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. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/November#10 November 2005, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
2. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/April#2 April 2007, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
3. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/August#18 August 2008, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.