How To Use Fiction In A Sentence
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The new taxon is named Gamerabaena, and the authors note, under etymology, "'Gamera refers to the fictional, firebreathing turtle from the 1965 movie Gamera, in allusion to his fire-breathing capabilities and the Hell Creek Formation ...
"Look at everything around us. Look at everything we've done."
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Either the recession is biting harder than I had realised or a lot of people are confused about the boundaries between fact and fiction.
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But her own life was often stranger than any action-packed fiction plot.
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Truth is not only stranger than fiction, but often saintlier than fiction.
The New Jerusalem
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In the child's imagination, fuelled by science-fiction, the aliens are about to land.
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It was followed by Crime, where plot and suspense were king, and those often sidelined as "genre fiction" — Crichton, King or Rendell — were given credit for their craft.
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On the other hand my books don't lend themselves to movies and they tend to violate basic laws of fiction writing.
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As a result, instead of the clean visuals that typify the science fiction genre, we see lens flares, shaky handheld cameras, zooms, and sloppy rack focuses even in CGI shots.
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Those qualities were instead projected on to a father he had barely known and a figure he invented in fiction.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was the reality glossed over in television fiction; indignity, suspicion, denial of the decencies.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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In maieutic fiction, the protagonist is faced with a problem that requires a reflective reevaluation of self, with resolution achieved not by action but by realisation, in an epiphany that is not gnosis but rather logos.
Archive 2009-07-01
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You know how sometimes SF/Fantasy is referred to as "speculative fiction", in an attempt to encompass all types of non-realistic fiction, and also to avoid the stigma of genrefication?
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And don't forget, they're celebrating this milestone with a way-cool anthology of audio fiction: StarShip Sofa Stories, Volume 1!
Congratulations to StarShip Sofa and Episode #100!
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She began writing successful romantic fiction and historical novels.
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Penguin used to do these great science fiction paperback editions, and they had one series with really evocative paintings — glossy, garish, almost hyperrealist — on the covers.
Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2
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The crime is manifestly a fiction, a movie-inspired fantasy.
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It's science fiction all right, but it's also a character study and a murder mystery.
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Fujiwara's fictional art-market foundation is pointedly pre-Christian; he wants, he suggests, to reference a period before art was required to be "transcendental" or "moral" and link it to its strictly "commercialised" roots.
Frieze art fair 2010 – review
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The point of reading Kafka's fiction is not, it seems to me, to arrive at a conclusion that the world we live in is absurd, or frightening, or grotesque, but that the world Kafka has created is self-sustaining and entirely logical.
Translated Texts
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That's a fiction you can't sustain with a roster full of rookies and no-names.
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We talk about why the new generation slipstream is not the fusion of literary fiction and SF/F. Fri 1200 Remembering Robert Anton WILSON
Archive 2007-08-01
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This quasi-historical fiction is followed hy a succession of fabliaux, novelle and historiettes which fill the rest of the vol.iv. and the whole of vol.v. till we reach the terminal story, The
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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It's science fiction but it gives a good inside on war strategies and tactics.
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We have all been guilty of it: blurring the lines between reality and fiction.
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The history of Christian missions, after all, is the chronicle of Western missionaries and their exploits, and the notion of missionaries from the East preaching to a godless Europe is the stuff of creative fiction.
The Chinese are Coming
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The debut in spring 2006 of HBO's television series, Big Love, which featured a fictional and in some ways likeable polygamous family in Utah, propelled polygamy to the front pages of American newspapers and put the idea of legalized polygamy "in play" in some surprising quarters.
Elizabeth Marquardt: Get Ready for Group Marriage
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The scheme became a common trope in detective fiction, but there are almost no documented cases of a criminal forging another person's fingerprint.
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I want to hear him read some scary fiction or corny old poetry, play his nose flute, then get us all to open our windows and shout, ‘Excelsior, you fatheads!’
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There are further parallels to be drawn within this illusory cat 's cradle of fiction, memoir and biography.
Times, Sunday Times
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From Wikipedia: A redshirt is a stock character, used frequently in science fiction but also in other genres, whose purpose is to die soon after being introduced, thus indicating the dangerous circumstances faced by the main characters.
October 2007
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We believe, and we believe that you believe, that of the many and proliferating means for communicating big ideas, one of the most effective, and therefore most enduring, is fiction.
A Long Story
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Blindly, unwittingly, erringly as Dickens often urged them, these ideals mark the whole tendency of his fiction, and they are what endear him to the heart, and will keep him dear to it long after many a cunninger artificer in letters has passed into forgetfulness.
Literature and Life (Complete)
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In France Zola was the dominant practitioner of naturalism in prose fiction and the chief exponent of its doctrines.
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One of the more interesting paths Donoghue sets out to traverse is what she terms the borderline territory of "murkily criminal" lesbian sex as found in mystery and detective fiction.
Edmonton Sun
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The trouble with labelling fiction is that it can get shunted into the sidings of literature.
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I resist the view that the pleasures of fiction derive from its purely thought-experimental aspects.
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Gordon's eighth work of fiction is a triptych of lives, a weaving of three histories that culminates in a few days of crisis.
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Chinese writers, he confronts the troubling complexities of recent history by means of a simple parable that reaches far beyond the boundaries of its fictional world.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The indie science-fiction movie is an unpredictable beast.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's a great reader of crime fiction.
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This is not a season for experimental fiction, such as the book by that Canadian bloke in which each chapter uses only one vowel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Amusing, instantly likable, and whip-smart, he's in possession of a life so unconventional and fantastical, it's more twisted than fiction.
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Bewildering indeed. Conspiracy theories have emerged faster than mushrooms in a damp Exmoor field. Some claim the shooting was a fiction, dreamed up to discourage trophy-hunters.
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They even visit Canterbury on their way, but the tales they tell (mostly to us, not each other) are the bitter-sweet flashbacks of memory, not episodes of instructive fiction.
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Ray Bradbury turned 90 years old on Aug. 22, and the science fiction pioneer has no intention of slowing down.
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Postscript: The most entertaining way to learn something about Turing, albeit in fictionalized form, is to read Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, one of my favorite books.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Things I Didn’t Know
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The principal themes of Holland's fiction writing have been vampires, revenants, and creative anachronism.
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The top selling non-fiction book Blink is coining mucho bling for Malcolm Gladwell, yet in 1997 Gladwell wrote a New Yorker article called "The Sports Taboo: Why blacks are like boys and whites are like girls," which made exactly the same argument as Larry Summers made about what is innately different in the capabilities of males and females -- that men have a larger standard deviation on many traits, so there are more men at the top and bottom of the bell curves.
Archive 2005-02-27
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Most Hollywood films, particularly science fiction films, are these days a mass of overfamiliar and uncredited cliches that have been ripped off and merged together, usually not very intelligently.
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Haraway's juxtaposition of the words ‘fiction’ and ‘reality’ illustrates the arbitrary nature of these and other binaries in Western society.
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But today the genre stands as a lucrative niche in an otherwise struggling fiction industry.
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Fictional situations are related anecdotally to life experiences.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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Writer, publisher, mother of two incipient adults, slave of cats: Barbara Friend Ish is the publisher of Mercury Retrograde Press, which publishes fantasy, science fiction, and interstitial works.
MIND MELD: The Best Genre Crossovers
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An increased consciousness of conceptual systems as necessary fictions accompanies a growing awareness of the conventions of narrative.
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Debut novelists will make up nearly half of the Orange prize for fiction longlist, which this year tackles strikingly difficult subjects: incest, sadistic cruelty, polygamy, child bereavement, hermaphroditism and mental illness.
Orange prize longlist tackles difficult subjects – and alligators
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Artists who work in nonfiction, by contrast, try stick to the contours of what happened while primarily serving the themes of the story.
Christianity Today
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I explore optimistic possibilities in fictional worlds to express my hope for good and transcendent outcomes.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Kay Kenyon
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On the other hand, maybe sanity is overrated, and a decent sabbatical from fiction is just what my brain needs to come up with loads of exciting new ideas.
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Sir Andrew describes the character as ‘one of the best villains in Victorian fiction’.
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Like Misael in La Libertad, Vargas is a nonactor whose character carries his real-life name, but whose being is subsumed more intensely and intensively into Alonso's fiction.
Artforum.com
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Documentaries can be as heavily scripted as fictional movies.
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He did everything from the Gernsbackian "scientifiction" of the Thirties to comic strips to juveniles to adult novels that set standards for decades to come.
Archive 2008-04-01
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Crick, and his colleague Leslie Orgel, who originally suggested the idea with him, supposed that the bacteria had originally evolved by natural processes on the home planet, but they could equally, while in the mood for science fiction, have added a touch of nanotechnological artifice to the mix, something like the molecular gearwheel illustrated opposite.
Scientists' Responses Solicited
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I circled my original idea pondering the elasticity of fiction and the nature of narratology.
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If all those clever writers studied other writers at university, they should, in addition to producing fiction and poetry, be writing capacious essays for the mythical common reader.
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He wanted to enlarge the magazine into'a general literary periodical' covering both poetry and fiction and was upbeat about likely sales.
The Times Literary Supplement
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All quibbles about the merits of that series aside, as an English major, it makes me happy when an author of prose fiction becomes stinking bloody rich.
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I am a huge fan of fast, movie style fiction, so the slow lumbering is too much for me.
The Life Counted In Pages Meme - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn
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In 1960, metafiction popped up, describing self-referential novels that dealt with the writing of fiction.
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If I weren't set up for that and were looking for outside hosting, I'd probably go for something like Meilin Miranda's latest brainstorm, which is a co-hosting site for authors doing crowdsourced fiction: DigitalNovelists. com.
Ceciliatan: Web serial novel: how the experiment is going
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This is too neat to be true, and doesn't sufficiently acknowledge the porousness of the boundaries between fiction and life.
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Humans are also preoccupied by fantasy & fiction of all types, even especially? knowing that it is *fiction*, we do not have to hypothesize a platonic realm to explain that...
Free Will and Behavioral Genetics, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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I still feel this way about a lot of books; I like either nonfiction or stories in blatantly fictional settings - but not the ones that are "realistic" dramas involving self-torturing individuals and their families.
A sad day for bananafish
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Despite the Cylons being redesigned, the story changed a little, and the complexity ramped up a thousandfold, the new Battlestar Galactica won legions of new fans for a franchise many thought long since dead, and through extras such as the spin-off project Razor (plus other forthcoming films) and the upcoming prequel series Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica story will continue to echo in the science fiction pantheon long after the series has ended.
Galactica Original | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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It might come as a surprise to my readers to hear that I am a rather dedicated fan of non-fiction.
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I did have a good eye and ear for character, one of the few things I was able to grasp in playwriting and carry into fiction.
Interview: Elizabeth Hand
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But I saw that fiction--he pronounced the word gingerly, as though it were something dangerous--is perhaps not, as I had thought, merely an inducement to idleness and wicked fancy.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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In the fast-emerging video direct marketing arena, this fact-versus-fiction scenario had been somewhat of an industry bugaboo until just a few years ago.
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It goes without saying that more than a few of these works have been reprinted in anthologies such as Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year and several editions of Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction.
August 2009
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The fiction section contained subsections of fantasy, science fiction, teen fiction, and so on.
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He writes, "This is a city that fabricates, forgets, and forges its past-in both senses of 'forge'-through misrepresentation and politically motivated fictions".
PopMatters
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This is a clever ploy to hook the booklovers after giving them the taste of the best of fiction reads.
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Perrin says in the essay that he believes Williams en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Williams_ (UK_writer) is less famous than Tolkien or C.S. Lewis partly because he wrote fiction only for adults, not for adults and children: “All Hallows Eve will never be a TV special – or if it is, it will be so debased and vulgarized as to make most TV specials of great books seem works of astonishing fidelity.”
2008 October 23 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. Mark Twain
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Because of the colonel's sudden and unexplained departure from the regiment, fact was augmented by fiction.
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As Mark Twain once said, " Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction?
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Like the other writers, Johnson did not always have a plan to write faith-based fiction.
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I don't myself find these questions entirely uninteresting, but are they really the preeminently "serious" kinds of questions a writer of fiction can pursue?
Saying Something
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Originally published in 1971, the publication has at its heart what purports to be the yearbook of the fictional C. Estes Kefauver Memorial High School in tragically woebegone Dacron, Ohio.
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Smaller shelves for hardback fiction.
Times, Sunday Times
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Moreover, his fascination with B-movies, science fiction and the rest of pop culture was self-conscious but not qualified by archness or irony.
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The non-intellectual wing of the Christian Right Community has committed a sacrilege and blasphemy, (to say nothing of the secular crime of high treason), because they have accepted the fiction of a cynical team of writers, who depict the god they describe as a homicidal, Demonic, maniac, and touted these despicable properties as "holiness," and used that as an excuse to support and urge the slaughter of their chosen Muslim fantasy enemies.
THE SHAMELESS END-DAYS FICTIONAL REPLACEMENT FOR REVELATION.
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The skilled reader is not dependent on the adventitious aids of easiness or brightness; he is no longer, for instance, dependent upon plot for his enjoyment of fiction, or upon what is called 'actuality' or 'incident', or mere verisimilitude of description.
2010 January 08 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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Given the turbulent and often violent nature of the times, the reasons a writer might choose to reflect them through the medium of hard-boiled detective fiction might seem self-evident.
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As Butler's fictional author of the Book of the Machines notes, ‘I cannot think it will ever be safe to repose much trust in the moral sense of any machine.’
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The word summons up images of late-night cram sessions, essays fleshed out with as many adjectives as can fit onto a sheet of wide-ruled paper, bibliographies that are technically works of fiction, and grades that are lower than we secretly believe they ought to be.
Seanan_mcguire: Thoughts on Writing #32: Deadlines.
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Its first rentals will be academic books and journals aimed at students, with a broader range of fiction and non-fiction expected to follow.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fiction that we are not coterminous with ourselves comes early to some and perhaps never or only hazily to others.
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At one level, the movie is about science fiction, kung fu, firearms and non-stop action.
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Michael Chabon is fighting the good fight for science fiction. [via swivet]
August 2008
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I don't see many arty-farty bodies supporting, say, writers of romantic fiction.
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Indeed there is probably more fiction in autobiography than there is autobiography in fiction.
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His forte lay in articulating authentic emotion, because most of his fictional writing was structured around intensely felt personal experiences.
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Most fictional time machines disappear in one time and reappear in another, but real time machines use the strange effects of relativity on time and space.
Times, Sunday Times
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Intelligence in fiction, then, is usually conceived as a variety of Aristotelian dianoia:Under Thought dianoia is included every effect which has to be produced by speech, the subdivisions being: proof and refutation; the excitation of the feelings, such as pity, fear, anger, and the like; the suggestion of importance or its opposite.
Plot and thought
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All product names are either registered trademarks of the respective companies or fictional entities, work it out yourself!
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The Plaza Theater is showing a classic science fiction double feature.
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But it suits Nationalists and unionists alike to maintain the fiction of an indivisible UK health service.
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In Britain, more so than in other countries, science fiction has always had a stigma attached to it.
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Dank, damp and almost unrelievedly joyless, the Starz miniseries tells a fictional tale of 12th-century politics and the skullduggery that was supposedly part of it, as knaves and heretics vie for the throne of a mucky, pig-ridden and sparsely populated England.
TV preview: 'The Pillars of the Earth'
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Claire Leigh and Julia Gillick, both 29 note their ages, it's important, were thrilled at the can-do response to their letter which complained that the women's fiction section was "very light, with lots of pink fluffiness and there were no classic authors".
There's nothing wrong with judging a book by its cover | Viv Groskop
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Unfortunately the public conflated fiction with reality and made her into a saint.
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Austin has written three novels and co-authored four non-fiction books.
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The ultimate end-point of this, on one side of the dialectic, is maieutic fiction. posted by Hal Duncan | 9: 43 PM
On Mimetic and Maieutic Fiction
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Nostalgia is a collective, fictionalised and romanticised view of the past, no?
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By choosing to anchor her fiction within the realms in which most crime occurs, Mina eschews the glamorous settings of other, less realistic novels of the genre.
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So they hated their "target" audience from the get-go, and despite wanting to get away from "Science Fiction" they are going to continue doing the same thing:
April Fool's Comes Early: SyFy anyone?
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It has become a truism to say that the home of weighty subjects in fiction is often young adult books.
Times, Sunday Times
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Don't believe what she says?it's pure fiction!
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He has written the world's first science fiction novel entirely in Scots.
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We are not likely to approach a work of fiction about James as Jamesian scholars.
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Even if these people are the fictional creations of a playwright, you feel that you know them at the end of a good play.
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This isn't your usual science-fiction novel, but then Brinkworth isn't exactly your typical author.
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Austen's fictional circulating library, Clarke's, in Meryton may have doubled as a bookshop and stationer's, like the business of Thomas Wilson in Bromley, a market town ten miles from London.
What Was Mr. Bennet Doing in his Library, and What Does It Matter?
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She still tries to maintain the fiction that she is happily married.
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In this kind of inauthentic, aesthetically impoverished fiction, the writer has latched on to fiction as a vehicle for "saying something," not as a form of verbal art in which the work must "say" for itself.
John Dewey's *Art as Experience*
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Woronov's prose occupies bizarre territory, somewhere between twisted lyricism and hard-boiled pulp fiction.
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Forest Goblin shamans are prone to run off dizzily, or just blunder about, unable to distinguish fact from venom-induced fiction.
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With a metafictional wink and a nod from Dew, the narrator comments, "In fact, not until the second decade of the twenty-first century would Sputnik's connection to the demise of Desert Rose dinnerware . . . be noted and remarked upon in a novel written late in the career of one of those three-named women writers who initially cropped up in the 1980s.
Book World: 'Being Polite to Hitler' rounds out profile of an American family
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Plus, not everyone believes in hocus pocus lifestyles of the religious superstition and the fact that the Bible is purely FICTION and was written long after those apostles died and that the Gnostics written by women were omitted from the Bible not to mention how much the Bible has been altered and words changed in that work of fiction all these years.
Think Progress » O’Reilly Responds: “What I Said Isn’t Controversial. What I Said Needed to Be Said.”
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Romantic fiction can no longer attract her.
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The result has been a number of works of art in the distinctively postmodern genre of historiographical metafiction.
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From hard-edge science fiction to high-flown fantasy, comic books to film noir, high culture to sub-culture… we sink our teeth into it all!
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It must be vexing to find oneself becoming a fictional character in old age.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thankfully, I read rather a lot of good (by which I mean charactery) science fiction throughout January and February.
A Sci Fi Experience Wrap-Up
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Like all histories and memories, the history of the self is always orchestrated from fragments of information, both factual and fictional, into a conceptual matrix that re-presents truth or reality.
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This kind of metafictional goofing around was a common convention of the Looney Tunes cartoons, which often referred implicitly or explicitly to the offscreen animator, with characters looking upward in this way to get the attention of the artists a device most famously used in Chuck Jones' Duck Amuck a few years earlier.
The Girl Can't Help It
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Her experience of going from brutal small town to souless megacity shapes much of her fiction.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fact and fiction merge together in his latest thriller.
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No fictional account of human humiliation and shame can capture the frightening banality of the people's treatment at these checkpoints.
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As mentioned, SIMMONS takes a step forward from "The Terror" here; by introducing an unreliable narrator, he successfully manages to blur the line between facts and fiction and thus piquing reader's interest.
Archive 2009-12-01
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The case was so surrealistic that the novelist Francisco Goldman decided to abandon the magic of fiction and tell this "baroque story of perhaps perverse human passions" in journalistic form in The Art of Political Murder.
John Feffer: Not-So-Magical Realism
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It's going to be called The Drift, its another hard-boiled fiction.
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If Edison was the originator of the fiction film, they were the fathers of documentary.
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He would talk of his major book, said Carpenter, ‘not as a work of fiction, but as a chronicle of actual events,’ seeing himself not so much its maker as its discoverer and historian.
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The other is a lurid science fiction tale, made up by the woman's demon lover during assignations in rundown, disreputable places.
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Manchester Science Festival, ManchesterThis might be the season of superstition and spooks, but since science is more unbelievable, wondrous and scary than fiction, it's apt timing for Manchester's cornucopia of explorative events (more than 200 of them).
This week's new events
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I don't like science fiction novels much. When you've read one, you've read them all.
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In SF circles, this is being seen as another attack on science fiction as subliterary as opposed to paraliterary which is just so awful and mean.
Nick Mamatas' Journal
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Suicide is not often used in contemporary fiction and is very much taboo.
Times, Sunday Times
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And speaking of science, the story uses a fair amount of real, present-day science which is delineated from the fictional in an enlightening afterward.
REVIEW: Twistor by John Cramer
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Amazingly tender, gentle film; science fiction and love in perfect harmony.
Times, Sunday Times
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Day takes a fictional look at a wide-ranging Japanese exobiologist...in space.
Archive 2010-07-01
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The lives of fictional private detectives tend to be action-packed, dangerous and full of incident.
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The fiction of Richard Powers sometimes resembles a dying satyr — above the waist is a mind full of serious thought, philosophical reflection, deep exploration of music and science; below, a pair of spindly legs strain to support the great weight of the ambitious brain.
2009 September | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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The former world heavyweight champ was supposed to write a book documenting his prison experiences but clearly finds fiction more enjoyable.
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This biography sometimes crosses the borderline between fact and fiction.
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in the field of romantic fiction.
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Space themes are not confined to futuristic fictional series on television, although these are by far the best known and the greatest revenue generators.
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Wood's extolling of "lifeness" and character as key to "how fiction works" has resulted in much red-flagged response from those who favour avant garde experimentalism.
Archive 2008-12-01
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Even though I'm fond of saying we are living in the age of science fiction, until Rosie is doing my dishes, that statement is not correct.
MIND MELD: What Are The Coolest Robots in Science Fiction?
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The idea that the United States could harmoniously accommodate all was a fiction.
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The theme of"disillusion"in the urban fiction is composed of three levels:li fe, living and being, and includes two narrative structures"linear dev elopm ent" and"transverse apposition".
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Reading detective fiction and being able to converse about it at length over an extended period of time were undoubtedly what got me moving in that direction, because in my personal life Ive never been much of a gumshoe or very tough at all.
James Fuerst - An interview with author
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Mr. Eschenbach's bald head, small frame and omnipresent Nehru jackets may remind movie fans of Ian Fleming's fictional villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld—at least as embodied by the actor Donald Pleasence in "You Only Live Twice.
Restoring the National's Glory
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This is why, when the fantasy turns out to be science fiction in disguise, I tend to like that a lot more.
SF Fanatic: I Am Not A Fan Of Fantasy, Here's Why
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Most of these "Pulp Fiction" retreads are made by chronically uncool asshats who want to make up for all the wedgies they got in high school.
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I'm not sure if it was ever marketed as young-adult fiction, but the violence depicted is nothing I've ever read in YA before.
Book Review: "Battle Royale" by Koushun Takami
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He'd love to be a guest lecturer at the school occasionally, maybe teaching creative non-fiction.
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Some authors fill a novel with futuristic scenery and jargon and then strenuously, even stertorously, deny that it's science fiction.
Embassytown by China Miéville – review
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Just as much of today's horror fiction is vampire-driven, one major branch of modern fantasy -- in novels, "cosplay" (costume play), gaming and comics -- is obsessed with an alternate 19th century, one in which the inventions and mad scientists of Jules Verne, the tweedy science fiction of H.G. Wells and the gaslight romances of Arthur Conan Doyle have been mixed and remixed.
"The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack," steampunk by Mark Hodder
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Not only is it a science fiction author's ultimate idea repository and writer's-block alleviator, but the folks at DARPA obviously have a sense of humor about their overtly Matrix-like, world-dominating aspirations.
Brave New World Order: A Googlement Above, Around, and Ahead of the People
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While concretised metaphors may be written into the strange fiction of novae, errata and chimerae, and this sort of fantastication therefore quite familiar, the pataphor is noticeably distinct in the fact that it concretises the metaphor, in this example, as it occurs, violating convention in the most fundamental way, rendering the whole narrative as unpredictable and metamorphic as a dream.
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk
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It tells the story of three young people raised at a secluded English boarding school, where we learn their lives are conscribed by a dark secret, one that involves science fiction-like advances in modern medicine.
Director Mark Romanek Tackles 'Never Let Me Go'
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I had to explain that as a mentor of young adult fiction, I see a lot of genre fiction that fits the genre okay but isn't worth developing further, which is more denigratory than I like to be in an introductory session.
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Yet he has become one of crime fiction's most admired and liked characters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Striking testimony to the enduring power of Ulysses is that we mark not the birth of its author or the publication of the book but the imagined day of the fiction.
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From my friend Henry Gee (whose highly recommended blog is The End of the Pier Show, the show in question being Henry's many lives as science editor, fiction and non-fiction book author, palaenotologist, SF supremo, polymath, father and Person Who Lives in Norfolk These Days): Ansible 240 (July 2007)
Writing
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This year's Blogathon auction schtick is me posting fiction/poetry I wrote that you made something for/about; we auction off the piece and take sponsorship for the story, and all money goes to the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center.
Monday
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I would class this a speculative fiction anyway, but there we start in interminable process of labelling, and lets not have that pointless discussion here.
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville « I Can’t Stop Reading!
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It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, which came out in 1996 having originally been published in Seth's comic series, Palookaville, follows the artist's search for an obscure (fictional) cartoonist named Kalo; Wimbledon Green (2005) tells the story of "the world's greatest comic book collector".
George Sprott by Seth
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Oh heavens above how dare they create a parallel in a satire between real life and their fictional world!
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In fact, each story becomes a metafiction: they are about the process of telling war stories as much as they are war stories themselves.
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David Ramsay, watchmaker and horologer to James I., was a real person, though the author has taken the liberty of pressing him into the service of fiction.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Somehow, writing extremely plot-driven fiction seems to have pushed me over into the borderlands of genre -- in most bookstores my book's shelved with literary fiction, but at least one genre bookstore carries it (Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego) and it was reviewed in Mystery Scene.
Archive 2010-05-01
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But this is not straightforward autofiction.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The representational strategies this body of fiction deploys in depicting Eurasians can be seen as a refusal to allow the history of the Anglo-Indian community into the official colonial narrative.
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Mold Bookshop33 High Street, Mold, Flintshire CH7 1BQ, 01352 759879Among the usual modern fiction, classics and art books, there's a definite tendency at the Mold Bookshop toward travel, history and children's literature, reflecting the interests of owner Caroline Johnson.
Independent bookshops in Wales
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I know I shall not be able to describe this trait, yet when I look up into her eyes -- eyes, remember, which are mere fictions of my imagination -- when I look into her face, when I see her move so statelily into my presence, I recognize there that portion of her which she has inherited from the Aphrodite of other days; and this I know is beauty.
Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
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The author outlines both the commonalities that define science fiction fandom and the tensions and schisms within the community, focusing on participants in organized clubs, amateur publications, and conventions.
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It reminded us that, for all the California-Wired-Hollywood bluster, cyberpunk was essentially a British invention, synthesized first through fictions and sonics then theory.
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The middle classes are the most avid readers of novels, non-fiction and even poetry.
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Whenever the unthinkable happens, you can be pretty sure science fiction will unthink it.
What's Wrong with Star Trek?
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The fourth chapter analyzes the artistic techniques and representational style of Reinvented Fiction.
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Emperor Charles V., an accomplished soldier and a learned historian -- such was the creator of the hungry rogue Lazarillo, and the founder of the "picaresque" school of fiction, or the romance of roguery, which is not yet extinct.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
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It could be argued that this apocalyptic novel is a ghost story, science fiction, transcendental cult fiction, anti-military agitprop or new-age fantasy - it is all of these and more.
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That's because the play is about a neurochemist named Roland Welby who is doing research on a fictional drug called Zeropinealphrine which, it seems, could radically accelerate human evolution.
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The ads display black and white photos of the party's Legco candidates taken from a video portraying its members in a similar vein to the fictional presidential cabinet in the TV series.
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Although the line between fiction and non-fiction in this book is thin, there is nothing wrong with that.
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Some of the pieces seemed autobiographical, others were clearly completely fictional, but there was a lot more focus on emotion, memory, and poetic language (example: "the blue sky hanging in acres above the yellow leaves") than I have in my own work or am used to seeing in SF.
Hotlips writing workshop