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 readers mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940)
“The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)
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