If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
Spring –
Arthur C. Clarke's short story "
The Sentinel", which will form a basis for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and a subsequent
novel, is published as "Sentinel of Eternity" in the only issue ever produced of the American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine 10 Story Fantasy.
Janet Frame's first book, The Lagoon and Other Stories, is published by the
Caxton Press (New Zealand) (dated 1952) while the author is a patient in
Seacliff Lunatic Asylum,
Seacliff, New Zealand, scheduled for a
lobotomy. It is awarded the Hubert Church Memorial Award, at the time one of New Zealand's most prestigious literary prizes. This results in the cancellation of Frame's operation.[7]
Béla Hamvas completes his epic novel Karnevál. He is banned from publication in Hungary at the time, so that it will appear only in
1985, 17 years after his death.
^Pizer, Donald (1982). Twentieth-century American literary naturalism : an interpretation. Carbondale, Ill: Southern Illinois University Press. p. 115.
ISBN9780809310272.
^Hunter, I. Q. (1999). British science fiction cinema. London New York: Routledge. p. 75.
ISBN9780415168687.
^Saint, Nigel (2000). Marguerite Yourcenar : reading the visual. Oxford: Legenda. p. 181.
ISBN9781900755399.
^Bleiler, Richard (1999). Science fiction writers : critical studies of the major authors from the early nineteenth century to the present day. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons Macmillan Library Reference USA/Macmillan Pub. p. 43.
ISBN9780684805931.
^Reid, Suzanne (1998). Presenting young adult science fiction. New York London England: Twayne Publishers Prentice Hall International. p. 36.
ISBN9780805716535.
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
Spring –
Arthur C. Clarke's short story "
The Sentinel", which will form a basis for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and a subsequent
novel, is published as "Sentinel of Eternity" in the only issue ever produced of the American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine 10 Story Fantasy.
Janet Frame's first book, The Lagoon and Other Stories, is published by the
Caxton Press (New Zealand) (dated 1952) while the author is a patient in
Seacliff Lunatic Asylum,
Seacliff, New Zealand, scheduled for a
lobotomy. It is awarded the Hubert Church Memorial Award, at the time one of New Zealand's most prestigious literary prizes. This results in the cancellation of Frame's operation.[7]
Béla Hamvas completes his epic novel Karnevál. He is banned from publication in Hungary at the time, so that it will appear only in
1985, 17 years after his death.
^Pizer, Donald (1982). Twentieth-century American literary naturalism : an interpretation. Carbondale, Ill: Southern Illinois University Press. p. 115.
ISBN9780809310272.
^Hunter, I. Q. (1999). British science fiction cinema. London New York: Routledge. p. 75.
ISBN9780415168687.
^Saint, Nigel (2000). Marguerite Yourcenar : reading the visual. Oxford: Legenda. p. 181.
ISBN9781900755399.
^Bleiler, Richard (1999). Science fiction writers : critical studies of the major authors from the early nineteenth century to the present day. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons Macmillan Library Reference USA/Macmillan Pub. p. 43.
ISBN9780684805931.
^Reid, Suzanne (1998). Presenting young adult science fiction. New York London England: Twayne Publishers Prentice Hall International. p. 36.
ISBN9780805716535.