Word: fictionalizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BUCK ROGERS started a lot of it. There was science-fiction before Buck, and there probably would have been a lot of sci-fi without him, but Buck Rogers turned on a lot of kids to anti-gravity and rayguns and flights to the moon-among them Ray Bradbury, who wrote the introduction to the present mammoth volume of Buck Rogers strips...
Those of us who came here when "objective journalism" was a more plausible fiction have merely had our assumptions crushed in the last two or three years. Those who have come since then have seen only the circumstances that destroyed our original beliefs. I'm not trying to sound patronizing here, or to strike a grandfatherly pose at age 20. The point is simply that the students now running the CRIMSON have not had to rid themselves of the same set of anachronistic assumptions that burdened...
Some environment experts visualize future dramas of disaster that seem to border on science fiction. A few scientists feel that the outpouring of carbon dioxide, mainly from industry, is forming an invisible global filter in the atmosphere. This filter may act like a greenhouse: transparent to sunlight but opaque to heat radiation bouncing off the earth. In theory, the planet will warm up. The icecaps will melt; the oceans will rise by 60 ft., drowning the world's coastal cities...
Frantic and Languid. Armah's fiction is stiller and clearer. His second novel, Fragments, is set at a lower voltage than The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, his first novel about the failure of revolution to inspirit his fellow Ghanaians. But contempt for his countrymen still seethes, this time because they are corruptly devoted to cars, tape recorders and neon "WELLCOME" signs at airports. Baako, his fragile hero, cannot adjust to such trinket worship. His sister's premature baby dies when the family too quickly presents it at an outdoor festival because they are anxious...
...FICTION 1. The French Lieutenant's Woman, Fowles (1 last week...