| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Daglow, Don L. |
Blessing of La Llorona, The |
1982 APR |
nv |
born in San Francisco, now lives in southern California; wrote one of the original Star Trek computer games; programs computer games for Mattel Electronics |
| Dalmas, John |
Picture Man, The |
1984 AUG |
ss |
(1926- ) story about psychic photography; ps. for John Robert Jones, lives in CA; has degrees in forestry & plant ecology, has pub. work on forestry; 1st pub. sf was novel The Yngling(ANA 1969 OCT-NOV; 1971 fixup), & sequel Homecomimg(1984) |
| Dalzell, Bonnie |
Pages From a Twenty-Second Century Zoologist's Notebook, Part 1: Saddle Rabbit, The |
1975 NOV |
fa |
(1944- ) 1st story in 22nd Century Zoologist series; born in Pasadena, has BA in Paleontology from the Univ. of California(Davis), MA from the Univ. of California(Berkeley); presently at Berkeley working on her PhD in Zoology |
| |
Pages From a 22nd Century Zoologist's Notebook, Part 2: Solution to the Red Meat Problem, The |
1976 MAY |
fa |
2nd & last story in 22nd Century Zoologist series; shared credit with Rick Sternbach for F&SF's 1976 APR cover art |
| Damonti, Henri |
Notary and the Conspiracy, The |
1962 DEC |
ss |
trans. from the French by Damon Knight; Damonti is a ps., for a criminal & divorce lawyer from Strasbourg, France; ps. comes from an old Arsène Lupin novel; writes radio plays for children; has story "Olivia" in 13 French Science Fiction Stories(1965) |
| Dance, Clifton |
Brothers, The |
1952 JUN |
ss |
Clifton L. Dance Jr; his 1st pub. story; a physician; he also has a short story, "A Matter of Ethics," published in F&SF 1954 NOV, under the pseudonym J.R. Shango |
| Daniel, Tony |
Locust |
1991 JUL |
ss |
grew up in Alabama, but now lives in Seattle, WA; 1989 graduate of Clarion West; has 1st sale "The Passage of Night Trains" in ASI 1990 m-DEC; 1st novel Warpath(1993); Earthling(1997); coll. The Robot's Twilight Companion(1999; N-2000 LOC) |
| Daniell, Sally |
Extraordinary Child, An |
1966 OCT |
nv |
|
| Dann, Jack |
Camps |
1979 MAY |
nv |
(1945- ) N-1979 NEB; 1980 BSF, LOC; has BA social/political science; 1st stories pub. sf, w. George Zebrowski, "Traps" & "Dark, Dark the Dead Star" in IFS 1970 MAR, JUL; also in F&SF w. co-authors Malzberg, Dozois, Jack C.; see iv in LOC 1999 MAY(#460) |
| |
Black Horn, The |
1984 NOV |
nv |
has novels Starhiker(1977 fixup), Junction(FAN 1973 NOV; N-1973 NEB; 1974 LOC; exp. 1981), The Man Who Melted(1984; N-1984 NEB; 1985 LOC), The Memory Cathedral(1995; W-1996 AUR; N-1997 DIT), Counting Coup(1997), The Silent(1998) |
| Dann, Jack & Jack C. Haldeman II |
Sentry |
1988 FEB |
nv |
2nd & last story in their John Stranger ser., pub. as fixup novel High Steel(1993); Dann & Haldeman have a novella, "Echoes of Thunder," pub. in 1991 as part of a Tor double with Harlan Ellison's "Run for the Stars"; Dann has coll. Timetipping(1980) |
| Davenport, Basil |
More Brave New Worlds Than One |
1959 FEB |
br |
(1905-1966) guest book columnist; discusses Aldous Huxley: Brave New World; George Orwell:1984; Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged; Nevile Shute: On the Beach; Davenport has book An Introduction to Islandia(1942); edited anth. Deals with the Devil(1958) |
| |
Books |
1965 APR |
br |
Judith Merril(ed): The Ninth Annual of the Year's Best SF; Davenport has sf criticism books Inquiry into Science Fiction(1955), The Science Fiction Novel: Imagination and Social Criticism(1959; rev. 1964); edited anth. Invisible Men(1960), & 4 others |
| David, Peter |
Archetype, The |
1999 FEB |
ss |
(1954- ) lives on Long Island, NY; has written for Marvel Comics in The Incredible Hulk; has loup-garou novel Howling Mad(1999); novelizations, Star Trek: The New Frontier: Dark Allies(1999), The Quiet Place(1999); Next Generation: Triangle(1999), etc |
| Davidson, Avram |
My Boy Friend's Name Is Jello |
1954 JUL |
ss |
(1923-1993) his 1st pub. sf story; born in Hog Hill section of Yonkers, NY; an Orthodox Jew, he served as a U.S. Naval Hospital Corpsman with the Marines 1942-45 in the South Pacific & China, & with the Israeli forces in the 1948-49 Arab-Israeli War |
| |
Golem, The |
1955 MAR |
ss |
attended New York Univ., & Yeshiva Univ., & Pierce College in 1950-51; 1st story pub. "Dan Cohen" was to Jewish Life Magazine, 1947 OCT, as by A.A. Davidson; he had over 20 stories, poems & articles pub. in Jewish Life in the late 1940s-1950s |
| |
King's Evil |
1956 OCT |
ss |
in this story, Davidson speculates as to the whereabouts of King George III one afternoon in October 1788, & presents selections purporting to be from The Memoirs of Dr. Mainauduc, The Mesmerist, & describing a quack magnetic cure for scrofula(Wessells) |
| |
Summerland |
1957 JUL |
ss |
see The Avram Davidson Website, at http://ad.kosmic.org/, run by The Avram Davidson Society(founded 1998 APR), & at this site, the bio-bibliographical essay by Henry Wessells, "'Something Rich and Strange': The Writings of Avram Davidson" |
| |
Mr. Stilwell's Stage |
1957 SEP |
ss |
has ss "The Necessity of His Condition" in EQMM 1957 APR, based on his research into antebellum Dred Scott slavery case, W-Queen's Award; "the acceptance of this story(even before it won) marks the turning point in my career as a writer"(Wessells) |
| |
Negra Sum |
1957 NOV |
ss |
has short story "Now Let Us Sleep" in VSF 1957 SEP, which is a morality play on the conflict between primitive & developed cultures, set in the context of interstellar travel(Wessells) |
| |
I Do Not Hear You, Sir |
1958 FEB |
ss |
|
| |
Grantha Sighting, The |
1958 APR |
ss |
|
| |
Up the Close and Doun the Stair |
1958 MAY |
ss |
has short story "Or All the Seas with Oysters" in GAL 1958 MAY, W-1958 HUG, which tells a tale of the life cycle of safety pins, clothes hangars, & bicycles, & has become a science fiction classic(Wessells) |
| |
Great Is Diana |
1958 AUG |
ss |
|
| |
Or the Grasses Grow |
1958 NOV |
ss |
in the late 1950s, Davidson lived for a time on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, moving by late 1961 to West 110th Street opposite the Cathedral of St. John the Divine |
| |
Woman Who Thought She Could Read, The |
1959 JAN |
ss |
|
| |
Certifcate, The |
1959 MAR |
ss |
|
| |
Montavarde Camera, The |
1959 MAY |
ss |
|
| |
Author, Author |
1959 JUL |
ss |
|
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Dagon |
1959 OCT |
ss |
this story, and his short story "The Dragon Skin Drum" in The Kenyon Review, 1961 JAN, draw upon his wartime experiences in China for their exotic setting |
| |
Après Nous |
1960 MAR |
vi |
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Sixth Season, The |
1960 JUN |
ss |
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Fair Trade |
1960 JUL |
ss |
|
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Climacteric |
1960 AUG |
vi |
|
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Yo-Ho, and Up |
1960 DEC |
vi |
has story "The Affair at Lahore Cantonment" in EQMM 1961 JUN, W-1961 EDG, in which a conversation in a British pub turns to a romantic rivalry & murder in colonial India, & the involvement of "Ruddy Kipling"(Wessells) |
| |
Sources of the Nile, The |
1961 JAN |
nv |
this story is set in a Madison Avenue advertising milieu & looks at how fads & trends come about(Wessells); also in F&SF with co-author Sidney Klein, & with co-author Randall Garrett, & with co-author Morton Klass |
| |
Vat, The |
1961 OCT |
vi |
married writer Grania Kaiman (Davis) in early 1962, with whom he has collaborated on novels & short stories, incl. here in F&SF |
| |
Singular Events Which Occurred in the Hovel on the Alley Off Eye Street, The |
1962 FEB |
ss |
has coll. Or All the Seas with Oysters(1962); true crime essays, most reprinted from Cavalier, coll. Crimes and Chaos (1962) |
| |
63rd St. Station, The |
1962 MAR |
vi |
editor of F&SF from 1962 APR to 1964 NOV, which won a 1963 HUG for Best Professional Magazine; during the latter part of his editorship at F&SF, he was living in Amecameca, Mexico, & receiving manuscripts there |
| |
Editorial |
1962 APR |
ed |
Avram Davidson introduces himself, the 4th and newest editor of F&SF |
| |
Editorial |
1962 MAY |
ed |
stresses F&SF will not have a letters column, fanzine review, etc, but will keep an open mind to changes, and will listen to readers' opinions & suggestions |
| |
Miss Buttermouth |
1962 MAY |
vi |
has 1st novel Joyleg(FAN 1962 MAR-APR; 1962) w. Ward Moore, comic nostalgic view of the U.S., which tells the story of the finding of a Revolutionary War veteran still alife in the 20th century, who has became immortal from drinking a special brew(Clute) |
| |
Editorial |
1962 JUL |
ed |
relates the letter of an author(Mr. Bob Leman of Bethal Park, PA) of a rejected story; Leman eventually has over a dozen stories pub. in F&SF, the first in 1967 JAN |
| |
Books |
1962 AUG |
br |
Joseph Payne Brennan: Nine Horrors and a Dream; Heinrich Kley: The Drawings of ...; Isaac Asimov: Fact and Fancy; H.L. Gold(ed): The Sixth Galaxy Reader; Wallace West: Outposts in Space; James White: Hospital Station; Charles Haas: Adel Hitro |
| |
Editorial |
1962 AUG |
ed |
an anonymous letter by The Flea |
| |
Editorial |
1962 SEP |
ed |
Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference, and past memories of Science Fiction |
| |
Introduction to Theodore Sturgeon's "When You Care, When You Love" |
1962 SEP |
in |
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| |
Introduction to James H. Schmitz's "These Are the Arts" |
1962 SEP |
in |
Schmitz was born in Hamburg, Germany, to American parents; came to America at the outbreak of WWII, flew in the Army Air Corps in the South Pacific Theater; now lives in Inglewood, CA; an engineer |
| |
Editorial |
1962 OCT |
ed |
a dip into the Question Box - a few answers |
| |
Introduction to Brian W. Aldiss's "A Kind of Artistry" |
1962 OCT |
in |
Aldiss is the literary editor of the daily Oxford Mail, the president of the British Science Fiction Association; editor of Penguin Science Fiction(1961), More Penguin Science Fiction(1963), & Yet More Penguin Science Fiction(1964) |
