Word: fictions
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Marching ominously in black, hooded robes, more than 20 science fiction lovers performed their annual rites in bidding Daylight Savings Time farewell early Sunday morning...
Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association carried candles and other paraphernalia as they circled the Yard and honored the god of time, Chronos, with speeches and chants on the steps of Widener Library...
Anything but talk sense, say prickly liberals. According to one radio caller, a bookstore in Portland, Oregon, refused to stock The Way Things Ought to Be. "And if we did," the salesclerk said, "it would be in the Children's Fiction section...
Yeah, I know. This is what I'd like. First ofall, we've already talked about the fact that it'simportant to buy this book. But I think that it'simportant for people to look at the book not as abook of fiction, necessarily. I think this willparticularly help Harvard students, because Ithink they're ready for what I'm really trying todo. My books are just the beginning of a muchlarger plan...
...early American drama and frontier fiction, a mythical American spirit embodied by an Indian hero lives on through white people even though the hero dies. "American" culture is transferred to Europeans without the threat of intermarriage. In a retelling of this story--a Black replaces the Indian figure--Candyman accepts its own problematic version of Black culture as American, but this American spirit survives only in a middle-class white body...