Sentence examples for fiction map from inspiring English sources
But computers, not aliens, were at the center of the work that put Dr. Vinge on the science fiction map -- "True Names," a 30,000-word novella that offered a vision of a networked world.
Most of his characters inhabit a boldly colored limbo land somewhere on the great fiction map between Dickens's world of improbable coincidences and the old-fashioned world of the picaresque, where odd happenings and even odder people are strung together willy-nilly into rollicking, improvisatory tales.
As he explained what the books were (some kind of crime fiction map books, I think) he pointed out Harlan Coben, one of only three crime fiction writers I recognized on the list of authors.
Byatt proposes a redrawing of the historical-fiction map, taking in Anthony Burgess, Penelope Fitzgerald, William Golding, Muriel Spark and Lawrence Norfolk.
Along with his serious comedies, he wrote an innovative mainstream treatise on science fiction ("New Maps of Hell") and an uncondescending study of James Bond.
Although Ms. Lessing has done just about everything in her long and varied career -- from anatomizing the convolutions of the individual psyche in her early fiction to mapping the metaphysics of distant galaxies in her "Canopus in Argos" series -- she utterly fails in this, the weakest of the four stories collected here, to make these two bizarre romances the least bit credible.
According to the translator Nicky Harman, the English-speaking world is not entirely on its own, with the division between fiction and nonfiction mapping straightforwardly on to the Chinese xu gou and fei [not or non-] xu gou.
Born in neglected Uruguay, he was a significant part of the "boom" generation of the 1960s, inspired by the Cuban revolution, that put Latin American fiction on the global map.
It's as if we were being guided from one plot point to another, as if this were less a work of fiction than a treasure map.
Her first step on a new project is to assemble a relevant library of science, history, art, maps, even fiction.
In his fiction and nonfiction he mapped this new America that was entertaining itself to death and reeling at once from overstimulation and boredom, information overload and emotional numbness.
