Sentences with phrase «held by fiction»

I think coloring books can be fun — got nothing against them — but I don't include coloring books in the category held by fiction and non-fiction that I read.

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Some see evangelicalism as a fiction, a grand public - relations ploy held together by powerful personalities for several decades but that has now run out of steam.

He's also holding investments worth at least $ 1,000 in Plympton, Inc. a tech startup that publishes serialized fiction for devices like Amazon's Kindle e-reader, co-founded in 2011 by former New York Times reporter Jennifer 8 Lee.

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.

Science Fiction has to be well written and internally consistent if it's to engage and hold an audience but V just comes across as (yet another) TV series written by non-sci fi writers who don't have a grasp of the genre.

Attraction is an interesting science fiction film that has some fantastic performances and visual effects, but it's sadly held back by an unpolished script and its lack of thematic subtly.

The second close call with success came in the form of a brief contest held by Harper Voyager, a well known fantasy / science fiction publisher.

• The 2013 PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction finalists were announced earlier this week: Threats by Amelia Gray, Kind One by Laird Hunt, Hold It»Til It Hurts by T. Geronimo Johnson, Watergate by Thomas Mallon, and Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Sáenz.

Other titles among the list are Chris Bohjalian's Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands; our Top Pick in Nonfiction, The Mockingbird Next Door by Marja Mills, a memoir detailing the author's friendship with the reclusive Harper Lee; as well as our Top Pick in Fiction, California by Edan Lepucki, a gripping novel about a couple's struggle to adapt in a post-apocalyptic world.

We all live in age of abbreviated words, sign language, chit and chat and high speed messaging, some people have decided not to live in this world of worthlessness.This indie poet takes you on a journey through fact and fiction, real events and fantasy, carving out poetry that drips off any tongue, every dark corner holds a splendid surprise, every cobweb will leave tears in your eyes, you will be swept through mystery and greeted by ghosts, eaten up and made toast, all your friends are in here.A very refreshing collection of poetry that blasts down boundaries and steams up your dirty windows.

Beginning today and continuing through Dec. 31, authors who hold a Multnomah County Library card may submit original works of adult fiction (no children's or young adult fiction, please) for consideration by panels of library staff readers.

published 1978 Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction Format: eBook Purchase: Amazon Goodreads Also by this author: Restoree Dragonflight To the nobles who live in Ruatha Hold, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl.

Formats, preferred reading devices for romance ebooks, and the share held by romance in overall fiction, these are more of the factors on Nielsen's program for report and study.

The Writing by Writers Manuscript Boot Camp for fiction and nonfiction writers was held from November 11 to November 14 at the Granlibakken Resort: Lake Tahoe in Tahoe City, California.

Following this, could we make the leap to consider fiction as, among other things, the means by which people hold on to and perpetuate idealizations?

While there, I noticed a looming deadline is nigh (early Sunday morning, 1:59 a.m. Eastern Standard Time) for entries in a Climate Fiction Short Story Contest being held by the university's Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative.

No matter how many science fiction extravaganzas there's been since, A New Hope is held in high regard, even by those... Read more