In Fiction
Wallis is portrayed in an unfavourable way in the historical mystery novel An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears.
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“The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.”
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