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| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Poe, Edgar Allan |
Hunting of the Slan, The |
1952 FEB |
vi |
(1808-1849) an extract from Marginalia, 1st pub. in The Southern Literary Messenger, 1849 JUN; a 2-paragraph filler; edited 4 mags., Southern Literary Messenger(1835-37), The Gentleman's Mag.(1839-40), Graham's Mag.(1841-42), Broadway Journal(1845-46) |
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Mellonta Tauta |
1955 DEC |
ss |
1st pub. in Godey's Lady's Book, 1849 FEB; from story intro, title comes from Sophocles, means 'these things are in the future'; has Auguste Dupin detective series, 1st being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" in Graham's, in 1841 |
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Tale of the Ragged Mountains, A |
1958 MAR |
ss |
1st pub. in Godey's Lady's Book, 1844 APR; story followed by long note by editor, saying it's an example of a rare detective story, one without a detective, save the reader; has colls. The Raven and Other Poems(1845), Tales(1846) |
| Pohl, Frederik |
Census Takers, The |
1956 FEB |
ss |
(1919- ) member Futurians, writer, editor, agent; AAF weatherman in Italy in WWII; married to Judith Merril(1949-52); collab. w. many authors, used many ps., incl. James MacCreigh for solo work; also in F&SF w. co-author William Morrison, C.M. Kornbluth |
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To See Another Mountain |
1959 APR |
nv |
editor of AST & SSS, & of Star S.F. Stories anthologies(1953-59); editor for GAL(1962 AUG-1969 MAY), IFS(1962 DEC-1969 MAY); has novel with C.M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants(GAL 1952 JUN-AUG as "Gravy Planet"; 1953); sequel The Merchant's War(1984) |
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On Binary Digits and Human Habits |
1962 DEC |
ar |
on a proposed "language" of binary numbers; see previous science essay(#1790) by Isaac Asimov, also on binary numbers; Pohl lives in Red Bank, N.J.; has biobraphy of Emperor Tiberius(1960 as Ernst Mason); founded & edited mag. WOT(1963 APR-1967 MAY) |
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Punch |
1963 JAN |
ss |
1st pub. in PBY 1962 JUN; has anth. Beyond the End of Time(1952), Shadow of Tomorrow(1953), Assignment in Tomorrow(1954), Star of Stars(1960); Galaxy SF anth. Time Waits for Winthrop(1962), Seventh-Eleventh Galaxy Reader(1964-69) |
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Sad Solarian Screenwriter Sam |
1972 JUN |
ss |
has novel with C.M. Kornbluth, Gladiator-at-Law(GAL 1954 JUN-AUG; 1955), Wolfbane(GAL 1957 OCT-NOV; 1957); has Eden ser. w. Jack Williamson, Undersea Quest(1954), Undersea Fleet(1956), Undersea City(1958) |
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Shaffery Among the Immortals |
1972 JUL |
ss |
N-1972 NEB; has novel w. Lester del Rey as Edson McCann, Preferred Risk(GAL 1955 JUN-SEP; 1955); w. Kornbluth, Search the Sky(1954; rev. 1985), Gladiator-at-Law(1955; rev. 1986), Wolfbane(1959; rev. 1986); novel Drunkard's Walk(1960) |
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In the Problem Pit |
1973 SEP |
na |
N-1974 LOC, JUP, novella; the problems & resolutions of a group of 16 people who take part in a national problem-pit think-tank program that takes place in the Arecibo cave system in Puerto Rico; has novel Slave Ship(GAL 1956 MAR-MAY; 1956) |
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Mother Trip, The |
1975 OCT |
ss |
N-1976 LOC, short story; has colls. Alternating Currents(1956), The Case Against Tomorrow(1957), Tomorrow Times Seven(1959), The Man Who Ate the World(1960), Turn Left at Thursday(1961), The Abominable Earthman(1963), Day Million(1970) |
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Man Plus |
1976 APR |
no-1/3 |
W-1976 NEB; N-1977 HUG, JWC, LOC, novel; "concerns a world on the brink of nuclear holocaust ... President of the U.S. ... has ordered the creation of a cyborg astronaut to become the first Martian ... a human being who becomes something quite different" |
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Man Plus |
1976 MAY |
no-2/3 |
has Starchild seq. w. Jack Williamson, The Reefs of Space(IFS 1963 JUL, SEP, NOV; 1964), Starchild(IFS 1965 JAN-MAR; 1965), Rogue Star(IFS 1968 JUN-AUG; 1968); novels A Plague of Pythons(1965), The Age of Pussyfoot(1969; N-1969 NEB) |
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Man Plus |
1976 JUN |
no-3/3 |
has colls. The Gold at Starbow's End(1972), The Best of ...(1975), In the Problem Pit(1976), Pohlstars(1984), BiPohl(1987), etc; colls. w. Kornbluth, The Wonder Effect(1962), Critical Mass(1977), Our Best(1987); has novel JEM(GAL 1978-80 NOV-JUL; 1979) |
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New Neighbors, The |
1983 MAY |
nv |
to be pub. in coll. Midas World(1983), coll. of social satires in the guise of an sf novel(B&C); has Heechee ser., Gateway(1977; W-1977 NEB; 1978 HUG, JWC, LOC; 1979 Apollo; N-1978 DIT), Beyond the Blue Event Horizon(1980; N-1980 NEB; 1981 BSF, HUG, LOC) |
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Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair |
1983 OCT |
ss |
N-1984 LOC, ss; a fresh treatment of the same theme(overpopulation) as his story "The Census Takers" in F&SF 1956 FEB(#754); also in Heechee ser., Heechee Rendezvous(1984; N-1985 LOC), The Annals of the Heechee(1987; N-1988 LOC), The Gateway Trip(1990) |
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Greening of Bed-Stuy, The |
1984 JUL |
na |
N-1984 NEB; 1985 LOC, na; 1st story in NYC ser.; with 3 original na's, to be part of fixup novel The Years of the City(1984; W-1985 JWC); Pohl is a student & practioner of municipal politics & a resident of NYC; Asimov writes of Pohl in I. Asimov(1994) |
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Blister, The |
1984 SEP |
na |
N-1985 LOC, nv; 2nd/last story in NYC ser., becomes part of fixup novel The Years of the City(1984; W-1985 JWC; rvw. F&SF 1985 MAR), forming a future history of NYC; has novels The Cool War(1981), Starburst(1982), The Demon in the Skull(1984) |
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Saucery |
1986 OCT |
ss |
has novels The Merchant's War(1984), Black Star Rising(1985), The Coming of the Quantum Cats(ANA 1986 JAN-APR; 1986; N-1987 LOC), Terror(1986), Chernobyl(1987), The Day the Martians Came(1988 fixup), Homegoing(1989), The World at the End of Time(1990) |
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Star War, The |
1988 OCT |
ss |
novels w. Jack Williamson, Farthest Star(1975), Wall Around a Star(1983), both in Cuckoo ser., & Land's End(1988), The Singers of Time(1991), Outnumbering the Dead(1990), Stopping at Slowyear(1991); nf Chasing Science(2000); W-1992 NEB, Grandmaster Award |
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Rocky Python Christmas Video Show, The |
1989 OCT |
ply |
has novels Mining the Oort(1992; N-1992 HOM; 1993 LOC), Mars Plus(1994, with Thomas T. Thomas), The Voices of Heaven(1994), The Other End of Time(1996), The Siege of Eternity(1997), O Pioneer!(1998), Eschaton Sequence #3(1999); see iv in LOC 2000 OCT |
| Pohl, Frederik & C.M. Kornbluth |
World of Myrion Flowers, The |
1961 OCT |
ss |
"at the time of his death, Kornbluth had a number of stories in progress, being done w. his long-time collaborator, Pohl, who has put the finishing touches on this story"; has novel Search the Sky(1954), w. C.M. Kornbluth; Pohl W-1992 NEB, Grandmaster |
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Meeting, The |
1972 NOV |
ss |
co-W-1973 HUG, short story(w. R.A. Lafferty's "Eurema's Dam"); N-1973 LOC, short fiction; story written by Pohl based on notes made by Kornbluth; "their collaboration spanned a period of about 20 years and produced roughly 35 short stories & 7 novels" |
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Mute Inglorious Tam |
1974 OCT |
ss |
N-1975, LOC; "been waiting for years to write a story about a s-f writer who couldn't be a s-f writer because he happened to be born in a time when that art was not possible ... (then) I realized that story could fit nicely into ... a fragment of Cyril's" |
| Pollack, Rachel |
Fool, the Stick, and the Princess, The |
1998 OCT/NOV |
ss |
(1945- ) 1st story pub. sf "Pandora's Bust" in New Worlds Quarterly 2(1971) as by Richard A. Pollack; 1st novel Golden Vanity(1980); Unquenchable Fire(1988; W-1989 CLA), Temporary Agency(1994), Godmother Night(1996; W-1997 WFA); coll. Burning Sky(1998) |
| Porges, Arthur |
Rats, The |
1951 DEC |
ss |
(1915- ) reprint of his 1st pub. sf story, 1st pub. in Man's World 1951 FEB; born in Chicago, IL; now lives in Pacific Groves, CA; has 1940 BS in Mathematics from Illinois Institute of Technology; served as an instructor in the Army during WWII |
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Fly, The |
1952 SEP |
ss |
taught mathematics at Illinois Institute of Technology, De Paul Univ., & Western Military Academy; retired in 1957 to become a fulltime writer; has written many essays, articles & poems for The Monterey Herald, & other periodicals |
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Story Conference |
1953 MAY |
ss |
influenced by the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Saki, O. Henry, T.H. Huxley, Samuel Johnson, G.K. Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, R.L. Stevenson, Charles Dickens, & Edgar Wallace(from his fan website) |
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Strange Birth |
1953 JUN |
vi |
has used ps. Peter Arthur(in FAN 1960 DEC & 1961 JAN), & Pat Rogers(in Fear! 1960 MAY), in issues in which he already had a story under his own name; see his fan website at www.fortunecity.co.uk/jodrellbank/gargoyle/7/ |
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Mop-Up |
1953 JUL |
ss |
a lover of classical music, this passion is shown in his stories "Words and Music"(IFS 1960 SEP), "The Mozart Annuity"(FAN 1962 NOV), "The Perfect Pitcher" in AHMM 1961 SEP, & "The Second Debut"(AHMM 1968 AUG)(from his fan website) |
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Ruum, The |
1953 OCT |
ss |
1st story Ruum series(specimen-collecting robot from the planet Ilkor, left on the Earth) |
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Liberator, The |
1953 DEC |
ss |
his story "The Rescuer" in ANA 1962 JUL was made into a short film called The First Day, & shown on TV in the U.K. in May of 2000; other stories by Porges were adapted to TV & radio in the past, particularly in the U.K.(from his fan website) |
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$1.98 |
1954 MAY |
ss |
$1.98 is said to be the value of a human body reduced to its raw elements |
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Devil and Simon Flagg, The |
1954 AUG |
ss |
also writes mystery fiction, 1st being ""Modeled in Clay" in Man to Man 1950 AUG/SEP, & incl. the series of Dr. Joel Hoffman, Ulysses Price Middlebie, Julian Morse Trowbridge, & Dr. Cyriack Skinner Grey, the latter a wheelchair-bound detective |
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Grom, The |
1954 NOV |
ss |
has used ps. Derek Page for story "The 60-Minute Egg" in Bizarre! Mystery Magazine, 1965 NOV; has pub. many mystery stories in AHMM, EQMM, MSMM, & The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Magazine |
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Tidings, The |
1955 FEB |
ss |
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By a Fluke |
1955 OCT |
ss |
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Logic of Rufus Weir, The |
1955 NOV |
ss |
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Emergency Operation |
1956 MAY |
ss |
2nd story Ruum series (planet Ilkor) |
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Specimen for the Queen, A |
1960 MAY |
ss |
3rd story Ruum series(the robot on Earth) |
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Time-Bomb |
1964 JUN |
pm |
has Larson & Corman series(ANA 1963 FEB & AUG, AMZ 1963 JUL), and Ensign De Ruyter series(AMZ & FAN 1964-68) |
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Turning Point |
1965 SEP |
ss |
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Mirror, The |
1966 OCT |
ss |
his brother, Irwin Porges(1909- ), has two books, Edgar Allan Poe(1963), & Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Man Who Created Tarzan(1975), & they collab. for sf story "A Touch of Sun" in FAN 1959 APR |
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Oddmedod, The |
1987 JUN |
ss |
has Sherlock Holmes parody stories that are coll. in Three Porges Parodies and a Pastiche(1988); another story in this series, "Stately Homes and the Invisible Slasher" in EQMM 2001 FEB |
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Movie Show (A Story for Lincoln's Birthday) |
1999 FEB |
ss |
he has pub. over 300 sf & detective stories; see his entry in The St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers(1996) |
| Posselt, Mildred |
Flower, The |
1961 MAY |
pm |
(1950?- ) sent in by Mr. E.F.T. Rice of Wilmington, Delaware, this poem was written by the 11-year old daughter of a friend of his |
| Pournelle, Jerry |
Enforcer |
1974 JUN |
nv |
(1933- ) PhDs from Univ. of Washington in Psychology(1960), Political Science(1964); former space scientist, political campaign manager; fulltime writer since 1969; 1st story pub. sf "Peace with Honor" in ASF 1971 MAY; has CoDominium seq., War World seq. |
| Powell, Sonny |
Black Nebulea, The (Quintet: I) |
1959 SEP |
vi |
(1913-1987) 1 of 5 vignettes: at least 1 written by a famous author, 1 by a 12 year old; answers 1959 OCT; this one, ps. for Alfred Bester |
| Powers, Tim |
Way Down the Hill, The |
1982 DEC |
nv |
(1952- ) story pub. 1986 chap; wn. for Timothy Powers, lives in Santa Ana, CA; 1st story pub. sf, novel The Skies Discrowned(1976; rev. vt Forsake the Sky, 1986); novels The Anubis Gates(1983; W-1984 DIC), The Stress of Her Regard(1989), Last Call(1992) |
| Poyer, D.C. |
Before All, Do No Harm |
1989 MAY |
nv |
(1949- ) wn. for David Charles Poyer; educated at Annapolis, 7 years in Navy; has sf novels The Shiloh Project(1981), Star Seed(1982, as David Andreissen), Stepfather Bank(1987); as David Poyer has ex-Seal mys. ser. Down to a Sunless Sea(1996), etc |
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