Sentence examples for fiction focused from inspiring English sources

At a time when most science fiction focused on scientist-heroes who were either saving or menacing the world, Sturgeon wrote about ordinary people under stress.

Because this profoundly Southern story is constructed speculatively, conflictingly, and inconclusively by a series of narrators with sharply divergent self-interested perspectives, Absalom, Absalom! is often seen, in its infinite open-endedness, as Faulkner's supreme "modernist" fiction, focused above all on the processes of its own telling.

The reason is the same as with theatre: narrative fiction, focused on a series of 'situations' in which the fundamental existential choices facing human beings can be carefully staged, is a powerful mode of engaging the free imagination of the reader, and thus of calling him or her to action: "What in fact is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form?" (Camus 1951, 263).

The club or meet-up doesn't necessarily have to be focused on Star Trek alone but can be science fiction focused in general––there's bound to be some Star Trek fan girls amid the sci-fi lovers.

"Most mystery fiction focusses on the detective, and noir fiction focusses on the villain," Penzler explained when we met in midtown Manhattan.

She was writing more and more psychological fiction, focusing on obsessives and psychopaths far removed from Kingsmarkham.

The author's first collection of short fiction focuses on American women in exotic locales who are searching for themselves even as they constantly measure their distance from husbands, families and lovers.

Eleanor Catton won the Booker and AM Homes won the Women's prize for fiction; both books are extraordinary works of fiction, focusing on the aftermath of violence and how to narrate, and in a sense transcend, the story of crime and death.

Which isn't something you tend to see science fiction focusing on much.

The anniversary year was scarcely two days old when the then education secretary Michael Gove attacked Blackadder Goes Forth and Oh, What a Lovely War! for propagating "leftwing myths" about the war, on the grounds that these ironic fictions focused on the futility of the conflict rather than celebrating the victory that resulted from it.

"Likewise, the central themes in fiction focus upon the courses of action characters take, the conflicts -- internal and external -- they encounter along the way, and the constraints that shape their behavior.