Finally, there is the undeniable fact that some of the finest American fiction is being written by Jews, but it is not Jewish fiction ; ;

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

* A name used for a tank ( an armoured fighting vehicle ) in some works of speculative fiction, such as Harry Turtledove's books, and Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun.

A model to other writers of hard science fiction, Clarke postulates advanced technologies without resorting to flawed engineering concepts ( as Jules Verne sometimes did ) or explanations grounded in incorrect science or engineering, or taking cues from trends in research and engineering ( which dates some of Larry Niven's novels ).

In fiction, continuity ( also called time-scheme ) is consistency of the characteristics of persons, plot, objects, and places seen by the reader or viewer over some period of time.

He also published some tales in The Overland Monthly in this brief foray into fiction which preceded his poetic career.

He wrote little fiction in this period with the exception of some imaginative vignettes or prose poems.

In the realm of science fiction, there have occasionally been forms of life proposed that, while often highly speculative and unsupported by rigorous theoretical examination, are nevertheless interesting and in some cases even plausible.

Perhaps the most extreme example in science fiction is James White's Sector General: a series of novels and short stories about multienvironment hospital for the strangest life-forms imaginable, some of them breathing methane, chlorine, water and sometimes also oxygen.

Free from many of the elements that accompany science fiction in general — whether that be space aliens, giant robots, or laser guns — the series delegates itself towards presenting a world that is quite similar to our own albeit showcasing some technological advances.

Some scholars have suggested that some ancient and religious texts bear similarities to what would later be called detective fiction.

Various conventions of the detective genre were standardized during the Golden Age, and in 1929 some of them were codified by writer Ronald Knox in his ' Decalogue ' of rules for detective fiction, among them to avoid supernatural elements, all of which were meant to guarantee that, in Knox's words, a detective story " must have as its main interest the unravelling of a mystery ; a mystery whose elements are clearly presented to the reader at an early stage in the proceedings, and whose nature is such as to arouse curiosity, a curiosity which is gratified at the end.

Some of the gadgets ( dōgu ) are based on real Japanese household devices with fanciful twists, but most are completely science fiction ( although some may be based on folklore or religious stories ).

Doom, a science fiction / horror themed video game, has a background which is given in the game's instruction manual ; the rest of the story is advanced with short messages displayed between each section of the game ( called episodes ), the action as the player character progresses through the levels, and some visual cues.

Doubtless the people who make the comment are aware that Law and Order is fiction, but at some level, they process fiction as if it were fact.

Planetary engineering is largely the realm of science fiction at present, although some types of climate change on Earth are recent evidence that humans can cause change on a global scale.

These set-ups are taken for granted by the genre conventions, and need not be explained for the reader anew ... though it should also be noted that these elements can easily be treated subversively as well, playing with some of the preconceptions inherent in formula fiction.

Formula fiction should not be confused with pastiche ( the mimicking of another work or author's style ), though the latter by its nature may include elements of the former ; the same holds true of some parody and satirical works as well, which may well include formulaic elements such as common stereotypes or caricatures, or which may use formulaic elements in order to mock them or point out their supposedly cliché or unrealistic nature.

Formula fiction is often stereotypically associated with early pulp magazine markets, though some works published in that medium, such as " The Cold Equations ", subvert the supposed expectations of the common narrative formula of that time.

Russia began its film industry in 1908 with Pathé shooting some fiction subjects there, and then the creation of real Russian film companies by Aleksandr Drankov and Aleksandr Khanzhonkov.

The problem of alien language has confronted generations of science fiction writers ; some have created fictional languages for their characters to use, while others have circumvented the problem through translation devices or other fantastic technology.

False documents intentionally blur the boundaries between fiction and fact, and, in some cases, the difference between an artistic achievement and a convincing forgery is slight.

Fans of the literary detective Sherlock Holmes are widely considered to have comprised the first modern fandom creating some of the first fan fiction as early as 1887 and holding public demonstrations of mourning after Holmes was " killed " off in 1893.

" In 1938, with several friends, he formed the Futurians -- arguably the best-known of the science fiction clubs.

He had used topical materials throughout his series, but in 1959, his Starship Troopers was considered by the Scribner's editorial staff to be too controversial for their prestige line, and they rejected it ; Heinlein found another publisher, feeling himself released from the constraints of writing novels for children, and he began to write " my own stuff, my own way ", and he wrote a series of challenging books that redrew the boundaries of science fiction, including his best-known work, Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ), and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ).

Gibson is one of the best-known North American science fiction writers, fêted by The Guardian in 1999 as " probably the most important novelist of the past two decades ".

The best-known example of this is its animated adaptation Star Trek: The Animated Series, which included scripts contributed by well-known science fiction writers and starred most of the original cast.

Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's " greatest writer ".

" Silent Snow, Secret Snow " ( 1934 ) is Conrad Aiken's best-known short story, often included in anthologies of classic American horror and fantasy short fiction.

The Strugatsky brothers ( or simply ), as they are usually called, although also known as "" (" Abeesy ", from ABS, Arkadiy and Boris Strugatsky ) in Russian, are perhaps the best-known Soviet science fiction writers with a well-developed fan base.

'” Perhaps the best-known work partaking of the " collage technique " found in U. S. A. is science fiction writer John Brunner's Hugo Award-winning 1968 " non-novel " Stand on Zanzibar, in which Brunner makes use of fictitious newspaper clippings, television announcements, and other " samples " taken from the news and entertainment media of the year 2010.

The legend of Ys has been used repeatedly in fantasy fiction, prominently by Robert W. Chambers in " The Demoiselle d ' Ys ", one of the stories in The King in Yellow, Chambers ' best-known work.

One of his best-known roles was as Commander Traynor in the children's science fiction TV series Timeslip.

Shaara's son, Jeffrey Shaara, is also a popular writer of historical fiction ; most notably sequels to his father's best-known novel.

The data-jack is probably the best-known, having heavily featured in works of fiction ( even in mainstream productions such as Johnny Mnemonic, the cartoon Exosquad, and The Matrix ).

Emma Bull ( born December, 13 1954 ) is an American science fiction and fantasy author whose best-known novel is War for the Oaks, one of the pioneering works of urban fantasy.

Perhaps the best-known portrait of an Anglican verger in fiction is in Somerset Maugham's short story, " The Verger.

Two of his best-known roles were as the timid accountant Bradford Webster in the TV version of The Third Man and the comic villain Dr. Zachary Smith of the 1960s science fiction television series Lost in Space.

He was banned from writing during his imprisonment on the island of Buru, but still managed to compose-orally-his best-known series of work to date, the Buru Quartet, a series of four historical fiction novels chronicling the development of Indonesian nationalism and based in part on his own experiences growing up.

In his fantasy fiction Grimwood combined themes of life-affirmation and hope with metaphysical concepts, themes found in his best-known novel, the highly popular Replay.

U. S. television science fiction is a popular genre of television in the United States that has produced many of the best-known and most popular science fiction shows in the world.

Symons's 1972 book Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel ( published as Mortal Consequences in the US ) is one of the best-known critical works in the field of crime fiction.

Her best-known role came in 1983 as Juliet Parrish in the science fiction mini-series V, the 1984 sequel V: The Final Battle, and V: The Series from 1984 to 1985.

One of his best-known television roles was the second Master in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Michael Collins is the best-known pseudonym of Dennis Lynds ( January 15, 1924 – August 19, 2005 ), an American author who primarily wrote mystery fiction.

To fans of science fiction television, Windom was best-known as the tortured Commodore Matt Decker in the Star Trek episode " The Doomsday Machine ", a role he reprised nearly 40 years later for Star Trek New Voyages.