Word: fictions
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Paul Pope has become one of those American artists whose biggest audience is in Europe. You may wonder why, since he creates smart, uniquely stylized sci-fi-genre fiction. Pope's latest series, "Heavy Liquid," has now been collected into book form by DC Comic's Vertigo imprint. Pope's work has the same effect on his audience as the Wachowski brothers' "Matrix," creating an exciting new visual experience that you have to scramble to keep up with...
...story feels familiar while the details - a killer with the mask of the horse in Picasso's "Guernica," the hunt for an artist rather than a killer, and absurd stick-figure robots -feel fresh. This combination of new and old basically defines a superior work of genre fiction...
Muriel Spark weaves her 21st work of fiction, Aiding and Abetting (Doubleday; 166 pages; $21), around a matter of fact: the 1974 disappearance of the seventh Earl of Lucan, who was subsequently charged with bludgeoning his children's nanny to death in a botched attempt to murder his estranged wife. Questions about this scandal have echoed in the British press ever since. Was Lord Lucan guilty? Is he still alive? If so, who helped him escape, and who has been aiding and abetting the fugitive's life in hiding ever since...
Public fears are sometimes the result of science fiction, he said, but it's usually possible to work through problems...
...every scientist subscribes to this ominous philosophy. Greg Pence, professor of bioethics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, predicts that people will get more comfortable with the idea of cloning as time passes. "Science fiction movies have taught us that this technology must create mutants, but in fact, any problems we're facing are merely technical," Pence told TIME.com. "And fear of technical problems is just masking other problems people have with the idea of cloning...