And they have done this on a very large scale, with a veritable flood of novels and stories which are either dystopias or narratives of adventure with dystopian elements.

The novels and stories like Pohl's Drunkard's Walk ( 1960 ), with the focus on adventure and with the dystopian elements only a dim background -- in this case an uneasy, overpopulated world in which the mass of people do uninteresting routine jobs while a carefully selected, university-trained elite runs everything -- are in all likelihood as numerous as dystopias.

Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

The details of the setting of `` Neutral Tones '' are not, strictly speaking, metaphorical, but they combine to create a mood which is appropriate both to a dismal winter day and to the end of love, and in this way love and weather, the emotions and the elements, symbolize each other in a way that is common to many of Hardy's best poems ( `` Weathers '', `` The Darkling Thrush '', and `` During Wind and Rain '', for example ) and to some moving passages in the novels as well ( Far From The Madding Crowd is full of scenes constructed in this way ).

As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.

In the 1950s, many of them were retrospectively patched together into novels, or " fixups " as he called them, a term which entered the vocabulary of science fiction criticism.

One of van Vogt's best-known novels of this period is Slan, which was originally serialised in Astounding Science Fiction ( September-December 1940 ).

Between 1950 and 1960, van Vogt produced collections, notable fixups such as: The Mixed Men ( 1952 ) and The War Against the Rull ( 1959 ), and the two " Clane " novels, Empire of the Atom ( 1957 ) and The Wizard of Linn ( 1962 ), which were inspired ( like Asimov's Foundation series ) by the fall of the Roman Empire, specifically Claudius.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

There is certainly a case for saying that Crooked House ( 1949 ) and Ordeal by Innocence ( 1957 ), which are not Poirot novels at all but so easily could have been, represent a logical endpoint of the general diminution of Poirot himself within the Poirot sequence.

He assumes a genuinely inactive lifestyle during which he concerns himself with studying famous unsolved cases of the past and reading detective novels.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

Unlike earlier adaptations that were set during the time in which the novels were written, however, these TV movies were set in the contemporary era.

The 4-volume work was an imaginary travel journal, one of the first historical novels, which Klemperer called " the encyclopedia of the new cult of the antique " in the late 18th century.

Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848.

In Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs novels human colonies on distant planets maintain contact with earth and each other via hyperspatial needlecast, a technology which moves information "... so close to instantaneously that scientists are still arguing about the terminology ...".

The term " fictional autobiography " has been coined to define novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own biography, of which Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, is an early example.

* In John Christopher's 1967-68 trilogy of novels The Tripods, an alien race known as " the Masters " live in three huge, domed arcologies built on Earth to use as a base from which to colonise the planet.

A model to other writers of hard science fiction, Clarke postulates advanced technologies without resorting to flawed engineering concepts ( as Jules Verne sometimes did ) or explanations grounded in incorrect science or engineering, or taking cues from trends in research and engineering ( which dates some of Larry Niven's novels ).

Many novels combine both, often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take in its choices, ending up with one of two possible futures.

Gor (), the Counter-Earth, is the alternate-world setting for a series of 31 novels by John Norman that combine philosophy, erotica and science fiction.

George MacDonald Fraser's novels about Harry Flashman ( 1969 ) combine the picaresque with historical fiction.

Notable for an ability to combine serious literary acclaim with broad popularity, his novels include, The Heart of the Matter ( 1948 ), A Burnt-Out Case ( 1961 ), and The Human Factor ( 1978 ).

He is best known for his novels such as the non-narrative 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess ( 2002 ), his re-imagining of the 1960s in Tainted Love ( 2005 ), and earlier parodistic pulp fictions Pure Mania, Red London, No Pity, Cunt, and Defiant Pose that pastiche the work of 1970s British skinhead pulp novel writer Richard Allen and combine it with pornography, political agit-prop, and historical references to punk rock and avant-garde art.

Brown's novels combine several revolutionary-era fiction subgenres with other types of late-Enlightenment scientific and medical knowledges.

Most notably, they develop the British radical-democratic models of Wollstonecraft, Godwin, and Holcroft and combine these with elements of German " Schauer-romantik " gothic from Friedrich Schiller, the enlightened sentimental fictions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau or Laurence Sterne, women's domestic novels by writers such as Fanny Burney or Hannah Webster Foster, and other genres such as captivity narrative.

In these essays, he explains that his novels combine fiction and history to place ordinary individuals ( like his novelistic protagonists Arthur Mervyn or Edgar Huntly ) into situations of historical stress ( like the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793 or settler-Indian violence on the Pennsylvania frontier after the Walking Purchase ) in such a way as educate his audience about virtuous behaviors and the historical causes and conditions of individual actions.

J. K. Rowling's and Neil Gaiman's novels deal with various mythologies, and combine them into single, cohesive worlds.

B. Traven is the author of twelve novels, one book of reportage and several short stories, in which the sensational and adventure subjects combine with a critical attitude towards capitalism, betraying the socialist and even anarchist sympathies of the writer.

More recent work has included several Doctor Who novels for BBC Books, all featuring the character of Leela, and a series of straight-to-CD full-cast audio dramas entitled Kaldor City, which combine elements from his Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death with his Blake's 7 work.

It has three distinctions: it is the first of her novels to deal with the Regency period ; it is one of only a few to combine both genres for which she was noted, the Regency romance and the mystery novel ; and it is the only one of her Regency stories to feature Beau Brummell as an actual character, rather than as someone mentioned in passing.

Most of these novels are in the " Golden Age " tradition of detective fiction, entertaining the reader through humour, eccentric characters and intricate plot twists.

Examples of British anti-establishment satire include much of the humour of Peter Cook and Ben Elton ; novels such as Rumpole of the Bailey ; magazines such as Private Eye ; and television programmes like Spitting Image, Rumpole of the Bailey, That Was The Week That Was, and The Prisoner ( see also the satire boom of the 1960s ).

Hunter has used many different narrative approaches over the years, and the 87th Precinct novels are often works of great power, depth, and emotional richness, and often contain moments of terrific ( if sometimes gruesome ) humour.

Unlike most of the other Dr. Fell novels, this story has a high humour level, reminiscent of the Henry Merrivale works.

The latter two novels are characterised by gentle humour, stereotypical local characters and a nostalgic look at Maine and its people through Hornberger's eyes.

Derek Robinson ( born 1932 ) is a British author best known for his military aviation novels full of black humour.

Roumanille's secular verse cannot fail to appeal to every lover of pure and sincere poetry ( Li Mar gariiedo, 1836 – 1847 ; Li Sounjarello, 1852 ; Li Flour de Sauvi, 1850, 1859, & c .), his novels are second only to those of Saboly, his prose works ( such as Lou mege de Cucugnan, 1863 ) sparkling with delightful humour.

Of her three Victorian-set novels, Waters uses humour and " an attractive lightness of touch " most effectively in Tipping the Velvet, according to Paulina Palmer.

His novels are known for dark humour and tragic endings.

Saint's novels are wry regional social comedies, laced with gentle humour and subtle social commentary.

Thirlwell is the author of two novels, Politics ( 2003 ) and The Escape ( 2009 ) described by Milan Kundera as " a novel where the humour is melancholic, the melancholy mischievous, and the talent startling.

In his early career he wrote several best-selling novels ( including A Mão e a Luva and Ressurreição ) which, despite their overzealous Romanticism, already show his vivacious humour and some of his pessimism towards the conventions of society.

His large output includes criticism, essays and biographies, parodies and humour, as well as novels, and edited a number of anthologies.

Terry Pratchett, in his ' Discworld ' novels, makes several references to the poem's well-known opening two lines " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold / And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold "; much of the humour springing from a misunderstanding of ' cohorts ' to mean part of a suit of armour.

His novels tend to focus on ordinary people drawn into a murderous chain of events ; the intricate plots are often spiced with black humour.

McConnochie's novels, which have been praised for their vigorous plotting, vivid characterisation and humour, have consistently grappled with questions about celebrity and the possibilities open to women and women artists.

His light novels combined humour and shrewd observation with an English ( or, in his case, Scottish ) tolerance of eccentricity, and suited the taste of the age ( he collaborated with P. G. Wodehouse )

The first two games are often compared with the Monkey Island series in terms of style and humour, and the Terry Pratchett Discworld novels and derivative games.

In forms of low humour such as get-well cards, nurses are commonly portrayed as bimbos and, in medical drama and novels, nurses are commonly portrayed as young, female, single, childless and white.