Word: authorly
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...creatures on Earth to feel alien will be those who haven't seen ID4. (O.K., the abbreviation makes no sense, and what will they call the sequel, ID5?) The most smartly hyped film of the summer, it is also the grandest: Devlin and Roland Emmerich, the director and co-author, dare to imagine the ultimate catastrophe as it kills off tens of millions of unseen victims and ennobles a dozen major characters, from the Commander in Chief to a stripper...
...painting the Other as bad guys in black spaceships, what does it mean? Clive Barker, the author (Sacrament) and filmmaker (Hellraiser), thinks the attitude is dangerously alienating. "It disconnects us from being able to operate in the real world," he says. "There's a sense we're unplugging from political activity, civic duties or even responsibility to our neighbors by saying there are things greater than us and secrets hidden from us. We are a superstitious species, and we need to look outside ourselves for something larger that will bring either calamity or wisdom or maybe both. This is about...
...Bantam). The third volume in his acclaimed Mars trilogy, it's a painstakingly plotted epic that follows a group of pioneers across centuries as they transform the Red Planet into an ecologically friendly refuge. "We're acting as the conscience and subconscious of the scientific world," says Greg Bear, author of 16 novels, most of them hard sci-fi. "We dream what scientists would like to achieve...
From these painful beginnings was forged a classic example of what author Colin Wilson called "the outsider," which Frady describes as a "prodigally gifted but displaced loner who undertakes to compensate for his alienation from the world around him by resorting to extraordinary, and often tragic, exertions to reinvent himself in heroic proportions." In Jackson's case that translated into a total identification with the inspiring struggle of the civil rights movement. Unfortunately for him, his quest has played out in the morally murky aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination, which robbed the movement--and the nation...
Reading Nancy Friday's The Power of Beauty (HarperCollins; 589 pages; $27.50) can make one very self-conscious. Provoked by the author's analysis of feminine self-loathing, the haunting doubts creep in. What do I look like perusing this book? Am I envious of younger women whose toned arms could lift this nearly 600-page opus in consecutive rotations while riding a mountain bike? Could it be that I am home alone with The Power of Beauty because I am frightened of expressing the full range of my repressed sexuality? Or have I come a long enough way--from...