But part of the pleasure of science fiction is learning science as well as enjoying fiction.
The US publisher is a division of Disney and publishes general interest fiction and non-fiction books for adults.
You will need to register to do this and there are fiction and non-fiction options to choose from.
It helps booksellers define titles that are space-travel science fiction versus time-travel science fiction, cyberpunk versus steampunk, for instance.
The commercial made us remember the wonder of science fiction, the films made us wonder what had become of science fiction.
"However you can't simple reclassify books from fiction to non-fiction, " he said, explaining that classifications were decided at a central level.
If you primarily read fiction, try reading more non-fiction, and vice versa.
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For the longest time, there was little ambiguity between literary fiction and genre fiction: one was good for you, one simply tasted good.
All non-fiction books by the cyclist, including "Lance Armstrong: Images of a Champion", would soon be moved to the fiction section, it read.
Genre fiction, we are told, is easily digested but nutrition-free fluff, whilst literary fiction is harder to swallow but better for you, like broccoli.
Science-fiction, romance and crime-fiction fans often read more books more quickly than readers of literary fiction do, and finish most of the books they start.
And as for non-commissioned pieces, owning art from a comic book you enjoy is a great way to relive your favorite fiction, especially if your favorite fiction fights crime.
Yet non-fiction is - well, it dominates the market and there's a lot of non-fiction being written, almost all of it journalism, and publishers want something literary I think.
Consequently there has been a proliferation of "flash fiction" on the Web, with E-zines and dedicated sites like Flash Fiction Online showcasing the talents of writers like Bruce Holland Rogers.
Named after Hugo Gernsback, the editor of groundbreaking sci-fi magazine Amazing Stories, the Hugos (originally the Science Fiction Achievement Awards) have been awarded annually for science fiction and fantasy writing since 1953.
It's easy to find books described as "nonfiction that reads like fiction" on the web, but almost impossible to find "fiction that reads like nonfiction, " although I believe such a genre exists.
Crowd-funding, like crowd-sourcing, is the art of drawing a large group of people together to contribute to a common goal, in this case to raise money for a work of fiction or non-fiction.
To Michael Chabon, all fiction is fan fiction.
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Clive James's Unreliable Memoirs series, in its early instalments at least, falls somewhere between fiction and non-fiction - although some of James' best writing about his homeland, I would suggest, is to be found in his essays.
Put aside, for the moment, the long postwar argument between the rival claims of realistic and anti-realistic fiction the seasoned triumphs of the traditional American novel on one side, and the necessary innovations of postmodern fiction on the other.
Popular Scottish science fiction author, Iain M(enzies) Banks, who also writes mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks (no M), has been diagnosed with gall bladder cancer, and according to his statement, has only a few months to live.
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Sometime between 2008 and 2009, or perhaps before then, I got it in my head that the best poetry was political in nature, the best fiction was psychological or sociological in nature, and the best non-fiction, well, was non-fiction!
Directed energy has long been considered science fiction (and frankly some of the real world programs should have stayed in science fiction), but it looks like this is the generation where we will finally see it be used on the battlefield.
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If Binet is as doubt-filled about fiction, and as passionate about historical witness, as he says he is, the scrupulous response would be to refrain from writing fiction, or to do a kind of historical research that is not attempted here.
It was named one of the best non-fiction books of 2006 by The Washington Post.
That fiction, I believe, has combined with the trend in society for "extreme" behavior.
Dr. Hammad Azzam is the author of Shifting Borderlines: How Science Fiction is Becoming Science.
When politicians say they want to talk to their constituents, it is often a polite fiction.
Looking at the fiction section of Kickstarter, few ask for those kinds of sums.
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