Word: fictional
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Zardoz is basically futuristic science fiction. In the year 2293, a warrior called Zed (Sean Connery) penetrates the Vortex, a bucolic society separated from the barbarous, almost medieval world outside by an invisible force field. Life inside the Vortex has a laboratory air, which is not surprising since it is a world created by scientists who have mastered, somewhat to their regret, the secret of subduing death. Aging is meted out only as a punishment in the Vortex, and no one ever dies. Zed is a functional primitive, an "exterminator" at the service of the god Zardoz; he imports into...
...freakish fringe of religion is changing so fast these days that fiction cannot keep up with reality. Last week ABC Television presented Can Ellen Be Saved?, a TV movie that depicted an aggressive, doctrinaire Jesus sect called the Children of Jesus. The fictitious sect was obviously a thinly disguised counterpart of the real-life Children of God, complete with a West Coast farming commune, buses that sweep into cities to pick up new converts, biblical aliases for the members and a frank affection for the money and property gleaned from converts...
...sense can even the most Anglo-Irish of Dublin suburbs be geographically defined as England. All of which leads me to suspect that Mr. Shapiro is trying to explain away his lack of preparation for any exam on modern fiction by his rehashing of this most recent Harvard molehill. Patrick J. Ryan, S.J. Tutor in Eliot House
...Herbert Ernest) Bates, 68, novelist and short story writer; after a brief illness; in Canterbury, England. In the tradition of Thomas Hardy, Bates celebrated rural England in most of his 50 or so books. During World War II, he was commissioned by the R. A.F. to write fiction about the war; Fair Stood the Wind for France (1944), about a British bomber pilot shot down over French soil, was one of the outstanding results. Bates was best known in the U.S. for The Darling Buds of May (1958), a novel about the zany fruit-picking, scrap-dealing Larkin family that...
...compulsive worker who produced more than 230 magazine pieces before he was 40-plus four novels, a volume of essays and the book that made his reputation, Mark Twain's America. He was capable of hacking out 30,000 words in a fecund week of writing romantic serial fiction for the Saturday Evening Post under the pen name "John August," scribbling in panic before the "manias, depression and blue funks" as well as the living expenses that pursued him. (DeVoto had a fondness for domestic help, new Buicks and private education.) This "literary department store" came as close...