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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1972 JAN |
Bradbury, Ray |
McGillahee's Brat |
ss |
1st pub. in The Irish Press, 1970 MAR 21(a publication distributed only on airlines); has colls. Beyond 1984: A Remembrance of Things Future(1979), The Last Circus, and The Electrocution(1980), The Complete Poems of Ray Bradbury(1982) |
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Tilley, Robert J. |
Choice |
ss |
has novel The Big Losers(1988), in which an alien espionage agent teams up with local losers to destroy Earth(B&C) |
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Blish, James |
Books |
br |
R.A. Lafferty: Arrive at Easterwine; Josephine Saxton: Vector for Seven; Brian W. Aldiss: The Shape of Further Things; Charles Platt: Planet of the Voles; Ben Bova: Exiled from Earth; NESFA: Index to the Science Fiction Magazines |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
Editor's Note |
note |
F&SF not satisfied with the print quality of the 1971 NOV & DEC issues, some improvements visible in this issue, & more will be noticeable soon |
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Myers, Howard L. |
All Around the Universe |
nv |
has used ps. Verge Foray for 11 stories in ANA, FAN, GAL, & IFS, between 1967-1974 |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Corpse |
ss |
has colls. A Touch of Infinity(1960), Ellison Wonderland(1962; vt Earthman, Go Home, 1964; rev. 1984); began writing for TV in 1963, incl. Route 66, The Untouchables, Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Burke's Law, Outer Limits, Star Trek, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. |
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Bunch, David R. |
Training Talk No. 12 |
vi |
1st & only story in F&SF in Training Talk series, a sequel to "Training Talk" in FAN 1964 MAR(rprt. in AMZ 1981 NOV) |
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deFord, Miriam Allen |
Jimmy |
ss |
has coll. Elsewhere, Elsewhen, Elsehow(1971) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films |
mr/tvr |
Glen and Randa(1971); Let's Scare Jessica to Death(1971); Fearless Vampire Killers(1967), dir. Roman Polanski; short reviews - Privilege(1967); Forbidden Planet(1956) |
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Davis, Hank |
Staying Power |
ss |
age 27, recently returned from a year in Vietnam, has sold stories to ANA, IFS, & Orbit; assistant editor for F&SF 1974 NOV-1975 AUG, & for New Destinies #9(1990) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Tenderizers, The |
ss |
previously unpublished; see J.R. Christopher, D.W. Dickensheet & R.E. Briney: A Boucher Bibliography, bound with Lenore Glen Offord(ed): A Boucher Portrait(1969 chap); has coll. Exeunt Murderers: The Best Mystery Stories of Anthony Boucher(1983) |
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Littlefield, Henry M. |
Dharma |
pm |
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MacLennan, Phyllis |
Good-by, Miss Patterson |
vi |
licensed private pilot, an instructor in Military Intelligence for two years; has an earlier story, published outside of F&SF, short story "A Contract in Karasthan" in FAN 1963 JUL; attended Clarion in 1969 |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Jennings, Gary |
Betty |
ss |
has novels The Terrible Teague Bunch(1975), The Rope in the Jungle(1976), Sow the Seeds of Hemp(1976) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: 3-D Molecule, The |
sces |
isomerism, Part 2 of 3; optically active substances; Louis Pasteur's discovery that racemic & tartaric acids were mirror-images of one another, Kekule structures; Part 1 in 1971 DEC(#3130), Part 3 in 1972 FEB(#3160) |
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Thurston, Robert |
Carolyn's Laughter |
na |
(1936- ) a transplant doctor seeks help from the fiance of a multiple donor, when patients who have received the transplants, including a monkey who has the woman's hands, begin to have strange reactions |
| 1972 FEB |
Anderson, Poul |
Goat Song |
nv |
W-1972 NEB; 1973 HUG, novelette; N-1973 LOC, short fiction; see Sandra Miesel: Against Time's Arrow: The High Crusade of Poul Anderson(1978 chap); see interviews in Rigel WIN (#6) 1982, Midnight Zoo #4 1991 JUL, Expanse #3 1994 |
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Blish, James |
Books |
br |
Dick Allen: Science Fiction: The Future; Gordon R. Dickson: Tactics of Mistake; R.A. Lafferty: The Flame Is Green; Josef Nesvadba: The Lost Face |
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Reed, Kit |
Dog Days |
ss |
edited anth. Fat: A Big Book About a Broad Subject(1974), stories about obesity; see interview in Charles Platt: Dream Makers(1983) |
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Sargent, Pamela |
Gather Blue Roses |
ss |
has anth. Women of Wonder(1975; W-1995 TIP; N-1976 LOC), More Women of Wonder(1976; W-1995 TIP; N-1977 LOC), The New Women of Wonder(1978; W-1995 TIP), Bio-Futures(1976), Afterlives: Stories About Life After Death(1986 w. Ian Watson; N-1987 LOC) |
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O'Neil, Dennis |
Elseones, The |
ss |
(1939- ) lives in NY, has sold stories to EQMM, FAN; has written comic book scripts for Superman, Batman, & Wonder Woman; recently won the Academy of Comic Book Arts' Shazam Award; edited book Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes(1976) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Searles, Baird |
Films |
mr/tvr |
The Gladiators(1969 Sweden), dir. Peter Watkins, movie known in England as The Peace Game; The Trojan Women(1972 Greece-US), stars Katharine Hepburn; Helen of Troy(1955), stars Brigitte Bardot, Rosanna Podesta |
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Koontz, Dean R. |
Cosmic Sin |
nv |
2nd/laststory in his Jake Ash ser.; has novel Hideaway(1992; 1995 movie), about a man who nearly dies & brings back evil from the other side; Fear Nothing(1998; N-1998 STO), an sf thriller about genetic engineering; coll. Strange Highways(1995) |
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Tiptree, James Jr |
Painwise |
ss |
(1915-1987) N-1973 HUG, LOC; ps. for Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon, her true identity found out in 1977; born in Chicago, spent many years of her childhood in Africa & India; mother Mary Hastings Bradley was a travel & mystery author |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Asymmetry of Life, The |
sces |
isomerism, Part 3 of 3; optically active substances; asymmetric compounds exist in nature only in living tissues or in matter that was once part of living tissue; Part 1 in 1971 DEC(#3130), Part 2 in 1972 JAN(#3149) |
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McAllister, Bruce |
Ecce Femina! |
nv |
this story to be pub. in Leon E. Stover & Willis E. McNelly(ed): Above the Human Landscape(1972) |
| 1972 MAR |
Swann, Thomas Burnett |
Love Is a Dragonfly |
na |
N-1973 LOC; 1st/only story in F&SF in his Mellonia the Dryad ser.; shares the same heroine, Mellonia, as story "Where Is the Bird of Fire"(exp. novel Lady of the Bees, 1976) in SCG #52 1962; Mellonia seq. Green Phoenix(1972), Queens Walk in the Dusk(1977) |
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Panshin, Alexei & Cory |
Books |
br |
(1940- ; 1947- ) Asimov(ed): The Hugo Winners, Vol.II; Knight(ed): Orbit 9; Harrison & Aldiss(ed): Best SF: 1970; Harrison(ed): Author's Choice 3; Mayo Mohs(ed): Other Worlds, Other Gods; this review a husband/wife collab.; see Harrison letter, 1972 AUG |
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Tiptree, James Jr |
And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side |
ss |
N-1972 NEB; 1973 HUG, ss; N-1973 LOC, shfi; her mother Mary wrote books, incl. Alice in Elephantland(1929), with artwork by Alice; graphic artist/painter 1925-41; worked for U.S. govt. for many years, during WWII & after, incl. in the Pentagon & CIA |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Thurston, Robert |
Hippie-Dip File, The |
ss |
1st story pub. "Stop Me Before I Tell More" in Knight(ed): Orbit 9(1971); has 1st novel Alicia II(1978), in which the brain of an old man is implanted into the body of a young "retread"(Clute) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Mixed Media |
mr/tvr |
Medea(1970 Italy), stars Maria Callas; Black Noon(1971 TV), stars Roy Thinnes, Yvette Mimieux, Ray Milland, Gloria Grahame |
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Wellman, Manly W. & Wade Wellman |
Venus, Mars, and Baker Street |
ss |
2nd of 3 stories in their Sherlock Holmes/War of the Worlds series; Wellman Jr as ps. John H. Watson MD has Sherlock Holmes novels The Seven-Per-Cent Solution(1974), The West End Horror(1976), The Case of the Philosopher's Ring(1978) |
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Eklund, Gordon |
Grasshopper Time |
ss |
has novels A Trace of Dreams(1972), Beyond the Resurrection(FAN 1972 APR-JUN; N-1973 LOC; 1973) |
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Malzberg, Barry N. & Kris Neville |
Pater Familias |
ss |
(1939- ; 1925-1980) Malzberg with Martin H. Greenberg edits anth. The Science Fiction of Kris Neville(1984) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Lost in Non-Translation |
sces |
Bible, The Book of Ruth(a Moabite woman); the non-translatable word of Moabite - black; perhaps Ruth was a black woman; this essay is based on his book, The Story of Ruth(1972) |
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Shore, Wilma |
Is It the End of the World? |
ss |
also has a short story, "Goodbye Amanda Jean," in GAL 1970 JUL |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 1 |
cmp |
1st prize: Phoebe W. Ellis; 2nd prize: Alan K. Clarke |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 2 |
cmp |
retitle any well-known sf book, movie, or story, & submit a misleading blurb for it, e.g.: 2001: A Space Odyssey, retitled Mission to Jupiter, with blurb example |
| 1972 APR |
Blish, James |
Midsummer Century |
na |
N-1973 LOC, novella; astronomer finds himself 23,000 years in the future, where man suffers in a primitive state, at war with sentient birds(rvw. in F&SF 1973 FEB); see David Ketterer: Imprisoned in a Tesseract: The Life and Work of James Blish(1988) |
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Lowndes, Robert A.W. |
James Blish: Profile |
bio |
(1916-1998) Lowndes, as editor of FUT & SFQ, pub. some of Blish's early work in the 1940s; more recently Lowndes was editor of The Mag. of Horror, & Famous Science Fiction; at times Lowndes was Blish's editor, roommate, fellow Futurian, collaborator |
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del Rey, Lester |
Hand at Issue, The |
ar |
"succinct yet comprehensive consideration of the craftmanship of James Blish"; title a take-off on Blish's book review colls. The Issue at Hand(1964), & More Issues at Hand(1970), as by William Atheling Jr; del Rey has coll. ... And Some Were Human(1948) |
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Owings, Mark |
James Blish: Bibliography |
bib |
(1945- ) alphabetical listing of his books & stories; Owings a bibliographer & small-press publisher; involved with Mirage Press w. Jack L. Chalker; has book The Index to the Science-Fantasy Publishers(1966; exp. vt The Science-Fantasy Publishers, 1991) |
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Renard, Joseph |
Anthropiranhas |
ss |
(1938- ) has pub. a story in VSF 1970 AUG, "How We Won the Monodyne," exp. into novel The Monodyne Catastrophe(1977); has play, Life in Bed |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Kubrick's Earth Odyssey |
mr/tvr |
A Clockwork Orange(1971), dir. Stanley Kubrick, stars Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee |
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Wolfe, Gene |
Recording, The |
vi |
has 1st novel Operation Ares(1970); novels Peace(1975; N-1986 DIT), an afterlife fantasy set in contemporary USA(Clute); The Devil in a Forest(1976; N-1986 DIT), juvenile set during the time of King Wenceslas(Clute); coll. Gene Wolfe's Book of Days(1981) |
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Blish, James |
Books |
br |
James Branch Cabell: The Cream of the Jest; Peter Tate: Gardens 1 to 5; Roger Zelazny: Jack of Shadows; Thomas M. Disch: Fun with Your New Head; G.C. Edmondson: Chapayeca |
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