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Robert Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein American science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) was among the critical figures of the science fiction genre, advancing it beyond adventure stories in extraterrestrial settings. In Heinlein's hands, science fiction became a vehicle for exploring serious... Read more |
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Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh , 1903-66, English writer, considered the greatest satirist of his generation. Educated at Oxford, he was briefly an art student and a teacher but spent much of his time traveling. He served with distinction in World War II. Waugh burst upon the literary scene with a... Read more |
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Eva Figes
FIGES, Eva Nationality: British. Born: Eva Unger in Berlin, Germany, 15 April 1932; came to England in 1939. Education: Kingsbury Grammar School, 1943-50; Queen Mary College, University of London, 1950-53, B.A. (honours) in English 1953. Family: Married John George Figes in 1954 (divorced... Read more |
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National Book Awards
National Book Awards, founded (1950) by the American Book Publishers Council, American Booksellers Association, and Book Manufacturers Institute, and after 1976 sponsored by the National Book Committee for the year's most distinguished works in the areas of Arts and Letters, Children's Literature,... Read more |
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Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marion Zimmer Bradley Popular fantasy writer Marion Zimmer Bradley (born 1930) is considered a pioneer in the field of woman-based science fiction, creating strong, independent female protagonists in her many popular novels and short stories. Beginning her career in the 1950s, author Marion... Read more |
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Great Fire of London 1666
ACKROYD, Peter Nationality: British. Born: London, 5 October 1949. Education: St. Benedict's, Ealing, 1960-67; Clare College, Cambridge, 1968-71; Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (Mellon fellow), 1971-73. Career: Literary editor, 1973-77, and joint managing editor, 1978-81, the... Read more |
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Stanislaw Lem
Stanislaw Lem With the possible exception of France's Jules Verne, Polish author Stanislaw Lem (1921–2006) has been the best-known science fiction writer to work in a language other than English. His books have been translated into more than 40 languages, with total sales estimated at some... Read more |
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937) was the creator of the novel We (1920), a science fiction satire on totalitarianism that was both notable and extremely influential. He also wrote shorter fiction, mostly satirical, that remains less well known but has much to... Read more |
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Honourable scoundrels carve a shallow path through historical fiction
...some breeds of genre fiction are accommodated...display of your average book megastore. Followers...produced a comic-book series and written...This pair of honourable scoundrels find themselves...both Jews, and this book is part of ... |
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Why I believe painful truths are best kept for fiction; Two weeks ago,...
...are real life. This is fiction - scripted television...The Sunday Times as his book of the year - his worst book of the year. So I am...eldest daughter wrote an honourable piece acknowledging that the book she is completing - about... |
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Books: In the court of history Can this ambitious novel of memory and justice...
...contemporary twist is that the book is set in South Africa...some senses, what genre fiction is very good at, engaging...an ambitious piece of fiction which attempts to understand...limit their punishment as agents of the old regime. Set...novel whose ... |
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Too furious for fiction; Moral outrage overwhelms le Carre's latest offering.
...like him, a double agent, feeding trash to the...information home: an honourable, if dangerous occupation...of an ideal fills the book with fierce moral indignation...with two-thirds of the book taken up by a flashback...Meyssan in France, whose ... |
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From John le Carre, humane and artistic `outtakes' of fiction
...consummate Middle European agent) as Hungarian as...Baghdad, and the book was finished at least...level of current fiction. Le Carre is not...of late love. The Honourable Schoolboy, or perhaps...post-war British fiction from what John ... |
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A look back at books that captured our attention.
...Pulitzer Prize (FICTION) No award given...independence. National Book Award (FICTION...retired literary agent, relives a trip...regrets. National Book Award (NONFICTION...this controversial book, Freudian child...HAROLD ... |
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Why is everyone writing a novel these days?
...put it, "IT WAS FICTION WOT DONE HIM...suddenly, weirdly, fiction is hot, an essential...on here. Writing fiction has established...purest and most honourable of reasons - for...authors' respective agents have pointed out...to write the best ... |
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Fact or fiction? -you decide; Truth is no longer respected.(News)
...television rights to his book are being negotiated by his agent, the redoubtable Ed...kindly given me a two book deal,''he explains...view, reveals a more honourable motivation. He simply...government. In the book,it'lldo anything... |
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O Guilin, Peadar: The Deserter.(Brief article)(Book review)
...Deserter David Fickling Books, 2011, pp441...amazing science fiction tale are drawn from...but his tribe are honourable and trying to survive...nano-enhanced agents. The hi-tech...The ideas in the book are big, what happens...It is the ... |
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A traitor to his class.(Dangerous Waters: The Life and Death of Erskine...
...Sands is the special book for sailing, espionage...to commemorate the book. Childers, of course...gentleman ranker in the Honourable Artillery Company...spy, a double-agent, or an agent provocateur...appropriately titled ... |
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