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Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
Raab, Lawrence |
Voices Answering Back: Vampires, The |
1970 MAY |
pm |
(1946- ) 1st pub. in The American Scholar, in 1969; born in Pittsfield, MA; has 1968 BA from Middlebury College, 1972 MA from Syracuse Univ.; has poetry colls. Mysteries of the Horizon(1972), The Collector of Cold Weather(1976), Other Children(1987) |
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Vampires |
1971 FEB |
pm |
has poetry colls. What We Don't Know About Each Other(1993), Probable World(2000); English Prof. at Williams College(Williamstown, MA) since 1976; also taught at The American Univ. & Univ. of Michigan; see poets website at www.newtrix.com/poems/poets.htm |
Raffel, Burton |
Goodbye |
1960 SEP |
nv |
(1928- ) Prof. Emeritus, Humanities, LSU(Lafayette, LA); has trans. works of Cervantes, Rabelais, Chrétien, etc; 1st book Poems from the Old English(1960); nf The Art of Translating Prose(1994), ... Poetry(1994); poetry coll. Beethoven in Denver(1999) |
Randall, Marta |
View From Endless Scarp, The |
1979 JUL |
ss |
(1948- ) N-1980 LOC, ss; lives in San Francisco Bay area; 1st story pub. sf "Smack Run" in Michael Moorcock(ed): New Worlds 5(1973); has 1st novel Islands(1976; N-1976 NEB; rev. 1980); anth. New Dimensions 11(1980), & 12(1981), w. Robert Silverberg |
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Dangerous Games |
1980 APR |
na |
N-1980 NEB; 1981 LOC, novella; 1st & only story in F&SF in Kennerins or Newhome ser.; to be part of novel Dangerous Games(1980), 2nd & last novel in ser., 1st being Journey(1978); has fantasy novels The Sword of Winter(1983), Those Who Favor Fire(1984) |
Randolph, Vance |
Yellow Catfish, The |
1952 NOV |
vi |
(1892-1980) 1st story Ozark folk tales series; has books The Ozarks: An American Survival of Primitive Society(1931), Ozark Mountain Folks(1932), Ozark Outdoors: Hunting and Fishing Stories of the Ozarks(1934), An Ozark Anthology(1940) |
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Slipping Through the Keyhole |
1953 FEB |
vi |
2nd story Ozark folk tales series, coll. in We Always Lie to Strangers(1951), Who Blew up the Church House(1952), Down in the Holler(1953); has books Ozark Folksongs(1946-50; 4 vols.), Ozark Superstitions(1947), Ozark Magic & Fiolklore(1947) |
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Blood in the Cellar: Ozark Folk Tale, An |
1953 NOV |
vi |
3rd story Ozark folk tales series, coll. in The Devil's Pretty Daughter(1955), The Talking Turtle(1957), Sticks in the Knapsack(1958), Hot Springs and Hell(1965), Pissing in the Snow(1976); see Robert Cochran: Vance Randolph: An Ozark Life(1985) |
Ransom, James |
Fred One |
1964 APR |
ss |
(1922- ) from Cleveland, editor at a medical publishing firm; AB in English & in 1952 a PhD in English Philogy from Stanford Univ.; has written fiction for ESQ, PBY, and for TV |
Raphael, Rick |
Books |
1965 DEC |
br |
(1919-1994) writer & journalist; James Dugan: Man Under the Sea; Martin Caidin: Hydrospace; C.P. Idyll: Abyss; Vincent Gaddis: Invisible Horizons; Isaac Asimov: Of Time and Space and Other Things; Gösta Ehrensvärd: Man on Another World |
Rapp, Tom |
Stardancer |
1976 SEP |
pm |
(1947- ) 1st pub. as a song, Stardancer(1972); led psychedelic folk band Pearls Before Swine(1966-1976; 1997- ); 1984 grad. Univ. of Penn. Law School; Philly civil rights lawyer 18 years, now Florida attorney; www.futuris.net/linen/feature/50rapp.html |
Rath, Tina |
End of Season |
1984 MAR |
ss |
(1943- ) her 1st pub. work in the U.S.; from London, has pub. stories in AMZ, WRT, anth. & English magazines Ghosts & Scholars, & All Hallows |
Ready, W.B. |
Giant Finn MacCool, The |
1952 FEB |
ss |
(1914-1981) 1st pub. in coll. The Great Disciple and Other Stories(1951); wn. name for William Bernard Ready, Cardiff, Wales-born Irishman; librarian at California before becoming the head librarian at McMaster Univ.(Hamilton, Ontario) |
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Devlin |
1953 APR |
ss |
his 1st story pub. "Barring the Weight" in ATL, in 1948; has novel The Poor Hater: A Story of Ireland and America(1958) as William Ready, about an Irishman who comes to America in the mid-19th century |
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Weerawannas |
1953 JUN |
ss |
best known for his early Tolkien study, The Tolkien Relation: A Personal Inquiry(1968, 1981; vt Understanding Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings, 1969), as William Ready |
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Hound of Cullen, The |
1953 NOV |
nv |
1st pub. in 1951; has autobiography, Files on Parade: A Memoir by William B. Ready(1982), the manuscript of which he finished just days before he suddenly died in Victoria, B.C., in 1981 |
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Bridey Murphy: Irishman's View, An |
1956 AUG |
ar |
reports on best-seller Morey Bernstein's The Search for Bridey Murphy; Bridget Kathleen 'Bridey' MacCarthy nee Murphy(1798-1864); preceded by an Interim Report on Bridey Murphy, by Anthony Boucher; hypnosis proves reincarnation? |
Reamy, Tom |
Twilla |
1974 SEP |
nv |
(1935-1977) N-1974 NEB, nv; wn. for Thomas Earl Reamy, his 1st pub. story; in aerospace until he got laid off; worked on porno films in L.A., incl. Flesh Gordon(1972); W-1976 JWCA, Best New Writer; edited fanzines Nickelodeon(w. Ken Keller), Trumpet #1-12 |
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San Diego Lightfoot Sue |
1975 AUG |
nv |
W-1975 NEB; N-1976 HUG, LOC, novelette; has coll. San Diego Lightfoot Sue and Other Stories(1979); has play "Sting" in Roger Elwood(ed): Six Science Fiction Plays(1976); edited MidAmerican Program Book, for the 1976 or 34th World S.F. Convention |
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Detweiler Boy, The |
1977 APR |
nv |
N-1978 LOC, shfi; has novel Blind Voices(1978), shares a common background w. "Twilla" & "San Diego Lightfoot Sue," a small Kansas town around 1930 is visited by a circus full of freaks & legendary creatures, an homage to Finney, Sturgeon, Bradbury(Clute) |
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Insects in Amber |
1978 JAN |
na |
N-1979 LOC, na; a group of travelers are stranded at a haunted house during a rainstorm, but not accidentally, when the psychic abilities of a few of them are needed for all to survive; Reamy died of a heart attack in late 1977; see iv in Shayol #1 1977 |
Reaves, J. Michael |
Century Feeling, The |
1974 NOV |
ss |
(1950- ) working name for James Michael Reaves; lives in Alabama, attended 1972 Clarion SF Writers' Workshop; 1st story pub. sf "The Breath of Dragons" in Robin Scott Wilson(ed): Clarion 3(1973); also in F&SF as Michael Reaves |
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Sounds of Something Dying, The |
1976 MAY |
ss |
now lives in L.A., a telewriter; has 1st novel I, Alien(1978), which was supposed to be the first part of a series, about an alien searching for its fellow aliens on Earth; has novel Dragonworld(1979), with Byron Preiss |
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Shadetree |
1977 SEP |
ss |
has fixup novel in Kamus of Kadizhar seq., Darkworld Detective(1982), followed in seq. by The Black Hole of Carcosa(1988), the latter with John Shirley; has Shattered World seq., The Shattered World(1984), & The Burning Realm(1988) |
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Werewind |
1981 JUL |
nv |
N-1982 LOC, novelette; has series novel Time Machine 3: Sword of the Samurai(1984), with Steve Perry; also with Perry, Hellstar(1984), Dome(1987), the latter a post-holocaust tale set in an undersea habitat(Clute) |
Reaves, Michael |
Tearing of Greymare House, The |
1983 MAR |
nv |
(1950- ) working name for J(ames) Michael Reaves, & also in F&SF as such; has novels Street Magic(1991), Night Hunter(1997); Voodoo Child(1998), a horror novel that takes place in New Orleans during Mardi Gras; supernatural horror Hell on Earth(2001) |
Rebetez, René |
New Prehistory, The |
1983 JUN |
ss |
1st pub. in his coll. La nueva prehistoria(1968); trans. from the Spanish by Damon Knight; René Rebetez(-Cortes), born in Columbia, but spends much time in Mexico; well-known Latin American writer, lecturer, & documentary film maker |
Redd, David |
Sundown |
1967 DEC |
nv |
lives in Wales; works as a civil engineer; has 1st sf/f story "The Way to London Town" in NWS #164 1966 JUL; has pub. over 25 stories since then, mainly in U.K. mags. incl. NWS, NWQ, INZ, Spectrum SF, etc., & U.S. mags. ASI, IFS, FAN, & AMZ |
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Quiet Kind of Madness, A |
1968 MAY |
nv |
has Nancy series of stories about a young woman who has the ability to time travel, "Nancy" in FAN 1971 FEB, "The Mammoth Hunters" in Micheal Moorcock(ed): New Worlds #5(1973), & "Eternity-Magic" in Spectrum SF #6 2001 JUL |
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Morning |
1978 JUL |
ss |
has Senechi series of stories, "The Frozen Summer" in IFS 1969 MAR, "Brother Ape" in Peter Weston(ed): Andromeda #3(1978), "Moon Pearls" in Philip Harbottle & Sean Wallace(ed): Fantasy Annual(forthcoming), "Solus" in Spectrum SF(forthcoming) |
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House on Hollow Mountain, The |
1982 MAY |
nv |
Redd has wanted to write this story for nearly 20 years; has Fireside Tales from the Nameless Land series, "The Sphere" in online U.K. mag. Substance, in 1995, & "The Lantern in the Nest of Twigs" in Scheherazade #15 1997 |
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When Jesus Came to the Moon for Christmas |
1991 JAN |
nv |
has Green England series, "Green and Pleasant Land" in INZ #32 1989 NOV/DEC, "Green England" in Spectrum SF #7 2001 NOV, & one story pub. only in German; see humorous 1990 letter to INZ editor David Pringle at www.rastus.force9.co.uk/SB4Redd.html |
Redman, Ben Ray |
At the Door |
1953 AUG |
vi |
(1896-1961) has 1st novel Masquerade(1923); under ps. Jeremy Lord, mys. The Bannerman Case(1935), Sixty-Nine Diamonds(1940); story "The Perfect Crime" in Ellery Queen: 101 Year's Entertainment(1941), made into 1957 Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode |
Reed, Kit |
Wait, The |
1958 APR |
ss |
(1932- ) her 1st pub. story(aka "To Be Taken in a Strange Country"); working name for Lillian Craig Reed; born in San Diego, has BA from the College of Notre Dame in 1954, reporter for the New Haven Register and for Newsweek |
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Devotion |
1958 JUN |
ss |
her 1st sale |
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Reign of Tarquin the Tall, The |
1958 JUL |
ss |
in 1958 & 1959 won the New England Newspaperwoman of the Year Award; she was the first woman to receive the Abraham Woursell Foundation's literary grant; she was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1964-1965 |
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Empty Nest |
1959 AUG |
ss |
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Two in Homage |
1960 SEP |
ss |
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Judas Bomb |
1961 APR |
ss |
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Piggy |
1961 AUG |
ss |
has 1st novel Mother Isn't Dead She's Only Sleeping(1961) |
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To Lift a Ship |
1962 APR |
ss |
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New You, The |
1962 SEP |
ss |
her husband, Joseph Reed, is a Prof. of English at Wesleyan Univ.; they live in Middletown, CT |
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Tell Me Doctor – Please |
1963 APR |
ss |
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Automatic Tiger |
1964 MAR |
ss |
has 2nd novel At War As Children(1964), that captures the feel of the generation that grew up during & after WWII |
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Cynosure |
1964 JUN |
ss |
see story "The Perfect Portrait" in EQMM 1968 JUL |
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On the Orphan's Colony |
1964 DEC |
ss |
has coll. Mister da V. and Other Stories(1967 U.K.); has novel The Better Part(1967), "She learned the facts of life in a reform school where every girl knew more at 15 than most women know at 50" |
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Vine, The |
1967 NOV |
ss |
has 1st sf novel Armed Camps(1969 U.K.), about a near future dystopian U.S.A. sliding irretrievable collapse, narrated by a soldier & by a woman pacifist(Clute) |
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Underground |
1971 SEP |
ss |
has novel Cry of the Daughter(1971), "about four women bound to the future by their past"; suspense thriller Tiger Rag(1973) |
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Dog Days |
1972 FEB |
ss |
edited anth. Fat: A Big Book About a Broad Subject(1974), stories about obesity; see interview in Charles Platt: Dream Makers(1983) |
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Attack of the Giant Baby, The |
1976 JAN |
ss |
has novel Captain Grownup(1976), about a separated schoolteacher who gives one of his students some advanced lessons; coll. The Killer Mice(1978 UK) |
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