The novel is still among the most famous of all detective novels: Edmund Wilson alludes to it in the title of his well-known attack on detective fiction, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

The original novel makes mention of the biological components of the androids, but also alludes to the mechanical aspects commonly found in other material relating to robots.

The original novel makes mention of the biological components of the androids, but also alludes to the mechanical aspects commonly found in other material relating to robots.

Beckett also alludes to the comedy team specifically in his novel Watt ( 1953 ), when a healthy shrub is described at one point as " a hardy laurel.

In David Foster Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest, the name of the character Madame Psychosis in a pun that alludes to metempsychosis.

The name of the book alludes to the nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty (" All the king's horses and all the king's men / Couldn't put Humpty together again "), an allusion similar to that made more explicitly a quarter-century earlier in the Robert Penn Warren novel All the King's Men, which describes the career of a fictional governor loosely based on Huey Long.

" The joke alludes to video screens that both reproduce images and monitor the citizenry, as in the novel 1984.

Bob Dylan's song " Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues " alludes to the novel.

In the title of his novel The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann alludes to a passage from The Birth of Tragedy, and the influence of Nietzsche's work can be seen in the novel's character Mynheer Peepercorn, who embodies the " Dionysian principle.

By using various narrators expressing their interpretations, the novel alludes to the historical cultural zeitgeist of Faulkner's South, where the past is always present and constantly in states of revision by the people who tell and retell the story over time ; it thus also explores the process of myth-making and the questioning of truth.

* Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 ( 1961 ) alludes to the poem in the chapter " Havermyer ": " the open-air movie theater in which — for the daily amusement of the dying — ignorant armies clashed by night on a collapsible screen.

" probably alludes to Lolita ; the " Carmen " line is included by Humbert Humbert in his narration of speaking to Dolores Haze near the end of the novel.

In Chapter 1, Poirot alludes to a situation in the 1935 novel, Three Act Tragedy.

As parody of the " loam and lovechild " genre of historical novel, Cold Comfort Farm alludes specifically to a number of novels both in the past and currently in vogue when Gibbons was writing.

Author Stephen King alludes to John Drake's cool in his novel The Shining.

Sienkiewicz alludes to several historical events and merges them in his novel, but some of them are of doubtful authenticity.

American novelist Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. prominently alludes to the sect in his early novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, when the title character claims that he is a member.

Clavell was a proponent of free trade, an ardent individualist and anti-fascist-the novel alludes to these concepts through the often critical depiction of both European traders and hostile Chinese and to a lesser degree, the British Parliament and their trade policies and practices, especially where the opium trade was concerned.

According to Wyndham's novel, the name Triffid alludes to the plant's three leg-like protusions and was originally " trifid ", Latin for " split into three parts ".

The novel alludes extensively to the social upheavals of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The novel also alludes to the rhetoric of revolutionary violence of the radical fringe of the New Left and the Black Panthers, the trial of the leftist African-American activist Angela Davis, and the bombings carried out between 1969 and 1973 by the Weathermen and other radicals opposing the US military intervention in Vietnam.

Spenser alludes to Susan's disappearance in the opening VO to episode 2 of season 2, and covers it completely — in almost the same terms as in the novel Valediction — in the final scene of the episode.

* The bleak, dystopian feel of the action taking place in 1984 alludes to the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, to Bowie's own dystopian song of the same name, and to Bowie's reinvention of himself as a mainstream entertainer during the Reagan and Thatcher era.

Despite the term " oligarchical collectivism " featuring nowhere else in the novel, it alludes to the Party ’ s ideology English Socialism, Ingsoc, in Newspeak.

In our own time we have seen that the novelist's debt to psychoanalysis has increased but that the novel itself has not profited much from this marriage.

Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.

The novel is most noted for its careful description of the dig site and house, which showed the author had spent much of her own time in very similar situations herself.

In the 13th century, Ibn al-Nafis wrote his own novel Fadil ibn Natiq, known as Theologus Autodidactus in the West, as a critical response to Hayy ibn Yaqdhan.

She also wrote the updated introduction to Sagan's book The Cosmic Connection, the epilogue of Billions and Billions, and her own novel, A Famous Broken Heart.

De Palma gravitated toward the project and changed crucial plot elements based upon his own predilections, not the saleability of the novel.

* Tying Falcone up: In the graphic novel Batman ties The Roman in his own house ; in the film, he ties The Roman to a searchlight.

Two decades later, Herbert's son Brian Herbert, along with Kevin J. Anderson, published two sequels – Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ) – based on notes left behind by Frank Herbert for what he referred to as Dune 7, his own planned seventh novel in the Dune series.

Two decades after Frank Herbert's death, his son Brian Herbert, along with Kevin J. Anderson, published two sequels – Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ) – based on notes left behind by Frank Herbert for what he referred to as Dune 7, his own planned seventh novel in the Dune series.

Brin's own novel Sundiver is an example of science fiction proposing a form of life existing within the plasma atmosphere of a star using complex self-sustaining magnetic fields.

The group's keyboardist Rick Wakeman released many concept albums on his own, most notably The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Journey to the Centre of the Earth, which was based on the novel by Jules Verne.

* In Bret Easton Ellis's novel Lunar Park the street on which the character Bret Easton Ellis lives with his own father-son haunting issues is named Helsingør Lane.

The first few chapters of the novel, dealing with the discovery of Erewhon, are in fact based on Butler's own experiences in New Zealand where, as a young man, he worked as a sheep farmer on Mesopotamia Station for about four years ( 1860 – 1864 ) and explored parts of the interior of the South Island of which he wrote about in his A First Year in Canterbury Settlement ( 1863 ).

However, fame was still eluding him, and partly out of desperation, Coppola bought the rights to the David Benedictus novel You're a Big Boy Now and fused it with a story idea of his own, resulting in You're a Big Boy Now ( 1966 ).

Byron features, under the codename of ' Lord Ruthven ', in Lady Caroline's own Gothic novel: Glenarvon ( 1816 ).

The Gothic novel shaped its form for female readers to “ turn to Gothic romances to find support for their own mixed feelings ”.

Each wuxia novel has its own jianghu setting, although in Louis Cha's Condor Trilogy it will be one with continuity ; whereas Gu Long's jianghu would be distinct in every novel.

* Mars Direct is the mission mode used in Gregory Benford's novel, The Martian Race, and in Geoffrey A. Landis's novel Mars Crossing, as well as Zubrin's own novel, First Landing.

In The Prince, the Discourses, and in the Life of Castruccio Castracani, he describes " prophets ," as he calls them, like Moses, Romulus, Cyrus the Great, and Theseus ( he treats pagan and Christian patriarchs in the same way ) as the greatest of new princes, the glorious and brutal founders of the most novel innovations in politics, and men whom Machiavelli assures us have always used a large amount of armed force and murder against their own people.

The screenplay was adapted by cult film director Edward D. Wood, Jr from his own novel.

In the novel a writer's darker pseudonym takes on a life of its own.