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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1991 APR |
Counsil, Wendy |
Stigmata |
ss |
her 1st fiction sale; lives in San Francisco, writes fulltime, works part-time as a computer network administrator; has pub. poetry & nf; story grew partly from her work as a crisis counselor in the 1970s; readers warned story is disturbing due to subject |
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Shaw, Bob |
Lunch of Champions |
ss |
has Ragged Astronauts seq., The Ragged Astronauts(1986; W-1987 BSF; N-CLA, HUG, LOC), The Wooden Spaceships(1988), The Fugitive Worlds(1989); Fire Pattern(1984), Warren Peace(1993), Dimensions(1994); coll. Dark Night in Toyland(1989) |
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Bird, R.P. |
Illness in a Word |
ss |
he is a graduate student in history & struggling professional writer; "to him, history & fiction are related, like the opposite sides of the same coin" |
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Koja, Kathe |
Neglected Garden, The |
ss |
has 1st novel, sf/horror, The Cipher(1991; W-1992 LOC, STO; N-1991 DIC), about a would-be poet who & his experience with a black hole in his apartment building that leads to another dimension(B&C) |
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Frazier, Robert |
Mummers |
ss |
says this story emerges from one of the points of convergence in the American Consciousness - everyone seems to remember exactly what they were doing when they heard the news from Dallas in November 1963 |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Lee, Michael |
Stranger in the Green Chair |
ss |
fulltime freelance writer, has pub. in a variety of newspapers & magazines; lives on Cape Cod, & writes a weekly humor column for the Cape Cod Newspaper Group |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Skimming the Nearest |
sces |
planet Mercury; its physical characteristics; how it compares with the inner planets & the larger satellites; what was learned from Mariner X(1973-75); see essays on Mercury, "The Seventh Planet" & "The Dance of the Sun" in 1968 MAR & APR |
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Aldridge, Ray |
Gate of Faces |
nv |
W-1992 SFC; N-1991 NEB, novelette; "the story of a dying longhauler named John Thinwolf, stranded on an odd & menacing outpost called Jaworld" |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: Working With Hahnium, Which Has a Half-Life of 35 Seconds |
ct |
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| 1991 MAY |
Conner, Mike |
Guide Dog |
nv |
W-1991 NEB, novelette; 1st story in Guide Dog ser.; story listed in TOC & on the cover incorrectly as by Mike Connor; see Conner's intro to this story in Morrow(ed): Nebula Awards 27(1993), in which he explains how he came up with the idea for this story |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
M. Shayne Bell: Nicoji; Nina Kiriki Hoffman: Author's Choice Monthly #14; Gene Wolfe: Castleview |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Alexander Jablokov: Carve the Sky; Chris Van Allsburg: Just a Dream; Peter Collington: On Christmas Eve; Thornton W. Burgess: Old Mother West Wind; The Best of the Best I Read - Fantasy, SF, Young Adult, Picture Books, & Computer Books |
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Haldeman, Joe |
Images |
ss |
N-1992 LOC, ss; has novels Mindbridge(1976; N-1977 HUG, LOC), All My Sins Remembered(1977 fixup; N-1978 LOC), There Is No Darkness(1983; w. Jack C. Haldeman II), Tool of the Trade(1987), Buying Time(1989; N-1990 LOC), The Long Habit of Living(1989) |
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Caraker, Mary |
Sandwalk, The |
ss |
has sf/mystery novella, I Remember, I Remember(1991 chap), about a woman who awakens from suspended animation aboard a colony ship without any memory of how she got there |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Denton, Bradley |
Skidmore |
ss |
has omnibus coll./boxed set, The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians & A Conflagration Artist(1994; W-1995 WFA); coll. in Blackburn seriesOne Day Closer to Death(1998), in which story "Blackburn Bakes Cookies" was N-1998 STO |
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Bisson, Terry |
Coon Suit, The |
vi |
(1942- ) born in Madisonville, KY; lives in Brooklyn, NY; 1964 BA from Univ. of Louisville; editor & copywriter; 1st novel pub. heroic fantasy/romance, Wyrldmaker(1981); see iv's in INZ #40 1990, LOC 1991 JUL(#366), PWr #13 1997, & Odyssey 1997 NOV/DEC |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Matz, Marc |
At Cost |
ss |
(1951?- ) J. Marc Matz, an L.A. small businessman & part-time writer; helps to run his family's cosmetic business; 1st story pub. "Despite and Still" in Writers of the Future, Vol. V(1989); 1st novel, Nocturne for a Dangerous Man(1999; N-2000 LOC) |
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Cross, Ronald Anthony |
Hanging Out With Bitsy |
ss |
warning - "there is some pretty strong stuff in this account of a teacher who may be an awful teacher from another world & a student ... who may be ... the meanest you have ever met" |
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Russo, Richard Paul |
Open Boat, The |
ss |
has near-future urban dystopian sf novel Subterranean Gallery(1989; W-1989 DIC; N-1992 CLA); cyberthriller police detective Frank Carlucci series, Destroying Angel(1992; N-1993 CLA), Carlucci's Edge(1995; N-1995 DIC), Carlucci's Heart(1997; N-1997 DIC) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: This Pitiless Storm |
sces |
planet Jupiter's Great Red Spot; how it has been viewed thru history, its physical dimensions & other details; analyzing the behavior of the Spot; mysteries about the Spot; how it compares with what's been found on the other gas giants |
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Rosenblum, Mary |
Spirit-Dancing on the Evergreen Point Bridge |
nv |
(1953- ) lives in Portland, OR; has BS in Biology; fulltime writer since 1988, attended Clarion in 1989; 1st sale "For a Price" in ASI 1990 JUN; has 1st novel, Chimera(1993; N-1994 LOC), a virtual reality sf novel of intrigue & mayhem on the global net |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: Birth of Self-Consciousness, The |
ct |
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| 1991 JUN |
Ferman, Edward L. |
Editorial |
ed |
announcing his resignation as editor of F&SF after 25 years; will continue being its publisher; F&SF's new editor, beginning with the next issue, 1991 JUL, will be Kristine Kathryn Rusch - a freelance since 1982, W-1989 JWC as Best New Writer |
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Fowler, Karen Joy |
Dark, The |
ss |
N-1992 LOC, short story; has 2nd novel The Sweetheart Season(1996), the story of an all-female baseball team formed in 1947 in Magrit, MN; see interviews in INZ #23 1988, Fear! 1991 MAR, & LOC 1993 SEP(#392), 1999 JUL(#462) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon: From the USAF UFO File |
ct |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
George Alec Effinger: The Exile Kiss; Keith Laumer: Judson's Eden; Dwight V. Swain: Monster |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Frederik Pohl & Jack Williamson: The Singers of Time; Sim Earth(a computer game) |
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Gilman, Carolyn Ives |
Wordworld |
ss |
has nf books on frontier & American Indian history, incl. The Northern Expeditions of Stephen H. Long(1978), w. Lucile M. Kane & June D. Holmquist; The Red River Trails(1978), w. Rhoda R. Gilman & Deborah M. Stultz |
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Slesar, Henry |
Deuce |
ss |
has written several ABC Wide World Mystery dramas; mystery/horror novel The Thing at the Dorr(1974); W-1999 Derringer Award, Lifetime Acievement, given by the Short Mystery Fiction Society; see his obits in LOC 2002 MAY(#496), SFC 2002 JUL(#226) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. |
Better Morphosis |
ss |
1st pub. in Nasacon II Programbook(1990), read aloud at IAFA Conference of the Fantastic, March 1990; has sf novels The Year Before Yesterday(1987), Dracula Unbound(1991); non-sf Life in the West(1990), Remembrance Day(1993), Somewhere East of Life(1994) |
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Bova, Ben |
Vacuum Cleaner |
na |
5th story in F&SF in Sam Gunn ser.; has Voyagers ser., Voyagers(1981), The Alien Within(1986), Star Brothers(1990); also in Orion ser., Orion('84), Escape Plus('84 coll.), Vengeance of Orion('88), Orion in the Dying Time('90), Orion and the Conqueror('94) |
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Davidson, Avram |
Day They All Came Back, The |
vi |
see his obit & appreciations(tributes), in LOC 1993 JUN(#389) & JUL(#390), obit in CA, vol.171; has colls. The Investigations of Avram Davidson(1999), 13 of his tales of mystery & crime; The Other Nineteenth Century(2001), coll. of his historical fantasy |
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Eide, Wennicke |
Blue Angel |
nv |
working name for Wennicke Eide Cox; born in Norway during WWII, where she still lives; has also pub. fiction in AMZ 1991 SEP, & in ASI 1993 JUL |
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Hauser |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Royal Gamma |
sces |
electromagnetic radiation - gamma rays, the most energetic of the known photons, with high particle properties; from its discovery on Earth to its discovery in other parts of the universe, incl. the recently found 'bursters' |
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Davis, Grania |
Blessed/Damned Thornston Emerald, The |
ss |
has novels Dr. Grass(1978), The Great Perpendicular Path(1980); Moonbird(1986), set near Bali, deals with the dilemma of a native shaman—whose travels with his God make up most of the novel—when a group of North Americans invade his home(Clute) |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 80: 1991 JAN-JUN |
indx |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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| 1991 JUL |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
ed |
new editor of F&SF shares w. the magazine a "sense of history"; promises changes at F&SF will be "structurally sound" as she "values history, & yet ... embrace(s) the future," a sort of an informal theme for her 1st issue of F&SF; see article LOC 1991 FEB |
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Cassutt, Michael |
Extraordinary Measures |
ss |
N-1992 NEB, short story; has worked on TV series W.I.O.U.(1990-91, writer-producer), Strange Luck(1995-1996; 17 ep.); freelance scripts for Alice, Misfits of Science(1985-86), Dungeons & Dragons(1983, 27 ep.), SeaQuest DSV(1993-95, 59 ep.), etal |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Tritten, Larry |
Travels With Harry |
ss |
has pub. fiction & non-fiction in PBY, & in Writer's Digest |
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Daniel, Tony |
Locust |
ss |
grew up in Alabama, but now lives in Seattle, WA; 1989 graduate of Clarion West; has 1st sale "The Passage of Night Trains" in ASI 1990 m-DEC; 1st novel Warpath(1993); Earthling(1997); coll. The Robot's Twilight Companion(1999; N-2000 LOC) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Ralph Peters: The War in 2020; Michele Slung(ed): I Shudder at Your Touch; Les Daniels: No Blood Spilled |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Faren Miller: The Illusionists; M. Shayne Bell: Nicoji |
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Reed, Robert |
Pipes |
ss |
N-1992 LOC, short story; "the effect that human beings have on the environment" |
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Springer, Nancy |
Autumn Mist |
ss |
"ties together the motifs of the issue: the need for change, for preserving the past, & the effect we have on the environment"; has Sea King trilogy, Madbond(1987), Mindbond(1987), Godbond(1988); The Hex Witch of Seldom(1988), Not on a White Horse(1988) |
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