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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1953 JAN |
Leiber, Fritz |
Big Holiday, The |
ss |
has novels Gather, Darkness!(ASF 1943 MAY-JUL; 1950), Conjure Wife(UNK 1943 APR; 1953; N-1987 LOC; made into 1944 movie Weird Woman, & 1962 movie Burn, Witch, Burn!), You're All Alone(FAD 1950 JUL; 1953; 1972; 1980), coll. Night's Black Agents(1947) |
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Seeley, Mabel |
Footprint, The |
ss |
(1903-1991) 1st pub. fantasy story, normally a detective & mainstream novelist; born in Hermanville, MN; earned a BA from the Univ. of Minnesota in 1926; 1st novel The Listening House(1938), The Chuckling Fingers(1941), The Whistling Shadow(1954) |
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Wyndham, John |
Perfect Creature |
nv |
1st pub. in TOW 1937 JAN, as "The Perfect Creature," & revised for F&SF; has his most famous novel The Day of the Triffids (1951; N-1952 IFA; 1963 movie); has novel The Kraken Wakes(1953; rev. vt Out of the Deeps, US); coll. Jizzle(1954) |
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Pearson, Martin & Cecil Corwin |
Mask of Demeter, The |
ss |
(1914-1990; 1923-1958) Martin Pearson ps. for Donald A. Wollheim; Cecil Corwin ps. for C.M. Kornbluth; Wollheim also in F&SF under ps. David Grinnell; Kornbluth also in F&SF by himself; 'Cecil Corwin' is main character of Kornbluth story #954, 1957 JUL |
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Seabright, Idris |
New Ritual |
ss |
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Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Introduction to the Bureau of English Matriculation |
in |
introducing a policy which will present the works of foreign authors "who have markedly influenced the course of fantasy & science fiction in other lands, yet who have never been translated into English"; it introduces Kurd Lasswitz to F&SF's readers |
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Lasswitz, Kurd |
When the Devil Took the Professor |
ss |
(1848-1910) written in 1895, 1st pub. in ?; trans. from the German by Willy Ley (1906-1969); 1st major German sf writer, likened to Wells, Verne |
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Elliott, Bruce |
Last Magician, The |
ss |
has novel Asylum Earth(STS 1952 OCT; 1968) |
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Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Isle of Voices, The |
ss |
(1850-1894) 1st pub. in The National Observer, 4 FEB 1893; studied at Edinburgh Univ.; travelled extensively, settled in Samoa in 1890; suffered from tuberculosis; has novels Treasure Island(1882), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1886) |
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Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Clarke: Islands in the Sky; Poul Anderson: Vault of Ages; Chad Oliver: Mists of Dawn; Ruthven Todd: Space Cat; Wilson Tucker: The Long Loud Silence; van Vogt: Away and Beyond; Merril(ed): Beyond Human Ken; Bleiler & Dikty(ed): The Best S.F. Stories, 1952 |
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Gault, William Campbell |
Joy Ride |
ss |
(1910-1999) 2nd story in F&SF, 1st under ps. Larry Sternig, story #104 F&SF 1951 JUN; mys. writer; born in Milwaukee, WI; has 1st detective novel Don't Cry for Me(1952; W-1952 EDG); The Cana Diversion(1982; W-Shamus); W-Shamus Lifetime Achievement Award |
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Kirk, Russell |
What Shadows We Pursue |
ss |
(1918-1994) on the faculty of Michigan State College, which he plans to leave; well-known writer on conservative thought & educational theory; has nf books The Conservative Mind(1953), The Portable Conservative Reader(1982) |
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Gilbert, Doris |
Chocolate Coach, The |
ss |
writer for TV |
| 1953 FEB |
de Camp, L. Sprague & Fletcher Pratt |
Green Thumb, The |
ss |
9th story Gavagan's Bar series; Pratt has novella "The Blue Star" in Pratt(ed): Witches Three(1952; 1969), which was one of the Twayne Triplets series of coll. - Twayne being the publisher - each vol. coll. novellas with a common theme, was Pratt's idea |
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La Farge, Oliver |
Time Watcher, The |
ss |
1st pub. in ?; has book A Pictorial History of the American Indian(1956), has colls. All the Young Men(1976), Yellow Sun, Bright Sky: the Indian Stories of Oliver La Farge(1988) |
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Henderson, Zenna |
Loo Ree |
ss |
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Oliver, Chad |
Technical Advisor |
ss |
has a 1961 PhD in Anthroplogy from Univ. of California(L.A.), was a Prof. of Anthroplogy at the Univ. of Texas(Austin) until 1990, his fiction usually has an anthropological theme running through it, and many of the settings are in the Southwest(Clute) |
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Wood, Christopher |
Enemy, The |
ss |
has at least 23 humorous erotic novels in Confessions ser. under 3 ps., incl. Timothy Lea: Confessions of a Window Cleaner(1974; 1974 movie), etc; Rosie Dixon: Confessions of a Night Nurse('74; '78 movie), etc; Jonathan May: Confessions from the Beat('75) |
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Clingerman, Mildred |
Stickeney and the Critic |
ss |
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Rogers, Kay |
Experiment |
vi |
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Goldstone, Herbert |
Virtuoso |
ss |
(1921- ) |
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E.D.B. |
Escapist, The |
pm |
1st pub. in the San Francisco Chronicle; ps. for ? |
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Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Bernard Wolfe: Limbo; Franz Kafka: Selected Stories of ...; Eric Frank Russell: Sentinels from Space; Leigh Brackett: The Starmen; Robert A. Heinlein: The Rolling Stones; C.S. Lewis: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; Carey Rockwell: Stand by for Mars! |
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Randolph, Vance |
Slipping Through the Keyhole |
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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M'Intosh, J.T. |
One in Three Hundred |
nv |
1st story Lt. Bill Easson series, has two other stories in series as by J.T. McIntosh; winner best story of 1953 in F&SF, contest results in 1954 MAY |
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Knarr, Emilie H. |
Carne Vale |
vi |
1st pub. story |
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Bretnor, R. |
Maybe Just a Little One |
ss |
reprint of his 1st pub. story, 1st pub. in HRP 1947 AUG |
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E.D.B. |
Solar Systems ... |
pm |
1st pub. in the San Francisco Chronicle; ps. for ? |
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Dick, Philip K. |
Roog |
ss |
born in Chicago; "lived most of his life in California , where most of his fiction was set ... attended college for one year at Berkeley, operated a record store & ran a classical-music program for a local radio station; he was married five times"(Clute) |
| 1953 MAR |
Boucher, Anthony |
Other Inauguration, The |
ss |
has mystery novel The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars(1940 as A.B.); mystery novel Rocket to the Morgue(1942 as H.H.H.; 1952, 67, 75, 88 as A.B.), in which he portrays his sf friends(from Heinlein's Mañana Literary Society) as characters in a murder |
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Sheckley, Robert |
Monsters, The |
ss |
(1928- ) born in Brooklyn, NY; raised in Maplewood, N.J.; served in the Army in Korea; grad. from N.Y. Univ. in 1952; 1st story pub. "Final Examination" in IMG 1952 MAY; early 1950s wrote scripts for TV series Captain Video, as did Knight, & Kornbluth |
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Middleton, Richard |
Shepherd's Boy |
vi |
(1882-1911) 1st pub. in his posthumous coll. The Ghost Ship & Other Stories (1912); Richard Barham Middleton; U.K. writer, poet; has colls. The Day Before Yesterday(1913), The Pantomime Man(1933, ed John Gawsworth) |
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Matheson, Richard |
Disappearing Act |
ss |
has screenplay The Beat Generation(1959; aka This Rebel Age); has screenplays of the work of Edgar Allan Poe: House of Usher(1960), Pit and the Pendulum(1961), Tales of Terror(1962; aka Poe's Tales of Terror), The Raven(1963) |
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Robin, Ralph |
Inefficiency Expert |
ss |
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Tucker, Wilson |
Able to Zebra |
ss |
known to use names of sf fans & writers for the characters in his novels, and this habit of his has been called Tuckerisms; has novels Wild Talent(NWS 1954 AUG-OCT; 1954; exp. vt The Man from Tomorrow, 1955), Ice and Iron(1974; exp. 1975) |
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Bigelow, Leslie |
Sorcerer's Apprentice, The |
ss |
Prof. of English at Arizona State(Tempe) |
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Nearing, H. Jr |
Malignant Organ, The |
ss |
8th story in Profs. Ransom & MacTate series |
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Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Recommended Reading |
br |
best f/sf books in 1952 - R.B. Davis: Chivers' Life of Poe; Bradford Day(ed): Index to the S.-F. Magazines 1926-1950; C. Ryan(ed): Across the Space Frontier; Francis Stevens: The Heads of Cerberus; Kurt Vonnegut: Player Piano |
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Browne, Tom |
Cat Was Black, The |
ss |
(1899- ?) |
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Seabright, Idris |
Thirsty God |
ss |
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Parker, Richard |
Wheelbarrow Boy, The |
ss |
(1915- ) 1st pub. in LIL; U.K. writer for children; has novels The Hendon Fungus(1968), The Old Powder Line(1971, a train is a time machine), A Time to Choose(1973); two novels are tales of magic, M for Mischief(1971), & Spell Seven(1971) |
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Wellman, Manly Wade |
Vandy, Vandy |
ss |
3rd story Silver John ser.; has novels Romance in Black(WRT 1938 JUN-AUG as "The Black Drama" by Gans T. Field; 1946), The Dark Destroyers(ASF 1938-39 DEC-JAN as "Nuisance Value"; exp. 1959; cut 1960), Sojarr of Titan(STS 1941 MAR; 1949) |
| 1953 APR |
M'Intosh, J.T. |
Beggars All |
nv |
1st story pub. sf "The Curfew Tolls" in ASF 1950 DEC, as by J.T. M'Intosh; has 1st novel World Out of Mind(1953), about a disguised alien on an Earth dominated by aptitude tests, where he wins his way to the top & prepares the way for invasion(Clute) |
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Carlson, Esther |
Heads You Win … |
ss |
1st story Dr. Aesop Abercrombie series |
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Neville, Kris |
Mission |
nv |
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Oliver, Chad |
Anachronism |
ss |
has written many letters to the editor to various sf magazines(such as TWS), as a fan before & after his writing career took off; has 1st novel, a juvenile, The Mists of Dawn (1952), in which a young boy travels back in time to the dawn of man |
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Chandler, A. Bertram |
Jetsam |
ss |
1st pub. in NWS 1953 MAR; known for his pocket-universe novelette "Giant Killer" in ASF 1945 OCT, & in coll. From Sea to Shining Star(1990); see criticism article same title as coll. in Eidolon 1991 SUM; see obit in LOC 1984 AUG(#283) |
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Caravan, T.P. |
Random Sample |
vi |
(1926- ) ps. for Charles Muñoz, ps. is variously spelled TP Caravan, & also appears as such in F&SF; a Prof. at the College of the City of New York |
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Nelson, Alan |
Soap Opera |
ss |
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Defoe, Daniel |
Devil at St. Bennet Fynk, The |
vi |
1st pub. in, an excerpt from The Political History of the Devil(1726-7, 2 vol.); short work coll. in Tales of Piracy, Crime, and Ghosts(1945); bio in Paula R. Backscheider: Daniel Defoe, A Life(1989) |
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