The various elements of the novel fail to cohere.

这部小说的各部分之间无法连贯起来。

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I'm working with a European producer for my next film, which is based on my novel UFO in her Eyes; it's kind of a Kafka, science-fiction film with surreal elements.

现在我在和一位法国制片人合作下一部影片，是根据我的小说《情人眼的飞碟》改编的，一部居于卡夫卡和科幻之间，带有超现实元素的电影。

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This utopian novel is arguably not really ‘fantasy’, due to the lack of any magic or fantastic elements to speak of; indeed it even takes place on Earth.

可以说，这部乌托邦小说并不是真正的“幻想”小说，因为它缺乏我们谈到的魔幻或幻想元素，事实上故事甚至是发生在地球上的。

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The intertwining plots and narrative elements of the original novel, including extracts from a book written by one of the characters and a second story about pirates within the story, meant deciding what to include and exclude would be a complicated exercise.

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How does the tool kit of the novel, with its venerable elements of dialogue, landscape and plotting, persuasively present the first-person experience of someone who is overstimulated by the input of life and yet lacks the cognitive means to process and communicate it?

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The game combines the nuclear tragedy of 1986 with elements of the 1979 film by Andrei Tarkovsky and original novel Roadside Picnic in which forces unknown have sent physics awry, producing hard-to-spot anomalies where your next step could be your last.

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