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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1961 SEP |
Bester, Alfred |
Books: Demolished Man, The |
br |
discusses himself, "no longer a creative writer, but merely a magazine columnist" |
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Reeves, Rosser |
Effigy |
pm |
has book with Ray Martin, The 99 Critical Shots in Pool: Everything You Need to Know to Learn & Master the Game(1977; 1982) |
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Reeves, Rosser |
E=MC˛ |
pm |
has novel, Popo(1980), "a bittersweet, nobly nostalgic, & invigorating tribute to that near-mythic figure: the eccentric garret Poet of Greenwich Village" |
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Aldiss, Brian W. |
Timberline |
nv |
4th story Hothouse series; "the odyssey of Gren & Yattmur & the tummy-bellies(5" high humans)"; has colls. Starswarm(1964), Who Can Replace a Man?(1966; N-1989 LOC), The Saliva Tree and Other Strange Growths(1966) |
| 1961 OCT |
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr |
Harrison Bergeron |
ss |
(1922- ) born in Indianapolis, was a P.O.W. in Dresden in WWII during the saturation bombing & firestorm; studied at Univ. of Tennesee, & Chicago; 1st story pub. sf "Report on the Barnhouse Effect" in COL, in 1950; 1st novel Player Piano(1952) |
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Brown, Rosel George |
Ultimate Sin, The |
ss |
has novel Earthblood(1966), with Keith Laumer, "an expansive space opera, ... in which a lost Terran boy ... searches through the stars for his lost heritage" (Clute) |
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Finney, Charles G. |
Captivity, The |
ss |
has book The Old China Hands(1961), based on his army experiences in China in 1927-29; from 1935-70 he worked for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, AZ, which was the model for Abalone, AZ, in his novel The Circus of Dr. Lao |
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Smith, Evelyn E. |
Robert E. Lee at Moscow |
ss |
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Pohl, Frederik & C.M. Kornbluth |
World of Myrion Flowers, The |
ss |
"at the time of his death, Kornbluth had a number of stories in progress, being done w. his long-time collaborator, Pohl, who has put the finishing touches on this story"; has novel Search the Sky(1954), w. C.M. Kornbluth; Pohl W-1992 NEB, Grandmaster |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Machine That Won the War, The |
ss |
has story "Founding Father" in GAL 1965 OCT, N-1965 NEB; novel The Gods Themselves(GAL 1972 MAR, MAY; IFS 1972 MAR/APR; 1972; W-1972 NEB; 1973 HUG, LOC), a complex tale involving catastrophic energy transfers between alternate universes(Clute) |
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Langelaan, George |
Other Hand, The |
ss |
(1908-1969) French-born U.K. writer & journalist; has coll. of sf/horror stories Out of Time(1964), which contains the story "The Fly"(PBY 1957 JUN) which was made into movie The Fly(1958; 1986), and several sequels; he has pub. several works in French |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: That's About the Size of It |
sces |
extremes in sizes of animals |
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Bester, Alfred |
Books |
br |
many short reviews of reprints |
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Davidson, Avram |
Vat, The |
vi |
married writer Grania Kaiman (Davis) in early 1962, with whom he has collaborated on novels & short stories, incl. here in F&SF |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XLIV |
vi |
41st story in F&SF in Feghoot series; with thanks to James J. Davidson |
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Dickson, Gordon R. |
Naked to the Stars |
na-1/2 |
war with the Lehaunans, natives of the third planet of Arcturus, "with the attendant problems (of) ethics, the nature of courage, and the point of it all – in the distant or semi-distant future |
| 1961 NOV |
Mills, Robert P. |
In This Issue ... |
note |
"F&SF is not directly involved in the search for an ultimate definition of sf" - the definition of of sf is dependent of "your definition of science." The definitions of sf, by Hugo Gernsback and by Gordon R. Dickson, are given |
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Laumer, Keith |
Hybrid |
ss |
has 1st novel, part of Imperium sequence, Worlds of the Imperium(1962); others in seq., The Other Side of Time(1965), Assignment in Nowhere(1968), & Zone Yellow(1990) - the Imperium seeks stability of its timeline amidst complex parallel worlds(Clute) |
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Tevis, Walter |
Other End of the Line, The |
ss |
Walter Stone Tevis; has sf novel The Man Who Fell to Earth(1963; made into 1976 movie); has coll. Far from Home(1981), & novel Mockingbird(1980); non-sf novel The Queen's Gambit(1984), about chess; his work is what he calls "disguised autobiographies" |
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Rubin, Rick |
Interplanetary Cat, The |
ss |
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Elliott, George P. |
Faq' |
ss |
1st pub. in The Hudson Review, 1952 SPR, & in his coll. Among the Dangs (1960); has novel David Knudson(1962), & coll. An Hour of Last Things(1968) |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XLV |
vi |
42nd story in F&SF in Feghoot series; with thanks to Joe Olson |
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Buck, Doris Pitkin |
Green Sunrise |
ss |
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Glaser, Alice |
Tunnel Ahead, The |
ss |
(1929- ) her 1st pub. fiction; born on Long Island, graduate of Radcliffe College, editorial associate at ESQ |
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Garrett, Randall |
Mustang |
ss |
wrote biography of Pope John XXIII; Garrett has Leland Hale series in INF 1957 OCT, 1958 AUG, & FUN 1960 FEB; also has McGuire series in ANA 1961 JUL & 1962 MAR; has used ps. Darrel T. Langart, Jonathan Blake MacKenzie, & Seaton McKettrig in ANA |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Dethronement |
sces |
scientific theory, changing it |
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Bester, Alfred |
Books |
br |
Robert A. Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land; Guy Murchie: Music of the Spheres |
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Updike, John |
Cosmic Gall |
pm |
(1932- ) 1st pub. in NYM, 17 DEC 1960; John Hoyer Updike; only his 1st novel is sf, The Poorhouse Fair(1959); has novels The Coup(1978), The Witches of Eastwick(1984; made into 1987 movie), & Brazil(1994); has been pub. in ESQ, PBY, PST, etc |
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Budrys, Algis |
About Something Truly Wonderful |
ar |
professional writer talks about the role & the quality of sf criticism; Budrys helped edit at times sf mags. GAL, SPS, RST, & SFA; edited his own sf mag. Tomorrow Speculative Fiction(TSF), 1993 JAN-1997 FEB, & then online form; runs The Unifont Company |
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Dickson, Gordon R. |
Naked to the Stars |
na-2/2 |
Naked to the Stars, to be pub. in an expanded form, a novel, in 1962; has omnibus None But Man(1989), which contains the 1969 sf novel None But Man, & a prequel story, "Hilifter," a short story in ANA 1963 FEB |
| 1961 DEC |
Veillot, Claude |
First Days of May, The |
ss |
(1925- ) 1st pub. in F&SF's French edition, Fiction 1960 MAY; trans. by Damon Knight; newspaperman, has two nf books(one on artificial satellites, one on the art of moviemaking); has written scripts for 18 French movies between 1963-1991 |
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Gold, Herbert |
Mirror and Mr. Sneeves, The |
ss |
1st pub. in 1953; has pub. short stories in COL, PST, the Evergreen Review, & 9 stories in PBY betw. 1962-1970 |
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Walker, Anne |
Oversight of Dirty-Jets Ryan, The |
ss |
ps. for Anne Gutterman; as Walker, has short story in "A Matter of Proportion" in ASF 1959 AUG |
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Stanton, Will |
You Are With It! |
ss |
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West, John Anthony |
Fiesta at Managuay |
ss |
1st pub. in his coll. Call Out the Malicia(1961 - UK; 1962 - US), stories from different genres, but each presenting a satiric view of American life; has novel Osborne's Army(1966), set on Caribbean island Escondite, a target for 20th century developers |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XLVI |
vi |
43rd story in F&SF in Feghoot series; with thanks to H. Orlo Hoadley |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Trojan Hearse, The |
sces |
asteroids; Trojan or Earth-grazing asteroids |
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Bester, Alfred |
Books |
br |
Ivan T. Sanderson: Abominable Snowmen, Legend Come to Life; Willard Bascom: A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea; Lester del Rey: The Mysterious Sea; Robert A. Heinlein: 6 x H; Ward Moore: Greener than You Think; H.R. Wakefield: The Clock Strikes 12 |
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Draper, Hal |
Ms Fnd in a Lbry: or, The Day Civilization Collapsed |
ss |
(1915?-1990) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. |
Evergreen |
na |
5th & last story Hothouse ser.; ser. coll. in fixup novel The Long Afternoon of Earth(1962) W-1962 HUG, shfi; has colls. Intangibles Inc.(1969; rev. vt Neanderthal Planet, 1970 US), The Moment of Eclipse(1970; W-1972 BSF), The Book of Brian Aldiss(1972) |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 21: 1961 JUL-DEC |
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