Sentences with phrase «achieved by fiction»

Non-fiction, reference and children's all struggle to sell the volume achieved by fiction, a pattern seen not just in Britain but around the world (as evidenced by the Fifty Shades phenomenon).

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Nissan wrote on their website that it has «achieved the technological advancements necessary to begin to make this fiction a reality» by that date.

The depiction of Jesus as a Cynic philosopher with no concern about Israel's destiny, no connection with the concerns and hopes that animated his Jewish contemporaries, no interest in the interpretation of Scripture, and no message of God's coming eschatological judgment is - quite simply - an ahistorical fiction, achieved by the surgical removal of Jesus from his Jewish context.

But many scholars believe that all mention of Jesus was interpolated centuries later, probably by Eusebius, a Church Father who once proudly argued that it was legitimate to use «fictions» — that is, lies — as a medicine to achieve a greater good.

Ultimately, no matter what humans manage to achieve, science fiction writers will be, by definition, always a step ahead.

Like most great «translit» fiction — David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks (2014), Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 (2011), and Nick Harkaway's Angelmaker (2012)-- Pears» genre - bending, time - collapsing tour - de-force dazzles us with world building, but, beyond that, it reminds us that the people in those worlds survive by their stories and by the way those stories reverberate backward and forward, achieving, if only now and again, the perfect harmony we all crave.

Though the story is fiction, I wanted to imbue it with a sense of lived reality, a register of authenticity I could achieve only by drawing on my own youth.

Few authors of literary fiction achieve a lot of success by going the indie publishing route, but Chan is one of those few.

Their suggestions ranged from science fiction (Babel - 17 by Samuel R. Delany), to self - help guides (Do You: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success by Russell Simmons), to deeply art historical texts (The Triumph of Anti-Art: Conceptual and Performance Art in the Formation of Post-Modernism by Thomas McEvilley).

Wu's creative process for the Lux Noctis series combines both old inspirations and new technologies: he's inspired by 19th century Romantic painting and science fiction, and uses advanced tools to achieve the final result.