Word: fictionizing
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...movies nothing is more retro than the future. To look at old science-fiction films is to be reminded of the frailty of man's prophetic powers. Who would have guessed that some new ideas would fall out of favor (manned space travel) and some old ones would last (that 19th century gizmo the internal-combustion engine)? The fashioner of sci-fi Utopias or dystopias is advised to keep it simple and avoid embarrassment later...
Lehane won the Anthony Award and Barry Award for Best Novel for the book, which was published in February 2001. He also won the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award...
...equal authority how unbalanced things are today in London, Brussels, Delhi or suburban California-where, he writes, "Anyone on foot ... is one of four things: poor, foreign, mentally ill or jogging." Like Don DeLillo, the great American novelist whom he admires, Kunzru is part of a modern breed of fiction writers who double up as cultural critics, describing the tastes, sounds and sights that constitute the experience of being alive in 2004 while providing mordant insights into how our experiences are relentlessly manipulated by advertising and marketing executives. Sure, it feels good when the flight attendant in business class pays...
...author says that one of his models for Transmission was the fiction of English satirist Evelyn Waugh. When he exposes the inner workings of a Korean online role-playing club, hilariously parodies a Bollywood plot or offers a careful study of how tomatoes are stacked in a California supermarket, Kunzru shows he can do everything a gifted satirist is meant to do. Except perhaps for the most important thing. Waugh's critiques of the modern world's shallowness are set off against a sense of a Christian past that has been lost, a past that can be regained...
...paisley patterns. She dies and, in a succession of increasingly smaller panels, she transforms into the husk of a ladybug. At once Gao realizes that all life, those of insects and men, have equal value. It is as great a transformative moment as any to be found in fiction...