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.

The work as it stands is not the entire book that Malraux wrote at that time -- it is only the first section of a three-part novel called La Lutte avec l'Ange ; ;

An example of silicon based life forms takes place in the Alan Dean Foster novel Sentenced to Prism in which the protagonist Evan Orgell is trapped on a planet whose entire ecosystem is mostly silicon-based.

In his novel Diaspora, Greg Egan posits entire virtual universes implemented on Turing Machines encoded by Wang Tiles in gargantuan polysaccharide ' carpets.

Bradbury wrote the entire novel in the basement of UCLA's Powell Library on a pay typewriter that he rented for a fee of ten cents per half an hour.

Several other fictional books were invented by the same author, including an entire bibliography for the fictional author Pierre Menard, as well as an imaginary novel, purportedly written by a Bombay lawyer named Mir Bahadur Ali, entitled " The Approach to Al-Mu ' tasim ," which was " reviewed " by Borges in his story of the same name.

Given a year to complete the work, Gibson undertook the actual writing out of " blind animal terror " at the obligation to write an entire novel – a feat which he felt he was " four or five years away from ".

For its publication King rewrote, edited, and updated the entire novel.

The novel begins 3, 081 years after the events of the first book, by which time the works of The Hive Queen and The Hegemon have caused the human race to let go of its hatred of the Buggers and instead revile Ender as " The Xenocide ", who exterminated an entire species.

The theme of patterns in perception runs through the entire novel.

From Hell was partly inspired by the title of Douglas Adams ' novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, in that it explores the notion that to solve a crime holistically, one would need to solve the entire society in which it occurred.

As an example of viral licensing outside software, after it was revealed that French author Michel Houellebecq plagiarized sections of Wikipedia articles in his novel La Carte et Le Territoire, some commentators said that this automatically made his entire book licensed under the ShareAlike license.

Suspended takes a novel approach in its game mechanics ; rather than being free to move about and interact with the game world directly, the player's character spends the entire game in a state of suspended animation ( hence the title ) and can only interact by controlling the actions of a number of robot surrogates.

This entire matter was a mere footnote to the back-and-forth of religious debate, and was rekindled only when Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses, made headline news.

The entire novel is written without < span lang =" ta "> ஒர ு</ span >, a word that is not possible to avoid in a novel, and there are no punctuation marks in the novel except dots.

According to this book, the entire novel, even its plot, is an open trajectory where even the author himself questions his motives of the writing process.

But the entire novel, meanwhile, paints a poignantly sharp and critical portrait of the suburban American life experienced by the baby-boom generation.

Milan Kundera, in a 2007 article in The New Yorker, wrote: "( Rabelais ) is, along with Cervantes, the founder of an entire art, the art of the novel.

The ship's sinking sets the stage for the entire background of the story, which is based on the subsequent civil war between Matilda ( referred to as Maud in the novel ) and Stephen.

His 1980 novel Headlong, the fictional story of the unexpected death of the entire British royal family in a freak accident in 1930, and the ascension of a most unlikely heir to the British throne as a result, was the loose basis of the 1991 motion picture King Ralph which stars John Goodman, Peter O ' Toole, John Hurt and Camille Coduri.

In these four novels Jerry undergoes transformations, dies, is reborn, spends one entire novel as a shivering wreck, and eventually discovers his true natures.

In 1991 the entire series was published as a graphic novel by Ballantine.

He connects this feeling to William Blake's poem The Tyger, which is quoted piecemeal throughout the entire novel: