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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1960 MAY |
Mills, Robert P. |
In This Issue ... |
note |
states editorial policy is to exploit the "infinitely various field" of sf, & to publish "controversial stories." Solicits readers' opinions. "This issue is largely made up of pairs of stories - pairs which share a common setting, or point, or subject." |
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Leiber, Fritz |
Oldest Soldier, The |
ss |
2nd story in F&SF Change War series, about a time-paradox war being fought through time and space and alternate worlds by two factions, the "Spiders" & the "Snakes" |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XXVI |
vi |
24th story in F&SF in Feghoot series |
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McMorrow, Fred |
Man From Tomorrow, The |
ss |
(1925-2000) son of Tom McMorrow Jr(in F&SF 1953 MAY, #333), the large McMorrow family lives on Cape Cod; has pub. stories in TWS, STS, PST & PBY; has psychology book Midolescence: The Dangerous Years(1974); Jimmy: The Candidacy of Carter(1976) |
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Lardner, Rex |
American Plan |
ss |
(1918-1998) ex-NYM staff editor, writer; a freelance writer; has books The Underhand Serve; or, How to Play Dirty Tennis(1968), Downhill Lies and Other Falsehoods; or, How to Play Dirty Golf(1973), Finding and Exploiting Your Opponents Weaknesses(1978) |
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Garrett, Randall |
Pop! |
pm |
5th poem in F&SF in his comic verse series, 3rd about poor Willie; has novels Unwise Child(1962; vt Starship Death, 1982); & Anything You Can Do ...(1963, as by Darrel T. Langart), about a battle between a superhuman & an alien(Clute) |
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Collier, John |
Tender Age, The |
ss |
1st pub. in NYM, 10 MAR 1956; has coll. The John Collier Reader(1972; vt The Best of John Collier, 1975); book Milton's "Paradise Lost": Screenplay for Cinema of the Mind(1973); was nominated for a WFA for Life Acievement in 1978 & 1979 |
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Dickson, Gordon R. |
One on Trial |
ss |
has novels Sleepwalker's World(1971), The Outposter(ANA 1971 MAY-JUL; 1972), The Pritcher Mass(ANA 1972 AUG-OCT; 1972; N-1973 LOC); juvenile novels Alien Art(1973), & Gremlins, Go Home!(1974), the latter with Ben Bova |
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Porges, Arthur |
Specimen for the Queen, A |
ss |
3rd story Ruum series(the robot on Earth) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Piece of Pi, A |
sces |
mathematical pi, Part 1; Part 2 in 1960 SEP(#1451) |
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Schenck, Hilbert Jr |
Wockyjabber |
pm |
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Knight, Damon |
Books: Iä! Yog-Sothoth! Yah, Yah, Yah! |
br |
John Lymington: Night of the Big Heat; L. Sprague de Camp: The Glory That Was; Robert M. Coates: The Eater of Darkness |
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Hansen, Joseph |
Ballad of the Red Giants |
pm |
(1923- ) 1st pub. in ATL, in 1959; has ser. about gay death-claims investigator Dave Brandstetter: Fadeout(1970), Gravedigger(1982, N-Shamus), Brandstetter and Others(1984, coll.), Country of Old Men(1991, W-Lambda); uses ps. Rose Brock, James Colton |
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Farmer, Philip José |
Open to Me, My Sister |
na |
N-1961 HUG, short fiction; vt. "My Sister's Brother"; per Contento - story orig. to be published in SAT 1959 JUN as "The Strange Birth," but the mag. ceased publication; story repeatedly rejected by F&SF as "disgusting" before being accepted |
| 1960 JUN |
Henneberg, Charles |
Non-Humans, The |
ss |
1st pub. in Fiction, in 1958; 1st & only story in F&SF from their historical fiction ser., this one of Florence in the year 1490; trans. by Damon Knight; they have fantasy novel The Green Gods(1961; trans. by C.J. Cherryh, 1980), on the greenhouse effect |
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Ellis, H.F. |
Fireside Talk |
ss |
1st pub. in Punch |
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Fast, Howard |
Cato the Martian |
ss |
5th story moralistic tales series; in "In This Issue ...," on p.4, H.F. says his "moral tales ... satirize one or another aspect of man's mortality" |
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Schenck, Hilbert Jr |
Ed Lear Wasn't So Crazy |
pm |
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Worthington, Will |
Swamp Road, The |
ss |
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Agate, Mrs. |
Slammy and the Bonneygott |
ss |
her 1st sale |
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Davidson, Avram |
Sixth Season, The |
ss |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Bug-Eyed Vonster, The |
sces |
speed of light & particle acceleration, particle accelerators |
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Knight, Damon |
Books: New Maps of Hell |
br |
Kingley Amis: New Maps of Hell; Philip K. Dick: Dr. Futurity; Roald Dahl: Kiss Kiss; L. Sprague de Camp: The Bronze God of Gold; Dick Eney(comp): Fancyclopedia II(based on an earlier edition by Jack Speer) |
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Simak, Clifford D. |
Golden Bugs, The |
nv |
has colls. Strangers in the Universe(1956), The Worlds of Clifford Simak(1960), Aliens for Neighbors(1961), All the Traps of Earth(1962), Worlds Without End(1964); has novel Time Is the Simplest Thing(ANA 1961 APR-JUL as "The Fisherman"; 1961; N-1962 HUG) |
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Berry, John |
Beyond Ganga Mata |
ss |
1st pub. in the Southwestern Review(pub. by Southern Methodist Univ. Press); John Edgar Berry |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XXVII |
vi |
25th story in F&SF in Feghoot series; with thanks to Lenore Sellers |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 18: 1960 JAN-JUN |
indx |
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| 1960 JUL |
Barr, Stephen |
Oh I'll Take the High Road |
ss |
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Alpert, Hollis |
Simian Problem, The |
ss |
(1916- ) movie critic, The Saturday Review; has novels The Summer Lovers(1959), Some Other Time(1960); wrote for TV Johnny Staccato(1959-60); Fellini: A Life(1986), The Life and Times of Porgy and Bess(1990), Broadway! 125 Years of Musical Theatre(1991) |
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Cogswell, Theodore R. |
Burning, The |
ss |
also in F&SF with co-author Jon Jacob Niles, and with co-authors Algis Budrys & Ted Thomas |
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Henderson, Zenna |
Things |
ss |
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Carr, A.H.Z. |
It Is Not My Fault |
ss |
(1902-1971) Albert H. Zolotkoff Carr, has been economic adviser to F.D.R., & speech writer for Adlai Stevenson, has pub. nf books, & short stories in PST & EQMM; W-1971 EDG for best 1st novel, Finding Maubee(1971) |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XXIX |
vi |
26th story in F&SF in Feghoot series |
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deFord, Miriam Allen |
All in Good Time |
ss |
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Dickson, Gordon R. |
Last Dream, The |
ss |
has novels The R-Master(1973; exp. vt The Last Master, 1983), The Lifeship(ANA 1975 FEB-APR; 1976; N-1976 LOC; vt Lifeboat, 1978 UK), with Harry Harrison |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Beyond Pluto |
sces |
planets, tenth planet possibilities; Bode's Law, names for a tenth planet; see addenda, p.130, 1960 SEP(Soviets discovered another planetoid, not the tenth planet), and p.4, 1960 OCT(more names for a tenth planet) |
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Knight, Damon |
Books: Level 7 |
br |
Mordecai Roshwald: Level 7 |
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Davidson, Avram |
Fair Trade |
ss |
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Tucker, Wilson |
To the Tombaugh Station |
na |
crime detection and life aboard a small spaceship, pub. as book(1960); has novel The Lincoln Hunters(1958), time travellers are sent back to get a recording of a lost speech of Lincoln's(Clute); coll. Science Fiction Sub-Treasury(1954; vt Time X, 1955) |
| 1960 AUG |
Young, Robert F. |
Nikita Eisenhower Jones |
ss |
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Sharkey, Jack |
Final Ingredient, The |
ss |
(1931-1992) working name for John Michael Sharkey; 1st story pub. sf "The Captain of His Soul" in FAN 1959 MAR |
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Suter, John F. |
Seeds of Murder, The |
ss |
(1914-1996) 1st pub. in EQMM 1955 MAY; a frequent contributor to EQMM & AHMM, he has a coll. of these mystery stories, plus some Uncle Abner pastiches, in Old Land, Dark Land, Strange Land(1996); also pub. in several mys. anth. incl. Cat Crimes II(1992) |
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Brown, Rosel George |
Just a Suggestion |
ss |
has Sibyl Sue Blue series of novels, Sibyl Sue Blue(1966; vt Galactic Sibyl Sue Blue, 1968), & The Waters of Centaurus(1970) - they "feature a tough female cop who, with a teenage daughter, engages in various interstellar adventures" (Clute) |
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Drake, Leah Bodine |
New Wine in an Old Bottle: Ariadne |
pm |
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Arthur, Robert |
Miracle on Main Street |
nv |
1st pub. in ARG, 6 JUL 1940; Arthur also worked on radio program Murder by Experts(1949-1951); in his career he wrote over 500 radio scripts, incl. for The Shadow, & Nick Carter; worked in TV in Hollywood after 1959 on the Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock |
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Banks, Raymond E. |
Revenant, The |
ss |
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Davidson, Avram |
Climacteric |
vi |
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Edmondson, G.C. |
Sign of the Goose, The |
ss |
4th story in his Mad Friend series; has 1st novel The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream(1965; rev. 1978), & its sequel To Sail the Century Sea(1981), amusing & graphically told tales of a U.S. ship & its inadvertent time travels(Clute) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Catskills in the Sky |
sces |
planets, views from planetary surfaces |
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Knight, Damon |
Books: Tedious Mr. Lovecraft, The |
br |
H.P. Lovecraft: The Shuttered Room and Other Places; C.S. Lewis: The World's Last Night |
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