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Fiction in sentence

953 examples of Fiction in a sentence

For us moderns, virtuoso technique is used to create imaginary worlds in fiction and in movies, to express intense emotions with music, painting and dance.
And this is a bit of science fiction now, so we're moving into really the future.
Now we're going even further into science fiction.
It's not science fiction.
When I grew up and realized that science fiction was not a good source for superpowers, I decided instead to embark on a journey of real science, to find a more useful truth.
I've always been inspired by science fiction.
So you see, the microscopic world is even more amazing than science fiction.
It's not fiction, it's not story tales, it's not make-believe; it's cold, hard science.
We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies.
Is this science fiction?
But it's also a fiction.
These are three psychologists, Thomas Metzinger, Bruce Hood, Susan Blackmore, a lot of these people do talk the language of illusion, the self is an illusion, it's a fiction.
So after a four-year saga that defies fiction, a boat slipped out to sea disguised as a fishing vessel.
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction.
And I began to start thinking of myself as we start having mash-ups of fact and fiction, docu-dramas, mockumentaries, whatever you call it.
As we move into the future, and we start going out into space and doing stuff, we're drawing a lot from things like science fiction.
And all my favorite science fiction movies I want to play out here as different dynamics.
Purists may feel that fiction dissipates the quest of real human understanding, that film is too crude to tell a complex and detailed history, or that filmmakers always serve drama over truth.
This short fiction piece by Martin Amis starts out, "On September 11, 2001, he opened his eyes at 4 a.m. in Portland, Maine, and Mohamed Atta's last day began."
Compare that with the device released just months ago that's now packaged into something the size of a key fob, and if you take a look at the state of the art for a complete GPS receiver, which is only a centimeter on a side and more sensitive than ever, you realize that the GPS dot will soon move from fiction to nonfiction.
Well, traditionally that was seen as science fiction, but now we've moved to a world where actually this has become possible.
And it's not science fiction.
A part of my talk is going to be about investment opportunities that exist on this continent, to separate the rhetoric from the reality, the fact from the fiction.
We have access to technology that would have seemed like science fiction just a few years ago.
It may also be powered by cosmopolitanism, by histories, and journalism, and memoirs, and realistic fiction, and travel, and literacy, which allows you to project yourself into the lives of other people that formerly you may have treated as sub-human, and also to realize the accidental contingency of your own station in life, the sense that "there but for fortune go I." Whatever its causes, the decline of violence, I think, has profound implications.
As a writer, I can tell you that a big part of writing fiction is learning to predict how one event in a story will affect all the other events, and fear works in that same way.
In fear, just like in fiction, one thing always leads to another.
We may not yet have the flying cars science fiction promised us, but we can have walls that change color depending on temperature, keyboards that roll up, and windows that become opaque at the flick of a switch.
In the world that we are creating very quickly, we're going to see more and more things that look like science fiction, and fewer and fewer things that look like jobs.
"Mars et Avril" is a science fiction film.
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