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This type is used to categorize award categories to allow comparisons of awards in the same or similar disciplines. This should be considered a very loose type, and award categories will probably have many disciplines, depending on what kinds of...
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| Poetry |
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Quotation Subject | Wallace Stevens Award |
Poetry (from the Greek "", , a "making" or "creating") is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as...
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| Field Of Study | National Book Award for Poetry | |||
| Adaptation medium | Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize | |||
| Broadcast Genre | Arthur Rense Prize | |||
| Architecture |
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The term architecture can be used to mean a process, a profession or documentation.
As a process, architecture is the activity of design and constructing building and other physical structure by a person or a machine, primarily done to provide...
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| Novel |
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Book Subject | National Book Award for Science Fiction |
A novel (from, Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new", "news", or "short story of something new") is today a long written, fiction, prose narrative. The seventeenth-century genre conflict between long romance and short novels,...
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| Literary Genre | Prometheus Award | |||
| Media genre | Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel | |||
| Adaptation medium | Hugo Award for Best Novel | |||
| Film |
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Website Category | Palme d'Or |
Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with camera, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effect.
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| Quotation Subject | Golden Globe Awards | |||
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| Acting | Field Of Study |
Acting is the work of oneself, who by, putting their "original person" aside, becomes what is then seen as the "Other".
i.e. Van Paige is Acting.
"The Other One, of Two".
See also actor, thespian, or Thespis.
"The ability to react truthfully...
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| Television |
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Television is a widely used telecommunication medium for sending (broadcasting) and receiving moving images, either monochromatic ("black and white") or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television...
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| Theatre |
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Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more persons, isolated in time and/or space, present themselves to another or others." By this broad...
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| Journalism |
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Field Of Study | World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award |
Journalism is the profession of writing or communicating, formally employed by publications and broadcasters, for the benefit of a particular community of people. The writer or journalist is expected to use facts to describe events, ideas, or issues...
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| Literature |
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Website Category | National Book Award for Arts and Letters |
Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter). In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction.
The word "literature"...
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| Field Of Study | National Book Award for Science Fiction | |||
| Database topic | National Book Award for Contemporary Affairs | |||
| Quotation Subject | National Book Award for Nonfiction | |||
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| Non-fiction | Literary Genre | National Book Award for Arts and Letters |
Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. However, it is generally assumed that...
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| Media genre | National Book Award for The Sciences | |||
| TV Genre | National Book Award for Science, Philosophy and Religion | |||
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| Science fiction |
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Book Subject | National Book Award for Science Fiction |
Science fiction film is a film genre that uses speculative, science-based depictions of imaginary phenomena such as extra-terrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, and time travel, often along with technological elements such as futuristic spacecraft,...
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| TV Genre | Prometheus Award | |||
| Computer Game Genre | Prometheus Special Award | |||
| Literary Genre | Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel | |||
| Website Category | Prometheus Hall of Fame Award | |||
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| Science fiction studies | Pilgrim Award |
This article is about the field of science fiction studies. For the journal of the same title, please see Science-Fiction Studies.
Science fiction studies is the common name for the academic discipline that studies and researches the history,...
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| Libertarianism |
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Book Subject | Prometheus Award |
Libertarianism is a term used by a broad spectrum of political philosophieswhich prioritizes individual liberty and seeks to minimize government or to create a "state-less society." What it means to be a libertarian in a political sense is a...
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| Speculative fiction |
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Book Subject | Compton Crook Award |
Speculative fiction is a style of fiction which explores the nature of unproven entities or occurrences. In some contexts, it has been used as an inclusive term covering a group of fiction genre that speculate about worlds that are unlike the real...
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| TV Genre | SFRA Pioneer Award | |||
| Literary Genre | National Book Award for Science Fiction | |||
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| Religion |
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Film subject | National Book Award for Science, Philosophy and Religion |
A religion is a set of tenet and practices, often centered upon specific supernatural and moral claims about reality, the cosmos, and human nature, and often codified as prayer, ritual, or religious law. Religion also encompasses ancestral or...
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| Building function | National Book Award for Religion/Inspiration | |||
| Quotation Subject | National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion | |||
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| Science |
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TV Genre | National Book Award for The Sciences |
Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding of how the physical world works. Through controlled methods, science uses observable physical evidence of natural phenomena to collect...
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| Quotation Subject | National Book Award for Science, Philosophy and Religion | |||
| Literary Genre | National Book Award for Science | |||
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| Young adult literature |
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Literary Genre | Margaret Edwards Award |
Young-adult fiction (often abbreviated as YA fiction, or simply YA) is fiction written for, published for, or marketed to adolescents, roughly ages 12 to 18.
Young-adult fiction, whether in the form of novels or short stories, has distinct...
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| Short story | Book Subject | Rea Award for the Short Story |
The short story is a literary genre of fiction, prose narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such as novella (in the modern sense of the term) and novel.
Short stories have their origins in oral story...
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| Type/domain equivalent topic | Hugo Award for Best Short Story | |||
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| Comic literature | Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize |
Comic literature is a genre of prose fiction designed to amuse the audience. Comic literature is an umbrella term, and occasionally branches into may other genres, such as fantasy and science fiction (e.g. Terry Pratchett). Meanwhile other famous...
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| Children's literature |
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Literary Genre | Regina Medal |
Children's literature is a literary genre that appeals to children, although many books within the genre are also enjoyed by teenagers and adults.
Understanding genres is critical to the study of literature because genres define the...
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| Crime fiction |
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Book Subject | Cartier Diamond Dagger |
Crime fiction is the genre of fiction that deals with crime, their detection, criminals and their motive. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and...
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| Philosophy |
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Field Of Study | National Book Award for Science, Philosophy and Religion |
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, justice, beauty, validity, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing these questions (such as...
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| Lifetime achievement | Cartier Diamond Dagger | |||
| First Novel | Compton Crook Award | |||
| Essay | Short Non-fiction Variety | SFRA Pioneer Award |
An essay is a short piece of writing. It is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can be literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author.
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| Fiction |
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Literary Genre | National Book Award for Science Fiction |
Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real. More specifically, fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form...
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| Media genre | Man Booker International Prize | |||
| Comic Book Genre | Hugo Award for Best Short Story | |||
| Field Of Study | Hugo Award for Best Novel | |||
| Quotation Subject | Hugo Award for Best Novelette | |||
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| Public limited company | Company type |
A public limited company ( PLC, p.l.c. or plc) is a type of limited company in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland which is permitted to offer its shares to the public. The designation was introduced in the U.K. by the Companies Act 1980,...
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A business (also called firm or an enterprise) is a legally recognized organizational entity designed to provide good and/or services to consumer or corporate entities such as governments, charities or other businesses. Businesses are predominant in...
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| Animated cartoon |
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An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn) film for the cinema, television or computer screen, fea | |