Which type of Star Trek literature do you prefer? Fictional stories set in the Star Trek genre, or real life accounts of Star Trek itself?
So you don't prefer one over the other? You don't like fiction a bit more than the non fiction or vice versa? And as far as I know, "fiction" and "non-fiction" are the only two types of reading anyways.
What about historical fiction? There has been an argument that it falls into it's own category. A story of truth with creative fiction to fill in gaps and make it more of a "story".
Ahh.. yes, but a story that is any part fiction, is considered wholly to be fiction. Like a novel based in WWII where aliens invade. While WWII actually existed, it doesn't make the story anything but fiction. Any sub-genre of fiction is still fiction, in the end. Just like "biographical non-fiction" is still non-fiction, despite it being about a persons life, rather than an event.
Chris for the win! LOL Zing!! I guess I need to crawl out from under my rock and go to the library and ask for some of that ol' shmiction.
"Non-Fraction"? What the heck is that? Now, I've heard of "Non-Friction". That's tales (true or made up) about people who never have sex.
I'm talking more like a book like Jefferson's War. It is the factual telling of that time period including letters and speeches from him and Congress. But when it talks about how pirates raided ships and took slaves from them it tells the story of the battle and the life of a slave before it died. Him being taken slave and dying are facts, the author fills in the "story". So no aliens or anything non-factual, just "embellishing" history a little.