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At the other end of his sensibility, the sexual explicitness that he pioneered in American fiction was additive, ameliorative-the one thing that had been left undescribed, a piece of the world's experience previously unfixed.

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  1. noun An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.
  2. noun The act of inventing such a creation or pretense.
  3. noun A lie.

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  • Gardner Dozois threw down the gauntlet by asking, "Where in your fiction are the equally convincing portraits of what it's like to be a girl growing up It wouldn't surprise me at all to find that ‘Tiptree's’ best work is yet to come." —  Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 111] - Issue 04-05 - October-November 2006
  • At the other end of his sensibility, the sexual explicitness that he pioneered in American fiction was additive, ameliorative-the one thing that had been left undescribed, a piece of the world's experience previously unfixed. —  The New Yorker
  • Part of the fascination with The Godfather fiction is the feeling of power that comes with being the Don of an organized crime family - and The Godfather II game puts the control in your hands. —  Computer And Video Games
  • There is a growing presence of immigrant voices in American fiction, and while that perspective is still the American immigrant perspective, it's very sensitive to and inclusive of a wider-range of views and issues familiar to a global community. —  Esquire.com Article Feed
  • The average salary for a published UK author per year from his or her fiction is approximately $7,500. —  Quick Online Tips
 

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  1. Middle English ficcioun, from Old French fiction, from Latin fictiō, fictiōn-, from fictus, past participle of fingere, to form; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French fiction = Provencal ficxio, fiction = Spanish ficcion = Portuguese ficção = Italian fizione, finzione, from Latin fictio(n-), a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction, from fingere, past participle fictus, form, mold, shape, devise, feign: see feign.
 

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