This novel set the tone for many of McDevitt's following novels, which focused on making first contact.

Rogue planets feature in two of American science fiction author Jack McDevitt's novels Deepsix ( 2001 ) and Seeker ( 2005 ).

A variation on the traditional impact story was provided by Jack McDevitt's 1999 novel Moonfall, in which a very large comet traveling at interstellar velocities collides with and partially destroys the Moon, fragments of which then collide with the Earth.

McDevitt's first published story was " The Emerson Effect " in The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981.

Jack McDevitt's science fiction novel The Devil's Eye features a hypernova outside the Milky Way.

Mr. McDevitt's mother was Mary Graiff McDevitt, secretary for A.

McDevitt's cousin, the late Rev.

A form of hard-structure subsonic skyhook was constructed during the events of Jack McDevitt's novel Deepsix.

The Benko Gambit is featured in Jack McDevitt's short story, " Black to Move ," anthologized in both Standard Candles and again in the 2009 collection Breach The Hull, as well as in William Ballard's short story " Retrograde Analysis ", published in Analog Science Fiction.

Early in the novels, he frequently casts himself in the role of " Papa Poirot ", a benign confessor, especially to young women.

In novels such as Taken at the Flood, After the Funeral and Hickory Dickory Dock he is even less in evidence, frequently passing the duties of main interviewing detective to a subsidiary character.

In modern literature, Cockney rhyming slang is used frequently in the novels and short stories of Kim Newman, for instance in the short story collections " The Man from the Diogenes Club " ( 2006 ) and " Secret Files of the Diogenes Club " ( 2007 ), where it is explained at the end of each book.

" Cozy mysteries " began in the late 20th century as a reinvention of the Golden Age whodunnit ; these novels generally shy away from violence and suspense and frequently feature female amateur detectives.

* Tirant lo Blanc – one of the chivalric novels frequently referenced by Don Quixote

Larry Niven's novels frequently make use of the stasis field concept, which he also popularized.

King is a fan of baseball, and of the Boston Red Sox in particular ; he frequently attends the team's home and away games, and occasionally mentions the team in his novels and stories.

Jack McDevitt ( born 1935 ) is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology.

He also appears frequently in the Star Wars " Expanded Universe " of novels, comic books and video games, including a series of novels in which he is the primary protagonist.

He is also a major character in the television show Droids, and appears frequently in the series ' " Expanded Universe " of novels, comic books, and video games.

Rousseau in his Confessions p. 160 Penguin Classic notes it as one of the novels read with his father and says it " was the one that recurred most frequently to my mind ".

The sword of Damocles appears frequently in popular culture including novels, feature films, television series, videogames and music.

* In the Revelation Space series of novels, Alastair Reynolds characters frequently employ " Entoptics " which are essentially a highly developed form of augmented reality, going so far as to entirely substitute natural perception.

George Sylvester Viereck and Paul Eldridge wrote a trilogy of novels My First Two Thousand Years, an Autobiography of the Wandering Jew, ( 1928 ), in which Isaac Laquedem is a Roman soldier who, after being told by Jesus that he will " tarry until I return ," goes on to influence many of the great events of history ; he frequently encounters Solome ( described as ' The Wandering Jewess '), and travels with a companion, to whom he has passed on his immortality via a blood transfusion ( another attempt to do this for a woman he loved ended in her death ).

Wodehouse frequently visited his friend Charles Le Strange at Hunstanton Hall and it became an influence for a number of the locations in his comic novels.

Owing to his legendary status, his name frequently appears in Chinese novels and Wuxia films of swordsmen as a spiritual teacher and master of martial arts.

Multiples of 17 frequently appear in his novels set in the fantasy world of Dragaera, where the number is considered holy.

His ex-wife, Rhona, and his daughter, Samantha, appear frequently in the novels.

He took to writing novels, which were frequently short-lived, while his accounts of his own voyages through central Africa were rather more enduring.

Also seen frequently, and lending a certain continuity to the series, are the minor characters Alf Miscolo ( the clerk in charge of records and coffee ) and desk sergeant Dave Murchison, as well as a large cast of regulars who do not work at the 87th, including Steve's deaf-mute wife Theodora " Teddy " Carella ; the buffoonish and arrogant homicide detectives Monoghan and Monroe, who always appear together ; the crime lab supervisor Sam Grossman ; Medical Examiner Paul Blaney ( and later his twin brother Carl ) from the Coroner's Office ; police informants Danny Gimp and Fats Donner ; Rolly Chabrier and Nellie Brand from the District Attorney's office ; and Detective Ollie Weeks ( a. k. a. " Fat Ollie "), a central character in several 87th Precinct novels even though he is in fact on the squad of the neighboring 88th Precinct.

While Anderson expressed an admiration for Ivan Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches, the affinities between Turgenev's novel and Winesburg, Ohio ("... both are episodic novels containing loosely bound but closely related sketches, both depend for impact less on dramatic action than on climactic lyrical insight, and in both the individual sketches frequently end with bland understatements that form an ironic coda to the body of the writing " ) may not be a sign of influence since it is not known whether Anderson read the book before writing Winesburg, Ohio.

Dickens wrote his novels as he published them, and readers frequently wrote to him to implore for the good fortune of their favorite characters.

The concept is frequently used in teen romance novels where two characters are shown to " hate " each other but show some sort of affection or attraction towards each other at certain points of the story.

This is also a popular theme in science-fiction novels and movies ; some raise the same question ( Dune's Butlerian Jihad, for example ), while others explore what the relationship between human beings and machines with artificial intelligence would be, and even whether AI is desirable.

The sales figures of Baum's other fantasy novels always lagged behind his Oz novels ; it has therefore been theorized that the " guest appearances " of his non-Oz characters in The Road to Oz were a marketing ploy to raise interest in those other titles.

Most epistolary novels present the documents without questions about how they were gathered.

His novels and plays fictionalize fundamental personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures thwarting the equitable integration of not only blacks yet also of male homosexuals — depicting as well some internalized impediments to such individuals ' quest for acceptance — namely in his second novel, Giovanni's Room ( 1956 ), written well before the equality of homosexuals was widely espoused in America.

Kadono has published fourteen light novels and has serialized short stories in Dengegi HP, leaving the series " with more questions than answers ".

However, Kross ' acclaim internationally ( and nationally even after the regaining of Estonian independence ) show that his novels also deal with topics beyond such concerns ; rather, they deal with questions of mixed identities, loyalty, and belonging.

In response to questions over why the new post-Frank Herbert Dune novels conflicted with The Dune Encyclopedia, the book was declared non-canon on the official Dune website in a letter credited to McNelly, Brian Herbert, and Anderson:

Most notable is the presence in both novels of the General Information service, although it is more sophisticated in Stars ( one need merely think a question for GI to place the knowledge in one's mind, as opposed to Trouble on Triton's GI which takes questions on machines similar to modern computers ).

In January 2011, Webb appeared on a celebrity version of BBC quiz Mastermind, answering nine questions correctly on his specialist subject ( the novels of Ian McEwan ) and 11 correctly on the general knowledge round.

The time she spent in the Midwest influenced her work, and Glaspell's last three novels increasingly focused on the midwest, on family life, and on theistic questions.

McConnochie's novels, which have been praised for their vigorous plotting, vivid characterisation and humour, have consistently grappled with questions about celebrity and the possibilities open to women and women artists.

Khoury's novels are notable for their complex approach to both political themes and more fundamental questions of human behaviour.

Also, Philip K. Dick, who has often been compared to Borges, raises a significant number of philosophical issues in his novels, everything from the problem of solipsism to many questions of perception and reality.