Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...science-fiction writers, of course, have long since peopled Mars with subtle civilizations, beautiful women with golden eyes, and half-invisible ships sailing on red-sand seas. Some writers, bored with Mars, have gone on to other planets or even to distant galaxies billions of light-years away, where four-dimensional people (of three or more sexes) think five-dimensional thoughts and are made of inverted matter...
...gesture to the evident public dissatisfaction with the behind-the-scenes rule of the junta, the R.C.C. announced vague plans to create a parliamentlike assembly. The worst seemed over. Nasser was still running the show but had lost prestige. Naguib, whose position as leader had its origins in a fiction, had found his people eager to take it as a fact...
...Talent for Forgery. Like many a romantic swashbuckler of fiction, Ches began his life in gentler circumstances-as a brilliant, somewhat slack-jawed mother's boy named John Donald Merrett. His doting mother, whose less doting husband had skipped out of the family circle, sent him to a fine public school, and went herself to Scotland to tend his needs when he entered Edinburgh University. Each night in the privacy of their quarters, Donald practiced the talent that led to his first serious trouble-forging his mother's name. He soon became expert enough to drain her meager...
...looked like Rocky Marciano, or something. Liked the idea of roasting the old boy, but maybe we let him off too easy. Take the piece about the janitor and Senator Mac Venner. That could have been a pretty funny situation, but somehow it turned into a Ray Bradbury science fiction with everything from flying saucers to atomic cocktails. I think we might have missed an opportunity to really blast those damn investigations...
...prevalent hero in serious U.S. fiction is the groper, a man who does not know quite what he wants and usually makes himself miserable trying to get it. In each of his two novels, one of the newest recruits to the genre, Cleveland-born Herbert Gold, 29, has focused on a hard-at-work groper. His first novel, Birth of a Hero, featured a middle-aged father of three groping for a new personality in an extra-marital love affair. The Prospect Before Us tells the story of a pudgy Cleveland hotel operator who suddenly starts groping for personal integrity...