Literature (Alternity)

The following is a list of major novels written in the past century or so, quite of few of which in recent years have been adapted into blockbuster films. This is largely due to the major movie studios using the original authors as screenwriters (if possible), in order to maintain the integrity of the novels' storyline and attract audiences in greater numbers (thus greater revenue).

1870s

 * Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) -


 * Gone Second (1878) -

1880s

 * Eastern Skies (1882) -


 * Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) -


 * The Quake (1887) -


 * American Survival - Novels 1 - 5 (1888, 1889) -

1890s

 * American Survival - Novels 6 - 11 (1890 to 1892) -


 * The Red Badge of Courage (1895) -


 * American Survival - Novel 12 (1898) -

1900s

 * American Survival - Novels 13 - 22 (1904 to 1907) -

1910s

 * American Survival - Novels 23 - 32 (1910 to 1913) -


 * Indian Territory (1914) -


 * A Dark Nightmare (1918) -

1950s

 * American Survival - Novels 33 - 37 (1952 to 1954) - Final five novels of the American Survival series. The manuscripts were posthumously discovered among author Willie Lincoln's possessions by his sons Michael and Willie Jr. in 1949, twelve years after their father's death. The novels were finalized within a few years and published from 1952 to 1954.

1960s
The '60s was an era of both classic and controversial novels, with a sensationalized version of the inciting incident of the Philippine Sea War - the sinking of the 'large cruiser' USS Guam by a Philippine Imperial Navy destroyer west of the Marianas - being among them.


 * To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) -


 * The Incredible Journey (1961) - The book follows three house pets (Luath the Labrador, Bodger the English bull terrier, and Tao the Siamese cat) as they journey across 300 miles of Cascadian wilderness to return to their masters and encounter many dangers along the way, developing an unbreakable bond as a result. It was made into a film by the same name in 1963, and a remake in 1993 with the name Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey.


 * What Really Happened to the USS Guam (1967) -


 * Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) -


 * The Godfather (1969) -

1980s

 * The Bourne Identity (1980) -


 * The Attack on CVL-01 (1982) - A complete account of the Korean War attack by Philippine fighter and bomber aircraft on the US light carrier Taskforce CVL-01 in the East China Sea that resulted in the sinking of the light carrier USS Firrey (CVL-29). The account includes the perspectives of two of the five Philippine pilots that survived the attack, the XO of the Firrey and a signalman who was blown into the water from the flight deck by the rocket blasts.


 * The Sicilian (1983) - Sequel to The Godfather.


 * The Hunt for Red October (1984) -


 * Baja (1985) - Set in the US state of Baja California, in the Guayma County town of Upperton on the state's Pacific coast in 1907, the story follows an out-of-work journalist from San Diego who moves into town with his wife and three children, a tragedy that strikes them, and the terror it unleashes upon the unsuspecting town. Baja was adapted into a feature film script by Corrin himself in early 1987, and released to surprisingly positive reviews in April 1989.


 * The Bourne Supremacy (1986) -


 * Red Storm Rising (1986) - In Europe in the waning years of the Cold War - in the late-1980s - a terrorist attack on an oil depot deep in Soviet territory drains the USSR of oil and forces them to launch an all-out war against NATO and its allies to avoid economic concessions to the West, initiating the third world war. The book was later adapted into the 1992 techno-thriller film of the same name.


 * L'Anse Amour (1987) -


 * Patriot Games (1987) -


 * Last on Mars (1987) -


 * Earthian Expeditions (1987) - First book in the enormously popular and bestselling sci-fi series Earthian Expeditions.


 * Melancholy's Child (1988) -


 * Loch (1988) -


 * The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988) -


 * Lingering Landings (1988) - Second book in Earthian Expedition series.


 * February 30th (1989) -


 * The Awakening (1989) - When former schoolteacher Jack Connell is selected as the winter caretaker of the old High Bluff Hotel, deep in the Colorado Rockies, his wife Emily and six year-old son Danny are both somewhat apprehensive, and for good reasons. The hotel has a dark past, the darkest parts of which only young Danny can see, through a process called ‘Awakening’. Several months go by largely without incident, but in late December, shortly after Christmas, Jack begins to suffer a mental breakdown and recurrence of his alcoholism. And, as the hotel itself begins to slowly fall apart from malfunctions one after another, over the next two weeks, Jack begins to go insane and becomes violent, threatening not only his family's safety, but their very minds and souls as well...


 * Clear and Present Danger (1989) -


 * Race for Rights (1989) - Third book in Earthian Expedition series.


 * The PET Project (1989) -

1990s

 * The Sum of All Fears (1990) -


 * Last on Mars: Red Skies (1990) -


 * The Bourne Ultimatum (1990) -


 * Voyager (1990) - Fourth book in Earthian Expedition.


 * The Mariner (1991) -


 * Trying Times (1991) - Fifth book in Earthian Expedition.


 * Heir to the Empire (1991) - Rumored to have provided the basis for next year's Star Wars Episode VII, the first of the Star Wars sequel trilogy.


 * Dark Force Rising (1992) - Still sold worldwide, it is also rumored to be the basis for Episode VIII. Many are reading it to perhaps gain insight into the film upon its in release in 2002.


 * Without Remorse (1992) -


 * High Tide (1992) - Sixth book in Earthian Expedition.


 * Pah-Ute (1992) - Written by bestselling authors Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler, Pah-Ute follows the inadvertent discovery that the transfer of much of Arizona's Pah-Ute County (most of modern-day Clark County, NV) to Nevada in 1867 was overturned by a closed-door session of Congress in 1869. However, Congress never delivered their determination to President Lincoln and the decision remained buried for over a century. So what happened to force Congress to keep silent over a hundred years ago?


 * The Last Command (1993) - Unconfirmed to be basis for Episode IX, though it has sold out in many places.


 * Debt of Honor (1993) -


 * Flooded Banks (1993) - Seventh book in Earthian Expedition.


 * Receding Rage (1994) - Eighth book in Earthian Expedition.


 * The Good Son: No Fair (1994) - The literary sequel to the film, No Fair takes place two years later as fourteen year-old Mark Evans and his father Jack are flying to Nova Scotia for a father-and-son vacation near Cape Breton. En-route, their plane, Eastern Air Lines Flight 514, inexplicably loses control and crashes in a field fifty miles outside Fredericton, Maine. With over a hundred killed - including his father - Mark becomes the sole survivor of the crash and flees into the nearby forest in a daze. Far from the nearest town, Mark is left to fend for himself and finds himself being pursued by an unknown person. But Mark soon realizes something about his pursuer is eerily familiar...


 * Last on Mars: Canyon Rains (1994) -
 * Nova Scotia: BB49 (1994) - Written by Elijah Lane, the novel follows the battleship USS Nova Scotia and its crew as they fight off a Nazi beachead on the southernmost of the Bermuda Islands in 1943, and prepare to strike back at an Axis stronghold in the frigid Arctic.


 * Code: Enterprise (1994) - June 12, 1994, dawns yet another hot and humid day in New York City. But in the city where everything is ordinary, all it takes is one event to change that perception. And so it is when NY State militia seize the museum ship USS Enterprise, an old WWII carrier, along with nearly 150 hostages. Now as a joint local and federal task force races to negotiate for the hostages' release, a junior FBI agent inadvertently uncovers a disturbing connection to overseas terrorists, and the sale of an airborne bio-toxin that is now aboard the Enterprise, enough to kill everyone in the state of Manhattan. With 48 hours before the toxin is released, the agent, Simon Kyle, is tasked to board the ship with a team of CDC and Navy SEALs, to safely disable the missile in which the bio-agent will be deployed, and eliminate the militia once and for all. But when the plan goes horribly awry and all but Kyle are killed, he is forced to rely on his own, limited skills, those of his sole outside contact, and an unwitting young tourist he runs across in the bowels of the old carrier. If they fail, they forfeit not just their own lives, but those of the hostages and the 8.5 million of NYC...


 * Culkin (1995) - Written by actor Macaulay Culkin, Culkin follows 15 year-old Macaulay himself in a fictional setting where all the dark characters of his movies start coming to life and begin to torment him, namely Mark Bardmann of Baja and Henry Evans of The Good Son. Macaulay has stated that he was inspired to write Culkin by the events of A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Ascension.


 * Executive Orders (1995) -


 * Far Out (1995) - Ninth book in Earthian Expedition.


 * Gateway (1995) - Tenth book in Earthian Expedition.


 * P-Twin (1996) - Ben Corrin's latest original publication, P-Twin deals with a twelve year-old boy named Noah Randell who suffers from nightmares, which turn out to be a kind of weak psychic link to his thought-dead twin brother, a vicious and psychopathic killer who soon targets Noah and his parents for murder.


 * Shattered (1996) - Eleventh book in Earthian Expedition.


 * Encounter (1996) - Twelfth book in Earthian Expedition.


 * SSN (1996) -


 * The Good Son: Imperfect One (1996) -


 * Rainbow Six (1996) -


 * The Bear and the Dragon (1997) -


 * Tiburon: SS529 (1997) -


 * Tilt (1997) - Thirteenth book in Earthian Expedition.


 * Strike (1997) - Fourteenth book in Earthian Expedition.


 * Baja II (1997) - A novel adaption of Corrin's screenplay, Baja II follows the same plotline as that of the film: In February 1942, teenage Louis Bardmann and his family are living surprisingly normal lives, even under the threat of the new world war. Louis' father, Simon Bardmann II and Louis' older brother Casey are shocked when the skeletal remains of Simon's younger brother Mark wash ashore one day, heralding a new series of disturbing events similar to the ones of 1907, events that could very well tear Lucaston apart...


 * Last on Mars: The Red Ocean (1997) - The final book in Elijah Lane's Last on Mars tetralogy, The Red Ocean follows the events of Canyon Rains as the Firmers prepare the last stages of making Mars' atmosphere breathable to humans and subsequently brace for a wave of thousands of potential colonists. However, the Founders - who oppose the terraforming process - will stop at nothing to prevent the Firmers from achieving their goals, even threatening the lives of everyone on the Red Planet.


 * Spin 180 (1997) - In a twist of fate, Spin 180 gives an alternate account of the story of The Good Son, with Henry having long since turned from his psychopathic ways and Mark succumbing to uncontrolled emotions after his mother's death and his father's seeming abandonment of him. Mark soon gives in to his jealousy and rage over the close-knit family that Henry possesses and tells him that if he isn't accepted into that family within a week, they'll have only twenty-four hours to live. Cowed by fear of his cousin, Henry pressures his parents to accept Mark into the family, but Mark has a terrifyingly ulterior motive in mind...

Upcoming novels

 * Fifty-One, Laramie (1997) - The first of two upcoming Ben Corrin novels, Fifty-One, Laramie takes place in Cheyenne, Wyoming's 55-story Laramie Tower (a project that was cancelled in 1974 due to the bankruptcy of the Laramie Corporation) as a series of mysterious occurances force the tower's upper four floors to be sealed off and the building abandoned. And when a special forces team sent in is all but massacred by an unknown assailant, the sole survivor is forced to press on alone, and stumbles upon a terror brought to life. Fifty-One, Laramie is scheduled for release on September 8.
 * North Eighty-Seven (1997) - The second of Ben Corrin's upcoming novels, North Eighty-Seven takes place on an almost entirely ice-bound island hundreds of miles to the north of the Arctic Circle, at 87°N 50°W, where an unknown and vicious killer stalks a scientific team after they unexpectedly discover a 2000 year-old sarcophagus. Lastly, the team is surprised by the mysterious appearance of an unknown child, who may hold the secret to this deadly island.
 * Interaction (1998) - Soon-to-be released fifteenth book in Earthian Expedition; to be published in January.
 * The Good Son: Time to Live (1998) -
 * Students of Lexington (1998) - The next Tom Clancy thriller novel, with a unique twist. In Lexington, Massachusetts, a group of young college students note several strange occurrences, including a man on a street corner claiming that Napoleon VI is the President of France and that a massive Russian nuclear strike will destroy the world. The students then discover clues that lead to Egypt, where they only discover the first part of a rapidly unfolding mystery puzzle. The novel is rumored to be Clancy's first science fiction publication, with elements such as either time travel or 'parallel universes' likely to be involved.
 * Gulf No. 9 (1998) – The next Ben Corrin novel (after Fifty-One, Laramie and North Eighty-Seven), Gulf No. 9 is set on an uncharted, fog-cloaked island in the center of the Gulf of Mexico in 1943, after the US Navy cruiser Sherbrooke unexpectedly runs aground there. The novel is scheduled to be released March 13, and is rumored to be a crossover with Elijah Lane's Nova Scotia: BB49.
 * Meeting (1998) - Scheduled sixteenth book in Earthian Expedition, to be released next July.
 * Received (1998) - An FBI agent intercepts a local group of smugglers while conducting an operation in Seattle. However, when he discovers what they are smuggling, he unlocks a mystery from his past - or rather, his future. All of them are from the future, having returned to the past to prevent something from happening in their future. However, the agent is trying to prevent it the right way, while the smugglers have to break the laws to do so. But what exactly are these smugglers trying to prevent?
 * Beyond (1998) - Scheduled seventeenth book in Earthian Expedition, to be released next December.
 * Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe (1999) - Another upcoming Ben Corrin novel.

Planned novels

 * The Speaker (2000) - Fourteen year-old Charlie Michaels (sometimes referred to as 'Charlie Mike') is a severe autistic and lost half of his left leg to a car accident when he was seven, forcing him to use a cybernetic leg. As a result, his mobility is somewhat limited, complicating his parents' problem of having him interact with others outside their home in Denver. One day, Charlie leaves his home and parents for the first time in years to attend a special school for children like him. When he returns home later that day, he finds his parents dead: brutally shot by a presumable militia assassin. Now orphaned, Charlie becomes a ward of the state and is sent to a hospital for an evaluation before moving to a foster home. While undergoing his eval, Charlie is visited by government agents claiming the boy pertains to national security. Unconvinced, the hospital staff contact the local FBI and their lead agent, David Martin, to verify the mystery agents' claim, but before the FBI can confirm, Charlie is kidnapped, sending Martin and his top agents into a race to find the boy. Soon, Martin will find Charlie, but will also discover that saving him and keeping him safe may be more difficult than he ever thought. The Speaker is written by a collaboration between bestselling authors Elijah Lane and Tom Clancy, and is scheduled to be published in the summer of 1999.
 * Another Way (2000) - A spinoff of The Good Son, Another Way posits an alternate timeline where Henry Evans is born with no lack of empathy, and is never possessed by the Wendigo. As a result his younger brother Richard is still alive in modern times.
 * The Lonely One (2001) - Sequel to The Speaker by Elijah Lane and Tom Clancy.
 * The Speaker: Broken Silence (2002) -
 * Evans, Richard (2004) -