Fiction Sentence Examples

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean you can't learn from it.

His characteristics in his prose fiction and descriptive work are not very different from those of his poetry.

Of fiction proper there was an abundance.

The fiction section offers original stories.

It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.

In some twentieth-century science fiction visions of the future, humans created friendly robot sidekicks with data storage capacity and computational speed the human brain lacked.

This is not science fiction.

Each year, one work of historical fiction written for children or young adults is recognized.

This is a popular rule with fiction writers, but it means something a little different in this context.

Among the new Indiana Jones video games, this is surprisingly one of the most accurate recreations of the famous fiction.

There are two general historic fiction writing types.

The fiction of Belisarius wandering as a blind beggar through the streets of Constantinople, which has been adopted by Marmontel in his Belisaire, and by various painters and poets, is first heard of in the 10th century.

Alberic Trium Fontium, a monk of the Cistercian monastery of Trois Fontanes in the diocese of Chalons, embodied much poetical fiction in his chronicle (c. 1249).

First of all, the Chronicles of Riddick movie has a huge fan base as it is in both the science fiction and action categories.

Novelty lenses are customizable and can be used in fantasy or science fiction to give an alien or mythical creature an extra edge of believability.

As America left the age of science fiction and entered into the age of communes and natural living, younger families rejected the pink flamingo and all it stood for.

The Extra Terrestrial and Shrek to science fiction fun like Men In Black, guests can jump into their favorite roles and be a part of some of Hollywood's most popular movies.

These games are first-person, squad-based and based on the Rainbow Six fiction universe.

But the independence of things may with much greater reason be regarded as itself a fiction or prejudice.

A thriving community of gamers still create interactive fiction titles even to this day.

This RPG includes elements of science fiction and magic as you travel the galaxy in search of the secrets of the universe.

It featured the same overhead view and real-time strategy game play as Warcraft but in a science fiction setting.

In military and science fiction terms, a drop ship is a mode of transportation -- typically airborne -- that is designed to carry infantry and other soldiers into and out of the battlefield.

It's science fiction adventuring and action at its best.

By all accounts, Peter Jackson did a fantastic job recreating the classic science fiction movie featuring a giant gorilla.

You might find a dramatic science fiction movie too.

Many works of historical fiction accurately depict a real period in history, but the people and events in the story are completely fictional.

Science fiction or speculative fiction dares the possible, the impossible and the improbable in every subgenre.

The subgenres of science fiction are but the key to transport the mind to those places.

In the end, the focus on robots in science fiction throughout the 1950s was really an exploration of advanced technologies, and whether the human pursuit of progress and scientific advancement was worth the dangers involved.

For an older clunky robot that didn't look much different than the stereotypical style of robots featured in most of the 1950s pulp fiction, this particular emotional robotic character came to life on the screen.

If you are one of those people that lives, eats and breathes Science Fiction, then you know that it's not always easy to find high-quality and interesting Sci-Fi sites.

One of the problems with trying to find good Science Fiction websites is that the field of Sci-Fi is so broad.

Science Fiction covers everything from fantasy movies to high tech space drama and even theoretical stories covering fringe technology.

Choosing where to get your Science Fiction news comes down to picking those Sci-Fi sites that either cover a little bit of everything, or choosing websites that focus exclusively on the Sci-Fi sub-genre that you're interested in.

If you love anything to do with science fiction, you'll love any one of these sites.

Even though LoveToKnow Science Fiction should probably be at the very top of the list, the websites below form the cream of the crop when it comes to accessing Science Fiction news, products and community.

The members of the Dark Network (the home company for Sci-Fi Section) created this site to collect a database of member reviews and commentary about Science Fiction movies and television shows.

Science Fiction World is another one of those websites that focuses primarily upon showcasing new or up-and-coming Sci-Fi writers.

Phantazm is one of the most unique and probably one of the most beautiful Science Fiction websites on the Internet.

The sections of the site are Fantastic, Science, Fiction, Art and Omni.

Whether you're a Science Fiction writer, or just an admirer of other authors, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) website is the place to be to learn all about the current state of the Sci-Fi literary world.

Analog is definitely the best of the best when it comes to receiving the latest news and information in the world of Science Fiction.

This list of the 10 best science fiction sites covers just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to accessing news and information.

The Internet transformed the genre into one where science fiction and fact offer readers a wide variety of the interesting, the fascinating and the strange.

A Stephen King biography provides some clues as to why he is the undisputed King of Horror, as well as a prolific writer in the genres of futuristic fantasy and science fiction.

The only exception would be in a work of fiction where the characters were using an instant messaging client.

For example, the author who uses horses in their fiction often, may write about issues related to horses, racing and animal rescue.

The phenomenon of writing fiction in short spurts and broadcasting them actually pre-dates twitter, and is known as a "cell-phone novel."

Making its debut in theaters in May of 2009, the science fiction blockbuster, Star Trek, thrilled diehard Trekkies and new fans alike.

A humor site where you run a small community sharing pictures of beer can sculptures and wacky personals ads, it's probably quite all right to have a banana doing the Pulp Fiction dance as a way to break up the homepage.

As to the library of Peisistratus, we have no good evidence; it may perhaps be a fiction of an Alexandrian writer.

Though this narrative is a mixture of truth and fiction, it may be said with certainty that a thorough study of the philosophy of Peripatetics and Pythagoreans, Stoics and Platonists, brought home to Justin the conviction that true knowledge was not to be found in them.

A collected edition of his works of fiction, both in prose and verse, has reached twenty-one volumes (Leipzig, 1898), and a new edition was published in 1901.

Almost simultaneously with the rise of the Kisfaludy society, works of fiction assumed a more vigorous tone, and began to present just claims for literary recognition.

But whether they are to be regarded as genuine folk-lore or merely as a branch of the fiction of the age when they first appeared in book form, remains uncertain.

The rigid line between fact or fiction in religious literature, which readers often wish to draw, cannot be consistently justified, and in studying old Oriental religious narratives it is necessary to realize that the teaching was regarded as more essential than the method of presenting it.

The stratagem by which Tarquinius obtained possession of the town of Gabii is a mere fiction, derived from Greek and Oriental sources.

If all this sounds a bit too much like science fiction to you, you're not alone.

Are you interested in writing a particular genre, like romance or science fiction?

Are you looking to write novel-length fiction, short stories, or maybe branch off into a memoir of your own experiences?

A little common sense goes a long way - a course on writing historical fiction taught by a technical writer may not be the best way to spend your hard-earned cash.

The idea to have virtual pets that grow is a little farfetched to some and may sound like science fiction.

Well, Daily Science Fiction puts the "fiction" in Science Fiction.

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Wilson makes a standard hard-hat to protect the head, for example, and Under-Armour has a mask/helmet combination that looks like it came out of a science fiction movie.

The rugged east section of the state, a part of Appalachian America, is inhabited by a people of marked characteristics, portrayed in the fiction of Miss Murfree (" Charles Egbert Craddock ") and John Fox, Jr. They are nearly all of British - English and Scotch-Irish - descent, with a trace of Huguenot.

The development of a more accurate anatomy in the 17th century seems to have diminished the interest in physiognomy, by substituting fact for fiction; and consequently the literature, though as great in quantity, became less valuable in quality.

In fiction, Olive Schreiner (Mrs CronwrightSchreiner) produced, while still in her teens, the Story of an African Farm, a work which gave great promise of original literary genius.

You can write short or long books, fiction or nonfiction, and if you know what you're doing, you can even sell them on your web site, eBay, or Amazon.com.

This article outlines some of the best sites online where you can find complete fiction and nonfiction books for your reading pleasure.

Google Books provides a very wide range of material for your reading pleasure, including complete collections of fiction and nonfiction organized by genre as well as many magazines.

You can obtain all kinds of knowledge on novels, poetry, non-fiction pieces about writing and biographies as well as download eBooks for various eReaders based on the Harvard Classics & Shelf of Fiction.

These games, also known as interactive fiction games, made their debut on both PC and Apple computers in the 1970s.

Each title includes poems, essays, art, photography, and fiction originally appearing in the magazine.

Another part of the anime teen experience is fan works, including fan art, fan fiction and anime music videos (AMVs).

FanFiction.net is one of the largest spots for posting and reading fan fiction and deviantART is a popular spot for fan art, from portraits to comics.

Everything from classics to historical fiction and fantasy to poetry--we have it right here.

David Levithan oversees the Scholastic fiction list, crossmedia publishing program and the PUSH teen imprint.

Teen Ink is a magazine written completely by and for teens, and not only do they offer articles, contests, polls, fiction and more, they welcome and encourage submissions from teens.

There is also a YA/women fiction thriller novel I am working on called Damaged, a 'tween/teen novel titled Wickers and a couple of women fiction/chick-lit novels too!

He later went on to achieve acclaim in such cult favorites as Pulp Fiction, Shaft, Star Wars, and Snakes on a Plane.

Scott and Paula Merrow have each written short fiction individually, as well as collaborating on screenplays.

Scott has been writing a lot of flash fiction, and is also developing a series of stories for middle grade readers about three ten-year-old friends who are all geniuses, but a little nerdy.

It has been nominated by the American Library Association as one the best fiction books for young adults.

Just make sure you know how to differentiate between the fact and fiction written about this award-winning singer.

While there wasn't a lot of gossip surrounding her ordeal, there is one website, Truth or Fiction that clarifies a rumor that Crow got cancer after drinking out of water bottles that were left out in the sun.

As for what you've read or heard about him, you have to remember that this information comes from gossip websites or tabloids, making it difficult to tell the difference between fact and fiction.

Her second film was the science fiction thriller Parasite.

The show was a science fiction story based on the reported alien activities in Roswell, New Mexico, and how they affected future generations.

The book is semi-autobiographical, but marketed as fiction.

Science fiction fans may be wondering, "What is Marc Singer doing now?"

In the 1980s, Singer became well known as the star of two major science fiction franchises.

Marc Singer has continued to play a wide variety of roles, mostly on television, though he's still mostly known for his science fiction endeavors.

When he's not busy filming, Singer makes regular appearances at science fiction events like the annual Dragon-Con in Atlanta, Georgia.

These festivals draw thousands of science fiction and fantasy fans from around the world, and Singer is a popular attendee.

Though he has become synonymous with the science fiction genre, it seems to be a label that he has embraced.

The still image from the film of Guffey standing in an open doorway has become one of the most recognized and iconic pictures from any science fiction movie.

Guffey played an alien child in these movies, which were action/science fiction sequels.

For most of the gamers I know, Final Fantasy 7 is the apex of RPGs, with a magical Science Fiction appeal.

This online role-playing computer game is a mix of science fiction and fantasy as you fight for the future of a troubled alien world.

Other types of historical fiction novels feature an accurate historical setting and real characters and/or events.

By definition, historical fiction is a fictional story that takes place during a historical era.

Gone with the Wind, for example, is one of the most widely recognized examples of historical fiction.

Historical fiction is set in a past era.

Historical fiction is not autobiographical.

Historic fiction is not intended to be interpreted as factual.

Novels that address the question of what would have happened if major historical events had different outcomes fall into the genre of alternate history rather than historical fiction.

Novels that deal with magic or fantasy in historic settings are in the historical fantasy genre, and are not classified as historical fiction.

For additional resources, ask at your local bookstore or see the Google and DMOZ Historical Fiction Authors Directories.

Scott O'Dell, author of Island of the Blue Dolphins, established The Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction in 1982.

The Historical Novel Society and Fish Publishing present the Historical Short Fiction Prize each year.

Those who enjoy historical fiction are likely to enjoy the following fan, association, and review websites.

At its most basic, historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past.

If you enjoy reading great stories while simultaneously immersing yourself in historical culture, the historical fiction genre is likely to be very appealing to you.

Violent scenes or frightening science fiction stories appear to influence the frequency and intensity of children's nightmares.

Whether real or fiction, red hair is always a popular shade for notable persons.

Uma Thurman rocked the cropped bang in Pulp Fiction, and Angelina Joile had many gals running for scissors in Girl Interrupted.

The myth of Irish red hair has also been helped a lot by popular fiction, especially Hollywood.

Pair your bob with bangs for an even more dramatic look just as Uma Thurman did in the movie Pulp Fiction.

Don't overlook fiction as a strong part of your homeschool curriculum.

Historical fiction can be an excellent way to allow students to experience something in the way that the character experiences it.

The story of the poisoning of the pope is to be relegated to the realm of fiction.

This did not make Mary Tudor any more friendly,and,although the story that Elizabeth favoured Courtenay and that Mary was jealous is a ridiculous fiction, the Spaniards cried loud and long for Elizabeth's execution.

But in fact the members of the fourth class were not formally admitted even in the 4th century (though by a fiction they were allowed to pose for the time as Zeugites).

A polemical writer of great talent was Magnus Jakob Crusenstople (1795-1865), of whose work it has been said that " it is not history and it is not fiction, but something brilliant between the one and the other."

She was perhaps the most original of the many women writers of modern Sweden, and Money was hailed by Swedish critics as the most important work of fiction since Strindberg's Red Room.

His fiction includes Mr Blake's Walking Stick (1869), for children; The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1871); The End of the World (1872); The Mystery of Metropolisville (1873); The Circuit Rider (1874); Rosy (1878); The Hoosier Schoolboy (1883); The Book of Queer Stories (1884), for children; The Graysons (1888), an excellent novel; The Faith Doctor (1891); and Duf f els (1893), short stories.

The following resources are rich sources of information for individuals who write, or are planning to write, works of historical fiction.

Historic fiction is another creative way to help your student understand history, cultures, and social values of different eras and civilizations.

One caveat to using historic fiction is that you will want to be sure that the author has accurate portrayals of the time and the people.

When using historic fiction it is a good idea to have a few projects planned, especially in the elementary grades, to help your child get the most out of the book.

These are interesting biographies and even historical fiction that help the student understand not only the events of history but the people whose lives were impacted by those events.

Many Star Wars fans have taken to creating their own fiction, films, and parodies.

Scientology was started by science fiction writer L.Ron Hubbard around 1950, and the first official Church of Scientology was founded in 1954.

This web-based publication has fiction, galleries, news, and features centered on the erotic lifestyle.

This year was all about sexy, water, fiction and delicious things (like cheesecake).

There is often something unique about a star of popular science fiction and fantasy that captures the imagination, some claim, more than other women.

Fans of either version of the popular science fiction series are sure to find a favorite in the diverse selection of Battlestar Calactica products.

Bionicle science fiction figures look nothing like Legos but are increasingly popular and well loved by children.

If you attend a general comic book, anime or science fiction convention, check out sellers with action figures in the dealers' room.

Avatar is a visually stunning science fiction film set on a distant planet.

They are popular attire at comic book and science fiction conventions, and costumed fans were in full force at the premieres of Episodes I-III, the newest Star Wars movies.

Science fiction and fantasy movies like Stardust are great options if the party you're going to has a crowd that would recognize them.

But there are actually a lot of great characters in fiction and popular culture that lend themselves to perfect group costumes.

Three is such a significant number in numerology that it has been used time and again in fiction.

Fiction writer Danielle Steel married two prison inmates -- Danny Zugelder and William George Toth.

No more waiting in the science fiction aisle of the local bookstore for a cute guy or gal to strike up a conversation with.

These fantasies are so prevalent that an entire subgenre of erotic romantic fiction is devoted to the ménage.

The other reason to read sexual poetry is the same reason to read erotic and romantic fiction, it feels good.

LoveToKnow Business was happy to sit down with Nikki Leigh, an award winning fiction and non-fiction author and publicist.

A book review is a summary of a book you have read, whether it be fiction or nonfiction.

If fiction, was it a story you were engrossed in?

Keep a notebook with you for jotting down article ideas, facts to investigate, or colorful phrases to use in your own fiction writing.

Even fiction writing requires a certain amount of research to clarify details.

Writers need to know how to make money from writing, whether it's fiction writing, non-fiction writing, editing or teaching.

Fiction writers might appear to have it easy, but fiction writing comes with its own set of challenges.

While a fiction writer may spend six months writing their book, it may take another six months to find an agent or publisher willing to give the book a shot.

In terms of return, successful fiction writers make a great deal of money, but it is not a direct source of immediate income.

Fiction writers who want to know how to make money from writing may consider ghost writing projects while working on their own writing.

Do you write Gothic fiction or creative non-fiction?

There are countless online magazines that publish fiction.

Most schools have classes for people interested in writing fiction, poetry, and writing memoirs, as well as a number of journalism courses.

A novel outline is a tool that fiction writers use to stay on track when they are working.

If you write fan fiction (or fanfic for short) you should be aware of both your legal rights and the rights of the author you are deriving your work from.

If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has a handy reference that outlines how laws affects writers and other publishing folk.

Most literary agents specialize to some degree, preferring to limit themselves to representing writers of a genre such as science fiction, mysteries, or romance.

A well-known fiction writer may hire a ghostwriter in order to increase the number of books he is able to publish each year.

The e-book format can be used to distribute both fiction and non-fiction, although the general consensus is that non-fiction e-books tend to be much more popular.

One grand prize winner is named, as well as winners in various subcategories for genres such as science fiction, romance, and memoir.

The contest is open to fiction only and stories with a female point of view are preferred.

Taking a free online writing course can be a wonderful way to help develop your skills, whether you're interested in pursuing a career as a journalist or starting to learn how to write fiction.

It wasn't the first work of fiction to feature mythological blood-drinking 'undead' known as vampires, but it is now certainly the most famous.

His lengthy battle for health as a boy informed his fiction, but after a sickly youth, he grew into a hale, even athletic man, notably tall and broad.

Of all his portraits of adventurous sailors, "Gentleman Chucks" in Peter Simple and "Equality Jack" in Mr Midshipman Easy are the most famous, but he created many other types which take rank among the characteristic figures in English fiction.

Crockett was minister until he formally devoted himself to fiction.

The story that Phoenician merchants found a glass-like substance under their cooking pots, which had been supported on blocks of natron, need not be discarded as pure fiction.

Robinson Crusoe (especially the story part, with the philosophical and religious moralizings largely cut out) is one of the world's classics in fiction.

Otinel (13th century) is also pure fiction.

Occasionally it is still stated in the press that wolves have been seen in the Ardennes, but this is a mere fiction.

Evidently upon his and view of conscious experience, of the world of imagination, ti such infinite divisibility must be a fiction.

Freeman dismissing it as "a transparent fiction."

The chief feature of the allotment was, however, the formal overthrow of the fiction that Austria is preponderatingly a German country and not a country preponderatingly Slav with a German dynasty and a German façade.

He appears to have invented the fiction which afterwards was repeatedly employed, by which the money spent on mosque-building was supposed to have been furnished by discoveries of buried treasure.

The reason for these mutinies was the attempt made by successive pashas to put a stop to the extortion called Tulbah, a forced payment exacted by the troops from the inhabitants of the country by the fiction of debts requiring to be discharged, which led to grievous ill-usage.

In 1877 he came forward again with one volume of verse, another of fiction, a third of travel; in each he displayed great vigour and freshness of touch, and he rose at one leap to the highest position among men of promise.

In this poem, which was written 593 A.H., at the request of Nur-uddin Arslan of Mosul, the son and successor of the abovementioned `Izz-uddin, Nizami returned once more from his excursion into the field of heroic deeds to his old favourite domain of romantic fiction, and added a fresh leaf to the laurel crown of immortal fame with which the unanimous consent of Eastern and Western critics has adorned his venerable head.

Prejudice and real or imaginary legal obstacles stood in the way of the erection of episcopal sees in the colonies; and though in the 17th century Archbishop Laud had attempted to obtain a bishop for Virginia, up to the time of the American revolution the churchmen of the colonies had to make the best of the legal fiction that their spiritual needs were looked after by the bishop of London, who occasionally sent commissaries to visit them and ordained candidates for the ministry sent to England for the purpose.

But the whole Assyrian history of Ctesias is nothing but a fantastic fiction; from the Assyrian inscriptions we know that the Assyrians never entered the eastern parts of Iran.

Hence some of the later Greek geographers altogether disregarded his statements, and treated his voyage as a fiction.

Of all Goethe's works, this exerted the most immediate and lasting influence on German literature; it served as a model for the best fiction of the next thirty years.

The sharpness of the conflict was, however, blunted by the fact that, without exception, the young Romantic writers looked up to Goethe as its master; they modelled their fiction on Wilhelm Meister; they regarded his lyrics as the high-water mark of German poetry; Goethe, Novalis declared, was the "Statthalter of poetry on earth."

Bettina von Arnim came into personal touch with Goethe in 1807, and her Briefwechsel Goethes mit einem Kinde (published in 1835) is, in its mingling of truth and fiction, one of the most delightful products of the Romantic mind; but the episode was of less importance for Goethe's life than Bettina would have us believe.

No existential form suits a judgment such as " A centaur is a fiction," when we do not believe that there is a centaur, or that reality includes a centaur.

Of his numerous works of fiction, the earliest are his best, especially Gallegher and Others (1891); Van Bibber and Other Stories (1892) and Episodes from Van Bibber's Life (1899).

The higher life of man is merely a fiction introduced by philosophers and rulers to simplify government and the relations of society.

Again, the conception of a force as concentrated in a mathematical line is as unreal as that of a mass concentrated in a point, but it is a convenient fiction for our purpose, .owing to the simplicity which it lends to our statements.

This bases the claim against the insurer upon a fiction, for there has been no loss of the subject insured; in fact, the payment has been for averting such a loss.

Petrarch and Boccaccio, though they both held the medieval doctrine that literature should teach some abstruse truth beneath a veil of fiction, differed from Dante in this that their poetry and prose in the vernacular abandoned both allegory and symbol.

It is of course possible to hold that the story of the dream is pure fiction, and that the !lines which Baeda translated were not Cadmon's at all.

His biography by Simeon Metaphrastes is largely fiction.

The intention evidently is to bestow authority upon the fiction by connecting it with a story already known.

It is probable that this process was largely an unconscious one; and even if conscious, the analogy of the conventional " legal fiction " and the usual anxiety to avoid the appearance of novelty is enough to show that it is not to be condemned.

It also escaped the classicism of the Renaissance with its insistence upon the test - either fact or fiction.

The list of his works of fiction includes The Stolen Bacillus and other Stories (1895), The Wonderful Visit (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Plattner Story and Others (1897), When the Sleeper Wakes (1899), The First Men in the Moon (1901), The Food of the Gods (1904), In the Days of the Comet (1906), The War in the Air (1908), Anne Veronica (1909), The History of Mr Polly (191 0).

That view is based on these works of fiction, of uncertain date and authorship, which seem to have been worked over by several hands in the interest of diverse forms of belief.

The above is doubtless pure fiction.

Historical criticism may regard this tradition, in many of its features, as mere fiction, or as a perversion of facts made for the purpose of transferring the blame for the loss of a sacred literature to other persons than those actually responsible for it.

At the same time it wants unity and coherence, it attains no conclusion, and the author abuses his digressive method of composition and his convenient fiction of hiatuses in the original manuscript.

These books had no immediate influence in Walachia and Moldavia, where fiction and the drama had developed under the influence, first, of Greek and then to an increasing extent of French, Italian and German models.

The only work of fiction, in all probability, with which he could compare his Pilgrim was his old favourite, the legend of Sir Bevis of Southampton.

He saw that in employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, he was only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself; and he determined to print.

The Ka`ba has been rebuilt more than once since Mahomet purged it of idols and adopted it as the chief sanctuary of Islam, but the old form has been preserved, except in secondary details;2 so that the "Ancient House," as it is titled, is still essentially a heathen temple, adapted to the worship of Islam by the clumsy fiction that it was built by Abraham and Ishmael by divine revelation as a temple of pure monotheism, and that it was only temporarily perverted to idol worship from the time when `Amr ibn Lohai introduced the statue of Hobal from Syria' till the victory of Islam.

This fiction has involved the superinduction of a new mythology over the old heathen ritual, which remains practically unchanged.

The reformed churches have set aside this fiction, but in the Latin and Eastern churches it has created a distinct and very powerful marriage taboo.

The work of Philostratus composed at the instance of Julia, wife of Severus, is generally regarded as a religious work of fiction.

If we cut away the mass of mere fiction which Philostratus accumulated, we have left a highly imaginative, earnest reformer who laboured to infuse into the flaccid dialectic of paganism a saner spirit of practical morality.

But he finally passed on the wretched fiction as a heritage of his descendants, to cause untold woes in the 15th century.

Educated first in Spain and afterwards in France, the boy whose infancy had followed the fortunes of the imperial camp grew up a royalist and a Catholic. His first work in poetry and in fiction was devoted to the passionate proclamation of his faith in these principles.

Victor Hugo's first mature work in prose fiction, Le Dernier Jour d'un condamne, has appeared thirteen years earlier (1829).

In 1874 he published his last great romance, the tragic and historic poem in prose called Quatrevingt-treize; a work as rich in thought, in tenderness, in wisdom and in humour and in pathos, as ever was cast into the mould of poetry or of fiction.

It is only by a kind of legal fiction akin to the "collegial" theory mentioned above, that the Church can be said to have deemed it expedient to adopt these laws.

From pure fiction, however, he turned again to the combination of art and controversy in which he had achieved distinction, and in the two Littlepage Manuscripts (1845-1846) he fought with a great deal of vigour.

His qualities are not those of the great masters of fiction; but he had an inexhaustible imagination, some faculty for simple combination of incident, a homely tragic force which is very genuine and effective, and up to a certain point a fine narrative power.

Nothing can be more vividly told than the escape of the Yankee man-of-war through the shoals and from the English cruisers in The Pilot, but there are few things flatter in the range of fiction than the other incidents of the novel.

He, however, "regarded Mark not only as the first narrator, but even as the creator of the gospel history, thus making the latter a fiction and Christianity the invention of a single original evangelist" (Pfleiderer).

This, however, is perhaps a fiction of later poets who wished to give lustre to the ancestry of Brian Boruma, as very few of the Dalcais princes appear in the list of the kings of Cashel.

Antonio is said to have secured his release on easy terms by a fiction.

In the South Sea Islands, generally, the fable of the union and separation of Heaven and Earth is current; other forms will be found in Gill's Myths and Songs from the South Pacific. The cosmogonic myths of the Aryans of India are peculiarly interesting, as we find in the Vedas and Brahmanas and Puranas almost every fiction familiar to savages side by side with the most abstract metaphysical speculations.

Myth and legend, fact and fiction, the common stock of oral tradition, have been handed down, and thus constitute one of the most valuable sources for popular Hebrew thought.

He also translated the pastorals of Longus, wrote a tale called Diane de Castro, and defended, in a treatise on the origin of romance, the reading of fiction.

But an investigation of dependent lines which are often incommensurable forces us to adopt the contradictory fiction of partially overlapping, i.e.

But the contradiction here is one we cannot eliminate by the method of relations, because it does not involve anything real; and in fact as a necessary outcome of an "intelligible" form, the fiction of continuity is valid for the "objective semblance," and no more to be discarded than say -1 - I.

The solidarity of Conservative interests appeared to him now a dangerous fiction.

Harrison (Myths and Monuments of Ancient Athens, xxvii.- xxxvi.) as a fiction to explain the ceremony performed by the two maidens called Arrephori.

Most of his stories portray the pioneer manners and dialect of the Central West, and the Hoosier Schoolmaster was one of the first examples of American local realistic fiction; it was very popular, and was translated into French, German and Danish.

Years of devouring that fiction genre helped formulate a world where intrigue crept around every corner for the dapper gentleman.

Then he added, But she don't write mysteries, just that science fiction stuff.

Fiction is different from an outright lie.

It will assuage the fears of subscribers worried about publicly associating themselves with fiction.

The use of historical fact as a springboard for fiction is not a new one.

It is hard to tell fact from fiction!

In the same way science fiction has developed rules, I find all rules very pernicious to writing.

Although not particularly historically accurate, it does use some real people but the details of what happens in the film are pure fiction.

Her painting, Diver appears on the cover of the first Earlyworks Press fiction anthology.

In 1979 homeless beggars on the streets of major British cities were fiction, not an obscene reality.

A Streetcar Named Desire fiction Tennessee Williams Williams won the Pulitzer Prize with this portrayal of a fading, fragile belle.

But we must do it remembering censorship is a fiction.

Indeed, the transfer of money and power from the aristocracy to the bourgeoisie is absolutely central to Balzac's fiction.

It covers all of the text level fiction and poetry reading comprehension objectives of the National Literacy Strategy for year four.

Few writers of fiction have been so exact or so conscientious as he was regarding his facts.

I mean, fiction and lit crit are rugged areas but politics - jeez!

Sen Gupta's historical fiction has done a very commendable job of presenting children caught up in mysteries and adventures or even day-to-day problems.

Taking genre fiction for a ride, Slow Death uses obscenity, black humor and repetition for the sake of ironic deconstruction.

An amalgam of mysticism, psychotherapy and pure science fiction, the content invited the derision which was inevitably forthcoming.

Not that I have a downer on genre fiction.

This year her science fiction novel, The Sex Gates, was a best-selling e-book and also came out in paperback.

Each reader is deeply engrossed in a science fiction novel.

I first began to write as a teenager, when I first had the idea for a sprawling science fiction and fantasy epic.

Before we start I must apologize for not starting this article with a truly execrable piece of fiction.

It exists solely through the support of science fiction fandom.

Unlike any other literary festival in the UK, Fresh Fiction is focused entirely on new books by first-time novelists.

At least writing good fiction is not easy even for most professional writers.

He defines his work as speculative fiction although he does not shy away from writing conventional urban fantasy or horror stories.

Other buttons give access to tables of contents for historical texts, and a collection of materials for studying Gothic fiction.

The Victorian authors were the worst for this, romantic fiction often glossing out the few true known facts.

The Last Secret is not, nor was it ever intended to be, some intense work of literary fiction.

Does the way in which your teenage fiction is marketed differ greatly from your adult science fiction?

Other publications include articles on various aspects of contemporary fiction in Irish.

You will have to imagine scenes from pulp fiction or ' adult ' comics.

He has also won several awards for short prose fiction.

Slim, well crafted detective fiction you can polish off in a few hours.

So... I've never been a big fan of horror fiction as a genre.

This is augmented by numerous carefully chosen illustrations and a comprehensive filmography of English films, fiction and non-fiction, for the year.

Lilo & Stitch is, I guess you could say, one of Disney's first flirtation with science fiction animation.

We're left floundering in the shallows of literary fiction.

The Orange Prize for Fiction is currently garnering votes for the 50 Best Books written by Women.

In this science fiction is unique among popular genres.

Article continues In general, cricket in south Asian fiction assumes a more mature guise.

His admirers have included hippies, punk rockers, readers of science fiction, football fans.

Hugely entertaining 50's horror hokum written by a noted science fiction author who also wrote the script for The Time Machine (1960 ).

In life I like playfulness, in fiction I like mature humor.

I am inspired by botanical illustrations as well as the works of science fiction writers and see my role as a similar one.

And at that moment I found fiction to be a medium practically inseparable from cinema.

Liquid Metal brings together a number of seminal essays that have opened up the study of science fiction with serious critical interrogation.

For every Pulp Fiction, Gattaca and dangerous liaisons there is a Batman & Robin or Avengers that drags her back to square one.

Like me, Ellison is a pretty lousy science fiction writer.

I wrote four teenage fiction novels before I wrote Divine Endurance which was my first adult SF novel.

Synopsis The first ever collection of Iain Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art.

Yet he makes some startlingly astute observations during discussion despite his penchant for drawing comparisons with science fiction.

Indeed, his silicon city of the future will be so familiar to readers of science fiction as to appear almost old-fashioned.

In some of the events he describes, Matthew assumes the omniscience of a fiction writer, narrating what he could not have known.

Pan's own science fiction list is also rather pallid, I'm afraid.

The sequel TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE, was voted one of the Guardian top ten fiction paperbacks of the year 2000.

You can find them in newspapers, specialist periodicals and books, both fiction and non-fiction.

What, if any moral or underlying philosophy, underpins your fiction?

By 1907 Machen was seriously interested in writing again, but much more interested in quasi religious polemics than in fiction.

Worms were also presaged in science fiction, by Brunners 1975 novel The Shockwave Rider.

Once again the truth was stranger than fiction, and later that same year the band was asked to support The pretenders on tour.

Justification is not a legal fiction because one day we will be perfectly righteous.

I wanted to write science fiction, and got involved in politics instead!

Kids that are entering school, watching science fiction, they are our hope for the future.

I was due to do Red Dwarf but the BBC powers thought that I'd done enough science fiction.

British science fiction had already been there, done that.

And, unlike most modern science fiction, it is blessed with good acting and an intelligent script.

Whatever the reason, cyberpunk marked a sea change in American science fiction.

It was a low budget, high concept piece that was very good science fiction.

I would recommend this book to those with an interest in Victorian literature and early science fiction.

The novel is part thriller, part historical novel and part science fiction.

But today's science fiction, is often tomorrow's science fact.

Thank you to all the amateur sleuths who turned up at the Central Library for the crime fiction event on Tuesday 16 January.

Award for Best Short Fiction ' White ' by Tim Lebbon MoT Press " I ai n't superstitious, "; wrote Tim.

Award for Best Short Fiction ' White ' by Tim Lebbon MoT Press " I ain't superstitious, "; wrote Tim.

He means " fiction " which is too sweeping.

Minority Report, his first film with his new best mate Steven Spielberg, was a cracking science fiction thriller.

Bayley as in Barrington, who wrote one of the stories in the fiction section, which is a real treasure-trove.

I think I'm more trying to use the tropes of the different genres to enliven a kind of mainstream fiction.

Her NGO work includes trusteeship of the Booker Prize for English fiction literature.

They seem blissfully unaware of the crisis in English fiction.