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Systems novel is a literary genre named by Tom LeClair in his 1987 book In the Loop: Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel, and explored further in LeClair's 1989 book, The Art of Excess: Mastery in Contemporary American Fiction. LeClair used systems theory to critique novels by authors including Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis and Ursula Le Guin.
The Three-Body Problem ( Chinese: δΈδ½; lit. 'three body') is a story by Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin, the first novel in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. [1] The series portrays a fictional past, present and future wherein Earth encounters an alien civilization from a nearby system of three Sun-like stars orbiting one ...
Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson. Considered one of the earliest and best-known works in the cyberpunk genre, it is the only novel to win the Nebula Award , the Philip K. Dick Award , and the Hugo Award . [1]
Robert Ludlum bibliography. Robert Ludlum (1927β2001) was an American author of twenty-seven novels between 1971 and 2006, the last being issued five years after his death. [1] Of his twenty-seven novels, two were originally published under the pseudonym of Jonathan Ryder and another under the pseudonym of Michael Shepherd.
978-0-593-39556-1. Project Hail Mary is a 2021 science fiction novel by American novelist Andy Weir. Set in the near future, it centers on school-teacher-turned- astronaut Ryland Grace, who wakes up from a coma afflicted with amnesia.
942477364. Aurora is a 2015 novel by American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson. The novel concerns a generation ship built in the style of a Stanford torus traveling to Tau Ceti in order to begin a human colony. The novel's primary narrating voice is the starship's artificial intelligence. [1]
vii, 470. Followed by. Equality (1897) Looking Backward: 2000β1887 is a utopian [1] science fiction novel by the American journalist and writer Edward Bellamy first published in 1888. [2] The book was translated into several languages, and in short order "sold a million copies." [3]
The System of the World is a novel by Neal Stephenson and the third and final volume in The Baroque Cycle. The title alludes to the third volume of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which bears the same name.
System Shock is an original novel written by Justin Richards and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Fourth Doctor, Sarah and Harry and is followed by the BBC Books Past Doctor Adventures novel Millennium Shock, also by Richards.
A Shock to the System is a 1984 black comedy novel by Simon Brett. The novel was adapted into the 1990 film of the same name starring Michael Caine. Plot. Graham Marshall, the protagonist, is a rising executive at a London based oil conglomerate, and has always played by the rules.