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New Non-Fiction (2497 bytes)
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4: ...enter" colspan="3"|[[Image:Susan Werner - New Non-Fiction.jpg|225px|Album cover]]
29: |''[[New Non-Fiction]]''<br>([[2001]])
32: '''''New Non-Fiction''''' is the fifth [[album]] by [[United States|Am...

Non-fiction (4500 bytes)
1: ...icularly used in [[libraries]], the other being [[fiction]].
3: ... of both, particularly non-fiction with a dash of fiction for added spice.
5: ... effective non-fiction. Despite the truth of non-fiction it is often necessary to persuade the reader to a...
7: ...se items and other [[economic]] matters, although fiction was not far behind.
9: ...ocre fiction survives a few generations. The non-fiction which transcends its original time tends to be vi...

Fiction (5185 bytes)
3: ..., [[film]]s, [[comic book|comics]], [[interactive fiction]]&mdash;may be partly based on factual occurrence...
5: ...mentalized by [[propaganda]] and [[advertising]]. Fiction may be propagated by parents to their children ou...
7: ...through usefulness, allowing the distinction from fiction.
9: ...veniles can be safely exposed to it; opponents of fiction with sexual content typically label it [[pornogra...
11: ...e [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikifiction Wikifiction] initiative).

Wish (fiction) (2226 bytes)
1: In [[fiction]] a '''wish''' is a [[supernatural]] gift grantin...
3: The template for most fictional wishes is ''[[The Book of One Thousand and One ...

Detective fiction (20839 bytes)
1: ...l or amateur. It is closely related to [[mystery fiction]] but generally contains more of a puzzle element...
3: ...ally has some pleasing eccentricities or striking characteristics. He or she frequently has a less intellige...
9: ...ursor of the stories about the most famous of all fictional detectives, [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s [[Sherlock...
11: ...ector Bucket of the Metropolitan force. Numerous characters appeared on the staircase leading to Tulkinghorn...
13: ...erred to as the "grandfather of English detective fiction." His novel ''[[The Moonstone]]'' (1868) was desc...

Fan fiction (15677 bytes)
1: [[Category:Fan fiction|*]]
2: ...fiction fanzine|fanzine]]s, as distinguished from fiction professionally published; this usage is now obsol...
6: Fan fiction has come to the fore especially since the rise of...
8: ...c poem, The [[Aeneid]], was the first work of fan fiction, based on Homer's [[Odyssey]]. In it, a Trojan na...
10: ...kien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''; [[science fiction]] serials (both on television and in film); other...

Mars in fiction (8956 bytes)
3: The standard depiction of Mars in fiction until the arrival of planetary probes derives fro...
5: ...rse, was the origin for a large number of science fiction scenarios.
18: ... act like humans (a rare feature for pulp science fiction of the time)
19: ...'', an interesting example of theological science fiction.
24: ...rks share a recurring Martian theme. His teenage fiction ''[[Red Planet (novel)|Red Planet]]'' includes so...

Interactive fiction (13646 bytes)
1: ...ng|thumb|300px|Zork, an early work of interactive fiction, running on a modern interpreter]]
3: ...er times to the games produced by the interactive fiction community rather than game companies.
5: ...c [[Graham Nelson]] has characterized interactive fiction as "a narrative at war with a crossword puzzle".
7: ...he Interactive Fiction Archive (see [[Interactive fiction#External links|external links]]).
9: ...s considered to be too long for the [[Interactive Fiction Competition]].

Horror fiction (3886 bytes)
1: ... [[speculative fiction]]. See also [[supernatural fiction]].
3: == Early horror fiction ==
5: [[Fictional character]]s have found themselves in horrifying situations...
7: ...Frankenstein'' has also been considered [[science fiction]] or a [[philosophy|philosophical]] novel by some...
11: ...n le Fanu]] called some of their writing '''weird fiction''' or '''weird stories'''.

Clerical fiction (609 bytes)
1: ... during the [[1990s]]. This subgenre of [[science fiction]] treated the [[Catholicism|Catholic Church]] or ...
4: * [[Social Fiction]]
5: * [[Soft science fiction]]
7: [[Category:Fiction]]

Oceania (fiction) (1057 bytes)
1: ...sion of [[London]], where Winston Smith, the main character, lives. It is composed of the two American contin...
5: [[Category:Fictional countries]]

Romantic fiction (3587 bytes)
3: '''Romantic fiction''' is one of the oldest genres in [[literature]],...
10: ...tant [[Europe]]an literary trend was to fantastic fiction. Exemplary work, such as the English ''[[Le Morte...
15: ...ction often is denigrated as inferior to literary fiction. Prevailing opinion, amongst non-readers, of the ...
17: ...and Boon]], is best-known for publishing romantic fiction. Currently, there are several large houses publis...

Supernatural fiction (2642 bytes)
1: ...n of popular [[Gothic fiction]]. It includes both fiction with a religious message, and some that is direct...
3: ...is a contemporary writer of supernatural literary fiction.
5: ...]] was one of the last innovators of supernatural fiction.
7: ...dent]]' elements, which in the older supernatural fiction were shown as breaking through some barrier to me...
9: Supernatural fiction continues to be a staple of [[comic book]] and [[...

Mystery fiction (3743 bytes)
1: ...eans. Though it is often confused with detective fiction, it does not require a crime to have occurred or ...
5: ...agazine which began in 1941. Interest in mystery fiction continues to this day thanks to various televisio...
6: ... for the authors of mystery, detective, and crime fiction was begun in 1945, called the [[Mystery Writers o...
10: * [[Crime fiction]]
11: * [[Detective fiction]]

Cyborgs in fiction (3867 bytes)
7: ...st in the Shell]] universe, specifically the main characters Major Motoko Kusanagi and Batou, are cyborgs dep...
8: ...titude of cyborg characters, with one of the main characters, Briareos Hecatonchires, the mercenary Sokaku Ta...
11: * Many of the characters of ''[[Battle Angel Alita]]'' (also known in Jap...
32: ...[[Cyrax]], [[Sektor]], and [[Smoke (Mortal Kombat character)|Smoke]], fighters in the gory fighting video gam...
37: *[[Archive of fictional things]]

DID/MPD in fiction (3280 bytes)
9: ...he [[soap opera]], ''[[One Life to Live]]'', lead character Victoria Lord ([[Erika Slezak]]) has had to comba...
11: ...entity]]'' also feature multiple personalities in fictional crime scenarios and explore the idea of respons...
19: ... [[comic books]], DID is a feature of a number of characters.
33: ...rora (comics)|Aurora]] from [[Alpha Flight]] is a character who is actually diagnosed with DID. Like ''Rose a...

Pulp fiction (243 bytes)
1: ...ound in a [[pulp magazine]] (but also for similar fiction published elsewhere).
2: * [[Pulp Fiction]] was a [[1994]] movie, whose poster parodied a p...

Genre fiction (4983 bytes)
1: ...n]], [[fantasy]], [[crime fiction]] and [[Mystery fiction|mystery]] stories and [[novel|novels]].
3: ...contrasted with [[literature]] proper. [[Literary fiction]] is an [[antonym]].
5: ==Definitions of genre fiction==
7: ...andering the [[Midwest]] are not considered genre fiction, though they may well be [[cliché]]s.
9: The attraction of genre fiction for both writer and reader is that using a genre ...

Crime fiction (21749 bytes)
1: ...with his colleague [[Dr. Watson]]; together these characters popularized the genre.]]
3: ...courtroom drama]], and [[hardboiled|hard-boiled]] fiction.
5: ==History of crime fiction.==
6: ...ted as the principal initiator of the [[detective fiction]] genre.]]
7: ''Main article: [[History of crime fiction]]''

Transylvania in fiction (1050 bytes)
1: ...vania]] has become a popular setting for [[horror fiction]] (particularly that involving [[vampire]]s).
5: ... set in Transylvania, the homeland of the central character.
7: *[[Überwald]], a fictional region in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s [[Discworld]] s...
12: ...e galaxy of Transylvania, the origin of the weird characters in ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' (and it...

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