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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1999 JUL |
Masear, Arthur |
Cartoon: Weatherwatch |
ct |
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Winter, Douglas E. |
Books |
br |
Ann Arensberg: Incubus; Clive Barker: Galilee; Winter has horror anth. Black Wine(1986; N-1987 WFA), Night Visions 5(1988; N-1989 LOC), Prime Evil(1988; N-1989 LOC, WFA), Dark Visions(1990), Revelations(1997; vt Millennium, U.K.; N-1998 WFA) |
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Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Most Noxious Pollutant Will Finally Be Treated at Its Source., The |
ct |
19th cartoon in his Speculations series |
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Bailey, Dale |
Rain at the End of the World, The |
ss |
story inspired by his senior year at Bethany College in West Virginia, when it rained 25 days in a row |
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Morressy, John |
Floored |
ss |
17th story in F&SF in his Kedrigern the wizard ser.; this ser. coll. in omnibus form with The Domesticated Wizard: Kedrigern Chronicles Vol. I(2002), which incl. 6 stories & the novels A Voice for Princess(1986), & The Questing of Kedrigern(1988) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Tem, Steve Rasnic |
Halloween Street |
ss |
(1950- ) N-1999 STO, shfi; 1st story in Halloween Street ser.; born in Jonesville, VA; lives in Denver, CO, w. wife/writer Melanie Tem; has BA in English Ed.; 1st story pub. "Hideout" in Torgeson(ed): Other Worlds 1(1979); has website at www.m-s-tem.com |
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Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - As Environmental Degradation Continues, Mutation Leave Will Become a Standard Employee Benefit. |
ct |
20th cartoon in his Speculations series |
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Russo, Richard Paul |
Watching Lear Dream |
nv |
has sf novel Ship of Fools(2001), about the generation starship Argonos, whose human passengers, searching for signs of intelligent life in the galaxy, are lured to a nearby planet by unidentified transmissions, & are faced by a shocking brutality |
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Cheney |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Di Filippo, Paul |
Plumage From Pegasus: And I Think to Myself, What a Wonderful World |
hues |
alternate universe in which FDR was assassinated by William Burroughs; pulp writers, editors & jazz musicians were imprisoned for complicity; said artists founded Jazztopia, in which Louis Armstrong is F&SF's editor, & Ed Ferman is a drummer in his band |
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Reed, Robert |
Winemaster |
nv |
has novel Marrow("Marrow" in SFAge 1997 JUL; N-1998 HUG, LOC; exp. 2000), when an ancient starship of unknown origin wanders into the Galaxy, humans evolve into its near-immortal crew members; shares setting with na "Chrysalis" in ASI 1996 SEP |
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Doherty, Paul & Pat Murphy |
Science: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall |
ar |
mirrors; the scientific side of mirrors, the trickiness of mirrors; the meaning of "right" & "left"; mirrors reverse in & out; experiments you can do at home; Pat Murphy has fantasy novel Wild Angel(2000), a girl raised by wolves during the Gold Rush |
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Friesner, Esther M. |
Sea-Section |
ss |
has anth. series of women-warrior stories, Chicks in Chainmail(1995; N-1996 LOC), Did You Say Chicks?: Smile When You Say That(1998), Chicks 'n Chained Males(1999), The Chick Is in the Mail(2000), the middle two with Martin H. Greenberg |
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Harrison, M. John |
Suicide Coast |
ss |
N-2000 LOC, ss; has coll. The Ice Monkey(1983); novels The Floating Gods(1983), Climbers(1989), The Luck in the Head(1991), The Course of the Heart(1992), Signs of Life(1997; N-1997 TIP; 1998 BSF, STO); The Wild Road(1997) w. Jane Johnson as Gabriel King |
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Gaiman, Neil |
Curiosities: Lud-in-the-Mist, by Hope Mirrlees, 1926 |
br |
Hope Mirrlees(1887-1978), her only fantasy novel, repub. in 2000(U.K.); the people of Lud sever ties w. the nearby & unpredictable land of Faerie, causing an illegal traffic in fairy fruit, & the disappearances of Lud children(Clute); see NYRSF 2002 MAR |
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Shanahan |
Cartoon: Mighty Joe Jung |
ct |
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| 1999 AUG |
Garcia y Robertson, R. |
Strongbow |
nv |
has coll. The Moon Maid and Other Fantastic Adventures(1998); historical novel American Woman(1998), about a white woman with magical powers who is married to Cheyenne warrior, & witnesses the Battle of the Little Big Horn |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
Marina Fitch: The Border; Andrew Vachss: Choice of Evil; Jack Williamson: The Silicon Dagger; de Lint has coll. of chapbooks he has pub. under his own press, Triskell Tales(2000), these stories orig. were written for his wife then pub. & sent to friends |
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West, Michelle |
Musing on Books |
br |
essay: round-up of recent ya titles; Jane Yolen & Bruce Coville: Armageddon Summer; Sonia Levitin: The Cure; Philip Pullman: Clockwork; Vivian Vande Velde: Never Trust a Dead Man |
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Kandel, Michael |
Hooking Up |
ss |
(1941- ) has PhD in Slavic languages from Indiana Univ.; has trans. from the Polish the works of Stanislaw Lem; has 1st novel Strange Invasion(1989), In Between Dragons(1990), Captain Jack Zodiac(1991), Panda Ray(1996); N-1991 JWCA; see iv, LOC 1997 MAR |
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Nethercott, Michael |
Beastly Red Lurker, The: A Gothic Excess |
ss |
his 1st pub. story; lives in VT; he is a performing clown, & organizer of theatrical events; has poems, scripts pub. in Cobblestone, Hopscotch, & Plays—The Drama Magazine for Young People; story a Lovecraft pastiche, for his brother's interest in H.P.L. |
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Rickert, M. |
Girl Who Ate Butterflies, The |
ss |
her 1st pub. work of fiction; working name for Mary Rickert, she lives in Saratoga Springs, NY; this story clearly shows the influence of Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, a lovely tale of sexual roles & lepidoptera |
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Cheney |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Laidlaw, Marc |
Total Conversion |
ss |
has sf novelization The Third Force(1996), based on the CD-ROM game "Gadget" |
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Murphy, Pat & Paul Doherty |
Science: Shadow Knows, The |
ar |
Sun, its movement as perceived from the Earth; what can be learned from experiments & observations of shadows; solstices; solar time & standard time, analemmas; see Pat's website, www.exo.net/jaxxx; Paul's website, www.exo.net/~pauld |
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Sanders, William |
Jennifer, Just Before Midnight |
ss |
(1942- ) N-1999 HOM, NEB; 2000 LOC, ss; born in AR; lives in Tahlequah, OK; has alt. hist. sf novels Journey to Fusang(1988), The Wild Blue and the Gray(1991); Cherokee P.I. Taggart Roper mys. ser., The Next Victim(1993), Blood Autumn(1995); N-1989 JWCA |
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Hoffman, Nina Kiriki |
Salvage Efforts |
ss |
has fantasy novel in Matt Black ser., Past the Size of Dreaming(2001), sequel to A Red Heart of Memories(1999), in which Matt helps fellow wandering witch Edmund Reynolds seek out his his long-scattered friends, some of whom have magic powers of their own |
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Wightman, Wayne |
Attack of the Ignoroids, The |
nv |
working on "a non-fiction self-realization book for people who think human beings are evolutionary dead-ends," which probably influenced this story |
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Berman, Ruth |
Curiosities: The Unicorn With Silver Shoes, by Ella Young, 1932 |
br |
Ella Young's(1867-1956) fantasy that tells the trip of an Irish hero to the afterlife(Clute); has Celtic fantasy colls. Celtic Wonder Tales('23), The Wonder Smith and His Son('27), The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales: Episodes from the Fionn Saga('29) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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| 1999 SEP |
Meddor, Michael |
Wizard Retires, The |
nv |
(1946- ) N-1999 WFA, novella; his 1st pub. story; Michael Meddor is a pseudonym for Joseph Feehan; served in the Army; wrote games for Apple II computers; now runs big mainframe computers |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
round-robin(Brian Froud, Michael Kaluta, Dave McKean, Terry Moore, Lisa Snellings, Michael Zulli, Terri Windling, etal): A Fall of Stardust; Lisa Goldstein: Dark Cities Underground; Stephen King: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon |
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Cheney |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Hand, Elizabeth |
Books: Still More Stories for Boys |
br |
Bruce Sterling: A Good Old-Fashioned Future; Kit Reed: Seven for the Apocalypse |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Lethem, Jonathan & James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel |
Ninety Percent of Everything |
na |
N-2000 NEB; a billionaire brings together a team to investigate mysterious aliens, called "shitdogs," that create piles of excrement topped by "jewels"; Lethem has novel As She Climbed Across the Table(1997), coll. Kafka Americana(1999), w. Carter Scholz |
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Maio, Kathi |
Films: Beyond the Magpie Impulse |
mr |
essay: magpie behavior of writers, film-makers; The Matrix(1999), writers Andy & Larry Wachowski, stars Keanu Reeves, Carnie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugh Weaving; briefly, Dark City(1998), stars Kiefer Sutherland, Rufus Sewell |
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Cotham, Frank |
Cartoon |
ct |
his workday starts at "about 8:30 AM, (followed by) lunch with his wife, & then knock(s) off about 5:30 (unless, of course, there's a rush job)" |
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Turzillo, Mary A. |
By Ben Cruachan |
ss |
married sf writer Geoffrey A. Landis in 1999; has stories "Eat or Be Eaten: A Love Story" in INZ 1996 FEB(N-1996 BSF, short fiction), & "Mars Is No Place for Children" in SFAge 1999 MAY(W-1999 NEB, novelette) |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: Science Fiction Century, The: A Brief Overview |
ar |
sf; how sf & science influenced each other, espec. the Manhattan Project & Heinlein's "Solution Unsatisfactory," Cartmill's "Deadline"; insights from talks with participants; an edited version of his intro to Benford(ed): Nebula Awards Showcase 2000(2000) |
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Sussex, Lucy |
Queen of Erewhon, The |
nv |
(1957- ) N-2000 LOC, nv; lives in Brunswick, Australia; has anth. The Patternmaker(1994), She's Fantastical(1995; N-1996 DIT, WFA); novels Deersnake(1994; N-1995 DIT), The Scarlet Rider(1996; W-1997 DIT); coll. My Lady Tongue(1990); iv Eidolon 1997 FLL |
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Langford, David |
Curiosities: "The Strange Case of Cyril Bycourt," by Ernest Bramah (in coll. Max Carrados Mysteries, 1927) |
br |
(1953- ) Ernest Bramah(1868?-1942), created the blind sleuth Max Carrados series, in colls. Max Carrados(1914), The Eyes of M.C.(1923), The Specimen Case(1924), Best M.C, Detective Stories(1972); also created Oriental raconteur Kai Lung series |
| 1999 OCT/NOV |
Van Gelder, Gordon |
Editorial |
ed |
intro to 50th Anniversary Issue; "the most significant change(in F&SF over 50 years) came with #2 when the words "Science Fiction" were added to the title ... we have every intention of bringing you many fantastic beasts thru the coming century" |
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Bradbury, Ray |
Guest Editorial: I Was There the Day the World Ended, I Was There the Day the World Began |
ged |
1st pub. in Western World, 1975 MAR-APR; "Surreys disappear out of barns. Strange cars motor along dusty roads ... Revolutions occur in front of us, but we are blind"; the changes Bradbury in his lifetime; has novel Ahmed and the Oblivion Machine(1998) |
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Heath |
Cartoon: Further Evidence of Water on the Moon |
ct |
1st pub. in F&SF 1999 MAY |
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Shanahan |
Cartoon: Pilot Error |
ct |
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Bisson, Terry |
macs |
ss |
W-2000 LOC, NEB; N-2000 HUG, ss; has novel Pirates of the Universe(1996; N-1997 HUG, LOC), a man escapes dismal 21st century by living in utopian theme park; after Walter Miller Jr's death, finished his novel, St. Liebowitz and the Wild Horse Woman(1997) |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
Nina Kiriki Hoffman: A Red Heart of Memories; William Sanders: The Ballad of Billy Badass and the Rose of Turkestan; Jim Munroe: Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask; Joanne Harris: Chocolat; Barry Hoffman: Eyes of Prey; 1 more |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
Publisher's Note |
note |
"These are challenging times for the magazine business ... (they) will no doubt survive, but I think we will have to change. In the near future, perhaps we will pub. fewer, bigger issues; in the far future, F&SF may come to you in some electronic form" |
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