| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Nadler, M. |
Cartoon: In the Land of the Lillipuncturists |
1995 SEP |
ct |
working name for Mary Nadler; born & raised in Saranac Lake, NY; lives in Los Angeles; has BA in English Literature; has taken numerous art courses at various colleges & art schools; 1st cartoon sale was to Good Housekeeping in 1994 |
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Cartoon |
1996 OCT/NOV |
ct |
has illus. the books Christopher Biffle: A Journey Through Your Childhood: A Write-in Guide for Reliving Your Past, Clarifying Your Present, and Charting Your Future(1989), and Allyson Stewart-Allen & Lanie Denslow: Working with Americans(2002) |
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Cartoon |
1998 FEB |
ct |
draws with pencil/pen & paper, using watercolors & carbon or pastel pencils to finish inked drawings; uses a Mac computer for scanning cartoons into Photoshop; also been pub. in Reader's Digest, Barron's, SEP, American Scientist, USA Weekend, etc |
| Naegele, Amyas |
Rise and Fall of Father Alex, The |
1986 JAN |
nv |
N-1987 WFA, short fiction; he lives & works in NYC, a graduate of Cornell Univ.; a runner-up in 1984 Redbook fiction contest for young writers; has been pub. in several literary magazines |
| Nagata, Linda |
Liberator |
1993 JUN |
nv |
(1960- ) N-1994 NEB; story set in same world as her 1st novel, The Bohr Maker(1995; W-1996 LOC); born in San Diego, CA; lives on Maui, HI; has 1982 bachelor's degree in Zoology from Univ. of Hawaii; 1st story pub. "Spectral Expectations" in ANA 1987 APR |
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Old Mother |
1995 APR |
ss |
in this story, "the persimmon farms & the views & cloudscapes are all real, though the snails are fictional"; see iv's in LOC 1997 FEB, 2000 NOV, & her website at www.maui.net; has 1st novel The Bohr Maker(1995; N-1996 LOC), about outlaw nanotechnology |
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Bird Catcher's Children, The |
1997 JAN |
nv |
about story, "I stumbled across a hand-made house in ruinous condition ... only birds had lived there ..."; has sf novel Tech-Heaven(1995), in which a woman becomes a fugitive trying to save her husband with outlawed life-extension technology(B&C) |
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Hooks, Nets, and Time |
1997 AUG |
nv |
has novels Deception Well(1997), a far future sf novel set on a space elevator above a hostile planet; Vast(1998; N-1998 NEB), aboard a giant starship thousands of years old, 4 survivors of an alien war seek a race whose automated warships ravage worlds |
| Nagle, Pati |
Coyote Ugly |
1994 APR |
ss |
her 1st pub. story; lives in Albuquerque, NM; has stories in several anth.; has 1st novels, of New Mexico Territory Civil War battles, Glorieta Pass(1999), & sequel The Guns of Valverde(2000), under the working name P.G. Nagle |
| Nash, Ogden |
Tale of the Thirteenth Floor |
1955 JUL |
pm |
(1902-1971) poet, has many poetry colls. incl. I'm a Stranger Here Myself(1935), I Wouldn't Have Missed It(1975; 1983); see George W. Crandell: Ogden Nash: A Descriptive Bibliography(1990), & David Stuart: The Life and Rhymes of Ogden Nash(1991) |
| Nathan, Robert |
Pride of Carrots, A: or, Venus Well Served |
1959 DEC |
ply |
(1894-1985) has 1st novel Peter Kindred(1919); time travel novel Portrait of Jennie(1940; 1998; 1948 movie); sf novel The Weans(HRP 1956, as "Digging the Weans"; 1960 chap), a satirical archaeological report on the long-destroyed U.S. civilization(Clute) |
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Encounter in the Past |
1967 JUL |
ss |
has about 50 volumes of poetry & prose, incl. Road of Ages(1935), So Love Returns(1958), The Fair(1964); The Mallott Diaries(1965) - about Neanderthal survivals in Arizona, Stonecliff(1967); The Elixir(1971), The Summer Meadows(1973) |
| Nearing, H. Jr |
Poetry Machine, The |
1950 FLL |
ss |
(1915- ? ) 1st story in Profs. Cleanth Penn Ransom & Archibald MacTate series, 1st pub. fiction; working name for Homer Nearing Jr, writer, Prof. of English at Pennsylvania Military College |
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Mathematical Voodoo, The |
1951 APR |
ss |
2nd story in Profs. Ransom & MacTate series; profs. are a mathematician & philosopher, & their names are derived from the New Criticism poets & critics Cleanth Brooks, Archibald MacLeish, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, & Robert Penn Warren(Clute) |
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Embarrassing Dimension, The |
1951 AUG |
ss |
3rd story in Profs. Ransom & MacTate series; series about the doomed efforts of the profs. to formalize a union of the arts & sciences, which are told without malice(Clute) |
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Hyperspherical Basketball, The |
1951 DEC |
ss |
4th story in Profs. Ransom & MacTate series |
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Actinic Actor, The |
1952 APR |
nv |
5th story in Profs. Ransom & MacTate series |
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Factitious Pentangle, The |
1952 SEP |
ss |
6th story in Profs. Ransom & MacTate series |
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Unidentified Amazon, The |
1952 DEC |
ss |
7th story in Profs. Ransom & MacTate series |
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Malignant Organ, The |
1953 MAR |
ss |
8th story in Profs. Ransom & MacTate series |
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Maladjusted Classroom, The |
1953 JUN |
ss |
9th story in Profs. Ransom & MacTate series |
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Cerebrative Psittacoid, The |
1953 AUG |
ss |
10th story in Profs. Ransom & MacTate series |
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Gastronomical Error, The |
1953 DEC |
nv |
11th story in Profs. Ransom & MacTate series; series pub. as coll. The Sinister Researches of C.P. Ransom(1954) |
| Nelson, Alan |
Narapoia |
1951 APR |
ss |
(1911-1966) 1st pub. in What's Doing 1948 APR, as "The Origin of Narapoia," 1st story Dr. Manly J. Departure series |
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Cattivo |
1951 AUG |
ss |
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Gualcophone, The |
1952 AUG |
ss |
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Soap Opera |
1953 APR |
ss |
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Silenzia |
1953 SEP |
ss |
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Shopdropper, The |
1955 JAN |
ss |
2nd story Dr. Manly J. Departure series; all of Nelson's stories pub. in F&SF, and one story, "Man in a Hurry," pub. in WRT 1944 MAY, are coll. in Doctor Departure and Others(1989), a "collection of short whimsical fantasy" |
| Nelson, R. Faraday |
Nightfall on the Dead Sea |
1978 SEP |
ss |
(1931- ) also in F&SF as Ray Nelson; has novels Then Beggars Could Ride(1976), sequel The Revolt of the Unemployables(1978); The Ecolog(1977 Canada), Dimension of Horror(1979, as Jeffrey Lord), The Prometheus Man(1982; N-1983 DIC), Virtual Zen(1996) |
| Nelson, Ray |
Turn Off the Sky |
1963 AUG |
nv |
(1931- ) his 1st pub. story, see info in br in 1983 AUG; wn. for Radell Faraday Nelson; from NY, lives in El Cerrito, CA; liberal arts B.A., Univ. of Chicago; was an artist, invented the propeller beanie - in fan cartooning, the symbol of the sf fan |
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Eight O'Clock in the Morning |
1963 NOV |
ss |
basis of the movie They Live(1988), dir. John Carpenter, stars Roddy Piper, Keith David & Meg Foster; has also pub. stories in the detective genre; has 1st sf novel The Ganymede Takeover(1967), with Philip K. Dick; also in F&SF as R. Faraday Nelson |
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Great Cosmic Donut of Life, The |
1965 SEP |
nv |
has novel Blake's Progress(1975 Canada; N-1976 LOC; rev. vt Timequest, 1985 US), considered his best work, accords poet/painter ability to travel thru time with his wife Kate(Clute); see interview in MZBFM 1994 FLL |
| Nelson, Starr |
Sonnets in a Moonship |
1956 OCT |
pm |
1st pub. in SRL, in 1950; has poetry coll. Heavenly Body(1942) |
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For the Voyagers |
1958 NOV |
pm |
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| Nesvadba, Josef |
Pirate Island |
1962 FEB |
ss |
(1926- ) 1st pub. in the Czech weekly mag. Kultura, in 1958, & in his coll. The Death of Taryan(Prague, 1958); writer from Czechoslovakia, a practicing psychiatrist at the Faculty Polyclinic in Prague; began writing career as a playwright & translator |
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Einstein Brain, The |
1962 MAY |
ss |
1st pub. in his coll. Einstein's Brain(1960; 1987); has colls. Tarzan's Death(1958), Expedition in the Opposite Direction(1962), In the Footsteps of the Abominable Snowman(1970 U.K.; vt The Lost Face, 1971),Expeditions in the Opposite Direction(1976) |
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Xeenemuende Half-Wit, The |
1962 JUN |
ss |
has novels Dialogue with Dr. Dong(1964), The Ravings of Erika N.(1974), I Am Looking for a Man to Be a Husband(1986); colls. Parents' Driving License(1979), Minehava for the Second Time(1981); not all of his novels & colls. might be trans. into English |
| Nethercott, Michael |
Beastly Red Lurker, The: A Gothic Excess |
1999 AUG |
ss |
his 1st pub. story; lives in VT; he is a performing clown, & organizer of theatrical events; has poems, scripts pub. in Cobblestone, Hopscotch, & Plays—The Drama Magazine for Young People; story a Lovecraft pastiche, for his brother's interest in H.P.L. |
| Neville, Kris |
Every Work Into Judgment |
1950 WIN/SPR |
ss |
(1925-1980) born in Carthage, MS; technical writer in plastics technology; after WWII, moved to L.A. & joined the L.A. Science Fantasy Society; 1st story pub. sf "The Hand from the Stars" in SSS 1949 JUL |
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Take Two Quiggies |
1950 DEC |
nv |
4th story unofficial Bureau of Imaginary Zoology series(the quiggie); also in F&SF under ps. Henderson Starke, & with co-author R. Bretnor, & Barry N. Malzberg |
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Old Man Henderson |
1951 JUN |
ss |
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Underground Movement |
1952 JUN |
ss |
has stories "Hunt the Hunter" in GAL 1951 JUN, & "The Toy" in IMG 1952 DEC |
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Mission |
1953 APR |
nv |
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It Pays to Advertise |
1953 JUN |
ss |
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Worship Night |
1953 NOV |
ss |
best known stories, "Bettyann" in Healy(ed): New Tales of Space & Time(1951) & its sequel "Overture" in Healy(ed): 9 Tales of Space & Time(1954), which were made into a novel, Bettyann(1970 fixup); wrote sequel, "Bettyann's Children" (1973), with wife Lil |
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Closing Time |
1961 JUL |
ss |
earned a B.A. in English from the Univ. of California in 1960; has short story "Big Talk" in Manhunt 1953 APR; also in F&SF with co-author Lil Neville(his wife), & with Barry N. Malzberg |
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Power in the Blood |
1962 JUN |
ss |
has novels The Unearth People(1964), The Mutants(IMG 1953 FEB as "Earth Alert!"; exp. 1966), Special Delivery(IMG 1952 JAN; 1967 chap), Peril of the Starmen(IMG 1954 JAN; 1967 chap), Invaders on the Moon(1970, with Mel Sturgis) |
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Reality Machine, The |
1970 DEC |
ss |
Neville "liked wine, hated Nixon, deplored mass media, missed Tony Boucher, had grudging, deep respect for John W. Campbell, loved his children, had a deep suspicion of American industry & its products ... had a deep ... love for the sf community"(L#240) |
| Neville, Lil & Kris |
Man Who Read Equations, The |
1974 DEC |
ss |
( ? - ?; 1925-1980) husband & wife collaboration |
