Word: fictioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Bunch. Cerf agrees that there is a malaise in fiction today. "Novelists are still saying things," he declares, "but they are no longer saying them exclusively. To say anything startlingly new in a novel is difficult-it's being said so often by real life, and in the world of reporting and commentary. Most novels today represent the fears rather than the hopes of man. Maybe that's one trouble: the mood is too pessimistic. But it's a gloomy world. We're not in a happy period of our history...
Total sales to date: 10 million copies, an alltime record for U.S. fiction. In 1945, a Random House editor read A Lion Is in the Streets, by Adria Langley. He rejected it, reporting that "40 pages of this magnolia-laden junk was all I could stand." Lion, published later by Whittlesey House, sold 250,000 copies. A more recent example is the history of Attorney Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, a shotgun attack on the Warren Commission. "We commissioned him to write it," says Publisher Barney Rosset of Grove Press, which is known chiefly for its back list...
Probably-but among the gifted, where are the truly distinctive voices, let alone the great ones? Fiction writing-and reading-has declined over the years. Last year, $210,000 in fiction prizes went begging for want of suitable entries. "When I entered the business," says Cerf, "fiction outsold nonfiction five to one. Today the situation is exactly reversed...
...first glance, the statement seems out of character. Holton, as a physicist and Faculty member, does not usually close doors. Nat Sci 7 is in fact designed to open the door that locks science off from the rest of the world. Holton recalls telling some students about a science fiction story he enjoyed. "They were surprised to find out that a scientist is not just a person in a lab or on a platform. What is sad is that they had to find out by accident...
...FICTION...