Insignia (novel)
Insignia is the first book in the Insignia trilogy by S.J. Kincaid. The Insignia trilogy describes a dystopian future in which World War Three is fought throughout the solar system.
Plot summary
Earth's natural resources are almost depleted, and the world is embroiled in World War III to control the remaining assets of the solar system. The Indo-American and Russo-Chinese alliances are fighting for supremacy through virtual reality (VR) battles in interstellar space.
Insignia is told through the eyes of Thomas (Tom) Raines, a 14-year-old boy whose skill with VR games has attracted the attention of General Terry Marsh, a leading general in the Intrasolar Forces. Marsh offers Tom a position at a secret military training base: the Pentagonal Spire.
At the Spire, trainees are retrofitted with neural processors, computer-like devices inserted into the brain. Tom trains under the supervision of Elliot Ramirez. Elliot is the public face of Camelot Company (CamCo), the secretive fighting force for the Indo-American alliance. With the help of his friend, Wyatt Enslow, Tom uses the capabilities of his neural processor to attempt to communicate with Medusa, the undefeated Russo-Chinese combatant. Tom thus discovers his ability to interface with the Russo-Chinese server and become a part of the system. Medusa invites him to battle in a VR simulation.
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."
Moon of Israel (novel)
Moon of Israel is a novel by Rider Haggard, first published in 1918 by John Murray. The novel narrates the events of the Biblical Exodus from Egypt told from the perspective of a scribe named Ana.
Haggard dedicated his novel to Sir Gaston Maspero, a distinguished Egyptologist and director of Cairo Museum.
Adaptation
His novel was the basis of a script by Ladislaus Vajda, for film-director Michael Curtiz in his 1924 Austrian epic known as Die Sklavenkönigin, or "Queen of the Slaves".
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Novel (disambiguation)
A novel is a long prose narrative.
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