Another example of planetary defense platforms is Cairo station, which is from the Halo 2 game and the Halo novels.

* United Nations Space Command, a fictional organization in the Halo series of games and novels

Later novels, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx ( written by Nylund and released on October 31, 2006 ) and Halo: Contact Harvest by Joseph Staten further extended the Halo storyline.

* In the Halo universe, more particularly in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary and the Forerunner Saga novels, the Forerunner ecumene spanned the galaxy more than 100, 000 years ago.

In May 2010, Tor announced that the first three Halo novels ( not originally published by Tor ) would be rereleased with new content and cover art.

Upon release, Halo: The Flood cracked the Publishers Weekly Top Ten Bestsellers List for Paperbacks, but critical reception to the novel was less positive than Eric Nylund's Fall of Reach or other Halo novels.

The first Halo book, Halo: The Fall of Reach, sold more than 100, 000 copies and prompted an extended agreement between Del Ray Books and Microsoft to produce more Halo novels.

Once Dietz had finished his draft, Bungie checked it over to make sure it complied with the plot established in the games and novels, as Bungie considers all Halo novels canon.

About. com's Eric Qualls stated that First Strike and the other Halo novels " make you appreciate Halo and Halo 2 a hundred times more ", and strongly recommended that fans of the game pick up the novel.

Nylund is the author of three novels set in the Halo universe: Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: First Strike, and Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, as well as a short story in Halo: Evolutions and the graphic novel Halo Wars: Genesis.

The Grail features heavily in the novels of Peter David's Knight trilogy, which depict King Arthur reappearing in modern-day New York City, in particular the second and third novels, One Knight Only and Fall of Knight.

While on Rising Damp, he also took the eponymous lead in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, adapted by David Nobbs from his own Reginald Perrin comic novels and aired on the BBC.

* Iain Pears is the author of several historical novels, including An Instance of the Fingerpost and Stone's Fall.

The delicate, gem-like jigsaw of Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Ray could not be more unlike the feverishly cunning philosophical monologue of Albert Camus ' The Fall, but both novels are about the same length.

Of the four novels, Hyperion received the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1990 ; The Fall of Hyperion won the Locus and British Science Fiction Association Awards in 1991 ; and The Rise of Endymion received the Locus Award in 1998.

A film adaptation of the series titled Hyperion is being developed by Warner Bros. and will encompass the Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion novels.

In his introduction to Orphans of the Helix, Simmons elaborates :" Some readers may know that I've written four novels set in the ' Hyperion Universe '— Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, and The Rise of Endymion.

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is a series of novels which developed into a British sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter in the title role.

Secret history is sometimes used in a long-running science fiction or fantasy universe to preserve continuity with the present by reconciling paranormal, anachronistic, or otherwise notable but unrecorded events with what actually happened in known history ; for instance, in the Star Trek universe, Greg Cox's novels The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh cast the devastating Eugenics Wars of the 1990s ( still well into the future when first mentioned in an episode from 1967 ) as shadow wars most people never knew about, in which such real-life events from that era as the Smiling Buddha nuclear test, the Yugoslav Wars, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots were all part of one wider conflict.

* The first two of Dan Simmons's novels in the Hyperion tetralogy, Hyperion, and The Fall of Hyperion, take place in the 29th century.

Author Greg Cox has included Gary Seven and Roberta in three of his Star Trek novels, Assignment: Eternity and the two-part novel, The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh.

The complexity of novels such as Things Fall Apart depends on Achebe's ability to bring competing cultural systems and their languages to the same level of representation, dialogue, and contestation.

Before Things Fall Apart was published, Europeans had written most novels about Africa, and they largely portrayed Africans as savages who needed to be enlightened by Europeans.

Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize winning novelist in a May 7, 2012 article in Newsweek Hilary Mantel's favorite historical Fictions, lists Things Fall Apart as one of her five favorite novels in this genre.

In later novels such as The Green Ripper and Free Fall in Crimson, there is a sense of desperation that the violence in the world is too senseless to be explained and will never end.

Further novels in the series include The Rise and Fall of a Dragon King, a novel exploring the topic of genocide, a central theme in the ancient history of Athas, the world on which the Dark Sun setting takes place.

Dramatic monologues can also be used in novels to tell stories, as in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and to implicate the audience in moral judgments, as in Albert Camus ' The Fall and Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

Even though many of Clarke's science fiction novels take place in rather similar futures-Earthlight, A Fall of Moondust, The Sands of Mars, Rendezvous with Rama-the human background is never quite the same and they do not form a series.

Note: Virtually all of the information relating to Vir's activities after the main series comes from " The Fall of Centauri Prime " trilogy of tie-in novels.

Born into a working-class family in Detroit, Michigan, Herlihy is known for his novels Midnight Cowboy and All Fall Down and his play Blue Denim, all of which were adapted for cinema.

He wrote three novels: All Fall Down ( 1960 ), Midnight Cowboy ( 1965 ), and Season of the Witch ( 1971 ).

At the novels ' beginning, the majority of Westeros is united under the rule of a king in what is known as the Seven Kingdoms, with each of nine regions controlled by a different major house: the North, the Iron Islands, the Riverlands, the Vale of Arryn, the Westerlands, the Reach, the Stormlands, the Crownlands, and Dorne.

He has performed a significant amount of speaking and writing, having published a text book in solar physics, two novels ( Reach and In the Wrong Hands ), and edited The Greatest Adventure, a compilation of stories and pictures on space missions from many astronauts and cosmonauts around the world.

The Oikumene shares some conceptual features with the Gaean Reach, which is his name for the civilized worlds in many of his other science fiction novels, and in the fictional timeline of Vance's work may be a precursor to the Reach.

Voiced by Jen Taylor, she appears in Halo: Combat Evolved and its sequels, Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo 4, in the prequel and epilogue of Halo: Reach, as well the novels Halo: The Flood, Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: First Strike, and Halo: Ghosts of Onyx.

Outside of video games, the character appears in novels – Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: The Flood, Halo: First Strike, and Halo: Uprising – and has cameos in other Halo media, including Halo: Reach, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, The Halo Graphic Novel and Halo Legends.

Beginning with developer Bungie's 2001 video game Halo: Combat Evolved, the franchise expanded to include the sequels Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo Wars, Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach ; the novels Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: The Flood, Halo: First Strike, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, Halo: Contact Harvest, Halo: Glasslands and Halo: The Cole Protocol ; and the Halo Graphic Novel, among other works.

While John-117 also known as the Master Chief is the hero of the trilogy, other soldiers play a significant role in the novels, Halo Legends, and the prequel games Halo Wars and Halo: Reach.

Some of his early novels, called " scientific romances ", invented a number of themes now classic in science fiction in such works as The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes, and The First Men in the Moon.

The actions Q took in sending the Enterprise D to System J-25 — and thus maintaining the time loop, are expanded upon in the Star Trek novels as being partially ( though indirectly ) the reason for the existence of the Mirror Universe, explaining that Zefram Cochrane attempted to warn Earth and the worlds that would become part of the Federation about the Borg after First Contact.

In his later years he published two lengthy novels on historical subjects, Peter the First ( 1929 – 45 ) and The Road to Calvary ( 1922-41 ).

They argued that speech protected under the First Amendment, such as printed novels or the use of the seven dirty words, would suddenly become unlawful when posted to the Internet.

These legends feature in certain works of fiction, including Vladimir Bartol's 1938 novel Alamut, and Simon Acland's First Crusade novels The Waste Land and The Flowers of Evil.

Later novels would, however, identify the Plan's uncertainties that remained at Seldon's death as the primary reason for the existence of the Second Foundation, which ( unlike the First ) had retained the capacity to research and further develop psychohistory.

Gaia is the planet with collective intelligence in the Foundation novels which adopts a law similar to the First Law, and the Zeroth Law, as its philosophy:

In some novels, the protagonists may be impossible to identify, because multiple plots in the novel do not permit clear identification of one as the main plot, such as in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle, depicting a variety of characters imprisoned and living in a gulag camp, or in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, depicting 15 major characters involved in or affected by a war.

The Fool's Guild of these novels is portrayed as a mockery to the church, and they refer to Jesus Christ as " Their Savior, The First Fool

George Sylvester Viereck and Paul Eldridge wrote a trilogy of novels My First Two Thousand Years, an Autobiography of the Wandering Jew, ( 1928 ), in which Isaac Laquedem is a Roman soldier who, after being told by Jesus that he will " tarry until I return ," goes on to influence many of the great events of history ; he frequently encounters Solome ( described as ' The Wandering Jewess '), and travels with a companion, to whom he has passed on his immortality via a blood transfusion ( another attempt to do this for a woman he loved ended in her death ).

The Martians is a collection of short stories that takes place over the timespan of the original trilogy of novels, as well as some stories that take place in an alternate version of the novels where the First Hundred's mission was one of exploration rather than colonization.

Throughout the novels, Maya takes an active political role, helping to keep the surviving First Hundred together during the failed revolution of 2061 and guiding the successful revolutions that occur decades later, despite her psychological problems.

Pike has significant roles in the Pocket Books novels Enterprise: The First Adventure ( Vonda N. McIntyre, 1986 ), Final Frontier ( Diane Carey, 1988 ), Vulcan's Glory ( D. C. Fontana, 1989 ), and Burning Dreams ( Margaret Wander Bonanno, 2006 ).

First working as a nurse and a librarian, she published two novels and a few short stories.

First translator of H. G. Adler's novels into English.

Dornford Yates was the pseudonym of the British novelist, Cecil William Mercer ( 7 August 1885 – 5 March 1960 ), whose novels and short stories, some humorous ( the Berry books ), some thrillers ( the Chandos books ), were best-sellers in the 21-year interwar period between the First and Second world wars.

His main pedagogical texts have been translated into English, but of his fiction, only two of his novels have been translated into English: King Matt the First and Kaytek the Wizard.

Lord Melville, as First Lord of the Admiralty, is present or a background character in several of Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels.

Lord Melville, as First Lord of the Admiralty, is a background character in several of Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels.

From the latter half of the 20th century onwards, the First World War continued to be a popular subject for fiction, mainly novels.

Arnold Bennett greatly praised First Principles, and the influence it had on Bennett may be seen in his many novels.

Tardi has produced many antiwar graphic novels and comics, mainly focusing on the collective European trauma of the First World War, and the pitfalls of patriotism spawned several albums ( Adieu Brindavoine, C ' était la guerre des tranchées, Le trou d ' obus, Putain de Guerre ...).

Her novels and stories, which by 1940 were considered merely fashionable, flimsy stuff with no lasting significance, can now be seen as the illumination of a class of people who were made irrelevant by the First World War but who refused to accept their irrelevance.

It also featured two key topics of the paper's historical focus: First, an analysis by Yale University professor David Bromwich of the vice presidency of Dick Cheney ; and second, British author Zadie Smith's essay that " dismantles the status quo in the form of a review of two new novels – Netherland and Remainder – that she holds up as representing where the novel's been and where it's going ".