Word: fictioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That move alone, says the "appalled" Northern California-Nevada Council of Churches, would permit the law to be used for banning even the Bible, not to mention much of the classics and 95% of current fiction. But Proposition 16 does not stop there. To "strengthen" Section 311, it would also...
FANTASTIC VOYAGE. In this preposterous, but highly entertaining science-fiction adventure, four men and a girl are reduced to the size of bacteria and injected into the bloodstream of a prominent scientist. Despite opposition from white cells, antibodies and other microscopic villains, they manage to complete their assignment: the removal of an inoperable blood clot in the scientist's brain...
...Science fiction is once again rearing its preposterous head. The Time Tunnel (ABC) meanwhile provides a new dimension for last year's Lost in Space. Project TicToc headquarters is housed 800 floors below the Arizona desert and is developing capability to thrust explorers into any time period, past or present. The first human test pilot is propelled back five decades, finds himself in the Atlantic on the Titanic. The captain naturally thinks his visitor is some kind of nut and locks...
GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Earth. In this novel, which might be called metaphysical science fiction, Barth takes a boy who might be a goat-or a goat who might be the protagonist-into a nightmare collegiate world, which, by flashes of phosphorescent light, might seem to resemble our own. A distinguished puzzle...
...some quarters the legend persists that apes are humans who abdicated society to live a carefree jungle life. This delightful fiction, the authors say, explains why apes do not speak; they would then be instantly recognized as sapient and forcibly returned to civilized responsibility...