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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1998 JUL |
Waldrop, Howard |
Five More SF Biopics We Don't Need (And the Spins and High Concepts That Will Be Put on Them) |
misc |
(1946- ) 1.What's It All About?; 2.Nobody Kicks Earth!; 3.That Bright Pink Light; 4.Go Ask Tip; 5.Of Time and the Miskatonic; 1st story pub. "Lunchbox" in ANA 1972 MAY; 1st novel w. Jake Saunders, The Texas-Israeli War: 1999(ss, GAL 1973 JUN; exp. 1974) |
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Cadigan, Pat |
Ten SF/Fantasy Genre Films That Should Not Have Been Made |
misc |
Dune; Alien Resurrection; Event Horizon; Independence Day; Field of Dreams/Waterworls/The Postman; Jurassic Park/The Lost World; Michael/Phenomenon; Mimic/The Relic; Star Trek 2, 3, 4 ... 39; The Jackal; Cadigan has website http://users.wmin.ac.uk |
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Goulart, Ron |
Curse of the Demon, The |
nv |
orig. from California, has lived in Connecticut for many years; has Groucho Marx mystery series, Groucho Marx, Master Detective(1998), Groucho Marx, Private Eye(1999), Elementary, My Dear Groucho(1999), Groucho Marx, Master Spy(1999) |
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Lupoff, Richard A. |
Curiosities: Away From the Here and Now, by Clare Winger Harris, 1947 |
br |
Clare Winger Harris (1891-1968), the first woman to write sf stories for the sf magazines; 1st sf story pub. "The Runaway World" in WRT 1926 JUL; her stories were coll. in Away From the Here and Now(1947) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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| 1998 AUG |
Reed, Kit |
On the Penal Colony (with thanks to Paul Mercer) |
ss |
has coll. of mainstream stories, Thief of Lives(1992); novel J. Eden(1996), about three fortyish couples & their children who lease a farm in the Berkshires for the summer & are soon faced with the problems they hoped to escape by leaving the city |
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Masear, Arthur |
Cartoon: Missing Persons |
ct |
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Friesner, Esther M. |
Chestnut Street |
ss |
has sf novelizations Star Trek Deep Space Nine 7: Warchild(1994), & Star Trek, The Next Generation #46: To Storm Heaven(1997); sf/f novel The Sherwood Game(1995), in which an android Robin Hood escapes into the real world; has website at www.sff.net/ |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
Jay S. Russell: Burning Bright; Nalo Hopkinson: Brown Girl in the Ring; Emma Donoghue: Kissing the Witch; briefly, Susan G. Wooldridge: poemcrazy |
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Hand, Elizabeth |
Books |
br |
essay: "occupational hazard to reviewing & criticism ... (is) overpraising books"; Karen Joy Fowler: Black Glass; Jack Vance: Ports of Call |
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Van Gelder, Gordon |
Editor's Recommendations |
br |
Skal: Screams of Reason, & The Monster Show; Disch: The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of; Ellison: Edgeworks 4; Sturgeon: Thunder and Roses; The Timeless Tales of Reginald Bretnor; Robertson: The Moon Maid; Dann & Dozois(ed): Clones; 4 more |
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Vukcevich, Ray |
Holiday Junket, A |
vi |
has 1st novel, The Man of Maybe Half-a-Dozen Faces(2000), a mystery featuring Oregon P.I. Skylight Howells, who suffers from multiple personality disorder, & solves his cases w. the aid of personalities Dennis, Dieter, Lulu, Scarface, & The Average Guy |
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Onopa, Robert |
Grateful Dead, The |
nv |
this story is no rock concert, rather it follows the leads of Evelyn Waugh(1903-1966) & Jessica Mitford(1917-1996) with an offbeat look at death & life in times to come |
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Budz, Mark |
Zinnias on the Moon |
ss |
now lives in Watsonville, CA; has pub. in High Fantastic, AMZ, PLP, & Quick Chills; says story was inspired by his grandfather, who recently passed away—but not without imparting some lessons on the importance of the imagination |
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Bowes, Richard |
Diana in the Spring |
ss |
Bowes is a librarian in NYS, & a sometimes antique dealer; has books pub. in 2001 by Time Warner iPublish, My Life in Speculative Fiction, Transfigured Night and Other Stories, & re-issued novel Feral Cell; see www.twbookmark.com/ebooks/where_to_buy |
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Cheney |
Cartoon |
ct |
(1954- ) working name for Thomas W. Cheney; born in Norfolk, VA; he now lives in Hawaii; "drew his first cartoon at the age of three with a red crayon on his mother's favorite coffee table. He was then quickly introduced to paper ..." |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: Vaults in Vacuum |
ar |
spacecraft Cassini & Huygens Probe lander, designing a message to be affixed to each of them, Part 1 of 3; determining a mathematical basis for the language of the message that is natural, not man-made, so that non-human intelligent life might understand |
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Russo, Richard Paul |
Butterflies |
ss |
lives in Seattle, WA; has novel Destroying Angel(1992), a cybershock thriller where a killer beyond human imagination is stalking the streets of a city; coll. Terminal Visions(2000) |
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Perry, Steve |
Few Minutes in Granddaddy's Old House on Black Bottom Bayou, A |
ss |
has Venture Silk ser., Spindoc(1994), The Forever Drug(1995); Star Wars novel, Shadows of the Empire(1996), novels Leonard Nimoy's Primortals: Target Earth(1997), The Digital Effect(1997); novelization Men in Black(1997) |
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Hoffman, Nina Kiriki |
Sweet Nothings |
ss |
has fantasy novel A Red Heart of Memories(1999), in Matt Black series, in which she convinces a young wandering witch, Edmund Reynolds, to return to his hometown to face his past(B&C); see entry in CA, vol.166, p.151-153; Hoffman is on F&SF's staff |
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Jensen, Jan Lars |
Pacific Front, The |
ss |
(1969- ) a librarian in Chilliwack, British Columbia; has pub. short fiction in Deathrealm, On Spec, Grue, ABO, INZ, Tesseracts 5 & 6 |
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Tenn, William |
Curiosities: Dr. Arnoldi, by Tiffany Thayer, 1934 |
br |
Tiffany Thayer(1902-1959), famous for his coutroom drama novel Thirteen Men(1930), & novels Call Her Savage(1931; 1932 movie), Thirteen Women(1931); Dr. Arnoldi(1934), recounts the grisly implications of being both immortal & unkillable(Clute) |
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Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Declining Literacy Will Drive the Proliferation of Pictographs. Over Time, Pictographs Will Succumb to the Shorthand of Abstraction ... Reinvigorating Literacy. |
ct |
13th cartoon in his Speculations series |
| 1998 SEP |
Garcia y Robertson, R. |
Princess of Helium, A |
na |
N-1999 LOC, novella; STU; 1st story in Llenor series; on the planet Ariel, the young female captain Llenor of a family airship, has the unenviable task to try to mate two Hive Queens of hypertense xeno Bug Warriors |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
Eric S. Nylund: Dry Water; Louise Erdrich: The Antelope Wife; Howard Waldrop: Going Home Again; de Lint has pub. thru Triskell Press his chapbooks The Calendar of Trees(1984), The Harp of the Grey Rose(1979; exp. 1985), And the Rafters Were Ringing(1986) |
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Winter, Douglas E. |
Books |
br |
essay: "the boundaries of horror are not easily circumscribed"; Otto Penzler(ed): Murder for Revenge; Whitley Strieber: Evenings with Demons: Stories from 30 Years; Bruno Schulz: Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass; David J. Schow: Crypt Orchids |
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Cowdrey, Albert E. |
Great Ancestor, The |
ss |
3rd story in his Azalea Place, New Orleans series |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Tritten, Larry |
Painbird, Painbird, Fly Away Home (A Harlan Ellison parody) |
spf |
Tritten's short fiction has so far remained uncollected |
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Long |
Cartoon: Penetrating Pet Disguises ... |
ct |
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Maio, Kathi |
Films: Hollywood's Leftover Recipe: Just Add Angst, and a Touch of FX |
mr |
essay: "that whole nostalgia thing ... ripoff remakes"; Lost in Space(1998), based on the 1965-68 TV series, stars William Hurt, Mimi Rogers, Heather Graham, Matt LeBlanc; briefly, The Butcher Boy(1997 Ireland), based on Patrick McCabe's 1992 novel |
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Aurelian, Robin |
Proxies |
ss |
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Oates, Joyce Carol |
Feral |
nv |
N-1998 STO; has colls. Black Water(1992), Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque(1994; N-1995 LOC, WFA), Demon and Other Tales('96), The Collector of Hearts('98); novels Zombie('95; W-1996 STO), First Love('96), Man Crazy('97); storm.usfca.edu/~southerr/jco.html |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: Imagining Other Minds |
ar |
spacecraft Cassini & Huygens Probe lander, designing a message for them, Part 2 of 3; "contemplating a message that utterly different minds could fathom"; liftoff November 1997; semiotics: study of non-verbal communication, & mathematics |
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Jensen, J. Patrick |
Kaleidoscope, The |
vi |
(1971?- ) his 1st sale; recently moved from northern California to San Diego |
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Winter, Laurel |
Fighting Gravity |
ss |
enjoys painting; her long poem, "why goldfish shouldn't use power tools" in ASI 1997 DEC, W-1998 RHY |
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Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Simple Solution to Racism, Sexism, and Lookism Will Be Found ..., A |
ct |
14th cartoon in his Speculations series |
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Waldrop, Howard |
Mr. Goober's Show |
ss |
N-1999 LOC, short story; 1st pub. in Omni Online, 1998 MAR; has sf novel of time travel & parallel worlds, Them Bones(1984; N-1994 DIC; 1995 CCR, LOC); see iv's in LOC 1988 AUG, INZ 1991 OCT, Talebones 1995 FLL, Eidolon 1996 SPR; website at www.sff.net/ |
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Cotham, Frank |
Cartoon |
ct |
(1948- ) born in Jacksonville, FL("my mother happened to be there at the time, otherwise we are native Tennesseans"); lives in Tennessee; grad. from the Univ. of Memphis, then worked for a couple of TV stations in Mississippi & Memphis |
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Gaiman, Neil |
Curiosities: The Manuscript Found at Saragossa, by Count Jan Potocki, 1804 |
br |
(1960- ) Jan Potocki(1761-1815), from Poland, book pub. in French in 1804, cut & trans. in English in 1960; fantasy with a complex plot, a series of alternate worlds nestling within one another(Clute); made into movie The Saragossa Manuscript(1965) |
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Cheney |
Cartoon |
ct |
has 1976 BA in Psychology from Potsdam State Univ.; his first pub. cartoon was in The Saturday Evening Post in 1977; since then his work has appeared in over 500 U.S. & foreign mags. & newspapers incl. National Lampoon, MAD, Penthouse, Omni, Cosmopolitan |
| 1998 OCT/NOV |
Van Gelder, Gordon |
Editorial |
ed |
response to article "Close Encounter: The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction" by Jonathan Lethem, Voice Literary Supplement, 1998 JUN, that states SF lost a chance for mainstream fiction's respect by not giving Thomas Pynchon's Gravity Rainbow '73 NEB |
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Cheney |
Cartoon |
ct |
has been influenced by Sam Gross, Charles Rodriques, John Caldwell, & Charles Addams; "These cartoonists, among others, taught him how to combine humor with risky subject matter, & to reach for the reader's gut as well as his brain |
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Lee, Tanith |
All the Birds of Hell |
nv |
N-1999 LOC, nv; has colls. Forests of the Night(1989), Women as Demons(1989), Nightshades(1993); Blood Opera ser., Dark Dance(1992), Personal Darkness(1993), Darkness, I(1994); A Heroine of the World(1989); Faces Under Water(1998), sequel Saint Fire(1999) |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
William Browning Spencer: Irrational Fears; Michael Mayhew(ed): Harvest Tales & Midnight Revels; Marion Zimmer Bradley & Holly Lisle: In the Rift: Glenraven II; Steven Nightingale: The Lost Coast, & The Thirteenth Daughter of the Moon; 1 more |
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Killheffer, Robert K.J. |
Books |
br |
essay: pulp art & artists; Robert Lesser: Pulp Art: Original Cover Paintings for the Great American Pulp Magazines; Frank M. Robinson & Lawrence Davidson: Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines; Vincent di Fate: Infinite Worlds |
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Sheckley, Robert |
Emissary From a Green and Yellow World |
ss |
has Alternative Detective mys. ser., The Alternative Detective(1993), Draconian New York(1996), Soma Blues(1997), featuring aging ex-hippie detective Hob Draconian; has Pulphouse Short Story Paperback #3: Xolotl(1991) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Kessel, John |
Every Angel Is Terrifying |
ss |
N-1998 STO, short fiction; 1999 LOC, WFA, short story; has satirical sf novel Corrupting Dr. Nice(1997; N-1998 LOC), about time-traveling con-artists & a scientist with a baby dinosaur who cross paths in Jerusalem at the time of Christ(B&C) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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