Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bill read science fiction and believed in God. I thought that people who believed in God were superstitious maniacs and people who read science fiction just didn't know better. It took a while to assimilate that style of thinking but now I'm thinking of going to Divinity School...
...million show tailor-made for national TV survive rejection by all three networks and win success anyway? The Independent Television Corp., the producer of Space: 1999, has few doubts that its elaborate new science-fiction adventure series can do just that. This fall it will be aired over local stations in the ten top television markets and in 136 other cities around the country. With confidence bordering on brashness, I.T.C. predicts that it is giving the networks their biggest ever prime-time challenge and in the process producing the season's first...
...which Writer-Director Philippe Mora has organized the footage and orchestrated it to a period score that runs from Duke Ellington and Woody Guthrie through Rudy Vallée and Ginger Rogers. There is no narration, hardly ever a title to identify a person or event. Fact and fiction are interwoven without distinction. For Mora, the hard reality of the Depression is inseparable from all the fancies it produced...
Jones set aside his novel for six months to write WWII. "This project fascinated me," he says. "It gave me the chance to editorialize in a way that my novels do not. When I write fiction, I have to worry about the idiosyncrasies of my characters. In WWII I could concentrate...
...Following the Equator (1897) ° have a wanderer's leisurely impressions 3 been hammered into such wry, incisive ° mots. Venice sits on its industrialized gulf "like a drawing room in a gas station"; small villages in Malaysia roll by: "Bidor, Trolak, Tapah and Klang - names like science fiction planets...