The adventure novel exhibits these " protagonist on adventurous journey " characteristics as do many popular feature films, such as Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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.

* Dark Star, a 1991 Night Soldiers novel by Alan Furst

* Dark Star, a 1929 novel by Lorna Moon

He was inspired by the mention of the concept in the 1937 science fiction novel Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon, and possibly by the works of J. D. Bernal and Raymond Z. Gallun who seem to have explored similar concepts in their work.

Bowman is led through a metamorphosis from a material being to an entity of pure energy, an entity referred to in the novel 2001 as the " Star Child ".

Midway through the 2010 novel, Bowman returns to Earth in his Star Child form.

The general concept of such an energy-transferring shell had been advanced decades earlier by author Olaf Stapledon in his 1937 novel Star Maker, a source that Dyson has credited publicly.

* Each chapter in Frank Herbert's science fiction novels Whipping Star, The Dosadi Experiment, and Dune variously begin with an aphorism, an excerpt from an official report ( or even a manual ), a quotation from a book about the events of the novel, etc.

Klingon is sometimes referred to as Klingonese ( most notably in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ", where it was actually pronounced by a Klingon character as " Klingonee " ) but, among the Klingon-speaking community, this is often understood to refer to another Klingon language called Klingonaase that was introduced in John M. Ford's 1988 Star Trek novel The Final Reflection, and appears in other Star Trek novels by Ford.

In 2006, Sixx published his diaries as a best selling novel: The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star, and in 2007 Sixx's side project band Sixx: A. M. released The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack as a musical parallel to the novel.

Spider Robinson, a colleague, friend, and admirer of Heinlein, wrote Variable Star, based on an outline and notes for a juvenile novel that Heinlein prepared in 1955.

In the Pocket Books Star Trek novel Killing Time, a crew member says, " You don't want to wear a red shirt on landing-party duty ".

John Scalzi's novel Redshirts ( 2012 ) both spoofs and pays homage to the notion of disposable low-ranking crew members on a Star Trek-style starship.

* Rogue ( Star Trek ), a 2001 Star Trek novel

The fourth installment of the novel series is titled The Romulan War: To Brave the Storm, by Michael A. Martin was announced in Star Trek Magazine issue 154, released in trade paperback format on October 25 2011 and is the final novel in The Romulan War series, taking the story to the end of the Romulan War and the decommission of the Enterprise.

The non-canon " Star Trek: DS9-Millennium " novel trilogy revealed the spoon feature served as a type of umbilical membrane before birth.

In Peter David's 2007 Star Trek: The Next Generation novel, Before Dishonor, which is set after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis, Janeway is assimilated by a rogue faction of the Borg, and becomes the new Borg Queen.

* The Enemy ( novel ), a novel by Lee Child

The grail is central in many modern Arthurian works, including Charles Williams's novel War in Heaven and his two collections of poems about Taliessin, Taliessin Through Logres and Region of the Summer Stars, and in feminist author Rosalind Miles ' Child of the Holy Grail.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

In Stephen King's novel Misery the protagonist, Paul Sheldon, is forced to write a sequel to his book Misery's Child, in which the main character, Misery Chastain, dies.

The BBC adapted novels such as The Day of the Triffids ( 1981 ), The Invisible Man ( 1984 ), The Nightmare Man ( 1981, from the novel Child of the Vodyanoi ) and The Tripods ( 1984 – 85 ), which however remained unfinished.

Victor's life has been fictionalized in the 2003 novel, Wild Boy by Jill Dawson, and in the title novella of the 2010 collection Wild Child and Other Stories by T. C. Boyle.

* In the novel Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, the Xingu River is the location of the doomed Whittlesey / Maxwell expedition responsible for discovering evidence of the lost Kothoga tribe and their savage god Mbwun.

* The 2011 novel " The Stranger's Child " by Booker prize winning British novelist Alan Hollinghurst features fictional War Poet Cecil Valance who shares characteristics of, though is not as talented as, Brooke.

* Sevier County is the setting for the novel Child of God by Cormac McCarthy.

* The main character in Iris Murdoch's novel A Word Child, Hilary Burde, has a " flatlet " near Bayswater Tube Station.

Much of Cormac McCarthy's 1973 novel Child of God takes place in Sevierville and the surrounding area.

* In appearances at Star Trek conventions, Nichols had indicated that the character is " Nyota penda Uhura "; perhaps coincidentally, in Nichols ' 1996 novel Saturn's Child she named the mother of the titular character " Nyota ".

The tale of his celebrated love affair with George Sand, which lasted from 1833 to 1835, is told from his point of view in his autobiographical novel, La Confession d ' un Enfant du Siècle ( The Confession of a Child of the Century, made into a film, Children of the Century ), and from her point of view in her Elle et lui.

One Shot is an upcoming film being directed by McQuarrie, an adaptation of One Shot, a 2005 best selling novel by Lee Child.

In 2002, Matlin published her first novel, Deaf Child Crossing, which was loosely based on her own childhood.

* Thunderhead, a 1998 novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child which uses the fungus and illness as a central plot point.

Further criticisms of the school system came with " The Child Buyer ", a speculative-fiction novel.

* Brimstone ( novel ), a 2004 novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

* Relic ( novel ), a 1995 novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

on the fatal battlefield of Poltava, to quote from the novel, `` the wreath he twined for himself slipped down upon his people ''.

The novel opens with a fugitive convict frantically trying to avoid the nemesis of being `` laid hands on '' -- a mysterious figure who looks into Pip's frightened eyes in the churchyard `` as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in ''.

In the 1972 novel Cyborg, upon which the series was based, Austin remembers watching the Earth " fall away during Apollo XVII.

Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human ( 1995 ) is a novel by K. W. Jeter, and a continuation of both the film Blade Runner, and the novel upon which it was based, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

De Palma gravitated toward the project and changed crucial plot elements based upon his own predilections, not the saleability of the novel.

Helped considerably by the Soviet campaign against the novel, Doctor Zhivago became an instant sensation throughout the non-Communist world upon its release in November 1957.

CAutoD can be applied not just to tuning a predefined control scheme, but also to controller structure optimisation, system identification and invention of novel control systems, based purely upon a performance requirement, independent of any specific control scheme.

If he didn't meet Pitman, Severin points out that Defoe, upon submitting even a draft of a novel about a castaway to his publisher, would undoubtedly have learned about Pitman's book published by his father, especially since the interesting castaway had previously lodged with them at their former premises.

In the late 1980s, Coppola started considering concepts for a motion picture based upon the 19th century novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio.

Meanwhile, Blair started work on the novel A Clergyman's Daughter, drawing upon his life as a teacher and on life in Southwold.

The location of the novel is centred upon South Yorkshire and North Nottinghamshire in England.

Dylan's song " Subterranean Homesick Blues " ( 1965 ), which may have taken its title from a Kerouac novel, included the line, " Johnny's in the basement, mixing up the medicine ", and his " Mr. Tambourine Man " ( 1965 ) requested " Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship ".

Pius II was greatly admired as a poet by his contemporaries, but his reputation in belles lettres rests principally upon his The Tale of the Two Lovers, which continues to be read to this day, partly from its truth to nature, and partly from the singularity of an erotic novel being written by a Pope.

Peckinpah accepted the job but reportedly hated the convoluted screenplay based upon Robert Ludlum's novel ( which he also disliked ).

The title of the film and novel is based upon a passage from Biblical book of The Song of Solomon or Song of Songs, Chapter 7: 12: " Let us get up early to the vineyards.

Whilst greed is a recurring theme in the novel, with many of the episodes stemming from one or more of the characters ' simple desire for food ( be it trolls eating dwarves or dwarves eating Wood-elf fare ) or a desire for beautiful objects, such as gold and jewels, it is only by the Arkenstone's influence upon Thorin that greed, and its attendant vices " coveting " and " malignancy ", come fully to the fore in the story and provide the moral crux of the tale.

More used the novel describing an imaginary nation as a means of freely discussing contemporary controversial matters ; speculatively, he based Utopia on monastic communalism, based upon the biblical communalism in the Acts of the Apostles.

" The character of James Vane was also introduced, which helped to elaborate upon Sibyl Vane's character and background ; the addition of the character helped to emphasise and foreshadow Dorian's selfish ways, as James sees through Dorian's character, and guesses upon his future dishonourable actions ( the inclusion of James Vane's sub-plot also gives the novel a more typically Victorian tinge, part of Wilde's attempts to decrease the controversy surrounding the book ).

Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor.

* Killer: A Journal of Murder ( novel ), a 1970 biographical novel upon which the 1996 film is based

Additionally, he has written a script for Tom Hanks ' Playtone Productions and Universal Pictures called They Marched into Sunlight based upon the Pulitzer nominated novel of the same name and an outline by Paul Greengrass, for Greengrass to direct, should it get a greenlight.