' 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 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

* 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 abbreviation " andy ", coined as a pejorative by writer Philip K. Dick in his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, has seen some further usage, such as within the TV series Total Recall 2070.

A special introduction written by Milne is included in some editions of Grahame's novel.

The novel was not published until shortly after Christie's death in 1976, some thirty-six years after it was originally written.

This novel is the first of a series of novels primarily about the life and times of Robert the Bruce however it covers Alexander III and the circumstances surrounding his death in some detail.

Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever although set during another timespan and adopt some elements directly from the graphic novel.

The method combines amplification with a novel technology called Surround Optical Fiber Immunoassay ( SOFIA ) and some specific antibodies against PrP < sup > Sc </ sup >.

John Sladek used the concept to humorous ends in his first novel The Reproductive System ( 1968, also titled Mechasm in some markets ), where a U. S. military research project goes out of control.

* The novel is mentioned and referenced by some of the other characters in the 2011 movie The Moth Diaries ; Carmilla also seems to have inspired the main antagonist Ernessa, played by Lily Cole.

' The sentient ocean that covers much of the surface of Solaris in Stanislaw Lem's eponymous novel also seems, from much of the fictional research quoted and discussed in the book, to be based on some element other than carbon.

The most scholarly and accurate English translation of the novel up to that time, it has been criticized by some as being too stiff.

Wollheim made an offer for Jordan's first novel, Warriors of the Ataii, though he withdrew the offer when Jordan requested some minor changes to the contract.

The other theory claims that the epistolary novel arose from miscellanies of letters and poetry: some of the letters were tied together into a ( mostly amorous ) plot.

It is thought that her lost novel First Impressions, which was redrafted to become Pride and Prejudice, may have been epistolary: Pride and Prejudice contains an unusual number of letters quoted in full and some play a critical role in the plot.

Each of these art forms, and the criticism thereof, is primarily concerned with a sole creative force: the author of a novel ( not, for example, his editor or type-setter ), the composer of a piece of music ( though sometimes the performers are given credence, akin to actors in film today ), or the painter of a fresco ( not his assistants who mix the colours or often do some of the painting themselves ).

; Forgotten Futures VI: Victorian Villainy: A source collection for melodramatic adventures, including three plays, the novel A Bid For Fortune by Guy Boothby, some of E. W.

The narrative is interwoven with a love story and an examination of women's struggles to enlarge their roles and achieve some independence within the social climate of 1930s England, and the novel has been described as " the first feminist mystery novel.

From the early Imperial era, some were forced to participate in humiliating and novel forms of mythological or historical enactment, culminating in their execution.

At the novel's end, the question of whether or not the Time Lords will be restored remains unanswered, although if the events of the novel are to tie in with later events in the TV series it must be assumed that Gallifrey was at some point restored, only to be destroyed again during the events of the Time War.

Lewis's tale appalled some contemporary readers ; however his portrayal of depraved monks, sadistic inquisitors and spectral nuns, and his scurrilous view of the Catholic Church was an important development in the genre and influenced established terror-writer Anne Radcliffe in her last novel The Italian ( 1797 ).

Despite the fact that Brite's first novel was criticized by some mainstream sources for allegedly " lack a moral center: neither terrifyingly malevolent supernatural creatures nor ( like Anne Rice's protagonists ) tortured souls torn between good and evil, these vampires simply add blood-drinking to the amoral panoply of drug abuse, problem drinking and empty sex practiced by their human counterparts ", many of these so-called " human counterparts " identified with the teen angst and goth music references therein, keeping the book in print.

One approach, the regulative principle of worship, favoured by many Zwinglians, Calvinists and some radical reformers, considered anything that was not directly authorised by the Bible to be a novel and Catholic introduction to worship, which was to be rejected.

Brian Aldiss, another British science fiction writer, has disparagingly labelled some of them as " cosy catastrophes ", especially his novel The Day of the Triffids.

As a junior lecturer at the Lycée du Havre in 1938, Sartre wrote the novel La Nausée ( Nausea ), which serves in some ways as a manifesto of existentialism and remains one of his most famous books.