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Tom prefers science books to fiction.
Bob was so beside himself that he could scarcely tell fact from fiction.
This science-fiction novel is very interesting.
This science fiction story seems interesting. Will you lend it to me when you have finished reading it?
I like science fiction better.
Well that's because in fiction that sort of fine detail gets skipped.
This game is a work of fiction.
Last night I saw Pulp Fiction.
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
What's your favorite non-fiction book?
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
You have to distinguish fact from fiction.
He can't tell fact from fiction.
Do you like science-fiction movies?
The trouble with fiction. is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
I'm not interested in science fiction.
I'm looking for erotic science fiction novels.
She likes to write fan fiction.
Tom reads nothing but fiction.
He can't discern fact from fiction.
He really likes science fiction.
Do you like science fiction movies?
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You're taking the Holy Word and adding fiction (The truth about God!
Creatures that make the wildest science fiction movies look like reality shows.
Fiction?
Why maintain the fiction?
Or is that only true in rental fiction? - Okay.
If this were fiction, I would fall in love with Vera. Marry her and make a respectable woman of her.
I put it to you that, in this case, it happened not in fiction, but in fact.
Mixing fact and fiction.
I'd say stick to fiction.
Straight fiction.
There's a short stretch of my fiction you found worthy of notice?
According to you, Mr. Land is a hero in the best tradition of cheap fiction.
Are you saying my husband is fiction?
I don't read science fiction, I'm a plain simple bible man.
Herbert George Wells. An English novelist and journalist, who was known for his science fiction, his satirical novels and his popular books on history and science.
Science fiction buffs know such books as his When Worlds Collide and After Worlds Collide, among many others.
Pure fiction, all of it!
You know, I was even considering including some of your exploits but, no, you'd never do for a hero of romantic fiction.
Why maintain the fiction? Why not work?
Gentlemen, if you wish to know what able men you are, read any of the works of popular fiction that glamorize your achievement but don't, I beg of you, read the daily papers.
I'd say stick to fiction. Straight fiction.
Now, if I got you correctly, there was a short stretch of my fiction which you found worthy of notice.
According to you, Mr Land is a hero in the best tradition of cheap fiction.
I've been trying for years to get to the bottom of these things. To separate what you call fact from fiction.
What are you trying to do, make a dumb fiction cop out of me?
Or is that only true in rental fiction?
Why, no, Mr Martins. I'd say stick to fiction. Straight fiction.
The setting, the characters and the events in this film are fiction.
It just goes to prove what they always say, truth is stranger than fiction.
Well, this was no fiction.
We are all of us caught up in the suspense of this horror fiction.
Look, sir, I. I don't want to be a Jeremiah, but most of these figures are absolute science fiction, sir.
There's no fiction about those figures, Major.
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This scene remains shocking, but, like most science fiction, it has aged.
Science fiction ages fast, but it has a long afterlife.
Science fiction sometimes limits rather than expands our sense of what is possible.
This party will be centralized under personal leadership and will reduce the state to a legal fiction.
But, when it comes to the era of supposed US hegemony, there has always been a lot of fiction mixed in with the facts.
MELBOURNE - Two new movies released this month - one a science-fiction blockbuster, the other a revealing documentary - raise the issue of our relations with our closest non-human relatives, the great apes.
But the numbers in the IMF program were fiction; any economist would have predicted that contractionary policies incite slowdown, and that budget targets would not be met.
While this sounds like political fiction in a world where children still die from starvation, reprogenetics sounded like science fiction only thirty years ago.
This, along with media disinformation, has made it difficult for outsiders to penetrate the cases and separate fact from fiction.
India has become an accepted, legitimate member of the nuclear club, the fiction of the NPT notwithstanding.
Policies must not be based on the fiction that good loans were made, and that the business acumen of financial-market leaders and regulators will be validated once confidence is restored.
That horror is what makes parasites such a great device for science fiction movies such as Alien.
I am a husband and father, a Buddhist, a jazz aficionado, a molecular biologist, a marksman, and a reader of modernist fiction.
We have approached the point when the constitutional requirement of universal, free education may become a fiction.
MUNICH - Artificial intelligence, once confined to the realm of science fiction, is changing our lives.
If the fiction is maintained that the court was merely doing its judicial duty as it saw it, decency could still prevail: Anwar could be granted executive clemency.
In fact, the financial statements of mega-banks are impenetrable works of fiction or wishful thinking.
It is worth considering whether Aldous Huxley, who taught Orwell at school and who wrote another great and portentous piece of political fiction, Brave New World, provides a more relevant perspective.
The other thing both films share is a fascination with mythical stories, the Book of Job in Leviathan, and martial-arts fiction in A Touch of Sin.
Deliberately manipulating the earth's climate seems like something from science fiction.
But Jurrasic Park is fiction, dinosaurs will be no more.
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