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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1962 AUG |
Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Light Fantastic, The |
sces |
lasers |
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Bester, Alfred |
Books |
br |
Bester says goodbye as book reviewer for F&SF; has colls. The Dark Side of the Earth(1964), The Light Fantastic(1976), Star Light, Star Bright(1976); novel The Computer Connection(ASF 1974-75 NOV-JAN as "The Indian Giver"; 1975; vt Extro, 1989) |
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Davidson, Avram |
Books |
br |
Joseph Payne Brennan: Nine Horrors and a Dream; Heinrich Kley: The Drawings of ...; Isaac Asimov: Fact and Fancy; H.L. Gold(ed): The Sixth Galaxy Reader; Wallace West: Outposts in Space; James White: Hospital Station; Charles Haas: Adel Hitro |
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Brown, Rosel George |
Fruiting Body |
ss |
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Cogswell, Theodore R. & John Jacob Niles |
Roper, The |
pm |
(1918-1987; 1892-1980) 1st pub. in 1954; Niles is famous for his folk songs; correction to the song "The Roper" on p.16, F&SF 1963 MAR |
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Garrett, Randall |
Spatial Relationship |
ss |
has series of 8 vignettes as spoofs on Reginald Bretnor's Ferdinand Feghoot series(as by Grendel Briarton, in F&SF since 1956): "Through Time and Space with Benedict Breadfruit" as by Grandall Barretton in AMZ 1962 MAR-OCT |
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McIntosh, J.T. |
Stupid General, The |
ss |
has novels Six Gates from Limbo(1968), Transmigration(1970), Flight from Rebirth(ASF 1960 MAR as "Immortality ...... For Some"; exp. 1971) |
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Gold, H.L. |
What Price Wings? |
ss |
(1914-1996) wn. for Horace Leonard Gold; Canadian-born writer, editor; 1st story pub. sf "Inflexure" in ASF 1934 OCT(as Clyde Crane Campbell); became regular writer for UNK; founded GAL, edited it from 1950 OCT thru 1961 OCT(retired after car accident) |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Paulie Charmed the Sleeping Woman |
ss |
(1934- ) born in Painesville, Ohio; attended Ohio State Univ., was asked to leave when he was rude to creative writing prof. who told him he had no talent; active in Cleveland SF Society, running its mag. Science-Fantasy Bulletin(later Dimensions)(Clute) |
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Stanton, Will |
Gumdrop King, The |
ss |
has novel The Golden Evenings of Summer(1971; vt Charley and the Angel, 1973), which was made into the 1973 movie Charley and the Angel, about growing up in the 1930s in the American mid-West; movie stars Fred MacMurray, Cloris Leachman, Kurt Russell |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: LIII |
vi |
50th story in F&SF in Feghoot series |
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Davidson, Avram |
Editorial |
ed |
an anonymous letter by The Flea |
| 1962 SEP |
Davidson, Avram |
Editorial |
ed |
Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference, and past memories of Science Fiction |
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Davidson, Avram |
Introduction to Theodore Sturgeon's "When You Care, When You Love" |
in |
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Sturgeon, Theodore |
When You Care, When You Love |
nv |
N-1963 HUG, short fiction; this story supposed to be the 1st part of a novel, but Sturgeon never completed it(Edward L. Ferman "has a dozen or so pages of an unpublished sequel, but that's as far as [Sturgeon] went"); Sturgeon W-1985 WFA, Lifetime Award |
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Blish, James |
Theodore Sturgeon's Macrocosm |
ar |
a critique of Theodore Sturgeon as a literary craftsman; see article on Blish, "Scholia, Seasoned with Crabs, Blish Is" by John Clute in NWS #6 1973; see Blish interview in Paul Walker: Speaking of Science Fiction(1978) |
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Merril, Judith |
Theodore Sturgeon |
bio |
"personality" article on 1962's Worldcon guest of honor; Judith Merril, Philip Klass & T.S. lived together for most of a year as starving writers before the Big S-F Boom started; among his stories mentioned, "Bianca's Hands" in ARG(UK) 1947 MAY |
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Moskowitz, Sam |
Fantasy and Science Fiction by Theodore Sturgeon |
bib |
chronological listing of the 1st publication of Sturgeon's f & sf; has 3 stories in 1941, incl. "The Way Back" in CMT 1941 JAN; literary agent 1940-41; managing editor of SFP 1952 NOV-1953 DEC; editor of 4 issue revival WRT 1973 SUM-1974 SUM |
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Sturgeon, Robin |
Martian Mouse |
vi |
(1952- ) Theodore Sturgeon's son; for info on Sturgeon, his works & his family see websites http://glinda.Irsm.upenn.edu/~weeks/sturgeon/thshome.html & http://glinda.Irsm.upenn.edu/~weeks/misc/sturgeon.html |
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Smith, Evelyn E. |
They Also Serve |
nv |
has sf novel Unpopular Planet(1975), written in 18th century style as a memoir of an overpopulated future future Earth where aliens maintain the planet as a breeding-ground for humans & other species(Clute) |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: LIV |
vi |
51st story in F&SF in Feghoot series; with thanks to Cora Anne Cunningham |
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Jennings, Gary |
Myrrha |
ss |
(1923-1999) N-1963 HUG, short fiction; Gary Gayne Jennings, born in Buena Vista, VA; studied with New York Art Students League, 1949-51; in U.S. Army, Infantry, 1952-54, as correspondent in Korea & earned Bronze Star; newspaper reporter 1958-61 |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Shape of Things, The |
sces |
Earth, shape of the Earth |
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Reed, Kit |
New You, The |
ss |
her husband, Joseph Reed, is a Prof. of English at Wesleyan Univ.; they live in Middletown, CT |
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Malaval, Suzanne |
Devil's God-Daughter, The |
vi |
trans. by Damon Knight; writes for Fiction, F&SF's French sister-magazine, lives in Lorraine |
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Davidson, Avram |
Introduction to James H. Schmitz's "These Are the Arts" |
in |
Schmitz was born in Hamburg, Germany, to American parents; came to America at the outbreak of WWII, flew in the Army Air Corps in the South Pacific Theater; now lives in Inglewood, CA; an engineer |
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Schmitz, James H. |
These Are the Arts |
ss |
(1911-1981) 1st story pub. "Greenface" in UNK 1943 AUG; has Vega agents series coll. Agent of Vega(ASF & GAL 1949-51; 1960); has novels The Witches of Karres(ASF 1949 DEC; exp.1966), A Tale of Two Clocks(1962, 1st part of Hub sequence; vt. Legacy, 1979) |
| 1962 OCT |
Davidson, Avram |
Editorial |
ed |
a dip into the Question Box - a few answers |
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Davidson, Avram |
Introduction to Brian W. Aldiss's "A Kind of Artistry" |
in |
Aldiss is the literary editor of the daily Oxford Mail, the president of the British Science Fiction Association; editor of Penguin Science Fiction(1961), More Penguin Science Fiction(1963), & Yet More Penguin Science Fiction(1964) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. |
Kind of Artistry, A |
nv |
this story in his coll. The Airs of Earth(1963), which is otherwise composed of stories from NWS; has nf book The Shape of Further Things(1970), part autobiography, part criticism; time travel novel Frankenstein Unbound(1973; basis 1990 movie) |
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Young, Robert F. |
There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe |
ss |
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Allen (?) |
Cartoon |
ct |
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White, Don |
Twenty-Four Hours in a Princess's Life, with Frogs |
vi |
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Hill, Hyacinthe |
Inquest in Kansas (A Modern American Ballad) |
pm |
(1920- ) 1st pub. in Necromantikon, 1950 WIN; ps. for Virginia Anderson(who also used the ps. Nanek); has coll. of verse, Peotry and the Stars(1986) |
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Clingerman, Mildred |
Measure My Love |
ss |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Slow Burn |
sces |
elements, oxygen and oxidation |
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Davidson, Avram |
Books |
br |
Damon Knight(ed): A Century of Science Fiction; Rod Serling(ed): New Stories from the Twilight Zone; Groff Conklin(ed): Worlds of When |
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Aandahl, Vance |
Unfortunate Mr. Morky, The |
vi |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: LV |
vi |
52nd story in F&SF in Feghoot series; Randall Garrett has a spoof series based on this series, called "Through Time and Space with Benedict Breadfruit I- VIII" in AMZ 1962 MAR-OCT, as by Grandall Barretton |
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Davidson, Avram |
Introduction to Robert Sheckley's "The Journey Of Joenes" |
in |
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Sheckley, Robert |
Journey of Joenes, The |
no-1/2 |
"protagonist is an innocent who suffers a variety of alarming adventures after leaving his near-future Pacific island ... novel takes the form of a series of remembrances enshrined as myths 1000 years later"(Clute); considered one of R.S.'s best novels |
| 1962 NOV |
Connable, Alfred |
Secret Flight of Friendship Eleven, The |
ss |
(1931- ) political science graduate of the Univ. of Michigan, MA from Yale in playwrighting; has plays "Silver Eagle," & "Shadows in the Court" |
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Davidson, Avram |
Introduction to Russell Kirk's "Sorworth Place" |
in |
Kirk is the author of the classic thriller Old House of Fear |
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Kirk, Russell |
Sorworth Place |
nv |
(1918-1994) 1st pub. in London Mystery #14, in 1952, as "Old Place of Sorworth"; 1st story in F&SF from his Ralph Bain series; story to be in his coll. of ghost stories The Surly Sullen Bell(1962) |
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Kerr, Walter H. |
Card Sharp |
pm |
has coll. Countdown in Bedlam: A Portfolio of Paranoiac Poems(1978) |
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Carr, Terry |
Hop-Friend |
ss |
worked 1964-71 as an editor w. Donald A. Wollheim at Ace Books; edited ser. World's Best Science Fiction(1965-70) w. Wollheim, & Universe 1-17(1971-87), The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1-16(1972-87), New Worlds of Fantasy(1967), #2(1970), #3(1971) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Pre-Fixing It Up |
sces |
metric system; see addendum p.63 in F&SF 1963 JAN, concerning a mathematical error "in the distance covered by light at short intervals" |
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Davidson, Avram |
Books |
br |
Algis Budrys: Some Will Not Die; Long John Nebel: The Way Out World |
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Anderson, Karen |
Landscape With Sphinxes |
vi |
her 1st pub. story; her 1st professional sale was a poem, "In Memoriam: Henry Kuttner," in F&SF 1958 MAY; has been active in sf fandom |
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Brunner, John |
Protect Me From My Friends |
ss |
telepathy from telepath's viewpoint; 1st U.S. sale "Thou Good and Faithful" in ASF 1953 MAR as by John Loxmith; novels The Space-Time Juggler(TCS 1953 SUM as "The Wanton of Argus"; 1963), & The Altar on Asconel(IFS 1965 APR-MAY), Interstellar Empire seq. |
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