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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1998 JAN |
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki |
Gone to Heaven Shouting |
nv |
has novels in ya ser., R.L. Stine's Fear Street #14: Invasion of the Body Switchers(1997), #23: Why I'm Not Afraid of Ghosts(1997), #30: I Was a Sixth-Grade Zombie(1998); novel w. Kristine Kathryn Rusch & Dean Wesley Smith, Star Trek Voyager: Echoes(1997) |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: Alice Finds That the Looking Glass Is Made of Lexan, and She Can't Get Through It |
ct |
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West, Michelle |
Musing on Books |
br |
essay: Robin McKinley's novels; Robin McKinley: Rose Daughter; Sharon Shinn: Jovah's Angel; Will Shetterly: Dogland; as Sagara, also in The Sundered series, Lady of Mercy(1993), & Chains of Darkness, Chains of Light(1994) |
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Winter, Douglas E. |
Books |
br |
essay: cloning novels; Michael Marshall Smith: Spares; John Case(ps.): The Genesis Code; M. John Harrison: Signs of Life; Ballard: Cocaine Nights; Jonathan Coe: The House of Sleep; Wilson & Costello: Mirage; Mayra Montero: In the Palm of Darkness; 2 more |
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Masear, Arthur |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Bailey, Dale |
Night of the Fireflies |
ss |
in this story Dale Bailey returns to the world made famous by Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451(); see online review in Webzine Random Musings at www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/2302/musings1.htm |
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Coulter, Lynn B. |
Singing Thing, The |
ss |
also in F&SF as Lynn Coulter; has journalism degree from Georgia State Univ.; worked for Eastern Air Lines until it closed, giving her the impetus to turn to writing |
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Maio, Kathi |
Films: Touched by an ... Alien |
mr |
Contact(1997), orig. written in '80 by Carl Sagan & his wife Ann Druyan as a screenplay, then in '85 by Sagan as a novel, dir. Robert Zemeckis, stars Jodie Foster, Tom Skerritt; see Sagan book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark('95) |
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Boyett, Steven R. |
Current Affairs |
ss |
has heavily illus. ecological novel The Gnole(1991), w. Alan Aldridge; book Treks Not Taken(1998), a coll. of Star Trek: The Next Generation parodies, written in imitation of well-known authors, see review in ASI 1999 JAN; eBook coll. Orphans(2001) |
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Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Shrinking Number of Increasingly Immense Corporations Will Provide All of Our Employment, Goods, and Services, Radically Altering the Quality of ..., A |
ct |
10th cartoon in his Speculations series |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: Our Complex Greenhouse |
ar |
Earth & the greenhouse effect, Part 1 of 2; a simplified explanation of the causes of the greenhouse effect, its past occurrences, & some simple ways that may help to curtail it(such as plant trees); what will happen if we can't control it |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Finch, Sheila |
Reading the Bones |
na |
W-1998 NEB; N-1999 LOC; 6th story in F&SF in Lingster ser.; how the differences in language betw. native populations on the planet Krishna widen the gulf betw. them, & about one man who ultimately must try to bridge that chasm; being exp. into a novel |
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Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Television—High Defintion Television. |
ct |
11th cartoon in his Speculations series |
| 1998 FEB |
MacLeod, Ian R. |
Home Time |
nv |
N-1999 LOC, novelette; has coll. Voyages by Starlight(1997; N-1998 LOC); 1st sf novel, The Great Wheel(1997; W-1998 LOC), about a priest in Africa who investigates a disease and finds politics & poverty(B&C) |
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Epstein, Benita |
Cartoon |
ct |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
Rafi Zabor: The Bear Comes Home; James Patrick Kelly: Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories; Kara Dalkey: Steel Rose; see de Lint's entry in CA, vol.126, p.72-73 |
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Killheffer, Robert K.J. |
Books |
br |
essay: time travel novels; Connie Willis: To Say Nothing of the Dog; J.R. Dunn: Days of Cain; Three in Time: Classic Novels of Time Travel, by Chad Oliver(The Winds of Time), Wilson Tucker(The Year of the Quiet Sun), & Poul Anderson(There Will Be Time) |
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Van Gelder, Gordon |
Editor's Recommendations |
br |
Merril(ed): The Year's Best S-F anth. ser.; Bester: Virtual Unrealities; Beagle: Giant Bones, & The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzche and Other Odd Acquaintances; Soukup: The Arbitrary Placement of Walls; Lloyd Alexander: The Iron Ring; 5 more |
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Chilson, Rob |
This Side of Independence |
ss |
has sf novels Men Like Rats(1989), about men living in the corridors & pantries of giant aliens(B&C); Rounded with Sleep(1990), a professional hero living on an Earth taken over by a computerized fantasy role-playing game(B&C); see Biolog ANA 1984 APR |
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Ore, Rebecca |
Accelerated Grimace |
ss |
has Becoming Alien trilogy, Becoming Alien(1988; N-1997 DIC; 1988 LOC), Being Alien(1989; N-1989 DIC; 1990 LOC), Human to Human(1990); The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid(1991), Slow Funeral(1994), Gaia's Toys(1995), Outlaw School(2000) |
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Di Filippo, Paul |
Plumage From Pegasus: You Won't Take Me Alive! (Without at Least Ten Percent of the Box Office Gross) |
hues |
agent Dorsey Kazin, SFWA Griefcom, on the scene of a "new-fangled hostage-based contract negotiation"; writer Theodolite Sangborn has allegedly abducted his editor Sherri Drysack ... |
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Beckert, Christine |
Graft |
nv |
(1946- ) former high school English teacher & technical writer; lives in Groton, MA; has pub. in AMZ, TotU, PWr, After Hours, Midnight Zoo, WotF Vol.VIII(1992); story dedicated to nursing instructor Nancy Voneman for providing technical info |
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Watson, Ian |
Boy Who Lost an Hour, the Girl Who Lost Her Life, The |
ss |
has colls. The Coming of Vertumnus and Other Stories(1994; N-1995 LOC), The Great Escape(2002); poetry coll. The Lexicographer's Love Song and Other Poems(2001 chap); his poem "Ode to My Screen Saver" in WRT 1999 SPR(#315), was N-2000 RHY |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: Bright Future: Fixing the Greenhouse |
ar |
Earth & the greenhouse effect, Part 2 of 2; possible solutions to fixing the problem incl. seeding the oceans w. iron, seeding the upper atmosphere w. sulfuric acid droplets; becoming bioengineers of Earth, to try to increase our planet's albedo |
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Nadler, M. |
Cartoon |
ct |
draws with pencil/pen & paper, using watercolors & carbon or pastel pencils to finish inked drawings; uses a Mac computer for scanning cartoons into Photoshop; also been pub. in Reader's Digest, Barron's, SEP, American Scientist, USA Weekend, etc |
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Blaylock, James P. |
Old Curiosity Shop, The |
nv |
(1950- ) 1st story pub. sf "The Red Planet" in Unearth #3 1977; 1st novels fantasies in Elfin ser., The Elfin Ship(1982), The Disappearing Dwarf(1983), The Stone Giant(1989); Homunculus(1986), Winter Tides(1997); see www.sybertooth.com/blaylock/ |
| 1998 MAR |
Cowdrey, Albert E. |
White Magic |
nv |
2nd story in his Azalea Place, New Orleans series |
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Masear, Arthur |
Cartoon |
ct |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
J.V. Jones: The Barbed Coil; James P. Blaylock: Winter Tides; Michael Reaves: Voodoo Child; de Lint has pub. thru Triskell Press his 1st chapbook, The Oak King's Daughter(1979), & A Pattern of Silver Strings: A Tale of Cerin Songweaver(1981) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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West, Michelle |
Musing on Books |
br |
Mary Doria Russell: The Sparrow; Kate Elliott: Prince of Dogs; Terry Pratchett: Maskerade; as M.W., has Sacred Hunt fantasy series, Hunter's Oath(1995), & Hunter's Death(1996), set in a kingdom where hunters must annually their god's prey(B&C) |
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Bova, Ben |
Remember, Caesar ... |
ss |
has Moonrise ser., Moonrise(1996), Moonwar(1998); nf Immortality: How Science Is Extending Your Life Span(1998); novels Return to Mars(1999), Venus(2000), Jupiter(2001); Asimov writes of Bova in I. Asimov(1994); see iv in LOC 2000 NOV(#478) |
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Seelhammer, Cynthia |
Gentle Horses |
ss |
her 1st published story; born in Minnesota, where at the age of 11 she had a stubborn & ill-trained mare; now lives in the San Tan mountains of Arizona, where she is the town manager of Queen Creek(population 4,000); attended Clarion in 1992 |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Morressy, John |
Reflection and Insight |
ss |
15th story in F&SF in his Kedrigern the wizard series |
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Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Caller Eradication Leads to the Extinction of Telemarketers, the Jerky Boys, and Old, Alcoholic, College Friends |
ct |
12th cartoon in his Speculations series |
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Resnick, Mike |
Forgotten Treasures |
br |
Harry Harrison: Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers; Fredric Brown: Nightmares and Geezenstacks; C.L. Moore: Judgment Night; Zenna Henderson: Pilgrimage: Book of the People, & The People: No Different Flesh; Poul Anderson: Tau Zero; 7 more |
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Donati, Stefano |
Last of the Glass Menageries, The |
ss |
his 1st pub. story; lives in Bennington, VT; story somewhat of a blending of Tennessee Williams' work with Cyril Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons"; has short story "Literacy" in Dave Wolverton(ed): Writers of the Future, Vol.XIV(1998) |
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Fitch, Marina |
Imprints |
nv |
has novel The Border(1999), about a Mexican woman with a magical inner voice who crosses the U.S. border illegally to seek her long-lost sister; has interview in LOC 1999 APR(#459); has eBook coll. Pieces of the Sky(2001), pub. by Scorpius Digital |
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Doherty, Paul & Pat Murphy |
Science: Gravity for the Adventurous |
ar |
gravity experiments you can try at home to show that not all objects fall at the same speed, the speed of gravity; experiments shown incl. the free fall ride "The Drop Zone" at Great America, slinky's, bungee jumpers, the yardstick & the coin |
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Masear, Arthur |
Cartoon: Skippy |
ct |
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McGarry, Mark J. |
Mercy Gate, The |
nv |
(1958- ) N-1998 NEB; 1999 LOC; editor at one of the largest newspapers in the U.S., & of the Bulletin of the SF&FWA; has book of 3 novellas with Gleen Chang & Phyllis Gotlieb, The Edge of Space(1979); sf adventure novels Sun Dogs(1981), Blank Slate(1984) |
| 1998 APR |
Bowes, Richard |
So Many Miles to the Heart of a Child |
nv |
8th story in F&SF in Kevin Grierson ser.; ser. coll. in fixup novel Minions of the Moon(1999; N-1999 NEB); has na "From the Files of the Time Rangers" pub. online at www.scifi.com; other Time Ranger stories pub. at scifi.com & in F&SF 2001 MAY, 2002 MAY |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
Robin McKinley: Rose Daughter; Elisabeth DeVos: The Seraphim Rising; Susie Moloney: A Dry Spell; de Lint has pub. thru Triskell Press his chapbooks, Glass Eyes and Cotton Strings(1982), In Mask and Motley(1983) |
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Long |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Hand, Elizabeth |
Books |
br |
essay: in an odd reversal "mainstream has ... seen its banks overflow with ... fabulists ... (& sf/f) books this year ... have been distinctly understated"; Howard McCord: The Man Who Walked to the Moon; Jean Hegland: Into the Forest |
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Van Gelder, Gordon |
Editor's Recommendations |
br |
Scott Westerfeld: Polymorph; Hendrix: Lightpaths; S.V. Dąte: Final Orbit; Benford(ed): The New Hugo Winners Vol.IV; Mark Sumner: Devil's Tower, & Devil's Engine; Card & Ferrell(ed): Black Mist; Faust: Bodekker's Demons; Shea: The Mines of Behemoth; 3 more |
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Wilber, Rick |
Straight Changes |
ss |
baseball story; has coll. Where Garagiola Waits and Other Baseball Stories(1999), in which Wilber discusses, in story intros & notes, how baseball, family, & writing came together in these pieces(B&C); he's the fiction editor at GalaxyOnline.com |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: Flightless Birds |
ct |
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