' 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

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 ; ;

The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.

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

Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

In 1950 it was combined with " War of Nerves " ( 1950 ), " Discord in Scarlet " ( 1939 ) and " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ) to form the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle ( 1950 ).

The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929.

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 ").

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.

Brin's own novel Sundiver is an example of science fiction proposing a form of life existing within the plasma atmosphere of a star using complex self-sustaining magnetic fields.

Gregory Benford had a form of plasma-based life exist in the accretion disk of a primordial black hole in his novel Eater.

* Borgia, by Milo Manara ( artist ) & Alejandro Jodorowsky ( writer ), a comic in the form of serialized graphic novel, depicting the story of the Borgia family.

Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain, and, along with others such as Richardson, is among the founders of the English novel.

Midway through the 2010 novel, Bowman returns to Earth in his Star Child form.

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

Mary Shelley employs the epistolary form in her novel Frankenstein ( 1818 ).

While the novel draws on the epistolary form, by the end of the story it reduces it, along with other media, to a monstrous " mass of typewriting ".

* Haki Stërmilli's novel If I Were a Boy ( 1936 ) is written in the form of diary entries which documents the life of the main protagonist.

* C. S. Lewis used the epistolary form for The Screwtape Letters ( 1942 ), and considered writing a companion novel from an angel's point of view — though he never did so.

*" The Anderson Tapes " ( 1969, 1970 ) by Lawrence Sanders is a novel told primarily in the form of transcripts of tape recordings.

The same words also form the first sentence of Madeleine L ' Engle ’ s Newbery Medal-winning novel A Wrinkle in Time.

* Bram Stoker's novel Dracula is told in the form of numerous documents, including journals and newspaper articles.