Fiction in sentence

953 examples of Fiction in a sentence

They were books telling a science fiction story through images and text, and most of the actors who are now starring in the movie adaptation, they were already involved in these books portraying characters into a sort of experimental, theatrical, simplistic way.

Well, Arthur C. Clarke, a famous science fiction writer from the 1950s, said that, "We overestimate technology in the short term, and we underestimate it in the long term."

I write fiction sci-fi thrillers, so if I say "killer robots," you'd probably think something like this.

But I'm actually not here to talk about fiction.

Let's make sure, for democracies at least, killer robots remain fiction.

So a human encountering the divine, as Muslims believe Muhammad did, to the rationalist, this is a matter not of fact but of wishful fiction, and like all of us, I like to think of myself as rational.

Cloning was science fiction.

Now, I even see a world where editing memories is something of a reality, because we're living in a time where it's possible to pluck questions from the tree of science fiction and to ground them in experimental reality.

It was like the best of science fiction come true.

But I know from my work how much fiction is already in there.

And I want to talk through some examples today of things that people have done that I think are really fascinating using flexible identity and anonymity on the web and blurring the lines between fact and fiction.

Combining the live play and the serialization of written fiction, you get this new format.

Egan convinced The New Yorker to start a New Yorker fiction account from which they could tweet all of these lines that she created.

Every night, at 8 p.m., you could tune in to a short story from The New Yorker's fiction account.

I think that's pretty exciting: tune-in literary fiction.

Another great example of fiction and the short story on Twitter, Elliott Holt is an author who wrote a story called "Evidence."

One reviewer called Elliott's story "Twitter fiction done right," because she did.

Things like Invisible Obama or the famous "binders full of women" that came up during the 2012 election cycle, or even the fan fiction universe of "West Wing" Twitter in which you have all of these accounts for every single one of the characters in "The West Wing," including the bird that taps at Josh Lyman's window in one single episode.

So with real-time storytelling, blurring the lines between fact and fiction, the real world and the digital world, flexible identity, anonymity, these are all tools that we have accessible to us, and I think that they're just the building blocks.

For that, we have to go to fiction, because the novel is the lab that has studied jealousy in every possible configuration.

So while we wait for that to happen, let us remember that we have fiction for consolation.

I'm a novelist, and I'm interested in the self because the self and fiction have a lot in common.

So for those that still believe that this is science fiction, I firmly say to you that it is not.

We do need to engage, though, in social fiction to make it happen.

Now rather than call this by its unwieldy catalog name, we briefly called it "Rama," after the cylindrical spacecraft that passed through the solar system in Arthur C. Clarke's classic science fiction story in 1973.

Redolent, in a sense, of science fiction, turning London into a kind of fantasy playground.

That's not science fiction.

It was science fiction made true, robotic engineering in a pre-electronic age, machines far in advance of anything that Victorian technology could create, a machine we would later know as the robot.

It's one of the leitmotifs of science fiction.

When most people think about augmented reality, they think about "Minority Report" and Tom Cruise waving his hands in the air, but augmented reality is not science fiction.

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