stands in direct contrast to his own — often draws comparisons to Mark Twain's novel The Prince and the Pauper.

According to Bakhtin, the novel as a genre is unique in that it is able to embrace, ingest, and devour other genres while still maintaining its status as a novel.

Marketed as a " scandalous exposé ", the novel placed Collins in a powerful position and made her a celebrity of almost equal status to sister Joan, whose own career had taken an upwards direction with her role in the hit television drama Dynasty.

The novel achieved best-selling status and became a series of comic books, an Origins Award-winning board wargame and later a video game.

A gadfly is a person who upsets the status quo by posing upsetting or novel questions, or just being an irritant.

Despite being labeled a flop, the film found success on home video, gained a small cult status, and was followed by a successful graphic novel adaptation.

The novel is a historical and literary portrayal of the status of women in the Old West.

The off-limits status of such planets and the evident disobliging and temperamental nature of the Dra ' Azon figure largely in the backdrop to the novel.

Khelben's status as Masked Lord was later revealed, but only after resigning the post, and in the Songs and Swords series of novel, Danilo Thann, of Waterdeep's wealthy and influential Thann family, and Khelben's nephew, became one of the secret Lords.

I Am Charlotte Simmons is a 2004 novel by Tom Wolfe, concerning sexual and status relationships at the fictional Dupont University.

Their refugee status was recorded in folk songs ( including many by Woody Guthrie ), as well as John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, and the film adaptation starring Henry Fonda.

Dickens ' original ending is deemed by many as consistent with the thread of the novel and with Estella's allegorical position as the human manifestation of Pip's longings for social status.