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| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Agnew, Bruce A. |
Key, The |
1953 JUN |
vi |
his 1st pub. story |
| Aickman, Robert |
School Friend, The |
1970 DEC |
nv |
(1914-1981) 1st pub. in his coll. Dark Entries(1964); born in London, began writing fiction in 1949; has anth. Mystery: An Anthology of the Mysterious in Fact and Fiction(1952), which refers to Borley Rectory, "the most haunted house in England" |
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Ringing the Changes |
1971 MAY |
nv |
1st pub. in Cynthia Asquith(ed): The Third Ghost Book(1955); edited books The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories(1964), The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories(1966), #3-8(1967-72) |
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Bind Your Hair |
1971 NOV |
nv |
1st pub. in his coll. Dark Entries(1964); considered one of the finest writers of the ghost story in the 2nd half of the 20th century(Clute); has colls. We Are for the Dark: Six Ghost Stories(1951, w. Elizabeth Jane Howard), Powers of Darkness(1966) |
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Pages From a Young Girl's Journal |
1973 FEB |
nv |
W-1975 WFA, short fiction; has colls. Sub Rosa: Strange Tales(1968), Cold Hand in Mine: Eight Strange Tales(1976), Tales of Love and Death(1977), Intrusions: Strange Stories(1980), Night Voices(1985) |
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Clock Watcher, The |
1974 JUN |
nv |
1st pub. in Herbert van Thal(ed): The Bedside Book of Horror(1973); Aickman was N-1975 WFA, for Lifetime Achievement |
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Same Dog, The |
1974 DEC |
nv |
has colls. Painted Devils: Strange Stories(1979), The Wine-Dark Sea(1988; N-1989 LOC); has novels The Late Breakfasters(1964), The Model(1987); has novella "The Stains," in Ramsey Campbell(ed): New Terrors #1(1980), which W-1981 BFA, short fiction |
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Hospice, The |
1976 APR |
nv |
1st pub. in his coll. Cold Hand in Mine: Eight Strange Stories(1975) |
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Marriage |
1978 APR |
nv |
has coll. The Unsettled Dust(1990) |
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Hand in Glove |
1979 JAN |
nv |
an opera critic as well as a writer, he has two autobiographies, The Attempted Rescue(1966), & The River Runs Uphill: A Story of Success and Failure(1986) |
| Aikin, Jim |
Lilith, The |
1981 FEB |
nv |
(1948- ) wn. for James Douglas Aikin, his 1st fiction sale; "I'm an editor at Contemporary Keyboard Mag., a monthly for musicians ... I'm a musician myself, but I've turned increasingly to writing because (of)... commercial compromises (in music)" |
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My Life in the Jungle |
1985 FEB |
ss |
N-1986 LOC, short story; has 1st novels Walk the Moons Road(1985; N-1986 LOC), an sf adventure novel with well-done aliens(B&C); The Wall at the Edge of the World(1993), about a utopian society & the real world that threatens to breach its walls(B&C) |
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Dancing Among Ghosts |
1988 FEB |
na |
N-1989 LOC, novella; the story about a group of creative people from NYC, incl. a tormented painter who produces a remarkable canvas that seems to have a life of its own |
| Albee, George Sumner |
Top, The |
1962 AUG |
ss |
(1905-1964) 1st pub. in 1953; has published many stories in The Saturday Evening Post betw. 1948-1961; a story was made into movie The Next Voice You Hear ...(1950); has book Not in a Day(1935); novels Girl on the Beach(1953), By the Sea, By the Sea(1960) |
| Alden, W.L. |
Volcanic Valve, The |
1950 WIN/SPR |
ss |
(1837-1908) 1st pub. in Pall Mall Magazine in 1897 JUL, & in his coll. Van Wagener's Way(1898); 1st & only story in F&SF in his Prof. Van Wagener series; William Livingston Alden, born in MA, lived abroad in Italy & England after 1885 |
| Aldiss, Brian |
You Never Asked My Name |
1985 NOV |
ss |
has The Bones of Bertrand Russell seq., Futurity Takes a Hand(1976), Through a Galaxy Backwards(1976), Where the Walls Are Hung with Multi-Media Portraits(1976); novels An Island Called Moreau(1981), The Horatio Stubbs Saga(1985), Ruins(1987) |
| Aldiss, Brian W. |
New Father Christmas, The |
1958 JAN |
ss |
(1925- ) born in E. Dereham, Norfolk, England; served in the Royal Signals in Burma & Sumatra; after service, worked as an assistant in an Oxford bookshop; 1st story pub. sf "Criminal Record" in SCF 1954 JUL; has coll. Space, Time and Nathaniel(1957) |
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Poor Little Warrior! |
1958 APR |
ss |
has 1st novel Non-Stop(1958; vt Starship, U.S.); novels Vanguard from Alpha(1959), Bow Down to Nul(NWS 1960 MAR-MAY as "X for Exploitation"; 1960), The Primal Urge(1961); non-sf novel The Male Response(1961); Aldiss N-1959 HUG for Best New Author |
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Have Your Hatreds Ready |
1958 MAY |
ss |
this story in colls. of linked stories The Canopy of Time(1959) & Galaxies Like Grains of Sand(1960) as "Secret of a Mighty City"; all other stories in colls. are pub. in other mags.(mostly British); has non-sf novel The Brightfount Diaries(1961) |
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Space Burial |
1959 JUL |
pm |
edited anth. Penguin Science Fiction(1961), Best Fantasy Stories(1962), More Penguin Science Fiction(1963), Yet More Penguin Science Fiction(1964), Introducing Science Fiction(1964), Nebula Award Stories Two(1967, with Harry Harrison) |
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Hothouse |
1961 FEB |
nv |
1st story Hothouse series; series "set in the far-future, when the Earth has ceased rotating, ... involves the adventures of humanity's remnants, who live in the branches of a giant, continent-spanning tree"(Clute) |
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Nomansland |
1961 APR |
nv |
2nd story Hothouse ser.; has novel Greybeard(1964 US, cut version; 1964 UK, full version), considered by some to be his "finest sf novel ... deals w. a future in which humanity has become sterile due to an accident involving biological weapons"(Clute) |
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Undergrowth |
1961 JUL |
na |
3rd story Hothouse ser.; has "plotless novel," A Garden With Figures; novels The Dark Light Years(1964), how humans deal w. aliens superior in intelligence, but physically disgusting, & Earthworks(1965), An Age(1967; vt Cryptozoic!, 1968 US) |
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Timberline |
1961 SEP |
nv |
4th story Hothouse series; "the odyssey of Gren & Yattmur & the tummy-bellies(5" high humans)"; has colls. Starswarm(1964), Who Can Replace a Man?(1966; N-1989 LOC), The Saliva Tree and Other Strange Growths(1966) |
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Evergreen |
1961 DEC |
na |
5th & last story Hothouse ser.; ser. coll. in fixup novel The Long Afternoon of Earth(1962) W-1962 HUG, shfi; has colls. Intangibles Inc.(1969; rev. vt Neanderthal Planet, 1970 US), The Moment of Eclipse(1970; W-1972 BSF), The Book of Brian Aldiss(1972) |
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Shards |
1962 APR |
ss |
has short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" in HRP 1969 DEC, a Pinocchio-like tale about a withdrawn English boy who is actually a robot that wants to become a real boy & be loved by its 'mother'; see article in NYT 1999 JUL 18 by Gregory Feeley |
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Kind of Artistry, A |
1962 OCT |
nv |
this story in his coll. The Airs of Earth(1963), which is otherwise composed of stories from NWS; has nf book The Shape of Further Things(1970), part autobiography, part criticism; time travel novel Frankenstein Unbound(1973; basis 1990 movie) |
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There Are No More Good Stories About Mars Because We Need No More Good Stories About Mars |
1963 JUN |
pm |
has unconventional novel Report on Probability A(1968; written in 1962, but unpublishable till times changed); fixup novel Barefoot in the Head: A European Fantasia(1969), from his "Acid-Head War" stories, about Europe after a war using psychedelic drugs |
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Saliva Tree, The |
1965 SEP |
na |
W-1965 NEB; has nf books Billion Tear Spree(1973; W-1974 BSF; rev. exp. Trillion Year Spree, with David Wingrove, 1986; W-1987 HUG, LOC), a history of sf; The Twinkling of an Eye, or, My Life as an Englishman(1999; N-2000 LOC) |
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Burning Question |
1966 OCT |
ss |
has bestselling non-sf series of novels, The Hand-Reared Boy(1970), A Soldier Erect(1971), & A Rude Awakening(1978), coll. in omnibus The Horatio Stubbs Saga(1985); novels The Eighty-Minute Hour: A Space Opera(1974), Brothers of the Head(1977) |
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Randy's Syndrome |
1967 APR |
nv |
has Three Enigmas : I series, The E of Her Voice(1973), The Great Chain of Being What?(1973), & I Ching, Who You?(1973); Three Enigmas: II series, All Those Enduring Old Charms(1973), The Eternal Theme of Exile(1973), Nobody Spoke or Waved Goodbye(1973) |
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Soft Predicament, The |
1969 OCT |
nv |
has Three Enigmas: III ser., Looking on the Sunny Side of an Eclipse('74), The Old Fleeing and Fleeting Images('74), The Unbearableness of Other Lives('74); Three Enigmas IV ser., Carefully Observed Women('75), The Daffodil Returns the Smile('75), 1 more |
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Three Songs for Enigmatic Lovers |
1974 NOV |
gp |
1st & only story group in F&SF in his Enigma ser.; 3 short stories/vignettes: 1. A One-Man Expedition Through Life; 2. The Taste of Shrapnel; 3. Forty Million Miles from the Nearest Blonde; "(enigmas) are slightly surreal escapades grouped in threesomes" |
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Gulf and the Forest, The: Contemporary SF in Britain |
1978 APR |
ar |
"what is happening in contempoary British SF & how it differs from the American scene"; counts 25 fulltime sf writers in England who "rely for our living on selling outside (Britain)"; sf originated in Britain; New Wave is misunderstood in the U.S. |
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Three Ways |
1978 APR |
nv |
has nf anth. w. Harry Harrison, Hell's Cartographers: Some Personal Histories of Science Fiction Writers(1975); see interviews in LOC 1985 MAY(#292), 1986 JUL(#306), 1987 NOV(#322), 1989 JUN(#341), 1992 JUL(#378), 1995 SEP(#416), 2000 AUG(#475) |
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Enemies of the System |
1978 JUN |
na |
N-1979 HUG, novella; "during the millionth anniversary of the creation of a totally rational Utopia & the genetic transformation of a new specis of man ... a party of these Utopianists are stranded on a primitive & savage planet"; exp. into novel, in 1978 |
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Poor Little Warrior! |
1979 OCT |
ss |
1st pub. in F&SF 1958 APR; see articles in NWS 1965 SEP, INZ #38 1990; interviews in Britton & Partington(ed): The Savoy Book(1978), Walker: Speaking of Science Fiction(1978), Platt: Dream Makers(1980; 1987), INZ #38 1990, Fear! 1991 JAN |
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Door Slams in Fourth World |
1982 OCT |
ss |
has Year by Year the Evil Gains seq., Killing Off the Big Animals(1975), What Are You Doing? Why Are You Doing It?(1975), Within the Black Circle(1975); colls. Last Orders and Other Stories(1977), New Arrivals, Old Encounters(1979), Foreign Bodies(1981) |
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How an Inner Door Opened to My Heart |
1988 APR |
ss |
has anth. Space Odysseys(1974), Space Opera(1974), Evil Earths(1975), Galactic Empires(1976), Decade the 1940s(1975), ... 1950s(1976), ... 1960s(1977), the last 3 w. Harry Harrison; novel The Malacia Tapestry(1976); coll. Seasons in Flight(1984) |
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Traveler, Traveler, Seek Your Wife in the Forests of This Life |
1988 NOV |
ss |
1st pub. in S. F. Blues Programme Book(1987); has nf book This World and Nearer Ones(1981); essay colls. The Pale Shadow of Science(1985; N-1986 HUG, LOC), ... And the Lurid Glare of the Comet(1986; N-1987 LOC), The Detached Retina(1995; N-1996 LOC) |
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North of the Abyss |
1989 OCT |
nv |
has Helliconia seq., Helliconia Spring(1982; W-1983 BSF, JWC; N-1982 NEB; 1983 LOC), Helliconia Summer(1983; N-1983 SFC; 1984 BSF, LOC), Helliconia Winter(1985; W-1986 BSF; N-1985 NEB; 1986 LOC, SFC), set on a planet ruled by two suns |
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Better Morphosis |
1991 JUN |
ss |
1st pub. in Nasacon II Programbook(1990), read aloud at IAFA Conference of the Fantastic, March 1990; has sf novels The Year Before Yesterday(1987), Dracula Unbound(1991); non-sf Life in the West(1990), Remembrance Day(1993), Somewhere East of Life(1994) |
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Common Clay |
1992 DEC |
ss |
has colls. Best SF Stories of ...(1988; vt Man in His Time, 1989), A Romance of the Equator(1989), A Tupolev Too Far(1993; N-1994 LOC), The Secret of This Book(1995; vt Common Clay, 1996 US; N-1996 LOC, WFA); see his website at www.brianaldiss.com |
| Aldridge, Ray |
Touch of the Hook, The |
1988 APR |
ss |
(1948- ) wn. for Raymon Huebert Aldridge; lives on Gulf Coast, FL; his 1st fiction sale was "Click" in Budrys(ed): WotF Vol.II(1986); "My wife Nancy is a pychologist, the ideal companion for an sf writer. I'm part Cherokee, & I grow wonderful tomatoes" |
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Floating Castles |
1988 DEC |
nv |
has "built a series of sf-oriented (stained glass) windows that deal with the same subject as (this story)—the impact, often fatal, of high tech cultures on primitive ones"; his stained glass windows series is titled "The Alien Lightscapes" |
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Blue Skin |
1989 MAR |
ss |
Aldridge, after leaving the military, learned how to make pots from the book by Bernard Leach, A Potter's Book(1946; 1953); he has been a potter & stained glass designer since the 1970s; see his artwork, & much commentary at his website www.goodpots.com/ |
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Chump Change |
1989 AUG |
ss |
at his website www.goodpots.com/, Aldridge lists the clay artists he admires most, with links to their websites as well as to websites that promote clay art; on his own website, Aldridge goes into much detail into how his art has evolved & techniques used |
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Steel Dogs |
1989 SEP |
nv |
N-1990 LOC, novelette |
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Cold Cage, The |
1990 FEB |
ss |
N-1991 LOC, short story |
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Hyena Eyes |
1990 JUN |
nv |
N-1991 LOC, novelette |
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