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No Enterprise-specific novels appeared at all in 2005 and the first post-cancellation novel, Rosetta by Dave Stern, did not appear until February 2006.
No, if I read any, it shall be Mrs. Radcliffe's ; her novels are amusing enough ; they are worth reading ; some fun and nature in them.
Dr. No was the first of Fleming's novels to receive large-scale negative criticism in Britain, with Paul Johnson of the New Statesman writing his review about the " Sex, Snobbery and Sadism " of the story.
For the first time in the Bond novels, there is friction between Bond and M in Dr. No, brought about because Bond was nearly killed by SMERSH agent Rosa Klebb in From Russia, with Love.
In 1964 Dr. No was serialised in France Soir for the French market and the year marked the growth of sales in Bond novels for that market, with 480, 000 French-language copies of the six Bond novels being sold that year.
Like Podkayne, I Will Fear No Evil ends by moralizing about the fundamental purpose of human life, which is to take care of children, and in both novels the moral has no clear relationship to the main events of the story.
Shortly before his death in 1992, Asimov approved an outline for three novels ( Caliban, Inferno, Utopia ) by Roger MacBride Allen, set between Robots and Empire and the Empire series, telling the story of the terraforming of the Spacer world Inferno, and about the robot revolution started by creating a " No Law " Robot, and then New Law Robots.
In March 1965, he had three novels on the British paperback bestseller list – Where Love Has Gone at No. 1, The Carpetbaggers at No. 3 and The Dream Merchants in the sixth spot.
The most common theme in Shute's novels is the dignity of work, spanning all classes, whether an Eastern European bar " hostess " ( Ruined City ) or brilliant boffin ( No Highway ).
This was changed from Fleming's novels, which had Dr. No working for the USSR.
She has written two more novels in the Chocolat series, continuing the adventures of Vianne Rocher ; The Lollipop Shoes ( re-titled The Girl With No Shadow in the US ) and Peaches for Monsieur le Curé ( Peaches for Father Francis in the US ), as well as two French cookbooks ( co-written with Fran Warde ), two collections of short stories and a number of dark psychological thrillers, including Gentlemen and Players and Blueeyedboy.
No chimpanzees appear in the original Tarzan novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs that inspired the films.
He is best known for his novels such as the non-narrative 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess ( 2002 ), his re-imagining of the 1960s in Tainted Love ( 2005 ), and earlier parodistic pulp fictions Pure Mania, Red London, No Pity, Cunt, and Defiant Pose that pastiche the work of 1970s British skinhead pulp novel writer Richard Allen and combine it with pornography, political agit-prop, and historical references to punk rock and avant-garde art.
He does carry a gun for his work in 1992's " No Time to Die " and 1994's " Undercover " ( even threatening someone with it in the latter ), both of which are based on Ed McBain novels.
** Seven cantatas based on texts taken from Ignazio Silone's novels Bread and Wine and Fontamara for solo voice, strings and woodwind instruments: * Die Römische Kantate, opus 60 ; * Kantate im Exil ( Man lebt von einem Tag zu dem andern ), opus 62 ; * Kantate " Nein " ( Kantate im Exil No. 2 ); * Kantate auf den Tod eines Genossen, opus 64 ; * Kriegskantate, opus 65 ; * Die den Mund auf hatten ; * Die Weißbrotkantate
The novelist Sebastian Faulks, who also wrote an introduction to an edition of these three novels, calls Green " unique ": " No fiction has ever thrilled me as the great moments in Living and Loving ".< David Lodge calls him " an exceptionally gifted and truly original writer ".
Thus, the character can be viewed as an early example of the " Man with No Name " ( other examples of which appear in a number of earlier novels, including Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest ).
Over the next two years, she published three novels in the anonymous No Name Series, including Mercy Philbrick's Choice and Hetty's Strange History.
Other works of the post-war period, like the short novels A Garden of Repose ( 1944 ), Ward No 4 ( 1946 ) and Cold Nights ( 1947 ), contain some of his strongest writings.
No effort was spared in popularising the theory: " cosmotechnical " societies were founded, which offered public lectures that attracted large audiences, there were cosmic ice movies and radio programs, and even cosmic ice journals and novels.
Christopher Taylor Buckley ( born December 24, 1952 ) is an American political satirist and the author of novels including God Is My Broker, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, The White House Mess, No Way to Treat a First Lady, Wet work, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday, Supreme Courtship, and, most recently, Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir.
The No. 1 Ladies ' Detective Agency is a series of novels by Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith.

No and .
No one walked in this country, least of all Ed Dow or Dutch Renfro or any of the rest of the Bar B crew.
No girl would go this far to fool a man so she could kill him.
`` No, she'll be all right '', Jones said quickly.
Clayton choked, shook his head, murmuring, `` No ''.
No doubt there would be men guarding the horses.
`` No telling how good this horse is '', Mike panted.
`` No.
`` No '', Wilson said.
No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
No one hurried.
No man could have reached his spot nor held it without being ruthless, and Hague had made a virtue of ruthlessness all of his life.
No wonder Melissa responded so completely to its beckoning.
No more could he defend himself against them.
No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.
No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.
No cow thief could count on a jury of his sympathetic peers to free him any longer.
`` No.
No sooner did they hear of Dan's injury than both Gran and Matilda went into immediate action.
No matter how many registry rocks they came to on this journey, each one exerted its own appeal.
No sooner were they through and the guards posted, than the whole camp turned in for a night of sound sleep.
No one had much to say.
No turns.
`` No, I don't '', Johnson said.
No sooner had I started drinking than the driver started zigzagging the truck.

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