The ingredients of Faulkner's novels and stories are by no means new with him, and most of the problems he takes up have had the attention of authors before him.

And they have done this on a very large scale, with a veritable flood of novels and stories which are either dystopias or narratives of adventure with dystopian elements.

Not all recent science fiction, however, is dystopian, for the optimistic strain is still very much alive in Mission Of Gravity and Childhood's End, as we have seen, as well as in many other recent popular novels and stories like Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud ( 1957 ) ; ;

There is certainly a case for saying that Crooked House ( 1949 ) and Ordeal by Innocence ( 1957 ), which are not Poirot novels at all but so easily could have been, represent a logical endpoint of the general diminution of Poirot himself within the Poirot sequence.

However her novels, like those of her sisters, have become classics of English literature.

Many titles for novels and films have been drawn from Housman's poetry.

In total, more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories featuring the Conan character have been written by authors other than Howard.

* the novels tend to have a huge cast of characters, typically in the hundreds, all described as to their relation to the various main actors in the story.

One scholar wrote about the detective novels of Tony Hillerman, set among the Native American population around New Mexico, " many American readers have probably gotten more insight into traditional Navajo culture from his detective stories than from any other recent books.

" Other notable writers who have explored regional and ethnic communities in their detective novels are Harry Kemelman, whose Rabbi Small series were set the Conservative Jewish community of Massachusetts ; Walter Mosley, whose Easy Rawlins books are set in the African American community of 1950s Los Angeles ; and Sara Paretsky, whose V. I. Warshawski books have explored the various subcultures of Chicago.

Don Quixote interrupts when Cardenio suggests that his beloved may have become unfaithful after the formulaic stories of spurned lovers in Chivalric novels.

Another important source appears to have been Apuleius's The Golden Ass, one of the earliest known novels, a picaresque from late classical antiquity.

His Dartmoor cycle of 18 novels and two volumes of short stories still have many avid readers despite the fact that many titles are out of print.

Epistolary novels have made several memorable appearances in more recent literature:

However, her main work is the genre of young readers ' novels in which children have their own adventures with minimal adult help.

A line of novels have been published in the world of Everquest, including:

Roger Ebert gave The Rainmaker three stars out of four, remarking: " I have enjoyed several of the movies based on Grisham novels ... but I've usually seen the storyteller's craft rather than the novelist's art being reflected.

They marry and have a daughter, Fleurette, who figures in later novels.

Several of the spin-off novels ( which are of uncertain canonicity ) have further information about Gallifrey.

Various spin-off novels have expanded on the history and nature of Gallifrey, although not all fans consider the information in them to be canonical.

A fitter scene for his romance he probably could not have chosen .” Similarly, De Vore states, “ The setting is greatly influential in Gothic novels.

Within the last two decades there have been an onslaught of novels, documentaries, works of art, and websites devoted to Thompson.

Video games, soundtracks, light novels, art books and other merchandise have also been released.

Alexander III has been depicted in historical novels.

The term " fictional autobiography " has been coined to define novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own biography, of which Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, is an early example.

Both novels had been seen as favourites to win leading up to the prize and the dramatic " literary battle " between two senior authors made front page news.

The tragic tale of the Mexican colony on Clipperton Island has been the subject of several novels, including Ivo Mansmann's Clipperton, Schicksale auf einer vergessenen Insel (" Clipperton, Destinies on a Forgotten Island "); ISBN 3-354-00709-5 ( in German, no English translation available ) and Colombian writer Laura Restrepo's La Isla de la Pasión in the Spanish language.

It has been argued that the approach of Mrs Gaskell transferred the focus of attention away from the ' difficult ' novels, not just Charlotte's, but all the sisters, and began a process of sanctification of their private lives.

There was extensive censorship in England and many war novels had been banned or burned as a result.

Glorantha has been, so far, the background for 2 board-games ( White Bear and Red Moon / Dragon Pass and Nomad Gods ), two role-playing games ( RuneQuest and HeroQuest ), one video game ( King of Dragon Pass ), one comic book series ( Path of the Damned ), five novels or collections of fiction ( King of Sartar by Greg Stafford, The Collected / Complete Griselda by Oliver Dickinson, Gloranthan Visions by various authors, The Widow's Tale and Eurhol's Vale & Other Tales by Penelope Love, and numerous pieces of myth and fiction created by the Glorantha community, featuring in magazines such as Tales of the Reaching Moon.

Recently, there has also been a wave of games designed as spin-offs of popular novels, such as the games taking their style from the German bestsellers Der Schwarm and Tintenherz.

Scottish crime fiction has been a major area of growth, particularly the success of Edinburgh's Ian Rankin and his Inspector Rebus novels.

Over the years, there have been five Highlander movies, two television series, an animated series, an animated movie, an animated flash-movie series, ten original novels, seventeen comic book issues, and various licensed merchandise.

Such works have been the inspiration for a number of popular modern fiction novels.

Id Software has also been associated with novels since the publication of the original Doom novels.

This has been restarted from 2008 onward with Matthew J. Costello's ( a story consultant for Doom 3 and now Rage ) new Doom 3 novels: Worlds on Fire and Maelstrom.

There have been six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks and Jeffery Deaver ; a new novel, written by William Boyd, is planned for release in 2013.

Kosiński's novels have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, and have been translated into over 30 languages, with total sales estimated at 70 million in 1991.

The report claimed that Kosiński's books had actually been ghost-written by " assistant editors ", finding stylistic differences among Kosiński's novels.

Other novels nominated for various Locus Poll Awards were Brokedown Palace, The Gypsy, Agyar, and Freedom & Necessity.

* Swan Song ( 1987 )-Co-winner of the 1987 Bram Stoker Award and nominated for the 1988 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel ; the first of his novels to appear on the New York Times Bestseller List

The Campbell Memorial Award winner is " selected by a committee small enough to discuss among its members all of the nominated novels.

Several of her short stories were nominated for O. Henry Prizes and a few novels became top sellers.

All four novels were also nominated for various science fiction awards.

According to their website, Spectra publishes " science-fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative novels from recognizable authors " Spectra authors have collectively won 31 such awards in the fields of science fiction and fantasy, and been nominated on 132 occasions.

* List of all winning and nominated novels

* Excerpts and synopses for WFA winning and nominated novels

These five novels on the ballot are the five most-nominated by members that year, with no limit on the number of stories that can be nominated.

Boyd's novels include: A Good Man in Africa, a study of a disaster-prone British diplomat operating in West Africa, for which he won the Whitbread Book award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1981 ; An Ice-Cream War, set against the background of the World War I campaigns in colonial East Africa, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was nominated for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1982 ; Brazzaville Beach, published in 1991, which follows a female scientist researching chimpanzee behaviour in Africa ; and Any Human Heart, written in the form of the journals of a fictitious twentieth century British writer, which was long-listed for the Booker Prize in 2002.

Other novels include Diplomatic Act with Peter Jurasik, and Two of Minds, nominated for a Newbery Award.

Kihn has written four horror fiction novels with the first being 1996's Horror Show ( nominated for the Bram Stoker Award ) followed by 1997's Shade of Pale .< ref >

Chandler, a twice Oscar nominated screenwriter who did not author the screenplay for this or any other screen adaptations of his own novels, disdained Montgomery's ambition to create a cinematic version of the first-person narrative style of his Philip Marlowe novels.

The Moses Wine novels have been nominated for the Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America.

* Excerpts and synopses for Locus winning and nominated novels

* Excerpts and synopses of BSFA Award winning and nominated novels

Several of her novels have been subsequently adapted as films, including Die Apothekerin, which was released in the United States as The Pharmacist and was nominated for the German Film Award in Gold for outstanding feature film.

He is winner of the prestigious Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and two of his novels have been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize: Seierherrene ( The Conquerors ) in 1991 and Frost in 2004.

Volkswagen Blues was nominated for the Governor General's Award in 1984 and was one of the selected novels in the 2005 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by author and former National Librarian of Canada, Roch Carrier.

He wrote several plays, novels, and screenplays, and was nominated for an Academy award and two BAFTA awards.

Marugg has written 3 novels in Dutch ; Weekendpelgrimage ( 1957 ), In de straten van Tepalka ( 1967 ); and De morgen loeit weer aan ( 1988 ), which was nominated for a major Dutch literature prize.

All of his novels have been nominated, and The Forty Years of Chanchzhoeh short-listed, for the Russian Booker Prize.

* Excerpts and synopses of BFS Award winning and nominated novels