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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1982 APR |
Nurit |
Cartoon |
ct |
has written & illus. children's book Tooth Witch(1985; vt Abra Cadabra & the Tooth Witch, 1999 limited edition), the story of the tooth witch who predates the tooth fairy - the 1999 edition includes a little witch in a blue box & a tooth bag |
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Asimov, Isaac |
One Night of Song |
ss |
1st story overall & 1st in F&SF in Azazel the pocket demon ser.; ser. coll. in Azazel(1988), & Azazel Fantasy Stories(1990); has colls. The Union Club Mysteries(1983), The Alternate Asimovs(1986), The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov(1989) |
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Benford, Gregory |
Vahalla |
ss |
also in Nigel Warmsley or Ocean ser., Across the Sea of Suns(1984; N-1985 LOC), Great Sky River(1987; N-1988 LOC, NEB), Tides of Light(1989; N-1990 LOC), Furious Gulf(1994; N-1995 LOC), Sailing Bright Eternity(1995; N-1996 LOC) |
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Easton, Thomas A. |
Bung-Hole Caper, The |
ss |
has Biolog in ANA 1980 APR; has used the ps. Sam Atwood for a story & a poem in The Sterling Web 1990 SUM(his middle name is Atwood); has coll. Ten Science Fiction Stories(1989) |
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Yolen, Jane |
Neptune Rising |
pm |
has retold the original fairytale, The Sleeping Beauty(1986 chap), & also humorously twisted it as Sleeping Ugly(1981 chap)(Clute); children's novels The Boy Who Spoke Chimp(1981), Brothers of the Wind(1981), Children of the Wolf(1984) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Twilight to Dark |
mr/tvr |
Twilight Zone(1959-64 TV series, 154 ep.), narrator Rod Serling; Darkroom(1981-82 TV series, 7 ep.), James Coburn host, one ep. based on a Carter Scholz story, one from a Robert Bloch story, one from Andrew Weiner's "Distant Signals" in TWZ 1984 MAY/JUN |
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Weiner, Andrew |
Station Gehenna |
nv |
N-1983 AUR; story expanded into a fixup novel in 1987(N-1988 LOC); the protagonist is sent to Station Gehenna to investigate a murder involving the station crew on the partially terraformed planet(Clute)(see review of novel in F&SF 1987 SEP) |
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Shea, Michael |
That Frog |
ss |
has Nifft series, Nifft the Lean: Raiders of the Infernal Domains(1982; W-1983 WFA), a Vancean fantasy consisting of four related prev. unpub. stories, & sequel The Mines of Behemoth(TSF 1996 JUN, AUG, NOV; 1996; N-1998 LOC) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Change of Time and States |
sces |
comets; the Comet Halley, Part 2 of 2; its 32 recorded appearances, from 467 B.C.; Part 1 in 1982 JAN(#4729) |
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Yermakov, Nicholas |
ECM War, The |
ss |
also in Timewars seq., as Simon Hawke, #11: The Cleopatra Crisis(1990), #12: The Six-Gun Solution(1991); Psychodrome seq. Pychodrome(1987), #2: The Shapechanger(1988); Wizard seq., last The Last Wizard(1997), & Friday the 13th tie-ins as Hawke |
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Arno, Ed |
Cartoon |
ct |
Arno gets many of his ideas for his cartoons while "lying in bed"; in the morning he tries to remember his dreams & apply them to the drawing board; for his cartoons he uses a fine line pen; he has also done artwork in charcoal & in color, incl. posters |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 29 |
cmp |
1st prize: Lawrence Watt Evans; 2nd prize: Frank Bequaert; R-U: Pat Cadigan; Mark Couch; Victor Sotak |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 30 |
cmp |
suggested by Donald Garden - interpose famous or notable titles of sf stories/books with those from popular songs, e.g.: Jack Vance's "I Only Have Eyes of the Overworld" |
| 1982 MAY |
Petrey, Susan |
Leechcraft |
nv |
4th story in her Spareen the Varkelan vampire series; also in F&SF as Susan C. Petrey |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Clarke & Proctor(ed): The S. F. Hall of Fame III; Roger Zelazny: Madwand; Robin McKinley: Beauty; George R.R. Martin: Sandkings; Michael Shaara: Soldier Boy; Noted - Manly Wade Wellman: The Lost and the Lurking(3rd Silver John novel) |
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Vance, Steve |
Last Night on Dugan's World |
nv |
(1951- ) lives in GA; has sf adventure novels Planet of the Gawfs(1977), All the Shattered Worlds(1980), The Hybrid(1981), The Hyde Effect(1986), The Asgard Run(1990); since late 1980s wrote mostly horror, The Abyss(1989), Spook(1990), Shapes(1991) |
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Taylor, L.A. |
Da Capo Copies, The |
ss |
(1939-1996) wn. for Laurie Aylma Taylor Sparer; born in Tappan, NY; lives in Minneapolis; has poetry coll. Changing the Past(1981); has J.J. Jamison private eye mys. ser., Only Half a Hoax(1984), Deadly Objectives(1985), etc; see her obit in LOC 1996 JUL |
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Redd, David |
House on Hollow Mountain, The |
nv |
Redd has wanted to write this story for nearly 20 years; has Fireside Tales from the Nameless Land series, "The Sphere" in online U.K. mag. Substance, in 1995, & "The Lantern in the Nest of Twigs" in Scheherazade #15 1997 |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Hoary Story |
mr/tvr |
Darkroom(1981-82 TV series, 7 ep.), the 3rd episode; Ghost Story(1981), based on 1979 novel same name by Peter Straub, stars Fred Astaire, Jacqueline Brookes, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr; several older movies on video, briefly |
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Linzner, Gordon |
Sand |
ss |
(1949- ) lives in NY; pub. of small-press sf mag. Space and Time(S&T) 1966 SPR-present; used ps. Irene Anfleming for a story in S&T 1967 FLL; 1st novel vampire horror, The Spy Who Drank Blood(1985) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
see Farris' entry in Bill Janocha(ed): The National Cartoonists Society Album 1996: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition(1996); see some of his cartoons at www.impolitic.com/farris.htm |
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Yolen, Jane |
Sun/Flight |
ss |
to be incl. in her coll. Neptune Rising: Songs and Tales of the Undersea Folk(1982); has anth. Favorite Folktales From Around the World(1986; W-1987 WFA); Dragons & Dreams(1986), Spaceships and Spells(1987), both w. Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh |
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Green, Joseph & Patrice Milton |
EasyEd |
ss |
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Grant, Charles L. |
Pride |
ss |
3rd story in F&SF in Oxrun Station ser.; also in Oxrun ser. novels Nightmare Seasons(1982 fixup), The Orchard(1986), Dialing the Wind(1989); Greystone Bay anth. ser., The First Chronicles of Greystone Bay(1985), Doom City(1987), The SeaHarp Hotel(1990) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
he has illus. Peter Pauper Press books, Salty Sayings(1959), Russian Fairy Tales(1959), Laundered Limericks(1960), The Little Pun Book(1960), Mark Twain(1961), Peter Pauper's Pun Book(1962), Rowdy Rhymes(1962), & World's Best Limericks(1994) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Read Out Your Good Book in Verse |
sces |
electromagnetic radiation, Part 1 of 4; light waves & infrared; Part 2 in 1982 JUN(#4809), Part 3 in 1982 JUL(#4825), Part 4 in 1982 AUG(#4840) |
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Chesbro, George C. |
Poems to Play in the Piccolo |
ss |
N-1983 LOC, short story; Mongo mystery ser. incl. coll. In the House of Secret Enemies(1990), novels The Fear in Yesterday's Rings(1991), Dark Chant in a Crimson Key(1992), An Incident at Bloodtide(1993), Bleeding in the Eye of a Brainstorm(1995) |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
Letters |
lttr |
Nicholas Yermakov(Clute br in 1982 FEB); Pascal Thomas(Searles mr/tvr in 1982 JAN); Muffy Mickens(Effinger's 'Birnbaum' story, 1982 JAN); Gregory Benford(Martin br in 1981 DEC); Francis F. Bodkin(Ellison story, 1982 JAN); Bruce Frishkoff; Cynthia Skier |
| 1982 JUN |
Ferman, Edward L. |
Editorial: Profile of an F&SF Reader |
ed |
results of a questionnaire to subscribers, compiles an F&SF reader profile; in an upcoming issue, there was promised the results of questions about reader reactions to F&SF(never appeared) |
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Sheffield, Charles |
Devil of Malkirk, The |
na |
N-1983 LOC; 1st & only story in F&SF in Erasmus Darwin ser.; 1 other novella from FAN 1978 JUL, & 1 original, make up coll. Erasmus Magister(1982), has appendix "Fact & Fiction" on E.D.; with more stories in series, coll. in The Amazing Dr. Darwin(2002) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon: Mythical Family of Four |
ct |
has cartoon coll. Money Inc.(2001) |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
Books |
br |
Scithers, etal(ed): On Writing Science Fiction; Card(ed): Dragons of Light, & Dragons of Darkness; Garrett & Heydron: The Gandalara Cycle: The Steel of Raithskar; Glen Cook: All Darkness Met; Rucker: Spacetime Donuts; Killough: Deadly Silents; 3 others |
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Effinger, George Alec |
Opening Night |
ss |
has time travel novels The Nick of Time("The World of Pez Pavilion" in F&SF 1983 JUL; exp. 1985), & its companion novel, The Bird of Time(1986), which details the exploits of time travelers |
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Griffin, Russell M. |
Tragic Tale of Mad Tom, Who Made One Too Many Faces, The |
pm |
3rd & last poem in Bad Habits series, "The fate of those who make a face"; also in F&SF as Russell Griffin |
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Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas (edited by Annette McComas) |
Sorry, But—Rejections and Advice |
ar |
excerpts from book edited by Annette Peltz McComas, J. Francis McComas' wife, The Eureka Years: Boucher and McComas' Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 1949-1954(1982); excerpts of rejections & advice by the editors to would-be-authors(rvw. 1982 NOV) |
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Keller, B.L. |
Flora |
ss |
has children's books The Beetle Bush(1976), Don't Throw Another One, Dover!(1976), The Frog Prints(1976; as by B.L. Harwick), The Genuine Ingenious Thrift Shop Genie, Clarissa Mae Bean and Me(1977), Pimm's Place(1978), The Sea Watch(1981) |
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Rogers, Bruce P. |
Krishman Cube, The |
ss |
(1958- ) his 1st pub. sf/f story, though "Wirewalkers Get No Overtime," Writers Forum, 1978, is near fantasy; Bruce Paul Rogers, also in F&SF as ps. Bruce Holland Rogers; BA in history from Colorado State Univ.; story "A Branch in the Wind," W-1989 WotF |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
Blair House |
ss |
N-1983 LOC, short story |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Electric Granny, Eclectic Alice |
mr/tvr |
essay: 2 types of sf consumers: readers, film/TV viewers; The Electric Grandmother(1981 TV), based on Ray Bradbury's I Sing the Body Electric(1969), stars Maureen Stapledon; Alice at the Palace(1981 TV), based on Lewis Carroll's books, stars Meryl Streep |
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Mueller, Richard |
Chains of the Sea, The |
ss |
(1920- ) born in NJ; has BA in theatre from Iowa Wesleyan, MA in playwrighting from CSU, MFA in acting from Univ. of Iowa; "served in the U.S. Coast Guard on a lightship, & a rescue boat crew, which accounts for the authentic tone of (this) story" |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Four Hundred Octaves |
sces |
electromagnetic radiation, Part 2 of 4; ultraviolet radiation & the spectrum; Part 1 in 1982 MAY(#4794), Part 3 in 1982 JUL(#4825), Part 4 in 1982 AUG(#4840) |
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Kopf |
Cartoon |
ct |
L.J. Kopf; has book, Into Every Life a Little Edge Must Fall(1988) |
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Goulart, Ron |
Blockbuster |
ss |
9th story in F&SF in Jose Silvera series |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 62: 1982 JAN-JUN |
indx |
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| 1982 JUL |
Kilworth, Garry |
Blind Windows |
nv |
N-1983 LOC, novelette; has novels Split Second(1979), Gemini God(1981), A Theatre of Timesmiths(1984), Witchwater Country(1986), Spiral Winds(1987); novels as Garry Douglas, Highlander(1986), a film novelization, & horror novel The Street(1988) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: the abilities of copyeditors & proofreaders, the errors found in pub. books, now & in 1950s; C.M. Kornbluth: Not This August; Elizabeth A. Lynn: The Sardonyx Net; C.J. Cherryh: The Pride of Chanur |
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Anvil, Christopher |
Superbiometalemon |
ss |
has novel The Steel, the Mist, and the Blazing Sun(1980), about a Soviet-U.S. war 200 years in the future(Clute) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
has illus. the books, Why You Say It(1955), The Importance of Music(1963), Electing a President(1963), Dear V.I.P.(1963), Help Your Boss and Help Yourself(1974), Loud and Clear(1975), First Aid for Hypochondriacs(1982) |
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Cunningham, P.E. |
Healer |
nv |
(1957?- ) working name for Patricia Elizabeth Cunningham, her 1st sale; 1st story in Pteros series; lives in Pennsylvania, an English major & closet Trekkie |
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Yolen, Jane |
Sule Skerry |
ss |
has coll. Dragonfield and Other Stories(1985; N-1986 WFA); novel Owl Moon(1987; W-1988 Caldecott Medal); anth. w. Greenberg, Things That Go Bump in the Night(1989), Vampires(1991), Xanadu 1(1993), Xanadu 2(1994; N-1995 LOC), Xanadu 3(1995; N-1996 LOC) |
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