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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1955 APR |
Miller, Walter M. Jr |
Canticle for Liebowitz, A |
nv |
(1922-1996) 1st story of three(a triptych) in St. Liebowitz series; pub. as a fixup novel in 1960, W-1961 HUG; born in New Smyrna Beach, FL; flew combat missions in WWII, converted to Catholicism in 1947; studied at Univ. of Tennessee, Univ. of Texas |
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Procter, Maurice |
No Place for Magic |
ss |
(1906-1973) 1st pub. in 1954; English policeman(ret. 1947) & mystery novelist; has novels The Pennycross Murders(1951), The Ripper(1956); Inspector Martineau ser. incl. Somewhere in This City(1953), Two Men in Twenty(1964), His Weight in Gold(1967) |
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Oliver, Chad & Charles Beaumont |
Last Word, The |
ss |
(1928-1993; 1929-1967) 1st story Claude Adams series; next one in F&SF 1956 FEB(#751) under Beaumont & Oliver |
| 1955 MAY |
Anderson, Poul |
Time Patrol |
nv |
1st story Manse Everard and Time Patrol series; also in van Rijn seq., novel Mirkheim(1977), colls. Trader to the Stars(1964), The Trouble Twisters(1966), The Earth Book of Stormgate(1978; N-1979 LOC) |
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Hubbard, P.M. |
Nobody Hunts Witches |
pm |
has mystery/suspense novels The Holm Oaks(1966), The Tower(1968), The Country of Again(1968) |
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Blish, James |
With Malice to Come: 1. A Feast of Reason; 2. The Billion-Year Binge; 3. A Matter of Energy |
spf |
triptych of parodies, 3 vignettes of familiar types of science fiction; has Okie series novels Earthman, Come Home(var. mags. 1950-53; 1955 fixup), They Shall Have Stars(ASF 1952-54; 1956 fixup), The Triumph of Time(1958), A Life for the Stars(1962) |
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Beaumont, Charles |
Free Dirt |
ss |
wrote scripts for Hollywood movies, TV shows, including 21 episodes of The Twilight Zone(1959-1964 TV series) |
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Dickson, Gordon R. |
James |
ss |
has 1st novel, Alien from Arcturus(1956; rev. vt Arcturus Landing, 1979), about cuddly aliens with shining black noses(Clute); sf novel Mankind on the Run(1956; vt On the Run, 1979) |
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deFord, Miriam Allen & Anthony Boucher |
Mary Celestial |
ss |
(1888-1975; 1911-1968) Anthony Boucher ps. for William A.P. White; both in F&SF by themselves |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
sf in the various media; Clarke: Earthlight; Blish: Earthman, Come Home; Jack Finney: The Body Snatchers; Harold Rein: Few Were Left; J.B. Priestley: The Other Place; Eshbach: Tyrant of Time; Pohl(ed): Star SF Stories No.3, & Star Short Novels |
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Matheson, Richard |
Pattern for Survival |
vi |
has 1st sf novel, I Am Legend(1954; vt The Omega Man, 1971), is about the last mortal man in a world in which a plague has turned all others into vampires - did screenplay for The Last Man on Earth(1964), but not for remake The Omega Man(1971)(Clute) |
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McIntosh, J.T. |
Eleventh Commandment |
nv |
also in F&SF as J.T.M'Intosh |
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Lowe, Rodger |
Who's Counting |
vi |
his 1st pub. story |
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Novotny, John |
Tin Halo, The |
ss |
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Brown, Fredric |
Imagine |
pm |
3rd story vignette series; in anthology, called "Imagine, a Proem"; editor of Science Fiction Carnival(1953), with Mack Reynolds; has fixup novel Rogue in Space("Gateway to Darkness" in SSS 1949 NOV & "Gateway to Glory" in AMZ 1950 OCT; 1957) |
| 1955 JUN |
Knight, Damon |
You're Another |
nv |
his 1st impact in sf field was as book reviewer, incl. in F&SF & in INF(Clute); early reviews coll. in In Search of Wonder(1956; W-1956 HUG; rev. 1967); coll. incl. essay on Judith Merril's The Tomorrow People(1960), see F&SF 1960 SEP br |
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Jones, Alice Eleanor |
Created He Them |
ss |
has also pub. the short stories "The Girl Who Wore Glasses" in PST 1955 DEC 10, and in Redbook, the stories"The Honeymoon"(1957 JUN), "Morning Watch"(1958 NOV), &"One Shattering Weekend"(1960 JUL) |
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Coffin, Carlyn |
Survival |
pm |
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Saki |
Soul of Laploshka, The |
ss |
1st pub. in the Westminster Gazette, & coll. Reginald in Russia(1910); began writing in late 1890s for the W.G. as Saki, after the cup-bearer in Omar Khayyam's Rubáiyát; has novels The Westminster Alice(1902), The Unbearable Bassington(1912) |
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Reynolds, Mack & August Derleth |
Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus, The |
ss |
2nd story in Solar Pons ser.; more books in ser., The Adventure of the Orient Express(1965), The Casebook of S.P.(1965), Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey(1968), The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians(1968), A Praed Street Dossier(1968), The S.P. Omnibus(1982) |
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Smith, Evelyn E. |
Faithful Friend, The |
ss |
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Marsh, Willard |
Astronomy Lesson |
ss |
(1922-1970) 1st pub. in the Yale Review, in 1954 |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Walt Disney's TV program of March 9, 1955, Man in Space; Robert S. Richardson: Exploring Mars(nf); Gérard de Vaucouleur: Physics of the Planet Mars(nf); Leonard Wibberley: The Mouse that Roared; Margot Bennett: The Long Way Back; Knight: Hell's Pavement |
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Wellman, Manly Wade |
Walk Like a Mountain |
ss |
8th story Silver John ser.; see his entries under ps. Levi Crow for mys. & nf books; wrote some 35 ya books, incl. The Last Mammoth(1953), Rifles at Mansour's Mill(1961); wife Frances wrote an article on Manly in NCLR #2 1993, a Special Wellman Issue |
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Wodehouse, P.G. |
Slice of Life, A |
ss |
1st pub. in Liberty Magazine, 7 AUG 1926, & in Meet Mr. Mulliner(1926); 2nd story in F&SF, Mulliner series; Wodehouse wrote lyrics for musicals, 1st for musical Sergeant Brue(1904); playwright, too, 1st play A Gentleman of Leisure, performed in 1911 |
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Beaumont, Charles |
New Sound, The |
ss |
also in F&SF with co-author Chad Oliver in Claude Adams series, 1955 APR(#636), & 1956 FEB(#751) |
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Oliver, Chad |
Artifact |
nv |
has colls. Another Kind(1955), The Edge of Forever(1971); a scholarship fund has been set up at the Univ. of Texas(Austin) to honor Professor Oliver, as well as an annual teaching award for professors |
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Corka |
Cartoon |
ct |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 8: 1955 JAN-JUN |
indx |
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| 1955 JUL |
Farmer, Philip José |
Father |
na |
2nd story Father John Carmody series; has 2nd short novel A Woman a Day (STS 1953 JUN, as "Moth and Rust"; rev. 1960; vt The Day of Timestop, 1968; vt Timestop!, 1970); has novel Flesh(1960); colls. Strange Relations(1960), The Alley God(1962) |
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Mudgett, Herman W. |
Silent, Upon Two Peaks ... |
pm |
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Nash, Ogden |
Tale of the Thirteenth Floor |
pm |
(1902-1971) poet, has many poetry colls. incl. I'm a Stranger Here Myself(1935), I Wouldn't Have Missed It(1975; 1983); see George W. Crandell: Ogden Nash: A Descriptive Bibliography(1990), & David Stuart: The Life and Rhymes of Ogden Nash(1991) |
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Stern, G.B. |
Gemini |
ss |
(1890-1973) 1st pub. in coll. Slower Judas(1929); Gladys Bronwyn Stern, wn. for Gladys Bronwyn Holdsworth; has series of novels on Rakonitz family, 1st The Matriarch(1924; 1987), sequel A Deputy Was King(1926; 1988); The Ugly Dachshund(1938; 2001) |
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Meehan, Thomas A. |
Wind's Will, The |
ss |
screenwriter & playwright; also in F&SF as Maurice Murphy(#81); 1st book coll. Yma, Ava; Yma, Abba ... and Others(1967); has Broadway plays Annie(1977; 1980 book; 1982, 1995 TV, 1999 TV movies); movies To Be or Not to Be(1983), Spaceballs(1987) |
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Searle, Ronald |
Cartoon |
ct |
(1920- ) born in Cambridge, England; has lived in France since 1961; studied at Cambridge School of Art; 1st carton sale for the Cambridge Daily News in 1935; freelance illus. since 1935, an illustrator for Lilliput Magazine since its inception in 1937 |
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Henderson, Zenna |
Walking Aunt Daid |
ss |
Henderson: "Most of my stories are mostly fantasy, adult wishful thinking"(LOC 1983 JUL, #270) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
recommended reprints Karel Capek: War with the Newts; Vonnegut: Utopia 14; Healy & McComas(ed): More Adventures in Time and Space; Campbell: Who Goes There?; David Karp: Escape to Nowhere; Ambrose Bierce: The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter |
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Lasswitz, Kurd |
Psychotomy |
ss |
written in 1885, 1st pub. in ?; trans. from the German by Willy Ley; in 1981, the Kurd Lasswitz Awards were created for the best German sf each year |
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Morton, Charles W. |
All-Purpose Ghost Story, The |
vi |
an associate editor of ATL, where this vignette was 1st pub. in 1953; has books with cartoonist Francis W. Dahl: Dahl's Boston(1946), & Dahl's Brave New World(1947); nf How to Protect Yourself from Women(1951); autibiography It Has Its Charms ...(1966) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. |
Refugee |
ss |
Title Contest Story, orig. titled "This Earth of Majesty" by Clarke, & has appeared in anthologies under either name, & aka "Royal Prerogative"; winner announced, p.100, 1955 OCT, "Refugee" was the winning title |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Note From the Editor: Title Contest |
note |
announcing a Title Contest for Arthur C. Clarke's story, #673; winner to get $200.00; winner announced in 1955 issue |
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Masefield, John |
Sealman, The |
vi |
(1878-1967) 1st pub. in A Mainsail Haul(1905; exp. 1913); Poet Laureate of England, 1930-67; has Kay Harker ser. novels The Midnight Folk(1927), & The Box of Delights(1935); has Christian Fantasy trilogy, the 1st novel being The Trial of Jesus(1925) |
| 1955 AUG |
Kuttner, Henry & C.L. Moore |
Two-Handed Engine |
nv |
(1915-1958; 1911-1987) C(atherine) L(ucille) Moore, born in Indianapolis, her 1st story pub. "Shambleau" in WRT 1933 NOV; has Northwest Smith series(1933-39), Jirel of Joiry series(1934-39); solo novel Doomsday Morning(1957); also in F&SF as C.H. Liddell |
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Clingerman, Mildred |
Last Prophet, The |
ss |
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Arr, Stephen |
Cause |
ss |
(1921- ) ps. for Stephen A. Rynas; had several stories as Arr in GAL, SFA, Fantasy Fiction, Future Science Fiction, & Vortex Science Fiction betw. 1953-1955 |
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Dickson, Gordon R. |
Our First Death |
ss |
has sf novellas, Delusion World("Perfectly Adjusted" in SFS 1955 JUL; exp. 1961), & Time to Teleport("No More Barriers" in SFS 1955 SEP; 1960 chap), both pub. in an omnibus format in 1981 |
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Holding, Elisabeth Sanxay |
Strange Children, The |
ss |
announcement of her death February 8, 1955, precedes her story; has suspense novels Kill Joy(1942), The Blank Wall(1947; movies The Reckless Moment, 1949; The Deep End, 2001), Too Many Bottles(1951), The Virgin Huntress(1951), Widow's Mite(1953) |
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Ottum, Bob |
Chirp Me a Story |
ss |
(1925-1986) working name for Robert K. Ottum; Salt Lake City newspaperman; has humorous novel All Right, Everybody Off the Planet(1972), in which aliens send a spy among us in human form, but ignorant of human relationships(Clute) |
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Anderson, Poul |
Inside Straight |
nv |
has Psychotechnic League seq. The Snows of Ganymede(STS 1955 WIN; 1958), Star Ways(1956; vt The Peregrine, 1978), Virgin Planet(VSF 1957 JAN; exp. 1959), colls. The Psychotechnic League(1981), Cold Victory(1982), Starship(1982), man goes into the galaxy |
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Dickenson, Patric |
Ape at the Typewriter, The |
pm |
(1914- ) 1st pub. in Punch; poet, has poetry colls. The Sailing Race and Other Poems(1952), This Cold Universe(1964); edited poetry books Soldiers' Verse(1945), Selected Poems of Henry Newbolt(1981); see his Autobiography of a Poet-Golfer(1965) |
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