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...occasional girl with rapier envy) turned to martial romance for a chauvinized vision of what they would be when they grew up. Despite the fact that Underdog and Bionic Woman now mold the taste of young audiences, Sabatini may be in for a revival. Ballantine Books has reprinted in paperback 100,000 copies each of so-so Sabatini (The Black Swan, Captain Blood Returns, Mistress Wilding). Three examples of super-Sabatini (The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, Bellarion) are to follow. Quickly, one hopes. At his worst Sabatini is a hypnotic yarn spinner. At his best he is a semiserious novelist...
Mass UFOria. Bookstore browsers can testify that the FS imagination has been working overtime. Currently the best-read fiction science (more than 30 million paperback copies sold) is Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods? and its sequels. Von Däniken, a former Swiss hotelman and convicted embezzler with no formal scientific training, professes the notion that the species Homo sapiens was created when astronauts from outer space descended to earth about 10,000 years ago and copulated with apes. It was a kind of one-night stand. According to the author, the satiated aliens...
...elderly or in people with obvious symptoms of illness, they appear to be largely unproductive for the vast majority of the population. For most adults, write Drs. Donald M. Vickery and James F. Fries in a health guide called Take Care of Yourself (Addison-Wesley; $9.95, hardcover; $5.95, paperback), "even the most elaborate checkups ... do not detect early and treatable diseases with any regularity." Dr. Russell Roth, a longtime Erie, Pa., urologist and former A.M.A. president, concurs. In 35 years of routine rectal examinations, he reports, he has discovered in only one patient an ailment that lent itself to treatment...
...likely by 1988. Some best-selling writers in this field are admitted amateurs. "I'm not a writer at all. I could hardly write a letter home," says Marabel Morgan, eyelashes aflutter. Nonetheless, her piously erotic Total Woman has reached 600,000 sales in hardcover, 3 million in paperback...
...BICENTENNIAL GUIDE TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION by Sol Stember. Vol. I: The War in the North, $12.95 (paperback $4.95); Vols. II and III: The Middle Colonies and The War in the South, $8.95 each (paperback, $3.95). Saturday Review Press-E.P. Dutton. Anyone who wants to stand where the embattled farmers stood and fired that shot heard round the world, or to visit any other place in North America where muskets were fired in anger during the Revolution, should pick up the requisite volume of Stember. Thereafter all it takes is a regular road map and the family Chevrolet. Stember...