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Motherboard: This was your first published piece of fiction, right?

One that, if this were a piece of fiction, or

This 1996 novel is the lone piece of fiction on the list.

Teenage years: When he was 15, he wrote a piece of fiction about killing children.

A good piece of fiction should have more to recommend than the element of surprise.

It's a moralizing piece of fiction, and it lands like a blow to the head.

And that is—and continues to be—my favorite piece of fiction of all time.

It's a paranoid piece of fiction that would make Thomas Pynchon, or Vladimir Putin, proud.

It's a brilliantly researched piece of fiction about a deep, deep love for the forest.

"Audiences will see this as statement of fact, not just a piece of fiction," Miller said.

Obviously, every single one sounds like an extraordinary piece of fiction, which is why it's so great.

Although the book's pace is unhurried and its action sparse, Nicholson has created an entrancing piece of fiction.

And however it uses VR, Allumette is also a widely appealing piece of fiction, told without text or dialogue.

One mocked a neo-Nazi, while another was a short piece of fiction from a killers point of view.

Only keep in mind another piece of fiction (that occasionally proves true in relationships): Age is just a number.

One mocked a neo-Nazi, while another was a short piece of fiction from a killer's point of view.

Bryan: More than any other season, this year of Game of Thrones has felt like a tightly plotted piece of fiction.

The insistence on being surprised by a piece of fiction has become almost tautological: It's bad to spoil something because that spoils it.

Deborah Treisman, fiction editor of New Yorker, invites an author to select and read a piece of fiction published in The New Yorker.

The closest piece of fiction one could compare The New Gods to are the latter novels in the Dune series, by Frank Herbert.

Scyther is quite possibly the most badass bug to ever exist in any piece of fiction or nonfiction — it has scythes for arms.

Photo: Mike Keeling (Flickr)A few weeks ago, I was enjoying one of my favorite activities: reading an enthralling piece of fiction before bed.

IPO markets — like a piece of fiction or a well-written speech — have a narrative: Do public market investors these days value growth or profits?

Koe's nuanced handling of this well-known incident in Reifenstahl's life could stand alone as a piece of fiction, as could many of the other chapters.

Many heralded the story, when it first appeared, not as a piece of fiction but as a dispatch from the murky zones of sex and dating.

While I won't complain about this too much or get too specific, I think I would have enjoyed it even more as a standalone piece of fiction.

Personally interpreting a piece of fiction or [novelizing] your own experiences, ironically in the end, it needs to have a strong resonance with you to feel universal.

According to creator Michael Conelly, The Abbot's Book began as a piece of fiction he wrote in 1989 — a novella about a family seduced by ancient evil.

So here's a fittingly and gleefully weird, macabre piece of fiction from doom metallurgist—he's also the drummer for Witch Mountain—and dark fiction scribe Nathan Carson.

Those writings, which came under the pseudonym "Psychedelic Warlord" and included a piece of fiction from a killer's point of view, were revealed in a Reuters report.

But if a piece of fiction can allow us imaginatively to identify with a character's pain, we might then also more easily conceive of others identifying with their own.

By 2008, she was making a name for herself writing about celebrities, including a saucy profile of Jessica Simpson and a piece of fiction imagining Heath Ledger's last days.

But if a piece of fiction can allow us imaginatively to identify with a character's pain, we might then also more easily conceive of others identifying with our own.

MALLORY DUNCAN, MARSHALL, VA. To the Editor: It is unclear which is the greater piece of fiction submitted by President Trump to Congress: his budget or his infrastructure plan.

It inspired a glut of opinion pieces, plus a satirical retelling from Robert's perspective, and may well be the most-read piece of fiction in the history of the magazine.

Visconti started getting choked up The bulk of Visconti's warning was delivered through a short piece of fiction, one he spent about 20 minutes reading before wrapping up his speech.

It's an issue that's been done a lot already by other photographers, so I decided to write a piece of fiction about the topic and use the aesthetic of documentary photography.

I have tried to write his story many, many times—as a short piece of fiction that stands alone, as an episode in longer narratives, fiction and nonfiction, published and unpublished.

There's little value in making a reader's discomfort the sole point of a piece of fiction, yet most of the works that surround "Cat Person" don't seem to go much further.

In October, Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel was published — with Levenson, Pasek, and Paul collaborating with author Val Emmich to flesh out the musical's characters into a full-fledged piece of fiction.

Remedy's new Quantum Break has once again highlighted that the antagonist of any given piece of fiction need not be A Bad Guy, because, basically, I agree with its villain, Paul Serene.

Such a summary, however, does justice neither to the author nor to his people; out of such hackneyed materials Mr. Roth has written a perceptive, often witty and frequently moving piece of fiction.

Although the "Harrison Bergeron" is a heavily exaggerated piece of fiction writing while "The Curse of Affirmative Action" was written to denounce a real world policy, both allude to the delicacy of equality.

In recent months, The Handmaid's Tale — Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel about a patriarchal future where fertile women are a tightly controlled commodity — has become more of a symbol than a piece of fiction.

But "Cat Person" soon became the most-read piece of fiction ever on The New Yorker web site, prompting the blooming of a thousand takes and landing its author a million-dollar book deal.

" The Times review by Mordaunt Hall said the film was "a good piece of fiction, which, with all its feverish stunts, is blessed with bright dialogue and a good quota of relatively restrained scenes.

Each week, my students and I listen to a few songs and think about what sorts of narrative devices they use; then we consider a piece of fiction that might have similar strategies and preoccupations.

" The President told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon that he thought the statements from Porter and Cohn were "excellent," adding that it "shows that the book was just a piece of fiction.

Part of the reason for this is the way the team approaches these demos; it's not just a technical showcase, but a fully realized piece of fiction, with all of the worldbuilding and storytelling that entails.

It can be said that I have lived a true-life FBI story inspired by a masterful piece of fiction and an iconic television character depicting an undercover federal agent who assumed the alias of Vinnie Terranova.

Some would have you believe that if you're a serious writer, you are not allowed to add questions about who is telling what story and why to the list of things we ask of a piece of fiction.

I mean it&aposs proven to be bigger piece of fiction that the entire Harry Potter series -- BARTIROMO: No but they got approval -- they got approval -- but they got approval to wiretap Trump Tower based on what, the dossier?

Catcher In The Rye is interpreted as catharsis as he struggles to come to terms with the trauma he faced fighting in the war while attempting to publish the emblematic piece of fiction that would become a cornerstone of American literature for so many.

Since the story was about the awkward, sometimes menacing push-pull between a young woman and her older male date, various outlets have woven this piece of fiction into the ongoing conversation about sexual harassment, as if it were a personal essay or reported piece.

I'm reminded of Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust and John Fante's Ask the Dust ("If there's a better piece of fiction written about L.A.," Towne said of the latter, "I don't know about it"), which associate the light of Southern California with ennui.

While I totally understand how this gimmick could backfire and the ways it undermines viewers who care about these characters, I increasingly look at the show as the silly piece of fiction AMC and the writers seem to consider it as: a comic book come to life, if you will.

It's all still hokum, of course — no piece of fiction about a man who can suddenly generate and manipulate "chronon particles" can say otherwise — but it's internally consistent hokum, and I enjoyed collecting the various emails and tape recorders strewn about Quantum Break to piece together its unique theory of time.

The Washington Post has called the Betsy Ross story "the most tenacious piece of fiction involving the flag," pointing out that the popular myth of Ross creating the first 13-star flag at the behest of George Washington was fabricated by her grandson nearly 100 years after the event supposedly took place.

The program for "Bitter Wheat" may insist on its story as "a piece of fiction" whose self-evident equivalencies are "entirely coincidental," but curiosity has loomed large as to how that role of one powerful, wealthy man in the #MeToo movement would play out in the hands of another powerful, wealthy man.

Sims boards the "Trump train" as if he's a voyager careening into an unknown land, and he can't seem to describe his experience without the aid of pop-culture allusions—The West Wing, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Mad Men—as if he's a character in a piece of fiction rather than an active participant in the real world.

Example: Megan Lee, West Windsor Plainsboro High School North, Plainsboro, N.J.: "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut and "The Curse of Affirmative Action" (Read the full student essay.) Although the "Harrison Bergeron" is a heavily exaggerated piece of fiction writing while "The Curse of Affirmative Action" was written to denounce a real world policy, both allude to the delicacy of equality.

Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads When I was in my 20s, I read a piece of fiction that called out white Americans with a broad brush: those in rural counties and in cities, working class and bourgeoisie, all of white America that gladly took part in the murder of black men and women in the quiet of night by way of lynch mobs.

Burgess has authored numerous articles for trade and scholarly journals, and one piece of fiction—a mystery set in Little Compton, Rhode Island. He is a featured blogger for The Huffington Post.

For these he won the 1979 and 1980 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. He wrote The Enchanted Duplicator with Walt Willis in 1954, a piece of fiction about science fiction fandom modelled on John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.

West End, his last piece of fiction, was awarded with the in 2019. He has also translated the work of the Brazilian poet Ferreira Gullar (Murmullos, Bassarai, 2006) and Scottish poet Douglas Dunn (Poemas escogidos, Bassarai, 2009) . Morella lives in Barcelona.

Haraprasad Das (born 15 January 1945), is an Odia language poet, essayist and columnist.orissa.gov.in: POETRY Das, has twelve works of poetry, four of prose, three translations and one piece of fiction to his credit. Haraprasad, is a retired civil servant. He has served various UN bodies as an expert.

The Bridegroom is a short piece of fiction by Angela Carter. It does not appear in the volume of Carter's collected short fictions Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories. It can be found in the anthology Lands of Never (ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Allen & Unwin 1983), reprinted from the periodical Bananas #13 1979.

"Here was a novel planned with the utmost skill, and executed in truly admirable fashion," he wrote. "Here, unless I err gravely, was the best piece of fiction ever done by a woman in America."Mencken, H. L. "Willa Cather". The Borzoi 1920: Being a sort of record of five years' publishing.

In the final issue of its run, the Farscape magazine published a piece of fiction written by series creator Rockne S. O'Bannon. Set a long time after the end of the fourth season, this details the subsequent adventures of the Moya crew. Since "Horizons" was written before the Peacekeeper Wars miniseries, there are some plot inconsistencies.

Manga The Complete Guide Pg51 Writing for Mania.com, Eduardo M. Chavez describes the series as "funny, sexy, action packed and at times just plain whacked" and praises the mix of action and comedy. Patrick King of Animefringe described the series as "not the most intellectually stimulating piece of fiction I've experienced lately" but called it "a blast to read".

Envisioning a circus act. "Up in the Gallery" (German: "Auf der Galerie") is a short piece of fiction written by Franz Kafka. It was created between November 1916 and February 1917 and published in the collection Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor) in 1919.Richard T. Gray, "Auf der Gallerie", A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia; Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005; pp. 21–22.

Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (), by Don D'Ammassa, synopsizes the novel as "interesting historically, but … a mediocre piece of fiction". George Mann criticised Blish's Star Trek fiction, including Spock Must Die!, as "obviously written primarily for money", and that Blish does not display the "literary and intellectual skill evident in his earlier work". Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer reviewed the novel for Tor.

In May, Campbell announced a solo project, Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties. With this project, Campbell pushed himself "to make a piece of fiction feel just as raw and personal as songs about my life". An album, We Don't Have Each Other, was released in July. Campbell performed on a few dates of the 2014 edition of Warped Tour.

ASIN: B0015M0TSA. Only full book under "Viet Dinh" at Amazon. Retrieved 2011-07-12. He published a piece of fiction in the Chicago Review in 2004.Chicago Review 49:2 Summer 2004, Review webpage. Listed as Summer 2003 at Amazon. Retrieved 2011-07-12. In September 2006 Dinh received publicity for representing Tom Perkins, a former Hewlett-Packard director involved in the company's pretexting scandal.

The story is of Eugene Pota, a prominent writer who, in his old age, is struggling for that last piece of fiction that could be his magnum opus, or at least on par with his earlier writings. Littered throughout the novel are many of Pota's ideas and drafts of possible stories, such as the sexual biography of his wife, or of Hera's trouble with Zeus.

Barnes has written several episodes of The Outer Limits and Baywatch. His "A Stitch In Time" episode of The Outer Limits won an Emmy Award. He has also written the episode "Brief Candle" for Stargate SG-1 and the Andromeda episode "The Sum of Its Parts". Barnes's first published piece of fiction, the 1979 novelette "The Locusts", was written with Larry Niven, and was a Hugo Award nominee.

It is revealed that the emails from Van Houten had actually come from Lidewij, who arranged the meeting without Van Houten's knowledge. Van Houten taunts Hazel for seeking serious answers to a piece of fiction and belittles her medical condition. The teens leave, utterly distraught. Lidewij invites them to go sightseeing to make up for their ruined experience and they visit the Anne Frank House, where they share their first kiss.

Illustration by James McBryde for M. R. James's story "Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad". A ghost story may be any piece of fiction, or drama, that includes a ghost, or simply takes as a premise the possibility of ghosts or characters' belief in them."Ghost Stories" in Margaret Drabble (ed.), The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. (p. 404-5).

A spoiler is an element of a disseminated summary or description of any piece of fiction that reveals any plot elements. Typically, the details of the conclusion of the plot, including the climax and ending, are especially regarded as spoiler material. It can also be used to refer to any piece of information regarding any part of a given media that a potential consumer was not intended to know beforehand.

Gary released his first piece of fiction in August 2008. The book is titled The Walk-In and tells the story of an American CIA case officer dealing with an Iranian defector from the Quds Force. The defector claims that a catastrophic attack is imminent and the American case officer must decide what to believe. In November 2008, Berntsen published Human Intelligence, Counterterrorism, and National Leadership: A Practical Guide.

The New York Times called Child 44 a "tightly woven", "ingeniously plotted", "high-voltage story". The Sunday Telegraph praised it as a "memorable debut": "the atmosphere of paranoia and paralysing fear is brilliantly portrayed and unremittingly grim". Kirkus Reviews gave it a starred review, calling it "smashing"; "nerve-wracking pace and atmosphere camouflage wild coincidences". In an Observer review, Peter Guttridge praised it as a "thrilling, intense piece of fiction".

Enger has created a work of great humanity and huge heart, a riveting piece of fiction that while highly accessible is never shallow. This story of an ordinary man's discovery of who he is and his place in the world is exciting, admirable and ultimately very affecting. . ..After reading the final page, don't be surprised if you find yourself shaking your head and murmuring, Wow. What a good book.

Garfield suggested they should "write the stories for today's children" and remove the "upholstered Victorian quality" of the stories as told to themselves.Blishen, Garfield, Keeping (Nov 1970), p. 49. The authors aimed to restore the power the myths had had for the Greeks, and for themselves as children. They decided to tell the myths not as separate stories but as "a fresh and original piece of fiction"Blishen, Garfield, Keeping (Nov 1970), p. 50.

"Azathoth" is the beginning of a never-completed novel written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft."H. P. Lovecraft's original fragment, 'Azathoth'" It was written in June 1922 and published as a fragment in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft's death. It is the first piece of fiction to mention the fictional being Azathoth, one of the major entities in Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, though the entity only appears in the title.

In May 2014, Campbell announced a solo project, Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties. With this project, Campbell pushed himself "to make a piece of fiction feel just as raw and personal as songs about my life". An album, We Don't Have Each Other, was released in July. Campbell performed on a few dates of the 2014 edition of Warped Tour, as well as performed on the entirety of the 2015 edition.

In 1987 Larner began to write poetry, and in 1989 began to have public readings. In 1992, he wrote a long story, titled "Rack's Rules", the only piece of fiction in an anthology titled Sex, Death & God in Los Angeles. After losing his home in the 1991 Oakland Hills fire, he contributed an article to Fire in the Hills, a compilation of responses to the fire, and became a regular contributor to New Choices magazine.

The title of the republished edition was intended as a form of misdirection and a joke to the reader, evoking fears over the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China. Bickley was criticised by one reviewer for the cartoon-like illustrations included with the book, and the fact that she had spent so much time on historical analysis of what was described as a "mediocre piece" of fiction.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Fukushima-juku Local legend has it that Urashima Tarō once dwelled in the mountains of Kiso, Nagano. This legend originated in near-modern times, from the late Muromachi to Edo periods. Although a contrived piece of fiction, the old-style jōruri situates its story in the vicinity of this local legend, namely Agematsu-juku. Urashima Tarō appears here as a child born after a local couple prays to Togakushi Myōjin.

Poe's "The Raven" by Gustave Doré Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to frighten, scare, or disgust. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing". It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere. Horror is frequently supernatural, though it might also be non- supernatural.

Lincoln himself wrote poetry and at least one piece of fiction loosely based upon one of the murder cases he defended as a young lawyer. In April 1846, The Quincy Whig published Lincoln's short story under the title "A Remarkable Case of Arrest for Murder". The story was republished in March 1952 by Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and retitled "The Trailor Murder Mystery." Lincoln refers to his own unnamed character as "the defense" and "the writer of this".

Giscard wrote his second romantic novel, published on 1 October 2009 in France, entitled The Princess and The President. It tells the story of a French head of state having a romantic liaison with a character called Patricia, Princess of Cardiff. This fuelled rumours that the piece of fiction was based on a real-life liaison between Giscard and Diana, Princess of Wales. He later stressed that the story was entirely made up and no such affair had happened.

Since its initial release, Tender Is the Nights critical reputation has steadily grown. Modern critics have described it as "an exquisitely crafted piece of fiction" and "one of the greatest American novels." It is now widely regarded as among Fitzgerald's most accomplished works, with some, particularly critics outside the US, agreeing with the author's own assessment that it surpasses The Great Gatsby. Many theories have arisen as to why the novel did not receive a warmer reception upon release.

Hoffman's second novel was published in April 2014, receiving critical praise and a nomination for the 2015 Folio Prize. George Stephanopoulos interviewed Hoffman about the book for ABC News on August 29, 2014. Library Journal gave it a starred review and called it, "a contemporary version of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried with a female protagonist.""Fiction Reviews" Library Journal, February 1, 2014, webpage: LJ . The New York Times Book Review wrote: : “A finely tuned piece of fiction . . .

The Five-Storied Pagoda (Gojūnotō, 五重塔) is a novella by writer Kōda Rohan. “It was originally written as a serialized piece of fiction in the intellectual newspaper Kokkai (Diet, or Parliament), beginning in November 1891 and ending in March of the following year. As a consequence, chapter divisions in this story […] do not necessarily coincide with the breaks in plot progression or narrative pauses.”(15). The pagoda in the story is based on a pagoda donated to Tokyo by Tennō-ji.

The Wonder Years frontman Dan Campbell began the project on May 22, 2014, via a video released by Hopeless Records titled "Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties - An Introduction To Aaron West". With this project, Campbell pushed himself "to make a piece of fiction feel just as raw and personal as songs about my life". Campbell released the projects debut song, "Divorce and the American South", via The A.V. Club. "You Ain't No Saint" was released as a single on May 27.

A ghost story may be any piece of fiction, or drama, or an account of an experience, that includes a ghost, or simply takes as a premise the possibility of ghosts or characters' belief in them. Colloquially, the term can refer to any kind of scary story. In a narrower sense, the ghost story has been developed as a short story format, within genre fiction. It is a form of supernatural fiction and specifically of weird fiction, and is often a horror story.

Brown explored writing as a student at BYU, studying with Darrell Spencer, Leslie Norris, Bruce Jorgensen, and Peter Macuck. After attending a transformational writing workshop offered by Dave Wolverton, he began to submit his stories for publication. In 1996 he won a quarterly first prize in the annual Writers of the Future contest and published his first piece of fiction. His short story "The Scent of Desire" appeared in the contest's 1997 anthology of winners under the pseudonym Bo Griffin.

After graduating, Cline attended Columbia University where she received her MFA in 2013. While at Columbia University, she wrote "Marion", a short piece of fiction which was published by The Paris Review in their 2013 summer issue. A year later, The Paris Review selected Emma Cline to receive their annual Plimpton Prize for this same work, an award of $10,000. Since then, her writing has been published in multiple journals, and in 2016 she published The Girls, her debut novel.

Lauren Weisberger, a former Wintour assistant who left Vogue for Departures along with Richard Story, wrote The Devil Wears Prada after a writing workshop he suggested she take. It was eagerly anticipated for its supposed insider portrait of Wintour prior to its publication. Wintour told The New York Times, "I always enjoy a great piece of fiction. I haven't decided whether I am going to read it or not."Carr, David; 17 February 2003; Anna Wintour Steps Toward Fashion's New Democracy; The New York Times.

Clarke remained editor until 1926 and was succeeded by William S. Knickerbocker, who published the first piece of fiction in the magazine. In 1942, Tudor Seymour Long became editor, with Andrew Nelson Lytle serving as managing editor and Allen Tate as an advisory editor and de facto editor until 1944. In 1944, when Tate took over as editor, he and Lytle revolutionized the magazine's place in American letters. It focused on New Criticism, alongside Cleanth Brooks's Southern Review and John Crowe Ransom's The Kenyon Review.

Collaborating with her husband James Bow, Erin Bow published a short piece of fiction titled "A Stone of the Heart" in 2001. "A Stone of the Heart" was published in Missing Pieces (2001), a collection of Doctor Who stories. Poetry Under her maiden name Erin Noteboom, Bow published two volumes of poetry: Ghost Maps: Poems for Carl Hruska (2003) and Seal Up the Thunder (2005). Her poetry was also published in other collections, including The Malahat Review, PRISM International, Prairie Fire, and online in Rattle.

The American journalist, Keller, also realises the futility of presenting such a story to the cynical public, and in the end Kipling tells them he will print the story as a piece of fiction, where it will get a better reception. Truth, he says, “is a naked lady, and if by accident she is drawn up from the bottom of the sea, it behoves a gentleman either to give her a print petticoat or to turn his back and vow that he did not see”.

Beerbohm caricatured by Walter Sickert in Vanity Fair (1897) On his return to England Beerbohm published his first book, The Works of Max Beerbohm (1896), a collection of his essays which had first appeared in The Yellow Book. His first piece of fiction, The Happy Hypocrite, was published in volume XI of The Yellow Book in October 1896. Having been interviewed by George Bernard Shaw himself, in 1898 he followed Shaw as drama critic for the Saturday Review,. on whose staff he remained until 1910.

Bergstrom's writing career started in advertising and newspaper reporting, including as a freelance writer for The Milwaukee Journal. She taught some writing classes at Milwaukee Area Technical College. While working as a copywriter in the early 1980s, she returned to creative writing; her first published piece of fiction was her first novel, Shattered Glass, the first in a series of vampire novels. Published in 1989, the novel introduced the character of the immortal Stephen Austra and artist Helen Wells, a victim of polio, along with Steffen's family of hereditary vampires.

Things are repeatedly explained, unnecessarily." Still, Poole also said, "Such defects wouldn't be so annoying were it not obvious that Nick Harkaway can sometimes be a very good writer indeed. Readers who are prepared to mentally edit the book as they go along, as the author and editor have not, will encounter a host of highly enjoyable fragments and suggestive ideas." Then again, the same paper also picked the novel as one of its best books of the year, with Adam Roberts describing it as "an amazing and quite unforgettable piece of fiction.

Giglio's first published piece of fiction, “The Better Half: A Love Story,” appeared in Werewolves and Shapeshifters: Encounters with the Beast Within (Black Dog & Leventhal), edited by John Skipp.GroundZero Profile Giglio’s first novel, Anon, was published in 2011 by Hydra Publications, the same house that published the book’s sequel, Beyond Anon, in 2012. The Anon series focuses on institutional evil and existential explorations.Hydra Publications Website In 2012, under executive editor John Skipp, Giglio teamed up with Scott Bradley for the apocalyptic novel, The Dark, published by Ravenous Shadows.

"Who Goes There?" (Astounding, August 1938). "Who Goes There?", about a group of Antarctic researchers who discover a crashed alien vessel, formerly inhabited by a malevolent shape-changing occupant, was published in Astounding almost a year after Campbell became its editor and it was his last significant piece of fiction, at age 28. It was filmed as The Thing from Another World (1951), The Thing (1982), and again as The Thing (2011). Campbell held the amateur radio call sign W2ZGU, and wrote many articles on electronics and radio for a wide range of magazines.

Importance of one vote overlooked by Americans, Kentucky New Era (syndicated Ann Landers column) Oblivious to corrections of this sort, Ann Landers ran the same list again in November 1996.(4 November 1996). Debate continues on Internet pros and cons, Ocala Star-Banner A chorus of dismayed responses caused Landers to clear up the matter in a subsequent column. According to one letter writer, who begged Landers to "stomp out that piece of fiction wherever you encounter it," the myth gained traction in the 1930s due to the work of Nazi propagandists.

In January 2016, Scott was in early negotiations to direct the film version of the 1967–1968 British TV series The Prisoner. In May 2016, it was announced that Scott and Drew Goddard (who had worked together on The Martian) would be reteaming to adapt the book Wraiths of the Broken Land by S. Craig Zahler. It is described as a piece of fiction that combines elements of "horror, noir, and Asian ultra- violence.""Ridley Scott Reteaming with Drew Goddard for Western ‘Wraiths of the Broken Land’ ". Collider.

"The Life and Times of Multivac" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the 5 January 1975 issue of The New York Times Magazine, and was reprinted in the collections The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories and The Best of Creative Computing in 1976. It is one of a loosely connected series of stories concerning a fictional supercomputer called Multivac. "The Life and Times of Multivac" was the first piece of fiction ever commissioned and published by The New York Times.

The word appears in two tales set in Ireland published in the 19th century: "Lady of Gollerus", where a green-haired merrow weds a local Kerry man who deprives her of the "magical red cap" ('); and "The Soul Cages" where a green-bodied grotesque male merrow entertains a fisherman at his home under the sea. These tales with commentary were first published in T. C. Croker's Fairy Legends (1828). William Butler Yeats and others writing on the subject borrowed heavily from this work. "The Soul Cages" turned out not to be a genuine folktale, but a piece of fiction fabricated by Thomas Keightley.

Style includes the multitude of choices fiction writers make, consciously or not, in the process of writing a story. It encompasses not only the big-picture, strategic choices such as point of view and choice of narrator, but also tactical choices of grammar, punctuation, word usage, sentence and paragraph length and structure, tone, the use of imagery, chapter selection, titles, etc. In the process of creating a story, these choices meld to become the writer's voice, his or her own unique style. For each piece of fiction, the author makes many choices, consciously or subconsciously, which combine to form the writer's unique style.

Apocalypticism is the religious belief that there will be an apocalypse, a term which originally referred to a revelation of God's will, but now usually refers to belief that the world will come to an end very soon, even within one's own lifetime. Apocalyptic fiction does not portray catastrophes, or disasters, or near-disasters that do not result in apocalypse. A threat of an apocalypse does not make a piece of fiction apocalyptic. For example, Armageddon and Deep Impact are considered disaster films and not apocalyptic fiction because, although Earth or humankind are terribly threatened, in the end they manage to avoid destruction.

It was the first time that a piece of fiction originally published on a website won a Nebula. In 2002 Ellen Datlow won her first Hugo Award for Best Editor. In 2003 stories from the webzine won three awards, the Nebula Awards for Best Short Story ("What I Didn't See" by Karen Joy Fowler) and Best Novelette ("The Empire of Ice Cream" by Jeffrey Ford), and the Theodore Sturgeon Award for Lucius Shepard's novella "Over Yonder". In 2005, Datlow won her second Hugo Award for Best Editor and the website itself won a Hugo for Best Website.

The Seasons is the first classical piece of fiction written in the Lithuanian language, the first Lithuanian poem as well as the most successful Lithuanian hexameter piece to date. It has long stepped over the borders of Lithuanian literature: it has been translated into Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, English, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Yiddish, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Romanian and Esperanto. The Seasons (most probably in its German translationAPIE DONELAITĮ IR RĖZĄ) was highly valued by Adam MickiewiczApie Donelaitį ir Rėzą and has inspired him to write a poem, Konrad Wallenrod.KONRADAS VALENRODAS Goethe is also said to have liked the poem.

In 1976 Card became an assistant editor at the LDS Church's magazine Ensign and moved to Salt Lake City. While working at Ensign, Card published his first piece of fiction, a short story called Gert Fram, which appeared in the July 1977 issue of Ensign under the pseudonym Byron Walley. Between 1978 and 1988, Card wrote over 300 half-hour audioplays on LDS Church history, the New Testament, and other subjects for Living Scriptures in Ogden, Utah. Card started writing science fiction short stories because he felt he could sell short stories in that genre more easily than others.

Diana Trilling calls "Yoga" "one of the best stories of our time and aesthetically Mailer's best- integrated piece of fiction"; Bufithis and Miller label it "masterful", and Solotaroff calls it a "superb work of fiction". Macdonald places "Yoga" alongside "The Time of Her Time", the first half of Barbary Shore, and Armies of the Night as Mailer's best work. Castronovo asserts that "Yoga", along with "The White Negro", are the most valuable parts of Advertisements for Myself. In his commentary on AFM, Robert Merrill calls "Yoga" an excellent piece in a collection otherwise written for Mailer fans.

The critical response was generally positive with most commentators concentrating their praise on Peck's performance as Craven and the scale of the programme's political themes. "A good television thriller is very hard to find but Edge of Darkness promises to be one of the best", wrote Celia Brayfield in The Times, "The central character is played by Bob Peck, who has the gift of looking tragic and intelligent simultaneously. [...] There was humour to lift the gloom and superb characterisation to flesh out the stock situation". Ruth Baumgarten, in The Listener, praised the serial as "a grandiosely ambitious and compelling piece of fiction".

Lobby cards Using Alice Guy-Blachè's adapted screenplay from the Edgar Allan Poe short story, Alice built upon the lucid and dream-like piece of fiction by adding a significant amount of narrative structure to her adapted screenplay. Rather than having unexplained pain and trauma inflicted upon the films protagonist, Guy built a narrative surrounding the Spanish Inquisition and the film's protagonist fear. The first reel begins with a young and pretty girl named Isabelle (played by Blanche Cornwall) sitting upon a hill. It is then that she is attacked by Pedro (played by Fraunie Fraunholz).

Lardner was a sportswriter who relocated to Chicago in 1907, where he covered the Cubs and White Sox baseball teams for several city newspapers, most notably the Chicago Tribune. He used his experiences as a baseball writer for his first published piece of fiction, "A Busher's Letters Home", for the Saturday Evening Post in 1914. According to the introduction of the book Ring Around the Bases: the Complete Baseball Stories of Ring Lardner, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, the Post published nine of Lardner's baseball stories during 1914, six of which comprised You Know Me Al, published by George H. Doran Company in 1916.Lardner, Ring, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.

The novel contains several framed narratives: Garp's first piece of fiction, a short story entitled "The Pension Grillparzer"; "Vigilance", an essay; and the first chapter of his third novel, The World According to Bensenhaver. The book also contains some motifs that appear in some, but not all, John Irving novels: bears, New England, Vienna, hotels, wrestling, and a person who prefers abstinence over sex. And, like nearly all of Irving's novels, it features a complex Dickensian plot which spans the protagonist's whole life. Adultery (another common Irving motif) also plays a large part, culminating in one of the novel's most harrowing and memorable scenes.

The short story bearing the same title got published in Time magazine's "Beyond the Year 2000" issue in October 1992, being the second piece of fiction ever published by the magazine. The Alvarez hypothesis for the K-Pg extinction event, which was only 12 years old at the time, is discussed by Clarke in the section. Clarke also mentions that the 'final confirmation' of the hypothesis only came just before he published the novel. Clarke's decision to 'decompress' the short story into a novel, was influenced by one of Dr. Duncan Steels' visual presentation about 'what might happen in the event of a major impact event'.

The magazine also covered technical information and stories about future hardware and peripherals in its "Tech Niche" and "Tech Tips" sections, the latter frequently written by Simon N Goodwin. In 1988, a special "Tech Tape" was released, containing utilities and programs associated with this section. Crash included the occasional column which seemed unusual for a computer magazine. Its first year saw the launch of both the Lunar Jetman strip (written and illustrated by John Richardson, based on the character from the games by Ultimate Play the Game) and The Terminal Man, an original piece of fiction written by Kelvin Gosnell and illustrated by Oliver Frey.

The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature is an annual prize of £3,000 awarded by the Boardman Tasker Charitable Trust to an author or authors for 'an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature.' It was established in memory of British climbers Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker, both of whom wrote books about their mountaineering expeditions, after their deaths on the north-east ridge of Mount Everest in 1982. It can be awarded for a piece of fiction or non-fiction, poetry or drama, although the work must have been written in (or translated into) English. The prize is announced at the annual Kendal Mountain Festival.

Fiction Weekly was an American literary magazine based in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Fiction Weekly was conceived in the summer of 2008 by members of the McNeese State University MFA Program in creative writing. As its name suggests, Fiction Weekly publishes on a weekly basis; it is published exclusively on the internet and features one previously unpublished piece of fiction on its front page each week. Authors published in Fiction Weekly have appeared in anthologies such as New Stories From the South, have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and have been published in many other well reputed literary magazines including, Glimmer Train, The Pinch, and Harpur Palate.

Each of the featured undead has background information provided in the form of either a short piece of fiction describing the undead in action or delivered as a monologue by a knowledgeable non-player character (NPC). New game rules in the book contain additional information and clarify existing game mechanics. The book begins by discussing ways in which undead creatures' energy-draining attacks can be made less devastating to a player character (PC) by using alternatives to the usual level-draining effect. The adventures in Lords of Darkness are designed to be easily dropped into an ongoing campaign, and are mainly dungeon crawls of one form or another.

In his writings he portrayed Judaism and Jewish culture as having little value and promoted the assimilation of Jews into western civilization. In 1939, he wrote in response to a review of his book The Tether, "I do not believe that any writer can ever produce a piece of fiction without having some definite person or persons in mind, and very often they become a composite of a number of characters in real life, but there is always a germ of some fact back of every fictitious character." Brudno married Rose Hess and they raised two children: Lincoln and Emily. He died in Shaker Heights, Ohio in 1954 at the age of 77.

The novelist Yasunari Kawabata said in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech: "The Tale of Genji in particular is the highest pinnacle of Japanese literature. Even down to our day there has not been a piece of fiction to compare with it." 2000 yen note with The Tale of Genji and Murasaki Shikibu on the right corner The Genji is also often referred to as "the first novel", though there is considerable debate over this—some of the debate involving whether Genji can even be considered a "novel". Some consider the psychological insight, complexity and unity of the work to qualify it for "novel" status while simultaneously disqualifying earlier works of prose fiction.

Sociocultural changes in post-September 11 America, including a resurgent tribalism and the "infantilization of society", first appeared as a prominent motif in Gibson's thought with Pattern Recognition. Gibson interpreted the attacks as a nodal point, "an experience out of culture" which irrevocably changed the course of history and marked "the true beginning of the 21st century." After crafting 100 pages of that novel, he was compelled to re-write the main character's backstory, which the attacks had suddenly rendered implausible; this he called "the strangest experience I've ever had with a piece of fiction." The result saw Gibson noted as one of the first novelists to use the attacks to inform their writing.

Former Vice-Chancellor of Mumbai University and Member of the Planning Commission of India Bhalchandra Mungekar stated that "I'm fully convinced, even giving the benefit of the doubt to the book being a piece of fiction, that some sentences are certainly objectionable...there is a difference between dissenting with the political and social philosophy of an individual or organisation, and abusing the individual by name". Faculty have complained of pressure tactics being used to coerce their support of the vice chancellor's decision. The book is unlikely to be reintroduced in the short term on account of possibility of law and order problems. Mistry has also expressed disappointment in a statement regarding the withdrawal.

The God of Small Things is a piece of fiction but some critics have tried to find autobiographical parallels in the novel while at the same warning against drawing any simplistic connections between the novel and the writer's life. Some of the similarities between Roy's life and that of the characters she creates include her own Syrian Christian and Hindu lineage; the divorce of her parents when she and her brother were very young; her return to the family home in Ayemenem after her mother's divorce; and her education in an architectural school to name a few. Some critics also attribute the political awareness manifested in The God of Small Things to Roy's early life influences from her mother who was an activist and feminist.

The Heroic Slave, a Heartwarming Narrative of the Adventures of Madison Washington, in Pursuit of Liberty is a short piece of fiction, or novella, written by abolitionist Frederick Douglass, at the time a fugitive slave based in Boston. When the Rochester Ladies' Anti Slavery Society asked Douglass for a short story to go in their collection, Autographs for Freedom, Douglass responded with The Heroic Slave. The novella, published in 1852 by John P. Jewett and Company, was Douglass' first and only published work of fiction (though he did publish several autobiographical narratives). The Heroic Slave is a fictional work inspired by the Creole case, in which Madison Washington, an enslaved cook on the brig Creole led a ship-board rebellion by 19 slaves in November 1841.

Although reviewer Philip Peak found the book "interesting and useful", and reviewer writes that it is written in a pleasant style, most reviewers were not as positive. Hardy Grant writes that Osen's profile of Hypatia has treated her "very badly" by being based primarily on a piece of fiction for children written in the early 20th century by Elbert Hubbard. Reviewer R. P. Infante writes that "Osen does not seem to know much mathematics or its history", pointing to several errors in both. Infante also bemoans the book's "narrow" and "slipshod" scholarship, consisting of vague attributions to "some scholars" in the text of the work that "invariably" lead to the work of a single author, early 20th century writer John Augustine Zahm.

The city of Dunwall, designed to be a "contemporary and cool" "period piece", was inspired by late-19th and early-20th-century London and Edinburgh. Describing why London had been an initial setting and remained a significant inspiration, Smith said: Antonov described his inspiration from London as "a big metropolis, it's messy, it's chaotic and intense ... and it's both exotic and familiar to Americans and to Europeans." He highlighted the importance of that familiarity to different cultures because "you want to communicate to a lot of people when you make a new piece of fiction." He said that Edinburgh provided a sense of containment and a variety of architectural designs, which were combined with a futuristic vision which Antonov said was not comparable to the brass, rivets, and steam of steampunk design.

While most stories about merrow are about female creatures, a tale about an Irish merman does exist in the form of "The Soul Cages", published in Croker's anthology. In it, a merman captured the souls of drowned sailors and locked them in cages (lobster pot-like objects) under the sea. This tale turned out to be an invented piece of fiction (an adaptation of a German folktale), although Thomas Keightley who acknowledged the fabrication claimed that by sheer coincidence, similar folktales were indeed to be found circulated in areas of Cork and Wicklow. The male merrow in the story, called Coomara (meaning "sea-hound"), has green hair and teeth, pig-like eyes, a red nose, grows a tail between his scaly legs, and has stubby fin-like arms.

The ellipsis is also called a suspension point, points of ellipsis, periods of ellipsis, or (colloquially) "dot-dot- dot".. According to Toner it is difficult to establish when the "dot-dot-dot" phrase was first used. There is an early instance, which is perhaps the first in a piece of fiction, in Virginia Woolf's short story "An Unwritten Novel" (1920). Depending on their context and placement in a sentence, ellipses can indicate an unfinished thought, a leading statement, a slight pause, an echoing voice, or a nervous or awkward silence. Aposiopesis is the use of an ellipsis to trail off into silence—for example: "But I thought he was ..." When placed at the beginning or end of a sentence, the ellipsis can also inspire a feeling of melancholy or longing.

Of the concept of omission, Hemingway wrote in "The Art of the Short Story": "You could omit anything if you knew that you omitted and the omitted part would strengthen the story and make people feel something more than they understood." By making invisible the structure of the story, he believed the author strengthened the piece of fiction and that the "quality of a piece could be judged by the quality of the material the author eliminated." His style added to the aesthetic: using "declarative sentences and direct representations of the visible world" with simple and plain language, Hemingway became "the most influential prose stylist in the twentieth century" according to biographer Meyers. In her paper "Hemingway's Camera Eye", Zoe Trodd explains that Hemingway uses repetition in prose to build a collage of snapshots to create an entire picture.

According to a January 1971 article in The New York Times Magazine, "Vonnegut says repeatedly he is through writing novels... After Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut began work on a novel called Breakfast of Champions, about a world in which everyone but a single man, the narrator, is a robot. He gave it up, however, and it remains unfinished. I asked him why, and he said, 'Because it was a piece of ----." This view persisted, with Harlan Ellison claiming that Vonnegut's submission in the 1972 short-story anthology Again, Dangerous Visions, would be "the last new piece of fiction you will ever read by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr." After the publication of Breakfast of Champions, Vonnegut stopped publishing short stories, and many believed he had given up writing altogether, with the New York Times book review stating > Vonnegut's persona gives up fiction before our very eyes. . . .

In the Guardian, Ali Smith commented on "the considered and multi-layered story of a Sierra Leone family blasted apart by one of its children turning boy soldier in the civil war. It is a novel remarkable for its slowed, measured pulse and its calm analysis, its keenness to promise hope and rehabilitation even after the worst", and Maya Jaggi wrote : "Seven years ago Delia Jarrett-Macauley published The Life of Una Marson 1906-65, a landmark biography of the Jamaican feminist who became the BBC's first black programme maker. In her debut novel, Jarrett-Macauley again breaks ground with a delicate and brave, if over-ambitious, fictional treatment of child soldiers in the aftermath of a west African civil war....as a deftly sensitive exploration of a tormented generation, and a family's dilemma, it is a haunting piece of fiction."Maya Jaggi, "Citizen pain", The Guardian, 5 March 2005.

Previous attempts to publish a reference or encyclopedia about Star Trek fiction had been refused by Pocket Books. According to Ayers, the reason was is the contents of such a book would've focused on the characters and plots of each piece of fiction, and not the authors. Pocket Books editor Marco Palmieri noted that Voyages was "conceived as a guide to the history of professionally- published [Star Trek] fiction," and when completed the book would include information of fiction "from Mission to Horatius (1967) … through [to] Pocket's stewardship …" Research for the book began sometime in 2004, including conducting interviews with authors who had written books many years prior such as Alan Dean Foster, J. A. Lawrence, and writing partners Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath. Making contact with many of the past authors required assistance from others in the industry, whom Ayers cited in the book's acknowledgements.

"The Eye of the Sibyl" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was written sometime around 1975, but not published until 1987 when it was included in volume 5 (subtitled "The Little Black Box") of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, and has been reprinted since in other editions of this book such as the U.S. edition The Eye of the Sibyl and Other Stories . This is said to have been Dick's first piece of fiction for publication after his "2-3-74" experience that was the basis for his Exegesis, and later the novels VALIS, the posthumously published precursor to VALIS, Radio Free Albemuth, and The Divine Invasion. Eventually rejected by the venue for which it was written, the major points of Dick's 1975 worldview are set forth, in a style reminiscent of his earlier work, and very similar to his treatment of this material in his later books.

The South American names anacauchoa and anacaona were suggested in an account by Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, but the idea of a South American origin was questioned by Henry Walter Bates who, in his travels in South America, failed to find any similar name in use. The word anaconda is derived from the name of a snake from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) that John Ray described in Latin in his Synopsis Methodica Animalium (1693) as serpens indicus bubalinus anacandaia zeylonibus, ides bubalorum aliorumque jumentorum membra conterens. Ray used a catalogue of snakes from the Leyden museum supplied by Dr. Tancred Robinson, but the description of its habit was based on Andreas Cleyer who in 1684 described a gigantic snake that crushed large animals by coiling around their bodies and crushing their bones. Henry Yule in his Hobson-Jobson notes that the word became more popular due to a piece of fiction published in 1768 in the Scots Magazine by a certain R. Edwin.