Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Monday evening marked the last meeting of the year for the Harvard-Radcliffe Science-Fiction and Fantasy Association (HRSFA). As usual, talk among members was a mix of the mundane and the nostalgic, from a review of the group's pre-frosh weekend events to updates on recent science fiction discussions. Above all, the mood in Sever 112 was relaxed--despite a small television crew that had set up camp to film their meeting...
Carl O'Neal, the producer for the WGBH television series "Basic Black," said he wanted to come to the HRSFA meeting because he was curious about the current popularity of science fiction...
...about how this trick is performed--a category that must include nearly every other writer on earth--would do well to consult A Patchwork Planet (Knopf; 288 pages; $24), Tyler's 14th novel. This new book not only conforms to the familiar pattern the author has established in her fiction but does so in a fresh and engaging fashion...
...goes suddenly, and relatives show Barnaby the quilt with a Planet Earth design that she had hastily finished. He sees a depiction "clumsily cobbled together, overlapping and crowded and likely to fall into pieces at any moment." That is a pretty good description of the world in Tyler's fiction, a fragile place sustained by hope and love...
Sherlock Holmes drew out a fine case, puffing leisurely at his calabash while pondering each clue until he deduced the culprit. Detecting, in the quintessential sleuth's day, required more than an agile mind; it took time. Of course, times change. Two of fiction's newest detectives have the necessary brainpower: they're young (in their 30s) African-American professionals (a professor and a doctor). These women, however, are so upwardly mobile that they can barely pencil murder into their crammed calendars...