Hardwick goes on to refer to biography as "consistent fiction," and laments the difficulties of disproving it: **{:.break one} ** Our power of documentation has a monstrous life of its own, a greater vivacity than any lived existence.
Hardwick goes on to refer to biography as "consistent fiction," and laments the difficulties of disproving it: Our power of documentation has a monstrous life of its own, a greater vivacity than any lived existence.
One may claim that the set of (selected) worlds that make such stories true just has to be split into disjoint subsets, making true consistent fragments of the fiction.
If there is one consistent theme in science fiction since the true boom of the genre in the 1950s it's the prediction of the end of the world.
Make sure that your fiction is consistent with what is already known about the universe for which you are writing.
The sort of treatment offered by Lewis 1979 notoriously faces difficulties in dealing with impossible fictions more generally, especially ones in which it is not straightforward to divide the fictions into consistent subfictions.
Other physicists marvelled that time travel, previously the stuff of science fiction, was apparently consistent with the laws of physics.
As Nelson pointed out, one of the most consistent features of O'Connor's fiction is the ugliness of her characters.
Martel established himself as a writer with the publication of The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and Other Stories (1993), followed by his first novel, Self (1996), both of which introduced consistent thematic concerns in his fiction, including the complexities of illness, sexuality and identity, death and dying, and the burden of grief and loss.
Almost all the story is fiction, though it is consistent with the times and with what is known about Mary and Lydia.
Her prolific nature has been expressed through various genres -- historical novel, memoir, young-adult literature, crime fiction -- and her consistent ability to produce complex narratives, sometimes as often as once a year, has earned her the admiration and the venom of the literary world.
