It is rare to be reminded that actual change is possible through the established mechanisms by which the various fictions of government have ended up operating, but that is what occasionally happens, and when it does, those of us who have such contempt for governments as to pretentiously declare them to be "fictions" ought to admit to it.
But significant numbers of Americans also continue to believe various fictions about Obamacare.
On its Web site it seeks to disprove various "fictions".
Commenting on the program's animation, The A.V. Club journalist thought that its emphasis on the convergence of various science fiction techniques resulted in aesthetically pleasing visuals.
There would be three hundred of them — culled from the year's output by America's wildly various fiction writers — but they came in increments of about thirty.
The reading education goals in Kindergarten in Virginia are to teach all students to read fluently and comprehend various fiction and non-fiction texts.
A thumbnail-sketch of the writer's mother leads to a catalogue of the traits and foibles of various mothers in his fiction.
Vampires have been featured in folklore and fiction of various cultures for hundreds of years, predominantly in Europe, although belief in them has waned in modern times.
In addition to final causes which are not, the student of being finds himself confronted with true-sounding appeals to phantasmagorical and mythical beasts and creatures of fiction of various sorts, even though their subjects have vacuous reference ("Pegasus is a winged horse").
The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas 455pp, Canongate, £12.99 By combining elements of various genres - fantasy, science fiction, cerebro-thriller - and by having no unicorns or spaceships on the cover, The End of Mr Y will probably escape being described as fantasy or science fiction.
