Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Affectionately called "Vitamin Z" by his secretaries at Columbia because of his intense energy, Zbig also has a self-deprecating sense of humor. Asked if he ever wrote fiction, he replied: "That depends on how you view my research...
Gardner has set himself roles wor thy of Hercules or a one-man band: the hilarious spoofer of pulp fiction, the composer of Kierkegaardian monologues good and evil, the mini-historian of science, progress and civilization, and the pastoral poet. In addition he rounds off his complex work on a note of affirmation that the reader may find more determined than logical, like the highnote climax to a trumpet solo. For the hyphen that Gardner most ardently longs for is the one that might connect night to day, lost to found, chaos to order-all the enemies, all the opposites...
Simpson says there has been about a 30 per cent increase in science fiction sales over the last year...
Goodbye to the "Strawberry Statement" and hello to "Mother Goose" characterizes the current feeling from booksellers in the Boston area. The book merchants have recently noticed a trend in student booksales away from leftist politics and social concerns toward less specialized interests, including cartoons and fiction...
Students from Boston University are apparently buying more science fiction books, Bill Simpson, who has worked at the BU store for six years, says. He says he believes this is because "students are studying more these days and science fiction is a way for them to escape from their humdrum lives...