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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1956 SEP |
Moore, Ward |
Flying Dutchman |
ss |
1st pub. in Kendell F. Crossen(ed): Adventures in Tomorrow(1951) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Jules Verne: Voyagiste |
in |
the introduction to a new edition of Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) |
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Wilson, Richard |
Lonely Road |
ss |
has 1st novel The Girls from Planet 5(1955), in which aliens comically invade the Earth; has two other novels with the same theme, And Then the Town Took Off(1960), & 30-Day Wonder(1960) |
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Bloch, Robert |
Some of My Best Fans Are Friends |
ar |
in which Bloch explains the sf fan to the sf reader; has a coll. of fanzine articles, The Eighth Stage of Fandom(1962, edited by Earl Kemp); has famous story "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper"(WRT 1943 JUL), & related novel The Night of the Ripper(1984) |
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Bretnor, R. |
Past and Its Dead People, The |
nv |
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Beaumont, Charles |
Science Screen, The |
mr |
sf movie boom-bust arriving; more of Beaumont's 'Adventures in Tinseltown'; reviews movie On the Threshold of Space(1956) |
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Boyd, Lyle G. |
Verb Sap? |
ss |
(1907- ) wife of author William C. Boyd(story #1139), with whom she wrote 9 short stories under the collab. ps. of Boyd Ellanby, betw. the years 1952-1956 in the mags. GAL, IFS, SFQ, IMG, STS, AMZ, & Beyond Fantasy Fiction |
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Cassill, R.V. |
War in the Air, The |
ss |
1st pub. in Epoch, in 1952, W-O. Henry Prize; has movie tie-in novels Tempest(1959), The Buccaneer(1959); colls. The Father(1965), The Happy Marriage(1966), Patrimonies(1987); nf The Complete Handbook for Freelance Writers(1981), Writing Fiction(1975) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
the bust in sf book market; Lester del Rey: Nerves; Gordon R. Dickson: Mankind on the Run; Richard Matheson: The Shrinking Man; Harold Mead: The Bright Phoenix; Marguerite Steen: The Unquiet Spirit |
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Seabright, Idris |
Stawdust |
ss |
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Smith, Evelyn E. |
BAXBR/DAXBR |
ss |
1st pub. in Derleth(ed): Time to Come(1954) |
| 1956 OCT |
Heinlein, Robert A. |
Door Into Summer, The |
no-1/3 |
story of Daniel Boone Davis, who tries to escape the problems of 1970 by going into suspended animation until the year 2000 A.D.; pub. most non-series work under ps. Anson McDonald, Lyle Monroe, John Riverside, & Caleb Saunders |
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Smith, Ron |
I Don't Mind |
vi |
(1936-1987) working name for Ronald Loran Smith; grew up in Los Angeles; founded fanzine Inside, "which turned into a major fanzine featuring parodies of var. professional mags."(LOC 1987 DEC, p.70), & W-1956 HUG, for Best Fanzine |
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Beaumont, Charles |
Monster Show, The |
ss |
1st pub. in PBY 1956 MAY; scripted movies Queen of Outer Space(1958), The Intruder(1961), The Premature Burial(1962), Burn, Witch, Burn(1962), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm(1962), Night of the Eagle(1962) |
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Henderson, Zenna |
Anything Box |
ss |
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Christopher, John |
Decline and Fall of the Bug-Eyed Monster, The |
ar |
(1922- ) 1st pub. in Punch; ps. for Christopher Samuel Youd; born in Knowsley, Wales; now lives on island of Guernsey; active sf fan before WWII, in which he served; 1st story pub. sf "Christmas Tree" in ASF 1949 FEB; 1st novel The Winter Swan(1949) |
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Bloch, Robert |
Try This for Psis |
ss |
collab. w. Henry Kuttner on short story "The Black Kiss"(WRT 1937 JUN), was later retitled as title story of coll. Sea-Kissed(1945 chap); has 2 novellas in Thorne Smith style, "The Miracle of Roland Weems"(IMT 1955 MAY), "The Big Binge"(IMT 1955 JUL) |
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Williams, Jay |
Mr. Guthrie's Cold War |
ss |
1st pub. in The Woman's Journal, in 1954 |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Milton V. Kline(ed): A Scientific Report on "The Search for Bridey Murphy" disproves Bernstein's claims; Dingwall & Langdon-Davies: The Unknown—Is It Nearer?(nf); Aimé Michel: The Truth About Flying Saucers; M.K. Jessup: The UFO Annual(nf) |
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McClintic, Winona |
Tea From Chirop Terra |
ss |
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Davidson, Avram |
King's Evil |
ss |
in this story, Davidson speculates as to the whereabouts of King George III one afternoon in October 1788, & presents selections purporting to be from The Memoirs of Dr. Mainauduc, The Mesmerist, & describing a quack magnetic cure for scrofula(Wessells) |
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Nelson, Starr |
Sonnets in a Moonship |
pm |
1st pub. in SRL, in 1950; has poetry coll. Heavenly Body(1942) |
| 1956 NOV |
Heinlein, Robert A. |
Door Into Summer, The |
no-2/3 |
has novels Sixth Column(ASF 1941 JAN-MAR as A.M.; 1949 as R.A.H.; vt The Day After Tomorrow, 1951), Beyond This Horizon(ASF 1942 APR-MAY as A.M.; 1948 as R.A.H.); juvenile novel Red Planet: A Colonial Boy on Mars(1949) |
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Buck, Doris P. |
Lullaby for a Changeling |
pm |
also in F&SF as Doris Pitkin Buck |
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Young, Robert F. |
Flying Pan |
ss |
Young was introduced to sf by Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan books and H.G. Wells' book Men Like Gods; while working in a steel mill, he sold his first story |
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Stine, G. Harry |
Truth of the Matter, The |
ar |
(1928-1997) some classic rocket goofs; George Henry Stine, also in F&SF as Lee Correy; as Stine has Warbots seq., incl. Warbots(1988), Warbots #2: Operation Steel Band(1988), #3: The Bastaard Rebellion(1988), #4: Sierra Madre('85), etal; obit LOC 1997 DEC |
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Dickson, Gordon R. |
Zeepsday |
ss |
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Searle, Ronald |
Cartoon |
ct |
1st pub. in his coll. The Female Approach(1954); he worked in London as a humorous illustrator & caricaturist for Punch, London Opinion, & Punch; his work has "an ebullient humor offset by a ... macabre elongation & distortion of the human form" |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Damon Knight: In Search of Wonder(sf critiques); Vincent Starrett: Best Loved Books of the Twentieth Century; Philip Wylie: The Answer; Russell: Men, Martians and Machines; Arthur K. Barnes: Interplanetary Hunter; George O. Smith: Highways in Hiding |
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Seabright, Idris |
Hero Comes, The |
ss |
under her real name, Margaret St. Clair, has her 1st novel Agent of the Unknown(STS 1952 FEB, as "Vulcan's Dolls"; 1956), & The Green Queen(1956) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Brazen Locked Room, The (Gimmicks Three: I) |
ss |
part of a triptych, inspired by Cogswell's story, "Threesie"(#740) in F&SF 1956 JAN; other Lucky Starr juvenile novels, L.S. and the Big Sun of Mercury(1956), L.S. and the Moons of Jupiter(1957), & L.S. and the Rings of Saturn(1958) |
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deFord, Miriam Allen |
Time Trammel (Gimmicks Three: II) |
ss |
part of a triptych, inspired by Cogswell's story, "Threesie"(#740) in F&SF 1956 JAN |
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Cogswell, Theodore R. |
Impact With the Devil (Gimmicks Three: III) |
ss |
part of a triptych, inspired by his story, "Threesie"(#740) in F&SF 1956 JAN |
| 1956 DEC |
Knight, Damon |
Stranger Station |
nv |
also in F&SF with author H. Ken Bulmer; Knight was asst. editor at Popular Pub. in 1943, editor of WBY(1950-1951), IFS(1958-1959); along with Robert Sheckley, Philip Latham & C.M. Kornbluth, Knight wrote scripts in early 1950s for TV series Captain Video |
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Clingerman, Mildred |
First Lesson |
ss |
1st pub. in COL, 22 JUN 1956 |
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Pinkney, Dorothy Cowles |
Full Circle |
pm |
(1904-1973) born in New Rochelle, NY; lived in Rowayton, CT; pub. ss's & pm's in over 75 mags. betw. 1930s-1970s; won 3 Kaleidograph, 2 Step Ladder Awards, & 1934 Poetry Sociey of America Prize(poem "Without a Candle"); coll. The Town Not Yet Awake(1956) |
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Heinlein, Robert A. |
Door Into Summer, The |
no-3/3 |
has juvenile novels Rocket Ship Galileo(1947; movie Destination Moon, 1950), Space Cadet(1948), Farmer in the Sky(1950), Between Planets(1951), The Rolling Stones(1952), Starman Jones(1953), The Star Beast(1954), Tunnel in the Sky(1955) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Gandolphus |
ss |
1st pub. in OWS 1952 JUN & revised for this magazine; 1st story in F&SF from his private eye Fergus O'Breen series; theme of a human body being taken over another being, same as next story(#870) |
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Roberts, Jane |
Red Wagon, The |
ss |
(1929-1985) working name for Jane Roberts Butts; her 1st pub. story; theme same as previous story(#869), a human body being taken over by another being; born in Albany, NY, she attended Skidmore College from 1947-50, married Robert F. Butts in 1954 |
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Beaumont, Charles |
Science Screen, The |
mr |
author's recollections of Bela Lugosi, who died August 17, 1956; Satellite in the Sky; Earth vs. the Flying Saucers; The Werewolf; The Black Sleep(all 1956 movies) |
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deFord, Miriam Allen |
Apotheosis of Ki, The |
ss |
known also for her many mystery stories, esp. in her later years; has murder novel Mortmain |
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Clarke, Arthur C. |
Starting Line, The (Venture to the Moon: I) |
ss |
1st story of 6 in a series, brief episodes from the first moon-flight; also pub. as "Double-Crossed in Outer Space"; series was pub. in the London Evening Standard, in 1956 MAY; has novel Childhood's End(FFM 1950 APR as "Guardian Angel"; exp. 1953) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. |
Robin Hood, F.R.S. (Venture to the Moon: II) |
ss |
2nd story of 6 in a series, brief episodes from the first moon-flight; 1st pub. in London Evening Standard, 24 MAY 1956; has novel Against the Fall of Night(STS 1948 NOV; 1953; exp. & rev. vt The City and the Stars, 1956) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Al Capp: Al Capp's Bald Iggle; Walt Kelly: The Pogo Sunday Book; R.E. Williams: A Century of Punch Cartoons; Shel Silverstein: Grab Your Socks; several reprints are recommended |
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Sturgeon, Theodore |
And Now the News … |
ss |
has historical novel I, Libertine(1956) as by Frederick R. Ewing; detective novel The King and Four Queens(1956); novel The Cosmic Rape(GAL 1958 AUG as novella "To Marry Medusa"; exp. 1958), colls. A Touch of Strange(1958), Aliens 4(1959), Beyond(1960) |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 11: 1956 JUL-DEC |
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