Word: fictional
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...meditative samadhi posture. I also researched that period in history for Jesus's religious context, political and cultural contexts, the Jewish sects at the time, the occupation by Rome. Then I went into incubation, meditation, and I allowed this story to unfold. It fits into the category of "religious fiction...
...they were going to kill Bond (and take over the world) gave him enough time to kill them. Although the novels and the early Bond movies took place during the Cold War, their villains were rarely Soviet operatives; they were closer to those freelance fruitcakes of pulp fantasy fiction, Fu Manchu and Ming the Merciless. Issuing dreadful warnings, plotting mass destruction from remote redoubts and sending their thugs to do the dirty work, the Scaramangas and Ernst Stavro Blofelds of Bond fiction could have been the secular antecedents of Osama bin Laden...
...least that’s how Jason Manoharan, head TF for “Postwar American and British Fiction,” wants it to feel. He has discovered that there’s no better way of breaking a tense, academic atmosphere in class than by bringing his Old English sheep dog, Kaliban...
...came to Harvard wanting to be a doctor, and she knew science would be in her future. But what Alana C. Ju ‘10 did not know was that she would end up writing science fiction about genetically-modified crops that take over the world or fiddling with a microscope that once belonged to Mark Twain...
...Europe and misspent an entire decade there as an itinerant laborer, living the life of a poète maudit and striking up an acquaintance with heroin. But in 1990, finding himself a husband and father, Bolaño decided to kick the smack and take up writing fiction in the hope of supporting his family. His prose turned out to be better than his poetry. In 1998 the publication of The Savage Detectives vaulted him into the first rank of Spanish-language literature, right up there with all those writers he had mocked as an infrarealista. But by then...