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Robert Graves, the English poet, observed in 1972. "Technology is now warring openly against the crafts, and science covertly against poetry," Ben Bova, in the opening essay of the book, "The Role of Science Fiction," attacks Graves head-on-. It is Bova's contention that the gap between science and literature is artificial. He feels Graves errs in his view of science and scientists for the layman; he feels science fiction, at its best, should function as a modern mythology...
Science fiction should serve as an interpreter of science for humanity. Bova feels, preparing people for change and warning of the dangers of an unrestrained and ruthless use of technology...
MODERN MAN'S adaptation to science is the theme Theodore Sturgeon writes about, and his assumptions and conclusions differ radically from Bova's Sturgeon feels that 20th century man worships science, a good who is "omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, master of that terrible trinity of hope, fear and power." He examines what he considers a mysterious phenomenon. The reading public fails, or refuses, to discriminate between good and bad science fiction, and condemns all. There is an answer for the lack of judgement...
...acting is high-styled and full of flair. John Heffernan, as the prisoner, awaits his fate with a finely sustained projection of frustration and despair, and Joseph Bova is certainly the most jovially sadistic executioner a man could lose his head over...
Invitation to a Hanging--A mixed bag with some style from the New York Shakespeare Festival. The play is adapted from a Vladimir Nabokov novel, the cast includes Joe Bova and John Heffernan, and the director is Gerald Freedman. At the PUBLIC THEATRE, 425 Lafayette...