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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1993 JAN |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
ed |
announces Algis Budrys' last book column is in this issue(for F&SF); Budrys to be editor of his own sf magazine, Tomorrow Speculative Fiction(TSF 1993 JAN to 1997 FEB, 24 print issues, then going online for 1 year); new reviewer to be Orson Scott Card |
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Bova, Ben |
Re-Entry Shock |
ss |
also in Orion series, Orion Among the Stars(1995), Legendary Heroes(1996); Privateers(1985; 2000), City of Darkness(1986), Welcome to Moonbase(1987), Peacekeepers(1988); with A.J. Austin, To Save the Sun(1992), To Fear the Light(1994) |
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Masear, Arthur |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: "Damon Knight started this whole business, with book reviews sandwiched into a number of pulp magazines, in the 1950s"; Damon Knight: Why Do Birds; Budrys announces his book column retirement, future plans, & his career in brief |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Janet Gluckman & George Guthridge: The Madagascar Manifesto: Child of the Light; Josepha Sherman: Child of Faerie, Child of Earth; Victor Kelleher: Del-Del |
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Mapes, Diane |
Personal Touch, The |
ss |
her 1st sf sale; lives in WA; attended Clarion; a one-time editor at Argos mag.(1988 WIN-1988 SUM); story focuses on future of retail; has pub. stories in Argos, INZ, ASI, PLP, On Spec, & Weirdbook |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: Imagining the Real |
ar |
science fiction & science, scientists & the history of hard sf; Hal Clement's novel, Mission of Gravity(ASF 1953 APR-JUL; & article on how he created his high-gravity planet Mesklin, "Whirligig World" in ASF 1953 JUN) marked the true beginning of hard sf |
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Friesner, Esther M. |
Sugar Daddy |
nv |
has alternate history fantasy novel Druid's Blood(1988; N-1989 LOC), set in pagan Victorian England & feauturing very offbeat versions of Holmes & Watson(B&C); has humorous fantasy story Ecce Hominid(1991), pub. as Pulphouse Short Story Paperback #6 |
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Hoffman, Nina Kiriki |
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentle Ghosts |
ss |
(1955- ) born in San Gabriel, CA; grew up in Santa Barbara, CA, & attended S.B. City College; moved to Moscow, ID, in 1977; has BA in English from Univ. of Idaho; now lives in Eugene, OR; attended 1982 Clarion; part of Pulphouse Pub. group & workshop |
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Fitch, Marina |
Ghosts on Christmas Eaves, The |
ss |
lives in Santa Cruz, CA; story was originally written for a Christmas Eve celebration - "ghost stories shared before a roaring fire ..." |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Cady, Jack |
Night We Buried Road Dog, The |
na |
W-1993 NEB, HOM; 1994 SFC; N-HUG, LOC, WFA; on strength of story, he won a National Endowment for the Arts grant; "Jack takes the familiar theme of phantom cars & ghostly drivers, & turns it into a treatise on love & loss & the importance of the past" |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 57 |
cmp |
1st prize: Catherine Mintz; 2nd prize: Gail Sosinsky Wickman; R-U: Greg Walz; Daniel J. Lesco; Neal H. Krape; Steven D. Faber |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 58 |
cmp |
suggested by Harlan Ellison - devise a list of related names, using only names from the worlds of sf/f/horror, beginning & ending with the same name; containing a total of eight, including bookends |
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Jonik |
Cartoon: How It Ends |
ct |
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| 1993 FEB |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
ed |
transitions: 1992 brought the deaths of some of sf's best - Isaac Asimov, Fritz Leiber, Reginald Bretnor; sf is "slowly leaving (its) youth, & gaining an early middle age ... Fortunately, in literature, the voices live on long after the body goes" |
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Coney, Michael |
Sophie's Spyglass |
ss |
N-1994 AUR, short fiction; 1st story in Foss Creek series; Coney runs Porthole Press on Vancouver Island, publishing local history, child safety books, & this year its first fiction work |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
George Turner: Brain Child; Robert Rodi: Fag Hag |
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Budz, Mark |
Toy Soldiers |
ss |
(1960- ) wn. for Robert Mark Budz; this story was read to a gathering of friends on Christmas Eve; married to Marina Fitch, living in Santa Cruz; briefly was an editor at Pulphouse, in Eugene, OR; 1st story pub. "The War Inside" in PLP 1991 JUN 1 |
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Shunn, D. William |
From Our Point of View We Had Moved to the Left |
ss |
(1967- ) ps. for William Shunn(& has pub. fiction as such since 1998); his 1st professional short fiction sale; a documentation specialist at Wordperfect Corp. in Salt Lake City, NV; attended 1985 Clarion; has webpage at www.shunn.net/ |
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Maio, Kathi |
Films: Boys and Their Toys |
mr |
essay: "juvenile example of the filmmaker's art: ... banal yarn about boys & their toys"; Sneakers(1992), stars Robert Redford; also mentions War Games(1983); Desk Set(1957), stars Matthew Broderick, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn |
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Oltion, Jerry |
Grass Is Always Greener, The |
nv |
(1957- ) lives in Eugene, OR, with his wife writer Kathy Oltion; 1st story pub. sf "Much Ado About Nothing" in ANA 1982 NOV; see Biolog in ANA 1985 APR, & his website at www.sff.net/people/J.Oltion |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Tilton, Lois |
"Sleep, My Little One" |
ss |
"'Sleep' is in a way about my 9-year old daughter Christine"; has novels Darkspawn(2000), a vampire escapes from centuries of entombment to free his lands from invaders; Written in Venom(2000), fantasy novel based on Norse mythology - Loki tells his story |
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Perry, Steve & George Guthridge |
Macaw, The |
ss |
on collab., G.G.: "Even though we rarely agreed about anything ... we have sold everything on which we've collab."; S.P.: "Each of us hated the way the other one wrote. We always took out each other's favorite lines & bits. Still, we sold 'em all." |
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Sterling, Bruce |
Science: Internet |
ar |
Internet evolution; how a 1964 RAND proposal to help "control of (a) ravaged society after a nuclear holocaust" turned into ARPANET which evolved into the Internet we know today; what TCP/IP stands for; "what does one do with the Internet?" |
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Wilhelm, Kate |
Naming the Flowers |
na |
N-1993 HOM, HUG, LOC, NEB, na; 1st pub. by Axolotl Press in 1992; has P.I. Charlie Meiklejohn & psychologist Constance Leidl ser., The Hamlet Trap(1987), The Dark Door(1988), Smart House(1989), Sweet, Sweet Poison(1990), Seven Kinds of Death(1992) |
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Struthers, Andrew |
Cartoon: Ghostwriters in the Sky |
ct |
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| 1993 MAR |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
ed |
introduces John Kessel as a new book review columnist; he has written reviews before, for Short Form, The New York Review of Science Fiction, & The Los Angeles Times Book Review; has a PhD in American Literature, which he teaches at NC State Univ. |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Bourne, Mark |
Brokedown |
ss |
his 1st professional sale; has BA in English, MA in Dramatic Arts; attended 1992 Clarion; writes for astronomy mags., designs museum programs; worked for the Strasenburgh Planetarium in Rochester, NY |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Johnson, Kij |
Schrödinger's Cathouse |
ss |
lives in Seattle, WA, w. husband/writer Robert J. Howe; attended 1987 Clarion; 1st prof. sale "Ferata" in PLP #1 1988; novels Star Trek Next Generation 38: Dragon's Honor(1996, w. Greg Cox), The Fox Woman(2000); eBook coll. Tales for the Long Rains(2001) |
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Brin, David |
Detritus Affected |
ss |
story came to him in a dream, & is pledged to his new son, Benjamin Robert; his wife Cheryl Brigham is also a space scientist; has sf novel Earth(1990; N-1991 HUG, LOC, SCF), Glory Season(1993; N-1994 HUG, LOC); coll. Otherness(1994; W-1995 LOC) |
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Kessel, John |
Books |
br |
introduces himself & the way he will write his reviews; Maureen F. McHugh: China Mountain Zhang; Michael Bishop: Count Geiger's Blues; Gene Wolfe: Nightside the Long Sun |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Annie Dalton: Out of the Ordinary; Jack Hitt, with Lawrence Block, Sara Caudwell, Tony Hillerman, Peter Lovesey, & Donald E. Westlake: The Perfect Murder |
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Frei, Urs |
Mrs. Molton's Mr. Molton |
nv |
his 1st professional sale; lives now in Canada; attended Clarion, the Univ. of Toronto, & Syracuse Univ.; has MA in English |
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Masear, Arthur |
Cartoon: Wishing Well |
ct |
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Turzillo, Mary A. |
Alex |
ss |
founding member of the Cajun Sushi Hamsters from Hell writing workshop in Ohio; has pub. fiction & poems in genre mags. WRT, PLP, MZoo, INZ, TotU, ASI, SFAge, MZBFM, Star*Line, 2AM, S&T, WFH, & TSF; has pub. over 20 poems & 25 stories since 1988 |
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Chilson, Rob |
Fetching |
nv |
born in Ringwood, OK; lives in Kansas City, MO; 1st story pub. "The Mind Reader" in ANA 1968 JUN; 1st novel far-future adventure As the Curtain Falls(1974), space opera The Star-Crowned Kings(1975); see entry in St. James Guide to S. F. Writers |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: Our Computers/Our Selves |
ar |
computer-brain resemblances & differences, Part 1 of 2; will computers eventually pass the Turing Test, & someday possess a Self?; sf's brain uploading & matter transmission, & linking brains to computers not possible w/o continuity |
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McKenna, Bridget |
Good Pup, The |
ss |
N-1993 HOM, NEB; 1994 HUG, LOC, SFC; lives in Seattle, WA; attended Clarion; 1st sale "The Old Oregon Trail" in Budrys(ed): WotF, Vol. II(1986); 1st novel, in Caley Burke P.I. mys. ser., Murder Beach(1993), Dead Ahead(1994; N-Shamus), Caught Dead(1995) |
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Turtledove, Harry |
Vermin |
nv |
has Worldwar ser., In the Balance(1994), Tilting the Balance(1995), Upsetting the Balance(1996), Striking the Balance(1996); How Few Remain(1997; W-1997 SDW); The Great War ser., American Front(1998), Walk in Hell(1999), Breakthrough(2000) |
| 1993 APR |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
ed |
writing humor is difficult, the sf works of mystery writer Sharyn McCrumb, author of the James Owens Mega(an sf author/professor) mystery series, Bimbos of the Death Sun(1988; W-Edgar; N-Anthony), & Zombies of the Gene Pool(1992) |
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Goulart, Ron |
Fear of Success |
ss |
has nf books, Over 50 Years of American Comic Books(1991), The Comic Book Reader's Companion(1993), & Great American Comic Books(2001); see his entry in Bill Janocha(ed): The National Cartoonists Society Album(1996) |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Clive Barker: The Thief of Always: A Fable; Sid Meir: Civilization(a computer game); Keith Ferrell: The Official Guide to Sid Meir's Civilization; Johnny L. Wilson & Alan Emrich: Civilization, or Rome on 640K a Day; Robert Charles Wilson: The Harvest |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
Standards & Practices |
ss |
a friend said, "Emily Dickinson has nothing to do with the West Side of Manhattan in 1992" & Malzberg replied, "I'm going to write a story & prove otherwise"; has coll. In the Stone House(2000) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon: 1991 Winner of the Paper Airplane Contest |
ct |
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