| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Sheffield, Charles |
Marriage of True Minds, The |
1980 NOV |
ss |
(1935-2002) story "my attempt to show what would happen if P.G. Wodehouse had chosen to write fantasy using his Blandings Castle setting"; physicist, writer; has MS in Mathematics, PhD in Theoretical Physics; see iv's in LOC 1990 JAN(#348), 1994 AUG(#403) |
| |
Softest Hammer, The |
1981 FEB |
ss |
N-1982 LOC, ss; 1st story pub. sf "What Song the Sirens Sang" in GAL 1977 APR; 1st novel, Proteus ser., Sight of Proteus(1978; N-1979 LOC), Proteus Unbound(ANA 1988 AUG-NOV; 1988), Proteus in the Underworld(1995); Brother to Dragons(1992; W-1993 JWC) |
| |
Devil of Malkirk, The |
1982 JUN |
na |
N-1983 LOC; 1st & only story in F&SF in Erasmus Darwin ser.; 1 other novella from FAN 1978 JUL, & 1 original, make up coll. Erasmus Magister(1982), has appendix "Fact & Fiction" on E.D.; with more stories in series, coll. in The Amazing Dr. Darwin(2002) |
| |
Rogueworld |
1983 MAY |
nv |
1st & only story in F&SF in Arthur McAndrew ser.; other stories in ser. in GAL 1978 MAR, & ANA 1980 OCT, 1981 FEB 2, 1982 SEP, 1992 JUN; ser. coll. in The McAndrew Chronicles(1983; exp. novel/coll. as One Man's Universe, 1993); married Nancy Kress in 1998 |
| |
Obsolete Skill |
1987 DEC |
ss |
has colls. Vectors(1979), Hidden Variables(1981), Georgia on My Mind, and Other Places(1996; title story in ANA 1993 JAN, W-1993 NEB; 1994 HUG); many novels incl. Jupiter ser., Higher Education(1996; w. Jerry Pournelle), The Billion Dollar Boy(1997) |
| |
Out of Copyright |
1989 MAY |
ss |
N-1990 LOC, short story; has anth. How to Save the World(1995); coll. Georgia On My Mind, and Other Places(1995); novels The Ganymede Club(1995), Tomorrow and Tomorrow(1997), Aftermath(1998), The Cyborg From Earth(1998), Transvergence(1999) |
| Sheldon, Walt |
Rope for Lucifer, A |
1950 WIN/SPR |
ss |
(1917-1996) wn. for Walter James Sheldon; pulp-detective, western & sf/f author; used ps. Shel Walker, J.D. Hardin, etc; has Korean War novel Troubling of a Star(1953); The Man Who Paid His Way(1955), House of Happy Mayhem(1967); nf books on Korea, Japan |
| Shepard, Lucius |
Solitario's Eyes |
1983 SEP |
ss |
(1947- ) N-1984 LOC, ss; WFA, shfi; born in Lynchburg, VA; his 1st work was poetry, 1st book was poem Cantata of Death, Weakmind & Generation(1967 chap); 1st story pub. sf "The Taylorsville Reconstruction" in Terry Carr(ed): Universe 13(1983) |
| |
Salvador |
1984 APR |
ss |
W-1985 LOC; N-1984 NEB; 1985 HUG, SFC, short story; "relates to an ongoing news story in a land of terror to the south ..."; has 1st novel, sf/horror Green Eyes(N-1984 DIC; 1985 CLA, LOC), in which Deep South researchers create zombies(Clute) |
| |
Night of White Bhairab, The |
1984 OCT |
nv |
Shepard W-1985 JWCA, for Best New Writer; has novel Life During Wartime("R & R" in ASI 1986 APR; W-1986 NEB; 1987 LOC, SFC; N-HUG; exp. 1987; N-1987 DIC; 1988 LOC; 1989 CLA, DIT); has poem "White Trains" in Night Cry 1987 SPR, W-1988 RHY |
| |
Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule, The |
1984 DEC |
nv |
N-1984 NEB; 1985 BSF, short fiction; HUG, LOC, SFC, novelette; WFA, novella; 1st & only story in F&SF in his Dragon Griaule series; other stories in series in ASI 1988 SEP, & 1989 SEP; has coll. The Jaguar Hunter(1987; W-1988 LOC, WFA) |
| |
Jaguar Hunter, The |
1985 MAY |
nv |
N-1985 NEB; 1986 LOC, novelette; WFA, short fiction; "... the method of hunting jaguars outlined in the story is not a product of my imagination. I met an old guy in Honduras who claimed to have done in ... 50 jaguars by this method" |
| |
Spanish Lesson, A |
1985 DEC |
nv |
N-1986 LOC, novelette; has novellas The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter(ASI 1988 SEP; 1988), & The Father of Stones(ASI SEP 1989; 1989), both set in the same world as "The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule"(F&SF 1984 DEC); novella Kalimantan(1990) |
| |
Arcevoalo, The |
1986 OCT |
nv |
N-1987 LOC, novelette; "my idea of a story told by a future storyteller about his distant past, which is our distant future ..."; has coll. with Robert Frazier, Nantucket Slayrides: Three Short Novels(1989), two novellas being by Shepard |
| |
Glassblower's Dragon, The |
1987 APR |
ss |
N-1988 LOC, short story; has vampire horror novel, The Golden(1993); horror novella The Last Time(1995); has coll. The Ends of the Earth(1991; W-1992 WFA; N-1991 LOC) |
| |
Wooden Tiger, A |
1988 OCT |
nv |
a CIA agent in Calcutta develops qualms about his job & goes in search of a goddess, only to run into some strange & violent complications; a Clarion graduate, has article "How I Spent My Summer Vacation: A Student Perspective on Clarion," ASI 1985 FEB |
| |
Ends of the Earth, The |
1989 MAR |
na |
N-1990 LOC, novella; concerns a NY writer who moves to a small village in Guatemala, looking for a change, though perhaps not so drastic a change as the one that is forced upon him; see his interview in INZ #34 1990 |
| |
Bound for Glory |
1989 OCT |
nv |
N-1990 LOC, novelette; has colls. Sports & Music(1994), Barnacle Bill the Spacer and Other Stories(1997; vt Beast of the Heartland and Other Stories, 1999); novel Valentine(2002), about lovers stranded by a Florida hurricane; see his iv in LOC 2001 NOV |
| |
Crocodile Rock |
1999 OCT/NOV |
na |
N-1999 STO, long fiction; 1999 WFA; 2000 NEB, LOC, novella; an African-American herpetologist investigating the killings by shape-changing crocodile men along the Kilombo River in Mogado, Zaire, comes close to losing his mind & his life |
| Shepley, John |
Gorilla Suit |
1958 MAY |
ss |
(1925- ) his 1st pub. fantasy story; freelance writer & translator living in NYC; has pub. stories in Paris Review, San Francisco Review, etal; has trans. art & literary works from the French & Italian, Umbro Apollonio: Hans Hartung(1972) |
| |
Kit-Katt Klub, The |
1962 APR |
ss |
has trans. Pierre Restany: Cesar(1976), Chryssa(1977), Botero(1984); Oriana Fallaci: Interview with History(1976), Letter to a Child Never Born(1976); Tiziano Terzani: Giai Phong! The Fall and Liberation of Saigon(1976); Salvatore Mannuzzu: Procedura('93) |
| |
Three for Carnival |
1966 MAY |
ss |
has trans. Pierre Courthion: The Impressionists(1979); Enzo Siciliano: Pasolini(1982); Pier Paolo Pasolini: Roman Nights and Other Stories(1986; W-1987 Italo Calvino Translators Award); Roberto Calasso: The Forty-nine Steps(2001) |
| Sherman, D.R. |
Ring of Black Coral, A |
1971 AUG |
ss |
(1934- ) wn. for Denis Ronald Sherman; born in Calcutta, India; lives in Seychelles; has novels Old Mali and the Boy(1964), Into the Noonday Sun(1966), Brothers of the Sea(1972), Ryan(1973), The Boat(1973), The Lion's Paw(1974), Pride of the Hunter(1979) |
| Sherman, Delia |
Maid on the Shore, The |
1987 OCT |
ss |
(1951- ) wn. for Cordelia Caroline Sherman, her 1st pub. story, is "loosely based on the ballad 'Maid on the Shore' as recorded by Martin Carthy & Frankie Armstrong"; born in Tokyo, PhD from Brown Univ.; teaches freshman comp. & fantasy at Boston Univ. |
| |
Miss Carstairs and the Merman |
1989 JAN |
nv |
N-1990 LOC, novelette; has 1st novel dark fantasy Through a Brazen Mirror(1989; N-1989 LOC), which retells the traditional ballad "Famous Flower of Serving Men"(Clute); this novel earned Sherman a N-1989 JWCA; see interview at www.sfsite.com |
| |
Nanny Peters and the Feathery Bride |
1990 FEB |
ss |
has 2nd novel The Porcelain Dove(1993; W-1994 MYT; N-LOC), based on French folklore & history, & set during the French Revolution; see interview in LOC 1994 OCT(#405); she teaches sf/f writing at Odyssey & Clarion Workshops |
| |
Land's End |
1991 MAR |
ss |
has anth. The Horns of Elfland(1997; N-1998 LOC), with Donald G. Keller & Ellen Kushner; Bordertown #4(1997), & The Essential Bordertown(1998), both with Terri Windling; in 1995 Sherman became a Contributing Editor for Tor Books |
| |
Parwat Ruby, The |
1999 JUN |
ss |
N-1999 WFA, short fiction; this story a pastiche of a Victorian penny dreadful |
| Shiner, Lewis |
Stuff of Dreams |
1981 APR |
nv |
(1950- ) N-1982 LOC, novelette; born in Oregon, lives in Texas; has BA in English; 1st story pub. sf "Tinker's Damn" in GEO #5 1977; has novelette "Twilight Time," pub. in ASI 1984 APR & as Pulphouse Short Story Paperback #30(1991) |
| |
Brujo |
1982 AUG |
ss |
has 1st novel Frontera(1984; N-1984 DIC, NEB; 1985 LOC), in which a team is sent to Mars by a large corporation to investigate an abandoned colony(Clute); an early version of this novel can be seen in "Soldier, Sailor" in Author's Choice Monthly #4(1990) |
| |
Promises |
1982 DEC |
vi |
has novel Deserted Cities of the Heart(short stories "Deserted Cities of the Heart" & "Rebels" in Omni 1984 FEB & 1987 NOV; exp. 1988; N-1988 NEB; 1989 LOC), a fantasy novel of near-future politics & old gods in Central America(B&C) |
| |
Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe |
1983 DEC |
ss |
has non-sf novel Slam(1990), about a reformed tax-evader paroled from prison(or "slam")(Clute); has colls. Author's Choice Monthly #4: Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe(1990), & The Edges of Things(1991) |
| |
Till Human Voices Wake Us |
1984 MAY |
ss |
has antiwar anth. When the Music's Over(1991; N-1992 WFA), the proceeds for the editor going to Greenpeace; fantasy novel Glimpses(1993; W-1994 WFA), about a rock 'n roll fan who hears & then bootlegs dead rock stars' performances that never happened(B&C) |
| |
Like the Gentle Rain |
1997 OCT/NOV |
ss |
has coll. of mystery stories with Joe R. Lansdale, Private Eye Action As You Like It(1998); novel Say Goodbye: The Laurie Moss Story(1999), about a woman's struggles in the rock music business(B&C); see interview in LOC 1988 MAY(#328) |
| |
Lizard Men of Los Angeles |
1999 JUL |
nv |
this story an homage to the pulps, is part of a strange novel he's working on, The Mystery; has coll. Love in Vain(2001); see his website at www.lewisshiner.com |
| Shirley, John |
Quill Tripstickler Eludes a Bride |
1980 MAY |
ss |
(1953- ) 1st story in F&SF in Galactic Tourist Agent Quill Tripstickler & his robot servant Fives ser.; songwriter & sf writer, 1st story pub. sf "The Word 'Random,' Deliberately Repeated" in Robin Scott Wilson(ed): Clarion III(1973); iv in INZ 1998 NOV |
| |
Quill Tripstickler Out the Window |
1981 NOV |
nv |
2nd & last story in F&SF in Quill Tripstickler ser.; other stories in ser. in Eternity #2 1980, & in ASI 1982 mDEC; has 1st novel Transmaniacon(1979); Dracula in Love(1979), Three-Ring Psychus(1980), City Come A-Walkin'(1980; N-1981 LOC) |
| |
Ticket to Heaven |
1987 DEC |
nv |
printing error in story, see correction, 1988 MAR, p.107; has cyberpunk Song Called Youth trilogy, Eclipse(1985), Eclipse Penumbra(1988), Eclipse Corona(1990); The Brigade(1982), Cellars(1982), In Darkness Waiting(1988; N-1989 LOC), A Splendid Chaos(1988) |
| |
Screens |
1989 APR |
nv |
has Traveler ser. as D.B. Drumm, Terminal Road(1986), etc; The Black Hole of Carcosa(1988, w. J. Michael Reaves); Wetbones(1992), Silicon Embrace(1996); colls. Heatseeker(1989), The Exploded Heart(1996), Black Butterflies(1998); website www.darkecho.com |
| Shockley, Gary W. |
Dr. Borg |
1999 MAY |
ss |
(1951?- ) born in Fort Wayne, IN; now lives in Palo Alto, CA; attended Clarion; has story "The Coming of the Goonga" in Damon Knight(ed): The Clarion Awards(1984) |
| Shore, Wilma |
Bulletin From the Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Research at Marmouth, Mass., A |
1964 AUG |
ss |
(1913- ) has coll. Women Should Be Allowed: A Verbatim Report on the Imbroglio Between the Sexes(1965), which has 12 stories, each based on a salient point between the sexws |
| |
Is It the End of the World? |
1972 MAR |
ss |
also has a short story, "Goodbye Amanda Jean," in GAL 1970 JUL |
| |
Podiatrist's Tale, The |
1977 APR |
ss |
has children's book Who in the Zoo?(1976), which was illus. by Joel Schick |
| Shultz, Henry |
Oreste |
1964 APR |
nv |
1st pub. in 1952, by the Univ. of New Mexico; former teacher at federal Indian schools in New Mexico, now Resident Head of Coulter(graduate) House at the Univ. of Chicago; has had stories pub. in ESQ, PST, Cosmopolitan, etc |
| Shunn, D. William |
From Our Point of View We Had Moved to the Left |
1993 FEB |
ss |
(1967- ) ps. for William Shunn(& has pub. fiction as such since 1998); his 1st professional short fiction sale; a documentation specialist at Wordperfect Corp. in Salt Lake City, NV; attended 1985 Clarion; has webpage at www.shunn.net/ |
| |
Kevin-17 |
1995 FEB |
ss |
won Honorable Mention, 1994 JWCA, for Best New Writer; short story "The Practical Ramifications of Interstellar Packet Loss" in SFAge 1998 SEP & novella "Dance of the Yellow-Breasted Luddites" in Datlow(ed): Vanishing Acts(2000), share the same future |
| |
Celestial Mechanics |
1996 MAR |
ss |
now lives in NYC; this story dedicated to "my pals & former colleagues at Folio Corporation, & to anyone who has ever worked on my car"; is working on a memoir of his two years spent as a Mormon missionary |
| Siegel, Larry |
Another Chance for Casey |
1950 DEC |
ss |
1st pub. in American Legion Magazine, in 1950; this story is reprinted in Marvin Kaye(ed): Haunted America(1991) |
| |
Dead-Eye Daniel |
1954 NOV |
ss |
has short story "How Not to Write a Best Seller" in PBY 1960 OCT, reprinted in Hugh M. Hefner(ed): The Bedside Playboy(1963) |
| Silverberg, Robert |
Warm Man |
1957 MAY |
ss |
(1936- ) this story is his 175th sale; 1st story pub. "Gorgon Planet" in NEB 1954 FEB; has BA degree from Columbia Univ.; has juvenile 1st novel Revolt on Alpha C(1955); W-1956 HUG, for Most Promising New Author; has novel The 13th Immortal(1957) |
