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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1957 JAN |
Henderson, Zenna |
Wilderness |
nv |
4th story The People series, chrono. story #8 |
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Le Fanu, Sheridan |
Dead Sexton, The (Ghosts for Christmas: I) |
ss |
(1814-1873) 1st pub. in Once a Week, Christmas 1871; Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; created the modern "psychological suspense" novel, Uncle Silas(1864; 1947 movie "The Inheritance"); see Michael H. Begnal: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu(1971) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. |
Green Fingers (Venture to the Moon: III) |
ss |
3rd story of 6 in a series, brief episodes from the first moon-flight; has novels Earthlight(TWS 1951 AUG; exp.1955), The Deep Range(Star SF #3, 1954; exp.1957), A Fall of Moondust(1961), colls. Reach for Tomorrow(1956), Tales of Ten Worlds(1962) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. |
All That Glitters (Venture to the Moon: IV) |
ss |
4th story of 6 in a series, brief episodes from the first moon-flight; has written many nf science books, 1st being Interplanetary Flight(1951); has novel Glide Path(1963), colls. Across the Sea of Stars(1959), The Billion Names of God(1967) |
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Carr, John Dickson |
New Murders For Old (Ghosts for Christmas: II) |
ss |
1st pub. in The Illustrated London News, Christmas 1939; has historical detective novels The Devil in Velvet(1951, set in 17th century), Fear Is the Same(1956, 18th) as by Carter Dickson, & Fire, Burn!(1956, 19th); given a Grand Master Edgar Award in 1962 |
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Dickson, Gordon R. |
Rescue Mission |
ss |
6th story in the Bureau of Imaginary Zoology series(the pid & the illobar) |
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Blish, James |
In Memoriam: Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) |
pm |
Fletcher Pratt died June 10, 1956; Blish has colls. Galactic Cluster(1959), So Close to Home(1961), Best Science Fiction Stories of James Blish(1965; rev. 1973), Anywhen(1970), The Best of James Blish(1979); has novel The Frozen Year(1957) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Avalon Books; Hunt Collins: Tomorrow's World; Eric Frank Russell: Three to Conquer; Margaret St. Clair: The Green Queen; Joseph Kelleam: Overlords from Space; Tenn: The Human Angle; Wollheim(ed): The End of the World; Rosemary Timperley: Child in the Dark |
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Anderson, Poul |
Operation Salamander |
nv |
2nd story Afreet series; has History of Rustum seq. colls. Orbit Unlimited(1961), New America(1982), about a human colony on a planet in the Epsilon Eridani system(Clute) |
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Clingerman, Mildred |
Wild Wood, The |
ss |
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| 1957 FEB |
Miller, Walter M. Jr |
Last Canticle, The |
na |
3rd story St. Liebowitz series; has sequel novel Saint Liebowitz and the Wild Horse Woman(1997), with an excerpt novelette "God Is Thus" in F&SF 1997 OCT/NOV; 1st story pub. sf "Secret of the Death Dome" in AMZ 1951 JAN |
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Brown, Fredric |
Expedition |
vi |
5th story vignette series; has colls. Daymares(1968), Paradox Lost(1973), The Best of Fredric Brown(1977); has "Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps" series of colls., Homicide Sanitarium(1984), Before She Kills(1984), Madman's Holiday(1984) |
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Derleth, August |
Dark Boy, The |
ss |
co-founded Arkham House Pub. late 1930's; pub. many of Lovecraft's works, coll. The Outsider(1939), coll. The Survivor and Others(1957), etc; has colls. Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People(1966), Harrigan's File(1975), Dwellers in Darkness(1976) |
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Moskowitz, Sam |
How Science Fiction Got Its Name |
ar |
(1920-1997) see letter in 1980 MAR; sf historian/anthologist; as Sam Martin, editor of trade mags. for frozen food industry until 1985; prominent member of sf fandom since 1936; wrote history of fandom in The Immortal Storm(1954), his 1st book, W-1955 HUG |
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Clarke, Arthur C. |
Watch This Space (Venture to the Moon: V) |
ss |
5th story of 6 in a series, brief episodes from the first moon-flight; aka "Who Wrote That Message to the Stars ..."; wrote little mag. fiction after 1962, but has Nebula winner "A Meeting with Medusa"(PBY 1971 DEC), in coll. The Wind from the Sun(1972) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. |
Question Of Residence, A (Venture to the Moon: VI) |
ss |
6th story of 6 in a series, brief episodes from the first moon-flight; has novel, Rendezvous with Rama(1973; W-1973 NEB; 1974 BSF, HUG, JUP, JWC, LOC), & its sequels Rama II(1989; N-1990 LOC) & The Garden of Rama(1991), the last two with Gentry Lee |
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Edmondson, G.C. |
Inferlab Project, The |
ss |
lives in San Diego; he served in the U.S. Marine Corps, 1942-46; he writes westerns under the ps. Kelly P. Gast, & under the house names J.B. Masterson & Jake Logan |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot |
vi |
2nd story in F&SF in Feghoot series |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Ray Bradbury(ed): The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories; Randolph Vance: To Live Forever; Raymond F. Jones: The Secret People; Felix Morley: Gumption Island; Guy Richards: Two Rubles to Times Square; Martin Caidin: The Long Night |
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Wellman, Manly Wade |
Old Devlins Was A-waiting |
ss |
10th story Silver John ser.; another Silver John story in Sorcerer's Apprentice #11 1981; has Captain Future novel, The Solar Invasion(STS 1946 FLL; 1968); see iv's in Chacal 1977 SPR, AMZ1981 MAR; bio's in Nightshade #3 1976 OCT, The Horror Show 1987 APR |
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Anderson, Poul |
Journeys End |
ss |
has Technic History/Dominic Flandry seq. We Claim These Stars(1959), Earthman, Go Home!(1960), Let the Spacemen Beware(FUN 1960 JAN as "A Twelvemonth and a Day"; 1963 chap; vt The Night Face, 1978), Flandry of Terra(1965) |
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Lewis, C. Day |
Antique Heroes, The |
pm |
(1904-1972) wn. for Cecil Day Lewis, U.K. poet, mystery writer(under ps. Nicholas Blake), one of his sons is actor Daniel Day-Lewis; has Nigel Strangeways ser. of novels, incl. The Private Wound(1968, as Nicholas Blake); autobiography The Buried Day(1960) |
| 1957 MAR |
Anderson, Poul & Kenneth Gray |
Survival Technique |
ss |
(1926-2001; ?-?) this story was reprinted in Drake, Greenberg & Waugh(ed): The Eternal City(1990), an anth. of sf stories dealing with the Roman Empire; Gray had short story "Smaller Than You Think" in ASF 1948 AUG |
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Wolf, Leonard |
Useful Knowledge |
pm |
has non-fiction book, Horror: A Connoisseur's Guide to Literature & Film(1989), N-1990 STO |
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Bloch, Robert |
Proper Spirit, The |
ss |
has colls. Terror in the Night and Other Stories(1958), Pleasant Dreams(1960; rev. 1979), Blood Runs Cold(1961), Nightmares(1961), Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper(1962), More Nightmares(1962), Atoms and Evil(1962, sf coll.), Bogey Men(1963), Horror-7(1963) |
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Fontenay, Charles L. |
Up |
nv |
has ya mystery ser., The Kipton Chronicles, Kipton & Gruff(1995), Kipton and the Ovoid('96), Kipton in Wonderland('96), Kipton and the Monkey's Uncle('96), Kipton: Murder on Stage('96), Kipton and the Tower of Time('96), Kipton and the Christmas Gift('97) |
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Thelwell |
Cartoon |
ct |
1st pub. in Punch, 20 APR 1955; from the U.K., he has pub. cartoons in the U.K. version of Argosy, incl. a series titled "An Englishman Abroad ...", in 1965 AUG, SEP, & Oct |
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Hart, C.W. Jr |
"Pseudo-Science" and The Reader's Guide |
ar |
The Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature; Hart is the medical editor for a pharmaceutical firm |
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Sheckley, Robert |
Dawn Invader |
ss |
has sf novels Mindswap(1966), in which the protagonist switches minds with a Martian; Dimension of Miracles(1968); has non-genre novels The Man in the Water(1961; 1965 movie Escape from Hell Island), The Game of X(1965; 1981 movie Condorman) |
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Roberts, Jane |
Canvas Pyramid, The |
ss |
lives in Sayre, PA; attended the 1st Milford Writers Conference in 1956, where she ran a sort of seance for writers Budrys, Kornbluth, Blish & Knight - which was described by Knight in his book The Futurians |
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Beaumont, Charles |
Science Screen, The |
mr |
1984(1956); The Gamma People(1956); The Beast of Hollow Mountain(1956); The She Creature(1957); Curucu, Beast of the Amazon(1956); It Conquered the World(1956); The Mole People(1956); has coll. The Hunger(1957) |
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Morrison, William |
Science Stage, The |
plyr |
author of The Dramatic Story of the Theatre(with wife Dorothy); reviews play Night of the Auk |
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Matheson, Richard |
Splendid Source, The |
ss |
has teleplays The Night Stalker(1971; aka The Kolchak Papers), The Night Strangler(1972; aka Time Killer), Dracula(1973), Dying Room Only(1973); has erotic horror novel Earthbound(1982 as by Logan Swanson; as by himself, 1989 UK) |
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Young, Robert F. |
Added Inducement |
ss |
also in F&SF with co-author Avram Davidson |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading: Best Science-Fantasy Books of 1956, The |
br |
checklist of the best science-fantasy books of 1956 |
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Vidal, Gore |
Visit to a Small Planet |
ply |
(1925- ) 3-act teleplay, performed May 8, 1955 on NBC, became a hit on Broadway; 1st novel Williwaw(1946); sf novel Messiah(1954); non-sf novels Myra Breckenridge(1968; 1970 movie), sequel Myron(1974); Live from Gologotha(1992); memoir Palimpsest(1995) |
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Leiber, Fritz |
Last |
vi |
has Fafhrd & Gray Mouser ser. colls. Two Sought Adventure(1957; exp. rev. vt Swords Against Death, 1970), Swords in the Mist(1968), Swords Against Wizardry(1968), The Swords of Lankhmar(1970), Swords and Deviltry(1970), Swords and Ice Magic(1977) |
| 1957 APR |
Leinster, Murray |
Anthropological Note |
nv |
(1896-1975) ps. for William Fitzgerald Jenkins; 1st story pub. "The Runaway Skyscraper" in ARG 1919 FEB; has Bud Gregory series(TWS 1947 APR, JUN & AUG, & 1948 FEB, as by William Fitzgerald or Will F. Jenkins); coll. in Out of This World, 1958) |
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Clingerman, Mildred |
Little Witch of Elm Street, The |
ss |
1st pub. in The Woman's Home Companion, 1956 OCT |
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Drake, Leah Bodine |
We Move on Turning Stone |
pm |
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Wilson, Richard |
QRM |
ss |
has biographical profiles in NWS 1957 JUL, & 1960 SEP |
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Asimov, Isaac |
By-Product of Science Fiction, The |
ar |
1st pub. in Chemical and Engineering News, 1956 AUG, & revised for F&SF; attitude of Americans to science; with an addendum directed to sf readers; his science essay, #1266, also discusses this subject |
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Ottum, Bob |
Girls on Channel N, The |
ss |
has Captain Marvel book, Shazam!: A Circus Adventure(1977); mystery The Tuesday Blade(1977); edited A Day in the Life of the Amish(1994), A Day in an Amish Kitchen(1995), A Day in Cowboy Country: In Their Own Words(1996) |
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del Rey, Lester |
Little Jimmy |
ss |
(1915-1993) ps. for Leonard Knapp, many scholars & Frederik Pohl believe; 1st story pub. "The Faithful" in ASF 1938 APR; famous for robot story "Helen O'Loy"(ASF 1938 DEC), & "Nerves"(ASF 1942 SEP; 1956; rev. 1976); W-1990 NEB, Grandmaster |
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Garrett, Randall & Lin Carter |
Masters of the Metropolis |
ss |
(1927-1987; 1930-1988) 1st pub. in Inside 1956 JAN; 1st pub. story for Lin Carter, the working name for Linwood Vrooman Carter; Carter has pastiched the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs & Robert E. Howard, and became well-known for his sword & sorcery tales |
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Edmondson, G.C. |
Status Quo Peddlers, The |
ss |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Heinlein: The Doors Into Summer; Asimov: The Naked Sun, & The Caves of Steel; Anderson: Star Ways, & Planet of No Return; Dick: The Man Who Was Japed; Simak: Strangers in the Universe; Wyndham: Tales of Gooseflesh and Laughter |
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Anderson, Poul |
License |
nv |
also in Flandry seq. coll. Agent of the Terran Empire(1965), novels Ensign Flandry(1966), The Rebel Worlds(1969), A Circus of Hells(1970), The Day of Their Return(1973), A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows(1974), A Stone in Heaven(1979) |
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Novotny, John |
Second Prize |
ss |
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Oliver, Chad |
Didn't He Ramble |
ss |
this story is "of yesterday's jazz in the world of tomorrow"; Oliver, as well as an anthropologist & science fiction writer, is traditional jazz pianist, "especially authentic New Orleans"; he hosts a 1-hour long jazz program on KHFI-FM, in Austin, TX |
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