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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1965 SEP |
Aldiss, Brian W. |
Saliva Tree, The |
na |
W-1965 NEB; has nf books Billion Tear Spree(1973; W-1974 BSF; rev. exp. Trillion Year Spree, with David Wingrove, 1986; W-1987 HUG, LOC), a history of sf; The Twinkling of an Eye, or, My Life as an Englishman(1999; N-2000 LOC) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
also had sales to The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post, and then to F&SF, where he also contributed short stories and book & movie reviews |
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Goulart, Ron |
Kearny's Last Case |
ss |
5th story in F&SF in Max Kearny series |
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Merril, Judith |
Books |
br |
results reader opinions(asked for in 1965 JUN) - longer reviews mixed with shorter ones, extracts of readers' letters; Chapman Pincher: Not With a Bang; Farmer: Dare; Christopher: The Possessors; Laumer: Galactic Diplomat; Clement: Natives of Space; etc |
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Nelson, Ray |
Great Cosmic Donut of Life, The |
nv |
has novel Blake's Progress(1975 Canada; N-1976 LOC; rev. vt Timequest, 1985 US), considered his best work, accords poet/painter ability to travel thru time with his wife Kate(Clute); see interview in MZBFM 1994 FLL |
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Thomas, Theodore L. |
Science Springboard, The: Lunar Landing |
ar |
how the Surveyors soft-landed on the moon, how will manned rockets? |
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Lafferty, R.A. |
Hog-Belly Honey |
ss |
has 1st novel The Reefs of Earth(1968); novel Past Master(1968; N-1968 NEB; 1969 HUG), places Sir Thomas More on planet Astrobe, where he again suffers a martyr's death; novel Space Chantey(1968), in which Homer's Odyssey is retold as space opera(Clute) |
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Porges, Arthur |
Turning Point |
ss |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Death In the Laboratory |
sces |
science; dangerous scientific experiments in history |
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Moore, Hal R. |
Sea Bright |
ss |
writer & photographer |
| 1965 OCT |
Zelazny, Roger |
... And Call Me Conrad |
no-1/2 |
W-1966 HUG; N-1966 NEB, novel; "a ruined, dying Earth & the dreams & struggles of man and mutant and alien for its legacy"; has novel The Dream Master(AMZ 1965 JAN-FEB as "He Who Shapes"; W-1966 NEB; exp. 1966 as novel The Dream Master) |
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Davidson, Avram |
Mirror, Mirror |
vi |
has novels The Enemy of My Enemy(1966; 2000), The Kar-Chee Reign(1966; N-1966 NEB, novella), the latter shares a relaxedly pan-Galactic far-future perspective on their Earthly venue with his novel Rogue Dragon(F&SF 1965 JUL; 1965) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
Wilson - "I started out basing my cartoons rather heavily on classic fantasy, the Gothics new and old, but found life about me as reported ..." |
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Brandis, E. & V. Dmitrevskiy |
Future, Its Promoters and False Prophets, The |
ar |
( ? - 1985; ? - ? ) 1st pub. in Kommunist(organ of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party), "a critique of American science fiction by two Soviet writers"; trans. by Theodore Guerchon; Evgeny Brandis & Vladimir Dmitrevskiy (or Dmitrevsky) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Isaac Asimov Replies |
ar |
reply to two Soviets' view of American sf, #2259 |
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Anderson, Poul |
Poul Anderson Replies |
ar |
reply to two Soviets' view of American sf, #2259; has novel The Boat of a Million Years(1989; N-1989 NEB; 1990 HUG, LOC, SFC), which follows the long lives of a group of immortals |
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Reynolds, Mack |
Mack Reynolds Replies |
ar |
reply to two Soviets' view of American sf, #2259; has novels Ability Quotient(1975), Perchance to Dream(1977), Space Visitor(1977), Equality: in the Year 2000(1977), Police Patrol: 2000 AD(1977), Brain World(1978); coll. The Best of Mack Reynolds(1976) |
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Bradbury, Ray |
Ray Bradbury Replies |
ar |
reply to two Soviets' view of American sf, #2259; has colls. of plays The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit(1972), & Pillar of Fire(1975); coll. Madrigals for the Space Age(1972, words & music by Lalo Schifrin); novel The Halloween Tree(1972) |
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Blish, James |
No Jokes on Mars |
ss |
has anth. New Dreams This Morning(1966), Nebula Award Stories Five(1970), Thirteen O'Clock(1972, a coll. of C.M. Kornbluth stories); has coll. Get Out of My Sky and There Shall Be No Darkness(1980 UK); see appreciation of his work in INZ 1997 MAR |
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Sharkey, Jack |
Glorious Fourth, The |
ss |
see his obit in LOC 1992 DEC(#383); a search of the internet shows his comedy plays "Saving Grace" by Orange Park Community Theatre(FL) in Sept. 2000, & "Rich Is Better" by touring company Repertory Theater of America in the fall of 2000 |
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Merril, Judith |
Books |
br |
"sources of new insights into sf"; Cordwainer Smith: Space Lords; Ray Bradbury: R Is for Rocket, & The Machineries of Joy; Jose Maria Gironella: Phantoms and Fugitives; Jorge Luis Borges: Labyrinthes; Romain Gary: Hissing Tales; 1 other |
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Kidd, Virginia |
Books |
br |
(1921- ) reviews C.S. Lewis: Poems(ed. by Walter Hooper); Kidd born in Philadelphia, known primarily as an editor & agent; married to James Blish until 1947-63; 1st solo story pub. sf "Kangaroo Court" in Knight(ed): Orbit 1(1966) |
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Young, Robert F. |
Minutes of a Meeting At the Mitre |
ss |
has novelette "Little Dog Gone," in WOT 1964 FEB, N-1965 NEB |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Land of Mu, The |
sces |
subatomic particles |
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Tilley, Robert J. |
Something Else |
ss |
a jazz musician (tenor clarinet) & writer |
| 1965 NOV |
Disch, Thomas M. |
Come to Me Venus Melancholy |
ss |
N-1965 NEB, short story; his early fiction coll. in One Hundred and Two H-Bombs(1966 UK; 1971 US); has 1st novel The Genocides(1965; N-1965 NEB), in which aliens manipulate the Earth; has used ps. Dobbin Thorpe in FAN & AMZ in 1964 |
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Merril, Judith |
Books |
br |
John D. MacDonald: The Girl, the Gold Watch, & Everything; Anderson: The Star Fox; Delany: The Ballad of Beta-2; Petaja: Alpha Yes, Terra No!; Biggle: The Fury Out of Time; Walter Moudy: No Man on Earth; Davidson: Masters of the Maze; etc |
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McCombs, Larry & Ted White |
Peacock King, The |
ss |
( ? - ? ; 1938- ) N-1965 NEB, short story; McCombs a former physics teacher, now doing graduate work at Harvard; White's 1st story pub. "Phoenix" in AMZ 1963 FEB, became part of novel Phoenix Prime(1966 fixup) in Qanar series |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
Wilson - "... in the news and viewed from day to day was ... more bizarre than anybody admitted & ... weirder than made up monstrosities." |
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Thomas, Theodore L. |
Science Springboard, The: Insect Attractant |
ar |
getting away from using chemical poisons to kill or control insects |
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Zelazny, Roger |
... And Call Me Conrad |
no-2/2 |
setting is a mysterious & radioactive post-holocaust Greece in the far future; pub. in an expanded form as This Immortal(1966); has Francis Shadow ser. Isle of the Dead(1969; W-1972 Apollo), To Die in Italbar(1973); Creatures of Light and Darkness(1969) |
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Gilien, Sasha |
El Numero Uno |
ss |
has books Writing Under Thirty(1971, with Myron Roberts & Michael Malone), & The Political Cookbook(1972, with Myron Roberts); obituary in Washington Post, 4 DEC 1971 |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Squ-u-u-ush! |
sces |
stars; the densest density, collapsed stars |
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Christopher, John |
Few Kindred Spirits, A |
ss |
N-1965 NEB, short story; has coll. The Twenty-Second Century(1954), 1st sf novel The Year of the Comet(1955; vt Planet in Peril, 1959 US), novel The Death of Grass(1956; vt No Blade of Grass, 1957 US; 1970 movie No Blade of Grass) |
| 1965 DEC |
Dickson, Gordon R. |
Breakthrough Gang |
ss |
has omnibus Lost Dorsai: The New Dorsai Companion(1993); anth. of original military sf The Harriers(1991), & The Harriers, Book Two: Blood and Honor(1993); new Dragon Knight series novel, The Dragon and the Fair Maid of Kent(2000) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
Wilson - "...So my stuff had become ... without my really intending it, more political ... a social commentary than I'd set out to make it." |
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Kelley, Leo P. |
O'Grady's Girl |
ss |
(1928- ) Leo Patrick Kelley, a New York advertising executive; 1st story pub. sf "Dreamtown, U.S.A." in IFS 1955 FEB; has novels The Counterfeits(1967, as by Leo F. Kelley), & Odyssey to Earthdeath(1968) |
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Raphael, Rick |
Books |
br |
(1919-1994) writer & journalist; James Dugan: Man Under the Sea; Martin Caidin: Hydrospace; C.P. Idyll: Abyss; Vincent Gaddis: Invisible Horizons; Isaac Asimov: Of Time and Space and Other Things; Gösta Ehrensvärd: Man on Another World |
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Leiber, Fritz |
Books |
br |
Aleksandr Beliayev: The Struggle in Space; Clark Ashton Smith: Poems in Prose |
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Charteris, Leslie |
Convenient Monster, The |
nv |
1st pub. in The Saint, 1959 MAR; 4th story in F&SF from The Saint series; Charteris wrote close to 40 Saint books(novels & colls.), between 1928-64 and the last The Saint in Pursuit(1970); after 1967 Saint books were written by other authors |
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Blum, Richard H. |
Firmin Child, The |
ss |
(1927- ) Doctor of Psychology, consultant at the Institute for the Study of Human Problems(Stanford Univ.); has pub. mostly nf, incl. The Family Guide to Doctors, Hospitals and Medical Care(1964), & Utopiates: A Study of the Use and Users of LSD-25(1964) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Water, Water, Everywhere |
sces |
oceans, seas & lakes |
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Richards, John Thomas |
Minor Alteration |
ss |
(1940?- ) 25 year old English teacher & graduate student |
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Vance, Jack |
Overworld, The |
nv |
1st story in Cugel the Clever ser.; takes place in "the strange land known as Almery ..." & "the stranger land once known as Cutz"; this ser. the sequel to Vance's 1st novel The Dying Earth(1950, coll. linked stories); has coll. Future Tense(1964) |
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