Joseph Anton, the pseudonym adopted by Rushdie while in hiding following the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, is a memoir of the author's experiences during the controversy over his novel The Satanic Verses.
The advantage of such a novel waveguide over more conventional ones is that it can bend light around sharp corners.
At one point, a snarling dog is speared on the back of a tractor: imagine a Carl Hiaasen novel shipped over from Florida to Norway.
This warning casts its shadow over the rest of the novel like a prophecy in classical tragedy.
The tension is superbly sustained over the course of the novel.
The jury is out on whether Kam's novel approach can work over the long term.
Turtle expects to treat 30 leukemia and lymphoma patients over the coming years with this novel and promising approach.
The novel probably won't win over critics who regard Mr. Grahame-Smith as a literary parasite whose sole talent consists of taking existing stories and tossing in monsters and gore.
The task now for ministers, a novel one in Mexico, is to win over the legislature.
According to older pilots, this useless statistic came into favour at the time of conversion to jet aeroplanes when the impact of flying over the weather, rather than through it, was novel.
There are also Chrome browsers and notebooks to handle new kinds of online living, and novel approaches to the YouTube video channel (over 100 million people watched the royal wedding on YouTube, who knew?).
One of the first time travel stories, Norwegian Johan Wessel's 1781 comedic novel "Anno 7603, " mostly skitters over any scientific snarls, focusing on a couple who visit the past with the help of a fairy, according to physicist Paul J.
The novel's structure, which follows the seasons over the course of a year, is not driven by a linear sense of plot.
Three hours, two crossword puzzles and half a novel about a juicy divorce later, we hovered over a paradise of crisp white sand and sparkling turquoise water.
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If creativity is the process of coming up with novel and meaningful solutions to perplexing problems, then over-inclusiveness is the ability to see more and more ideas as relevant to a possible solution.
Bulgari's Francesco Trapani took this competition a step further in 2001 when he commissioned Fay Weldon, a well-regarded British novelist, to write The Bulgari Connection, a novel about a woman jailed for trying to run over her ex-husband's new wife.
When it comes to Aereo, which uses a novel interpretation of copyright law to capture and stream free over-the-air TV signals, the networks have no such negotiating power.
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In this novel, I've reconfirmed my position, cultivated over many years of experience, that the artist is only one among many interpreters of his works, and not necessarily the deepest or most reliable one.
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Within the half hour, I had caught three trout, and we set up on a nearby beach amid a rugged beauty straight from a Jack London novel: red sand, log cabin and fish baking over a crackling fire.
Finally, end the third trilogy with a story about the Joker taking over Arkham Asylum, and use influences from both the famous graphic novel Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth and a few bits from the video game Arkham City.
Immortalized in verse, novel and opera, the story has been altered and adapted over the centuries to suit the times.
There they happily lie in wait, sweetening as the ground freezes over, until the point in the winter when we're starved for novel produce.
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Author Orson Scott Card gave us an Internet-like network 15 years ago in Ender's Game, a novel in which message boards were used as propaganda vehicles to take over the world.
Nelson is meant to clue you in on a book's context by providing online commentary, fact-checking, and statistics about cultural impact, which is great when you're studying global warming for a class, perhaps, but seems a little over the top if you're curling up with the latest Left Behind novel.
Gone is the dark and dismal interior, the indifferent service, and - a terrible shame this - the legendary doughnut bowl, whose stale contents could once be bought and pelted at fellow patrons for exactly 1, 942 Czech crowns (just over 100 dollars), a homage to an incident in the classic 1942 novel Saturnin, a sort of Czech Jeeves and Wooster.
Assay: In a novel, a mark of greatness is that a reader can return, over and over, and find something new.
That has been his position forever -- as President and since we've had these rather novel debates about whether or not we should engage in games of chicken over the full faith and credit of the United States.
They did the same to the novel when it came out 50 years ago, and it has sold over 7 million copies since, coming in second to the Bible in many surveys as the most influential book of all time.
Adapting a novel like "On the Road, " which has attracted legions of fans over the last half-century and inspired many to hit the open road, is no easy task.
That was the question posed in a letter to tech journo Farhad Manjoo and advice columnist Emily Joffe in one my favorite features over at Slate, Manners for the Digital Age, a podcast dedicated to tackling novel etiquette questions in the Internet age.
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