The
body of all written works.
The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
All the papers, treatises, published in academic journals on a particular subject.
Written
fiction of a high standard.
SF is rarely literature because the characters are so poorly realised.
- Adam Cadre
Gift it
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