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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1981 JUL |
Coon, Susan |
Memory-Mate |
ss |
(1945- ) ps. for Susan Plunkett; lives in CA; as Coon has Living Planet seq. Rahne(1980), Cassilee(1980), The Virgin(1981), Chiy-Une(1982); as Plunkett, Time Passages seq. Silver Tomorrows(1997), Heaven's Time(1998), Untamed Time(1999), Timepool(1999) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Runaway Star, The |
sces |
stars; Barnard's star, Part 1 of 2; the star & the scientist for whom it was named, Edward Emerson Barnard(1857-1923); its rapid proper motion; Part 2 in 1981 AUG(#4654) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
sold his 1st cartoon to a religious mag. called Victorian("not knowing what the mag. was all about, had incl. in my submission a fairly sexy drawing"); sold 1st cartoon to NYM in the mid 1950s, became a staff cartoonist & contract artist about 1970 |
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King, Stephen |
Slow Mutants, The |
nv |
4th story in Dark Tower ser.; has novels as by Richard Bachman, Rage(1977), The Long Walk(1979), Roadwork(1981), The Running Man(1982; 1987 movie), Thinner(1984; 1996 movie); Firestarter(1980; N-1981 BFA, BRG, LOC; 1984, 2001 movies) |
| 1981 AUG |
Shea, Michael |
Polyphemus |
na |
N-1982 LOC, novella; on the planet Firebairn, a field expedition out to forage provisions for its colony instead becomes the prey of an ancient beast, which it must quickly understand in order to survive |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Charles Platt: Dream Makers; Philip K. Dick: Valis; Damon Knight: The World and Thorinn; Frederik Pohl: The Cool War; Joe Haldeman: Worlds; Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh(ed): The Human Zero: The Science Fiction Stories of Erle Stanley Gardner |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
movie reviewer for TWZ 1984 JAN/FEB to 1989 JUN; see his article, "The Perils of Movie Going in the Latter Eighties" in TWZ 1988 APR |
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Easton, Thomas A. |
Alas, Poor Yorick |
ss |
2nd & last story in F&SF in Howie Wyman series; since 1978 OCT has contributed to book review column, "The Reference Library," in ANA , sometimes as Tom Easton |
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Hughes, Edward P. |
Born Charmer, A |
ss |
1st story in his Dafydd Llewelyn series, set in a post-holocaust Wales |
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Brax, Coleman |
Upgrading the Kitchen |
ss |
collab. w. Clare Bell under ps. Clare Coleman, has epic fantasy novels Daughter of the Reef(1992), Sister of the Sun(1993), Child of the Dawn(1994); Clare Bell has Ratha seq. ya novels Ratha's Creature(1983; her 1st novel), latest Ratha's Challenge(1994) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Buck Flops Here, The |
mr/tvr |
Buck Rogers(1979-81 TV series, 36 ep.), 2nd season beginnings; The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy(British radio series) |
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Cador, C.A. & Marc Laidlaw |
Bait |
nv |
(? - ?; 1960- ) Caradoc A. Cador & Laidlaw also both in F&SF by themselves; Laidlaw a student at Univ. of Oregon, 1st story pub. sf "A Hiss of Dragon" with Gregory Benford in Omni 1978 DEC |
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Killough, Lee |
Taaehalaan Is Drowning |
ss |
has Janna Brill and Mama Maxwell police procedurals seq., The Doppelgänger Gambit(1979), Spider Play(1986), & Dragon's Teeth(1990), set in a U.S.A. that must be wary of computers(Clute); see obit of her husband Pat in LOC 1994 DEC(#407) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
a painter & sculptor, in the late 1960s he W-Emily Lowe Award & had a one-man show at Ward Eggleston Gallery(NYC); "unfortunately for me, Lowe & Ward had a disagreement the night of my opening & the gallery was forced to close"; cartoon career followed |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Dance of the Stars, The |
sces |
stars; Barnard's star, Part 2 of 2; its wobble motion, indicating the presence of planets; the wobble of our Sun to the solar system's planets, & the planets wobble in their orbits, too; Part 1 in 1981 JUL(#4641) |
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Cassutt, Michael |
Free Agent, The |
nv |
(1954- ) born in Owatonna, MN; lives in California; 1st story pub. sf "A Second Death" in AMZ 1974 JUN; scriptwriter & TV producer, for The Twilight Zone(1986, writer), Max Headroom(1987, story editor), TV 101(1988-89, writer-producer) |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 27 |
cmp |
1st prize: Kenneth Ringlein; 2nd prize: R.M. Beem; R-U: Jeff Grimshaw; Ron Daniel; Ralph Tucker; Susan Milmore; Laurence Brothers |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 28 |
cmp |
suggested by Alan D. Legatt - write an sf recipe, can include foods mentioned in sf stories, alien flora, fauna, or minerals, or even names of sf stories & characters |
| 1981 SEP |
Holdstock, Robert |
Mythago Wood |
nv |
(1948- ) W-1982 BSF; N-1982 LOC, WFA; story exp. into novel in 1984, W-1985 BSF, WFA; has MS in medical zoology, writer fulltime since 1975; lives in Hertfordshire, UK; 1st story pub. "Pauper's Plot" in NWS 1968 NOV; iv's INZ 1991 MAR, LOC 1996 APR |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
Books |
br |
Charles L. Platt: Dream Makers; Martin H. Greenberg(ed): Fantastic Lives: Autobiographical Essays by Notable Science Fiction Writers; Richard A. Lupoff(ed): What If? Volumes I & II; Jack M. Dann: Junction |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
see interviews in Footsteps #8 1987, CMD 1993 SPR, & LOC 1999 MAR(#458); has anth. edited by Nancy A. Collins, Gahan Wilson's The Ultimate Haunted House(1996), in which Wilson supplies intros & cartoons for 13 stories each about a room in a haunted house |
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Morressy, John |
Gifts of Conhoon, The |
ss |
2nd story in F&SF in his Kedrigern the wizard series, 1st story in the wizard Conhoon series; has novel A Long Communion(1974) |
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Kessel, John |
Not Responsible! Park and Lock It! (with thanks to Tim Roth) |
nv |
see interviews in Forbidden Lines 1991 FEB/MAR, & in LOC 1993 AUG(#391), & 1997 JUN(#437); Kessel lives in Raleigh, NC, an Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State Univ. since 1982, where he teaches American literature & fiction writing |
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Ward, Michael |
One Way Ticket to Elsewhere |
nv |
lives in Baton Rouge, just started a job in advertising; has short stories "Wednesday Night Group" in ASI 1984 APR, "Delta D and She" in Silverberg & Randall(ed): New Dimensions 12(1981), & "Daton and the Dead Things" in Sword and Sorceress #1(1984) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Comexcalibur |
mr/tvr |
Excalibur(1981 UK), dir. John Boorman, stars Nigel Terry, Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi, Nicol Williamson, Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
working name for Sidney Harris; born in Brooklyn, NY, "pre-W.W.II, & have freelanced virtually all my life. In fact, I never had a job"; illustrates a book by Harold J. Morowitz: Ego Niches: An Ecological View of Organizational Behavior(1977) |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
There the Lovelies Bleeding |
vi |
has colls. Malzberg at Large(1979), The Man Who Loved the Midnight Lady(1980; N-1981 LOC) |
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Wylde, Thomas |
Indigestion |
ss |
has tie-in novels Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway #2: Pitfall(1988), & #3: The Web(1988) |
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Arno, Ed |
Cartoon |
ct |
Arno came to the U.S. in 1966, & pub. his cartoons in many places, incl. NYT, Look, Cosmopolitan, SEP, TV Guide, Harvard Business, & many other mags. & journals; he has been pub. in the NYM since 1968 |
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Sarowitz, Tony |
Dinosaurs on Broadway |
ss |
(1952?- ) this story won the 1980 Transatlantic Review Award - this is its 1st publication; author lives in NY, a student in the Columbia Univ. MFA writing program; has 1st pub. sf story "The Prologue to Light" in GAL 1977 OCT; also sold to ASI, NDM |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: And After Many a Summer Dies the Proton |
sces |
proton & subatomic particles; laws of conservation governing the subatomic particles, & their stability, half-lives; is the proton mortal? |
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Yolen, Jane |
Corridors of the Sea, The |
ss |
has sf Pit Dragon trilogy, Dragon's Blood(1982), Heart's Blood(1984), & A Sending of Dragons(1987), set on a penal planet where dragons are essential to the economy(Clute); colls. Tales of Wonder(1983), The Whitehorn Wood and Other Magicks(1984 chap) |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
Letters |
lttr |
Eric Schwarzenbach(Reynolds, 1981 JUN); Verne R. Walrafen(Barrett, 1981 MAR); A. Tidmarsh(Disch, 1981 FEB); Paulette Dickerson & Mark Zimmerman(Priest br, 1981 MAY); Ben Smith; Marc Scott Zicree; Mark Bahnisch; note from Ferman on letters column |
| 1981 OCT |
Varley, John |
Pusher, The |
ss |
W-1982 HUG, LOC, SFC; N-1981 NEB, short story; has novella "PRESS ENTER []" in ASI 1984 MAY, W-1984 NEB; 1985 HUG, LOC, SFC; has anth. with Ricia Mainhardt, Superheroes(1995); novels The Golden Globe(1998; W-1999 PRO; N-LOC), Red Thunder(2003) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
Wilson W-1992 STO, for Lifetime Achievement; W-1981 WFA, Special Convention Award, & 1996 WFA, for Best Artist; has mystery novel, Everybody's Favorite Duck(1988), a spoof about bad & good guys battling to the death in NYC |
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Watson, Ian |
Call of the Wild, The: Dog-Flea Version, The (with apologies to Jack London) |
ss |
has novels Miracle Visitors(1978), suggests that UFOs work as enticements to focus human attention on higher states of communication; God's World(1979), describes the 'gift' of an alien stardrive which will take a human team to the alien world(Clute) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: long essay on Fandom, & on Fandom traditions in novels; Julian May: The Many-Colored Land(May is active in sf fandom); this essay, in anth. The Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 24th Series, is titled Books: The Secret Language of Science Fiction |
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Roberts, Keith |
Kaeti's Nights |
nv |
1st story in F&SF in Kaeti Fredericks ser.; Kaeti & her companions inhabit a strange world, a 'theatre of the mind,' where ghosts, vampires & even the odd goddess may be encountered; other stories in ser. in Firebird #3 1984, WRT 1988-89 WIN, INZ 1994 OCT |
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Dick, Philip K. |
Alien Mind, The |
vi |
1st pub. in Yuba City High School High Times student paper 1981 FEB 20; has colls. The Book of Philip K. Dick(1973), Robots, Androids and Mechanical Oddities(1984), I Hope I Arrive Soon(1985), Beyond Lies the Wub(1987), The Days of Perky Pat(1987), etc |
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Bretnor, Reginald |
My Object All Sublime |
nv |
also in F&SF as R. Bretnor, Reg Bretnor, Grendel Briarton, E. Bertrand Loring, & with several co-authors |
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Davidson, Avram |
Ape, The |
ss |
has coll. The Collected Fantasies of Avram Davidson(1982; N-1983 LOC), edited by John Silbersack |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Another Empire Heard From |
mr/tvr |
Fugitive from the Empire(1981 TV), dir./writer Nicholas Corea, stars Lane Caudell, Belinda Bauer |
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Martin, George R.R. |
Needle Men, The |
ss |
N-1982 LOC, short story; has colls. Sandkings(1981; W-1982 LOC), Songs the Dead Men Sing(1983), Nightflyers(1985), Tuf Voyaging(1986), Portraits of His Children(1987); novel Fevre Dream(1982; N-1983 LOC, WFA); see iv's LOC 1984 JAN(#276), 1995 MAY(#412) |
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Wolfe, Gene |
Tale of the Student and His Son, The |
ss |
to be part of the 2nd vol. of Book of the New Sun series, The Claw of the Conciliator(1981; W-1981 NEB; 1982 LOC, SFC; N-1982 HUG, WFA); 1st vol. The Shadow of the Torturer(1980; W-1981 WFA; 1982 BSF; N-1980 NEB; 1981 BRG, JWC, LOC) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Let Me Count the Days |
sces |
calendar system; Joseph Justus Scaliger(1540-1609), the chronologist who developed the Julian day ssystem in 1583 |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
Harris, "in the 1970s, came across American Scientist Magazine, & started doing cartoons dealing w. science ... Since then I've had numerous coll. of my science cartoons, & they can be found at my website: www.sciencecartoonsplus.com |
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Cowper, Richard |
Incident at Huacaloc |
nv |
has novel Worlds Apart(1974), which burlesques several sf cliches in a story of an alien world on which an sf novel is being written about Urth, while back on Earth an sf writer writes about the alien world(Clute) |
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Busino |
Cartoon |
ct |
Orlando Busino; born in Binghampton, NY; lives in Ridgefield, CT; grad. of Univ. of Iowa; attended School of Visual Arts; sold cartoons to all the major mags.; draws panel 'Gus' for Boy's Life since 1970; W-1965, 1967-68 Plaque Award, Magazine Cartoons |
| 1981 NOV |
Brunner, John |
Man Who Saw the Thousand-Year Reich, The |
nv |
4th story in his Mr. Secrett series; has colls. The Traveler in Black(1971), Entry to Elsewhen(1972), From This Day Forward(1972), Time-Jump(1973), The Book of John Brunner(1976), Foreign-Constellations(1980), The Best of John Brunner(1988; N-1989 LOC) |
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Shirley, John |
Quill Tripstickler Out the Window |
nv |
2nd & last story in F&SF in Quill Tripstickler ser.; other stories in ser. in Eternity #2 1980, & in ASI 1982 mDEC; has 1st novel Transmaniacon(1979); Dracula in Love(1979), Three-Ring Psychus(1980), City Come A-Walkin'(1980; N-1981 LOC) |
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