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

The novel depicts the " Norse invasion of Scotland " ( 1262 – 1263, part of the Scottish – Norwegian War ) and the Battle of Largs.

The novel Coalescent by Stephen Baxter depicts Aurelianus as a general to Artorius, Briton and basis for the legend of King Arthur.

The 1888 novel Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy depicts a fictional planned economy in a United States c. the year 2000 which has become a socialist utopia.

She is assumed to have been the inspiration for his novel about a nun, La Religieuse, in which he depicts a woman who is forced to enter a monastery where she suffers at the hands of the other nuns in the community.

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.

Michael Moorcock's fantasy novel The War Hound and the World's Pain depicts a supernatural Grail quest set in the era of the Thirty Years ' War, and science fiction has taken the Quest into interstellar space, figuratively in Samuel R. Delany's 1968 novel Nova, and literally on the television shows Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1 ( as the " Sangraal ").

The Painted Bird, Kosiński's controversial 1965 novel, is a fictional account that depicts the personal experiences of a boy of unknown religious and ethnic background who wanders around unidentified areas of Eastern Europe during World War II and takes refuge among a series of people, many of whom are brutally cruel and abusive, either to him or to others.

* The 2003 novel Fox at the Front by Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson depicts Philby selling secrets to the Soviet Union during the alternate Battle of the Bulge where German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel turns on the Nazis and assists the Allies in capturing all of Berlin.

Edgar Saltus's historical fiction novel Mary Magdalene: A Chronicle ( 1891 ) depicts her as a heroine living in a castle at Magdala, who moves to Rome becoming the " toast of the tetrarchy ", telling John The Baptist she will " drink pearls ... sup on peacock's tongues.

Paperwork included with the model kit indicated the ship was mothballed at the Memory Alpha ship museum, and William Shatner's novel set in the Shatnerverse The Ashes of Eden ( 1996 ) depicts the Enterprise-A's removal from the mothball fleet before being destroyed defending the planet Chal.

* Outside the genre of science fiction, 1994's Disclosure, starring Michael Douglas ( based on the Michael Crichton's novel ) depicts a VR headset being used as a navigation device for a prototype computer file system.

The novel Queen of the Slayers ( 2005 ) by Nancy Holder offers a potential follow-up to the television series ; set after season seven, it depicts Buffy living in Italy with the morally ambiguous Immortal.

" Early in the novel, Amerigo Bonasera declares “ I believe in America .” The novel then depicts a nation where Mafia and big business are two sides of the same coin: both are corrupt, tell the truth selectively, and do exactly as they wish.

The novel depicts a world where genetic selection for increased health, longevity, and intelligence has become so widespread that the unmodified ' control naturals ' are a carefully managed ( and protected ) minority.

Rosemary Sutcliff's 1976 historical fiction novel Blood Feud depicts Basil II from the point of view of a member of his recently created Varangian Guard.

A novel about nineteenth-century Canadian farmers by Louis Hemon, entitled Maria Chapdelaine, depicts pea soup as common farmhouse fare:

* Ray Bradbury's novel The Martian Chronicles depicts Martians as a refined and artistic race of golden-skinned beings who closely resemble humans.

* Rebecca Bloomer's novel ' Unearthed ' ( 2011 ), the first in a series, depicts a futuristic human colony on Mars.

The novel mainly depicts Northumberland in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII of England.

In his later novel Anathem, Stephenson more explicitly depicts this idea.

The novel Ella Minnow Pea depicts a fictional country set off of the South Carolina coast that idealizes the " Quick Brown Fox " pangram and its inventor.

* The 2007 film The Last Legion, and the novel on which it is based, includes a heavily fictionalized account of the reign and subsequent life of Romulus Augustus ; escaping captivity with the aid of a small band of loyal Romans, he escapes to Britain, where he takes a place in what will become Arthurian legend as Uther Pendragon, the father of King Arthur, and a previous wielder of Excalibur ( Here the sword of Julius Caesar ).

* The novel Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones, is a version of Tam Lin in which Tam Lin's captivity lasts into the 20th century.

The second part of the novel is narrated by Miranda in the form of fragments from a diary that she keeps during her captivity.

An account of Cem's captivity — and of the political machinations that kept him captive — forms the basis of the historical novel, Francesca: Les Jeux du Sort ( 1872 ), written by the Haitian writer and political exile, Demesvar Delorme.

* The Virgin New Adventures novel Blood Heat features an alternate universe where the Doctor died in captivity during the events of this serial and Earth was subsequently conquered by the Silurians.

Eclectus Parrots are generally calm birds in captivity, displaying a pensive nature when faced with novel items or situations, which may give rise to the mistaken impression that the species is ' dull-witted '.

* Heidnik's methods of captivity and torture were used for inspiration in Dan Wells ' young adult thriller novel Mr. Monster.

In this novel, a killer keeps his victims locked in the basement or put into " the hole " for extra punishment, which is a dug-out hole in the floor ( partially filled with soiled water ) where a victim is kept, covered with boards and water barrels to ensure captivity.

Of straight dramas, there are All The Way Home, which owes much of its poetic power to the James Agee novel, A Death In The Family ; ;

Cuarón's feature, Children of Men, an adaptation of the P. D. James novel starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine, received wide critical acclaim, including three Academy Award nominations.

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

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 2009 novel Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy takes its title from Housman's poem " Reveille ", and a line from Housman's poem XVI " How Clear, How Lovely Bright ", was used for the title of the last Inspector Morse book The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter.

NASA's Advanced Automation for Space Missions study directly inspired the science fiction novel Code of the Lifemaker ( 1983 ) by author James P. Hogan.

The concept of reversed chirality also figured prominently in the plot of James Blish's Star Trek novel Spock Must Die !, where a transporter experiment gone awry ends up creating a duplicate Spock who turns out to be a perfect mirror-image of the original all the way down to the atomic level.

* " The Cyclops ", an episode of James Joyce's novel Ulysses

* Hawaii, 1966 ( based on the novel by James Michener, 1959 )

* 1933 – U. S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.

* 1914 – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, is serialised in The Egoist.

* Eve ( novel ), a novel by James Hadley Chase

The founder of the epistolary novel in English is said by many to be James Howell ( 1594 – 1666 ) with " Familiar Letters ", who writes of prison, foreign adventure, and the love of women.

An even earlier work was James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel, The Spy, written in 1821, about an American spy in New York during the Revolutionary War.

The primary literary influence on film noir was the hardboiled school of American detective and crime fiction, led in its early years by such writers as Dashiell Hammett ( whose first novel, Red Harvest, was published in 1929 ) and James M. Cain ( whose The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared five years later ), and popularized in pulp magazines such as Black Mask.

* How Is This Going to Continue ?, a novel by James Chapman, presents itself as the libretto to a musical work by a composer whose ( fictional ) entry in The Grove Dictionary of Music is quoted at length.

* In David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest, Lang is mentioned in tandem with James Cameron on page 48.

* In his novel Ulysses, James Joyce mentions the bird while the novel's main character is drifting into sleep.

* Galatea, a 1953 novel by James M. Cain

The Innocents ( Jack Clayton, 1961 ) based on the Henry James novel The Turn of the Screw and The Haunting ( Robert Wise, 1963 ) are two such horror-of-the-demonic films from the early 1960s, both made in the UK by American studios.

A darker image of the hillbilly is found in the film Deliverance ( 1972 ), based on a novel by James Dickey, which depicted the hillbilly as genetically deficient and murderous.

* 1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses ; this date is now traditionally called " Bloomsday ".

Directed by John Schlesinger and based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy, the film struck a chord with critics and audiences.

Directed by John Boorman, from a script that poet James Dickey had helped to adapt from his novel of the same name, it tells the story of a canoe trip gone awry in a feral, backwoods America.