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| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Chilson, Rob |
Fetching |
1993 MAR |
nv |
born in Ringwood, OK; lives in Kansas City, MO; 1st story pub. "The Mind Reader" in ANA 1968 JUN; 1st novel far-future adventure As the Curtain Falls(1974), space opera The Star-Crowned Kings(1975); see entry in St. James Guide to S. F. Writers |
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Midnight Yearnings |
1994 AUG |
ss |
has novel The Shores of Kansas(1976), about a man with a natural, consciously-controlled talent for time travel & his resulting psychological problems(Clute); Robots to Foundation: Isaac Asimov's Robot City 5: Refuge(1988); see entry in CANR, vol. 58 |
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This Side of Independence |
1998 FEB |
ss |
has sf novels Men Like Rats(1989), about men living in the corridors & pantries of giant aliens(B&C); Rounded with Sleep(1990), a professional hero living on an Earth taken over by a computerized fantasy role-playing game(B&C); see Biolog ANA 1984 APR |
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Hestwood, The |
1999 APR |
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) |
| Choly, Robert |
Danse Macabre |
1960 NOV |
vi |
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| Christie, Agatha |
Last Séance, The |
1951 APR |
ss |
(1890-1976) 1st pub. in Ghost Stories 1926 NOV & Sovereign Magazine 1927 MAR, as "The Woman Who Stole a Ghost"; ps. for Dame Agatha Christie Mallowan, born in Torquay, in Devon, England; worked in dispensary in WWI, gained knowledge of drugs & poisons |
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Call of Wings, The |
1952 JUN |
ss |
1st pub. in her coll. The Hound of Death & Other Stories(1933); has 1st novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles(1920), & said to mark start of golden age of mystery(DeAndrea), & which introduced Detective Hercules Poirot; creator of Miss Jane Marple series |
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Fourth Man, The |
1955 SEP |
ss |
1st pub. in The Hound of Death(1933); 1st Marple novel, Murder at the Vicarage(1930); won a Grand Master Edgar Award in 1954; one of the top mystery playwrights, author of longest-running British play, The Mousetrap(1954); has book An Autobiography(1977) |
| Christopher, John |
Decline and Fall of the Bug-Eyed Monster, The |
1956 OCT |
ar |
(1922- ) 1st pub. in Punch; ps. for Christopher Samuel Youd; born in Knowsley, Wales; now lives on island of Guernsey; active sf fan before WWII, in which he served; 1st story pub. sf "Christmas Tree" in ASF 1949 FEB; 1st novel The Winter Swan(1949) |
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Few Kindred Spirits, A |
1965 NOV |
ss |
N-1965 NEB, short story; has coll. The Twenty-Second Century(1954), 1st sf novel The Year of the Comet(1955; vt Planet in Peril, 1959 US), novel The Death of Grass(1956; vt No Blade of Grass, 1957 US; 1970 movie No Blade of Grass) |
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Little People, The |
1967 JAN |
no-1/3 |
at Killabeg Castle in the middle of Killabeg Bog in Ireland, eight people on holiday discover a group of miniature human beings, less than a foot high, the results of German experiments |
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Little People, The |
1967 FEB |
no-2/3 |
has novels The World in Winter(1962; in U.S. as The Long Winter, 1962), The Possessors(1964), Sweeney's Island(1964), A Wrinkle in the Skin(1965; vt The Ragged Edge, 1966 US), Pendulum(1968); his "Bright Birds," in EQMM, N-1972 EDG |
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Little People, The |
1967 MAR |
no-3/3 |
has Tripods sequence of juvenile novels, The White Mountains(1967), The City of Gold and Lead(1967), The Pool of Fire(1968), & a prequel, When the Tripods Came(1988); other juveniles, The Lotus Caves(1969), The Guardians(1970) |
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Specimen |
1972 DEC |
ss |
has fantasy novels The Prince in Waiting(1970), Beyond the Burning Lands(1971), The Sword of the Spirits(1972); juvenile novels Dom and Va(1973), Wild Jack(1974), Empty World(1977); Fireball trilogy Fireball(1981), New Found Land(1983), Dragon Dance(1986) |
| Chwedyk, Richard |
Auteur Theory |
1998 JUL |
nv |
lives in Chicago; his wife Kathy is a poet & P.R. writer; he's an editor for a chain of suburban community newspapers, teaches creative writing at Oakton Community College; has pub. short fiction & poetry in AMZ, Oyez Review, S&T, & Oink! |
| Ciardi, John |
Love Letter From Mars |
1965 JAN |
pm |
also in F&SF under the ps. John Anthony |
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Love Letter From Mars |
1979 OCT |
pm |
1st pub. in F&SF 1965 JAN |
| Claremont, C.S. |
Psimed |
1973 APR |
nv |
(1950- ) Christopher Simon Claremont, an actor, "now working summer stock & the New York audition rounds. When I'm not working theatre, I write."; has novel Grounded(1991), an extract pub. in AMZ 1991 JUL |
| Clareson, Thomas D. |
SF: Academic Dimensions, The |
1972 MAY |
ar |
(1926-1993) "dimensions of the current academic scene"; Prof. of English at College of Wooster, editor of Extrapolation since 1959; has books SF: The Other Side of Realism(1971), Voices for the Future, Vol.1('76), Vol.2('79), Vol.3('83); obit LOC 1993 AUG |
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Robert Silverberg: Compleat Writer, The |
1974 APR |
ar |
T.C. considers R.S.'s best novels to be Downward to Earth, Second Trip, Tower of Glass, Dying Inside; compares early stories which R.S. then expanded on; Clareson has nf books Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s(1984), Some Kind of Paradise(1986) |
| Clark, Curt |
Nackles |
1964 JAN |
ss |
(1933- ) ps. for Donald E. Westlake, & in F&SF as such with author Larry M. Harris; W-1967 EDG for novel, God Save the Mark(1967); has sf novel Anarchaos(1967) as by Curt Clark; coll. The Curious Facts Preceding My Execution and Other Fictions(1968) |
| Clarke, Arthur C. |
Superiority |
1951 AUG |
ss |
(1917- ) Arthur Charles Clarke, born in Minehead, in Somerset, England; active sf fan before WWII; radar instructor with the RAF, 1941-46; 1st story pub. sf "Loophole" in ASF 1946 APR; 1st sale was "Rescue Party" in ASF 1946 MAY |
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Refugee |
1955 JUL |
ss |
Title Contest Story, orig. titled "This Earth of Majesty" by Clarke, & has appeared in anthologies under either name, & aka "Royal Prerogative"; winner announced, p.100, 1955 OCT, "Refugee" was the winning title |
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What Goes Up … |
1956 JAN |
ss |
1st & only story in F&SF in White Hart Tavern series; others stories in series pub. in var. magazines; coll. in Tales of the White Hart(1957); four early stories pub. in fanzines 1937-42 were coll. in The Best of Arthur C. Clarke 1937-1971(1973 UK) |
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Planets Are Not Enough, The |
1956 JUN |
ar |
1st pub. in SRL, 26 NOV 1955; speculates on the problems of interstellar flight; has 1st two novels, Prelude to Space(1951) & The Sands of Mars(1951); novel Islands in the Sky(1952); coll. Expedition to Earth(1953); has lived in Sri Lanka since 1956 |
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No Morning After |
1956 JUL |
ss |
1st pub. in Derleth(ed): Time to Come(1954); his story "The Sentinel" in 10 Story Fantasy 1951 SPR was basis for movie 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968), which Clarke wrote screenplay with Stanley Kubrick; Clarke's role in movie in The Lost Worlds of 2001(1972) |
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Starting Line, The (Venture to the Moon: I) |
1956 DEC |
ss |
1st story of 6 in a series, brief episodes from the first moon-flight; also pub. as "Double-Crossed in Outer Space"; series was pub. in the London Evening Standard, in 1956 MAY; has novel Childhood's End(FFM 1950 APR as "Guardian Angel"; exp. 1953) |
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Robin Hood, F.R.S. (Venture to the Moon: II) |
1956 DEC |
ss |
2nd story of 6 in a series, brief episodes from the first moon-flight; 1st pub. in London Evening Standard, 24 MAY 1956; has novel Against the Fall of Night(STS 1948 NOV; 1953; exp. & rev. vt The City and the Stars, 1956) |
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Green Fingers (Venture to the Moon: III) |
1957 JAN |
ss |
3rd story of 6 in a series, brief episodes from the first moon-flight; has novels Earthlight(TWS 1951 AUG; exp.1955), The Deep Range(Star SF #3, 1954; exp.1957), A Fall of Moondust(1961), colls. Reach for Tomorrow(1956), Tales of Ten Worlds(1962) |
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All That Glitters (Venture to the Moon: IV) |
1957 JAN |
ss |
4th story of 6 in a series, brief episodes from the first moon-flight; has written many nf science books, 1st being Interplanetary Flight(1951); has novel Glide Path(1963), colls. Across the Sea of Stars(1959), The Billion Names of God(1967) |
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Watch This Space (Venture to the Moon: V) |
1957 FEB |
ss |
5th story of 6 in a series, brief episodes from the first moon-flight; aka "Who Wrote That Message to the Stars ..."; wrote little mag. fiction after 1962, but has Nebula winner "A Meeting with Medusa"(PBY 1971 DEC), in coll. The Wind from the Sun(1972) |
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Question Of Residence, A (Venture to the Moon: VI) |
1957 FEB |
ss |
6th story of 6 in a series, brief episodes from the first moon-flight; has novel, Rendezvous with Rama(1973; W-1973 NEB; 1974 BSF, HUG, JUP, JWC, LOC), & its sequels Rama II(1989; N-1990 LOC) & The Garden of Rama(1991), the last two with Gentry Lee |
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Security Check |
1957 JUN |
ss |
edited Time Probe(1966), The Coming of the Space Age(1967, nf essays), Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol.4(1981, w. Geo. W. Proctor); has novels Imperial Earth: A Fantasy of Love and Discord(cut 1975; restored 1976), The Fountains of Paradise(1979; 1989) |
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Of Mind and Matter |
1958 OCT |
ar |
ultimate impact of electronic computers, the Cybernetic Revolution; has 2001 sequels, 2010: Odyssey Two(1982; 1984 movie), & 2061: Odyssey Three(1988); coll. Tales from the Planet Earth(1989); Clarke W-1985 NEB, Grandmaster Award |
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Inside the Comet |
1960 OCT |
ss |
has novels The Songs of Distant Earth(IFS 1958 JUN; exp.1986), Cradle(1988, with Gentry Lee); Gregory Benford was authorized to write a sequel to Clarke's 1948 story "Against the Fall of Night," titled Beyond the Fall of Night(1990) |
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Saturn Rising |
1961 MAR |
ss |
has franchised out his Venus Prime series to Paul Preuss, each novel being based on a Clarke short story: Breaking Strain(1987), Maelstrom(1988), Hide and Seek(1989), The Medusa Encounter(1990), The Diamond Moon(1990), & The Shining Ones(1991) |
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Crime on Mars |
1961 JUN |
ss |
1st pub. in EQMM 1960 JUL; begun in 1987, Arthur C. Clarke Award for best U.K. 1st edition sf novel; has novel The Ghosts from the Grand Banks(1990), about an attempt to raise the Titanic; has colls. The Sentinel(1996), The Collected Stories of ...(2001) |
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Books |
1963 OCT |
br |
the cultural impact of sf; about Clarke himself, see anth. Arthur C. Clarke(1977, ed by Olander & Greenberg), Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography(1989), & The Odyssey of Arthur C. Clarke: An Authorized Biography(1992, by Neil McAleer) |
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Possible, That's All! |
1968 OCT |
ar |
response to Asimov science essay "Impossible, That's All!" in 1967 FEB; Clarke says never say anything is impossible, that faster than light travel might be possible; followed on p.68 by a rebuttal by Isaac Asimov; see iv in Platt: Dream Makers(1983, 87) |
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Introducing Isaac Asimov |
1975 JAN |
in |
Clarke's intro to recent Asimov speech, an address which actually generated Asimov's science essay this month, on intelligence; intro & speech from a Mensa meeting in London, in 1974 JUN); Asimov talks about Clarke in I. Asimov(1994); iv in LOC 1999 SEP |
| Clarke, Pauline |
Potato Cake, The |
1955 JAN |
ss |
(1921- ) working name for Anne Pauline Clarke; U.K. writer of children's books, many under the ps. of Helen Clare, e.g. Merlin's Magic(1953); novels The Twelve and the Genii(1962; vt The Return of the Twelves, 1964), The Two Faces of Silenus(1972) |
| Clayton, Jo |
Borrowed Light |
1997 SEP |
ss |
(1939-1998) wn. for Patricia Jo Clayton; has 1st novel, Diadem ser., Diadem from the Stars(1977); Duel of Sorcery trilogy, 1st Monngather(1982); Drinker of Souls(1986, 1st of trilogy); Shadowsong trilogy, 1st The Burning Ground(1995); obit in LOC 1998 MAR |
| Clee, Mona A. |
Dinosaurs |
1986 JUL |
nv |
native Texan, moved recently to California; attended 1983 Clarion; has sold stories to various anth.; has sf novels Branch Point(1996), Overshoot(1998), the latter set in 2032 AD, in which global warming threatens to destroy mankind |
| Cleeve, Brian |
Devil and Democracy, The |
1966 NOV |
ss |
(1921- ) 1st story in Devil & his left-hand man Belphagor series; Brian Talbot Cleeve, lives in Dublin, written for British TV; has novel Vice Isn't Private, coll. The Horse Thieves of Ballysaggert(1966); story "Foxer," in PST 1965 DEC 18, was N-1965 EDG |
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Devil and Jake O'Hara, The |
1968 AUG |
ss |
2nd story in his Devil & Belphagor series; has Sean Ryan series, about an ex-Irish revolutionary now British intelligence agent: Vote X for Treason(1964), Dark Blood, Dark Terror(1965), Vice Isn't Private(1966), Violent Death of a Bitter Englishman(1967) |
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Devil in Exile, The |
1968 NOV |
ss |
3rd story in his Devil & Belphagor series; has novels You Must Never Go Back(1968), Cry of Morning(1971); novels of mysticism The House on the Rock(1980), The Seven Mansions(1980), The Fourth Mary(1982), & A Woman of Fortune(1993) |
| Clifton, Mark |
Remembrance and Reflection |
1958 JAN |
nv |
(1906-1963) 4th & last story(1st in F&SF), Ralph Kennedy series; first three were in ASF(1953 SEP, 1955 MAR, 1957 MAR); a retired personnel expert; 1st story pub. sf "What Have I Done" in ASF 1952 MAY; has novel in series, When They Come from Space(1962) |
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What Now, Little Man? |
1959 DEC |
nv |
has novel from Bossy series, They'd Rather Be Right(1957, 1982; vt The Forever Machine, 1958), W-1955 HUG; has novel Eight Keys to Eden(1960), coll. The Science Fiction of Mark Clifton(1980, ed by Barry N. Malzberg) |
| Clingerman, Mildred |
Minister Without Portfolio |
1952 FEB |
ss |
(1918- ) her 1st pub. story; housewife from Arizona |
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Stair Trick |
1952 AUG |
ss |
has short story "The Little Witch of Elm Street" in the Woman's Home Companion 1956 OCT |
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