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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1959 JAN |
Boucher, Anthony |
Quest for Saint Aquin, The |
ss |
1st pub. in Raymond J. Healy(ed): New Tales of Space and Time(1951), this is considered by many to be his best work of sf; has colls. Exeunt Murderers: The Best Mystery Stories of Anthony Boucher(1983), The Compleat Boucher(1999; N-2000 LOC) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: No More Ice Ages? |
sces |
ice ages, past and future; greenhouse effect, the causes of the ice ages; Asimov's 1st nf book was Biochemistry and Human Metabolism(1952; rev. 1954; rev. 1957) |
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Davidson, Avram |
Woman Who Thought She Could Read, The |
ss |
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Leiber, Fritz |
Silver Eggheads, The |
na |
an example of recursive sf, expanded into a novel in 1962 |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: X |
vi |
8th story in F&SF in Feghoot series |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
interplanetary spaceships, UFOs in books, & cartoon books; Basil Davenport(ed): Deals with the Devil; short list of books ideal for Xmas presents; Asimov writes of Boucher & F&SF in I. Asimov(1994); Silverberg does in "Reflections" column, ASI 1996 SEP |
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Dick, Philip K. |
Explorers We |
ss |
has novels Confessions of a Crap Artist(wr. 1959; 1975; 1992 movie), The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike(wr. 1960; 1984), & Humpty Dumpty in Oakland(wr. 1960; 1986 UK); has novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch(1964; W-1967 BSF) |
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Young, Robert F. |
Santa Clause |
ss |
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Collier, John |
Meeting of Relations |
vi |
1st pub. in The Yale Review, 1941 DEC; has colls. The Devil and All(1934), Presenting Moonshine(1941), A Touch of Nutmeg(1943), Green Thoughts and Other Strange Tales(1943) |
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Elliott, George P. |
Invasion of the Planet of Love |
ss |
has sequel, #1208, F&SF 1959 FEB; stories about Venus/Earth conflict - the first men to explore Venus |
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Dickson, Gordon R. |
R of A, The |
ss |
has Childe Cycle or Dorsai series, novels The Genetic General(ASF 1959 MAY-JUL as "Dorsai!"; N-1960 HUG; cut 1960; res. vt Dorsai!, 1976), Necromancer(1962; vt No Room for Man, 1963), Soldier, Ask Not(GAL 1964 OCT; W-1964 HUG, short story; exp. 1967) |
| 1959 FEB |
Ferman, Joseph W. |
Open Letter to Our Readers, An |
note |
(1906-1974) raise in copy price from 35 cents to 40 cents, or $4.50/year, effective this issue; due to publication costs; also in F&SF as Joe Ferman(1968 AUG); born in Lithuania, was F&SF publisher from 1954 AUG-1970 OCT, & editor from 1964 DEC-1965 DEC |
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Knight, Damon |
What Rough Beast? |
nv |
editor of sf magazine If: Worlds of S.F., for three issues, 1958 OCT - 1959 FEB; has anth. A Century of Science Fiction(1962), First Flight(1963), Tomorrow X 4(1964), A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels(1964), Beyond Tomorrow(1965) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Love Those Numbers |
sces |
numbers; names of large numbers, their history, uses & eccentricities |
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Jaffray, Norman R. |
Dual Cerebration |
pm |
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Seabright, Idris |
Graveyard Shift |
ss |
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Brode, Anthony |
Call Me Mister |
pm |
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Rogers, Joel Townsley |
No Matter Where You Go |
nv |
(1896-1984) born in Sedalia, MO; has 1917 Harvard BA; mystery writer, mostly in the pulps & slicks; has 1st suspense novel Once in a Red Moon(1923); The Red Right Hand(1945),Lady with the Dice(1946), The Stopped Clock(1958; vt Never Leave My Bed, 1968) |
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Lipsky, Eleazar |
Snitkin's Law |
ss |
(1911-1993) former asst. district attorney in New York, lawyer; 1st novel The Kiss of Death(1947; 1947, 1995 movies); The People Against O'Hara(1950; 1951 movie), Lincoln McKeever(1953), The Scientists(1959), The Devil's Daughter(1969), Malpractice(1971) |
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Merril, Judith |
Death Cannot Wither |
nv |
has 2 novels w. C.M. Kornbluth as by Cyril Judd, Outpost Mars(1952), Gunner Cade(1952); has anth. Human?(1954), SF: The Year's Greatest ...(1956-59), Annual Edition of the Year's Best SF(1960-66); novel The Tomorrow People(1960), a psychological mystery |
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Davenport, Basil |
More Brave New Worlds Than One |
br |
(1905-1966) guest book columnist; discusses Aldous Huxley: Brave New World; George Orwell:1984; Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged; Nevile Shute: On the Beach; Davenport has book An Introduction to Islandia(1942); edited anth. Deals with the Devil(1958) |
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Edmondson, G.C. |
Misfit, The |
ss |
1st story in his adventures of his Mad Friend series |
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Elliott, George P. |
Nothing But Love |
ss |
sequel to #1195, F&SF 1959 JAN; stories about Venus/Earth conflict - the Venereans visit Earth |
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Fontenay, Charles L. |
Ghost Planet |
ss |
Kipton & the Matter Transmitter('99), Kipton & the Martian Maidens('99), Kipton & the Delusions of Tanta Else('99), Kipton & the Riddle of Sandstone('99); 3-volume coll., Here, There, and Elsewhere(2001); sf novels Target: Grant, 1862('99), Modál(2001) |
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Banks, Raymond E. |
Natural Frequency |
ss |
has L.A. Private Detective Sam King mystery novel series, Meet Me in Darkness(1960), about murder & dames at the Hotel Conroy; & Computer Kill(1961), as Sam works for a "curvy girl scientist" whose million dollar computer was stolen |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XI |
vi |
9th story in F&SF in Feghoot series |
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Rice, Jane |
Willow Tree, The |
ss |
also in F&SF under ps. Mary Austin; Rice has also pub. fiction in Ladies' Home Journal, Charm, & Cosmopolitan |
| 1959 MAR |
Heinlein, Robert A. |
"All You Zombies —" |
ss |
N-1980 BRG, best short fiction; has novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress(IFS 1965-66 DEC-APR; 1966; N-1966 HUG, NEB; W-1967 HUG), which is about a revolution among Moon-colonists, with many historical parallels with the U.S. Revolutionary War(Clute) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Nothing |
sces |
space; vacuum of space, interstellar dust; see addendum p.103 in F&SF 1968 AUG, where an astrophysicist deduces from x-ray intensities that there is 100X as much mass in intergalactic space as there is within galaxies, a conclusion Asimov made in 1959 MAR |
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Bradbury, Ray |
Shoreline at Sunset, The |
ss |
to be pub. in his forthcoming colls.The Silver Locusts(1951), A Medicine for Melancholy(1959); has fixup novel Dandelion Wine(var. mags. 1946-57; 1957); story "The Night"(WRT 1946 JUL) was based on a night that his family feared his brother had died |
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Henderson, Zenna |
Jordan |
nv |
6th story The People series, chrono. story #11; has fixup novel of this series, Pilgrimage: The Book of the People(1961); TV movie The People based on this book aired JAN 22, 1972, starring Kim Darby as Melodye Amerson & William Shatner as Dr. Curtis |
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Fast, Howard |
Of Time and Cats |
ss |
(1914- ) 1st story in his moralistic tales series; 1st story pub. sf "Wrath of the Purple" in AMZ 1932 OCT; best known for his numerous historical novels under his own name, & detective novels & thrillers as by E.V. Cunningham |
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Budrys, Algis |
Distant Sound of Engines, The |
ss |
1st story pub. sf "The High Purpose," ASF 1952 NOV; 1st novel False Night(GAL 1954 MAR, "Ironclad"; exp. 1954; rev. vt Some Will Not Die, 1961, 1978), which he discusses in his br, F&SF 1990 JUN; novel Who?(FUN 1955 APR; exp. 1958; N-1959 HUG; 1974 movie) |
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Buck, Doris Pitkin |
Sportsman's Difficulty |
pm |
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Davidson, Avram |
Certifcate, The |
ss |
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Palmer, Stuart |
Three-Dimensional Valentine |
ss |
author of reporter Howie Rook mystery novels Unhappy Hooligan(1956), & Rook Takes Knight(1969) |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XII |
vi |
10th story in F&SF in Feghoot series |
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Anderson, Poul |
Sky People, The |
nv |
1st story Sky People series, has sequel in F&SF 1962 JAN; has colls. The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories(1973, title story in F&SF 1971 APR), The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson(1974; N-1975 LOC; vt The Book of Poul Anderson, 1975) |
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Bester, Alfred |
Will You Wait? |
ss |
works for Holiday Magazine as feature writer, later becoming senior literary editor; edited anth. The Science Fiction Novel: Imagination and Social Criticism (1959); Bester W-1987 NEB, Grandmaster Award |
| 1959 APR |
Keyes, Daniel |
Flowers for Algernon |
nv |
(1927- ) W-1960 HUG, short story; 1966 exp. into a novel, W-1966 NEB; 1967 HUG(br 1966 JUN); basis of movie Charly(1968); born in Brooklyn, BA from Brooklyn College, 1950; 1st story pub. "Precedent" in MSF 1952 MAY; assoc. ed. at MSF 1951-52 |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Life's Bottleneck |
sces |
elements in living tissue, and the ocean; the importance of phosphorus |
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Chekhov, Anton |
Flying Islands, The |
spf |
(1860-1904) a parody, written as if by Jules Verne; 1st pub. in Russian magazine Budilnik, in 1883; trans. by Frances H. Jones; Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; has colls. in English, Selected Stories(1951), The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov(1973) |
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Dickson, Gordon R. |
Amulet, The |
ss |
other novels in Dorsai series, The Tactics of Mistake(1971), The Final Encyclopedia(1984), The Chantry Guild(1988), Young Bleys(1991), Other(1994), & colls. Three to Dorsai!(1975), The Spirit of Dorsai(1979), Lost Dorsai(1980; title story W-1981 HUG, ss) |
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McCaffrey, Anne |
Lady in the Tower, The |
ss |
(1926- ) 1st story about a telepathic people called the Rowan, has a sequel in F&SF 1969 JAN; born in Cambridge, MA; 1st story pub. "Freedom of the Race" in SFP 1953 OCT; has BA in Slavonic languages & Literature from Radcliffe College, in 1957 |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XIII |
vi |
11th story in F&SF in Feghoot series |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Unto the Fourth Generation |
ss |
has pub. a large number of nf books incl. The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science(1960; rev. 1965), Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science & Technology(1964; rev. 1972, 1982); his science essay colls. are listed in the comments on his essays |
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Huxley, Aldous |
Chemical Persuasion |
ar |
(1894-1963) 1st pub. in his collection of essays, Brave New World Revisited (1958); U.K. writer, lived in the U.S. from 1937 on; has novels Brave New World(1932), Point Counter Point(1928), After Many a Summer Dies the Swan(1939), Ape and Essence(1948) |
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Anderson, Poul |
Martian Crown Jewels, The |
ss |
1st pub. in EQMM 1958 FEB; has award winning short story "The Longest Voyage" in ANA 1960 DEC(W-1961 HUG), novelettes "The Sharing of Flesh" in GAL 1968 DEC(W-1969 HUG; N-1968 NEB), "Hunter's Moon" in ANA 1978 NOV(W-1979 HUG; N-1979 LOC) |
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Roberts, Jane |
Nightmare |
vi |
Roberts, a psychic, began in the 1960s to channel the thoughts of a personality known as Seth; has 1st psychic book How to Develop Your ESP Powers(1966; vt The Coming of Seth, 1976); see "How It All Began" at www.spiritual-endeavors.org/Seth//howitall.htm |
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Knight, Damon |
Books: Half Loaves |
br |
Edmund Cooper: Tomorrow's Gift; Murray Leinster: The Monster from World's End; Knight is considered the 1st outstanding book reviewer in sf(Clute); for his reviews he also won a retrospective 1975 Pilgrim Award from the Science Fiction Research Assoc. |
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