* Hugh Cook's fantasy novels The Wishstone and the Wonderworkers and The Wazir and the Witch feature an Analytical Engine created by the scientist Ivan Petrov.

" Cozy mysteries " began in the late 20th century as a reinvention of the Golden Age whodunnit ; these novels generally shy away from violence and suspense and frequently feature female amateur detectives.

Portrayals of female homosexuality not only formed European consciousness about lesbianism, but Krafft-Ebbing cited the characters in Gustave Flaubert's Salammbo ( 1862 ) and Ernest Feydeau's Le Comte de Chalis ( 1867 ) as examples of lesbians because both novels feature female protagonists who do not adhere to social norms and express " contrary sexual feeling ", although neither participated in same-sex desire or sexual behavior.

While Nasreddin is mostly known as a character from short tales, whole novels and stories have later been written and an animated feature film was almost made.

Neuromancer was commissioned by Terry Carr for the third series of Ace Science Fiction Specials, which was intended to exclusively feature debut novels.

The novels that Heinlein wrote for a young audience are commonly referred to as " the Heinlein juveniles ", and they feature a mixture of adolescent and adult themes.

The character appears in the first and third novels, the first and third radio series ( and the LP adaptation of the first radio series ), the 1981 television series and the 2005 feature film.

Their novels, which were written and structured in the genre's 1930s style, feature protagonists antithetical to James Bond.

In the late 1990s, Warner obtained rights to the Harry Potter novels, and released feature film adaptations of the first in 2001, the second in 2002, the third in June 2004, the fourth in November 2005, and the fifth on July 11, 2007.

In common with several of his other early novels, the chapter headings have a " feature ".

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.

The franchise has been expanded to comic books, novels and novelizations, sound dramas, a series of live-action and animated feature films, and a variety of associated merchandise, such as action figures.

Encouraging the unitary concept-that the later novels feature ' Harry Palmer ' - is the 1974 dust jacket to the Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich American edition of Spy Story, in which the cover blurb states, " He is back, after five long-years ' absence, the insubordinate, decent, bespectacled English spy who fought, fumbled, and survived his outrageous way through the best-selling Horse Under Water, Funeral in Berlin, and the rest of those marvellous, celebrated Len Deighton spy thrillers.

The stories were not initially conceived as a set, but rather all feature his positronic robots — indeed, there are some inconsistencies among them, especially between the short stories and the novels.

Nine novels, a play, a documentary, and three feature films have been devoted to his life.

They usually feature in the Darkovan novels as the servants of Laranzu working in the towers, with the explanation that theirs is the only touch humans in the hyper-sensitive state of the matrix worker can bear.

Four later novels feature Durtal, an autobiographical character who converts to Catholicism.

Boggarts feature prominently in a number of popular fantasy novels, in various incarnations.

* Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series ( radio, printed novels, TV series, feature film, etc.

A lifelong enthusiast of film ( old movies feature prominently in two of his novels, Ancient Images and The Grin of the Dark ), Campbell wrote three novelisations of Universal horror films in 1976.

Tolkien's novels The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, as well as in the highly successful feature films based on those books.

These genres were the most popular novels of Stowe's time and tended to feature female main characters and a writing style which evoked a reader's sympathy and emotion.

The novels in this genre tended to feature a benign white patriarchal master and a pure wife, both of whom presided over childlike slaves in a benevolent extended family style plantation.

Charlaine Harris ' The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels and its television adaptation, the HBO series True Blood ( 2nd season, aired in summer 2009 ), feature maenads in the characters of Callisto and her television representation, Maryann, respectively.

Comic books and graphic novels which feature vampires include Vampirella ( Warren Publishing, 1969 ), Morbius, the Living Vampire ( Marvel, 1971 ), Tomb of Dracula ( Marvel Comics, 1972 ), Blade ( Marvel, 1973 ), I ... Vampire ( DC Comics, 1981 ), Hellsing ( Shonen Gahosha, 1997 ), 30 Days of Night ( IDW Publishing, 2002 ), Chibi Vampire ( Monthly Dragon Age, 2003 ), Rosario + Vampire ( Monthly Shōnen Jump 2004 ), Vampire Knight ( LaLa, 2005 ), Blood Alone ( MediaWorks, 2005 ), Dracula vs. King Arthur ( Silent Devil Productions, 2005 ), Dance in the Vampire Bund ( Media Factory, 2006 ), Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures ( Dabel Brothers Productions / Marvel Comics, 2007 ), Half Dead ( Dabel Brothers Productions / Marvel Comics, 2007 ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( Dark Horse Comics, 2007 ), Nosferatu ( Viper Comics, 2010 ), and Twilight: The Graphic Novel ( 2010 ).

The novel follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, a hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels, that he decides to set out to revive chivalry under the name of Don Quixote.

However, her main work is the genre of young readers ' novels in which children have their own adventures with minimal adult help.

Includes three novels, 23 short stories and some autobiographical articles by Nesbit, also rules for magic, life as a Victorian / Edwardian child, adventures, etc.

Matthew Stover's Bronze Age fantasy novels Iron Dawn and Jericho Moon chronicle the adventures of Barra Coll Eigg Rhum, a Pictish princess.

The novels themselves are written as Roger's running monologues during his adventures.

Tomb Raider is a media franchise consisting of video games, comic books, novels, theme park rides and movies, centring around the adventures of the fictional English archaeologist Lara Croft.

In conjunction with the publication of the Return to adventures, WotC also produced a series of companion novels known as the Greyhawk Classics series: Against the Giants, White Plume Mountain, Descent into the Depths of the Earth, Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, The Temple of Elemental Evil, Queen of the Demonweb Pits, Keep on the Borderlands,

Jaroslav Foglar ( 6 July 1907 in Prague-23 January 1999 ) was a famous Czech author who wrote many novels about youths ( partly also about Boy Scouts movement ) and their adventures in nature and dark city streets.

On the other hand, in second large group of his novels, a ' group hero ' novels, the plot is based on stories of some organized group of youths, with less individual psychology and more action and adventures.

Shatner and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens wrote a series of novels that depict Kirk's resurrection by the Borg and his ongoing adventures after the events of Generations.

Most of the novels in the series are action and sexual adventures, with many of the military engagements borrowing liberally from historic ones, such as the trireme battles of ancient Greece and the castle sieges of medieval Europe.

The first five novels are narrated by Corwin and describe Corwin's adventures and life as he remeets his family after an absence of centuries.

The Sharpe novels ( 1981 – 2007 ) by Bernard Cornwell were a series likewise following the adventures of a British Army officer and set, partly, during the Peninsular War.

Until then, the Western public imagined their secret services as promoters of democracy and democratic values ; a view principally espoused in the popular James Bond thriller novels — romantic high adventures about what a Secret Service should be.

She has written two more novels in the Chocolat series, continuing the adventures of Vianne Rocher ; The Lollipop Shoes ( re-titled The Girl With No Shadow in the US ) and Peaches for Monsieur le Curé ( Peaches for Father Francis in the US ), as well as two French cookbooks ( co-written with Fran Warde ), two collections of short stories and a number of dark psychological thrillers, including Gentlemen and Players and Blueeyedboy.

Korda's next two films, Masters of the Sea ( 1922 ) and A Vanished World ( 1922 ), were both nautical-set adventures based on Hungarian novels.

The adventures during that game inspired a series of gaming modules, a series of novels, licensed products such as board games, and lead miniature figures.

The novels describe explicit sexual adventures of the female protagonist Beauty and the male characters Alexi, Tristan and Laurent, featuring both maledom and femdom scenarios amid vivid imageries of bisexuality, ephebophilia and pony play.

Of the 33 novels detailing his adventures, eighteen take place in a sole arrondissement of Paris, in a sub-series of his exploits which Malet dubbed the " New Mysteries of Paris " quoting Eugene Sue's seminal " feuilleton "; though he never completed the full 20 arrondissements as he originally planned.

Apart from the novels, five short stories were also published, bringing the total of Burma's adventures to 38.

His first three novels follow the adventures of Cassandra Kresnov, an artificially created super-soldier who becomes disillusioned with the policies and actions of her country, the League.

He wrote for the stage, radio, and for television programs such as General Motors Theatre, The Unforeseen, Playdate, Hatch's Mill, The Forest Rangers, and On Camera, but he is most famous for his novels, the Bandy Papers, which recount the humorous adventures of Bartholomew Bandy, a World War I fighter pilot.

Unlike Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, Space Patrol was never featured in a daily or Sunday newspaper comic strip, nor was there a series of juvenile novels recounting Space Patrol adventures.