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| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Kadleckova, Vilma |
Longing for Blood |
1997 JAN |
nv |
trans. by Martin Klima(her husband) & Bruce Sterling; V.K. is a Czechoslovakian writer, has 4 Czech books, & has won the Czech Karel Capek Award; M.K. is a former physicist |
| Kagan, Norman |
Four Brands of Impossible |
1964 SEP |
nv |
(1931- ) a student at New York City College; 1st story pub. sf "The Mathenauts" in IFS 1964 JUL; many of his stories deal in some way with mathematics, "and tend to feature extroverted mathematicians as protagonists"(Clute) |
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Earth Merchants, The |
1965 MAY |
nv |
N-1965 NEB, novelette; has film books, The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick(1972, 1989), The War Film(1974), American Skeptic: Robert Altman's Genre-Commentary Films(1982), The Cinema of Oliver Stone(1995) |
| Kale, Bonita |
Miracle in a Small Village |
1992 JUN |
ss |
she is part of a group of writers in the Cincinnati, OH, area; has pub. fiction & poems in ABO, & in Aronica, etal(ed): Full Spectrum 4(1993) |
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Annie's Shelter |
1996 JAN |
nv |
now lives in Cleveland, Ohio |
| Kandel, Michael |
Hooking Up |
1999 AUG |
ss |
(1941- ) has PhD in Slavic languages from Indiana Univ.; has trans. from the Polish the works of Stanislaw Lem; has 1st novel Strange Invasion(1989), In Between Dragons(1990), Captain Jack Zodiac(1991), Panda Ray(1996); N-1991 JWCA; see iv, LOC 1997 MAR |
| Kanin, Garson |
Damnedest Thing, The |
1956 JUL |
ss |
(1912-1999) 1st pub. in ESQ 1956 FEB; playwright & director; author of play & movie Born Yesterday(1950); dir. movies Bachelor Mother(1939), The True Glory(1945), My Favorite Wife(1940), Tom, Dick, and Harry(1941); wrote 14 books, dir. over 30 NYC plays |
| Kearns, Richard |
Grave Angels |
1986 APR |
nv |
N-1987 JWC, LOC, STU, novelette; past staff writer for Gallery Magazine; teaches at Loyola Marymount Univ.(L.A.) |
| Kearny, Gene |
Sweet Little Pool of Low-Cost Labor, A |
1972 SEP |
ss |
( ? -1979) Gene R. Kearney, majored in behavioral psychology at Harvard; wrote the screenplays for Games(1967), How I Spent My Summer Vacation(1967 TV), Night of the Lepus(1972; aka Rabbits); wrote/directed 7 episodes of Rod Serling's Night Gallery |
| Keen, Rod |
It's the Queen of Darkness, Pal |
1978 AUG |
ss |
(1918- ) ps. for Philip José Farmer, the 5th & last in Farmer's Pseudonym ser.; story title & author name taken directly from Richard Brautigan's 1970 novel, The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966(see p.28); character Keen a sewer worker/sf writer |
| Keizer, Gregg |
Unlike Cortez |
1984 JAN |
ss |
lives in NC; learned to love mountains when he lived in Utah, dedicates this story to everyone who climbs; editor of computer publications; has book, The Family PC Guide to Homework(1996) |
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Days of Miracles and Wonder |
1990 AUG |
nv |
now lives in northwest LA, a publisher for a software company; story grew from his fascination w. the contradictions of S. Africa - the heartlessness of apartheid within a strongly religious people, the natural beauty of a country that suffers corruption |
| Keller, B.L. |
Birdlime |
1971 MAR |
ss |
(1930?- ) wn. for Beverly Lou (Harwick) Keller, former newspaper columnist & feature writer, now a freelance writer; born in San Francisco, CA; has 1950 BA from Univ. of California(Berkeley); has had short fiction & articles pub. in Cosmopolitan, ATL |
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Out of Sight |
1971 SEP |
ss |
has children's book ser. about 10-year old Fiona who is intensely interested in the welfare of animals(Keller is involved w. the ASPCA), Fiona's Bee(1975; selected a 1975 Best Book by School Library Journal), Fiona's Flea(1981), & Only Fiona(1988)(CA#57) |
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Flora |
1982 JUN |
ss |
has children's books The Beetle Bush(1976), Don't Throw Another One, Dover!(1976), The Frog Prints(1976; as by B.L. Harwick), The Genuine Ingenious Thrift Shop Genie, Clarissa Mae Bean and Me(1977), Pimm's Place(1978), The Sea Watch(1981) |
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Cold Debt |
1982 OCT |
ss |
has pre-teen Desdemona Blank ser., No Beasts! No Children!(1983), Desdemona: Twelve Going on Desperate(1986), Fowl Play, Desdemona(1989), Desdemona Moves On(1992); children's books The Bee Sneeze(1982), My Awful Cousin Norbert(1982) |
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In One Ear |
1983 JUN |
ss |
has adult suspense novel The Baghdad Defections(1973); books Consumer Skills(1986), A Car Means Out(1987), Cliffhanger(1987), Beam Me Up, He Said(1987); children's books Rosebud, With Fangs(1985), Camp Trouble(1993), The Amazon Papers(1996) |
| Kelley, Leo P. |
O'Grady's Girl |
1965 DEC |
ss |
(1928- ) Leo Patrick Kelley, a New York advertising executive; 1st story pub. sf "Dreamtown, U.S.A." in IFS 1955 FEB; has novels The Counterfeits(1967, as by Leo F. Kelley), & Odyssey to Earthdeath(1968) |
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Coins |
1968 NOV |
ss |
has novels Time Rogue(1970), The Accidental Earth(1970), The Coins of Murph(1971), Brother John(1971), Time: 110100(1972) |
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Harvest |
1970 MAR |
ss |
has edited anth. Themes in Science Fiction(1972), Fantasy, the Literature of the Marvelous(1973), The Supernatural in Fiction(1973) |
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Travelin' Man, The |
1970 SEP |
ss |
has novels Mindmix(1972), Mythmaster(1973), The Earth Tripper(1973) |
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Sam |
1971 FEB |
ss |
has a series of juveniles, Time Trap(1977 chap), Star Gold(1978 chap; vt Alien Gold, 1983), Backward in Time(1979 chap), Death Sentence(1979 chap) |
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True Believers, The |
1971 OCT |
ss |
has more juveniles in series, Earth Two(1979 chap), Prison Satellite(1979 chap), Sunworld(1979 chap), Worlds Apart(1979 chap), Night of Fire and Blood(1979 chap) |
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Song |
1973 FEB |
ss |
has more short juveniles in series, Dead Moon(1979 chap), King of the Stars(1979 chap), On the Red World(1979 chap), Where No Sun Shines(1979 chap), Vacation in Space(1979 chap), & Good-bye to Earth(1979 chap) |
| Kelly, C. Brian |
Tunnel, The |
1961 FEB |
vi |
(1935- ) working name for Charles Brian Kelly; has edited anth. series, Best Little Stories from World War II(1989, 1998), Best Little Stories from the White House(1992), & Best Little Stories from the Civil War(1994, 1998) |
| Kelly, Dan & Cleve Cartmill |
Nor Iron Bars |
1952 AUG |
ss |
(? - ?; 1908-1964) |
| Kelly, James Patrick |
Death Therapy |
1978 JUL |
nv |
(1951- ) lives in New Hampshire; attended 1974 Clarion Writers' Workshop; 1st story pub. sf "Dea Ex Machina" in GAL 1975 APR as by James Kelly |
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Not to the Swift |
1979 FEB |
ss |
"In the self-conscious 1980s controversy between cyberpunk & 'Humanist' modes of sf discourse, (Kelly) was located in the latter, but like most 'Humanists' he has disavowed the distinction ..."(Clute) |
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Flight of Fancy |
1979 JUN |
ss |
has 1st novel, in Messengers Chronicles series, Planet of Whispers(1984), in which near-immortal bearlike beings of the planet Aseneshesh hear 'whispers' which they believe to be voices of the gods & which help shape their culture(Clute) |
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Fear That Men Call Courage, The |
1980 SEP |
ss |
N-1981 LOC, short story; see Andy Duncan's article ""Think Like a Humanist: James Patrick Kelly's 'Think Like a Dinosaur' as a Satirical Rebuttal to Tom Godwin's 'The Cold Equations'" in the NYRSF 1996 JUN(#94) |
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Cruelest Month, The |
1983 JUN |
ss |
has sf novel with John Kessel, Freedom Beach(nv in F&SF 1984 AUG with Kessel, & stories in ASI 1984 APR & DEC, & poem in AMZ 1982 SEP; 1985 fixup), in which several characters find themselves in a world between reality & dreams(Clute) |
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F&SF Diet, The |
1984 MAR |
ss |
see this story's '2nd cousin,' according to Kelly, "Daemon" in 1987 NOV(#5741); has 2nd novel Messengers Chronicle ser. Look Into the Sun(1989), a young architect is recruited to travel to the planet Aseneshesh, being engineered en route to a native |
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Last, The |
1985 JUN |
ss |
has coll. Author's Choice Monthly #9: Heroines(1990); novel Wildlife(1994; N-1994 NEB, TIP; 1995 HUG, LOC), an sf novel of outlawed AIs in a culture that aims to program all biological variables(B&C) |
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Rat |
1986 JUN |
ss |
N-1986 NEB; 1987 HUG, LOC; takes place in future NYC; has coll. Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories(1997), title story in ASI 1995 JUN, W-1996 HUG; N-1995 NEB; 1996 LOC; made into Outer Limits episode, first aired 2001 SEP |
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Daemon |
1987 NOV |
ss |
N-1988 LOC, ss; Kelly calls this story kind of a 2nd cousin to his story "The F&SF Diet" in F&SF 1984 MAR(#5118); has "On the Net" column in ASI 1998 AUG-present; see his website at www.jimkelly.net |
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Why the Bridge Stopped Singing |
1996 SEP |
ss |
has story "Itsy Bitsy Spider" in ASI 1997 JUN, W-1998 LOC; N-1997 NEB; 1998 HUG, STU; has coll. Strange But Not a Stranger(2002), incl. story "Bright Morning" written for this coll. |
| Kelly, James Patrick & John Kessel |
Friend |
1984 JAN |
ss |
(1951- ; 1950- ) the two met at a Boston convention & have since collab. on a number of stories, incl. Kessel's first novel, Freedom Beach(var. mags. incl. F&SF 1984 AUG; 1985 fixup); see their individual entries for complete bio- & biliographical info |
| Kemp, Lysander |
Airborne Baserunner, The |
1954 MAY |
ss |
(1920- ) his 1st book coll. of poetry, The Northern Stranger(1946); has trans from the Spanish, Octavio Paz: The Labyrinth of Solitude(1961), Mario Vargas Llosa: The Time of the Hero(1966), Carlos Fuentes: Aura(1975); edited The Conquest(1970) |
| Kenden, Leo |
Jinx |
1997 MAY |
ss |
his 1st sf story; lives in the Southwest; has held a number of jobs in the software business & has written in other fields |
| Kerr, Peg |
Athena Keramitis |
1991 FEB |
ss |
lives in Minneapolis, MN; attended 1988 Clarion; teaches English at the Univ. of Minnesota; 1st pub. story "Free Day" in TotU #2 1987; 1st professional sale "Curses" in AMZ 1990 JUL; 1st novel Emerald House Rising(1997); The Wild Swans(1999) |
| Kerr, Walter H. |
Gruesome Discovery at the 242nd St. Feeding Station |
1962 FEB |
pm |
(1914- ) edited book, Rye Bread: Women Poets Rising(1977) |
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Communication |
1962 MAR |
pm |
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Mermaid in the Swimming Pool, The |
1962 MAY |
pm |
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Card Sharp |
1962 NOV |
pm |
has coll. Countdown in Bedlam: A Portfolio of Paranoiac Poems(1978) |
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Staresque |
1963 JUN |
pm |
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Attrition |
1963 SEP |
pm |
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Treat |
1964 NOV |
pm |
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Somo These Days |
1964 DEC |
pm |
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Illusion |
1965 MAR |
pm |
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From a Terran Travel Folder |
1968 FEB |
pm |
edited book with Mary Swope, American Classic: Car Poems for Collectors(1985) |
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