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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. [ 1] LeClair used systems theory to critique novels by authors including Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis and Ursula Le ...
A professor commented that Wallace's philosophy writing tended to have the quality of an unfolding story, leading Wallace to explore literature. Having submitted Broom of the System to the Department of English, he decided to focus his career on fiction. Broom was published in 1987 as Wallace completed a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing ...
978-0-316-92004-9. Dewey Decimal. 813/.54 20. LC Class. PS3573.A425635. Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace. Categorized as an encyclopedic novel, [1] Infinite Jest is featured in Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.
W. Somerset Maugham. William Somerset Maugham[ n 2 ] CH (/ mɔːm / MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) [ n 1 ] was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German university. He became a medical student in London ...
Genre. Urban Fantasy. Publisher. Gollancz. Published. 2011–present. Media type. Print. The Rivers of London series (alternatively, the Peter Grant or the PC Grant series[2]) is a series of urban fantasy novels by English author Ben Aaronovitch, and comics/graphic novels by Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel, illustrated by Lee Sullivan.
Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. [3] Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning ...
The Divine Invasion. Valis (stylized as VALIS) is a 1981 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, intended to be the first book of a three-part series. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God. Set in California during the 1970s, the book features heavy auto-biographical ...
Daniel Defoe. Daniel Defoe (/ dɪˈfoʊ /; born Daniel Foe; c. 1660 – 24 April 1731) [1] was an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations. [2] He has been seen as one of the ...