Word: fictions
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...minds, the potential dangers are terrifying. Some may search for a "cure" or, in the more immediate future, consider aborting a fetus that is predicted to be gay. This is the scenario in The Twilight of the Golds, which I expected to remain in the realm of science fiction for much longer than it apparently will...
...setting is the pediatrics ward of a Los Angeles charity hospital, where (it hardly needs to be said, since serious fiction seems to have no other topic as our troubled millennium ticks away) civilization is banging and whimpering toward its well-deserved end. The characters are Kraft, a harried, too sensitive surgeon-in-training; Espera, a gallant nurse; and an appalling procession of dying children. The doomed kids arrive by ambulance and taxi, bleeding from gunshot wounds, septic with cancers both physical and psychological, withering from every disease in the manual. Kraft prunes and hacks and catheterizes; Espera listens...
...University of California at Berkeley (applied math); Catherine Magill-Solc of Harvard (molecular embryology); Patricia Cleary Miller of Rockhurst College (poetry); Debra C. Minkoff of Yale University (sociology); Virginia Newes of the Eastman School of Music (musicology); Hanna Papanek of Boston University (nonfiction); Ann Patchett, an independent writer (fiction and non-fiction) and Susan Power of the University of Iowa (fiction...
Susan L. Tananbaum of Bowdoin College (British and Jewish history); Judith Thompson of Children of War, Inc. (peace studies); Amy C. Tishelman of Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School (clinical psychology); Jessica Treadway, an independent writer (fiction); Lisa Vawter of Harvard University (molecular evolution); Maxine Yalovitz-Blankenship, an independent artist (visual arts) and Abby Zanger of Harvard University (French literature...
Life Imitates Fiction...