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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1973 APR |
F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 4 |
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1st prize: Bob Leman; 2nd prize: James E. Sutherland; R-U: Dave Williams; Glenn Hunt; Colin G. Jameson; Harlan Ellison; James Sutherland; Bob Leman; Harold Stone; J.B. Bolton |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 5 |
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submit a Feghoot, in 150 words or less; as an example is a brand new Feghoot by Grendel Briarton(& in index as a separate entry, as will Feghoots submitted & chosen as winners); due to copyright laws, winning Feghoots will be revised & be by Briarton |
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Briarton, Grendel |
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot |
vi |
66th story in F&SF in Feghoot series; a brand new one, written especially for & as an example for Competition 5 |
| 1973 MAY |
Vance, Jack |
Asutra, The |
no-1/2 |
3rd story in his planet Durdane, or Gastel Etzwane series, the last novel in a trilogy; the Asutra are small parasitical creatures which act as mentors for its hosts - perhaps their invasion of Shant is the "preliminary phase of a larger campaign" |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Books: Dark Corner, The |
br |
Oliver Onions: The Collected Ghost Stories of ...; Clark Ashton Smith: Selected Poems; Richard Davis(ed): The Year's Best Horror Stories; Haining(ed): Beyond the Curtain of Dark, The Hollywood Nightmare, The Clans of Darkness, & Gothic Tales of Terror |
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Boles, Paul Darcy |
Meddy |
ss |
has coll. A Million Guitars and Other Stories(1967); novel The Limner(1975; vt Loving Letty, 1975 UK) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Brennan, Herbie |
Paper Twist of Khorlo Crystals, A |
nv |
freelance writer from Ireland, has pub. 3 books on the supernatural, & sold many sf stories in Europe, & recently a play to BBC |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Strange Bedfellows |
mr/tvr |
Moonwalk One(?); In Search of Ancient Astronauts(1973 TV), a visualization of Erich von Daniken's book Chariots of the Gods(1969) |
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Wellen, Edward |
Androids Don't Cry |
ss |
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Bates, Russell |
Rite of Encounter |
ss |
(1941- ) full-blood Kiowa, student at Univ. of Oklahoma, U.S.A.F. veteran; "there is a world of experience and culture that is exclusively Amerindian that has never been told ... that I have set out to try to relate"; had bit role in Porky's II(1983) |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
Second Short Shortest Fantasy Ever Ever Published, The |
vi |
has novels In the Closure(1973), The Men Inside(1973), Phase IV(1973 UK, film tie-in) |
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Goldberg, Michael & Laurence M. Janifer |
Family Album |
ss |
( ? - ; 1933- ) Janifer has novels The Wonder War(1964), You Sane Men(1965; vt Bloodworld, 1968), A Piece of Martin Cann(1968), Power(1974), latter a study of the politics of rebellion(Clute); Knave seq. Knave in Hand(1979), Knave and the Game(1987) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: By the Numbers |
sces |
computers; Do we lose our individuality in a computerized society? Do we become numbers instead of people? |
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deFord, Miriam Allen |
Murder in the Transcontinental Tunnel |
ss |
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| 1973 JUN |
Wilson, Robin Scott |
Pax Romana |
ss |
edited Clarion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from the Clarion Writers' Workshop(1971; N-1972 LOC), Clarion II(1972; N-1973 LOC), Clarion III(1973); retired from Clarion after the last anthology |
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Panshin, Alexei |
Books |
br |
Harry Harrison & Brian Aldiss(ed): The Astounding-Analog Reader, Vol.1; Robert Silverberg(ed): New Dimensions II; John Boyd: The I.Q. Merchants; Thomas Burnett Swann: Wolfwinter; Alexei 1st story pub. sf "Down to the Worlds of Men" in IFS 1963 JUL |
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Etchison, Dennis |
Calling All Monsters |
ss |
has novelette "The Dead Cop," in Sutton & Jones(ed): Dark Terrors 2(1996), N-1997 WFA; has anth. Cutting Edge(1986), Masters of Darkness(1986), ... II(1988), ... III(1991), Lord John Ten(1988), The Complete Masters of Darkness(1991) |
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Vance, Jack |
Asutra, The |
no-2/2 |
has Lyonesse seq. Suldrun's Garden(1983), The Green Pearl(1985), Madouc(1989); colls. Eight Fantasms and Magics(1969), The Worlds of ...(1973), Best of ...(1976), The Moon Moth(1976), Galactic Effectuator(1980), Lost Moons(1982); website www.jackvance.com |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Very Good Dr. Phibes, The |
mr/tvr |
Dr. Phibes Rises Again(1972 UK), stars Vincent Price, the sequel to The Abomminable Dr. Phibes(1971 UK) |
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Wilson, Baird |
Cartoon |
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Warner, Tori |
Think Snow |
ss |
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Buck, Doris Pitkin |
Recollection, Punishing |
pm |
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Goulart, Ron |
Varieties of Religious Experience |
ss |
6th story in F&SF in Jose Silvera series; has Phantom series, as by Frank S. Shawn, The Veiled Lady(1973), The Golden Circle(1973), The Mystery of the Sea Horse(1973), The Hydra Monster(1973), The Goggle-Eyed Pirates(1974), The Swamp Rats(1974) |
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Lumley, Brian |
Haggopian |
nv |
(1937- ) born in Horden, England; ex-Sgt. Royal Military Police; pub. Lovecraftian fiction in ARKC 1968-71, in his 1st coll. The Caller of the Black(1971); has 1st 2 novels Beneath the Moors(1974), The Burrowers Beneath(1974), both Lovecraftian |
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Bradbury, Ray |
Old Ahab's Friend, and Friend to Noah, Speaks His Piece: Celebration of Man in Space, A |
pm |
1st pub. in 1971 coll. of verse of same name; has book The Mummies of Guanajuato(1978); colls. The Stories of Ray Bradbury(1980; N-1981 LOC), The Ghosts of Forever(1981), Dinosaur Tales(1983); of verse The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope(1981) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Triumph of the Moon |
sces |
Moon; sequel to science essay "The Tragedy of the Moon" in 1972 JUL(#3220); "at 3 crises in the development of Man it was the Moon that was, in one way or another, the motive force" |
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Buck, Doris Pitkin |
Blackberry Winter |
ss |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 44: 1973 JAN-JUN |
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| 1973 JUL |
Bishop, Michael |
White Otters of Childhood, The |
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N-1973 NEB; 1974 HUG, LOC, novella; in the early 5300s, the human population is down to 2 million people living on 2 Caribbean islands & ruled by a mutant dictator, the whole human race overseen by advanced aliens called Parfects |
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Russ, Joanna |
Books |
br |
Joseph Elder(ed): Eros in Orbit; Thomas M. Scortia(ed): Strange Bedfellows; Norman Spinrad: The Iron Dream; James Gunn: The Listeners; Robert Silverberg: Dying Inside; correction of her 1971 FEB book review, mention of J. Herndon: The Way It Spozed to Be |
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Grant, C.L. |
Come Dance With Me on My Pony's Grave |
ss |
story "began in a place called Qui Nhon (Vietnam) & ended in a place called Budd Lake. If nothing else, it helped me get that war out of my system"; written only horror & fantasy since late 1970s; used ps. Lionel Fenn, Geoffrey Marsh, Steven Charles |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Dr. Frankenstein, Mr. Hyde, Ms. Satan Et Al |
mr/tvr |
The Devil's Daughter(1972 TV), w. Shelley Winters; Frankenstein(1973 TV), w. Bo Svenson; A Cold Night's Death(1972 TV); The Horror at 37,000 Feet(1972 TV), w. Chuck Connors; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1973 TV), w. Kirk Douglas; Moon Zero Two(1969) |
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Wellen, Edward |
Film Buff |
ss |
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Perlman, Al B. |
Invitation to a Cruise |
pz |
a logic puzzle, solution on p.97; Perlman has done logic features for Intellectual Digest; in story intro, editor Ferman asks readers if they like the idea of an occasional puzzle feature |
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Williams, Gregg |
Computer and the Oriental, The |
ss |
1st story of 2 in his TABROT(Tactical Army Base Research Outpost No. Two), aka Tuesday Night Forum series; a student at Memphis State Univ., studying drama |
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Coney, Michael G. |
Bridge on the Scraw, The |
ss |
2nd story in Finistelle, or Donald Lackland series; now lives in Canada, working for the British Columbia Forest Service until his retirement in 1989; his "amorphs" reappear in novel Brontomek!(1976 UK; W-1977 BSF) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
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has an animated movie, Gahan Wilson's Diner(1973) |
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Stearns, Barbara |
Having It |
ss |
(1940- ) her 1st pub. story; born in Chicago, works as a computer systems analyst with the Bureau of Customs |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Cruise and I, The |
sces |
personal reminiscences, of his cruise to Florida to see the last Apollo flight, #17, to the moon; on cruise with him was Pohl, Heinlein, Sagan, Sturgeon, Bova, & Norman Mailer |
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Young, Robert F. |
Giantess, The |
ss |
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| 1973 AUG |
Davidson, Avram |
Peregrine: Alflandia |
nv |
1st & only story in F&SF in his Chronicles of Peregrine series; to be the 1st part of 2nd & last novel in the series, Peregrine: Secundus(1981; N-1982 LOC); another part of this 2nd novel, novella "Peregrine: Perplexed" in ASI 1980 OCT |
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Skal, Dave |
Floating |
ss |
(1952- ) wn. for David J. Skal; born in Cleveland; attended Clarion & Tulane workshops; 1st novel Scavengers(1980); novels When We Were Good(1981), Antibodies(1989); nf Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of "Dracula" from Novel to Stage to Screen(1990) |
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Coleman, Sidney |
Books |
br |
Larry Niven, John Brunner, & Jack Vance: Three Trips in Time and Space; Gordon Eklund: Beyond the Resurrection; William Jon Watkins: The God Machine |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
Books |
br |
Isaac Asimov: Today and Tomorrow ...; Gahan Wilson: Playboy's Gahan Wilson; Ferman has anth. with Barry N. Malzberg, Final Stage(1974; rev. 1975; N-1975 & 1976 LOC), Arena: Sports SF(1976), & Graven Images(1977; W-1978 NEB) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Lanier, Sterling E. |
Thinking of the Unthinkable |
ss |
9th story in his Brigadier Ffellowes series; has 2nd novel, Hiero's Journey(1973), & sequel The Unforsaken Hiero(1983) - coll. in omnibus Hiero Desteen(1984), a quest tale set in a post-holocaust world 5000 years after an atomic war(Clute) |
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Goulart, Ron |
Down and Out |
ss |
has novels in the Flash Gordon series, as by Con Steffanson, The Lion Men of Mongo(1974), The Plague of Sound(1974), The Space Circus(1974) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Green Grows the Soylent |
mr/tvr |
Soylent Green(1973), stars Charlton Heston, based on Harry Harrison novel; Genesis II(1973 TV), written by Gene Roddenberry |
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Wagner, Karl Edward |
In the Pines |
nv |
(1945-1994) born in Knoxville, TN; has 1st novel & Kane ser. Darkness Weaves with Many Shades(1970), Death Angel's Shadow(1973), coll. The Book of Kane(1985); colls. In a Lonely Place(1983), Exorcisms and Ecstasies(1997); see obit in LOC 1994 NOV(#406) |
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