Miguel, fiction is fiction, and non-fiction is non-fiction. If people can't
make the
distinction between fiction and non-fiction, well, you can't control that and
shouldn't
castigate the novelist for the short comings of some readers. But, in the
case of
science, sometimes today's fiction is tomorrow's fact. For example, take Jules
Verne's
>From Earth To Moon, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea and Around the World in
>Eighty Days
written long before space, air, and underwater travel were realities. In any
event, from
the historians eye, the novelist offers a window into the soul of a given
period of a
given culture. And, quite often, as in the case of Charles Dickens or Ernest
Hemmingway,
is a genre used as a commentary on their societies.
Make it a good day.
--Louis--
Louis Schmier
http://therandomthoughts.edublogs.org/
Department of History
http://www.newforums.com/Auth_L_Schmier.asp
Valdosta State University
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