Fiction
- Serse (Xerxes), George Frideric Handel's opera of 1738.
- Xerse, Cavalli's opera of 1654 (to the same libretto as Handel's later work).
- Xerxes, novel by Louis Couperus
- Xerxes (Dune), character in Brian Herbert's Legends of Dune universe
- Xerxes, character in Disney's Aladdin
- XERXES, an Artificial Intelligence in the video game System Shock 2
- Xerxes Khodaiji, the protagonist of the film Little Zizou
- Xerxes Break, a character in Pandora Hearts
- Xerxes is a country in the manga Fullmetal Alchemist
- Xerxes, the primary antagonist in D-Yikes!, an episode of South Park
- Xerxes (film), a film currently in development by Zack Snyder et al.
- Xerxes (TV series), a 1988 Swedish TV series
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
“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)
“Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.”
—Coleman Dowell (1925–1985)