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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1987 APR |
Wilson, Robert Charles |
Ballads in ¾ Time |
ss |
has novelette "The Perseids," in Hutchison(ed): Northern Frights 3(1995) & RoF 1995 DEC, W-1996 ARR; N-1996 NEB, WFA; has novel Mysterium(1994; W-1994 DIC; N-1995 ARR, HUG, LOC), about a small town that disappears from our world & appears in another(B&C) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Light-Bringer, The |
sces |
elements, phosphorus, Part 1 of 2; the 1st element discovered by a known person, German chemist Hennig Brand in 1674; Part 2 in 1987 MAY(#5655) |
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Leman, Bob |
Olida |
nv |
4th story in F&SF in Goster County series; he has written 15 pieces of shfi - 13 in F&SF, "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming" in Grant(ed): Shadows 10(1987), & "How Dobbstown Was Saved" original to his coll. Feesters in the Lake and Other Stories(2002) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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| 1987 MAY |
Morrow, James |
Spelling God With the Wrong Blocks |
ss |
(1947- ) produced material for Boston TV, 1979-1984; 1st book Moviemaking Illustrated: The Comicbook Filmbook(1973); wrote children's textbooks & at least 5 children's novels, 1st was The Quasar Kids(1987); 1st sf novel The Wine of Violence(1981) |
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Dawes |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Carr, Terry |
You Got It |
vi |
returned to Ace Books in the 1980s on a freelance basis to edit a 2nd series of Ace Specials(Clute); has colls. of his fan writings, Fandom Harvest(1986), & Between Two Worlds(1986 chap); Carr W-1985, 1987 HUG; N 11 times, for Best Pro Editor |
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Strickland, Brad |
Oh Tin Man, Tin Man, There's No Place Like Home |
ss |
"I think (this story) will either please or enrage any reader who is also a movie buff," especially those who are fond of The Wizard of Oz; has ya novel Dragon's Plunder(1992); Ark Liberty(1992), as by Will Bradley; Riverworld seq. novel Hero's Coin(1993) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
K.W. Jeter: The Glass Hammer; Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander(ed): Worlds of If; Charles N. Brown & William G. Contento(ed): S. F. in Print: 1985; Ian Covell(ed): J.T. McIntosh, Memoir and Bibliography |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
a new column of short book reviews, by Card, who has pub. reviews in Science Fiction Review, etc; Ken Grimwood: Replay; Harry Turtledove: Agent of Byzantium; Sheri S. Tepper: The True Game Series(9 novels); Card's list of the Best F/SF Novels of 1986 |
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Hiller, Neil W. |
Orphan, The |
ss |
has novel Big!(1988), with his wife Barbara B. Hiller, a movie novelization of Big(1988), which stars Tom Hanks & Elizabeth Perkins |
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Russo, Richard Paul |
Prayers of a Rain God |
ss |
(1954- ) 1983 graduate of Clarion Writers Workshop, has degree in psychology; 1st story pub. sf "The Firebird Suite" in AMZ 1981 SEP; has 1st novel Inner Eclipse(1988; N-1989 LOC), which describes a search for alien intelligence on a jungle planet |
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Bretnor, Reginald |
Nobelist Schimmelhorn |
nv |
6th & last story in F&SF in Papa Schimmelhorn series; also in series is fantasy novel Schimmelhorn's Gold(1986), in which Papa is entangled with alchemists, priestesses, and the Minotaur(B&C) |
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Gotschalk, Felix C. |
Ménage à Super-Trois |
ss |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 23: In Which Premonitions of the Future Lie in Wait to Swallow Shadows of the Past |
mr |
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home(1986), with much on Walter Koenig, who plays Chekov, & is a friend of Ellison, & is a writer of screenplays; essay: how Star Trek has grown since the TV series, & Ellison's part in its history |
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Lake, Paul |
Rat Boy |
ss |
his 1st pub. sf story; poet pub. in The New Republic, etc.; teaches at Arkansas Technical Univ.; poetry colls. Bull Dancing(1977), Another Kind of Travel(1988); novel Among the Immortals(1994), depicts Percy Shelley as a vampire; Walking Backwards(1999) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Beginning With Bone |
sces |
elements, phosphorus, Part 2 of 2; its role as an essential element of life, & how this was discovered; Part 1 in 1987 APR(#5640); has nf book with his wife, Janet Asimov, How to Enjoy Writing: A Book of Aid and Comfort(1987) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Shea, Michael |
Extra, The |
nv |
has horror novella "I, Said the Fly" orig. pub. in Ellen Datlow(ed): The Omni Book of Science Fiction #6(1989), & was revised & pub. in a chapbook in 1993, about an insect invasion that takes over the nervous & reproductive systems of humans |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 42 |
cmp |
1st prize: Ken Gilbreath; 2nd prize: Joe Sanders; R-U: John Morressy; Pauline E. Gebhardt; Keith Ferrell; Vince Moore; Bruce Moomaw; Bryan Allen; Ann K. Schwader; Arline Schwartz; Mark S. Painter |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 43 |
cmp |
suggested by Donald Franson - give sf/f titles that have been altered by 1 letter into entirely different works, with a one-sentence summary of the new plot, e.g.: Wren Worlds Collide (Two birdhouses smash together in a gale) |
| 1987 JUN |
Wagar, W. Warren |
Night of No Joy, The |
nv |
2nd story in Ira Walker series; story concerned about an "effect" that begins as a series of anomalies, an upsurge in randomness that results in a world that is not quite the same |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: "The creative possibilities within speculative fiction are endless"; Robert Reed: The Leeshore; Richard Bowker: Marlborough Street; Marc Laidlaw: Dad's Nuke |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
John Barnes: The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky; Rebecca Ore: Becoming Alien; Pamela Sargent: The Shore of Women; Gwyneth Jones: Divine Endurance; Card has novels Hart's Hope(1983; N-1984 LOC), A Woman of Destiny(1984; vt Saints, 1988), Wyrms(1987) |
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Porges, Arthur |
Oddmedod, The |
ss |
has Sherlock Holmes parody stories that are coll. in Three Porges Parodies and a Pastiche(1988); another story in this series, "Stately Homes and the Invisible Slasher" in EQMM 2001 FEB |
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Funnell, Augustine |
Maxie Silas |
ss |
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Baloo |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Allen, Lori |
Time Windows |
ss |
Lori Negridge Allen; has anth. with her husband Dick Allen, Looking Ahead: The Vision of Science Fiction(1975) |
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Jacobs, Harvey |
Kitten Kaboodle and Sidney Australia |
ss |
has novel Beautiful Soup: A Novel for the 21st Century(1992), a satirical sf novel of a man in a society that has repudiated individuality who suddenly finds himself an outcast(B&C) |
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Young, Robert F. |
Giant, the Colleen, and the Twenty-one Cows, The |
nv |
his last story for F&SF, it demonstrates one of his main interests, concern for the environment; he has pub. over 200 short stories in his writing career, incl. to most of the sf/f, mys. mags., some slicks, & to several anth.; see his obit in LOC 1986 SEP |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon: 6 O'Clock News |
ct |
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Miller, Sasha |
Jamie Burke and the Queen of England |
ss |
ps. for Georgia Myrle Miller; used ps. Myrle Benedict for short stories; G.S. Madden for western novel The Quest(1977); Georgia Sallaska for historical novels Three Ships and Three Kings(1969), Priam's Daughter(1970), etc; S.M. for novel Ladylord(1996) |
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Warren, Rosalind |
Messenger, The |
ss |
Rosalind A. Warren, her 1st pub. sf story; lives in Maine; has had work pub. in various mags. & anth.; edited books Women's Glib: A Collection of Women's Humor(1991), & Kitty Libber: Cat Cartoons by Women(1992) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: New Stars |
sces |
stars, novas, Part 1 of 3; how novas were viewed as through historical times; what we know of them from the historical records; Part 2 in 1987 JUL(#5687), Part 3 in 1987 AUG(#5700) |
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Cunningham, P.E. |
Satisfaction Guaranteed |
ss |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 72: 1987 JAN-JUN |
indx |
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| 1987 JUL |
Ferrara, Patricia |
Rising Waters |
ss |
born in Attleboro, MA, near where H.P. Lovecraft is buried; has PhD in Literature from Yale Univ.; lives in Atlanta where she teaches English & film at Georgia State Univ. |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: how a young writer learns how his market & the publishing industry works; Martin Cruz Smith: Nightwing; Michael Reaves & Steve Perry: Dome; Noted - M.J. Engh: Arslan |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Frederik Pohl & Elizabeth Anne Hull(ed): Tales from the Planet Earth; John R. Maxim: Time Out of Mind; Geoff Ryman: The Warrior Who Carried Life; Elizabeth Mitchell(ed): Under the Wheel: Alien Stars Vol. III |
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Caraker, Mary |
Out of the Cradle |
nv |
this story to form the basis of her 2nd novel, Water Song(1987 fixup), about a water planet threatened by a changing climate(B&C); lives in CA; 1st story pub. sf "The Vampires Who Loved Beowulf" in ANA 1983 JAN features her series character Morgan Faraday |
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Tritten, Larry |
Dead Woods, The |
ss |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 24: In Which Flora and Fauna Come to a Last Minute Rescue, Thereby Preventing the Forlorn From Handing It All Over to the Cockroaches |
mr |
essay: Woody Allen's sf/f movies are overlooked for Hugo Awards; Radio Days(1987), stars Mia Farrow; Little Shop of Horrors(1986), stars Rick Moranis; updates on colorization, & dir. David Cronenberg; Bill Warren: Keep Watching the Skies, Vol. 1(1982) |
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Goulart, Ron |
Business As Usual |
ss |
has nf books Ron Goulart's Great History of Comic Books(1986), The Great Comic Book Artists(1986), The Great Comic Book Artists Volume 2(1988), The Encyclopedia of American Comics(1990), The Funnies: 100 Years of American Comic Strips(1995) |
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Owens, Barbara |
Chain |
ss |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Bradley, Marion Zimmer |
Walker Behind, The |
ss |
5th story in F&SF in minstrel/magician Lythande ser.; has Trillium ser., Black Trillium(1990, w. Andre Norton), Lady of the Trillium(1995, w. Elisabeth Waters); Glenraven ser., Glenraven(1996), Glenraven II(1998), both w. Holly Lisle |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Brightening Stars |
sces |
stars, novas, Part 2 of 3; how & what we have learned about novas, from the year 1604 up to 1909, ending with the mystery of the Andromeda nebula; Part 1 in 1987 JUL(#5673), Part 3 in 1987 AUG(#5700) |
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Aandahl, Vance |
Deathmatch in Disneyland |
nv |
two female pro-wrestlers are thawed out in the year 2887 to undertake a desperate mission into the bowels of the Peoples Republic of Disneyland |
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