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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1959 APR |
Pohl, Frederik |
To See Another Mountain |
nv |
editor of AST & SSS, & of Star S.F. Stories anthologies(1953-59); editor for GAL(1962 AUG-1969 MAY), IFS(1962 DEC-1969 MAY); has novel with C.M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants(GAL 1952 JUN-AUG as "Gravy Planet"; 1953); sequel The Merchant's War(1984) |
| 1959 MAY |
Mills, Robert P. |
This Month … |
note |
soliciting reader opinions: 1. 3 short novelets in one issue?; 2. Graves' "The Shout" F&SF reprint OK; 3. send in topics for Asimov's essays; Mills has anth.The Worlds of Science Fiction(1963) |
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McIntosh, J.T. |
Tenth Time Around |
nv |
has novels 200 Years to Christmas(SCF 1959 #35; exp. 1961), about a generation starship; The Million Cities(SAT 1958 AUG; rev. 1963), an urban dystopian novel |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Of Capture and Escape |
sces |
escape & capture velocities, Part 2; Part 1 in 1st essay, #1163 in 1958 NOV; addendum: response to Dr. William Boyd's article(#1139) |
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Goulart, Ron |
Ralph Wollstonecraft Hedge: Memoir, A |
spf |
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Oliver, Chad |
One That Got Away, The |
ss |
has western novel Broken Eagle(1989; W-1990 Western Heritage Award), about protagonists Gen. George A. Custer & Native American Broken Eagle |
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Graves, Robert |
Shout, The |
ss |
1st pub. in F&SF 1952 APR, the first F&SF reprint; has novels I, Claudius (1934), Hercules, My Shipmate(1945), The White Goddess(1947) |
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deFord, Miriam Allen |
First Dig |
ss |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XIV |
vi |
12th story in F&SF in Feghoot series |
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Knight, Damon |
Books: Wine With Your Bottle, Sir? |
br |
John Bowen: After the Rain; Poul Anderson: The Enemy Stars; Knight has trans. a number of French sf stories, some pub. in F&SF, which are coll. in 13 French Science Fiction Stories(1965) |
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Brown, Rosel George |
Lost in Translation |
ss |
(1926-1967) wife of Tulane Univ.(New Orleans) Prof. W. Burlie Brown; former social worker & teacher, native of New Orleans; her 1st story pub. "From an Unseen Censor" in GAL 1958 SEP |
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Belkin, Norman |
Vampire's Saga, A |
pm |
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Davidson, Avram |
Montavarde Camera, The |
ss |
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London, Jack |
Angry Mammoth, The |
ss |
(1876-1916) 1st pub. in COL, 12 JAN 1901, as "A Relic of the Pliocene"; working name for John Griffith London, has sf novels Before Adam(1906), The Star Rover(1915), The Scarlet Plague(London Mag., in 1912; 1914); coll. In Curious Fragments(1975) |
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Chandler, A. Bertram |
Man Who Could Not Stop, The |
nv |
1st story in F&SF in Rim World series(char. John Clavering), in his coll. Beyond the Galactic Rim(1963); has Empress space opera seq. novels Empress of Outer Space(1965), Space Mercenaries(1965), Nebula Alert(1967), coll. Up to the Sky in Ships(1982), etc |
| 1959 JUN |
Blish, James |
This Earth of Hours |
nv |
has After Such Knowledge seq. novels A Case of Conscience(1958; W-1959 HUG), "one of the first serious attempts to deal with religion in sf"(Clute), Doctor Mirabilis(1964; rev. 1971), Black Easter(1968; N-1968 NEB), The Day After Judgment(1971) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Planet of the Double Sun, The |
sces |
sun; what our heavens would be like, and the changes in human history - if our sun had a companion star, like Alpha Centauri's double star system |
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Sutton, Lee |
Soul Mate |
ss |
(1916-1978) working name for Homer Lee Sutton, librarian, poet & professor of English in Iowa; has juvenile sf novel Venus Boy(1955) |
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Lewis, C.S. |
Expostulation, An |
pm |
has juvenile novel ser. in the kingdom of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe(1950; 1979, 1988 TV movies), Prince Caspian(1951) & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader(1952; TV movie 1989), The Silver Chair(1953; 1990 TV movie) |
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Cockburn, Claud |
About Venus, More or Less |
vi |
1st pub. in Punch, in 1957 |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XV |
vi |
13th story in F&SF in Feghoot series |
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Berger, Josef |
Maybe We Got Something |
ss |
(1903-1971) ex-newspaperman, public relations expert |
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Arthur, Robert |
Hero Equation, The |
ss |
1st pub. in ARG, 3 MAY 1941, as "Don't Be a Goose"; 5th story from his Murchison Morks series; Arthur worked mainly in radio, scripting The Mysterious Traveler(1943-52; W-1952 EDG) & edited mag. of same name(1951-52) |
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Farmer, Philip José |
Alley Man, The |
nv |
N-1960 HUG, short fiction; has novels Fire and the Night(1962, assoc.), Cache from Outer Space(1962; rev. vt The Cache, 1981), Tongues of the Moon(AMZ 1961 SEP; exp. 1964); novel Inside Outside(1964), about a scientifically sustained afterlife(Clute) |
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Rolf, Kenn |
Satellite Trails |
ar |
variations possible for geostationary orbits for satellites |
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Finney, Charles G. |
Iowan's Curse, The |
ss |
1st pub. in HRP 1958 JUL; 2nd story Manacle, Arizona series; has novel Past the End of the Pavement(1939, assoc.), was based on his childhood in Sedalia,; Ray Bradbury edited The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories(1956), based on his 1st novel |
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Young, Robert F. |
Production Problem |
vi |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 16: 1959 JAN-JUN |
indx |
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| 1959 JUL |
Mills, Robert P. |
In This Issue … |
note |
contest for readers' best new money-making use for the time machine in H.M. Sycamore's story(#1274); some results of F&SF 1959 May poll |
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Young, Robert F. |
To Fell a Tree |
nv |
this story was expanded into a novel, The Last Yggdrasil(1982), about a tree-cutter on a colony planet who is hired to kill the one huge remaining tree in the area, to the detriment of the planet's ecology(Clute) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Battle of the Eggheads |
sces |
intellectual bigotry, case in point, the Space War with the Soviet Union; see also his article, #919, F&SF 1957 APR, on the same subject |
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Davidson, Avram |
Author, Author |
ss |
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Borgese, Elizabeth Mann |
For Sale, Reasonable |
vi |
(1918-2002) daughter of writer Thomas Mann; co-founder of World Federalism(1946), Law of the Sea(1982); Prof. of Ocean Law, Dalhousie Univ.(Nova Scotia); has story coll. To Whom It May Concern(1960); nf Ascent of Woman(1963); edited Ocean Frontiers(1992) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. |
Space Burial |
pm |
edited anth. Penguin Science Fiction(1961), Best Fantasy Stories(1962), More Penguin Science Fiction(1963), Yet More Penguin Science Fiction(1964), Introducing Science Fiction(1964), Nebula Award Stories Two(1967, with Harry Harrison) |
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Knight, Damon |
Books: From the Horse's Mouth |
br |
Heinlein, Bloch, Kornbluth, Bester: The Science Fiction Novel, Imagination and Social Criticism(nf, with intro by Basil Davenport) |
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Roberts, Jane |
Impasse |
ss |
lives now in upstate NY; has Seth series of metaphysical, psychic books, Seth Material(1970), Seth Speaks(1972), The Nature of Personal Reality(1974), The Coming of Seth(1976), The Unknown Reality(1977), Dreams Evolution and Value Fulfillment(1986), etc. |
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Tabakow, Lou |
Harley Helix, The |
vi |
(1915?-1981) active in Cincinatti fandom since late forties, 1st story pub. "The Wedding Present" in OWS 1951 MAR; won 1st special HUG in 1955 for "Best Unpublished Story" for "Sven," advertised on OWS 1955 MAY cover, but not pub. until OWS 1956 SEP |
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Buck, Doris Pitkin |
Classical Query Composed While Shampooing |
pm |
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Sycamore, H.M. |
Success Story |
nv |
ps. for Allan Hayes; lives in NYC |
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Banks, Raymond E. |
Rabbits to the Moon |
ss |
has erotic sf/f novel Daryk: Skull Keep of the Primal Clans(1978), about the "erotic barbarian adventures of Daryk, Skull Keep of Dunnon" |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XVI |
vi |
14th story in F&SF in Feghoot series |
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Fast, Howard |
Cold, Cold Box, The |
ss |
2nd story moralistic tales series; has detective novels & thrillers under ps. E.V. Cunningham; has novels The Unvanquished(1942), Spartacus(1951; made into 1960 movie) |
| 1959 AUG |
Williams, Jay |
Operation Ladybird |
nv |
has Danny Dunn juvenile science-fact adventure series, with Raymond Abrashkin, Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint(1956), D.D. on a Desert Island(1957), D.D. and the Homework Machine(1959), D.D. and the Weather Machine(1959) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Ultimate Split of the Second, The |
sces |
speed of light; using the speed of light in defining units of distance & time, including ultra-small units of time - see addendum p.94 in 1960 FEB, about "bloopers"; addendum, ultra-small metric units conversion table |
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Emshwiller, Carol |
Day at the Beach |
ss |
has colls. Verging on the Pertinent(1989), The Start of the End of It All(1990 U.K.; 1991 U.S.) |
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Aymé, Marcel |
Walker-Through-Walls, The |
ss |
(1902-1967) 1st pub. in colls. Le Vin de Paris(1947) & Across Paris and Other Stories(1957 UK; vt The Walker Through Walls, 1962 US); trans. from the French by Norman Denny; French novelist & dramatist; has novel The Green Mare(1938 UK; 1955) |
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Anderson, Poul |
Brave to Be a King |
nv |
4th story Time Patrol series; has interviews in Vertex 1973 AUG, & Galileo #11 1979; interviews in Paul Walker: Speaking of Science Fiction: The Paul Walker Interviews(1978), & in Charles Platt: Dream Makers II(1983); biolog in ANA 1978 NOV |
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Russell, Ray |
Rosebud, The |
vi |
an editor at Playboy 1954-60; wrote screenplays for movies The Premature Burial(1961, w. Charles Beaumont), X – The Man with the X-Ray Eyes(1963, w. Robert Dillon); novella "Sardonicus" in PBY, in 1961, made into 1961 movie, Mr. Sardonicus |
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Knight, Damon |
Books: Innocence of Evil, The |
br |
horror stories, Groff Conklin(ed): Br-r-r!; Donald A. Wollheim(ed): The Macabre Reader |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XVII |
vi |
15th story in F&SF in Feghoot series |
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