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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1997 JUL |
Van Gelder, Gordon |
Editor's Recommendations |
br |
Pat Murphy: Nadya; Oates: American Gothic Tales; Womack: novels Ambient, Elvissey, Terraplane, & Heathern; Kornbluth: His Share of Glory; Blumlein: The Brains of Rats; Joe Haldeman: None So Blind; Nahin: Time Travel; Bova: Space Travel; de Lint: Trader |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Kittredge, Mary |
Her House in Order |
ss |
(1949- ) has 2 mys. ser., freelance writer Charlotte Kent ser. Murder in Mendocino(1987), Dead and Gone('89), Poison Pen('90); RN Edwina Crusoe ser., Fatal Diagnosis('90), Cadaver('92),Kill or Cure('95); has mys. The Dead Cat Bounce('98) as Sarah Graves |
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Rosenblum, Mary |
Afterimage |
ss |
has sf mystery novel The Stone Garden(1995; N-1996 LOC), about the murders of artists who sculpt emotion-absorbing asteroids(B&C); see interview in LOC 1994 APR(#399) |
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McDevitt, Jack |
Variables |
ss |
has novels Eternity Road(1997; N-1997 HOM; 1998 LOC), in which Mankind seeks answers to ecological disasters in alien artifacts; Moonfall(1998; N-1998 NEB), Shores of Night(1999); see iv in LOC 1995 FEB(#409), & entry in CA, vol.149, p.293-294 |
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Etchemendy, Nancy |
Saints and Martyrs |
ss |
N-1998 STO, short story; allergic to cats & restricted to a vegetarian diet |
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Bailey, Dale |
Exodus |
ss |
has nf book, American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction(1999; rvw. F&SF 2000 MAY), a critical look at haunted houses in the works of such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Shirley Jackson & Stephen King(B&C) |
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Di Filippo, Paul |
Plumage From Pegasus: Narrative Contents May Have Settled During Shipment |
hues |
"reviews" Roger Bernard: A History of Supermarket Fiction: How SF Swept the World; how the development of a spray-application, self-patterning circuitry, called CDM(Cheap Dimensionless Memory) has made books obsolete |
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Castro, Adam-Troy |
Funeral March of the Marionettes, The |
na |
N-1997 NEB; 1998 HUG, LOC, novella; about a strange alien ritual & the one woman who understands it so well, she is willing to die for it; has a story in Bovberg & Whitham(ed): Skull Full of Spurs: A Roundup of Weird Westerns(2000) |
| 1997 AUG |
Williamson, Jack |
Infinite Career, The |
ar |
discusses his sf career, influences in his life, inspirations to his works, incl. The Humanoids(1949), The Starchild trilogy(w. Pohl, 1977 omni), Brother to Demons, Brother to Gods(1979), Lifeburst(1984), Mazeway(1990); W-1994 WFA, Lifetime Achievement |
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Lee, Mary Soon |
Monstrosity |
ss |
N-1998 NEB, short story; story grew out of the writing workshop(the Pittsburgh Worldwrights) that she runs in Pittsburgh, where she lives; see her website at www.cs.cmu.ed/~mslee/hp.htm, where she posts information for new & would-be writers |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
essay: drawbacks of media-based & series books; Jonathan Lethem: As She Climbed Across the Table; Sarah J. Wrench: The Duke of Sumava; Jack Dann, Pamela Sargent, & George Zebrowski(ed): Three in Time: Classic Novels of Time Travel |
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Hand, Elizabeth |
Books |
br |
essay: novels of idea; Candas Jane Dorsey: Black Wine; Christopher Priest: The Prestige; Angela Carter: Burning Your Boats, the Collected Short Stories of Angela Carter; see Hand's entry in CANR, vol.84, p.178-179 |
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Epstein, Benita |
Cartoon: Little Known Authors Seminar |
ct |
has been N-1999, 2000 & 2001, for Best Magazine Cartoonist; & N-2000, for Best Greeting Card Cartoonist; she was nominated twice for Best Gag Writer; all by the National Cartoonists Society |
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Van Gelder, Gordon |
Editor's Recommendations |
br |
Douglas E. Winter(ed): Revelations; Elizabeth Hand: Glimmering; J.G. Ballard: Crash; Rudy Rucker: Freeware; R. Garcia y Robertson: Atlantis Found("The Moon Maid," F&SF 1996 JUL, became part of it); Sargent(ed): Nebula Awards 31; Geoff Ryman: 253 |
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Lethem, Jonathan & Angus MacDonald |
Edge of the Bed of Forever, The |
nv |
(1964- ; 1959- ) A.M. editor of California Entertainment Review, has pub. criticism & articles; 1st pub. story "Dead Language" in MZoo #7 1993 JUL; see www.angusmacdonald.net; J.L. has novels Gun, with Occasional Music(1994), Amnesia Moon(1995) |
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Koja, Kathe & Barry N. Malzberg |
Orleans, Rheims, Friction: Fire |
ss |
(1960- ; 1939- ) the authors have collab. on dozens of stories |
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Long |
Cartoon |
ct |
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West, Jake |
Halls of Burning |
ss |
lives in Torrance, CA; has short stories "A Dearth of Ravens" in Plot WIN/SPR 1997, "Digital Hearts and Minds" in AMZ 1999 WIN |
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Lee, Rand B. |
Green Man, The |
ss |
freelance writer & lecturer specializing in horticulture & 'New Age' topics; co-editor of The American Cottage Gardener; president of The American Dianthus Society; this story dedicated to his younger brother Jeffrey, who died of AIDS in 1990, at age 35 |
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Maio, Kathi |
Films: Portrait of the Artist As a Mama's Boy |
mr |
essay: depiction of writers in films, & how mothers are treated in films; Mother(1996), stars Albert Brooks, Debbie Reynolds; The Whole Wide World(1996), based on memoir Novalyne Price Ellis: One Who Walked Alone('98), on Robert E. Howard's life |
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Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Disney's Ascendancy Continues Unchecked. In 2015 It Launches Its Most Ambitious Theme Park Ever. All Employees Are Expected to Follow Certain Rules. |
ct |
reprint of the 3rd cartoon in his Speculations series, 1st pub. in F&SF 1996 SEP; this time with one extra sentence |
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Libling, Michael |
Mosquito League |
ss |
new to sf field, but not to writing; a former student of Mordechai Richler, he has written speeches, motivational sermons, commercials, ad campaigns, newspaper columns, & other nf |
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Martin, Michael A. |
Giants in the Earth |
ss |
served as Marvel Comic's West Coast Field Rep, has co-authored an issue of Marvel's Star Trek: Deep Space Nine comic book series |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Murphy, Pat & Paul Doherty |
Science: Science of Invisibility, The |
ar |
(1955- ; ? - ? ) both work at San Francisco's hands-on science museum the Exploratorium; Doherty a physicist w. a PhD from MIT, teaches, writes science activity books; discussion of light; problems of being invisible; at-home invisibility experiments |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: Louis Pasteur's Secret Project ... |
ct |
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Bourne, Mark |
Mustard Seed |
ss |
has pub. fiction in Jennifer Hershey, etal(ed): Full Spectrum 5(1995), Esther M. Friesner(ed): Chicks in Chainmail(1995), & Mike Resnick(ed): Alternate Tyrants(1997); has eBook coll. Mars Dust & Magic Shows(2001), pub. by Scorpius Digital |
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Jonik |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Nagata, Linda |
Hooks, Nets, and Time |
nv |
has novels Deception Well(1997), a far future sf novel set on a space elevator above a hostile planet; Vast(1998; N-1998 NEB), aboard a giant starship thousands of years old, 4 survivors of an alien war seek a race whose automated warships ravage worlds |
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Epstein, Benita |
Cartoon: Unpublished Authors of the Big Bangs Theory |
ct |
see some of her cartoons at www.impolitic.com/epstein.htm |
| 1997 SEP |
Friesner, Esther M. |
True Believer |
nv |
has far future sf novel, The Psalms of Herod(1995), that goes way beyond Margaret Atwood's The Handmaiden's Tale(1985), in which an eco-disaster leads to a civilization that turns the slaughter of children into a sacrament; sequel The Sword of Mary(1996) |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
Kathleen Alcalá: Spirits of the Ordinary; Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling(ed): Black Swan, White Raven; Seamus Deane: Reading in the Dark; de Lint has omnibus, Jack of Kinrowan(1995), which coll. Jack, the Giant Killer(1987) & Drink Down the Moon(1990) |
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Jonik |
Cartoon |
ct |
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West, Michelle |
Musing on Books |
br |
William Browning Spencer: Zod Wallop; essay: "I react to books the same way I react to people ... there are books that I trust ..."; Tad Williams: Otherland: City of Golden Shadow; Terry Pratchett: Interesting Times |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: Berlin, 1926, Hans Geiger Counting |
ct |
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Van Gelder, Gordon |
Editor's Recommendations |
br |
Robert Silverberg: Sorcerers of Majipoor; Rebecca Brand: The Ruby Tear; Jack McDevitt: Eternity Road; Steve Erickson: American Nomad; Sam Moskowitz: Explorers of the Infinite: Shapers of Science Fiction(1963); Van Gelder N-1997-2000 HUG, editing F&SF |
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Bova, Ben |
Café Coup, The |
ss |
has nf books, The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells(1994); w. Anthony R. Lewis, Space Travel(1997; N-1998 HUG), Time Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Science of Interplanetary and Interstellar Travel(1997) |
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Bunch, David R. |
Saint George Pens a Note to His Dragons, A (Disclosures and Offers) |
ss |
has coll. David R. "Moderan" Bunch Does Verse(1998); has poetry colls. We Have a Nervous Job(1983 chap), The Heartacher and the Werehouseman(2000); see obit in LOC 2000 JUL(#474) |
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Shanahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Clayton, Jo |
Borrowed Light |
ss |
(1939-1998) wn. for Patricia Jo Clayton; has 1st novel, Diadem ser., Diadem from the Stars(1977); Duel of Sorcery trilogy, 1st Monngather(1982); Drinker of Souls(1986, 1st of trilogy); Shadowsong trilogy, 1st The Burning Ground(1995); obit in LOC 1998 MAR |
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Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - It Will Become Clear That H.P. Lovecraft Was Actually a Journalist ... |
ct |
8th cartoon in his Speculations series |
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Jeapes, Ben |
Pages Out of Order |
nv |
(1965- ) from U.K.; 1st story pub. "Digital Cats Come Out Tonight" in anth. Digital Dreams(1990); has 1st novels ya His Majesty's Starship(1998 U.K.; vt The Ark, U.S. 2000), Winged Chariot(2000); see iv in INZ 2000 OCT, www.jeapes.ndirect.co.uk/index.htm |
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Long |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Di Filippo, Paul |
Plumage From Pegasus: Only Thing Worse Than Yet One More Bad Trilogy, The |
hues |
scholarly paper from alternate world where SF died out in the 1960s due to an execrable TV ser., Star Trek, its cast Nick Adams(Capt. Tim Dirk), Sebastian Cabot(Strock), Larry Storch('Bones'), Mickey Rooney(Spotty), Twiggy(Sand), Jayne Mansfield(Impura) |
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Hoffman, Nina Kiriki |
World Within, The |
ss |
has fantasy novel The Silent Strength of Stones(1995; N-1996 LOC, NEB, WFA), about a boy who spies on members of his family, one of them a werewolf, one with power to control or "own" other people, & his resistance to the latter's talent(B&C, Clute) |
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Masear, Arthur |
Cartoon: Auditions for Cats |
ct |
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Turtledove, Harry |
Seventh Chapter, The |
ss |
has The Time of Troubles ser., The Stolen Throne(1995), Hammer and Anvil(1996), The Thousand Cities(1997); The Two Georges(1995 w. R. Dreyfuss), Thessalonica(1997), Between the Rivers(1998), Fox and Empire('98), Second Contact('99), Into the Darkness('99) |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: Colliding Cultures |
ar |
cultures in collision, as experienced at the International Conference on the Synthesis of Science and Religion, in Calcutta; sponsored by the Hare Krishnas; East vs. West, science & technology vs. religion & the third world, Mind vs. Matter |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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