Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incident is jarring because the tone elsewhere is so consistently light and playful. Amis does not want to have it both ways; he wants it every way, and The Alteration flits quirkily between sat ire, science fiction, boys' adventure and travelogue. The result is what Nineteen Eighty-Four might have been like if Lewis Carroll had written it: not a classic, certainly, but an oddity well worth an evening's attention...
...FICTION...
OCTOBER LIGHT by John Gardner. In his best novel yet, the prolific Gardner sets a spoof of pulp fiction inside a philosophical monologue on good and evil-all touched off by the family squabbles of two cranky old Vermonters...
...other remote outposts to get the best views. In 1938 he developed the U.S.'s first coronagraph, a telescopic device that allows scientists to study the sun's glowing halo without the help of an eclipse. Menzel was a prolific author of scientific books and science fiction, and an accomplished doodler, whose sketches have been exhibited widely...
...Commercial, for instance, Wolfe turns to short fiction to anatomize the current art of race relations. A black baseball player named Willie Hammer has been asked to make a TV commercial for Charlemagne, a new line of men's toiletries. Hammer desperately wants the assignment; it gives him the chance to become a "superstar," instead of just another gifted black athlete. Trouble is, the script calls for him to pronounce Charlemagne as "Charlie Magnet." Hammer must act on nationwide TV as if he cannot read. Before the dilemma is resolved, Wolfe gores a number of oxen: the power...