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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1995 OCT/NOV |
Rogers, Bruce Holland |
Lifeboat on a Burning Sea |
nv |
W-1996 NEB; has "Staying Alive" column, Speculations 1995 JAN -present, about writing fiction full-time; has anth. Bedtime Stories to Darken Your Dreams(1999); colls. Wind Over Heaven(2000; N-2001 STO), Flaming Arrows(2000); audiobook Award Stories(2000) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Killheffer, Robert K.J. |
Books |
br |
essay: differences between the sexes, visions of battles between the sexes; Elizabeth Hand: Waking the Moon; Suzy McKee Charnas: The Furies |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
Patricia A. McKillip: The Book of Atrix Wolfe; Candas Jane Dorsey & Roger Deegan: Dark Earth Dreams(CD & chapbook); Vivian Vande Velde: Companions of the Night; Andrew Vachss: Batman: The Ultimate Evil |
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Arno, Ed |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Bowes, Richard |
At Darlington's |
ss |
5th story in F&SF in Kevin Grierson series; series set in NYC, "I wrote fashion copy on Seventh Ave in the late sixties ... (in the) world of the Garment District ... Darlington's would by now be gone" |
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Reed, Kit |
Singing Marine, The |
ss |
N-1996 WFA, short fiction |
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Hoffman, Nina Kiriki |
But Now Am Found |
ss |
has coll. Courting Disasters and Other Strange Affinities(1991; N-1992 LOC); has novella with Tad Williams, Child of an Ancient City(nv in WRT 1988 FLL by T.W.; exp. 1992 with Hoffman), see T.W.'s website about their collab. effort, www.tadwilliams.com |
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Long |
Cartoon: Eu•phe•mism |
ct |
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Vukcevich, Ray |
Count On Me |
ss |
N-1996 NEB, short story |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Bailey, Dale |
Sheep's Clothing |
nv |
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Shanahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Pulling Hard Time |
ss |
N-1996 HUG; has tv essay colls. The Glass Teat(1970), The Other Glass Teat(1975); essay colls. Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed(1984; W-1985 LOC; N- HUG), An Edge in My Voice(1985; N-1986 HUG, LOC); see Preiss: The Illustrated Harlan Ellison(1979) |
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Lethem, Jonathan & John Kessel & James Patrick Kelly |
True History of the End of the World, The |
nv |
(1964- ; 1950- ; 1951- ) Lethem says collab. story "was hatched over breakfast in a hotel restaurant on the Sunday morning of a weekend convention. Had the coffee been stronger, you might not be reading this today."; see Lethem iv in LOC 1997 OCT |
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Long |
Cartoon: Bioengineering Fails to Bring About Racial Harmony ... |
ct |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: Odyssey Galactic, An |
ar |
Benford's roles & work on the Japanese(NHK) science series, A Galactic Odyssey(1990-91; & 5-book series); his experience as script writer, science advisor, & narrator, & what he learned "about how science & sf interact" |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Morressy, John |
Nest Egg |
ss |
14th story in F&SF in his Kedrigern the wizard series |
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Laidlaw, Marc |
Dankden |
na |
1st story in his Gorlen Vizenfirth series, about a bard whose right hand is made out of polished stone due to a gargoyle's curse, & that swallows more of his flesh each time he strays from his appointed task |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 64 |
cmp |
1st prize: James Williamson; 2nd prize: Lisa Neace; R-U: Charles Emmons; Chris Niswander; Tessa B. Dick; Gail Sosinsky Wickman; Carol Silverman Saunders; H-M: Gordon Schnaper; Carol D. Pinchefsky; Scott Morgan |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 65 |
cmp |
suggested by Harlan Ellison - submit a short blurb of no more than 100 words for any well-known sf/f/horror work(writing a supposedly fine blurb for a work that honestly stinks) |
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Shanahan |
Cartoon: Deja Voodoo |
ct |
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| 1995 DEC |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Editorial |
ed |
when local bookstores compete with book superstores, the attitudes of the local bookseller will tell if he is to survive; Rusch has novelizations Star Trek Next Generation: The Soldiers of Fear(1996), Klingon!(1996) w. Dean Wesley Smith as Sandy Schofield |
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Rysdyk, Leonard |
So Tender and Mild |
nv |
story inspired by his wife's work as neo-natal intensive care nurse; "I've always felt a little guilty that women have to go thru childbirth when men don't"; 1st story pub. "A Sense of Sharing" in ABO 1992 SUM; teaches English at Nassau Community College |
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Jonik |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Killheffer, Robert K.J. |
Books |
br |
essay: fantasy novels with the insight of an historical context; Guy Gavriel Kay: The Lions of Al-Rassan; Parke Godwin: The Tower of Beowulf |
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Jonik |
Cartoon |
ct |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
Tim Powers: Expiration Date; Alice Hoffman: Practical Magic; Tom Piccirilli: Pentacle; de Lint has pub. as chapbooks the novelettes Berlin(1989), & Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair(1991); novellas Our Lady of the Harbour(1991), The Wishing Well(1993) |
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Reed, Robert |
Myrtle Man, The |
nv |
a tale of computers, viruses & the way that the little things change our lives |
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Oltion, Jerry |
Uncertainty |
ss |
has mini-chapbook coll. of three comic vignettes, with Alan Bard, The Gigantic Three in One Complete History of the Universe(1994) |
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Vukcevich, Ray |
Rug Rats |
vi |
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Grundy |
Cartoon |
ct |
Grundy influenced early on by the newspapers' comic pages, "perhaps subconsciously spurred on by my father's nightly bedtime sign off of : 'I'll see you in the funny papers!'"; favorites were V.T. Hamlin's 'Alley Oop', & George Lichty's 'Grin and Bear It' |
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Brown, Carroll |
Borderlands, The |
ss |
(1965- ) his 1st sale; 1st story pub. in Distant Journeys #2; born in Orlando, FL; has MA in Literature from Michigan State Univ.; book reviewer for Adventures of Sword & Sorcery; has murder/mystery screenplay for movie The Cheshire Cat(1996) |
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Asimov, Janet |
Science: Crazy for Trees |
ar |
trees; the evolution of trees thru geologic eras, beginning with the Paleozoic; how trees aided primate development, & now how man is destroying trees & his habitat at an astonishing rate |
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MacLeod, Ian R. |
Nina-With-the-Sky-in-Her-Hair |
nv |
has stories "The Summer Isles" in ASI 1998 OCT/NOV(W-1998 SDW; 1999 WFA; N-1999 HUG, LOC, STU), & "The Chop Girl" in ASI 1999 DEC(W-2000 WFA; N-2000 HUG, LOC, STU) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Garcia y Robertson, R. |
Happy Hunting Ground |
na |
story is part of his novel, American Woman(1998), & "is based on Kiowa lodge tales, & 19th century accounts of the 'Buffalo War'—most of the people in it are real—they did what they said, & saw what they saw. I just put their stories together" |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volumes 88 & 89: 1995 JAN-DEC |
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