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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1987 JAN |
Wilson, Robin Scott |
Greening of Mrs. Edmiston, The |
ss |
see interview in Starwind 1978 FLL |
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Baloo |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: magazine sf/f & supernatural horror is changing, experimental types more the "norm"; the rise of sf from Shelley's Frankenstein to Campbell; John Clute, etal(ed): Interzone, the First Anthology; Terry Carr(ed): Best S. F. of the Year #15(1985) |
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Watson, Ian |
Salvage Rites |
ss |
has novels The Flies of Memory(novella in ASI 1988 SEP; exp. 1990), in which aliens memorize bits of Earth so the Universe can continue remembering itself |
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McLaughlin, Cooper |
Order of the Peacock Angel, The |
nv |
tale about a brotherhood that began 1000 years ago & may still have existed in the 1960s, beginning with the mystery of a box carved from the metal of a ship from the sky(author says the historical background is accurate) |
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McAuley, Paul J. |
Temporary King, The |
nv |
(1955- ) born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK; has 1976 BS in botany & zoology from Bristol Univ., 1980 PhD in botany; research biologist before being a UK professor; 1st story pub. sf "Wagon, Passing" in ASI JUN 1984; see iv in Fear! 1991 SEP |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: Theater Agent |
ct |
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Whitlock, Dean |
Million-Dollar Wound, The |
ss |
(1950?- ) his 1st pub. story; lives in Vermont, has been a journalist & a technical writer |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Davidson, Avram & Grania Davis |
Addrict |
ss |
they wrote a novel together, Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty(1988) |
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Young, Robert F. |
What Bleak Land |
ss |
N-1988 LOC, short story; notice in the story intro of the death of Young in the summer of 1986; after serving with the military police in WWII, he returned to Silver Creek, NY, on Lake Erie |
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Loring, E. Bertrand |
Man Who Wrote Shakespeare, The |
ss |
(1911-1992) ps. for & anagram for Reginald Bretnor, & also in F&SF as such, & as ps. Grendel Briarton(also an anagram of his real name) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Opposite! |
sces |
antimatter & antimatter particles, Part 1 of 2; their discovery, beginning with the work of Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac(1902-1984); Part 2 in 1987 FEB(#5614); has 19th coll. of F&SF science essays, Far As Human Eye Could See(1987) |
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Carroll, Jonathan |
Friend's Best Man |
ss |
(1949- ) W-1988 WFA, shfi; N-1988 LOC, STO, ss; U.S. born author, screenwriter, living in Vienna; 1st story pub. fantasy novel The Land of Laughs(1980; W-1989 Apollo Award); Voice of Our Shadow(1983); see his website at www.jonathancarroll.com |
| 1987 FEB |
Griffin, Russell |
Saving Time |
na |
N-1988 LOC, novelette; two professors go back in time to the Battle of Maldon in 991, one hoping to change history to win the woman of his dreams |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon: Judgement Day |
ct |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Gene Wolfe: Soldier of the Mist; Gary Wolfe: Critical Terms for Science Fiction and Fantasy; Isaac Asimov: Futuredays |
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Matthews, Patricia |
Children of the Sea, The |
ss |
(1927- ) lives near San Diego; 1st sales 2 poems for the Oregonian in 1957; has pub. fiction, poetry in Cosmopolitan, AHMM, etc; writes historical romance novels as by Patty Brisco, Horror at Gull House(1969), The Crystal Window(1976), Mist of Evil(1976) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Owens, Barbara |
Greenhill Gang, The |
ss |
has short stories "The New Man" in TWZ 1982 MAR(reprt. Night Cry 1985 SUM), "Something Evil" in TWZ 1982 AUG, "Portrait: Edward Larrabee" in TWZ 1986 AUG, "Sliding" in TWZ 1988 AUG, & "Blue Crick Holler Folks" in ASI 1984 AUG |
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Boyd, J.P. |
Anger of Time, The |
ss |
raised in a suburb of Boston, has 1976 PhD in Applied Physics from Harvard; associate professor of atmospheric & oceanic science at Univ. of Michigan; has sf pub. in ASI, AMZ, & in several anthologies |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Bradley, Marion Zimmer |
Bitch |
ss |
4th story in F&SF in minstrel/magician Lythande ser.; also in Darkover seq., Rediscovery(1993, w. Mercedes Lackey), Exile's Song(1996); has Avalon ser., The Mists of Avalon(1983; W-1984 LOC; N-1983 MYT), The Forest House(1994), The Lady of Avalon(1997) |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 21: In Which You and a Large Group of Total Strangers Are Flipped the Finger by the Mad Masters of Anthropomorphism |
mr |
Flight of the Navigator(1986), from Disney, dir. Randal Kleiser, stars Joey Cramer; The Fly(1986), stars Jeff Goldblum, remake of 1953 movie which had 1959 & 1965 sequels; Peggy Sue Got Married(1986), stars Kathleen Turner |
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Greeley, Andrew M. |
Dutchman's Ghost Town, The |
nv |
(1928- ) Chicago Roman Catholic priest; has nf books on faith; sf/f novels The Magic Cup(1979), God Game(1986), The Final Planet(1987); Angel Fire seq., Angel Fire(1988), Angel Light(1995); Blackie Ryan mys. ser. Happy Are the Oppressed(1996), etc |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Sail On! Sail On! |
sces |
antimatter, Part 2 of 2; modes for interstellar travel discussed & compared - chemical reaction, radioactive breakdown energy, fission, fusion, & antimatter propulsion systems; Part 1 in 1987 JAN(#5601) |
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Corwin, Matt |
Backwater Time |
ss |
(1967?- ) student at Univ. of Washington, has taken a course taught by Joanna Russ |
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Davis, Dorothy |
F&SF Crossword |
pz |
answers in 1987 MAR, p.128 |
| 1987 MAR |
Laidlaw, Marc |
Faust Forward |
ss |
(1960- ) born in L.A.; attended Univ. of Oregon; lives in San Francisco; also in F&SF with co-author C.A. Cador in 1981 AUG, Paul Di Filippo in 1993 SEP; 1st story pub. sf "A Hiss of Dragon" with Gregory Benford in Omni 1978 DEC, which was N-1979 LOC |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Douglas Curran: In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space; Terry Carr(ed): Universe 16; Gregory Benford & Martin H. Greenberg(ed): Hitler Victorious; Noted - Jack Sullivan(ed): The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural |
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Gallagher, Stephen |
Like Clockwork |
ss |
has novels Down River(1989), Rain(1990), The Boat House(1991), Red, Red Robin(1995) |
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Morressy, John |
Quality of Murphy, The |
nv |
3rd story in wizard Conhoon of the Three Gifts series |
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Effinger, George Alec |
Skylab Done It |
nv |
N-1988 LOC; "I'm doubting the efficacy of the wise old man who is single-handedly attempting to save the best of our culture. He tells the children that it's their responsibility to pass it on. ... the kids will have a different idea of what to pass on" |
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White, James |
Interpreters, The |
ss |
an extract from his novel, The Interpreters(1985)?; has many Sector General ser. books, incl. Ambulance Ship(1979 fixup), Code Blue—Emergency!(1987), Mind Changer(1998); has coll. The White Papers(1996); see iv's in LOC 1984 JUN(#281), & 1993 MAR(#386) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon: Time Machine |
ct |
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Martinez, B.J. |
Uncle Green-Eye |
nv |
a native of Southern Colorado; "crunch(es) numbers for a local manufacturing firm" |
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Hornig, Doug |
Game of Magical Death, The |
ss |
(1943- ) born in NYC, has degree from George Washington Univ.; from Charlottesville, VA; writes poetry, nf & novels, incl. Loren Swift, Vietnam vet P.I. mys. ser., Foul Shot(1984; N-EDG), Hardball(1985; N-Shamus), The Dark Side(1986), Deep Dive(1988) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Incredible Shrinking Planet, The |
sces |
planet Pluto; how its size kept diminishing since its discovery in 1930, as new ways of studying it were utilized; has nf book Past, Present, and Future(1987) |
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Watson, Ian |
Evil Water |
nv |
this story to be the title story of his coll. Evil Water(1987; N-1988 LOC); has coll. Salvage Rites(1989; N-1990 LOC), Stalin's Teardrops and Other Stories(1991) |
| 1987 APR |
Shepard, Lucius |
Glassblower's Dragon, The |
ss |
N-1988 LOC, short story; has vampire horror novel, The Golden(1993); horror novella The Last Time(1995); has coll. The Ends of the Earth(1991; W-1992 WFA; N-1991 LOC) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Avram Davidson: Vergil in Averno; Jack McDevitt: The Hercules Text |
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Arno, Ed |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Wightman, Wayne |
Cage 37 |
nv |
N-1988 LOC, novelette |
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Foster, Alan Dean |
Thunderer, The |
ss |
has novelizations Star Trek Log One(1974) thru Ten(1978); Dark Star(1974), Star Wars(1976 as George Lucas), Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye(1978), Aliens(1979), Aliens: A Novelization(1986), Alien 3(1992), The Black Hole(1979) |
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Williamson, Chet |
Letters to Mother |
ss |
has horror novels Lowland Rider(1988), set in a NYC subway; Dreamthorp(1989), set in a small Pennsylvania town; The House of Fear(1989 chap); mystery novel McKain's Dilemma(1989), about a married gay man & a killing over AIDS |
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Zebrowski, George |
Behind the Night |
ss |
has ya Bernal One ser., The Stars Will Speak(1984), Sunspacer(1984), combined to form The Sunspacers Trilogy(1996); novel The Star Web(1974), rev., became 1st 3rd of Stranger Suns(1991); novel Macrolife(1979), is his most highly regarded work(Clute) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 22: In Which the Land Echoes to the Sound of an Ox of a Different Color Being Gored |
mr |
no movies reviewed; essay: colorization from the Hollywood writer's viewpoint; 1st movie colorized, Topper(1937); 1st colorized movie on network TV, The Maltese Falcon(1941), on November 12, 1986 |
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Di Filippo, Paul |
Agents |
nv |
has 17-page autobiographical essay "Twenty-One Scenes Until Age Twenty-One" in C.A., vol.173, p.118-135 |
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