| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Oates, Joyce Carol |
Damnation of A— K—, The |
1989 AUG |
ss |
(1938- ) from Lockport, NY; studied at Syracuse Univ., U. of Wisconsin; taught at U. of Detroit, U. of Windsor, Princeton U.; W-1994 STO, Lifetime Achievement; has novels incl. Son of the Morning(1978), Bellefleur(1980), The Virgin in the Rose-Bower('84) |
| |
Feral |
1998 SEP |
nv |
N-1998 STO; has colls. Black Water(1992), Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque(1994; N-1995 LOC, WFA), Demon and Other Tales('96), The Collector of Hearts('98); novels Zombie('95; W-1996 STO), First Love('96), Man Crazy('97); storm.usfca.edu/~southerr/jco.html |
| O'Brien, Fitz-James |
Lost Room, The |
1949 FLL |
ss |
(1828-1862) 1st pub. in HRP 1858 SEP & WRT 1929 OCT; working name for Michael Fitz-James O'Brien; Irish-born, moving to the U.S. in 1852, O'Brien was a contemporary of Poe, and died from wounds in the Civil War |
| |
Wondersmith, The |
1950 DEC |
nv |
1st pub. in ATL 1859 OCT; his most famous stories pub. in coll. The Supernatural Tales of Fitz-James O'Brien(2 vols., 1988, ed. by Jessica Amanda Salmonson) |
| O'Donnell, K.M. |
Final War |
1968 APR |
nv |
(1939- ) N-1968 NEB, novelette; ps. for Barry N. Malzberg, his early sf pub. under this ps.; lives in Manhattan; 1st story pub. sf "We're Coming Through the Window," in GAL 1967 AUG, as K.M. O'Donnell |
| |
Death to the Keeper |
1968 AUG |
nv |
also in F&SF under his real name Barry N. Malzberg & as Barry Malzberg; has colls. under O'Donnell ps., Final War and Other Fantasies(1969), In the Pocket and Other Science Fiction Stories(1971) |
| |
How I Take Their Measure |
1969 JAN |
ss |
has sf novels under O'Donnell ps., The Empty People(1969), Universe Day(1971 fixup); & two recursive satires, sf fans & writers vs. aliens, Dwellers of the Deep(1970), & Gather in the Hall of the Planets(1971)(Clute) |
| O'Donnell, Kevin Jr |
Pieces of the Puzzle, The |
1990 NOV |
ss |
(1950- ) born in Cleveland, OH; has BA in Chinese Studies from Yale Univ.; lives in CA; 1st story pub. sf "The Hand Is Quicker" in ANA 1973 OCT; 1st novel Bander Snatch(1979); ORA:CLE(1984); Fire on the Border(1990); see entry in CANR, vol.23 |
| O'Donohoe, Nick |
To Dust You Will Return |
1979 JUN |
ss |
(1952- ) his 1st sale; born in Iowa; PhD from Syracuse Univ.; has Nathan Phillips mys. ser., novels April Snow(1981), Wind Chill(1985); veterinary medicine ser. The Magic and the Healing(1994), Under the Healing Sun(1995), The Healing of Crossroads(1995) |
| Oesterreicher, Arthur |
Broken Circuit |
1958 APR |
vi |
Vienna-born, Harvard-educated; see his website at www.bigstepdown.com//artur/ |
| offutt, andrew j |
Sareva: In Memoriam |
1973 MAR |
ss |
(1934- ) author: "What would a man do ... if he learned (his wife) was a witch"; 1st story pub. "And Gone Tomorrow" in IFS 1954 DEC as Andy Offutt; 1st sf novel Evil Is Live Spelled Backwards(1970), novels The Castle Keeps(1972), Sword of the Gael(1975) |
| Olin, Richard |
Oversight |
1964 NOV |
vi |
(1934- ) ps. for Hugh Leddy; writer, poet, technician, lives in San Francisco; 1st story pub. sf "All Day Wednesday" in ANA 1963 MAR; has 2 other short stories in ANA, "The Mischeif Maker" in 1965 OCT, & "To Be a Champion, Merciful and Brave" in 1972 OCT |
| |
Lil, Rorrity, and a Foamin' Sea of Steam Beer |
1966 MAR |
ss |
under his real name, Hugh Leddy, he writes of Avram Davidson's travels in British Honduras, in the Davidson's Special Issue of the NYRSF 2000 JUN(#142) |
| |
King Frog |
1978 MAY |
nv |
author says this story is based on an ancient Chinese children's tale; he now lives in Alaska |
| Oliver, Chad |
Boy Next Door, The |
1951 JUN |
ss |
(1928-1993) wn. for Symmes Chadwick Oliver; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, but lived much of his life in Texas; has 1952 MA, English & Anthropology, from the Univ. of Texas; his 1st sale, but not his 1st pub. story("The Land of Lost Content" in SSS 1950 NOV) |
| |
Technical Advisor |
1953 FEB |
ss |
has a 1961 PhD in Anthroplogy from Univ. of California(L.A.), was a Prof. of Anthroplogy at the Univ. of Texas(Austin) until 1990, his fiction usually has an anthropological theme running through it, and many of the settings are in the Southwest(Clute) |
| |
Anachronism |
1953 APR |
ss |
has written many letters to the editor to various sf magazines(such as TWS), as a fan before & after his writing career took off; has 1st novel, a juvenile, The Mists of Dawn (1952), in which a young boy travels back in time to the dawn of man |
| |
Transformer |
1954 NOV |
ss |
has novel Shadows in the Sun(1954), in which a Texas annthropologist(much like himself) man discovers that the people of a Texas town(much like Crystal City, TX, where he lived) are aliens judging man for entry into galactic citizenship |
| |
Artifact |
1955 JUN |
nv |
has colls. Another Kind(1955), The Edge of Forever(1971); a scholarship fund has been set up at the Univ. of Texas(Austin) to honor Professor Oliver, as well as an annual teaching award for professors |
| |
North Wind |
1956 MAR |
ss |
also in F&SF with co-author Charles Beaumont in Claude Adams series, 1955 APR(#636) & 1956 FEB(#751) |
| |
Didn't He Ramble |
1957 APR |
ss |
this story is "of yesterday's jazz in the world of tomorrow"; Oliver, as well as an anthropologist & science fiction writer, is traditional jazz pianist, "especially authentic New Orleans"; he hosts a 1-hour long jazz program on KHFI-FM, in Austin, TX |
| |
Between the Thunder and the Sun |
1957 MAY |
na |
has novel The Winds of Time(1957), in which aliens awake after centuries of suspended animation in a cave in the Southwest(Clute); this novel also pub. in anth. Dann, Sargent & Zebrowski(ed): Three in Time(1997), w. novels by Wilson Tucker & Poul Anderson |
| |
Wind Blows Free, The |
1957 JUL |
nv |
has novel Unearthly Neighbors(1960; rev. 1984), in which a man attempts to communicate with alien visitors(Clute); a hobby of Oliver's was fly fishing for trout, which he did on the Guadelupe River in Central Texas, & late in life at Lake City, CO |
| |
Rewrite Man |
1957 SEP |
ss |
Oliver "has always been concerned with the depiction of Native American life and concerns"; his novel The Wolf Is My Brother(1967; W-1967 Spur Award), "is not sf, features a sympathetically characterized Native American protagonist"(Clute) |
| |
Pilgrimage |
1958 FEB |
ss |
has novel The Shores of Another Sea(1971), which is set in Africa, & articulates Oliver's concern for the ecology & environment(Clute); novel "captures Oliver's experiences in Kenya's bush country"(LOC 1993 SEP, p.80) |
| |
Guardian Spirit |
1958 APR |
nv |
has novel Giants in the Dust(1976), concerned with mankind's fundamental nature, "it posits the idea that man is by nature a hunting animal, cut off from his roots by progress"(LOC 1993 SEP, p.80) |
| |
One That Got Away, The |
1959 MAY |
ss |
has western novel Broken Eagle(1989; W-1990 Western Heritage Award), about protagonists Gen. George A. Custer & Native American Broken Eagle |
| |
End of the Line |
1965 JAN |
nv |
has western novel The Cannibal Owl(1994), about a black man on a quest to rescue a 10-year old boy kidnapped by a Comanche warrior |
| |
Stick for Harry Eddington, A |
1965 AUG |
ss |
has Biolog in ANA 1983 mSEP; see obit & appreciations in LOC 1993 SEP(#392), & ANA 1994 JAN; annotated bibliography in INZ 1997 APR; see also Hal W. Hall: Chad Oliver: An Annotated Bibliography & Guide(1989 chap) |
| Oliver, Chad & Charles Beaumont |
Last Word, The |
1955 APR |
ss |
(1928-1993; 1929-1967) 1st story Claude Adams series; next one in F&SF 1956 FEB(#751) under Beaumont & Oliver |
| Oltion, Jerry |
Grass Is Always Greener, The |
1993 FEB |
nv |
(1957- ) lives in Eugene, OR, with his wife writer Kathy Oltion; 1st story pub. sf "Much Ado About Nothing" in ANA 1982 NOV; see Biolog in ANA 1985 APR, & his website at www.sff.net/people/J.Oltion |
| |
Blue Light Special |
1993 SEP |
vi |
this story was written for a read-aloud Christmas working workshop; has 1st novel Frame of Reference(1987; N-1988 LOC), about human protagonists who discover that the starship they live on is actually an underground simulacrum made by aliens(Clute) |
| |
Abridged Edition |
1994 JUL |
ss |
has sf novelizations in round-robin series, Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Robots and Aliens, #4: Alliance(1990), & #6: Humanity(1990) |
| |
Great Martian Pyramid Hoax, The |
1995 JAN |
ss |
has colls. Love Songs of a Mad Scientist: The Collected Short Stories of Jerry Oltion, Vol. 1(1993), & Vol. 2, Singing in the Rain(1998) |
| |
Uncertainty |
1995 DEC |
ss |
has mini-chapbook coll. of three comic vignettes, with Alan Bard, The Gigantic Three in One Complete History of the Universe(1994) |
| |
Plight Before Christmas, The |
1996 JAN |
ss |
story was read for a Christmas celebration with writers, in a slightly different version last year; has coll. of his & his wife Kathy's Christmas stories, Tales from the Yuletide(1994) |
| |
There Goes the Neighborhood |
1996 AUG |
ss |
has sf short story "The Love Song of Laura Morrison" in ANA 1987 AUG, pub. as a chapbook in 1994; has "Dark Sun" novel The Darkness Before the Dawn(1995), & "Shadow Warrior" novel You Only Die Twice(1997), both as Ryan Hughes |
| |
Abandon in Place |
1996 DEC |
na |
W-1997 NEB; N-1997 HUG, LOC, SFC, novella; expanded into his 1st novel in 2000; phantom Saturn V moon rockets launch from the abandoned launch pad 34; currently(2002) he does design & layout work, while his wife Kathy proofreads, for F&SF |
| |
Difference Between Science Fiction and Fantasy, The: A Mathematical Analysis |
1997 MAR |
fa |
from the Dept. of Bibliostatistics, Oregon Fictional Institute, Eugene, Oregon; has sf novelizations Star Trek Pocket #77: Twilight's End(1996), & #81: Mudd in Your Eye(1997) |
| |
Miracle, The |
1998 DEC |
ss |
the Oregon hill which inspired this story actually does have a very rare crystal deposit on it—the only other place on Earth where it can be found is in the Middle East; has sf novelization Star Trek Captain's Table #6: Where Sea Meets Sky(1998) |
| |
Biosphere |
1999 JUN |
ss |
has sf novelization with his wife Kathy Oltion, Star Trek: New Earth, Book 4: The Flaming Arrow(2000); sf novel The Getaway Special(2001), about a mad scientist who develops a hyperdrive engine capable of taking anyone to the stars |
| Oltion, Jerry & Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
Deus X |
1997 OCT/NOV |
na |
tale of what happens when faith is thrust upon a man; Oltion has anth. Buried Treasures: An Anthology of Unpublished Pulphouse Stories(1996); Rusch has two "Unreal" books with Dean Wesley Smith & as Ryan Hughes, Hard Crash(1998), Prophet's Power(1998) |
| O'Neil, Dennis |
Elseones, The |
1972 FEB |
ss |
(1939- ) lives in NY, has sold stories to EQMM, FAN; has written comic book scripts for Superman, Batman, & Wonder Woman; recently won the Academy of Comic Book Arts' Shazam Award; edited book Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes(1976) |
| |
Killing of Mother Corn, The |
1975 FEB |
ss |
has books The Bite of Monsters(1971), The Haunt of Horror(1973), Super Comics(1981); graphic novel Shadow 1941: Hitler's Astrologer(1988); Private Files of the Shadow(1989, with Michael Kaluta); has taught at the School of Visual Arts(NYC) |
| |
Wave By |
1980 SEP |
ss |
has written an episode of Logan's Run(1977-78 TV series); has been an editor at DC & Marvel Comics; movie novelizations, Batman(1989), Batman Returns(1992); novel Batman Knightfall(1994); nf book The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics(2001) |
| O'Neill, Gene |
Alchemy |
1983 MAY |
ss |
(1938- ) this story written before the closing of a GM plant in Fremont; lives in California; 1979 graduate of Clarion; has pub. stories in Pulpsmith, The Dragon, & in TWZ |
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300 S. Montgomery |
1984 JUL |
ss |
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Shadow of the Mountain, The |
1985 MAR |
ss |
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White Quetzal, The |
1985 JUL |
ss |
he & his wife "spent 3 days in the Monteverde Cloud Forest (in Costa Rica) ... neither of us saw a white quetzal" |
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Armless Conductor, The |
1987 SEP |
ss |
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