Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early days of 1944, a story entitled "Deadline" appeared in the magazine, Astounding Science Fiction. It included a detailed description of an atomic bomb explosion. FBI agents at once paid a visit to the magazine's editor, John W. Campbell, Jr. The description of the bomb was so accurate and came so far in advance of any public pronouncement about the A-bomb, that the government feared a security leak...
...there wasn't any. As Campbell now explains, "Science fiction writers were talking about atomic bombs years before the government was. I finally convinced the FBI agents of this. They asked me not to print anything more about atomic explosions, but I told them that the absence of such descriptions would be more noticeable than their continued inclusion...
...science fiction fans, this story must sound incredible. The popular image of science fiction revolves around such spaceship cowboys as Captain Video or Buck Rogers. A true devotee of the field, however, would deny all connection with such comics. For him, science fiction can be, and often is, not only interesting but also stimulating...
...turn to novels for their plays, as though the best way to make a chair were to cut down a sofa. Alan Paton's dramatized African novel, like so many other adaptations, including Joyce Gary's dramatized African novel, Mister Johnson, loses the swell and amplitude of fiction without achieving the drive and intensity of drama. It is in some ways too obvious, in others too obscure; its scenes are chop-pily hitched on to one another like so many train coaches-and with the engine unfortunately at the wrong...
...former officer of the Imperial Austrian Army, elliptically describes how a ruling class shorn of its power can be startled by phantoms and into fantasies. Yet, in sum, his talent is special, minor, and eccentric -fit literary fare perhaps only for devotees of what might be called seance fiction...