To Popper, science does not rely on induction, instead scientific investigations are inherently attempts to falsify existing theories through novel tests.

In Dune: House Corrino ( published in 2001 and the third novel in the Prelude to Dune prequel series by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson ), Piter De Vries discovers the Harkonnen heritage of Lady Jessica and her newborn son Paul, and attempts to kidnap and ransom the infant.

It was while living in the countryside, having failed in his attempts to supplement his income as a farmer and struggling with tuberculosis, that Sterne began work on his most famous novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the first volumes of which were published in 1759.

He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works ( 55 novels in total, plus four " lost " novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings ), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.

Throughout the novel, Susan attempts ( not always successfully ) to find and maintain a meaning to life outside of work.

There have also been many abortive attempts to adapt the novel to the screen.

* In the 2008 novel Kobayashi Maru by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels, Admiral Valdore attempts once again to cause conflict in the region approximately one year after the incident involving the Aenar, this time using " Telecapture ", designed to take over and control enemy ships.

The novel deals with the difficult relationship between the humans and the " piggies " ( or " pequeninos ", since the action is set in a Catholic Portuguese research installation ) and with Andrew's attempts to bring peace to a brilliant but troubled family whose history is intertwined with that of the pequeninos.

Steven Pressfield's 2002 novel Last of the Amazons attempts to situate Theseus's meeting and subsequent marriage to Antiope, as well as the ensuing war, in a historically plausible setting.

" 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 ).

* In the 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey ( and the corresponding 1968 film ), a spaceship's onboard computer, HAL 9000, attempts to kill all its crew members.

The novel contains an appendix that attempts to correlate the events of the novels with the events of the films.

The novel looks into the experiences of Yossarian and the other airmen in the camp, and their attempts to keep their sanity in order to fulfill their service requirements, so that they can return home.

* Kirby Larson's young adult novel, Hattie Big Sky, explores one woman's attempts to " improve " on her family's homestead before the deadline to retain her rights.

Just before coming of age, Lord Colambre, the sensitive hero of the novel, finds that his mother Lady Clonbrony's attempts to buy her way into the high society of London are only ridiculed, while his father, Lord Clonbrony, is in serious debt as a result of his wife's lifestyle.

Another book, The Unlikely Spy, is a novel that focuses on Allied attempts to carry out Fortitude, as well as a German agent's race to discover the true plans.

At the age of 16, Remarque had made his first attempts at writing ; this included essays, poems, and the beginnings of a novel that was finished later and published in 1920 as The Dream Room ( Die Traumbude ).

King talks about his early attempts to get published, and his first novel Carrie.

A further consequence of the changes is that the title of the film is completely impenetrable to those not familiar with the novel ; a snatch of dialogue attempts to remedy this.

On the one hand, the novel is the fictional biography of Martha Cochrane, a clever and ambitious Englishwoman with a rural lower middle-class background who, after graduating from university, attempts to climb the ladder of success within corporate Britain.

In Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne's novel The Wrong Box, much of the farcical plot revolves around the mis-delivery of two boxes at Waterloo station, and the attempts by the various protagonists to retrieve them.

Opening the BBB during rabies infection has been suggested as a possible novel approach to treating the disease, even though no attempts have yet been made to determine whether or not this treatment could be successful.

This short novel revolves around a woman having a one-night stand with a total stranger who suddenly and unexpectedly commits suicide in her bedroom, and the woman's attempts at disposing of the body so as not to cause a scandal about herself or be suspected of killing the man.

In the novel, SPECTRE, headed by Blofeld, attempts to conduct nuclear blackmail against NATO.

Given a desired backbone conformation, side chain packing can be designed using variations of the dead-end elimination algorithm ; however, attempts to design proteins of novel folds have difficulty using this method due to an absence of plausible backbone models.

Each of these art forms, and the criticism thereof, is primarily concerned with a sole creative force: the author of a novel ( not, for example, his editor or type-setter ), the composer of a piece of music ( though sometimes the performers are given credence, akin to actors in film today ), or the painter of a fresco ( not his assistants who mix the colours or often do some of the painting themselves ).

Wells's novel revolves around an ( unspecified ) invention that accelerates the process of radioactive decay, producing bombs that explode with no more than the force of ordinary high explosive — but which " continue to explode " for days on end.

In The Prince, the Discourses, and in the Life of Castruccio Castracani, he describes " prophets ," as he calls them, like Moses, Romulus, Cyrus the Great, and Theseus ( he treats pagan and Christian patriarchs in the same way ) as the greatest of new princes, the glorious and brutal founders of the most novel innovations in politics, and men whom Machiavelli assures us have always used a large amount of armed force and murder against their own people.

* In the 1960 Cold War novel Village of Stars by David Beaty ( writing as Paul Stanton ), an RAF V-bomber of the fictional Venger type is sent to drop a nuclear bomb on a rebel force in the Middle East.

This novel begins with the death of Big Brother and reflects an intermediate period between 1984 and a more optimistic future characterized with a decline in orthodoxy of the totalitarian system, struggles of the ensuing powers and the near destruction of the Oceania air force by Eurasia.

Galaxy reviewer Groff Conklin described Legend as " a weird rather slow-moving first novel ... a horrid, violent, sometimes exciting but too often overdone tour de force.

While the opposition between Earth and Moon echoes the historical conflict between the United States and the British Empire, the way the Lunar rebels force Earth to acknowledge their independence is similar to the one they adopt in Dick's novel ( launching missiles, some with nuclear warheads, in an unpredictable fashion ).

" Following its release in 1960, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen proved to be a " resounding success ... both critically and commercially ", later being described as " a tour de force of the imagination, a novel that showed almost every writer who came afterwards what it was possible to achieve in novels ostensibly published for children.

* Robert A. Heinlein's 1949 science-fiction novel Sixth Column describes the work of a " sixth column ," a hidden resistance movement fighting an oppressive occupying force of Asians on American soil.

In the science fiction novel Descent of Anansi, by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes, the main characters manage to land a damaged spacecraft on Earth with the aid of a very strong cable made of crystalline iron and the " force " generated by tidal effects.

* Chimes, a magical force that paradoxically destroys magic in the novel Soul of the Fire by Terry Goodkind

" In the novel Shaddam notes, " I only sent in five troop carriers with a light attack force to pick up prisoners for questioning.

Assessing the novel's legacy, philosopher Douglas Den Uyl described The Fountainhead as relatively neglected compared to her later novel, Atlas Shrugged, and said, " our problem is to find those topics that arise clearly with The Fountainhead and yet do not force us to read it simply through the eyes of Atlas Shrugged.

In fact, the novel is now regarded as a " stylistic tour de force " ( Sabor ) and as a participant in the " making legible the bourgeois remapping of certain categories constitutive of ' woman ,' and then exposing that remapping as ludicrous " ( Gautier x ).

Though Big Daddy's size and image as an unstoppable force precluded many more novel wrestling moves ; making him a frequent user of many generic wrestling throws, body slams, etc.

( At the end of the novel, Mr. Kennedy's legal actions push her to move to the Continent, where the law cannot force her to return to her husband's household.

* In the sci-fi novel Aelita ( 1923 ), two Russians travel to Mars in a pulse detonation rocket utilizing " a fine powder of unusual explosive force " ( p. 19 ).

This acclaimed novel is, among many other things, a " tour de force " of literary cameos.

* She also was a driving force in Judith Merkle-Riley's novel The Oracle Glass ( 1995 ).

The game tried to set itself apart with unique features like a heavier emphasis on its story, characters pulled from different time periods, reflectable projectiles, force fields, fighters that carried weapons, a training mode where players had to defend themselves against robotic traps, a novel method of executing moves, and elaborate stage-specific finishing moves called " Overkills ".

There, once more, this style which wants to be with the truth novel and Byzantine, without never succeeding in being a style: neither the force of the novel, nor Byzantine science.

* The " Swarm " Any of the many predatory clouds of nano-machines that " eat " animals serving as an antagonistic force in the novel.

The plot of the novel relies on her being a supernatural force with magical powers, but she begins as a human.

Throughout the novel, Achilles has been holding Petra hostage, and attempts to use her as a shield which would force Bean to kill her in order to stop him.