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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1957 APR |
Walpole, Horace |
Saturnian Celia |
vi |
(1717-1797) 1st pub. in The Letters of Horace Walpole(1903); U.K. writer, has novels The Castle of Otranto(1765), The Mysterious Mother(1768), coll. Hieroglyphic Tales(1785; 1981 ed. Gross); see Smith: Horace Walpole: Writer, Politician, Connoisseur(1967) |
| 1957 MAY |
Oliver, Chad |
Between the Thunder and the Sun |
na |
has novel The Winds of Time(1957), in which aliens awake after centuries of suspended animation in a cave in the Southwest(Clute); this novel also pub. in anth. Dann, Sargent & Zebrowski(ed): Three in Time(1997), w. novels by Wilson Tucker & Poul Anderson |
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Silverberg, Robert |
Warm Man |
ss |
(1936- ) this story is his 175th sale; 1st story pub. "Gorgon Planet" in NEB 1954 FEB; has BA degree from Columbia Univ.; has juvenile 1st novel Revolt on Alpha C(1955); W-1956 HUG, for Most Promising New Author; has novel The 13th Immortal(1957) |
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Smith, Evelyn E. |
Outcast of Mars |
ss |
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Cogswell, Theodore R. |
You Know Willie |
ss |
1st story pub. sf "The Specter General" in ASF 1952 JUN |
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Henderson, Zenna |
Turn the Page |
ss |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
James Barlow: One Half of the World; Pohl: Slave Ship; E.C. Tubb: Alien Dust; Grinnell: Across Time; Brown: Rogue in Space; Lan Wright: Who Speaks of Conquest?; Whit & Hallie Burnett(ed): 19 Tales of Terror; Quinn & Wulff(ed): The First World of If |
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Anderson, Poul & Gordon R. Dickson |
Undiplomatic Immunity |
nv |
4th story Hoka series |
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Emshwiller, Carol |
Coming, The |
ss |
(1921- ) born in Ann Arbor, MI; has BA in Music from the Univ. of Michigan; 1st story pub. sf "This Thing Called Love" in FUT 1955 #28; married artist/illustrator Ed (Emsh) Emshwiller in 1949; lives on Long Island |
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Morrison, William |
Science Stage, The |
plyr |
Vidal's play Visit to a Small Planet |
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Moore, Ward |
Adjustment |
nv |
has novel Caduceus Wild(SFS 1959 JAN-MAY; rev. 1978) with Robert Bradford, a medical dystopia |
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Buck, Doris Pitkin |
Lyric for Atom-Splitters |
pm |
attended the Milford Conference |
| 1957 JUN |
Farmer, Philip José |
Night of Light, The |
na |
3rd story Father John Carmody series; this story was exp. into novel, Night of Light(1966), N-1966 NEB, is "a nightmarish story of a world where the figments of the unconscious become tangible"(Clute); has coll. The Celestial Blueprint(1962) |
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Van Doren, Mark |
Little Place, The |
ss |
(1894-1972) 1st pub. in his coll. Nobody Say a Word and Other Stories(1953); born in Hope, IL; Columbia Univ. professor 1920-1959; 1st book criticism, Henry Davis Thoreau(1916); father of author & scholar Charles Van Doren(also in F&SF) |
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Edmondson, G.C. |
Rescue |
ss |
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Sheckley, Robert |
Love, Incorporated |
ss |
1st pub. in PBY 1956 SEP; has novels Options(1975), Crompton Divided(GAL 1958 DEC as "Join Now"; exp. 1978 US; vt The Alchemical Marriage of Alistair Crompton, 1978 UK), latter about a paranoid schizophrenic attempting to reassemble his mind(Clute) |
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Beaumont, Charles |
Science Screen, The |
mr |
The Incredible Shrinking Man(1957); Around the World in Eighty Days(1956); scripted The Haunted Palace(1963), The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao(1964), The Masque of the Red Death(1964), & Brain Dead(1990) |
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Morrison, William |
Science Stage, The |
plyr |
play Good As Gold |
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Goldsmith, Ruth M. |
Moonshine |
ss |
1st pub. in ATL 1956 MAY |
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McIntosh, J.T. |
Sandmen, The |
ss |
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Stanton, Will |
Dodger Fan |
ss |
has also written mystery stories for EQMM |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
C.S. Lewis: Till We Have Faces; Johannes Rüber: Bach and the Heavenly Choir; Arthur C. Clarke: The Deep Range; James Blish: The Frozen Year; Leinster: City on the Moon; T.H. White: The Master; Ruthven Todd: Space Cat Meets Mars; Pohl: Undersea Fleet |
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Clarke, Arthur C. |
Security Check |
ss |
edited Time Probe(1966), The Coming of the Space Age(1967, nf essays), Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol.4(1981, w. Geo. W. Proctor); has novels Imperial Earth: A Fantasy of Love and Discord(cut 1975; restored 1976), The Fountains of Paradise(1979; 1989) |
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Chandler, A. Bertram |
Cage, The |
ss |
moved to Australia in 1956, commanding merchant navy ships, until he retired in 1975; has 1st novel, in Derek Calver seq., The Rim of Space(1961), & The Ship from Outside(ASF 1959 AUG as "Familiar Pattern" as by George Whitley; exp. 1963) |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 12: 1957 JAN-JUN |
indx |
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| 1957 JUL |
Oliver, Chad |
Wind Blows Free, The |
nv |
has novel Unearthly Neighbors(1960; rev. 1984), in which a man attempts to communicate with alien visitors(Clute); a hobby of Oliver's was fly fishing for trout, which he did on the Guadelupe River in Central Texas, & late in life at Lake City, CO |
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Kornbluth, C.M. |
MS. Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie |
ss |
has novels w. Pohl, Gladiator-at-Law(1955), Wolfbane(1957; rev. by Pohl 1986); has non-sf novels w. Pohl, A Town Is Drowning(1955), Presidential Year(1956); colls. The Explorers(1954), A Mile Beyond the Moon(1958), The Marching Morons(1959); see story#272 |
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Searle, Ronald |
Cartoon |
ct |
1st pub. in his coll. The Female Approach(1954); wrote & illustrated many humorous books, incl. the popular St. Trinian series(also made into movie features); W-1960 Reuben Award, for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year; in 1961 moved & settled in Frane |
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Young, Robert F. |
Your Ghost Will Walk … |
ss |
2nd story of poetic androids series |
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Novotny, John |
Trick or Two, A |
ss |
has short stories in VSF, "The Meddler" in 1958 JAN, & "The Biggest Damn Martini in the Universe" in 1958 JUL |
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Gottesman, S.D. |
Unfortunate Topologist, The |
pm |
(1923-1958) ps. for Cyril M. Kornbluth |
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Anderson, Poul |
Life Cycle |
ss |
also in Flandry seq. colls. The Night Face and Other Stories(1978), The Long Night(1983), & novel The Game of Empire(1985); has colls. Time and Stars(1964), The Horn of Time(1968), Seven Conquests(1969), Beyond the Beyond(1969) |
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Davidson, Avram |
Summerland |
ss |
see The Avram Davidson Website, at http://ad.kosmic.org/, run by The Avram Davidson Society(founded 1998 APR), & at this site, the bio-bibliographical essay by Henry Wessells, "'Something Rich and Strange': The Writings of Avram Davidson" |
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White, William Chapman |
Literate Monster, The |
vi |
(1903-1955) 1st pub. in the New York Herald Tribune, in 1954; has columns in the Tribune & NYT, coll. in Forever Wild: Adirondack Country(1954), Just About Everything on the Adirondacks(1960); novel The Pale Blonde of Sands Street(1946) |
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Seabright, Idris |
Eithne |
ss |
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Emshwiller, Carol |
You'll Feel Better … |
ss |
has short story "Hands" in Double-Action Detective and Mystery Stories 1957 SUM |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Alfred Hitchcock: Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV; Beaumont: The Hunger and Other Stories; Ilse Aichinger: The Bound Man and Other Stories; James Blish: The Seedling Stars; Lovecraft & Derleth: The Survivor and Others; Oliver: The Winds of Time |
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Van Doren, Charles |
S R |
ss |
(1926- ) ex-Columbia Univ. professor; 1957 winner on TV quiz show Twenty-One, & subject of movie Quiz Show(1994); co-author with Ralph J. Roske of book, Lincoln's Commando: The Biography of Commander William B. Cushing, USN(1957) |
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Smith, Ron |
Horror Story Shorter by One Letter Than the Shortest Horror Story Ever Written, The |
vi |
has collab. ps. Martin Loran, with John Baxter, used for two stories in ANA 1966 JUL, & ANA 1967 NOV; in the early 1960s moved to Australia where he was a book editor & ghost wrote several Carter Brown(ps. for Alan Geoffrey Yates) mystery novels |
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Roberts, Mary-Carter |
When Jack Smith Fought Old Satan |
nv |
1st pub. in COL, 7 DEC 1956; became State Travel Writer for Maryland in 1955, retired in 1969 |
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Matheson, Richard |
Holiday Man, The |
ss |
has novel/screenplay Hell House(1971; 1973 movie The Legend of Hell House), of occult investigators seeking source of supernatural power that has slain other teams in a haunted house; teleplays The Stranger Within(1974), Scream of the Wolf(1974) |
| 1957 AUG |
Miller, Walter M. Jr |
Lineman, The |
na |
has novelette "The Darfsteller" in ASF 1955 JAN, W-1955 HUG; has colls. Conditionally Human(1960), The View from the Stars(1965), The Science Fiction of ...(1978), The Best of ...(1980); anth. Beyond Armageddon(1985) w. Martin H. Greenberg |
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Palmer, Stuart |
Dream Stuff |
ss |
wrote also a series of short stories in Withers series, which incl. series character, John J. Malone, of his mystery writer friend Craig Rice(1908-1957, ps. for Georgiana Craig) |
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Clingerman, Mildred |
Day for Waving, A |
ss |
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Phillips, Rog |
Homestead |
ss |
(1909-1965) working name for Roger Phillips Graham; 1st story pub. "Let Freedom Ring" in AMZ 1945 DEC; wrote many stories for AMZ & for FAD; used many ps. incl. Clinton Ames, Franklin Bahl, Craig Browning, Gregg Conrad, Inez McGowan |
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Morrison, William |
Science Stage, The |
plyr |
plays Shinbone Alley, Hide and Seek |
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Cole, Les |
Tripod |
ss |
(1904-1985) wn. for Lester Cole, fan, editor & screenwriter; also in F&SF under a collab. ps. (Colin Sturgis) with Melvin Sturgis; wrote screenplays/story for 43 movies from 1932-1966; member of "Hollywood Ten," has autobiography, Hollywood Red(1981) |
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Knight, Damon & H. Ken Bulmer |
Day Everything Fell Down, The |
ss |
(1922-2002; 1921- ) H. Ken Bulmer, working name for Henry Kenneth Bulmer, U.K. writer who usually writes fiction under Ken or Kenneth Bulmer(& in F&SF as such), has used many ps., has colls. The Wind of Liberty(1962), Defiance(1963) |
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Buck, Doris P. |
Spanish Spoken |
ss |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
opposition to the Oz books of L. Frank Baum; Andre Norton: Star Born; Fritz Leiber: Destiny Times Three; Greenberg(ed): Five S.F. Novels; Alfred Bester: The Stars My destination; Vance: Big Planet; Clement: Cycle of Fire; Silverberg: The 13th Immortal |
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