Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When that story appeared in print before, it was frankly labeled fiction. In a short story about supersonic flight, in the April 5 Saturday Evening Post, one of Gerald Kersh's characters said: "I have the report of the Montana crash. Ted Oxen took off alone in a certain jet-propelled plane. . . . Out of the scorched and twisted wreckage the authorities picked certain remains of a human being. This human being must have been a child nine or ten years old, according to the analysis...
...writer of popular fiction* that usually (thank God) winds up on best-seller lists and in the movies, may I be one of my craft to blush publicly for Taylor Caldwell's letter. . . . TIME giggles at us "popular writers" in a silly effort to convince the public that it is literate enough to appreciate Henry Miller and Joyce. We don't fool you and you don't fool us. We only envy you because you have God's unlisted telephone number and we have only bosomy women and sinewy men to work with...
...fray, toting Tommy guns, jumped other secret policemen who had been waiting in the shadows that enveloped the castle. Count Vulpian lowered his revolver and surrendered. A search of his château yielded the blue-bound revolutionary "Plan Bleu." It was found where any reader of conspiratorial fiction knew it would be-in the fireplace...
...born, Oxford-educated writer who has been widely acclaimed in England. The Moonlight is the second of his eleven novels to be published here. Readers may conclude that some English critics, who compare him to Tolstoy and Fielding, are overenthusiastic. But The Moonlight is superior to most of the fiction on the stands these days...
...storm, Adela Manasse, wife of the pension's proprietor, is found dead in her tub, naked and smiling a "kindly" smile. How did she die and why did she smile? Original Sin explores this problem amid swirls of windblown sand and snarls of plot typical of Cosmopolitan magazine fiction-which is, in fact, what this novel...