The explanation and meaning of a work does not have to be sought in the one who produced it, " as if it were always in the end, through the more or less transparent allegory of the fiction, the voice of a single person, the author ' confiding ' in us ".

Towards the end of his career it becomes clear that Poirot's retirement is no longer a convenient 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.

Indeed, much apocalyptic fiction does not deal with the " end of time " but rather with the end of a certain period of time, the end of life as it is now, and the beginning of a new period of time.

It was to this end that Wollheim formed the Futurians, and many of its members were in some degree interested in the political applications of science fiction.

While writing that the series fulfills the norms of mass-market fiction, as mentioned above, magazine writer Michelle Goldberg characterized the books as an attack on Judaism and liberal secularism, and suggested that the near-future " end times " in which the books are set seem to reflect the actual worldview of millions of Americans, including many prominent conservative leaders.

Though slowly, Fictions work because it is a well known fact that people will accept a change in the form of a fiction while they would resist it to the end if the fact is out in the open.

Apocalyptic fiction is concerned with the end of civilization through war ( On the Beach ), pandemic ( The Last Man ), astronomic impact ( When Worlds Collide ), ecological disaster ( The Wind from Nowhere ), or some other general disaster or with a world or civilization after such a disaster.

To this end, he compares George Orwell's Coming Up for Air with Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants and concludes that the basic building block and distinguishing feature of a science fiction novel is the presence of the novum, a term Darko Suvin adapts from Ernst Bloch and defines as " a discrete piece of information recognizable as not-true, but also as not-unlike-true, not-flatly-( and in the current state of knowledge ) impossible ".

At the end of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, all licenses for Star Trek spin-off fiction were renegotiated and the animated series was essentially " decanonized " by Gene Roddenberry's office.

Near the end of the decade, some comic science fiction shows were popular: 3rd Rock from the Sun, and the animated series Futurama.

Science fiction television producers will sometimes end a season with a dramatic cliffhanger episode to attract viewer interest, but the short-term effect rarely influences financial partners.

The film's producers did not agree to his request for a message, making it clear that the film was a work of fiction, but agreed to include a message at the film's end mentioning the Royal Navy's role in the capture of U-110.

The term wuxia as a genre label itself first appeared at the end of the Qing Dynasty, a calque of the Japanese bukyō, a genre of oft-militaristic and bushido-influenced adventure fiction.

Crime fiction elements are also present near the end of " The Tale of Attaf " ( see Foreshadowing above ).

By the end of the 1980s, the influence of the successful action film could be felt in almost every genre-hybrids were becoming the norm ; war-action hybrids ( like First Blood and Missing in Action ), science fiction action ( like The Terminator, and RoboCop ), horror-action ( like Aliens and Predator ), and even the occasional musical-action-comedy hybrid ( like The Blues Brothers ).

Until the end of the 1980s Delta published about 200 science fiction books.

Similarly in the science fiction television series Babylon 5 war between the Narn and Centauri is brought to a swift end when the Centauri use " Mass Drivers " a weapon system that propels asteroids at the surface of the Narn home world causing severe ecological damage.

Apocalyptic fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to an existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgement, climate change, resource depletion, or some other general disaster.

After Húrin's deed, the caves were probably completely abandoned, as they fall out of recorded history in Tolkien's fiction, but they were certainly drowned and lost along with the rest of Beleriand at the end of the First Age.

A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction.

It is true that this distinction between style and idea often approaches the arbitrary since in the end we must admit that style and content frequently influence or interpenetrate one another and sometimes appear as expressions of the same insight.

Almost all species have a tight cluster of leaves ( a rosette ), either at the base of the plant or at the end of a more-or-less woody stem ; the leaves are less often produced along the stem.

A counterweight is often provided at the other end of the shank to lay it down before it becomes buried.

For normal calculation a number zero is often needed, here most notably when calculating the number of years in a period that spans the epoch ; the end years need only be subtracted from each other.

Emperors of Rome often met their end in this way, as did many of the Muslim Shia Imams hundreds of years later.

Sewing needles were special to the sewer and were custom made, often with a detailed end that had animal heads.

He often plays songs on his acoustic guitar which typically end in him being severely hurt and in some cases almost killed.

According to one witness, " the public received the musical hero with the utmost respect and sympathy, listened to his wonderful, gigantic creations with the most absorbed attention and broke out in jubilant applause, often during sections, and repeatedly at the end of them.

A decisive battle is one of particular importance ; often by bringing hostilities to an end, such as the Battle of Hastings or the Battle of Hattin, or as a turning point in the fortunes of the belligerents, such as the Battle of Stalingrad.

An " upshot " or " yard on " shot involves delivering the bowl with an extra degree of weight ( often referred to as " controlled " weight or " rambler "), enough to displace the jack or disturb other bowls in the head without killing the end.

Finding that Baldrick has forgotten to write dates on the machine's dials, the rest of the film follows their attempts to find their way back to 1999, often creating huge historical anomalies in the process which must be corrected before the end.

At the end of the game, the last remaining housemate is declared the winner of that particular series and receives prizes, often including a large amount of money, a car, a vacation and ( in some editions ) a house.

" But almost every afternoon, toward the end of working hours, he came in person to the office and often walked with me in person through the streets, boulevards, and squares all the way home to Potapov Street.

' Talking with people in the offices of literary periodicals, he often asked: ' When will there be an end to this freedom for lackies who happily walk over corpses to further their own interests?

These first settlements were abandoned after attacks by Spanish privateers, but English privateers often used the Cayman Islands as a base and in the 18th century they became an increasingly popular hideout for pirates, even after the end of legitimate privateering in 1713.

Organizing often means building a widely accessible power structure, often with the end goal of distributing power equally throughout the community.

Historians often refer to the period from Qin Dynasty to the end of Qing Dynasty as Imperial China.

The Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event, often referred to as the Cretaceous – Tertiary extinction event, occurred approximately 65. 5 million years ago ( Ma ) at the end of the Maastrichtian age of the Cretaceous period.

While the scientific nomenclature of carbohydrates is complex, the names of the monosaccharides and disaccharides very often end in the suffix-ose.

The shooter is often replaced at the end of the round or when they lose a round with a seven.

Dehydration synthesis often involves joining monomers with an-OH ( hydroxyl ) group and a freely ionized-H on either end ( such as a hydrogen from the-NH < sub > 2 </ sub > in nylon or proteins ).

Trains are often equipped with a control cab at the other end of the train from the locomotive, allowing the train operator to operate the train from either end.

The southern end is also shallow and often freezes during the winter.