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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1968 APR |
Goulart, Ron |
Muscadine |
ss |
has Jack Summer series, also set in the Barnum System, Death Cell(1971), Plunder(1972), A Whiff of Madness(1976), & Galaxy Jane(1986) |
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O'Donnell, K.M. |
Final War |
nv |
(1939- ) N-1968 NEB, novelette; ps. for Barry N. Malzberg, his early sf pub. under this ps.; lives in Manhattan; 1st story pub. sf "We're Coming Through the Window," in GAL 1967 AUG, as K.M. O'Donnell |
| 1968 MAY |
Delany, Samuel R. |
Lines of Power |
na |
N-1968 NEB; 1969 HUG, novella; "21st century world in which something close to world-order has been achieved through the efficient use of ... mechanical energy"; this story pub. as We in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line(1990 chap) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Merril, Judith |
Books |
br |
Miguel Angel Asturias: Mulata; Mikhail Bulgakov: Margarita and the Master; Lafferty: The Past Master; Simak: The Werewolf Principle; Budrys: The Amsirs and the Iron Thorn; Terry Carr(ed): New Worlds of Fantasy; Anon(ed): Path into the Unknown; 3 art books |
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Merril, Judith |
Letters to the Book Editor |
lttr |
Willem Van den Broek(on Knight: In Search of Wonder, & Kenneth Kenniston: The Uncommitted); Dennis Raimondo(teeny-bopper SF, & on a French book Sexualis '95, & criticism of Merril's reviews) |
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Searles, Baird |
Wilis, The |
ss |
(1934-1993) drama & literature director for NYC's radio station, WBAI-FM; co-proprietor with Martin Last of The Science Fiction Shop in Greenwich Village, 1973-86; assoc. editor of The S. F. Review Monthly; also in F&SF as movie & TV reviewer(mr/tvr) |
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Tushnet, Leonard |
Gifts From the Universe |
ss |
has two short stories in anth. "A Plague of Cars" in Robert Silverberg(ed): New Dimensions I(1971), & "In re Glover" in Harlan Ellison(ed): Again, Dangerous Visions(1972) |
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Aandahl, Vance |
Beyond the Game |
ss |
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Niven, Larry |
Dry Run |
ss |
other Known Space novels, Death by Ecstasy(1969; vt The Organleggers), Protector(GAL 1973 JUN as "The Adults"; exp. 1973; N-1974 HUG, LOC), The Patchwork Girl(1980); has non-seq. colls. Inconstant Moon(1973), Crashlander(1994; N-1995 LOC) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Backward, Turn Backward |
sces |
planets, Part 3 of 3; their orbits, orbital tipping of planets & their satellites, & axial tipping; Part 1 in 1968 MAR(#2609), & Part 2 in 1968 APR(#2621) |
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Redd, David |
Quiet Kind of Madness, A |
nv |
has Nancy series of stories about a young woman who has the ability to time travel, "Nancy" in FAN 1971 FEB, "The Mammoth Hunters" in Micheal Moorcock(ed): New Worlds #5(1973), & "Eternity-Magic" in Spectrum SF #6 2001 JUL |
| 1968 JUN |
Saxton, Josephine |
Consciousness Machine, The |
na |
"concerns a machine that can thoroughly map the unconscious mind & translate it—in the form of a movie—to an anylyst, Zona, & her patient, Thurston"; pub. in a somewhat different version as The Hieros Gamos of Sam and An Smith (1969) |
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Bunch, David R. |
Of Time and Us |
pm |
has 1946 BS from Central Missouri State College(now Univ.); 1949 MA from Washington Univ.(St. Louis); 1952 PhD from the State Univ. of Iowa City; has pub. many stories in AMZ & FAN |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Merril, Judith |
Books |
br |
political & social criticism in sf; The Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace; Chloe Zerwick & Harrison Brown: The Cassiopeia Affair; Hayden Howard: The Eskimo Invasion; Thomas Morrill: Let Us Reason Together; 1 more |
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Sheckley, Robert |
People Trap, The |
ss |
used for ABC-TV's short-lived ser., Stage 67; has anth. After the Fall(1980); novel w. Harry Harrison, Bill the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains(1990); fantasy novella Minotaur Maze(1990); sf novella Alien Starswarm(1991) |
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MacLeod, Ann |
Settle |
ss |
lives in Manhattan, married to Burt Filer, whose story follows(#2640) |
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Filer, Burt |
Backtracked |
ss |
lives in Manhattan, married to Ann MacLeod, who has previous story(#2639); has several stories in GAL & IFS 1967-68 |
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Harrison, Michael |
At the Heart of It |
ss |
(1907-1991) 1st pub. in London Mystery #19, in 1953; ps. for Maurice Desmond Rohan, Irish writer of detective fiction; has over 50 books, incl. novels, histories, & biographies, & on Sherlock Holmes; has film novelization The Bride of Frankenstein(1936) |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
Coming Next Month: Science Fiction Novel Award Winner |
note |
won by Piers Anthony, whose novel Sos the Rope to be a 3-part serial beginning next month, 1968 JUL; Ferman edited The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 15th series-24th series(1966-82; there was no 21st), Once and Future Tales from ...(1968) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Counting Chromosomes |
sces |
chromosomes during sexual reproduction & cell division, the x & y chromosomes; see addendum p.118 in F&SF 1968 SEP, a Polish woman athlete was probably an XXX super-female, & not an XYY, as stated |
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Harrison, Harry |
Secret of Stonehenge, The |
ss |
has novels The Technicolor Time Machine(1967), The Man from P.I.G.(1968), Captive Universe(1969), The Daleth effect(1970), Spaceship Medic(1970 UK), Stonehenge(1972); colls. One Step from Earth(1970), Prime Number(1970), The Best of ...(1970) |
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Lee, William M. |
Sea Home |
nv |
also in F&SF as William Lee, in 2 more stories, in 1972 AUG & 1973 APR |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 34: 1968 JAN-JUN |
indx |
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| 1968 JUL |
Anthony, Piers |
Sos the Rope |
no-1/3 |
(1934- ) winner, Science Fiction Novel Award(see #2525); a "future society consisting of combative nomads on one hand & technologically advanced 'crazies' on the other, Sos is the man who attempts to discover the reason behind this ... state of affairs" |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Books |
br |
James D. Watson: The Double Helix |
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Russ, Joanna |
Books |
br |
Judith Merril(ed): The Best of the Best; René Barjavel: Ashes, Ashes; James Blish & Norman L. Knight: A Torrent of Faces |
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Carew, Virginia |
Books |
br |
I.F. Clarke: Voices Prophesying War, 1763-1984; Robert Scholes: The Fabulators; Mark R. Hillegas: The Future As Nightmare: H.G. Wells and the Anti-Utopians; Nell Eurich: Science in Utopia; Desmond Tarrant: James Branch Cabell: The Dream and the Reality |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Koontz, Dean R. |
Psychedelic Children, The |
ss |
his early stories coll. in Soft Come the Dragons(1970); has novels Dark of the Woods(1970), Hell's Gate(1970), Anti-Man(1970), The Crimson Witch(FAN 1970 OCT; exp. 1971), A Darkness in My Soul(FAN 1968 JAN; exp. 1972), Warlock!(1972) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Key Item |
vi |
has Black Widowers ser. colls. Tales of the Black Widowers(1974), More Tales of B.W.(1976), Casebook of the B.W.(1980), Banquets of the B.W.(1984), & Puzzles of the B.W.(1990); stories in ser. pub. mostly in EQMM 1972-91; one by Charles Ardai in 2002 DEC |
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Brody, Larry |
Ultimate Defense |
ss |
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Moskowitz, Sam |
Introduction to Guillaume Apollinaire's "Remote Projection" (Special Reprint Feature) |
in |
many of Moskowitz's author profiles & sf theme articles coll. in 3 volumes: Explorers of the Infinite(1963), covers the period up to 1940; Seekers of Tomorrow(1966), covers 1940-65; Strange Horizons(1976), covers sf themes(Clute) |
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Apollinaire, Guillaume |
Remote Projection |
ss |
(1880-1918) 1st pub. in his coll. The Heresiarch and Co.(1910), story was runner-up for Prix Goncourt Award; trans. from the French by ?; wn. for Guillaumme A.W.A. Apollinaire de Kostrowitsky, "best known as the champion of the avant garde in art" |
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Sladek, John |
Sublimation World by J. G. B.******, The |
spf |
(1937-2000) 1st story in his parody series, this one a parody of J.G. Ballard; born in Waverly, IA; 1st story pub. sf "The Happy Breed" in Ellison(ed): Dangerous Visions(1967), tho his 1st story pub. was "The Poets of Millgrove, Iowa" in NWS 1966 NOV |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Little Lost Satellite |
sces |
asteroids; the 4 largest asteroids: Ceres, Pallas, Juno, & Vesta; see addendum p.108 in 1968 OCT(#2708), Vesta could have been a satellite of the planet between Earth & Mars |
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Howard, Hayden |
Beyond Words |
ss |
wn. for John Hayden Howard; 1st story pub. sf "It" in PLS 1952 JAN; has Eskimo ser. of ss's in GAL 1965-66, made into a fixup novel The Eskimo Invasion(1967) about "a group of Eskimos transformed into a ... benign fast-breeding new species" |
| 1968 AUG |
McComas, J. Francis |
Anthony Boucher |
obit |
announcement of his death April 29, 1968; a tribute by his co-founder & co-editor of F&SF; McComas edited & a two-volume memorial to Boucher, Crimes and Misfortunes, & Special Wonder(1970); see Annette Peltz McComas(ed): The Eureka Years(1982), bio info |
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Bretnor, R. |
Anthony Boucher |
obit |
a tribute to the late Anthony Boucher |
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Davidson, Avram |
Anthony Boucher |
obit |
a tribute to the late Anthony Boucher |
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Dick, Philip K. |
Anthony Boucher |
obit |
a tribute to the late Anthony Boucher; has novels Dr. Bloodmoney(1965), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?(1968; vt Blade Runner, 1982; W-1983 BSF, HUG; made into 1982, 1997 movies Blade Runner), A Scanner Darkly(1977; W-1979 BSF; made into 1998 movie) |
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St. Clair, Margaret |
Anthony Boucher |
obit |
a tribute to the late Anthony Boucher; St. Clair has novels Dolphins of Altair(1967), which is deeply concerned with ecological issues & is considered by some to be her best novel, & The Shadow People(1969); see her obit & appreciations in LOC 1996 MAR |
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Cleeve, Brian |
Devil and Jake O'Hara, The |
ss |
2nd story in his Devil & Belphagor series; has Sean Ryan series, about an ex-Irish revolutionary now British intelligence agent: Vote X for Treason(1964), Dark Blood, Dark Terror(1965), Vice Isn't Private(1966), Violent Death of a Bitter Englishman(1967) |
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Merril, Judith |
Books |
br |
begins with a tribute to the late Anthony Boucher; Don Fabun: The Dynamics of Change; Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Brian W. Aldiss: Cryptozoic; John Brunner: Quicksand; Alan E. Nourse: The Mercy Men |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Anthony, Piers |
Sos the Rope |
no-2/3 |
Piers Anthony is the working name for Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob; 1st story pub. sf "Possible to Rue" in FAN 1963 APR; early work coll. in Anthonology(1985), 1st novel Chthon(1967), & sequel Phthor(1975), novel Macroscope(1969) |
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Koontz, Dean R. |
Twelfth Bed, The |
ss |
has novels Time Thieves(1972), The Flesh in the Furnace(1972), Starblood(1972), Demon Seed(1973; 1977 movie), A Werewolf Among Us(1973), Hanging On(1973), After the Last Race(1974), Nightmare Journey(1975), The Vision(1977) |
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Delany, Samuel R. |
2001: Space Odyssey, A |
mr |
2001: A Space Odyssey(1968), dir./prod. by Stanley Kubrick, scrnply by Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke; Delany's story "Aye, and Gomorrah ..." (Ellison: Dangerous Visions, 1967) W-1967 NEB; has novel Nova(1968; N-1969 HUG); see iv in Platt: Dream Makers(1980) |
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Emshwiller, Ed |
2001: Space Odyssey, A |
mr |
(1925-1990) review of the movie, stars Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, & Douglas Rain(as the voice of Hal 9000); in a footnote by editor Edward L. Ferman, regular movie reviews are promised if that is what the readers want; Emshwiller is cover artist, Emsh |
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