* In the Michael Flynn novel In the Country of the Blind, a secret society calling itself the Babbage Society secretly financed the building of Babbage Engines in the mid-19th century.

The character John Morlar from Peter Van Greenaway's 1973 novel The Medusa Touch and the 1978 film version holds nihilistic beliefs as does the character Animal Mother from Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the ruthless thug O-Dog from the 1993 film Menace II Society by the Hughes Brothers.

Her novel Quartet in Autumn ( 1977 ) was nominated for the Booker Prize that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

* In Lawrence Block's 1966 novel The Canceled Czech, secret agent Evan Tanner submits & has accepted, an article to the quarterly bulletin of the Flat Earth Society of England.

* Two jiangshi brothers appear in the original graphic novel The New Brighton Archeological Society who are related to the two main protagonists in the series.

His first novel, Sea Holly ( 2007 ) was shortlisted for the 2008 Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize.

The theory was investigated by the British Society of Dowsers and used as background material by Phil Rickman in his novel The Remains of an Altar ( 2006 ).

Author Lee B. Croft, in his satiric novel, Toadies: The Explanation of Toxicomania in American Society, has coined the word " bufoglossation " to describe the deliberate licking of Bufo toads for hallucinogenic purposes, but psychoactive substance information site Erowid warns against such use because of the cardiotoxins included in the toads ' venom.

According to The Folio Society, " We can never know if this is exactly what Faulkner would have envisaged, but the result justifies his belief that coloured inks would allow readers to follow the strands of the novel more easily, without compromising the ‘ thought-transference ’ for which he argued so passionately.

In the 2008 Doctor Who novel Beautiful Chaos, the Doctor briefly mentions being invited to the Royal Planetary Society by " Bernard and Paula ".

He used the Cacophony Society as the basis for the fictional organization Project Mayhem in his novel Fight Club.

Norton published her first novel in 1934, and was the first woman to receive the Gandalf Grand Master Award from the World Science Fiction Society in 1977, and won the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ( SFWA ) association in 1983.

Errol Wayne Stevens, of the California Historical Society, notes several contemporary reviews of the novel in which writers dismissed the idea that Ramona could have come from a race which they characterized as " dull, heavy and unimpressionable ," and " lazy, cruel, cowardly, and covetous.

* The Strike at Shane's: A Prize Story of Indiana is an anonymous American novel that won a monetary award and national publication in 1893 in a contest sponsored by the American Humane Society, and was reprinted several times commercially thereafter.

* Napier appears in the George MacDonald Fraser novel " Flashman on the March ", in command of the Army of Abyssinia, and is nicknamed " the bughunter ", possibly a reference by Flashman to his membership of the Royal Society.

Despite adverse publicity, the novel still went on to win the 1995 Australian Literary Society Gold Medal.

The published version of the novel contains an afterword by Robert James, Ph. D., Heinlein Society member and Heinlein scholar, explaining how the only known surviving typescript of this " lost " work was finally discovered in a garage.

Though an active politician and MP, Johnston devoted considerable time to the Society, and proposed novel ideas about life assurance.

* The Ahnenerbe, led by Sievers, and former Grand Master of the Thule Society, Rudolf von Sebottendorf, are portrayed as the driving force behind a secret holocaust of vampires in Nazi death camps in Juan Miguel de la Torre's novel Las Increíbles Aventuras de Rex Stark y el Holocausto Secreto.

Dreams: The dream of building a Utopian Society is just one of the dreams in the novel.

While it was first introduced in a novel, people claiming to be members or know of chapters of the Invisible Hand Society have occasionally appeared in editorial pages and on the Internet.

Courage to Heal, a novel by KP Historical Society President, Paul Bernstein, MD, is based on the story of Garfield's life, his struggles with the AMA, and the origins of Kaiser Permanente.

* 2006-First recipient of the Carl Brandon Society Parallax Award for his young adult novel 47.

* James Branch Cabell was prosecuted on obscenity charges relating to his novel Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice after lobbying by the Society.

F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the latter type of ambiguity with notable effect in his novel The Great Gatsby.

In the novel, they are represented by Cottard, who welcomes the plague and uses the economic deprivation that results from it to make a fortune buying and selling on the black market.

Biotechnology is being applied for novel uses other than food.

At least one published mystery novel uses aspects of the myth as the centerpoint of the plot.

The book includes all needed surveying and structural calculations, and a novel simplified building system that copes with regional shortages of wood and steel, uses easily-stored inexpensive materials, and produces long-lasting classic buildings with small amounts of materials, design and labor.

* The Moonstone ( 1868 ) by Wilkie Collins uses a collection of various documents to construct a detective novel in English.

" The Parisians, though, was not published until 1872, while William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Pendennis ( 1850 ) uses the phrase ironically, implying it was already established.

The approach is novel in that it uses a mostly stock aircraft with a modified landing gear " pod " that carries the engine for road propulsion.

Orwell also uses the technique of false document in an appendix to the same novel, titled " The Principles of Newspeak ," where Orwell offers a linguistic guide to Oceania's official language, Newspeak from the perspective of the country's ruling party, along with policy prescriptions for how the language may develop in the future.

The 1915 novel Plutonia by Vladimir Obruchev uses the concept of the hollow Earth to take the reader through various geological epochs.

In the 1976 Ira Levin novel The Boys from Brazil and its 1978 film adaptation, Josef Mengele uses cloning to create copies of Adolf Hitler.

* The John Green novel, The Fault in Our Stars commonly uses the term by the characters to describe themselves as being from Indiana.

* Simon Hawke uses the story as the basis for The Ivanhoe Gambit the first novel in his time travel adventure series TimeWars.

* 1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses ; this date is now traditionally called " Bloomsday ".

The novel also acts as a terrifying realization of some of Kant's fundamental ideas ; Sartre uses the idea of the autonomy of the will ( that morality is derived from our ability to choose in reality ; the ability to choose being derived from human freedom ; embodied in the famous saying " Condemned to be free ") as a way to show the world's indifference to the individual.

* In the anime adaptation of the 2009 Japanese visual novel, Steins ; Gate, the character Yūgo Tennōji, aka ' Mr. Braun ', uses the pseudonym ' FB ', after Karl Ferdinand Braun.

Loglan ’ s inventor, James Cooke Brown, also wrote a utopian science fiction novel The Troika Incident ( 1970 ) that uses Loglan phrases but calls the language a different name, " Panlan ".

Alastair Reynolds also uses ringworlds in his 2008 novel House of Suns.

The MIT Media Lab houses researchers developing novel uses of computer technology.

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 the novel Tomorrow by Andrew Saltzman ( ISBN 1-4243-1027-X ), a scientist uses nanorobotics to create a liquid that when inserted into the bloodstream, renders one nearly invincible given that the microscopic machines repair tissue almost instantaneously after it is damaged.

Orhan Pamuk's historical novel Benim Adım Kırmızı ( My Name is Red, 1998 ) takes place at the court of Murad III, during nine snowy winter days of 1591, which the writer uses in order to convey the tension between East and West.

Stephen King uses the word in his 2006 novel Lisey's Story.

Tim Dorsey uses the word in his 2010 novel, Gator a-Go-Go.