The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.

A crime fiction novel where Hugh Corbett investigates the " mysterious death " of Alexander III ( 1286 ).

An arcology is also depicted in the 1968 futuristic novel " The World Inside ", by Robert Silverberg, where in the year 2381 the human race lives in 1000-storey-high towers, providing everything necessary to the society ( nutrition, energy, entertainment, jobs, etc .).

Freyja's necklace Brisingamen features prominently in Betsy Tobin's novel Iceland, where the necklace is seen to have significant protective powers.

* The present-time scene where Batman / Bruce is cornered by Detective Bullock's SWAT Team adheres to a similar setting from the graphic novel as mentioned above ( the abandoned tenement fire from issue # 3 ).

* The concluding scene where Batman and Gordon are on top of the police headquarters continues, to an extent, the final page of the graphic novel where newly promoted Jim Gordon waits for Batman to arrive.

The novel explores life in an imagined future world where a totalitarian government has achieved terrifying levels of power and control.

* Kurtis Scaletta's 2009 children's novel, Mudville is about a town where it's been raining for 22 years, delaying a baseball game between two rival towns.

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 concept of reversed chirality also figured prominently in the plot of James Blish's Star Trek novel Spock Must Die !, where a transporter experiment gone awry ends up creating a duplicate Spock who turns out to be a perfect mirror-image of the original all the way down to the atomic level.

At the very end of the novel, where Superman stands poised to destroy the United Nations, Norman McCay makes him realise that, when he abandoned Clark Kent fifteen years ago after the murder of Lois Lane by the Joker and retreated into his Superman self, he lost this instinctive morality and thus the ability to be the hero Superman.

She is assumed to have been the inspiration for his novel about a nun, La Religieuse, in which he depicts a woman who is forced to enter a monastery where she suffers at the hands of the other nuns in the community.

The first few chapters of the novel, dealing with the discovery of Erewhon, are in fact based on Butler's own experiences in New Zealand where, as a young man, he worked as a sheep farmer on Mesopotamia Station for about four years ( 1860 – 1864 ) and explored parts of the interior of the South Island of which he wrote about in his A First Year in Canterbury Settlement ( 1863 ).

The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and firemen burn any house that contains them.

Orwell also uses the technique of false document in an appendix to the same novel, titled " The Principles of Newspeak ," where Orwell offers a linguistic guide to Oceania's official language, Newspeak from the perspective of the country's ruling party, along with policy prescriptions for how the language may develop in the future.

The novel unfolds against the backdrop of rebellion wherein seven southern states, Georgia among them, have declared their secession from the United States ( the " Union ") and formed the Confederate States of America ( the " Confederacy "), after Abraham Lincoln was elected president with no ballots from ten Southern states where slavery was legal.

Not all his scientific romances ended in a happy Utopia, and in fact, Wells also wrote a dystopian novel, When the Sleeper Wakes ( 1899, rewritten as The Sleeper Awakes, 1910 ), which pictures a future society where the classes have become more and more separated, leading to a revolt of the masses against the rulers.

In the same time Vladimir Obruchev wrote a fiction novel Plutonia, where the hollow Earth's interior possessed one inner ( central ) sun and was inhabited by prehistoric species.

Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

* In the science fiction novel The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, a " chronosynclastic infundibulum " is a kind of wormhole through time and space, defined as " where all the different kinds of truths fit together ".

Ribbentrop is also a key figure in the historical novel Famous Last Words by Timothy Findley ( Penguin Books 1982, ISBN 0-14-006268-8 ) and Harry Turtledove's alternate history series Worldwar where his Soviet counterpart Molotov frequently expresses contempt for his lack of intelligence.

Klingon is sometimes referred to as Klingonese ( most notably in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ", where it was actually pronounced by a Klingon character as " Klingonee " ) but, among the Klingon-speaking community, this is often understood to refer to another Klingon language called Klingonaase that was introduced in John M. Ford's 1988 Star Trek novel The Final Reflection, and appears in other Star Trek novels by Ford.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

He is among the main characters of the historical novel Agnes of France ( 1980 ) by Greek writer Kostas Kyriazis ( b. 1920 ).

One of the viewpoint characters of Ian Watson's novel Oracle is an eyewitness to her defeat.

Chaplin is also one of the central characters in Glen David Gold's novel Sunnyside, which is set in the World War I period.

* Many of the members of Section 9 in the Ghost in the Shell universe, specifically the main characters Major Motoko Kusanagi and Batou, are cyborgs dependent on regular maintenance ; there are several manga ( or graphic novel ) and artbooks set in the GitS universe, as well as two feature-length anime films, three television series and three video games.

* 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 original alignment system ( which grouped all characters and creatures into ' Law ', ' Neutrality ' and ' Chaos ') was derived from the novel Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson.

Moll Flanders and Defoe's final novel Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress ( 1724 ) are examples of the remarkable way in which Defoe seems to inhabit his fictional ( yet " drawn from life ") characters, not least in that they are women.

* Domitia and Domitian ( 2000 ), a historical novel by David Corson based on the works of Brian Jones and Pat Southern, revolving around the titular characters.

The team of screenwriters took the main suspect of the novel, Robert Tisdall, and his unexpected, initially reluctant supporter, Erica Burgoyne, and left out all the other characters, including Tey's Inspector Alan Grant and even the original murderer ( who is not the same character as in the film ).

The novel fleshes out the world that these characters exist in, at times presenting a future even bleaker than the one depicted in the film.

The novel shows the genre's results of changing perspectives: individual points were presented by the individual characters, and the central voice of the author and moral evaluation disappeared ( at least in the first volume ; her further volumes introduced a narrator ).

* The Boy Next Door ( 2002 ) by Meg Cabot is a romantic comedy novel dealt with entirely by emails sent among the characters.

Çelebi is one of main characters in novel Capitan Bathory's Adventures ( Dobrodružství kapitána Báthoryho ) by Slovak writer Juraj Červenák.

* Douglass, his wife, and his mistress, Ottilie Assing, are the main characters in Jewell Parker Rhodes ' Douglass ' Women, a novel ( New York: Atria Books, 2002 ).

Neil Gaiman's acclaimed graphic novel series The Sandman influenced goths with characters like the dark, brooding Dream and his sister Death.

It is the book that S. E. Hinton's runaway teenage characters, " Ponyboy " and " Johnny ", read while hiding from the law in the young adult novel about lost innocence, The Outsiders ( 1967 ).

In the 18th-century novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the characters ' hobby-horses, or particular obsessions, are discussed in detail.

* The John Green novel, The Fault in Our Stars commonly uses the term by the characters to describe themselves as being from Indiana.

The novel was written in contemporary English for a mass audience, in the same way that mainstream Hollywood movies depicting the Second World War commonly depict German characters talking in English.

They recognized names of Jewish children sheltered by them ( who also survived the war ), depicted in the novel as victims of abuse by characters based on them.

* Janus, character in the novel Angels and Demons, see List of Angels & Demons characters

The breakthrough role in Dunst's career came in Interview with the Vampire, a 1994 film based on Anne Rice's novel, in which she played the child vampire Claudia, a surrogate daughter to Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt's characters in the film.

The success of the novel and its serialized nature also allowed many imitators to publish pamphlets concerning the Shandean characters and other Shandean-related material even while the novel was yet unfinished.