As scriptwriter, Mr Yong partly retains the epistolary form of the novel and can turn a witty phrase.

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Well, the engineers at SSTL and the University of Surrey think the technology in Kinect could form the basis of a novel in-orbit proximity sensor and docking system.

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The cartoonish results, which approach cacophony, echo the brazen visual form of the graphic novel.

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Solyndra asserts that the novel form of its solar panels, which are cylindrical, in contrast with the flat ones now on most rooftops, will help it win more business.

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John Freeman, Granta's editor since 2009, tells The Guardian the biggest challenge for the judges has been "how to come up with an amalgamated definition of hope for the novel as a form".

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Rajaa Alsanea's novel, set in the form of a gossipy internet blog about four upper-middle-class Saudi girls and their calamitous love lives, was officially banned in Saudi Arabia when it was published in Arabic two years ago (and a lawsuit was briefly filed against the author, fortunately away in America studying dentistry).

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In the novel, we can enjoy all of this heroic spieling and exploring as a form of antic play.

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The units come together and join by way of a novel conical docking mechanism, allowing them to form a single, more complex robot.

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In my latest novel, "The Retrospective, " I tried to portray, in the form of fictional characters, the two forces that contend within me as an artist.

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Though others seemed to be enjoying this novel form of public grooming, seconds after I dipped my bare feet and felt the collective suction of the swarm, I yanked them back out.

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