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	Fiction
		Fiction is a fundamental part of human culture, and the ability to create literature and other artistic works by using one's imagination is frequently cited as one of the defining characteristics of humanity.
		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 alternative religious views fictional).
	www.jahsonic.com /Fiction.html (1158 words)

	Literary genre
		Escapist fiction is fiction which provides a psychological escape from thoughts of everyday life by immersing the reader in exotic situations or activities.
		Considering the marketing of fiction as a trade, airport novels occupy a niche similar to the one that once was occupied by pulp magazine fiction and other reading materials typically sold at newsstands and kiosks to travellers.
		This pulp fiction is one obvious source for the genre; sprawling historical novels of exotic adventure such as those by James Michener and James Clavell are another source.
	www.jahsonic.com /LiteraryGenre.html (979 words)

	VanderWorld: "POSTMODERN" TECHNIQUE IN FANTASY FICTION
		As a result, all fiction is "escapist" in a sense--there are simply varying degrees of escapism.
		Fiction can fail in so many ways that to focus on "too much escapism" strikes me as a convenient way to overlook defects in "non-escapist" fantasy, for example.
		In "Early History" the "fictional purpose" is to present a history of Ambergris without the need for the traditional methods of plot and character development.
	vanderworld.blogspot.com /2003/08/postmodern-technique-in-fantasy.html (583 words)

	Serial Friction
		With serialised radio fiction being the communication/entertainment medium of choice among the American masses, comics were highly influenced by its formats and genres.
		Escapist comics, the genres in which comics were once most effective, are no longer able to hold the same visceral appeal as they did in the 1930s to 1960s.
		Like most prose fiction, such contained works carry with them a permanence of storytelling, as opposed to those that are continually in flux, as seen in most superhero stories.
	www.ninthart.com /display.php?article=164 (1783 words)

	Escapist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Escapist (magazine), an online games culture magazine;
		The Escapist (movie) was a 2001 film directed by Gillies MacKinnon
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Escapist (99 words)

	Left Hand of Darkness - Study Guide
		The first science fiction novel, it is largely agreed, was written by a woman, Mary Shelley, the daughter of the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the wife of the English romantic poet Shelley.
		For her, science fiction novels are an experiment in the imagination, "a thought-experiment." One of the essential functions of science fiction, she once wrote, is to ask provocative and essential questions which will reverse our habitual way of thinking.
		Both fiction and science fiction, continues LeGuin in her analysis of the similarity between the two genres, are metaphors-imaginative word-pictures that provide a complex of associated meanings.
	www.angelfire.com /ny/gaybooks/lefthandofdarkness.html (19733 words)

	A Mormon Writer Looks at the Problem of Evil in Fiction - Orson Scott Card
		It is often easier to learn from fiction than from life; but fiction is a necessity to so many of us because through it we live many lives, and learn many things, instead of staying in the much safer reality and learning only a few things.
		Right now I am immersed in the fictional experience of a Latter-day Saint woman I've named Dinah Kirkham, who is reared in the terrible poverty of industrial revolution Manchester and is brought by her new faith in Mormonism to America even though it means abandoning her children and her husband.
		What decides the moral value of fiction is the character of the person writing it and his skill in writing, and the character of the person reading it and his skill in reading.
	www.nauvoo.com /library/card-talk.html (10466 words)

	Science Fiction on Radio
		It is not coincidental that radio pioneer Hugo Gernsback was also considered the father of science fiction as well as one of the first publishers in 1926 of a science fiction magazine.
		Despite a dry spell, another true science fiction that made its way to radio in the thirties is probably the best known and would shake the foundations of belief for listeners coming at a time when the world was already clashing on the European continent.
		Not all science fiction of the period was for adults.
	www.otr.com /sf.html (1735 words)

	The Mumpsimus
		Using such a taxonomy, there is no need to separate various forms of genre fiction from the stuff that just gets shelved under "fiction" in bookstores, because in the genre sections you'll have escapist fiction beside literary fiction in the same way the fiction section has Brett Easton Ellis beside Stanley Elkin.
		Yes, short fiction isn't as popular as it was in, say, 1955, but no short fiction of any type is. No, the magazines aren't selling as well as they did in the early '80s, but that's true for most magazines these days.
		Science fiction and fantasy are not the only styles of writing capable of accomplishing such feats, but they may be the only styles of writing capable of making such feats expansive ones, because the best speculative fiction aims to create its own world with each new story.
	mumpsimus.blogspot.com /2004_04_01_mumpsimus_archive.html#108199872720065635 (8795 words)

	What Is Pulp Fiction? And we don't mean the movie!
		Term originated from the magazines of the first half of the 20th century which were printed on cheap "pulp" paper and published fantastic, escapist fiction for the general entertainment of the mass audiences.
		Pulp Fiction is a term used to describe a huge amount of creative writing available to the American public in the early nineteen-hundreds.
		Writers such as Carroll John Daly changed the detective fiction story from the staid whodunits popularized in Great Britain to the more "hard-boiled" version where the bad guy was bad and the detective was tough and street-smart.
	www.vintagelibrary.com /pulpfiction/introduction/What-Is-Pulp-Fiction.html (612 words)

	Beliefnet.com
		The article focuses on magazines that used to carry fiction but now either no longer do so or have severely cut back doing so, both in favor of carrying non-fiction pieces.
		I do agree with the author in the article though, that said after sept 11, he needed to be informed and couldn't face fictional characters.
		Fiction is often the way in which we, as the people of a country or a faith/wisdom tradition, make sense of the world around us.
	www.beliefnet.com /boards/message_list.asp?boardID=765&discussionID=451560 (807 words)

	Assign1
		Del Rey uses the contention that science fiction is challenging to read, or at the very least demanding, to “refute the claim that science fiction is “escapist literature” (p.
		Science fiction, however one defines it, is multifaceted and has faced, it seems, much opposition from mainstream society and especially literary society.
		This may simply be the nature of science fiction writers; their writings are tangential from the norm, maybe their beliefs and personalities are as well.
	www.msu.edu /user/greenbu1/Assign1.htm (930 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Hausladen, Places for Dead Bodies
		Concomitantly, fiction, specifically the police procedural genre, is used as a powerful communicator of sense of place.
		If true for fiction in general, this is even more true for mysteries, when the need for entertainment often challenges the reader to read insatiably to deduce the solution of the mystery before it is revealed by the author.
		Seldom sedate, but always escapist, the police procedural, as with all detective fiction, requires the reader to think, to match wits with those of the investigator in the narrative, and to participate in the investigation.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exhaupla.html (2837 words)

	Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind: Comfort Food or Bitter Pill
		Crime fiction takes an ordinary character at an extraordinary time in their lives and shows how they react and cope in the dark place into which they are taken.
		With a lot of mainstream fiction I've put it down thinking "Well, that was all very nice, but what's the point?" The puzzle element for me is the least important aspect of mystery fiction, but I do like the fact that they generally have a pretty good plot and are not all about navel gazing.
		People read fiction when the world around them is dark and scary, they read fiction when the world around them is bright and sunny, and I think your last few lines are absolutely right - trying to put the whys and wherefores into convenient little boxes is a big mistake: it's not that simple.
	www.sarahweinman.com /confessions/2004/09/comfort_food_or.html (3647 words)

	Fantastic Metropolis » The Dream of the Unified Field
		It’s important to realize that, in the middle of these somewhat mutable poles, is the large bulk of science fiction produced over the last 75 years: adventure, escapist fiction.
		The attempt to paint it as a mere exercise in obscuration (with the implied lack, however subtle, of the movement towards the “cold fact of tomorrow”) is missing the boat.
		Science fiction is a mode of writing that often, but not always, intersects with genre expectations, and in fact existed before the creation of a genre.
	www.fantasticmetropolis.com /i/unified/4 (523 words)

	All About Romance Novels - The HEA Ending: Part III
		Several of your letter writers have expressed the view that what today is called "genre fiction" (a new term for "pulp fiction") is escapist fiction with happy, or at least tidy, reader-pleasing, endings.
		In other words, defining science fiction is a non trivial problem, except on a case by case, individual basis (and not surprisingly, Ray Bradbury is one of the classic stumbling blocks).
		In romantic fiction there is a romance but it might not be the center of the plot and there does not have to have a HEA ending.
	www.likesbooks.com /hea3.html (4708 words)

	University Press of Kentucky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		While Englishmen were dying by the thousands on the battlefields of Europe, their friends and relations on the home front were reading books of humor, tales of espionage and adventure, colorful romances, and historical swashbucklers.
		A large factor, he shows, was the view of publishers, reviewers, booksellers, libraries, literary groups, and the general reading public that escapist fiction was s useful diversion from the inescapable horrors of war.
		Within a broad social, cultural, and economic context, he depicts the “fiction industry” at a time of extraordinary upheaval, before the triumph of Modernism, when the attitudes and esthetics of writers, the tastes of readers, and the economics of the marketplace were undergoing rapid transformation.
	www.kentuckypress.com /viewbook.cfm?Group=51&ID=457 (314 words)

	Bright Weavings - GGK's Words: Essay "Home and Away"
		Fantasy is usually seen as escapist fiction and that is most often meant as a criticism.
		We are moved and engaged by what happens to invented, imaginary people,whether in Vancouver or Shangri-la. (I am aware that some might claim these are the same place.) If the writer is ambitious, what sometimes happens is that we return from this crafted escape with illumination cast upon our own journeying.
		In the autumn of 1990 I had a late night talk with a Polish science fiction magazine editor at an international convention in The Hague.
	www.brightweavings.com /ggkswords/globe.htm (1961 words)

	Category:Fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For fictional things—fictional universes, characters and so forth—see the subcategory Category:Fictional.
		There are 24 subcategories shown below (more may be shown on subsequent pages).
		List of fiction that builds the fourth wall
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Fiction (74 words)

	Kat Dancing
		This is not something we like to talk about much, any more than the literary fiction folks like to admit that their categorization does not mean that they are the next James Joyce, but rather that they are best sold to people who like to think they're reading the next James Joyce.
		Science fiction, on the other hand, is a relatively recent genre brought on by the relatively recent Western concept of progress.
		It is singularly pointless to argue with such people that science fiction isn't all machines or that fantasy isn't all kings and battles.
	www.katfeete.net /nucleus/index.php?itemid=593 (2264 words)

	Philip K. Dick- (Unpublished) Foreword to The Preserving Machine
		The difference between a short story and a novel comes to this: a short story may deal with a murder; a novel deals with the murderer, and his actions stem from a psyche which, if the writer knows his craft, he has previously presented.
		There is one restriction in a novel not found in short stories: the requirement that the protagonist be liked enough or familiar enough to the reader so that, whatever the protagonist does, the readers would also do, under the same circumstances...or, in the case of escapist fiction, would like to do.
		In a story, you learn about the characters from what they do; in a novel it is the other way around: you have your characters and then they do something idiosyncratic, emanation from their unique natures.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/5/dick5art.htm (1047 words)

	Tingle Alley » 9/11 and fiction
		I think of the rash of historical fiction–the fictionalized Henry James books, the Thomas Mallon books, Atonement, books about Edgar Allan Poe, the 1960s etc. I was told by a prominent writer once that historical literary fiction, if not an oxymoron, is at least “usually a very bad idea.” And yet now it’s everywhere.
		I’m not sure “escapist” books, at least in fantasy and science fiction, are usually all that escapist — at least in terms of dealing with politics and societal upheavals.
		But then I have a friend who writes big fat fantasy novels who says that no fiction is escapist, because it’s all reflecting and commenting on some piece of the real world.
	www.tinglealley.com /index.php?p=306 (3212 words)

	The Escapist » Fiction
		Fiction in 15: Running Water And A Dial Tone
		Fiction in 15: Flashing In The Dim Light
		Slowly the door swung open on rusty hinges and Joshua lunged at them, the glass shanks and a manic grin flashing in the dim light of the hallway.
	the-escapist.com /blog/index.php?cat=5 (16170 words)

	VanderWorld: 08/01/2003 - 08/31/2003
		There has been a certain amount of debate about escapist versus non-escapist fantasy that I think would be better discussed in the context of escapist versus non-escapist fiction.
		No fiction can adequately describe even the interior of, say, a bookstore in such a way as to render it as real, on the level of specific detail, as you do when you visit said bookstore.
		Perhaps "escapist fantasy", or a degree of it, should not be dismissed so readily, considering that most everyone writing today is engaging in it.
	vanderworld.blogspot.com /2003_08_01_vanderworld_archive.html (4098 words)

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		The art of fiction really exists as immediately as theatre or film or a symphony--though the printed page can last for years, the story only lives when someone is reading it.
		You can combat the errors your children learn from fiction exactly as you combat the errors your children learn from their friends--by teaching them otherwise, by setting an example, by strengthening their conviction of and commitment to the truth; by loving them.
		I look at the people whose only brush with fiction is the emptiest of television shows and the most vacuous of movies, and perhaps a memory of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys in their childhood, and I do not understand how they survive.
	mldb.byu.edu /card2.htm (10468 words)

	SUBGENRES page of ULTIMATE ROMANCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
		The explanation of the extraordinary success of category fiction is not that the public is craven and uncultured....
		The key element of Science Fiction is believability; the plots are to be understood literally, not metaphorically as in a novel such as Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and therefore Sci Fi novels truly do find their basis in real science, even if they are not restricted by it.
		Horror fiction often overlaps with Fantasy and Sci Fi, and many of its authors write in all three genres, crossing boundaries indiscriminately.
	www.magicdragon.com /ROgens.html (1835 words)

	WritersMonthly.com-Casey Fahy Interview Escaping America Casey Fahy Seven Isles of Ameulas Casey Fahy author Magazine ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Fahy is a recalcitrant writer of "escapist" fiction.
		One of the missions of the book was to include more than the general escapist fantasy would include.
		It is fantasy, and it had to be a fantasy because in order to take the reader through that process of going into a fantasy world and coming back to this world with something-after they turn the page-that they can carry forward into their own lives.
	www.writersmonthly.com /pages/wm_library/interviews/casey_fahy.html (1717 words)

	Brain Planet
		Maybe all fiction with violent content should carry a warning label, "Hey kids, don't try this at home." Maybe all weird tales should say, "Events depicted in this story are not intended to foster belief in the supernatural." I think most adults can handle the worst I can dish out as a writer.
		Of course, as a writer of horror fiction, I have to think this way, don't I? I'm sure pornographers rationalize their business with similar arguments.
		But after all, if I agreed that horror was an evil thing that people shouldn't be allowed to read, why, I'd have to write something else.
	www.sff.net /people/brian_plante/godscountry.htm (692 words)

	The Romance Reader Forum Page
		There is no denying that genre fiction provides readers with escapism, but there’s also a strong and persuasive argument, that any fiction a person reads can be labeled as such.
		All fiction, regardless of classification, is a made up story.
		Just because I may not be “challenged” by one book, there very well could be another person out there reading the same book who is. Novels affect people a variety of ways, and that is ultimately one of the greatest benefits of book groups.
	www.theromancereader.com /forum22.html (890 words)

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