Fiction
David Grieg's 2012 play The Letter of Last Resort deals with the consequences and paradoxes of the letters. It was dramatised for BBC Radio 4, directed by Nicolas Kent, and first broadcast on 1 June 2013.
A similar process was used in the book Down to a Sunless Sea, in which the planes of Air Britain, the country's only remaining civilian airline, were instructed on what to do in the event that the UK was struck by nuclear weapons. The instructions were in the form of a special letter in a sealed compartment in the cockpit. The special instructions were to be used if the company dispatcher issued an "Armada Signal" or if the plane was unable to return to the UK because its airports had been destroyed by nuclear strikes.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“My mother ... believed fiction gave one an unrealistic view of the world. Once she caught me reading a novel and chastised me: “Never let me catch you doing that again, remember what happened to Emma Bovary.””
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)