(The record labels differentiate between giving users the ability to download a song once versus being able to call upon that same song as you see fit. Think you own a song when you download it from iTunes? Think again, as you've only purchased a license to download the file once. Ownership of digital music is a thing of fiction).
Lest we forget, all-male panels on reproductive rights are not just a thing of fiction.
And almost all of the stories surprised me, with the twists of fate, staggeringly long arms of coincidence, repetition of patterns of the kind that make great case studies and great opera, heroism in people who had been, for most of their lives, contented doormats, uncharacteristic acts that changed everything that followed, all things of which fiction allows us only a little.
All the while, I knew these megastructures were things of science fiction — like the flying car I always wanted — that I could dream about but never enjoy in my lifetime.
"I try to stay away from boxing things into categories of fiction and nonfiction," said Mr. Lee, sitting in his Madison Avenue office beneath a framed set of Malcolm X postage stamps.
For many people, 3D printing is still a thing of science fiction.
But the same thing is true of fiction films, many of the best of which languish in the shadows of neglect or suffer the slings and arrows of critical misapprehension.
This interdependency does provocative things to the relation of fiction to reality.
Now Elizabeth has penned The Signature of All Things, her first work of fiction in more than a decade.
Alan Moore: Dodgem Logic is an aggressively random collision of all sorts of things, from absurdist pieces of fiction by Steve Aylett to new bits of work by Savage Pencil and Kevin O'Neill.
