Novels are always fiction, with genres including science fiction, romance, mystery, and thriller. Thrillers have exciting storylines with a clear antagonist, while crime novels focus on solving a baffling crime. Love stories center around relationships, and science fiction offers imaginative tales set in unpredictable new worlds. Novels can be in paperback, hardcover, or digital formats, with graphic novels best suited to computer media.
The term “fiction novels” is actually redundant since a novel is always fiction. In publishing, fiction refers to fictional stories and characters, while nonfiction writes about real events or people. Science fiction novels are books written in different genres or themes. Science fiction, romance, mystery, and thriller are just a few of the many popular novel genres sold today.
Thrillers have exciting storylines or storylines. Often, in thriller novels, the protagonist struggles to overcome situations in which he could die, or be ruined in some way, at the hands of a dark enemy. The main character, or protagonist, could be blackmailed for his past secrets, for example. Thrillers differ from mysteries in that the enemy, or antagonist, is usually identified at the beginning of the novel. John Grisham is a popular writer of legal thrillers, while Robert Ludlum is known for his spy thrillers.
Crime novels center around a baffling crime, usually a murder, that must be solved. Crime novelists like Patricia Cornwell and Janet Evanovich masterfully offer clues to the reader as their main characters work with the same information to solve the crime. Eccentric detectives are the most common type of protagonist in mystery or crime novels.
Love stories are about finding love and conflicts between people involved in relationships. A science fiction novel in the romance genre can have many settings, but obviously romantic locations tend to be the most appealing in these kinds of books. Wayne Jordan’s Embracing the Moonlight is set on the tropical island of Barbados, while Barbara Taylor Bradford’s Three Weeks in Paris takes place in France.
Science fiction books offer readers imaginative tales that may take them to other planets, times and lands that have not been written about before. Of all the different genres of fiction, science fiction is the least predictable because unpredictable new worlds are what readers expect to read. Many science fiction novels feature objects in space written in unusual and highly imaginative ways. For example, Joe R. Lansdale’s Drive-In series involves a comet dissolving the bodies of people trying to leave a drive-in movie theater called the Orbit.
Science fiction novels can be in paperback, hardcover, or digital formats. Digital or electronic books (ebooks), novels are read online on computers. While digital novels can be of any genre, the graphic novel is best suited to computer media. Digital graphic novels are comic and visual publications. They can offer the reader visual interaction as some of these online novels are computer games.
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