Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enraged in advance, and feeling that he was already the dupe of a wily fraud, he took steps to improve his station. But just what steps he took are a matter of conjecture. Capp, a man with such an instinct for the dramatic that he sometimes lapses into purest fiction, swears that he got the copyright from the syndicate by a one-man strike: he quit drawing the strip for two weeks and thus reduced the syndicate to abject submission...
Cloak & dagger romance and bustles-and-bows nostalgia both have their merits-and faithful droves of customers. It is a lucky author who can straddle the two fields without coming a cropper. In Author Thomas Bertram Costain's case, a firm hand with historical fiction (The Black Rose, The Moneyman) has been no guarantee of success with the gentler, slower-moving Gay Nineties period piece...
...Fearful Joy, by Joyce Cary. The life & times of Tabitha Baskett; a new novel by an Englishman who writes in the old meat-and-marrow tradition of English fiction (TIME...
Brave Company, by Guthrie Wilson. Rare realism in the story of a World War II infantry company in the line; fiction without the tricks of a fictioneer, by a New Zealander (TIME, Sept...
...scientific works have had such popular acclaim; "dianeties" has sold 40,000 copies by August (each reader automatically becoming a qualified dianetieian) and has been about fourth on the best seller list ever since. Science--fiction addicts have followed Hubbard's releases in "Astounding Science Fiction" down to the latest monograph in the October issue; astounding -sounding jargon or the absence from the 450-page book of ay experimental evidence cannot balk them. The appeal of the quick sure-cure is not surprising. Hubbard's claims are as disarming as an old-fashioned patent-medicine label...