One reason that Pratchett is my favorite fantasy writer is that his fiction is solidly rooted in reality. Conversely, I think it is possible to have non-fiction solidly rooted in wonder. In fact, that's why I also love Chinese author Mo Yan and his hallucinatory realism style. For me, great fantasy is just a fanciful way of telling true stories, and I think it is possible to tell non-fiction in a really wondrous way. A purely non-fiction story with no fantastic elements might be more difficult to pull off here, but I think it has it's place. So long as I go ''wow'' after reading your story, you'll definitely get a +1 from me, no matter how fictive it sounds.

One of the last stories I remember reading on the site was ''Poor Excuse'', which is essentially a non-fantasy kind of story and got a really good score. (And top-scorer ''Loaf Story'' is just one of the best realistic love stories ever written; the protagonists just happen to be loaves of bread. The difference between fiction and non-fiction is often just a matter which words you use; Wonder is absolute). Fantastic elements help in making a story more interesting or memorable, but I think that wonder exists in every good story. And every well-told story has it's place in the Library.

Gaffney and Jack both bring up a solid point, but try to keep in mind that the kind of non-fiction that would work nicely would probably be things that are so involved as to be almost impossible to work with without a massive time investiture.

In-Universe non-fiction? Perfect and expected. Out-of-universe non-fiction? Almost superfluous to the site.

I could try writing something like that and post it here, to gauge reactions.

The idea of the articles here is the invocation of that elusive Sense of Wonder: but if someone could evoke that through a riveting description of historical or political events, or by writing about real science or philosophy, would you be up for it? Would that be within the criteria of what you would like to find on the site, or not?