Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conversation (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). A repeat broadcast of "Science Fiction." Discussed by Aldous Huxley, Marc Connelly, Clifton Fadiman...
...secret shame with them wherever they go, and to compensate they become rude, overbearing and superlative-addicted ... In other cities the fandom is notoriously ignorant, unfair or surly - sometimes all three. Only in the Polo Grounds do you get a solid mass of intelligent, polite, yet loyal, spectators." Clearly, Fiction Writer (Big Out) Hano suffers from the astigmatism of his trade ; his picture is purposely a little out of focus. But sitting with Hano at that game (Giants 5, Indians 2), and rummaging through his baseball memories with him, is fine fun. Still, the reader wonders what has happened...
...Fiction-Scientists: "Sometimes I ask myself-are we doing right...
...recent years Philosopher Bertrand Russell has taken to fiction, but fiction has not yet taken to Philosopher Russell. The reason is that when logicians with a sense of humor start toying with storytelling, their mighty brains behave like dancing elephants playing dancing mice. The fiction they write is more sophisticated than nursery rhymes but every bit as childish: only once in a blue moon does a logician like Lewis Carroll come along and succeed in transforming the kindergarten into Wonderland...
Russell rounds off Nightmares with two longish fantasies about the future of the world. They predict plenty of heavy going during the next 4,000 years, and as fiction they read like their prediction...