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

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.

' The sentient ocean that covers much of the surface of Solaris in Stanislaw Lem's eponymous novel also seems, from much of the fictional research quoted and discussed in the book, to be based on some element other than carbon.

Defoe's next novel was Captain Singleton ( 1720 ), a bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy.

The latter novel covers events to 1093, ending with Malcolm's death.

In Dorothy L. Sayers's novel Gaudy Night, set in 1935, the main character Harriet Vane, a crime fiction writer, covers her investigation on a mystery case at her fictional Oxford college, Shrewsbury, with research on Sheridan Le Fanu.

In the David Weber science fiction novel Honor Among Enemies, main character Honor Harrington mentions that her uncle is a member of the SCA and that he taught her to shoot from the hip ( the time the SCA covers having been moved up to the 19th century in the future era in which the novel is set, to include cowboy and Civil War reenactors ).

The novel covers the years 1945 to 1955, and also provides the back story of Vito Corleone from early childhood to adulthood.

It covers the years 1955 to 1962, as well as providing significant backstory for Michael Corleone's character prior to the events of the first novel.

The now out of print novel covers his supposed escape from the tower mixing fiction with factual names and events.

* University of Virginia Web site " Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: A Multi-Media Archive "— edited by Stephen Railton, covers 1830 to 1930, offering links to primary and bibliographic sources on the cultural background, various editions, and public reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel.

* The 1983 historical novel Dream West by western writer David Nevin covers the life, loves and times of Frémont.

* Keith Birdsong, illustrator known for his Star Trek novel covers

The novel covers events from 1396 to 1402, depicting " Scottish Clan feuds " and other disturbances in Robert III's reign.

The novel covers events from 1440 to 1452.

The novel covers their travels to foreign courts, including those of young Henry VI of England and René of Anjou.

" The novel faithfully covers Lawrence's life up to 1938 and takes it beyond, after her " supposed " suicide.

The 1939 film adaptation of the novel The Four Feathers is set in the time of this battle, and covers other aspects of the Sudan Campaign.

* Brian Aldiss, in his novel Hothouse, describes a future Earth where a single huge banyan covers half of the globe, because individual trees discover the ability to join together, as well as drop adventitious roots.

The novel covers great spans of time.

He is the hero of Luigi Gabotto's 1968 novel Corrado di Monferrato, which covers his whole career.

A fourth WWII novel, titled The Final Storm, covers the end of the war in the Pacific, and was released on May 17, 2011.

The fourth book, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, covers pixie Opal Koboi's second attempt at world domination, after her first unfruitful attempt in the second novel.

Though the novel is sparse in style, it covers a number of topics: personal shame, the subjugation of women, a changing country, animal rights, and romantic poetry and its symbolism.

For example, the novel Ramage and the Rebels, by Dudley Pope is set in approximately 1800.

* In the 2008 novel Kobayashi Maru by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels, Admiral Valdore attempts once again to cause conflict in the region approximately one year after the incident involving the Aenar, this time using " Telecapture ", designed to take over and control enemy ships.

Assuming Chavez was approximately 10 years old in 1979, that places the events of Debt of Honor to be in or near 2000, although the overall technology presented in the novel and its successive novels Executive Orders and Rainbow Six ( especially in regards to the sophistication of internet technology ) are more consistent with the mid-1990's.

The series is set in the same universe as Asimov's first published novel, Pebble in the Sky, although Foundation takes place approximately ten thousand years later.

Novelist Kevin J. Anderson presents approximately the last Earth year before Krypton's destruction in the novel The Last Days of Krypton.

At approximately the same time, Charles Darwin developed a general framework for comprehending any process whereby small, random variations could accumulate and predominate over time into large-scale changes that resulted in the emergence of wholly novel forms (" speciation ").

The rest of the novel tells of his flight, which lasts for approximately a year and which takes him through the complex and variegated world of Trantor.

The Saturday Evening Post paid her $ 30, 000 in 1938 ( approximately $ 450, 000 in 2010 dollars ) to serialize her best-selling novel Free Land, while Let the Hurricane Roar saw an increasing and steady sale, augmented by a radio dramatization starring Helen Hayes.

The Corrinos come to power after mankind's victory against the thinking machines at the Battle of Corrin ( from which they take their name ), and rule until deposed by Paul Atreides approximately 10, 000 years later during the events of the novel Dune ( 1965 ).

When the novel was originally published in 1978, Doubleday believed the readers would be averse to such a long book, and The Stand would be a bigger seller if it was much shorter, and Stephen King cut approximately 400 pages ( around 150, 000 words ) from the original manuscript.

At the period of the novel a polis citizen's mind can operate at a maximum speed of about eight hundred times that of a flesher's mind, so 1 tau equals approximately 1 / 800 sec.

In 2009, science-fiction author Gregory Keyes released The Infernal City, a novel set approximately 40 years after the Oblivion crisis.

In the novel, much of which was originally published in serial form in Astounding Science Fiction magazine, hidden throughout a future America of 1972 are a group of incredibly gifted children — all approximately the same age, all preternaturally intelligent, and all hiding their incredible abilities from a world they know will not understand them.

( approximately 25, 066 AD ), as told in the novel Foundation and Earth, Solaria was visited by Golan Trevize, Janov Pelorat and Blissenobiarella.

As one example, in the first novel of the series the monolith Idaquizzoorhruz is quoted as being 30, 000 feet ( approximately 10 km ) tall, while in the third novel it is stated as being 100, 000 feet ( approximately 33 km ) tall.

At the start of the first novel in the series, Finnegan has lived on the World of Tiers for approximately twenty-four years.

Clarke had assumed that the new version would simply supplant the earlier, but in fact a large number of readers preferred the earlier novel, and thus, rather unusually, both versions of the novel are in circulation with approximately equal popularity.

Random House abridged the novel into an audiobook read by Keith Szarabajka, which ran approximately three hours.

There are many similarities with Joyce's Ulysses: the linguistic rhythms and wordplay, the Symbolist and subtle political concerns which structure the themes of the novel, the setting of the action in a capital city that is itself a character, the use of humor, and the fact that the main plot of the novel spans approximately twenty-four hours.