Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lancelot Biggs is chiefly notable as a publisher's trailblazer. Until recently, science fiction has been available only in the comic books, in books for boys, and in the publications of a few obscure but dedicated specialized publishing houses (TIME, May 30, 1949). Last year Publisher Doubleday, with one eye on flying saucers and the other on an unexplored trade-book market, plunged into science fiction, quickly issued five titles (Lancelot Biggs is the sixth). With sales and reprint prospects looking brisk, U.S. readers can brace themselves for more long rides into space...
...book. The red-lipped, white-helmeted girl on the jacket looks like a dewy-eyed deb on safari; actually, the heroine is a medical missionary in her 40s. The book is also called a novel and is offered as such by the Literary Guild. In sober fact, few fiction writers have ever displayed less control of the novelist's art than Author Louise Stinetorf. Nonetheless, her story of missionary life in Africa has enough candor, sympathy and even occasional excitement to win it a large number of midsummer readers...
...documentary flavor, however, lends too little novelty to the story's rehash of familiar fiction; and for all its self-righteous airs, the movie does not practice what it preaches. The point of the action seems to be that a smart, ambitious telephone repairman (Edmond O'Brien) can cut himself in on the $8 billion if he applies his knowledge to the gambling racket. By hook, crook and electronics, Hero O'Brien works himself up to a high living standard, 36 changes of clothes and a love affair with another big shot's blue-blooded wife...
Died. Robert Smythe Hichens, 85, author of The Paradine Case, 50-odd other novels; in Zurich, Switzerland. A turn-of-the-century favorite (The Garden of Allah, 1904, sold nearly a million copies), Novelist Hichens turned out fiction that earned him a comfortable income long after he had lost the bestselling touch...
...postwar U.S. boom in Italian fiction, 42-year-old Alberto Moravia has already won a bright place for himself with The Woman of Rome (TIME, Nov. 21). The two long stories in Two Adolescents add to his shine. In each of them Author Moravia tackles one of writing's trickiest problems, telling what happens to a boy in the transition between childhood and manhood. Writers describing this haunting, tragicomic change of life too often bog down in self-pity and autobiography. But Moravia has pared away all egocentric mush from these two hardheaded stories. They have the clarity...