| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Merril, Judith |
Theodore Sturgeon |
1962 SEP |
bio |
"personality" article on 1962's Worldcon guest of honor; Judith Merril, Philip Klass & T.S. lived together for most of a year as starving writers before the Big S-F Boom started; among his stories mentioned, "Bianca's Hands" in ARG(UK) 1947 MAY |
| |
Books |
1965 MAR |
br |
Asimov: The Rest of the Robots; Leiber: A Pail of Air; Leinster: Doctor to the Stars; Richard Matheson: Shock II; Sturgeon: Sturgeon in Orbit; Cordwainer Smith: The Planet Buyer; Silverberg: Regan's Planet; Laumer: The Great Time Machine Hoax; etc |
| |
Books |
1965 APR |
br |
Charles Einstein: The Day New York Went Dry; John Christopher: Sweeney's Island; James Kennaway: The Mind Benders; The Worlds of Robert F. Young; Isaac Bashevis Singer: Short Friday; Robert Nathan: The Fair; William Golding: The Spire; & one other |
| |
Books |
1965 MAY |
br |
Fred Hoyle & John Elliot: Andromeda Breakthrough; William S. Burroughs: Nova Express; Gordon R. Dickson: The Alien Way; Merril has anth. SF: The Best of the Best(1967), England Swings SF(1968); colls. Out of Bounds(1960), Daughters of Earth(1968 UK) |
| |
Books |
1965 JUN |
br |
Walter Sullivan: We Are Not Alone; John Hersey: White Lotus; Dick: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch; Phyllis Gotlieb: Sunburst; Avram Davidson: Mutiny in Space; Herbert D. Kastle: The Reassembled Man; Bonestell & Ley: Beyond the Solar System; 1 other |
| |
Books |
1965 JUL |
br |
Kurt Vonnegut Jr: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, ...(correction p.73, 1965 SEP); J.G. Ballard: The Drowned World, & The Wind from Nowhere; Walter M. Miller Jr: The View from the Stars; Arthur C. Clarke: Man and Space |
| |
Books |
1965 AUG |
br |
James V. McConnell(ed): The Worm Re-Turns(The Best from Worm Runner's Digest); Merril has colls. Survival Ship and Other Stories(1974), & The Best of Judith Merril(1976); has anth. Tesseracts(1985), the first volume in an anth. ser. of Canadian sf |
| |
Books |
1965 SEP |
br |
results reader opinions(asked for in 1965 JUN) - longer reviews mixed with shorter ones, extracts of readers' letters; Chapman Pincher: Not With a Bang; Farmer: Dare; Christopher: The Possessors; Laumer: Galactic Diplomat; Clement: Natives of Space; etc |
| |
Books |
1965 OCT |
br |
"sources of new insights into sf"; Cordwainer Smith: Space Lords; Ray Bradbury: R Is for Rocket, & The Machineries of Joy; Jose Maria Gironella: Phantoms and Fugitives; Jorge Luis Borges: Labyrinthes; Romain Gary: Hissing Tales; 1 other |
| |
Books |
1965 NOV |
br |
John D. MacDonald: The Girl, the Gold Watch, & Everything; Anderson: The Star Fox; Delany: The Ballad of Beta-2; Petaja: Alpha Yes, Terra No!; Biggle: The Fury Out of Time; Walter Moudy: No Man on Earth; Davidson: Masters of the Maze; etc |
| |
Books |
1966 JAN |
br |
the American & British sf scenes, from London; the big 3 sf writers in London: Ballard, Aldiss & Brunner; sf book editors & the market; J.G. Ballard: The Drought(vt The Burning World, US) |
| |
Books |
1966 FEB |
br |
Beaumont: The Magic Man; Henderson: The Anything Box; Abram Tertz: The Makepeace Experiment; Langelaan: Out of Time; Raphael: The Thirst Quenchers; Leonard Daventry: A Man of Double Deed; Brunner: Now Then; Anderson: The Corridors of Time; etc |
| |
Books |
1966 MAR |
br |
Harrison: Plague from Space; Dickson: Mission to Universe; Brunner: The Altar of Asconel; White: Android Avenger; Moorcock: The Fireclown; Davidson: Rork!; Pohl: A Plague of Pythons; Herbert: Dune; Christopher: The Ragged Edge; 5 more |
| |
Books |
1966 APR |
br |
David Solomon(ed): LSD, the Consciousness-Expanding Drug; Eric Berne: Games People Play; John Brunner: The Day of the Star Cities, & The Squares of the City; Mack Reynolds: Planetary Agent X; Rick Raphael: Code Three; Alan E. Nourse: The Universe Between |
| |
Books |
1966 MAY |
br |
Jules Feiffer: The Great Comic Book Heroes; Sheckley: The 10th Victim; White: The Watch Below; Pohl & Williamson: Starchild; van Vogt: Rogue Ship; Shepherd Mead: The Carefully Considered Rape of the World; Knight: Mind Switch; 1 more |
| |
Books |
1966 JUN |
br |
complaints about Berkley Books; Thomas M. Disch: The Genocides; Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon |
| |
Books |
1966 JUL |
br |
Charles L. Harness: The Rose; Brian W. Aldiss: Earthworks; John Lymington: Froomb!; Joseph L. Green: The Loafers of Refuge |
| |
Books |
1966 AUG |
br |
Regeinald Bretnor: The Future of Science Fiction; J.G. Ballard: The Crystal World, & The Impossible Man; Merril presents a long essay on Brunner's works, to coincide with his serial in F&SF begun in this issue(#2380) |
| |
Books |
1966 SEP |
br |
how to be an sf anthologist; Pohl(ed): The Ninth Galaxy Reader, & The If Reader of Science Fiction; Mills(ed): The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, 11th Series; Knight(ed): Orbit 1, & Cities of Wonder; Moskowitz(ed): Modern Masterpieces of S.F.; etc |
| |
Books |
1966 NOV |
br |
Asimov: Fantastic Voyage; Leiber: Tarzan and the Valley of Gold, & The Night of the Wolf; Herbert: The Green Brain; Keith Roberts: The Furies; Allen Kim Lang: Wild and Outside; Heinlein: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, & The Worlds of ...; etc |
| |
Books |
1966 DEC |
br |
contemporary mythology; Pangborn: The Judgment of Eve; Davidson: The Kar-Chee Reign; Vance: The Blue World; Le Guin: Rocannon's World; Nunes: Inherit the Earth; Zelazny: This Immortal; Delany: Empire Star, & Babel-17; Purdom: The Tree Lord of Imeten |
| |
Books |
1967 JAN |
br |
100th anniversary of H.G. Wells birth; announces death of Prof. Paul A. Linebarger(aka Cordwainer Smith); Hoyle: October the First Is Too Late; Rosel George Brown: Sybil Sue Blue; Gertrude Friedberg: The Revolving Boy; Clarke(ed): Time Probe; one more |
| |
Books |
1967 FEB |
br |
C.S. Lewis: Of Other Worlds; E.J. Carnell(ed): New Writings in SF 1; Brian W. Aldiss: Who Can Replace a Man?; William F. Temple: Shoot at the Moon; Brunner: The Long Result; Harry Harrison: Make Room! Make Room!; L.P. Davies: The Paper Dolls; 1 more |
| |
Books |
1967 MAR |
br |
reviews two books, neither labeled sf, but both are really at opposite ends of the sf spectrum; John Barth: Giles Goat-Boy; Jean-Claude Forest: Barbarella(a graphic story book) |
| |
Books |
1967 MAY |
br |
religion in sf; Frank Herbert: Destination: Void; Philip José Farmer: Night of Light; Clifford D. Simak: Why Call Them Back from Heaven?; Robert Kelly: The Scorpions |
| |
Books |
1967 JUN |
br |
Douglas Hill & Pat Williams: The Supernatural; I.S. Shklovskii & Carl Sagan: Intelligent Life in the Universe |
| |
Books |
1967 AUG |
br |
many very short reviews(16) of one paragraph; Merril has anth. SF 12(1968), S-F: the Best of the Best(1968), England Swings SF(1968), colls. Out of Bounds (1960), Daughters of Earth(1968); has acted in the British sf TV series, Dr. Who |
| |
Books |
1967 SEP |
br |
Sam Moskowitz(ed): Three Stories(by Leinster, Williamson, & Wyndham); essay on Moskowitz, the sense of wonder, the sense of nostalgia, & the ability or inability to reread older sf stories |
| |
Books |
1967 NOV |
br |
TNT(The New Thing, or New Wave) vs TOT(The Old Thing); Wollheim & Carr(ed): World's Best Science Fiction 1967; Knight(ed): Orbit 2; Dick: The Crack in Space, The Zap Gun, & Counter-Clock World; Disch: Echo Round His Bones; 2 more |
| |
Books |
1967 DEC |
br |
Harlan Ellison(ed): Dangerous Visions; lists the recent reprints, reissues & "novelizations"; in regards to Merril's br column last month(1967 NOV), see Robert Silverberg's "Reflections" column in ASI 2001 MAR & APR, a look back at The New Wave, 1965-72 |
| |
Books |
1968 FEB |
br |
Hortense Calisher: Journal from Ellipsia; William Burroughs: The Soft Machine; William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson: Logan's Run; Chester Anderson: The Butterfly Kid; Willard Bain: Informed Sources (Day East Received) |
| |
Books |
1968 MAR |
br |
Arthur C. Clarke: The Coming of the Space Age; Isaac Asimov: Is Anyone There?; Carl Sagan & I. Shklovskii: Intelligent Life in the Universe; Vincent H. Gaddis: Mysterious Fires and Lights; Colin Clair: Unnatural History; Harold Stümpke: The Snouters; etc |
| |
Books |
1968 MAY |
br |
Miguel Angel Asturias: Mulata; Mikhail Bulgakov: Margarita and the Master; Lafferty: The Past Master; Simak: The Werewolf Principle; Budrys: The Amsirs and the Iron Thorn; Terry Carr(ed): New Worlds of Fantasy; Anon(ed): Path into the Unknown; 3 art books |
| |
Letters to the Book Editor |
1968 MAY |
lttr |
Willem Van den Broek(on Knight: In Search of Wonder, & Kenneth Kenniston: The Uncommitted); Dennis Raimondo(teeny-bopper SF, & on a French book Sexualis '95, & criticism of Merril's reviews) |
| |
Books |
1968 JUN |
br |
political & social criticism in sf; The Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace; Chloe Zerwick & Harrison Brown: The Cassiopeia Affair; Hayden Howard: The Eskimo Invasion; Thomas Morrill: Let Us Reason Together; 1 more |
| |
Books |
1968 AUG |
br |
begins with a tribute to the late Anthony Boucher; Don Fabun: The Dynamics of Change; Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Brian W. Aldiss: Cryptozoic; John Brunner: Quicksand; Alan E. Nourse: The Mercy Men |
| |
Books |
1968 SEP |
br |
essay: Prof. Philip Klass of the English Dept. at Penn. State Univ.; William Tenn: Of Men and Monsters, Of All Possible Worlds, The Human Angle, The Wooden Star, The Seven Sexes, The Square Root of Man; Leiber: Swords of Lankhmar; Russ: Picnic on Paradise |
| |
Letters to the Book Editor |
1968 SEP |
lttr |
Victor Contoski(on sf poetry - W.S. Merwin's "Fog-Horn," & David Ignatow's "News Report") |
| |
Books |
1968 NOV |
br |
the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968); Samuel R. Delany: Nova(reviews after 1st reading, & 2nd reading); R.A. Lafferty: The Reefs of Earth |
| |
Books |
1969 JAN |
br |
Democratic Convention of 1968; sf of the late 30s thru today; L.P. Davies: Twilight Journey; Theodore Tyler: The Man Whose Name Wouldn't Fit; Nigel Balchin: Kings of Infinite Space; Laumer: The Day Before Forever; Wilhelm: The Downstairs Room; 3 more |
| |
Books |
1969 FEB |
br |
John Brunner: Stand on Zanzibar; Bob Shaw: The Two Timers; Roger Zelazny: Isle of the Dead; Clifford D. Simak: The Goblin Reservation |
| |
Fritz Leiber |
1969 JUL |
ar |
appreciation of Leiber & his works, his unique status among sf/f writers and his place in sf history, his cycles of productivity and decline; Merril's book collection forms basis of Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy, in Toronto |
| |
In the Land of Unblind |
1974 OCT |
vi |
Merril: "Do NOT call it a poem"; see article "Memories of Judy" by Derryl Murphy in On Spec, 1997 WIN; see interview "One of Postwar SF's Formative Figures" by David Seed in INZ 1997 DEC; see her obit & appreciations In LOC 1997 OCT & NOV(#441, 442) |
| |
[Real?] Writer, A—Homage to Ted Sturgeon |
1999 OCT/NOV |
ar |
parts 1st pub. in the NYRS F 1993 JUL(#59), as "Better to Have Loved: From a Memoir-in-Progress"; this incomplete, polished, memoir found among her papers by her granddaughter Emily Pohl-Weary; talks about the early sf scene & Sturgeon; pub. as book 2002 |
| Merwin, Sam Jr |
Lambikin |
1952 JUN |
ss |
(1910-1996) wn. for W. Samuel Merwin Jr; writer & editor(of TWS, STS, FUN, etc.); 1st story pub. sf "The Scourge Below" in TWS 1939 OCT; has sf novels The House of Many Worlds(1951), Three Faces of Time(1955); see his obit in LOC 1996 APR(#423) |
| Metzger, Robert A. |
Planet of the Dolphins |
1994 JAN |
ss |
(1956- ) born in L.A.; lives in Atlanta, GA; 1983 PhD, Solid State Physics from UCLA; 1st story pub. "An Unfiltered Man," ABO 1987 SEP/OCT; has science column "What If?" in ABO 1989-2001; novels Quad World(1991), Picoverse(2002); see www.rametzger.com |
| Middleton, Richard |
Shepherd's Boy |
1953 MAR |
vi |
(1882-1911) 1st pub. in his posthumous coll. The Ghost Ship & Other Stories (1912); Richard Barham Middleton; U.K. writer, poet; has colls. The Day Before Yesterday(1913), The Pantomime Man(1933, ed John Gawsworth) |
| Miller, Charles |
Tangled Web of Neil Weaver, The |
1970 MAR |
ss |
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| Miller, Lion |
Available Data on the Worp Reaction, The |
1953 SEP |
vi |
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| Miller, P. Schuyler |
Daydream |
1956 JAN |
ss |
(1912-1974) 1st pub. in Donald A. Wollheim(ed): The Girl with the Hungry Eyes(1949); Peter Schuyler Miller; book reviewer for ASF(1945 APR-1975 JAN), won 1963 special Hugo for his reviews; 1st story pub. "The Red Plague" in WOS 1930 JUL |
