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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1958 AUG |
Davidson, Avram |
Great Is Diana |
ss |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: VIII |
vi |
6th story in F&SF in Feghoot series; the numbering system for the Feghoot vignettes is off for some reason - although they began being pub. in F&SF, this 6th vignette is labeled as VIII in the series - the reason for the discrepancy is not known |
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Forester, C.S. |
Marjorie Is Still Waiting |
vi |
has nf book The Hornblower Companion(1964), incl. maps & commentary by Forester; novel The African Queen(1935; 1951 movie; sf novel The Peacemaker(1934); autobiography Long Before Forty(1967); posthumous coll. Gold from Crete(1971) |
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Finney, Charles G. |
Horsenaping of Hotspur, The |
ss |
(1905-1984) 1st story Manacle, Arizona series; his 1st short story, usually a novelist; born in Sedalia, MS; newspaperman & writer from Arizona; served with the U.S. 15th Army(infantry) in Tientsin, China(1927-29) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Autobiographical Note |
note |
announcing his sabbatical(actually his resignation, due to poor health) from editing F&SF, and introducing the new editor, Robert P. Mills |
| 1958 SEP |
Heinlein, Robert A. |
Have Space Suit—Will Travel |
no-2/3 |
has juvenile novel Citizen of the Galaxy(ASF 1957 SEP-DEC; 1957); has novel Stranger in a Strange Land(1961; W-1962 HUG; 1990), in which a human, raised on Mars & given psi powers by the Martians, returns to Earth & becomes a messiah-figure(Clute) |
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Boyd, William C. |
Will Time Wait? |
ar |
(1903- ) Einstein's theory of relativity; Asimov has comments on this article, p.35, 1959 MAY, in addendum; husband of author Lyle G. Boyd(story #838), Prof. of Immunochemistry at Boston Univ.; see Asimov's reponse p.36 in 1959 MAY |
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McKenna, R.M. |
Casey Agonistes |
ss |
(1913-1964) wn. for Richard Milton McKenna, his 1st pub. story; also in F&SF as Richard McKenna; born in Mountain Home, Idaho; Navy veteran(1931-53) & Old China Hand(10 years), B.A. in English Literature in 1958 from Univ. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Collier, John |
Word to the Wise, A |
vi |
(1901-1980) 1st pub. in ESQ 1940 NOV; poet, writer, screenwriter, born in London; famous for novel His Monkey Wife(1930); novels No Traveller Returns(1931), Tom's A-Cold (1933; vt Full Circle, 1933), Defy the Foul Fiend(1934), Witch's Money(1940 chap) |
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Roberts, Jane |
Demon at Devotions, A |
ss |
has book of a series of connected poems, Dialogues of the Soul & Mortal Self in Time(1975), & juvenile novel Emir's Education in the Proper Use of Magical Powers(1979) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
William Tenn: Time in Advance; Charles Beaumont: Yonder; Gerald Kersh: On an Old Note; H.L. Gold(ed): The Third Galaxy Reader; James L. Quinn & Eve Wulff(ed): The Second World of If; Groff Conklin(ed): The Graveyard Reader; Asimov: Only a Trillion(nf) |
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Marsh, Willard |
Poet in Residence |
ss |
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Morris, Wright |
Word From Space, The |
ss |
(1910-1998) story title in TOC, Index is "Last Call;" on p.111 as listed here is its orig. title, 1st pub. in ATM 1958 APR; novelist/photographer; The Field of Vision(1956; W-1957 Nat. Book Award); see Joseph J. Wydeven: Wright Morris Revisited(1998) |
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Bloch, Robert |
That Hell-Bound Train |
ss |
W-1959 HUG; has suspense novels Firebug(1961; 1988), Terror(1962), The Star Stalker(1968), The Todd Dossier(1969 as by Collier Young), Night-World(1972; 1986), American Gothic(1974; 1987), There Is a Serpent in Eden(1979; vt The Cunning, 1981) |
| 1958 OCT |
Mills, Robert P. |
About This Issue … |
in |
introduction to the 9th Anniversary issue; he edited The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Ninth Series(1960), Tenth(1961), Eleventh(1962), A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction(1960), Twenty Years of the Magazine of ...(1970) w. Edward L. Ferman |
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Tenn, William |
Eastward Ho! |
ss |
has colls. Of All Possible Worlds(1955), The Human Angle(1956), Time in Advance(1958), The Seven Sexes(1968), The Square Root of Man(1968), The Wooden Star(1968) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. |
Of Mind and Matter |
ar |
ultimate impact of electronic computers, the Cybernetic Revolution; has 2001 sequels, 2010: Odyssey Two(1982; 1984 movie), & 2061: Odyssey Three(1988); coll. Tales from the Planet Earth(1989); Clarke W-1985 NEB, Grandmaster Award |
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Finney, Charles G. |
Black Retriever, The |
ss |
has 1st novel The Circus of Dr. Lao(1935; 1964 movie The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao); novel The Unholy City(1937; 1968, with story "The Magician Out of Manchuria"), is discussed in Jonathan Lethem's "Curiosities" br column in F&SF 1998 OCT/NOV, p.242 |
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Kersh, Gerald |
Terribly Wild Flowers, The |
ss |
(1911-1968) Russian-born U.K. author, has colls. The Brighton Monster(1953), Men Without Bones(1955), Nightshade and Damnations(1968), novels The Secret Masters(1953), Brock(1969); story in PST, "The Secret of the Bottle," W-1957 EDG |
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Brown, Fredric |
Unfortunately |
vi |
6th story vignette series; has "Detective Pulps" colls. The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches(1985), The Freak Show Murders(1985), Thirty Corpses Every Thursday(1986), Pardon My Ghoulish Laughter(1986), Red Is the Hue of Hell(1986) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading: All Star Survey, An |
br |
a retrospective survey of the best science-fantasy books from 1949 thru 1957: the best 50-plus titles; has his mystery reviews coll. in The Anthony Boucher Chronicles: Reviews and Commentary 1942-1947, Vol. I(2001), Vol. II(2002) |
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Anderson, Poul |
Ballade of an Artificial Satellite |
pm |
married to author Karen Anderson; has novel Inheritors of Earth(1974), with Gordon R. Eklund - was in fact written by Eklund but based on an early Anderson story, "Incomplete Superman" in FUT 1951 MAR |
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Heinlein, Robert A. |
Have Space Suit—Will Travel |
no-3/3 |
edited anth. Tomorrow the Stars(1951); has juvenile Podkayne of Mars: Her Life and Times(1963); novel Farnham's Freehold(1964); has colls. Lost Legacy(1960), The Past Through Tomorrow(1967), The Best of ...(1973), Expanded Universe(1980) |
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Steele, Wilbur Daniel |
Bogey Man, The |
ss |
(1886-1970) born in Greensboro, NC; author of How Beautiful with Shoes, & Blue Murder; has colls. The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele(1946; 1976), Full Cargo: More Stories(1951; 1976); see book by Martin Bucco: Wilbur Daniel Steele(1972) |
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Knight, Damon |
Night of Lies, The |
ss |
co-founded, with James Blish & Judith Merril, the Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference, in 1956, which he ran with his wife Kate Wilhelm for 20 years in their home in Milford, NJ; later helped found Clarion's SF Writers' Workshop, in 1968 |
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Bester, Alfred |
Men Who Murdered Mohammed, The |
ss |
N-1959 HUG, short story; has coll. Starburst(1958) |
| 1958 NOV |
Bennett, Kem |
Different Purpose, A |
ss |
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Hubbard, P.M. |
Air Space Violated |
pm |
1st pub. in Punch |
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Fessier, Michael |
Bewitched |
ss |
1st pub. in COL, 18 NOV 1950, a shapeshifting fantasy about "the cat in every woman"(Clute) |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: IX |
vi |
7th story in F&SF in Feghoot series |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Dust of Ages, The |
sces |
micrometeorites, Part 1; 1st of his science essays for F&SF; same subject matter as the following story, #1164; Part 2 in 1959 MAY(#1239); Asimov writes about how the F&SF science essays column began in I. Asimov: A Memoir(1994; W-1995 HUG, LOC) |
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Chandler, A. Bertram |
Critical Angle |
ss |
also in F&SF under ps. George Whitley; has novels Bring Back Yesterday(1961), Rendezvous on a Lost World(1961), The Hamelin Plague(1963); Wilkinson seq. novels The Coils of Time(1964), Glory Planet(1964), The Alternate Martians(1965), & 1 more |
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Davidson, Avram |
Or the Grasses Grow |
ss |
in the late 1950s, Davidson lived for a time on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, moving by late 1961 to West 110th Street opposite the Cathedral of St. John the Divine |
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Anderson, Poul |
Wildcat |
nv |
3rd story Time Patrol series; edited anth. West by One and by One(1965 chap), Nebula Award Stories Four(1969), The Day the Sun Stood Still(1972), the latter a common-theme anth. with Gordon R. Dickson & Robert Silverberg |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
review of older works by Heinlein; Judith Merril(ed): SF, The Year's Greatest S.-F. and Fantasy, Third Annual; Algis Budrys: Who?, & Man of Earth; Shirley Jackson: The Sundial; Edward Eager: The Time Garden; Andre Norton's juveniles, brief reviews |
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Williamson, Jack |
Beans |
vi |
(1908- ) working name for John Stewart Williamson, born in AZ, moved to NM in 1915; 1st story pub. "The Metal Man" in AMZ 1928 DEC; has 1st novels The Girl from Mars(1929 chap, w. Miles J. Breuer), The Alien Intelligence(SWS 1929 JUL-AUG; 1980) |
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Arthur, Robert |
Mr. Milton's Gift |
ss |
1st pub. in BBM 1953 JUL, as "The Man with the Golden Hand," 4th story from Murchison Morks ser.; some stories from ser. pub. in his anth. Ghosts and More Ghosts(1963); Morks series considered a derivative of Lord Dunsany & Vincent Benét work(Clute) |
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Emshwiller, Carol |
Pelt |
ss |
early stories coll. in Joy in Our Cause(1974) |
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Nelson, Starr |
For the Voyagers |
pm |
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Miller, P. Schuyler |
For Analysis |
vi |
a takeoff on ASF's 'Probability Zero' department; has colls. The Titan(stories 1931-1944; 1952), Alicia in Blunderland(SFD 1933 JUN-DEC, & FMG 1934 JAN-APR as by Nihil; 1983); novel Genus Homo(SSS 1941 MAR; rev. 1950) with L. Sprague de Camp |
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Wellman, Manly Wade |
Nine Yards of Other Cloth |
ss |
N-1959 HUG; 11th story Silver John ser.; ser. coll. in Who Fears the Devil?(1963; made into 1973 movie The Legend of Hillbilly John; exp. vt John the Balladeer, 1988; N-1989 LOC); other Silver John short stories in WRT 1981 FLL, & Whispers 1987 OCT |
| 1958 DEC |
Budrys, Algis |
Eye and the Lightning, The |
nv |
(1931- ) working name for Algirdas Jonas Budrys, born in Königsberg (Kaliningrad), East Prussia; discusses his name origins in his br, F&SF 1980 AUG; e.g., Budrys is his father's nom de guerre, & roughly means "Sentry," hence his ps. John A. Sentry |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Catching Up With Newton |
sces |
escape velocities, gravitational attraction; scientist Willy Ley also has a long-running science column, "For Your Information," in GAL 1952 MAR-1969 NOV, a total of 154 essays, ending upon his death in 1969(see Pohl's comments, LOC 1996 APR, p.67) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Pink Caterpillar, The |
ss |
1st pub. in Adventure 1945 FEB, 2nd story in F&SF from his Fergus O'Breen series; edited A Treasury of Great Science Fiction(1959), & The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction series(1953-59); has coll. The Compleat Werewolf(1969) |
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deFord, Miriam Allen |
Timequake |
ss |
won the Economic Development Essay Prize in 1958 |
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Leiber, Fritz |
Little Old Miss Macbeth |
ss |
this story mentioned by Judith Merril in her profile of Leiber in F&SF's Special Fritz Leiber Issue(1969 JUL, p.58), as "by far the most advanced piece of symbolic writing Leiber had done, ... his first really effective use of Shakesperean background" |
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Wodehouse, P.G. |
Honeysuckle Cottage |
nv |
1st pub. in PST, 24 JAN 1925, 4th story in F&SF, Mulliner series; recent colls. incl. The Most of P.G. Wodehouse(1960), The World of Jeeves(1967), The Swoop! and Other Stories(1979), Wodehouse on Crime(1981), Tales from the Drones Club(1982) |
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Merril, Judith |
Wish Upon a Star |
ss |
has 1st novel Shadow on the Hearth(1950; basis of TV-play Atomic Attack), the story of an atomic war from the viewpoint of a housewife(Yntema); anthologies Shot in the Dark(1950), Beyond Human Ken(1952), Beyond the Barriers of Space and Time(1954) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Theodore Sturgeon: The Cosmic Rape, & A Touch of Strange; Karen Anderson: Henry Kuttner, A Memorial Symposium(nf); Roger L. Green: Into Other Worlds; Nandor Fodor: On the Trail of the Poltergeist(nf); Eric Frank Russell: Great World Mysteries(nf) |
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Goulart, Ron |
Dream Girl |
ss |
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