Fiction is the Comsat Angels' third album, released in August 1982 on Polydor Records.

[4] Fiction was less gloomy than the Comsats' previous album, Sleep No More.

Frontman Stephen Fellows said of the change: "I certainly didn't want to make another record as intense as Sleep No More — at least not immediately.

Sleep No More was so dark that I felt it skewed things a bit — possibly even mentally for me.

I just felt if we carried on in that direction it'd lead to madness or maybe even something worse".