Asphalt (novel)

Asphalt is a dystopian novel of speculative fiction by Carl Hancock Rux published by Atria/Simon & Schuster in 2004.

Plot

Novel

A novel is a long narrative, normally in prose, which describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a sequential story.

The genre has also been described as possessing "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years". This view sees the novel's origins in Classical Greece and Rome, medieval, early modern romance, and the tradition of the novella. The latter, an Italian word used to describe short stories, supplied the present generic English term in the 18th century. Ian Watt, however, in The Rise of the Novel (1957) suggests that the novel first came into being in the early 18th century,

Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, is frequently cited as the first significant European novelist of the modern era; the first part of Don Quixote was published in 1605.

The romance is a closely related long prose narrative. Walter Scott defined it as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents", whereas in the novel "the events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society". However, many romances, including the historical romances of Scott,Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term". Romance, as defined here, should not be confused with the genre fiction love romance or romance novel. Other European languages do not distinguish between romance and novel: "a novel is le roman, der Roman, il romanzo."

Novel (disambiguation)

A novel is a long prose narrative.

Novel may also refer to:

See also

Robert Conroy

Joseph Robert Conroy (August 24, 1938 – December 30, 2014) was an author of alternate history novels. He lived in suburban Detroit and was a semiretired business and economics history teacher. He died of cancer.

Bibliography

Asphalt (1929 film)

Asphalt is a 1929 German silent film. The film was one of the last silent films released in Germany as the world was entering the era of sound film.

Production

Crew

Asphalt was made by UFA, a German studio, and produced by Erich Pommer who was responsible for producing several films including Fritz Lang's Der müde Tod (1921), Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (1922), Die Nibelungen (1924), Metropolis (1927), and Spione (1928); F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924), Faust (1926), and Tartüff (1927); and other popular films of the era including The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Varieté (1925).

Director Joe May co-wrote the script. The sets were designed by Erich Kettelhut who also worked on Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler, Metropolis, and Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, with the uncredited assistance of Robert Herlth (Der müde Tod, Der letzte Mann, Tartüff, Faust) and Walter Röhrig (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Tartüff, Faust). The cinematographer was Günther Rittau (Die Nibelungen, Metropolis, Der blaue Engel).

Asphalt (disambiguation)

Asphalt is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid that is present in most crude petroleums.

Asphalt may also refer to:

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Asphalt 5

Asphalt 5 is a 2009 racing video game, developed and published by Gameloft as part of the Asphalt series. It was released for iOS on November 2, 2009, for Palm Pre on January 8, 2010, for Android on April 20, for Symbian^3 and Bada on December 22, and for Windows Phone 7 on July 25, 2012. A PlayStation Portable version was planned, but was cancelled.Asphalt 5 HD (a high definition version of the game) was released on the App Store and Android Market on April 1, 2010.

Gameplay

Asphalt 5's gameplay is very similar to that of Asphalt 4: Elite Racing and Ferrari GT: Evolution, with the player given the option of either tilting the device, touching the side of the screen to steer or using a virtual on-screen steering wheel. The iPhone version of the game uses landscape steering. The game also has a multiplayer mode, both local through Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and global through an internet connection.

Cars

There are 30 licensed vehicles available in the game. The initially available cars are the Mini Cooper S and Nissan 370Z.