Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...healthy exercise for newsmen to write fiction. It keeps it out of their stories, and preserves their sanity. Whitten seems to have a strong background in alchemy and other occult sciences, so he should continue to let off his steam in literature. It may not be the best way to the philosopher's stone, but at least it may help Whitten find a modest pot of gold...
...best thing about science-fiction films is their opportunity for wonder, their ability to draw out and contain the most extravagant imagery. In Stanley Kubrick's great 2001: A Space Odyssey, themes and images reinforced one another. In most other futuristic films -and Phase IV is one of these-the force of the ideas cannot compete with the power of individual images...
...tale begins with one of those un explained events in space so loved by, and necessary to, science-fiction writers...
Moral Blindness. Not even Joseph Heller could spend 13 years brooding over Something Happened. Between bouts of literary fretting, he has taught fiction writing at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania (Heller himself did graduate work in English at Columbia and Oxford). He has written a few TV scripts and screenplays (Sex and the Single Girl). He also wrote a play, We Bombed in New Haven, a dramatic indictment of the moral blindness of the Viet Nam War that demonstrated the author's difficulties with plot...
...FICTION 1-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carre (1 last week) 2-Centennial, Michener (3) 3-The Dogs of War, Forsyth (2) 4-Jaws, Bench/ey (6) 5-House of a Thousand Lanterns, Holt (4) 6-Watership Down, Adams (5) 7-The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer (7) 8-Cashelmara, Howafch (9) 9-The War Between the Tates, Lorie (8) 10-The Silver Bears, Erdman (10) NONFICTION 1 -All the President' s Men, Bernsfein & Woodward (1) 2-The Memory Book, Lorayne & Lucas(2) 3-The Woman He Loved, Martin (3) 4-You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne...