Sentences with phrase «much fiction novels»

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Shortly thereafter, in 1992, just as Berners - Lee's World Wide Web had come to fruition, Neal Stephenson was inspired by the recent invention, which led to him publishing Snow Crash, a science - fiction novel that illustrated much of today's online life, including a virtual reality where people meet, do business, and play.

Much fiction included a «deathbed scene», presented with a sentimental attention to detail; many will remember such scenes in the novels of Charles Dickens, guaranteed to move the reader to tears as each circumstance was described.

I'm also working on science fiction and fantasy novels, and pretty much any and all writing projects I can get my hands on.

As the evidence and observations of these FRB anomalies continue to trickle in, however, astronomers are cautiously optimistic that they have stumbled not across fiction or technical error, but something much more novel.

Which is to say that while Annihilation, drawn from the first novel in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, formally belongs, much like Garland's Ex Machina, to the science fiction genre, it unfolds in a realm where conventional science has ceased to operate, and where the characters» journey, although peppered with horror tropes cribbed from Lake Placid, Prophecy and The Thing, is ultimately an internal one.

Being such a massive phenomenon has made The Hunger Games an easy target to tilt at but the truth is that, staying close to the Suzanne Collins novel, this film adaptation is a lean, smart science fiction thriller that there's much to like about.

Coming off of the disastrous critical and box office reception to Showgirls in 1995, director Paul Verhoeven decided to return to the science fiction genre he was best known for, adapting Robert Heinlein's much - revered, juvenile - oriented novel «Starship Troopers.»

Based on a popular graphic novel by Marasume Shirow and directed by Rupert Sanders («Snow White and the Huntsman»), Ghost in the Shell is a visually stunning experience with a fine core performance by Scarlett Johansson («Captain America: Civil War»), but it borrows so much of other, mostly better science fiction films and TV series, that charges of grand larceny should be levied against writers William Wheeler («Queen of Katwe»), Ehren Kruger («Transformers: Age of Extinction») and Jamie Moss («Street Kings»).

Like too many science fiction films and novels, there's far too much exposition to get through before the real story grips us.

One doesn't need to dig deep into his body of work to see that the late novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace had sincere ambivalence about mass media — his much - heralded 1,079 - page novel, Infinite Jest, features a science fiction conceit where a lethal videotape known as «The Entertainment» is so addictive, its viewers lose interest in anything other than endless repeat viewings of the film.

Beloved novels, games, even TV series have spawned pages upon pages of fan fiction — much of it unauthorized and unsellable.

Failure and sin, redemption and healing form the backbone of these five novels, much as they do in the Bible that inspires writers of Christian fiction.

When I'm reviewing fiction for BookPage, I read as much as I can of the novels we are interested in.

I'm only at the stage where I'm wrapping up a first draft of my novel, but thanks to all the valuable info you share here and in your podcast, I'm much better prepared for a launch now, than I was three years ago when I first started writing fiction.

«I learned as much in these days about the practical aspects and useful techniques of writing my novel as I learned in three years about the theoretical aspect of writing my novel in my M.A. in writing fiction program in graduate school.»

At a writers conference I recently attended, Jane Friedman said 80,000 words is good for most fiction, below 60,000 isn't novel territory, and about 120,000 is likely too much.

From Lorrie Moore's earliest reviews of novels by Margaret Atwood and Nora Ephron, to an essay on Ezra Edelman's 2016 O.J. Simpson documentary, and in between: Moore on the writing of fiction (the work of V. S. Pritchett, Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, Stanley Elkin, Dawn Powell, Nicholson Baker, et al.)... on the continuing unequal state of race in America... on the shock of the shocking GOP... on the dangers (and cruel truths) of celebrity marriages and love affairs... on the wilds of television (The Wire, Friday Night Lights, Into the Abyss, Girls, Homeland, True Detective, Making a Murderer)... on the (d) evolving environment... on terrorism, the historical imagination, and the world's newest form of novelist... on the lesser (and larger) lives of biography and the midwifery between art and life (Anaïs Nin, Marilyn Monroe, John Cheever, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eudora Welty, Bernard Malamud, among others)... and on the high art of being Helen Gurley Brown... and much, much more.

YA / General Interest: Teens who like character - driven fiction will find much to enjoy in this bighearted crossover novel.

Yet, there is so much even fiction writers can share via a blog (how they create characters, do their research, write; facts about their novel's location, food, climate, famous sites and people; and tidbits on their struggles with plot development, daily life, and outlook on world events) and blogging is THE most effective way to drive traffic to a website.

Not that you'll write terrible smut based on terrible teen vampire fiction, but your self - published novel will fly off shelves and sell a billion copies and you'll be a household name overnight and you'll have so much money that you can swim through it like Scrooge McDuck.

Maybe keep it on the one topic of fiction short story pieces for magazine, collection of 10 short stories for the agent and for the publisher, so the query letters are targeting something specific and you won't have to guess what the reader might be doing — «if you are writing a proposal, write this query letter, or if you wrote a novel, write this query letter, etc.» Just short stories, just ideas of how to phrase it, how long it should be, how much info to share, etc..»

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In her debut novel, Rosette: A Novel of Pioneer Michigan, the unabashed writer of literary fiction Marsh assumes the role of epistolary sleuth, re-creating as closely, and with as much dignity, as possible the historical persona whose marital struggles more than 100 years ago may nevertheless seem familiar in the presentnovel, Rosette: A Novel of Pioneer Michigan, the unabashed writer of literary fiction Marsh assumes the role of epistolary sleuth, re-creating as closely, and with as much dignity, as possible the historical persona whose marital struggles more than 100 years ago may nevertheless seem familiar in the presentNovel of Pioneer Michigan, the unabashed writer of literary fiction Marsh assumes the role of epistolary sleuth, re-creating as closely, and with as much dignity, as possible the historical persona whose marital struggles more than 100 years ago may nevertheless seem familiar in the present day.

What on earth gave you the idea that you could write a novel, much less write bestselling fiction?

by Anne R. Allen I've been looking over some of my much - rejected early novels recently and discovered they have something in common with a lot of other unpublished fiction: way too much dialogue.

If they can write flash fiction, writing that hook and logline for a novel will be so much easier!

At the height of serialized fiction, full - length novels were broken up and printed over the course of as much as a year and released in popular periodicals.

A brilliantly imagined, gorgeously written novel, vivid and alive, utterly without the distanced irony of so much contemporary fiction.

In this way, The Healing becomes much more than a historical fiction novel set in the antebellum South.

The world would be a much better place if they all simply went away... Counting Heads arrives as a science fiction novel like a bolt of electricity, galvanizing readers with an entirely new vision of the future.

This anticipated debut novel takes place in a contemporary black community in Southern California — a setting that doesn't get much attention in the literary fiction world.

Well, 2015 just became a much bigger year for fiction: Jonathan Franzen will be publishing a new novel, Purity, in September.

September's fiction top pick might seem an odd choice in a month that will see the publication of much - buzzed debuts like The Night Circus and The Art of Fielding and new novels from literary darlings like Ali Smith.

She of the much - loved novel Bel Canto, which in 2002 won the PEN / Faulkner and the Orange (now known as the Women's Prize for Fiction.

Fifty years after the publication of his first novel, The Origin of the Brunists (1966), and in a much more accessible mode than in some of his other postmodern fictions, Coover delivers a near - masterpiece.

; the characters are engaging and well - written, especially Henrietta the pot - bellied pet pig; and the prose is much more literary than the run - of - the - mill crime novel — although, as is often my complaint when reading contemporary fiction, I don't see the need for the vulgar language.

Susanne Lakin presents The Sound of Sound in Novels posted at Live Write Thrive, saying, «Few fiction writers think much about sound in their stories, other than the obvious, like noting a car honking or a baby crying.

She had so much fun writing her first novel, Love, that she is industriously burning up her keyboard at her top speed of twenty words per minute, composing her next work of Christian fiction.

One of your books is one of my very favorite books on writing fiction, Don (Writing the Breakout Novel) so I very much appreciate receiving your three principles, thank you!

I've read three trad - pubbed women's fiction books in as many weeks that are much like Brevity and Illusion, so I believe my next novel will fit firmly in that category too.

How much do graphic novels and science fiction overlap?

Maybe part of the reason this resonates so much with me is I'm about to finish my first science fiction novel.

It's much easier to make an «image» for an algebra workbook, for example, than for a science fiction novel, and the image (just an equation, in my case) is far less important for the algebra workbook.

I have had two novels published by a small independent publisher, as well as three poetry books by a separate independent poetry publisher, but it was my first novel, A Darker Moon, that prompted me to respond to your survey because, amongst other things, I consider it to be literary fiction (plus dark fiction and dark fantasy, plus psychological horror, plus mythic magic realism — it's very much cross-genre, but underlying it all is the literary fiction aspect of the book).

I just finished reading WRITING THE BREAKOUT NOVEL, and am greatly inspired as well as much better informed as I tackle my fiction in the new year.

Its silken prose and considerable charm almost conceal its underlying anger; it is an unlovely story set in the loveliest of cities... [Donna Leon] is indeed sophisticated, and perhaps subversive, but you might find her novel's leisurely pace, political concerns and cultural ruminations to be a welcome break from the ultra-violent assaults that confront us in much of today's crime fiction.»

The main drawback is that free «sales» on Amazon only count one hundredth as much as paid sales in their ranking algorithm, which means that your book will not appear on Also Bought lists of popular paid science fiction novels, even if you are getting more downloads than they are.

Writing in The New York Review of Books, Joyce Carol Oates described the book as «a novel of ideas, a compendium of epiphanies, paradoxes, and riddles clearly designed to be read slowly and meditatively... this is a unique work of fiction bearing witness to much that is unspeakable in human relationships as in international relations, while it is also unknowable.»