It can be found in cultural products of the past in fairy tales, in fiction, in architecture, in music, in the movie in products of the human mind that contain "the outlines of a better world".

在过去的文化产物中，如童话、小说、建筑、音乐、电影、人类思想产品里都可以找到“更美好世界的轮廓”。

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It is amazing that many of the themes young writers explored in fiction soon became a reality with the world in lockdown.

令人惊讶的是，由于世界范围内的封锁，许多年轻作家在科幻小说中探索的主题很快就变成了现实。

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In other words, this is a narrative that moves quite by design in the world of fiction.

换句话说，这是一种在虚构的世界,按照特定轨迹运动的叙事体。

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What's the relationship between fiction and what we all experience as the real world?

小说和我们的现实经历,的关系又是什么？

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Whereas most utterances purport to be saying something true about the actual state of things in the world, literary utterance is under no such obligation, the argument goes, and ought properly to be understood as fiction making it up as opposed to referring.

大多数言辞都是对事物的真实状况的,真实反映，而这种观点认为，文学没有这个义务，应该把文学理解为小说,它是虚构而不是实指。

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The relation between his world and his fiction is much stranger than that.

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