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The novel features scenes and events including the discovery of a near-dead alien in the desert, who clearly says in English, " I'm sorry, but there is bad news ," and this alien's subsequent interrogation and autopsy ; the discovery of an artificial geological formation and its subsequent nuclear destruction by a desperate military ; and the Earth's eventual destruction by the mutual annihilation of a piece of neutronium and a piece of antineutronium dropped into Earth's core.
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novel and features
' This novel features sorcerers who become destroyed by forbidden knowledge and takes place in the Warhammer 40, 000 setting, itself utilizing Lovecraftian themes.
Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything – the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series – features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's novel Oath of Fealty features an arcology.
* William Hope Hodgson's 1912 novel The Night Land features the first example of what we now would call an arcology, though the future Earthlings depicted — millions of years into the future, in fact — have different reasons for building their metallic pyramid.
Diana Paxson's novel Brisingamen features Freyja and her bracelet.
Freyja's necklace Brisingamen features prominently in Betsy Tobin's novel Iceland, where the necklace is seen to have significant protective powers.
* The epistolary novel Ides of March by Thornton Wilder centers on Julius Caesar, but prominently features Catullus, his poetry, his relationship ( and correspondence ) with Clodia, correspondence from his family and a description of his death.
Fred Hoyle's classic novel The Black Cloud features a life form consisting of a vast cloud of interstellar dust, the individual particles of which interact via electromagnetic signalling analogous to how the individual cells of multicellular terrestrial life interact.
* Philip K. Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle features a ( banned ) fictional work called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, which purports to describe how things might have transpired after World War II if the Allied side had won ( in the reality of the book, the Axis powers triumphed ).
( 1998 ), a Spanish novel by Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi, features a dream sequence with Fellini that was inspired by 8½.
Ritterroman focuses on the life and deeds of the knights and soldiers, but features many elements found in the gothic novel, such as magic, secret tribunals and medieval setting.
Byron features, under the codename of ' Lord Ruthven ', in Lady Caroline's own Gothic novel: Glenarvon ( 1816 ).
* The 1965 novel Dune features such warfare as conducted against House Harkonnen by the nomadic Fremen tribe, led by Paul Atreides.
The Battle of Gallipoli features as a significant part of Louis de Bernières's novel Birds Without Wings.
The Grail also features heavily in Umberto Eco's 2000 novel Baudolino.
* The 1984 Frederick Forsyth novel The Fourth Protocol features an elderly Kim Philby's involvement in a plot to trigger a nuclear explosion in Britain.
* The Robert Littell novel The Company ( 2002 ) features Philby as a confidant of former CIA Counter-Intelligence chief James Angleton.
* The 2005 John Birmingham novel Designated Targets features a cameo of Philby, under orders from Moscow to assist Otto Skorzeny's mission to assassinate Winston Churchill.
* The novel The Integral Trees features long straight floating trees which are curved at each end in opposite directions, giving them the shape of the mathematical integral sign, but are themselves integral to the life cycle of the inhabitants.
* Chip Kidd's 2008 novel The Learners is about the Milgram experiment, and features Stanley Milgram as a character.
* The Old Curiosity Shop, an 1841 novel by Charles Dickens, features the Punch and Judy performing partners Mr. Codlin and Short Trotters.
Plan 9 has novel features such as the 9P protocol for accessing local and remote resources as files, union mounts, an improved proc file system, and native unicode support throughout the system.
* The 2005 Star Trek: Titan novel The Red King opens with the disappearance of a Romulan fleet and features Donatra, the Romulan commander featured in Star Trek: Nemesis, working alongside William Riker and his crew.
The novel Dreams of Empire by Justin Richards, set after The Ice Warriors and before Fury from the Deep, features the Second Doctor utilising the device to break through a concrete wall.
* The Eighth Doctor Adventures novel, Father Time, features an amnesiac Doctor attempting to recreate the sonic screwdriver with 1980s technology, eventually producing a bulky device nicknamed the " sonic suitcase ".
novel and scenes
The scenes at the end of the novel, when Oran's gates are reopened, recall the jubilant scenes in Paris when the city was liberated in 1944.
The novel is significant because it includes scenes that were cut out of the film, such as the Federal Reserve Depository robbery that results in Snake's incarceration.
Herodotus ' description of the Egyptian Labyrinth, in Book II of The Histories, inspired some central scenes in Bolesław Prus ' 1895 historical novel, Pharaoh.
John Carpenter's Escape from New York ( 1981 ) influenced the novel ; Gibson was " intrigued by the exchange in one of the opening scenes where the Warden says to Snake ' You flew the Gulfire over Leningrad, didn't you?
Dick's screenplay differs from the source material, featuring numerous scenes that are not in the novel.
* Suttree in the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name nearly dies of typhoid fever in the final scenes of the novel.
The struggle between Church's and King's power is the main theme of Ken Follett's novel The Pillars of the Earth, of which one of the last scenes features the murder of Thomas Becket.
The final scenes in acts one and four — the scenes with Rodolfo and Mimì — resemble both the play and the novel.
The novel also includes scenes in Lebanon and on an atoll for a United States atomic weapon test, as well as information about Joe One, although these elements were not in the film version.
The 1994 award-winning novel, Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson, contains many scenes and details relating to Japanese Americans from the Puget Sound, Washington, area and their incarceration experiences at Manzanar.
Though several important plot points are different, there are significant parallels between the two stories, and many scenes and lines are culled directly from Hammett's novel.
In the final scenes of the novel Robots and Empire R. Giskard Reventlov is the first robot to act according to the Zeroth Law.
In the opening scenes of Jeffery Deaver's novel Manhattan Is My Beat, a character, under guard in a hotel, is watching the film.
Many of its ideas, motifs and scenes appear in adumbrated form in Proust's unfinished novel, Jean Santeuil ( 1896 – 99 ), though the perspective and treatment there are different, and in his unfinished hybrid of philosophical essay and story, Contre Sainte-Beuve ( 1908 – 09 ).
While the screenplay closely follows Hornby's novel, it omits scenes involving drug use and has a different ending.
Some scenes were actually filmed in the Thunder Bay Inn in Big Bay, Michigan, one block from the Lumberjack Tavern, the site of a 1952 murder that had inspired much of the novel.
The notion of East End opium dens seems to have originated with a description by Charles Dickens of a visit he made to an opium den in nearby Bluegate Fields, which inspired certain scenes in his last, unfinished, novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( 1870 ).
The final scenes of the crime novel Pretty Little Things by Jilliane Hoffman take place in a sugarcane plantation near Belle Glade.
* Hunt's painting The Awakening Conscience is implicitly referenced in scenes in Michel Faber's novel:
The author has cited Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita -- particularly its Biblical scenes told from Pontius Pilate's point of view — as a partial inspiration to create this novel.
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