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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1999 APR |
West, Michelle |
Musing on Books |
br |
Michael Hale: A Fold in the Tent of the Sky; Steven Brust: Dragon; Terry Pratchett: Hogfather; see Michelle West's entry in CA, vol.180, p.362-363, as Michelle Sagara; she has novel w. Mark Kreighbaum & John Helfers, Tad William's Mirrorworld(1998) |
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Van Gelder, Gordon |
Editor's Recommendations |
br |
Hand: Last Summer at Mars Hill; McAuley: The Invisible Country; Kress: Beaker's Dozen; Leinster: First Contacts; Wilson: The Cleft and Other Tales; Oates: The Collector of Hearts; Pollack: Burning Sky; Utley: Ghost Seas; Di Filippo: Lost Pages; 2 more |
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Wilber, Rick |
Imagine Jimmy |
ss |
has nf books Magazine Feature Writing(1995), The Writer's Handbook for Editing and Revision(1996), Modern Media Teaching(2001), Feature Writing(2001); novel To Leuchars(2000); see his website at http://circle.greyware.com/people/Rick.Wilber |
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Edghill, India |
We Are the Dead ... |
ss |
lives in upstate NY; has sold short fiction to Catfantastic V(1999), Silver Birch, Blood Moon(1999), & to MZBFM 1999 SUM, etc; has novel Queenmaker: A Novel of King David's Queen in the Old Testament(2000); this story is dedicated to her father |
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Thomas, Michael |
Sometimes a Helix Is a Circle |
nv |
lives in Michigan; works as managing editor of the Detroit Medical News, & the Bulletin of the Michigan Psychiatric Society; story inspired by Thoreau's ~ "what good is a telegraph line that stretches from NY to CA, if NY has nothing to say to CA?" |
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Rini |
Cartoon: Bolt Charge |
ct |
wn. for James P. Rini; "born near Boston; raised in Memphis; went to Pennsylvania; lives in the Southwest"; has published work in NYM, National Enquirer, Cosmopolitan, Natural History; "(My) humor is essentially just asking 'What's going on here?'" |
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Di Filippo, Paul |
Plumage From Pegasus: Missed Connections by Jaime "Zero Degrees of Separation" Birch |
hues |
reprint from Scienterrific American (date not given), looking back on the inventions & inventors of an alternate world, from the humble bean pot to the Superconducting Super Collider; Di Filippo has coll. Strange Trades(2001) |
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Long |
Cartoon: REAL Information Superhighway, The |
ct |
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Bell, M. Shayne |
And All Our Banners Flying |
ss |
has Pulphouse Short Story Paperback #34: Inuit(1991), an original sf story about an orbital Inuit Eskimo colony; Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science Fiction from the Corridor(1993), an anth. of sf stories by writers from Utah |
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Lane, Joel & Chris Morgan |
Feels Like Underground |
ss |
(1963- ; 1946- ) both live in Birmingham, U.K.; J.L. has coll. The Earthwire and Other Stories(1994; W-1995 BFA; N-1995 WFA); C.M. has history of predictive sf, The Shape of Futures Past(1980), anth. Dark Fantasies(1989), nf Fortune Telling(1992; 1995) |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: Future Wonders: High Church and Kilroy |
ar |
time, deep time messages; how cultures have tried to leave permanent traces of their existence, Part 2 of 4; Greeks' var. lists of the 7 Wonders, & the American Society of Civil Engineers; methods used, High Church(lasting monuments), Kilroy(graffiti) |
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Chilson, Rob |
Hestwood, The |
nv |
N-1999 HOM; 2nd story in Prime Mondeign ser.; has humorous horror novel, Black as Blood(1998), in which Uncle Albert just won't stay dead(B&C); has story "Acute Triangle" in McEnroe(ed): Proteus(1981) adapted for cable TV series Welcome to Paradox(1998) |
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Ford, Jeffrey |
Curiosities: Kater Murr, by E.T.A. Hoffman, 1820-1821 |
br |
(1955- ) E.T.A. Hoffmann(1776-1822), German composer & author whose 1820 book was trans. as The Life and Opinions of Kater Murr(1969), "the autobiography of the tomcat Murr, written on the backs of the pages of a manuscript he has clawed to pieces" |
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Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Though Matter Transmitters Will Make Travel Instantaneous, Baggage Handling Problems Will Persist ... |
ct |
18th cartoon in his Speculations series |
| 1999 MAY |
Reed, Robert |
Game of the Century |
nv |
N-2000 LOC, novelette |
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Heath |
Cartoon: Further Evidence of Water on the Moon |
ct |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
Swain Wolfe: The Lake Dreams the Sky; James Stoddard: The High House; William Goldman: The Princess Bride; de Lint has Newford novel, Someplace to Be Flying(1998; N-1999 WFA), contemporary fantasy mixing Celtic & Native American legends |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Hand, Elizabeth |
Books |
br |
essay: "Stephen King has finally arrived as an author to be taken seriously"; Stephen King: Bag of Bones |
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Cowdrey, Albert E. |
Revenge |
ss |
has taught at Tulane Univ. & the Univ. of New Orleans; his interest in fantasy began with his father, an accountant who read aloud the works of Edgar Allan Poe to his young son |
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Shockley, Gary W. |
Dr. Borg |
ss |
(1951?- ) born in Fort Wayne, IN; now lives in Palo Alto, CA; attended Clarion; has story "The Coming of the Goonga" in Damon Knight(ed): The Clarion Awards(1984) |
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Wentworth, K.D. |
Embians, The |
ss |
since pub. her 1st story in 1989, K.D. Wentworth has pub. 40 or more short stories in sf/f genre mags. & anth.; mags. incl. RoF, MZBFM, TotU, ABO, AHMM, MZoo, After Hours, TSF, GAL, Starshore, & PLP |
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Tritten, Larry |
History's Mysteries |
fa |
excerpts from Dr. Anatol Numbly's unpublished book, History's Mysteries - Abominable Snowman, Easter Island Faces, Pyramids, & the Bermuda Triangle; Numbly has two previous books, Trick or Trout: A History of Halloween in Alaska, & What the Sphinx Thinx |
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Baxter, Stephen |
Huddle |
nv |
(1957- ) W-2000 LOC, nv; from the U.K.; 1st story pub. "The Xeelee Flowers" in INZ 1987 #19; 1st novel Raft(1991); The Time Ships(1995; W-1996 BSF, CLA, DIC), Voyage(1996; W-1996 SDW), The Fate Machine(1999); iv's in INZ 1991 AUG, LOC 1996 APR & 1998 JUL |
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Sallis, James |
Dear Floods of Her Hair |
ss |
has 5th novel in New Orleans P.I. Lew Griffin mystery series, Bluebottle(1999); has biography of the crime novelist, Chester Himes: A Life(2000); he lives now in Phoenix, AZ, after many years in New Orleans |
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de Kruyff, Nicholas |
Burger's Head |
ss |
lives in Toronto, Canada; professional actor; has pub. in On Spec, incl. "Mexican Fiesta" in On Spec 1993 SUM; about story, says his mother grew up in Barbados w. a nanny he met once when he was young, & who whispered something to him that later came true |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: Sending Meaning Across Epochs |
ar |
time, deep time messages, Part 3 of 4; semiotic(non-verbal) meanings such as architecture, change over time, as culture & time shape them; how best to send messages over time; latest fads, since 1793, is time capsules, is inefficient; from Deep Time(1999) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Dyer, S.N. |
Mr. Battlesby and the Haunted House |
ss |
has novelette "The July Ward" in ASI 1991 APR, as by her real name, Sharon N. Farber, was N-1992 NEB |
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Braunbeck, Gary A. |
Small Song |
nv |
(1960- ) N-1999 STO; 1st pub. in his coll. Things Left Behind: A Story Cycle(1997; N-1998 STO); lives in Dayton, OH; 1st novel Isaac Asimov's I-Bots: Time Was(1998) w. Steve Perry; story inspired by Charles Beaumont's "Black Country," PBY 1961 APR |
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Bowes, Richard |
Curiosities: Floor Games, by H.G. Wells, 1911 |
br |
book was designed by Wells as a guide for parents, details an elaborate indoor game using toy soldiers, cowboys, Indians, monsters; better known book is Little Wars(1913), the basis for wargames & which predicted the start of WWI in August 1914 |
| 1999 JUN |
Sheckley, Robert |
Deep Blue Sleep |
ss |
this story came to him in a dream; has 5-volume coll. The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley(1991); in Riverworld ser., Diaghilev Plays Riverworld(1993); sf novelization based on the Dark Horse comic book based on the movie, Alien Harvest(1995) |
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Bowes, Richard |
Huntsman Passing By, A |
ss |
N-1999 NEB, short story; story inspired by film Basquiat(1996), biopic of the controversial African-American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat(1960-1988); see website www.artchive.com; story investigates the role of men in fairy tales |
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Long |
Cartoon: Princess and the Frog, The (Cutaway View) |
ct |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
Robert Nathan: Portrait of Jennie; Koontz: Seize the Night; Keith Hartman: The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse; has Newford ser. novel Forests of the Heart(2000), in which a sculptor is asked to create a magical mask that unleashes dark powers |
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Cheney |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Killheffer, Robert K.J. |
Books |
br |
essay: sf adventure stories in the "grand tradition"; Gardner Dozois(ed): The Good Old Stuff, & The Good New Stuff; Vernor Vinge: A Deepness in the Sky |
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Oltion, Jerry |
Biosphere |
ss |
has sf novelization with his wife Kathy Oltion, Star Trek: New Earth, Book 4: The Flaming Arrow(2000); sf novel The Getaway Special(2001), about a mad scientist who develops a hyperdrive engine capable of taking anyone to the stars |
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Loy, Robert |
Sing a Song of Sixpence a Bottle Full of Rye |
ss |
lives in South Carolina, a police officer for the Ports Authority; has pub. 14 stories in AHMM between 1985 FEB & 1996 JUL, incl. stories about childhood demons, superheroes, & the land of Oz |
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Maio, Kathi |
Films: Soul (or Lack Thereof) of the New Monster, The |
mr |
essay: monster movies of the past & present; Godzilla(1998); Frankenstein(1931), & Bride of Frankenstein(1935), both dir. by James Whale; Gods and Monsters(1998), focuses on Whale's last days in 1957, stars Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lolita Davidovich |
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Sherman, Delia |
Parwat Ruby, The |
ss |
N-1999 WFA, short fiction; this story a pastiche of a Victorian penny dreadful |
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Sarafin, James |
Clarity in the Ice, A |
ss |
lives in Anchorage, AL; has 1st story pub. "The Word for Breaking August Sky" in AHMM 1995 JUL, W-Robert L. Fish Memorial Award; na "In the Furnace of Night"(ASI 1997 OCT/NOV; N-1998 LOC); nv w. Mary Rosenblum, "One Good Juror"(ASI 1997 FEB; N-1998 STU) |
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Etchemendy, Nancy |
Werewife |
ss |
has 4th ya sf novel The Power of Un(2000; W-2000 STO, ya novel), a time travel story about the ability to undo the past |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: Long Future, The |
ar |
time, deep time messages, Part 4 of 4; "the many ways we are attempting to leave markers that endure thru centuries & what they reveal about us"; from temples to CD disks; portions appear in his 1st nf book Deep Time(1999); see www.authorcafe.com/benford/ |
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Epstein, Benita |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Jensen, Jan Lars |
Secret History of the Ornithopter, The |
nv |
N-1999 SDW; 2000 HUG, LOC; has 1st novel, Shiva 3000(1999; N-2000 LOC), in which Rakesh & Vasant follow the destiny of their dharma, while encountering the millions of gods of the Hindu pantheon, as they travel along the Sinbad dreamscape of India |
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Di Filippo, Paul |
Curiosities: Where the Blue Begins, by Christopher Morley, 1922 |
br |
"adventures of a humanly intelligent dog named Gissing," set in a Long Island & NY entirely populated by dogs(Clute); Morley(1890-1957), has best-selling novel Kitty Foyle(1939); The Haunted Bookshop(1919); timeslip novel Thunder on the Left(1925) |
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Cotham, Frank |
Cartoon |
ct |
was influenced by all the cartoonists from The New Yorker Magazine; "My ideas, such as they are, come from just listening to people talk & taking notes, which I work up into drawings later. I also get lots of input from my 2 dogs & cats" |
| 1999 JUL |
Shiner, Lewis |
Lizard Men of Los Angeles |
nv |
this story an homage to the pulps, is part of a strange novel he's working on, The Mystery; has coll. Love in Vain(2001); see his website at www.lewisshiner.com |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
Peg Kerr: The Wild Swans; Anthony McCarten: Spinners; briefly, F. Paul Wilson: The Barrens and Others; Michael Bishop: Time Pieces; G. Garfield Crimmins: The Republic of Dreams |
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