Word: fiction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PAIRING OFF, by Julian Moynahan. The book masquerades as a novel but is more like having a nonstop non sequitur Irish storyteller around, which may on occasion be more welcome than well-made fiction...
PAIRING OFF, by Julian Moynahan. The book masquerades as a novel but is more like having a nonstop non sequitur Irish storyteller around, which may on occasion be more welcome than well-made fiction...
...Science-fiction writers have long enjoyed developing similar themes. Nelson Bond, in a short story called The Cunning of the Beast, published in 1942 told about a weak-bodied, high-minded scientist named the Yawa Eloem who tried to create intelligent animals to serve his fellow academicians on the distant planet that was their home. But the servants rebelled, got into the Yawa Eloem's private laboratory, and learned how to do evil. His colleagues decided to punish Dr. Eloem by sending him off in a spaceship to a far corner of the universe, accompanied by his creations-Adam...
PAIRING OFF, by Julian Moynahan. The book masquerades as a novel but is more like having a nonstop non sequitur Irish storyteller around-which may on occasion be more welcome than well-made fiction...
...Beauty Boy-reading Plato so divine! O, dark, oh fair . . ."A melodramatic opening for a short, story, but consider the plot: the colored golf champion of Chicago, who reads Plato, loses a leg under a moving train and finally grows it back in Heaven. A magazine fiction editor might reach for a rejection slip were it not for the byline: F. Scott Fitzgerald. The unpublished "Dearly Beloved," a forerunner of the black-is-beautiful genre, was discovered among a collection of Fitzgerald's papers at the Princeton University Library, and is included in the first number of a schol...