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Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1991 OCT/NOV |
Ellison, Harlan |
Films: Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 46: In Which We Bend So Far Over Backwards to Be Unbiased That You Can See the Nose Hairs Quiver With Righteousness |
mr |
essay: when your favorite unsung becomes popular, it's tough to stay unbiased; The Rocketeer(1991), based on graphic novel by Dave Stevens, stars Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly; he welcomes Kris Rusch(new F&SF editor) & Kathi Maio(new film reviewer) |
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Maio, Kathi |
Films: Love After Death |
mr |
essay: "why ghost movies are currently so popular"; Defending Your Life(1991), dir./written/stars Mel Brooks; Switch(1991), stars Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Smits; Truly, Madly, Deeply(1991 UK); Maio film reviewer for Sojourner: The Women's Forum since 1985 |
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Resnick, Mike |
Winter Solstice |
ss |
N-1992 HUG, LOC, ss; "examines the way memory works ... a fantasy, takes the old sorcerer Merlin & makes him new again"; has novel Stalking the Unicorn: A Fable of Tonight(1987); coll. Will the Last Person to Leave the Planet Please Shut Off the Sun?('92) |
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Tilton, Lois |
Just and Lasting Peace, A |
ss |
has novel Darkness on the Ice(1993), a vampire horror novel set on Greenland during WWII, where a Nazi vampire is consuming every human on the island(B&C) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Wright, Gary |
Something on the Stairs There Be |
ss |
has 1st novel fantasy The Road West(1990), about an orphan boy's adventures in a mountain wilderness(B&C) |
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Jonik |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Di Filippo, Paul |
Grange, The |
nv |
in his hometown, "When kids were initiated into the grange, they were blindfolded, told they would have to 'ride a black goat,' then led to some sort of goat simulacrum. Spooky!" |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Unchanging Amount, The |
sces |
conservation of momentum & energy, Part 2 of 2; the conservation of energy - also known as the First Law of Thermodynamics - and entropy; the heat death of the Universe, & the Second Law of Thermodynamics; Part 1 in 1991 SEP(#6408) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Laidlaw, Marc |
Gasoline Lake |
na |
post-holocaust story, "set in a future where the world has dried up & water is as precious as gold ..."; has satirical sf novel Kalifornia(1993), set in a future where stars' lives are transmitted directly from their senses to their fans(F&SF) |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: Dr. Quark (Low-Tech Physicist) |
ct |
1st cartoon in his Dr. Quark, Low-Tech Physicist series; this one about "slow water"; "only precedent (for this ser.) was a comic strip I did for about 1 year in National Lampoon in the 1970s. It featured a president who was something like Dr. Q." |
| 1991 DEC |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
ed |
child abuse, violence: do they belong in fiction?; "First job of fiction is ... to entertain ... the very best fiction brings a nugget of truth to that entertainment, a nugget that at times is difficult to face" |
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MacLeod, Ian R. |
Perfect Stranger, The |
nv |
(1956- ) "moody sf story about a dream vacation, it examines the importance of memory, love & time"; lives in Solihull, West Midlands, UK; has law degree from Birmingham Polytechnic; worked in the civil service before becoming a fulltime writer in 1990 |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Aandahl, Vance |
Pinched |
ss |
story "examines the things that make us human"; "about a convict on an interstellar deportation ship"(Scott Winnett, LOC 1991 DEC, p.59) |
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Aldridge, Ray |
Fabularium, The |
ss |
N-1992 NEB, short story |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: when is a technomilitary thriller sf?; Tom Clancy: The Sum of All Fears; Michael Swanwick: Gravity's Angels |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Ursula K. Le Guin: Catwings, & Catwings Return; Jane Yolen: Wizard's Hall; Gordon Korman: Don't Care High; "Genre Con," YASD & ALA recommended reading list in SF, Fantasy, Horror |
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Mayhar, Ardath |
Adapter, The |
ss |
(1930- ) began pub. poetry in 1940s, has historicals & westerns as Frank Cannon, non-sf/f books as John Killdeer & Sarah MacWilliams; 1st pub. sf/f "The Cat with the Sapphire Eyes" in Weirdbook #8 1973; has coll. Slewfoot Sally and the Flying Mule(1995) |
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Counsil, Wendy |
Black Handkerchiefs |
ss |
lives in San Francisco |
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Heath |
Cartoon: In Case of Emergency Break Glass |
ct |
Heath writes, "Appearing in F&SF, where my pen lines bump up against bylines I admire, was (and continues to be) a great pleasure." |
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Morressy, John |
Tale of Three Wizards, A |
ss |
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Maio, Kathi |
Films: Robin Hood |
mr |
essay: the Robin Hood legend in films; The Merry Adventures of R.H.(1922); Adventures of R.H.(1938); Robin and Marian(1976); Time Bandits(1981); reviews Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves(1991), w. Kevin Costner; Robin Hood(1991 TV), w. Patrick Bergin |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Beyond Light |
sces |
electromagnetic radiation; radio waves, infra-red waves, X-rays, ultraviolet rays, gamma rays, cosmic rays, neutrinos & gravitons - how they have been used thru history to study the universe; has nf book Asimov's Chronology of Science & Discovery(1994) |
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Whitlock, Dean |
Man Who Loved Kites, The |
nv |
says "I became a kite aficionado over the summer, & was inspired to write this tale. The main events are taken from Chinese oral tradition & written history ... have jumbled together some actual names from (them) to provide monikers for my characters" |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 54 |
cmp |
1st prize: Paul Petrella; 2nd prize: M. Sullivan; R-U: Orson Scott Card; Douglas F. Wood; H-M: Harlan Ellison; Carla Henry; William J. Keck; Timothy E. Walters; Dan Lakey Jr; of note: John Brunner, & Orson Scott Card |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 55 |
cmp |
suggested by Amy McCormick - take a popular cliche & update it for today's (or a future) use, e.g.: "A microchip off the old block" |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 81: 1991 JUL-DEC |
indx |
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Struthers, Andrew |
Cartoon |
ct |
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