The bookstore has also used its printing press to hold a short story fiction contest, picking 42 of the best entries and publishing them in its own book.
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That story was fiction, but Murdoch put the world on notice that he is not done: "With this saga finally concluded, we will return with renewed vigor and sharpened focus to maximizing our worldwide media businesses, " said a News Corp. statement announcing that it was withdrawing its bid for Hughes.
It has what he calls his "research, " the notes for a science fiction story he's writing.
Not a fiction story, but a marketing narrative that brings in business.
If Marwa's story were a work of fiction, it would probably end somewhere about here.
Underneath the science fiction, the story deals with a slightly dysfunctional family and their attempts to reconnect with one another.
In its first incarnation, the story was a young-adult fiction by Michael Morpurgo written from the point of view of the horse, who turned out to have complex feelings and a decent prose style.
There are surges into science fiction (courtesy of a story that Chow is writing), but they seem no less anesthetized than the smoky world of his girlfriends.
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.
Originally posted online as a riff on the Twilight fan-fiction series Masters of the Universe, the story soon got picked up as an eBook, spawned two sequels and sold over a quarter of a million copies online.
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Trying to make my fiction "real" radically shrank the field of plausible story scenarios.
With Argo, Affleck has delved into a true story that seems so far-fetched that it plays like Hollywood fiction.
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He wrote fan fiction and went on to write his own 200-page fantasy story.
Fan fiction grew popular in the 1960s thanks to "Star Trek" as fans developed their own story lines to swap with other devotees.
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Mr. Hemingway's story of the struggle between a weather-beaten Cuban fisherman and a giant marlin won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
The story is very different to five years ago, when Cookson occupied nine out of the top 10 places in the fiction list.
Kalfus does all of this in a story told from the point of view of a character very different from himself, heartening in this age of autobiographical fiction.
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