Fiction with an interesting concept Options

[Wytil]

Several years ago an American author Robert A Heinlein introduced an interesting concept in some of his fiction novels. The concept was that fiction became real or alive as soon as enough readers beleived in it.
In the book "The Number of The Beast" the first device for such traveling was invented and off through whatever our heroes went. 8)
Among the places they visit
I wrote a short story a couple of years ago and put it on FF.net. I think it was probably incomprehensable to most of those who stumbled across it.
But then I would not be surprised, most stories with a philosophical bent would be.

[Julephenia]

This sounds a bit like my philosophy class.

My philosophy Prof likes to use Harry Potter as an example of "fictitious ideas" and how he's "real" but not "real".

I take offense to this.

HP and many other fictional characters are *very* real to me - and many others who read them (who loves Anne of Green Gables - I swear, I'm her, sometimes.)

Fiction and imagination are so much a part of human culture, human life, that they often define people, eras, movements, and so much more.

Yeah, fiction is real. Because someone thought of it in the first place. And because I will always believe that somewhere, somehow, there *are* unicorns.

Becky, waxing whimsical