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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1956 MAY |
Boucher, Anthony |
Checklist of Books by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore, A |
bib |
checklist is "complete as of January 1956"; a short chronological listing of his books; C.L. Moore W-1981 WFA, for Lifetime Achievement |
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Brode, Anthony |
Mr. Coward Gets There First |
pm |
has nf books The Hampshire Village Book: The History, People and Events of 140 Villages(1980), Haunted Hampshire(1981), A Hampshire Album(1983) |
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Edmondson, G.C. |
Technological Retreat |
ss |
(1922-1995) working name for José Mario Garry Ordonez Edmondson y Cotton; born in Rachauchitlán, Tabasco, Mexico; received MD in Vienna, Austria, but never practiced; this story his 2nd sale, his 1st story pub. sf "Blessed Are the Meek" in ASF 1955 SEP |
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Anderson, Poul |
Nice Girls on Mars (Of Mars and Men: I) |
ar |
response to Richardson art.(#721) in F&SF 1955 DEC, the male point of view, on the sexual mores necessary for Martian exploration/early colonization |
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deFord, Miriam Allen |
News for Doctor Richardson (Of Mars and Men: II) |
ar |
response to Richardson art.(#721) in F&SF 1955 DEC, the female point of view, on the sexual mores needed for Martian exploration/early colonization |
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Matheson, Richard |
Steel |
nv |
has screenplays De Sade(1969), It's Alive!(1969; based on his novelette "Being" in IFS 1954 AUG); has novels/screenplays Ride the Nightmare(1959; 1971 movie Cold Sweat), Someone Is Bleeding(1953; 1972 movie Icy Breasts, aka Icy Flesh) |
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Marsh, Willard |
Machina Ex Machina |
vi |
frequent contributor to EQMM and The Yale Review |
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Porges, Arthur |
Emergency Operation |
ss |
2nd story Ruum series (planet Ilkor) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
nf books related to f or sf, Morey Bernstein: The Search for Bridey Murphy(see article #824 by W.B. Ready on this book, & Boucher intro #823); Edward J. Ruppelt: The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects; Sir George Thomson: The Foreseeable Future |
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Anderson, Poul |
Barbarian |
spf |
a story in the "late Howard Roberts' tales of Cronkheit the Barbarian series"(a spoof of Robert Howard's character, Conan the Barbarian) |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot |
vi |
(1911-1992) 1st story in F&SF in Feghoot series, idea for series came during a game of Scrabble; G.B. is an anagram for & ps. for Reginald Bretnor, & in F&SF as such & as R. Bretnor, & Reg Bretnor, & under ps. E. Bertrand Loring |
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Galouye, Daniel F. |
Pliable, The |
nv |
has colls. The Last Leap and Other Stories of the Super-Mind(1964 UK), Project Barrier(1968 U.K.); novels Lords of the Psychon(GAL 1959 APR, as "The City of Force"; 1963), Counterfeit World(1964 UK; vt Simulacron-3, US; 1973 German movie World on a Wire) |
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Bradbury, Ray |
Icarus Montgolfier Wright |
ss |
this story made into 18-minute semi-animated movie(1962); wrote screenplay for Moby Dick(1956); has anth. of fantasies The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories(1956); story "The Lake"(WRT 1944 MAY) was based on a near-drowning of his cousin |
| 1956 JUN |
Anderson, Poul |
Man Who Came Early, The |
nv |
has colls. Strangers from Earth(1961), Un-Man and Other Novellas(1962); novels After Doomsday(1962), The Makeshift Rocket(ASF 1958 NOV-DEC as "A Bicycle Built for Brew"; 1962 chap), Shield(FAN 1962 JUN-JUL; 1963), Three Worlds to Conquer(1964) |
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Morrison, William |
Star Slugger |
ss |
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Nolan, William & Charles Fritch |
Ship, The |
spf |
(1928- ; 1927- ) a parody of Ray Bradbury; William F. Nolan, Charles E. Fritch, & both in F&SF by themselves |
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Clarke, Arthur C. |
Planets Are Not Enough, The |
ar |
1st pub. in SRL, 26 NOV 1955; speculates on the problems of interstellar flight; has 1st two novels, Prelude to Space(1951) & The Sands of Mars(1951); novel Islands in the Sky(1952); coll. Expedition to Earth(1953); has lived in Sri Lanka since 1956 |
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Bretnor, R. |
Genius of the Species |
ss |
1st pub. in Healey(ed): 9 Tales of Space and Time(1954); also in F&SF as Grendel Briarton, w. his Ferdinand Feghoot ser.(a total of 70 vignettes in this ser.), & as E. Betrand Loring(for a short story in 1987 JAN), both ps. are anagrams of his real name |
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Williams, Jay |
Asa Rule, The |
ss |
(1914-1978) has 11 sf/f stories pub. between 1956-1962 in F&SF, ASF, & FUN; posthumous coll. Unearthly Beasts and Other Strange People(1979); nf travel book, A Change of Climate(1956) |
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Beaumont, Charles |
Science Screen, The |
mr |
author's experiences in a Hollywood motion picture studio, having written an sf film(The Man Who Would Not Die, later rewritten by Curt Siodmak); The Night My Number Came Up(1955); The Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1956); Forbidden Planet(1956) |
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Forester, C.S. |
Payment Anticipated |
ss |
(1899-1966) 1st pub. EQMM 1951 JUN as "The Man Whose Wishes Came True"; wn. forCecil Scott Forester, U.K. writer born in Cairo, Egypt; 12 Hornblower novels, incl. The Happy Return(1937), Beat to Quarters(1937), Captain Horatio Hornblower(1941; 1951 movie) |
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Palmer, Stuart |
Bottle Babe |
ss |
has novel The Penguin Pool Murder(1931; 1st Miss Hildegard Withers series; made into 1932 movie); after novel's success, S.P. used a penguin as a good luck symbol, collected figurines of penguins, & drew them by his signatures on letters |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Heinlein: Double Star; Pat Frank: Forbidden Area; Lee Correy: Contraband Rocket; Wollheim(ed): Adventures on Other Planets; L.M. Boston: The Children of Green Knowe; Carter Dickson: Fear Is the Same; Leonard Wibberley: McGillicuddy McGotham |
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Bloch, Robert |
All on a Golden Afternoon |
nv |
has 1st book, coll. The Opener of the Way(1945); an active sf/f fan thruout his life, he adapted some of his stories for a 39-episode radio program, Stay Tuned for Horror, in 1945(Clute); used several ps. incl. Tarleton Fiske, E.K. Jarvis, Herbert Scanlon |
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McClintic, Winona |
Bright Destruction |
pm |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 10: 1956 JAN-JUN |
indx |
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| 1956 JUL |
Asimov, Isaac |
Dying Night, The |
nv |
3rd story in F&SF in Urth ser.; has coll. The Early Asimov(1972; N-1973 LOC); has Lucky Starr children's sf seq.(as by Paul French), David Starr: Space Ranger(1952), L.S. and the Pirates of the Asteroids(1953), L.S. and the Oceans of Venus(1954) |
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Kanin, Garson |
Damnedest Thing, The |
ss |
(1912-1999) 1st pub. in ESQ 1956 FEB; playwright & director; author of play & movie Born Yesterday(1950); dir. movies Bachelor Mother(1939), The True Glory(1945), My Favorite Wife(1940), Tom, Dick, and Harry(1941); wrote 14 books, dir. over 30 NYC plays |
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Abernathy, Robert |
Hour Without Glory |
ss |
Abernathy is on the faculty of the Univ. of Colorado where he teaches, among other things, a course in East European & Russian science fiction |
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Walton, Bryce |
Contract, The |
ss |
1st story pub. "The Ultimate World" in PLS 1945 WIN; has novel Sons of the Ocean Deeps(1952), in which a failed space cadet gets a chance to mature in the benthos(Clute) |
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Reynolds, Mack |
Martinis: 12 to 1 |
ss |
1st pub. in PBY 1955 NOV, as "Burnt Toast"; has Joe Mauser ser., Day After Tomorrow(na "Status Quo" in ANA 1961 AUG; N-1962 HUG; exp. 1976), Mercenary from Tomorrow(na "Mercenary" in ANA 1962 APR; exp. 1968); has novel, Space Pioneer(1966) |
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McComas, J. Francis |
Insuring a Revolution |
ar |
a new way of estimating our progress toward peacetime atomic power; left as co-editor of F&SF in 1954 AUG, tho he remained as advisory editor till 1962 MAR; McComas edited The Graveside Companion(1962); member of Mystery Writers of America |
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Seabright, Idris |
White Goddess |
ss |
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Young, Robert F. |
Emily and the Bards Sublime |
ss |
(1915-1986) Robert Franklin Young; 1st story of poetic androids ser.; born & lived his whole life in Silver Creek, NY; served w. the Army in the Solomon Islands, Philippines & Japan in WWII; 1st story pub. sf "The Black Deep Thou Wingest" in STS 1953 JUN |
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Cassill, R.V. |
Waiting Room, The |
ss |
(1919-2002) 1st pub. in Perspective 1951 FLL; Ronald Verlin Cassill; has 1st novel The Eagle on the Coin(1950), on racial problems in the South; Dormitory Women(1954), The Wound of Love(1956), Naked Morning(1957), Clem Anderson(1961), Pretty Leslie(1963) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy, The Lord of the Rings; Waveney Girvan: Flying Saucers and Common Sense(nf); R. DeWitt Miller: Forgotten Mysteries(nf); Robert Lindner: The Fifty-Minute Hour(nf); John G. Schneider: The Golden Kazoo; Frank M. Robinson: The Power |
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Fontenay, Charles L. |
Silk and the Song, The |
nv |
(1917- ) newspaperman & writer from Tennessee; 1st story pub. "Disqualified" in IFS 1954 SEP; has novels Twice Upon a Time(1958), Rebels of the Red Planet(1961), The Day the Oceans Overflowed(1964); nf Epistle to the Babylonians |
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McClintic, Winona |
I Want My Name in the Title |
pm |
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Dunsany, Lord |
Club Secretary, The |
ss |
1st pub. in ATL 1934 AUG, & in his coll. Mr. Jorkens Remembers Africa(1934); 2nd story Jorkens ser.; fantasy novels The King of Elfland's Daughter(1924), The Charwoman's Shadow(1926); sf novel The Last Revolution(1951); coll. The Hashish Man(1996) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. |
No Morning After |
ss |
1st pub. in Derleth(ed): Time to Come(1954); his story "The Sentinel" in 10 Story Fantasy 1951 SPR was basis for movie 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968), which Clarke wrote screenplay with Stanley Kubrick; Clarke's role in movie in The Lost Worlds of 2001(1972) |
| 1956 AUG |
Miller, Walter M. Jr |
And the Light Is Risen |
na |
2nd story St. Liebowitz series; survival of man 600 years after 20th century nuclear holocaust as seen thru the eyes of the Abbey of Liebowitz; 1st story pub. "MacDougal's Wife" in The American Mercury 1950 MAR; wrote scripts for TV show Captain Video |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Interim Report on Bridey Murphy |
in |
introduction to the article by W.B. Ready of Morey Bernstein: The Search for Bridey Murphy; a bestseller list for 14 weeks; public interest for the book & in reincarnation has been enormous; a convert is Heinlein(see AMZ 1956 APR); rvw. F&SF 1956 MAY |
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Ready, W.B. |
Bridey Murphy: Irishman's View, An |
ar |
reports on best-seller Morey Bernstein's The Search for Bridey Murphy; Bridget Kathleen 'Bridey' MacCarthy nee Murphy(1798-1864); preceded by an Interim Report on Bridey Murphy, by Anthony Boucher; hypnosis proves reincarnation? |
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Brode, Anthony |
Fourteenth of July, The |
ss |
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Reynolds, Mack |
Compounded Interest |
ss |
also in Joe Mauser series, The Earth War(no "Frigid Fracas" in ANA 1963 MAR-APR; 1963), Time Gladiator(no "Sweet Dreams, Sweet Princes" in ANA 1964 OCT-DEC; exp. 1966 UK), The Fracas Factor(1978); has novel, Of Godlike Power(1966) |
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Drussaď, Garen |
Woman's Work |
vi |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Judith Merril(ed): S-F, The Year's Greatest S-F and Fantasy Stories and Novelettes; Andre Norton(ed): Space Police; Ace Double Books D-155, D-162 & D- 150, the last being Margaret St. Clair: Agent of the Unknown & Philip K. Dick: The World Jones Made |
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Sturgeon, Theodore |
Fear Is a Business |
ss |
his ss, "A Saucer of Loneliness"(made into 1985 Twilight Zone ep.) is said by Budrys(br, F&SF 1976 MAY) to be similar to Eric Frank Russell's ss "I Am Nothing" in ASF 1952 JUL, both "highly creative" & "modern" for their time; also in F&SF as Billy Watson |
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Stanton, Will |
Last Present, The |
ss |
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| 1956 SEP |
Anderson, Poul |
Operation Afreet |
nv |
1st story Afreet, or Matuchek, ser.; has novel The High Crusade(ASF 1960 JUL-SEP; 1960; N-1960 & 1961 HUG; 1994 movie), in which a spaceship lands in medieval Europe where it's taken over by a baron who takes it into space & creates a feudal empire(Clute) |
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