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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1976 SEP |
Yolen, Jane |
Lady and the Merman, The |
vi |
(1939- ) wn. for Jane Hyatt Yolen Stemple, born in NYC, lives in Hatfield, MA; writer of fantasy & children's books; 1st books pub., for children, nf about women pirates, Pirates in Petticoats(1963), & a picture book in rhyme, See This Little Line(1963) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Michaelmas |
no-2/2 |
N-1978 LOC; "Michaelmas must defeat mysterious aliens ... manipulating mankind behind the scenes," a plot "straight out of pulp fiction"(Clute); see Budrys br 1977 NOV, how novel was written; coll. Blood and Burning(1978; rvw. 1979 MAR) has 2 Mcms stories |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Blood Doesn't Go "Arf!" |
mr/tvr |
A Boy and His Dog(1975), based on Harlan Ellison's novella in NWS 1969 APR, dir. L.Q. Jones, stars Don Johnson, Jason Robards, Susanne Benton |
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Siodmak, Curt |
The P Factor |
nv |
has novel, Donovan's Brain(1943), which was made into movies, The Lady and the Monster(1944), Donovan's Brain(1953), & Vengeance(1963); Donovan's Brain was also parodied by the 1983 movie, The Man With Two Brains(stars Steve Martin) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Rapp, Tom |
Stardancer |
pm |
(1947- ) 1st pub. as a song, Stardancer(1972); led psychedelic folk band Pearls Before Swine(1966-1976; 1997- ); 1984 grad. Univ. of Penn. Law School; Philly civil rights lawyer 18 years, now Florida attorney; www.futuris.net/linen/feature/50rapp.html |
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Young, Robert F. |
Milton Inglorious |
ss |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: To the Top |
sces |
America's technological growth historically, Part 3 of 3; Thomas Alva Edison, history of electric "lights," and the rise of the U.S. in technolgy; Part 1 in 1976 JUL(#3835), Part 2 in 1976 AUG(#3847) |
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Hufford, Liz |
This Offer Expires |
ss |
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Adams, Georgia F. |
Acrostic Puzzle |
pz |
answers in 1976 OCT, p.160 |
| 1976 OCT |
Cowper, Richard |
Hertford Manuscript, The |
nv |
N-1977 LOC; "story of a time traveler to the grim days of the Great Plague"; first used Cowper ps. for Breakthrough(1967), one of his finest works, a story of ESP & a kind of reverse reincarnation, the power of the mind to sense alternate worlds(Clute) |
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Bradbury, Ray |
Out of Dickinson by Poe or The Only Begotten Son of Edgar & Emily |
pm |
did screenplays for movies Moby Dick(1956), The Fox and the Forest(1965 TV), & wrote stories that were basis for movies El Marciano(1965), The Picasso Summer(1969), Melodrama Infernal(1969), The Screaming Women(1971), The Murderer(1976), Savannen(1983 TV) |
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Ellison, Harlan |
From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet |
ss |
N-1977 LOC; 26 pastiches, afterword on the beginnings of this story; has colls. Paingod and Other Delusions(1965), From the Land of Fear(1967), I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream(1967; title story 1995 movie), Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled(1968) |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Note on How This Story Came to Be Written, A |
aw |
1 of 26 pastiches, "N Is for Nemotropin" written to go with cover painting by Larry Todd, titled "2 Nemotropin," for underground comix book, "Dr. Atomic"; has coll. The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World(1969); has novella Doomsman(1967) |
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Le Guin, Ursula K. |
Barrow, The |
ss |
(1929- ) lives in Portland, OR; 1st story pub. sf "April in Paris" in FAN 1962 SEP(rprt. AMZ 1992 SEP); 1st novel pub., Hainish seq., Planet of Exile(1966), Rocannon's World(1966), City of Illusion(1967); see iv AMZ 1986 SEP, INZ 1991 MAR, Fear! 1991 APR |
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Bloch, Robert |
Case of the Stubborns, A |
ss |
Robert Bloch W-1975 WFA, Lifetime Achievement; W-1984 HUG, Special Award, 50 Years As an SF Professional; W-1990 STO, Lifetime Acievement; W-1994 STO, for his autobiography, Once Around the Bloch(1993) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Watch Out for Falling Men (and Bluebirds) |
mr/tvr |
The Man Who Fell to Earth(1976), based on a novel by Walter Tevis, dir. Nicolas Roeg, stars David Bowie; The Bluebird(1976 Russian-US), "supposedly made for children," stars Patsy Kensit, Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner, Cicely Tyson |
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Bradley, Marion Zimmer |
Hero's Moon |
nv |
Darkover seq. incl. The Winds of Darkover(1970), The World Wreckers(1971), Darkover Landfall(1972), The Spell Sword(1974), The Heritage of Hastur(1975), The Shattered Chain(1976), The Forbidden Tower(1977), Stormqueen!(1978), Two to Conquer(1980) |
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Wellman, Manly Wade |
Where the Woodbine Twineth |
ss |
4th story in F&SF in S. Appalachia series, this story not being pub. in any of his colls.; has novels in Silver John series The Old Gods Waken(1979), After Dark(1980; N-1981 LOC), The Lost and the Lurking(1981), The Hanging Stones(1982) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright! |
sces |
stars; mapping the heavens in ancient times, magnitudes, & quasars; also in Foundation series, novels Foundation's Edge(1982; W-1983 HUG, LOC; N-1982 NEB, SFC), Foundation and Earth(1986), Prelude to Foundation(1988), Forward the Foundation(1993) |
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Bretnor, R. |
Ladies of Beetlegoose Nine, The |
na |
4th story in F&SF in Papa Schimmelhorn series; "the colorful genius from New Haven(CT) is kidnapped by a spaceship womanned by ..." |
| 1976 NOV |
Knight, Damon |
I See You |
ss |
W-1977 JUP; N-1977 HUG, LOC, short story; says Knight, "you may think it is a short story, but it is really a novel on the plan of A for Anything, & Hell's Pavement, only much compressed" |
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Sturgeon, Theodore |
Damon: Appreciation, An |
ar |
"a special & affectionate insight into D. K. and his work"; see articles in Dark Horizons #18 1978, Night Cry 1985 WIN(by Samuel R. Delany), LOC 1985 JUN(by Harlan Ellison); interview, "Ted Sturgeon: The Last Interview" in MGF 1988-89 FLL, SPR, FLL |
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Miranda, Vincent |
Damon Knight: Bibliography |
bib |
(1946?-1992) chronological listing of short stories, colls., novels, anthologies, nf, & translations; his short story "To Serve Man," in GAL 1950 NOV, was the basis for a screenplay by Rod Serling for the TV series, The Twilight Zone |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Grabowski, John |
Damon Knight Word-Wise |
pz |
word search puzzle w. hidden names of 29 things associated w. Damon Knight; Grabowski has juvenile biographies of Willie Mays(1990), Jackie Robinson(1991), Sandy Koufax(1992), & Stan Musial(1993) |
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Kirk, Russell |
Saviourgate |
ss |
2nd & last story in F&SF in his Ralph Bain series; his novella "There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding" in Kirby McCauley(ed): Frights(1976), W-1977 WFA |
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Drake, David |
Children of the Forest |
ss |
has novels The Dragon Lord(1979), Birds of Prey(1984), Killer(1985, w. Karl Edward Wagner), Bridgehead(1986); colls. Time Safari(1982), Old Nathan(1991); has Fleet seq. sh-wd anth., The Fleet(1988), etc; ed Starhunters seq., Men Hunting Things(1988), etc |
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Russ, Joanna |
Books |
br |
Kate Wilhelm: The Clewiston Test; Ben Bova: Millennium; Sydney J. Van Scyoc: Star Mother; Jane White: Comet; Pamela Sargent: Cloned Lives; Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath(ed): Star Trek: The New Voyages |
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Wisman, Ken |
Moses |
nv |
attended 1-year of graduate school at Univ. of Michigan; production editor in a large publishing house; writer of mostly fantasy & horror stories, has pub. over 60 stories thru 2001 in many mags. & anth. Shadows #10(1987), Heaven Sent(1995) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: See Logan Run |
mr/tvr |
Logan's Run(1976), based on the 1967 novel by William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson, dir. Michael Anderson, stars Michael York, Jenny Agutter |
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de Camp, L. Sprague |
Coronet, The |
ss |
1st of 2 stories in his Eudoric Dambertson series, a tale of historical fantasy; has Novaria ser., The Goblin Tower(1968), The Clocks of Iraz(1971), The Fallible Fiend(FAN 1972-73 DEC, FEB; 1973), The Unbeheaded King(1983), The Honorable Barbarian(1989) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Comet That Wasn't, The |
sces |
planetary discoveries, Part 1 of 3; Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel & the discovery of the planet Uranus; Part 2 in 1976 DEC(#3896), Part 3 in 1977 JAN(#3909) |
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Somers, Jonathan Swift III |
Doge Whose Barque Was Worse Than His Bight, The |
nv |
2nd story of 2 in Ralph Von Wau Wau series |
| 1976 DEC |
Lanier, Sterling E. |
Ghost of a Crown |
nv |
11th story in his Brigadier Ffellowes series; "frightful doings in a windswept Cornish castle" |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: John W. Campbell Jr & ASF, Part 1 of 3; Campbell's role in sf; Lester del Rey(ed): The Best of John W. Campbell; Budrys' Michaelmas character also in stories "A Scraping at the Bones"(ANA 1975 MAY), & "The Nuptial Flight of Warbirds"(ANA 1978 MAY) |
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Moore, Raylyn |
Life Among the Anthropologists |
ss |
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Aandahl, Vance |
14 Gifts, The |
pm |
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Thurston, Robert |
Aliens |
nv |
has 1 more Battlestar Galactica novel, #14: Surrender the Galactica!(1987); BattleTech tie-ins, Legend of the Jade Phoenix #1: Way of the Clans(1991), #2: Bloodname(1991), #3: Falcon Guard(1991); has novelization, Robot Jox(1989) |
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Jennings, Gary |
Cribbing |
ss |
also in F&SF with co-author Mack Reynolds, & in F&SF 1980 APR under the ps. Gregory G. Jeffries, story title "Independence Day"(#4433) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Space 1939 |
mr/tvr |
Space: 1999(again, TV series); Food of the Gods(1976), stars Marjoe Gortner, has sequel, Food of the Gods II(1989) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Bourne, J.R. |
System, The |
ss |
(1945- ) James R. Bourne, his 1st pub. fiction; born in NYC, graduated from Yale Univ. in 1967, now lives in California |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Sea-Green Planet, The |
sces |
planetary discoveries, Part 2 of 3; what we have learned about Uranus since its discovery in 1781; Part 1 in 1976 NOV(#3885), Part 3 in 1977 JAN(#3909) |
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Varley, John |
Funhouse Effect, The |
nv |
has coll. The Persistence of Vision(1978; W-1979 LOC); has novel Millennium(ASI 1977 SPR as "Air Raid" by Herb Boehm; exp. 1983; N-1984 HUG, LOC; made into 1989 movie), time-travel story in which plane crash victims are teleported to the future |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 14 |
cmp |
1st prize: Steve Steinberg; 2nd prize: J.G. Sattler; R-U: Bruce Berges; Chris Leithiser; Mary H. Schaub; Jerry House; Earl Wells; John Grabowski |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 15 |
cmp |
suggested by Robert Silverberg - submit translator-transformed titles, e.g.: The Sweethearts, by Philip José Farmer |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 51: 1976 JUL-DEC |
indx |
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