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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1992 SEP |
F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 56 |
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1st prize: David Slusher; 2nd prize: Richard H. Langley; R-U: William S. Cornell; David S. Bloch; Sam Robb; H-M: Johanna Schenk; Michele Winkler; Lisa M. Ray; Jane Yolen; John S. Quinn |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 57 |
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suggested by Donald Franson - submit sf/f vanity plates, not to exceed 7-8 letters, e.g.: SF FAN, or CTHULHU |
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Laidlaw, Marc |
Cartoon: Thinking Man's "Godzilla," The (Pretentious B-Movies) |
ct |
2nd & last cartoon in his Thinking Man's movies series |
| 1992 OCT/NOV |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
ed |
"intermingling careers & influences" betw. writers, other writers, & their editors; Rusch has 1st horror novel Facade(1993), in which a well-known actor returns the beach house where a murder & his daughter disappeared, sparking more incidents(B&C) |
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Haldeman, Joe |
Graves |
ss |
W-1993 LOC, NEB, ss; WFA, shfi; has Worlds ser., Worlds(1981; N-1982 LOC), Worlds Apart(1983; N-1984 LOC), Worlds Enough and Time(1992; N-1993 LOC); The Hemingway Hoax(1990; N-1991 LOC); coll. None So Blind(1996; W-1997 LOC), etc |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Alexander Jablokov: No Deeper Sea; Kristine Kathryn Rusch: The White Mists of Power; Bradley Denton: Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede |
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Wolfe, Gene |
Legend of Xi Cygnus, The |
ss |
has The Book of the Long Sun ser., Nightside the Long Sun(1993; N-1993 NEB), Lake of the Long Sun(1994), Caldé of the Long Sun(1994; N-1994 NEB), Exodus from the Long Sun(1996); omnibus Litany of the Long Sun(1994), Epiphany of the Long Sun(1997) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Brunner, John & J*rge L**s B*rg*s |
Dead Man, The: A Posthumous Collaboration |
ss |
2nd & last story in F&SF in Imaginary Collaborations ser.; has novels A Maze of Stars(1991), about a sentient ship charged w. protecting human settlements on other worlds; Muddle Earth(1993), humorous sf novel where Earth is a 24th century tourist spot |
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Watson, Ian |
Looking Down on You |
ss |
story's genesis was a Dusseldorf SF convention at which he & Terry Pratchett were guests of honor ... incl. a trip to the Rhine Tower |
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de Lint, Charles |
Bridges |
ss |
N-1993 WFA, short fiction; 1st story in F&SF in Newford ser.; ser. stories in many mags. & anth., coll. in Dreams Underfoot(1993), The Ivory and the Horn(1995), & Moonlight and Vines(1999; W-1999 WFA; 2000 LOC); see entry in CA, vol.126, p.72-73 |
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Reed, Kit |
Hall of New Faces, The |
ss |
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Nordley, G. David |
Barriers |
ss |
wn. for Gerald David Nordley; born in Minneapolis, MN; has BA in Physics (Macalester College), MS in Systems Management(USCLA), 2 PhD's; retired USAF Major; 1st sale was "The Snows of Venus" in ANA 1991 MAY; see Biolog in ANA 1994 FEB |
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Masear, Arthur |
Cartoon: No Radio |
ct |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: Salvaging the Library of Life |
ar |
species preservation & their ecosystems for future generations by creating a 'frozen' Library of Life; we can't stop our destruction of the species, so we should save some for a more technologically advanced future that might be able to reintroduce them |
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Watt-Evans, Lawrence |
Spirit Dump |
ss |
(1954- ) wn. for Lawrence Watt Evans; 1st story pub. sf/f "Paranoid Fantasy #1" in American Atheist 1975 AUG; 1st novel, Lords of Dus ser., The Lure of the Basilisk(1980); Legend of Ethshar ser., latest Night of Madness(2000); see website www.sff.net |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Springer, Nancy |
Don't Look Back |
ss |
about this story, "Where I learned to wish on a white horse, I don't remember. It's just another childhood superstition ..."; has novels Apocalypse(1989), Red Wizard(1990), The Friendship Song(1992), The Blind God Is Watching(1994), Metal Angel(1994) |
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Richerson, Carrie |
Dying Breed, A |
ss |
her 1st professional short story sale; 1st story in Sheriff Doris Webster & the Returning Dead series; about story, says "The dead are a different species from the living, more alien than anything that could come from the stars ..."; lives near Austin, TX |
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Bisson, Terry |
Canción Autentica de Old Earth |
ss |
has story "Bears Discover Fire" in ASI 1990 AUG, which W-1990 NEB; 1991 HUG, STU, LOC; see his websites at www.sff.net/people/ & at www.terrybisson.com, the latter giving a full biography & bibliography, as well as works that are forthcoming |
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Williamson, Jack |
Birds' Turn, The |
ss |
has Humanoids ser., The Humanoids(ASF 1948 MAR-MAY; rev. 1949; w. ASF 1947 JUL, 1980 coll.), "Jamboree" in GAL 1969 DEC, & The Humanoid Touch(1980); Dragon's Island(1951; vt The Not-Men, 1969), The Dome Around America(1953) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Hard Landing |
no |
N-1993 NEB; 1994 HUG, LOC, SFC, novel; entire text of his new novel; the story of 4 aliens who crash-land in the pine barrens of New Jersey, & who then try to live quietly among the unsuspecting humans |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: Dr. Quark - Dr. Quark Cleans Up Another Experiment (So to Speak) |
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5th cartoon in his Dr. Quark series; this one about an (in)efficient experiment of his |
| 1992 DEC |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
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don't ask what the trends & patterns in sf/f are, ask instead "where is the literature taking us ... (it) is leading us where it always does: back to ourselves"; Rusch has novel Heart Readers(1993), about a person who judges the purity of princes' heart |
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Wilber, Rick |
Ice Covers the Hole |
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N-1993 NEB, novelette; co-editor with Richard Mathews of Sub-Tropical Speculations(1991), an anth. of Florida-themed sf; has ya mystery, The Secret Skater(1996), as by Robin Aran; edits Fiction Quarterly, the Tampa Tribune literary supplement |
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Heath |
Cartoon: Martin Nabs a Leperchaun |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: Stephen King - "no one is as good as King at writing the kind of thing" he does; Stephen King: Gerald's Game; Poul Anderson: The Time Patrol; Scorpius Digital to pub. a 7-volume eBook Omnibus of his works, beginning in 2001 |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Robert R. McCammon: Boy's Life; Lisa Goldstein: Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon |
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Aldiss, Brian W. |
Common Clay |
ss |
has colls. Best SF Stories of ...(1988; vt Man in His Time, 1989), A Romance of the Equator(1989), A Tupolev Too Far(1993; N-1994 LOC), The Secret of This Book(1995; vt Common Clay, 1996 US; N-1996 LOC, WFA); see his website at www.brianaldiss.com |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Reed, Robert |
Coffins |
ss |
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Sterling, Bruce |
Science: Artificial Life |
ar |
artificial life; what is life, artificial life & intelligence; the basic principles of A-Life: bottom-up initiative, local control rather than global control, simple rules instead of complex ones, & emergent rather than pre-specified behavior |
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Morlan, A.R. |
With Cockles and Mussels, Alive, Alive-O |
ss |
(1958- ) wn. for Arlette Renee Morlan; 1st story pub. "Four Days Before the Snow," Night Cry 1985 SUM; 1st novel The Amulet(1991), prequel The Cat With the Tulip Face(1991), sequel Dark Journey('91); iv's The Horror Show 1987 FLL, Eldritch Tales #29 1993 |
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Robins, Madeleine E. |
Willie |
ss |
story inspired by watching the movie Young Frankenstein(1974), had "impatience with the doctor, who didn't have the responsibility to follow through on his project" |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
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Maio, Kathi |
Films: All Children Great and Small |
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids(1989), stars Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Amy O'Neil, Thomas Brown; Honey, I Blew Up the Kid(1992), stars Moranis & Strassman, & the baby twins Daniel & Joshua Shalikar |
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Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Perennials |
ss |
this story sold "2 years ago, 6 months before my father died ... I must have known something was about to happen ... amazing the games the mind can play"; Rusch has sf/fantasy novel Traitors(1993), about a rebellion on a distant planet(B&C) |
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Springer, Nancy |
Damnbanna |
na |
N-1993 HUG, novella; 1st pub. by Axolotl Press in 1992; the story of Angel, a teenage girl, who befriends a boy at school whose face is so badly scarred, he hides beneath a bandanna, hence his nickname; see iv's in WRT 1990 SUM, & LOC 1995 JUN |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 83: 1992 JUL-DEC |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: Dr. Quark - Primate Speech Lab |
ct |
6th cartoon in his Dr. Quark series; "Don't talk with your hands." Dr. Quark's mother always told him! Ha! |
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