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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 K. Le ...
Exceptionally complex works of literary fiction, including encyclopedic novels, systems novels, and maximalist novels. Pages in category "Encyclopedic and systems novels" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
In the BISAC system, Biography and Autobiographies (BIO) comes before works of Fiction (FIC) and Religion (REL). Within Fiction, FIC009020 (Fiction: Fantasy: Epic) is followed by Gaslamp fantasy novels (FIC009130, Fiction: Fantasy: Gaslamp) due to the alphabetic sorting.
A library bookshelf in Hong Kong classified using the New Classification Scheme for Chinese Libraries, an adaptation of the Dewey Classification scheme. The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), colloquially known as the Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system which allows new books to be added to a library in their appropriate location based on subject.
As a system of library classification the DDC is "arranged by discipline, not subject", so a topic like clothing is classed based on its disciplinary treatment (psychological influence of clothing at 155.95, customs associated with clothing at 391, and fashion design of clothing at 746.92) within the conceptual framework. [2]
The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress in the United States, which can be used for shelving books in a library. LCC is mainly used by large research and academic libraries , while most public libraries and small academic libraries use the Dewey Decimal ...
The Murderbot Diaries is a science fiction series by American author Martha Wells, published by Tor Books. The series is told from the perspective of the titular cyborg, a "SecUnit" owned by a futuristic megacorporation. Murderbot manages to free itself from enslavement, but instead of killing its masters, it staves off the boredom of security ...
Download QR code; Print/export ... Encyclopedic and systems novels (13 P) T. ... Web novels (4 C) Pages in category "Novel forms" The following 16 pages are in this ...