The Republic of Elbonia is a fictional country in Dilbert.

Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of " our " universe by the people in another ; or ordinary voyaging uptime ( into the past ) or downtime ( into the future ) that results in history splitting into two or more time-lines.

The term " fictional autobiography " has been coined to define novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own biography, of which Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, is an early example.

Bunnies & Burrows has the advantage of offering players an intuitive grasp of relative dangers and appropriate actions not possible in game worlds that are substantially fictional.

In comic books, continuity has also come to mean a set of contiguous events, sometimes said to be " set in the same universe " ( see fictional crossover and fictional universe ) or " separate universes " ( see intercompany crossover ).

Conan the Barbarian ( also known as Conan the Cimmerian ) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero that originated in pulp fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films ( including Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer ), television programs ( cartoon and live-action ), video games, role-playing games and other media.

The 1888 novel Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy depicts a fictional planned economy in a United States c. the year 2000 which has become a socialist utopia.

Saloon owner Kent ( Brian Donlevy ), the unscrupulous boss of the fictional Western town of Bottleneck, has the town's Sheriff, Keogh, killed when the Sheriff asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game.

The main difference between Ja ' far in " The Three Apples " and later fictional detectives such as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, however, is that Ja ' far has no actual desire to solve the case.

Burton ’ s fictional detective relies on practical methods-dogged legwork, knowledge of the underworld and undercover surveillance-rather than brilliance of imagination or intellect, but it has been suggested this story may have been known to Poe, who in 1839 worked for Burton.

With the exception of Walden College, Trudeau has frequently used real-life settings, based on real scenarios, but with fictional results.

Dartmouth has served as the alma mater for a number of fictional characters, including:

But a few months later, Trimble made Jean Rescues, another of the popular series starring the fictional exploits of his Border Collie, which has Point of View shots introduced at an appropriate point without explanation.

Fictional languages are separated from artistic languages by both purpose and relative completion: a fictional language often has the least amount of grammar and vocabulary possible, and rarely extends beyond the absolutely necessary.

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.

* The fictional Klingon language has three classes: capable of speaking, body part and other.

Genosha is a fictional country that has appeared in numerous comic book series published by Marvel Comics.

The New York Times reviewed the play saying " Mr. Davalos has molded a daft campus comedy out of this unlikely convergence ," and nytheatres review said the playwright " has imagined a fascinating alternate reality, and quite possibly, given the fictional Hamlet a back story that will inform the role for the future.

The stereotypical hillbilly has inspired many fictional accounts in a variety of media, from novels and comic strips to movies and television.

" Locksley " becomes Robin Hood's title in the Scott novel, and it has been used ever since to refer to the fictional outlaw, most notably by Tennyson in his poem, " Locksley Hall ".

The fictional British Secret Service agent has also been adapted for television, radio, comic strip and video game formats as well as being used in the longest continually running and the second-highest grossing film franchise to date, which started in 1962 with Dr. No, starring Sean Connery as Bond.

In some fictional works, the difference between a robot and android is only their appearance, with androids being made to look like humans on the outside but with robot-like internal mechanics.

An argument for the value of art, used in the fictional work ' The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ', proceeds that, if some external force presenting imminent destruction of Earth asked humanity what it's value was -- what should humanity's response be?

' The sentient ocean that covers much of the surface of Solaris in Stanislaw Lem's eponymous novel also seems, from much of the fictional research quoted and discussed in the book, to be based on some element other than carbon.

The 2000 comedy Best in Show, made by some of the same actors from This is Spinal Tap, was also done as a mockumentary, this time of various contestants at a fictional dog show.

Ivanhoe, though of a more noble lineage than some of the other characters, represents a middling individual in the medieval class system who is not exceptionally outstanding in his abilities, as is expected of other quasi historical fictional characters, such as the Greek heroes.

Known Space is the fictional setting of some dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by author Larry Niven.

The Enterprise or USS Enterprise ( often referred to as the " Starship Enterprise ") is the name of several fictional spacecraft, some of which are the main setting for various television series and films in the Star Trek franchise.

The Shadowrun role-playing game has spawned Shadowrun: The Trading Card Game, four video games, an action figure game ( Shadowrun Duels ), two magazines, an art book and more than 50 novels, starting with the Secrets of Power series which introduces some of the original characters of Shadowrun and gives a good introduction to this fictional universe.

These letters include everything from personal letters to official government correspondence ( mostly in English ), letters to fellow humanist scholars ( in Latin ), including several epistolary tracts, verse epistles, prefatory letters ( some fictional ) to several of More's own works, letters to his children and their tutors ( in Latin ), and the so-called " prison-letters " ( in English ) which he exchanged with his oldest daughter, Margaret Roper while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London awaiting execution.

The reader must remember that vernacular fictional prose was not a respected genre in 14th century Italy and some of the criticisms Boccaccio combats in the introduction to the fourth day were common attitudes towards the genre.

However, the projection of the myth does not take place towards the remote past, but either towards the future or towards distant and fictional places, imagining that at some time of the future, at some point of the space or beyond the death must exist the possibility of living happily.

He and his staff created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, for whom Disney himself provided the original voice.

In some historical fiction, famous events appear from points of view not recorded in history, with fictional characters either observing or actively participating in these actual events.

In some fictional realities, shields can block tractor beams, or the generators can be disabled by sending a large amount of energy back up the beam to its source.

It is known primarily as the birthplace of several Mafia bosses, some fictional, such as The Godfather < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Vito ( Andolini ) Corleone, and some real, such as Jack Dragna, Giuseppe Morello, Michele Navarra, Luciano Leggio, Leoluca Bagarella, Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano.

* Credit ( science fiction ), a form of currency in some fictional works

* The meeting between Anne and Henry shortly before her execution is fictional, and even if such a meeting had taken place, some details of their discussion are implausible.

In some forms of fiction, the pen name adopted is the name of the lead character, to suggest to the reader that the book is a ( fictional ) autobiography.

Although the story of Helen and Maximus's meeting is almost certainly fictional, there is some evidence for the basic claims.

The Anaheim Gundams, or Greek alphabet Gundams are a series of mobile suits developed by the fictional company Anaheim Electronics, some of them are notably carrying different style heads than other Gundams in the series, like the Rick Dias ( Gamma Gundam ) and Hyaku Shiki ( Delta Gundam ).