' 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 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

* Dartmoor prison plays a central role in The Lively Lady, American author Kenneth Roberts ' 1931 historical novel taking place during The War of 1812

In the novel the Dalek Prime reveals that the planet Antalin had been terraformed to resemble Skaro and was destroyed in its place.

* Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale closes with a chapter set at a conference taking place some time after the events of the rest of the book, in which scholars question the authenticity of the earlier manuscript.

In Rick Riordan's series Percy Jackson & the Olympians, the events of the fourth novel The Battle of the Labyrinth predominantly take place within the labyrinth of Daedalus, which has followed the heart of the West to settle beneath the United States.

* New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Frozen Teardrop ( 2010-ongoing ) by Katsuyuki Sumisawa is a novel continuation of the Gundam Wing anime series taking place primarily on the terraformed Mars.

It was released as a companion novel with King's Desperation ; the two novels took place in different universes but featured many of the same characters.

Similarly, there is a specific reference to both 1985 and 1986 in the past tense, suggesting the events of the novel took place after these dates.

Another notable change is that in the latter half of the novel events were specified as taking place around Dorian Gray's 32nd birthday, on 7 November.

One way might be a quest for an " earthly paradise "— a place like Shangri-La, hidden in the Tibetan mountains and described by James Hilton in his utopian novel Lost Horizon ( 1933 ).

The relatively recent novel vector has facilitated a far more rapid spread than the simple expansion of habitats North through global warming.

The first North American novel, The History of Emily Montague ( 1769 ) by Frances Brooke was written in epistolary form.

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.

The location of the novel is centred upon South Yorkshire and North Nottinghamshire in England.

He was in some respects the model for the tragic character Abe North in Fitzgerald's last completed novel, Tender Is the Night.

The 1975 novel North Star by Hammond Innes is largely set in Shetland and Raman Mundair's 2007 book of poetry A Choreographer's Cartography offers a British Asian perspective on the landscape.

North Gladiola, a 1985 novel by James Wilcox, opens with a reference to Manon Lescaut, and mentions the character again later in the text.

In his novel Salammbô, Gustave Flaubert used ancient Carthage in North Africa as a foil to ancient Rome.

At the beginning of Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936, the fictional character Rhett Butler warns a group of upper-class secessionists of the folly of war with the North in terms very reminiscent of those Sherman directed to David F. Boyd before leaving Louisiana.

His last novel, Theophilus North, was published in 1973, and made into the film Mr. North in 1988.

In 1974, the novel Spy Story was published, followed in 1976 by Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy ( also known as Catch A Falling Spy in North America ).

Just over four years later, his first novel, A Man from the North, was published to critical acclaim and he became editor of the magazine.

" Maupassant is also one of the writers on whom Richard Larch, the protagonist of Bennett's first ( and obviously semi-autobiographical ) novel, A Man from the North, tries in vain to model his own writing.

During the course of the novel Ophelia is transformed, just as the Republican Party ( three years later ) proclaimed that the North must transform itself and stand up for its antislavery principles.

This area of North Devon was home to the author Charles Kingsley, and is where he based his novel Westward Ho !.

This novel joint venture between NCA & T and UNCG is designed to facilitate collaborations between world-class researchers and businesses – to move scientific discoveries from the lab to the marketplace benefitting the local community, region, and North Carolina by transforming cutting-edge intellectual properties into thriving business ventures.

He followed this with Who'll Stop the Rain in 1978 and North Dallas Forty, based on the Peter Gent novel, in 1979.

North American covered bridges received much recognition as a result of the success of the novel, The Bridges of Madison County written by Robert James Waller and made into a Hollywood motion picture starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood.

* In Monica Dickens's 1946 novel The Happy Prisoner, Evelyn plays halma with her cousin Oliver North.

However, the episode provided the plot for Rex Beach's best-selling novel The Spoilers ( 1906 ), which was made into a stage play, then five times into movies, including two versions starring John Wayne: The Spoilers ( 1942 film ) ( co-starring Marlene Dietrich ) and North to Alaska ( 1960, the theme of which mentions Nome.

The novel was first published in Japan on July 20, 2006 by Kodansha ; it was then licensed in English by Dark Horse and released it in North America on December 12, 2007.

An author of novels, short stories, and plays, Mitchell is best known for his 1947 novel, Who Has Seen The Wind, which has sold close to a million copies in North America, and the radio series and later a collection of short stories 1961, Jake and the Kid, which subsequently won the Stephen Leacock Award.

* Was the model for the village of North Bath, NY, the setting for the 1993 best-selling novel and 1994 movie, Nobody's Fool.