In Fiction
- Children of the revolution, a comedy about Stalin's son's inescapable path into rebellion and eventually a revolution of any sort
- Andromeda, a television series in which the nietzschean species was genetically programmed to be ambitious, treacherous, and brutal
- Gattaca, a 1997 film starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“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)
“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)
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