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message fiction

noun

Definitions

  1. Fiction that attempts to convey a sociopolitical message, as opposed to mere escapism.

    • Goldstein has fallen victim to the trap inherent in message fiction: when a novelist makes the message too prominent, or warps the story to serve the message, the story suffers.
    • […] I have already found that I can't write 'message' fiction of any kind. I can only write the kind I like best to read, which is the bang-up adventure type […]

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for message fiction. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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