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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1955 JAN |
McIntosh, J.T. |
Selection |
nv |
has novels Born Leader(1954; vt Worlds Apart, 1958), puts two sets of colonists from a destroyed Earth on nearby planets, where the authoritarian set conflicts with the libertarian set(Clute) |
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Clarke, Pauline |
Potato Cake, The |
ss |
(1921- ) working name for Anne Pauline Clarke; U.K. writer of children's books, many under the ps. of Helen Clare, e.g. Merlin's Magic(1953); novels The Twelve and the Genii(1962; vt The Return of the Twelves, 1964), The Two Faces of Silenus(1972) |
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Sansom, William |
Tournament, The |
ss |
(1912-1976) his 1st appearance in any fantasy mag.; UK author; has 1st book Fire Over London, 1940-1941(1941) about the London Fire Service; 1st coll. Fireman Flower(1944); novels The Cautious Heart(1958), The Last Hours of Sandra Lee(1961), Goodbye(1966) |
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Reynolds, Mack |
Expert, The |
ss |
has Homer Crawford ser., Black Man's Burden(na in ANA 1961-1962 DEC-JAN; exp. 1972), Border, Breed Nor Birth(na in ANA 1962 JUL-AUG; exp. 1972), The Best Ye Breed(nv's in 1973 anthologies, "Black Sheep Astray" & "The Cold War ... Continued"; 1978 fixup) |
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Jackson, Shirley |
One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts |
ss |
lives in Vermont; has 1st novel, horror, The Road Through the Wall(1948); novels Hangsaman(1951), about Natalie Waite, a highly intelligent, sensitive, & possibly schizophrenic woman enrolled in an women's college; coll. The Magic of Shirley Jackson(1966) |
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Abernathy, Robert |
Single Combat |
ss |
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Mudgett, Herman W. |
Glass of the Future, The |
pm |
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Gardner, Martin |
Royal Historian of Oz, The |
bio-1/2 |
2-part article on the creator of Oz, L. Frank Baum(1856-1919); see addendum p.83 of F&SF 1955 OCT; has books In the Name of Science(1952), Science: Good, Bad and Bogus(1981), & Notes of a Fringe-Watcher(1988), which debunk pseudo-science fads & cults |
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Humphreys, Emyr |
Girl in the Ice, The |
vi |
(1919- ) 1st pub. in The New Statesman and Nation, in 1953; Welsh novelist, poet & playwright; has 7 novels Land of the Living ser., about Welsh life, Flesh and Blood(1974), The Best of Friends(1978), Salt of the Earth(1985), An Absolute Hero(1986), etc. |
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Nelson, Alan |
Shopdropper, The |
ss |
2nd story Dr. Manly J. Departure series; all of Nelson's stories pub. in F&SF, and one story, "Man in a Hurry," pub. in WRT 1944 MAY, are coll. in Doctor Departure and Others(1989), a "collection of short whimsical fantasy" |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
William M. Sloane: To Walk the Night; Pohl(ed): Assignment in Tomorrow; Philip Van Doren Stern(ed): Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination; Allan Barnard(ed): The Harlot Killer(on Jack the Ripper); Margaret Irwin: Bloodstock and Other Stories |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Singing Bell, The |
ss |
1st story in F&SF in Dr. Wendell Urth sf-detective series; early Robot stories(all but 1st one in ASF 1940-50) coll. in I, Robot(1950); Lije Bailey robot novels The Caves of Steel(GAL 1953 OCT-DEC; 1954), The Naked Sun(ASF 1956 OCT-DEC; 1957) |
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de Camp, L. Sprague |
Lament by a Maker |
pm |
(1907-2000) engineer, MS in Economics, linguist, naval officer, contributor to VoA; 1st story pub. "The Isolinguals" in ASF 1937 SEP; has Johnny Black ser., about an intelligent bear(ASF, 1938-40), Viagens series(ASF, 1949-51); in F&SF with Fletcher Pratt |
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Carr, John Dickson |
Blind Man's Hood |
ss |
(1906-1977) 1st pub. as by his ps. Carter Dickson in The Sketch, Christmas 1937 & in his coll. The Department of Queer Complaints(1940); mystery writer, has novels The Three Coffins(1935), Death Watch(1935), The Ten Teacups(1937), as by Carter Dickson |
| 1955 FEB |
Bradley, Marion Zimmer |
Climbing Wave, The |
na |
crew of the first starship, Homeward, return to an Earth they can not understand; has 1st novel, The Door Through Space(VSF 1957 MAY as "Bird of Prey"; exp. 1961), a space opera pastiche of Henry Kuttner's novel The Dark World(STS 1946 SUM; 1965)(Clute) |
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Brown, Fredric |
Blood |
vi |
1st story in his 1-page vignette series; 1st & most famous sf novel What Mad Universe(1946); has mystery novels Murder Can Be Fun(1948), The Screaming Mimi(1949), Night of the Jabberwock(1950), The Wench Is Dead(1955), The Lenient Beast(1956) |
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Clingerman, Mildred |
Birds Can't Count |
ss |
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Gardner, Martin |
Royal Historian of Oz, The |
bio-2/2 |
has Mathematical Games column in Scientific American, 1956-81, coll. in The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions(1969), Mathematical Carnival(1975), The Incredible Dr. Matrix(1977); has books The Annotated Snark(1962) |
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Gardner, Martin |
Chronological Checklist of Works of Fantasy by L. Frank Baum, A |
bib |
chronological listing of his books; Gardner has ser. of logic puzzles in ASI, 1977-86, coll. in Science Fiction Puzzle Tales(1981), Puzzles from Other Worlds(1984); coll. The No-Sided Professor(1987); More Annotated Alice('90); novel Visitors from Oz('98) |
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Brackett, Leigh |
Tweener, The |
ss |
(1915-1978) born in L.A., writer of detective novels, sf, fantasy & scripts; married Edmond Hamilton in 1946; 1st story pub. sf "Martian Quest" in ASF 1940 FEB; 1st novel No Good from a Corpse(1944), has coll. The Coming of the Terrans(1967) |
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Porges, Arthur |
Tidings, The |
ss |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Bleiler & Dikty(ed): The Best S-F Stories, 1954; Judith Merril(ed): Beyond the Barriers of Space and Time; Murray Leinster: The Brain-Stealers, The Forgotten Planet, & Operation: Outer Space; Poul Anderson: The Broken Sword; del Rey: Step to the Stars |
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Wellman, Manly Wade |
Shiver in the Pines |
ss |
7th story Silver John ser.; J.P. & J.T. ser. colls. Lonely Vigils(1981), novels What Dreams May Come(1983), The School of Darkness(1985); his wife Frances ( ps. Garfield) Wellman(1908-2000) is also an author, pub. in WRT, Fantasy Tales, Whispers, etc |
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Hubbard, P.M. |
Botany Bay |
vi |
his 1st story pub. was in Punch, in 1950; writer of mystery/suspense novels; 1st novel Flush as May(1963); Anna Highbury(1963), Picture of Millie(1964), A Hive of Glass(1965) |
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Walton, Bryce |
Midway, The |
ss |
(1918-1988) born in Blythedale, MO; lived in Hollywood, CA; was a combat correspondent for Leatherneck, covering Iwo Jima & Okinawa campaigns; scriptwriter for TV, incl. Captain Video & Alfred Hitchcock Presents |
| 1955 MAR |
Banks, Raymond E. |
Short Ones, The |
nv |
wrote a radio play performed on the NBC network; used ps. Fred Freair for short story "Life of a Salesman" in PLS 1954 WIN, an issue in which he also had a short story under his own name, "Bottom Is Up"; pub. 33 stories in sf mags. between 1953-1969 |
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Bloch, Robert |
I Do Not Love Thee, Doctor Fell |
ss |
(1917-1994) writer of fantasy, horror & thrillers; 1st story pub. "Lilies" in MVT 1934 WIN; 1st of 67 in WRT, "The Feast in the Abbey" in 1935 JAN; has 22 stories in Lefty Feep series in FAD(1942-46), coll. in Lost in Time and Space with Lefty Feep(1987) |
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Davidson, Avram |
Golem, The |
ss |
attended New York Univ., & Yeshiva Univ., & Pierce College in 1950-51; 1st story pub. "Dan Cohen" was to Jewish Life Magazine, 1947 OCT, as by A.A. Davidson; he had over 20 stories, poems & articles pub. in Jewish Life in the late 1940s-1950s |
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Quattrocchi, Frank |
He Had a Big Heart |
ss |
has book with Henrietta Quattrocchi: Why Johnny Takes Drugs(1974); last name variously spelled Quattrochi, only for short stories in ASF, "Assignment in the Unknown" in 1951 FEB, & "Gramp and His Dog" in 1952 JUL |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Some Questions and Answers |
note |
results of a survey among subscribers |
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Gruber, Frank |
Thirteenth Floor, The |
ss |
(1904-1969) 1st pub. in WRT 1949 JAN; beginning with the pulps, Gruber is normally a writer of mysteries & westerns; has PI series starring Oliver "The Human Encyclopedia" Quade, Sam Cragg & Jonny Fletcher, Simon Lask, Otis Beagle & Joe Peel |
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Seabright, Idris |
Change the Sky |
ss |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading: Best Science-Fantasy Books of 1954, The |
br |
list of the best f & sf books of 1954 |
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Hornsby, E.C. |
Overlooked |
ss |
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Blish, James |
Book of Your Life, The |
ss |
edited only issue of VAN, 1958 JUN; has Okie ser.(1950-54), flying cities powered by antigravity spindizzies; novels Jack of Eagles(TWS 1949 DEC as"Let the Finder Beware"; 1952; vt ESP-er, 1958), The Warriors of Day(TCS 1951 SUM as Sword of Xota; 1953) |
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Anderson, Poul & Gordon R. Dickson |
Yo Ho Hoka! |
nv |
(1926-2001; 1923-2001) 1st story in F&SF in their Hoka series; 3 previously pub. stories: "Heroes Are Made" in OWS 1951 MAY, "In Hoka Signo Vinces" in OWS 1953 JUN, & "The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound" in USF 1953 DEC |
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McClintic, Winona |
Doctrine of Original Design, The |
pm |
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Brown, Fredric |
Millennium |
vi |
2nd story vignette series; has sf colls. Space on My Hands(1951), Angels & Spaceships(1954); has novels The Lights in the Sky Are Stars(1953), Martians, Go Home(1955); has mystery novel Knock Three-Two-One(1959) |
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Anthony, John |
Bone That Seeks, The |
ss |
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| 1955 APR |
McComas, J. Francis |
Parallel |
nv |
also in F&SF with co-editor Anthony Boucher; McComas was born in Kansas City, attended Berkeley High School(CA), & met Boucher when they attended the Univ. of California(1930-32); McComas reviewed sf for the N.Y. Herald-Tribune, N.Y. Times |
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Matheson, Richard |
Funeral, The |
ss |
has screenplays The Comedy of Terrors(1963; vt Graveside Story), The Devil Rides Out(1968; aka The Devil's Bride); has novel/screenplay The Beardless Warriors(1960; 1967 movie The Young Warriors, aka Eagle Warriors); wrote 16 scripts for The Twilight Zone |
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McClintic, Winona |
1980 Overtures |
pm |
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Irving, Washington |
Conquest by the Moon, The |
ss |
(1783-1859) condensed from Chapter V of Book I of his book A History of New York(1809, as by Dieddrich Knickerbocker); the father of the U.S. short story; has famous stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" & "Rip Van Winkle"(c. 1819-20) |
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Dunsany, Lord |
Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, The |
ss |
1st pub. in ?; has colls. A Dreamer's Tales(1910), Fifty-One Tales(1915), The Book of Wonder(1912), Tales of Wonder(1916), Tales of War(1918); 1st novel Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley(1922); autobiography Patches of Sunlight(1938) |
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Reynolds, Mack |
All the World Loves a Luvver |
ss |
1st and only story in F&SF in Luvver series; only other story in series "Luvver" in FAD 1950 JUN(rprt. in AMZ 1969 MAR); nv "The Adventure of the Extraterrestial" in ANA 1965 JUL & ss "A Leader for Yesterday" in IFS 1965 OCT, both N-1965 NEB |
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Morton, J.B. |
On the Way to Her Sister |
ss |
(1893-1979) 1st pub. in Punch, in 1954; John Bingham Morton, U.K. writer, known primarily under house ps. Beachcomber, under which he wrote a comic column in the London Daily Express(1924-75), in coll. Beachcomber(1974), novel Drink Up, Gentlemen(1930) |
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Dickinson, Peter |
Grouse Are Scarce This Year |
pm |
(1927- ) U.K. writer, asst. editor of Punch, best known for his mysteries; 1st novel Skin Deep(1968; vt The Glass-Sided Ants Nest, US); novel The Old English Peep Show N-1969 EDG; has novel Walking Dead(1977), coll. Merlin Dreams(1988) |
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Brandel, Marc |
Cast the First Shadow |
ss |
(1919- ) 1st pub. in Cosmopolitan 1953 MAY; ps. for Marcus Beresford; has murder mystery novel The Time of the Fire(1954), novels The Rod and the Staff(1947), The Barriers Between(1949) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
1954's overlooked books, Chad Oliver: Shadows in the Sun; Shepherd Mead: The Big Ball of Wax; Crossen: Year of Consent; Roger Dee: An Earth Gone Mad; Donald Suddaby: Village Fanfare; Tolkien: Fellowship of the Ring; Dunsany: The Sword of Welleran ... |
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Nourse, Alan E. |
Canvas Bag, The |
ss |
has juvenile novels Gold in the Sky(AMZ 1958 SEP),Scavengers in Space(1959), Star Surgeon(novella in AMZ 1959 DEC; exp. 1960; 1986), Raiders from the Rings(1962); adult novel The Invaders Are Coming!(1959) with Joseph A. Meyer |
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