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Last Wednesday, P. D. James made a whistlestop appearance at the Harvard Book-store to promote her latest novel, The Children of Men. The audience of elderly ladies indulged the Baroness in her readings from the book, but clearly considered her apocalyptic sci-fi vision as an eccentric deviation from James' standard country-house butler and-candlestick whodunnit. When question and time rolled around, the crowd voiced their concerns about the suspension of the Commander Adam Dalgliesh detective series: would James please revert to her comfortable, tried and tested subject and style...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: P. D. James Beyond Mystery Novels | 3/11/1993 | See Source »

...canceled most civil liberties. But the middle class still prospers, and Oxford shelters scholars like Theo Faron. Because he is the strongman's cousin, he is approached by a pretty member of a dissident group. Her fellows turn out to be cliches, and, of course, she gets pregnant. Sci-fi is a cottage industry, but it is not the terrain of James, who presides over mysteries. Usually a novelist of daunting confidence, she cannot here even find a moral grounding for her characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Mar. 1, 1993 | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

VIDEO On laser disk, a skull-busting animated sci-fi film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

...BOTTOM LINE: Berserk graphic imagery and a tempering idealism make for a real sci-fi skull buster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pulp-Style Pop Epic | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

With the very first scene, all the huggy-warmy feelings usually associated with animated features take a nose dive. This futuristic movie on laser disc is a virtuoso piece of speculative fiction, a violent adventure tale, a head- bending sci-fi morality play and a venture into the higher realms of animation art that kicks all the squishier conventions of the genre right in their well-upholstered butt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pulp-Style Pop Epic | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

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