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| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Searles, Baird |
Films: Flick Needs Bic |
1982 JUL |
mr/tvr |
Quest for Fire(1981 France-Canada), stars Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Nameer el-Kadi, Rae Dawn Chong |
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Films: Phoenix Too Frequent, A |
1982 AUG |
mr/tvr |
The Phoenix(1982), pilot movie for TV series(1982, 5 ep.), stars Judson Scott, Richard Lynch, E.G. Marshall; briefly, Destination Moon(1950) |
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Films: Car Bash Down Under |
1982 SEP |
mr/tvr |
The Road Warrior(1981 Australia), sequel to Mad Max(1979 Australia), both dir. George Miller, both star Mel Gibson; A Midsummer Night's Dream(1981 BBC TV), producer Jonathan Miller; briefly, THX-1138(1971), George Lucas' 1st commercial film |
| |
Films: Hyperboring |
1982 OCT |
mr/tvr |
Conan, the Barbarian(1982), dir. John Milius, screenplay by Milius & Oliver Stone, stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow, Sandahl Bergman |
| |
Films: Khan-Founded |
1982 NOV |
mr/tvr |
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan(1982), a direct sequel to the TV series episode "Space Seed," stars regular Star Trek crew & Ricardo Montalban, Kirstie Alley |
| |
Films: Kevin in Computerland |
1982 DEC |
mr/tvr |
Tron(1982), dir. Steven Lisberger, screenplay by Lisberger & Bonnie MacBird, stars Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan; Dragonslayer(1981 UK), dir. Matthew Robbins, stars Peter MacNicol, Ralph Richardson |
| |
Films: E.T., Go Home |
1983 JAN |
mr/tvr |
E.T. the Extra-Terrestial(1982), from Disney, dir. Steven Spielberg, script by Melissa Mathison, stars Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace-Stone, Peter Coyote |
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Films: Dragooned Dragon |
1983 FEB |
mr/tvr |
The Flight of Dragons(1982), animated, based very loosely on Gordon R. Dickson's The Dragon and the George(F&SF 1957 SEP; exp. 1976) & Peter Dickinson's The Flight of Dragons(1979); Heartbeeps(1981), stars Bernadette Peters, Andy Kaufman |
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Films: Tube or Not Tube |
1983 MAR |
mr/tvr |
TV sf/f; The Powers of Matthew Star(1982-83 TV series, 22 ep.), stars Peter Barton, Louis Gossett Jr; The Mysterious Stranger(1982 PBS TV), dramatization of Mark Twain's posthumous novel(1916; rest. 1969; 1982), stars Lance Kerwin |
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Films: Tube Two |
1983 APR |
mr/tvr |
Tucker's Witch(1982-83 TV ser., 12 ep.); The Quest(1982 TV ser., 8 ep.); Voyagers(1982-83 TV ser., 21 ep.); Tales of the Gold Monkey(1982-83 TV ser., 22 ep.), stars Stephen Collins; The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy(1981 UK TV ser., 6 ep.) |
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Films: Dark Crystal, The |
1983 MAY |
mr/tvr |
The Dark Crystal(1982), conceptual designer Brian Froud, a Jim Henson & the Muppets movie, dir. Jim Henson & Frank Oz, written by Jim Henson & David Odell |
| |
Films: Other Ring, The |
1983 JUN |
mr/tvr |
The Ring of Nibelung(shown on TV), an opera of 4 acts by Richard Wagner(1813-1883), the acts being The Rhinegold(written 1869), The Valkyrie(1870), Siegfried(1876), & The Twilight of the Gods(1876) |
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Films: Mess Media |
1983 JUL |
mr/tvr |
Wizards and Warriors(1983 TV series, 8 ep.), stars Jeff Conaway, Julia Duffy, Walter Olkewicz, Julia Payne; briefly, An Englishman's Castle(1978 UK TV series), alternate history segment where Nazis win WWII, see 1980 MAR review |
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Films: More (and Less) Mess Media |
1983 AUG |
mr/tvr |
Wizards and Warriors(1983 TV series, 8 ep.), see 1983 JUL column; Small & Frye(1983 TV series, 6 ep.), stars Darren McGavin as Nick Small & Jack Blessing as Chip Frye as two P.I.s, & Debbie Zipp, Bill Daily |
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Films: Visiting Wrongs |
1983 SEP |
mr/tvr |
V(1983-84 TV mini-series), stars Marc Singer, Faye Grant, Jane Badler, Michael Ironside(also made into 1984-85 TV series, 19 ep.); commercial for British Airways |
| |
Films: Jaded Jedi |
1983 OCT |
mr/tvr |
Return of the Jedi(1983), 3rd in the Star Wars series, writers George Lucas & Lawrence Kasdan, stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams |
| |
Films: 2-D 3-D |
1983 NOV |
mr/tvr |
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone(1983, 3-D movie), stars Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald; War Games(1983), stars Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy; Bladerunner(1982), based on Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
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Films: In the Gloaming |
1983 DEC |
mr/tvr |
Twilight Zone—The Movie(1983), segment "It's a Good Life," screenplay by Richard Matheson, based on a Jerome Bixby story, "It's a Good Life," in Pohl(ed): Star Science Fiction Stories #2(1953), & stars Kathleen Quinlan, Billy Mumy |
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Films: Krulltured Pearl |
1984 JAN |
mr/tvr |
Krull(1983), dir. Peter Yates, stars Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Francesca Annis |
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Films: Fit for Man Nor Beast |
1984 FEB |
mr/tvr |
new TV season; Just Our Luck(1983 TV ser., 11 ep.), stars T.K. Carter, Richard Gilliland; Mr. Smith(1983 TV ser., 12 ep.), stars Ed Weinberger, C.J. the orangutan; Manimal(1983 TV ser., 8 ep.), stars Melody Anderson, Simon MacCorkindale |
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Films: Echolaliac Ectoplasm |
1984 MAR |
mr/tvr |
Jennifer Slept Here(1983-84 TV ser., 13 ep.), stars Ann Jillian; The Beastmaster(1982), stars Marc Singer; Poltergeist(1982), script by Steven Spielberg; Something Wicked This Way Comes(1983), based on Ray Bradbury's 1962 novel & script |
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Films: Some Months After |
1984 APR |
mr/tvr |
The Day After(1983 TV), dir. Nicholas Meyer, writer Edward Hume, stars William Allen Young, Calvin Jung, Kyle Aletter; Dr. Who: The Five Doctors(1983), stars the actors that have portrayed Dr. Who so far; see Searles' obit in LOC 1993 MAY(#388) |
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Films: Unabsorbed Shocks |
1984 MAY |
mr/tvr |
Christine(1983), based on Stephen King's 1983 novel, dir. John Carpenter, stars a red 1958 Plymouth, Keith Gordon, John Stockwell; Prototype(1983 TV), stars David Morse(as the android), Christopher Plummer, Frances Sternhagen |
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Films: Droidful |
1984 JUN |
mr/tvr |
Android(1982), dir. Aaron Lipstadt, stars Klaus Kinski; Caveman(1981), stars Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long, Barbara Bach; An American Werewolf in London(1981), dir./writer John Landis, stars David Naughton, Jenny Agutter |
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Films: Grimm Fun |
1984 JUL |
mr/tvr |
Faerie Tale Theatre ser. available on video & cable incl. "Sleeping Beauty"(C. Reeves, B. Peters), "Jack and the Beanstalk"(J. Stapleton, D. Christopher, E. Gould), "The Frog Prince"(R. Williams); Searles' last mr/tvr in F&SF, then AMZ 1984 NOV-1986 NOV |
| Searls, Hank |
Late Again |
1988 MAR |
vi |
(1922- ) wn. for Henry Hunt Searls Jr; 1st story pub. sf "Martyr's Flight" in IMG 1955 DEC; 1st novel The Big X(1959); The Pilgrim Project(1964; made into 1968 movie Countdown), Jaws 2(1975), Overboard(1977), Jaws the Revenge(1983), Blood Song(1984) |
| Seeley, Mabel |
Footprint, The |
1953 JAN |
ss |
(1903-1991) 1st pub. fantasy story, normally a detective & mainstream novelist; born in Hermanville, MN; earned a BA from the Univ. of Minnesota in 1926; 1st novel The Listening House(1938), The Chuckling Fingers(1941), The Whistling Shadow(1954) |
| Seelhammer, Cynthia |
Gentle Horses |
1998 MAR |
ss |
her 1st published story; born in Minnesota, where at the age of 11 she had a stubborn & ill-trained mare; now lives in the San Tan mountains of Arizona, where she is the town manager of Queen Creek(population 4,000); attended Clarion in 1992 |
| Sellers, J.P. |
Pete Gets His Man |
1963 DEC |
ss |
a British Major at Fontainbleau in France |
| |
Urgent Message for Mr. Prosser |
1964 APR |
ss |
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| Sellings, Arthur |
Crack in the Shield |
1968 JAN |
nv |
(1921-1968) ps. for U.K. writer Robert Arthur Ley; 1st story pub. sf "The Haunting" in AUT 1953 #38; has colls. Time Transfer(1956), The Long Eureka(1968), novels Telepath(1962), The Uncensored Man(1964), The Quy Effect(1966) |
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Legend and the Chemistry, The |
1969 JAN |
ss |
in story intro, notice of Sellings death in England in September 1968, at age 47; has novels Intermind(1967 in US as by Ray Luther), The Power of X(1968), & Junk Day(1970) |
| Shaara, Michael |
Grenville's Planet |
1952 OCT |
ss |
(1929-1988) born in Jersey City, NJ; grad. of Rutgers Univ.; 1st story pub. sf "All the Way Back" in ASF 1952 JUL; English Lit. prof. at Florida State Univ.; 1st novel The Broken Place(1968); has Pulitzer Prize winning Civil War novel, Killer Angels(1974) |
| |
Time Payment |
1954 JUN |
ss |
has sf novel The Herald(1981; vt The Noah Conspiracy); sf coll. Soldier Boy(1982); has interview in AMZ 1982 SEP; has posthumous baseball novel For Love of the Game(1991; made into 1999 movie; see website http://jeffshaara.com/michaelbio.html |
| Shaffer, Francis B. |
Introduction to Prosper Mérimée's "The Venus of Ille" |
1970 NOV |
in |
Mérimée's 1st play was Cromwell(1822); has novella "Carmen"(1845), which contains valid info on the gypsy's lifestyle in Spain, was made into the opera "Carmen" by George Bizet(1838-1874), & movies The Loves of Carmen(1949), & Carmen Jones(1954) |
| Shanahan |
Cartoon |
1994 SEP |
ct |
working name for Danny Shanahan |
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Cartoon |
1994 OCT/NOV |
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Cartoon |
1995 MAR |
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Cartoon |
1995 OCT/NOV |
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Cartoon: Deja Voodoo |
1995 OCT/NOV |
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Cartoon |
1996 MAR |
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Cartoon |
1996 APR |
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Cartoon |
1996 MAY |
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Cartoon: Moby Dickweed |
1996 AUG |
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Cartoon |
1997 SEP |
ct |
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Cartoon |
1998 OCT/NOV |
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Cartoon: Mighty Joe Jung |
1999 JUL |
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Cartoon: Pilot Error |
1999 OCT/NOV |
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| Shango, J.R. |
Matter of Ethics, A |
1954 NOV |
ss |
ps. for Clifton L. Dance, a physician; also in F&SF as Clifton Dance |
| Shapiro, Neil |
From the Moon, With Love |
1970 FEB |
nv |
(1949?- ) a 21-year old student at the Rochester Institute of Technology; graduate of Clarion Writers' Workshop; 1st story pub. sf "Now No One Waits" in IFS 1969 DEC |
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