Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
(This novel marked one of the earliest departures from science fiction for Wells—and was a best-seller.) [7] Hamlin Garland, Tyranny of the Dark, a 1905 novel which follows the budding romance between a skeptical man of science and a beautiful young spirit medium. (Much of the novel's material was based on the author's actual investigations.) [8]
[28] A rule of thumb to distinguish spiritual from visionary fiction: if the novel's spiritual focus is passive, that is, it features an external power (an institution, dogma, charismatic leader, practice, or talisman) that affects the individual, it is religious/New Age/spiritual fiction. If the focus is active with the spiritual power ...
Blindness, a 1995 Portuguese novel by José Saramago, depicts the social breakdown which follows an epidemic of blindness. The Insult is a 1996 novel by Rupert Thomson, in which a blind man insists that he is able to see. Sound of Colors, a 2001 Taiwanese children's book by Jimmy Liao, explores the thoughts of a blind girl travelling on the subway.
Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortune of a handful of unnamed characters who are among the first to be stricken with blindness, including an ophthalmologist, several of his patients, and assorted others, who are thrown together by chance.
Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006. It won the Seiun Award for the best novel in Japanese translation (where it is published by Tokyo Sogensha) [2] and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, [3] the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, [4] and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction ...
The Silent Stars Go By (Abnett novel) Sky Coyote; Cordwainer Smith; Snow Crash; The Snow Queen (Kernaghan novel) The Sparrow (novel) Spirituality of Avalon; Star Maker; Star Trek V: The Final Frontier; Star Wars; The Star (Clarke short story) Starship Troopers 3: Marauder; The Steam House; Still Forms on Foxfield; Stranger in a Strange Land ...
Perelandra (also titled Voyage to Venus in a later edition published by Pan Books) is the second book in the Space Trilogy of C. S. Lewis, set on the planet of Perelandra, or Venus. It was first published in 1943.
In literature, psychological fiction (also psychological realism) is a narrative genre that emphasizes interior characterization and motivation to explore the spiritual, emotional, and mental lives of its characters. The mode of narration examines the reasons for the behaviours of the character, which propel the plot and explain the story. [1]