Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from here?" Now Clarke himself may be a writer with no place to go. After the success of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the film based on Clarke's screenplay, came Rendezvous with Rama, his 1973 novel which took the Hugo, Nebula and John W. Campbell awards for science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke has become a hard act to follow, particularly for the author himself...
...FICTION...
...touching up. Such novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Black Mischief, A Handful of Dust, Scoop and that masterpiece of World War II, the Sword of Honour trilogy, established him as one of the century's finest satirists. The Diaries underscore just how closely Waugh's fiction followed his life, from high jinks at public school to the hallucinations chronicled in The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold...
Since current fiction is still overpopulated with navel gazers, it is refreshing to find characters who are willing to stare instead at newspaper headlines and stock quotations. But the relentless public-spiritedness of everyone in The Ice Age sometimes seems almost comical in its portentousness. With no apparent irony, Drabble describes one of Alison's conversations with Keating: "She spoke of the state of the nation." During a get-together between Keating, his ex-wife and their children, "they talked of his father's funeral, of the sale of the old house, of the problems of squatters...
...FICTION...