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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1959 AUG |
Reed, Kit |
Empty Nest |
ss |
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Schenck, Hilbert Jr |
Me |
pm |
has pub. nf that deals with the ocean & with oceanological research & exploration technologies, e.g., Underwater Photography(1954), Skin Diver's and Spearfisherman's Guide to American Waters(1955), Fundamentals of Thermodynamics(1962) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Obituary |
ss |
has coll. Opus 100(1969), his one-hundreth book, containing excerpts from stories, novels, nf books & articles of his from 1940-68; Opus 200(1979), two-hundreth book, excerpts 1969-78; Opus 300(1984), three-hundreth book, excerpts 1979-83 |
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Sanders, Winston P. |
Pact |
ss |
(1926-2001) ps. for Poul Anderson |
| 1959 SEP |
Pangborn, Edgar |
Red Hills of Summer, The |
nv |
(1909-1976) 1st story pub. novel A-100: A Mystery Story(1930, as by Bruce Harrison), 1st story pub. sf "Angel's Egg" in GAL 1951 JUN; has 1st sf novel West of the Sun(1953), novel A Mirror for Observers(1954; W-1955 IFA) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Varieties of the Infinite |
sces |
numbers; transfinite numbers |
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Powell, Sonny |
Black Nebulea, The (Quintet: I) |
vi |
(1913-1987) 1 of 5 vignettes: at least 1 written by a famous author, 1 by a 12 year old; answers 1959 OCT; this one, ps. for Alfred Bester |
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Cunnington, John |
Up, Down, and Sideways (Quintet: II) |
vi |
(1948?- ) 2 of 5 vignettes: at least 1 written by a famous author, 1 by a 12 year old; answers 1959 OCT; this one, by a 10-year old |
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Pettis, Nina |
Witch's Charm (Quintet: III) |
pm |
(1948?- ) 3 of 5 vignettes: at least 1 written by a famous author, 1 by a 12 year old; answers 1959 OCT; this one, by an 11-year old |
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Watson, Billy |
Man Who Told Lies, The (Quintet: IV) |
vi |
4 of 5 vignettes: at least 1 written by a famous author, 1 by a 12 year old; answers 1959 OCT; this one, ps. for Theodore Sturgeon |
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Austin, Mary |
Night Thought (Quintet: V) |
pm |
5 of 5 vignettes: at least 1 written by a famous author, 1 by a 12 year old; answers 1959 OCT; this one, ps. for Jane Rice |
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Arthur, Robert |
Devil's Garden, The |
ss |
1st pub. in ARG, 1 MAR 1941, 6th story from his Murchison Morks series; Arthur's mag. he edited, The Mysterious Traveler(1951-52) also pub. some of his stories under ps. Andrew Fell, Anthony Morton, Jay Norman, John West, & Mark Williams |
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McClintic, Winona |
To Give Them Beauty for Ashes |
pm |
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Stanton, Will |
Who Is Going to Cut the Barber's Hair? |
ss |
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Russ, Joanna |
Nor Custom Stale |
ss |
(1937- ) her 1st pub. story; born & raised in the Bronx, has a BA in English from Cornell Univ., presently a 2nd-year student at the Yale Univ. School of Drama(where she received an MFA degree) |
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Schenck, Hilbert Jr |
Snip, Snip |
pm |
has edited textbook, Introduction to Ocean Engineering(1975) |
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Graves, Robert |
Interview With a Dead Man |
vi |
1st pub. in 1950; has novel Watch the North Wind Rise(1949) |
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Aarons, Edward S. |
Makers of Destiny, The |
nv |
has 1st mys. novel Death in a Lighthouse(1938, as Edward Ronns); also as Ronns, Terror in the Town(1947), The Catspaw Ordeal(1950), No Place to Live(1950), Escape to Love(1952), Death Is My Shadow(1957); as Paul Ayres, Dead Heat(1950) |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XVIII |
vi |
16th story in F&SF in Feghoot series |
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Bonnet, Leslie |
Game With a Goddess |
ss |
1st pub. in Argosy U.K.) 1958 MAY; has pub. many short stories in the U.K.'s version of Argosy betw. 1958-1964; has edited book Chinese Folk and Fairy Tales(1958, 1963); has children'sbook with Ed Young: The Terrible Nung Gwama: A Chinese Folktale(1978) |
| 1959 OCT |
Sturgeon, Theodore |
Man Who Lost the Sea, The |
ss |
N-1960 HUG, short fiction; has novelization of 1961 movie, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea(1961); has colls. ... And My Fear Is Great/Baby Is Three(1965), Starshine(1966); an Ellery Queen detection The Player on the Other Side(1963) as by E.Q. |
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Mills, Robert P. |
Authors of Last Month's "Quintet" |
note |
announcing the 5 authors who wrote the 5 vignettes in F&SF 1959 SEP's "Quintet" |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Height of Up, The |
sces |
temperatures; extremes of temperature, different temperature scales - see addendum p.95 in 1960 FEB, about "bloopers" |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XIX |
vi |
17th story in F&SF in Feghoot series; any Feghoot idea sent in by a reader, which is then published, will be given proper credit & a year's subscription to F&SF; with thanks to Charles G. Leedham |
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Henderson, Zenna |
And a Little Child … |
ss |
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Knight, Damon |
To Be Continued |
ss |
has anth. The Dark Side(1965), The Shape of Things(1965), Cities of Wonder(1966), Nebula Award Stories 1965(1966), Science Fiction Inventions(1967), Worlds to Come(1967); edited the famous Orbit 1-21 anth.(1966-80), which was N for several Locus Awards |
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Finney, Charles G. |
Gilashrikes, The |
ss |
3rd story Manacle, Arizona series; stories coll. in The Ghosts of Manacle(1964); Ray Bradbury edited The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories(1956), based on Finney's 1st novel |
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Dickson, Gordon R. |
Guided Tour |
pm |
has omnibus The Dorsai Companion(1986); coll. Mutants: A Science Fiction Adventure(1970), the stories linked thematically; colls. Danger – Human(1970; vt The Book of Gordon R. Dickson, 1973), The Star Road(1973; N-1974 LOC), Ancient, My Enemy(1974) |
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Anderson, Poul |
Operation Incubus |
ss |
3rd story Afreet series; has coll. Homeward Bound(1975); novel The Winter of the World(1975), about the Earth in a future ice age; edited anth. A World Named Cleopatra(1977), a shared-world anth. built around his title story & concept(Clute) |
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Davis, Hassoldt |
Pleasant Woman, Eve, The |
ss |
(1907-1959) explorer, captain in the French Foreign Legion; has travel books Land of the Eye(1940), Sorcerer's Village(1955), World Without a Roof(1957); ar's "Resurrection in Djibouti" in PST 1943 SEP 4, & "The Case of the Happy Hippo" in ARG 1956 MAR |
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Bester, Alfred |
Pi Man, The |
ss |
N-1960 HUG, short fiction; also in F&SF under ps. Billy Watson |
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Coupling, J.J. |
In 2063 She Ceased to Be |
pm |
see his obit, with an appreciation by Arthur C. Clarke, in LOC 2002 MAY(#496), & in SFC 2002 JUL(#226) |
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Davidson, Avram |
Dagon |
ss |
this story, and his short story "The Dragon Skin Drum" in The Kenyon Review, 1961 JAN, draw upon his wartime experiences in China for their exotic setting |
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Heinlein, Robert A. |
Starship Soldier |
no-1/2 |
interstellar war, during which a young man becomes an adult, a pacifist becomes a professional soldier(Clute); exp. version W-1960 HUG, best novel(titled Starship Troopers; rvw. F&SF 1960 FEB); made into 1997 movie, Starship Troopers, rvw. F&SF 1998 APR |
| 1959 NOV |
Fast, Howard |
Martian Shop, The |
nv |
3rd story moralistic tales series; member of the Communist Party from 1943-1956, he was imprisoned for contempt of Congress in 1947 |
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Edmondson, G.C. |
From Caribou to Carry Nation |
ss |
2nd story in his Mad Friend series |
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Worthington, Will |
Plenitude |
ss |
ps. for William W. Mohler; lives in Washington, D.C.; 1st story pub. sf under this ps. is "A Desert Incident" in FAN 1959 JUN; also has stories as Will Mohler in F&SF 1963 MAR, & GAL 1963 DEC |
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Verne, Jules |
Frritt-Flacc |
ss |
1st pub. in Le Figaro Illustre, 1884 DEC; trans. from the French by I.O. Evans, editor of Jules Verne: Master of S.F.(1957); Extraordinary Voyages ser. incl. Journey to the Centre of the Earth(1863; trans. 1872 UK; 1959 movie); see the many Verne websites |
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Miller, Wade |
I Know a Good Hand Trick |
ss |
(1920- ; 1920-1961) collab. ps. for Robert (Bob) Wade & William (Bill) Miller; top collab. in the mystery field(DeAndrea); met in junior high in San Diego, has 1st crime novel Deadly Weapon(1946); Guilty Bystander(1947) began P.I. Max Thursday series |
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Heinlein, Robert A. |
Starship Soldier |
no-2/2 |
has novels I Will Fear No Evil(1970); Lazarus Long/Future History seq. novels, Time Enough for Love, or the Lives of Lazarus Long(1973), The Number of the Beast(1980), The Cat Who Walks Through Walls(1985), & To Sail Beyond the Sunset(1987) |
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Brode, Anthony |
Ballad of Outer Space |
pm |
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Knight, Damon |
Books: Without Hokum |
br |
Judith Merril(ed): SF, The Year's Greatest S.-F. and Fantasy; Algis Budrys: The Falling Torch; Donald H. Tuck: Handbook of S.F. and F., 2nd ed.; George O. Smith: The Fourth "R"; Arch Oboler: The Night of the Auk |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: C for Celeritas |
sces |
speed of light, & Einstein's equation e=mc² |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XX |
vi |
18th story in F&SF in Feghoot series; with thanks to Victor J. Papanek |
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Blish, James |
Masks, The |
ss |
1st pub. in his college(Rutgers) fraternity magazine in 1959; has novels The Duplicated Man(DSF 1953 AUG; 1959) with Robert A.W. Lowndes(as Michael Sherman), Titan's Daughter(1961), The Night Shapes(1962), A Torrent of Faces(1967 fixup) |
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Collier, John |
After the Ball |
ss |
1st pub. in Lovat Dickson's Magazine, 1933 NOV; has coll. Fancies and Goodnights(1951), W-1952 IFA; has coll. Pictures in the Fire(1958); has story made into 1960 The Twilight Zone ep. "The Chaser" - a man uses a love potion to win his dream girl |
| 1959 DEC |
Mills, Robert P. |
In This Issue … |
note |
Mel Hunter's 3rd robot, or the last man, series of cover paintings; Beaumont's new column; winner 1959 JUL time machine idea contest(#1264) |
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Clifton, Mark |
What Now, Little Man? |
nv |
has novel from Bossy series, They'd Rather Be Right(1957, 1982; vt The Forever Machine, 1958), W-1955 HUG; has novel Eight Keys to Eden(1960), coll. The Science Fiction of Mark Clifton(1980, ed by Barry N. Malzberg) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Thin Air |
sces |
atmosphere; history of discovery about the atmosphere, from discoveries of air pressure to those of the layers of the atmosphere |
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Neyroud, Gerard E. |
Terra-Venusian War of 1979, The |
ss |
retired English newspaperman |
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