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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1985 AUG |
Harris, S. |
Cartoon: Age of Reptiles, The |
ct |
has cartoon colls. So Sue Me! Cartoons on the Law(1993), There Goes the Neighborhood: Cartoons on the Environment(1996) |
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Etchemendy, Nancy |
Ladies of Wahloon Lake, The |
ss |
has juvenile novels The Watchers of Space(1980), & sequel The Crystal City(1985) |
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Conner, Mike |
Fergussen's Wraith |
nv |
has novel Eye of the Sun(1988), told with the genre-mixing abundance of many planetary romances, follows the adolescence of three royal children as their far-future world totters into a religious crisis which threatens a long-sustained matriarchy(Clute) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Tracing the Traces |
sces |
vitamins, Part 2 of 5; the isolation of the various vitamins, determining their structures, & their synthesis; Part 1 in 1985 JUL(#5341), Part 3 in 1985 SEP(#5372), Part 4 in 1985 OCT(#5383), Part 5 in 1985 NOV(#5397) |
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Di Filippo, Paul |
Stone Lives |
nv |
(1954- ) born in Woonsocket, RI; lives in Providence, RI; attended Rhode Island College, 1973-1979; COBOL programmer, 1979-1982; 1st story pub. sf "Falling Expectations" in Unearth 1977 WIN, which he says was a parody of the work of Barry N. Malzberg |
| 1985 SEP |
Griffin, Russell M. |
In Hector's Grave |
ss |
has novels The Makeshift God(1979), Century's End(1981), The Blind Man and the Elephant(1982); Griffin was a professor of English at Univ. of Bridgeport(CT) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Barry Hughart: Bridge of Birds; Greg Bear: Blood Music; Budrys has a coll. of all his book review columns that appeared in GAL 1965 FEB-1971 NOV, called Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf(1985; W-1986 LOC; N-HUG) |
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Gallagher, Stephen |
No Life for Me Without You, Vodyanoi |
nv |
Gallagher wrote episodes of the UK TV series Dr. Who, two of which he novelized, Doctor Who and Warrior's Gate(1982), & Doctor Who – Terminus(1983), both as by John Lydecker |
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Nurit |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Wightman, Wayne |
Great Wall, The |
ss |
N-1986 LOC, short story |
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Doxey, W.S. |
Armistead House, The |
ss |
William S. Doxey, & also in F&SF as such(1980 NOV) |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
has science cartoon colls. Stress Test: Cartoons on Medicine(1994), Einstein Atomized: More Science Cartoons from Sidney Harris(1996), the latter incl. six Dr. Quark cartoons |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 11: In Which Nothing Terribly Profound Occurs |
mr |
2010: Space Odyssey Two(1984), based on Arthur C. Clarke's 1982 novel, dir. Peter Hyams, stars Roy Scheider, John Lithgow; books by wood engraver Barry Moser - Moby Dick(1981), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(1982), Huckleberry Finn(1984), etc |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon: Welcome to the Real World |
ct |
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Yolen, Jane |
Dragon's Boy, The |
ss |
1st story in F&SF in her Merlin series, coll. in Merlin's Booke(1986; N-1987 WFA); other stories in series in her colls. Tales of Wonder(1983; N-1984 WFA), The Whitethorn Wood and Other Magicks(1984), & in Robin McKinley(ed): Imaginary Lands(1985) |
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Mueller, Richard |
Little Friends |
ss |
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Barkin, Haskell |
Pain Killer |
ss |
has written for the TV series Loveboat, & Tales from the Darkside |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Goblin Element, The |
sces |
vitamins, Part 3 of 5; the most unusual vitamin of all, B12; how it was isolated & its structure determined; Part 1 in 1985 JUL(#5341), Part 2 in 1985 AUG(#5358), Part 4 in 1985 OCT(#5383), Part 5 in 1985 NOV(#5397) |
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Roberts, Keith |
Richenda |
nv |
has novel Gráinne(1987; W-1988 BSF; N-CLA), which follows a heroine from schooldays at Oxford to her "self-ordained destiny as high priestess of a radically new social movement"(B&C); nf book Irish Encounters(1989), essays about a trip to Ireland in 1978 |
| 1985 OCT |
Tiptree, James Jr |
Only Neat Thing to Do, The |
na |
W-1986 LOC, SFC; N-1985 NEB; 1986 HUG, novella; 1st story in F&SF in Great North Rift ser.; another story in ser. in ASI 1986 MAY; to be coll. in The Starry Rift(1986); 15-year-old Coati Cass finds adventure & a first contact in the Great North Rift |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Christopher Priest: The Glamour; Crockett Johnson: Barnaby #1, etal(old cartoon series); briefly, S.T. Joshi(ed): The Dunwich Horror and Others by H.P. Lovecraft; Richard McKenna: The Sand Pebbles; Astounding/Analog on microfiche |
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Goulart, Ron |
That Wonderful Summer |
ss |
11th story in F&SF in Max Kearny series; has novels in Battlestar Galatica tie-in, with title page (only) co-author Glen A. Larson, Greetings From Earth(1983), Experiment In Terra(1984), & The Long Patrol(1984) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Grant, Charles L. |
Children, They Laugh So Sweetly, The |
ss |
as Lionel Fenn has Quest for the White Duck ser., Blood River Down(1986), Web of Defeat(1987), Agnes Day(1987); Kent Montana ser., Kent Montana and the Really Ugly Thing from Mars(1990), etc; The Seven Spears of the W'dch'ck(1988) |
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Bradley, Marion Zimmer |
Sea Wrack |
nv |
2nd story in F&SF in minstrel/magician Lythande ser.; 1st pub. in Susan Shwartz(ed): Moonsinger's Friends(1985); Lythande is a female 'Pilgrim Adept,' who was created for the Thieve's World shared world developed by Robert Lynn Asprin in 1979 |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 12: In Which Several Things Are Held Up to the Light ... Not a Brain in Sight |
mr |
Rambo: First Blood Part II(1985), based on a David Morrell novel, screenplay by Stallone & dir. James Cameron, stars Sylvester Stallone; briefly, A View to a Kill(1985 UK); The Black Cauldron(1985); Silver Bullet(1985), based on a Stephen King novel |
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Saberhagen, Fred |
As Duly Authorized |
ss |
has Earth's End ser., incl. Empire of the East(1979 omnibus), The First-Third Book of Swords(1983, 1983, 1984; last N-1985 LOC), Shieldbreaker's Story(1994), etc; Dracula seq., incl. A Sharpness on the Neck(1996), etc; coll. Saberhagen: My Best(1987) |
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Brunner, John & O. H*nry |
Hard to Credit |
ss |
1st story in F&SF in Imaginary Collaborations ser.; "... I've been planning a ser. of imaginary collab. w. some of the authors who have influenced my work ..."; others stories in ser. in PLP 1991 OCT 25, ANA 1993 JUN, Expanse #3 1994, BFSF #2 1995 |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Little Leaven, A |
sces |
vitamins, Part 4 of 5; "going seemingly off-the-subject," with an essay on enzymes, incl. organic catalysts leaven, or yeast; chemical ferments, such as pepsin & trypsin; Parts 1-3 in 1985 JUL-SEP, Part 5 in 1985 NOV |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Fringe, The |
nv |
N-1985 NEB; 1986 HUG, LOC, novelette; 1st & only story in F&SF in Carpenter or Fringe ser.; other stories in ser. in ASI 1986 FEB, 1987 JAN, & coll. in The Folk of the Fringe(1989); tale of Mormon survivors in a near-future post WWIII America |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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| 1985 NOV |
Gilchrist, Ellen |
Green Tent, The |
ss |
(1935- ) born in Vicksburg, MS; former poet laureate of MS; lives in Fayetteville, AR; her coll. Victory Over Japan(1984), won the 1985 American Book Award; colls. In the Land of Dreamy Dreams(1985), Drunk With Love(1986), Two Stories(1988) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Gene Wolfe: Free Live Free; Walter Wangerin: The Book of Sorrows; Stephen King: Skeleton Crew |
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Aldiss, Brian |
You Never Asked My Name |
ss |
has The Bones of Bertrand Russell seq., Futurity Takes a Hand(1976), Through a Galaxy Backwards(1976), Where the Walls Are Hung with Multi-Media Portraits(1976); novels An Island Called Moreau(1981), The Horatio Stubbs Saga(1985), Ruins(1987) |
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McLaughlin, Cooper |
Black and Tan Man, The (For Snooper 6 & Darkhorse 16) |
nv |
has novella "The Lodge of Jahbulon" in anth. Gardner Dozois & Susan Casper(ed): Ripper!(1988) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Hartmann, Gregor |
Six of Swords |
ss |
has pub. stories in GAL, ABO, & in Robert Silverberg's anth. New Dimensions, & Universe; has satire How to Prepare for the S.P.L.A.T.(1983), about the S.A.T. & A.C.T. |
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Gilliland, Alexis |
Cartoon |
ct |
has novella "The Man Who Funded the Moon" in ANA 1989 OCT |
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Shaver, Edward F. |
Sport of Kings |
nv |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 13: In Which Numerous Ends (Loose) Are Tied Up; Some in the Configuration of a Noose (Hangman's) |
mr |
Ellison wrote teleplay of Stephen King's "Gramma" for The Twilight Zone(1985-89 TV ser.); Return to Oz(1985), Walt Disney movie, why it was "dumped," w. some flashbacks to Dune(1984); Disney studio heads Michael Eisner & Barry Diller; dir. Walter Murch |
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Wilson, Richard |
See Me Safely Home |
ss |
has memoir Adventures in the Space Trade(1986 chap); story A Rat for a Friend(1986 chap); coll. The Kid from Ozone Park & Other Stories(1987 chap) |
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Malzberg, Barry N. & Carter Scholz |
High Purpose, The |
ss |
(1939- ; 1953- ) Both in F&SF by themselves, & Malzberg with a variety of co-authors & under ps. K.M. O'Donnell |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Biochemical Knife Blade, The |
sces |
vitamins, Part 5 of 5; the connection between vitamins & enzymes - many coenzymes have vitamins in their structure; how coenzymes were discovered; Part 1 in 1985 JUL(#5341), Part 2 in 1985 AUG(#5358), Part 3 in 1985 SEP(#5372), Part 4 in 1985 OCT(#5383) |
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Baudino, Gael |
Persistence of Memory, The |
ss |
others in Natil ser. Maze of Moonlight(1993), Shroud of Shadow (1993), Strands of Sunlight(1994); Dragonsword ser. Dragonsword(1988), Duel of Dragons(1991), Dragon Death(1992); Water! ser. O Greenest Branch!(1995), The Dove Looked In(1996), one more |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 38 |
cmp |
1st prize: Abigail F. Strichartz; 2nd prize: Phyllis Wallingford; R-U: Kenneth Schulze; Jeff Grimshaw; Augustine Funnell; Kevin Roach |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 39 |
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suggested by Stephen Mendenhall - finish this sentence: "You know you've really landed in an alternate universe when you discover that ..."; e.g., "... Einstein won the Hugo Award in 1905" |
| 1985 DEC |
Shepard, Lucius |
Spanish Lesson, A |
nv |
N-1986 LOC, novelette; has novellas The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter(ASI 1988 SEP; 1988), & The Father of Stones(ASI SEP 1989; 1989), both set in the same world as "The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule"(F&SF 1984 DEC); novella Kalimantan(1990) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: great & increasing proportion of workmanlike sf being pub., esp. in paperback; Jefferson P. Swycaffer: Become the Hunted; David Drake: Birds of Prey; Steve Perry: The Man Who Never Missed; Max Handley: Meanwhile |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
has cartoon colls. Freudian Slips: Cartoons on Psychology(1997), The Interactive Toaster(1997), the latter contains cartoons about business |
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Cowper, Richard |
Matter of No Great Significance, A |
ss |
best known for Corlay trilogy, The Road to Corlay(1978; w. "Piper at the Gates of Dawn," 1979 US; N-1979 BFA, NEB; 1980 BRG, LOC), A Dream of Kinship(1981), & A Tapestry of Time(1982), which takes places in an England flooded by rising sea levels(Clute) |
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