| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| deFord, Miriam Allen |
Green Snow, The |
1966 DEC |
ss |
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| |
Ajeri Diary, The |
1968 MAR |
ss |
has nf book The Real Bonnie and Clyde(1968) |
| |
Superior Sex, The |
1968 APR |
ss |
|
| |
Anthony Boucher |
1968 AUG |
obit |
a tribute to the late Anthony Boucher |
| |
Crib Circuit, The |
1969 NOV |
ss |
has coll. Xenogenesis(1969) |
| |
Fun-nee |
1970 MAR |
nv |
|
| |
Old Bunch and Dusty Stiggins, The |
1970 OCT |
ss |
|
| |
Jimmy |
1972 JAN |
ss |
has coll. Elsewhere, Elsewhen, Elsehow(1971) |
| |
Murder in the Transcontinental Tunnel |
1973 MAY |
ss |
|
| |
Treyans Are Coming, The |
1974 JUN |
ss |
|
| deFord, Miriam Allen & Anthony Boucher |
Mary Celestial |
1955 MAY |
ss |
(1888-1975; 1911-1968) Anthony Boucher ps. for William A.P. White; both in F&SF by themselves |
| del Rey, Lester |
Little Jimmy |
1957 APR |
ss |
(1915-1993) ps. for Leonard Knapp, many scholars & Frederik Pohl believe; 1st story pub. "The Faithful" in ASF 1938 APR; famous for robot story "Helen O'Loy"(ASF 1938 DEC), & "Nerves"(ASF 1942 SEP; 1956; rev. 1976); W-1990 NEB, Grandmaster |
| |
Hand at Issue, The |
1972 APR |
ar |
"succinct yet comprehensive consideration of the craftmanship of James Blish"; title a take-off on Blish's book review colls. The Issue at Hand(1964), & More Issues at Hand(1970), as by William Atheling Jr; del Rey has coll. ... And Some Were Human(1948) |
| |
Frederik Pohl: Frontiersman |
1973 SEP |
bio |
profile of Pohl & a critical appraisal of his work; Pohl, born in Brooklyn, helped develop NYCon, the 1st World S.F. Convention in 1939; del Rey 1st met Pohl in 1939 when Pohl was editing AST & SSS; Pohl started N.Y. sf Hydra Club in about 1947-48; etc |
| |
Dawn Rider, The |
1974 MAY |
ss |
has novels Preferred Risk(1955, w. Pohl under collab. ps. Edson McCann; 1980 as by themselves), Police Your Planet(SFA 1953 MAR-SEP as by Erik van Lhin; 1956; 1975 as del Rey & van Lhin), Pstalemate(1971); coll. The Early del Rey(1975); obit LOC 1993 JUN |
| Delany, Samuel R. |
Corona |
1967 OCT |
ss |
(1942- ) author & critic; 1st story pub. sf novel The Jewels of Aptor(1962; res. 1968; rev. 1971); has The Fall of the Towers trilogy, Captives of the Flame(1963), The Towers of Toron(1964), City of a Thousand Suns(1965); novel The Ballad of Beta-2(1965) |
| |
Books |
1968 JAN |
br |
Harlan Ellison: I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream; Delany has novels The Jewels of Aptor(1962), Empire Star(1966; rev. 1977), Babel-17(1966; W-1966 NEB; 1995 TIP; N-1967 HUG), & The Einstein Intersection (1967; W-1967 NEB; N-1968 HUG) |
| |
Lines of Power |
1968 MAY |
na |
N-1968 NEB; 1969 HUG, novella; "21st century world in which something close to world-order has been achieved through the efficient use of ... mechanical energy"; this story pub. as We in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line(1990 chap) |
| |
2001: Space Odyssey, A |
1968 AUG |
mr |
2001: A Space Odyssey(1968), dir./prod. by Stanley Kubrick, scrnply by Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke; Delany's story "Aye, and Gomorrah ..." (Ellison: Dangerous Visions, 1967) W-1967 NEB; has novel Nova(1968; N-1969 HUG); see iv in Platt: Dream Makers(1980) |
| |
Films |
1969 JAN |
mr |
Charly(1968), based on Daniel Keyes' "Flowers for Algernon" in F&SF 1959 APR, stars Cliff Robertson & Claire Bloom; Delany's story "Time Considered As a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones"(NWS 1968 DEC) W-1969 NEB(novelette), & 1970 HUG(short story) |
| |
Films |
1969 FEB |
mr |
Barbarella(1968), dir. Roger Vadim, stars Jane Fonda; Delany has coll. Driftglass(1971), novels The Star Pit(1967), The Tides of Lust(1973), Dhalgren(1975; N-1975 NEB), Triton(1976; N-1976 NEB), Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand(1984; N-1987 CLA) |
| |
Films: Illustrated Man, The |
1969 AUG |
mr |
The Illustrated Man(1969), based on Ray Bradbury's 1951 book; dir. Jack Smight, stars Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, & Robert Drivas; Delany's criticism colls. The Jewel-Hinged Jaw(1977), The American Shore(1978), Starboard Wine(1984) |
| |
Prismatica (Hommage à James Thurber) |
1977 OCT |
nv |
N-1978 HUG, LOC; has colls. Distant Stars(1981), The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction(1986), Driftglass/Starshards(1994), Atlantis: Three Tales(1995); novels Equinox(1994), The Mad Man(1994), Hogg(1995); see www.pcc.com/~jay/delany/ |
| Delany, Samuel R. & James Sallis |
They Fly at Ciron |
1971 JUN |
nv |
(1942- ; 1944- ) this story was expanded into the novel They Fly at Ciron(1993); Delany has Neveryon ser. Tales of Neveryon(1979), Neveryona(1983; N-1984 LOC), Flight from Neveryon(1985; N-1986 LOC), The Bridge of Lost Desire(1987) |
| Delap, Richard |
Books |
1975 JUL |
br |
(1942-1987) 5 best of anthologies, "are they the year's best?"; Carr: The Best S. F. of the Year #3; Wollheim: The 1974 Annual World's Best SF; del Rey: Best S. F. Stories of the Year, 3rd; Harrison & Aldiss: Best SF: 1973; Davis: The Year's Best Horror 2 |
| |
Harlan Ellison: Healing Art of Razorblade Fiction, The |
1977 JUL |
ar |
critical appreciation of Ellison's work; Delap says that in "In Lonely Lands" (FUN 1959 JAN) "we find the key to understanding the secret of all that Harlan has ever written"; Delap a fan & book reviewer, has novel Shapes(1987) with Stan Lee |
| |
Books |
1977 OCT |
br |
Michael Bishop: Stolen Faces, & A Little Knowledge; Barry N. Malzberg: Down Here in the Dream Quarter; Robert Silverberg(ed): New Dimensions 7; Terry Carr(ed): Universe 7; Delap is editor of F&SF Review, co-editor of The Essential Harlan Ellison(1987) |
| |
Books |
1979 APR |
br |
essay: sf's first boom since the early 1950s; Charles L. Harness: Wolfhead(in F&SF 1977 NOV-DEC); Gore Vidal: Kalki: A Novel; Joanna Russ: The Two of Them; Kate Wilhelm: Somerset Dreams and Other Fictions |
| Dellinger, Paul |
Werewolf of West Point, The |
1978 JUL |
ss |
1st & only story in F&SF in Mr. Lazarus series, only other story in series in FAN 1980 JAN; graduated in 1960 from Roanoke College, VA; spent 3 years in the Army, mostly at West Point; now a newspaper reporter for The Roanoke Times |
| |
To Reign in Hell |
1979 JUN |
ss |
|
| Dembo, Arinn |
Sisterhood of the Skin |
1996 JUN |
nv |
1st sale; from Seattle; attended 1990 Clarion; has written some sf criticism; about story, "I suppose I was trying to capture my sense of commercial fishing as a continuous state of violence ... against Nature (&) the finer feelings which make us human" |
| Deming, Richard |
Shape of Things That Came, The |
1951 OCT |
ss |
(1915-1983) has pub. mystery short stories since novella "No Pockets in a Shroud" in Black Mask 1949 JAN, in New Detective Magazine, Manhunt, Detective Story Magazine, Pursuit, MSMM, Suspect, etc. |
| Demmon, Calvin |
Switch, The |
1965 FEB |
vi |
also in F&SF as Calvin W. Demmon; lives in Ingelwood, CA, works as a night-shift clerk in L.A. County's Juvenile Hall |
| Demmon, Calvin W. |
Importance of Being Important, The |
1963 MAR |
vi |
(1942- ) born in L.A., has BA in English from Univ. of California |
| |
Fred |
1963 AUG |
vi |
attends Oakland(CA) City College |
| |
You Have to Stay Inside |
1964 MAY |
vi |
also in F&SF as Calvin Demmon |
| Denton, Bradley |
Music of the Spheres, The |
1984 MAR |
nv |
(1958- ) his 1st professional sale; 1st story in Music Theme ser.; this story is "1 of 5 sf stories that make up my MA thesis; I've been fortunate to have James Gunn as my advisor on the project ..."; has 1980 BA in Astronomy & English from Kansas Univ. |
| |
Top of the Charts |
1985 MAR |
ss |
2nd & last story in Music Theme series; Denton was N-1984 JWCA, Best New Writer; he lives in Austin, TX |
| |
Summer We Saw Diana, The |
1985 AUG |
ss |
|
| |
In the Fullness of Time |
1986 MAY |
nv |
has 1st novel Wrack and Roll(1986; N-1987 LOC), a contemporary alternate world tale which portrays heavy-metal musicians as heroes in a world divided betw. the "straight" majority & the anti-authoritarian "wrackers," who are defined by their music(Clute) |
| |
Killing Weeds |
1986 NOV |
nv |
|
| |
Hero of the Night, The |
1988 JAN |
ss |
has interviews in LOC 1997 JAN(#432), & in Nova Express 1997 SUM; see his entry in C.A., vol.158, p.94-96 |
| |
Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians, The |
1988 JUN |
na |
N-1988 NEB; 1989 HUG, LOC, novella; the life certain comedians might have/or may encounter after death, a tale that satirizes certain views held by our society & presents a rather dystopian view of heaven |
| |
Sin-Eater of the Kaw, The |
1989 JUN |
nv |
N-1990 LOC, novelette; has novel Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede(1991; W-1992 JWC; N-LOC), a rock and roll sf chase thriller with drive-in revivals and a resurrected Buddy Holly on every TV station(B&C) |
| |
Chaff He Will Burn, The |
1990 APR |
ss |
|
| |
Jimmy Blackburn Flies a Kite |
1990 OCT |
ss |
1st & only story in F&SF in Jimmy Blackburn ser.; other stories in ser. pub. in PLP #6 1990 & PLP 1991 AUG 17; stories coll. in fixup novel, Blackburn: A Novel(1993), about a serial murderer and his victims(reviewed in F&SF 1993 SEP, & OCT/NOV) |
| |
Skidmore |
1991 MAY |
ss |
has omnibus coll./boxed set, The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians & A Conflagration Artist(1994; W-1995 WFA); coll. in Blackburn seriesOne Day Closer to Death(1998), in which story "Blackburn Bakes Cookies" was N-1998 STO |
| |
Rerun Roy, Donna, and the Freak |
1991 OCT/NOV |
nv |
has novel Lunatics(1996; N-1997 LOC), a fantasy novel about a recent widower who falls in love with a woman who turns out to be the goddess of the moon(CA, vol.158, p.95); has coll. of Jimmy Blackburn series, One Day Closer to Death(1998; N-1998 STO) |
| |
Territory, The |
1992 JUL |
na |
N-1992 NEB; 1993 HUG, LOC, WFA, novella; alternate history tale in which Mark Twain did not desert a Missouri guerilla band in 1861 to go west w. his brother, but was part of Quantrill's 1863 raid on Lawrence, KS; Denton attended Univ of Kansas in 1976 |
| |
We Love Lydia Love |
1994 OCT/NOV |
nv |
story "evolved from my observation that people tend to indulge in the same kinds of self-destructive behaviors & relationships over & over again ..."; has novelette in Jimmy Blackburn series, Blackburn's Lady(2001 chap); see iv in SFC 2000 OCT/NOV(#208) |
