Sentences with phrase «genre fiction genre»

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That jibes with what Stewart suggests, that certain kinds of books — genre stuff like fan fiction or romance — work better digitally, but print is still a more desirable way to digest the really good meaty writing.

The judges curate and select the best new hardcover titles for members from a broad range of genres and offer a mix of both fiction and nonfiction titles, sure to impress even the pickiest and hard to shop for Moms.

Available genres include contemporary fiction, thriller, science fiction, and memoir.

Isaac Asimov, a legend in the science fiction genre, authored more than 500 books.

Researchers at the New School for Social Research in New York have determined that reading literary fiction — books that have literary merit and don't fit into a genre — enhances what scientists call «Theory of Mind (ToM), or an ability to understand the mental states of others.

If he wants to include ancient mythology and ignorant superst!tion in his writing, that's fine, it goes along with the genre — fiction.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but it was just a popular fictional genre back then, like science fiction now.

The Author correctly says «The Bible is an ancient collection of letters, laws, poetry, proverbs, histories, prophecies, philosophy and stories spanning multiple genres and assembled over thousands of years» but she forgot the most important thing - the bible is mostly a work of fiction.

19th century, archaeological finds (e.g. earth and timber fortifications and towns, the use of a plaster - like cement, ancient roads, metal points and implements, copper breastplates, head - plates, textiles, pearls, native North American inscriptions, North American elephant remains etc.) is not interpreted by mainstream academia as proving the historicity or divinity of the Book of Mormon.This evidence is viewed by mainstream scholars as a work of fiction that parallels others within the 19th century «Mound - builder» genre that were pervasive at the time.

The new genre would contain autobiographical fiction closely based on the Scriptural narratives and faithful to first - century history.

Nor are there separate articles on literary forms and genres» such as fiction, drama, poetry» all of which have gone through interesting and important changes and developments in Islamic lands in the modern period.

Such character - centered writing is a mark of good fiction in any genre, but in detective novels, where the author may feel enslaved to solution - hungry readers, it's especially rare.

For although Austen can be legitimately claimed as the formal forerunner of the vulgar romance fiction now clogging whole sections of the world's bookstores, her own novels far transcend the very genre she is supposed to have inaugurated ¯ and precisely because of the moral vision that came from her upbringing and which has now, it would seem, all but disappeared in the wake of Sitcom World.

It follows in the footsteps of the very best of the science fiction genre in forcing us to ask uncomfortable questions about the world we live in.

And the presence of a mass market inclines fiction toward the mixing of genres.

On first reading, we see that Dillard wants to account for the fascination with surfaces, with play, with the mixing of genres in postmodern fiction, and she wants to know why those traits fascinate her so much.

From Switchfoot's sun - soaked surf rock to Fiction Family's dustier, rootsier sounds, Foreman has a chameleon - like ability to bring his considerable music prowess to bear on any genre.

Since genre fiction (and nonfiction subjects) are in their own sections, knowing generally what you want really helps.

Get your genre fiction and publishing news fix here.

There is no false divide between «genre» and «literary» fiction for Myers, which is refreshing.

As Thomas Woodman points out: «In recent years the rise of postmodernist fiction and of such modes as «magic realism» [as exemplified most obviously by Latin American authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez] have called into question the whole privileging of realism in the novel genre.»

These last two phrases are applicable to White's own work, which has been saddled — unfairly, to my mind — with the label of genre fiction.

There is a lot in the genres of high fantasy and, to a lesser extent, science fiction.

These are genres that have traditionally provided fertile ground for metaphysically inclined fiction, but for a long time their presence in the American mass media began with Star Trek and ended with Star Wars — fun but shallow entertainments whose take on religion mixed Daniel Dennett with Deepak Chopra, secular condescension with New Age mumbo - jumbo.

I also find joy in reading and film, particularly in Sciene Fiction and Fantasy genres.

Genres, rather than books: science fiction has never appealed; pastel - covered chick lit, whose promise of escapism rapidly becomes irritation.

«Science fiction is a powerful and innovative genre,» Colin says.

The thing with science fiction that's different than other genres is that it's always about the idea.

«De-extinction», the preserve of proleptic fiction like Jurassic Park, and coined from that genre, is becoming real.

If your goal is to persuade and be believed about the truth of a particular point, then what would possess you to choose to work in a genre whose very name, fiction, explicitly warns the reader not to believe a word she reads?

But for decades they've been central to science fiction, fantasy and horror, which the literati dismiss as genre fiction, and so beneath contempt.

Which is that science fiction, the genre that lit the way for a nervous mankind as it crept through the shadows of the 20th century, has suddenly and entirely ceased to matter.

One view, subscribed to by the towering French figure of Jules Gabriel Verne, a man with a better claim to being the Father of Science Fiction than anyone else, was that the genre should consider itself almost a legitimate field of science proper, or at least should try to hold itself to an analogous code of rigor.

, fell into one of six genres: mystery, humor, fantasy, horror, western, and science fiction.

The answer is they all wrote stories that involved a journey to the Moon, one of the oldest and most popular themes of the science fiction genre until 25 years ago, when it was crushed by the weight of reality and Neil Armstrong's foot.

In the current study, published this week in PLOS ONE, a computer accurately predicted the genre of fiction works about 50 % of the time, much higher than the 17 % expected from random guessing.

The stories, from an online repository of books in the public domain called Project Gutenberg, fell into one of six genres: mystery, humor, fantasy, horror, western, and science fiction.

The most common mistake the computer made was misclassifying horror novels as either science fiction or fantasy — perhaps not so surprising given the ambiguity between those genres.

No wonder you've begun writing in the science fiction genre.

Science fiction has been a ghetto genre since the days when almost all the SF available was published in cheap pulp magazines.

«After BitTorrent, the effect of release lag on science - fiction and action movies is much greater than it is for other genres,» Danaher says.

Film genres included «horror» such as The Exorcism of Emily Rose and What Lies Beneath, and thrillers, such as Pulp Fiction, The Departed, and Black Swan.

Liz Else asked two of the judges, mathematician Ian Stewart and fiction writer China Miéville, about the formidable task of comparing different genres and picking winners.

For more «mainstream» selections, they looked to Amazon.com top - sellers such as Danielle Steel's The Sins of the Mother and Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, and to anthologies of genre fiction, including a sci - fi story by Robert Heinlein.

Future studies might also compare different genres of books, or fiction versus non-fiction.

I like biographies and fiction so it's nice to read two different genres at once.

My favorite book genre is historical fiction too — The Perfume Collector was so good!

I enjoy a pretty wide variety of genres (including fantasy, historical, mystery, classic, literary fiction, non-fiction, memoirs), although I tend to steer clear of «fluffy» chick lit (think The Shopaholic series) and erotica.