The play of novel lighting effects also entered into these compositions, whose controlled power and varied activity made them well worth meditating.

The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.

The commission also approved a novel plan that would eliminate traffic hazards for pedestrians in the project.

Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

He also adapted Kenneth Grahame's novel The Wind in the Willows for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's fictional detective — Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté — who, first appearing in the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose, predates the writing of the first Poirot novel by six years.

Codon – tRNA combinations not found in nature can also be used to " expand " the genetic code and create novel proteins known as " alloproteins " incorporating non-proteinogenic amino acids.

In 1904, he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fantasy Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, an early harbinger of the metaphysical turn his career would take with the theory of Lawsonomy.

* The Abduction ( novel ), 1987, also called Bortførelsen, written in Norwegian by Mette Newth, translated into English by Steven T. Murray and Tiina Nunnally

The poem is quoted by Sue Bridehead in Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel, Jude the Obscure and also by Edward Ashburnham in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier.

The Triumph of Time is also the US title of James Blish's novel A Clash of Cymbals.

Besides the normal print book editions, the novel was also included on a CD-ROM sold by ClariNet Communications along with the other nominees for the 1993 Hugo awards.

An arcology is also depicted in the 1968 futuristic novel " The World Inside ", by Robert Silverberg, where in the year 2381 the human race lives in 1000-storey-high towers, providing everything necessary to the society ( nutrition, energy, entertainment, jobs, etc .).

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.

Stephen King's 1985 novel " The Tommyknockers " also makes reference to Altair 4, as a desolate wasteland.

The line " There's this to say for blood and breath ,/ they give a man a taste for death " supplies the title for Peter O ' Donnell's 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for P. D. James ' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh series.

The Nobel Prize winning novelist Patrick White named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man also after a line in " On Wenlock Edge " and Arthur C. Clarke's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman's More Poems.

Chaplin is also one of the central characters in Glen David Gold's novel Sunnyside, which is set in the World War I period.

* Robert Graves, author of I, Claudius, also wrote Count Belisarius, a historical novel about Belisarius.

Stanisław Lem has also studied the same idea in his novel The Invincible ( 1964 ), in which the crew of a spacecraft landing on a distant planet finds non-biological life-form, which is the product of long, possibly of millions of years of mechanical evolution.

John Sladek used the concept to humorous ends in his first novel The Reproductive System ( 1968, also titled Mechasm in some markets ), where a U. S. military research project goes out of control.

When he finally dies at the end of the novel, the situation report from the frontline states, " All is Quiet on the Western Front ," symbolizing the cheapness of human life in war.

In the essay section of his novel 1985, Anthony Burgess states that Orwell got the idea for Big Brother from advertising billboards for educational correspondence courses from a company called Bennett's, current during World War II.

Although generally called a war novel, the author states that he " see The Time in Between as a war novel ".

In the Rex Stout novel " Counterfeit for Murder " ( found in the < i > Homicide Trinity </ i >), character Hattie Annis states that Nero Wolfe " would do fine for Falstaff.

The most famous of these assertions is by the History Channel in their " True Horror " series ( produced by Hardy Pictures in 2009 ) which states Aldini specifically as one of the sources for Mary Shelley's novel.

The novel unfolds against the backdrop of rebellion wherein seven southern states, Georgia among them, have declared their secession from the United States ( the " Union ") and formed the Confederate States of America ( the " Confederacy "), after Abraham Lincoln was elected president with no ballots from ten Southern states where slavery was legal.

Italian literature's first modern novel, I Promessi Sposi ( The Betrothed ), by Alessandro Manzoni, further defined the standard by " rinsing " his Milanese " in the waters of the Arno " ( Florence's river ), as he states in the Preface to his 1840 edition.

However, by the time of the novel Pastime, Spenser states that his mother died during labor and he was delivered via Caesarian section, i. e. " not of woman born " as Parker has Spenser put it ; he was raised by his father and his two maternal uncles.

In Thrones, Dominations, the last, unfinished novel by Sayers, completed by Jill Paton Walsh, the Author's Note states that Harriet Vane published a monograph on Sheridan Le Fanu in 1946, drawing on this research.

Gilliam has several projects in various states of development, including an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's and Terry Pratchett's comic fantasy novel Good Omens.

The novel states that Typee natives ate an inhabitant of one of the neighboring valleys.

A character in Crichton's novel also states that "… Deinonychus is now considered one of the velociraptors ", indicating that Crichton used Paul's taxonomy, though the " raptors " in the novel are referred to as V. mongoliensis.

This novel also states that April is actually Devon's daughter, but this was never used in the series and is not considered canon )

Karen Traviss ' novel Bloodlines ( 2006 ), published four years after Attack of the Clones release, states that Fett seeded some of these " false " backstories himself.

A specific impetus for the novel was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which imposed heavy fines upon law enforcement personnel in Northern states if they refused to assist the return of people who escaped from slavery.

In 1924, while working as a Reader at the Physics Department of the University of Dhaka, Bose wrote a paper deriving Planck's quantum radiation law without any reference to classical physics by using a novel way of counting states with identical particles.

The novel states that Eliza made this decision because she fears losing her only surviving child ( she had already miscarried two children ).

" Jane Tompkins states that the novel is one of the classics of American literature and wonders if many literary critics aren't dismissing the book because it was simply too popular during its day.

Barrie states in the novel that " Hook was not his true name.