To this end, he compares George Orwell's Coming Up for Air with Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants and concludes that the basic building block and distinguishing feature of a science fiction novel is the presence of the novum, a term Darko Suvin adapts from Ernst Bloch and defines as " a discrete piece of information recognizable as not-true, but also as not-unlike-true, not-flatly-( and in the current state of knowledge ) impossible ".

The film Factotum ( 2005 ) ( by Norwegian director Bent Hamer ) concludes with Matt Dillon ( in the role of Henry Chinaski-an alter ego of Charles Bukowski, who wrote the novel on which the film is based ) having an artistic epiphany whilst watching a stripper in a strip club.

Of lesser note, as academic Jeremy Black points out, although it is American assets that are under threat, it is British power, through the British agent that concludes the issue and a British warship, HMS Narvick, that is sent with British soldiers to the island at the end of the novel.

New York Times reviewer Gerald Jonas praised the novel, saying that " Dick skillfully explores the psychological ramifications of this nightmare ," but concludes that the story's concluding rationalization of its events is " an artistic miscalculation a major flaw in an otherwise superb novel.

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.

" Seymour concludes that " the novel allows us to imagine an adolescent body in synchronic rather than diachronic terms-thereby challenging the ideals of sexuality, gender, and race that normally accrue to such bodies.

The novel concludes with Weston's finding himself enchanted by Ecotopian life and deciding to stay in Ecotopia as its interpreter to the wider world.

The declassified Project Condign report concludes that buoyant charged plasma formations similar to ball lightning are formed by novel physical, electrical, and magnetic phenomena, and that these charged plasmas are capable of being transported at enormous speeds under the influence and balance of electrical charges in the atmosphere.

Sybil bears this divided-loyalty with some grace ; however, nearly every Watch novel concludes with Sam making some form of amends to his neglected wife, either a delayed honeymoon, or simply time alone with their new baby.

The novel concludes with Julius and Jane as well as Tommy and Tuppence joining in matrimony.

This concludes the second novel, with the trilogy concluding in the next book, The Amber Spyglass.

The film's new climax involves a superpower confrontation between Soviet paratroopers and the American marines at Ice Station Zebra itself, but concludes on a much more ambiguous note than the novel, reflecting the perceived thaw in the Cold War following the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The novel concludes at Ilyusha's funeral, where Ilyusha's schoolboy friends listen to Alyosha's " Speech by the Stone.

The novel concludes with these words: " It is perhaps between hope and memory, in the atomized, atomic lands once Aurangzeb's empire, that our poets tell us Darashikoh, the apostate, called out to God as he died.

Bakhtin concludes by arguing that the role of the novel is to draw the authoritative into question, and to allow that which was once considered certain to be conflicted and open to interpretation.

The novel concludes with Moulton enlightening Sadler and the reader as to the brilliant technical subterfuge with which he transmitted information, namely that he used the observatory's main telescope as a transmitter by placing a modulated ultra-violet source at its prime focus.

The novel concludes with a change in narrative style, with Kerouac working alone as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak ( adjacent to Hozomeen Mountain ), in what would soon be declared North Cascades National Park ( see also Desolation Angels ).

" The novel concludes with the world on the verge of a long struggle between the " little people " and the Children of the Food, whose ultimate victory is perhaps suggested by the novel's final image: " For one instant son of Cossar shone, looking up fearlessly into the starry deeps, mail-clad, young and strong, resolute and still.

The novel concludes on a note of hopefulness for the future.

The novel concludes with an appendix explaining the meaning of each major character's name.

The novel concludes on a note of guarded optimism.

All stories but the last are interrupted at some moment, and after the sixth story concludes at the center of the book, the novel " goes back " in time, " closing " each story as the book progresses in terms of pages but regresses in terms of the historical period in which the action takes place.

Like Ned he is also shot, but even in his death his efforts help bring the people together when as the novel ’ s concludes, Miss Jane and other residents of Samson go onto Bayonne to protest even without Jimmy.

Alexander I has been depicted in a fantasy novel.

Alexander II has been depicted in a historical novel.

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

The novel covers the entire reign of Alexander III ( 1249 – 1286 ), " almost entirely from Alexander's viewpoint ".

A crime fiction novel where Hugh Corbett investigates the " mysterious death " of Alexander III ( 1286 ).

This novel is the first of a series of novels primarily about the life and times of Robert the Bruce however it covers Alexander III and the circumstances surrounding his death in some detail.

Daniel Kehlmann's 2005 novel Die Vermessung der Welt, translated into English as Measuring the World ( 2006 ), explores Gauss's life and work through a lens of historical fiction, contrasting them with those of the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt.

Academic Alexander Welsh notes that Great Expectations is an " autobiographical novel " and " anticipates psychoanalytic readings of Hamlet itself ".

* The Hosts of Rebecca, a 1960 novel by Alexander Cordell about the Rebecca Riots

The islands are mainly known for having been the home to the marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk for four years, which may have inspired the novel Robinson Crusoe.

Introduced fauna by humans include rats and goats, which castaway Alexander Selkirk survived on during his four year stay from 1705 to 1709 ; his travails provided the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.

La Malinche is the main protagonist in such works as the novel Feathered Serpent: A Novel of the Mexican Conquest by Colin Falconer, and The Golden Princess by Alexander Baron.

Miyazaki's most famous television work was his direction of Future Boy Conan ( 1978 ), an adaptation of the children's novel The Incredible Tide by Alexander Key.

In 1836 Alexander Veltman published Predki Kalimerosa: Aleksandr Filippovich Makedonskii ( The forebears of Kalimeros: Alexander, son of Philip of Macedon ), which has been called the first original Russian science fiction novel and the first novel to use time travel.

One of his first efforts was the 1977 Die Konsequenz, a b / w 16 mm adaptation of Alexander Ziegler's autobiographical novel of homosexual love, a movie considered " one of the best ` 70s gay dramas ".

Heinold's was the place where London met Alexander McLean, a captain known for his cruelty at sea, whom the protagonist in London's novel The Sea-Wolf, Wolf Larsen, is based.

* Esmeralda, opera by Alexander Dargomyzhsky ( 1847 ) based on the Victor Hugo novel.

* David Gemmell, Lion of the Macedon, a fantasy novel about General Parmenion / Parmenio / Parmenios and his interaction with the young king of Macedon, ultimately resulting in the birth of Alexander.

* David Gemmell, The Dark Prince, a fantasy novel continuing General Parmenion's interaction with Alexander and Philip.

* Alexander A. Parker: Literature and the delinquent: The picaresque novel in Spain and Europe, 1599-1753.

They are famous for their lobster and the fact that one of the islands, Robinson Crusoe Island, is where Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel, was marooned for about four years.