Portal:Novels/Did you know/8


 * ...that Alistair Beaton predicted the flooding of New Orleans in his 2004 satirical novel A Planet for the President?
 * ...that Burning Bright by John Steinbeck (pictured) was an attempt at a new form of literature, the "play-novelette"— but both the play and novel were savaged by the critics and Steinbeck never wrote for the theatre again?
 * ...that The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, a science fiction novel by Doris Lessing, was adapted for the opera in 1997 by Philip Glass?

Source

 * 1) Recent additions/2005/November, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 2) Recent additions/2007/April, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 3) Recent additions/2008/August, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.