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| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Springer, Sherwood |
Epitaph on Rigel XII |
1977 MAR |
pm |
has pub. sf short stories & poetry in TWS, FUN, Omni, ASI, Fantasy Book, & Cosmos SF&F Magazine, between 1952 & 1983 |
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Epitaph on Ceres |
1977 MAY |
pm |
Springer made a living as a professional stamp collector, writing ten editions of Springer's Handbook of North American Cinderella Stamps Including Taxpaid Revenues, between 1962 & 1985 |
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Epitaph to a Pedant |
1977 NOV |
pm |
see his obituary in LOC 2000 SEP(#476) |
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Epitaph to a Time Traveler |
1978 JUN |
pm |
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| St. Clair, Eric |
Too Many Bears |
1955 SEP |
ss |
1st pub. in 1949; ps. for George A. Pflaum, per Hawk's; husband of writer Margaret St. Clair; he is well known as a writer of children's stories |
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Motorman's Glove, The |
1956 APR |
ss |
1st pub. in 1949 |
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Olsen and the Gull |
1964 SEP |
ss |
a lab assistant in the Univ. of California Physics Department, at Berkeley |
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Dimensional Analysis and Mr. Furtescue |
1965 JAN |
ss |
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| St. Clair, Margaret |
World of Arlesia |
1950 WIN/SPR |
ss |
(1911-1995) born in Hutchinson, KS; earned an MA from the Univ. of California at Berkeley in 1932; 1st story pub. sf "Rocket to Limbo" in FAD 1946 NOV; has Oona and Jik series pub. in SSS & TWS(1947-49); also in F&SF under ps. Idris Seabright |
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Beaulieu |
1966 JAN |
ss |
has novels Agent of the Unknown(STS 1952 FEB as "Vulcan's Dolls"; 1956), The Green Queen(USF 1955 MAR as "Mistress of Viridis"; 1956), The Games of Neith(1960), Sign of the Labrys(1963), Message from the Eocene(1964), coll. Three Worlds of Futurity(1964) |
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Anthony Boucher |
1968 AUG |
obit |
a tribute to the late Anthony Boucher; St. Clair has novels Dolphins of Altair(1967), which is deeply concerned with ecological issues & is considered by some to be her best novel, & The Shadow People(1969); see her obit & appreciations in LOC 1996 MAR |
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Shadow of Horns, The |
1974 JUL |
ss |
has novel The Dancers of Noyo(1973), deals with androids, post-holocaust California, Native Americans & political oppression(Clute); colls. Change the Sky, and Other Stories(1974), The Best of ...(1985); see Gordon Benson: Margaret St. Clair(1986 chap) |
| Stableford, Brian |
Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady, The |
1988 AUG |
nv |
(1948- ) N-1989 LOC, nv; this story forms part of his novel The Empire of Fear(1988; N-1989 CLA, LOC), considered one of his best novels(Clute); 1st story pub. "Beyond Time's Aegis" in SCF 1965 w. Craig MacKintosh as by Brian Craig, a ps. B.S. uses |
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Invisible Worm, The |
1991 SEP |
nv |
N-1992 LOC, nv; has 1st novel Cradle of the Sun(1969); Dies Irae trilogy, The Days of Glory(1971), In the Kingdom of the Beasts(1971), Day of Wrath(1971); has Orfeo trilogy as Brian Craig, Zaragoz(1989), Plague Daemon(1990), Storm Warriors(1991) |
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Busy Dying |
1994 FEB |
nv |
story title from a 1965 Bob Dylan song, "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"; has colls. The Cosmic Perspective/Custer's Last Stand(1985), Sexual Chemistry(1991), Fables and Fantasies(1996); novel The Empire of Fear(1988; N-1989 CLA, LOC) |
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Pipes of Pan, The |
1997 JUN |
nv |
N-1998 LOC, nv; has David Lydyard trilogy, The Werewolves of London(1990; N-1991 LOC), The Angel of Pain(1991; N-1992 LOC), The Carnival of Destruction(1994; N-1995 LOC); Young Blood(1992), Firefly(1995), Chimera's Cradle(1997), Inherit the Earth(1998) |
| Stacey, Joseph C. |
Do You Know Your Elements? |
1963 JAN |
qz |
a matching quiz; answers on p.126; has had similar puzzles or quizes in FUT 1958 OCT, SFS 1958 NOV & 1959 NOV, in VSF 1969 AUG, & in ANA 1976 OCT |
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Atomic Terms |
1977 FEB |
pz |
anagrams of 15 atomic terms or words; answers on p.160 |
| Stanton, Will |
Barney |
1951 FEB |
vi |
(1918- ?) ps. for William Edward S. Hope; also used ps. Donald Dean, Bruce Denver, Frank Richards, & William Stanton |
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Pioneer, The |
1954 MAY |
ss |
1st pub. in COL, 15 NOV 1952; has pub. 7 short stories bewt. 1952-1961 in Colliers (COL), Ladies Home Journal, & The Saturday Evening Post (PST) |
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Girl in the Flaxen Convertible, The (Legends of War ... and Women: II) |
1954 OCT |
ss |
1st pub. in ESQ 1953 OCT |
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Last Present, The |
1956 AUG |
ss |
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Dodger Fan |
1957 JUN |
ss |
has also written mystery stories for EQMM |
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Over the River to What's-Her-Name's House |
1958 MAY |
ss |
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Who Is Going to Cut the Barber's Hair? |
1959 SEP |
ss |
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You Are With It! |
1961 DEC |
ss |
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Scarecrow of Tomorrow, The |
1962 JUN |
ss |
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Gumdrop King, The |
1962 AUG |
ss |
has novel The Golden Evenings of Summer(1971; vt Charley and the Angel, 1973), which was made into the 1973 movie Charley and the Angel, about growing up in the 1930s in the American mid-West; movie stars Fred MacMurray, Cloris Leachman, Kurt Russell |
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As Long As You're Here |
1963 JUL |
ss |
has book The Old Familiar Booby Traps of Home(1977) |
| Stapledon, Olaf |
Modern Magician, A |
1979 JUL |
ss |
(1886-1950) story found among his papers by wife Agnes, believes it was written betw. 1940-50; born in Wirral(Wales), educated at Balliol College; in WWI w. Friend's Ambulance Unit; PhD in Philosophy; 1st novel Last and First Men(1930), Star Maker(1937) |
| Starke |
Cartoon |
1958 MAY |
ct |
1st pub. in Punch, 20 APR 1953 |
| Starke, Henderson |
Dumb Supper |
1950 SUM |
ss |
(1925-1980) ps. for Kris Neville; also in F&SF under his own name, and with co-author R. Bretnor |
| Stearns, Barbara |
Having It |
1973 JUL |
ss |
(1940- ) her 1st pub. story; born in Chicago, works as a computer systems analyst with the Bureau of Customs |
| Stearns, Stephanie |
Altogether Peculiar Summer, An |
1977 MAR |
ss |
born & raised in Nebraska, now lives in Denver; has pub. work in The Denver Post, Fantasy and Terror, Eldritch Tales, Space & Time, & in several literary magazines; has coll. The Saga of the Sword that Sings and Other Realities(1981) |
| Steele, Allen |
Lost in the Shopping Mall |
1993 OCT/NOV |
nv |
(1958- ) born in Nashville, TN; now lives western MA; has BA in Communications from New England College, MA in Journalism from Univ. of Missouri; 1st story pub. "Live from the Mars Hotel" in ASI 1988 m-DEC; 1st novel Orbital Decay(1989; W-1990 LOC) |
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Shepherd Moon |
1994 JUN |
ss |
has novels Clarke County, Space(1990), Lunar Descent(1991), Labyrinth of Night(1992), The Jericho Iteration(1994), The Tranquility Alternative(1996), A King of Infinite Space(1997), etc; coll. Sex and Violence in Zero-G('99); see website at www.sfwa.org/ |
| Steele, Wilbur Daniel |
Bogey Man, The |
1958 OCT |
ss |
(1886-1970) born in Greensboro, NC; author of How Beautiful with Shoes, & Blue Murder; has colls. The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele(1946; 1976), Full Cargo: More Stories(1951; 1976); see book by Martin Bucco: Wilbur Daniel Steele(1972) |
| Steiber, Raymond |
Dry August |
1995 AUG |
ss |
has mystery novel A Man of Many Parts(1974); The High Castle: A Nineteen Twenties Adventure Novel(1986); has mystery short fiction series, retired French intelligence agent Lemereux, & also NYC P.I. Ben Marciano series, both in EQMM & AHMM |
| Stephens, James |
Threepenny Piece, The |
1951 JUN |
ss |
(1882-1950) 1st pub. in his coll. Here Are Ladies(1913); Irish poet, prose writer; has 1st book poetry coll. Insurrections(1909); 1st novel The Chairwoman's Daughter(1912), The Crock of Gold(1912), Deirdre(1923); poetry colls. Irish Fairy Tales(1920), etc |
| Sterba, Monica |
Cyprian's Room |
1967 MAY |
nv |
now living in Turkey; has had stories in HRP, & The Reporter |
| Sterling, Bruce |
Swarm |
1982 APR |
nv |
(1954- ) N-1982 NEB; 1983 HUG, LOC, nv; 1st story in F&SF in Shapers/Mechanist ser.; wn for Michael Bruce Sterling; works for Texas state govt. in Austin, TX; 1st story pub. sf "Man-Made Self" in Procter & Utley(ed): Lone Star Universe(1976); N-1978 JWCA |
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Spider Rose |
1982 AUG |
ss |
N-1983 HUG, LOC; 2nd & last story in F&SF in Shapers/Mechanist series; other stories in series in Terry Carr(ed): Universe 13(1983), INZ 1984 SPR, Omni 1984 JUN, & novel Schisamatrix(1985; N-1985 NEB; 1987 BSF); coll. in omnibus Schisamatrix Plus(1996) |
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Spook (for Rudy Rucker) |
1983 APR |
ss |
N-1984 LOC; has 1st novel Involution Ocean(1978), The Articial Kid(1980); Islands in the Net(1988; W-1989 JWC; N-DIT, HUG, LOC, SFC), a thriller about the complexities of 21st century politics & economy amidst the electronic communication network(Clute) |
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Telliamed |
1984 SEP |
ss |
edited his own fanzine, Cheap Truth(c. 1984-1986), & its representative anth., Mirrorshades(1986); has colls. Crystal Express(1989; N-1990 LOC), which incl. 5 stories in his Shapers/Mechanist series among its 12 stories; coll. Globalhead(1992; N-1993 LOC) |
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Our Neural Chernobyl |
1988 JUN |
ss |
N-1989 HUG, ss; has novel with William Gibson, The Difference Engine(1990; N-1991 NEB; 1992 AUR, BSF, JWC, LOC), the 1st part of which is derived from their short story "The Angel of Goliad" in INZ #40 1990, about an alternate world London |
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Hollywood Kremlin |
1990 OCT |
nv |
1st story in Leggy Starlitz ser.; another story in ser., "Are You for 86?" in coll. Globalhead(1992); has nf book The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Order on the Electronic Frontier(1992); see iv's in INZ #15 1986 & 1994 MAY, LOC 1988 MAY, 1991 MAY & 1996 MAY |
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Unthinkable, The |
1991 AUG |
ss |
has novel Heavy Weather(1994; N-1995 LOC), a Texas fringe civilization is in a world beset by an ecological disaster; Holy Fire(1996; N-1991 BSF, NEB; 1992 JWC, HUG, LOC), in 2095 a 93-year old woman decides to get rejuvenated to experience life anew(B&C) |
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Science: Outer Cyberspace |
1992 JUN |
ar |
"The conquest of space" track record; the space race, Space Shuttle, Space Station Freedom; how NASA thinks today; the future of space exploration will involve the evolution of "outer cyberspace" |
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Science: Buckymania |
1992 JUL |
ar |
element, carbon; fullerenes, discovered in 1985, the 4th kind of pure carbon; its properties, possible uses, kinds of compounds possible with it; buckyballs, buckybabies, buckytubes, fuzzyballs, etc; how common they really are |
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Science: Think of the Prestige |
1992 SEP |
ar |
space scientist turned international arms dealer Gerald Vincent Bull (1928-1990); from supersonic aerodynamics to the building of Iraq's "space cannon" |
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