Fiction was antithetical to facts and data, (TV: The Long Game [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005).) or true history. (TV: Castrovalva [+]Christopher H. Bidmead, Doctor Who season 19 (BBC1, 1982).) Fiction was thus often seen as unreliable (TV: Black Orchid [+]Terence Dudley, Doctor Who season 19 (BBC1, 1982).[additional sources needed]) or indeed "silly", "just stories" not worthy of serious consideration. (TV: Human Nature [+]Paul Cornell, adapted from Human Nature (Paul Cornell), Doctor Who series 3 (BBC One, 2007).)
Books (TV: Black Orchid [+]Terence Dudley, Doctor Who season 19 (BBC1, 1982).) and pulp fiction (TV: The Gathering [+]John Fay, Torchwood series 4 (Starz, 2011).) were examples. By the 51st century, fiction was also distributed by holovid, direct-to-brain downloads and fiction mist. (TV: Silence in the Library [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 4 (BBC One, 2008).)
The DoctorDonna noted that Charlie Brown was fiction. (TV: Journey's End [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 4 (BBC One, 2008).)
It was possible to be turned into fiction; this was one of the powers of the Master of the Land of Fiction over whoever entered his domain, although he could only complete the process if the people he was transmuting "stuck to the script" as much as possible. (TV: The Mind Robber [+]Peter Ling, Doctor Who season 6 (BBC1, 1968).) In the War in Heaven, The Book of the Enemy was a book which erased its readers from history, turning them into fictional characters, (PROSE: The Book of the Enemy [+]Andrew Hickey, The Book of the Enemy (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2018).) and the planet Ochenissi and its inhabitants were said to have been turned into fiction in the Four Seconds of Ochenissi. (PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice [+]Jayce Black, The Book of the Peace (Faction Paradox, 2018).)
Iris Wildthyme and Panda were once turned into fiction as well. (PROSE: Untitled [+]Paul Magrs, The Panda Book of Horror (Obverse Books, 2009).)