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Fiction is a literary magazine founded in 1972 by Mark Jay Mirsky , Donald Barthelme , and Max Frisch . It is published by the City College of New York . This is not the same as the French science fiction magazine Fiction , published from 1953-1990. In ...

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early 15c., ficcioun , "that which is invented or imagined in the mind," from Old French ficcion "dissimulation, ruse; invention, fabrication" (13c.) and directly from Latin fictionem (nominative fictio ) "a fashioning or feigning," noun of action from ...

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Kathy Acker and William Burroughs, exemplary postmodern thinkers by virtue of their literary fictions, are frequently present in these pages as well.

Alexander York, because her admiralship was more a legal fiction than an actual Rank Of Power.

And, although amid the ever-growing degeneracy of mankind, this primeval word of revelation was falsified by the admixture of various errors, and overlaid and obscured by numberless and manifold fictions, inextricably confused, and disfigured almost beyond the power of recognition, still a profound inquiry will discover in heathenism many luminous vestiges of primitive Truth.

Blumenthal wife-beating allegation is pure fiction that has been created by Clinton enemies.

Abysses of amnesia continually opened beneath him, but he would bridge them, nimbly, by fluent confabulations and fictions of all kinds.

No apologia is any more than a romance - half a fiction - in which all the successive identities taken on and rejected by the writer as a function of linear time are treated as separate characters.

Grant had told Ruth that she should get off her high horse about not writing autobiographical fiction.

Explore the ideas of fiction and imagination and the autobiographical ingredients of writing.

TV series that spawned it, the movie of Cowboy Bebop is a marvelous hodgepodge of hardboiled mystery fiction, science fiction action, and tragic love story, with more cultural influences than you could possibly list -- although Bebop otaku certainly have tried on their numerous fan websites.

What mysteries has fiction produced to rival mind bogglers like deep geological time, a boundless universe, the big bang, relativity, quantum mechanics, the double helix, natural selection, mass extinction, the language instinct, and chaos theory?

Asia and America, the most striking is that offered by the Mexican mythology in the cosmogonical fiction of the periodical destructions and regenerations of the universe.

Bruce Sterling has been keeping an eye on the cyberculture from its beginning, and not always as a fiction writer.

The same cannot be said about the vast, otherworldly subject of cybersex, which involves a range of physical and cerebral activities more suited to science fiction than the kind of fiction we have been examining up to now.

Internet-specific fiction than our narrow definitions of cybersex had suggested.

E-zines: Deviant Minds, Alternate Realities, Planet Magazine, Suspect Thoughts, Apocalypse Fiction, Dark Muse, Demensions, The Murder Hole, Fuzzclog, Tantalus Fire, No Boundaries, Fantastic Metropolis, and SHZine.