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The book fits Wikipedia's own definition of fiction: "Fiction is the form of any work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary and theoretical—that is, invented by the author." Regardless of how the book was published, the page should call it science-fiction or just fiction as that accurately portrays the contents of this book. Linket ( talk) 03:41, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
non-Fiction is a narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are believed by the author to be factual. These assertions and descriptions may or may not be accurate, and can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question; however, it is generally assumed that authors of such accounts believe them to be truthful at the time of their composition or, at least, pose them to their audience as historically or empirically true. Reporting the beliefs of others in a non-fiction format is not necessarily an endorsement of the ultimate veracity of those beliefs, it is simply saying it is true that people believe them (for such topics as mythology, religion). Taken from the wikipedia page on non-fiction. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.186.43.80 ( talk) 20:56, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
This is was discussed long ago but I don't see the archives, so I'm reverting the change. The LC classification of the books is QP which is non-fiction. Fiction is PZ. The Library of Congress and every other library system has thought this through, we don't need pioneer a new interpretation of non-fiction. Fiction and non-fiction does not mean "false" and "true". As you quote above "whose assertions are believed by the author to be factual". Religious books, of all religions, are considered non-fiction, even though clearly many people think most to all of them are false. Silas Ropac ( talk) 00:05, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
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The book fits Wikipedia's own definition of fiction: "Fiction is the form of any work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary and theoretical—that is, invented by the author." Regardless of how the book was published, the page should call it science-fiction or just fiction as that accurately portrays the contents of this book. Linket ( talk) 03:41, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
non-Fiction is a narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are believed by the author to be factual. These assertions and descriptions may or may not be accurate, and can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question; however, it is generally assumed that authors of such accounts believe them to be truthful at the time of their composition or, at least, pose them to their audience as historically or empirically true. Reporting the beliefs of others in a non-fiction format is not necessarily an endorsement of the ultimate veracity of those beliefs, it is simply saying it is true that people believe them (for such topics as mythology, religion). Taken from the wikipedia page on non-fiction. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.186.43.80 ( talk) 20:56, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
This is was discussed long ago but I don't see the archives, so I'm reverting the change. The LC classification of the books is QP which is non-fiction. Fiction is PZ. The Library of Congress and every other library system has thought this through, we don't need pioneer a new interpretation of non-fiction. Fiction and non-fiction does not mean "false" and "true". As you quote above "whose assertions are believed by the author to be factual". Religious books, of all religions, are considered non-fiction, even though clearly many people think most to all of them are false. Silas Ropac ( talk) 00:05, 5 April 2015 (UTC)