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| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| O'Neill, Gene |
Awaken Dragon |
1990 MAY |
ss |
about a marine in Vietnam who is obsessed with good luck charms & who finally acquires the ultimate in talismans; has colls. Ghosts, Spirits, Computers and World Machines(2001), Rockers, Shamans, Manikins & Thanathespians(2001) |
| Onions, Oliver |
Rooum |
1949 FLL |
ss |
(1873-1961) 1st pub. in Fortnightly Review 1910 DEC; legally changed name to George Oliver in 1918, but wrote fiction under O.O., esp. ghost stories; has coll. The Collected Ghost Stories of O.O.(1935), novel The Story of Ragged Robin(1945), among others |
| Onopa, Robert |
Lights, The |
1985 AUG |
ss |
(1943- ) born in Chicago, IL; has 1964 BA from Univ. of Illinois, 1966 MA from Univ. of Connecticut; 1974 PhD from Northwestern Univ.; an editor of TriQuarterly #45-48, 1979 SPR-1980 SPR; TriQuarterly is a fiction publication of Northwestern Univ |
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Artist of the Future, The |
1989 AUG |
ss |
lives in Kailua, Hawaii; Prof. of English at the Univ. of Hawaii; has sf novel The Pleasure Tube(1979); see entry in C.A., vol.112 |
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Swan, The |
1992 FEB |
ss |
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Traffic |
1995 MAR |
ss |
story came to him on an aberrant morning schedule that put him in the commuting jam; also has short story "Blue Flyers" in TSF 1994 DEC |
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Camping in the Biosphere Reserve |
1996 MAY |
ss |
story inspired by "the swarm-like rise in rescue helicopter traffic which followed the opening of a new trail thru Maunawili Valley, where I live in Windward Oahu" |
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Grateful Dead, The |
1998 AUG |
nv |
this story is no rock concert, rather it follows the leads of Evelyn Waugh(1903-1966) & Jessica Mitford(1917-1996) with an offbeat look at death & life in times to come |
| Oppenheim, Garrett |
Punishing of Eddie Jungle-Spit, The |
1951 AUG |
ss |
1st pub. in Liberty 1950 MAY |
| Ore, Rebecca |
My Mother, the Alien, and Me |
1997 APR |
ss |
(1948- ) wn. for Rebecca Bard Brown; 1st story pub. sf "Projectile Weapons and Wild Alien Water" in AMZ 1986 MAY, as Rebecca Brown; has pub. 4 poetry colls.; N-1987, 1988 JWCA; has coll. Alien Bootlegger and Other Stories(1993; N-1994 LOC) |
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Accelerated Grimace |
1998 FEB |
ss |
has Becoming Alien trilogy, Becoming Alien(1988; N-1997 DIC; 1988 LOC), Being Alien(1989; N-1989 DIC; 1990 LOC), Human to Human(1990); The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid(1991), Slow Funeral(1994), Gaia's Toys(1995), Outlaw School(2000) |
| Orr, A. |
Sleeping Anacondas |
1989 MAY |
ss |
(1950- ) working name for Alice Ingram Orr Sprague; has World in Amber seq., The World in Amber(1985), & In the Ice King's Palace(1986), about a world set literally in a drop of amber & centering on the wizard Isme's efforts to maintain balance(Clute) |
| Ottum, Bob |
Chirp Me a Story |
1955 AUG |
ss |
(1925-1986) working name for Robert K. Ottum; Salt Lake City newspaperman; has humorous novel All Right, Everybody Off the Planet(1972), in which aliens send a spy among us in human form, but ignorant of human relationships(Clute) |
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Girls on Channel N, The |
1957 APR |
ss |
has Captain Marvel book, Shazam!: A Circus Adventure(1977); mystery The Tuesday Blade(1977); edited A Day in the Life of the Amish(1994), A Day in an Amish Kitchen(1995), A Day in Cowboy Country: In Their Own Words(1996) |
| Ottum, Bob Jr |
Ado About Nothing |
1965 MAR |
vi |
(1948?- ) 17-year-old son of writer Bob Ottum, who is also in F&SF; working name for Robert K. Ottum Jr |
| Owen, Guy |
House of Yellow Pain, The |
1974 DEC |
ss |
(1925-1981) Guy Owen Jr, Prof. of English at N. Carolina State Univ.; has poems, stories & articles pub. in dozens of mags.; has 4 novels incl. The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man(1967), which was made into movie The Flim Flam Man(1967), stars George C. Scott |
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Face on the Tombstone, The |
1976 FEB |
ss |
has coll. The White Stallion and Other Poems(1969); novels Season of Fear(1960), Journey for Joedel(1970), Apprentice Grifter(1972); anth. Contemporary Poetry of North Carolina(1977, w. Mary C. Williams), & Contemporary Southern Poetry(1979) |
| Owens, Barbara |
Happy Birthday, Little Elroy |
1982 SEP |
ss |
working name for Barbara Owens Weiman; born & raised in Illinois, lives in California; has BFA in theatre; has story "The Cloud Beneath the Eaves" W-1978 EDG, Best Short Story |
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Professor Smitt's Amazing Tiny Town |
1983 JUL |
ss |
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Precious Thing |
1983 DEC |
ss |
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Doors, The |
1984 NOV |
ss |
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Greenhill Gang, The |
1987 FEB |
ss |
has short stories "The New Man" in TWZ 1982 MAR(reprt. Night Cry 1985 SUM), "Something Evil" in TWZ 1982 AUG, "Portrait: Edward Larrabee" in TWZ 1986 AUG, "Sliding" in TWZ 1988 AUG, & "Blue Crick Holler Folks" in ASI 1984 AUG |
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Chain |
1987 JUL |
ss |
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Real Story, by Jenny O'Toole, The |
1992 AUG |
ss |
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| Owings, Mark |
James Blish: Bibliography |
1972 APR |
bib |
(1945- ) alphabetical listing of his books & stories; Owings a bibliographer & small-press publisher; involved with Mirage Press w. Jack L. Chalker; has book The Index to the Science-Fantasy Publishers(1966; exp. vt The Science-Fantasy Publishers, 1991) |
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Frederik Pohl: Bibliography |
1973 SEP |
bib |
alphabetical listing of his books & stories & collaborations; Owings has nf books The Necronomicon: A Study(1967 chap), & w. var. co-authors the bibliographies of Leinster(1970), Simak(1971), Lovecraft(1973), Heinlein(1973), Schmitz(1973), Anderson(1973) |
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