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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1975 APR |
Ferman, Edward L. |
Letters |
lttr |
Kurt Vonnegut Jr(on Kilgore Trout, novel 1974-75 DEC-JAN); Kilgore Trout(reply to Vonnegut; Trout ps. for Philip José Farmer); Donald M. Hassler; Barry N. Malzberg(Alex Panshin & Joanna Russ as book critics); Phoebe W. Ellis |
| 1975 MAY |
Ferman, Edward L. |
Joseph W. Ferman, 1906-1974 |
obit |
F&SF publisher 1954 AUG-1970 OCT, editor 1964 DEC-1965 DEC; died December 29, 1974, at age 68; bookkeeper at Knopf after grad. from NYC's High School of Commerce, grad. N.Y. Univ. in 1927; worked for Mercury Publications; civil rights organizer |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Croatoan |
ss |
W-1976 LOC; N-1976 HUG, short story; "I gave an assignment to my Clarion writers to do a story about a land where all lost things (go) to; decided to do a story, too, so they wouldn't feel I'd ask them to attempt something I wouldn't" |
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Davidson, Avram |
Books |
br |
Poul Anderson: Fire Time; Joe Haldeman(ed): Cosmic Laughter; Robert Silverberg(ed): Infinite Jests; M. John Harrison: The Centauri Device |
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Silverberg, Robert |
Stochastic Man, The |
no-2/3 |
has novels The Time-Hoppers(1967), The Masks of Time(1968; N-1968 NEB), Across a Billion Years(1969), To Live Again(1969), Up the Line(AMZ 1969 JUL, SEP; 1969; N-1969 NEB; 1970 HUG), Downward to Earth(GAL 1969-70 NOV-MAR; 1970; N-1971 LOC) |
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Aandahl, Vance |
Sylvester's Revenge |
ss |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Frankenstein Re-Re-Redux |
mr/tvr |
Young Frankenstein(1974), dir. Mel Brooks, written by Gene Wilder & Mel Brooks, stars Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Wellman, Manly W. & Wade Wellman |
Sherlock Holmes Versus Mars |
nv |
3rd & last story in their Sherlock Holmes/War of the Worlds series; Wellman Jr as ps. John H. Watson MD has Holmes novels S. H. vs Dracula(1979), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes(1979), S. H. and the Golden Bird(1985), S. H. and the Red Demon(1996), etc |
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Hufford, Liz |
Book Learners, The |
ss |
(1950?- ) age 25, attended the 1969 SF Clarion Workshop; has a story pub. in Damon Knight(ed): Orbit 8(1970) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Planet That Wasn't, The |
sces |
planets, the speculation & belief that there was another planet inside Mercury's orbit, named Vulcan |
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Girard, James P. |
Something's Coming |
nv |
(1944- ) James Preston Girard; grew up in Wichita, grad. of Univ. of Kansas, MA from John Hopkins Univ.; worked as a general assignment reporter & city editor for the Topeka Capital- Journal; has 1st book Changing All Those Changes(1976) |
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Cobb, C.G. |
Guy Who Knows About the Holes, The |
ss |
has story in VSF 1970 MAY |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
Letters |
lttr |
Stanton T. Friedman(Asimov essay "The Rocketing Dutchmen" in 1975 FEB); Isaac Asimov(reply); Poul Anderson(Davidson br of his novel A Midsummer Tempest in 1974 NOV); David Dyer-Bennet; Lester Boutillier; Stephen H. Dodson |
| 1975 JUN |
Varley, John |
Black Hole Passes, The |
nv |
N-1976 LOC, nv; has 1st novel, part of Eight Worlds seq., The Ophiuchi Hotline(1977; N-1978 LOC), which also incl. colls. The Persistence of Vision(1978; W-1979 HUG, LOC) & Blue Champagne(1986; W-1987 LOC), & novel Steel Beach(1992; N-1993 HUG, LOC) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
has cartoon coll. Gahan Wilson's Cracked Cosmos(1975) |
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Goulart, Ron |
That Buck Rogers Stuff |
ar |
part of a book to be pub., The Adventurous Decade: Comic Strips of the Thirties(1976); Buck Rogers ran in the funny papers from 7 JAN 1929 until 1967, with artwork & scripts by a number of artists & writers; writes a column for Comic Buyer's Guide |
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Silverberg, Robert |
Stochastic Man, The |
no-3/3 |
has colls. Dimension Thirteen(1969), The Man in the Maze(1969), Nightwings(1969), The Cube Root of Uncertainty(1970), Parsecs and Parables(1970), Moonferns and Starsongs(1971; N-1972 LOC), The Reality Trip(1972), Unfamiliar Territory(1973) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Dracula Redux (This Time Ad Absurdum) |
mr/tvr |
Andy Warhol's Dracula(1974), aka Blood for Dracula, dir. Paul Morrissey |
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Pronzini, Bill & Barry N. Malzberg |
Coming Again |
vi |
(1943- ; 1939- ) has collab. suspense novel Off-Center(1975); see most bio- & non-collab. biliographical info for the authors under their non-collab. entries; also in F&SF in collab. as Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini |
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Clingerman, Mildred |
Annabelle, I Love You |
ss |
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Whyte, H.W. |
Non Sub Homine |
ss |
(1940-1991) ps. for Henry Walter Weiss; 1965 law degree graduate from Harvard Univ.; first an estate lawyer, then in private practice in NJ; Barry N. Malzberg's "Understanding Entropy"(SFAge 1994 JUL; N-1994 NEB; 1995 HUG, LOC, SFC) was written for him |
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Tuttle, Lisa & Steven Utley |
Flies by Night |
ss |
(1952- ; 1948- ) Tuttle an ex-Air Force brat, has sold about 3 dozen stories to GAL, Vertex, var. anth.; W-1974 JWCA, Best New Writer; Utley a recent graduate of Syracuse Univ., 1st story pub. "The Unkindest Cut of All" in anth. Perry Rhodan 20(1972); |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Olympian Snows, The |
sces |
planet Mars, as seen thru history's telescopes to the Mariner probes; in intro to essay, says "Sometimes when I think of a very good title, I deliberately invent an essay to fit around it"; this his 200th science essay for F&SF is such an example |
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Roberts, Mary-Carter |
He Descended Into Hell |
nv |
former book review editor of the Washington Star; has had stories pub. in COL, NYM, & Woman's Day |
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Russ, Joanna |
Risk |
vi |
has novel The Two of Them(1978; W-1995 TIP), the story of the oppression & escape of a young woman brought up on a planet whose religion is like Islam, & deconstructing this genetic material into the embittered dreams of woman trapped on Earth(Clute) |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 10 |
cmp |
1st prize: Janice L. Presser; 2nd prize: Albany State SF Society; R-U: Mark Robert Kelly; H-M: Bruce Berges; Minda Zetlin; Donald Franson; Joseph M. Szafran; Steven Utley; John A. Presser; Huan Lee; Josiah F. Hill; E. Hunt; Sue Anderson |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 11 |
cmp |
suggested by Barry Malzberg - finish the beginning of this unpromising story, in 100 words or less |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 48: 1975 JAN-JUN |
indx |
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| 1975 JUL |
Wellen, Edward |
Deadpan |
na |
"a wild thriller concerning a project to restore the Delphic Oracle around a computer installation, the mysterious death of the computer's designer, & the investigations of his son" |
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Delap, Richard |
Books |
br |
(1942-1987) 5 best of anthologies, "are they the year's best?"; Carr: The Best S. F. of the Year #3; Wollheim: The 1974 Annual World's Best SF; del Rey: Best S. F. Stories of the Year, 3rd; Harrison & Aldiss: Best SF: 1973; Davis: The Year's Best Horror 2 |
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Aandahl, Vance |
Owls |
ss |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Simulacra Suburbia |
mr/tvr |
The Stepford Wives(1975), based on a novel by Ira Levin(who also wrote Rosemary's Baby), stars Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Budrys, Algis & Theodore R. Cogswell & Ted Thomas |
Players at Null-G |
ss |
(1931- ; 1918-1987; 1920- ) Budrys has novel The Amsirs and the Iron Thorn(IFS 1967 JAN-APR; 1967; vt The Iron Thorn, 1968 UK); he has used ps. David C. Hodgkins, Paul Janvier, Robert Marner, William Scarff, John A. Sentry(each at least once in TSF) |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
Galaxy Called Rome, A (In Memory of John W. Campbell) |
nv |
N-1975 NEB; 1976 LOC, novelette; to be pub. in a somewhat different & expanded version, as novel Galaxies(1975), about a spaceship endangered by a black hole, an sf anti-novel, the author interweaves many sour comments on sf as a genre(Clute) |
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Latham, Philip |
Drop of Dragon's Blood, A |
ss |
2nd & last story in his Bob & Dagny series; has semi-fictional book Second Satellite(1956), & over 10 books on astronomy, incl. the juvenile Exploring Mars(1954; vt Man and the Planets, UK); in early 1950s wrote scripts for TV series Captain Video |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Titanic Surprise |
sces |
solar system, size comparison of the bodies in the solar system; summary of his classification of astronomical bodies |
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MacLennan, Phyllis |
Day in the Apotheosis of the Welfare State, A |
ss |
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Adams, Georgia F. |
Acrostic Puzzle |
pz |
answer in 1975 AUG, p.159; author has short story "A Kitten for Elinor" in Vertex 1975 JUL |
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Barr, Stephen |
For the Birds |
ss |
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| 1975 AUG |
Reamy, Tom |
San Diego Lightfoot Sue |
nv |
W-1975 NEB; N-1976 HUG, LOC, novelette; has coll. San Diego Lightfoot Sue and Other Stories(1979); has play "Sting" in Roger Elwood(ed): Six Science Fiction Plays(1976); edited MidAmerican Program Book, for the 1976 or 34th World S.F. Convention |
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Panshin, Alexei & Cory |
Books |
br |
"in the mirror of a sf story may be seen a reflection of the author ... of sf stories ... of an era"; Cordwainer Smith: Norstrilia; Michael Bishop: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire; Joanna Russ: The Female Man; Roger Zelazny: Sign of the Unicorn |
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Runyon, Charles |
Terminal |
ss |
also in F&SF as Charles W. Runyon |
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Slesar, Henry |
Rise and Fall of the Fourth Reich, The |
ss |
headwriter for The Edge of Night soap opera in the late 1950s-70s(W-1975 Emmy); borderline sf novel The Bridge of Lions(1963); wrote episode "The Virtue Affair" for TV show The Man from U.N.C.L.E., in 1965, & at least 100 other scripts for TV, many sf/f |
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Davidson, Avram |
Crown Jewels of Jerusalem, The |
nv |
2nd & last story in Dr. Eszterhazy series; series coll. in The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy(1975; W-1976 WFA; rvw. F&SF 1976 SEP; exp. vt The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy, 1990; N-1992 LOC); has novel Ursus of Ultima Thule(1973) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Electra and the Beast, or Incest, Like Charity, Begins at Home |
mr/tvr |
Beauty and the Beast(1946 France), dir. Jean Cocteau; Donkey Skin(1970 France), stars Catherine Deneuve; The Rocky Horror Picture Show(1975), stars Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon; Death Takes a Holiday(1934), stars Fredric March, Evelyn Venable |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Earthset and Evening Star |
ss |
2nd story in F&SF in his Black Widower series, this mystery one with an sf angle; has anth. 100 Great S. F. Short Short Stories(1978, w. Olander & Greenberg), & The 13 Crimes of S. F.(1979, w. Waugh & Greenberg; N-1980 LOC) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
has cartoon coll. Weird World of Gahan Wilson(1975) |
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Young, Robert F. |
Curious Case of Henry Dickens, The |
ss |
has novel released only in French, La Quête de la Sainte Grille(novelette in AMZ 1964 DEC as "The Quest of the Holy Grille"; exp. 1975 France) |
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