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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1993 JUL |
Epstein, Benita |
Cartoon: Little Heavy on the Power Tie, A |
ct |
lives in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA; BS & MS in Entomology from Univ. of California(Davis); did research on Yellow Fever mosquitoes(bioenergetics, biochemistry & medical) in various univ. laboratories; her interest was in insect-borne diseases & epidemiology |
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Armstrong, Michael |
Catch the Wotan! (for Isaac Asimov) |
ss |
says this story is a warm-up run for a deep space novel he plans to write, one he calls "beatniks in space"; has novel The Hidden War(1994), in which goernment forces try to quash an asteroid colony with a culture based on the Beat poets(B&C) |
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Heath |
Cartoon |
ct |
cartoon is reprinted in F&SF 1997 JAN |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: Time, Again |
ar |
time travel, is it possible?; the latest talk among scientists, & in journals, about tachyons, time travel, wormholes, & how to make a time machine; mentions his novel Timescape(1980), & other sf authors; Benford has novel w. Paul A. Carter, Iceborn(1989) |
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Bailey, Dale |
Eidelman's Machine |
ss |
(1968- ) his 1st pub. story; attended 1992 Clarion in East Lansing, MI, where this story was written; born & grew up in Princeton, WV; now lives in Maryville, TN; has PhD in English |
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Frazier, Robert |
Night Vision |
ss |
this story first written as a 20-page poem, & is a companion to the story "Homing Instinct" in AMZ 1988 NOV; the stories came about after he read "true yet bizarre accounts of the Deep South, like the Marksville rain of fishes" |
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Jonik |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Hand, Elizabeth |
Justice |
nv |
(1957- ) 1st story pub. sf/f "Prince of Flowers" in TWZ 1988 FEB; 1st novel, in Winterlong ser., Winterlong(1990; N-1990 DIC; 1991 LOC), AEstival Tide(1992; N-1992 DIC; 1993 LOC), Icarus Descending(1993; N-1993 DIC); novelization 12 Monkeys(1995) |
| 1993 AUG |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
ed |
ethics & the writer; the reasons that make a writer write; "what we as writers, readers & editors must never forget is the reason we are here in the first place: to communicate"; has article about author A.R. Morlan in PLP: A Fiction Magazine, #9 1992 JUN |
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Garcia y Robertson, R. |
Siren Shoals, The |
na |
a man travels through space with 9 grandmothers in his head, tucked in his 360 megaRAM implant, each once ruled a star system, & he has to rely on 1 & his wits to survive |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Dave Wolverton: Path of the Hero; M.J. Engh: Rainbow Man; Adėle Geras: The Tower Room |
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de Lint, Charles |
Bone Woman, The |
ss |
N-1994 HUG, LOC, ss; 1st pub. as a chapbook by Triskell Press(which he owns & edits) in 1992; born in Bussum, Netherlands, family immigrated to Canada in 1952; lives in Ottawa; married artist MaryAnn Harris in 1980; members of a Celtic folk music band |
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Davis, Grania |
ChronoCorp |
ss |
also in F&SF with Avram Davidson; has short novel with Davidson, The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil(1998; N-1998 STO), a horror mystery which centers around the phenomenon of the 'Paper-Man,' who lives in the walls of older houses |
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Fitch, Marina |
Silent Treatment, The |
ss |
an F&SF first reader |
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Heath |
Cartoon: For Sale, Virtual Reality |
ct |
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Maio, Kathi |
Films: Blast From the Past, A |
mr |
essay: growing up in the 1950s, early 1960s; Matinee(1993), dir. Joe Dante, writer Charlie Hass(plays a health teacher in movie), stars John Goodman, Omri Katz, Kellie Martin, & stars from orig. 1950s sf classics, William Schallert, Kevin McCarthy |
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Goulart, Ron |
Mom's Cooking |
ss |
has ghost-written William Shatner's novels, Tekwar(1989), Teklords(1991), Teklab(1991), Tek Vengeance(1993), Tek Secrets(1993), Tek Justice(1993) - per Hawk's Authors' Pseudonyms II(1995) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Sterling, Bruce |
Science: "Creation Science" |
ar |
creationist & creation science; how creationists have battled scientists & evolution, their methods from 'gap theory' & 'day-age theory,' to the 'flood geology theory' of the present day; trying to understand the motivations & mindsets of creationists |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Dedman, Stephen |
Vigil |
ss |
has 1st novel, a fantasy, The Art of Arrow-Cutting(1997; N-1997 AUR; 1998 LOC, STO), about a photographer in modern L.A. who encounters ancient Japanese magic & yakuza(B&C); see his websites at www.horrornet.com, www.sfsite.com |
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Hoffman, Nina Kiriki |
Skeleton Key, The |
na |
N-1994 NEB, novelette; HUG, novella; 13-year old Tess & her friend Sasha make a pact with Hermes, who comes to Tess' rescue, but not in the way she expects; has issue WRT 1993 SPR devoted to her work, & which incl. an interview with her |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: Dr. Quark - You're Here, You're There, You're No Where With Dr. Quark |
ct |
9th cartoon in his Dr. Quark series; in which Dr. Quark & his wife go on a Virtual Reality vacation |
| 1993 SEP |
Ferman, Ed |
Avram Davidson: 1923-1993 |
obit |
tribute to Avram Davidson, who died May 9, 1993; was F&SF editor from 1962 APR to 1964 NOV; moved to Mexico during final year as editor, never missing a deadline, "though he once claimed that a missing manuscript was eaten by an iguana" |
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Laidlaw, Marc & Paul Di Filippo |
Sleep Is Where You Find It |
nv |
features photographer & ghost-magnet Weegee; M.L.: "I got stuck in a dead-end trying to write about Weegee. I invited Paul to see if he could find a way to free up the story"; the two trying to collab. on a fantasy novel on the same theme |
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Jonik |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Kessel, John |
Books: No Place Like Home |
br |
Nancy Kress: Beginnings, Middles and Ends(nf); George Ochoa & Jeffrey Osier: The Writer's Guide to Creating a Science Fiction Universe; Bradley Denton: Blackburn; Geoff Ryman: Was |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Harry Turtledove: The Guns of the South: A Novel of the Civil War; Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer(ed): Confederacy of the Dead; Nina Kiriki Hoffman: Unmasking |
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Oltion, Jerry |
Blue Light Special |
vi |
this story was written for a read-aloud Christmas working workshop; has 1st novel Frame of Reference(1987; N-1988 LOC), about human protagonists who discover that the starship they live on is actually an underground simulacrum made by aliens(Clute) |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Hightower, Lynn S. |
Point Man |
ss |
has homicide detective Sonora Blair mystery series, novels Flashpoint(1995), Eyeshot(1995), No Good Deed(1998), & The Debt Collector(1999, U.K.; 2000, U.S.; N-2001 EDG); crime novel Borderline(2001 U.K.), about an evil South Carolina family |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon: Bottom Line, The |
ct |
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Lee, Rand B. |
Still Life With Doves |
ss |
lives in Santa Fe, NM; Rand's father was Manfred B. Lee, a co-author of Ellery Queen detective novels, & a close friend of Anthony Boucher, & worked for Mercury Press during F&SF's "embryonic state"; Rand has pub. in ASI, AMZ & anth. |
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Ecklar, Julia |
Promised Love |
ss |
(1964- ) Ecklar W-1991 JWCA, Best New Author; has Star Trek Pocket #47: The Kobayashi Maru(1989); Noah's Ark ser., Blood Relations(1992), Ice Nights(1992), The Human Animal(1995), & Tide of Stars(1995); novel Regenesis(1995); see Biolog ANA 1991 SEP |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: Calculating the Future |
ar |
cryonics, what is the probability that it will work; its probability calculated by separating the idea into smaller, better defined issues, & analyzing their likelihood; 1st sf story with cryonics, by Neil R. Jones, "The Jameson Satellite" in AMZ 1931 JUL |
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Conner, Mike |
East of the Moon |
na |
3rd & last story in Guide Dog series; has sf novel Archangel(1995), as Michael Conner, set in an alternate 1920s America, in which a journalist seeks a "vampire" murderer in a city devastated by a deadly blood plague(B&C) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Jonik |
Cartoon |
ct |
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| 1993 OCT/NOV |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
ed |
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley's novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus(1818), perhaps the 1st sf novel; the focus of Walter Jon William's story in this issue, the historic meeting of Mary, husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron & Dr. Polidori |
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Reed, Robert |
Fable Blue |
nv |
has sf novel Down the Bright Way(1991), about a group of sentient beings searching thru an endless string of parallel worlds for the old gods, or the sentient beings at the start of things, while fending off others with a dark purposes in mind(Clute) |
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Yolen, Jane |
Snatchers, The |
ss |
has colls. Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast('97), Sister Emily's Lightship(2000), Not One Damsel in Distress(2001); ya nf coll. about fairy tales, The Fairies' Ring(1999); anth. Gray Heroes: Elder Tales from Around the World(1999), Sherwood(2000) |
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Masear, Arthur |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Bradley Denton: Blackburn; Robert Grudin: Book, & The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation; Flann O'Brien: The Third Policeman; see article, Orson Scott Card: A Study in Contrasts, in NCLR #10 2001(Special Science Fiction & Fantasy Issue) |
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Heath |
Cartoon: Big Band Theory, The |
ct |
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McKenna, Bridget |
Little Things, The |
ss |
McKenna also writes under ps. Melissa Cleary, having taken over the Jackie Walsh & Jake mys. ser. w. book #10, And Your Little Dog, Too(1998), & #11, In the Doghouse(2000); also wrote the Cleary stories in Canine Crimes(1998), & Canine Christmas(1999) |
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Richerson, Carrie |
Light at the End of the Day, The |
ss |
N-1994 NEB, short story; 2nd story in Sheriff Doris Webster & the Returning Dead series; she was N-1993 & 1994 JWCA, Best New Writer, on the basis of this series |
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Masear, Arthur |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Steele, Allen |
Lost in the Shopping Mall |
nv |
(1958- ) born in Nashville, TN; now lives western MA; has BA in Communications from New England College, MA in Journalism from Univ. of Missouri; 1st story pub. "Live from the Mars Hotel" in ASI 1988 m-DEC; 1st novel Orbital Decay(1989; W-1990 LOC) |
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Sterling, Bruce |
Science: Robotica '93 |
ar |
robots, the state of robotics in 1993; term 'robot' first invented in 1921 by Czech playwright Karel Capek, for a stage drama; most common form of robot now is robotic arms, for 'Dirty, Dull & Dangerous jobs,' & for tele-communications |
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