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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1965 APR |
Guttridge, Len |
Aunt Millicent at the Races |
ss |
(1918- ) born in Wales, in the RAF in North Africa 1939-45, came to U.S. in 1947, a writer since 1961; wrote some crime stories, incl. one to Popular Detective, before the pulps vanished |
| 1965 MAY |
Kagan, Norman |
Earth Merchants, The |
nv |
N-1965 NEB, novelette; has film books, The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick(1972, 1989), The War Film(1974), American Skeptic: Robert Altman's Genre-Commentary Films(1982), The Cinema of Oliver Stone(1995) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Young, Robert F. |
Romance in an Eleventh-Century Recharging Station |
ss |
has coll. The Worlds of Robert F. Young(1965) |
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de Camp, L. Sprague |
Mammoths and Mastodons |
ar |
elephants & their ancestors, incl. mammoths & mastodons; has coll. A Gun for Dinosaur(1963); edited anth. Swords and Sorcery(1963), The Spell of Seven(1965), The Fantastic Swordsmen(1967), Warlocks and Warriors(1970) |
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Scott, Robin |
Gritsch System, The |
ss |
(1928- ) ps. for Robin Scott Wilson(& also in F&SF as such, & as Robin Wilson), ex-Navy man, has PhD in English; is a publication editor(civilian) with the U.S. Army in Germany; 1st story pub. sf "Third Alternative" in ANA 1964 MAR |
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Crawford, Deborah |
Short Cut |
pm |
(1922- ) born in Elizabeth, N.J.; writes advertising copy for airlines & banks, sf reviews for the Book of the Month Club |
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Merril, Judith |
Books |
br |
Fred Hoyle & John Elliot: Andromeda Breakthrough; William S. Burroughs: Nova Express; Gordon R. Dickson: The Alien Way; Merril has anth. SF: The Best of the Best(1967), England Swings SF(1968); colls. Out of Bounds(1960), Daughters of Earth(1968 UK) |
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Fish, Robert L. |
Sonny |
ss |
has Captain José da Silva mys. novel ser., Always Kill a Stranger(1967), The Bridge that Went Nowhere(1968), The Xavier Affair(1969), Trouble in Paradise(1975); has pastiche ser. colls. The Incredible Schlock Homes(1966), The Memoirs of Schlock Homes('74) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: To Tell a Chemist |
sces |
mole: gram molecular weights |
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Henderson, Zenna |
No Different Flesh |
nv |
10th story The People series, chrono. story #16 |
| 1965 JUN |
Anderson, Poul |
Admiralty |
na |
3rd story in Gunnar Heim ser., last of a trilogy about Gunnar Heim & his starship Fox II, as they battle the Alerion forces to save New Europe; longer version of the 3 novellas to be pub. as the novel The Star Fox(1965; N-1965 NEB), rvw. in F&SF 1965 NOV |
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Brown, Fredric & Carl Onspaugh |
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik |
ss |
(1906-1972; ?-? ) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
"influences include Chester Gould's villains in Dick Tracy, W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, H.P. Lovecraft, Weird Tales, The Shadow" |
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Merril, Judith |
Books |
br |
Walter Sullivan: We Are Not Alone; John Hersey: White Lotus; Dick: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch; Phyllis Gotlieb: Sunburst; Avram Davidson: Mutiny in Space; Herbert D. Kastle: The Reassembled Man; Bonestell & Ley: Beyond the Solar System; 1 other |
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Ferman, Joseph W. |
Editor's Note |
note |
reader reaction to book reviews wanted – do readers prefer an essay in depth on a few books, or concise reviews on a greater number of books?; Ferman was publisher of VSF(1957-58, 1969-70), & edited an anth. from VSF, titled No Limits(1964) |
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Goulart, Ron |
Rake |
ss |
2nd story in Chameleon Corps series; has short story "Calling Dr. Clockwork," in AMZ 1965 MAR, N-1965 NEB |
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Thomas, Theodore L. |
Science Springboard, The: Phoenix |
ar |
composition of the gas giants Jupiter & Saturn; editor's note on p.89, readers' comments on this series is welcomed |
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Buck, Doris Pitkin |
Introduction: Short Story Contest Winners |
in |
announces 1964 DEC short story contest winners, for stories with both a Univac & a unicorn; 1st place, Herb Lehrman, & 2nd place, Greg Benford |
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Lehrman, Herb |
Ancient Last, The |
vi |
1st place winner in Univac-unicorn short story contest; prize $100.00; age 35, has a BA from a middle-western grad school |
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Benford, Greg |
Stand-In |
vi |
(1941- ) 2nd place winner Univac-unicorn short story contest; prize life-time subscription; his 1st pub. story; studying for his PhD in Physics at the Univ. of California(San Diego); he has an identical twin brother, James, with whom he has collaborated |
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Buck, Doris Pitkin |
Story of a Curse |
vi |
has written many articles for newspapers & magazines on travel, gardening, remodeling, & landscaping |
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de Camp, L. Sprague |
Nabonidus |
pm |
has Harold Shea series with Fletcher Pratt, The Incomplete Enchanter (UNK 1940 MAY & AUG, as "The Roaring Trumpet" & "The Mathematics of Magic"; 1947), The Castle of Iron(UNK 1941 APR; 1950), The Wall of Serpents(FNF 1953 JUN; 1960 fixup) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Future? Tense! |
sces |
sf writers predicting the future; mentions his story "Everest" in USF 1953 DEC, Cartmill's "Deadline" in ASF 1944 MAR, Heinlein's "Solution Unsatisfactory" in ASF 1941 MAY as by Anson MacDonald, H.G. Wells, etc; has sequel essay 1974 OCT(#3569) |
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Zelazny, Roger |
Of Time and the Yan |
vi |
Amber ser. of novels, featuring Corwin's son Merlin, Trumps of Doom(1985), Blood of Amber(1986), Sign of Chaos(1987), Knight of Shadows(1989), & Prince of Chaos(1991); Amber books, coll. A Rhapsody in Amber(1981), R.Z.'s Visual Guide to Castle Amber(1988) |
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Arthur, Robert |
Jabez O'Brien and Davy Jones' Locker |
ss |
after 1962 he left Hollywood & lived in Cape May, NJ; wrote 10 The Three Investigators ya novels(continued after his death by others); edited his own juvenile anth. Davy Jones's Haunted Locker(1965), Monster Mix(1968), & Thrillers and More Thrillers(1968) |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 28: 1965 JAN-JUN |
indx |
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| 1965 JUL |
Davidson, Avram |
Rogue Dragon |
na |
N-1965 NEB, novella; "a distant-future, feudalized Earth, which has become the hunting preserve of the rulers of the galaxy, and the habitat of the rogue dragon; an expanded & somewhat different version pub. as novel(1965; W-1965 NEB, novel) |
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Thomas, Theodore L. |
Science Springboard, The: Computer Diagnosis |
ar |
computers in use in making medical diagnoses |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
other influences - "M.R, James, The New Yorker, radio serials, Goya, George Gross, Oz, Daumier, & Betty Boop" - from Weinberg |
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deFord, Miriam Allen |
Expendables, The |
ss |
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Merril, Judith |
Books |
br |
Kurt Vonnegut Jr: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, ...(correction p.73, 1965 SEP); J.G. Ballard: The Drowned World, & The Wind from Nowhere; Walter M. Miller Jr: The View from the Stars; Arthur C. Clarke: Man and Space |
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Wilson, Richard |
Eight Billion, The |
ss |
N-1965 NEB, short story; story title derived from O. Henry's The Four Million, & Meyer Berger's The Eight Million - topic, over-population |
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Niven, Larry |
Becalmed in Hell |
ss |
(1938- ) N-1965 NEB, short story; 1st story in F&SF in his Tales of Known Space series & sequence; working name for Laurence van Cott Niven, born in CA; has BA in Mathematics, Washburn Univ.(Kansas); 1st story pub. "The Coldest Place" in IFS 1964 DEC |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Exclamation Point! |
sces |
mathematics; the exclamation point, the mathematical factorial symbol; see addendum p.108 in 1965 NOV, concerning mistakes in his "Asimov Series" of numbers |
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Jennings, Gary |
Murkle for Jesse, A |
ss |
won personal citation from South Korea for work w. war orphans; has nf young adult books ser., March of the Robots(1962, robots), March of the Heroes(1975, folk heroes), March of the Gods(1976), March of the Demons(1977, demons, goblins, ghosts & witches) |
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Farmer, Philip José |
Pterodactyl, The |
pm |
has World of Tiers seq. novels The Maker of Universes(1965; rev. 1980), The Gates of Creation(1966; rev. 1981), A Private Cosmos(1968; rev. 1981), Behind the Walls of Terra(1970; rev. 1982), & The Lavalite World(1977; rev. 1983), More Than Fire(1993) |
| 1965 AUG |
Tenn, William |
Masculinist Revolt, The |
nv |
N-1965 NEB, novelette; teaches writing & sf at Pennsylvania State College from 1966; has novella A Lamp for Medusa(FAD 1951 OCT as "Medusa Was a Lady!"; 1968 chap), in which an American falls into a parallel world(Clute) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
1st pro sale to AMZ in 1954, for $7.50; soon sold to Colliers, Look, & PBY in 1954(where he became a cult favorite); Wilson - "A lot of the Playboy cartoons are an hommage to Lovecraft ... I did a whole spread on Poe (&) Sherlock Holmes"(LOC 1999 MAR) |
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Rohrer, Robert |
Explosion |
ss |
has 1st pub. sf/f story "Decision" in FAN 1962 MAR, & 15 other short stories pub. in F&SF, AMZ & FAN between 1962-1965 |
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Thomas, Theodore L. |
Science Springboard, The: Crystal Surfaces |
ar |
observing & moving individual atoms on a surface |
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Marsh, Willard |
Everyone's Hometown Is Guernica |
ss |
1st pub. in 1964; has novel Week With No Friday(1965) |
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Scott, Jody |
2-D Problem, The |
ss |
has novels Passing for Human(1977), which features Benaroya, a 36-foot extra-terrestial dolphin, who visits Earth to save it from an alien invasion; I, Vampire(1984); has website http://jodyscott.org, Jody Scott: Censorable Ideas and Fiction |
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Merril, Judith |
Books |
br |
James V. McConnell(ed): The Worm Re-Turns(The Best from Worm Runner's Digest); Merril has colls. Survival Ship and Other Stories(1974), & The Best of Judith Merril(1976); has anth. Tesseracts(1985), the first volume in an anth. ser. of Canadian sf |
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Leiber, Fritz |
Books |
br |
Leo Marguilies(ed): Worlds of Weird; Damon Knight(ed): The Dark Side; Miriam Allen deFord(ed): Space, Time & Crime; Frederik Pohl(ed): The Eighth Galaxy Reader |
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White, Ted |
Books |
br |
Donald A. Wollheim & Terry Carr(ed): World's Best Science Fiction: 1965; White's 1st story pub. "Phoenix" in AMZ 1963 FEB, which became part of a fixup novel, Phoenix Prime(1966), the first in his Qanar sequence |
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Janifer, Laurence M. & S.J. Treibich |
First Context |
vi |
(1933-2002; 1936-1972) wn. for Steven John Treibich, co-author w. Janifer of the Angelo di Stefano novel series, Target: Terra(1968), The High Hex(1969), & The Wagered World(1969); Janifer has coll. Impossible?(1968), novel Power(1970), Reel(1983) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Behind the Teacher's Back |
sces |
uncertainty principle, Part 2; Part 1 in 1965 APR(#2194) |
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Oliver, Chad |
Stick for Harry Eddington, A |
ss |
has Biolog in ANA 1983 mSEP; see obit & appreciations in LOC 1993 SEP(#392), & ANA 1994 JAN; annotated bibliography in INZ 1997 APR; see also Hal W. Hall: Chad Oliver: An Annotated Bibliography & Guide(1989 chap) |
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Dickson, Gordon R. |
Immortal, The |
nv |
has fixup novel Way of the Pilgrim(1987; N-1988 LOC, PRO), about an Earth conquered by giant aliens(B&C); The Magnificent Wilf(1995), a humorous sf novel about a couple who try to prove Earth is ready to join galactic civilization(B&C) |
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