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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1962 JAN |
White, James |
Christmas Treason |
nv |
(1928-1999) U.K. writer from Ulster; 1st story pub. sf "Assisted Passage" in NWS 1953 JAN; best known for his Sector General series, about galactic medicine, pub. mainly in NWS; in ser. coll. Hospital Station(1962), novel Star Surgeon(1963) |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XLVII |
vi |
44th story in F&SF in Feghoot series |
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Wilhelm, Kate |
Time to Keep, A |
ss |
(1928- ) born in Toledo, OH; married Damon Knight in 1963; 1st story pub. sf "The Pint-Sized Genie" in FAN 1956 OCT; in 1958 helped found Milford Science Fiction Writers' Workshop with Knight, & Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop in 1968 |
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Williams, Jay |
Interplanetary Sex |
ar |
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Russell, Maria |
Deer Park, The |
ss |
working name for Mrs. Mary R. Standard; lives in NYC |
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Goulart, Ron |
Please Stand By |
nv |
2nd story in F&SF in Max Kearny series |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Modern Demonology, The |
sces |
Maxwell's demon; has 1st coll. of F&SF science essays Fact and Fancy(1962) |
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Bester, Alfred |
Books |
br |
Ernst Juenger: The Glass Bees; Leo Marguilies(ed): The Ghoul Keepers; Arthur C. Clarke: A Fall of Moondust; H.L. Gold: Mind Partner, and 8 Other Novelets from Galaxy |
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Peterson, Nils T. |
Prelude to a Long Walk |
vi |
has chapbook of poems, Here Is No Ordinary Rejoicing(?), & was an editor for Discover America(?), a coll. of poems celebrating the USA's bicentennial; has book of poetry The Comedy of Desire(1994), illus. by Rita Shumaker, & an introduction by Robert Bly |
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Anderson, Poul |
Progress |
nv |
2nd story Sky People series, sequel to story in F&SF 1959 MAR; has colls. Explorations(1981), The Gods Laughed(1982), Conflict(1983), The Unicorn Trade(1984 with Karen Anderson), Past Times(1984), Dialogue with Darkness(1985), Space Folk(1989) |
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Spencer, James |
To the Stars |
pm |
1st pub. in the San Francisco Review; he also had pub. in the Review, short story "Too Soon for Pigeons" in 1963 |
| 1962 FEB |
Ballard, J.G. |
Garden of Time, The |
ss |
(1930- ) James Graham Ballard, U.K. writer born in Shanghai, interned there during WWII in a Japanese civilian P.O.W. camp, attended King's College(UK); 1st story pub. sf "Escapement" in NWS 1956 DEC & "Prima Belladonna" in SCF 1956 DEC |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XLVIII |
vi |
45th story in F&SF in Feghoot series; with thanks to Peggy Kernerman |
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Davidson, Avram |
Singular Events Which Occurred in the Hovel on the Alley Off Eye Street, The |
ss |
has coll. Or All the Seas with Oysters(1962); true crime essays, most reprinted from Cavalier, coll. Crimes and Chaos (1962) |
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McIntosh, J.T. |
One Into Two |
ss |
has novels The Noman Way(NWS 1952 JUL-NOV as "The ESP Worlds"; 1964); Out of Chaos(1965), a post-holocaust novel; Snow White and the Giants(IFS 1966-67 OCT-JAN; 1968 US; vt Time for a Change, 1967), about time-traveling aliens |
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Kerr, Walter H. |
Gruesome Discovery at the 242nd St. Feeding Station |
pm |
(1914- ) edited book, Rye Bread: Women Poets Rising(1977) |
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Nesvadba, Josef |
Pirate Island |
ss |
(1926- ) 1st pub. in the Czech weekly mag. Kultura, in 1958, & in his coll. The Death of Taryan(Prague, 1958); writer from Czechoslovakia, a practicing psychiatrist at the Faculty Polyclinic in Prague; began writing career as a playwright & translator |
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Matheson, Richard |
Traveller, The |
ss |
1st pub. in coll. Born of Man and Woman(1954); has western novels Journal of the Gun Years(1991; W-1992 Spur Award), The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok(1996); coll. By the Gun(1994); thriller 7 Steps to Midnight(1992), mystery Now You See It(1995) |
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Moore, Ward |
Rebel |
ss |
has his last novel Joyleg(novella in FAN 1962 MAR-APR; exp. 1962) with Avram Davidson, in which a man is found in the Appalachian wilds who appears to be immortal due to a special brew(Clute) |
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Stevens, Barry |
Window to the Whirled |
nv |
(1902-1985) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Superficially Speaking |
sces |
planetary areas |
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Bester, Alfred |
Books |
br |
Edmond Hamilton: Battle for the Stars; Clifford D. Simak: Time Is the Simplest Thing; Theodore Sturgeon: A Way Home |
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Turco, Lewis |
Excerpts From the Latterday Chronicle |
pm |
has nf, Poetry: An Introduction Through Writing(1973), The New Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics(1986); poetry colls. The Weed Garden(1973), Courses in Lambents(1977), Seasons of the Blood(1980), American Still Lifes(1981), Legends of the Mist(1993) |
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Grass, Matthew |
Snake in the Closet, The |
ss |
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Pangborn, Edgar |
Golden Horn, The |
nv |
1st story of 2 in F&SF of his post-nuclear-holocaust Davy series; with "A War of No Consequence" in F&SF 1962 MAR, made into a fixup novel, Davy(1964; N-1965 HUG); also in Davy ser., novel The Judgment of Eve(1966) |
| 1962 MAR |
Mills, Robert P. |
Coming Next ... |
note |
announces his leaving F&SF(due to other professional responsibilities), the new editor being Avram Davidson(beginning next issue) |
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Young, Robert F. |
Jonathan and the Space Whale |
nv |
1st story in F&SF in John Starfinder, Ciely Bleu & their asteroid-sized Space Whale series; this whale has the ability to travel through space & time |
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Wellman, Manly Wade |
Wonder As I Wander: Some Footprints on John's Trail Through Magic Mountains |
gp |
12th in Silver John series, 7 vignettes he will use to connect the series stories in a coll.: Then I Wasn't Alone; You Know the Tale of Hoph; Blue Monkey; The Stars Down There; Find the Place Yourself; I Can't Claim That; & Who Else Could I Count On |
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Leiber, Fritz |
Man Who Made Friends With Electricity, The |
ss |
has colls. Shadows with Eyes(1962), A Pail of Air(1964), Ships to the Stars(1964) |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XLIX |
vi |
46th story in F&SF in Feghoot series; with thanks to Robert E. Spenger |
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Pangborn, Edgar |
War of No Consequence, A |
nv |
2nd story Davy series; "In This Issue ..." on p.4, E.P. talks of this series as something that could happen because of things happening today: "These stories are fantasy; I'd like to call them fantasy used as a special lens for looking at present reality" |
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Davidson, Avram |
63rd St. Station, The |
vi |
editor of F&SF from 1962 APR to 1964 NOV, which won a 1963 HUG for Best Professional Magazine; during the latter part of his editorship at F&SF, he was living in Amecameca, Mexico, & receiving manuscripts there |
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Kerr, Walter H. |
Communication |
pm |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: That's Life |
sces |
life; the differences between life and non-life |
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Buck, Doris Pitkin |
Stone Woman, The |
pm |
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Bester, Alfred |
Books |
br |
Bester interviews an sf fan, John X |
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Henderson, Zenna |
Shadow on the Moon |
nv |
8th story The People series, chrono. story # 14 |
| 1962 APR |
Davidson, Avram |
Editorial |
ed |
Avram Davidson introduces himself, the 4th and newest editor of F&SF |
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Williams, Jay |
Gifts of the Gods |
ss |
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Correa, Hugo |
Last Element, The |
ss |
(1926- ) native of Chile, called by Bernard Goorden "the first Latin-American classic" |
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Edwards, Sylvia |
End of Evan Essant ...?, The |
nv |
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Aldiss, Brian W. |
Shards |
ss |
has short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" in HRP 1969 DEC, a Pinocchio-like tale about a withdrawn English boy who is actually a robot that wants to become a real boy & be loved by its 'mother'; see article in NYT 1999 JUL 18 by Gregory Feeley |
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Shepley, John |
Kit-Katt Klub, The |
ss |
has trans. Pierre Restany: Cesar(1976), Chryssa(1977), Botero(1984); Oriana Fallaci: Interview with History(1976), Letter to a Child Never Born(1976); Tiziano Terzani: Giai Phong! The Fall and Liberation of Saigon(1976); Salvatore Mannuzzu: Procedura('93) |
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Reed, Kit |
To Lift a Ship |
ss |
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Arthur, Robert |
Garvey's Ghost |
ss |
Arthur worked closely with Alfred Hitchcock, ghost-editing the anth. Stories for Late at Night(1961), Alfred Hitchcock's Haunted Houseful(1961), A.H.'s Ghostly Gallery(1962), Stories My Mother Never Told Me(1963), A.H.'s Monster Museum(1965), etc |
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Buck, Doris Pitkin |
Vintage Wine |
pm |
Buck taught English at Ohio State Univ., & acted with various theater groups |
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Henneberg, Charles |
Moon Fishers |
nv |
trans. from the French by Damon Knight; Charles full name is Charles Henneberg zu Irmelshausen Wasungen; they met while he was in the French Foreign Legion based at Homs, Syria, & she was a Russian journalist; he died in March, 1959 |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Weighting Game, The |
sces |
elements, atomic weights |
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Bester, Alfred |
Books |
br |
Brian W. Aldiss: The Primal Urge; Fritz Leiber: The Silver Eggheads; Lester del Rey: And Some Were Human; John W. Campbell(ed): Prologue to Analog; The Fourth Dimension Simply Expressed(Dover Press) |
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Thomas, Theodore L. |
Test |
vi |
has 8 stories in Patent Office spoof series, as by his ps. Leonard Lockhard & sometimes with Charles L. Harness(they are both patent attorneys): in ASF/ANA 1952-64 & in FUN 1955 NOV |
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