Question: Time magazine's best novel of 2005 had it's screenplay written by what person?
Context: Sam Stone is a British author of gothic, horror, fantasy, science fiction and more recently a playwright for film and stage.  She is the commissioning editor of Telos Publishing imprint Telos Moonrise.  Stone's debut novel "Gabriele Caccini" (authored as Paigan Stone) won the silver award for best horror novel 2007 with "ForeWord" in the USA.  She was shortlisted for the August Derleth Award for Best Novel in the British Fantasy Awards for her second novel, "Futile Flame".  This book was also a finalist in "ForeWord"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Book of the Year Awards in 2009 and the third book in the series, "Demon Dance", was also a finalist for the 2010 Foreword magazine Awards and won the August Derleth Award for Best Novel in the British Fantasy Awards 2011.  This made her the first female writer to win the Award since Tanith Lee did so in 1980.  However, after the awards were announced, there was controversy over the voting and so Stone publicly returned the Award, not wishing to be associated with something which might have been awarded erroneously.  The BFS then declared that the voting was valid, but then in a later statement announced that the Best Novel would be declared a 'No Award' for that year.  Stone was not consulted in this decision.  She also won the Best Short Story Award in the British Fantasy Awards in the same year. A Clash of Kings is the second novel in "A Song of Ice and Fire", an epic fantasy series by American author George R. R. Martin expected to consist of seven volumes.  It was first published on 16 November 1998 in the United Kingdom, although the first United States edition did not follow until March 1999.  Like its predecessor, "A Game of Thrones", it won the Locus Award (in 1999) for Best Novel and was nominated for the Nebula Award (also in 1999) for best novel.  In May 2005 Meisha Merlin released a limited edition of the novel, fully illustrated by John Howe. Never Let Me Go is a 2005 dystopian science fiction novel by Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro.  It was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize (an award Ishiguro had previously won in 1989 for "The Remains of the Day"), for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award and for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. " Time" magazine named it the best novel of 2005 and included the novel in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005".  It also received an ALA Alex Award in 2006.  A film adaptation directed by Mark Romanek was released in 2010; a Japanese television drama aired in 2016. Throne of the Crescent Moon is a fantasy novel written by American writer Saladin Ahmed.  It is the first book in "The Crescent Moon Kingdoms" series.  The book was published by DAW Books in February 2012.  The book was nominated for the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel, 2013 David Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Newcomer and the 2012 Nebula Award for Best Novel.  It won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Charlie Jane Anders is an American writer and commentator.  She has written several novels and is the publisher of "other magazine", the "magazine of pop culture and politics for the new outcasts".  In 2005, she received the Lambda Literary Award for work in the transgender category, and in 2009, the Emperor Norton Award.  Her 2011 novelette "Six Months, Three Days" won the 2012 Hugo and was nominated for the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon Awards.  Her 2016 novel "All the Birds in the Sky" was listed No. 5 on "Time" magazine's "Top 10 Novels" of 2016, won the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 2017 Crawford Award, and the 2017 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel; it was also a finalist for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Among Others is a 2011 fantasy novel written by Welsh-Canadian writer Jo Walton, published originally by Tor Books.  It is published in the UK by Corsair (Constable & Robinson).  It won the 2012 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the Hugo Award for Best Novel and the British Fantasy Award, and was a nominee for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. 11/22/63 is a novel by Stephen King about a time traveler who attempts to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on November 22, 1963 (the novel's titular date).  It's the 60th book published by Stephen King, it is his 49th novel and the 42nd under his own name.  The novel was announced on King's official site on March 2, 2011.  A short excerpt was released online on June 1, 2011, and another excerpt was published in the October 28, 2011, issue of "Entertainment Weekly".  The novel was published on November 8, 2011 and quickly became a number-one bestseller.  It stayed on The New York Times Best Seller list for 16 weeks.  "11/22/63" won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the 2012 International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the 2012 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel and the 2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The Man Who Folded Himself is a 1973 science fiction novel by American writer David Gerrold, dealing with time travel.  It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1974 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1974.  The book explores the psychological, physical, and personal challenges that manifest when time travel is possible for a single individual at the touch of a button.  References to both the American Airlines Flight 191 crash and the destruction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers, events which did not occur until 6 years and 28 years respectively after initial publication, were added in the 2003 edition. Foundation's Edge (1982) is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, the fourth book in the "Foundation" Series.  It was written more than thirty years after the stories of the original "Foundation" trilogy, due to years of pressure by fans and editors on Asimov to write another, and, according to Asimov himself, the amount of the payment offered by the publisher.  It was his first novel to ever land on "The New York Times" best-seller list, after 262 books and 44 years of writing.  "Foundation's Edge" won both the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1983 and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1983, and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1982. Never Let Me Go is a 2010 British dystopian romantic drama film based on Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel of the same name.  The film was directed by Mark Romanek from a screenplay by Alex Garland.  "Never Let Me Go" is set in an alternative history and centres on Kathy, Ruth and Tommy portrayed by Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield respectively, who become entangled in a love triangle.  Principal photography began in April 2009 and lasted several weeks.  The movie was filmed at various locations, including Andrew Melville Hall.  "Never Let Me Go" was produced by DNA Films and Film4 on a US$15 million budget.
Answer: Alex Garland