unfact

Why in fiction, where virtue lies in untruth, or maybe unfact?

Map of Speculative Fiction 2006

Why in fiction, where virtue lies in untruth, or maybe unfact?

SeeLight: 2006

You can deny the fact that the Israeli settlements are a war crime but your denial does not make it an unfact - no matter how often you repeat your denial. ndm

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

English idea of the Arab horse is founded upon utter unfact.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

You can deny the fact that the Israeli settlements are a war crime but your denial does not make it an unfact - no matter how often you repeat your denial. ndm

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

After getting a good deal of (sometimes grudging) praise for being cautious on the Rove indictment story, and making slow, incremental progress in other areas, the last thing we need to do is “sink to their level” on an issue like this, especially inviting the good guys to start untrue (or at least unfact checked) swiftboating.

Firedoglake » David Broder, Pantysniffing Pervert 2006

Rather than refer to her speech at the previous day's banquet, whether to endorse or disavow such colorful phrases as "the Pentagon, a pentacle crowded with the demons of nuclear madness," or "the CIA-the Children Immolation Agency," he made an unspeech of it and simply called her a modern Joan of Arc. That St. Joan took arms in the cause of liberation became an unfact.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

The term was a pure invention of Abyssinian Bruce who was well aware of the unfact he was propagating, but his inordinate vanity and self-esteem, contrasting so curiously with many noble qualities, especially courage and self-reliance, tempted him to this and many other a traveller's tale.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

The writer has taken scant trouble to read me when he asserts that the Bulak edit was my text, and I may refer him, for his own advantage, to my Foreword (vol.i. p. xvii.), which he has wilfully ignored by stating unfact.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

As a generalism asserting that women's passion is ten times greater than man's (Pilgrimage, ii. 282), it is unfact.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855