| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Disch, Thomas M. |
Concepts |
1978 DEC |
nv |
1st & only story in Medea series, one of 11 stories by 11 authors set on a planet conceived by Harlan Ellison; to be pub. in Ellison(ed): Medea: Harlan's World(1985; W-1986 LOC); others stories in series originally pub. in ASI, ANA, Omni, & 2 anthologies |
| |
On Wings of Song |
1979 FEB |
no-1/3 |
W-1980 JWC; N-1979 NEB; 1980 BRG, BSF, HUG, LOC; adventures of Daniel Webster in search of perfect artistry, in a near-future dystopian U.S. in which new technology has made possible out-of-body flight, provided the person can sing with perfect artistry |
| |
On Wings of Song |
1979 MAR |
no-2/3 |
has Gothic novel The House That Fear Built(1966) w. John Sladek under collab. ps. Cassandra Knye; Gothic novel Clara Reeve(1975) as by Leonie Hargrave; w. Charles Naylor has anth. New Constellations(1976), Strangeness(1977), novel Neighboring Lives(1981) |
| |
On Wings of Song |
1979 APR |
no-3/3 |
has horror novels, The Businessman: A Tale of Terror(1984; N-1985 LOC), The MD: A Horror Story(1991); software Amnesia(1986); plays Ben Hur(1989), The Cardinal Detoxes(1990), the latter caused a controversy instigated by the Roman Catholic Church(Clute) |
| |
Problems of Creativeness |
1979 OCT |
nv |
1st pub. in F&SF 1967 APR, revised somewhat & retitled "The Death of Socrates" in his fixup novel, 334(1972; 1974); see interviews in Eternity #2 1973, Last Wave #5 1986, INZ #24 1988, & The Zone #1 1994; also has poetry in F&SF as Tom Disch |
| |
Books |
1980 JUL |
br |
Brian Aldiss: New Arrivals, Old Encounters; Philip K. Dick: The Golden Man; Philip Jose Farmer: Dark Is the Sun; Charles L. Harness: The Catalyst; Vonda N. McIntyre: Fireflood; see Disch tribute website at www.michaelscycles.freeserve.co.uk/tmd.htm |
| |
Brave Little Toaster, The: Bedtime Story for Small Appliances, A |
1980 AUG |
nv |
W-1981 BSF, LOC; N-1980 NEB; 1981 BRG, HUG; 1st & only story in F&SF in Toaster ser., pub. chap(1986), movie(1987); sequel The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars(1988 chap); "adventures of 5 ... minor appliances, which implies a degree of innocence.." |
| |
Books |
1981 FEB |
br |
Terry Carr(ed): The Best S. F. of the Year #9; Gardner Dozois(ed): Best S. F. Stories of the Year, 9th; Donald A. Wollheim(ed): The 1980 Annual World's Best SF; Gregory Benford: Timescape; discusses "Labor Day Group" of sf writers |
| |
Books |
1981 JUL |
br |
essay: Jesus talks with Disch about 5 books about Him; Romulus Linney: Jesus Tales; Philip K. Dick: Valis; James Merrill: Scripts for the Pageant; Rudy Rucker: White Light; Michael Bishop, Barry N. Malzberg & Bruce McAllister: Their Immortal Hearts |
| |
Understanding Human Behavior (A Romance of the Rocky Mountains) |
1982 FEB |
nv |
W-1983 SFC; N-1982 NEB; 1983 LOC, nv; has poetry colls. Highway Sandwiches(1970 chap, w. Marilyn Hacker & Charles Platt), The Best Way to Figure Plumbing(1972), ABCDEFGHIJKLMNPOQRSTUVWXYZ(1981 chap), Burn This(1982 chap) |
| |
Forbidden Thought, The: Recruitment Tape, A |
1983 MAY |
vi |
has poetry colls. Orders of the Retina(1982 chap), Here I Am, There You Are, Where Were We?(1984 chap), The Tale of Dan de Lion(1986), Yes, Let's(1989), Dark Verses and Light(1991); he uses byline Tom Disch for all his poetry, & is in F&SF as such |
| |
Downtown |
1983 OCT |
ss |
has story, Ringtime: A Story(1983 chap); novel The Silver Pillow: A Tale of Witchcraft(1982 chap); horror novel The M.D.: A Horror Story(1991; N-1992 LOC, STO); has cult TV series novelization, The Prisoner: I Am Not a Number!(1992) |
| |
Audition, The |
1988 NOV |
ply |
play orig. written as a piece of grand guignol for an anth. of plays that never appeared; Disch working on a modernist adaptation of Ben-Hur for an off-Broadway company; has dark fantasy/horror novel The Priest(1994; N-1995 LOC); see iv in LOC 2001 JUN |
| |
Happy Turnip, The |
1989 OCT |
ss |
N-1990 LOC, ss; story in the same happy genre as "The Brave Little Toaster"(F&SF 1980 AUG); has nf books, The Castle of Indolence: Poetry and Its Pretenders(1995), The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World(1998; W-1999 HUG) |
| Disch, Tom |
Unidentified Flying Object, The |
1979 SEP |
pm |
(1940- ) working name for Thomas M. Disch, used for his poetry; has poem "On Science Fiction" in TriQuarterly #49 1980, W-1981 RHY; has poetry coll. Here I Am, There You Are, Where Were We(1984) |
| |
Omalous, The |
1980 JUN |
pm |
|
| Dixon, J.P. |
Waiting for You, Maude-Ellen |
1976 JUL |
ss |
working name for Jeanne Parker Dixon, also in F&SF under w.n. Jeanne Parker(1976 APR); "born on the Blackfeet reservation of Montana"; anthropologist, has degree in Slavic studies; has children's novel w. Bradford Angier, The Ghost of Spirit River(1968) |
| |
Final Close, The |
1977 JUN |
ss |
she writes this story "was conceived after I returned to Montana after a time in the Soviet Union" |
| Dixon, Stephen |
Home Away From Home, A |
1979 FEB |
ss |
(1936- ) 1st book No Relief(1976); novels Too Late(1978), Frog(1991; 1997; nominated National Book Award, & PEN), Interstate(1995), Gould(1997), etc; colls. 14 Stories(1980), Movies(1983), Time to Go(1984), Love & Will(1989), Long Made Short(1994), etc |
| Doherty, Paul & Pat Murphy |
Science: Gravity for the Adventurous |
1998 MAR |
ar |
gravity experiments you can try at home to show that not all objects fall at the same speed, the speed of gravity; experiments shown incl. the free fall ride "The Drop Zone" at Great America, slinky's, bungee jumpers, the yardstick & the coin |
| |
Science: Close Encounters of the Gravitational Kind |
1998 DEC |
ar |
gravity; experiments with gravity, to understand "gravity-assisted" maneuvers spacecraft use to reach the planets of the outer solar system; Pat has edited the Exploratorium Museum's journal, the Exploratorium Quarterly, since 1982 |
| |
Science: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall |
1999 JUL |
ar |
mirrors; the scientific side of mirrors, the trickiness of mirrors; the meaning of "right" & "left"; mirrors reverse in & out; experiments you can do at home; Pat Murphy has fantasy novel Wild Angel(2000), a girl raised by wolves during the Gold Rush |
| |
Science: Bicycling at the Speed of Light |
1999 DEC |
ar |
light; speed of light is 186,000 miles/second in a vacuum, but only 2/3's of that thru glass; how Dr. Lene Hau in 1998 managed to slow its speed to 17 meters/second; mentions Bob Shaw's "Light of Other Days"; experiments you can do at home |
| Donaldson, Stephen R. |
Lady in White, The |
1978 FEB |
nv |
(1947- ) N-1979 BFA, short story; his 1st pub. short story; son of medical missionaries who worked w. lepers in India; has Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever seq., Lord Foul's Bane(1977), The Illearth War(1977), The Power That Preserves(1977) |
| |
Mythological Beast |
1979 JAN |
ss |
has Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever seq., The Wounded Land(1980), The One Tree(1982), & White Gold Wielder(1983); has coll. Daughter of Regals ...(1984); Mordant's Need ser. The Mirror of Her Dreams(1986), & A Man Rides Through(1987) |
| |
What Makes Us Human |
1984 AUG |
nv |
2nd story in F&SF in Fred Saberhagen's Berserker ser., to be pub. in Saberhagen(ed): Berserker Base(1984); coll. Reeve the Just(1999; W-2000 WFA); he W-1979 JWCA; see ar in INZ #32 1989, & iv's in LOC 1984 JAN(#276), 1990 JUN(#353), & INZ 1992 JUN |
| Donati, Stefano |
Last of the Glass Menageries, The |
1998 MAR |
ss |
his 1st pub. story; lives in Bennington, VT; story somewhat of a blending of Tennessee Williams' work with Cyril Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons"; has short story "Literacy" in Dave Wolverton(ed): Writers of the Future, Vol.XIV(1998) |
| Donnelly, Marcos |
Resurrection of Alonso Quijana, The |
1992 MAR |
ss |
N-1992 NEB, ss; written as by translation & annotation by M.D.; in this story he mixes "the legacy left by Cervantes in Don Quixote with some very real modern day concerns"; 1st story pub. "As a Still Small Voice" in Aronica(ed): Full Spectrum 2(1989) |
| |
Bloodletting |
1994 JUN |
nv |
|
| |
Hijo de Hernez, El |
1995 APR |
nv |
N-1996 NEB, novelette; has novel Prophets for the End of Time(1998; N-1999 NEB) |
| Dorman, S. |
Winged Victory |
1963 NOV |
ss |
(1924- ) Sonya Dorman, and also in F&SF as such; lives on Long Island & breeds Labradors & Akitas; 1st story pub. sf "The Putnam Tradition" in AMZ 1963 JAN |
| |
Old Man Lay Down, ..., The |
1964 APR |
pm |
|
| |
Deepest Blue in the World, The |
1964 SEP |
ss |
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| Dorman, Sonya |
Lunatic Assignment |
1968 JAN |
ss |
also in F&SF as S. Dorman |
| |
Dance Music for a Gone Planet |
1968 OCT |
pm |
has book Stretching the Fence(1975) |
| |
Bye, Bye, Banana Bird |
1969 DEC |
nv |
1st story in her Roxy Rimidon of the Planet Patrol series; best known as a poet, has coll. of verse Poems(1970), which received special recognition from the National Council on the Arts |
| |
Alpha Bets |
1970 NOV |
nv |
2nd story in her Roxy Rimidon of the Planet Patrol series |
| |
Winter City |
1971 JAN |
pm |
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| |
Marriage of Art and Sciences, The (for Jerry) |
1972 SEP |
pm |
|
| |
Bear Went Over the Mountain, The |
1973 AUG |
na |
3rd & last story in her Roxy Rimidon of the Planet Patrol series; Roxy goes on her 1st off-Earth assignment, to the wet colony planet of Vogl to set up a Planet Patrol Academy; series coll. in fixup novel Planet Patrol(1978) |
| |
Forecast From an Orbiting Satellite |
1973 OCT |
pm |
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| |
Them and Us and All |
1976 APR |
ss |
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| |
Lullaby, a Farewell, A |
1979 JUN |
pm |
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| |
Dance Music for a Gone Planet |
1979 OCT |
pm |
1st pub. in F&SF 1968 OCT |
| |
Two Children (for Ursula Le Guin) |
1980 MAY |
pm |
|
| |
Star Stories: Death of Childhood, The |
1982 FEB |
pm |
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| |
Star Stories: Your Stars Tomorrow |
1982 FEB |
pm |
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| Dowd, Melissa Leach |
Found |
1980 JUL |
ss |
(1950- ) grew up in a rural section of Delaware, attended Boston Univ., now lives on Cape Cod; works "part time as a waitress in a fried fish joint" |
| Dowling, Terry |
Shatterwrack at Breaklight |
1990 MAR |
ss |
(1948- ) 1st pub. in Omega Science Digest 1985 JUL/AUG, the 1st & only story in F&SF in Tom Rynosseros ser.; ser. coll. in Rynosseros(1990), Blue Tyson(1992), Twilight Beach(1993); Dowling's one of Australia's top sf writers, this his 1st U.S. appearance |
| Doxey, W.S. |
Armistead House, The |
1985 SEP |
ss |
William S. Doxey, & also in F&SF as such(1980 NOV) |
