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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1951 AUG |
Arthur, Robert |
Wilfred Weem, Dreamer |
ss |
1st pub. in ARG, in 5 JUL 1941, as "Just a Dreamer"; 2nd story from his Murchison Morks ser.; Arthur a prolific writer for the pulps since 1931, incl. Wonder Stories, Detective Fiction Weekly, Mystery, Amazing Stories, The Shadow, Argosy, Black Mask, etc |
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Curtis, Betsy |
Peculiar People, A |
ss |
Curtis "was a 'Master Costumer,' her concepts & designs winning awards at World S. F. Conventions in Philadelphia, Detroit, Pittsburgh(1960), Cleveland(1966), & was active in The Society for Creative Anachronism"; see obits, LOC 2002 JUN, SFC 2002 AUG |
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Oppenheim, Garrett |
Punishing of Eddie Jungle-Spit, The |
ss |
1st pub. in Liberty 1950 MAY |
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Nearing, H. Jr |
Embarrassing Dimension, The |
ss |
3rd story in Profs. Ransom & MacTate series; series about the doomed efforts of the profs. to formalize a union of the arts & sciences, which are told without malice(Clute) |
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MacDonald, Philip |
Solitary Confinement |
ss |
in F&SF's 1st anthology, titled "Hub"; wrote the screenplays for Forbidden Planet(1956, as by W.J. Stuart) & The List of the Adrian Messenger(1959); has pub. several stories in the Saturday Evening Post |
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Langdon, John |
Man Who Could Smell Land, The |
ss |
(1913- ) 1st pub. in Mast Magazine(U.S. Maritime Service magazine), 1947 OCT; John Franklin Coasten Langdon; has also pub. short stories "Hermit on Bikini" in Bluebook 1953 MAR, & "The Girls of Tombatoo" in Fury 1962 MAY |
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deFord, Miriam Allen |
Daughter of the Tree, The |
ss |
moved to Hollywood in 1918, had small parts in films; moved to San Francisco, worked as a newspaper labor journalist/staff writer for 40 years; contributing editor for The Humanist, she was well-known in the American literary scene in early 1900s(Yntema) |
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Mudgett, Herman W. |
(Untitled) |
pm |
(1911-1968) ps. for William Anthony Parker White, aka Anthony Boucher; also in F&SF as H.H. Holmes; in Anthology #37 as "Limerick" |
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Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Recommended Reading |
br |
John Wyndham: The Day of the Triffids; Arthur C. Clarke: Prelude to Space; John W. Campbell Jr: The Moon Is Hell!; Edmond Hamilton: City at World's End; Jack Williamson: The Cometeers; Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man |
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Leimert, John |
John Thomas's Cube |
ss |
1st pub. in ATL 1945 AUG |
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Heard, H.F. |
Collector, The |
nv |
(1889-1971) Henry FitzGerald Heard, U.K. author & journalist; also in F&SF as Gerald Heard; has Mr. Mycroft detective/horror novel series, A Taste for Honey(1941; vt A Taste for Murder, 1955), Reply Paid(1942), The Notched Hairpin(1949) |
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Dickens, Charles |
Rat That Could Speak, The |
ss |
(1812-1870) 1st pub. in his magazine All the Year Round, 8 SEP 1860, in The Uncommercial Traveler column; author from London, has novels Oliver Twist(1939), A Christmas Carol(1843), Bleak House(1853), coll. C.D.'s Christmas Ghost Stories(1992, ed Haining) |
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Nelson, Alan |
Cattivo |
ss |
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| 1951 OCT |
Bester, Alfred |
Of Time and Third Avenue |
ss |
(1913-1987) born in New York City, educated at the Univ. of Pennsylvania in both humanities(esp. psychology) & sciences; 1st pub. story "The Broken Axiom" in TWS 1939 APR; in 1942 he went to work for DC Comics(Superman, Green Lantern, Batman) |
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Wakefield, H.R. |
Gorge of the Churels, The |
ss |
has colls. Old Man's Beard(1929; vt Others Who Returned, 1929 US), Imagine a Man in a Box(1931), Ghost Stories(1932), A Ghostly Company(1935), The Clock Strikes Twelve(1940), Strayers from Sheol(1961), The Best Ghost Stories of ... (1978) |
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Deming, Richard |
Shape of Things That Came, The |
ss |
(1915-1983) has pub. mystery short stories since novella "No Pockets in a Shroud" in Black Mask 1949 JAN, in New Detective Magazine, Manhunt, Detective Story Magazine, Pursuit, MSMM, Suspect, etc. |
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Gage, Joseph H. |
Achilles Had His Heel |
ss |
(1904- ? ) 1st & only story in F&SF in a series of Western tall tales set in the town of Bonedry(more stories in series was promised) |
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Grinnell, David |
Rag Thing, The |
ss |
pioneered 2 anthologies, The Pocket Book of S.F.(1943), Portable Novels of Science(1945); also edited The Girl with the Hungry Eyes(1949), & was editor for Avon Fantasy Reader & Avon Science Fiction Reader; has World's Best Science Fiction anth. 1965-90 |
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Brookbank, Richard |
Cocoon, The |
ss |
teacher & linguist; his 1st pub. story |
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Seabright, Idris |
Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles, The |
ss |
Margaret St. Clair also pub. mystery stories "Letter from the Deceased" in Detective Story Magazine 1945 MAR, & "Nightmare Lady" in Dime Mystery Magazine 1949 OCT |
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de Camp, L. Sprague & Fletcher Pratt |
Beasts of Bourbon |
ss |
5th story Gavagan's Bar series; de Camp & Pratt collab. on novel Land of Unreason(UNK 1941 OCT; 1942), in which the protagonist is transported into a pixie's fairyland where he helps them overcome 'shapings' which have been making pixie magic fail |
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Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Conklin(ed): Possible Worlds of S.F.; Derleth(ed): Far Boundaries; Crossen(ed): Adventures Into Tomorrow; M. Leinster(ed): Great Stories of S.F.; J.D. Carr: The Devil in Velvet; Vance Randolph: We Always Lie to Strangers; Simak: Time and Again |
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Woolrich, Cornell |
Jane Brown's Body |
na |
(1903-1968) 1st pub. in All-American Fiction, 1938 MAR/APR; mys. writer born in NYC; used ps. William Irish, George Hopley; see readers' response to this story, F&SF 1952 FEB, p.18; 1st novel, Cover Charge(1926); see website members.toast.net/woolrich.htm |
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Matheson, Richard |
Dress of White Silk |
ss |
has colls. Born of Man and Woman(1954; vt Third from the Sun, 1961), The Shores of Space(1957), Shock!(1961; vt Shock I, 1979), Shock II(1964), Shock III(1966), Shock Waves(1970), Shocks IV(1980 UK), R. M.: Collected Stories(1989; W-1990 STO, WFA) |
| 1951 DEC |
Leiber, Fritz |
When the Last Gods Die |
ss |
(1910-1992) writer, editor, drama teacher; studied psychology & physiology at Univ. of Chicago, spent one year at a theological seminary; 1st story pub. "Two Sought Adventure" in UNK 1939 AUG, the first story in his Fafhrd & Gray Mouser series |
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Wilde, Percival |
Haunted Ticker, The |
nv |
1st pub. in The Popular Magazine, 20 MAY 1923; has mystery novels Mystery Weekend(1938), Inquest(1940), Design for Murder(1941), Tinsley's Bones(1942); coll. of spoofs P. Moran, Operative(1947); see http://members.aol.com/MG4273/unalign.htm#Wilde |
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Wellman, Manly Wade |
O Ugly Bird! |
ss |
1st story in Silver John ser., about a wandering balladeer & American folk ballads; 1st pub. work poem "Ripples" in Verse 1925 SPR; 1st story pub. "When the Lion Roared" in Thrilling Tales 1927 MAY; 1st story pub. sf "When Planets Clashed" in WSQ 1931 SPR |
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Porges, Arthur |
Rats, The |
ss |
(1915- ) reprint of his 1st pub. sf story, 1st pub. in Man's World 1951 FEB; born in Chicago, IL; now lives in Pacific Groves, CA; has 1940 BS in Mathematics from Illinois Institute of Technology; served as an instructor in the Army during WWII |
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Schoenfeld, Howard |
Built Down Logically |
vi |
sequel to story #45, F&SF 1950 FLL; has 1st novel Let Them Eat Bullets(1954), about "Jerry Nelson, a tough P.I., who knew what to feed a public enemy, as all hell breaks loose with blondes, lead showers & teenage psychotics" |
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Irwin, Margaret |
Earlier Service, The |
ss |
(1889-1967) 1st pub. in coll. Madame Fears the Dark(1935, U.K.); U.K. writer; has novels Who Will Remember(1924), These Mortals(1925); coll. Bloodstock and Other Stories(1953); That Great Lucifer: A Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh(1960) |
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Wanley, Nathaniel |
(Untitled) |
vi |
(1634-1680) an extract from The Wonders of the Little World, 1st pub. in 1678; a 1-paragraph filler; this book illustrates the extremes of human nature with anecdotes & specific individual examples |
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Arthur, Robert |
Universe Broke Down, The |
ss |
1st pub. in ARG, 7 JUN 1941; Arthur also wrote for radio & TV; most of his pulp output was crime & mystery, & fantasy beginning in late 1930s(Clute), & also pub. in Startling Stories, Unknown Worlds, Collier's, Thrilling Detective; also edited var. mags. |
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Henderson, Zenna |
Come On, Wagon! |
ss |
(1917-1983) her 1st pub. story; born in Tucson, AZ, teaches 1st grade in Phoenix; during WWII taught Japanese-Americans at a Relocation camp at Rivers, AZ, & taught in 1955 at an U.S.A.F. base north of Paris, France, & at a TB sanitorium in Connecticut |
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Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Ley: Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel; Ley: Dragons in Amber; de Camp: Rogue Queen; van Vogt: The Weapon Shops of Isher; W. Stewart: Seetee Ship; Taine: Seeds of Life; C. Beuf: The Innocence of Pastor Müller; J. Oliver: Morning for Mr. Prothero |
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Hart, James S. |
House in Arbor Lane, The |
nv |
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Deardorf, Kenneth R. |
Skiametric Morphology and Behaviorism of Gany-medeus Sapiens: Summary of Neoteric Hypotheses, A |
fa |
(1932- ) 1st Ganymedeus Sapiens series |
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Nearing, H. Jr |
Hyperspherical Basketball, The |
ss |
4th story in Profs. Ransom & MacTate series |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 2: 1951 JAN-DEC |
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