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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1976 JAN |
Russ, Joanna |
My Boat |
ss |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Lester del Rey: Early del Rey; R.A. Lafferty: Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add?; John Brunner: The Shockwave Rider(not a review); Poul Anderson: Homeward and Beyond |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Friday the Thirteenth |
ss |
3rd & last story in F&SF in his Black Widower ser.; the first story ever in ser. was "The Acquisitive Chuckle" in EQMM 1972 JAN; see ar by Dorman T. Schindler, "Mind Over Matter: The Mystery Fiction of Isaac Asimov" in The Armchair Detective, 1997 SPR |
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Dybek, Stuart |
Horror Movie |
ss |
has had poetry, articles, fiction pub. in several quarterlies, in Commonweal, HRP, NYM, & in Damon Knight(ed): Orbit 17(1975); teaches creative writing at Western Michigan Univ.(Kalamazoo); has coll. The Coast of Chicago(1990) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Edgar Rice Pudding, An |
mr/tvr |
The Land That Time Forgot(1975), based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, script co-authored by Michael Moorcock, stars Doug McClure |
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Coney, Michael G. |
Those Good Old Days of Liquid Fuel |
nv |
1st story in F&SF in Joe Sagar series; other stories in series in GAL 1974 JAN, MAR, & GEO #11 1979; the stories take place in a small city called The Peninsula, & are narrated by slithe farmer Joe Sagar |
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Reed, Kit |
Attack of the Giant Baby, The |
ss |
has novel Captain Grownup(1976), about a separated schoolteacher who gives one of his students some advanced lessons; coll. The Killer Mice(1978 UK) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Silent Victory |
sces |
ozone & oxygen in our atmosphere, Part 2 of 3; what do you suppose created the ordinary oxygen?; Part 1 in 1975 DEC(#3748), Part 3 in 1976 FEB(#3773); has 12th coll. of F&SF science essays The Planet That Wasn't(1976) |
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Wolf, Gary K. |
Doctor Rivet and Supercon Sal |
na |
2 space-roving con artists, Rivet & Sal, join forces against mine owner Warner Weevil & the Volunteer Crimefighters; has novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?(1981, made into 1988 movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit?), & sequel Who P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?(1991) |
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Barkin, Haskell |
Time Is Money |
ss |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
Letters |
lttr |
H.G. Sussman(book critics); Richard Brandshaft("book reports" versus literary criticism); Ferman reply; Manly Wade Wellman(reply to letters, Holmes' sex life);David M. Petras(Asimov's "Judo Argument"); Asimov reply; Cy Chauvin(sf readers prefer trash?) |
| 1976 FEB |
Bishop, Michael |
Samurai and the Willows, The |
na |
N-1976 NEB; 1977 HUG, LOC, novella; 1st & only story in F&SF in Urban Nucleus ser.; an 18-year old black girl helps a 38-year old nisei come to terms w. the way his mother spent her last years; story becomes part of fixup novel Catacomb Years(1979) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Jack Williamson: The Early Williamson; a tribute to James Blish, who died in 1975; Avon's Equinox series of large-format pb sf Rediscovery reprints; The Best of Cordwainer Smith |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
has book Harry and the Sea Serpent(1976) |
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Aymé, Marcel |
Dermuche |
ss |
1st pub. in colls. Le Vin de Paris(1947) & Across Paris and Other Stories(1957 UK; vt The Walker Through Walls, 1962 US); trans. from the French by R.A. Boldt; has sf nightmare novel The Second Face(1951 UK)(Clute) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Space: 1949 |
mr/tvr |
Space: 1999(1975-77, sf TV series, 48 ep.), 1st two episodes reviewed, stars Martin Landau, Barbara Bain |
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Williamson, Jack |
Machines That Ate Too Much, The |
nv |
3rd & last story in F&SF in Blacklantern ser.; has Legion of Time seq., After World's End(MVL 1939 FEB; 1961 UK); has Seetee ser. Seetee Ship(ASF 1942-43; 1951 fixup), Seetee Shock(ASF 1949 FEB-APR; 1950); Darker Than You Think(1948; 1976; 1989) |
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Sohl, Jerry |
Service, The |
ss |
has novels Transcendent Man(1953), Costigan's Needle(1953), The Altered Ego(1954), Point Ultimate(1955), The Odious Ones(1959), Night Slaves(1965), The Anomaly(1971), Death Sleep(1983); did scripts for The Invaders, Star Trek, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone |
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de Camp, L. Sprague |
Search for Superman, The |
ar |
seeking superman in the past, as the noble savage, Achilles, or Conan, in the present, as in ethnic or racial superiority, & in the future, through the use of eugenics; de Camp has Conan anth. The Blade of Conan(1979), & The Spell of Conan(1979) |
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Owen, Guy |
Face on the Tombstone, The |
ss |
has coll. The White Stallion and Other Poems(1969); novels Season of Fear(1960), Journey for Joedel(1970), Apprentice Grifter(1972); anth. Contemporary Poetry of North Carolina(1977, w. Mary C. Williams), & Contemporary Southern Poetry(1979) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Change of Air |
sces |
ozone & oxygen in our atmosphere, Part 3 of 3; what endangers the ozone layer, fluorocarbons & aerosols & the ozonosphere; Part 1 in 1975 DEC(#3748), Part 2 in 1976 JAN(#3760); has nf book, Asimov's Galaxy: Reflections on Science Fiction(1989) |
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Chapin, Paul |
Volcano, The |
ss |
(1918- ) ps. for Philip José Farmer, the 4th in Farmer's Pseudonym series |
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Novitski, Paul |
Acrostic Puzzle |
pz |
answers in 1976 MAR, p.160; Paul David Novitski; used ps. Alpajpuri for short stories "The Wind She Does Fly Wild" in AMZ 1973 AUG, & "Asylum in the Concrete" in FAN 1975 FEB |
| 1976 MAR |
Cowper, Richard |
Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
na |
N-1976 NEB; 1977 BFA, HUG, LOC, novella; set at the end of the next millenium, in what is now the island of Ireland, Peter the Storyteller, Tom the Piper & the people of York, await the legend of the White Bird of Kinship to pass |
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Jeppson, J.O. |
Positively the Last Pact With—the Devil? |
ss |
(1926- ) working name for Janet Jeppson Asimov, writer & psychiatrist, married to Isaac Asimov since 1973; 1st story pub. sf children's novel The Second Experiment(1974); has Pshrinks ser. coll. The Mysterious Cure(1985); Norby Chronicles seq. w. Asimov |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Michael Davidson: The Karma Machine; Lin Carter: The Nemesis of Evil; The Fantastic Art of Frank Frazetta; Isaac Asimov: Buy Jupiter and Other Stories; note on Samuel R. Delany's book Dhalgren |
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Eklund, Gordon |
Changing Styles |
ss |
has novels Serving Time(1975 Canada), Falling Toward Forever(1975 Canada), Dance of the Apocalypse(1976 Canada), all three part of a long series edited by Roger Elwood |
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Waldo, Thayer |
Stillness at Sordera, A |
nv |
working on a book about U.S. policy in Latin America since WWII |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Runyon, Charles W. |
Brain Diver |
ss |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Space 1949 (Cont.) |
mr/tvr |
Space: 1999(1975-77, TV series, 48 ep.), reviewed after 5 more episodes; The New Original Wonder Woman(1975-79, TV series under a few titles, 61 ep.), stars Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner |
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Roberts, Mary-Carter |
Ride, Colonel, Ride! |
ss |
"I've written the wonderful ride of Tench Tilghman as fantasy—because that sharpens its point, I think—but it is all true" |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Nightfall Effect, The |
sces |
space colonization, man reaching for the stars; as in his story "Nightfall," some people are crazily against it; has nf coll. of essays Asimov on Physics(1976) |
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Gironel, Bertrand |
Extrusion of Lions, An |
pm |
(1911-1992) ps. for & another anagram of Reginald Bretnor; has another poem under this ps., "SF Limerick," in AMZ 1989 JAN |
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Tritten, Larry |
Final Cut |
ss |
has had stories pub. in PBY, National Review, & in anth. Preiss & Betancourt(ed): The Ultimate Zombie(1993), Silverberg & Haber(ed): Universe 3(1994), Marion Zimmer Bradley(ed): Sword and Sorceress 11(1994) |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 12 |
cmp |
1st prize: J. Bagai; 2nd prize: Margery L. Goldstein; R-U: Arthur D. Hlavaty; Al Sarrantonio; Larry Anderson; Steven Utley; Albany State SF Society; Algis Budrys |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 13 |
cmp |
suggested by Michael Kurland - write a passage from a myopic early sf or utopian novel, limit 150 words |
| 1976 APR |
Pohl, Frederik |
Man Plus |
no-1/3 |
W-1976 NEB; N-1977 HUG, JWC, LOC, novel; "concerns a world on the brink of nuclear holocaust ... President of the U.S. ... has ordered the creation of a cyborg astronaut to become the first Martian ... a human being who becomes something quite different" |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Books: Dark Corner, The |
br |
Willis Conover: Lovecraft at Last; M.P. Shiel: Xelucha and Others; Brian Lumley: Beneath the Moors; Basil Copper: The Great White Space; August Derleth(ed): The Watchers Out of Time |
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Dorman, Sonya |
Them and Us and All |
ss |
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Parker, Jeanne |
Sweets to the Sweet |
ss |
working name for Jeanne Parker Dixon, also in F&SF as J.P. Dixon(1976 JUL, 1977 JUN); "was born on the Blackfeet reservation of Montana ... became a(n) ... anthropologist, took a degree in Slavic studies & went to live on the Soviet-Finnish border ..." |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Midwinter Mishmosh |
mr/tvr |
Space: 1999(again, TV series); Carnival of Souls(1962), dir. Herk Harvey, filmed mostly in Lawrence, KS; books, Franz Rottensteiner: The Science Fiction Book; Ed Naha: Horrors, From Screen to Scream |
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Goulart, Ron |
At the Starvation Ball |
ss |
9th story in Chameleon Corps series; has colls. Nutzenbolts and More Troubles with Machines(1975), & Odd Job #101 and Other Future Crimes and Intrigues(1975) |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
Rage, Pain, Alienation and Other Aspects of the Writing of Science Fiction |
ar |
a bitter essay to say why the following story, "Seeking Assistance"(#3798), will be his last sf story; mentions book Richard Kostelanetz: The End of Intelligent Waiting: Literary Politics in America(1974); see Ellison letter this issue |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
Afterword |
aw |
mentions his just pub. coll. The Best of Barry N. Malzberg(1975); "I owe my career ... (such as it has been) ... & large pieces of my personal life ... to science fiction" |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
Seeking Assistance |
ss |
also in F&SF with co-author Jeffrey W. Carpenter |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: All Gall |
sces |
cholesterol; medical theories, & the story of cholesterol; gallstones; factors & how to cut down your cholesterol levels |
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Aickman, Robert |
Hospice, The |
nv |
1st pub. in his coll. Cold Hand in Mine: Eight Strange Stories(1975) |
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