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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1969 MAY |
Goulart, Ron |
Copstate |
ss |
4th story in Chameleon Corps series |
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Malko, George |
Flower Kid Cashes In, The |
ss |
this story was originally written as a one-act play for TV; writes TV documentaries & semi-documentary film featurettes; has books Scientology: The Now Religion(1970), & The One and Only Yo-Yo Book(1978) |
| 1969 JUN |
Silverberg, Robert |
Sundance |
ss |
has novels The Planet Killers(1959), The Plot Against Earth(1959) as Knox, Lost Race of Mars(1960), Collision Course(1961), The Seed of Earth("The Winds of Siros" in VSF 1957 MAR; exp. 1962), colls. Next Stop the Stars(1962), Godling, Go Home!(1964) |
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Harrison, Michael |
Pull Devil, Pull Baker! |
ss |
has colls. The Exploits of the Chevalier Dupin(1968), & Murder in the Rue Royale(1972), which tell of the further adventures of Edgar Allan Poe's detective Auguste Dupin(the 1st story of which was "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," in 1841) |
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de Camp, L. Sprague |
Landlocked Indian Ocean, The |
ar |
history of the idea, since the classical world, that the water level of the Red Sea & Indian Ocean was higher than that of the Mediterranean Sea, & that the Indian Ocean was landlocked; has nf The Ancient Engineers(1963), The Great Monkey Trial(1968) |
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Russ, Joanna |
Short and Happy Life, A |
vi |
concerning the Skinner-Waxman multiple-choice test used to measure creativity; teaches at Cornell Univ. |
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Wodhams, Jack |
Run of Deuces, A |
ss |
(1931- ) U.K.-born writer, in Australia since 1955; 1st story pub. sf "There Is a Crooked Man" in ANA 1967 FEB; has novels Anchor Man(1969), The Authentic Touch(1971), Looking for Blücher(1980), Generation X(1999; w. Paul Collins); coll. Future War(1982) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Anderson, Poul |
Operation Changeling |
no-2/2 |
Afreet or Matuchel series coll. in Operation Chaos(1971); has short story paperback, Loser's Night(1991 chap); non-fiction How to Build a Planet(1991); coll. Cold Victory(1982), New America(1982), Starship(1982), The Armies of Elfland(1992) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Fateful Lightning, The |
sces |
scientific history; turning points in scientific history, incl. Benjamin Franklin & his lightning rod |
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Lucas, Jon |
Repeat Business |
ss |
his 1st pub. story; 1958 graduate of California Maritime Academy |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 36: 1969 JAN-JUN |
indx |
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| 1969 JUL |
Leiber, Fritz |
Ship of Shadows |
na |
W-1970 HUG, N-1969 NEB, na; written especially for this issue, story "takes place on a space ship, but one with a witch cat and vampires numbered among the passengers!"; see book Bruce Byfield: Witches of the Mind: A Critical Study of Fritz Leiber(1991) |
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Merril, Judith |
Fritz Leiber |
ar |
appreciation of Leiber & his works, his unique status among sf/f writers and his place in sf history, his cycles of productivity and decline; Merril's book collection forms basis of Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy, in Toronto |
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Leiber, Fritz |
Demons of the Upper Air, IIX |
pm |
this poem to be incl. in his booklet of poems, The Demons of the Upper Air(1969); has colls. The Best of Fritz Leiber(1973; W-1975 LOC), The Book of Fritz Leiber(1974; N-1975 LOC), The Second Book of Fritz Leiber(1975; N-1976 LOC) |
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Lewis, Al |
Fritz Leiber: Bibliography, A |
bib |
chronological listing of his books, stories & articles |
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Pederson, Con |
To Aid and Dissent |
ss |
created the special effects for Robert Abel's movie Tron(1982; W- Special Effects Oscar); see online interviews at www.webcom.com/kellyd/articles/con.html, www.vfxhq.com/spotlight98/9804c.html, & at www.awn.com/mag/issue4.03/4.03pages/moritzpederson.php3 |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Place With No Name, The |
ss |
Ellison served in U.S. Army, moved to Chicago & became editor of Rogue Mag. in 1959; moved to L.A. in 1962, where he still lives; has 1st sf novel The Man with Nine Lives(AMZ 1959 OCT as "The Sound of the Scythe"; 1960 fixup) |
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Buck, Doris Pitkin |
Transgressor's Way |
ss |
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Malzberg, Barry |
Triptych, A |
ss |
(1939- ) also in F&SF as Barry N. Malzberg, under his ps. K.M. O'Donnell, & with co-authors Pronzini, Harrison, Neville, Scholz; 1st story pub. sf "We're Coming Through the Window" in GAL 1967 AUG, as K.M. O'Donnell; most of his early sf under this ps. |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Two at a Time |
sces |
Earth-Moon system, and the so-called "Three-Body System" |
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Morphett, Tony |
Litterbug |
nv |
(1938- ) working name for Anthony David Morphett; has books Dynasty(1968), Thorskald(1969); wrote screenplays for Shiralee(1987, BBC-TV; aired on U.S. TV, 4/30/91), & for Australian Children's TV Foundation, Quest Beyond Time(1990) |
| 1969 AUG |
Aandahl, Vance |
Adventure in the Yolla Bolly Middle Eel Wilderness, An |
nv |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Russ, Joanna |
Books |
br |
Ron Goulart: The Sword Swallower; Avram Davidson: The Phoenix and the Mirror; Hal Clement: Small Changes; Michael Moorcock(ed): The Best SF Stories from New Worlds #2; Poul Anderson: 7 Conquests |
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Green, Joseph |
Shamblers of Misery, The |
nv |
1st story in F&SF in his "Conscience," or Practical Philosopher Allan Odegaard series; other stories in series in other mags., in GAL 1965 APR, ANA 1971 OCT, & IFS 1972 MAY/JUN; has coll. of early stories, An Affair with Genius(1969 UK) |
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Jennings, Gary |
Next |
ss |
has nf books for young adults, Parades!(1966), Personalities of Language(1967; rev. vt World of Words: The Personalities of Language, 1984), The Killer Storms(1970) |
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Delany, Samuel R. |
Films: Illustrated Man, The |
mr |
The Illustrated Man(1969), based on Ray Bradbury's 1951 book; dir. Jack Smight, stars Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, & Robert Drivas; Delany's criticism colls. The Jewel-Hinged Jaw(1977), The American Shore(1978), Starboard Wine(1984) |
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Lanier, Sterling E. |
Fraternity Brother |
ss |
4th story in his Brigadier Ffellowes series |
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Vess, John W. Jr |
Introduction to Morgan Robertson's "From the Darkness and the Depths" |
in |
(1929- ) Vess has book The Titan and the Titanic(1990); Robertson has colls. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Tales of the Sea(1899), The Three Laws and the Golden Rule(1900), Down to the Sea(1905), Over the Border(1914), The Grain Ship(1914), etc |
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Robertson, Morgan |
From the Darkness and the Depths |
nv |
(1861-1915) 1st pub. in New Story Mag., 1913 JAN; has famous novella "Futility" (1898 mag.; in coll. The Wrecking of the Titan, 1912; 1994), about a new 'unsinkable' luxury liner, the Titan, which hits an iceberg & sinks(uncannily predicting the Titanic) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: On Throwing a Ball |
sces |
gravitation, f = ma, Part 1 of 2; Newton's equations for acceleration and velocity; Part 2 in 1969 SEP(#2823) |
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Thielen, Paul |
Money Builder, The |
nv |
has had fiction & nf pub. in several national magazines incl. ARG |
| 1969 SEP |
Runyon, Charles W. |
Sweet Helen |
ss |
(1928-1987) orig. from Missouri, writer of thrillers & sf; 1st story pub. sf "First Man in a Satellite" in SUP 1958 DEC; has pub. stories in FAN, AHMM, & MSMM; has 1st mys. novel The Anatomy of Violence(1960); also in F&SF as Charles W. Runyon |
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Russ, Joanna |
Books |
br |
Gerald Feinberg: The Prometheus Project: Mankind's Search for Long-Range Goals; Kate Wilhelm: Let the Fire Fall; Wollheim & Carr(ed): World's Bset Science Fiction: 1969; John Boyd: The Last Starship from Earth; Earl Conrad: The Da Vinci Machine |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Grow, Julian F. |
Bonita Egg |
nv |
2nd story in F&SF in Dr. Hiram Pertwee series |
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Koontz, Dean R. |
Muse |
ss |
many of his horror novels under var. ps. came out after 1980 under his own name; has sf novels The Long Sleep(1975, as John Hill), Invasion(1975 Canada, as Aaron Wolfe), Prison of Ice(1976, as David Axton); has nf book Writing Popular Fiction(1972) |
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Norris, Hoke |
Patient, The |
nv |
(1913-1977) newspaperman in N. Carolina & Chicago since 1955; member of the editorial board of the Chicago Daily News; has had stories pub. in PBY, Redbook, & Cavalier; edited book We Dissent(1962; 1973); book It's Not Far But I Don't Know the Way(1969) |
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Pronzini, Bill |
Screwiest Job in the World, The |
ss |
(1943- ) his 1st pub. fantasy story; born in Petaluma, CA; fulltime writer since 1969, widely pub. in mystery, horror, sf & western genres; working name for William John Pronzini; 1st book, crime fiction, The Stalker (1971); in F&SF w. Barry N. Malzberg |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Man Who Massed the Earth, The |
sces |
gravitation, f = ma, Part 2 of 2; acceleration, velocity & mass; the Earth's gravitational field & its mass; see similar essay, "Massing the Sun" in 1989 NOV(#6084); Part 1 in 1969 AUG(#2814) |
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Henderson, Zenna |
J-Line to Nowhere |
ss |
has colls. The Anything Box(1965), & Holding Wonder(1971) |
| 1969 OCT |
Asimov, Isaac |
Feminine Intuition |
nv |
1st of 2 stories in F&SF in his Susan Calvin/robot series, this one about a female robot long after Calvin has died; Susan Calvin character 1st appeared in story "Liar!" in ASF 1941 MAY, & her last appearance will be "Robot Dreams" in ASI 1986 mDEC |
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Ellison, Harlan & Roger Zelazny |
Come to Me Not in Winter's White |
ss |
(1934- ; 1937-1995) story to be pub. in the first book of collaborations ever pub., Harlan Ellison: Partners in Wonder(1971); Ellison W-1968 HUG for his screenplay of a Star Trek episode, "The City on the Edge of Forever"(1967; 1977 novel) |
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Bloch, Robert |
Movie People, The |
ss |
has novels It's All in Your Mind(IMT 1955 JUL, as The Big Binge; 1971), Sneak Preview(novella in AMZ 1959 NOV; exp. 1971), Strange Eons(1979; N-1980 BRG); colls. The King of Terrors(1977), Cold Chills(1977), The Best of Robert Bloch(1977) |
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Bradbury, Ray |
Final Sceptre, a Lasting Crown, A |
ss |
story to be in his coll. I Sing the Body Electric(1969); has coll. nf essays Zen and the Art of Writing(1973; 1990); coll. of verse When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed (1973); coll. Ray Bradbury(1975 UK), Long After Midnight(1975; N-1977 WFA) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Worlds in Confusion |
sces |
popular fallacy; debunks Immanuel Velikovsky's 1950 book Worlds in Collision, which "attempted to account for ... events described in the Bible ... by supposing that the planet Venus had ... a near collision with the Earth" |
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Aldiss, Brian W. |
Soft Predicament, The |
nv |
has Three Enigmas: III ser., Looking on the Sunny Side of an Eclipse('74), The Old Fleeing and Fleeting Images('74), The Unbearableness of Other Lives('74); Three Enigmas IV ser., Carefully Observed Women('75), The Daffodil Returns the Smile('75), 1 more |
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