Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What drove Tony was the prospect of creating journalism with all the life and immediacy of great fiction and the additional power of truth. He wanted to show America to itself so vividly as to spur the national conscience. It worked too. Every subject he wrote about remains lodged in the mind through the personification that he found for it, from Linda Fitzpatrick, the suburban girl who became fatally involved with the late-1960s counterculture, to Rachel Twymon, the Job-like Boston-ghetto mother in Common Ground. They may be gone now, but they're still alive in Tony...
...next year, McCaffrey won the Nebula Award, the other top honor for science fiction writers, for her book Dragonrider. She also has been the recipient of many Science Fiction Book Club awards, and has been the guest speaker numerous times at the World Science Fiction Convention...
...father influenced me in the way a parent can in terms of reading," says Gustav Niebuhr. "He really encouraged both fiction and nonfiction.... I gained a tremendous amount intellectually from him, for which I am very grateful...
Novels do not ordinarily dabble with too much exactitude in current events or upcoming headlines; fiction writers hope, after all, that their work will outlast the rapid stream of passing fancies. But Paul Theroux's Kowloon Tong (Houghton Mifflin; 243 pages; $23) arrives as a noteworthy exception to that rule. On June 30 Britain will end its long-term ownership and control of Hong Kong and hand over the colony to the People's Republic of China. Hot off the presses, Kowloon Tong offers Theroux's imaginative version of how some Hong Kong residents have fared--and will fare...
Readers who like to take sides will not find palatable choices in Kowloon Tong. Theroux's distaste for everyone involved in his tale registers clearly and often brilliantly. But it seems reasonable to hope that his vision of the near future is unduly dyspeptic, and that fiction will be stranger than truth...