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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1992 JAN |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
ed |
courage & heroism in real life & in fiction; "Most of our literature is about people as ordinary as we are, caught in extraordinary events, forced by circumstances to make that one small gesture, that one action which will save a life or change the world" |
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Reed, Robert |
After All |
nv |
"love & life after death" |
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Brunner, John |
Man Who Lost the Game of Life, The |
ss |
8th/last story in Mr. Secrett ser.; has novels The Crucible of Time(1983; N-1984 LOC), sequel The Tides of Time(1984); Children of the Thunder(1989; N-1989 LOC); see articles on Brunner in WRT 1992 SPR, INZ 1996 MAY; obits LOC 1995 OCT & NOV, ASI 1996 MAR |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Stephen King: Needful Things; Robert Silverberg: The Face of the Waters; Algis Budrys(ed): L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume VII |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
John Crowley: Great Work of Time; Octavia Butler: Mind of My Mind, Patternmaster, & Survivor |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon: Nitty Gritty of Space Settlement, The |
ct |
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Friesner, Esther M. |
Such a Deal |
ss |
this story to be pub. in Gregory Benford & Martin H. Greenberg(ed): What Might Have Been? Volume IV: Alternate Americas(1992); has fantasy novel, The Silver Mountain(1986), about a prince's quest(B&C) |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Films: Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 47: In Which Artful Vamping Saves the Publisher $94.98 |
mr |
non-review of Edward Scissorhands(1990), dir. Tim Burton, stars Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder; up-date on Installment #44, that horror genre was dead; notice Ted Geiser, Dr. Seuss, died 1991 SEP; Freddy's Dead(1991); Bill & Ted's Bogus Adventure(1991) |
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Goulart, Ron |
Hershey's Kisses |
ss |
has teleplay "The Werewolf of Hollywood" for TV series Monsters(1988-90); has article "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The 60th Anniversary of a Special SF Hero" in AMZ 1988 SEP; nf column on comics in Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine # 4 & #7 1991 |
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Wightman, Wayne |
Cretaceous Waltz, The |
ss |
"a quirky & sentimental love story with a strange twist"; has 1st book, coll. Ganglion and Other Stories(1995) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Star Bright |
sces |
stars; classifying stars according to magnitude in brightness, absolute magnitude, & spectral lines; SETI chances; has autobiographies, I. Asimov: A Memoir(1994; W-1995 HUG, LOC), written mostly from his hospital bed, & It's Been a Good Life(2002) |
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Hauser |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Conner, Mike |
Mystery Spot, The |
nv |
2nd story in Guide Dog series, what happens after Henry's death |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: Dr. Quark - Who Will Answer All Your Questions |
ct |
2nd cartoon in his Dr. Quark series; this one about 'Ask Dr. Quark' radio show; this series by Harris has appeared exclusively, with the exception of reprints, in F&SF |
| 1992 FEB |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
ed |
memories of the space program from childhood, her vision renewed by the report of The Synthesis Group, which has proposed a timetable for a 6-person mission to the Moon in 2005, to Mars in 2014 |
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de Lint, Charles |
Graceless Child, The |
nv |
(1951- ) 1st pub. in Searles & Thomsen(ed): Halflings, Hobbits, Warrows and Weefolk(1991); 1st story pub. sf/f "The Fane of the Grey Rose" in Offutt(ed): Swords Against Darkness IV(1979), became 1st part of his 3rd novel, The Harp of the Grey Rose(1985) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: "the difference between a merely good writer & a genius"; Tim Powers: The Stress of Her Regard; Thomas T. Thomas: Me |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Kate Wilhelm: Death Qualified: A Mystery of Chaos; Diana Wynne Jones: Charmed Life, Witch Week, The Lives of Christopher Chant, Howl's Moving Castle, Castle in the Air, A Tale of Time City, Eight Days of Luke, Dogsbody, & Cart and Cwidder |
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Koman, Victor |
Bootstrap Enterprise |
ss |
(1944- ) 1st story pub. sf "When It Worked" in Libertarian Notes 1976 SEP 5; 1st sf novel Saucer Sluts(1980; vt Starship Women); The Jehovah Contract(1987; W-1988 PRO), Solomon's Knife(1989; W-1990 PRO), Kings of the High Frontier(1996; W-1997 PRO) |
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Haldeman, Jack C. II |
Lonesome Homesick Blues |
vi |
story inspired by seeing a blurry UFO picture, someone "said it looked like a 1957 DeSoto hubcap"; has na w. Jack Dann "Echoes of Thunder" in 1991 Tor double(Stranger ser.); has informal ser. of sf sports stories; also in F&SF with co-author Jack Dann |
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Onopa, Robert |
Swan, The |
ss |
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Lawson, James |
Heartwired: A Montezuma Strip Story |
nv |
(1946- ) ps. for Alan Dean Foster, & in F&SF under his own name; 1st story in F&SF in Montezuma Strip series, which are near-future stories taking place along the mouth of the Colorado River(LOC 1992 FEB, p.57); other stories in AMZ 1988 NOV, & 1993 SEP |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Of Human Folly |
sces |
superstitions, fads, follies; beliefs in Hell, Heaven, the Devil & God, ghosts, zombies, leprechauns, etc, & the "people who believe in all that nonsense"; has nf book Frontiers II: More Recent Discoveries About Life, Earth, Space, and the Universe(1993) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Utley, Steven |
Look Away |
ss |
this an alternate history story, with the South victorious in the Civil War, but with a unique spin; has fiction coll. Ghost Seas(1997); poetry colls. This Impatient Ape(1998 chap), & Career Moves of the Gods(2000 chap) |
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Counsil, Wendy |
How to Tame the Vampire |
ss |
story "very much influenced by ... 'How to Talk to a Hunter' by Pamela Houston (in 1991 Best American Short Stories) ... A friend's offhand comment that Nietzsche once said 'Talent is a vampire' started me thinking about broadening the idea of vampirism" |
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Gilman, Carolyn Ives |
Lost Road |
ss |
"based on a true incident I learned about ... traveling through western Minnesota & South Dakota"; has nf book on frontier & American Indian history, The Way to Independence(1987), winner Outstanding Academic Book of the Year Award, Choice Magazine |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Wheeler, Deborah |
Madrelita |
nv |
(1947- ) N-1993 LOC; 1st story in West City ser.; born in Queens, NY; lives in Mar Vista, CA; has 1968 BA from Reed College, 1973 MS from Portland State Univ.; was Dean of Pasadena College of Chiropractic; has master's rank in kung fu san soo |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Laidlaw, Marc |
Cartoon: Thinking Man's "Blob," The (B-Movies Remade for Discerning Viewers) |
ct |
1st cartoon in his Thinking Man's movies series; has crime novel The Orchid Eater(1994), about Lupe Diaz, mutilated by a gang when he was young, he takes revenge when he is older & stronger on the person he holds responsible, his brother Sal |
| 1992 MAR |
Ferman, Edward L. |
Publisher's Note |
note |
for the first time in 34 years, Isaac Asimov's byline is missing from an issue of F&SF; last month was his 399th science essay, his last due to health problems; see "Asimov Quits Column" in LOC 1991 DEC, p.6 |
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Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
ed |
her experience finding out she is only "partially literate" when she couldn't understand Spanish signs in NYC, despite having studied the language; will try to "publish stories that have their base in other cultures & other literary traditions" |
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Davis, Grania |
Tree of Life, Book of Death |
nv |
"off-beat fantasy with an unusual angle ... mixes a bit of history with a bit of folklore to create a tale full of golems, death, & rebirth"; married to Avram Davidson, with whom she has fantasy novel Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty(1988), set in China |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Donnelly, Marcos |
Resurrection of Alonso Quijana, The |
ss |
N-1992 NEB, ss; written as by translation & annotation by M.D.; in this story he mixes "the legacy left by Cervantes in Don Quixote with some very real modern day concerns"; 1st story pub. "As a Still Small Voice" in Aronica(ed): Full Spectrum 2(1989) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
William Sanders: The Wild Blue and the Gray; Robert Silverberg & Karen Haber(ed): Universe 2 |
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Hauser |
Cartoon: Wilson T. Smedling—A Tragic Footnote in the Early Design of Laptop Computers |
ct |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
essay: characterization & the hard sf novel; Ben Bova: Mars; Martin H. Greenberg(ed): After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien; Susan Palwick: Flying in Place |
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Reed, Kit |
Tapeworm |
ss |
has novel Catholic Girls(1987), a fast-paced, serious & complex story about four contemporary women & one sinister boy; nf how-to-write book, Story First; teaches writing courses at Wesleyan Univ. |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Wilber, Rick |
Calculating Love |
ss |
(1948- ) working name for Richard Arnold Wilber; lives in St. Petersburg, FL; has Ed.D from Southern Illinois Univ.; a college teacher for over 25 years, he teaches journalism at the Univ. of South Florida; book reviewer for The St. Petersburg Times |
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Bryant, Edward |
Country Mouse |
ss |
1st pub. in Bruce D. Arthurs(ed): Copper Star, 1991 World Fantasy Convention(1991); has colls. Author's Choice Monthly #7: Neon Twilight(1990) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon: Day His Mother Predicted Years Ago Finally Arrives, The |
ct |
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Maio, Kathi |
Films: Whine of a 50 Ft. Woman, The |
mr |
essay: the role of the woman in sf movies has not been "ahead of their time"; movies mentioned: The Attack of the 50 Foot Woman(1958); Alien(1979); Aliens(1986); Terminator(1984); Terminator 2: Judgement Day(1991) |
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Farmer, Nancy |
Origami Mountain |
ss |
(1941- ) 1st story pub. "The Mirror" in Budrys(ed): WotF, Vol. IV(1988); 1st novel ya, Do You Know Me?(1994); The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm(1995), sf adventure based on the Zimbabwe Shona mythology; see entry in CA, vol.167, p.118-121 |
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Aldridge, Ray |
Love Farmer, The |
na |
1st story in F&SF in Dilvermoon series; set in the Dilvermoon world(as are most of his novels & short fiction), free-citizen Arriangel awakens 500 years in the future as a slave, & finds that her future rests upon whether she can love or not |
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Struthers, Andrew |
Cartoon |
ct |
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| 1992 APR |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
ed |
changes in F&SF, an F&SF without Isaac Asimov; introduction to the two who will try to fill the empty place in F&SF - Gregory Benford, & Bruce Sterling; see Rusch's interviews in LOC 1990 SEP(#356), After Hours 1991 WIN, & Dead of Night 1994 SPR/SUM |
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