The novel explores life in an imagined future world where a totalitarian government has achieved terrifying levels of power and control.

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.

* In the novel Simulacron-3 the author Daniel F. Galouye explores multiple levels of " reality " represented by the multiple levels of computer simulation involved.

The novel also explores the motive of doppelgänger, the term which was coined by another German author ( and supporter of Hoffmann ) Jean Paul in his humorous novel Siebenkäs ( 1796-1797 ).

Sterne inserts sermons, essays and legal documents into the pages of his novel ; and he explores the limits of typography and print design by including marbled pages and, most famously, an entirely black page within the narrative.

* The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch, a 1994 graphic novel by writer Neil Gaiman and artist Dave McKean, explores a boy's memories triggered by a Punch and Judy show.

In connection with Deckard's mission, the novel explores the issue of what it is to be human.

Others are connected only by theme: for example, each film of Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colors trilogy explores one of the political ideals of the French Republic ( liberty, equality, fraternity ) and each novel in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy uses formats from detective fiction to explore existential questions.

Described as a " sonic novel ", the album explores Amos's alter ego, Scarlet, intertwined with her cross-country concert tour following 9 / 11.

In The Left Hand of Darkness, for example, she implicitly explores social, cultural, and personal consequences of sexual identity through a novel involving a human encounter with an unpredictably androgynous race.

This novel is a continuation of the story that ends in a cliffhanger in The Vampire Lestat and explores the rich history and mythology of the origin of the vampires, which dates back to Ancient Egypt.

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.

* Charlotte Brontë's novel Shirley ( 1849 ), set during the Napoleonic Wars, explores some of the economic effects of war on rural Yorkshire.

The 2008 interquel novel Paul of Dune explores both Paul's childhood before Dune and his life between the novels Dune and Dune Messiah.

Set in the 19th century, it explores the events which follow the accidental capture of a group of English children by pirates: the children are revealed as considerably more amoral than the pirates ( it was in this novel that Hughes first described the cocktail Hangman's Blood ).

The novel explores the existence of God, the nature of truth, and the importance of forgiveness through the actions of its characters.

The novel Imzadi takes place before the beginning of the series and explores the history of the relationship between the two characters.

This darker, slower-paced, apocalyptic novel explores the pre-and post-war lives of some of the major characters in Catch-22, with particular emphasis on the relationship between Yossarian and tailgunner Sammy Singer.

His novel explores themes including civilisation versus nature, the psychology of solitude as well as death and sexuality in a retelling of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe story.

* Chasing Crusoe, multimedia documentary explores the novel and real life history of Selkirk.

* Kirby Larson's young adult novel, Hattie Big Sky, explores one woman's attempts to " improve " on her family's homestead before the deadline to retain her rights.

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.

Mary Shelley's novel, though clearly influenced by the Gothic tradition, is often considered the first science fiction novel, despite the omission in the novel of any scientific explanation of the monster's animation and the focus instead on the moral issues and consequences of such a creation.

The publicity Hall received was due to unintended consequences ; the novel was tried for obscenity in London, a spectacularly scandalous event described as " the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian subculture " by professor Laura Doan.

Both are referenced in the novel as examples, in Nixon's case, of a failed attempt by organized crime to suborn the Presidency, and in the second, of the consequences of working against multinational commercial interests.

The film is a period piece adapted from Theodor Fontane's classic novel of 1894, concerning the consequences of betrayed love.

Some researchers believe that creativity is the outcome of the same cognitive processes as intelligence, and is only judged as creativity in terms of its consequences, i. e. when the outcome of cognitive processes happens to produce something novel, a view which Perkins has termed the " nothing special " hypothesis.

In many ways a sequel to the first novel in the cycle, La Fortune des Rougon ( 1871 ), this novel is again centred on the fictional Provençal town of Plassans and its plot revolves around a sinister cleric's attempt at political intrigue with disastrous consequences for some of the townsfolk.

So much so that the European novel of the latter part of the 19th century depicted the " prison " in which the wife was confined and the tragic consequences: Anna Karenina suicides, Tess of the d ' Urbervilles is executed for murder and Irene Forsyte only escapes from her unhappiness after her distracted lover is killed.

The Woman Who Did ( 1895 ) is a novel by Grant Allen about a young, self-assured middle-class woman who defies convention as a matter of principle and who is fully prepared to suffer the consequences of her actions.

The novel explores the social consequences of an information technology revolution in the nineteenth century, such as the emergence of " clackers " ( a reference to hackers ), technologically proficient people, such as Théophile Gautier, who are skilled at programming the Engines through the use of punch-cards.

" This refers to the theme of the novel in which the authority figures consistently abuse their powers, leaving the consequences to those under their command.

Within a detective fiction framework, the novel explores the consequences of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics ( or rather of its consciousness causes collapse variant ), which Egan acknowledges was chosen more for its entertainment value than for its likelihood of being correct.

He comes from a family of gypsies, like in the novel, but in a dramatic change, his mother does not abandon him, but she is rather killed by Judge Claude Frollo, who leaves Quasimodo alive in the belltower when the Archdeacon of Notre Dame condemns him for chasing Quasimodo's mother to her death on the steps of Notre Dame, warning of the consequences if he kills the infant under the " eyes of Notre Dame ".

This freedom from consequences allows for the mutation of novel genes that could potentially increase the fitness of the organism or code for a new function.

" It is a rather existentialist novel, as Isabel is very committed to living with the consequences of her choice with integrity but also a sort of stubbornness.

It is the third novel to feature Johnny Maxwell and his friends, and deals with the rules and consequences of time travel.

", the novel is clearly finished at present: the present tense of the verb " to have " indicates that the consequences -- the state of being an author with a completed novel — are in the present tense, even though the authorship is in the past tense.

The High Crusade is a science fiction novel by Poul Anderson about the consequences of an extraterrestrial scoutship landing in Medieval England.

John Irving's third and perhaps darkest novel, The 158-Pound Marriage examines the sexual revolution-era trend of ' swinging ' ( partner-swapping ) via a glimpse into the lives of two couples in a small New England college town who enter casually into such an affair, with disastrous consequences.

Other, more considerate members of the squadron suffer ignominious or horrible fates while he — merely oblivious and inconsiderate for most of the novel — faces no negative consequences even when his self-absorption drives him to murder.