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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1952 AUG |
Hartley, L.P. |
W.S. |
ss |
(1895-1972) 1st pub. in World Review 1952 JAN; Leslie Poles Hartley; U.K. novelist, short story writer; has ghost story colls., incl. Night Fears(1924), The Killing Bottle(1932), The Complete Short Stories of ...(1973), sf novel Facial Justice(1960) |
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Dewey, G. Gordon |
Tooth, The |
ss |
(1916- ) also has short story "The Collectors" with Max Dancey, a ps. for Peter Grainger, in AMZ 1953 JUN/JUL |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Nine-Finger Jack |
ss |
1st pub. in ESQ 1951 MAY; Boucher(White) grew up in Pasadena, CA; became a language teacher & translator, fluent in French, Spanish & Portugese; became theater critic in 1935; has 1st mystery novel The Case of the Seventh Calvary(1937, as by H.H. Holmes) |
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Ashby, Richard |
Sling, The |
ss |
has J. Marty Reed series in OWS 1950 NOV & 1952 APR; has 8 short stories in men's mags. Adam, Knight, & Pix betw. 1964 MAR-1970 SEP; associate editor of Vertex SF 1973-75 |
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Bennett, Kem |
Soothsayer, The |
ss |
(1919- ) 1st pub. outside of the U.S.; Kemys Deverell Bennett; he has a novel The Fabulous Wink(1951)' has pub. sevaral stories in Argosy, the U.K. version of Argosy, & the Saturday Evening Post betw. 1951 OCT-1963 MAR |
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Derleth, August |
"Who Shall I Say Is Calling?" |
ss |
edited Sleep No More(1944), Who Knocks?(1946), The Sleeping & the Dead(1947), Strange Ports of Call(1948), Beyond Time and Space(1950); has colls. Lonesome Places(1962), Mr. George and Other Odd Persons(1963 as by Stephen Grendon; 1964 as by Derleth) |
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Dickson, Gordon R. |
Listen |
ss |
(1923-2001) born in Edmondton, Canada, moved to U.S. at age 13; 4-years service in WWII; member w. Poul Anderson in Minneapolis Fantasy Society; 1948 BA in English from Univ. of Minnesota; 1st story pub. sf "Trespass!" in FSQ 1950 SPR, w. Poul Anderson |
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Kelly, Dan & Cleve Cartmill |
Nor Iron Bars |
ss |
(? - ?; 1908-1964) |
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Drussaļ, Garen |
Extra-Curricular |
ss |
her 1st pub. story; has short story "Why Don't You Answer, Theodore?" in MSMM 1970 MAY |
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Clingerman, Mildred |
Stair Trick |
ss |
has short story "The Little Witch of Elm Street" in the Woman's Home Companion 1956 OCT |
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Wolf, Leonard |
Note on a Grave Situation |
pm |
(1923- ) has coll. of poetry, Hamadryad Hunted(1946) |
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Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Heinlein: Tomorrow the Stars; Merril & Pohl(ed): Beyond the End of Time; Groff Conklin(ed): Invaders of Earth; H.L. Gold(ed): Galaxy Reader of S.F.; James Blish: Jack of Eagles; A.E. van Vogt: Destination: Universe!(coll.); Maurice Walsh: Son of a Tinker |
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Greene, Graham |
Proof Positive |
ss |
(1904-1991) written in 1930 & 1st pub. in HRP 1947 OCT & in his coll. Nineteen Stories(1947); U.K. author; 1st novel The Man Within(1929; 1947 movie); Stamboul Train(1932; 1934 movie Orient Express), The Power and the Glory(1939; 1947, 1961 movies) |
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Nelson, Alan |
Gualcophone, The |
ss |
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White, E.B. |
Hour of Letdown, The |
ss |
(1899-1985) 1st pub. in NYM, 22 DEC 1951; working name for Elwyn Brooks White; NYM's Talk of the Town columnist; wrote Stuart Little(1945; 1999 movie), Charlotte's Web(1952; 1973 movie); see website www.kirjasto.sci.fi//ebwhite.htm |
| 1952 SEP |
Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Note From the Editors |
note |
change from a bimonthly to a monthly publishing schedule; change in the style of the title on the cover |
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Robin, Ralph |
Budding Explorer |
ss |
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Hickey, H.B. |
Hilda |
ss |
(1916- ) ps. for Herb Livingston; has pub. at least 7 short stories in the pulps mags. Mammoth Mystery, Mammoth Adventure, & Mammoth Western betw. 1946 JUN-1949 DEC |
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Deardorf, Kenneth R. |
Ganymedeus Sapiens: Modern Scientific Dilemma |
fa |
2nd Ganymedeus Sapiens series |
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Coppel, Alfred |
Mother |
vi |
has 1st sf novel Dark December(1960); has Rhada space-opera seq. of juvenile novels, The Rebel of Rhada(1968), The Navigator of Rhada(1969), The Warlock of Rhada(1985) |
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Nearing, H. Jr |
Factitious Pentangle, The |
ss |
6th story in Profs. Ransom & MacTate series |
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Lawton, Harry |
Extracts From a Bibliomaniac's Journal |
vi |
1st pub. story; bookseller |
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Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Arthur C. Clarke: Sands of Mars(nf); C.M. Kornbluth: Takeoff; John W. Campbell Jr: Cloak of Aesir; Martin Greenberg(ed): Five S.F. Novels; August Derleth(ed): Night's Yawning Peal |
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Gross, Marion |
Good Provider, The |
ss |
her 1st pub. story |
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Porges, Arthur |
Fly, The |
ss |
taught mathematics at Illinois Institute of Technology, De Paul Univ., & Western Military Academy; retired in 1957 to become a fulltime writer; has written many essays, articles & poems for The Monterey Herald, & other periodicals |
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Cartur, Peter |
Mist, The |
vi |
(1916- ) ps. for Peter Grainger, also in F&SF under ps. Max Dancey, & Dancey with co-author G. Gordon Dewey |
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Armstrong, Charlotte |
Three Day Magic |
na |
(1905-1969) 1st pub. in shorter version in a 1948 women's mag.; working name for Charlotte Armstrong Lewi, mystery writer; novel A Dram of Poison W-1956 EDG; N or W several other Edgars; 1st novel Lay on, MacDuff!(1942, 1st in MacDuff series) |
| 1952 OCT |
Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Note From the Editors |
note |
reporting the 1st of a new series of covers by Chesley Bonestell |
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Shaara, Michael |
Grenville's Planet |
ss |
(1929-1988) born in Jersey City, NJ; grad. of Rutgers Univ.; 1st story pub. sf "All the Way Back" in ASF 1952 JUL; English Lit. prof. at Florida State Univ.; 1st novel The Broken Place(1968); has Pulitzer Prize winning Civil War novel, Killer Angels(1974) |
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de Camp, L. Sprague & Fletcher Pratt |
Black Ball, The |
ss |
8th story Gavagan's Bar series; Pratt has fantasy novel The Well of the Unicorn(1948 as by George U. Fletcher; 1967 as by F.P.); novel The Undying Fire(1953) |
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M'Intosh, J.T. |
Talents |
nv |
(1925- ) ps. for James Murdoch MacGregor, also in F&SF under ps. J.T. McIntosh, both used for his sf works; Scottish writer & journalist, from Aberdeen; has also pub. non-sf under his own name |
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Wodehouse, P.G. |
Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court |
ss |
(1881-1975) 1st pub. in Liberty Magazine, 2 FEB 1929; from his Mulliner clan ser., 1st story in F&SF in ser.; Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, U.K. writer living in the U.S.; has 1st novel The Pothunters(1901); has Jeeves & Wooster characters in books & movies |
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Boucher, Anthony |
First, The |
vi |
Boucher was his grandmother's maiden name; also in F&SF as H.H. Holmes & Herman W. Mudgett; his 2nd mystery novel, The Case of the Crumpled Knave(1939), introduced series character, private eye Fergus O'Breen; also had Nick Noble mys. ser. |
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deFord, Miriam Allen |
Old Man Morgan's Grave |
ss |
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Charteris, Leslie |
Darker Drink, The |
ss |
(1907-1993) sf-horror, 1st pub. in TWS 1947 OCT; 1st story in F&SF from Simon Templar, or The Saint series; ps. for Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin, legally changed to L.C.; The Saint 1st appeared in Charteris' novel, Meet the Tiger(1928) |
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Seabright, Idris |
Egg a Month From All Over, An |
ss |
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Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Recommended Reading |
br |
John Collier: Fancies and Goodnights(W-1951 EDG); Arthur C. Clarke: The Exploration of Space(nf); de Camp & Ley: Lands Beyond(nf); Simak: City; Gerald Heard: Gabriel and the Creatures; Bleiler & Dikty: The Year's Best S.F. Novels, 1952 |
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Buck, Doris P. |
Aunt Agatha |
vi |
(1898-1980) her 1st pub. story; Doris Pitkin Buck, & also in F&SF as such; born in New York City; graduated from Bryn Mawr College(PA) in 1920, earned an MA from Columbia Univ. in 1925 |
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Henderson, Zenna |
Ararat |
nv |
1st story The People series, chronologically story #6; this series recounts over a long timespan the arduous experiences of a group of aliens with psi powers who have been shipwrecked on Earth & try to survive as well as possible(Clute) |
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Finney, Jack |
Third Level, The |
ss |
(1911-1995) 1st pub. in COL, 7 OCT 1950, 1st/only story in F&SF in Timeslip ser.; wn. for Walter B. Finney; 1st story pub. sf "Such Interesting Neighbors" in COL in 1951; novels Five Against the House(1954), Marion's Wall(1973); W-1987 WFA, Lifetime Award |
| 1952 NOV |
Dick, Philip K. |
Little Movement, The |
ss |
(1928-1982) his 1st sale(story bought back in 1951 NOV; 1st story pub. "Beyond Lies the Wub" in PLS 1952 JUL; considered one of the 3 most important figures in 20th-century U.S. sf(Clute); story "Second Variety"(SSF 1953 MAY) basis 1995 movie Screamers |
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Clingerman, Mildred |
Winning Recipe |
ss |
1st pub. in COL, 21 JUN 1952 |
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Wolf, Leonard |
Three Recipes for Pletoid Soup: I |
pm |
has two books of interviews, Voices from the Love Generation(1968), & The Passion of Israel(1970) |
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Grinnell, David |
Malice Aforethought |
ss |
was editor for several fanzines, & sf magazines Cosmic Stories, Stirring Science Stories, & Ten Story Fantasy; editor for Ace Books from 1952, winning a 1964 Hugo Award for his work; had Mike Mars series of children's books, from 1961-64 |
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Smith, Evelyn E. |
Martian and the Magician, The |
ss |
(1922-2000) native New Yorker; a freelance writer, mostly of articles; her 1st story pub. sf "Tea Tray in the Sky" in GAL 1952 SEP |
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Moore, Ward |
Bring the Jubilee |
no |
(1903-1978) his most famous sf tale, a time-travel alternate history, in which the Confederates won the Civil War(Clute), pub. in book form in 1953; Joseph Ward Moore; initially well known outside of sf with novels such as Breathe the Air Again(1942) |
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Wolf, Leonard |
Three Recipes for Pletoid Soup: II |
pm |
has book of vampire folklore, A Dream of Dracula: In Search of the Living Dead(1972); has books The Annotated Dracula(1975, Bram Stoker's novel), The Essential Dracula(1993), Dracula: The Connoisseur's Guide(1997) |
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Webb, Charles T. |
BEM |
vi |
also in F&SF as Charles Webb; has vignettes "The Mink Coat" in The American Magazine 1952 OCT, "Space Opera" in OWS 1952 DEC, & "Psychobabble" in James Charlton(ed): Bred Any Good Rooks Lately?(1986) |
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Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Ray Bradbury(ed): Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow; Geoffrey Household: Tales of Adventurers; Cyril Judd: Outpost Mars; John Taine: The Crystal Horde |
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Wolf, Leonard |
Three Recipes for Pletoid Soup: III |
pm |
has book The Annotated Frankenstein(1977, Mary Shelley's novel), with artwork by Marcia Huyette |
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