' This novel features sorcerers who become destroyed by forbidden knowledge and takes place in the Warhammer 40, 000 setting, itself utilizing Lovecraftian themes.

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.

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.

The novel takes place over a long period of time, including many adventures all united by common themes of the nature of reality, reading, and dialogue in general.

In both the book and movie 2001, astronaut and scientist David Bowman is on a mission to track the source of an alien artifact found on the moon, which leads to a moon around the planet Jupiter ( in the novel, Saturn ); the story takes place in the year 2001.

This play in turn inspired Giannina Braschi's dramatic novel " United States of Banana ," which takes place at the Statue of Liberty in post-9 / 11 New York City.

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.

Orhan Pamuk's historical novel Benim Adım Kırmızı ( My Name is Red, 1998 ) takes place at the court of Murad III, during nine snowy winter days of 1591, which the writer uses in order to convey the tension between East and West.

For instance, the scene of Ekaterin's questioning with fast-penta begins from her viewpoint, but as the drug takes hold ( and the novel begins a new chapter ) it continues from Miles's viewpoint.

The novel takes place some time in the 21st century.

The novel takes place in the " North American Confederation " of 1992, wherein technology has advanced to the extent of permitting civilians to reach the Moon and psi phenomena are common.

The search takes her to the Disk-system which is now inhabited by the survivors of the Garissan genocide, and finally ( with the aid of Calvert ) to an uninhabited system to find the Alchemist starship which was damaged at the beginning of the first novel.

The final book takes place ( largely ) with a mission to a far off system to discover the Tyrathca ' Sleeping God ' ( which was previously unknown, but learnt of in the first novel ), which was discovered by the Tyrathca when they were travelling the galaxy, looking for new planets to populate.

In the novel a writer's darker pseudonym takes on a life of its own.

* 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 ).

It is a text-based visual novel in which the player takes the role of Serge, a young adventurer accompanied by Kid, a teen-aged thief, and Gil, a mysterious masked magician.

Scott's background as a lawyer also informed his perspective, for at the time of the novel, which takes place before the Act of Union of 1707, English law did not apply in Scotland, and even afterward Scotland continued to have its own hybrid legal system.

The novel Murder at the War ( Knightfall in paperback edition ) is a detective story concerning a murder that takes place at the SCA's largest annual event, Pennsic War.

While much of the novel takes place in Europe, its main characters are American, not British.

* The novel Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years takes place from April 30, 1997 to May 2, 1998.

* The classic novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père takes place in 1628.

* The Doctor Who novel Imperial Moon takes place in this year.

* One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth, in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.

* Colossus ( novel ), a 1966 science fiction novel by D. F. Jones about a computer that takes over the world

The tradition reached its apex, perhaps, in the works of Thomas Nelson Page toward the end of the century, and reappeared undiminished as late as 1934 in the best-selling novel So Red The Rose, by Stark Young.

But as he remarks in his preface to The Walnut Trees, `` a novel can hardly ever be rewritten '', and `` when this one appears in its final form, the form of the first part will no doubt be radically changed ''.

Even in its present form, however, the first part of Malraux's unrecoverable novel is among the greatest works of mid-twentieth century literature ; ;

Krim came to believe that `` the novel as a form had outlived its vital meaning ''.

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 ; ;

Dr. H. V. Hilprecht, Professor of Assyrian at the University of Pennsylvania, dreamed that a Babylonian priest, associated with the king Kurigalzu, ( 1300 B.C. ) escorted him to the treasure chamber of the temple of Bel, gave him six novel points of information about a certain broken relic, and corrected an error in its identification.

The historic roots of Algerian literature goes back to the Numidian era, when Apuleius wrote The Golden Ass, the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety.

The novel is most noted for its careful description of the dig site and house, which showed the author had spent much of her own time in very similar situations herself.

Oran and its environs were struck by disease multiple times before Camus published this novel.

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.

Walter M. Miller, Jr .' s novel A Canticle for Leibowitz centers on a monastic order called the Albertian Order of Leibowitz, named by its founder after Albertus Magnus and dedicated to preserving scientific knowledge lost after a nuclear war.

Pasternak submitted the novel to " Новый Мир " ( Novy Mir ), which refused publication for its rejection of socialist realism.

Helped considerably by the Soviet campaign against the novel, Doctor Zhivago became an instant sensation throughout the non-Communist world upon its release in November 1957.

In the State of Israel, however, Pasternak's novel was sharply criticized for its assimilationist views towards toward the Jewish people.

" That same day, the Literary Institute in Moscow demanded that all its students sign a petition denouncing Pasternak and his novel.

Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins and its sequel The Dark Knight are set during the same timespan and adopt several elements directly from the graphic novel.

The term coming-of-age novel is sometimes used interchangeably with Bildungsroman, but its use is usually wider and less technical.

Thomas Carlyle translated Goethe ’ s novel into English, and after its publication in 1824, many British authors wrote novels inspired by it.

In 1954, Compañía ‘ Ron Bacardi ’ S. A. paid him homage when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature of his novel The Old Man and the Sea ( 1952 ), in which he honored the Company by mentioning its Hatuey beer.

In 1950, St. John Publications produced the digest-sized, adult-oriented " picture novel " It Rhymes with Lust, a 128-page digest by pseudonymous writer " Drake Waller " ( Arnold Drake and Leslie Waller ), penciler Matt Baker and inker Ray Osrin, touted as " an original full-length novel " on its cover.

The novel was critically well-received for its gripping plot, action, and atmosphere, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1977.

Smith's works consist of: a single novel, originally published in two volumes in edited form as The Planet Buyer, also known as The Boy Who Bought Old Earth ( 1964 ) and The Underpeople ( 1968 ), and later restored to its original form as Norstrilia ( 1975 ); and 32 short stories ( collected in The Rediscovery of Man ( 1993 ), including two versions of the short story " War No. 81-Q ").

In Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction novel The Dispossessed, published 1974, mainstream capitalist and state socialist economies on the planet Urras are contrasted with an anarchist self-managed economy on its orbiting twin Anarres.