| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Russ, Joanna |
My Boat |
1976 JAN |
ss |
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| |
Books |
1976 NOV |
br |
Kate Wilhelm: The Clewiston Test; Ben Bova: Millennium; Sydney J. Van Scyoc: Star Mother; Jane White: Comet; Pamela Sargent: Cloned Lives; Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath(ed): Star Trek: The New Voyages |
| |
How Dorothy Kept Away the Spring |
1977 FEB |
ss |
now teaching at the Univ. of Colorado |
| |
Books |
1979 FEB |
br |
Raylyn Moore: What Happened to Emily Goode After the Great Exhibition?; Fritz Leiber: Rime Isle; Terry Carr(ed): The Year's Finest Fantasy; Stephen Donaldson: Lord Foul's Bane; Joy Chant: The Grey Mane of Morning |
| |
Books |
1979 JUN |
br |
Jack Dann(ed): Immortal: Short Novels of the Transhuman Future; Christopher Priest(ed): Anticipations: Eight New Stories; Lee Harding(ed): Ursula K. Le Guin's Science Fiction Writing Workshop: The Altered I; Cary Neeper: A Place Beyond Man |
| |
Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand, The |
1979 SEP |
ss |
N-1979 NEB; 1980 LOC, short story |
| |
Books |
1979 NOV |
br |
essay: "In Defense of Criticism," introduced by Ferman as a response to letters pub. in F&SF 1979 JUL that disagreed & criticized her book review column in 1979 FEB |
| |
Dragons and Dimwits or There and Back Again: Publishers' Holiday or Why Did I Do It? or Much Ado About Magic or Lord of the Royalties or ... or ... or ..., A |
1979 DEC |
vi |
see interviews in Paul Walker: Speaking of Science Fiction(1978), & in Charles Platt: Dream Makers II(1983); has colls. (Extra)ordinary People(1983), The Zanzibar Cat(1983; N-1984 LOC), The Hidden Side of the Moon(1987; N-1989 LOC) |
| |
Books |
1980 FEB |
br |
Thomas M. Disch: On Wings of Song(in F&SF 1979 FEB-APR); Robert Aickman: Painted Devils; Octavia Butler: Kindred; Carr(ed): Universe 9; Silverberg(ed): New Dimensions 9; Le Guin: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction |
| |
Souls |
1982 JAN |
na |
W-1983 HUG, LOC, SFC; N-1982 NEB, novella; the Abbess Radegunde confronts Vikings bent on looting her monastery; story pub. in 1989 chapbook, said by Russ to be part of a longer work, a future history |
| |
Elf Hill |
1982 NOV |
ss |
has colls. feminist essays Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts(1989), To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction(1995; N-1996 HUG, LOC) |
| Russell, Maria |
Deer Park, The |
1962 JAN |
ss |
working name for Mrs. Mary R. Standard; lives in NYC |
| Russell, Ray |
Incommunicado |
1957 NOV |
vi |
(1924-1999) born in Chicago, IL; served in U.S. Army Air Force 1943-46, attended Chicago Conservatory of Music 1947-48, & Goodman Memorial Theater 1949-51; "Music plays a strong role in many of my stories"; 1st pub. story "The Lesser Sin" in ESQ, in 1953 |
| |
Rosebud, The |
1959 AUG |
vi |
an editor at Playboy 1954-60; wrote screenplays for movies The Premature Burial(1961, w. Charles Beaumont), X – The Man with the X-Ray Eyes(1963, w. Robert Dillon); novella "Sardonicus" in PBY, in 1961, made into 1961 movie, Mr. Sardonicus |
| |
Fortunes of Popowcer |
1971 FEB |
ss |
edited 47 anth. for Playboy Press in 1960s-70s; has novels The Case Against Satan(1962), Incubus(1976), Princess Pamela(1979), The Bishop's Daughter(1981), Absolute Power(1992), has 7 colls. incl. Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Tales(1985) |
| |
Humanic Complex, The |
1978 DEC |
ss |
has used ps. Rex Fabian, Brian Rencelaw, & Roger Thorne; Russell W-1991 WFA, & 1993 STO, for Lifetime Achievement; see his obit in LOC 1999 APR(#459), "Russell played a major role in making Playboy a strong market for SF, fantasy, & horror writers" |
| Russo, Richard Paul |
Prayers of a Rain God |
1987 MAY |
ss |
(1954- ) 1983 graduate of Clarion Writers Workshop, has degree in psychology; 1st story pub. sf "The Firebird Suite" in AMZ 1981 SEP; has 1st novel Inner Eclipse(1988; N-1989 LOC), which describes a search for alien intelligence on a jungle planet |
| |
Open Boat, The |
1991 MAY |
ss |
has near-future urban dystopian sf novel Subterranean Gallery(1989; W-1989 DIC; N-1992 CLA); cyberthriller police detective Frank Carlucci series, Destroying Angel(1992; N-1993 CLA), Carlucci's Edge(1995; N-1995 DIC), Carlucci's Heart(1997; N-1997 DIC) |
| |
Butterflies |
1998 AUG |
ss |
lives in Seattle, WA; has novel Destroying Angel(1992), a cybershock thriller where a killer beyond human imagination is stalking the streets of a city; coll. Terminal Visions(2000) |
| |
Watching Lear Dream |
1999 JUL |
nv |
has sf novel Ship of Fools(2001), about the generation starship Argonos, whose human passengers, searching for signs of intelligent life in the galaxy, are lured to a nearby planet by unidentified transmissions, & are faced by a shocking brutality |
| Ryan, Alan |
"You're Welcome," Said the Robot, and Turned to Watch the Snowflakes |
1979 AUG |
ss |
(1943- ) N-1980 LOC; born in NYC, attended NY Jesuit schools, U.C.L.A. graduate school; 9 years taught English, drama, creative writing, dance criticism; NYT Book Reviewer; 1st story pub. fantasy "Dragon Story" in Roy Torgeson(ed): Chrysalis 2(1978) |
| |
Sanasardo Meets Attila |
1981 NOV |
vi |
has story "The Bone Wizard" in Whispers 1984 DEC, W-1985 WFA; novel Cast a Cold Eye(1984); coll. The Bones Wizard(1988); anth. Haunting Women(1988; N-1989 LOC); see interviews in Douglas E. Winter: Faces of Fear(1985), & in American Fantasy 1986 FLL |
| Rysdyk, Leonard |
Holo-Man, The |
1995 MAR |
nv |
story in TOC as "The Holo Man"; attended 1990 Clarion, where he met his wife, who was one of the organizers; they dated for two years over the phone; she suggested "virtual reality would solve our distance problem," which led to the idea behind this story |
| |
So Tender and Mild |
1995 DEC |
nv |
story inspired by his wife's work as neo-natal intensive care nurse; "I've always felt a little guilty that women have to go thru childbirth when men don't"; 1st story pub. "A Sense of Sharing" in ABO 1992 SUM; teaches English at Nassau Community College |
