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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1980 AUG |
Adams, Georgia F. |
Acrostic Puzzle |
pz |
answers in 1980 SEP, p.112 |
| 1980 SEP |
Gotschalk, Felix C. |
Among the Cliff-Dwellers of the San Andreas Canyon |
na |
post-holocaust society in a desolated California, in which people barely survive on the cliff sides of the bottomless San Andreas canyon; "Writing is an egocentric exercise for me; I do it with pleasure and occasional gusto" |
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Kelly, James Patrick |
Fear That Men Call Courage, The |
ss |
N-1981 LOC, short story; see Andy Duncan's article ""Think Like a Humanist: James Patrick Kelly's 'Think Like a Dinosaur' as a Satirical Rebuttal to Tom Godwin's 'The Cold Equations'" in the NYRSF 1996 JUN(#94) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: Isaac Asimov & his 2-volume autobiography; Isaac Asimov: In Memory Yet Green, & In Joy Still Felt |
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Yolen, Jane |
Sleep of Trees, The |
ss |
has children's novels The Wizard of Washington Square(1969), The Seventh Mandarin(1970); colls. The Girl Who Cried Flowers and Other Tales(1974 chap; W-1974 Golden Kite Award), The Moon Ribbon and Other Tales(1976 chap; N-1976 Golden Kite Award) |
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Norden, Eric |
Curse of the Mhondoro Nkabele, The |
nv |
N-1981 LOC, nv; 1st pub. in Starsongs and Unicorns(1978); did PBY iv's w. former Nazi minister Albert Speer, Jim Garrison(1967 OCT), Marshall McLuhan(1969 MAR), Saul Alinsky(1972 MAR), Bernadette Devlin(1972 SEP), Gordon Liddy, Stephen King(1983 JUN) |
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O'Neil, Dennis |
Wave By |
ss |
has written an episode of Logan's Run(1977-78 TV series); has been an editor at DC & Marvel Comics; movie novelizations, Batman(1989), Batman Returns(1992); novel Batman Knightfall(1994); nf book The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics(2001) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Empire Strikes Back, The |
mr/tvr |
The Empire Strikes Back(1980), sequel to Star Wars(1977), original screenplay by the late Leigh Brackett, written by George Lucas, stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guiness |
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Hughes, Edward P. |
In the Name of the Father |
ss |
his 1st pub. story; 1st & only story in F&SF in his Liam McGrath series, set in a post-holocaust world; other stories in series pub. in Far Frontiers v.2(1985), & New Destinies v.2(1987); series to be pub. in coll. Master of the Fist(1989) |
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Carpenter, Jeffrey W. & Barry N. Malzberg |
Getting Back |
ss |
( ? - ? ; 1939- ) Carpenter is a 19-year old freshman at the Univ. of Redlands(CA); Malzberg is in F&SF by himself & with several co-authors, & under ps. K.M. O'Donnell |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Getting Down to Basics |
sces |
atomic particles & the elements; what was thought of as the basic particles of matter through history, beginning with the five elements from Greek philosophy: earth, air, fire, water, ether |
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Petrey, Susan C. |
Spidersong |
ss |
N-1981 HUG, LOC, short story |
| 1980 OCT |
Henderson, Zenna |
Tell Us a Story |
nv |
N-1981 LOC, novella; 16th & last story The People series, chrono. story #4; this series coll., with the addition of one more final & prev. unpub. story, "Michal Without" - chrono. #12, in Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson(1995) |
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Tevis, Walter |
Echo |
ss |
has sf novel The Steps of the Sun (1983), the story about an impotent tycoon who revivifies himself & perhaps the world by finding a sentient, motherly & cornucopian planet on his first spaceflight & bringing her gifts back home(Clute) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: the 'old' Heinlein vs. the 'new' Heinlein; Robert A. Heinlein: The Number of the Beast; John Varley: Wizard; M. John Harrison: A Storm of Wings |
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Watson, Ian |
World Science Fiction Convention of 2080, The |
ss |
N-1981 BSF, short fiction; LOC, short story; has 1st novel The Embedding(1973; W-1975 Prix Apollo; N-1974 JWC; 1975 NEB), The Jonah Kit(1975; W-1978 BSF), the latter describes the imprinting of human consciousness into whales(Clute) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
has cartoon coll. Still Weird: A Look Back—And Forward(1994), which collects Playboy & New Yorker cartoons, as well as 100 brand-new cartoons |
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Cowper, Richard |
Attleborough Poltergeist, The |
nv |
has novel The Twilight of Briareus(1974; N-1975 LOC), considered his best singleton, about an England transformed by a supernova explosion, which disrupts world weather & brings aliens with psychic influences in contact with humans(Clute) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Tations—Incan & Recan |
mr/tvr |
The Tempest(1980 TV, England), dir. John Gorrie, stars Michael Hordern; The Wicker Man(1973 England), stars Edward Woodward; briefly, Buck Rogers(1979-81 TV ser.); Phase IV(1973); King Kong(1976), stars Jessica Lange |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Death of a Foy |
vi |
has Norby Chronicles ser. of juvenile sf novels w. wife Janet Asimov, betw. 1983-91, 1st being Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot(1983); also w. wife Janet, has anth. Laughing Space(1982), & coll. Norby Through Time and Space(1988); Asimov W-1986 NEB, Grandmaster |
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Lee, Tanith |
Wolfland |
nv |
has coll. Princess Hynchatti(1972); Birthgrave trilogy The Birthgrave(1975; N-1975 NEB; 1986 LOC), Vazkor, Son of Vazkor(1978), Quest for the White Witch(1978; N-1979 BFA); Wars of Vis seq. The Storm Lord(1978), Anackire(1983), The White Serpent(1988) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Word I Invented, The |
sces |
robotics, & the Three Laws of Robotics(1st mentioned in his story "Runaround" in ASF 1942 MAR); a question & answer essay on robotics |
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Leman, Bob |
Feesters in the Lake |
nv |
N-1981 BRG, short fiction; LOC, novelette; 2nd story in F&SF in Goster County series |
| 1980 NOV |
Ellison, Harlan |
All the Lies That Are My Life |
na |
N-1981 HUG, LOC, novella; pub. in expanded form in a limited edition(1980); a writer attends the funeral & reading of the will of a fellow writer & friend; "might be described as fiction about science fiction .. (& is) the most intensely personal" |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
Books |
br |
essay: his introduction to sf by GAL; Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander(ed): Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction; Robert Sheckley: Crompton Divided; George R.R. Martin(ed): New Voices III: The Campbell Award Nominees |
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MacLennan, Phyllis |
Report From the Snith Digest, A |
ss |
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Kilworth, Garry |
Lord of the Dance |
ss |
(1941- ) Garry Douglas Kilworth; born in York, England, raised in South Arabia(Aden); now lives in Shoeburyness, village in SE England; see website www.infinityplus.co.uk/misc/gkbib.htm, that lists his novels, children's books, ss's, ps., awards & links |
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Doxey, William S. |
Rheeman's Space |
nv |
(1935- ) PhD in American Literature from Univ. of N. Carolina; Professor of English at West Georgia College; has pub. in GAL, ESQ, PST, ATL, PBY, & FAN; also in F&SF as W.S. Doxey(1985 SEP) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Shine On ... And On ... And On ... |
mr/tvr |
The Shining(1980), dir. Stanley Kubrick, based on Stephen King's 1977 novel, script by Kubrick & Diane Johnson, stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers |
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Reed, Kit |
Visible Partner, The |
ss |
has colls. Other Stories and ... the Attack of the Giant Baby(1981), Revenge of the Senior Citizens**Plus(1986); horror novels under ps. Shelley Hyde, Savage Stain(1982), & Blood Fever(1982) |
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Lamming, R.M. |
Unfortunate Incident in the Life of a License Examiner, An |
ss |
has 1st novel The Notebook of Gismondo Cavalletti(1983; W-1983 Higham First Novel Award), set in 16th century Florence; In the Dark(1986), in which an elderly gentleman becomes reacquainted with passionate romance; see entry in C.A., vol.125, p.272-277 |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Counting the Eons |
sces |
age of the Earth & Universe, Part 1 of 4; the age of the Earth; Part 2 in 1980 DEC(#4536), Part 3 in 1981 JAN(#4551), Part 4 in 1981 FEB(#4566) |
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Sheffield, Charles |
Marriage of True Minds, The |
ss |
(1935-2002) story "my attempt to show what would happen if P.G. Wodehouse had chosen to write fantasy using his Blandings Castle setting"; physicist, writer; has MS in Mathematics, PhD in Theoretical Physics; see iv's in LOC 1990 JAN(#348), 1994 AUG(#403) |
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Sullivan, Thomas |
Fugue, The |
ss |
(1940- ) Thomas William Sullivan; lives in Lathrup Village, MI; has pub. in ANA, Omni, & TWZ; has sf novel Diapason(1978), in which eight explorers fight for a fortune of cash & for one woman's love amid the dunes of Mars; also in F&SF as Tom Sullivan |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 25 |
cmp |
1st prize: Rachel Cosgrove Payes; 2nd prize: Mike DeSimone; R-U: Joseph T. Klapper; Bruce Berges; Mary C. Pangborn; Pat Cadigan; Sebastian Robinson |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 26 |
cmp |
submit up to 12 imaginary collaborations; e.g., Year of the Quiet Clash of Cymbals, by Wilson Tucker & James Blish (this competition the same as cmp #12 suggested in 1975 NOV, with responses given in 1976 MAR |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
has fiction coll. Spooky Stories for a Dark and Stormy Night(1994) |
| 1980 DEC |
Shea, Michael |
Autopsy, The |
nv |
N-1980 NEB; 1981 LOC, novella; HUG, novelette; pathologist Dr. Carl Winters "arrives at a mountain town to perform autopsies on the victims of a suspicious explosion" & meets something unexpected & deadly |
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Clute, John |
Books |
br |
essay: the achetypal Hollywood mind, Disney; Kit Reed: Magic Time; Schochet & Silbersack: The Berkley Showcase, Vol.1; Lee Killough: The Monitor, the Miners, and the Shree; Benford & Rotsler: Shiva Descending; Malzberg: The Man Who Loved the Midnight Lady |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Hogan, James P. |
Neander-Tale |
ss |
(1941- ) born in Britain, living in Ireland since 1987; has 1st novel, in Giants ser., Inherit the Stars(1977), The Gentle Giants of Ganymede(1978), Giants' Star(1981), Entoverse(1991); coll. Minds, Machines & Evolution(1988); novel Bug Park(1997) |
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Kessel, John |
Uncle John and the Saviour |
ss |
has novel Good News From Outer Space(1989; N-1989 NEB; 1990 JWC, LOC), set in a near-future America controlled by fundamentalist Christians awaiting the arrival of God's messenger—in a spaceship |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Of Watches and Cages |
mr/tvr |
The Girl, the Watch and Everything(1980 TV), based on the John D. MacDonald novel, stars Robert Hays, Pam Dawber; The Cage(15 minute ballet on TV), choreographed by Jerome Robbins |
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Yermakov, Nicholas |
Melpomene, Callipoe ... and Fred |
ss |
stopped using his real name in 1984, & legalized his ps., Simon Hawke, for adventure sf novels, Timewars seq., Timewars: The Ivanhoe Gambit(1984), #2:The Timekeeper Conspiracy(1984), #3: The Pimpernel Plot(1984), #4: The Zenda Vendetta(1985) |
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Brunner, John |
Man With a God That Worked, The |
ss |
3rd story in Mr. Secrett ser.; has novels Quicksand(1967), Bedlam Planet(1968), Double, Double(1969), The Evil That Men Do((1969), The Jagged Orbit(1969; W-1971 BSF; N-1969 NEB), Timescoop(1969), The Wrong End of Time(1971); coll. Not Before Time(1968) |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
Twentieth Century Murder Case, The |
ss |
has anth. The End of Summer: Science Fiction of the Fifties(1979; vt The Fifties: The End of Summer), & Shared Tomorrows: Science Fiction in Collaboration(1979), both with Bill Pronzini |
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Tuttle, Lisa |
Other Mother, The |
nv |
has novels Angela's Rainbow(1983), Catwitch(1983), the latter a juvenile fantasy |
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Reynolds, Mack |
Escape Velocity |
ss |
has novels with Dean Ing, Eternity(1984), Home Sweet Home: 2010 AD(1984), The Other Time(1984), Deathwish World(1986); see article on Mack Reynolds, "The Utopian Dream Revisited" by Brian M. Stableford in Foundation #16(1979 MAY) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Beyond Earth's Eons |
sces |
age of the Earth & Universe, Part 2 of 4; the age of the Universe; Part 1 in 1980 NOV(#4519), Part 3 in 1981 JAN(#4551), Part 4 in 1981 FEB(#4566) |
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