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In the novel Dreadnought by Diane Carey the protagonist Piper, a recent academy graduate, manages to crash the entire simulator by attempting to improvise an engineering solution to the problem through a very unorthodox series of computer commands and jury-rigging, essentially tricking the computer into fighting itself.
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Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.
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' This novel features sorcerers who become destroyed by forbidden knowledge and takes place in the Warhammer 40, 000 setting, itself utilizing Lovecraftian themes.
The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.
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La Peste ) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague.
According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.
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In 1971, Trumbo directed the film adaptation of his novel Johnny Got His Gun, which starred Timothy Bottoms, Diane Varsi, Jason Robards and Donald Sutherland.
In Diane Duane's novel Spock's World, it was suggested that Arie ' mnu closely translates into " passion's mastery ", but that linguist Amanda Grayson, Sarek's wife and Spock's mother, in her work on the universal translator, had mistranslated the Vulcan word to mean " lack of emotions ".
A great deal of Star Trek spin-off fiction, in particular the novel The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood, has stated that the leader of the Vulcan-Romulan migration was a close follower of Surak's named S ' Task.
Also in 1965, he played detective Ted Casselle in the Hitchcockian thriller Mirage, with Gregory Peck and Diane Baker, a film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based on a novel by Howard Fast.
In the novel version of the Mirror Universe created by Diane Duane, Barclay is Captain Picard's personal guard.
* The Whip Angels ( 1955 ) by XXX or Selena Warfield, pseudonyms of Diane Bataille, second wife of French writer Georges Bataille ( The Olympia Press: Paris ) – a pastiche of a Victorian erotic novel.
* Hester, a character in Diane Setterfield's novel The Thirteenth Tale ', is a governess at the Angelfield estate.
* " Virginia Woolf, the Hogarth Press, and the detective novel " ( PDF ), essay by Diane F. Gillespie in the South Carolina Review, issue 35. 2, 2003.
The Galactic Barrier depicted in " Where No Man Has Gone Before " was later explained in the novel The Wounded Sky by Diane Duane published in 1983.
Star Trek author Diane Duane explored Surak's backstory from the character's own perspective, in the novel Spock's World -- which depicts Surak's initial awakening and internet-dissemination of his philosophy after leaving his job as a computer programmer in response to a nuclear explosion from a war between mining conglomerates that spreads to T ' Khut, Vulcan's " moon " ( in reality, Vulcan's smaller binary planet ).
Le Divorce is a 2003 Merchant Ivory Productions film directed by James Ivory from a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Ivory, based on Diane Johnson's bestselling novel.
The women, who in the novel met while students at Middlebury College ( class of 1969 ), were portrayed by Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton in the 1996 film adaptation.
Byrne appeared with Snoop Dogg in Danny Green's film The Tenants, based on Bernard Malamud's novel, and starred as Alex with Josh Hartnett and Diane Kruger in the romantic psychological thriller Wicker Park.
* Diane Duane and Michael Reaves took writing credit on the episode, which is similar to Duane's Star Trek novel The Wounded Sky.
A filk song exists in Star Trek fandom ( and has been quoted in Chapter 8 of Diane Duane's Star Trek novel The Wounded Sky ), based on John Denver's " Calypso ," but adapted to the voyages of the Enterprise: " To sail on a dream in the sun-fretted darkness, to soar through the starlight unfrightened alone ...."
The novel The Venom Factor, by Diane Duane, places the university in Greenwich Village, where NYU is located.
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