Word: bantam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard" sci-fi. It's the literary equivalent of a whiskey shot: bracing, no-nonsense extrapolation of today's science. And it's coming back after years of neglect. The colonization of Mars, for example--a quintessential hard sci-fi subject--inspired Kim Stanley Robinson's Blue Mars (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...
...creators are focusing on fresher paranoias: Gibson's new novel, Idoru (Putnam), due in September, is a ghost story of sorts. And a second September book, Holy Fire (Bantam), by Bruce Sterling, another godfather of cyberpunk, is about intergenerational war. It's set 100 years in the future, in an age ruled by a wealthy centenarian gerontocracy whose disenfranchised children are readying a revolution based on the terrifying new cognitive landscapes offered by man-computer interfaces...
...faithful, known as MSTies, get to binge before they have to purge. Bookstores are now carrying The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide (Bantam), a beguiling history of the show with behind-the-scenes revelations, explanations of the more obscure references and photos of men with their arms inside puppets. But the essential event is this week's arrival, in 25 major cities, of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, which fans will be able to enjoy in a big theater, surrounded by hordes of the uninitiated muttering...
...years ago to describe qualities like understanding one's own feelings, empathy for the feelings of others and "the regulation of emotion in a way that enhances living." Their notion is about to bound into the national conversation, handily shortened to EQ, thanks to a new book, Emotional Intelligence (Bantam; $23.95) by Daniel Goleman. Goleman, a Harvard psychology Ph.D. and a New York Times science writer with a gift for making even the chewiest scientific theories digestible to lay readers, has brought together a decade's worth of behavioral research into how the mind processes feelings. His goal, he announces...
...publishers say a hit comedy show doesn't necessarily translate into a hit book. It needs a theme. Erwyn Applebaum, publisher of Bantam Books, which put Seinfeld and Reiser into print, says, "Now comedians who have never been known to read a book are thinking that they can write one." Robert Miller, publisher of Hyperion, claims his company wanted Allen to do a book well before Home Improvement became a hit: "This guy had made his reputation and (stand-up) act out of getting way deep into the complexities of male- female differences. That seemed like a very good subject...