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| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Leimert, John |
John Thomas's Cube |
1951 AUG |
ss |
1st pub. in ATL 1945 AUG |
| Leinster, Murray |
Anthropological Note |
1957 APR |
nv |
(1896-1975) ps. for William Fitzgerald Jenkins; 1st story pub. "The Runaway Skyscraper" in ARG 1919 FEB; has Bud Gregory series(TWS 1947 APR, JUN & AUG, & 1948 FEB, as by William Fitzgerald or Will F. Jenkins); coll. in Out of This World, 1958) |
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Case of the Homicidal Robots, The |
1961 AUG |
nv |
has Med Service series colls. Doctor to the Stars(1964), & S.O.S. from Three Worlds(1967), & novels The Mutant Weapon(1959), & This World Is Taboo (1961); novelette "Exploration Team" in ASF 1956 MAR(Colonial Survey ser.) W-1956 HUG |
| Leman, Bob |
Bait |
1967 JAN |
ss |
(1922- ) his 1st pub. story; born in Woodford County, IL; member of First Fandom(those who were active sf fans before 1938); served as an artillery officer in Europe in the Army in WWII; has 1947 BA in Political Science from Univ. of Illinois |
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Industrial Complex |
1977 MAY |
ss |
Leman, member of First Fandom, was most active in sf/f fandom betw. 1956-1967, when he pub. a fanzine 1st called The American Journal of Oculenteratology, retitled The Vinegar Worm, then Nematode, then The Vinegar Worm again |
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Loob |
1979 APR |
nv |
1st story in F&SF in Goster County series, which parodies H.P. Lovecraft's Miskatonic River Valley; besides the five in F&SF, one more story in the series is "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming" in Charles L. Grant(ed): Shadows 10(1987) |
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Change of Address |
1979 SEP |
nv |
Leman's fanzine The Vinegar Worm(& its various other titles) was "completely written by me with ... mostly humorous, mostly essays, & sometimes a story. It contained quite a bit of parody & some satire"(from intro to his coll. Feesters in the Lake, 2002) |
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Window |
1980 MAY |
ss |
N-1980 NEB; 1981 LOC; story was adapted for the TV ser., Night Visions, in an episode first aired in July 2001; Leman is mentioned in an editorial by Avram Davidson in 1962 JUL(#1712), relating to an irate letter he received about Leman's rejected story |
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Feesters in the Lake |
1980 OCT |
nv |
N-1981 BRG, short fiction; LOC, novelette; 2nd story in F&SF in Goster County series |
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Skirmish on Bastable Street |
1981 JUN |
ss |
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Tehama, The |
1981 DEC |
nv |
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Unlawful Possession |
1983 SEP |
nv |
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Pilgrimmage of Clifford M., The |
1984 MAY |
nv |
3rd story in F&SF in Goster County series |
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Instructions |
1984 SEP |
ss |
this story was pub. in chapbook form in 2001 |
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Olida |
1987 APR |
nv |
4th story in F&SF in Goster County series; he has written 15 pieces of shfi - 13 in F&SF, "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming" in Grant(ed): Shadows 10(1987), & "How Dobbstown Was Saved" original to his coll. Feesters in the Lake and Other Stories(2002) |
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Time of the Worm, The |
1988 MAR |
nv |
5th & last story in F&SF in Goster County series; Leman's short story "How Dobbstown Was Saved," first pub in his coll. Feesters in the Lake and Other Stories(2002), was first sold to Harlan Ellison's unpub. anth., Last Dangerous Visions, in February 1981 |
| Lethem, Jonathan |
Hugh Merrow |
1993 OCT/NOV |
ss |
(1964- ) N-1994 NEB, ss; lived in Berkeley, CA, now lives in Brooklyn, NY; writes lyrics for rock groups(Two Fettered Apes, EDO, Jolley Ramey, Feet Wet); created MTV character Dr. Sphincter; 1st sale was "The Cave Beneath the Falls" in ABO 1989 JAN/FEB |
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Curiosities: The Unholy City, by Charles Finney, 1937 |
1998 OCT/NOV |
br |
The Unholy City(1937) by Charles Finney, which explores the futuristic city of Heilar-Wey "in a single evening from the perspective of 2 travelers"; J.L. has coll. The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye(1996; W-1997 WFA); novel Girl in Landscape(1998) |
| Lethem, Jonathan & Angus MacDonald |
Edge of the Bed of Forever, The |
1997 AUG |
nv |
(1964- ; 1959- ) A.M. editor of California Entertainment Review, has pub. criticism & articles; 1st pub. story "Dead Language" in MZoo #7 1993 JUL; see www.angusmacdonald.net; J.L. has novels Gun, with Occasional Music(1994), Amnesia Moon(1995) |
| Lethem, Jonathan & James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel |
Ninety Percent of Everything |
1999 SEP |
na |
N-2000 NEB; a billionaire brings together a team to investigate mysterious aliens, called "shitdogs," that create piles of excrement topped by "jewels"; Lethem has novel As She Climbed Across the Table(1997), coll. Kafka Americana(1999), w. Carter Scholz |
| Lethem, Jonathan & John Kessel & James Patrick Kelly |
True History of the End of the World, The |
1995 OCT/NOV |
nv |
(1964- ; 1950- ; 1951- ) Lethem says collab. story "was hatched over breakfast in a hotel restaurant on the Sunday morning of a weekend convention. Had the coffee been stronger, you might not be reading this today."; see Lethem iv in LOC 1997 OCT |
| Letson, Russell E. Jr |
Hag |
1964 NOV |
pm |
in TOC, listed as Russell F. Letson Jr |
| Levy, Robert J. |
New Horizons in Stickball |
1995 JUL |
ss |
his 2nd sf sale; born & lives in Brooklyn, NY; has BA from St. John's College, MA in English Lit. from Oxford Univ.; teaches poetry workshops at Marymount Manhattan College; Exec. Editor at United Feature Syndicate, which produces the comic strip Dilbert |
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Every Day Different |
1996 FEB |
ss |
about story, "(at my job) there is a certain amount of repetition. Sometimes ... you stare at the computer screen wondering why something new & surprising doesn't happen"; 1st story pub. sf "Star-Crossed" in AMZ 1995 WIN |
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Jack Stacey, A.S.B.R. |
1996 APR |
ss |
a published poet, he has sold poems to most major poetry markets; has poetry colls. The Glitter Bait(1986), Whistle Maker(1987), Partly Green Till the Day We Die(1990), The Perfection of Standing Aside(1993), Chefs at Twilight(1996) |
| Lewis, Al |
Fritz Leiber: Bibliography, A |
1969 JUL |
bib |
chronological listing of his books, stories & articles |
| Lewis, C. Day |
Antique Heroes, The |
1957 FEB |
pm |
(1904-1972) wn. for Cecil Day Lewis, U.K. poet, mystery writer(under ps. Nicholas Blake), one of his sons is actor Daniel Day-Lewis; has Nigel Strangeways ser. of novels, incl. The Private Wound(1968, as Nicholas Blake); autobiography The Buried Day(1960) |
| Lewis, C.S. |
Shoddy Lands, The |
1956 FEB |
ss |
(1898-1963) working name for Clive Staples Lewis, U.K. author & professor, born in Belfast; has Dr. Ransom Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet(1938), Perelandra(1943), That Hideous Strength(1945); see biographies by A.N. Wilson, & by Green and Hopper |
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Ministering Angels |
1958 JAN |
ss |
1st pub. in SRL, 28 MAY 1955; deals with same topic as Richardson article (#721) in 1955 DEC; has autobiography Surprised by Joy(1955); novel Till We Have Faces(1956), dark retelling of the Cupid/Psyche myth, which some consider to be his best work(Clute) |
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Expostulation, An |
1959 JUN |
pm |
has juvenile novel ser. in the kingdom of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe(1950; 1979, 1988 TV movies), Prince Caspian(1951) & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader(1952; TV movie 1989), The Silver Chair(1953; 1990 TV movie) |
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End of the Wine, The |
1964 JUL |
pm |
1st pub. in Punch, & in the fanzine Niekas; he died within a month of writing this poem, on November 22, 1963; has book The Case for Christianity(1943); last Narnia novels The Horse and His Boy(1954), The Magician's Nephew(1955), The Last Battle(1956) |
| Lewis, Richard O. |
Docs, The |
1964 DEC |
vi |
has Doctor Penwing ser.(AMZ 1940 MAR & AUG); has stories in AHMM, & in anth. Alfred Hitchcock(ed): Coffin Corner(1969), Best of Friends(1972), Death-Mate(1973), Having a Wonderful Crime(1977), & Happiness Is a Warm Corpse(1979), etc. |
| Libling, Michael |
Sitters |
1996 JUN |
ss |
lives in Montreal; his 1st pub. story; his 1st fiction sale was "A Bite to Eat in Abbotsford" in Peter Crowther(ed): Destination Unknown(1997); has written nf, promotion & advertising copy for 20 years |
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Mosquito League |
1997 AUG |
ss |
new to sf field, but not to writing; a former student of Mordechai Richler, he has written speeches, motivational sermons, commercials, ad campaigns, newspaper columns, & other nf |
| Liddell, C.H. |
Android |
1951 JUN |
nv |
(1915-1958; 1911-1987) ps. for Henry Kuttner & C(atherine) L(ucille) Moore collaboration; also in F&SF under K. & M.; also have collab. ps. Lewis Padgett & Lawrence O'Donnell; they were married in 1940; have colls. A Gnome There Was(1950), Mutant(1953) |
| Ligotti, Thomas |
Last Feast of Harlequin, The (To the memory of H.P. Lovecraft) |
1990 APR |
nv |
(1953- ) N-1991 LOC, WFA; 1st stories pub. "The Chymist" in Nyctalops #16 1981 & "Les Fleurs" in Dark Horizons #23 1981; has colls. Song of a Dead Dreamer(1986), Noctuary(1994; N-1995 LOC), The Nightmare Factory(1996; W-1997 BFA, STO; N-1997 LOC, WFA) |
| Lincoln, Victoria |
No Evidence |
1958 APR |
ss |
(1904-1981) Victoria Endicott Lincoln, born in Fall River, MA; knew Lizzie Borden & wrote novel A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden by Daylight(1967; W-EDG); wrote historical novels like February Hill(1934), & nf; pub. in Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Glamour |
| Lindner, Robert |
Jet-Propelled Couch, The |
1956 JAN |
ar |
(1914-1956) 1st pub. in The Jet-Propelled Couch and Other True Psychoanalytical Tales(1955; vt The Fifty-Minute Hour); psychoanalyst & prison psychologist; author of Rebel Without a Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath(nf, 1944) |
| Lindsay, Dan |
Beatnik Werewolf, The |
1960 DEC |
ss |
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| Linklater, Eric |
Sealskin Trousers |
1952 APR |
ss |
(1899-1974) 1st pub. in coll. Sealskin Trousers(1947); Scottish writer, has novels The Impregnable Women(1938), A Spell for Old Bones(1950), Mr. Byculla(1951), A Terrible Freedom(1966); colls. God Likes Them Plain(1935), A Sociable Plover(1957) |
| Linzner, Gordon |
Sand |
1982 MAY |
ss |
(1949- ) lives in NY; pub. of small-press sf mag. Space and Time(S&T) 1966 SPR-present; used ps. Irene Anfleming for a story in S&T 1967 FLL; 1st novel vampire horror, The Spy Who Drank Blood(1985) |
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Lunatic, The |
1983 DEC |
ss |
has horror novels The Oni(1986), about a Japanese demon accidentally released who leaves mutilated corpses behind him, & about a woman who has learned the key to its destruction; The Troupe(1988) |
| Lipsky, Eleazar |
Snitkin's Law |
1959 FEB |
ss |
(1911-1993) former asst. district attorney in New York, lawyer; 1st novel The Kiss of Death(1947; 1947, 1995 movies); The People Against O'Hara(1950; 1951 movie), Lincoln McKeever(1953), The Scientists(1959), The Devil's Daughter(1969), Malpractice(1971) |
| Lipsyte, Robert M. & Thomas Rogers |
Redman |
1964 AUG |
ss |
(1938- ; ? - ? ) Lipsyte assisted comedian Dick Gregory with the latter's autobiography, Nigger: An Autobiography(1964) |
| Littlefield, Henry M. |
Dharma |
1972 JAN |
pm |
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| Locke, David M. |
Power of the Sentence, The |
1971 APR |
ss |
(1929- ) has a PhD in chemistry; has nf book Enzymes: The Agents of Life(1969); an editor with a major encyclopedia |
| London, Jack |
Angry Mammoth, The |
1959 MAY |
ss |
(1876-1916) 1st pub. in COL, 12 JAN 1901, as "A Relic of the Pliocene"; working name for John Griffith London, has sf novels Before Adam(1906), The Star Rover(1915), The Scarlet Plague(London Mag., in 1912; 1914); coll. In Curious Fragments(1975) |
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Thousand Deaths, A (Special Reprint Feature) |
1967 SEP |
ss |
1st pub. in The Black Cat, 1899 MAY; one of the first stories that London sold, for $40.00; he was 23 & had made his commitment to writing, but until this sale was "at the end of my tether ... ready to go back to coal shoveling or ahead to suicide" |
| Long |
Cartoon: 500th Channel, The |
1995 JUL |
ct |
Bill Long; "started cartooning in 1989, (his) first that year (was) to The Saturday Evening Post"; since then his work has been pub. in Barron's, Bostonia, Brandweek, Cincinnati, EQMM, Esquire, Folio, Natural History, Spy, USA Weekend, etc. |
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Cartoon: Medical Curiousities pl. IV |
1995 AUG |
ct |
his cartoons have also been pub. on various pieces of merchandise, mostly calendars & t-shirts |
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