What was probably intended as tragedy, came across as cheap exploitative television, blurring the lines between fiction and fact. |
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Lisa's collection consisted mostly of some science fiction and fantasy, comic books, and computer manuals of varying sorts. |
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Textual Poachers gives considerable attention to the fan fiction written about characters and situations originating in television shows. |
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Wavell had, it seems, an interest both in light fiction and serious history. |
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As everyone who deals in any area of fiction is aware, there's such a thing as two people independently coming up with the same idea. |
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Every once in a while, a science fiction film comes along that really shakes things up. |
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Cyberspace creates a fine line between science fiction and popular theology, especially eschatology. |
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As a fledgling writer, I really wouldn't spend too much time worrying that people will write fan fiction with your characters in. |
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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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Next week, crime fiction writer and University of Western Sydney lecturer Jane Goodall rides again. |
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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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Fact and fiction are welded so that the genre of the biopic has no meaning in the canons of joined-up cinema. |
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Flash fiction can simply focus on a character who is interesting to observe for a few paragraphs. |
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The form par excellence for online journals, flash fiction is quickly establishing itself as a form to be reckoned with. |
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No matter what genre of fiction you prefer, you'll have a hard time putting down these two endlessly entertaining books. |
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It felt like I was in the torture scene from a science fiction movie, except that it didn't hurt. |
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They had their fairy tales, of course, but they were grossly inaccurate pieces of fiction that had long since strayed from the actual facts. |
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Unless you're the kind of person who spends their weekends writing fan fiction about video game characters this won't matter too much. |
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His fiction is constipated with the factual ingredients he stuffed into it. |
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In a sense, costume drama is a bit like science fiction that looks backward rather than forward. |
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It may have its root, philosophically, in the legal fiction that a corporation is a person. |
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They found it contained two bibles, a chess set, a backgammon game, a deck of cards, poker chips and several paper back pulp fiction novels. |
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Sujatha, in his preface, reminds us that science fiction need not necessarily be concerned with rockets and space odysseys. |
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Historical fiction varies from campy romance to character studies with imaginative insights more exact than fact. |
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It brought science fiction to the small screen for the first time and its eponymous lead character became the UK's first TV hero. |
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Some of the recognized sub-genres of fiction include novels, short stories and novellas. |
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It would probably help if I hadn't stayed up too late last night making a fiction index. |
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Flash fiction in general allows for satisfying stories that are told rather than shown. |
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This is also one reason why I remain so steadfastly resolute about concentrating on fantasy, science fiction and horror film. |
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Their initial list will be of humor-oriented titles, but they see a broad catalogue of fiction and nonfiction to follow. |
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It's the only brand of suspense I know in fiction that is so palpable, you can feel it on your skin. |
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He ranks high among the great detectives of fiction but does so unobtrusively, disdaining self-advertisement. |
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Although you spoke well of Smith's collection of essays, you also said that you were unfamiliar with his science fiction works. |
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However, the legacy he has left is impressive and his many splendid works of fiction will endure for a very long time to come. |
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For these reasons, Frankenstein has been considered the first science fiction novel. |
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Parallel universes are a venerable tradition in science fiction and fantasy. |
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No, I'll tell you several stories that will help explain the difference between fact and fiction and its composite, faction. |
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Science fiction cinema is no stranger to implausible robots, running the full gamut from implausibly cool to implausibly terrible. |
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The cult fiction collection presents four cheeseball attempts at low-budget horror that purposely elicit more laughs than chills. |
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And yet why is it that African Americans are so little a part of genre science fiction and fantasy today? |
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The novel is Barnes's first foray into the genre after a long flirtation with flash fiction and the longer short story. |
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Another technique that the writer can use in flash fiction is to write the story about a character that the reader already knows well. |
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He is also a difficult writer to define, ranging from fantasy to science fiction and essays. |
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It is racily written and holds the reader's attention as well as any good detective or science fiction novel. |
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If you accept the legal fiction of the corporation being a separate person, then taking its property violates its rights. |
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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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I do think that mental pathologies can be written, and I think that prose fiction is a particularly good way of doing it. |
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Perhaps he blurs fact and fiction a little in places but then again I guess that's forgivable in his line of work. |
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So it would be an error to be too strict or literal-minded about application of the science fiction label. |
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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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This fiction is realistic, often portraying the lives of common people and the underclass in the face of adversity. |
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Where most detective fiction involves a city unofficially run by gangsters, here the villains are outwardly in control. |
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I circled my original idea pondering the elasticity of fiction and the nature of narratology. |
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On the one hand it publishes original fiction and prose by authors in Tamil. |
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The on-going literature and fiction book exhibition at the British Library is turning out to be a boon for the bookworms. |
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Science fiction conjures up all manner of dangerous aliens and starbursts and quirky, mind-bending ripples in space and time. |
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In his short fiction Man-Eating Cats, he describes an adulterous affair not in terms of mere love but as total and complete empathy. |
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The principal themes of his fiction writing have been vampires, revenants, and creative anachronism. |
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The authors of the Enlightenment loved accessible fiction far more than dense treatises. |
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It is in that episode that the larger implications of Schreiner's intricate weave of fiction and autobiography become apparent. |
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One of the pleasures of good flash fiction is that it packs a lot into a small package. |
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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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Still, much as one enjoys the giddiness as reality and fiction seep into each other, there is still something wilfully costive about it. |
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She's also an up-and-coming fiction writer with a penchant for the dark and surreal. |
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Because for the American interests involved in 1950s Cuba, neither the facts nor the fiction had a Hollywood ending. |
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It's a funny thing, but despite the fact that science fiction and fantasy are my genre fiction of choice, I never liked Lord of the Rings. |
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Reading fiction requires the ability to suspend disbelief, to dream, and that's a critical faculty that we all need to exercise. |
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This marks the 60th anniversary of Polish science fiction writer's first work, about the Earth being attacked by Venusians. |
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Hadid's graphics remind me of the steep perspectives and vertiginous sweep of illustrations in science fiction comics. |
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It could be fiction or non-fiction, horror or fantasy or prose or epic poetry. |
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I let out a heavy sigh and thought hard for a few seconds, unable to register anything except comic books and fiction suspense novels. |
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Evidently, only the images and metaphors of fiction could do justice to the welter of searing impressions. |
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Chandler's fiction has just been released in three omnibus editions, a sure sign that he maintains an avid readership and lofty reputation. |
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For my own leisure reading, I found that fiction gradually lost its hold on me. |
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What viewers have learned is that the conventional signposts indicating truth and fiction can no longer be trusted. |
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Much of it was so abstract in relation to fiction or poetry as to be nearly meaningless in a literature course. |
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As a child and as a teenager, I often wrote fiction for pleasure, and was told that I had a talent for it. |
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What may sound like the stuff of science fiction is set to become an integral facet of the day-to-day lives of millions of people. |
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And he might have, had Nathan not used a fiction to flush the troth out of hiding. |
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Although women in Japanese Gothic fiction are often victims of male abuse, their spirits are capable of powerful revenge. |
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Thus, though the happenings in postmodernist fiction seem fabulist, it is clear that the writers have one foot in contingent reality. |
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The categories of fiction and non-fiction are among the most immovable divides in bookshops and libraries. |
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It has published its first work of fiction and folks in Miami are trying to find out the real-life models for the characters. |
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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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Perelman's free-associative style spun fantasias out of girdle ads, tabloid tattle, sleazy pulp fiction and recipe prose. |
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Since the mid-nineteenth century crime and detective fiction has been a prominent part of the output of all the dominant mass media. |
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Acker has explored the limits of experimental fiction more, perhaps, than any other writer published today. |
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Second, slash fiction is so similar to mainstream genre romances that it could reasonably be classified as a species of that genus. |
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He has published numerous articles on post-structuralism and cultural criticism and is currently writing a book on popular fiction and film. |
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In the science fiction movie, soldiers topple an alien war machine literally on its last legs. |
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I'd heard that it was a science fiction classic, with revolutionary ideas about free love and community. |
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It is really a legal fiction to say that a defect in the architecture of the courthouse itself caused her mother's death. |
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For a real slam-bang ending, express doubt as to which election is more obviously a farcical fiction designed to promote corporate interests. |
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Crime fiction offers a framework in which to pursue our curiosity about anomalous behaviour, it hooks us, as might a car crash on the motorway. |
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A picaresque novel with postmodern flourishes, the sinfully entertaining Zorro is serious fiction masked as a swashbuckler. |
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Considering its derivation from pop fiction and movies, Greene's writing is better than it needed to be. |
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The fact that they produce fiction that tops the secular best-seller lists, almost all of it apocalyptic, suggests that the charm remains. |
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In the US TV fiction production sector this is only discountable where an individual has had a recent commercial success. |
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I would like to see Cory, or others, recommending fiction with a broader stylistic range. |
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This seems especially true of recent fiction written by people who have never served a parish as its parson. |
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The novel also proves that literary fiction doesn't have to be elegiac in tone to be successful. |
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Ballard first entered the literary world as a science fiction writer, a genre he soon exhausted and has not explored in years. |
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More to the point, the great adventuresses of French fiction usually had a clear idea of what they were up to. |
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The myriad worlds of fantasy and science fiction are where our spirits are free to frolic unfettered by the weight of sin. |
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What was once the realm of science fiction has mutated into serious debate. |
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And literary fiction has to have something that the present or prospective PhD students can get their teeth into. |
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Through his constant narrativizing, Ambrose constructs a portrait of himself as a fiction and his narratives constitute his selfhood. |
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The alleged debt is simply an accounting fiction that provides a mask over reality and furnishes a convenient means for mulcting the taxpayer. |
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It is a modern, sentimental fiction always to ladle virtue over the working-class characters and obloquy over the rich ones. |
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Since my feeble attempt at fiction is so unfruitful and unliked, I shall not continue the story to bore you guys. |
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There are stories based on historical fact, classic works of fiction which are so archetypal in their plots that they seem to defy reality. |
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The president keeps wanting to debate fiction or hypotheticals rather than debate the reality of what's on the ground. |
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Most slash fiction carries a content warning and a disclaimer, explaining who holds the copyright to the original work it is based on. |
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The gauze of normality gives it a hallucinatory atmosphere of science fiction cut with the surreal banality of the suburbs. |
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Historical fiction runs the risk of degenerating into joining the dots of known facts with overdrawn, sentimentalised characters. |
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He discusses how the readers of crime fiction are caught up in the middle-class ideologies of the individual. |
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No sooner had this farrago of half-truths and complete fiction been discredited then along came the second myth. |
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But perhaps I wish we had the talent that we have in fiction in playwriting, because I think our novelists are quite extraordinary. |
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But to take this route as an author of creative fiction would seem to be the clearest way to stack the odds against the novel's success. |
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That's just so much hooey, but then fiction always sells better than nonfiction, doesn't it? |
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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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The website features information about those shortlisted to win the award for contemporary fiction and hosts web chats with featured authors. |
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And like most contemporary science fiction it offers a fairly grim view of the future. |
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Their products for sale consisted exclusively of hand-bound photocopied slash fiction booklets. |
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It also has, for the first time, little essays on subjects such as biography, short stories, detective fiction and so on. |
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If there is a slippage between fiction and biography in this text then how does this apply to the image? |
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I do allow them to choose characters from fiction as long as that character is human and not animal. |
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And it is science fiction about time travel, so you need to keep your wits about you. |
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Aztec art, with its themes of dismemberment and reintegration, was the inspiration for the fiction of magical realism. |
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Perhaps every writer of fiction suspects himself or herself to be a cold fish at heart, a mere spectator of other people's joys and passions. |
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The trouble with labelling fiction is that it can get shunted into the sidings of literature. |
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Finally in fear I'd hurt myself or others, a friend sent her science fiction addicted younger sister over with a tote bag full of VHS tapes. |
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Popular pulp fiction and radio sow the seeds of resistance to social injustice. |
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What happened was beyond the darkest imaginings of Hollywood or horror fiction and has made any outrage seem possible. |
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To me it was a great genre show that made horror and science fiction funny, smart, and eminently entertaining. |
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The science fiction and horror genres have often served as mirrors of the troubles and fears of the time. |
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Many live in a colorful world of fantasy and the lines between truth and fiction are often blurred. |
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Interestingly enough, though, it also works as a good science fiction film. |
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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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However, there are two ways in which writers of flash fiction can nonetheless focus on event as the primary element of a story. |
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To tell a story of character in flash fiction clearly poses special challenges. |
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Integrating fiction with non-fiction is no easy feat, but these would be valuable additions to any school book collection. |
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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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This is the fiction of dark haunted landscapes and twisted unfulfilled love. |
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That fiction would be laughable were it not so dangerously resonant of totalitarian regimes against which this country once stood firm. |
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Too often, what we're getting these days are short pieces of fiction and not short stories. |
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This fiction is a slight departure from my usual writing style and is an experiment in itself. |
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It is the writers of science fiction who have ventured to show us what the possibilities of space exploration might be like. |
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Whatever the case, fact sometimes surpasses fiction in its immense strangeness. |
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We are not likely to approach a work of fiction about James as Jamesian scholars. |
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Christopher Isherwood's memoirs and autobiographical fiction always encouraged readers to believe he had told the whole truth about his life. |
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The other option was science fiction with players having psionic powers, but we really felt more comfortable with the heroic fantasy theme. |
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Do you enjoy watching soap operas on tv, or reading good fiction or romance novels? |
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By the early seventeenth century, however, prose fiction had evolved beyond the limits of the novella. |
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New research, published yesterday, suggests children's love of contemporary fiction means classic tales are being left on the shelves. |
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Writers of fiction often use the same effect to present swift action, changes in thinking, and the like. |
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His first solo directing commission came in 1935, when he was invited to direct a massively ambitious science fiction project. |
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Too, the genre fiction paperback provided relatively easy access to the longer stories in one convenient volume. |
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First, I think the standard of fiction can reasonably be said to be rising. |
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Yeah, the twenty first century was going the way of science fiction all right, all fighting and Eden was far from in sight yet. |
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The principal themes of Holland's fiction writing have been vampires, revenants, and creative anachronism. |
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Judith Rowbotham looks at popular fiction writing as a vehicle promoting stereotyped attitudes toward violence. |
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Either way, I don't think you'll find much help on science fiction related groups, where we tend to be ailurophiles for the most part. |
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The link between science fiction and the history of astronautics is complex. |
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Is one of the criteria of slash fiction that it is inferior and derivative of the original text? |
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Her heritage of social activism influenced her to use her fiction and drama as propagandist tools. |
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His election reminds me of one of those 1950s science fiction movies in which a mad boffin throws a lever and the poles are reversed. |
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Fakery, fiction and actual recorded history swirl together in this intelligent and readable book. |
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Anything touching or heartbreaking or informative I might have to say was already written as fiction in a novel that's sadly out of print. |
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His fiction aspired to, and often achieved, a Chekhovian mixture of comic concision and pathos. |
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But today the genre stands as a lucrative niche in an otherwise struggling fiction industry. |
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The typical soldier of Victorian popular fiction and poetry, Tommy Atkins, had yet to be invented by Kipling. |
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Tyler's fiction has always danced dangerously close to being a paean to the so-called simple life. |
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It seems to me that fantastically imaginative fiction tends to be lumped in with the whole science fiction genre. |
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Modern fiction editors are too busy reading synopses and doing lunch to have any time to think about structure. |
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The science fiction story about a character called Daniel and his clones will be released with 200,000 copies. |
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But isn't it time the subject was brought from the clouds of science fiction to the debating hall and the laboratory bench? |
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Where this author is concerned fact and fiction are not like oil and water. |
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But I think my favorite genre is fantasy, with historical fiction at a close second. |
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His articles on mythology, folklore, fantasy, and science fiction have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals. |
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Certainly as a work of fiction this series could be easily dismissed as impossibly cute and unbelievable. |
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She's just surfaced, blinking like a mole, after wading through 50,000 pages of fiction in her role as a Booker Prize judge. |
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It's science fiction but it gives a good inside on war strategies and tactics. |
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Every aspect of what is supposed to prevail in serious fiction comes into play. |
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He read Aristotle, Plato, Marx and Lenin and devoured both great European novels and contemporary pulp fiction in binges of late-night reading. |
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As much as a charming science fiction tale, it's a study in how humans think and react. |
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The re-release of his entire fiction backlist will appear on shelves in bookshops this month. |
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The same can be said of any number of films adapted from fiction and nonfiction sources. |
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I don't find that fiction and journalism are particularly compatible for me. |
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He says Granta's mix of modern fiction and inquiring journalism is going down well. |
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Thus Tagore never wrote fiction or poetry in any language other than Bengali. |
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In fact, it's common to run across well-read people who no longer read any new literary fiction at all. |
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There's a feedback relationship between real exploration and fiction, if our fiction adheres closely to the way things might actually play out. |
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A lot of science fiction writers just use the scientific element as a McGuffin, to make the plot go forward. |
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Years ago, science fiction author Isaac Asimov wrote an anthology of books entitled I, Robot. |
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Crichton novels often skirt the boundary between science fiction and reality. |
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Unlike other scholars, he has chosen to give equal weight to works of fiction as well as diaries, memoirs and autobiographies. |
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Indeed there is probably more fiction in autobiography than there is autobiography in fiction. |
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If all fiction is autobiography, then we must suggest that perhaps all autobiography is fiction. |
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In short, Amiana proposes that writers of amatory fiction write something other than amatory fiction. |
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This single-minded, indeed simple-minded, artistic manifesto seems crude and dated, but the fiction it led him to produce is still fresh. |
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The result is familiar to any reader of pulp fiction or paperback originals. |
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Indeed, the fiction of an Australia blithely indifferent to America is the single-most unrealistic aspect of the film. |
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More precisely, the film's fiction has nature running amuck as a result of toxic waste, dumped out of corporate greed. |
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In science fiction there can be no inexplicable marvels, no transcendences, no devils or demons. |
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The point is that horror fiction, especially gothic horror fiction seems to owe a debt to St Augustine. |
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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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In this fiction the main characters are mutable, changing with the environment. |
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I chose prose narrative fiction as the crucial focus of comparison and confrontation among cultures of the world. |
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He sought to materialize this transgressive imaginative sensibility in both his fiction and non-fiction. |
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This section contains a shelf-ful of really good ones, both fiction and nonfiction. |
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Many times, historical fiction does the best job of leading the mind's eye back to past monarchs. |
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I kind of lost my taste for the science fiction show when they started explaining everything. |
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Since my feeble attempt at fiction is so unfruitful and unliked, I guess I shall not continue the story to bore you guys. |
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Many reviewers recognized his talents but criticized his uninhibited use of popular fiction conventions. |
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Such fiction seems to be almost entirely translated from novels originally written in English. |
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This, together with an unimposing camera, makes this movie both classic fiction and nearly documentary. |
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Science fiction writers like Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury and H.G. Wells have written about life on and invaders from Mars. |
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If Edison was the originator of the fiction film, they were the fathers of documentary. |
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But the motorcycle story was such an outrageous fiction that I thought the readers of e-Poshta should know. |
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And the fact that we know the island of St Gregory is a fiction doesn't help make for true grit. |
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Their press release, penned by Pyro, is a more entertaining fiction than plenty of novels published this year. |
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This case clearly demonstrates that the legal fiction is alive and well today. |
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Another friend, a bespectacled accountant and reader of science fiction novels, interrupted him. |
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Fitzgerald stopped doing this, as he wanted to work on his novels to write moneymaking popular fiction for the rest of his life. |
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It is this that lends her mildly titillating fiction the veneer of importance. |
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He was also a Marxian economist, a theorist of culture, a popular science fiction writer, and of course a political activist. |
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I felt I couldn't write a second chronicle of events, that only fiction could communicate what was happening to the city and its inhabitants. |
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Alexandra Lapierre, award-winning French novelist and biographer, has produced a book that combines biography, fiction and scholarship. |
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I resist the view that the pleasures of fiction derive from its purely thought-experimental aspects. |
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She's not a great fan of theirs either, and if her success proves anything, it's that fiction has been reclaimed from the literati. |
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He was the winner of one of the tragically underrated prizes for modern fiction writing. |
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It is not confined to fiction alone but is open to biography, travel writing and memoirs as well. |
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Donnie Darko proves that it's possible to do science fiction with visual effects in the independent film arena. |
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The fiction section contained subsections of fantasy, science fiction, teen fiction, and so on. |
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It is a fiction constructed through collection and amplification of the mundane. |
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Learning from experience, we have adopted a highly conservative approach to fiction and mostly play it for laughs. |
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His fiction is characterized by a densely referential and ironic style and by a preoccupation with the act of writing itself. |
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I feel very guilty about it, because I'm a fiction writer and I've been sending to slush piles for years. |
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Though she is careful not to ever pontificate or sermonise, she believes that written works of fiction ought to convey some message. |
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This is a work of fan fiction and holds no actual relevance to the real story. |
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The question then becomes, how do we read a work of fiction one of whose subtexts is the events of '48 and its consequences? |
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In any case, I tend to avoid the pop psychology and head for the speculative fiction or fascinating non-fiction. |
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The heavy paper and unnumbered pages lend a further arty quality to a production that lies midway between genre fiction and graphic novel. |
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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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His poetry and fiction celebrates the ordinary and commonplace, striving for a transformation that might well be magical. |
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The science fiction fascination with robots and androids is the culmination of this perception of machines as being almost like one of us. |
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Sleazy mass-market fiction has made a mint out of fading glamour and the stories of Hollywood dreams gone amiss. |
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By examining the conventions of published private letters, he shows how they straddle the border between fiction and reality. |
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He played a major part in shaping neo-realism in Italian fiction after the Second World War. |
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To that end, Harlan concludes that Up From Slavery was more a work of fiction than biography. |
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An author of fiction can invent people, places, and happenings, whereas a historian is bound by what the evidence will support. |
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Do not expect to like it if you do not like science fiction or Victorian literature set in London or Gothic horror. |
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It turns out that the line between science and science fiction is even more blurry that we thought. |
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It reminded me just how inaccurate science fiction and futurism inevitably are. |
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It engages in a fantastical speculation about what the future might hold, as any good science fiction does. |
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Now we get into the romance part for a while and forget science fiction for now. |
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This very modern thriller has all the elements of science fiction combined with a racy thriller. |
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More than any other literary form, science fiction always courts obsolescence. |
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Especially when a science fiction director decides to find science fiction in reality, something's wrong. |
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As Dwight got older his love for science fiction took a backseat to his love for space exploration. |
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Other themes that arise out of basic science fiction are the elaborate medical thrillers. |
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While I shy away from science fiction entirely, fantasy shall always be in my heart. |
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Call me stuck in a genre, but most of what I read is science fiction and fantasy. |
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However, in science fiction it has frequently referred to the viewing apparatus itself. |
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Why is it that prodigious writers of pulpy, elaborate fiction spark such complete devotion? |
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They were a success since science fiction fans could easily take part in a distinct sci-fi community and culture. |
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He has sold short fiction in a range of genres from horror to romantic comedy, and back again. |
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It was a fitting end to a game that had more twists and turns than a pulp fiction thriller. |
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It's not a genre like, say, science fiction or Gothic horror or romance. |
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The Tudor period is well-trodden ground in historical fiction and I admit I picked this book up wearily, thinking I knew it all. |
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Possibly, since they can be counted among the superstars of today who recognise the need to blur the boundaries between fact and fiction in constructing themselves. |
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At age 14, he enrolled in the City College of New York where he continued writing dime novels and pulp fiction which enabled him to support himself during college. |
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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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The sense that historical fiction had sunk to the condition of adventure stories for boys, and romance for the millions, cast a blight on the genre in the 20th cent. |
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Huge gothic, almost science fiction based soundscapes shroud their set. |
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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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Their neverending quest is reinforced by the United Nations' fiction that all nations are equal. |
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Science fiction is not regarded as a respectable genre, he agrees. |
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This tautly written, tightly plotted time bomb of a fiction covers two generations and 50 years in under 90 pages. |
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As the railway compartment became a popular venue for fictional mayhem when crime fiction flowered from the later Victorian years almost all cases involved men attacking men. |
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But at the same time, our hero-worship of fiction allows us to gloss over, or even embrace, certain issues we would do best to scrutinise a little more discerningly. |
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Her poetry, essays, and short fiction have appeared in many magazines and have been reprinted in the Pushcart and Best American Poetry anthologies. |
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Science fiction movies have become all too reliant on CGI these days. |
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You can, in short, overdo the pomp of sci-fi prophecy, the edge of quasi-religiosity that turns decently crafted fiction into something more grandiose. |
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In her new collection of short fiction titled Engum Vaanam, she has introduced a number of narrative techniques that range from fantasy to magical realism. |
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Making the disorienting shift from fiction to the news, I was too upset at the tragedy for any kind of rage. |
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The human subject, conceived as a unitary self capable of autonomous action and meaningful moral judgement, is one such fiction with which we have deceived ourselves. |
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What role does science fiction play in educating the public about science at large? |
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I never as a reader have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy. |
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Read too strictly, this would exclude highly inventive works of science fiction and fantasy because they lack realism. |
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They are not the unemotional automatons of science fiction myth. |
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I'm a feminist science fiction critic who is married to an alien. |
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This creates an irrebuttable legal fiction unconnected with the facts. |
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And it is the most incredibly dreadful and evil prolonged pain delivery device ever conceived by man since the thumbscrew or the fiction of L. Ron Hubbard. |
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As eight of her novels are republished, we salute a doyenne of literary fiction whose work juxtaposes tragedy and comedy. |
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For the fiction writer, the prose poem may be exhilarating because it allows an escape from the exigencies of the novel, novella, and short story. |
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Defoe wrote stories such as Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack and Roxana when prose fiction was regarded as a low form not worthy to be classed as literature. |
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And anyway, I try not to draw a dividing line between fiction and non-fiction. |
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Were you defining yourself as a fiction writer then, or did you already envision writing essays like the ones in The Unspeakable? |
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