His 1965 novel, The Corridors of Time, alternates between the European Stone Age and a repressive future.

Welsh's third book ( and second novel ), Marabou Stork Nightmares, alternates between a typically grim tale of thugs and schemes in sub-working class Scotland and a hallucinatory adventure tale set in South Africa.

* Amita Kanekar's A Spoke in the Wheel is a novel about the Buddha and his disciples, that alternates between the time of the Buddha, i. e. about 566 BCE, and the time of Ashoka the Great, i. e. about 250 BCE.

The narrative voice for the novel alternates between the third person and the first person, the latter in the form of a diary kept by Dr. Theodore " Theo " Faron, an Oxford don.

The tale of an AWOL soldier and his pregnant girlfriend, between whose perspectives the narrative alternates, the novel attracted critical praise: The Guardian called it " sharply and poignantly written ... makes for an intense one-sitting read ".

The novel alternates between non-linear " Two " and linear " One " chapters.

The novel alternates between the present and flashbacks featuring the points of view of Tony, Charis, and Roz, respectively.

Vonnegut described the novel as a " stew ", in which he alternates between summarizing a novel he had been struggling with for a number of years, and waxing nostalgic about various events in his life.

The novel Dreaming in Cuban, by Cristina García, alternates between third person limited and first person depending on the generation of the speaker ; the grandchildren recount events in first person while the parents and grandparent are shown in third person limited.

The novel alternates between flashbacks from the past and scenes from the present.

However, when forced to choose between Poirot and his wife in that novel, he initially chooses to betray Poirot to the Big Four so that they would not torture and kill his wife.

The novel depicts the friendship between Alexander II and Patrick II, Earl of Dunbar.

In Robert L. Forward's novel Timemaster, the wormhole is a living organism resembling a fourth-dimensional sea anemone, " stretched " to cover the distance between a spaceship and a satellite on the home planet.

* In the Joe Haldeman novel The Forever War much of the action between William Mandella's first and second deployments occurs in an arcology.

Ballard's 1975 novel High Rise featured a luxury arcology in which disparity between social classes among the residents eventually led to widespread anarchy and a reversion to primitive archetypes.

* Kurtis Scaletta's 2009 children's novel, Mudville is about a town where it's been raining for 22 years, delaying a baseball game between two rival towns.

The contrasts between the tall, thin, fancy-struck, and idealistic Quixote and the fat, squat, world-weary Panza is a motif echoed ever since the book ’ s publication, and Don Quixote's imaginings are the butt of outrageous and cruel practical jokes in the novel.

It stands in a unique position between medieval chivalric romance and the modern novel.

The experimenters then present the subject rat with a decision between two food options ; the food previously eaten by the demonstrator, and a novel food.

Because these paired books had to fit a fixed total page length, one or both were usually abridged to fit, and Wollheim often made other editorial alterations — as witness the differences between Poul Anderson's Ace novel War of the Wing-Men and its definitive revised edition, The Man Who Counts.

* Fyodor Dostoevsky used the epistolary format for his first novel, Poor Folk ( 1846 ), as a series of letters between two friends, struggling to cope with their impoverished circumstances and life in pre-revolution Russia.

Their main purpose in the novel is to show the reader the contrast between the firemen who do as they're told without question and someone like Montag, who formerly took pride in his job, but now realizes how damaging it is to society.

Some authors believe that Bacon's vision for a Utopian New World in North America was laid out in his novel New Atlantis, which depicts a mythical island, Bensalem, located somewhere between Peru and Japan.

In the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Ancestor Cell by Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, Gallifrey is destroyed as a result of the Eighth Doctor's desire to prevent the voodoo cult Faction Paradox from starting a war between the Time Lords and an unnamed Enemy.

Despite the fact that Brite's first novel was criticized by some mainstream sources for allegedly " lack a moral center: neither terrifyingly malevolent supernatural creatures nor ( like Anne Rice's protagonists ) tortured souls torn between good and evil, these vampires simply add blood-drinking to the amoral panoply of drug abuse, problem drinking and empty sex practiced by their human counterparts ", many of these so-called " human counterparts " identified with the teen angst and goth music references therein, keeping the book in print.

One difference between the film and the novel is the staircase scene in which Rhett carries Scarlett up the stairs.

Admiring of Radiguet's great literary talent, Cocteau promoted his friend's works in his artistic circle and arranged for the publication by Grasset of Le Diable au corps ( a largely autobiographical story of an adulterous relationship between a married woman and a younger man ), exerting his influence to have the novel awarded the " Nouveau Monde " literary prize.

The novel focuses on the relationship between Whale and a fictional gardener named Clayton Boone.

A novel published in 2006 by Laura Esquivel casts the Nahua, Malinalli, as one of history's pawns who becomes Malinche ( the novel's title ) a woman " trapped between the Mexican civilization and the invading Spaniards, and unveils a literary view of the legendary love affair ".

Orhan Pamuk's historical novel Benim Adım Kırmızı ( My Name is Red, 1998 ) takes place at the court of Murad III, during nine snowy winter days of 1591, which the writer uses in order to convey the tension between East and West.

This novel is notable for the switching of viewpoints between its two protagonists as part of the structure of a given scene.

* Every episode of James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses ( 1922 ) has an assigned theme, technique and correspondences between its characters and those of Homer's Odyssey.

Some reviewers have identified similarities between the style and narrative of the 2003 Korean film Natural City and Dick's novel, as well as Blade Runner.

They continue the story of Rick Deckard and attempt to resolve many of the differences between the novel and the film.

It is one of the few lyrical episodes in the novel: " hey saw the sea spread out before them, a gently heaving expanse of deep-piled velvet, supple and sleek as a creature of the wild.

Seven episodes were remade for BBC Radio 2 and the series also inspired a novel.

Whilst greed is a recurring theme in the novel, with many of the episodes stemming from one or more of the characters ' simple desire for food ( be it trolls eating dwarves or dwarves eating Wood-elf fare ) or a desire for beautiful objects, such as gold and jewels, it is only by the Arkenstone's influence upon Thorin that greed, and its attendant vices " coveting " and " malignancy ", come fully to the fore in the story and provide the moral crux of the tale.

Most of acts one and four follow the novel, piecing together episodes from various chapters.

BBC Radio broadcast an adaptation of the novel by Stephen Wyatt in 2004 starring Emma Fielding as Becky, Stephen Fry as the Narrator, Katy Cavanaugh as Amelia, David Calder, Philip Fox, Jon Glover, Geoffrey Whitehead as Mr. Osbourne, Ian Marsters as Mr. Sedley, Alice Hart as Maria Osbourne and Margaret Tyzack as Miss Crawley ( subsequently re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7, renamed BBC Radio 4 Extra, in twenty fifteen-minute episodes ).

* 2010: The Congo River is a central element in the 2010 novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, El sueño del celta ( The Dream of the Celt ), a fictionalisation of episodes in the life of the Irishman Roger Casement.

Hilton's novel was adapted for BBC Radio 4 in three hour-long episodes under its Classic Serial banner:

Colm Tóibín used an extensive list of biographies of Henry James and his family for his widely admired 2004 novel, The Master, which is a third person narrative with James as the central character, and deals with specific episodes from his life during the period between 1895 and 1899.

" satire of Thatcherite amorality and greed ," the novel relates a series of black comedic episodes as Self flies back and forth across the Atlantic, in crass and seemingly chaotic pursuit of personal and professional success.

The story of Chatterton had inspired one of the three episodes of Vigny's luminous philosophical novel Stello ( 1832 ), in which Vigny examines the relation of poetry to society and concludes that the poet, doomed to be regarded with suspicion in every social order, must remain somewhat aloof and apart from the social order.

The case served as inspiration for numerous works, including Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son, Tom Kalin's 1992 film Swoon, Michael Haneke's 1997 film Funny Games ( and an American shot-for-shot remake in 2008 ); Barbet Schroeder's Murder by Numbers ( 2002 ); Stephen Dolginoff's 2005 Off-Broadway musical Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story ; and various TV episodes ( including on Law & Order SVU ).

The Observatory is the site of several episodes in the novel Boneland, by Alan Garner ( 2012 ), and the central character, Colin Whisterfield, is an astrophysicist on its staff.

Joyce's novel presented the action with numbered " episodes " rather than named chapters.

The four parts of the novel relate many of the same episodes, each from a different point of view and therefore with emphasis on different themes and events.

The initial novel was followed by a second, ongoing novels series, Banner of the Stars ( currently 4 volumes, aka Seikai no Senki ), which was adapted into three sequel series to the anime — Banner of the Stars ( 13 episodes, aka Seikai no Senki ), Banner of the Stars II ( 10 episodes, aka Seikai no Senki II ) and both adapting the second novel, two recap movies — Crest of the Stars Special Edition and Banner of the Stars Special Edition, and an OVA Crest of the Stars Lost Chapter ( aka Seikai no Danshō ).

The digital radio station BBC 7 broadcast ( now BBC Radio 4 Extra ) an abridged version of the novel, voiced by Lorelei King, in five 30-minute episodes in February and October 2007.

Cristopher L. Bennetts novel Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: Watching the Clock establishes that a lot of other time travel related events occurring in the 22nd, 23rd and 24th century during the events of several Star Trek episodes and films are in fact more or less related to the Temporal Cold War.

The novel tries to rectify most of the inconsistencies in the time travel related episodes of Star Trek.

Therefore almost every one of these episodes is ( at least indirectly ) mentioned in the novel and put into a context within the events of the Temporal Cold War.

Although the narrative voice is omniscient, it is loosely grounded in Rahel's perspective, and all of the episodes of the novel progress towards the key moments in Rahel's life.

Additional stories in the cycle include the novel Malafrena ( 1979 ), set in the Orsinia of the 1820s ; the Borges-like story " Two Delays on the Northern Line " ( 1979, anthologized in The Compass Rose 1982 ), containing two tangentially linked episodes of uncertain date ; and " Unlocking the Air " ( 1990, anthologized in Unlocking the Air and Other Stories 1996 ).