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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1983 OCT |
Bishop, Michael |
And the Marlin Spoke |
nv |
N-1984 LOC, novelette; has colls. Close Encounters with the Deity(1986; N-1987 LOC), Author's Choice Monthly Issue 15: Emphatically Not SF, Almost(1991); has na Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana(1989 chap; N-1990 LOC, WFA; 1991 NEB) |
| 1983 NOV |
Watson, Ian |
Black Current, The |
nv |
N-1984 LOC, novelette; 1st story in his Book of the River series; about a world split betw. East & West by a huge river, a mysterious alien creature that lives at midstream, & a young woman named Yaleen & her brother, who plan to make the first crossing |
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Nurit |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: what constitutes sf, fantasy; Marta Randall: The Sword of Winter; R.A. Lafferty: Four Stories; Charles Platt: Dream Makers, Vol. II; Robert Siverberg & Martin H. Greenberg(ed): The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces |
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Frazier, Robert |
"We cannot escape humility." Harlow Shapley |
pm |
(1951- ) Robert Alexander Frazier; most active as a poet, has poetry colls. Peregrine(1978), Perception Barriers(1987), & Co-Orbital Moons(1988); 1st story pub. sf "Across Those Endless Skies" in Jack & Jeanne Dann(ed): In the Field of Fire(1987) |
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Easton, M. Coleman |
Impersonations |
ss |
(1942- ) also in F&SF under the ps. Coleman Brax, where all his biographic & bibliographic information may be found; his 1st pub. story was pub. under this ps. in F&SF 1980 JAN |
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Niemand, O. |
Afternoon Under Glass |
ss |
3rd story in Springfield series, this one in the style of Ernest Hemingway |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Morressy, John |
Nothing to Lose, Nothing to Kick |
ss |
has novel The Mansions of Space(1983), set in the same world as his Del Whitby trilogy |
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Weiner, David |
Chaparral, The |
nv |
no information on this person could be found, but if his middle initial is 'L.,' he might be the author of this book, David L. Weiner: ID - Battling the Inner Dummy: The Craziness of Apparently Normal People(1999) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: 2-D 3-D |
mr/tvr |
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone(1983, 3-D movie), stars Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald; War Games(1983), stars Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy; Bladerunner(1982), based on Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
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Young, Robert F. |
Lost Earthman, The |
ss |
has novel Eridahn(novelette "When Time Was New" in IFS 1964 DEC; exp. 1983), which features time travel into prehistory, as a time-machine driver finds the frightened prince & princess of Mars hiding from a dinosaur |
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Gallagher, Stephen |
Nightmare, With Angel |
nv |
(1954- ) story exp. into horror novel same name in 1992, background for it came from a good deal of traveling in western U.S.A.; lives in England, has written scripts for British TV & radio; in the 1980s he started to become well-known for his horror |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: More Thinking About Thinking |
sces |
intelligence & the brain; follow-up to 1975 JAN essay(#3609), "Thinking About Thinking"; physical properties of the brain that aid intelligence; answers the question, "Has artificial intelligence research illuminated human thinking?" |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
Happy 25, A |
note |
this issue's essay is Asimov's 301st in F&SF, & marks his 25th year at F&SF; in those 25 years Asimov has pub. over 200 books, & is recognized as the foremost science popularizer in the U.S.; a list of his books that coll. his essays in F&SF |
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Mueller, Richard |
Song for Justin, A |
ss |
writer for 24 episodes of the animated TV series, The Real Ghostbusters(1986); also wrote episodes for the animated TV series Tiny Toons Adventures, Spiral Zone, Hypernauts(1996), Extreme Ghostbusters(1997), & Buzz Lightyear of Star Command |
| 1983 DEC |
Kirk, Russell |
Invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost, The |
nv |
N-1984 LOC, novelette; to be pub. in his coll. Watchers at the Strait Gate(1984); see obits in Ghosts & Scholars #18 1994, & in LOC 1994 JUN(#401); articles in Ghosts & Scholars #20 1995, & in All Hallows #14 1997 |
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Goulart, Ron |
Hello From Hollywood |
ss |
10th story in F&SF in Max Kearny series; has movie novelization, Capricorn One(1978); omnibus Flux and the Tin Angel(1978); novels Cowboy Heaven(1979), The Robot in the Closet(1981) |
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Baloo |
Cartoon: Guccis of the Gods |
ct |
May became a Libertarian shortly after reading L. Neil Smith's libertarian sf novel The Probability Broach(1980); see www.self-gov.org/baloo.html; he was profiled in The Liberator, 1993 SUM issue |
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Shiner, Lewis |
Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe |
ss |
has non-sf novel Slam(1990), about a reformed tax-evader paroled from prison(or "slam")(Clute); has colls. Author's Choice Monthly #4: Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe(1990), & The Edges of Things(1991) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: In the Gloaming |
mr/tvr |
Twilight Zone—The Movie(1983), segment "It's a Good Life," screenplay by Richard Matheson, based on a Jerome Bixby story, "It's a Good Life," in Pohl(ed): Star Science Fiction Stories #2(1953), & stars Kathleen Quinlan, Billy Mumy |
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Owens, Barbara |
Precious Thing |
ss |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
has cartoons in colls. The New Yorker Cartoon Album 1975-1985(1985), Dogs Dogs Dogs(1985), Cats Cats Cats(1986), Funny Business: Punch in the Office(1986), All You Can Eat(1987), Books Books Books(1988), Family Business: Punch in the Home(1988) |
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Jacobs, Harvey |
Busby |
ss |
in an editor's note in 1984 MAR(#5113), Ferman apologizes for "any possible embarassment caused to sf writer F.M. Busby by this entirely unintentional & coincidental use of (his) name" (in the title of this story) |
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Linzner, Gordon |
Lunatic, The |
ss |
has horror novels The Oni(1986), about a Japanese demon accidentally released who leaves mutilated corpses behind him, & about a woman who has learned the key to its destruction; The Troupe(1988) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Arm of the Giant |
sces |
stars; Betelgeuse, Part 1 of 2; the 2nd apparent largest star in the sky; its type, structure, & physical properties; Part 2 in 1984 JAN(#5098); see correction of Jupiter's diameter following the essay "The Two Masses" on p.143 in 1984 JUN |
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Watson, Ian |
New Year's Eve at Tambimatu |
nv |
2nd story in his Book of the River ser.; this ser. to become the fixup novel The Book of the River(1984), part of the trilogy which also incl. The Book of the Stars(1984), The Book of Being(1985); assembled in omnibus The Books of the Black Current(1986) |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
Letters |
lttr |
John M. Whiteside(Gil FitzGerald story, 1983 APR); Elizabeth Knowles Beard(Chet Williamson story, 1983 AUG); Jeffrey V. Mallow(Searles mr/tvr, 1983 JUL, AUG); Searles reply; Kevin Andrew Cadloff; John W. Taylor; Walter F. Wegst, PhD |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 65: 1983 JUL-DEC |
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