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| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Coppel, Alfred |
Mars Is Ours |
1954 OCT |
ss |
has political thrillers Thirty-Four East(1974), The Dragon(1977), The Hastings Conspiracy(1980), The Apocalypse Brigade(1981); has alternate history novel The Burning Mountain: A Novel of the Invasion of Japan(1983) |
| Corbett, Scott |
Game Show |
1975 NOV |
ss |
(1913- ) author of juvenile novels & nf books One by Sea(1965), The Case of the Gone Goose(1966), The Hairy Horror Trick(1969), Here Lies the Body(1974), Captain Butcher's Body(1976), The Mysterious Zetabet(1979), The Great McGoniggle Rides Shotgun(1981) |
| Corka |
Cartoon |
1955 JUN |
ct |
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| Cornell, Richard |
Push |
1991 JAN |
nv |
his 3rd sf sale; "in early forties, grew up in the Bronx, work part-time as a reference librarian, & have degrees in philosophy from Cornell & Univ. of Rochester"; intro says he edited an anth. of writing about dreams, Dreams Are Wiser Than Men(1987) |
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Magritte's Kick |
1992 JUN |
ss |
has anth. Yellow Silk: Erotic Arts and Letters |
| Correa, Hugo |
Last Element, The |
1962 APR |
ss |
(1926- ) native of Chile, called by Bernard Goorden "the first Latin-American classic" |
| |
Alter Ego |
1967 JUL |
vi |
has books The Prowler in the Rain(1968), The Puppets(1969), When Pilate Said No(1971), & The Highest Ones(1973) |
| Correy, Lee |
Brass Cannon, The |
1955 NOV |
ss |
(1928-1997) ps. for G(eorge) Harry Stine; also in F&SF as G. Harry Stine; his novel Starship Through Space(1954) is a sequel to story "... And a Star to Steer Her By" in ASF 1953 JUN; novels Rocket Man(1955), Contraband Rocket(1956), Star Driver(1980) |
| Corson, Christopher |
Invasion |
1964 MAY |
pm |
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| Corwin, M. |
Query for Doc Richardson |
1958 JAN |
pm |
ps. for Miss M.C. Cosley, of Washington, D.C.; in response to Robert S. Richardson's article(#721) in 1955 DEC, on the possible sexual mores of future Martian exploration & colonization |
| Corwin, Matt |
Backwater Time |
1987 FEB |
ss |
(1967?- ) student at Univ. of Washington, has taken a course taught by Joanna Russ |
| Cotham, Frank |
Cartoon |
1998 SEP |
ct |
(1948- ) born in Jacksonville, FL("my mother happened to be there at the time, otherwise we are native Tennesseans"); lives in Tennessee; grad. from the Univ. of Memphis, then worked for a couple of TV stations in Mississippi & Memphis |
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Cartoon |
1998 DEC |
ct |
his first cartoon sale was to Saturday Review in the late 1970s, then left TV for good for fulltime cartooning in 1987; has pub. work in The New Yorker, Barron's, Saturday Evening Post, Punch, etc. |
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Cartoon |
1999 JUN |
ct |
was influenced by all the cartoonists from The New Yorker Magazine; "My ideas, such as they are, come from just listening to people talk & taking notes, which I work up into drawings later. I also get lots of input from my 2 dogs & cats" |
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Cartoon |
1999 SEP |
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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Cartoon: Research & Development |
1999 OCT/NOV |
ct |
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| Cottrell, William D. |
Hundred Miles Is Forever, A |
1972 JUN |
ss |
(1906-1995) wrote screenplays for Pinocchio(1940), The Reluctant Dragon(1941), Peter Pan(1953); has background in theater; a teacher in acting on the stage, at the American Theater Wing in NYC |
| Coulter, Lynn |
Granny Woman |
1994 JAN |
ss |
Lynn B. Coulter, & also in F&SF as such; freelance features & humor writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution; story based on an incident that happened to her grandmother, a descendant of Scotch-Irish settlers in the Appalachian mountains |
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Swamp Water |
1996 FEB |
ss |
has sold to MZBFM & to several literary mags.; about story, "Thoreau said, 'Methinks my soul must be a bright invisible green.' I like to think that mine is too." |
| Coulter, Lynn B. |
Singing Thing, The |
1998 JAN |
ss |
also in F&SF as Lynn Coulter; has journalism degree from Georgia State Univ.; worked for Eastern Air Lines until it closed, giving her the impetus to turn to writing |
| Counsil, Wendy |
Stigmata |
1991 APR |
ss |
her 1st fiction sale; lives in San Francisco, writes fulltime, works part-time as a computer network administrator; has pub. poetry & nf; story grew partly from her work as a crisis counselor in the 1970s; readers warned story is disturbing due to subject |
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Black Handkerchiefs |
1991 DEC |
ss |
lives in San Francisco |
| |
How to Tame the Vampire |
1992 FEB |
ss |
story "very much influenced by ... 'How to Talk to a Hunter' by Pamela Houston (in 1991 Best American Short Stories) ... A friend's offhand comment that Nietzsche once said 'Talent is a vampire' started me thinking about broadening the idea of vampirism" |
| Coupling, J.J. |
Good Life, The |
1952 FEB |
ss |
(1910-2002) ps. for John Robinson Pierce; writer, scientist at Bell Labs(1952-71), Prof. at California Institute of Technology since 1971; 1st story pub. sf "The Relics from the Earth" in SWS 1930 Mar under his own name |
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Mr. Kincaid's Pasts |
1953 AUG |
ss |
wrote science articles for ASF from 1944-71 as J.J. Coupling; has pub. 14 non-fiction books, from Theory and Design of Electron Beams(1949; rev. 1954) to Almost All About Waves(1974); has written fiction as Stine, Coupling, & as John Roberts |
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In 2063 She Ceased to Be |
1959 OCT |
pm |
see his obit, with an appreciation by Arthur C. Clarke, in LOC 2002 MAY(#496), & in SFC 2002 JUL(#226) |
| Couzens, Gary |
Second Contact |
1994 MAR |
ss |
(1964- ) his 1st pub. work outside of Great Britain; from Wokingham, Berkshire, England; writes a film column in Exuberance, a U.K. magazine |
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Half-Life |
1996 AUG |
ss |
read English at Southampton Univ.; now works for British Telecom; has pub. in U.K. mags.; story "was a challenge to write a story about someone who was dead before the story began ... it's a story told from the viewpoint of someone who doesn't exist ..." |
| Cowdrey, Albert E. |
Familiar, The |
1997 MAR |
ss |
(1933- ) 1st story in his Azalea Place, New Orleans series; also in F&SF 1968 FEB under ps. Chet Arthur; born & now lives in New Orleans; spent last 25 years working for the Army staff in Washington, D.C., & wrote 8 books on military & medical history |
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White Magic |
1998 MAR |
nv |
2nd story in his Azalea Place, New Orleans series |
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Great Ancestor, The |
1998 SEP |
ss |
3rd story in his Azalea Place, New Orleans series |
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Revenge |
1999 MAY |
ss |
has taught at Tulane Univ. & the Univ. of New Orleans; his interest in fantasy began with his father, an accountant who read aloud the works of Edgar Allan Poe to his young son |
| Cowper, Richard |
Custodians, The |
1975 OCT |
nv |
(1926-2002) N-1975 NEB, nv; N-1976 HUG, LOC, na; ps. for John Middleton Murry Jr, his 1st appearance in any sf mag.; born in Abbotsbury, England; lives in South Wales; has 4 non-sf novels as by Colin Murry, the first being The Golden Valley(1958) |
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Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
1976 MAR |
na |
N-1976 NEB; 1977 BFA, HUG, LOC, novella; set at the end of the next millenium, in what is now the island of Ireland, Peter the Storyteller, Tom the Piper & the people of York, await the legend of the White Bird of Kinship to pass |
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Paradise Beach |
1976 MAY |
nv |
N-1977 LOC, short story; his other non-sf novels as by Colin Murry(Colin is a nickname of his), Recollections of a Ghost(1960), A Path to the Sea(1961), & Private View(1972), the latter written at the time of his other non-sf novels(Clute) |
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Hertford Manuscript, The |
1976 OCT |
nv |
N-1977 LOC; "story of a time traveler to the grim days of the Great Plague"; first used Cowper ps. for Breakthrough(1967), one of his finest works, a story of ESP & a kind of reverse reincarnation, the power of the mind to sense alternate worlds(Clute) |
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Drink Me, Francesca |
1978 APR |
ss |
N-1979 LOC, short story; has novels Phoenix(1968), Domino(1971), Kuldesak(1972), the latter deals with an underground society on a post-holocaust Earth & a man who makes it to the surface(Clute) |
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Out There Where the Big Ships Go |
1979 AUG |
nv |
N-1980 LOC, novelette; has sf novels Clone(1972), a near-future comedic satire; Time Out of Mind(1973), which combines psi powers & time travel & the rescue of a future U.K. from the totalitarian implications of the 20th century(Clute) |
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Web of the Magi, The |
1980 JUN |
na |
W-1981 BRG; N-1981 BSF, short fiction; N-1981 LOC, novella; "concerns a British soldier who is mapping a telegraph route through a Persian mountain range & who makes an incredible discovery in an isolated, snowy valley" |
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Attleborough Poltergeist, The |
1980 OCT |
nv |
has novel The Twilight of Briareus(1974; N-1975 LOC), considered his best singleton, about an England transformed by a supernova explosion, which disrupts world weather & brings aliens with psychic influences in contact with humans(Clute) |
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Incident at Huacaloc |
1981 OCT |
nv |
has novel Worlds Apart(1974), which burlesques several sf cliches in a story of an alien world on which an sf novel is being written about Urth, while back on Earth an sf writer writes about the alien world(Clute) |
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What Did the Deazies Do? |
1982 DEC |
nv |
has two autobiographical books, as by Colin Middleton Murry, One Hand Clapping(1975; vt I at the Keyhole, 1975 US), which deals mainly with his relationship with his father; & Shadows on the Grass(1977), which deals with his wife & family |
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Brothers |
1983 MAR |
ss |
N-1984 LOC; pub. almost simultaneously in the magazine Extro 1982(?) APR/MAY; see article by Cowper, "Backwards Across the Frontier," in Foundation 9, 1975; has colls. The Custodians(1976), The Web of the Magi(1980), Out There Where the Big Ships Go(1980) |
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Scent of Silverdill, The |
1984 JAN |
ss |
N-1985 LOC, short story; has novel Profundis(1979), in which a mild-mannered Christ figure in a huge submarine which has survived a nuclear holocaust, is being led around the world by dolphins anxious to keep human violence at bay(Clute) |
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Message to the King of Brobdingnag, A (For Jim Lovelock F.R.S.—author of "Gaia"—who thought of it) |
1984 MAY |
nv |
N-1985 LOC, novelette; has chapbooks The Story of Pepita and Corindo(1982), The Young Student(1982), The Unhappy Princess(1982), & The Missing Heart(1982); has coll. The Tithonian Factor(1984) |
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Matter of No Great Significance, A |
1985 DEC |
ss |
best known for Corlay trilogy, The Road to Corlay(1978; w. "Piper at the Gates of Dawn," 1979 US; N-1979 BFA, NEB; 1980 BRG, LOC), A Dream of Kinship(1981), & A Tapestry of Time(1982), which takes places in an England flooded by rising sea levels(Clute) |
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Test Case |
1986 DEC |
ss |
has coll. The Magic Spectacles and Other Tales(1986); has last novel Shades of Darkness(1986), after which he retired from writing, to restore furniture with his wife & to paint; see his obits in LOC 2002 JUN, SFC 2002 JUL, & INZ 2002 AUG |
| Cox, Arthur J. |
Twilight Planet, The |
1951 JUN |
ss |
(1929- ) Arthur Jean Cox; also in F&SF as Jean Cox |
| Cox, Arthur Jean |
Collector of Ambroses, A |
1971 SEP |
nv |
(1929- ) also in F&SF as Jean Cox, Arthur J. Cox, & under the ps. John Thames Rokesmith("Writers of the Purple Page" in 1977 MAY) |
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Straight Shooters Always Win |
1974 MAY |
na |
a contemporary cattle drive with western writer John Thomas Rokesmith(& under this ps. Cox appears in F&SF 1977 MAY) & western actor Tom Mix |
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