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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1999 OCT/NOV |
Killheffer, Robert K.J. |
Books |
br |
Ray Kurzweil: The Age of Spiritual Machines; Hans Moravec: Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind; Arthur C. Clarke: Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! |
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Le Guin, Ursula K. |
Darkrose and Diamond |
nv |
N-2000 LOC, nv; 1st story in F&SF in Earthsea ser.; novels in ser., A Wizard of Earthsea(1968; N-1987 LOC), The Tombs of Atuan(1971; N-1972 MYT), The Farthest Shore(1972; N-1973 MYT), Tehanu(1990; W-1990 NEB; 1991 LOC); coll. Tales from Earthsea(2001) |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Objects of Desire in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear |
ss |
28th story he's written in a store window, in bookstore Dangerous Visions in L.A. in 1999 MAY - Chris Carter supplied idea, "The 102 year-old pregnant corpse"; has colls. Jokes without Punchlines(1995), Rough Beasts(1996), Slippage(1997); iv LOC 2001 JUL |
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Goulart, Ron |
How Heather Moon Kept My Life From Getting Completely Fouled Up Again |
nv |
2nd story in witch Heather Moon series; Goulart lives in Weston, CT |
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Merril, Judith |
[Real?] Writer, A—Homage to Ted Sturgeon |
ar |
parts 1st pub. in the NYRS F 1993 JUL(#59), as "Better to Have Loved: From a Memoir-in-Progress"; this incomplete, polished, memoir found among her papers by her granddaughter Emily Pohl-Weary; talks about the early sf scene & Sturgeon; pub. as book 2002 |
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Sturgeon, Theodore |
New York Vignette |
ss |
this vignette dates from about 1955 when he was living in Congers, NY; discovered among his papers by Paul Williams & Niel Sturgeon; Asimov writes of Sturgeon in I. Asimov(1994); see iv in the NYRSF 1989 MAR-APR(#7-8) |
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Jonik |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Silverberg, Robert |
Hero of the Empire, A |
nv |
N-1999 SDW; 2000 LOC; 2nd story in F&SF in Roma Eterna ser.; has na Thebes of the Hundred Gates(1992); novels Hot Sky at Midnight(1994), Starborne(1996), The Alien Years(1998); Majipoor ser., Lord Prestimion(1999); anth. Legends(1998), Far Horizons(1999) |
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Carroll, Jonathan |
Fish in a Barrel |
ss |
N-2000 LOC, ss; has coll. The Panic Hand(1996; W-1996 STO; N-1996 LOC, WFA); novels From the Teeth of Angels(1994; N-1995 LOC, STO, WFA), Kissing the Behive(1998), The Marriage of Sticks(1999; N-2000 LOC,STO), The Wooden Sea(2001) |
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Cheney |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Di Filippo, Paul |
Plumage From Pegasus: History of Snivelization, The |
hues |
"letter" from Ed Ferman to editor Gordon Van Gelder about "The Smith File," a terrible tradition handed down from F&SF editor to editor, about E.E. "Doc" Smith's attempts to publish in this mag., often submitting stories based on prev. unsuccessful ones |
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Anderson, Poul |
Shrine for Lost Children, The |
ss |
has novel Starfarers(1998; N-1999 JWC, LOC); in Afreet ser., novel Operation Luna(1999), omnibus Operation Otherworld(1999); Genesis(2000; W-2001 JWC; N-LOC), an astronaut uploaded into a computer to explore space; see obits in LOC 2001 SEP, SFC 2001 OCT |
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Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Politics Will Become So Degraded That Only Blatant Sociopaths Will Seek Office. |
ct |
21st cartoon in his Speculations series |
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Waldrop, Howard |
Dynasters, Vol. I, The: On the Downs |
ss |
N-1999 WFA, shfi; 2000 LOC, ss; has na A Dozen Tough Jobs(1989); colls. Howard Who?(1986), All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past(1987; N-1988 LOC, STO), Strange Things in Close Up(1989), Night of the Cooters(1991; 1993), Going Home Again(1997) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
has coll. of his fiction & illustrations, cartoons, The Cleft and Other Odd Tales(1998; N-1998 STO; 1999 WFA); book reviewer for Realms of Fantasy, since its 1st issue in 1994 OCT to the present |
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Sheckley, Robert |
Kenny |
ss |
has sf novelizations, Star Trek Deep Space Nine 12: The Laertian Gamble(1995), & Babylon 5: A Call to Arms(1999); humorous fantasy novel Godshome(1999), about an impoverished mythology professor who finds help from a 'trickster' god |
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Long |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Wilhelm, Kate |
Happiest Day of Her Life, The |
nv |
2nd story in F&SF in Tony Manetti ser.; has Eugene, OR, defense attorney Barbara Holloway ser. Death Qualified(1991), The Best Defense(1994), Malice Prepense(1996), Defense for the Devil(1999), No Defense(2000); psychological novel The Good Children(1999) |
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Cotham, Frank |
Cartoon: Research & Development |
ct |
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Wolfe, Gene |
Fish Story, A |
ss |
has The Book of the Short Sun trilogy, On Blue's Water(1999; N-2000 LOC), In Green's Jungle(2000; N-2001 LOC), & Return to the Whorl(2001; N-2002 LOC), about the story of Horn, as he goes on a quest across planets & time; see his iv in LOC 2002 SEP(#500) |
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Benford, Gregory |
Scientist's Notebook, A: Expecting the Unexpected |
ar |
future, what does it hold?; not even our best guesses can come close; Benford tries anyways; this article to appear in a slightly revised & exp. form in his anth., Nebula Awards Showcase 2000(2000); has science articles for OotM 2001 FLL(#1)-present |
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Emshwiller, Carol |
Acceptance Speech |
ss |
1st pub. in her coll. The Start of the End of It All(1990 U.K.; 1991 U.S.; W-1991 WFA; N-1991 LOC); has coll. Report to the Men's Club(2001); sf novel The Mount(2002), about a far future Earth where alien conquerors use humans for transportation |
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Shepard, Lucius |
Crocodile Rock |
na |
N-1999 STO, long fiction; 1999 WFA; 2000 NEB, LOC, novella; an African-American herpetologist investigating the killings by shape-changing crocodile men along the Kilombo River in Mogado, Zaire, comes close to losing his mind & his life |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Curiosities: "The Seeing I" and Other Gems |
br |
"the back issues of F&SF provide a wealth of wonderful material"; like Charles Beaumont's reviews, her favorite being his TV review column, The Seeing I, of F&SF 1959 DEC, in which Beaumont hopes a new series will be successful, The Twilight Zone |
| 1999 DEC |
Van Gelder, Gordon |
Editorial |
ed |
"quick look at some of the perceived shifts" in publishing: Conglomerization to devour publishing, giant book store chains to rule the world; publishing has gotten ruder; media tie-ins to destroy the field; kids don't read sf anymore or attend conventions |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Vessel |
nv |
N-2000 LOC, nv; 1st pub. in Catalan in Nexus, in Spanish in BEM, in 1998; has contemporary fantasy Enchantment(1999), retelling a Russian version of Sleeping Beauty; adult picture book Magic Mirror(2000) w. Nathan A. Pinnock; anth. Future on Ice(2000) |
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de Lint, Charles |
Books to Look For |
br |
Jonathan Carroll: The Marriage of Sticks; Roger Zelazny & Jane Lindskold: Lord Demon; James P. Blaylock: The Rainy Season; Wendy Froud & Terri Windling: A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale; see de Lint's interview in INZ 2001 JAN |
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Epstein, Benita |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Sallis, James |
Books |
br |
Lucius Shepard: Beasts of the Heartland; Christopher Moore: The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove; Jerome Charyn: Death of a Tango King; essay: "Is some of (sf's) best new work coming from outside the genre?" |
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Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Starting Next Year, Every Baby Will Come Pre-Loaded With Microsoft Software. |
ct |
22nd cartoon in his Speculations series; Long is "currently taking a break from cartooning (with exceptions - incl. material for F&SF) to slog through a couple of 'longer projects'" |
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Bradfield, Scott |
Dazzle Redux |
ss |
(1955- ) 1st story in F&SF in talking dog Dazzle ser.; Dazzle 1st appeared in Evans & Holdstock(ed): Other Edens(1988), & his coll. The Secret Life of Houses(1988); has novels The History of Luminous Motion(1989), Animal Planet(1995) |
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Tem, Steve Rasnic |
Tricks & Treats: One Night on Halloween Street |
ss |
2nd story in Halloween Street ser.; has 1st novel, Excavation(1987; N-1988 STO); horror ss, Fairytales(1990), & na, Celestial Inventory(1991); colls. Absences(1991), Decoded Mirrors(1992); novel w. wife Melanie, Beautiful Strangers(1992); see CA, vol.165 |
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Maio, Kathi |
Films: Getting Back to Basics |
mr |
two movies based on Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House; The Haunting(1963), dir. Robert Wise, stars Julie Harris; The Haunting(1999), dir. Jan DeBont, stars Lili Taylor; also, The Blair Witch Project(1999) |
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Thomas, Michael |
Time Thief, The |
nv |
this story based on the true events at Henry Ford's plant, the Battle of the Overpass, & the Hunger March |
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Doherty, Paul & Pat Murphy |
Science: Bicycling at the Speed of Light |
ar |
light; speed of light is 186,000 miles/second in a vacuum, but only 2/3's of that thru glass; how Dr. Lene Hau in 1998 managed to slow its speed to 17 meters/second; mentions Bob Shaw's "Light of Other Days"; experiments you can do at home |
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Arnason, Eleanor |
Actors, The: A Hwarhath Historical Romance |
na |
(1942- ) N-2000 LOC, na; 1st story in F&SF in Hwarhath ser.; lives in Minneapolis, MN; 1st story pub. "A Clear Day in the Motor City" in Moorcock & Platt(ed): New Worlds Quarterly #6(1973); has novel A Woman of the Iron People(1991; W-1991 TIP; 1992 MYT) |
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Wessells, Henry |
Curiosities: The Well of the Unicorn, by Fletcher Pratt, 1948 |
br |
Fletcher Pratt's(1897-1956) novel(1st pub. under the ps. George U. Fletcher) "deals with the political turmoil in the land of Dalarna ... intrigues & battles are interwoven with political discussions & reflections on the consequences of using magic" |
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