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Singular fiction

Plural fictions

fiction (plural fictions)

  1. Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
    The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
    I am a great reader of fiction.
  2. (uncountable) Invention.
    The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.

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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Mon Feb 1 12:47:50 2010

Fiction (Latin: fictum, "created") is a branch of literature which deals, in part or in whole, with temporally contrafactual events (events that are not true at the time of writing). In contrast to this is non-fiction, which deals exclusively in factual events (e.g.: biographies, histories). Semi-fiction is fiction implementing a great deal of non-fiction, e.g. a fictional description based on a true story.

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Wed Feb 3 20:03:10 2010

What would you want and expect from a good science fiction book?
Q. 1) what's an interesting theme? 2) should it be more science or more fiction? 3) would you want to learn interesting/important facts? 4) would you like it to have romance? 5) should it be complicated, but still undertandable or should it be simple? 6) Do you even like science fiction? Even if it's science fiction, it's sceince so it has to have facts, real things that exist not only fction... 7) does it bother you if the information could be right, but it really isn't? Tyvm. I love science fiction and i'm just curious. I'm also a writer so i wanna know.
Asked by Risu - Sat Apr 4 08:01:44 2009 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. 1) a classic sciencefiction theme is that of the myth of Prometheus. He stole fire from the gods. Stories that include this theme are: Frankenstein Space Odessy 2001 The myth of sisyphus The tower of babel Blade Runner ect. Man defies god by "going too far" Another great theme would be that of Plato's Allegory of the Cave. A man breaks out of his world that he thought real and sees the real world. But when he returns he is condemned for it. Because people just cant accept the truth. Stories that include this theme are: Matrix The three stigmata of palmer eldrich The myth of the blue flower ect Above all theme as to come first in a good science fiction 2) The science in a science fiction is fiction itself. eg. The medotranites in my blood… [cont.]
Answered by Kublah Kahn - Sat Apr 4 08:27:44 2009

What are some really good fiction books for an eighth grader to read for a book report?
Q. I have a book report to do, and I'm an eighth grader, and I have no idea what to read. I can read anything, it just has to be fiction. I have to doa book report and I get to choose the book. I love to read, so length won't matter. It just has to be interesting, and fiction. I've already read Twilight, and New Moon, and Eclipse.
Asked by Kelly - Sat Sep 27 21:33:11 2008 - - 7 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I'm in 8th grade to! I did a report on "Tomorrow When the War Began" by John Marsden. It was a good book to write a report on because there are lots of themes such as war, friendship and growing up. I did a book report in year 7 on "Chinese cinderella" by Adeline Yen Mar. That was also sucesfull. Other books i would recomend are: "The Chocolate War." Robert Cormier. "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time."Mark Haddon "My Sisters Keeper." Jodi Picoult. (long book but very good) "Peeling the Onion" Wendy Orr. I hope this helps=D
Answered by Maggie - Sat Sep 27 22:06:18 2008

What are the 10 top science fiction televesion series in the past 10 years?
Q. I haven't been watching TV much for many years. I have been mostly watching movies. I recently discovered the televsion series Flash Forward, also Psych, the Mentalist, Fringe, and now I just discovered Heroes. What else are there? Better stated, what are the top ten television series (science fiction), or however many you can think of - in the past ten years?
Asked by jrob - Wed Nov 4 04:06:20 2009 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Stargate Atlantis, galaxtica,Heroes,Stargate Universe,
Answered by lorie v - Wed Nov 4 04:25:16 2009

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  • Fiction is fact distilled into truth.
  • We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.
    • J. G. Ballard, "Introduction" to the French edition (1974) of Crash (1973), reprinted in Re/Search no. 8/9 (1984)
  • Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we [Europeans] shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future. The American way of life is spontaneously fictional, since it is a transcending of the imaginary in reality.
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