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| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Shapiro, Neil |
In Black of Many Colors |
1970 APR |
nv |
1st of 2 stories in his telepath series; has sf novel Planet Without a Name(1976), in which space colonists find themselves at war with nasty amphibian humanoids |
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Starlight Shining Through Her Eyes |
1970 JUL |
ss |
has also pub. four stories and two articles in Vertex Science Fiction between 1974 FEB & 1975 AUG |
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She Was the Music. The Music Was Him. |
1970 OCT |
nv |
2nd of 2 stories in telepath ser.; has novel in same universe, Mind Call(1978), where telepathic starship Commander Diana Light, a recent graduate of the Institute of the Worlds, uses her skills to find out why returning starfarers have been going insane |
| Sharkey, Jack |
Final Ingredient, The |
1960 AUG |
ss |
(1931-1992) working name for John Michael Sharkey; 1st story pub. sf "The Captain of His Soul" in FAN 1959 MAR |
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Collector's Item |
1963 SEP |
ss |
has sf novels The Secret Martians(1960), Ultimatum in 2050 A.D.(AMZ 1963 JUN-JUL, as "The Programmed People"; 1965); has Jerry Norcriss series(GAL, WOT, & IFS in 1961-70); active as a playwright after 1965 |
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Survival of the Fittest |
1964 MAR |
ss |
has two crime novels Murder, Maestro, Please(1960), & Death for Auld Lang Syne(1962); he had many mystery stories in the magazine Manhunt |
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Trade-In |
1964 JUN |
ss |
has novel The Addams Family(1965, TV tie-in) |
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Breakthrough |
1964 NOV |
ss |
has pub. at least 9 short stories betw. 1959-1963 in the men's mags. Dude, Gent, Escapade, & Nugget |
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Essentials Only |
1965 MAR |
ss |
Sharkey wrote more than 100 short & full-length plays & musicals, which have been performed by community theaters thruout the nation; successful playwright, was well-known in the dinner theater industry, & among high school theater clubs |
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Glorious Fourth, The |
1965 OCT |
ss |
see his obit in LOC 1992 DEC(#383); a search of the internet shows his comedy plays "Saving Grace" by Orange Park Community Theatre(FL) in Sept. 2000, & "Rich Is Better" by touring company Repertory Theater of America in the fall of 2000 |
| Shaver, Edward F. |
Killing Thought, The |
1981 MAY |
nv |
N-1982 BSF, short fiction; his 1st pub. story; graduated from Pennsylvania State Univ. in 1977 with a BS in Physics; employed by a support contractor to the Dept. of Energy's solar energy program |
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Choice of Dreams, A |
1982 AUG |
nv |
has pub. short stort "Fear the Light" in AMZ 1987 MAY, & novelette "Closing Circle" in AMZ 1989 JUL |
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Sport of Kings |
1985 NOV |
nv |
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Stones |
1986 NOV |
nv |
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Gods Arrive, The |
1987 SEP |
nv |
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Third Effect, The |
1989 SEP |
ss |
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| Shaw, Bob |
Repeat Performance |
1971 FEB |
ss |
(1931-1996) working name for Robert Shaw, from Ireland, fulltime writer since 1975; involved in sf fandom, 1st sf book The Enchanted Duplicator(1954 chap; AMZ 1972-73 NOV-JUN) with Walter A. Willis; 1st story pub. sf "Aspect" in NEB #9 1954 |
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Dream Fighter |
1977 FEB |
ss |
has famous short story "Light of Other Days" in ANA 1966 AUG(N-1966 NEB; 1967 HUG; 1st story in Slow Glass ser.; exp. into fixup novel Other Days, Other Eyes, 1972; N-1973 LOC); has colls. Tomorrow Lies in Ambush(1973), Cosmic Kaleidoscope(1976) |
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Well-Wisher |
1979 NOV |
ss |
has 1st novel Night Walk(1967); The Two-Timers(1969), The Palace of Eternity(1969), One Million Tomorrows(1970), A Wreath of Stars(1976), Ship of Strangers(1978 fixup), Vertigo(1978); colls. A Better Mousetrap(1982), Between Two Worlds(1986) |
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Go On, Pick a Universe! |
1981 MAR |
ss |
has Orbitsville seq. Orbitsville(GAL 1974 JUN-AUG; 1975; W-1976 BSF; N-JWC), Orbitsville Departure(1983), Orbitsville Judgement(1990); see iv's in AMZ 1981 JUL, & LOC 1987 OCT(#321); special Shaw issue(bib, iv, ar) in LOC 1993 JAN(#384); obit LOC 1996 MAR |
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Lunch of Champions |
1991 APR |
ss |
has Ragged Astronauts seq., The Ragged Astronauts(1986; W-1987 BSF; N-CLA, HUG, LOC), The Wooden Spaceships(1988), The Fugitive Worlds(1989); Fire Pattern(1984), Warren Peace(1993), Dimensions(1994); coll. Dark Night in Toyland(1989) |
| Shea, J. Vernon |
H.P. Lovecraft: House and the Shadows, The |
1966 MAY |
ar |
(1912-1981) a friend of H.P.L., born in Dayton, KY, the son of a professional magician, overseas veteran of the Army Medical Corps; works as a metallurgist in Cleveland; has edited anthologies Strange Desires(1954), & Strange Barriers (1961) |
| Shea, Michael |
Angel of Death, The |
1979 AUG |
nv |
(1946- ) N-1979 NEB; 1980 LOC, novelette; born in L.A., educated at Berkeley; has 1st novel, A Quest for Simbilis(1974; N-1975 BFA), which is a sequel, with permission, to Jack Vance's The Eyes of the Overworld(1966)(Clute) |
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Autopsy, The |
1980 DEC |
nv |
N-1980 NEB; 1981 LOC, novella; HUG, novelette; pathologist Dr. Carl Winters "arrives at a mountain town to perform autopsies on the victims of a suspicious explosion" & meets something unexpected & deadly |
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Polyphemus |
1981 AUG |
na |
N-1982 LOC, novella; on the planet Firebairn, a field expedition out to forage provisions for its colony instead becomes the prey of an ancient beast, which it must quickly understand in order to survive |
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That Frog |
1982 APR |
ss |
has Nifft series, Nifft the Lean: Raiders of the Infernal Domains(1982; W-1983 WFA), a Vancean fantasy consisting of four related prev. unpub. stories, & sequel The Mines of Behemoth(TSF 1996 JUN, AUG, NOV; 1996; N-1998 LOC) |
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Horror on the #33, The |
1982 AUG |
ss |
N-1983 LOC, short story; has novel The Color Out of Time(1984), a sequel to H.P. Lovecraft's novelette, "The Colour Out of Space," which was first pub. in AMZ 1927 SEP |
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Grunt-12 Test Drive |
1983 FEB |
ss |
has novel In Yana, the Touch of Undying(1985; N-1986 LOC), a fantasy novel in the Vancean mode, with more than a touch of horror(B&C) |
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Uncle Tuggs |
1986 MAY |
nv |
has coll. Polyphemus(1987; N-1988 WFA) |
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Fill It With Regular |
1986 OCT |
nv |
N-1987 LOC, novelette; has a Chthulhu Mythos horror novelette, "Fat Face," pub. as a chapbook in 1987, was N-1988 BFA |
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Extra, The |
1987 MAY |
nv |
has horror novella "I, Said the Fly" orig. pub. in Ellen Datlow(ed): The Omni Book of Science Fiction #6(1989), & was revised & pub. in a chapbook in 1993, about an insect invasion that takes over the nervous & reproductive systems of humans |
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Delivery |
1987 DEC |
ss |
see interview in The Scream Factory 1995 WIN; has novel The A'rak(2000), 3rd in the Nifft series, in which Nifft is hired as a swordsman/bodyguard by Lagadene, a woman on a special mission; omnibus The Incompleat Nifft(2000), of 1st two Nifft novels |
| Sheckley, Robert |
Monsters, The |
1953 MAR |
ss |
(1928- ) born in Brooklyn, NY; raised in Maplewood, N.J.; served in the Army in Korea; grad. from N.Y. Univ. in 1952; 1st story pub. "Final Examination" in IMG 1952 MAY; early 1950s wrote scripts for TV series Captain Video, as did Knight, & Kornbluth |
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King's Wishes, The |
1953 JUL |
ss |
has colls. Untouched by Human Hands(1954), Citizen in Space(1955), Pilgrimage to Earth(1957); has used ps. Phillips Barbee, Ned Lang, & Finn O'Donnevan in GAL; short story "Something for Nothing" in GAL 1954 JUN made into 1993 Cable ser. The Utilizer |
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Accountant, The |
1954 JUL |
ss |
has novel Immortality Delivered(GAL 1958-59 OCT-FEB as "Time Killer"; 1958), made into 1969 TV movie Immortality, Inc., & 1992 movie Freejack; novel The Status Civilization(1960), set on a prison planet where conformity is evil(Clute) |
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Slow Season, The |
1954 OCT |
ss |
Sheckley lives in Portland, OR; has colls. Notions: Unlimited(1960), Store of Infinity(1960), Shards of Space(1962), The People Trap and Other Pitfalls(1968), Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?(1971), The Robot Who Looked Like Me(1978 UK) |
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Dawn Invader |
1957 MAR |
ss |
has sf novels Mindswap(1966), in which the protagonist switches minds with a Martian; Dimension of Miracles(1968); has non-genre novels The Man in the Water(1961; 1965 movie Escape from Hell Island), The Game of X(1965; 1981 movie Condorman) |
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Love, Incorporated |
1957 JUN |
ss |
1st pub. in PBY 1956 SEP; has novels Options(1975), Crompton Divided(GAL 1958 DEC as "Join Now"; exp. 1978 US; vt The Alchemical Marriage of Alistair Crompton, 1978 UK), latter about a paranoid schizophrenic attempting to reassemble his mind(Clute) |
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Holdout |
1957 DEC |
ss |
has story "Seventh Victim" in GAL 1953 APR(made into 1965 & 2002 movies 10th Victim), & Victims ser. of novels, The Tenth Victim(1966), Victim Prime(1987 UK), Hunter/Victim(1988 UK); nv "Shall We Have a Little Talk?" in GAL 1965 OCT, N-1965 NEB |
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Prize of Peril, The |
1958 MAY |
ss |
this story was the uncredited basis for the Stephen King novel The Running Man(1982 as by Richard Bachman) & the 1987 movie The Running Man, & for 1983 Italian movie Le Prix du danger - see Harlan Ellison's Watching movie column in F&SF 1988 SEP |
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Girls and Nugent Miller, The |
1960 MAR |
ss |
has non-genre novels Dead Run(1961); International Det. Stephen Dain series, Calibre .50(1961), White Death(1963), & Time Limit(1967); colls. The Wonderful World of Robert Sheckley(1979), The People Trap Plus Mindswap(1981), Is That What People Do?(1984) |
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Journey of Joenes, The |
1962 OCT |
no-1/2 |
"protagonist is an innocent who suffers a variety of alarming adventures after leaving his near-future Pacific island ... novel takes the form of a series of remembrances enshrined as myths 1000 years later"(Clute); considered one of R.S.'s best novels |
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Journey of Joenes, The |
1962 NOV |
no-2/2 |
pub. in an expanded form as Journey Beyond Tomorrow(1962); has non-fiction book Futuropolis(1978); was Omni Fiction Editor, 1980 JAN-1981 SEP; see his interviews in Charles Platt: Dream Makers(1980; 1987), & in INZ 1992 SEP |
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Budget Planet |
1968 MAR |
ss |
an excerpt from his soon-to-be-published novel, Dimension of Miracles(1968), "in which the protagonist wins in error a prize which shunts him back & forth a Galaxy whose reality is disconcertingly arbitrary"(Clute); see official website www.sheckley.com |
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People Trap, The |
1968 JUN |
ss |
used for ABC-TV's short-lived ser., Stage 67; has anth. After the Fall(1980); novel w. Harry Harrison, Bill the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains(1990); fantasy novella Minotaur Maze(1990); sf novella Alien Starswarm(1991) |
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Starting From Scratch |
1970 NOV |
vi |
has Millennial Contest seq. novels w. Roger Zelazny, Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming(1991), If at Faust You Don't Succeed(1993), A Farce to Be Reckoned With(1995); see website www.fantascienza.com/robert.sheckley/ |
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Emissary From a Green and Yellow World |
1998 OCT/NOV |
ss |
has Alternative Detective mys. ser., The Alternative Detective(1993), Draconian New York(1996), Soma Blues(1997), featuring aging ex-hippie detective Hob Draconian; has Pulphouse Short Story Paperback #3: Xolotl(1991) |
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Deep Blue Sleep |
1999 JUN |
ss |
this story came to him in a dream; has 5-volume coll. The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley(1991); in Riverworld ser., Diaghilev Plays Riverworld(1993); sf novelization based on the Dark Horse comic book based on the movie, Alien Harvest(1995) |
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Kenny |
1999 OCT/NOV |
ss |
has sf novelizations, Star Trek Deep Space Nine 12: The Laertian Gamble(1995), & Babylon 5: A Call to Arms(1999); humorous fantasy novel Godshome(1999), about an impoverished mythology professor who finds help from a 'trickster' god |
| Sheckley, Robert & Harlan Ellison |
I See a Man Sitting on a Chair, and the Chair Is Biting His Leg |
1968 JAN |
nv |
(1928- ; 1934- ) story to be in Ellison's book Partners in Wonder (1971), a coll. of his collaborations; Sheckley has pub. many stories in Argosy(U.K.), COL, & PBY; Ellison has pub. many stories in Adam, Knight, PBY, Rogue, Manhunt, & detective pulps |
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