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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1995 MAR |
Effinger, George Alec |
Maureen Birnbaum at the Looming Awfulness (by Elizabeth Spiegelman, as told to George Alec Effinger) |
nv |
3rd story in F&SF in Maureen Birnbaum series; 1st pub. in coll. Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson: The Complete Stories(1993); "I'd always wanted to pit my resourceful Mufferoo against the eldritch, ichorous evil of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos" |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: Big Wham, The |
ar |
asteroids in near-Earth orbit; the possibilities of future, & the past history of asteroid collisions with Earth; article by J.E. Enever "Giant Meteor Impact" in ANA 1966 MAR was the first detailed study; funding for the study of near-Earth Apollo objects |
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Rysdyk, Leonard |
Holo-Man, The |
nv |
story in TOC as "The Holo Man"; attended 1990 Clarion, where he met his wife, who was one of the organizers; they dated for two years over the phone; she suggested "virtual reality would solve our distance problem," which led to the idea behind this story |
| 1995 APR |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
ed |
her reading list for 1994, best books she's read - Mike Conner: Archangel; Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness(25th anniv. edition); Mike Resnick & Anthony Lewis(ed): The Passage of Light(a coll. of Barry N. Malzberg's recursive sf) |
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McHugh, Maureen F. |
Lincoln Train, The |
ss |
W-1996 HUG, LOC; N-1995 HOM, NEB, SDW; has novels Half the Day Is Night(1994; N-1995 LOC), Mission Child(1998); Nekropolis(novelette in ASI 1994 APR; N-1994 HOM, NEB; 1995 LOC, STU), expansion to novel expected; see her website at www.en.com/users/mcq/ |
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Killheffer, Robert K.J. |
Books: Chasing Shadows |
br |
essay: is there a distinctively Canadian or Australian brand of sf?; David G. Hartwell & Glenn Grant(ed): Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction; Peter McNamara & Margaret Winch(ed): Alien Shores: The Anthology of Australian S. F. |
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Jonik |
Cartoon: On the Eighth Day (A Monday) He Creates Jobs |
ct |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
Jeanette Winterson: Art & Lies; Lethem: Gun, With Occasional Music; Brian Froud & Terry Jones: Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book; Jon J. Muth & John Kuramoto: Stonecutter; de Lint has novel Svaha(1989), Native Americans in a post-holocaust Canada |
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Jonik |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Bradbury, Ray |
Another Fine Mess |
ss |
has chapbook of short story Fever Dream(WRT 1948 SEP; 1987), a juvenile illus. by Darrel Anderson; omnibuses of his colls., Classic Stories 1(1990), & Classic Stories 2(1990); omnibus of his one-act plays, On Stage: A Chrestomathy of His Plays(1991) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Nagata, Linda |
Old Mother |
ss |
in this story, "the persimmon farms & the views & cloudscapes are all real, though the snails are fictional"; see iv's in LOC 1997 FEB, 2000 NOV, & her website at www.maui.net; has 1st novel The Bohr Maker(1995; N-1996 LOC), about outlaw nanotechnology |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Vukcevich, Ray |
Finger, The |
ss |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: Wonder Woman: The Contemplative Years |
ct |
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Bredenberg, Jeff |
Shootin' Babies |
ss |
origin of story came from a discussion with his colleagues at the Wilmington, DE, News Journal, about "how important it is to be consistent in your service to customers" |
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Reed, Robert |
Place With Shade, A |
nv |
has novellas "Sister Alice"(ASI 1993 NOV) & sequels "Brother Perfect"(ASI 1995 SEP), "Father to the Man"(ASI 2000 SEP), set at the end of a Ten Million Year Peace, with mankind led by clone-generated Families, & expanding thruout the galaxy(LOC 1995 JUL) |
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Di Filippo, Paul |
Plumage From Pegasus: Pencil Me In |
hues |
e-mail haters unite, with the Lead Pencil Club, founded by Bill Henderson, "a pothole on the information highway"; top 10 alternatives to dialing up "Spock's Adventure BBS"; Di Filippo is a book reviewer for ASI since 1994 JUL, occasionally for SFAge |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon: Is the Invisible Man Psychotic? |
ct |
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Donnelly, Marcos |
Hijo de Hernez, El |
nv |
N-1996 NEB, novelette; has novel Prophets for the End of Time(1998; N-1999 NEB) |
| 1995 MAY |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
ed |
a "Sense of Adventure" (not Wonder) is what we need in today's sf; "what happened to our Sense of Adventure? ... You'll see more adventure in the pages of F&SF. Along with ... horror & wonder ... it's time to return to our roots" |
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Lee, Mary Soon |
Ebb Tide |
ss |
(1965- ) N-1996 NEB, ss; born in London; has MA in Mathematics from Cambridge Univ.; MSc in Astronautics & Space Engineering from Cranfield Univ.; has lived in the U.S. since 1990; her 1st story pub., "Gift," in Strange Days #5 1992 FLL |
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Killheffer, Robert K.J. |
Books |
br |
essay: "peircing the veil in order to solve the mysteries of creation ... in stories about ... the sudden-isolation scenario .."; Greg Egan: Quarantine; Patricia Anthony: The Happy Policeman; Robert Reed: Beyond the Veil of Stars |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
Mike Conner: Archangel; Sharon McCrumb: She Walks These Hills; Connie Willis: Remake; de Lint has fantasy novelizations in Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon series, Volume 3: The Valley of Thunder(1989), & Volume 5: The Hidden City(1990) |
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Bryant, Edward |
Flirting With Death |
ss |
has colls. Darker Passions(1992); won 1996 IHA, Living Legend Award |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Matthews, Patricia |
Goatman |
ss |
has pub. in collab. w. her husband, Clayton Matthews, 4 mys. novels betw. 1969 & 1976, also as Patty Brisco, which incl. House of Candles(1973); has also written under ps. P.A. Brisco, Pat A. Briscoe, Denise Matthews(w. Denise Hrivnak), Laura(ie) Wylie |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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MacLeod, Ian R. |
Noonsday Pool, The |
nv |
story idea came after reading Michael Kennedy: Portrait of Elgar(1968), a study of composer Sir Edward William Elgar(1857-1934); has stories "Grownups" in ASI 1992 JUN(N-1992 TIP; 1993 LOC), & "Returning" in INZ 1992 OCT(N-1992 BSF) |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: Biotech and Nanodreams |
ar |
nanotechnology & biotechnology, where they stand today & some ideas of their future, in the fields of agriculture, mining, & cryonics; a brief recital of the steps involved in reanimating a cryogenic "corpsicle"; beyond the foreseeable future |
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Duchamp, L. Timmel |
De Secretis Mulierum |
na |
N-1996 HUG, LOC, novella; historian Jane Pendler's account of the early days of Post-scan Devices, which allows viewers to see history being made(a kind of time machine), but which changes some perceptions of that history |
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Jonik |
Cartoon |
ct |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 63 |
cmp |
1st prize: Chris Yanculeff; 2nd place: Sheila Saunders; R-U: Greg Walz; H-M: Wayne Savicki; Larry Murray; Carol D. Pinchefsky |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 64 |
cmp |
suggested by Ed Ferman - submit a rejection letter of up to 100 words for any well known sf/f work |
| 1995 JUN |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
ed |
reader responses to survey results(1995 FEB & MAR editorials), Part 1 of 2; comments & opinions from readers, 25 years & over age group, about where did sf's Sense of Adventure go, is sf now only for adults, is sf becoming 'mainstreamed'? |
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Gilchrist, Ellen |
Black Winter |
ss |
has novels The Annunciation(1983), The Anna Papers(1988), Sarah Conley(1997); books Anabasis(1994), Rhoda: A Life in Stories(1995); colls. The Blue-Eyed Buddhist(1990), Age of Miracles(1995), The Courts of Love(1996), Flights of Angels(1998) |
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Killheffer, Robert K.J. |
Books |
br |
essay: "Every age develops its own distinctive figure of villainy," today's latest villain is the Corporation; William Browning Spencer: Résumé With Monsters; David Prill: The Unnatural; R.K.J.K. is editor of sf mag. Century #0-4 1994-6, #5-6 2000 |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
Terri Windling(ed): The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors; essay: the issue of child abuse "won't go away ... until it does, we need to maintain an honest dialogue about it" |
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Jonik |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Spirit Guides |
ss |
1st pub. in Peter Crowther & Martin H. Greenberg(ed): Heaven Sent(1995); has Star Trek Voyager novelizations, The Escape(1995), with Dean Wesley Smith, & Echoes(1998), with Smith & Nina Kiriki Hoffman |
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McDevitt, Jack |
Cruising Through Deuteronomy |
ss |
has novel Ancient Shores(1996; N-1997 NEB), in which strange artifacts & a doorway to another world is found in parts of the Midwest that were once the shores of an ancient sea(B&C); coll. Standard Candles(1996; N-1997 LOC) |
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Lee, Tanith |
These Beasts (from an idea by John Kaiine) |
ss |
has novels The Quest of the White Witch(1978; N-1979 BFA), Lycanthia(1981; N-1982 LOC), The Silver Metal Lover(1981), Sung in Shadow(1983), Days of Grass(1985); colls. Red as Blood(1983; N-1984 LOC, WFA), The Gorgon(1985), Dreams of Dark and Light(1986) |
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Masear, Arthur |
Cartoon |
ct |
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de Lint, Charles |
Coyote Stories |
ss |
1st pub. as a chapbbok by Triskell Press in 1993, & sent to his friends for the Christmas season; has ya novel The Dreaming Place(1990), set in Newford, about a young girl & her cousin endangered by an earth spirit that wants one of the girls for her own |
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Maio, Kathi |
Films: Flop About a Failure, A |
mr |
Ed Wood(1994), biopic dir. by Tim Burton, stars Johnny Depp, Martin Landau; essay: the works of Ed Wood, incl. The Violent Years(1956), Glen or Glenda(1953), Bride of the Monster(1955), Plan 9 from Outer Space(1959) |
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Goonan, Kathleen Ann |
String, The |
ss |
(1952- ) N-1996 NEB; born in Cincinnati, OH; has English degree from Virginia Tech.; attended 1988 Clarion; 1st novel Queen City Jazz(1994), sequel Mississippi Blues(1997); The Bones of Time(na in ASI 1993 SEP; exp. 1996); iv LOC 1995 SEP, 2001 JUN |
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Hoffman, Nina Kiriki |
For Richer, for Stranger |
ss |
has 1st stories pub. "A Night Out" in Jessica Amanda Salmonson(ed): Tales by Moonlight(1983) & "Petrified" in ASI 1983 JUL; has 1st book, coll. Author's Choice Monthly Issue 14: Legacy of Fire(1990); currently(2002) copyedits & typesets for F&SF |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: Search for Extra-Terrestrial Stupidity |
ct |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: Fourth Dimension, The |
ar |
4th dimension; "use of time as an added dimension," first by literature, Reverend Edwin Abbott: Flatland(1884), then by Einstein in science; time as it relates to general, special relativity & quantum mechanics; Benford has been an advisor to NASA, DOE |
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Aldridge, Ray |
Spine Divers, The |
na |
N-1996 STU; 2nd & last story in F&SF in Dilvermoon series; Michael Mastine, traveloguist, visits the Spine Divers' village on the planet Raarea, whose divers hunt a fish for a no-fear drug, a synthetic version of which is available on Dilvermoon |
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