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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1955 AUG |
Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Tolkien: The Two Towers; Wyndham: Re-Birth; Elisabeth Sanxay Holding: Miss Kelly; Dick: Solar Lottery(1st novel); H.L. Gold: The Old Die Rich and Other SF Stories; Bleiler & Dikty(ed): Frontiers in Space; Vance Randolph: The Devil's Pretty Daughter |
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Beaumont, Charles |
Vanishing American, The |
ss |
see articles "A Short Incandescent Life" by Ray Russel, & "Charles Beaumont: The Magic Man" by William F. Nolan, both in J.N. Williamson(ed): Masques(1984) |
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Anderson, Poul & Gordon R. Dickson |
Tiddlywink Warriors, The |
nv |
2nd story Hoka series; 2 more stories: "Don Jones" in Hoka coll. Earthman's Burden(1957), & "The Napoleon Crime" in ANA 1983 MAR |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Nellthu |
vi |
has coll. Far and Away(1955); considered his best fantasy work - "We Print the Truth" in ASF 1943 DEC; his best sf work, is reprinted in F&SF 1959 JAN (#1186); an analysis of his mystery genre work can be found at members.aol.com/MG4263/boucher.htm |
| 1955 SEP |
McIntosh, J.T. |
Man Who Cried "Sheep!," The |
nv |
has novel The Fittest(1955; vt The Rule of the Pagbeasts, 1956), which depicts the harrowing effects of a misfired experiment to increase animal intelligence(Clute) |
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Christie, Agatha |
Fourth Man, The |
ss |
1st pub. in The Hound of Death(1933); 1st Marple novel, Murder at the Vicarage(1930); won a Grand Master Edgar Award in 1954; one of the top mystery playwrights, author of longest-running British play, The Mousetrap(1954); has book An Autobiography(1977) |
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Beaumont, Charles |
Science Screen, The |
mr |
quarterly review of current science fiction and fantasy movies; 2 trends of f & sf film criticism; movies This Island Earth(1955); Conquest of Space(1955); Cult of the Cobra(1955) |
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Seabright, Idris |
Personal Monster |
ss |
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St. Clair, Eric |
Too Many Bears |
ss |
1st pub. in 1949; ps. for George A. Pflaum, per Hawk's; husband of writer Margaret St. Clair; he is well known as a writer of children's stories |
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Moore, Ward |
Old Story |
ss |
married to author Raylyn Moore |
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Saki |
Music on the Hill, The |
ss |
1st pub. in coll. The Chronicles of Clovis(1911); has novel When William Came Home(1914, as H.H. Munro); see George Jones Spears: The Satire of Saki(1963); ss's made into short moviesThe Open Window(1972), The Interlopers(1979), Sredni Vashtar(1979) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
boom of juvenile sf; Morrison: Mel Oliver and Space Rover on Mars; Pohl & Williamson: Undersea Quest; Eric North: The Ant Men; Andrew North: Sargasso of Space; E. Everett Evans: The Planet Mappers; Lee Sutton: Venus Boy |
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Winslow, Thyra Samter |
Rudolph |
ss |
(1893-1961) 1st pub. in her coll. The Sex Without Sentiment(1954); has Broadway novel, Show Business(1926; vt Chorus Girl); colls. Picture Frames(1923; vt Window Panes, 1945), Blueberry Pie(1932), My Own Native Land(1935); nf Be Slim, Stay Slim(1955) |
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Henderson, Zenna |
Pottage |
nv |
3rd story The People series, chrono. story #9; according to Henderson, the People's psychic powers belong to what she called "the miraculous in daily life ... all wonderful, slow miracles of life, growth & being"(LOC 1983 JUL, #270) |
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Brown, Fredric |
Too Far |
vi |
4th story vignette series; has colls. of his vignettes Honeymoon in Hell(1958), & Nightmares and Geezenstacks(1961) - both combined as And the Gods Laughed(1987); has novels The Mind Thing(1961), Mitkey Astromouse(1971, juvenile) |
| 1955 OCT |
Merril, Judith |
Project Nursemaid |
na |
problems of an administrator of a space project attempting to raise embryos in a low- or null-gravity environment(Clute); Merril moved to Canada for political reasons in 1968, living in Toronto; has 2 short stories in VSF 1957 JAN & MAR as ps. Rose Sharon |
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Buck, Doris P. |
Dywyk |
vi |
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Porges, Arthur |
By a Fluke |
ss |
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Priestley, J.B. |
Uncle Phil on TV |
ss |
1st pub. in LIL 1953 APR; has novels The Doomsday Men(1938), The Magicians(1954), Saturn Over the Water(1961), The Shapes of Sleep(1962); plays Johnson Over Jordan(1939), Three Time-Plays(1947); colls. Thoughts in the Wilderness(1957) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
eulogy to literary editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, Joseph Henry Jackson; Lin Yutang: Looking Beyond; Bertrand Russell: Nightmares of Eminent Persons; Willy Ley: Salamanders and Other Wonders(nf); Eric Burgess: Frontier to Space(nf) |
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Manhattan, Avro |
Cricket Ball, The |
vi |
(1914-1990) 1st pub. in LIL; from London; an expert on Roman Catholicism; has books The Vatican in World Politics(1949), Murder in the Vatican(1985); The Vatican's Holocaust(1986) & the Vatican's Role in the Vietnam War online at www.reformation.org |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Talking Stone, The |
ss |
2nd story in F&SF in Urth series; has robot colls. The Rest of the Robots(1964), Eight Stories from the Rest of the Robots(1966); 1st novels Pebble in the Sky(1950), The Stars, Like Dust(1951), The Currents of Space(1952) related to Foundation series |
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Graves, Robert |
Appointment for Candlemas, An |
ss |
1st pub. in PUN, 1 DEC 1954; 1st novel No Decency Left(1932, with Laura Riding as by Barbara Rich) |
| 1955 NOV |
Sturgeon, Theodore |
[Widget], The [Wadget], and Boff, The |
na-1/2 |
group of humans in Bittelman's boarding house, under Alien Observation; has colls. E Pluribus Unicorn(1953), A Way Home(1955), Caviar(1955); has used ps. E. Waldo Hunter & E. Hunter Waldo in UNK & ASF issues in which he has more than one story |
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Drake, Leah Bodine |
Woods Grow Darker, The |
pm |
has 2nd poetry coll. This Tilting Dust(1955) |
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Correy, Lee |
Brass Cannon, The |
ss |
(1928-1997) ps. for G(eorge) Harry Stine; also in F&SF as G. Harry Stine; his novel Starship Through Space(1954) is a sequel to story "... And a Star to Steer Her By" in ASF 1953 JUN; novels Rocket Man(1955), Contraband Rocket(1956), Star Driver(1980) |
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Seabright, Idris |
Asking |
ss |
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Gruber, Frank |
Piece of Eight |
nv |
has books Beagle Scented Murder(1946), The Honest Dealer(1947), The Pulp Jungle(1967), latter about the pulp magazine industry; wrote & produced TV series Shotgun Slade(1959-1961; 78 episodes), about a freelance cowboy detective |
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Porges, Arthur |
Logic of Rufus Weir, The |
ss |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
sf paperback sales; Conklin(ed): Selections from S-F Thinking Machines, & Operation Future; Tucker: Man from Tomorrow; Sloane: To Walk the Night; Kornbluth: The Syndic; Graham Greene: Nineteen Stories; Boucher: Far and Away |
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Nourse, Alan E. |
Expert Touch, The |
ss |
1st story in F&SF, Hoffman Center & Medical Mercenaries series; H.C. is also the background for his novel A Man Obsessed(1955; rev. vt The Mercy Men, 1984)); has novel The Universe Between(ASF 1951 MAR, SEP; 1965 fixup), The Bladerunner(1974) |
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Cartmill, Cleve |
Youth, Anybody? |
spf |
concerning his fictitious 'story' "Nor Custom Stale," which when bought by a magazine, the magazine fails; followed by some tongue-in-cheek background by editor Boucher |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Afterword to "Youth, Anybody?" by Cleve Cartmill |
aw |
"a few notes on the non-fiction element of the story you've just read." Boucher goes on, playing along with the spoof, to say a few things about Cartmill and the strange effects this story has had on a now-defunct magazine |
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Anderson, Poul & Gordon R. Dickson |
Joy in Mudville |
nv |
3rd story Hoka series |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Dreamworld |
vi |
has Foundation ser. novels(W-1965 HUG, Best All-Time Series), Foundation(ASF 1942-44; 1951 fixup), Foundation and Empire(ASF 1945; 1952 fixup), Second Foundation(ASF 1948-50; 1953 fixup), conceived by Asimov as fall of Roman Empire rewritten as sf |
| 1955 DEC |
Anderson, Poul |
Delenda Est |
nv |
2nd story Time Patrol ser.; note by editor Boucher gives the background to the Latin phrase from which this story's title comes from; ser. coll. in Guardians of Time(1960; exp.1981), Time Patrolman(1983) - omnibus Annals of the Time Patrol(1984) |
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Poe, Edgar Allan |
Mellonta Tauta |
ss |
1st pub. in Godey's Lady's Book, 1849 FEB; from story intro, title comes from Sophocles, means 'these things are in the future'; has Auguste Dupin detective series, 1st being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" in Graham's, in 1841 |
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Richardson, Robert S. |
Day After We Land on Mars, The |
ar |
(1902-1981) 1st pub. in SRL, 28 MAY 1955, and in F&SF in an expanded form; story(#741) in 1956 JAN, 2 art.(#785, 786) in 1956 MAY, & story(#1033) in 1958 JAN, on same topic, namely the sexual mores of future Martian exploration & colonization |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Dreaming Is a Private Thing |
ss |
1st pub. in SRL, 28 MAY 1955, & in F&SF in exp. form; because ASF editor Campbell refused to accept aliens superior to humans, Asimov wrote Foundation ser. w/o aliens; ser. takes background elements from "Black Friar of the Flame" in PLS 1942 SPR(Clute) |
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Beaumont, Charles |
Science Screen, The |
mr |
creature-feature movies supposedly made to scare; It Came from Beneath the Sea(1955); The Revenge of the Creature(1955); The Creature with the Atom Brain(1955); The Witch Returns to Life |
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Garrett, Randall |
Blaze of Glory |
pm |
2nd poem in F&SF in his comic verse series, 1st about poor Willie; collab. w. Robert Silverberg under ps. Robert Randall in Nidor ser. of novels, The Shrouded Planet(ASF 1956, JUN,AUG,DEC; 1957 fixup), & The Dawning Light(ASF 1957 MAR-MAY; 1958) |
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Saki |
Hedgehog, The |
ss |
1st pub. in The Toys of Peace(1919); has colls. Reginald(1904), The Square Egg(1924); see biographies, Charles H. Gillen: H.H. Munro: Saki(1969), & A.J. Langguth: Saki: A Life of Hector Hugh Munro, With Six Stories Never Before Collected(1981) |
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Ferguson, Bird |
Interview |
pm |
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Dickson, Gordon R. |
Of the People |
ss |
with Poul Anderson, has Hoka colls. Earthman's Burden(1957), Hoka!(1983; N-1984 LOC), Hoka omnibuses, Hoka! Hoka! Hoka!(1998), Hokas Pokas!(2000), & ya Hoka novel, Star Prince Charlie(1975) |
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Wodehouse, P.G. |
Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo |
ss |
1st pub. in ?; 3rd story in F&SF, Mulliner series; has novels The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England: A Tale of the Great Invasion(1909), Laughing Gas(1936); see website http://members.tripod.com/~WatkynBassett/pgw.htm |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
only 2 paragraphs; Edward S. Aarons: Assignment to Disaster; John Dickson Carr: The Crooked Hinge; Manning Cole: Happy Returns |
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Sturgeon, Theodore |
[Widget], The [Wadget], and Boff, The |
na-2/2 |
has ss "A Saucer of Loneliness" in GAL 1953 FEB, which Algis Budrys says(br in F&SF 1976 MAY) is the most "modern" sf story of 1940s-50s, & is "based on a true incident reported in The Reader's Digest"; wrote Star Trek TV ep. "Amok Time" & "Shore Leave" |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 9: 1955 JUL-DEC |
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