Sentences with phrase «than genre fiction»

And perhaps non-narrative nonfiction could be seen as having a different purpose than genre fiction does — to inform primarily, rather than to entertain primarily — so nonfiction authors might then publish eBooks with other than purely commercial goals.

Still, literary fiction is by nature slower and more deliberate than genre fiction.

Not exact matches

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I have gravely mixed feelings about every movie on Marc Forster's résumé, from «Monster's Ball» to «Stranger Than Fiction» to «The Kite Runner» to the 2008 Bond film «Quantum of Solace,» but the guy is undeniably a stylistic virtuoso with a Michael Winterbottom - like ability to jump around from one genre to another.

From A Trip to the Moon (1902) to Arrival (2016), science fiction cinema has produced a body of classics with a broader range of styles, stories, and subject matter than perhaps any other film genre.

There are no «Matrix» visuals here — you might say that Fassbinder suggests his levels of reality and identity with mirrors — but conceptually it anticipates a genre of science fiction and visually it creates a near future out of modern architecture, gangster - movie fashions, futuristic bric - a-brac, and more glass and mirrors than a crystal palace.

In terms of movie fodder, and the gangster - movie genre, Black Mass reminds us that truth is not only stranger than fiction: it can be much more outlandish.

In fact, the film ultimately owes more to the action than the science fiction genre.

Technically and dramatically much weaker than most slick science - fiction films, Soylent Green is still more realistic on one terrifying point: the ecology will deteriorate, through misuse and overuse of plant and animal life as well as overpopulation, much sooner than human technology and architecture will advance to accommodate it and create the oppressive - but - neat world of domes, interplanetary travel and multi-leveled cities that characterize most movies of the s.f. genre.

While the former depicts complex psychologies with nuanced language, I explain, the latter is genre fiction that consists of nothing more than a tight plot.

As you may know from some other writings along the way, I've found this issue disturbing for some time, particularly because the digital dynamic seems to support some genre - fiction work more readily than it does literary fiction.

Over the course of her dynamic career she has sold over seven hundred titles to every major publisher, and has built a client list of more than forty authors spanning the commercial fiction genres, primarily in the areas of fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery, suspense and erotica.

Considering that genre fiction is thought to sell so much more readily than literary, I'm always surprised at the vehemence with which some people will describe literary fiction as boring and «pretentious» — as if vampires prancing around in ill - researched period costumes aren't pretentious in their own fashion; as if utterly implausible science fiction isn't a form of pretension at warp speed.

Jane Friedman, too (http://janefriedman.com/) has also suggested that in much genre fiction (Romance in particular), authors spend their energy being prolific — they assume that each subsequent book will be better than the last, because we improve with practice.

Genre fiction books (fantasy, science fiction, erotica / romance, steampunk, paranormal) will need to be sold for less — less than 13 dollars — for the most part, as well as young adult books (younger audience, smaller wallets).

A quick summation: yes, there is a difference between genre fiction and literary fiction; no, genre fiction is not necessarily «lower» than literary fiction or mere escapism; yes, literary fiction has just as many cliches and tropes as genre fiction; and yes, there are many examples of top quality work and utter crap in both categories, and people shouldn't pigeon - hole their reading habits to solely one or the other.

There is also the problem of writing in more than one genre or having no book available yet, that makes content creation more challenging for some fiction writers.

In some genres (especially high - volume «pulp» genres like romance, science fiction, fantasy, and, to a lesser extent, mysteries), readers often expect anything shorter than a full - length book (fifty thousand or more words) to be priced $ 0.99, while full length pieces are generally priced $ 2.99 — $ 4.99.

Inside the Book Title: AT SHUTTER SPEED Author: Rebecca Burrell Publisher: Cranesbill Press Pages: 381 Genre: Women's Fiction BOOK BLURB: In the click of a shutter, #Resistance becomes more than just a hashtag.

Cinnamon Kiss proves again that no one in this overcrowded mystery genre sets the setting better than Walter Mosley and no one performs Mosley's crime fiction better than Michael Boatman, who...

According to his post on the genre bestsellers, romance, science fiction, and fantasy titles in the top spots were doing as well as or better than traditionally published titles, with typically half of the top titles having been self - published.

This is another genre specific newsletter that caters a lot more toward science fiction and fantasy than toward contemporary or literary fiction.

For example, the e-book market share of the science fiction and fantasy sector globally for the 10 weeks since June was 10 %, more than treble the genre & rsquo; s market share of print book sales.

To answer your question, I haven't written any flash fiction, and all the short stories I've read are longer than this, but my attempts to emulate the genre have left me with new respect for those who write it and do it well.

The genre you write in can also have an effect, as many narrators specialise in certain genres, so for example Romance may have many more potential narrators than Science Fiction.

Over the course of her dynamic career she has sold over seven hundred titles to every major publisher, and has built a client list of more than forty authors spanning the commercial fiction genres, primarily in the areas of fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery, and young adult fiction.

I can admit to hearing echoes of prose poetry in some flash fiction, but it would never occur to me to consider the two genres other than separately.

Are you planning to write genres other than speculative fiction?

The variations on this theme are infinite, but it's often more than a little difficult to decide what's simply a suspenseful vampire novel and what's a true genre blend involving vampires and crime fiction.

Of these ebooks, most independently published ones have a larger market share than traditionally published ones when broken down into genres: Self - published romance, mystery, horror, science fiction and fantasy all sell better from indie authors or Kindle imprints than they do from traditional publishers.»

Of the more than 50,000 titles produced on audio in 2016, the most popular genres were Mysteries / Thrillers / Suspense, Science Fiction / Fantasy and Romance.

In terms of fiction, Amazon's imprints have had far more luck with genre titles than with literary fiction, and AmazonCrossing is no different — the successes it most often touts are mysteries, thrillers, and romances.

Designed for all ages, Comics Plus offers comics in a range of genres, including fiction, nonfiction, fantasy, thrillers, romance, indie comics, Sunday funnies, and manga for more than 25,000 titles.

Generally I find that I read genre fiction at a faster rate than something chewier, too.

Genres like women's fiction, some literary fiction, and relational dramas all have much more processing time than a suspense thriller.

- Booklist «Olshan (The Conversion), known for his literary fiction, delivers a crime novel more likely to satisfy mainstream than genre readers.»

Genre fiction has its conventions, so the reader must accept even such an unconventional character as Marlowe occasionally uttering some phrases that seem more in thrall to DePoy's need to foreshadow than the demands of the plot: «I'm fine with dying.

This suggests that there's more money to be had in the romance genre, and conversely a greater chance of something truly valid being said by the author, than, for example, the literary fiction genre.

Books you can still run but don't have any guarantee whatsoever (and no prorated refund in store credit)- 1) Books in the following genres: YA Fantasy, YA SciFi, Humor, Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction, Children's Books, any very niche Non Fiction genre, any books on Politics, Poetry, Coming of Age 2) Books priced higher than $ 1.

Other than these same publishers wanting that one big blockbuster a year or so, I really do wonder if they don't want to move away from genre fiction.

I write mixed - genre novels, some more literary than others, but I like to think I write accessible literary fiction, by which I mean, I tell a good story, but the way I tell that story is as important as the story itself.

If it is trying to do that, then I'd say it's edging towards literary fiction, which is why I stipulated «commercial fiction» above, rather than «genre fiction».

Writing crime fiction can be more challenging than some genres, because you often have to carefully think through and develop a plot concerning the crime and the criminal before you're able to build a story around those elements.

According to Romance Writers of America, romance sells more books than mystery, science fiction / fantasy, and religious / inspirational genres.

Romance often gets a bad rap, but romance sells more than any other genre besides general fiction.