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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1994 APR |
Fitch, Marina |
Sarah at the Tide Pool |
ss |
wrote this story as a result of a challenge, at the Rockaway Beach Writing Retreat; has 1st novel fantasy The Seventh Heart(1997; N-1998 LOC), about a young woman who must placate the angry Earth to stop natural diasters from destroying California(B&C) |
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Jonik |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Without End |
ss |
has anth. w. Edward L. Ferman, The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 45th Anniversary Anthology(1994; N-1995 LOC); Rusch was N-1991-92(w. Ferman), 1993-97 & W-1994 HUG, for Best Professional Editor(F&SF); N-1996-97 WFA, Special Award for editing F&SF |
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Brin, David |
NatuLife-TM |
nv |
"VR will never become truly vivid till you find a way to bring (our bodies) along"; has New Uplift Trilogy, Brightness Reef(1995; N-1996 HUG, LOC), Infinity's Shore(1996; N-1997 LOC), Heaven's Reach(1998); nf Illustrated Guide to the Uplift Universe(2002) |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: He'll 'Stay,' All Right ... the Velcro Dogmat |
ct |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: Deep Time |
ar |
nuclear waste disposal, Part 2 of 3; how do we warn the future about the radioactive dangers in the waste storage area; possibilities for structures upon which to leave our message; Benford has novel with Arthur C. Clarke, Beyond the Fall of Night(1990) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Boyett, Steven R. |
Epiphany Beach |
ss |
(1960- ) born in Atlanta; has 1st novel fantasy, Ariel(1983); The Architect of Sleep(1986), an sf novel set in a parallel world occupied by a species which has evolved from raccoons(Clute); see his entry in CA, vol.154, p.57; website steveboy.tripod.com |
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Garcia y Robertson, R. |
Wendy Darling, RFC |
nv |
N-1995 HUG, novella; most of this story is true: the Les Cigognes, the musical 56th Squadron's 10-day defense of London, the deadly fog in Flanders following the Halloween bombings |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 60 |
cmp |
1st prize: Richard A. Hauptmann; 2nd prize: Chris McLaren & Tony Moeller; R-U: Dorie Jennings; Andy Wheeler; H-M: Nigel Parsons; Jeff Nicol; Todd M. Greanier; Mary S. Price; Gordon Van Gelder; Gary DeFrance |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 61 |
cmp |
suggested by John Brunner - excerpt 100 words from a future article on a science that doesn't yet exist, but uses ordinary words in ways as foreign to us |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon: Horror Film Festival |
ct |
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| 1994 MAY |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
ed |
her reading list for the year 1993, says a lot about her reading tastes: Sharon McCrumb's The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, Elizabeth Harris' The Herb Gatherers, James Lee Burke's In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead, etal |
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MacLeod, Ian R. |
Sealight |
ss |
story inspired by Venice & elements of heroic fantasy, "I always envy the way ... (the) hero seems to be able to set off on his quest without arranging to have his mail redirected ..."; 1st pub. story novelette "Through" in INZ #30 1989 |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
essay: no "dearth of good high fantasy"; Laurie J. Marks: Dancing Jack; James P. Blaylock: Night Relics; Martin Millar: The Good Fairies of New York; Neil Gaiman & Chris Bachalo: Death: The High Cost of Living; Anne Billson: Suckers |
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Resnick, Mike & Nicholas A. DiChario |
Birdie |
ss |
(1942- ; 1960- ) N-1994 HOM, ss; both are in F&SF by themselves; DiChario was N-1993 JWCA for Best New Writer; Resnick has co-edited many alternate history anth., incl. Alternate Presidents(1992), Alternate Kennedys(1992), Alternate Warriors(1993), etc |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: Is It Gold Yet? |
ct |
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Savage, Felicity |
Ash Minette |
ss |
N-1995 HUG, short story; about this story, "within the European culture that produced ('Cinderella'), poor men had few opportunities to escape their situation, poor women had even fewer, & poor, plain women had absolutely none at all" |
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Heath |
Cartoon: Princess and the Pea-Brain, The |
ct |
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Yolen, Jane |
Lady's Garden, The |
ss |
story to be in her coll. Here There Be Unicorns(1994); has novels Hobby(1996), Passager(1996), The One-Armed Queen(1998); Armageddon Summer(1998), with Bruce Coville; ya Tartan Magic fantasy ser., The Wizard's Map(1999), The Pictish Child(1999) |
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Barstow, D. |
Cartoon: Ames Temporary Employment |
ct |
working name for Donna Barstow; lives in California; her cartoons have been pub. in over 150 newspapers, mags., & books, incl. NYM, & the Chicken Soup books; see her website at www.reuben.org/dbarstow/Index.html |
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Sterling, Bruce |
Science: New Cryptography, The |
ar |
cryptography, from Assyrian "funerary cryptography" to the "Caesar cypher," to Alan Turing & Claude Shannon in the 1940s, to the National Security Agency; why cryptography is labeled a munitions, & are digital cash of the cyber world |
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Rosenblum, Mary |
California Dreamer |
ss |
story inspired by a visit to San Francisco after the latest earthquake; has fixup novel, from stories that were 1st pub. in ASI, The Drylands(1993; W-1994 CCR; N-1994 LOC), set in the 21st Century Northwestern U.S., in a world dying for lack of water(B&C) |
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What, Leslie |
Designated Hater |
ss |
1976 Clarion graduate, her 1st pub. story was "King for a Day" in ASI 1992 SEP; prev. was a maskmaker & puppetmaker, does a fair amount of performance art- see her website www.sff.net/people/leslie.what, incl. her multi-media art "Jell-O Zen Garden" |
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Bailey, Dale |
Conquistador |
ss |
teaches English at the Univ. of Tennessee(Knoxville); he has pub. two short stories outside of F&SF, "Notes Toward a Proof of a Theorem: Love Is a Hunger" in AMZ 1994 SPR, & "Epiphany" in Pulphouse #18 1995 |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon: "What I Did This Summer. ..." |
ct |
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Maio, Kathi |
Films: Sick Puppy Auteur? |
mr |
essay: auteur, the director as author of filmic art, espec. the films of Tim Burton; Frankenweenie(1984); Pee-Wee's Big Adventure(1985); Beetlejuice(1988); Batman('89); Batman Returns('92); Edward Scissorhands('90); T. B.'s Nightmare Before Christmas('93) |
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Reed, Robert |
Remora's, The |
nv |
this story has a sequel, novella "Aeon's Child," in ASI 1995 NOV, also set "on the same vast alien-built, human-salvaged, world-sized Ship"(LOC 1995 SEP, p.13) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: Dr. Quark - You Can Accelerate Almost Anything, But Dr. Quark Goes at His Own Pace |
ct |
11th cartoon in his Dr. Quark series; in which Dr. Quark ponders where to publish data from accelerating radishes at the super collider |
| 1994 JUN |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
ed |
sf on TV/cable: Sci-Fi Channel's Sci-Fi Buzz, with commentary by Harlan Ellison; TVOntario's program, Prisoners of Gravity; Rusch was N-1992, 1995-96 HUG, & N-1992 WFA, all with Dean Wesley Smith for editing at Pulphouse Publishing |
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Donnelly, Marcos |
Bloodletting |
nv |
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Kessel, John |
Books: Growing Up, the Hard Way |
br |
essay: Lewis Shiner & his works, "arcing away from sf," & cyberpunk; Lewis Shiner: Glimpses; Spider Robinson: Off the Wall at Callahan's; Brad Templeton(ed): Hugo and Nebula Anthology(CD-ROM); Expert Astronomer(CD-ROM) |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
2 Bordertown series novels, Emma Bull: Finder; Will Shetterly: Nevernever; de Lint has sequel to Moonheart(1984), an omnibus coll., Spiritwalk(1992) |
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Bowes, Richard |
I Died, Sir, in Flame, Sir |
ss |
4th story in F&SF in Kevin Grierson series; story given in TOC as "I Died, Sir, in Flames, Sir"; has novel Feral Cell(1987), set in NYC at the end of the 20th century, follows the ageing hero into a millennial conflict between Good and Evil(Clute) |
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Masear, Arthur |
Cartoon |
ct |
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DiChario, Nicholas A. |
Drainage |
ss |
has collab. on several stories with Mike Resnick, incl. in F&SF 1994 MAY(#6881) & 1995 FEB(#); has anth. with Claudia Bishop(ed): Death Dines at 8:30(2002), 16 stories that mix crime & cuisine |
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Steele, Allen |
Shepherd Moon |
ss |
has novels Clarke County, Space(1990), Lunar Descent(1991), Labyrinth of Night(1992), The Jericho Iteration(1994), The Tranquility Alternative(1996), A King of Infinite Space(1997), etc; coll. Sex and Violence in Zero-G('99); see website at www.sfwa.org/ |
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Jonik |
Cartoon: Twitter Peep |
ct |
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Armstrong, Michael |
Mother to Elves |
ss |
graduate of New College, the Univ. of Alaska Anchorage, he teaches a writing workshop at the Kachemak Bay Branch of UAA, & English thru the distance education program of UAA; he has also taught Dog Mushing, & SF |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: From Here to Eternity |
ar |
nuclear waste disposal, Part 3 of 3; ways to shape a message that will last at least 10,000 years, & would be understandable after all that time, & the evolution of man, too; Benford has juvenile novel The Jupiter Project(1975; rev. 1984; 1990) |
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Morrow, James |
Bible Stories for Adults, No.20: The Tower |
ss |
N-1995 LOC; 1st/only story in F&SF in Bible Stories for Adults ser., coll. in Bible Stories for Adults(1996; N-1997 LOC, WFA); 1st pub. in his coll. Author's Choice Monthly #8: Swatting at the Cosmos(1990); ser. story "B.S. for A.: The Deluge," W-1988 NEB |
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Laidlaw, Marc |
Black Bus, The |
nv |
story written late at night after his newborn daughter fell asleep, "... inspired by the Grateful Dead & its cult"; has New Age satire/Lovecraftian horror novel, The 37th Mandala(1996; W-1996 IHA; N-1997 LOC, STO, WFA), about a New Age charlatan |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 86: 1994 JAN-JUN |
indx |
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| 1994 JUL |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
ed |
censorship, is it becoming common or rampant?; "Good fiction draws an emotional response from the reader. Devaluing a story because it upsets someone—in any circumstance—devalues literature"; Rusch N-1990-1997 LOC, for Best Editor |
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Friesner, Esther M. |
Jesus at the Bat |
nv |
N-1995 NEB, novelette; baseball story; has Gnome humorous fantasy series, Gnome Man's Land(1991), Harpy High(1991), Unicorn U.(1992), in which magical & mythological creatutres invade Brooklyn, causing all kinds of trouble for teenager Tim Desmond |
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Masear, Arthur |
Cartoon: Dave's Tavern |
ct |
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Grossbach, Robert |
Feel for the Game, A |
ss |
baseball story, "(story) emerged, if you'll pardon the analogy, like a cat coughs up a hairball. It wasn't a bad feeling"; has film novelizations Neil Simon's Chapter Two(1980) |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
Clarissa Pinkola Estés: The Gift of Story; Geoff Ryman: Unconquered Countries; William Horwood: The Willowsin Winter(the posthumous sequel to Kenneth Graham's 1908 novel, The Wind in the Willows) |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: Tiny Person or Giant Objects? (You Decide) |
ct |
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