• Improbable Fiction is a 2005 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. It is about a writers' circle, on the night the chairman, Arnold, seems to wander...
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  • The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a 2007 book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is a former options trader. The book focuses on the extreme...
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  • science fiction thriller novel by Adam Fawer Improbable (The X-Files), an episode in the ninth season of the science fiction television series Improbable (horse)...
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    speculative fiction that simultaneously draws upon or combines tropes and elements from both science fiction and fantasy. In a conventional science fiction story...
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  • WABAC Machine is a fictional time machine from the segment "Peabody's Improbable History", a recurring feature of the 1960s cartoon series The Rocky and...
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  • . Both dealt heavily in the realm of improbable coincidences and cruel cosmic jokes, a realm that Pulp Fiction makes its own." In particular, O'Brien...
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  • Improbable is a 2005 science fiction thriller novel by Adam Fawer, about a gambler who gains the power to predict the future. It was awarded the 2006 International...
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    iv: "If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction". In Act IV, Scene ii, Feste (The Fool) plays both parts in the "play"...
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  • Stranger than Fiction is a 2006 American fantasy comedy drama film directed by Marc Forster, produced by Lindsay Doran and written by Zach Helm. The film...
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  • "Improbable" is the thirteenth episode of the ninth season and the 195th episode overall of the science fiction television series The X-Files. The episode...
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  • Climbing Mount Improbable is a 1996 popular science book by Richard Dawkins. The book is about probability and how it applies to the theory of evolution...
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    the fourth planet from the Sun, has appeared as a setting in works of fiction since at least the mid-1600s. Trends in the planet's portrayal have largely...
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    For we grant that the gods can see everything. There should be nothing improbable in the incidents; otherwise, it should be outside the tragedy, e.g., that...
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  • Mission: Impossible 2 (titled onscreen as Mission: Impossible II and abbreviated as M:i-2) is a 2000 action spy film directed by John Woo and produced...
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  • My Immortal is a Harry Potter-based fan fiction serially published on FanFiction.net between 2006 and 2007. Though notable for its convoluted narrative...
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    Thompson, Nathaniel (2016) "The Bat (1959)". tcm.com. Cohn, Jan (1980). Improbable Fiction: The Life of Mary Robert Rinehart. University of Pittsburgh Press...
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  • Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America is a 2009 non-fiction book by Rich Benjamin. In May 2010, Benjamin briefly...
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  • 20th Century Fox. The film is based on characters from the "Peabody's Improbable History" segments of the animated television series The Adventures of...
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  • used in science fiction. In the professional materials science journal JOM, for example, there are articles such as The (Mostly Improbable) Materials Science...
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    Mary Roberts Rinehart (category 20th-century American non-fiction writers)
    Land. New York: George H. Doran Company. Cohn, Jan (2005) [1980]. Improbable Fiction: The Life of Mary Roberts Rinehart. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh...
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    the word ignoble. Organized by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), the Ig Nobel Prizes are presented by Nobel laureates in...
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    2004 (5 May 2005) (9 June 2005) 68 Miss Yesterday 2 December 2004 69 Improbable Fiction 31 May 2005 70 If I Were You 17 October 2006 71 Things That Go Bump...
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  • Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation is a 2014 travel book by epidemiologist and former journalist Elizabeth Pisani. It follows her travels...
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  • (1980). Improbable Fiction: The Life of Mary Roberts Rinehart. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 185. Cohn, Jan (1980). Improbable Fiction: The Life...
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  • Time travel is a common plot element in fiction. Works where it plays a prominent role are listed below. For stories of time travel in antiquity, see...
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  • Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore is a book by Albert Mudrian, the founding editor-in-chief of Decibel, a monthly magazine...
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  • adjustments and insights of being someone else) – the first example being Improbable Fiction and its derivation from The Boy Who Fell into A Book and My Very Own...
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  • American Tuna: The Rise and Fall of an Improbable Food is a 2012 non-fiction book by Andrew F. Smith, published by the University of California Press...
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  • Edges (1968) Past Praying For (1968) Tarry and Be Hanged (1969) An Improbable Fiction (1970) The Knavish Crows (1971) Serpent's Tooth (1971) They Love Not...
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  • threatening a crash or requiring an emergency landing, are a common theme in fiction. Films centered on such incidents make up a substantial subset of the disaster...
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