ABSTRACT:A CRITIC AT LARGE about alternative-history fiction.
However, literary science fiction has a long history with examining the roles of gender in the future.
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Fantasy fiction tells you that history is available, that the past counts.
Although I had met Mr. Unsworth and heard him speak at the 2009 Key West Literary Seminar, I had known him long before as a historical novelist who changed the way I thought about history and fiction.
Some of the weeks incorporate both history and fiction, for example the reading of "A Man for All Seasons, " Robert Bolt's 1954 play -- later reworked into a famous 1966 film - about the life of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor to England's mercurial King Henry VIII in the 16th century.
But the narrative style suggests that, as far as this book is concerned, it's fiction--rather than history--that's just one damned thing after another.
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Her course dedicates each of its 13 weeks to discussing and drawing lessons from a work of fiction, biography, autobiography, or history.
"What we try to do with our extended fiction is create a kind of 'history' for the universe, from which we can draw ideas, scenarios, characters and events, and connect those to the game in meaningful ways, " said Frank O'Connor, franchise development director at 343 Industries.
Talk of witnesses disappearing and plots hatched in secret may sound like the stuff of fiction but Kenyans have been burdened with a history of impunity that reformers are now trying to address.
The fact that so many gamers do know something about Da Vinci from the games, which incorporated real history and historical figures into its fiction, is a plus for Starz moving forward if they chose to go the Spartacus route with the second season and unleash interactive entertainment.
He has produced works on history and folklore as well as science fiction.
We will certainly respect the history, but some of the best hard-boiled fiction is being written today.
The evidential value of entomology may come as no surprise to lovers of crime fiction, but the fact that it is scientists at the Natural History Museum - more normally associated with the fossilised remains of long dead plants and animals - who are pushing the boundaries of modern forensic science, comes as something of a revelation.
Walter Mosley says the science-fiction element in the book gives him the freedom to follow 47 through history.
Texas secession fiction falls into a long line of what-if books exploring alternate versions of history.
As we know from history, Verity Lambert was not the first choice to produce the science fiction show, as she had had no experience.
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"It is historical fiction -- a noble genre going back to Shakespeare and well before -- not history, " he said.
The U.K. has avoided the misery suffered in parts of the euro zone, but five years into the crisis it is looking as though tough decisions are being avoided by a political elite happy to hide behind the convenient fiction that a slump caused by the biggest credit and housing bubble in the country's history is mainly cyclical.
Mr. MELOY: Just instead of writing the sort of, really, realist kind of stoic, creative non-fiction, I just started using things outside of my experience, entirely outside of my setting in history.
If just shy of persuasive, the tale is entertaining, and runs through the recent history of poor Liberia in a more captivating form, for many, than straight non-fiction.
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