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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1990 AUG |
Burt, Katharine Newlin |
Herself |
ss |
(1882-1977) 1st pub. in Scribner's Magazine, 1930 APR; wrote ya westerns, mysteries & light romances, from The Branding Iron(1919) to One Silver Spur(1968); was a fiction editor of the Ladies Home Journal; married to novelist Struthers Burt |
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Morressy, John |
Three Wishes, The |
ss |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon: Limbo |
ct |
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Aldridge, Ray |
We Were Butterflies |
ss |
has Emancipator ser. of novels, The Emancipator, Book I: The Pharoah Contract(1991), Book II: The Emperor of Everything(1992), & Book III: The Orpheus Machine(1992), set on a planet used by an interstellar corporation as a breeding ground for slave labor |
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Jonik |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Haber, Karen |
His Spirit Wife |
ss |
also Fire in Winter seq., Mutant Star(1992), Mutant Legacy(1992); Thieve's Carnival(1990), a prequel to Leigh Brackett's The Jewel of Bas(PLS 1944 SPR), both pub. in a Tor double; The War Minstrels(1995), Woman Without a Shadow(1995), Sister Blood(1996) |
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Tritten, Larry |
Crossweird Puzzle |
spf |
a 'crossword puzzle' for sf/f & horror aficionados; sample clues: (1. Across) What Norman Bates gets himself for Mother's Day; (38. Down) Ingredients of Stanislaw; (72. Across) Joke played by Incredible Shrinking Man on his tailor |
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Gregory, Daryl |
In the Wheels |
nv |
his 1st sale; "son of Tennessee mountain people, as parts of the story might suggest"; grew up in Illinois; lives in East Lansing, MI; teaches high school English |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Greatest Conquest, The |
sces |
evolution & life on land; how life on land began & evolved, from plants through invertebrates, amphibians, reptiles, & mammals; Asimov created Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Mag. 1977 SPR-1992 OCT, Asimov's Science Fiction 1992 NOV-present (or ASI) |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
Responses to "Just Say 'No'?" |
lttr |
responses to Isaac Asimov's science essay in 1990 MAY(#6167), on solving drug & alcohol abuse, etc; John Thomas Richards; Bruce Sterling; Peter H. Vennema; Al Zelaya; Debbie Richardson; Poul Anderson; Robert W. Sandberg; Edward R. Fitzgerald |
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Keizer, Gregg |
Days of Miracles and Wonder |
nv |
now lives in northwest LA, a publisher for a software company; story grew from his fascination w. the contradictions of S. Africa - the heartlessness of apartheid within a strongly religious people, the natural beauty of a country that suffers corruption |
| 1990 SEP |
Cross, Ronald Anthony |
All the Way to Teelee Town |
nv |
has 1st novel in Eternal Guardians seq., The Fourth Guardian(1994), an sf alternate historical conspiracy-theory novel about four Roman conspirators who stole stones of power & have used them to shape human history(B&C) |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Tom de Haven: Chronicles of the King's Tramp, Book 1: Walker of Worlds; Rudy Rucker: The Hollow Earth: The Narrative of Mason Algiers Reynolds of Virginia; Andrew Weiner: Distant Signals |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: At Home With the Einsteins |
ct |
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Frazier, Robert |
Blood Simple |
pm |
has colls. of mostly sf poems, Perception Barriers(1987), Co-Orbital Moons/Prayer Wheels of Bluewater(1988; with Loss Pequenġ Glazier), Chronicles of the Mutant Rain Forest(1992; with Bruce Sterling), Invisible Machines(1994; with Andrew Joron) |
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Winston-Macauley, Marnie |
Perfect Solution, The |
nv |
(1949?- ) lives in NYC; former prison administrator, now a fulltime freelance writer; has nf books, Manspeak: What He Says and What He Really Means(1996), Men We Love to Hate(1996), The Ultimate Sex, Love & Romance Quiz Book II(1996) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Griffin, Peni R. |
Dammery Mica |
ss |
has ya novels A Dig in Time(1991), Hobkin(1992; N-1993 MYT), Switching Well(1993; N-1995 MYT); ya mystery novels The Maze(1994), The Treasure Bird(1994), The Brick House Burglars(1994), Vikki Vanishes(1995), the latter about child abuse |
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Whitlock, Dean |
Fax Man, The |
ss |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Films: Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 42: In Which It Waddles Like a Duck, Sheds Water Like a Duck, and Goes Steady With Ducks, But Turns Out to Be a Tortoise |
mr |
essay: "money is a cheap way to gauge success or ultimate value"; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(1990), based on comic book characters created by Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird(from Sharon, CT), & how they came up with them, dir. by Steve Barron |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Cook, Paul |
Master of the House |
nv |
(1950- ) this story accidentally printed without an intro blurb, corrected by blurb being pub. in 1990 NOV issue, p.90; Paul Harlin Cook; has sf novels Tintagel(1981), Duende Meadow(1985); Halo(1986), Fortress on the Sun(1997), The Engines of Dawn(1999) |
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Johnson, Bill |
Vote Early, Vote Often |
ss |
has novelette "We Will Drink a Fish Together ..." in ASI 1997 MAY(W-1998 HUG & Asimov's Reader's Poll; N-1997 NEB; 1998 LOC) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Target: Earth |
sces |
meteors & meteorites; meteoric craters on Earth, the Tunguska River, Siberia, impact explosion; see essay "The Rocks of Damocles" on Earth-grazing asteroids & meteorite craters on Earth in 1966 MAR(#2324) |
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Cassutt, Michael |
Curious Elation |
ss |
this story to be in an anth. of sf/f with Catholic themes, co-edited by Cassutt, & Andrew M. Greeley: Sacred Visions(1991); Cassutt also worked on the TV series Beverly Hills 90210; Eerie, Indiana(1991; 19 ep.); Sirens(1992-93, writer-producer) |
| 1990 OCT |
Kessel, John |
Invaders |
nv |
N-1991 LOC, novelette; has anth., with Richard Butner & Mark L. Van Name, Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology(1996; N-1997 LOC); has audio play produced by the Seeing Ear Theater(www.scifi.com/set/originals) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Katharine Kerr: Polar City Blues; William Gibson: Mona Lisa Overdrive; Charles N. Brown & William G. Contento: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: 1984 |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Mike Resnick: Second Contact; Kris Jensen: Freemaster |
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Tepper, Sheri S. |
Gazebo, The |
ss |
(1929- ) 1st story in Crazy Carol series; born near Littleton, CO; pub. three poems in GAL 1961-1964 as Sheri S. Eberhart; 1st pub. novel fantasy True Game ser. King's Blood Four(1983; N-1984 LOC), Necromancer Nine(1983), Wizard's Eleven(1984) |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Films: Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 43: In Which We Lament, "There Goes the Neighborhood!" |
mr |
Robocop(1987), dir. Paul Verhoeven, scrnply by Ed Neumeier & Michael Miner; Robocop 2(1990), dir. Irvin Kershner, scrnply by Walon Green & comic book writer Frank Miller; both star Peter Weller & Nancy Allen; Ellison has nf coll. The H. E. Hornbook(1991) |
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Sterling, Bruce |
Hollywood Kremlin |
nv |
1st story in Leggy Starlitz ser.; another story in ser., "Are You for 86?" in coll. Globalhead(1992); has nf book The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Order on the Electronic Frontier(1992); see iv's in INZ #15 1986 & 1994 MAY, LOC 1988 MAY, 1991 MAY & 1996 MAY |
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Resnick, Mike |
Frankie the Spook |
ss |
has novels The Soul Eater(1981), Walpurgis III(1982), The Branch(1984); Tales of the Galactic Midway Sideshow(1982) ser., The Best Rootin' Tootin' Gunslinger in the Whole Damned Galaxy(1983), The Three-Legged Hootch Dancer(1983), The Wild Alien Tamer('83) |
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Heath |
Cartoon |
ct |
Heath has sold two sf short stories, in PrW #11 1996 & in online sf mag. Strange Horizons on 10/16/00; "my talent seems strongest when I'm writing captions (or editors are more willing to forgive my work when it doesn't exceed a few sentences)." |
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Farmer, Philip José |
One Down, One to Go |
ss |
has colls. Greatheart Silver(1982), The Grand Adventure(1984); novels Dark Is the Sun(1979; 1987), Doc Savage: Escape from Loki(1991), Red Orc's Rage(1991), The Caterpillar's Question(1992, w. Piers Anthony), Nothing Burns in Hell(1998) |
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Denton, Bradley |
Jimmy Blackburn Flies a Kite |
ss |
1st & only story in F&SF in Jimmy Blackburn ser.; other stories in ser. pub. in PLP #6 1990 & PLP 1991 AUG 17; stories coll. in fixup novel, Blackburn: A Novel(1993), about a serial murderer and his victims(reviewed in F&SF 1993 SEP, & OCT/NOV) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Out of the Typewriter, Endlessly Writing |
sces |
personal reminiscence; how & why he is such a prolific writer, his work habits, & how his prolific writing has affected his family life; after Asimov's death, his magazine created the Isaac Asimov Award, for the best sf/f story by an undergraduate |
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Schenck, Hilbert |
Down East Storm, A |
ss |
see Schenck's entry in the St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers(1996) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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| 1990 NOV |
Garcia y Robertson, R. |
Four Kings and an Ace |
na |
set in a mythical San Francisco sometime between the Gold Rush & the Great Quake, a young Chinese girl named Boy Toy passes thru the Golden Gate & into a series of perilous adventures |
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Jonik |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Isaac Asimov & Robert Silverberg: Nightfall; Arthur C. Clarke: Tales from the Planet Earth |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Alan Rodgers: Fire; Lynne Reid Banks: The Fairy Rebel |
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Roberts, John Maddox |
Skinsuit |
ss |
has Cingulum ser., The Cingulum(1985), Cloak of Illusion(1985), The Sword, the Jewel, and the Mirror(1988); Act of God ser. w. Yoji Kondo(as Eric Kotani), Act of God(1985), The Island Worlds(1987), Between the Stars(1988); Murder in Tarsis(1996) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Reed, Robert |
Bushwhacker |
ss |
has sf novel The Hormone Jungle(1988), a far future tale about a class of short-lived, cloned, high-tech courtesans known as Flowers, & about one in particular who is desperate to avoid the mortality programmed into her body(Dan Chow, LOC 1988 FEB, p.41) |
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Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Inspiration |
ss |
has book, novella The Gallery of His Dreams(1991 chap; ASI 1991 SEP; W-1991 HOM; 1992 LOC; N-1991 NEB; 1992 HUG, WFA), a time-travel tale featuring the photographer Matthew B. Brady(c.1823-1896), known for covering the Civil War(Clute) |
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Arno, Ed |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Davidson, Avram |
Mr. Rob't E. Hoskins |
ss |
has colls. The Avram Davidson Treasury(1998; W-1999 LOC), & Everybody Has Somebody in Heaven: Essential Jewish Tales of the Spirit(2000); has Jack Limekiller story orig. pub as by Conrad Amber, The Beasts of the Elysian Fields(2001; chapbook) |
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O'Donnell, Kevin Jr |
Pieces of the Puzzle, The |
ss |
(1950- ) born in Cleveland, OH; has BA in Chinese Studies from Yale Univ.; lives in CA; 1st story pub. sf "The Hand Is Quicker" in ANA 1973 OCT; 1st novel Bander Snatch(1979); ORA:CLE(1984); Fire on the Border(1990); see entry in CANR, vol.23 |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Invention of the Devil, The |
sces |
photography, Part 1 of 4; how photography was invented & came about, from representative cave art to camera obscura, daguerrotypes & wet plate process to George Eastman's celluloid acetate films; Parts 2, 3, & 4 in 1990-91 DEC-FEB |
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