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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1988 JUL |
F&SF staff |
Competition 46 |
cmp |
suggested by John Brunner - the title of some sf stories can be regarded as the acronym of a phrase summarizing the plot, e.g.: Quicksand - Quite Unlikely Incident Connects Kooky Shrink And Naked Damsel |
| 1988 AUG |
Stableford, Brian |
Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady, The |
nv |
(1948- ) N-1989 LOC, nv; this story forms part of his novel The Empire of Fear(1988; N-1989 CLA, LOC), considered one of his best novels(Clute); 1st story pub. "Beyond Time's Aegis" in SCF 1965 w. Craig MacKintosh as by Brian Craig, a ps. B.S. uses |
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Jonik |
Cartoon: Approaching Earth, No Smoking |
ct |
Jonik's "major influence for doing political cartoons was George H.W. Bush (Papa). Had he not led the invasion of Iraq, this work might not have begun for a while."; Charles Addams & some French & British cartoonists were also influences |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: Robert Reed, a "potentially quite important" writer; Robert Reed: The Hormone Jungle; Algis Budrys(ed): L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol. IV |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
essay: why juvenile or young adult sf is so important, or should be, to us; William Sleator: The Boy Who Reversed Himself, Singularity, Into the Dream, Interstellar Pig, & Blackbriar; see Card's iv's in LOC 1987 JUN(#317), & 1992 JAN(#372) |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
Coming Soon |
note |
large postal rate & other increases will force a price increase by year end; effective in 1988 OCT issue, single issue price to go up from $1.75 to $2.00; note repeated in 1988 SEP, p.70 |
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Carter, Paul A. |
Joram Among the Dogs |
ss |
this story was a "classic case of the characters taking the tale away from its author. I had written the protagonist into a corner, & the more I plotted & planned, the deeper the hole I was digging him into. Then, in walked Fortunato ..." |
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White, Robert |
Natural Selection |
ss |
(1941?- ) his 1st sale; works as a literary agent |
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Resnick, Mike |
Beibermann's Soul |
ss |
has E.R.B.-like novels in Ganymede series, The Goddess of Ganymede(1967), Pursuit on Ganymede(1968); post-holocaust NY subway tale, Redbeard(1969); wrote over 200 novels under ps. before his 1st sf novel under his own name Galactica Discovers Earth(1980) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Films: Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 30: In Which the Li'l White Lies Thesis (Part Two) Takes Us By the Snout and Drags Us Unwillingly Toward a Door We Fear to Open |
mr |
Part 2 of film industry lies; white lies & plagiarism; film mentioned, Ladyhawke(1985), stars Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer; Part 1 in 1988 MAY(#5832), Part 3 in 1988 SEP(#5886); Ellison story "The Human Factor," 1995 Outer Limits ep. |
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Aandahl, Vance |
Natural Talent |
ss |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Eisenstein, Phyllis |
Beyond the Red Lord's Reach |
no-2/3 |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Fire of Life, The |
sces |
fuels & fire, Part 1 of 3; fire, how it brought life to Earth, & man to what he is today; getting fire from natural causes, & from solid fuels - wood, charcoal, coal; Part 2 in 1988 SEP(#5890), Part 3 in 1988 OCT(#5903) |
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Morressy, John |
Mirror, Mirror, Off the Wall |
nv |
10th story in F&SF in his Kedrigern the wizard series; some stories in his Kedrigern series were revised for fixup novel, The Questing of Kedrigern(1987) |
| 1988 SEP |
Cunningham, P.E. |
Son of Walks Through Fire, The |
ss |
on. p.23, Author's Note: The Indian Tribes described in this story did not actually exist, but are drawn from a compilation of the traditions & beliefs of several plains & desert peoples. The rest is the result of the writer's imagination. |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: an essay on Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Michael Bishop: Unicorn Mountain; Ellen Kushner: Swordspoint; Isaac Asimov: Prelude to Foundation; Terence M. Green: Barking Dogs; Card has anth. Dragons of Light(1980; N-1981 BRG, LOC, WFA), Dragons of Darkness(1981; N-1982 LOC) |
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Griffin, Russell |
Planesong |
ss |
has novel The Time-Servers(1985; N-1985 DIC), a satiric sf novel about bureaucrats on a wretched boondocks planet, black humor of the deepest dye(B&C) |
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Bradley, Marion Zimmer |
Malice of the Demon, The |
vi |
6th/last story in F&SF in Lythande ser.; has coll. The Best of ...(1985); anth. ser. Sword and Sorceress 1-14(1984-97); editor MZBFM 1988 SUM-2000 DEC; see iv's MZBFM 1989 SUM, LOC 1984 JAN(#276); ar in INZ #40 1990; W-2000 WFA, Lifetime Achievement |
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Dawes |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Landsberg, John M. |
Conditioning |
ss |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Films: Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 31: In Which the Li'l White Lies (Part Three) Approaches a Nascent State, Approaches the Dreadful Door, and En Route Questions Meat ... |
mr |
... Industry; The Running Man(1987), supposedly based on Stephen King's(as Richard Bachman) 1982 novel, but is actually a rewrite of Robert Sheckley's story "The Prize of Peril" in F&SF 1958 MAY; The Hidden(1987), ripoff of Clement's novel Needle(1950) |
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Thompson, Jessie |
Snowfall |
ss |
1st sale; "I now live in northern California near the ocean, & though I love the warm fog & soft nights, I think about what it would be like to live closer to the real true edge again. To stick my tongue to frozen metal on a deal. To walk on booming ice." |
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Goulart, Ron |
House of Secrets |
ss |
has Nostalgia series of articles in TWZ 1983 JUL/AUG-1985 JAN/FEB; novel Suicide, Inc.(1985) |
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Eisenstein, Phyllis |
Beyond the Red Lord's Reach |
no-3/3 |
teaches fiction writing classes at Columbia College of Chicago, & has edited anth./mag. from these classes, Spec-Lit No. 1(1997), & Spec-Lit No. 2(1998); see her editorials in these books for personal info & info on her writing group |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Slave of the Lamp, The |
sces |
fuels & fire, Part 2 of 3; liquid fuels, from melted fat or lard, to whale oil, oil, petroleum & kerosene; Part 1 in 1988 AUG(#5876), Part 3 in 1988 OCT(#5903) |
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Rucker, Rudy & Paul Di Filippo |
Instability |
ss |
1st story in F&SF in Di Filippo's Lost Pages ser.; Rucker has robot ser., Software(1982; W-1982 DIC), Wetware(1988; W-1988 DIC; N-1989 LOC), Freeware(1997), Realware(2000); nf Mind Tools (1987), Artificial Life Lab(1993), Saucer Wisdom(1999) |
| 1988 OCT |
Cross, Ronald Anthony |
Country Store, The |
ss |
1st story pub. sf "The Story of Three Cities" in Michael Moorcock & Charles Platt(ed): New Worlds 6(1973) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: alternate world histories, mentions Ward Moore's Bring the Jubilee, Keith Robert's Pavane; S.M. Stirling: Marching Through Georgia; William Sanders: Journey to Fusang |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
William Sleator: The Green Futures of Tycho, & Fingers; Ian Watson: Queenmagic, Kingmagic(abridged version a novella "Queenmagic, Pawnmagic" in F&SF 1986 SEP); Suzy McKee Charnas: The Silver Glove, & The Bronze King |
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Bradbury, Ray |
Lafayette Farewell |
ss |
1st pub. in his coll. The Toynbee Convector(1988); see interviews in The Leading Edge #17 1988, Fear! 1989 JAN/FEB & MAR/APR, Visions 1990 FLL, INZ 1991 JAN, Gauntlet #2 1991, MZoo #2 1991 MAR, LOC 1996 AUG(#427); ar in Midnight Zoo v.1 #6 1991 |
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Arno, Ed |
Cartoon: Birth of the Credibility Gap, The |
ct |
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Barker, Clive |
How Spoilers Bleed |
nv |
(1952- ) 1st pub. in Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Vol.6(1985); born & raised in Liverpool, started out as a playwright; 1st story pub. horror Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Vol.1-3(1984); see iv's in WRT 1988 FLL, CMD 1992 WIN & 1993 WIN, DTH 1996 AUT |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Pohl, Frederik |
Star War, The |
ss |
novels w. Jack Williamson, Farthest Star(1975), Wall Around a Star(1983), both in Cuckoo ser., & Land's End(1988), The Singers of Time(1991), Outnumbering the Dead(1990), Stopping at Slowyear(1991); nf Chasing Science(2000); W-1992 NEB, Grandmaster Award |
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Grant, Charles L. |
City Boy |
nv |
has colls. The Black Carousel(1995), A Quiet Way to Scream(1996); anth. Gothic Ghosts(1997, w. Wendy Webb); novels Symphony(1997), Watcher(1997); Black Oak ser., Genesis(1998), Hush of Dark Wings(1999); W-1999 STO, for Lifetime Achievement |
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Davidson, Avram |
While You're Up |
vi |
has nf coll., Adventures in Unhistory(1993); he was a visiting lecturer or guest writer at the Univ. of Washington, Univ. of California(Irvine), Univ. of Texas(El Paso), Univ. of Michigan, & the College of William and Mary; see www.avramdavidson.com |
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Wightman, Wayne |
Rat Run |
ss |
has pub. over 35 short stories, between 1980-1999, in mags. AMZ, FAN, F&SF, ASI, PLP, Omni, The Thirteenth Moon, & in anth. Charles L. Grant(ed): Shadows #6(1983), and Lewis Shiner(ed): When the Music's Over(1991) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Horse Under the Hood, The |
sces |
fuels & fire, Part 3 of 3; gasoline & automobiles; the development of the automobile from the horse-pulled & the steam-driven carriages, to the gas guzzler; Part 1 in 1988 AUG(#5876), Part 2 in 1988 SEP(#5890) |
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Shepard, Lucius |
Wooden Tiger, A |
nv |
a CIA agent in Calcutta develops qualms about his job & goes in search of a goddess, only to run into some strange & violent complications; a Clarion graduate, has article "How I Spent My Summer Vacation: A Student Perspective on Clarion," ASI 1985 FEB |
| 1988 NOV |
Resnick, Mike |
Kirinyaga |
nv |
W-1989 HUG, SFC; N-1988 NEB; 1989 LOC; 1st story in F&SF in Kirinyaga ser.; a far future Kikuyu witch doctor who lives atop Kirinyaga mountain, & the forces which he fights to make him leave a deadly Earth for a colony in space; pub. as a chapbook in 1992 |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: at one time one could read all sf that was being written, not so now; writing for target audiences; how has this changed the way writers write; Esther M. Friesner: Druid's Blood; Kevin J. Anderson: Resurrection, Inc. |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman: The Darksword Trilogy: Forging the Darksword, & Doom of the Darksword; Tom Deitz: Fireshaper's Doom; Card has coll. Cardography(1987; N-1988 LOC); has writing credits for movie The Dig(1995) |
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Disch, Thomas M. |
Audition, The |
ply |
play orig. written as a piece of grand guignol for an anth. of plays that never appeared; Disch working on a modernist adaptation of Ben-Hur for an off-Broadway company; has dark fantasy/horror novel The Priest(1994; N-1995 LOC); see iv in LOC 2001 JUN |
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McAuley, Paul J. |
Inheritance |
nv |
has 1st novel, Four Hundred Billion Stars(1988; W-1988 DIC; N-1989 LOC), & sequels Of the Fall(1989; vt Secret Harmonies, UK), Eternal Light(1991; N-1992 BSF, CLA, LOC); has coll. The King of the Hill and Other Stories(1991), The Invisible Country(1996) |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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