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.

[nome]

What is real? If real is something you can see, touch, or taste, then reality is nothing more than electrical signals sent to your brain.

...or something to that effect. get a true Matrix-watcher in here.

But I agree, to some extent. you could almost define reality as something that can affect something else, but writing affects people, and is therefore reality. What it might describe may not be a historical event, but it is reality.