This was highlighted by the book's front cover being shown at the end of the closing credits with an onscreen notation " based on ".

Carmilla herself is mentioned several times as a former ( until her death at the hands of vampire hunters ) friend of the book's vampire heroine Geneviève.

In Jack Kerouac's 1955 novel, On The Road, the book's narrator Sal Paradise and other prominent character Dean Moriarty ( an alias of Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady ) encounter the Sabine River.

Pleasence was the author of the 1977 children's book Scouse the Mouse ( London: New English Library ), which was animated by Canadian animator / film director Gerald Potterton ( a friend of the actor, who directed him in the 1973 Canadian film The Rainbow Boys, retitled The Rainbow Gang for VHS release in the United States ) and also adapted into a children's recording ( Polydor Records, 1977 ) with Ringo Starr voicing the book's title character, Scouse the Mouse.

The book's central protagonist is a poet and friend of Bobbi Anderson, named James Eric Gardner, who goes by the nickname " Gard ".

" Lowell offered the profits from the book's success, which proved relatively small, to his New York friend Charles Frederick Briggs, despite his own financial needs.

On separate occasions he told his friend Max Brod of two different conditions: K., the book's protagonist, would continue to reside and die in the village ; the castle notifying him on his death bed that his " legal claim to live in the village was not valid, yet, taking certain auxiliary circumstances into account, he was permitted to live and work there ", but then on 11 September 1922 in a letter to Max Brod, he said he was giving up on the book and would never return to it.

Launched as an original Image comic book title by popular X-Men penciler Jim Lee and his friend, writer Brandon Choi, the comic book's premise revolved around the centuries long war between aliens called Kherubim and Daemonites.

His best-known work was a stage adaptation of the 1959 novel Billy Liar ( 1960 ), co-written with the book's author and Hall's lifelong friend and collaborator Keith Waterhouse.

Jimmy Fargo — Peter's best friend, and the book's only regular African-American character.

Sharansky's friend Ron Dermer is the book's co-author.

" He set to work writing his memoirs, The Story of an American Communist, tapping fellow ex-Communist pariah Earl Browder to write the book's introduction.

Kerry's fellow sailors released a point-by-point rebuttal of the claims and stated that " The book's authors don't give Kerry's supporters the space or the credence that they warrant.

In his 2009 review of Roman Catholic priest-scholar Kevin P. Spicer's Hitler's Priests: Catholic Clergy and National Socialism, he praises the book's admirable qualities but criticizes the work for its failure to distinguish between the small minority of " brown priests ", those priests who unequivocally supported the Nazi regime, with those who whom he considers to be " fellow travellers ", i. e. accepting the benefits that came with the Reichskonkordat but who failed to condemn the Nazi regime at the same time.

Following the book's publication, Fuller continued extensive researches into the history of the wartime SOE French networks, interviewing many of the people involved-British and French, as well as Germans-in order to find who was responsible for betraying Noor and her fellow agents.

The following summary of the book's arguments in favour of science does not attempt to reproduce the actual explanations of scientific phenomena ( how DNA works, petwhac, etc.

Shortly after the book's publication, Jack London became a target in what would later be called the nature fakers controversy, a literary debate highlighting the conflict between science and sentiment in popular nature writing.

Most of the chapter titles are named after famous novels and short stories about time travel by other authors, as Varley mentions in the book's " Author's note ": " The time-travel story has a long history in science fiction.

The protagonist of the book's fifth section is Arafa ( عرفة ), who symbolises modern science and, significantly, comes after all prophets, while all of their followers claim Arafa as one of their own.

Many view Osiander's letter as a betrayal of science and Copernicus, and an attempt to pass his own thoughts off as those of the book's author.

Many academic reviewers praised the book's bold argument about the corporate control of science and technology, although some including Alfred Chandler expressed reservations about its forthright Marxist thesis.

In a 2004 interview for IGN, Briggs revealed that science fiction author Ken Grimwood and himself had maintained a brief email correspondence, after Grimwood saw Briggs ' review of " Replay " on the book's Amazon feedback page.

The book's topics are: man's need for religious faith ; the Qur ' an as guidance ; the significant of fasting ; science and faith ; the nature of religious experience ; the meaning of Islam ; science, philosophy and religion ; the Islamic creed ; Islamic rituals ; the social system of Islam ( legislation, the family, characteristics, economic principles, social, and government ); and morality in Islam.

In the 1996 science fiction novel The Truth Machine, the protagonist repeats the poem's opening line in his mind, to exploit a software bug in the book's otherwise infallible lie detector.

In Neal Stephenson's historical fiction novel Quicksilver one of the book's chief figures, Puritan Daniel Waterhouse, appears before an illegally reconstituted Star Chamber tribunal.

Some fictional approaches definitively establish the independence of the parallel world, sometimes by having the world differ from the book's account ; other approaches have works of fiction create and affect the parallel world: L. Sprague de Camp's Solomon's Stone, taking place on an astral plane, is populated by the daydreams of mundane people, and in Rebecca Lickiss's Eccentric Circles, an elf is grateful to Tolkien for transforming elves from dainty little creatures.

The novel has attracted the attention of scholars, including Jay Clayton, who explores the book's attitude toward hacking, as well as its treatment of Babbage and Ada Lovelace ; Herbert Sussman, who demonstrates how the book rewrites Benjamin Disraeli's novel Sybil ; and Brian McHale, who relates it to the postmodern interest in finding a " new way of ' doing ' history in fiction.

Some of the book's attitudes to class and Jews are archaic to modern readers, but consistent with fiction of the period.

* The Genres Project ( novels written in different fiction genres, each book's title refers to the particular genre ):

The book's narrative describes a historical framework which serves as a setting for a number of Resnick's other woks of fiction, including the novels Ivory, A Miracle of Rare Design, and Santiago.

Thus it was described by one character in the book's original draft as " 30 % autobiography, 40 % case history of Pinoy ( Filipino immigrant ) life in America, and 30 % fiction ".

Thus, there is substantial debate regarding the identity of the book's author.

* Extreme values-Data used in the book, An Introduction to the Statistical Modeling of Extreme Values are provided on-line by Stuart Coles, the book's author.

Sue K. Hurwitz said in her review for the School Library Journal that it is " a catalog of Heinlein's sins as an author ; it is sophomoric, sexist, militantly right wing, and excessively verbose ", and comments that the book's ending was " a devastating parody of SF conventions — will have genre addicts rolling on the floor.

The book's author, George L. Kelling, was hired as a consultant to the New York City Transit Authority in 1985, and measures to test the broken windows theory were implemented by David Gunn.

" However, the point upon which a number of critics fail to concur with Burrell's argument is its dismissal of the testimony of the book's author on the matter as " misleading ... publicity efforts ".

The book's introduction states that its author, John, was on Patmos when he was given ( and recorded ) a vision from Jesus.

The book's introduction states that its author, John, was on Patmos when he was given ( and recorded ) a vision from Jesus.

The book's author, Richard Russo, is a native of nearby Gloversville.

According to Fried and Schultis, criteria for a good self-help book include " claims made by the author as to the book's efficacy, the presentation of problem-solving strategies based on scientific evidence and professional experience, the author's credentials and professional experience, and the inclusion of a bibliography.

Book burning can be an act of contempt for the book's contents or author, and the act is intended to draw wider public attention to this opinion.

The latter role was loosely based on a Marine aviator, Colonel Donald Conroy, the father of the book's author Pat Conroy.

The book's author wanted his girlfriend, the actress Trude Hesterberg, to play the lead, but instead Marlene Dietrich was given her first sound role as the " actress " Lola Lola ( named Rosa Fröhlich in the novel ).

" The letter includes a detailed summary of the book's key themes and how the author intended each of the 12 chapters to work, and has been included as an introduction in some editions.

Although author Lauren Weisberger worked as an assistant at Vogue magazine, she denies that the book's antagonist, Miranda Priestly, is modeled after the magazine's editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.

The tape-recorded diaries of William Weston were read by the book's author, Ernest Callenbach.

He claims that now that the reader understands the author's propositions and arguments, the reader has been elevated to the level of understanding of the book's author, and is now able ( and obligated ) to judge the book's merit and accuracy.

For example, the purported author of the Nancy Drew mystery series, " Carolyn Keene ", is actually a pseudonym for a series of ghostwriters who write books in the same style using a template of basic information about the book's characters and their fictional universe ( names, dates, speech patterns ), and about the tone and style that are expected in the book.

Although Rowling has never hidden the fact that she is the author of Fantastic Beasts, " Newt Scamander " can nevertheless be considered a pseudonym of hers, as he is technically the author listed on the book's cover.

" After they returned, Joliet used the name " Miskonsing " on a map that he drew in 1674, and when the news of their voyage was first published in 1681 the book's author, Melchisedec Thevenot, called it the " Mescousin " River.

The book's " authoritative " position is bolstered by the personal image of its author.

The book's author is unknown, but some suggest that it may have been a devout Jew from the Holy Land who may have taken part in the events described in the book.