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Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1986 NOV |
Nurit |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Mueller, Richard |
On the Dream Coast in Winter |
ss |
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Frazier, Robert |
Epicenter |
pm |
has anth. of poetry, The Rhysling Anthology(1983), & Burning with a Vision: Poetry of Science and the Fantastic(1984) |
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Stevens, Julie |
Deathtreader, The |
ss |
Julie A. Stevens, legal aid attorney & writer; lives in Portland, OR; has been pub. since 1981 in ASI, SFAge, RoF, Whispers, Best of Omni, sf anth. Isaac Asimov's Voices of Tomorrow(1984), & in horror anth. by C.L. Grant(ed): Fears(1983), & Midnight(1985) |
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Boatman, Alan |
Agua Morte |
ss |
graduate of Univ. of Michigan, a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford Univ.; has 1st novel Summer's Lie(1970); Comrades in Arms(1974), about a Marine in Vietnam who was shot in the back by a fellow Marine |
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Shaver, Edward F. |
Stones |
nv |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Unmentionable Planet, The |
sces |
planet, Uranus; the planet with the ill-pronounced name; new information on it from Voyager 2(closest approach January 24, 1986) |
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Griffin, Russell |
Place of Turnings, The |
ss |
time travel story of two academics who go back in time to 1066 & the battle for England between the Saxons & the Normans; this story written in the spring of 1986; in August, while vacationing in New Hampshire, he suffered a stroke & died; he was 43 |
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Baloo |
Cartoon |
ct |
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| 1986 DEC |
Sargent, Pamela |
Soul's Shadow, The |
nv |
has novels w. George Zebrowski, A Fury Scorned(1996), Star Trek: Heart of the Sun(1997), & Star Trek: Across the Universe(1999); has alt. hist. Climb the Wind(1998; N-1998 SDW); see iv in Nova Express 1991 WIN; iv & bib at www.sff.net:80/people/PSargent |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: "how well-written does a book have to be, & what do you mean by 'well-written,'" qualities to good writing; Walter Jon Williams: Hardwired; Charles G. Sheffield: The Nimrod Hunt |
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Morressy, John |
Spirits From the Vasty Deep |
ss |
9th story in F&SF in his Kedrigern the wizard series, & 2nd story in the wizard Conhoon of the Three Gifts series; some stories in his Kedrigern series were revised for his fixup novel, A Voice for Princess(1986; N-1987 LOC) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Ledbetter, Kenneth W. |
Outpost on Europa |
nv |
an aerospace engineer, worked on Viking spacecraft at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, currently spacecraft team manager for the Venus Radar Mapping; has nf book w. Stephen D. Wall, Design of Mission Operations Systems for Scientific Remote Sensing(1991) |
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Gilliland, Alexis |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Cowper, Richard |
Test Case |
ss |
has coll. The Magic Spectacles and Other Tales(1986); has last novel Shades of Darkness(1986), after which he retired from writing, to restore furniture with his wife & to paint; see his obits in LOC 2002 JUN, SFC 2002 JUL, & INZ 2002 AUG |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 20: In Which Manifestations of Arrested Adolescence Are Shown to Be Symptoms of a Noncommunicable Dopiness, Thank Goodness |
mr |
essay: films made by adults w. the sensibilities of adolescents; Legend(1985), dir. Ridley Scott, stars Tom Cruise; Labyrinth(1986), stars David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly; briefly, Big Trouble in Little China(1986); Lost Horizons(1937; rest. 1973); 1 more |
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Goulart, Ron |
Glory |
ss |
in the late 1970s, Goulart created & wrote the Star Hawks comic strip, which was drawn by Gil Kane; he also wrote & drew the comic strip, Ron Goulart's Golden Age Funnies |
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Saylor, Steven |
Insecticide |
ss |
(1956- ) born in TX; has Roma Sub Rosa historical mys. ser., c. 56 BC P.I. Gordianus the Finder, novels Catalina's Riddle(1993; W-Lambda), Rubicon(1999), etc; A Twist at the End(2000), based on 1885 serial murders; coll. The House of the Vestals(1997) |
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Baloo |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Dead-End Middle, The |
sces |
stars; novas & white dwarfs from binary stars; fusion process in biggest stars us. ends at iron-56, the dead-end middle, as the average particle mass of its nucleus is lowest among the elements(0.99884); most of iron on Earth from exploded white dwarfs |
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Brin, David & Daniel Brin |
Stage of Memory, A |
nv |
(1950- ; 1956?- ) David is in F&SF by himself; his brother Daniel is a newspaperman living in L.A.; see David's interviews in INZ #41 1990, FTL 1990 FLL, & LOC 1986 MAY(#302), 1989 DEC(#347), & 1997 MAR(#434) |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 41 |
cmp |
1st prize: Mark Bernstein; 2nd prize: Angus MacDonald; R-U: Michael D. Toman; Judith Tarr; Marc Laidlaw; Bill & Ann Hupe; Bruce Berges; Chris East |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 42 |
cmp |
suggested by Donna & Chuck Peitzman and Stephen Mendenhall - vary the title of any mainstream or non-sf work to turn it into an sf/f piece, e.g.: Uncle Tom's Spaceship |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 71: 1986 JUL-DEC |
indx |
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