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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1964 JUL |
Zelazny, Roger |
Salvation of Faust, The |
vi |
has used ps. Harrison Denmark in AMZ & FAN in 1963; full time writer since 1969; has colls. Four for Tomorrow(1967), The Doors of His Face, ...(1971), The Last Defender of Camelot(1980; exp. 1981), Unicorn Variations(1983; W-1984 BRG, LOC) |
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Drake, Leah Bodine |
All-Hallows |
pm |
has poem "Leonardo Before His Canvas" in Many Wade Wellman's coll. of two time travel adventure stories, Twice in Time(1988) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Nothing Counts |
sces |
numbers; Roman numerals & the discovery of zero |
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Sutherland, John |
Struldbrugg Reaction, The |
ss |
Struldbruggs are the immortals of the island of Luggnagg, in Gulliver's Travels; Assoc. Prof. of English at Colby College, lives in East Vassalboro, ME; has also pub. articles in Gauntlet incl. "Beware of Proselytizing Vegetarians" in Gauntlet #3 1992 |
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Webb, Ron |
Girl With the 100 Proof Eyes, The |
ss |
her 1st pub. story; has Earth Song trilogy novels Earthchild(1982 fixup), Earth Song(1983), & Ram Song(1984), in which the introduction of an immortality process causes social upheaval(Clute); has medical horror novels Pestis 18(1987), The Halflife(1989) |
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Beauclerk, Jane |
We Serve the Star of Freedom |
ss |
(1933- ) 1st story in Stars series; ps. for librarian & poet M(ary) J(ane) Engh, her 1st sale of a story; born in Illinois, she attended Univ. of Chicago & the Univ. of Illinois; has a BA degree in history |
| 1964 AUG |
Davidson, Avram |
Editorial |
ed |
an auction of astrolabes, and the ships that would need them |
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Shore, Wilma |
Bulletin From the Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Research at Marmouth, Mass., A |
ss |
(1913- ) has coll. Women Should Be Allowed: A Verbatim Report on the Imbroglio Between the Sexes(1965), which has 12 stories, each based on a salient point between the sexws |
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Russ, Joanna |
"I Had Vacantly Crumpled It Into My Pocket ... But by God, Eliot, It Was a Photograph From Life!" |
ss |
title is from the end of H.P. Lovecraft's story "Pickman's Model" |
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Davidson, Avram |
Books |
br |
Edgar Pangborn: Davy; Arthur C. Clarke & Mike Wilson: The Treasure of the Great Reef; Fritz Leiber: The Wanderer; H.G. Wells: The War in the Air, In the Days of the Comet, & The Food of the Gods; Warren Miller: Looking for the General |
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McIntosh, J.T. |
Poor Planet |
nv |
has novel Ruler of the World(cut 1976 Canada; rev. vt This Is the Way the World Begins, 1977 UK) |
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Disch, Thomas M. |
Nada |
ss |
(1940- ) Thomas Michael Disch, raised in Minnesota, but spends much time in New York; 1st story pub. sf "The Double-Timer" in FAN 1962 OCT; became full-time writer in the mid-1960s; see interview in Charles Platt(ed): Dream Makers(1980; rev. 1987) |
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Davidson, Avram |
Hannes Bok |
obit |
notice of Hanne Bok's death on April 11, 1964; Bok, a ps. for Wayne Woodard, was very shy, a pupil of Maxfield Parrish(1870-1962); his cover for F&SF 1963 NOV was his last piece of commercial art; his 1st pub. art was for the cover of WRT 1939 DEC |
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Thomas, Theodore L. |
Science Springboard, The: Red Cells, The |
ar |
the red blood cell goes thru a life cycle, & is very fragile |
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Ayer, Ethan |
Epitaph for the Future |
pm |
has 1st coll. of poetry, Beneficiary and Other Poems(1967); poetry coll. If Love Is a Leopard(1971), iluus. by Gus Solomons Jr; wrote the lyrics to Douglas Moore's score, "The Dove Song," see www.recmusic.org/lieder/a/ayer/dove.html |
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Etchison, Dennis |
Nice, Shady Place, A |
ss |
(1943- ) 1st pub. by Associated Students, L.A. State College, in 1963; born & lives in southern California; student at L.A. State College, attended Charles Beaumont's Science Fiction Workshop at U.C.L.A.; 1st story pub. "Odd Boy Out" in Escapade, in 1961 |
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Lipsyte, Robert M. & Thomas Rogers |
Redman |
ss |
(1938- ; ? - ? ) Lipsyte assisted comedian Dick Gregory with the latter's autobiography, Nigger: An Autobiography(1964) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Days of Our Years, The |
sces |
calendars, lunar months, leap days, etc |
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Leiber, Fritz |
When the Change-Winds Blow |
ss |
has sf novel The Wanderer(1964), W-1965 HUG, a long disaster novel about the havoc caused when a strange planet enters the solar system(Clute); has colls. The Night of the Wolf(1966), The Secret Songs(1968 UK), Night Monsters(1969 chap) |
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Tushnet, Leonard |
In the Calendar of Saints |
ss |
(1908-1973) his 1st pub. sf story; a physician from Irvington, N.J. |
| 1964 SEP |
Goulart, Ron |
Chameleon |
ss |
1st story in shape-changer Ben Jolson & the Chameleon Corps series; this space opera series & many of Goulart's other series take place in the Barnum System, which is very much like Southern California |
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Smith, Philip H. & Alan E. Nourse |
Miracle Too Many, A |
ss |
(? - ? ; 1928-1992) Smith is a N.Y. physician; Nourse is a Washington state physician |
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deFord, Miriam Allen |
Slips Take Over |
ss |
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St. Clair, Eric |
Olsen and the Gull |
ss |
a lab assistant in the Univ. of California Physics Department, at Berkeley |
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Thomas, Theodore L. |
Science Springboard, The: Carbonaceous Chondrites |
ar |
one of the three kinds of meteorites(other two types - aerolites & sideriolites), & one which may be made of carbon from living things |
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Kagan, Norman |
Four Brands of Impossible |
nv |
(1931- ) a student at New York City College; 1st story pub. sf "The Mathenauts" in IFS 1964 JUL; many of his stories deal in some way with mathematics, "and tend to feature extroverted mathematicians as protagonists"(Clute) |
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Becker, Stephen |
New Encyclopaedist – II, The: Entries for the Great Book of History, First Edition, 2100 A.D. |
fa |
2nd story New Encyclopaedist series |
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Anderson, Karen |
Theoretical Progress |
pm |
has The Last Viking seq. with Poul Anderson, The Golden Horn(1980), The Road of the Sea Horse(1980), & The Sign of the Raven(1980) |
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Anderson, Karen |
Investigation of Galactic Ethnology |
pm |
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Davidson, Avram |
Books |
br |
J.B. Rhine & J.G. Pratt: Parapsychology, Frontier Science of the Mind; J. Gaither Pratt: Parapsychology, An Insider's View of ESP; E.T.A. Hoffman: The Tales of Hoffman; Charles Winick: Outer Space Humor; L. Sprague de Camp: Swords and Sorcery; etc |
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Janifer, Laurence M. & Michael Kurland |
Elementary |
ss |
(1933-2002; 1938- ) Janifer an agent for writers, & a performing musician; this is Kurland's 1st pub. sf story, as is a novel with Chester Anderson, Ten Years to Doomsday(1964); Kurland's suspense novel A Plague of Spies(1969) won an Edgar Scroll Award |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Haste-Makers, The |
sces |
enzymes, the metabolic catalysts |
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Dorman, S. |
Deepest Blue in the World, The |
ss |
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Marsh, Willard |
Inconceivably Yours |
ss |
has novel Week with No Friday(1965), won a Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction, about an American writer living precariously in Mexico, getting mixed up with money, booze, marijuana & a girl named Martha |
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Lory, Robert |
Star Party, The |
ss |
has Dracula sequence novels Dracula Returns!(1973), The Hand of Dracula(1973), Dracula's Brother(1973), Dracula's Gold(1973), Drums of Dracula(1974), The Witching of Dracula(1974), Dracula's Lost World(1974), Dracula's Disciple(1975), 1 more |
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Aandahl, Vance |
Crown of Rank Fumiter, A |
ss |
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| 1964 OCT |
Davidson, Avram |
Introduction to Leigh Brackett's "Purple Priestess of the Mad Moon" |
in |
Brackett collab. with Ray Bradbury on story "Lorelei of the Red Mist" in PLS 1946 SUM; the pub. of the stories in this issue by husband & wife Brackett & Hamilton are on the occasion of their being Guests-of-Honor at the 1964, 22nd World S.F. Convention |
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Brackett, Leigh |
Purple Priestess of the Mad Moon |
ss |
this story was thought to exist long before Brackett ever wrote it, due to Boucher's intro to her story "The Tweener" in F&SF 1955 FEB, in which he mentioned "Purple Priestess ..."; Brackett agreed to write it if F&SF would pub. it in this issue |
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Davidson, Avram |
Introduction to Edmond Hamilton's "The Pro" |
in |
after his marriage to Leigh Brackett in 1946, his writing output diminished, but its quality increased, his best work thought by many to be The Haunted Stars(1960) in which humans find the secret of star travel left on the moon by long-dead aliens(Clute) |
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Hamilton, Edmond |
Pro, The |
ss |
writer of space opera, has Interstellar Patrol ser. (WRT 1929-34), colls. Outside the Universe(1964), Crashing Suns(1965); has Captain Future series(CFU 1940-44, & STS 1945-46, 1950-51) as by E.H. and 2 as by Brett Sterling, & pub. in paperback in 1968-69 |
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Thomas, Theodore L. |
Science Springboard, The: Stomata |
ar |
the tiny pores in plant leaves used in respiration |
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Knight, Damon |
Maid to Measure |
vi |
has anth. The Golden Road(1973), A Shocking Thing(1974), Happy Endings(1974), Science Fiction of the Thirties(1975); has colls. The Best of Damon Knight(1976), Rule Golden(1979), Better Than One(1980, with Kate Wilhelm) |
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Davidson, Avram |
Books |
br |
L. Sprague de Camp: The Ancient Engineers; Robert A. Heinlein: Orphans of the Sky; George Gamow: A Star Called the Sun; Donald Barthelme: Come Back, Dr. Caligari; Martin Caidin: Marooned; Claude Lévi-Strauss: Tristes Tropiques; etc |
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Bretnor, R. |
Little Anton |
nv |
1st pub. in Healy(ed): New Tales of Space & Time(1951); 2nd story in F&SF in Papa Schimmelhorn series, introduces the Fledermaus family, the only story in series that was 1st pub. outside of F&SF |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: First and Rearmost |
sces |
gravity, the gravitational force; see addendum p.42 in F&SF 1965 JAN, on arithmetical errors in this essay |
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Smith, Hogan |
Year of the Earthman, The |
ss |
ps. for Allen D. Morgan; lives in San Diego |
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Davidson, Avram & Robert F. Young |
Introduction to Robert F. Young's "In What Cavern of the Deep" |
in |
Young likes: opera, cold weather, "The Defenders"; dislikes: rock 'n roll, hot weather, "The Danny Thomas Show" |
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Young, Robert F. |
In What Cavern of the Deep |
na |
"a story of love transmuted by a terrible yet glorious change" |
| 1964 NOV |
Davidson, Avram |
Open Letter, An |
note |
beginning with the 1965 JAN issue, the price of F&SF will increase to .50¢ per copy, $5.00 per year, due to rising production costs; average issue contains 53,000 words, a bargain; next month to feature a $100.00 reader contest |
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Purdom, Tom |
Greenplace |
ss |
(1936- ) working name for Thomas Edward Purdom; 1st story pub. sf "Grieve for a Man" in FUN 1957 AUG; has novels I Want the Stars(1964), The Tree Lord of Imeyen(1966), Empire Star(1966), Lord of the Green Planet(1967), Five Against Arlane(1967) |
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