One might think that a man who dreams of opening up space to the holidaymaking public would have had his imagination fired as a boy by science fiction novels.
By the mid-1970s he had carved out a nice living writing pulpy science fiction and suspense novels.
Editors at Poland's newly privatised publishing houses exaggerate, but only to make a valid point, when they say that the only Polish authors who are flourishing today are writers of science-fiction and fantasy novels, Andrzej Sapkowski, Marek Oramus and Rafal Ziemkiewicz prominent among them.
Instead, it's compatible with "Mobipocket" books, a digital format that offers more than 100, 000 titles, though many are noncopyrighted classics, romance novels and science fiction--hardly the material recommended by Oprah's book club.
As well as low-priced, Cuban-produced books, printed for the occasion, there are glossy foreign novels and non-fiction too.
And while the early "Twilight" novels were decidedly chaste (at first, anyway), writers of fan fiction will tell you there's a huge desire for erotic novels.
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In this environment, Mailer's fiction stagnated and his follow-up novels to "The Naked and the Dead" were attacked by critics.
Not novels or absorbing non-fiction books you like to read on airplanes.
The only two non-erotic novels in the mass market fiction chart were Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher thriller, The Affair, and John Grisham's The Litigators.
Although her first book was a non-fiction title, she has since written three novels which have sold 60, 000 copies, mostly in America.
Ottaviani, whose recent book, Feynman, debuted at the top of the New York Times Bestseller list for graphic novels, started out in non-fiction self-publishing in 1997.
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That unsentimental education gave Mr Fuller material for the 23 films he wrote and directed, as well as for dozens more scripts and 11 novels which he happily describes as pulp fiction.
On the side, he wrote fiction, including two short story collections and seven novels, which ranged from a coming-of-age story about a rebellious teenager who gets thrown out of school, to a book about a middle-age man who befriends a gangster to impress his son.
But something else appears to be at work in the wordy subtitle of Defoe's most celebrated work of fiction, which is also one of the first English novels.
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Along with teenage fiction about Cherry Ames, the inexhaustible nurse, the stewardess novels were virtually the only girls' career books around unless you counted the girl detectives, who didn't seem to get paid for their efforts.
The trade magazine said print sales of other fiction genres were down year-on-year, including crime novels, which have fallen 20%.
Ms Enright, the fourth Irish writer to win the prize, is a 45-year-old Dubliner who has written three previous novels, short stories and a work of non-fiction.
But other non-French influences are visible in the French fiction list, on which this note concentrates. (Several Italian novels are reviewed above).
Akashic publishes original stories set in different cities, as well as crime novels written by Cuban authors and an eclectic list of general interest fiction and nonfiction.
Professor Lola Young, chairman of the judges, called British novels "piddling" and "parochial" compared with American women's fiction.
Because he was writing novels when the form was so new, an argument can be made that Defoe's casting of fiction as fact was simply a daring experiment within an emerging genre.
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