Word: fictioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THESE ARE THE DAMNED. Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) unleashes his razzle-dazzle camera techniques in a small science-fiction thriller about a tart (Shirley Anne Field) and a tourist (MacDonald Carey) who stumble onto some nightmarish experiments on the English coast...
...FICTION...
Died. Eugene Leonard Burdick, 46, bestselling novelist and University of California political science professor, a former Rhodes scholar who methodically ground out Cassandra-like tales of political science fiction (The Ugly American and its forthcoming sequel, Sarkhan, both written with William J. Lederer; Fail-Safe, written with Harvey Wheeler; and The 480); of a heart attack while playing tennis; in San Diego...
...FICTION...
...enjoyment of your Mariner cover story [July 23] was somewhat curtailed by the implication that "science fictioneers" are not authors of serious literary works. Men like A. E. Van Vogt, Poul Anderson and Isaac Asimov are respected as writers of fact as well as fiction. The thought that these men picture life on Mars as "little green men with floppy antennae sprouting out of little green heads" is at once ridiculous and laughable...