Fiction
- John Carter of Mars, a character from the classic science fiction series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- John Carter (film), a 2012 film featuring the Burroughs character
- John Carter, Warlord of Mars, a Marvel Comics series created in 1977 and based on the Burroughs character
- The fictional universe depicted in John Carter fiction, known commonly as Barsoom
- John Carter (ER), a character from the television series ER
- John Carter, a character from the film Cromwell played by Frank Finlay
- John Carter, a character from the television series Little House on the Prairie played by Stan Ivar
- Zebadiah John Carter, a character from the Robert A. Heinlein novel, The Number of the Beast
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The obvious parallels between Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz have frequently been noted: in both there is the orphan hero who is raised on a farm by an aunt and uncle and yearns to escape to adventure. Obi-wan Kenobi resembles the Wizard; the loyal, plucky little robot R2D2 is Toto; C3PO is the Tin Man; and Chewbacca is the Cowardly Lion. Darth Vader replaces the Wicked Witch: this is a patriarchy rather than a matriarchy.”
—Andrew Gordon, U.S. educator, critic. “The Inescapable Family in American Science Fiction and Fantasy Films,” Journal of Popular Film and Television (Summer 1992)
“We ignore thriller writers at our peril. Their genre is the political condition. They massage our dreams and magnify our nightmares. If it is true that we always need enemies, then we will always need writers of fiction to encode our fears and fantasies.”
—Daniel Easterman (b. 1949)