Word: rocketship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abandoned suspense and action for epiphany and explanation. Their characters descended slowly, slowly into themselves and then emerged, slimy with some new knowledge, in the last chapter. And in that last chapter they would explain. You see... this makes it all so clear! It wasn't important that the rocketship got to Alpha Centauri after all; what really matters is that we now understand the superego. Or the sex drive. Or our place on the evolutionary ladder. Or whatever...