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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1977 AUG |
Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Oblique the Centric Globe |
sces |
Ice Ages & the Earth's orbital eccentricities, Part 2 of 3; Earth's orbital & axial changes & the Ice Ages; Part 1 in 1977 JUL(#3990), Part 3 in 1977 SEP(#4015) |
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Killough, Lee |
Tropic of Eden |
ss |
2nd story in her artist colony Aventine series; series set in an artist's colony in a decadent future, the colony resembles that depicted in J.G. Ballard's Vermilion Sands series, to which it was perhaps written as an homage(Clute) |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 16 |
cmp |
1st prize: Marion Briggs; 2nd prize: Jerry House; R-U: Rich Bartucci; Kenneth Ringlein; Evelyn Mayfield; Lynn Steele; Al Sarrantonio; F.C. Adams; Buzz Dixon |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 17 |
cmp |
thanks to David Silverman & Philip M. Cohen - submit future anachronisms, "consider what kind of mistakes the historical novelists of 7 or 8 centuries from now are likely to make" |
| 1977 SEP |
Eisenstein, Phyllis |
Land of Sorrow, The |
nv |
5th story in her Alaric series; has romantic sf novel Shadow of Earth(1979), a racy alternate world story in which the heroine has to cope with the male chauvinism in a US Midwest belonging to a world in which the Spanish Armada won(Clute) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: "A Landmark Essay ...," "Rips Aside the Sham & Ineptitude ...," "Boggles the Mind ..."; an essay on the misleading & often false "blurbs" on dust jacket covers, etc, & the practice of some reviewers using "news release copy" verbatim |
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Brennan, Herbie |
Armageddon Decision, The |
ss |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Reaves, J. Michael |
Shadetree |
ss |
has fixup novel in Kamus of Kadizhar seq., Darkworld Detective(1982), followed in seq. by The Black Hole of Carcosa(1988), the latter with John Shirley; has Shattered World seq., The Shattered World(1984), & The Burning Realm(1988) |
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Johnson, George Clayton |
Devlin's Dream |
vi |
(1929- ) has novel w. William F. Nolan, Logan's Run(1967; made into 1976 movie; 1977-78 TV series); story w. J.G. Russell, Ocean's Eleven(made into 1960 movie); colls. Scripts and Stories Written for The Twilight Zone(1977), Writing for The T.Z.(1981) |
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Schenck, Hilbert |
Three Days at the End of the World |
nv |
Prof. of Mechanical Engineering & Director of the Oceanic Engineering program at the Univ. of Rhode Island; also in F&SF as Hilbert Schenck Jr |
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de Camp, L. Sprague |
Dead Man's Chest |
ss |
6th story in F&SF in his Willy Newbury series; has colls. Phantoms & Fancies(1972); anth. w. wife Catherine, 3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction(1972), Tales Beyond Time(1973); novel Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers(1976), The Great Fetish(1978) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Wizards, Garbage, Et Al. |
mr/tvr |
Demon Seed(1977), based on Dean R. Koontz's 1973 novel; Wizards(1977), animated, dir./written by Ralph Bakshi; briefly, All That Glitters(evening TV soap, 1977); Quark(1978 TV pilot); book Gary Gerani & Paul H. Schulman: Fantastic Television(1977) |
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Norden, Eric |
One Fine Day |
ss |
has novel The Ultimate Solution(1973), which depicts a Nazi-dominated New York, in which FDR was assassinated, due to the U.S. remaining a non-combatant for too long in WWII |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Opposite Poles, The |
sces |
Ice Ages & the Earth's orbital eccentricities, Part 3 of 3; how the differences between the North & South poles have affected the possibilities of Ice Ages; Part 1 in 1977 JUL(#3990), Part 2 in 1977 AUG(#4001) |
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Jennings, Gary |
Lhude Sing Cuccu! |
nv |
3rd story in his Reverend Crispin Mobey series |
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Masters, Rob & Regina Hugo |
Acrostic Puzzle |
pz |
answers in 1977 OCT, p.55 |
| 1977 OCT |
Delany, Samuel R. |
Prismatica (Hommage ā James Thurber) |
nv |
N-1978 HUG, LOC; has colls. Distant Stars(1981), The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction(1986), Driftglass/Starshards(1994), Atlantis: Three Tales(1995); novels Equinox(1994), The Mad Man(1994), Hogg(1995); see www.pcc.com/~jay/delany/ |
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Delap, Richard |
Books |
br |
Michael Bishop: Stolen Faces, & A Little Knowledge; Barry N. Malzberg: Down Here in the Dream Quarter; Robert Silverberg(ed): New Dimensions 7; Terry Carr(ed): Universe 7; Delap is editor of F&SF Review, co-editor of The Essential Harlan Ellison(1987) |
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Bloch, Robert |
What You See Is What You Get |
ss |
has omnibus of 3 non-genre novels, Unholy Trinity: Three Novels of Suspense(1986; The Scarf-1947, The Deadbeat-1960, & The Couch-1962); another, Screams: Three Novels of Terror(1989; The Will to Kill-1954, Firebug-1961, The Star Stalker-1968) |
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Henderson, Zenna |
First Stroke, The |
ss |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Star Wars |
mr/tvr |
essay: neo-romanticism in sf; Star Wars(1977), dir. & written by George Lucas, stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness |
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Brunner, John |
Man Who Could Provide Us With Elephants, The |
nv |
1st story in his Mr. Secrett series, Mr. Secrett being the librarian at the Royal Society for Applied Linguistics; has colls. No Future In It(1962), Times Without Number(1962), Now Then!(1965), No Other Gods But Me(1966), Out of My Mind(1967) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Simak, Clifford D. |
Brother |
nv |
has novels The Fellowship of the Talisman(1978), Special Deliverance(1982), Where the Evil Dwells(1982), Highway of Eternity(1986), Out of Their Minds(1987), Why Call Them Back from Heaven(1988), Catface(1991), The Werewolf Principle(1994) |
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Wellman, Manly Wade |
Caretaker |
ss |
5th story in F&SF in Southern Appalachia series; one more novel in Silver John series, The Voice of the Mountain(1984); has also written westerns; Wellman W-1980 WFA, for Lifetime Achievement Award; see website www.manlywadewellman.com/ |
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Bishop, Michael |
Leaps of Faith |
ss |
has novel No Enemy But Time(1982; W-1982 NEB; N-1983 BSF, DIT, JWC, LOC), in which a time-traveler returns to the Pleistocene Africa of his dreams, fathers a child there, returns w. her to the present day(Clute); coll. One Winter in Eden(1984; N-1985 LOC) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Subtlest Difference, The |
sces |
life & death, what are they?;"what is the difference between a human 5 minutes before death, & 5 minutes after?"; "is there any evidence of life after death that can be considered as scientific & rational?"; Bridey Murphy mentioned on p.146 |
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Tiptree, James Jr |
Time-Sharing Angel |
ss |
N-1978 HUG, short story; she says, "This is a light story, a little playful mind-bending, & I wouldn't want to see it labeled as anything heavy"; has also used ps. Racoona Sheldon; has 1st coll. Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home(1973; N-1974 LOC) |
| 1977 NOV |
Malzberg, Barry N. & Bill Pronzini |
On Account of Darkness |
ss |
(1939- ; 1943- ) see bio- & bibliographical info for the authors under their non-collab. entries; also in F&SF in collab. as Bill Pronzini & Barry N. Malzberg, where their collab. works are listed |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Damon Knight(ed): Turning Points; Algis Budrys: Michaelmas(not a review, but about how it was written; novel 80,000 words; serial in F&SF AUG-SEP, 45,000 words); Leigh Brackett(ed): The Best of Edmond Hamilton |
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Harness, Charles L. |
Wolfhead |
no-1/2 |
story of Jeremy Wolfhead, in a post-holocaust world 3,000 years from now, who discovers he has latent destructive psi powers, which he uses to rescue his wife from the Undergrounders, the residue of the U.S. govt.; novel reviewed in F&SF 1979 APR |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Lynn, Elizabeth A. |
Island, The |
ss |
(1946- ) 1st story pub. sf "We All Have to Go" in Schochet & Silbersack: The Berkley Showcase(1976); has novels A Different Light(1978), The Sardonyx Net(1981); coll. The Woman Who Loved the Moon(1981); Chronicles of Tornor seq. incl. Watchtower(1979) |
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de Camp, L. Sprague |
Spider Love |
ss |
2nd & last story in his Eudoric Dambertson series; has poetry coll. Demons and Dinosaurs(1970), Phantoms and Fantasies(1972), Heroes and Hobgoblins(1981); has coll. Rivers in Time(1993), stories of his time-traveling dinosaur hunter Reginald Rivers |
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Springer, Sherwood |
Epitaph to a Pedant |
pm |
see his obituary in LOC 2000 SEP(#476) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Star Wars II |
mr/tvr |
Star Wars(1977), the reaction to the movie |
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Wellen, Edward |
Further Deponent Sayeth Not |
ss |
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Bullock, Jeffrey |
Hall of the Mountain King, The |
ss |
(1950?- ) his 1st pub. fiction; has degrees in archaeology & journalism; lives in Boulder, CO; freelance nf writer/photographer, specializing in science-oriented articles; has many poems pub. in fanzines Doppelgänger, & Not One of Us, betw. 1985-89 |
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Frede, Richard |
Letter to the Editor |
ss |
has book, The Boy, the Devil and Divorce(1992) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Sons of Mars Revisited, The |
sces |
satellites of Mars - Phobos & Deimos, Part 1 of 3; a sequel to 1967 AUG science essay "Kaleidoscope in the Sky"; Part 2 in 1977 DEC(#4054), Part 3 in 1978 JAN(#4067) |
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Effinger, George Alec |
From Downtown at the Buzzer |
nv |
2nd sf story about sports series, this one basketball; has dark dystopian sf novel The Wolves of Memory(1981) |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
Letters |
lttr |
"a fair sampling" of responses received about the Special Harlan Ellison Issue, 1977 JUL; Darrell Schweitzer; Bryan Uhlenbrock; Ken Hahn; Brad Linaweaver; Chip Mosher |
| 1977 DEC |
Goulart, Ron |
Assassins |
ss |
8th story in F&SF in Jose Silvera series; w. artist Gil Kane has created a new sf comic strip called Star Hawks, which takes place in the same Barnum system in which Goulart characters operate, strip to appear in U.S. & Canadian newspapers in 1977 OCT |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: pulp mags. in the 1940s; Edmond Hamilton(ed): The Best of Leigh Brackett; Terry Carr: Cirque; C.J. Cherryh: Hunter of Worlds; William L. Howarth: The John McPhee Reader; Unearth(sf mag. 1977-79, 8 issues, for unpub. authors & famous authors' 1st's) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Coney, Michael G. |
Sparklebugs, Holly and Love |
nv |
4th & last story in F&SF in Joe Sagar series; has The Song of Earth novel series, The Celestial Steam Locomotive(1983; N-1985 AUR), The Gods of the Greataway(1984), Fang the Gnome(1988), & King of the Scepter'd Isle(1989; N-1991 AUR) |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
To Our Readers |
note |
price increase to $1.25 for a single copy, $12.50 for an annual subscription, effective with the 1978 MAR issue; notice repeated in 1978 FEB, p.79 |
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Quinn, James |
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes |
ss |
(1955?- ) 1st fiction sale; recent graduate of Kent State Univ., now working as editor of The Holmes County Farmer-Hub, "a weekly paper located midway between Akron & Columbus" |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Carry Me Back to the House of Pain |
mr/tvr |
The Island of Lost Souls(1932), script by Philip Wylie, stars Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi; remake, The Island of Doctor Moreau(1977), stars Burt Lancaster, Richard Basehart; She Devil(1957), based on Weinbaum story "The Adaptive Ultimate"(ASF 1935 NOV) |
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