Word: fictioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FICTION 1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week) 2. The Eighth Day, Wilder (2) 3. The Plot, Wallace (3) Washington, 4. D.C., Vidal 5. The Chosen, Potok (4) 6. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (6) 7. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (7) 8. The King of the Castle, Holt (9) 9. Tales of Manhattan, Auchincloss (8) 10. Fathers, Gold...
...recent months, a significant change has occurred: the subject has moved out of the realm of science fiction and crackpot claims. Discussions of UFOs have begun to appear in the pages of such respected journals as Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Science. A few responsible scientists now put their reputations on the line by suggesting that saucers may be vehicles from outer space. The vast majority of their colleagues still scoff at this notion, but even some of the skeptics concede that serious investigation is needed...
What of the possibility that an advanced culture may somehow have learned to circumvent the Einstein limit, and thus be able to send craft to distant stars at incredible speeds? Says one physicist: "My God, could our whole science just be a fiction completely unrelated to what the UFOs might have? All this earthly science-F equals ma and all the rest that I so much believe in-could it really be something else?" Many laymen, baffled by the scientists anyway, might find the overthrow of all their lore quite entertaining. But most scientists insist that their laws are universal...
Reviled by her neighbors, she maintains a wintry dignity by creating the fiction that she is a noblewoman temporarily down on her luck, awaiting an inheritance from her father's estate...
...there is to it? No, argues Field, who suggests that not only the poem but the commentary are Shade's work: he has absorbed Kinbote's theories and has fashioned the commentary as an extravagant coda to his own poem. This kind of argument about a possible fiction within a fiction -essentially, the was-Hamlet-reallymad type of argument-may seem academic to all but Nabokov's most devoted readers. But it testifies to the extraordinary reality that Nabokov imparts to his artificial world...