Word: fiction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FICTION...
...image, of course, is wildly overblown, but America's own mythmakers are largely to blame. In U.S. folklore, nothing has been more romanticized than guns and the larger-than-life men who wielded them. From the nation's beginnings, in fact and fiction, the gun has been provider and protector. The Pilgrim gained a foothold with his harquebus. A legion of loners won the West with Colt .45 Peacemakers holstered at their hips or Winchester 73 repeaters cradled in their arms...
...only claim to outright novelty is his predilection for science fiction, represented by three stories in this collection. But even here, as in the memorable title piece of his previous book of stories, Among the Dangs (1961), he insists on the moral. The sci-fi gimmicks of his fantasy worlds point metaphorically back to the truths of the real world. Into the Cone of Cold is typical: a poet allows himself to be frozen and thawed out again in a scientific experiment; beyond the spooky suspense of the situation, the cone of cold comes to stand for a state...
...FICTION' 1. Couples, Updike (2 last week...
Winfield, who began fencing only two years ago, has no regrets about joining the ranks of the jocks. "I was a science fiction fiend and a lot of the heroes ran around with swords. I thought...