Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JULES VERNE: MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION (236 pp.)-Edited by I. O. Evans-Rinehart...
...YEAR'S GREATEST SCIENCE-FICTION & FANTASY (320 pp.)-Edited by Judith Merril-Dell...
...Science-fiction has an honored tradition. It arises out of the craving for fantasy that has inspired writers since literature began; its space-time worlds and grisly "Things" are cousins to Homer's magical islands of monsters. But the old fictions made little pretense of being scientific (when Jonathan Swift gave Mars two satellites, he had little idea that his little joke would be proved true in the following century). Only with the great Jules Verne (1828-1905) did fantasy make a serious effort to build upon physics and mathematics...
...effort is all that it was. Verne's "science-fiction stories can no longer be accepted as 'documentaries,' " says Editor I. O. Evans, because they are riddled with inaccuracies. Moreover, a story like Round the Moon cannot even be relished for its fantasy value, because to modern "readers of 'space-opera,' a mere flight round the moon, culminating in a drop into the Pacific, seems almost humdrum...
...beside the typewriter that inspires me," or that Miss Johnson won a spur from that loose-lipped but hard-writing outfit called the Western Writers of America, Inc., he may well suspect that he is in for a good fat slice from the gun-smoked hams of cowboy fiction-Zane Grey, William MacLeod Raine, or Clarence E. (Hopalong Cassidy) Mulford...