Science, Fiction and Fantasy
PACE cadets. blasting off. in their rocket ships to ‘atiother planet, lovely Martian maidens, carrotmen, and other aspects of science fiction are the subject of a BBC talk; The. Boredom of,Fantasy, by the distinguished author: and journalist Arthur Koéstler. The talk’ will be
heard from 4YC at 10.0 p.m. on Wednesday, March 24, and later from other National stations, Mr. Koestler considers with a certain amount of seriolisness some as--_pects of the current craze for ~ science fiction which is raging all over the world, but with particular intensity in the United States.
He considers that although the matter has its grotesque side, with all its interplanetary goings-on and children atomising each other with nuclear blasters, a craze of such vast dimensions is never entirely crazy. It always expresses.in a distorted way, he says, some unconscious need of the time. Science fiction is -a typical product of the atomic age, whose discoveries lie like an undigested lump on the stomach of mankind.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 17
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165Science, Fiction and Fantasy New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 17
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