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In Fiction

In Fiction frequently tour Australia with a number of bands, including The Matches, Bodyjar, Behind Crimson Eyes and Kisschasy.


Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish

As he prepares with his team to stage Tagore's Chitrangada, he meets Partho, Jishu Sengupta who is a drug-addict percussionist introduced to the team by the main dancer Kasturi Raima Sen.

Penny Plunderer

Though he is a classic adversary of Batman, he has recently been ret-conned out of Batman's rogue gallery.


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Defiance County, Ohio

The closeness of elections in Defiance County has also been referenced in fiction; the ABC political drama Scandal in their second season had as the center of the ongoing plot of the first half of that season, a vote manipulation conspiracy which bent the presidential election towards Republican candidate Fitzgerald Grant based on tampering of the voting machines in Defiance County.

Didier Agathe

Agathe, who played over 100 league games for Celtic, was portrayed in fiction as a Rangers striker in the Robert Duvall movie, A Shot at Glory.

Fictional location

Fictional locations are places that exist only in fiction and not in reality, such as the Negaverse, Planet X, or Skyrim.

Iwerne Minster

In fiction, a pre-Norman conquest Iwerne Minster is imagined (along with neighbouring village Shroton) in Julian Rathbone's novel The Last English King.

Josiah Flynt

His further works dealing with the lower and criminal classes include The Powers that Prey (1900), a collection of short stories written in collaboration with Francis Walton; Notes of an Itinerant Policeman (1900); The World of Graft (1901), a volume of short stories and The Little Brother (1902), his only sustained attempt in fiction.

Katherine Center

She received her M.A. in fiction from the University of Houston, where she was the co-editor of the literary fiction magazine, Gulf Coast.

Lead ship

The same custom is often followed in fiction: the Constitution-class cruiser is the basis for the Enterprise of Star Trek (although in Star Trek the term pathfinder is also occasionally used in lieu of lead ship) and the Imperial-class Star Destroyer appears in Star Wars.

Maralik

In fiction, Maralik was introduced as the home town of fictional character Petra Arkanian of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series.

Matt Briggs

Writer Ray Mungo wrote of Briggs’ work, "Briggs as the language, cadence, and rain-shrouded soul of the Northwest honed to perfection in his candid and haunting style." Shoot the Buffalo won a 2006 American Book Award and was a Finalist for the 2006 Washington State Book Award in Fiction.

Megatherium Club

Several other "Megatherium Clubs" exist; one formed of overseas Smithsonian researchers, yet another only in fiction, supposedly located in London, United Kingdom.

Meung-sur-Loire

Also in fiction, Meung-sur-Loire is the country home of Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, Georges Simenon's classic crime fiction character.

Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction

Brians notes that 1895 marked the first appearance of an atomic weapon in fiction: Robert Cromie's Crack of Doom.

Rat-catcher

Another, more recent appearance of a rat-catcher in fiction is the children's novel The Twinkie Squad by Gordon Korman.

Red Branch

Other appearances in fiction of The Red Branch and the story of The Cattle Raid Of Cooley and of Cúchulainn are featured in the series created by Henry H. Neff, called The Tapestry Series.

Roland Merullo

In 2009, Breakfast with Buddha was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and American Savior was chosen as an Honor Book in Fiction at the Massachusetts Book Awards.

Russian pyramid

The so-called "American" version, free pyramid, adapts well to use in fiction because of its simple rules (i.e., the plot does not have to side-track into complicated gameplay explanation), and has featured prominently in notable Russian films such as The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979) and The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers (1968).

Sharifi

In fiction, it is the name of major characters Jennifer Sharifi and Miranda Sharifi in Nancy Kress's Sleepless series (Beggars in Spain, Beggars and Choosers, and Beggars Ride).

Tea cosy

Tea cosies in fiction include the eponymous item in Edward Gorey's The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas.

The Briar Cliff Review

The Review was founded in 1989 and has awarded its well-renowned prizes in fiction and poetry since 1996.

The Jupiter Theft

Using a Moog synthesizer, via an early example of sampling in fiction, one of the crew who possesses perfect pitch learns the Cygnan musical language, and is educated by Cygnan didactic films.

The Old Man in the Corner

T. J. Binyon, "Murder Will Out: The Detective in Fiction", Oxford University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-19-219223-X, p.

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

This theme had been explored previously in fiction by Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe and the robinsonade genre) and Voltaire (Candide), and more recently by William Golding (Lord of the Flies and Pincher Martin), Umberto Eco (The Island of the Day Before), J.M. Coetzee (Foe), José Saramago (The Stone Raft and The Tale of the Unknown Island).

Tod Goldberg

It received notable reviews in numerous publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post and Chicago Sun-Times and was named a 2006 finalist for the Southern California Booksellers Association Award in Fiction.