Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fantasy almost all but disappears in the second set of etchings which Goya did in the period of the Napoleonic invasions. The world around the artist had become so full of horror that reality was in truth stranger than fiction...
...opening journey through a troubled corner of The Company's world brought Author Edson McCann (pseudonym for "a government scientist") a $6,500 contest prize as 1955's best science-fiction story. But, with its minimum of electronic gadgetry and with no space excursions at all, Preferred Risk stays close to the ground and takes a jitney ride along the broad highway charted by George Orwell six years ago in 1984. Author McCann, throwing politics away as excess baggage, just zips along, fast, wry, and sometimes ingenious...
...fiction turns out in the long run to have value, I hope it may reflect credit on TIME that you were the first in the field to take serious note...
...reading public has reached the point where it is shocked by Mr. Wouk's advocacy of decency, honor, discipline, authority, chastity before marriage, etc., then the public is in a parlous state . . . Mr. Wouk's books are a healthy sign that U.S. fiction is taking a turn for the better...
...practitioners of the sorghum and shotgun school of fiction usually start with two advantages: their general grimness, a quality of mind sympathetic to critics; the fact that they follow red clay paths already cleared for the public by William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell. These advantages may make Southerner Phillips' fourth novel a success...