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Please do not follow the train of my thought, or else it becomes fiction and consequently loses it's value.

It was like being in one of those post-apocalyptic science-fiction films where vagrants wander the wasteland looking for food and shelter.

Science fiction is often about things we believe may be possible in the far future, like a hundred years later.

It was not until my third collection, American Energies: Essays on Fiction, that I was ready to take on the writers of my own culture.

At the application layer, the open Internet has always been a fiction.

It's easy to see, by the patterns of consumption they have. It really is not fiction -- it's fact.

The study of female characters in modern fiction has always been a hot topic aroused general interests of modern fiction and modern women.

It used to be that you could only find the bionic man or woman in science fiction.

Rodney Brooks grew up in Australia, where like a lot of boys round the world, he read science fiction books and built toy robots.

He never read her fiction, and she shielded him from "anything that was upsetting, depressing, demoralising" .

And if you wonder about the timing of it: It was the last science fiction novel LRH authored before Dianetics .

Thereis a buildup of energy, but since the danger is only a mental fiction, the energy has no outlet.

We're still trying to sort out fact from fiction when it comes to Dracula. Turning into mist? Kinda doubt it. General shape-shifting? Maybe.

One implication may come as a bit of a disappointment to science-fiction aficionados.

Lessing's fiction is deeply autobiographical, much of it emerging out of her experiences in Africa.

He read most of his wife's nonfiction but very little of her fiction.

Both the idea of such an organism and the idea that someone might own the rights to it would have been science fiction even a decade ago.

Lu Xun kept studying the ancient Chinese stories during the course of his fiction-writing, wo there must be sth. similar between them.

On the face of it, that sounds like a scenario straight out of cheap science fiction.

But get real, please, there is so much good fiction out there, written specifically for your adult age group, written with you in mind.

fact 1 : fiction is all about character , the best stories are built around rich , extremely interesting characters .

I'd completely closed the loop between being the science fiction fan, you know, as a kid, and doing this stuff for real.

They will also have to understand how the theory of metaphysics has been used in science fiction.

Interestingly, a few moviegoers persist in believing, even after the final cast and credit roll, that this clever fiction is for real.

So if you come across a strangely attractive person digging in an interesting science fiction, you know whom you're dealing with!

This interstellar ichthyoid neatly disposed of a problem all science-fiction authors have: how to let alien species talk to one another.

That said, he wouldn't be averse to you showing up in an Uma Thurman "Pulp Fiction" wig, or even suggesting a private costume party for two.

The novel is often classified as a notable example of postmodern fiction.

The fiction might be what matters, says Gordimer, but it is the deeds of her life by which she wants to be judged.

Though the unrest might have been between schools of fiction, it had a very real basis.

We're talking a bit of science fiction now, but in theory there's nothing that stops you going out (into space).

"The fact that in 2009 we're still unable to separate facts from fiction is mind-boggling, " she said.

Then it was pictured in one of my books, Science Fiction Poster Art, and a collector from California wanted to acquire it.

Doha added a fiction all of its own with the idea of a "development round" , seen as a clever way of giving grubby trade some moral appeal.

The general characteristic of Feimi ngs fiction is "realistic" , which makes his work easy to understand .

It's the basis of so much exciting science fiction and the most popular movies ever made. It's just a subject which excites our curiosity.

Henry James is generally acknowledged to be one of the greatest American novelists and critics and best known for his international fiction.

Now an ordinary piece of light fiction, like, say, Gone with the Wind, doesn't require the most active kind of reading.

A bit of me: My hobby is reading fiction books (Agatha Christie, Sidney Sheldon, Robin Cook), besides study asian culture.

If it's a car, you could change the curves of the lines to make it look like it belongs in a science-fiction movie.

ROBOTS have been the stuff of science fiction for so long that it is surprisingly hard to see them as the stuff of management fact.

These shortcomings should be seen as natural consequences of Hawthorne's struggle to find his way in fiction without a guide.

He had not been so down since Milton had vilified him in that despicable piece of fiction, Paradise Lost.

Get a sense of all the wonderful possibilities that are just waiting for you as a non-fiction writer.

Ndesandjo's final version, a work of fiction, reflects his own experiences of growing up in Kenya, living in the U.

This would be a departure for her because she buys "20 or 30 new books a year, all paperback, all fiction" .

He began to write fiction that year while working as a copywriter at a Chicago advertising agency.

The chipmaker is trying to speed along the change by reaching engineers in a language they understand: science fiction.

Bringing extinct species back to life is no longer considered science fiction. But is it a good idea?

The boy did not know whether yesterday's paper was a fiction too. But the old man brought it out from under the bed.

Based on this, I believe that the British Gothic fiction is the myth of the Age of Enlightenment.

Fiction writers are often asked, "How much of you is in your characters? "

Nothing gets me in the mood for a little retro post- apocalyptic science fiction action-adventure like a little operatic chanting.

I realised that all that I had accepted as fact was pure fiction, whose only goal was to enslave mankind.

Yet perhaps there was also a more specific meaning that referred to crime fiction.

It's got a great library and great bookstores: Fact & Fiction, Shakespeare & Co. , the Book Exchange, to name but a few.

Our journey to the sky is as a fiction. But real-life scientists in real-life laboratories are working to make it a reality.

Yuri's work is often described as fiction from invented memories. But in No Such Place the past had been wiped in any case.

We might as well make use of the hotel's facilities. She makes use of people she meets as raw material for her fiction.

For this reason, my focus is to trace the emergence of that aesthetic and ideology in the body of Lawrence's short fiction.

This story told in a different style and with a realistic look could have been a great science-fiction film.

Mr. Englund also noted that the author has 'continued to produce a number of excellent works in fiction. '

Just how much of the subject matter does the photographer have to change before fact becomes fiction, or a photograph becomes metaphor?

Her works stand up to the test of the time, and turn out to be the classics in modern American fiction.

It sounds strange, but truth is often stranger than fiction.

And I kept trying to sell the idea of a science fiction comedy, but no-one was interested.

But the idea that countries would fight it out in space has so far been confined to science fiction.

WE may certainly say of Gracian what Heine by an amiable fiction said of himself: he was one of the first men of his century.

I would say that the influence of other religions in practice and science fiction was as influential for me as Bible studies and sermons.

Fiction is ideal (especially anything funny or uplifting). Reading fiction takes you out of the here-and-now and into a different world.

Over lunch another editor had asked, "When was the last time you read fiction by a woman? "

Fiction, drama is such a case, aimed at shaping the typical image of the social life of conflict and contradictions.

Now its up to you find the way through the Ice, Desert and Science Fiction World as well as through the Mysterious Forest.

It all depends on your concept of fiction and where you draw the line between fact and fiction.

The hero in the fiction will go through the worm hole and travel to a distant place in a short time.

When politicians say they want to talk to their constituents, it is often a polite fiction.

And of course the stories that I chose to tell were science fiction stories: "Terminator, " "Aliens, " and "The Abyss. "

So the dependence is not the guarantee contract's essential attribute, it is just a legal fiction.

The future depicted in a good SF (Science Fiction) story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible.

It has always been tough for literary fiction writers to get their work published by the top publishing houses.

You said that all science fiction - no matter how dismal - was optimistic in that it assumed that there would be a future at all.

He classified the writers as fiction writers, poets, playwrights, and non-fiction writers. He did not study the causes of death.

American science-fiction television drama is one of the main types of The United States plot series.

To understand sorrow there must be the actual experiencing of it, and not the verbal fiction of sorrow.

and therefore while all sides may preserve the 'one country two systems' fiction, the fact of the matter is that Taiwan is separate.

Historical fiction is quite hot at the moment in the U. K. and Commonwealth market.

In countless fantasy or science fiction plots, invisibility is the state of an object which cannot be seen by the eyes.

Creative mug shaped like the time machine from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Now, I recommend then reading a bit of fiction to free your mind from your problem.

In our violent, discordant, and effervescent universe, reality always seems to be stranger than fiction.

VERY little literary fiction has been written about the financial crisis in Britain. And yet the City is of abiding interest.

Capitalism never seems to get a balanced treatment in the movies, whether documentary or fiction.

Science fiction movies and novels often portrayed AI taking the form of a thinking machine embodied as a humanoid robot.

And the poets indeed have been busy with it; for it is, in effect, the thing which is figured in that strange fiction of the ancient poets.

It is often used as an alien planet in science fiction, for example, HG Wells' The War of the Worlds .

It was also a difficult time personally and one reason it was not finished may be because fact came too close to the fiction.

However, he made his choice on this view while compiling A Brief History of Chinese Fiction.

You don't have to say everything on your mind, but whatever you do say needs to be fact, not fiction.

What was the first piece of fiction you read that had an impact on you?

Truth is often stranger than fiction.

That's why fan fiction is all about exploring the emotions and character of the hero.

I'd been into science fiction, fantasy, and comic books since I was very young, so slipping into an imaginary world came easy to me.

Toohey is something of an aberrationin Rand's fiction, in that he is perhaps her only really memorable villain.

Just a start these stories circulating on the network, then this team has grown up, release the magazine, various monographs fiction.

Both his parents taught Japanese literature, but he preferred reading second-hand pulp-fiction novels picked up in the port city of Kobe.

But regardless whether the number is fact or fiction, China's people are living it as a reality and with no end in sight for now.

Tomorrow's world will be a strange tale is full of science fiction and fantasy to achieve a place in space shuttle.

The point is, most science fiction gets all this wrong.

Truth is often strange than fiction!

Fact is often stranger than fiction.

The news provided by this organization are the comments on current events, and those current events include the truth and fiction.

He decided that if he had it to do over again he would confine himself to fiction.

One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth.

About this science fiction creation motive, probably is specially likes with myself reading the historical books related since childhood!

As such, Genesis is certainly a true accounting; it is not some sort of myth, or flight of fancy, or fiction.

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction.

Curse is a strong word, especially when it is found in war fiction, and it is easy to read it in a way that Murakami does not intend.

Things that have always been considered science fiction are becoming normal day-to-day components of our lives.

Golan said Steeple Hill was also trying to shed the preachy tone of some Christian fiction.

"Nim's Island" is a fun story, particularly in its playful, creative sense of the relationship between fiction and reality.

In The Portrait of a Lady (1881) James concluded the first phase of his career with a novel that remains his most popular long fiction.

If you want to write a science fiction novel, you might want to be able to get across the galaxy very quickly. . .

she ' s continued to write and has published more than twenty novels as well as drama , opera , short stories and non - fiction.

He apologises in advance to his sources and to his mother, a professional historian, for mixing fact and fiction.

But no writer from the region, in fact or fiction, has produced a matching account of the collapse of the Iron Curtain and its aftermath.

What was the last great non-fiction book that you read?

All economic statistics are best seen as a peculiarly boring form of science fiction, but China's numbers are more fictional than most.

The old building made a really stark contrast to the morden girls of today, which let the photos be like a science fiction freeze frame.

This name is only a fiction for now, since BRP does not store any configuration information in this file.

That piece of science fiction, too, may prove not to have been quite so wide of the mark.

If JANE wish to practise the art of fiction, to be the equal of a masculine author, experience is vital.

This also explains why Ming describes this self-portrait "as a fiction on his own existence, a fiction that will one day come true" .

The kind of rewriting had a great function to the deepening of fiction's main idea, modeling figure and the developing of polt .

She recently commented that unhappy childhoods seem to produce fiction writers.

S. scholars generally agreed that Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" in the United States in the history of modern fiction classic.

Angels do not actually exist, but they are a useful fiction to make spec writers to feel better about themselves.

Man, that was starting to remind me of a Q&A at a science fiction convention where three people ask Shatner what his favorite episode was.

Reading began to tip me back toward writing. Only now it was not fiction that compelled me, but reflection.

One of the ways you keep this book lively and accessible is to use anecdotes from early science fiction.

I'd add this to any list of 'must read before you die' non-fiction books, as it will greatly affect how you view yourself in this world.

"The self-given mandate of " Real Steel " was to do science fiction with sentiment, to do as much heart as action, " Levy says.

Tsui's first feature, "The Butterfly Murders, " was an avantgarde fusion of murder mystery, science fiction and contemporary wuxia.

"Sou Shen Ji" is a weird fiction written by Gan Bao in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and is of great value for the studies of Chinese vocabulary.

This time, though, the truth was more powerful than fiction.

And if one remembers that classic science fiction television program, Tip the Glee, the episodes did not end well.

It's great to see science fiction thriving all over the world.

Noir fiction came out of the First World War and the Depression but still thrives today, in slightly altered form.

Science fiction also played a critical role, because it seemed to me that science-fiction authors are actually the theologians of our age.

Cutting all Internet, TV, radio, and reading (other than fiction) for a day would be pretty drastic for most of us. See if you can last.

It looked like the set of a science fiction film about the apocalypse.

And in the case of that "risk free" benchmark, that always incorporated some element of fiction.

It was like something out of a science fiction movie.

Sam Sacks writes the Fiction Chronicle for The Wall Street Journal and is an editor of Open Letters Monthly.

If it takes off, it could bring reality another step closer to science fiction, where the line between human and machine blurs.

He did not predict the future in his copious science fiction, he insisted. He simply extrapolated.

Blanchot authored over the course of his career more than thirty works of fiction, literary criticism, and philosophy.

ambivalent Kate Chopin, a great American writer, maintains an ambivalent attitude towards mother-women in her fiction.

A more recent piece of science fiction than Shelley's, Michael Crichton's "Jurassic Park" , conceived of the resurrection of dinosaurs.

Shareholders' power to remove directors must be turned from a fiction into a reality.

That's what I try to do in Hitchhiker's, and that's what I think the best science fiction does.

Indeed, his only published fiction consisted of a few short stories and poems, mostly in obscure Paris literary journals.

The Shortest Science Fiction Sitting at home , the last person in the world hears a knock on the door .

He's one of contemporary fiction's great populists and a key ally of the beleaguered modern reader.

The furor was unsurprising: no work of mainstream English-language fiction had come so close to spelling out homosexual desire.

Learn more about this amazing initiative here, and then read on to separate breast cancer fact from fiction.

So in this sense fiction isn't a lie at all, but a true representation of the distortion that everyone makes of life.

Much of his work first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialised form, a popular way of publishing fiction at the time.

In her diary and critical essays she has much to say about women and fiction.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Sometimes life deals a bad hand. Sometimes it is hard to go on. Sometimes evil triumphs over good.

Science fiction often explores such questions; science falls silent at this point. Mr Kaku's work helps to fill a void.

He looked at it carefully sealed manuscripts, "the story revolves around an apartment to write, asked to write fiction. "

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

The conclusion was the thinking on the place and tendency of Fei Ming himself and his pastoral fiction in the condition of history.

This keyboard could be a leftover from Area 51, or a prop from the set of any science fiction movie.

By contrast to his own work, Mr. Calvino ridiculed commercial fiction, including American novels.

Mark Twain changed the rules of American fiction when, in Huckleberry Finn, he let a redneck kid tell his story in his own dialect.

Every shade of light and dark, of truth, and of fiction which is the veil of truth, is allowable in a work of philosophical imagination.

Robert J. Scherrer is a cosmologist, chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Vanderbilt and a published science-fiction author.

GENRE: Realistic Fiction THEME: Teenage Pressures, Stress, Relationships, Weight Control, Eating Disorders, Fitting In, and Self-Perception.

Fiction turns to reality for a group of film students who set out to shoot a low budget horror flick in the woods of Pennsylvania.

Harry Sinclair Drago was an American novelist who specialized in historical fiction set in the Southwestern States.

Meanwhile, he took his work in a new direction, toward journalism, which undergoes more scrutiny from censors than fiction.

Their fiction texts reflect the survival of female disaster as well as critic male cultural hegemony, which is called "Fighting Feminism" .

Fact or Fiction: The Heat are the team of the next decade.

On the basis of that, the writer lists three steps of applying stylistic approach to irony translation in fiction.

In both fiction and reality, then, you simultaneously make sense of the situation from both the character's perspective and from your own.

But the ability to plant an actual higher-order thought remains, at least for the time being, pure fiction.

After receiving a bachelor's degree in literature from Brooklyn College, Naylor began to seriously write fiction.

This picture looks like a scene from a science fiction movie, with strange, distant structures rising over a desolate alien valley.

Men have loved to dwell, in fiction at least, on the demure maiden whose inevitable reply is: Oh, yes, if you please, kind sir!

To stay around for the law school feels like a fiction none of us deserve.

These quarrels and uncertainties seem to me the essence of fiction.

Second, how does Black fiction make itself distinct from other modern fiction with which it is largely contemporaneous?

Her literary achievements in fiction largely rest on her thorough and accurate descriptions of women in modern life.

This one could be a leftover from Area 51, or a prop from the set of any science fiction movie.

Seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey at the age of 14 had a profound effect on him and left him dreaming about making science fiction films.

For the moment, mind-reading is still science fiction.

Science fiction writers had long used videophones as a signifier of a technologically advanced civilization.

Science fiction is almost the only way that recognition of this vast non-human reality impinges on literature and the arts.

When something imaginary does happen, it is never related to any of the often used anime subjects like fantasy or science-fiction.

Although the reality is cruel for almost every character in this fiction, the positive side of humanity and love is always brighter.

Mr Hoshino now plans to give the professor a well-earned rest, and return to science fiction for a bit.

Mr Bowden's writing, which reads like fiction though it describes fact, will enchant some and drive others up the wall.

You will start seeing results very soon so please do not think we are a fiction of your imagination.

The appearance of the car is much identical with the science fiction flying cars we used to watch.

People do not read fiction in order to accomplish a specific task in a limited amount of time, as they read reference and school books.

The French philosopher Jacques Derrida likens writing fiction to a software code that operates in the hardware of your mind.

A CUSTOMISED, constantly-updating newspaper used to be the stuff of science fiction.

If this sounds to you something like the "bionic swarms" from William Gibson's 1984 science fiction novel, Neuromancer, you're right.

Hint fiction is an extremely short literary work, typically no more than twenty-five words, that hints at a longer, more complex story.

In June, Watson was seen with Simmons at a park in Pennsylvania, but her spokesperson dismissed reports of a romance as "complete fiction" .

Hostess The future of sex has long been a preoccupation of science fiction writers and fans like these at Baltimore's BaltiCon Convention.

From Star Wars to Red Dwarf, moving holograms have long been a staple of science fiction.

Their essays invade academic journals as well as little magazines, sometimes edging poetry and fiction out of sight.

It looks like a cross between Noah's Ark and something out of a 1970s science-fiction film.

"Hongyan" fiction "Huaziliang" is even more widely known, Ciqikou left the footsteps of his revolutionary activities.

Soon to be added to that list is the translation of a long fiction called "Wolf Totem" .

I love curling up with a good book and a cup of coffee when all is quiet, and losing myself inside the magical world of fiction.

There's a bit of adult language and some pretty intense action scenes, most of which is science fiction in nature, and some violence.

The men China sent to space was a fiction. The whole thing was shot in a Shanghai studio, and projected to hoodwink the world. Right?

Like Close-Up and A Moment of Innocence, The Apple crossbreeds documentary and fiction.

Science fiction & fantasy magazines, the illustrated pulp fiction of the age, sparked the imaginations of a generation.

The quality and popularity of crime fiction has given Nordic novelists a prestige that authors from other countries do not enjoy.

As a representative writer of youth fiction, Ye Xin subjects are educated youth to carry forward into the new era literary fiction.

It contains science-fiction violence and also language that may be inappropriate for children under the age of thirteen.

Partly for that reason, many Afghans will regard the election result as a convenient fiction.

"Jane Eyre" is one with a strong romantic realist fiction.

It was a platitude to maintain the fiction that he was conferring a great boon on me.

Legal fiction is differ from fiction, it's a metaphysical way of thinking on which empirical world isn't based.

In contrast to these urban-drama stories, some of Aoi's videos are in a more adventurous porno-science-fiction genre.

A writer of fiction since she was a child, Qi Mo wrote several science fiction novels while in primary school.

THE winner of this year's Man Booker fiction prize is an historical novel with a difference.

But his grasp of his subject is perhaps trumped by his knowledge of science fiction.

Perhaps because of lack of publicity, the company's production of a science fiction version of Othello played to empty houses all week.

millions of words of Liu Xing-long novels known as the "Saint-day gate" realistic fiction masterpieces in recent years.

Mr. McCain does not, clinging to the fiction that the mortgage industry will somehow, someday, voluntarily rework most of the junk loans.

It sounds like something out of science fiction - a huge swath of the moon covered with solar panels to beam captured energy back to Earth.

It is a fiction book about a young shepherd boy. He meets a Gypsy, who tells him to go find the Pyramids.

And Americans, as the head of the Swedish Academy has annoyingly but rightly pointed out, don't read much fiction in translation anyway.

Boundaries between fact and fiction appear blurred to the point of non-existence.

The relationship between science fiction and capacity building of national creative abilities has not been deeply explored.

He did not predict the future in his copious science fiction, he insisted.

Steadily as I climb I think about this man, his will and his magical fiction.

The projection of the mental state on the narration of Lu Xun's self-fiction is the appearance of narrating spokesman and dual narration.

i read it on line, if you guys are interested in this fiction as well, i am happy if you ask me for the website. . .

But there were times when I wanted to remind both sides that this was fiction.

Did I make that story up too? This is a funny world where there is no difference between truth and fiction. I leave it to you to judge.

The motor of this book is in Ms Batuman's erudite enthusiasm for big, chunky, gloomy and occasionally illogical fiction.

Known mostly for her science fiction Miles Vorkosigan series, she has rarely dabbled in fantasy.

Though this incident may have inspired the writers of fiction and film it lies a century after the Golden Age of piracy.