Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alternately arch and fallen arch. But Author Stephens' protagonist would instantly be on knife-in-the-back, wife-in-the sack terms with the huckster-heroes of half a dozen other new novels. The salient feature of this season's supply of advertising and public-relations fiction, all written more or less from the inside, is that people, plots and other parts are virtually interchangeable. If ad fiction can become plentiful and anesthetic enough, it may yet rival science fiction: the bug-eyed monsters will be replaced by tyrannical clients, the clean-cut spacemen by bright-eyed space...
...INSIDER (Holt; $3.95), by James Kelly, a vice president of Ellington & Co., stands out amid other ad fiction like a short man in a roomful of midgets. The story of an evilly empty man's decline, fall and ironic resurrection is told thoughtfully, and is worth reading. The author's language is sometimes pretentious, but it is several grades better than that of the other ad fictioneers, who evidently do not have enough word power left over after churning out all those...
...FICTION...
Such loyalty to the saddle-sore traditions of the old West is not the sort of thing Businessman Gruber intends to push past the end of a trend. For he still figures he can write anything that the public is willing to buy. Says he: "Science fiction has been gaining, and if it ever gains enough, I'll switch...
...writes with no special idiom or accent about the human condition. Hanley has been obsessed by his purblind Furys for a quarter of a century. (This volume is the fifth installment of their saga, the third to be published in the U.S.) Those who treasure the art of fiction above entertainment will read An End and a Beginning with the respect and attention given to a somber passage of music...