noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fiction/science-fiction/mystery writer
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The movie is based on a story by science-fiction writer Phillip K. Dick.
airport fiction
fan fiction
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Most fan fiction websites acknowledge that their authors do not own the characters involved.
pulp fiction
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pulp fiction
pure fantasy/fiction (= something that is not true at all )
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He dismissed the allegations as ‘pure fantasy’.
science fiction
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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contemporary
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The latest bestsellers in contemporary fiction and literary classics for every collection.
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The postmodernist dilemma of periodization is vividly dramatized by these efforts to circumscribe their location in contemporary fiction .
early
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Unlike many of the writers of the period, Brooke-Rose is not overly preoccupied by morality in her early fiction .
historical
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They include the writings of historians, and textbooks, stories about the past, and historical fiction .
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Or to read historical fiction from those same eras!
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This novel is classified as historical fiction .
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City of Darkness, City of Light is a notable achievement of historical fiction , though not a flawless one.
legal
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The Nuer legal fiction is that only men can be the owners of cattle.
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The status of these and other orbitals became highly fluid, in legal fiction and in fact.
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This reasoning Mr. McGregor attacks as involving a legal fiction .
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It is that legal fiction which the health authority relies upon in denying liability to the plaintiff.
literary
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It also accounts for poetry being a more natural instrument of its literary expression than fiction or drama.
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Giroux, one of the most important publishers of literary fiction in the country.
modern
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Indeed by the standards of modern fiction it is eminently worth reprinting.
narrative
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Though the novel is not the sole domain of either narrative or fiction , in contemporary Western culture it exemplifies both.
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Kleiser is not the first maker of narrative fiction to romanticize death.
new
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The new fiction tells of a world its readers live.
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On his birthday, Hal himself may hand the reins to a new science fiction image of the future.
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From No. v on it was an enormous success, and inaugurated monthly shilling numbers as a method of publishing new fiction .
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The restoration of the classics opened up a new world of fiction .
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The political aspects of the new fiction are hardly easier to generalise.
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That is the fruitful ambiguity on which the new fiction was based.
popular
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But apart from spasmodic translations of some popular fiction and poetry, they don't do much work.
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In any case for the library user the style of popular books - particularly popular fiction - is often not a preoccupation.
pure
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Ivana insists the tome is pure fiction .
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But the schedule was pure fiction .
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Since all taxes are compulsory, earmarking is a pure fiction .
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This twin of yours is pure fiction , but I do think you know who Garry's new love is.
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But they can be pure crime fiction and fine crime fiction too.
romantic
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In short, a romantic fiction of unashamed sentimentality.
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The earlier feminist critics such as McRobbie and Garber argued that girls learned their roles partly through romantic fiction and girls' magazines.
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I saw a picture of Jane Asher in the same suit at a romantic fiction judging evening.
short
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Except for my short fiction , all my work was paid for but was not what I wanted to say.
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With Loverboys, Castillo turns her formidable gifts to short fiction .
strange
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Sometimes their life stories are so unusual that truth is stranger than fiction .
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Truth was sort of stranger than fiction .
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You might say reality is stranger than fiction .
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Sir, we used to joke that truth is always stranger than fiction .
■ NOUN
crime
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Most of the other forms of crime fiction spring from it, either in angry reaction or attempted improvement.
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Borden Stoppelgard stockpiled first-edition crime fiction .
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The crime short story One last, last branch of crime fiction , the short story.
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But the who-dun-it tug is not the only resource you have in writing comic crime fiction .
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From this we can go on to discover one of the rules for this sort of crime fiction .
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In recent years mystery with history has become a fairly popular sub-genre of crime fiction .
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But they can be pure crime fiction and fine crime fiction too.
detective
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But it has been in existence for almost as long as there has been detective fiction .
movie
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Neither robot looks much like the androids portrayed in science fiction movies .
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Writer and director Luc Besson sacrifices sensibility for style in this excessively fashion-designed science fiction movie .
pulp
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He started reading pulp fiction in the year he lost his job and began producing mystery stories based on its formulas.
romance
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Like most romance fiction , Medical Romances incorporate a number of standard romance conventions.
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As romance fiction blossomed, a number of organizations and publications developed to serve it.
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Reviews, lists, and bibliographies are other sources of romance fiction information for the librarian.
science
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That can not be promised here, though a holistic perspective is taken on literary stylistics in addressing science fiction .
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Other people love science fiction or biographies.
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One might be interested in modernist writing and another in science fiction , for example.
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Hartmann, for example, writes classic science fiction and non-fiction about Mars.
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A historical adventure would be followed by a science fiction tale, then by another historical, and so on.
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Writer and director Luc Besson sacrifices sensibility for style in this excessively fashion-designed science fiction movie.
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Reading, particularly science fiction , travelling, and fell walking.
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Undoubtedly the most modern method devised to preserve human bodies might well be said to belong to the realm of science fiction .
writer
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It is doubtful whether fiction writers are public benefactors, or their publishers philanthropists.
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We received the term courtesy of William Gibson, a science fiction writer .
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But, as we can now see, it was like being a science fiction writer really.
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How many up-and-coming fiction writers are former aerospace engineers?
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Unbelievable, but true. 25 year old, Charles Cockell is no science fiction writer .
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No psychiatry nonsense, no mumbo jumbo about theories and the other paraphernalia of the fiction writer .
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That was the dream of solar sailing, so beloved of both scientists and science fiction writers .
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The earliest appearance in print seems to be in a 1950 story by the science fiction writer Eric Frank Russell.
■ VERB
maintain
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No Prime Minister after Macmillan would maintain the fiction that Britain was on equal terms with the super-powers.
read
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They've been reading too much space fiction .
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Or to read historical fiction from those same eras!
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Men read science fiction to build the future.
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He started reading pulp fiction in the year he lost his job and began producing mystery stories based on its formulas.
write
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She was a well-known author in her day, writing fiction , biographies, translations, and even plays for children.
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From his well-appointed quarters at the asylum, the Marquis has continued to write his famously horrid fiction .
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He encouraged her to write fiction .
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Hartmann, for example, writes classic science fiction and non-fiction about Mars.
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But the who-dun-it tug is not the only resource you have in writing comic crime fiction .
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Of course, you also need a crime to write your crime fiction about, a story thread for your feelings of nostalgia.
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He enjoys a second career authoring books on legal subjects and has contemplated writing fiction .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hard-boiled film/thriller/fiction etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a science fiction novel
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Adopting the style of romantic fiction , she said, ''I love him passionately''.
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Although it is a work of fiction , it is based on fact.
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Anthony's first books were historical fiction .
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Chandler remains the greatest exponent of detective fiction .
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His first novel won a prize for modern fiction .
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I'm taking a class in Victorian fiction .
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It can sometimes be difficult to tell fact from fiction .
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It is a fiction that unemployment can be solved by some economic theory.
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science-fiction novels
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So much modern fiction is full of sex and violence.
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The best fiction conveys the richness of life.
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The president denied that he was ill, labelling the report "pure fiction ."
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This small band of women writers dominated the romantic fiction market for a number of years.
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Why is Miami such a ripe setting for crime fiction ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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No one wants to be part of a fiction , and even less so if that fiction is real.
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Such issues are the subject of information books and works of fiction .
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The fiction , however, reads like an attempt to break out of this self-imposed restriction.
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The art of fiction is dead.
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The really astonishing thing is how fiction and reality can blur.