Word: fiction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FICTION...
...program -which NASA says will come to no more than .5% to 1% of the gross national product (currently running at $900 billion) a year. And the question of priorities will remain relevant as long as such earthly imperfections as poverty and pollution persist. Still, as Science-Fiction Writer Isaac Asimov says, "Man has always had the other side of the hill to worry about"-and he always will. This week the other side of the hill is the moon. Before this century ends, it will almost certainly be Mars -and beyond...
...names. ABC commissioned Duke Ellington to write and perform a piece of music, Moon Maiden. The network also 1) lined up Steve Allen to sit down at a piano and discourse on the moon and romance in popular music, 2) called together a panel of scientists and science-fiction writers including Rod Serling, Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl and John Pierce, 3) planned a four-part essay on movie scifi, featuring Flash Gordon and the Clay People, plus clips from Destination Moon and 2001: A Space Odyssey and 4) taped James Dickey reading one of his space poems...
...futuristic coda comes as a letdown. It is too sketchy either as science fiction or as an ending to a novel whose main strength is its meticulous reading of psychic signals. The author's thesis is hardly novel, but it cannot be ignored: in a sick society, the roles of madness and sanity are reversed. This society is sick unto disaster, so alternatives must be sought in areas removed from what passes as reason. Lessing may be a flawed prophet, but as witness she is persuasive and disturbing...
...example; there is the question of the Reality of the Situation. Michel Piccoli plays an author who is writing a science fiction novel about an electronic device that controls people for a minute at a time. Is Piccoli living the story he is writing? Or is he dreaming that he is living the story? Or is what we view merely a psychotic fantasy resulting from an auto crash? There there is the problem of the actors themselves. Why does Michel Piccoli play a character named Edgar Piccoli? And is it significant that Catherine Deneuve plays someone simply referred...