Word: mainstreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GREAT DEAL of highly respected science fiction that has made its way into mainstream culture would also fare poorly on film, including "classics" like Frank Herbert's Dune and Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. (How would you portray "groking?" Who would accept a giant sandworm in a serious film?) Some of the finest science fiction on film was specifically written for that medium. Ironically, Ellison himself is responsible for some of the better television screenplays: "Soldier" on Rod Sterling's Twilight Zone, a chilling preview of a war-wracked future through the eyes of a genetically engineered...
...Sadly, mainstream movie producers aren't so willing to gamble with original science fiction screenplays, however, preferring to adapt novels and short stories. So until the Ellisons and Herberts are encouraged to create for film, there will be dog days for science fiction on the screen...
...sure like to get my hands on her, you know, for four of five hours of tape. But in general I don't, because the way I want to do it now is that to do something I want to do, not something that necessarily falls within mainstream journalism, whatver that...
...member of the 1930's Communist Party USA would have branded Harrington a "social facist." But the problem is more complex. Harrington is tired of being on the outs--maybe all those eighty-three-delegate conventions, all those years as the object of scorn of mainstream American politicians, have gotten to him--now he wants to go to New York City and have Messrs. Udall, Jackson, Harris and Bayn petition for support next year. Maybe he believes that that is what an effective socialist movement is all about...
Jerzy Kosinski has never been in the mainstream of this particular movement, and he manages to keep writing, evidently comfortable with his very characteristic narrative style. Born in Poland in 1933, Kosinski writes a clean, workmanlike English: fluid enough, if not exactly mellifluous, but always steely and gray. Beckett, who also chose to write in a language not his own, did so, in an odd way, for the discipline; Kosinski has said that English, for him, is a language of bare bones, lacking the richness of a lifetime of connotations. At the end of The Devil Tree, Kosinski's last...