Fiction
- Shaft (novel) by Ernest Tidyman about an African-American private detective
- Shaft (1971 film), a film based on the novel
- Shaft (album), the soundtrack for the film, recorded by Isaac Hayes
- "Theme from Shaft," performed by Isaac Hayes
- Shaft's Big Score, the second film in the trilogy
- Shaft in Africa, the third film in the trilogy
- Shaft (2000 film), a follow on of the 1971 film, released in 2000
- Shaft (2000 soundtrack), the soundtrack to the 2000 action film, Shaft
- Shaft (TV series), a series of TV movies
- John Shaft, the title character of the above films
- Shaft (1971 film), a film based on the novel
- Shaft (Castlevania), the dark priest from the Castlevania video game series
- Shaft (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics ninja character
- Shaft (comics), a comic book character created by Rob Liefeld for his comic Youngblood
- Down (film), a 2001 horror film also known as The Shaft
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today—but the core of science fiction, its essence ... has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.”
—Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)
“Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)