Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back when H. G. Wells was writing science fiction stories, trips to the moon and solar system planets made pretty sensational reading. But science fiction has grown up to the extent that Wells' stories are about as exciting as the Ptolemaic system of the Universe. There are whole new planet systems, and a remarkable array of space gadgets, and an amazing repetition of plots...
...credit of current pulp science fiction writers, they realize that fantasy must have some element of reality. And the best kind of reality is sex. Sometimes spatial experiences draw a Venusian lass and the captain of a space ship to a common understanding. Or an eloped couple find bliss on a planet called, ironically enough, Eros...
Getting back to reality, as most of the science fiction writers seem to do, passions seem to run as high in space as in any pulp magazine: "There was a crooning, dangerous, hypnotic quality to the voice--and yet it was warm and sweet, like mrfii-honey flowing over the lichen rocks of Phobos. Mac Marty felt his pulse quicken." There are also adverse affects of mating on distant planets, but only villains are susceptible. "Lucia's baby was born. The baby came at night. It did not live more than a few hours. But it shone in the dark...
...this department. If he had said simply that he was unhappy to see this professor leave--a result of appointment to the faculty of another well-known Eastern college--then we might sympathize with his genuine regret. However, Friday's editorializing mixes fact with an engaging, but uncomplimentary, fiction...
...Wall Streeters," boasted Hearst Gossipist Walter Winchell last week, "are calling the current rise of many stocks a Walter Winchell Market." The truth was less impressive than Winchell's fiction. For the past few months, on his Sunday night radio-TV broadcast, Winchell has been as full of tips as a market newsletter. The Securities Exchange Commission, which questioned the sources of his tip-stering several years ago, but retreated when Winchell pleaded "freedom of the press," is not officially concerned with his latest interest. Winchell has assured the SEC that he does not receive payment for giving advice...