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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.
The System of the World emulates many different literary styles. As one reviewer put it: it "is a con-fusion ... of historical novel, roman à thèse, epistolary novel, roman à clef, nouveau roman, satirical novel, roman fleuve, et cetera, et cetera, all bound up in the unlikely guise of epic science-fiction page-turner." [2]
Murderbot manages to free itself from enslavement, but instead of killing its masters, it staves off the boredom of security work by watching media. As it spends more time with a series of caring entities (both humans and artificial intelligences), it starts developing friendships and emotional connections, which it finds inconvenient.
All Systems Red is a 2017 science fiction novella by American author Martha Wells. The first in the Murderbot Diaries series, it was published by Tor.com. The series is about a cyborg designed to protect humans on a research mission. The cyborg narrates the story (hence, "diary") and calls itself "Murderbot".
Wallace submitted the novel as one of two undergraduate honors theses at Amherst College, the other being a paper on Richard Taylor's fatalism. He had begun study in philosophy at Amherst, interested in math and logic, and developed an interest in Ludwig Wittgenstein before beginning the novel. A professor commented that Wallace's philosophy ...
All Systems Down is a 2018 techno-thriller novel by American writer Sam Boush. The novel deals with a cyberwarfare attack on Western countries, focusing on three groups of characters in the United States .
Gall observes that, instead, system failure is an intrinsic feature of systems. He thereby derives the term general systemantics in deference to the notion of a sweeping theory of system failure, but attributed to an intrinsic feature based on laws of system behavior. He observes as a side-note that system antics also playfully captures the ...