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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1980 JAN |
Young, Robert F. |
Haute Bourgeoisie, The |
nv |
3rd story in F&SF in his Space Whale series |
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Fritch, Charles E. |
One-Eyed Moth B Longs to Sum Buddy Else, The |
ss |
Fritch is well-known for his humorous fiction |
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Bishop, Michael |
Books |
br |
Kevin O'Donnell Jr: Bander Snatch(1st novel); Orson Scott Card: Hot Sleep(1st novel); Greg Bear: Hegira(1st novel); Lee Killough: The Doppelganger Gambit; Kate Wilhelm: Juniper Time |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Brax, Coleman |
Superflare |
ss |
(1942- ) his 1st pub. sf story; ps. for M(alcolm) Coleman Easton, & in F&SF once as such; a computer scientist, lives in suburban New York State; lives with writer Clare Bell & collab. with her under ps. Clare Coleman |
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Kessel, John |
Herman Melville: Space Opera Virtuoso |
spf |
tongue-in-cheek 'literary biography' of Herman Melville's(1819-1891) pulp fiction career; 1st story pub. sf "The Silver Man" in GEO #8 1978; has 1st novel w. James Patrick Kelly, Freedom Beach(nv "Freedom Beach" in F&SF 1984 AUG, etal; 1985 fixup) |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
Important Notice to All Readers |
note |
announcing price increase to take effect with the 1980 MAR issue; single copy $1.50, annual subscription $15.00, due to increases in costs, especially postage - per piece charge from U.S.P.S. has gone up 150% in the past 2 years |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Blights of Angels |
mr/tvr |
essay: angels in films; The Bishop's Wife(1947), w. Cary Grant; It's a Wonderful Life(1946); The Horn Blows at Midnight(1945), w. Jack Benny; Here Comes Mr. Jordan(1941), remake Heaven Can Wait(1978); I Married an Angel(1942); Out of the Blue(1979 TV) |
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Silverberg, Robert |
Lord Valentine's Castle |
no-3/4 |
this novel rvw. in F&SF 1980 MAY; has novels The Book of Skulls(1972; N-1972 NEB; 1973 HUG, LOC), Dying Inside(1972; W-1973 JWC; N-1972 NEB; 1973 DIT, HUG, LOC), The Second Trip(1972), Shadrach in the Furnace(1976; N-1976 NEB; 1977 HUG, LOC) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Neutrality! |
sces |
elements, uranium & the neutron, Part 2 of 3; the discovery of the neutron; uranium, radium, & radioactivity; Part 1 in 1979 DEC(#4384), Part 3 in 1980 FEB(#4405) |
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Pronzini, Bill & Barry N. Malzberg |
Last One Left, The |
ss |
Pronzini has anth. Voodoo!: A Chrestomathy of Necromancy(1980), Mummy!: A Chrestomathy of Crypt'ology(1981), & Creature!: A Chrestomathy of "Monstery"(1981), all assembled by Arbor House under various titles; others in ser., Ghoul!(1980), Werewolf!(1979) |
| 1980 FEB |
Silverberg, Robert |
Lord Valentine's Castle |
no-4/4 |
has novels Gilgamesh the King(1984), Sailing to Byzantium(1985), Tom O'Bedlam(1985), At Winter's End(1988), The Secret Sharer(1988), To Open the Sky(1989), etc; w. Isaac Asimov, Nightfall(1990), The Positronic Man(1992), The Ugly Little Boy(1992), etc |
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Russ, Joanna |
Books |
br |
Thomas M. Disch: On Wings of Song(in F&SF 1979 FEB-APR); Robert Aickman: Painted Devils; Octavia Butler: Kindred; Carr(ed): Universe 9; Silverberg(ed): New Dimensions 9; Le Guin: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction |
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Massa, Jack |
Daydream Enhancer, The |
ss |
(1953- ) working name for John Andrew Massa; earned a master's degree in English in 1978; works as an editor in Atlanta; has novel Mooncrow(1979), a fantasy adventure about a one-man army, named Mooncrow, fighting the advance of the Empire of War |
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Lee, Tanith |
Cyrion in Bronze |
ss |
1st & only story in F&SF in her Cyrion ser.; other stories in ser. in Shayol #3 1979, & in Dragonfields 1980 SUM; see article "The Fiction of Tanith Lee" & iv's in Dragonfields 1983 WIN, LOC 1998 APR(#447), & Special Tanith Lee Issue in WRT 1988 SUM(#291) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Time After Time After Time After Time After ... |
mr/tvr |
Time After Time(1979), dir. Nicholas Meyer, writers Karl Alexander & Steve Hayes, stars Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen |
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Grossbach, Robert |
All Things Come to Those Who Weight |
ss |
(1941- ) lives in Commack, NY; worked for many years in aerospace/defense; has 1st book Someone Great(1971); novel Easy and Hard Ways Out(1975; made into 1984 Eddie Murphy movie Best Defense); wrote film novelization, The Goodbye Girl(1977) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
has cartoon coll. Is Nothing Sacred?(1982) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Finger of God, The |
sces |
elements, uranium; Part 3 of 3; the discovery of uranium fission; Part 1 in 1979 DEC(#4384), Part 2 in 1980 JAN(#4396) |
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Freff |
Fud Smee |
nv |
(1954- ) Freff is his legal name; freelance sf illustrator, has written comics, nf articles, & sf/f stories |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 23 |
cmp |
1st prize: Elizabeth Singleton; 2nd prize: Bruce Berges; R-U: Robert Werner; Miki Magyar; David Lubar; Harlan Ellison; H-M: Larry Dan Frost; Niles Gwinn; F.M. Busby; John C. Burke |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 24 |
cmp |
suggested by Grant Carrington - author/title misprints caused by the addition of one letter(comp. #3 was misprints caused by the ommission of one letter), e.g.: Heinlein's The Moron Is a Harsh Mistress |
| 1980 MAR |
Schenck, Hilbert |
Buoyant Ascent |
nv |
N-1981 LOC, na; story "about a submarine bottomed at 940 ft & a most unusual rescue attempt"; to be pub. in coll. Wave Rider(1980; N-1981 LOC); Schenck has spent years looking at underwater accidents & preparing reports for the U.S. Dept. of Commerce |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: "the sf novel by the non-sf writer"; Doris Lessing: Re: Colonized Planet 5 Shikasta; Robie Macauley: A Secret History of Times to Come; Alfred A. Knopf, the publisher of these novels - how they publish sf & handle an sf line, per Algis Budrys |
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Wellman, Manly Wade |
What of the Night |
ss |
has The Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman, Vol. 1: The Third Cry to Legba(2000), Vol. 2: The Devil Is Not Mocked(2001), Vol. 3: Fearful Rock(2001), Vol. 4: Sin's Doorway(2002), Vol. 5: Owls Hoot in the Daytime(2003); biographical info in vol. intros |
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Godwin, Tom |
Before Willows Ever Walked |
ss |
has novels The Survivors(1958; vt Space Prison, 1960), sequel The Space Barbarian(1964), about abandoned human survivors of an alien prison who wait 200 years for revenge; Beyond Another Sun(1971), anthropological novel where aliens observe man(Clute) |
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Goulart, Ron |
Steele Wyoming |
ss |
has Star Hawks series, also set in the Barnum System, Star Hawks: Empire 99(1980), & The Cyborg King(1981) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Englishman's Castle, An |
mr/tvr |
An Englishman's Castle(1978 UK TV series), 3 episodes alternate history series w. different dir. & casts: 1. Spanish Armada victorious, 2. British Empire dominates, 3. Germany won WWII |
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Grant, Charles L. |
Secrets of the Heart |
ss |
N-1980 NEB; 1981 LOC, short story; has colls. A Glow of Candles and Other Stories(1981; N-1982 LOC), Tales from the Nightside(1981; N-1982 WFA); novels Ravens of the Moon(1981), The Nestling(1982; N-1983 WFA), Night Songs(1984), The Teaparty(1985) |
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Lubkin, David |
"As a Color, Shade of Purple-Grey" |
vi |
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Young, Robert F. |
"Mindanao Deep, The" |
ss |
4th story in F&SF in his Space Whale series, is pub. in fixup novel Starfinder(1980) as "Beneath the Painted Ocean" |
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Killough, Lee |
Achronos |
ss |
has novels The Monitor, the Miners, and the Shree(1980), which deals with the issue of human exploitation of alien planets(Clute), & Deadly Silents(1981), Liberty's World(1985) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Noblest Metal of Them All, The |
sces |
elements, platinum; the metal platinum through history |
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Roberts, Keith |
Lordly Ones, The |
nv |
N-1981 BSF, short fiction; HUG, LOC, novelette; 1st story in his Comfort Station Attendant series; has colls. Ladies From Hell(1979), The Lordly Ones(1986), A Heron Caught in Weeds: Poems(1987 chap), Winterwood and Other Hauntings(1989) |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
Letters |
lttr |
Arthur Jean Cox(Michael Shea's "The Angel of Death," 1979 AUG); James Tucker(30th Anniversary Issue); Sam Moskowitz(same; his dealings w. Boucher; his article in F&SF 1957 FEB); Joy A. Schulenburg(nit about calling Shirley Jackson an amateur witch) |
| 1980 APR |
Randall, Marta |
Dangerous Games |
na |
N-1980 NEB; 1981 LOC, novella; 1st & only story in F&SF in Kennerins or Newhome ser.; to be part of novel Dangerous Games(1980), 2nd & last novel in ser., 1st being Journey(1978); has fantasy novels The Sword of Winter(1983), Those Who Favor Fire(1984) |
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Clute, John |
Books |
br |
Crowley: Engine Summer; Suzette H. Elgin: Star-Anchored, Star-Angered; Carr(ed): The Best Science Fiction of the Year, No.8; Zebrowski: Macrolife; Clute has Encyclopedia of Science Fiction(1993; w. P. Nicholls), Encyclopedia of Fantasy(1997; w. J. Grant) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
has cartoon coll. Gahan Wilson's America(1985) |
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Yermakov, Nicholas |
Far Removed From the Scene of the Crime |
ss |
also in F&SF as Nicholas V. Yermakov; has novels Journey from Flesh(1981), Fall Into Darkness(1982), Clique(1982); collab. with Glen A. Larson on 2 Battlestar Galactica tie-ins, The Living Legend(1981), & War of the Gods(1982) |
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Sanders, Scott |
Terrarium |
ss |
(1945- ) his 1st pub. sf story, this story was exp. into his 1st novel Terrarium(1985; N-1985 DIC), where a future U.S. population retreats from a polluted world into domed cities(Clute); Scott Russell Sanders, has PhD in English from Cambridge Univ. |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Lathe of Heaven, The |
mr/tvr |
1st time a major sf genre novel is brought to the screen, in this case the TV screen, Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven(1971 novel; 1980 TV movie), prod./dir. David Loxton & Fred Barzyk, stars Bruce Davison, Kevin Conway, Margaret Avery |
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King, Stephen |
Way Station, The |
nv |
N-1980 NEB; 1981 LOC, nv; 2nd story in Dark Tower ser.; part of fixup novel The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger(1982); other novels in ser., The Drawing of the Three(1987; N-1988 LOC), The Waste Lands(1991; N-1992 LOC, STO), Wizard and Glass(1997; N-1998 LOC) |
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Cador, C.A. |
Shadowed Waters, The |
ss |
Caradoc A. Cador, of Irish, Welsh, Cherokee & Peruvian extraction; lives now in San Francisco; his 1st story pub. "Payment in Kind" in Gnostica 1975 AUG; also in F&SF with co-author Marc Laidlaw("Bait," in F&SF 1981 AUG) |
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Bischoff, David |
Outside |
ss |
(1951- ) born in Washington, DC; lives in Eugene, OR; has degree in TV, radio & film from the Univ. of Maryland; has worked for NBC in Washington, DC, since 1974; 1st story pub. sf "The Sky's an Oyster; the Stars Are Pearls" in Perry Rhodan #66 1975 |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Nice Guys Finish First |
sces |
human nature; "Why are human beings so different? Why so combative? Why so deadly? ... is it a case of nasty guys finishing first?" |
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Jeffries, Gregory G. |
Independence Day |
ss |
ps. for Gary Jennings; story intro: "G.J. is an inventor & businessman who died in 2009 & was reborn in 1978. Perhaps reborn is the wrong word; Mr. J. was returned to this world a few years ago. Let him tell his incredible & fascinating story himself ..." |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
Letters |
lttr |
David Palter(Russ br in 1979 NOV); Elinor J. Lench(same); Cy Chauvin(same); James P. Hanrahan(same; 1979 FEB & NOV; Tolkien); Peggy Gibbons(1979 DEC issue); Bob Lauderdale(same); Manly Banister(Searles mr/tvr 1979 DEC - vampires) |
| 1980 MAY |
Leman, Bob |
Window |
ss |
N-1980 NEB; 1981 LOC; story was adapted for the TV ser., Night Visions, in an episode first aired in July 2001; Leman is mentioned in an editorial by Avram Davidson in 1962 JUL(#1712), relating to an irate letter he received about Leman's rejected story |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: the epic or trilogy "has become endemic in sf"; Robert Silverberg: Lord Valentine's Castle(in F&SF 1979-80 NOV-FEB); Fred Saberhagen: The Empire of the East; Gene Wolfe: The Shadow of the Torturer; Frederik Pohl: Below the Blue Event Horizon |
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