fictioneer

The fictioneer labors under the restraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe.

By this brilliant ploy I hoped I could discredit myself, and appear to be an absent minded fictioneer.

Long ones, too, by the distinguished Canadian fictioneer, whose chief characters seem to represent a pre-1970's generation of women who see how the costly choices they made made them in return.

It could be called "Mutant Fictioneer," because if I had to use two words to describe Radiohead I might choose, being choosy, "mutant fictioneers."

Why make up dramatic stories when the dime-novel twists in fighters' lives (think of Muhammad Ali's, George Foreman's or Mike Tyson's) already exceed the imaginative audacity of even the most character-arc-obsessed fictioneer?

Over the years, Fictioneer has published books by such authors as A.E. van Vogt, Robert E. Howard, Jack London, Otis Adelbert Kline, and Don McGregor.

Howard was all about story first and foremost - there's no dishonor in that - but with Conan he seems to have arrived at a point in his growth as a fictioneer where he appreciated the importance of developing a fully-rounded lead.

During this period, McGregor also wrote the two prose works Dragonflame and Other Bedtime Nightmares (Fictioneer Books, 1978) and The Variable Syndrome (Fictioneer, 1981).

Hot Tips from Top Comics Creators (Fictioneer Books, 1994) is a 120-page collection of more 1,000 pieces of advice on the comic-book industry from the first ten years of Comics Interview, plus capsule biographies of 262 comics professionals.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS FREDERIK POHL is a double-threat science fictioneer, being the only person to have won science fiction's top award, the Hugo, both as an editor and as a writer.