#popular-fiction — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #popular-fiction, aggregated by home.social.
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Seveneves https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/04/27/seveneves/ #AmericanScienceFiction #AmericanScienceFiction21stCentury #ApocalypticDystopian #book #CatastrophesRomansNouvellesEtc #ColoniesSpatialesRomansNouvellesEtc #disasters #DisastersFiction #EarthPlanet #EarthPlanetFiction #endOfTheWorld #EndOfTheWorldFiction #EspaceExtraAtmospheRiqueExplorationRomansNouvellesEtc #ExplorationOfOuterSpace #fantasy #fiction #FictionDisaster #FictionDystopian #FictionFantasyEpic #FictionLiterary #FictionScienceFictionHardScienceFiction #FictionScienceFictionGeneticEngineering #FictionScienceFictionSpaceExploration #FictionThrillersSuspense #FictionThrillersTechnological #FictionWomen #FICTIONScienceFictionApocalypticPostApocalyptic #FictionClassics #FictionScienceFictionSpaceOpera #fictionalWork #FinDuMondeRomansNouvellesEtc #HabileteSDeSurvieRomansNouvellesEtc #HardScienceFiction #literaryFiction #MaryRobinetteKowal #mystery #NealStephenson #Novels #OuterSpace #OuterSpaceExplorationFiction #Pioneers #PioneersFiction #PionniersRomansNouvellesEtc #PopularFiction #review #romans #ScienceFiction #SpaceColonies #SpaceColoniesFiction #SpaceOperas #survival #SurvivalFiction #TPolyphilus #TerreRomansNouvellesEtc #ThrillersCrime -
“Being booed in a town hall. Now I’ve really made it as a pantomime villain.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/04/21/being-booed-in-a-town-hall-now-ive-really-made-it-as-a-pantomime-villain/ #AngleterreRomansNouvellesEtc #booed #book #ClergeFeMininRomansNouvellesEtc #ContemporaryFantasy #CozyFantasyFiction #england #EnglandFiction #fantasy #FantasyFiction #fiction #OccultFiction #pantomimeVillain #ParanormalFiction #PaulCornell #PopularFiction #quote #reallyMadeIt #SmallTownRuralFiction #SorcieResRomansNouvellesEtc #townHall #Villages #VillagesAngleterreRomansNouvellesEtc #VillagesEnglandFiction #witches #WitchesFiction #WitchesOfLychford #WomenClergy #WomenClergyFiction
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*Owen Wister, a rootin'-tootin' cowboy writer and father of the "Western" genre. His grandma was the British actress Fanny Kemble; he graduated summa cum laude from Harvard; he wrote six operas in Paris, etc #Americans #genre #popularfiction #authors
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“Anyone can make an error, Ensign. But that error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/04/14/anyone-can-make-an-error-ensign-but-that-error-doesnt-become-a-mistake-until-you-refuse-to-correct-it/ #AmerikanischesEnglisch #anyoneCan #book #correct #Ensign #error #fiction #GuerreDesEToilesRomans #GuerreSpatialeRomansNouvellesEtc #HanSoloFictitiousCharacterFiction #HanSoloFictionalCharacterFiction #HanSoloFictitiousCharacter #LeiaOrganaFictitiousCharacterFiction #LeiaOrganaFictitiousCharacter #LukeSkywalkerFictitiousCharacterFiction #LukeSkywalkerFictionalCharacterFiction #LukeSkywalkerFictitiousCharacter #makeAnError #mistake #PopularFiction #PrincessLeiaFictionalCharacterFiction #quote #refuse #ScienceFiction #spaceOpera #SpaceWarfare #SpaceWarfareFiction #starWars #StarWarsFiction #StarWarsLegends #TheThrawnTrilogy #TimothyZahn
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“Vathek discovered also a predilection for theological controversy, but it was not with the orthodox that he usually held. By this means he induced the zealots to oppose him, and then persecuted them in return; for he resolved at any rate to have reason on his side.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/03/11/vathek-discovered-also-a-predilection-for-theological-controversy-but-it-was-not-with-the-orthodox-that-he-usually-held-by-this-means-he-induced-the-zealots-to-oppose-him-and-then-persecuted-them/ #ArabCountries #ArabCountriesFiction #atAnyRate #book #byThisMeans #ClassicLiteratureFiction #Classics #discovered #ETatsArabesRomansNouvellesEtc #fantasy #fiction #GothicFiction #GothicFictionLiteraryGenre #inReturn #induced #MiddleEast #MiddleEastFiction #onHisSide #oppose #orthodox #OxfordWorldSClassics #persecuted #PopularFiction #predilection #quote #reason #resolved #theologicalControversy #WilliamBeckford #zealots
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The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/02/13/the-kin-of-ata-are-waiting-for-you/ #allegories #book #ConductOfLife #ConductOfLifeFiction #CulturalHeritageFiction #DorothyBryant #dreams #DreamsFiction #fiction #literaryFiction #LoveStories #MoralePratiqueRomansNouvellesEtc #PopularFiction #ReVesRomansNouvellesEtc #review #RomanceFiction #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionShortStories #TPolyphilus #Utopias #UtopiasFiction #UtopiesRomansNouvellesEtc
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“It’s a hard thing to look at something you want and to know that the right choice is to turn it down.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/02/10/its-a-hard-thing-to-look-at-something-you-want-and-to-know-that-the-right-choice-is-to-turn-it-down/ #45MinuteLiteratureFictionShortReads #45MinuteScienceFictionFantasyShortReads #alternativeHistory #book #CouplesMarieSRomansNouvellesEtc #FemmesAstronautesRomansNouvellesEtc #fiction #hardThing #InterplanetaryVoyages #InterplanetaryVoyagesFiction #know #lookAtSomething #MarriedPeople #MarriedPeopleFiction #MarsPlanet #MarsPlanetFiction #MarsPlaneTeRomansNouvellesEtc #MaryRobinetteKowal #PopularFiction #quote #rightChoice #ScienceFiction #turnItDown #VoyagesInterplaneTairesRomansNouvellesEtc #want #WomenAstronauts #WomenAstronautsFiction
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The Arcane Gamble of Harvey Walters https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/01/23/the-arcane-gamble-of-harvey-walters/ #arkhamHorror #book #cosmicism #DarkFantasy #fantasy #horror #HorrorOccultSupernatural #MartínMBarbudo #MovieGameTieInFiction #PopularFiction #review #RosemaryJones #TPolyphilus #TheDrownedCity #TV #Yogsothery
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ Oriental Stories ✧
Oriental Stories was an American pulp magazine published by Popular Fiction and edited by Farnsworth Wright. It was launched in 1930 as a companion to Popular Fiction's Weird Tales, and carried stories with Far Eastern settings, including some fantasy. Contributors included Robert E. Howard, Frank Owen, and E. Hoffmann Price. ...
#PopularFiction #MagicCarpetMagazine #OrientalStories #Wikipedia
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Ketzan and Eve introduce the term "anxiety of prestige" to explore how "popular" fiction authors, like Stephen King, address literary prestige. Using King as a case study, they analyze his stylistic choices to reveal latent anxieties about "low" vs. "high" literature.
https://doi.org/10.48694/jcls.3915 #LiteraryStudies #CLS #StephenKing #PopularFiction #Prestige #Fiction #CCLS24 #DigitalHumanities @mpe -
One thing I want to see more in #PopularFiction are very strong male sidekicks to even stronger female lead characters.
We reached the point where we have a lot of shows/series with male heroes and strong female sidekicks and also a bunch of shows with strong female heroes but these are often paired with male goofballs (or straight doofuses). I guess that is progress compared to most of the last few centuries but it is only a limited blessing for #feminism. It lowkey tells women they are only thriving in the absence of a truly strong male character and men that they can either be perceived as the dominant character or as flimsy and weak with little in between. Not to mention that way too many shows/series with female leads are seen as being 'for girls specifically'.
Of course there are also some decent positive examples and I will try to boost these whenever I notice. Recommendations are always welcome.
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RT @ShashiTharoor
Check out #PopularFiction in India these days!
https://twitter.com/ShashiTharoor/status/1527557252940726272