Fiction
Fiction was antithetical to facts and data, (TV: The Long Game [+]Loading...["The Long Game (TV story)"]) or true history. (TV: Castrovalva [+]Loading...["Castrovalva (TV story)"]) Fiction occupied the same region as myths. (TV: Mummy on the Orient Express [+]Loading...["Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)"]) And was often seen as fake, "silly" or "just stories" not worthy of serious consideration. (TV: Human Nature [+]Loading...["Human Nature (TV story)"], PROSE: History 101 [+]Loading...["History 101 (novel)"])
In fiction a creator could gloss over inconvenient impossibility, and craft a specific answer in mind, cutting out the extraneous matter and making sure that all the clues point to the end point of the story. (PROSE: The Mary-Sue Extrusion [+]Loading...["The Mary-Sue Extrusion (novel)"])
Fiction was often based on fact, but edited, and rewritten. In Light City took the Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard and C'rizz's memories following their visit and re-crafted new fictional versions of those. Eventually these fictions coalessed with the populace teasing out the truths in the fiction. (PROSE: Walking to Babylon [+]Loading...["Walking to Babylon (novel)"], AUDIO: The Natural History of Fear [+]Loading...["The Natural History of Fear (audio story)"]) As time progressed the deliniation between fact and fiction became more difficult, in part due to corruption in the sources of the information. (PROSE: No Future [+]Loading...["No Future (novel)"])
Before Mary-Sue become a mind-wipe process in the 2590s, it was used by critics of fiction to denote the act of an author writing themselves into their own fictional work. (PROSE: The Mary-Sue Extrusion [+]Loading...["The Mary-Sue Extrusion (novel)"])
The DoctorDonna noted that Charlie Brown was fiction. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])
On Baby Station Beta in 21506 fiction and stories were a requirement for the babies' development. (TV: Space Babies [+]Loading...["Space Babies (TV story)"])
It was possible to be turned into fiction; this was one of the powers of the Master of the Land of Fiction over whoever entered his domain, although he could only complete the process if the people he was transmuting "stuck to the script" as much as possible. (TV: The Mind Robber [+]Loading...["The Mind Robber (TV story)"]) In the War in Heaven, The Book of the Enemy was a book which erased its readers from history, turning them into fictional characters, (PROSE: The Book of the Enemy [+]Loading...["The Book of the Enemy (short story)"]) and the planet Ochenissi and its inhabitants were said to have been turned into fiction in the Four Seconds of Ochenissi. (PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice [+]Loading...["Going Once, Going Twice (short story)"])
Iris Wildthyme and Panda were once turned into fiction as well. (PROSE: Untitled [+]Loading...["Untitled (The Panda Book of Horror short story)"])
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Books (TV: Black Orchid [+]Loading...["Black Orchid (TV story)"]) and pulp fiction (TV: The Gathering [+]Loading...["The Gathering (TV story)"], PROSE: Grimm Reality [+]Loading...["Grimm Reality (novel)"]) were examples. In the 22nd century computer slates were used for fiction (and non-fiction). (PROSE: The Year of Intelligent Tigers [+]Loading...["The Year of Intelligent Tigers (novel)"])
In 2595 data-wafers were used to store fiction. (PROSE: The Mary-Sue Extrusion [+]Loading...["The Mary-Sue Extrusion (novel)"])
By the 51st century, fiction was also distributed by holovid, direct-to-brain downloads and fiction mist. (TV: Silence in the Library [+]Loading...["Silence in the Library (TV story)"])
Fiction could be told in a story in a serialised form. (AUDIO: The Roof of the World [+]Loading...["The Roof of the World (audio story)"])
