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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1985 JAN |
Davidson, Avram |
Revenge of the Cat-Lady |
ss |
has sequel to The Phoenix and the Mirror(1969), in Vergil ser., Vergil in Averno(1987); 3rd Vergil novel exists only in draft, ending his plans for a trilogy (Clute); see Michael Swanwick & Davidson nv "Vergil Magus: King Without Country" in ASI 1998 JUL |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Irving Wallace: The Miracle; J.P. Miller: The Skook; Lawrence Sanders: The Passion of Molly T. |
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Williamson, Chet |
Matter of Sensitivity, A |
ss |
has novel Ash Wednesday(1987; N-1988 STO), which studies the ravages of guilt, as all the people who ever died in a small Pennsylvania town suddenly return as ghosts to confront the town's residents(Clute) |
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Wiltse, David |
Feeny's Trials |
ss |
(1940- ) lives in CT; ex-editor at Tennis Magazine; writer of plays, TV movie scripts Nightmare(1974), Revenge of the Stepford Wives(1980); has FBI agent John Becker mystery ser. Prayer for the Dead(1991), Into the Fire(1994), Blown Away(1996), etc |
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Anderson, Kevin J. |
Final Performance |
ss |
(1962- ) born in Racine, WI; has 1983 BA in Physics/Astronomy from Univ. of Wisconsin; 1st story pub. sf "Luck of the Draw" in S&T #63 1982-83 FLL/WIN; 1st novel Resurrection, Inc.(1988; N-1989 LOC, STO); iv in LOC 1995 DEC(#419) |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 5: In Which the Left Hand Giveth Praise and the Right Hand Sprayeth for Worms of Evil |
mr |
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension(1984), stars Peter Weller; Repo Man(1984), debut of writer/dir. Alex Cole, stars Emilio Estevez; Ghostbusters(1984), stars Bill Murray, Harold Ramos, Dan Ackroyd, Sigourney Weaver |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Wylde, Thomas |
My Old Car |
ss |
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Jacobs, Rivka |
Milk of Paradise, The |
ss |
(1952- ) born in Philadelphia; lives in Huntington, WV, where she got a BA in History, MS in Sociology & taught sociology at Marshall Univ.; 1st story pub. "Experimentum Crucis" in Saberhagen(ed): A Spadefull of Spacetime(1981); now writes fulltime |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Far, Far Below |
sces |
Earth's interior, thru history; from the 'hollow Earth' theories to present-day knowledge; has 18th coll. of F&SF science essays, The Subatomic Monster(1985) |
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Knight, Damon |
CV |
no-1/3 |
1st & only story(novel) in F&SF in his CV series; "a floating contruction called Sea Venture (thus CV), which is designed as an alternative to colonies in space & is threatened by a(n invisible) menace"; novel takes place in 1998 |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 36 |
cmp |
1st prize: Jean MacKay Jackson; 2nd prize: Jack Doherty; R-U: John V.R. Williams; Carl Stetger; Dorothy C. Brown; Bill Richardson; Augustine Funnell |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 37 |
cmp |
suggested by Lorraine Richards-May - submit humorous subtitles for any sf/f work, e.g.: The Asking of Questions (the life of Joseph McCarthy) |
| 1985 FEB |
Willis, Connie |
With Friends Like These |
nv |
3rd/last story in F&SF in Fred Saberhagen's Berserker ser., 1st pub. in Saberhagen(ed): Berserker Base(1984); has novels Doomsday Book(1992; W-1993 HUG, LOC; N-1993 BSF, MYT, SFC), sequel To Say Nothing of the Dog(1998; W-1999 HUG, LOC); Bellwether(1996) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Chast, R. |
Cartoon: From the Notebook of Lewis Commonsense, Ph.D. |
ct |
(1954- ) 1st pub. in NYM, 1984; wn. for Roz Chast; she was born in Brooklyn, lives in Ridgefield, CT; cartoonist for NYM; has cartoon colls. Unscientific Americans(1982), Parallel Universes(1984), Proof of Life on Earth(1991); see C.A., vol.149, p.69-71 |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Charles L. Harness: The Paradox Men; Allen Andrews: Castle Crespin; Alan Lee: Castles; & various mentions in passing |
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Yolen, Jane |
Face in the Cloth, The |
ss |
has novel The Devil's Arithmetic(1988; N-1988 NEB; 1989 WFA, novella; 1999 movie; W-Wilbur Award), in which a young Jewish girl who lacks compassion for what her grandfather endured in the Holocaust is transported back in time to a concentration camp(B&C) |
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Nurit |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Aikin, Jim |
My Life in the Jungle |
ss |
N-1986 LOC, short story; has 1st novels Walk the Moons Road(1985; N-1986 LOC), an sf adventure novel with well-done aliens(B&C); The Wall at the Edge of the World(1993), about a utopian society & the real world that threatens to breach its walls(B&C) |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 6: In Which We Learn What Is Worse Than Finding a Worm of Evil in the Apple |
mr |
Gremlins(1984), dir. Joe Dante, executive producer Steven Spielberg, writer Chris Columbus, stars Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Howie Mandel is the voice of Gizmo; Ellison has omnibus coll. The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison(1979) |
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Watson, Ian |
White Socks |
nv |
has novels The Fire Worm(INZ #17 1986 as "Jingling Geordie's Hole"; exp. 1988), in which the medieval Lambton Worm proves to be the alchemical salamander of Raymond Lully(Ramon Lull, c.1235-1316) |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
1984 |
vi |
has novel The Cross of Fire(1982), in which the hero is Jesus |
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Knight, Damon |
CV |
no-2/3 |
other novels in CV ser., The Observers(1988), & A Reasonable World(1991), which are about alien parasites who turn out not to be the paranoia-justifying plague of the 1950s sf but moralistic symbionts who enforce rational behavior upon our leaders(Clute) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Salt and Battery |
sces |
electricity & the battery thru history, Part 1 of 4; animal electricity, static electricity; the development of the electric battery; Part 2 in 1985 MAR(#5292), Part 3 in 1985 APR(#5304), Part 4 in 1985 MAY(#5316) |
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Gilliland, Alexis |
Cartoon |
ct |
has cartoon colls. Iron Law of Bureaucracy(1979), Who Says Paranoia Isn't "In" Any More?(1984), & The Waltzing Wizard(1989) |
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Gallagher, Stephen |
Boy Who Talked to the Animals, The |
nv |
Gallagher wrote the script for the well-received UK radio series, "The Last Rose of Summer," which he adapted as his first novel The Last Rose of Summer(1978), and its sequels Dying of Paradise(1982), & The Ice Belt(1983), both as by Stephen Couper |
| 1985 MAR |
Kress, Nancy |
Out of All Them Bright Stars |
ss |
W-1985 NEB; N-1986 LOC, ss; has novels Maximum Light(1998), Stinger(1998); ya novel in David Brin's Out of Time ser., Yanked(1999); colls. The Aliens of Earth(1993; N-1994 LOC), Beaker's Dozen(1998); nf Dynamic Characters(1998) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: salute to STF of the 1920s-40s; Frederik Pohl: The Years of the City(parts in F&SF 1984 JUL, SEP); Knight(ed): The Clarion Awards; Per Wahlöö: Murder on the Thirty-First Floor; David R. Palmer: Emergence; Stephen King & Peter Straub: The Talisman |
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Gotschalk, Felix C. |
Vestibular Man |
nv |
N-1986 LOC, novelette; Gotschalk has a popular short story, "The Wonderful Wallstretcher," in WRT 1988 SPR |
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Green, Terence M. |
Legacy |
vi |
has coll. The Woman Who Is the Midnight Wind(1987); novel Children of the Rainbow(1992; N-1993 ARR), about a time-travelling descendant of the Bounty mutineers trapped in an 1835 penal colony & of the prisoner he displaces who is transported to 1972(B&C) |
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de Jong, Daphne |
Roimata |
nv |
from New Zealand; romance writer as ps. Daphne Clair, 37 novels incl. Makeshift Marriage(1999); Laurey Bright, 17 novels incl. The Mother of His Child(1999); Claire Lorel; as de Jong NZ stories coll. Crossing the Bar(1998); NZ novel Gather the Wind(1999) |
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Baloo |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Morressy, John |
Some Work of Noble Note |
ss |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 7: In Which an Attempt Is Made to Have One's Cake and Eat It, Too |
mr |
essay: meanspiritness, child violence in movies; Gremlins(1984); Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom(1984); Streets of Fire(1984); Cloak and Dagger(1984), a remake of The Window(1949), & based on a Cornell Woolrich short story |
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Knight, Damon |
CV |
no-3/3 |
has novels The World and Thorinn(GAL 1968 APR, JUN, AUG; 1981 fixup), & The Man in the Tree(1984), the latter has as a hero an 8½ Christ figure(B&C); has colls. Late Knight Edition(1985), One Side Laughing: Stories Unlike Other Stories(1991) |
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O'Neill, Gene |
Shadow of the Mountain, The |
ss |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Current Affairs |
sces |
electricity & the battery thru history, Part 2 of 4; electric cells, chemical cells, Lechanché cell, Daniel cell, fuel cell, Jacques cell, storage & secondary batteries, accumulators, lead-acid storage batteries |
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Denton, Bradley |
Top of the Charts |
ss |
2nd & last story in Music Theme series; Denton was N-1984 JWCA, Best New Writer; he lives in Austin, TX |
| 1985 APR |
Schenck, Hilbert |
Send Me a Kiss by Wire |
ss |
has novel Chronosequence(1988), which presents its protagonist with a mystery from previous centuries whose solution involves the ocean, geography, time-slippage, aliens, & the potential redemption of the world(Clute) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
David A. Hartwell: Age of Wonders; Algis Budrys(ed): L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future; Jack Williamson: Wonder's Child; Budrys edited the anth. Writers of the Future series, volumes I(1985)-VIII(1992), XV(1999) |
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Tritten, Larry |
SF Book of Lists, The |
spf |
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Eisenstein, Phyllis |
Snail Out of Space, The |
spf |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Foster, Alan Dean |
Collectible |
ss |
also in Humanx Commonwealth seq., Cachalot(1980), Nor Crystal Tears(1982; N-1983 LOC), Voyage to the City of the Dead(1984), Sentenced to Prism(1985); has colls. With Friends Like These ...(1977), ... Who Needs Enemies(1984), The Metognome(1990) |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 8: In Which Some Shrift Is Given Shortly, Some Longly, and the Critic's Laundry Is Reluctantly Aired |
mr |
Runaway(1984), dir. Michael Crichton, stars Tom Selleck; Starman(1984), dir. John Carpenter, stars Jeff Bridges; The Terminator(1984), dir./co-writer John Cameron, too similar to Ellison's Outer Limits script "Soldier"; other movies briefly mentioned |
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Baudino, Gael |
Shadow of the Starlight, The |
nv |
(1955- ) 1st & only story in F&SF in Natil ser.; lives in Denver; performs music at local cafes; story to be in coll. Spires of Spirit(1997), set in the Natil world of novel Strands of Starlight(1989), etc; has novel Gossamer Axe(1990; W-1991 Lambda) |
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Grossbach, Robert |
Rift |
ss |
has novel The Cheap Detective(1978), based on the Neil Simon play; film novelizations ... And Justice for All(1979), Never Say Die(1979), The Frisco Kid(1979), California Suite(1978), Going in Style(1979), The Devil and Max Devlin(1980) |
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Nurit |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Forcing the Lines |
sces |
electricity & the battery, Part 3 of 4; electrical currents from magnetic lines of force; electricity & magnetism, electrical generators, house electricity; addendum on p.116, correction to math error in "Far As Human Eye Could See," in 1984 NOV |
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