The Big Sleep (1946 film) The Big Sleep (1946 film) The Big Sleep is a 1946 film noir directed by Howard Hawks, the first film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name. The film stars Humphrey Bogart as private detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge in a story about the "process of a criminal investigation, not its results." William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman co-wrote the screenplay. In 1997, the U.S. Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," and added it to the National Film Registry. Because the film was scheduled for release a
The Book of the War other parallels with "Doctor Who" characters and concepts can be found, but these links are not explicit. No familiarity with "Doctor Who" is required to appreciate "The Book of the War". Characters and settings from "The Book of the War" appear in later "Faction Paradox" novels including "Of the City of the Saved...", "Warring States" and "Newtons Sleep", and the short story anthology "A Romance in Twelve Parts". The otherwise unrelated novel "Dictionary of the Khazars" is a rare example of similar use of a non-linear encyclopedic structure for a work of fiction. The Book of the War The Book