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| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Cassutt, Michael |
Free Agent, The |
1981 AUG |
nv |
(1954- ) born in Owatonna, MN; lives in California; 1st story pub. sf "A Second Death" in AMZ 1974 JUN; scriptwriter & TV producer, for The Twilight Zone(1986, writer), Max Headroom(1987, story editor), TV 101(1988-89, writer-producer) |
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Curious Elation |
1990 SEP |
ss |
this story to be in an anth. of sf/f with Catholic themes, co-edited by Cassutt, & Andrew M. Greeley: Sacred Visions(1991); Cassutt also worked on the TV series Beverly Hills 90210; Eerie, Indiana(1991; 19 ep.); Sirens(1992-93, writer-producer) |
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Extraordinary Measures |
1991 JUL |
ss |
N-1992 NEB, short story; has worked on TV series W.I.O.U.(1990-91, writer-producer), Strange Luck(1995-1996; 17 ep.); freelance scripts for Alice, Misfits of Science(1985-86), Dungeons & Dragons(1983, 27 ep.), SeaQuest DSV(1993-95, 59 ep.), etal |
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Last Mars Trip, The |
1992 JUL |
ss |
has 1st sf novel Star Country(1986; N-1987 LOC), set in a balkanized post-holocaust U.S.A(Clute).; nf books Who's Who in Space: The First 25 Years(1987), Who's Who in Space: The International Space Year Edition(1993) |
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Folks, The |
1993 JUL |
ss |
story inspired by his great-uncle & the fact that "in the early 21st Century, the U.S. will be a country in which mature people will be a majority—a political force"; has novel Dragon Season(1991), air force officer hunts for his girl in an alt. world |
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Longer Voyage, The |
1996 JUL |
nv |
N-1997 LOC, novelette; editor Rusch asked Cassutt to write a story of the future-of-space sf; has nf book Deke!: Manned Space: From Mercury to the Shuttle(1994), w. Donald K. 'Deke' Slayton; novel Missing Man(1998), an sf mystery at NASA |
| Castro, Adam-Troy |
Ego to Go |
1995 JAN |
ss |
,lives in Florida; has 1st story pub. "Clearance to Land" in PLP #5 1989; has tribute story, "The Last Robot," to Isaac Asimov in premier issue of SFAge 1992 NOV; has horror story coll., Lost in Booth Nine(1993) |
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Locusts |
1996 FEB |
nv |
N-1997 STO, novelette |
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Neither Rain Nor Sleet |
1996 AUG |
ss |
N-1997 STO, short story; mostly a horror writer; has X-Men & Spiderman comics novelization, with Tom DeFalco, Time's Arrow Book 2: The Present(1998) |
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Funeral March of the Marionettes, The |
1997 JUL |
na |
N-1997 NEB; 1998 HUG, LOC, novella; about a strange alien ritual & the one woman who understands it so well, she is willing to die for it; has a story in Bovberg & Whitham(ed): Skull Full of Spurs: A Roundup of Weird Westerns(2000) |
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Crisis on Ward H! |
1998 OCT/NOV |
ss |
has Spiderman trilogy, The Gathering of the Sinister Six(2000), The Revenge of the Sinister Six(2000), The Secret of the Sinister Six(forthcoming); dark sf/f coll. An Alien Darkness(2000); horror coll. A Desperate Decaying Darkness(2000) |
| Catalano, Frank |
Love Object |
1982 MAR |
vi |
anchors news & runs the public affairs dept. for a Seattle-area radio station; freelances sf & horror short stories, writes sf br's for UPI & for AMZ 1984 JAN-1985 NOV; has book with Bud Smith, Marketing Online for Dummies(1998) |
| Caves, Sally |
Fetch Felix |
1991 JUL |
nv |
her 1st pub. story; "a look at the way a move in a woman's life brings about the possibility for ... changes"; has written a number of articles on Early English & Celtic literature; has teleplay "Hollow Pursuits," for Star Trek: The Next Generation |
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Ketamine |
1995 MAR |
nv |
cat in this story based on her own tabby, "I first read about ketamine in Daniel Dennett's essay, 'Why You Can't Build a Computer That Can Feel Pain'(in his 1978 book, Brainstorms)"; has pub. a book on medieval poetry |
| Chandler, A. Bertram |
Haunt |
1950 SUM |
ss |
(1912-1984) Arthur Bertram Chandler, U.K. writer born in Aldershot, England; merchant sailor since 1928, "many of his novels feaure spaceships ... whose command structures are decidedly naval"(Clute); 1st story pub. "This Means War!" in ASF 1944 MAY |
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Jetsam |
1953 APR |
ss |
1st pub. in NWS 1953 MAR; known for his pocket-universe novelette "Giant Killer" in ASF 1945 OCT, & in coll. From Sea to Shining Star(1990); see criticism article same title as coll. in Eidolon 1991 SUM; see obit in LOC 1984 AUG(#283) |
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Cage, The |
1957 JUN |
ss |
moved to Australia in 1956, commanding merchant navy ships, until he retired in 1975; has 1st novel, in Derek Calver seq., The Rim of Space(1961), & The Ship from Outside(ASF 1959 AUG as "Familiar Pattern" as by George Whitley; exp. 1963) |
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Critical Angle |
1958 NOV |
ss |
also in F&SF under ps. George Whitley; has novels Bring Back Yesterday(1961), Rendezvous on a Lost World(1961), The Hamelin Plague(1963); Wilkinson seq. novels The Coils of Time(1964), Glory Planet(1964), The Alternate Martians(1965), & 1 more |
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Man Who Could Not Stop, The |
1959 MAY |
nv |
1st story in F&SF in Rim World series(char. John Clavering), in his coll. Beyond the Galactic Rim(1963); has Empress space opera seq. novels Empress of Outer Space(1965), Space Mercenaries(1965), Nebula Alert(1967), coll. Up to the Sky in Ships(1982), etc |
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Pied Potter, The |
1971 AUG |
ss |
has novels in John Grimes/Rim World ser., Into the Alternate Universe(1964), Contraband from Other-Space(1967), The Road to the Rim(1967), False Fatherland(1968; vt Spartan Planet, 1969 US), To Prime the Pump(1971), coll. The Rim Gods(1969) |
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Grimes and the Odd Gods |
1983 JUN |
nv |
2nd story in Rim World series(character John Grimes); he has been writing stories & novels in this series for at least 30 years |
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Grimes and the Jailbirds |
1984 MAY |
ss |
3rd & last story in Rim World series(character Commodore John Grimes); see interview in AMZ 1983 MAR |
| Chandler, Raymond |
Bronze Door, The |
1953 OCT |
nv |
(1888-1959) 1st pub. in UNK 1939 NOV; born in Chicago, mystery writer -perhaps the greatest of all time, & screenwriter; creator of the narrator /sleuth Philip Marlowe; won Edgar Awards, best screenplay/1946, & best novel/1954 for The Long Goodbye |
| Chapin, Paul |
Volcano, The |
1976 FEB |
ss |
(1918- ) ps. for Philip José Farmer, the 4th in Farmer's Pseudonym series |
| Chapman, Vic |
Come Back Elena |
1966 OCT |
ss |
(1919- ) born in Canton, Ohio; employed as a chemist |
| Charteris, Leslie |
Darker Drink, The |
1952 OCT |
ss |
(1907-1993) sf-horror, 1st pub. in TWS 1947 OCT; 1st story in F&SF from Simon Templar, or The Saint series; ps. for Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin, legally changed to L.C.; The Saint 1st appeared in Charteris' novel, Meet the Tiger(1928) |
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Man Who Liked Ants, The |
1953 JUN |
ss |
1st pub. in Double Detective, 1937 DEC; 2nd story in F&SF from The Saint series(2nd of only two sf-horror Saint story); The Saint 1st appeared in movies in The Saint in New York(1938), and there were at least 6 more movies between 1939-54 |
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Fish Story |
1954 JUN |
ss |
1st pub. in BBM 1953 NOV(not a Saint story); three different actors played The Saint in the movies, 1938-54: Louis Hayward, George Sanders, & Hugh Sinclair; has coll. Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh(ed): The Fantastic Saint(1982) |
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Questing Tycoon, The |
1958 JUN |
nv |
1st pub. in The Saint, 1954 DEC; 3rd story in F&SF from The Saint series; best-known radio Saint was Vincent Price who played the role 1947-50; Roger Moore was the best-known TV Saint, in 114 episodes in U.K. series 1963-68 |
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Convenient Monster, The |
1965 DEC |
nv |
1st pub. in The Saint, 1959 MAR; 4th story in F&SF from The Saint series; Charteris wrote close to 40 Saint books(novels & colls.), between 1928-64 and the last The Saint in Pursuit(1970); after 1967 Saint books were written by other authors |
| Chast, R. |
Cartoon: From the Notebook of Lewis Commonsense, Ph.D. |
1985 FEB |
ct |
(1954- ) 1st pub. in NYM, 1984; wn. for Roz Chast; she was born in Brooklyn, lives in Ridgefield, CT; cartoonist for NYM; has cartoon colls. Unscientific Americans(1982), Parallel Universes(1984), Proof of Life on Earth(1991); see C.A., vol.149, p.69-71 |
| Chaulet, G. |
Cartoon |
1958 FEB |
ct |
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| Cheinisse, Claude F. |
Juliette |
1961 AUG |
ss |
(1931-1982) 1st pub. in 1959; trans. from the French by Damon Knight; a doctor specializing in forensic & industrial toxicology; involved in French fandom since late 1950s, 1st story pub. sf in 1958; married sf writer Christine Renard in 1965 |
| Chekhov, Anton |
Flying Islands, The |
1959 APR |
spf |
(1860-1904) a parody, written as if by Jules Verne; 1st pub. in Russian magazine Budilnik, in 1883; trans. by Frances H. Jones; Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; has colls. in English, Selected Stories(1951), The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov(1973) |
| Cheney |
Cartoon |
1998 AUG |
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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Cartoon |
1998 SEP |
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 |
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Cartoon |
1998 OCT/NOV |
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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Cartoon |
1998 DEC |
ct |
presently a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker Magazine; "workday begins at 7 PM, when he begins writing cartoon ideas for the next day's drawing session. This gives an overnight 'cooling off' period, (to see) if they're still funny the following AM" |
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Cartoon |
1999 FEB |
ct |
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Cartoon |
1999 MAR |
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Cartoon |
1999 JUN |
ct |
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Cartoon |
1999 JUL |
ct |
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Cartoon |
1999 AUG |
ct |
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Cartoon |
1999 SEP |
ct |
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Cartoon |
1999 OCT/NOV |
ct |
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| Cherryh, C.J. |
Cassandra |
1978 OCT |
ss |
(1942- ) W-1979 HUG; N-1978 NEB; 1979 LOC, ss; her 2nd pub. short story; wn. for Carolyn Janice Cherry; lives in Oklahoma City, former teacher of Latin, Ancient History; has 1st novel Gate of Ivrel(1976), in her Morgaine ser.; has website www.cherryh.com |
| Chesbro, George C. |
Sun Pond, The |
1971 MAR |
ss |
(1940- ) special education teacher; has Dr. Robert "Mongo" Frederickson mystery novel ser., about a dwarf circus gymnast & black belt karate expert turned criminologist, Shadow of a Broken Man(1977), City of Whispering Stone(1978) |
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Grand Design |
1971 DEC |
ss |
has Mongo mystery ser., An Affair of Socerers(1979), The Beasts of Valhalla(1985), Two Songs the Archangel Sings(1986), The Cold Smell of Sacred Stone(1988), Second Horseman Out of Eden(1989), The Language of Cannibals(1990) |
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Poems to Play in the Piccolo |
1982 MAY |
ss |
N-1983 LOC, short story; Mongo mystery ser. incl. coll. In the House of Secret Enemies(1990), novels The Fear in Yesterday's Rings(1991), Dark Chant in a Crimson Key(1992), An Incident at Bloodtide(1993), Bleeding in the Eye of a Brainstorm(1995) |
| Chilson, Rob |
Far-Off Things |
1992 MAY |
nv |
(1945- ) wn. for Robert Dean Chilson; 1st story in Prime Mondeign ser.; "story arose from speculation ... what will even as little as 1000 yrs. of gene-splicing do ... (story like hard-core sf but) closer to Edgar Rice Burroughs pseudoscientific fantasy" |
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