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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1988 JAN |
Denton, Bradley |
Hero of the Night, The |
ss |
has interviews in LOC 1997 JAN(#432), & in Nova Express 1997 SUM; see his entry in C.A., vol.158, p.94-96 |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: sf novels from people, like Nancy Kress(fantasy novels), who have built a reputation elsewhere, or what is expected of them from past work; Nancy Kress: An Alien Light |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Kathryn Cramer & David G. Hartwell(ed): Christmas Ghosts; Peter S. Beagle: The Folk of the Air; Michael Blumlein: The Movement of Mountains; Roger Reynolds(ed): The Future Focus Book of Lists II: The Sequel; Card has coll. Unaccompanied Sonata(1981) |
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Cadigan, Pat |
Two |
nv |
N-1989 LOC, novelette; has a new baby, "Bobzilla, Scourge of the Midwest"; see interviews in Journal Wired 1990 SPR, Albedo One #5 1994, INZ 1998 JAN, & in LOC 1990 FEB(#349), 1992 NOV(#382), & 1995 JUL(#414) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Bretnor, Reginald |
Wedding Present |
ss |
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Malzberg, Barry N. & Jack Dann |
Blues and the Abstract Truth |
ss |
(1939- ; 1945- ) Dann also in F&SF alone & with Jack C. Haldeman II, & Gardner Dozois; Dann & Dozois edited many anth. together, incl. Future Power(1976), Aliens!(1980), Clones!(1998); Dann with wife Jeanne, In the Field of Fire(1987; N-1988 LOC, WFA) |
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Aandahl, Vance |
Highest Authority of All, The |
ss |
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Arno, Ed |
Cartoon: Dr. M. Harris, Chiropodist |
ct |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Films: Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 27: In Which the Fur Is Picked Clean of Nits, Gnats, Nuts, Naggers and Nuhdzes |
mr |
essay: replies to the 3 or 4 kinds of complaint letters on his column; Robocop(1987), dir. Paul Verhoeven, stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen; Harry and the Hendersons(1987); 3 poetry books, Pablo Neruda: The Separate Rose, Still Another Day, Winter Garden |
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Turtledove, Harry |
Last Article, The |
nv |
(1949- ) N-1989 LOC, nv; born in L.A., CA; has 1977 PhD from UCLA in Byzantine History; 1st stories pub. sword & sorcery novels Wereblood(1979) & Werenight(1979) as by Eric G. Iverson, a ps. he used until 1985; married to mystery writer Laura Frankos |
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Jonik |
Cartoon |
ct |
Jonik's 1st cartoon sales were to the Philadelphia Bulletin Magazine, & Golf Magazine, around 1968; has also been pub. in NYM, NYT, National Lampoon, Saturday Review, Gourmet, Audobon, Cosmopolitan, PBY, etc., as well as in anth. & textbooks |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Standing Tall |
sces |
humanity & evolution, Part 2 of 2; how the hominids & man evolved, evolutionary steps 20-26, & what differentiates/distinguishes man; his beautiful, blue-eyed, blonde-haired daughter Robyn is compared! to bears, chimps & T. rexes |
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Whitlock, Dean |
Miriam, Messiah |
nv |
Whitlock wrote 15 sf/f short stories, between 1987-1995, in the mags. GEO, ASI, F&SF, ABO, & The Gate |
| 1988 FEB |
Etchemendy, Nancy |
Incredible Christmas Wish, The |
ss |
has pub. numerous poems in ASI, Pulpsmith, Dark Regions & Horror, & Twilight Tales Online; at her website(www.sff.net/people/etchemendy/) you can view her Poem of the Week page, & her Poetry Archives, & other features |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: Harlan Ellison, pioneer of gonzo sf, who "invented & established the SF writer as public activist"; Terry Dowling, Richard Delap & Gil Lamont(ed): The Essential Ellison; a tribute to the late Alfred Bester |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Michael Bishop: The Secret Ascension; two stories on audio cassette, Theodore Sturgeon's "Thunder and Roses," & S.C. Sykes' "Rockabye Baby"; see letter by Michael Bishop in 1988 MAY, p.85, in reponse to Card's review here of his novel |
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Griffin, Russell |
Takes All Kinds |
ss |
says story grew from his "looking thru a copy of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper for Aug. 5, 1861. At the back I came across 'Humorous Greetings' & was struck ... there wasn't anything (funny) ... So I began to speculate on how ephemerical humor is" |
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Harper, Rory |
Triage |
ss |
a Texan, has just become a fulltime freelance writer; 1st story pub. sf "Petrogypsies"(in John F. Carr & Jerry Pournelle(ed): Far Frontiers, vol. 2 1985), which was expanded into a novel in 1989, an alternate world tale w. aliens & the Texas oil business |
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Frazier, Robert |
Salinity |
pm |
W-1989 RHY, short poem; he has won this award before, a 1980 short poem for "Encased in the Amber of Fate," in Saberhagen(ed): A Spadeful of Spacetime(1981), & co-winner 1989 long poem for "In the Darkened Hours" in Boston: The Nightmare Collector(1988) |
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Moon, Elizabeth |
If Nudity Offends You |
ss |
(1945- ) wn. for Susan Elizabeth Norris Moon; has degrees from Rice Univ., Univ. of Texas; spent 3 years in Marines; 1st story pub. "ABCs in Zero-G" in ANA 1986 AUG; 1st novel The Deed of Paksenarrion #1: Sheepfarmer's Daughter(1988; W-1989 CCR; N-LOC) |
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Jonik |
Cartoon: Tracy Ann of the Jungle |
ct |
Jonik political cartoons "done w. different technique, just lines, so that little low-tech papers don't have reproduction problems. They appear in newsletters, activist periodicals(Extra!, Public Citizen, Ecology, High Country News), t-shirts, stickers" |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Films: Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 28: In Which, With Wiles and Winces, We Waft Words Warranting, to Wit, Wonderful Wit |
mr |
essay: many sf fans & readers lack a sense of true wit, based on many letters of complaint on his stories & his column; Spaceballs(1987), dir. Mel Brooks, stars Brooks, John Candy, Bill Pullman, Rick Moranis, Daphne Zuniga |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: If There Were Computers in Galileo's Time |
ct |
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Dann, Jack & Jack C. Haldeman II |
Sentry |
nv |
2nd & last story in their John Stranger ser., pub. as fixup novel High Steel(1993); Dann & Haldeman have a novella, "Echoes of Thunder," pub. in 1991 as part of a Tor double with Harlan Ellison's "Run for the Stars"; Dann has coll. Timetipping(1980) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Unrecognized Danger, The |
sces |
element radon; how it is overlooked, then finally discovered, its properties & dangers to our health; has 20th coll. of F&SF science essays, The Relativity of Wrong(1988) |
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Aikin, Jim |
Dancing Among Ghosts |
na |
N-1989 LOC, novella; the story about a group of creative people from NYC, incl. a tormented painter who produces a remarkable canvas that seems to have a life of its own |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 44 |
cmp |
1st prize: Joe Haldeman; 2nd prize: Lee Crawley; R-U: Angus MacDonald; Richard R. Moore; Steven Sawicki; William G. Raley; Tommy J. Walz; Michael Weiss; Maynard Bates |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 45 |
cmp |
suggested by Stephen Mendenhall - submit variations of sf titles in which one word is replaced by a close homonym, e.g.: I, Rabbit; A Canned Pickle for Liebowitz |
| 1988 MAR |
Lumley, Brian |
Sun, the Sea, and the Silent Scream, The |
nv |
has sword & sorcery Dreamlands ser., Hero of Dreams(1986), Ship of Dreams(1986), Mad Moon of Dreams(1987), Elysia: The Coming of Cthulhu(1989), Iced on Aran and Other Dreamquests(1990); colls. Ghoul Warning(1998), A Coven of Vampire(1998) |
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Nurit |
Cartoon |
ct |
has children's book, The Dream Factory(1988), a bedtime story about Baa Baa who hates to go to sleep |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Ellen Kushner: Swordspoint; Tim Powers: On Stranger Tides; response to Thomas J. Remington's review of his book, Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf by Algis Budrys |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Gene Wolfe: The Urth of the New Sun; Jack L. Chalker: When the Changewinds Blow; Card has Alvin Maker Saga ser., Seventh Son(1987; W-1988 LOC, MYT; 1989 DIT; N-1988 HUG, WFA), Red Prophet(1988; W-1989 LOC; N-1988 NEB; 1989 HUG, MYT) |
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Jacobs, Harvey |
Toll Bridge, The |
ss |
has associational humprous novel, American Goliath: A Novel of the Cardiff Giant(1997; N-1998 WFA); see his website at www.lookoutnow.com |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Johnson, James B. |
'Ciders, The |
nv |
(1944- ) James Blair Johnson, lives in Sarasota, FL; fulltime writer; 1st story pub. sf novel Daystar and Shadow(1981; N-1982 LOC); Trekmaster(1987); Mindhopper(1988), set in 21st century, about a boy with psi powers versus the Establishment(B&C) |
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Searls, Hank |
Late Again |
vi |
(1922- ) wn. for Henry Hunt Searls Jr; 1st story pub. sf "Martyr's Flight" in IMG 1955 DEC; 1st novel The Big X(1959); The Pilgrim Project(1964; made into 1968 movie Countdown), Jaws 2(1975), Overboard(1977), Jaws the Revenge(1983), Blood Song(1984) |
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Eisenberg, Larry |
Live It Up, Inc. |
ss |
6th & last story in F&SF in Emmett Duckworth series |
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Bova, Ben |
Crisis of the Month |
ss |
has nf books The Uses of Space(1965), In Quest of Quasars(1970), The Amazing Laser(1971); children's sf Exiles ser., Exiled from Earth(1971), Flight of Exiles(1972), End of Exile(1975), omnibus The Exiles Trilogy(1980); movie novelization, THX 1138(1971) |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
Correction |
note |
printing error in John Shirley's story "Ticket to Heaven" in 1987 DEC(#5760), p.151; gives two paragraphs of corrected text; Ferman won six Science Fiction Chronicle Awards, Best Magazine Editor, for 1982-1985, 1989, & 1991 |
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Leman, Bob |
Time of the Worm, The |
nv |
5th & last story in F&SF in Goster County series; Leman's short story "How Dobbstown Was Saved," first pub in his coll. Feesters in the Lake and Other Stories(2002), was first sold to Harlan Ellison's unpub. anth., Last Dangerous Visions, in February 1981 |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Radiation That Wasn't, The |
sces |
N-rays, their 'discovery' by Rene Prosper Blondlot in 1903, & how they were eventually proved to be false & delusional; see the false discovery of cold fusion in essay "Hot, Cold, and Con Fusion" in 1990 JAN |
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Woodman |
Cartoon |
ct |
(1936- ) 1st pub. in NYM, in 1987; William(or Bill) Woodman; born in Bangor, ME; lives in NYC; cartoonist, illustrator, pub. in Cavalier, NYM, PBY, ESQ, SRL; has books as Bill Woodman, Fish and Moose News(1980), Whose Birthday Is It?('80), Buzzwords('83) |
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McMullen, Sean |
Colors of the Masters, The |
nv |
(1948- ) N-1989 DIT; from Australia; 1st professional sf sale "The Pharoah's Airship" in Omega Science Digest, 1986 JUL/AUG; has coll. Call to the Edge(1992; N-1993 DIT); 1st novel Voices in the Light(1994 fixup; N-1995 DIT), 1st in Greatwinter series |
| 1988 APR |
Kress, Nancy |
Spillage |
ss |
married author Charles Sheffield in 1998; live in Silver Spring, MD; Fiction columnist for Writer's Digest Magazine; has novel Probability Moon(2000); see iv's in Pirate Writings #10 1996, & LOC 1992 DEC(#383); see her web site at www.sff.net/people |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: popularity of Jean Auel's novels, which incl. The Clan of the Cave Bear; why are there books? or fiction?; is plot a consequence of monotheism?(ascribed to ASF's John W. Campbell Jr) |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Ben Bova: Welcome to Moonbase(nf); Tim Powers: On Stranger Tides; Warren Norwood: True Jaguar; Lisa Goldstein: A Mask for the General; Thomas Gavin: The Last Film of Emile Vico; briefly, Michael Shea: Polyphemus |
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Aldridge, Ray |
Touch of the Hook, The |
ss |
(1948- ) wn. for Raymon Huebert Aldridge; lives on Gulf Coast, FL; his 1st fiction sale was "Click" in Budrys(ed): WotF Vol.II(1986); "My wife Nancy is a pychologist, the ideal companion for an sf writer. I'm part Cherokee, & I grow wonderful tomatoes" |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon: Women Who Love Too Much Bar & Grill |
ct |
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