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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1966 AUG |
Beagle, Peter S. |
Come Lady Death |
ss |
(1939- ) 1st pub. in ATL 1963 SEP; born & raised in the Bronx; 1st story pub. nongenre "Telephone Call" in Seventeen, in 1956; has 1st novel A Fine and Private Place(1960), is highly praised, "a supernatural fiction in chamber-opera form"(Clute) |
| 1966 SEP |
Thomas, Gilbert |
Luana |
ss |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Merril, Judith |
Books |
br |
how to be an sf anthologist; Pohl(ed): The Ninth Galaxy Reader, & The If Reader of Science Fiction; Mills(ed): The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, 11th Series; Knight(ed): Orbit 1, & Cities of Wonder; Moskowitz(ed): Modern Masterpieces of S.F.; etc |
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Brunner, John |
Productions of Time, The |
na-2/2 |
Interstellar Empire sequence also incl. "The Man from the Big Dark"(SFA 1958 JUN), & a space opera article, & all assembled in Interstellar Empire(1976); also has novels Threshold of Eternity(NWS 1957-58 DEC-FEB), The Hundreth Millennium(1959) |
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Russ, Joanna |
Mr. Wilde's Second Chance |
vi |
has novelette "The Dirty Little Girl," in Windling & Arnold(ed): Elsewhere, v.2(1982), was N-1983 LOC; has short story "Invasion," in ASI 1996 JAN, was N-1997 LOC |
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Gunther, Max |
Municipal Dump |
ss |
(1927- ) born in England, came to U.S. in 1939; grad. of Princeton Univ., freelance writer; has pub. article "she's Paid to Be Nosy (Jenny Schreiner, appraiser) in PST 1956 JUL 28, & stories "The Prisoner" in PST 1957 OCT 19, "Alone" in Redbook 1958 NOV |
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Lafferty, R.A. |
Narrow Valley |
ss |
has novel Fourth Mansions(1969; N-1970 NEB); his novelette "Continued on Next Rock," in Knight(ed): Orbit 7(1970), N-1970 NEB; 1971 HUG; has colls. Nine Hundred Grandmothers(1970), Strange Doings(1972); Lafferty W-1990 WFA, Lifetime Achievement |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover |
sces |
Big Bang & the conservation of energy laws, Part 3 of 3; Asimov's Cosmogonic Principle; Part 1 in 1966 JUL(#2377) & Part 2 in 1966 AUG(#2390) |
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Henderson, Zenna |
Troubling of the Water |
nv |
12th story The People series, chrono. story #3; series coll. in The People: No Different Flesh(1966) |
| 1966 OCT |
Ferman, Edward L. |
In This Issue |
in |
(1937- ) introduction to the Special Isaac Asimov Issue; editor of F&SF from 1966 JAN-1991 JUN, & publisher from 1970 NOV-present; editor of VSF from 1969 MAY-1970 AUG; son of ex-editor & publisher of F&SF, Joseph W. Ferman |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Key, The |
nv |
4th story in F&SF in Dr. Wendell Urth series; has coll. Asimov's Mysteries(1968) which collects his Urth & some of his Black Widower series stories; also has coll. The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov(1986), incl. this Urth story |
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de Camp, L. Sprague |
You Can't Beat Brains |
ar |
profile of Isaac Asimov, born in Soviet Union near Smolyensk in 1920, came to U.S. 3 years later; parents ran candy store in Brooklyn; financed his college education by his pro writing; worked on cancer research; Asimov wrote of de Camp in I. Asimov(1994) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Isaac Asimov: Bibliography, A |
bib |
a chronological listing of his books, magazine stories, science essays, & non-fiction books; an anlysis of Asimov's writings in the mystery genre can be seen at members.aol.com/MG4273/boucher.htm#Asimov |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Portrait of the Writer As a Boy |
sces |
personal reminiscence |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Prime of Life, The |
pm |
has colls. Buy Jupiter, and Other Stories(1975), Have You Seen These?(1974 chap); coll. The Bicentennial Man(1976; W-1977 LOC), the title story 1st pub. in Judy-Lynn del Rey(ed): Stellar #2(1976), story W-1976 NEB; 1977 HUG, LOC, & made into 1999 movie |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
Special Isaac Asimov Issue, the cartoon made especially for it, is about Mr. Asimov and his robots |
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Porges, Arthur |
Mirror, The |
ss |
his brother, Irwin Porges(1909- ), has two books, Edgar Allan Poe(1963), & Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Man Who Created Tarzan(1975), & they collab. for sf story "A Touch of Sun" in FAN 1959 APR |
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Chapman, Vic |
Come Back Elena |
ss |
(1919- ) born in Canton, Ohio; employed as a chemist |
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Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Something in It |
vi |
1st pub. in coll. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Fables(1896); has novel Kidnapped(1887), has colls. New Arabian Nights(1882), More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter(1885), The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables(1887) |
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DeCles, Jon |
Picture Window, The |
nv |
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Aldiss, Brian W. |
Burning Question |
ss |
has bestselling non-sf series of novels, The Hand-Reared Boy(1970), A Soldier Erect(1971), & A Rude Awakening(1978), coll. in omnibus The Horatio Stubbs Saga(1985); novels The Eighty-Minute Hour: A Space Opera(1974), Brothers of the Head(1977) |
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Daniell, Sally |
Extraordinary Child, An |
nv |
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| 1966 NOV |
Swann, Thomas Burnett |
Manor of Roses, The |
na |
(1926-1976) N-1967 HUG, novelette; 1st story John & Stephen series; in 1213 England, two boys & their Guardian Angel go on "a quest which brings them ... to the hidden Manor of Roses and ... its curious mistress"; Prof. of English at Wesleyan College(GA) |
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Merril, Judith |
Books |
br |
Asimov: Fantastic Voyage; Leiber: Tarzan and the Valley of Gold, & The Night of the Wolf; Herbert: The Green Brain; Keith Roberts: The Furies; Allen Kim Lang: Wild and Outside; Heinlein: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, & The Worlds of ...; etc |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Walton, Bryce |
Best Is Yet to Be, The |
ss |
has pub. over 80 stories, between 1945-1969, in IFS, EQMM, AHMM, PLS, STS, Dime Mystery, SSF, IMG, SFQ, Fear!, Jungle Stories, TWS, SSS, FAN, FUT, FUN, VSF, Orbit S.F., MVL, Vortex S.F., The Man from U.N.C.L.E. |
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Clinton, Ed M. |
Heir Apparent |
ss |
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Thomas, Ted |
Science Springboard, The: Earth Tremor Detection |
ar |
(1920- ) use of seismographs; wn. for Theodore L(ockard) Thomas, & in F&SF as such, incl. this ser.; writer, patent attorney; 1st stories pub. "The Revisitor"(SSF 1952 SEP), & "Improbable Profession"(ASF 1952 SEP; w. Charles Harness as Leonard Lockard) |
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Thurber, James |
Friend to Alexander, A |
ss |
1st pub. in NYM, 10 JAN 1942, & in coll. My World—And Welcome To It(1942); he's considered one of the 20th century's best humorists(Clute); has novel The Thirteen Clocks(1950), colls. Fables of Our Time(1940), Further Fables of Our Time(1956) |
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Spinrad, Norman |
Neutral Ground |
ss |
colls. The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde(1970), No Direction Home(1975), The Star-Spangled Future(1979); nf colls. Staying Alive(1983), Science Fiction in the Real World(1990); novel The Void Captain's Tale(1983; N-1983 NEB); book reviewer for ASI |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Old Man River |
sces |
rivers; the Mississippi River, and other great rivers; see related essay, "The Longest River" in 1988 JUL(#5859), which discusses the effects that the Nile, Tigris, & Euphrates Rivers had on civilizations |
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Cleeve, Brian |
Devil and Democracy, The |
ss |
(1921- ) 1st story in Devil & his left-hand man Belphagor series; Brian Talbot Cleeve, lives in Dublin, written for British TV; has novel Vice Isn't Private, coll. The Horse Thieves of Ballysaggert(1966); story "Foxer," in PST 1965 DEC 18, was N-1965 EDG |
| 1966 DEC |
Anvil, Christopher |
Sabotage |
nv |
(1922- ) ps. for Harry C. Crosby Jr; his 1st two story pub. were under his own name, "Cinderella, Inc." & "Roll Out the Rolov!" in IMG 1952 DEC & 1953 NOV; has Centra series(ASF 1956-69; IFS 1966 JUN); has 1st novel The Day the Machines Stopped(1964) |
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Merril, Judith |
Books |
br |
contemporary mythology; Pangborn: The Judgment of Eve; Davidson: The Kar-Chee Reign; Vance: The Blue World; Le Guin: Rocannon's World; Nunes: Inherit the Earth; Zelazny: This Immortal; Delany: Empire Star, & Babel-17; Purdom: The Tree Lord of Imeten |
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Russ, Joanna |
Books |
br |
Roger Elwood & Sam Moskowitz(ed): Strange Signposts, An Anthology of the Fantastic |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Jonas, Gerald |
Mystery of the Purloined Grenouilles, The |
ss |
has nf books On Doing Good: The Quaker Experiment(1971), Visceral Learning: Toward a Science of Self-Control(1973), Stuttering: The Disorder of Many Theories(1976) |
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Disch, Thomas M. |
Doubting Thomas |
nv |
has novel Mankind Under the Leash(novelette in IFS 1965 APR as "White Fang Goes Dingo"; exp. 1966; vt The Puppies of Terra, 1978 UK), in which "aliens take over the Earth & make pets of mankind for aesthetic reasons"(Clute) |
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Thomas, Ted |
Science Springboard, The: Martian Atmosphere, The |
ar |
data from Mariner IV on Mar's atmosphere |
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Contoski, Victor |
Von Goom's Gambit |
ss |
(1936- ) 1st pub. in Chess Review, 1966 APR; graduate student in English at the Univ. of Wisconsin |
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deFord, Miriam Allen |
Green Snow, The |
ss |
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de Camp, L. Sprague |
Gods, The |
pm |
has Viagens Interplanetary ser. colls. in The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens(1953), Sprague de Camp's New Anthology of Science Fiction(1953 UK), The Virgin and the Wheels(1976), & novel Rogue Queen(1951) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Symbol-Minded Chemist, The |
sces |
elements; the symbols used for the elements |
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Davidson, Avram |
Bumberboom |
nv |
has novel Clash of Star-Kings(novella in ASF 1966 OCT; N-1966 NEB; exp. 1966; 2000), is set in a richly realized Mexico which becomes a venue for a game of war amongst returning alien "gods"(Clute) |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 31: 1966 JUL-DEC |
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