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	Fiction - TheBestLinks.com - Art, Alternate History, Advertising, Copyright, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Fiction is largely perceived as a form of art or entertainment, although not all fiction is necessarily artistic.
		Fiction may over time blend with factual accounts and develop into mythology; atheists typically perceive religion as no different from any fictional tale, whereas members of religious groups typically explain their beliefs with faith and claim they are fundamentally different from fictional tales (although they may call other religious views fictional).
		Fiction is a fundamental part of human culture, and the ability to create fiction, or in fact any art, is frequently cited as one of the defining characteristics of humanity.
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		Science fiction is a form of fiction which deals principally with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals.
		Soft science fiction is science fiction whose plots and themes tend to focus on philosophy, psychology, politics and sociology while de-emphasizing the details of technological hardware and physical laws.
		The European brand of science fiction proper began, however, toward the end of the 19th century with the scientific romances of Jules Verne, whose science was rather on the level of invention, as well as the science-oriented novels of social criticism by H.G. Wells.
	www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/s/sc/science_fiction_1.html (1557 words)

	Clerical Employment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		An oath of clerical celibacy is the promise of a religious or clerical official to remain unmarried, or not to remarry.
		Clerical marriage is the practice, followed in most Protestant churches, of allowing clergy to marry and have a family.
		Clerical fascism is an ideological construct that combines the political and economic doctrines of fascism with theology or religious tradition.
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	Science fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Science fiction is a form of fiction which deals principally with the impact of imagined science and/or technology upon society or individuals.
		Soft science fiction is the subgenre where plots and themes tend to focus on philosophy, psychology, politics and sociology while de-emphasizing the details of technological hardware and physical laws.
		A second generation of original and popular science fiction films begin to appear, among the most significant of which were (1968), THX 1138 (1969) Close Encounters of the Third Kind, (1977), and Star Wars, (1977).
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/s/sc/science_fiction_1.html (1887 words)

	Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A large part of the appeal of fiction is its ability to evoke the entire spectrum of human emotions: to distract our minds, to give us hope in times of despair, to make us laugh, or to let us experience empathy without attachment.
		Many atheists perceive religion as no different from any fictional tale, whereas members of religious groups typically explain their beliefs with faith and claim they are fundamentally different from fictional tales (although they may call other religious views fictional).
		Fiction is a fundamental part of human culture, and the ability to create fiction and other artistic works is frequently cited as one of the defining characteristics of humanity.
	www.free-download-soft.com /info/fiction.html (383 words)

	Encyclopedia: Science fiction
		Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology upon society and persons as individuals.
		The broader category of speculative fiction includes science fiction, fantasy, alternative histories (which often have no particular scientific or futuristic component), and even literary stories where the only fantastic element is the strangeness of their style.
		A science fiction writer is generally not trying to write a history of the future that they believe will happen, any more than a writer of westerns is trying to create a historically accurate depiction of the old West.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Science-fiction (4867 words)

	Wikinfo \| Science fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Science fiction proper began, however, toward the end of the 19th century with the scientific romances of Jules Verne, whose science was rather on the level of invention, as well as the science-oriented novels of social criticism by H.G. Wells.
		The development of science fiction as a self-conscious genre dates from 1926, when Hugo Gernsback, who coined the portmanteau word scientifiction, founded Amazing Stories magazine, which was devoted exclusively to science fiction stories.
		Science fiction writers' work have included predictions of future societies on Earth, analyses of the consequences of interstellar travel, and imaginative explorations of other forms of intelligent life and their societies in other worlds.
	www.internet-encyclopedia.org /wiki.php?title=Science_fiction (916 words)

	Faith and Fiction-Making: The Catholic Context, by Ann Copeland
		Unlike events on the evening news, fictional event is always married to character, its implications shown incarnate in human lives.
		Belief in the power of words to awaken the moral imagination, belief that fiction can render individual human acts as full of import, belief that a story can dramatize a spiritual quest convincingly for a modern reader: all these tax not only technical resources, though those surely, but spiritual resources, as well, of writers today.
		Clerical life is represented here by two members of the Paracletist Order -- Boniface, now seventy-four and in a convalescent home, and Clement, forty-five, who at sixteen was rescued from poverty and drawn by the example of Boniface to enter the Order.
	www.crosscurrents.org /copeland.htm (8201 words)

	Clerical fiction -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Clerical fiction is a semi-humorous term for describing a few books and novels which appeared in (A republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II) Poland during the (The decade from 1990 to 1999) 1990s.
		This subgenre of (Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society) science fiction treated the (Any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church) Catholic Church or at least religious and church-related topics (like (Termination of pregnancy) abortion).
		Mostly was the instrument of revival of post-communists, that used anti-Catholicism as the leverage to achieve political success in (A republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II) Poland, even though many people were Catholic.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cl/clerical_fiction.htm (175 words)

	Fan Fiction
		Fan fiction is a literary genre that exists outside of mainstream, commercial entertainment.
		In fact, fan fiction writers, who don't have to stay true to a story line, can bend the rules to the point of shattering them.
		From those early days in which fan fiction was produced entirely in printed form and usually distributed among the faithful in close-knit fandoms, has grown a genre that turns a NASA Senior Technical Specialist like Madden into a part-time fanzine writer and publisher.
	www.thehumorwriter.com /My_Serious_Side/Fan_Fiction/fan_fiction.html (1376 words)

	Science fiction Details, Meaning Science fiction Article and Explanation Guide
		Science fiction, generally speaking, is a form of speculative fiction which deals principally with the impact of imagined science and/or technology upon society or individuals.
		It has been suggested as a method of resolving this confusion that SF come to stand for speculative fiction and thus encompass fantasy and horror fiction as well as science fiction genres.
		Phillip K. Dick wrote several novels which were mainstream studies of people, situations and relationships (with no science fiction element at all) but they didn't sell very well until after his death and, consequently, he is remembered by most people as an author of sci-fi alone.
	www.e-paranoids.com /s/sc/science_fiction_1.html (2346 words)

	Science fiction : SF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Science fiction : SF Science fiction is a form of fiction which deals principally with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals.
		Hyde (1886) are plainly science fiction, whereas Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), based purely on the Supernatural, isn't.
		Science fiction has also been popular in radio, comic books, television, and movies; it isn'table that about three-quarters of the top twenty highest grossing films, (source: IMDB June 2002) are based around science-fiction or fantasy themes.
	www.city-search.org /sf/sf.html (1013 words)

	The Mystery of the Clerical Detective
		When we consider the question of clerics and mysteries, the first figure most of us think of is G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown.
		Somehow, in the minutes before the ceremony is to begin, Father Koesler manages to have two pages-long conversation with three priests (including Statler and Waldorf), in which they all offer their views, in the most stilted agitprop-type language imaginable, on the consequences of ordaining a married Episcopal.
		Clerical mysteries can be entertaining, and they can be educational as well, as the inner workings of church both past and present and the minds of religious are revealed to the interested reader.
	www.amywelborn.com /catholicmysteries/mysteries.html (1437 words)

	Centaur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Not comprehending the etymology of the "-taur" element of "Centaur", a general 'taur' form in modern science fiction and fantasy literature is a six-limbed being, using four for locomotion and two for manipulation.
		In furry fiction and art, there are creatures imagined called such as wolftaurs, foxtaurs and chakats.
		These creatures are typically depicted as having large the normal body structure of the regular animal, but also have a upper body portion attached at the front that is humanoid in basic structure outside the head.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/ce/Centaur.htm (764 words)

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		Fiction is largely perceived as a form of art or
		Fiction may be propagated by parents to their children out of
		Fiction is a fundamental part of human culture, and the ability to create fiction and other artistic works is frequently cited as one of the defining characteristics of
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Fiction (438 words)

	Salon.com Life \| Clothes make the mullah
		But political power has also exposed the clergy to intense public scrutiny -- so for those mullahs who want to avoid politics or close association with the government, there is a real temptation not to wear their clerical garb except when it is required by their religious activity.
		When you wear clerical clothes, he continues, "you are advertising for your religion and implicitly calling people to it.
		Arabpour echoes the lesson of the film, pointing to the racks of half-finished clerical robes hanging at the back of his shop: "There is only air in these clothes.
	www.salon.com /mwt/feature/2005/01/05/iran_clergy/index1.html (898 words)

	Anglican Theological Review: Madonna Murders, The
		In the last two decades of the twentieth century, a striking number of clerical murder mysteries were published, and of these a significant number take up Anglican themes.
		James is, of course, as she has often humbly expressed her hope, a "serious novelist," and cannot thus be simplistic-ally linked with the mass appeal of most Anglican detective fiction, but we need not as a result denigrate examples of the latter, such as Pamela Cranston's first novel, The Madonna Murders.
		But all this may be overlooked; Cranston's sleuth has enough breadth oi character to be developed in further novels, and the reader is assured by this first piece that its lapses will be repaired in later compositions.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3818/is_200407/ai_n9459347 (369 words)

	Scientific Detectives
		In particular, science fiction was ghettoized from a subject of general purpose fiction suitable for all readers and the greatest writers, into the pulps and comic strips.
		His delightful story "Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty" (1916) seems to be in the tradition of clerical fiction, a once popular subgenre of British storytelling, These tales focus, often humorously, on life in British clerical families and cathedral towns.
		In his history of detective fiction, S.S. Van Dine grouped Ernest M. Poate, A.E.W. Mason, and himself all together; there are suggestions that this is because all use a "psychological" approach to detection.
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	Mitford Rules - Books & Culture
		But every clerical novel can prompt reflection on what the life of the church can and should be.
		In fiction, Protestant clergy seem given over to other tasks: wrestling with doubt inflamed by scientific criticism, Darwinism, or humanism (as in Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware), or getting mired in hypocrisy and blatant sin (as in John Updike's Month of Sundays).
		It is in Catholic clerical literature that we find priests who, though flawed, are nonetheless devoted to pastoring, to the cure of souls.
	www.christianitytoday.com /bc/2005/006/3.06.html (1554 words)

	Genres, subcategories and related topics to science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Genres, subcategories and related topics to science fiction
		Arthur C. Clarke's list of the best science fiction films
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Genres,_subcategories_and_related_topics_to_science_fiction (57 words)

	Michaellister.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Body and the Blood is a terrific locked-room mystery wrapped in clerical garb that is merely the sheep's clothing disguising the wolf---an exploration of what it means to be locked in an institutional pressure-cooker.
		The setting is unusual, the character not a typical cop or cleric, and the crime sensational.
		But a cleric’s collar doesn’t shield him from the seedier side when he finds himself as the prison chaplain of Potter Correctional Institution.
	www.michaellister.com (2080 words)

	Raymond Arroyo on Clerical Celibacy & Catholic Church on National Review Online
		hen he met with the U.S. cardinals to formulate some response to the sexual scandals besieging the Church, the Pope, in his wisdom took the issue of clerical celibacy off the table as a cure-all.
		But it is so much a part of the Church's history and its goodness, to cast it away in this dark hour would be an error.
		If you believe the folks on TV, celibacy was something "imposed on the priesthood" during the Middle Ages to keep the children of clerics from inheriting Church property.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-arroyo051602.asp (911 words)

	Scenes of Clerical Life - George Eliot - Penguin Group (USA)
		Wrote the publisher John Blackwood in February 1857 to a shy and ambitious new author, whom he had not yet met, George Eliot.
		Shielded by this pseudonymn, Mary Ann Evans made her fictional début when Scenes of Clerical Life appeared in Blackwood's Magazine the same year.
		These are Eliot's earliest studies of what became enduring themes: the impact of religious controversy and social change in provincial life, and the power of love to transform the lives of individual men and women.
	www.penguinputnam.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140436383,00.html (183 words)

	§23. "Scenes of Clerical Life". XI. The Political And Social Novel. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The ...
		What, then, accounts for the effect produced by these Scenes when they first appeared, and still exercised by them on the admirers of George Eliot’s later and maturer works?
		89 The examples of these varieties of expression given below have been taken almost at haphazard from Scenes of Clerical Life, and no attempt will be made, easy though it would be, to multiply them from this or later works.
		But they may be regarded as sufficiently illustrating a feature in the imaginative writings of George Eliot which must be acknowledged to be one of their most distinctive characteristics.
	www.bartleby.com /223/1123.html (815 words)

	Blackstone Audiobooks - Unabridged Audiobooks on Tape CD and MP3-CD for Purchase and Rental (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was her second book, Adam Bede, which secured George Eliot's reputation as an author; but in this, her first work, she had already demonstrated her remarkable gifts for writing and produced a form of fiction that ran counter to the debates regarding religion in her day.
		Eliot had parted ways with Christian faith over a decade before writing Scenes of Clerical Life in 1857, becoming one of many Victorian era "Honest Doubters." Yet her mature views, never simple ones, shine through in this work.
		Under the surface orthodoxy of the Scenes are signs of her search for a "religion of Humanity," and her desire for conciliation with whatever was best in Christianity.
	www.blackstoneaudio.com /audiobook.cfm?ID=2421 (170 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| A Brief History of the Flood by Jean Harfenist
		As part of a large struggling family, she tiptoes around her explosive father whose best days always come right after he’s poached something and her neurotically optimistic mother whose bursts of vigor bring added chaos.
		Lillian barrels through adolescence with no illusions about her future, honing her clerical skills while working the nightshift as a salad girl in the airport kitchen.
		Just as she’s on her feet and moving out, their house is literally sinking into the marsh.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0375713352&view=rg (710 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Scenes of Clerical Life (Penguin Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Subjects > Fiction > Authors, A-Z > E > Eliot, George
		Subjects > Fiction > By Period > 19th Century > General
		Subjects > Fiction > By Period > General
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	AlannahJoy's Medazzaland
		But I carelessly left the 5:00 news on just now, and even though it's turned to a Milwaukee station, I was subjected to scenes in Chicago (I'm a former northsider, for the few people who didn't know, and still live within an hour's drive) of White Sox fans' drunken blatherings and of Sox crap everywhere.
		Are the county clerical offices so archaic that they don't provide their employees with calculators?) On many of the math problems, I just guessed.
		It's no secret that I own a DD slash fiction site, and that my own stories are posted there as well as in my personal journal.
	www.livejournal.com /users/alannahjoy (5542 words)

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