Book Events for Noisy

19th century

• The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

1st century

• Claudius the God and his Wife Messalina: the troublesome reign of Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Emperor of the Romans (born 10 BC, died AD 54), as described by himself, also his murder at the hands of the notorious Agrippina (mother of the Emperor Nero) and his subsequent deification, as described by others by Robert Graves
• I, Claudius : from the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Emperor of the Romans, born 10 BC, murdered and deified AD 54 by Robert Graves

1st century BCE

• I, Claudius : from the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Emperor of the Romans, born 10 BC, murdered and deified AD 54 by Robert Graves

7 Television Episodes novelized

• Star Trek 5 by James Blish

Acquired claim to Sargol

• Sargasso of Space by Andre Norton

Alien Invasion

• The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

American Civil War

• Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore (1865)
• Sahara by Clive Cussler (1865)
• The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (1865)

Arrival on Floria

• The Florians by Brian M. Stableford

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• Sahara by Clive Cussler (1865-04)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• 'The Number of the Beast' by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea
• Watchmen by Alan Moore

asteroid impact

• Footfall by Larry Niven

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Attempted renegotiation of Pact with Sungari

• Prison of Night by E. C. Tubb

Austrian Grand Prix

• The Way to Dusty Death by Alistair MacLean

Avianca aircrash

• Outliers : The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Battle of Five Armies

• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of Hoth

• The Empire Strikes Back: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker by Donald F. Glut

Battle of Lincoln

• Dead Man's Ransom by Ellis Peters (1141)

Battle of Marston Moor

• A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson (1644-07-02)

Battle of Midway

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Milvian Bridge

• The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Battle of Plassey

• Nightrunners of Bengal by John Masters (1757-06-23)

Battle of Quoriston

• Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov

Battle of the Atlantic

• H.M.S. Ulysses by Alistair MacLean (1945)

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-Five: or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1945-01-25)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Return of the King Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Two Towers Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Battle of the Somme

• In Pale Battalions by Robert Goddard

Battle of Vienna

• Quicksilver : Volume One of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Waterloo

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke ([1815])

Black Death

• The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (1350)

The Blitz

• The Ministry of Fear: an entertainment by Graham Greene (1941)

Bloody Assizes

• Quicksilver : Volume One of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson

Boer War

• Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling
• An Utterly Impartial History of Britain or 2000 Years of Upper-class Idiots in Charge by John O'Farrell

Bombing of Dresden

• Closing Time by Joseph Heller
• Slaughterhouse-Five: or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Boxer Rebellion

• The First to Land by Douglas Reeman (1901-09)

British Grand Prix

• The Way to Dusty Death by Alistair MacLean

British Raj

• Life's Handicap by Rudyard Kipling

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)
• God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

Cloud seeding

• The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Cold War

• Billion-Dollar Brain by Len Deighton
• Footfall by Larry Niven
• The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carré
• Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea
• The Looking-Glass War by John Le Carré
• The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John Le Carré
• Tinker tailor soldier spy by John Le Carré
• Smiley's People by John Le Carré (1946-1991)
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (1991)

Cold War arms race

• The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth

Cold War Espionage

• The Seeds of Treason by Ted Allbeury

cooking

• Delia Smith's Complete Illustrated Cookery Course by Delia Smith

Coordinated Attack by the Tooks

• Inverted World by Christopher Priest

The Council of Elrond

• The Fellowship of the Ring Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Death

• Eon by Greg Bear

Death of Edith Keeler

• Star Trek 2 by James Blish

Declaration of Helsinki

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

The Disappearance of the Dolphins

• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams

Discovery of the Levant-Meyer Translation

• Mindbridge by Joe Haldeman

Discovery of the Rimbold

• Sargasso of Space by Andre Norton

Discovery of the Zero Stones

• The Zero Stone by Andre Norton

Dunkirk Evacuation

• The Hour of the Donkey by Anthony Price (1940-06-04)

Durban Declaration

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

Early lunar missions

• The Falling Astronauts by Barry N. Malzberg

Easter Rising

• Slide Rule : The Autobiography of an Engineer by Nevil Shute (1916)

Edict of Fontainebleau

• Quicksilver : Volume One of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson

Edinburgh Festival

• Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin (1993)

Elizabethan Era

• The Alexander Text of William Shakespeare The Complete Works by William Shakespeare

End of the Universe

• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
• Time by Stephen Baxter

End of Time

• The Dancers at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock

English Civil War

• A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson

English Renaissance

• The Alexander Text of William Shakespeare The Complete Works by William Shakespeare

Ernesto Castillo's father either dies or is assassinated

• Doctor Frigo by Eric Ambler

evolution

• Your Inner Fish : The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor by Neil Shubin

Falklands War

• 'I Counted Them All Out and I Counted Them All Back' The Battle for the Falklands by Brian Hanrahan (1982-06-14)
• The Battle for the Falklands by Max Hastings ( 1982-06-14)
• The Falklands War by Paul Eddy ( 1982-06-14)
• The Winter War: The Falklands by Patrick Bishop (1982-06-14)

Fall of France

• The Hour of the Donkey by Anthony Price (1940-06-22)

Fall of Singapore

• The Pride and the Anguish by Douglas Reeman (1942)
• South by Java Head by Alistair MacLean (1942)

Fends off Melagavian attack on farm

• Jondelle by E. C. Tubb

Fimbulwinter

• The Weirdstone of Brisingame: A Tale of Alderley by Alan Garner

First appearance of the Salariki

• Plague Ship by Andre Norton

First contact with extraterrestrial lifeforms

• The Thing by John W. Campbell

First contact with the Thranx

• Nor Crystal Tears by Alan Dean Foster

Found a clue: Sirius, Alpha Centauri, Polaris which doesn't move.

• Zenya by E. C. Tubb

French Grand Prix

• The Way to Dusty Death by Alistair MacLean

French Revolution

• The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm (1789)

G8

• The Naming of the Dead by Ian Rankin (2005)

Galactic Civil War

• Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
• Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Gallipoli

• H.M.S. Saracen by Douglas Reeman

German Grand Prix

• The Way to Dusty Death by Alistair MacLean

global warming

• The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Glorious Revolution

• Quicksilver : Volume One of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
• An Utterly Impartial History of Britain or 2000 Years of Upper-class Idiots in Charge by John O'Farrell

The Great Fire of Ankh-Morpork

• The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

Great Fire of London

• Quicksilver : Volume One of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson

Guadalcanal Campaign

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Gulf War

• The Crow Road by Iain Banks (1990-1991)

Gulf War, 1990-1991

• The Fist of God by Frederick Forsyth

Gunpowder Plot

• An Utterly Impartial History of Britain or 2000 Years of Upper-class Idiots in Charge by John O'Farrell

Halley's Comet

• 2061 : Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke

Hindenburg disaster

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Hunting traniks in the sandworm tunnels

• Web of Sand by E. C. Tubb

Hyborian Age

• Conan the Barbarian by L. Sprague De Camp

Indian independence movement

• Bhowani Junction by John Masters

Indian Mutiny

• Nightrunners of Bengal by John Masters (1858-06)

Indian Rebellion of 1857

• Nightrunners of Bengal by John Masters

Industrial Revolution

• The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm
• Earth is Room Enough by Isaac Asimov

Interbellum

• Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers (1939)

Introduction of Dane Thornson

• Sargasso of Space by Andre Norton

Introduction of the Solar Queen

• Sargasso of Space by Andre Norton

Invention of chronometer

• Longitude: The true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time by Dava Sobel

Iraq War

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

Italian Grand Prix

• The Way to Dusty Death by Alistair MacLean

Jacobean Era

• The Alexander Text of William Shakespeare The Complete Works by William Shakespeare

July 7, 2005 Terrorist Attack, London

• The Naming of the Dead by Ian Rankin (also known as 7/7)

Kalin gifts Dumarest a Ring

• Kalin by E. C. Tubb

Kane North injured by IED in Iraq

• Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton (2003)

Kaththea learns to control her powers

• Sorceress of the Witch World by Andre Norton

Lavinia Claims pregnancy

• Prison of Night by E. C. Tubb

Learns sector and star type of Earth

• Jondelle by E. C. Tubb

Mahdist War

• The Triumph of the Sun: A Novel of African Adventure by Wilbur Smith (1899)

Making of Close Encounters of the Third Kind

• The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Man-Kzin Wars

• The Man-Kzin Wars by Larry Niven

Manhattan Project

• "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character by Richard P. Feynman
• Watchmen by Alan Moore

May Day

• Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Meeting of Earl Dumarest and Kalin

• Kalin by E. C. Tubb

Megatherium Trust crash

• Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers (1928)

Melbourne Cup

• In the Frame by Dick Francis

Melding Plague

• Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
• Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds

MiG 25

• Foxbat by Peter Cave (Code Name Foxbat)

Monmouth Rebellion

• Quicksilver : Volume One of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson

The Morning Glory cloud

• The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Moscow Trials

• Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

The murder of Anthony Bellarosa.

• The Gate House by Nelson DeMille

The murder of Frank Bellarosa.

• The Gate House by Nelson DeMille

Napoleonic Wars

• Ramage and the Renegades by Dudley Pope
• The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm (1815)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1815)

Nineteen Year Winter

• Brother Cadfael's Penance : The Cadfael Chronicles XX by Ellis Peters (1154)
• The Confession of Brother Haluin by Ellis Peters (1154)
• Dead Man's Ransom by Ellis Peters (1154)
• The Devil's Novice by Ellis Peters (1154)
• The Heretic's Apprentice : The Sixteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters (1154)
• The Leper of Saint Giles by Ellis Peters (1154)
• Monk's-Hood : The Third Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters (1154)
• One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters (1154)
• The Pilgrim of Hate by Ellis Peters (1154)
• The Potter's Field : The Seventeenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters (1154)
• The Raven in the Foregate : The Twelfth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters (1154)
• Saint Peter's Fair by Ellis Peters (1154)
• The Sanctuary Sparrow by Ellis Peters (1154)
• The Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters (1154)

Nuclear War

• Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick

Occupation of Germany

• A New Kind of War by Anthony Price

October Revolution

• Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

Operation Barbarossa

• Dark Voyage by Alan Furst (1941-12-05)

Operation Weiss

• Partisans by Alistair MacLean

The original colonization of Darkover

• Darkover Landfall by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Peninsular War

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1814)

plagues

• Quicksilver : Volume One of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson (London, 1665)

Post-apocalypse

• The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick
• The Thing by John W. Campbell

Quest of Erebor

• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

R100 Airship project

• Slide Rule : The Autobiography of an Engineer by Nevil Shute

Ragnarok

• The Weirdstone of Brisingame: A Tale of Alderley by Alan Garner

The Reappearance of Earth

• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams

Recontact with Arcadia

• The City of the Sun by Brian M. Stableford

Recontact with Dendra

• Critical Threshold by Brian M. Stableford

Recontact with Wildeblood colony

• Wildeblood's Empire by Brian M. Stableford

Reign of Claudius

• Claudius the God and his Wife Messalina: the troublesome reign of Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Emperor of the Romans (born 10 BC, died AD 54), as described by himself, also his murder at the hands of the notorious Agrippina (mother of the Emperor Nero) and his subsequent deification, as described by others by Robert Graves
• I, Claudius : from the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Emperor of the Romans, born 10 BC, murdered and deified AD 54 by Robert Graves

Rescues Jondelle in Sargon, wakes up at farm

• Jondelle by E. C. Tubb

Resurrection of the Dead

• Earth is Room Enough by Isaac Asimov

Roman Empire

• I, Claudius : from the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Emperor of the Romans, born 10 BC, murdered and deified AD 54 by Robert Graves
• Claudius the God and his Wife Messalina: the troublesome reign of Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Emperor of the Romans (born 10 BC, died AD 54), as described by himself, also his murder at the hands of the notorious Agrippina (mother of the Emperor Nero) and his subsequent deification, as described by others by Robert Graves ( 1453)

Running of the Bulls

• The Darwin Awards : 180 bizarre true stories of how dumb humans have met their maker by Wendy Northcutt

Russian Revolution of 1917

• The Buckingham Palace Connection by Ted Willis

The Scattering

• Chapter House Dune by Frank Herbert

The Scattering

• Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert

Searches for the Kidnapped Jondelle

• Jondelle by E. C. Tubb

Second Flight of the Daedalus

• The Florians by Brian M. Stableford (first found 4 colonies dying, 1 had disappeared without a trace)

Seldon Crisis

• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
• Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Selling Chromismite Crystals smuggled from Estage

• Jondelle by E. C. Tubb

September 11 Attacks

• Dead Air by Iain Banks (2001-09-11)

Siege of Khartoum

• The Triumph of the Sun: A Novel of African Adventure by Wilbur Smith (1885-01-26)

Sinking of the General Belgrano

• The Battle for the Falklands by Max Hastings
• The Falklands War by Paul Eddy

Spanish Civil War

• Night Soldiers by Alan Furst

St. Patrick's Day parade

• Cathedral by Nelson DeMille

Theory of Evolution

• The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Thirty Years' War

• The Confusion by Neal Stephenson
• Quicksilver : Volume One of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
• The System of the World by Neal Stephenson

Threadfall

• Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey

Three Mile Island

• Outliers : The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Tomis tries to take Dumarest's land by force

• Prison of Night by E. C. Tubb

The Troubles

• Knots And Crosses by Ian Rankin
• Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin (1998)

Tuskegee syphilis study

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One

• 2001: a space odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

Tycho Magnetic Anomaly Two

• 2001: a space odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

U.S.S. Cole Bombing

• The Panther by Nelson DeMille

USAAF daylight bombing of Germany

• Goodbye Mickey Mouse by Len Deighton

Victorian Era

• The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Vietnam War

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
• The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
• The Quiet American by Graham Greene
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (1975)

War on Terrorism

• A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré (2001-)

Weather control

• The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Wild Hunt

• The Moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner

Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

• Fermat's Last Theorem: The Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years by Simon Singh (1993)

Woodstock Music and Art Fair

• The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea

World War I

• To Sail Beyond the Sunset: The Lives and Loves of Maureen Johnson (Being the Memoirs of a Somewhat Irregular Lady) by Robert A. Heinlein
• An Utterly Impartial History of Britain or 2000 Years of Upper-class Idiots in Charge by John O'Farrell (1918)

World War II

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
• Closing Time by Joseph Heller
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• Earth is Room Enough by Isaac Asimov
• Goodbye Mickey Mouse by Len Deighton
• Liquidate Paris by Sven Hassel
• A New Kind of War by Anthony Price
• Night Soldiers by Alan Furst
• The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick
• Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst
• Strike from the Sea by Douglas Reeman
• "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character by Richard P. Feynman (1945)
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (1945)
• The Chequer Board by Nevil Shute (1945)
• Dark Voyage by Alan Furst (1945)
• A Dawn Like Thunder by Douglas Reeman (1945)
• Death and the Dancing Footman by Ngaio Marsh (1945)
• The Destroyers by Douglas Reeman (1945)
• The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1945)
• Enigma by Robert Harris (1945)
• Glide Path by Arthur C. Clarke (1945)
• Go In and Sink! by Douglas Reeman (1945)
• H.M.S. Ulysses by Alistair MacLean (1945)
• The Hour of the Donkey by Anthony Price (1945)
• Pied Piper by Nevil Shute (1945)
• The Pride and the Anguish by Douglas Reeman (1945)
• Red Gold by Alan Furst (1945)
• Slaughterhouse-Five: or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1945)
• South by Java Head by Alistair MacLean (1945)
• SS-GB: Nazi-occupied Britain 1941 by Len Deighton (1945)
• To Risks Unknown by Douglas Reeman (1945)
• The Unconquerable by Helen MacInnes (1945)
• An Utterly Impartial History of Britain or 2000 Years of Upper-class Idiots in Charge by John O'Farrell (1945)
• Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean (1945)
• With Blood and Iron by Douglas Reeman (1945)
• Worldwar: In The Balance by Harry Turtledove (1945)
• The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean (1939-1945)

World War II, American Home Front

• "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character by Richard P. Feynman

World War II, British Home Front

• The Chequer Board by Nevil Shute
• The Trojan Horse by Hammond Innes

World War II, Eastern Front

• Legion of the Damned by Sven Hassel
• Wheels of Terror by Sven Hassel
• Dark Voyage by Alan Furst (1945-05-05)

World War II, German Occupation of France

• Pied Piper by Nevil Shute (1944)
• Red Gold by Alan Furst (1944)

World War II, Pacific Theater

• The Pride and the Anguish by Douglas Reeman (1945-09-02)
• South by Java Head by Alistair MacLean (1945-09-02)

World War II, Ultra

• Enigma by Robert Harris

World War III

• Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick

Wreck of the Méduse

• A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes

Xenocide of the Formics

• Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
• Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Buggers)

Yalta Conference

• The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick

Ελληνοιταλικός Πόλεμος

• Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst