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小说
Fiction
Science fiction is very healthy in its form.
科幻小说的形式非常健康。
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
小说揭示了现实所掩盖的真相。
I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.
我一直是个科幻小说爱好者。
I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.
我不再感到创作小说的压力。
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
文学是奢侈品;小说是必需品。
Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.
小说是关于作为一个人是什么。
I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.
我在写小说，但没有写完。
When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
当我死后，我将把我的身体留给科幻小说。
The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose.
最大的敌人是一个一无所有的人。
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
小说给了我们第二次机会，而生活却否定了我们。
Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.
小说是真实的。事实不一定是真的。
I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.
总的来说，我从来都不是科幻小说的批评家。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
小说作家，当他们开始写作时，更倾向于尝试简短的形式。
So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.
所以我写了我希望是科幻小说的东西，我甚至不确定我写的东西是否可以被接受。但我并不是说我有意识地用幽默写作。幽默是你与生俱来的一部分。
There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.
我的生活中虚构的东西比书里的要多，所以我不去管它们。
When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.
一个人死后，大地一般不愿把他咳回去。奇迹与地球的意志相矛盾。
Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.
今天的录音技术在四十年前会被认为是科幻小说。