Clarke's "Cool World" is widely regarded as the first fiction feature shot entirely on location in Harlem.
Stumped again, Ford decided to give himself one last shot at fiction.
Then again, she was now with a man who was essentially literary, not political, and when, at Wilson's insistence, she tried her hand at fiction, and the first shot out of the box came cool, calculating "Cruel and Barbarous Treatment" — the story that would eventually become the startling first chapter in "The Company She Keeps" — she knew that this was where her writing talent best connected.
Despite its digital textures, the beauties and abyssal depths in Sfumato Memories look like a blend of late 70s and early 80s science fiction and horror cinematography shot through with a David Lynch vibe.
I've never had much luck with Pratchett's fiction, and pre-publicity shots of the bearded writer wandering around in a Gandalf-esque black hat and outfit did not look encouraging.
Famous folk having a shot at writing fiction isn't necessarily a bad thing – but it is not necessarily good, either.
While viewers were still wondering if Prof Mason causing substantial damages to the alien tower was the luckiest shot in science fiction since that chancer Luke Skywalker knocked out the Death Star, we had a tantalisingly brief meeting with the tall aliens who seem to be in charge.
THE title building of the new ABC series "666 Park Avenue" is a fiction; the network is using shots of the Ansonia as a backdrop.
Before that he made a dystopian science-fiction film; a semi-documentary shot guerrilla-style about illegal immigration from Pakistan to England; a comedy about the Manchester music scene of the 1980s; and two Thomas Hardy adaptations, one of them turning The Mayor of Casterbridge into a western.
— Jaimy Gordon's novel "Lord of Misrule," which won the National Book Award for fiction last month, was such a long shot that even Ms. Gordon and her publisher, Bruce McPherson, didn't think it had much of a chance.
