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Fiction is any
creative work,
chiefly any
narrative work,
portraying individuals, events, or
places in ways that are
imaginary or
inconsistent with history...
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Science fiction (sometimes
shortened to sci-fi or SF) is a
genre of
speculative fiction which typically deals with
imaginative and ****uristic concepts...
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speculative fiction which is
intended to frighten, scare, or disgust.
Literary historian J. A.
Cuddon defined the
horror story as "a
piece of
fiction in prose...
- Pulp
Fiction is a 1994
American black comedy crime film
written and
directed by
Quentin Tarantino, who
conceived it with
Roger Avary.
Starring John Travolta...
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Action fiction is the
literary genre that
includes spy novels,
adventure stories,
tales of
terror and
intrigue ("cloak and dagger") and mysteries. This...
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Historical fiction is a
literary genre in
which the plot
takes place in a
setting related to the past events, but is fictional.
Although the term is commonly...
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Adventure fiction is a type of
fiction that
usually presents danger, or
gives the
reader a
sense of excitement. Some
adventure fiction also
satisfies the...
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mainstream fiction and
other genres such as
historical fiction or
science fiction, but the
boundaries are indistinct.
Crime fiction has
multiple subgenres...
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Mystery is a
fiction genre where the
nature of an event,
usually a
murder or
other crime,
remains mysterious until the end of the story.
Often within...
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locations that
exist in real life that have been
featured in
works of
science fiction and fantasy,
including planets, asteroids,
comets and
other star systems...