For the longest time, there was little ambiguity between literary fiction and genre fiction: one was good for you, one simply tasted good.
Genre fiction, we are told, is easily digested but nutrition-free fluff, whilst literary fiction is harder to swallow but better for you, like broccoli.
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Well, what attracted you to the science-fiction genre in the first place?
Alexandra Hamlet, who won awards for her first novel, a Cold War thriller called The Right Guard, says terrorism has created a new fiction genre - and describes her own work as "intellectual suspense".
"I have a strong objection to the genre of mixing fact with fiction, " said Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League.
Westerns, Regency romances, film noir: those are genres kinds of stories with specific categories of subjects and conventions for their content and presentation. (Stories about superheroes are a genre, too.) Prose fiction, sculpture, video: those, like comics, are media forms of expression that have few or no rules regarding their content other than the very broad ones imposed on them by their form.
"It is historical fiction -- a noble genre going back to Shakespeare and well before -- not history, " he said.
The romance genre encompassing a range of fiction types, from traditional romance to Christian romance, Amish romance and erotica makes up 17% of sales of adult fiction, says Brent Lewis, Harlequin's executive vice president for digital.
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According to Brian Stableford, writing in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, the definitive reference on the genre, Camille Flammarion was the first author to present a popular fictional portrait of truly alien life-forms.
Because he was writing novels when the form was so new, an argument can be made that Defoe's casting of fiction as fact was simply a daring experiment within an emerging genre.
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The first film, which was written and directed by James Cameron, is one of the genre-movie classics of the eighties: a lean, witty science-fiction movie without great pretensions to significance.
It's easy to find books described as "nonfiction that reads like fiction" on the web, but almost impossible to find "fiction that reads like nonfiction, " although I believe such a genre exists.
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