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  2. Stars in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Stars as sentient beings, in one form or another, is a recurring theme. [1] [2] [3] [27] Anthropomorphized, thinking stars appear in Olaf Stapledon's 1937 novel Star Maker and Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson's Starchild trilogy consisting of the 1964 novel The Reefs of Space, the 1965 novel Starchild, and the 1969 novel Rogue Star.

  3. Category:Fiction about stars - Wikipedia

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  4. Literary fiction - Wikipedia

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    Dante Meditating on the Divine Comedy.Jean-Jacques Feuchère, 1843. Literary fiction, mainstream fiction, non-genre fiction, serious fiction, [1] high literature, [2] artistic literature, [2] and sometimes just literature, [2] are labels that, in the book trade, refer to market novels that do not fit neatly into an established genre (see genre fiction) or, otherwise, refer to novels that are ...

  5. Transhumanism in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The webcomic Dresden Codak stars a transhuman cyborg named Kimiko Ross who augments her body over the course of the strip's stories. The comic Transmetropolitan is about a transhuman society several centuries in the future that includes many cyborgs, uploaded humans, and genetically modified mutants.

  6. List of poetry groups and movements - Wikipedia

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    The "Modernist School", the "Blue Star", and the "Epoch" were modernist, including avant-garde and surrealism, Chinese poetic groups founded in 1954 in Taiwan and led by Qin Zihao (1902–1963) and Ji Xian (b. 1903). [77] [78] Confessional poetry was an American movement that emerged in the late 1950s and the 1960s.

  7. List of nearest stars by spectral type - Wikipedia

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    Below there are lists the nearest stars separated by spectral type. The scope of the list is still restricted to the main sequence spectral types: M , K , F , G , A , B and O . It may be later expanded to other types, such as S , D or C .

  8. Unimodality - Wikipedia

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    A simple bimodal distribution. Figure 3. A bimodal distribution. Note that only the largest peak would correspond to a mode in the strict sense of the definition of mode. In statistics, a unimodal probability distribution or unimodal distribution is a probability distribution which has a single peak.

  9. Romantic literature in English - Wikipedia

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    The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. [6] [7] This includes the pre-Romantic graveyard poets from the 1740s, whose works are characterized by gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms". [8]