In Fiction
Nora Barlow appears as a supporting character in Scott Westerfeld's 2009 young-adult steampunk novel Leviathan. In Westerfeld's alternate history, Barlow is a prominent genetic engineer and diplomat.
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“The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“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)