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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1986 APR |
Kearns, Richard |
Grave Angels |
nv |
N-1987 JWC, LOC, STU, novelette; past staff writer for Gallery Magazine; teaches at Loyola Marymount Univ.(L.A.) |
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Young, Robert F. |
Visionary Shapes |
ss |
"a handful of sand is an anthology of the universe" |
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Wagar, W. Warren |
Day of No-Judgment, The |
nv |
(1932- ) 1st story in Ira Walker series; wn. for Walter Warren Wagar; history professor at State Univ. of New York(Binghampton); 1st story pub. sf "Heart's Desire" in ASI 1984 JUL; has books related to SF - H.G. Wells and the World State(1961) |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Moon and We, The |
sces |
Moon, the lunar influences on Man; 'moonshine,' werewolves, & tidal influences; lunar cycles & superstitions; has nf book Futuredays: A 19th-Century Vision of the Year 2000(1986) |
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Knight, Damon |
Strangers in Paradise |
ss |
N-1987 LOC; has novel Humpty Dumpty: An Oval(1996), a surreal sf novel in which a man tries to make sense of the world after the fabric of reality cracks(B&C); last work at fictionwise.com/knight/(2000); obits in NYT 4/17/02, LOC 2002 MAY, SFC 2002 JUL |
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Nurit |
Cartoon |
ct |
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| 1986 MAY |
Shea, Michael |
Uncle Tuggs |
nv |
has coll. Polyphemus(1987; N-1988 WFA) |
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Goulart, Ron |
Ex-Chameleon |
ss |
10th & last story in Chameleon Corps series; has novels The Tremendous Adventures of Bernie Wine(1981), Upside Downside(1982), Hellquad(1984); Goulart writes a column, & draws a weekly comic strip for The Comic Buyers Guide |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon: Kruller Travel Agency |
ct |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: differences betw. fiction types, Part 3 of 3; horror fiction "ineptitude"; Ramsey Campbell: The Face That Must Die; Andrew M. Greeley: Angels of September; briefly, Resnick: Adventures; Hughart: Bridge of Birds; Craig W. Anderson: S. F. Films ... |
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Gotschalk, Felix C. |
Reconn Man in the City |
ss |
lives in North Carolina, & worked as a professor at Bowman Gray School of Medicine, & as a private psychologist in Winston-Salem, NC |
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Robinson, Kim Stanley |
Transect, A |
ss |
has novels The Memory of Whiteness("In Pierson's Orchestra"; exp. 1985; N-1986 LOC; 1987 CLA), Escape From Kathmandu(1989 fixup; N-1990 LOC), A Short, Sharp Shock(1990); colls. The Planet on the Table(1986; N-1987 LOC), Remaking History(1991; N-1992 LOC) |
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Rothman, Chuck |
Playmates |
ss |
(1952- ) wn. for Charles Rothman; born in Southold, NY, lives in Schenectady; grad. from Union College, teaches at Siena College; 1st story pub. sf "The Munji Deserters", ASI 1982 JUN; novel Staroamer's Fate(1986; N-1986 LOC); writes reviews for Tangent |
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Jennings, Phillip C. |
Tadcaster's Doom |
ss |
(1946- ) his 1st pub. sf story; lives in St. Cloud, MN; many of his stories describe a world dominated by "bugs" - personalities in electronic storage, coll. in The Bug Life Chronicles(1989); 1st novel, Tower to the Sky(1988), set in the same universe |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 16: In Which a Forest Is Analyzed Without Recourse to Any Description of a Tree |
mr |
Enemy Mine(1985), based on the Barry B. Longyear novella in ASI 1979 SEP, dir. Wolfgang Petersen, screenplay by Edward Khmara, stars Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr; brief update on Brazil(1985) |
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Kopf |
Cartoon: Complex Carbohydrate, A |
ct |
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Harrison, Harry |
View from the Top of the Tower, The |
ss |
has more novels than can be listed here, but incl. last Bill, the Galactic Hero novel, The Final Incoherent Adventure(1992, w. David Harris); A Rebel in Time(1989), Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died(1992, w. Leon E. Stover), Stars and Stripes Forever(1998) |
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Green, Terence M. |
Point Zero |
ss |
has novel Shadow of Ashland(novelette in ASI 1985 NOV; exp.1996; N-1997 ARR, WFA), a fantasy time travel novel, in which a man searching for a lost uncle ends up in a town where the past & the present mingle(B&C); A Witness to Life(1999; N-1999 WFA) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Minor Objects, The |
sces |
asteroids & comets, incl. Apollo objects or near-Earth asteroids; how to distinguish between the two |
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Nurit |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Denton, Bradley |
In the Fullness of Time |
nv |
has 1st novel Wrack and Roll(1986; N-1987 LOC), a contemporary alternate world tale which portrays heavy-metal musicians as heroes in a world divided betw. the "straight" majority & the anti-authoritarian "wrackers," who are defined by their music(Clute) |
| 1986 JUN |
Young, Robert F. |
Revolution 20 |
ss |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: Isaac Asimov & his science fiction; Isaac Asimov: The Early Asimov, Book One & Book Two; Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg(ed): Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 14 (1952); Asimov: The Alternate Asimovs |
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Moffett, Judith |
Surviving |
nv |
(1942- ) W-1987 STU; N-1986 NEB; 1987 LOC, novelette; her 1st pub. sf story; Prof. at the Univ. of Pennsylvania since 1979; first active as poet, has colls. Keeping Time(1976), Whinny Moor Crossing(1984); W-1988 JWCA, Best New Writer |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon: Welcome to 1939 |
ct |
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Sallis, James |
Potato Tree |
vi |
has coll. Limits of the Sensible World(1995); surreal literary novel Renderings(1995); has critical work on Jim Thompson, David Goodis & Chester Himes, titled Difficult Lives(1993); edited Ash of Stars: On the Writing of Samuel R. Delany(1996) |
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Barnes, John |
How Cold She Is, and Dumb |
nv |
(1957- ) has BA & MA in political science from Washington Univ., MA in theater from Univ. of Montana; 1st story pub. sf "Finalities Besides the Grave" in AMZ 1985 SEP; 1st novel The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky(1987); married to writer Kara Dalkey |
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Baloo |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Kelly, James Patrick |
Rat |
ss |
N-1986 NEB; 1987 HUG, LOC; takes place in future NYC; has coll. Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories(1997), title story in ASI 1995 JUN, W-1996 HUG; N-1995 NEB; 1996 LOC; made into Outer Limits episode, first aired 2001 SEP |
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Mueller, Richard |
Bullivant's Knife |
ss |
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Tritten, Larry |
Turning Off |
ss |
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Brunner, John |
Man Who Was a Legend in His Own Time, The |
ss |
6th story in Mr. Secrett ser.; has poetry colls. Trip: A Cycle of Poems(1966; rev. 1971), Life in an Explosive Forming Press(1970); A Hastily Thrown-Together Bit of Zork(1974), Tomorrow May Be Even Worse(1978), A New Settlement of Old Scores(1983) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Second Lightest, The |
sces |
isotopes & radioactive isotopes, Part 1 of 4; the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Harold Clayton Urey, the isotopes of hydrogen, neon, uranium, thorium, lead; the tiny chemical property differences betw. isotopes of an element; Parts 2-4 in 1986 JUL-SEP |
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Bishop, Michael |
Taccati's Tomorrow |
ss |
has novel Count Geiger's Blue(1992; N-1993 LOC), is a fantasy set in the Atlanta-like Salonika, the capital of the imaginary southern state of Oconee(Clute); see iv's in New Pathways 1987 JAN, LOC 1988 DEC & 1996 JUL; see bib in INZ 1994 APR |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon: US Mail |
ct |
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Adams, Georgia Fillingame |
Acrostic Puzzle |
pz |
answers in 1986 JUL, p.42 |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 70: 1986 JAN-JUN |
indx |
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| 1986 JUL |
Brin, David |
Thor Meets Captain America |
nv |
(1950- ) W-1987 LOC; N-1987 HUG; wn. for Glen David Brin; also in F&SF with his brother Daniel Brin(1986 DEC); physicist & teacher, has BS in astronomy, MS in applied physics; 1st story pub. sf novel Sundiver(1980; N-1981 LOC), 1st novel of Uplift series |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Richard Grant: Saraband of Lost Time; Leo Frankowski: The Cross-Time Engineer; Piers Anthony, Barry N. Malzberg, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh(ed): Uncollected Stars; George Zebrowski(ed): Nebula Awards 20 |
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Resnick, Mike |
Stalking the Unicorn With Gun and Camera |
ss |
(1942- ) this story not to be confused w. his fantasy novel, Stalking the Unicorn(1987); wn. for Michael Diamond Resnick; runs the 2nd largest boarding/grooming kennel in the US; 1st story pub. sf an E.R.B. pastiche, The Forgotten Sea of Mars(1965) |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
Tap-dancing Down the Highways and Byways of Life, etc. |
ss |
has coll. of science fiction essays, The Engines of the Night: Science Fiction in the Eighties(1982; W-1983 LOC; N-1983 HUG, for Best Non-Fiction) |
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Clee, Mona A. |
Dinosaurs |
nv |
native Texan, moved recently to California; attended 1983 Clarion; has sold stories to various anth.; has sf novels Branch Point(1996), Overshoot(1998), the latter set in 2032 AD, in which global warming threatens to destroy mankind |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon: Reality—Fantasy |
ct |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 17: In Which We Unflinchingly Look a Gift Horse in the Choppers |
mr |
Young Sherlock Holmes(1985), Part 1 of 2, dir. Barry Levinson, producer Steven Spielberg, script by Chris Columbus, stars Nicholas Rowe(as Holmes), Alan Cox(as Watson), Sophie Ward |
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Etchemendy, Nancy |
River Temple, The |
ss |
N-1986 NEB, short story; has ya sf novel Stranger from the Stars(1983) |
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Wilson, Robert Charles |
Knight of Antiquity, A |
ss |
has novels The Divide(1990; N-1991 LOC; 1992 ARR), a character who contains 2 utterly distinct selves; A Bridge of Years(1991; N-1991 DIC), time travel tale; The Harvest(1992), aliens offer humanity immortality & wisdom(Clute); iv in SFC 1999 FEB/MAR |
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Kilworth, Garry |
Hobblythick Lane |
ss |
has colls. The Songbirds of Pain(1984), Trivial Tales(1988), In the Hollow of the Deep(1989), Dark Hills, Hollow Clocks(1990), Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands(1993; N-1994 WFA), In the Country of Tatooed Men(1993); novel The Wizard of Woodworld(1987) |
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Baloo |
Cartoon: Dog's Reality |
ct |
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