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| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Sterling, Bruce |
Science: Artificial Life |
1992 DEC |
ar |
artificial life; what is life, artificial life & intelligence; the basic principles of A-Life: bottom-up initiative, local control rather than global control, simple rules instead of complex ones, & emergent rather than pre-specified behavior |
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Science: Internet |
1993 FEB |
ar |
Internet evolution; how a 1964 RAND proposal to help "control of (a) ravaged society after a nuclear holocaust" turned into ARPANET which evolved into the Internet we know today; what TCP/IP stands for; "what does one do with the Internet?" |
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Science: Magnetic Vision |
1993 APR |
ar |
magnetic resonance imagery (MRI scans), their history & how it works; discovered & developed by Dr. Raymond Damadian; what the future holds for MRI's |
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Science: Superglue |
1993 JUN |
ar |
glue & superglue; the chemistry of adhesion & its growth into a major industry; the peculiar properties of superglue, cyanoacrylate, first discovered in 1942 |
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Science: "Creation Science" |
1993 AUG |
ar |
creationist & creation science; how creationists have battled scientists & evolution, their methods from 'gap theory' & 'day-age theory,' to the 'flood geology theory' of the present day; trying to understand the motivations & mindsets of creationists |
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Science: Robotica '93 |
1993 OCT/NOV |
ar |
robots, the state of robotics in 1993; term 'robot' first invented in 1921 by Czech playwright Karel Capek, for a stage drama; most common form of robot now is robotic arms, for 'Dirty, Dull & Dangerous jobs,' & for tele-communications |
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Science: Watching the Clouds |
1994 JAN |
ar |
clouds; what are they, how they form, & why they change; the classification system originated by Luke Howard(1772-1864), "the father of British meteorology", see 'cloudman.com'; the physics of cloud formation & precipitation |
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Science: Spires on the Skyline |
1994 MAR |
ar |
broadcast towers; what they do & why they look that way; from their types, their maintenance & their assorted arrays of antennae, to the governing bodies that regulate them |
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Science: New Cryptography, The |
1994 MAY |
ar |
cryptography, from Assyrian "funerary cryptography" to the "Caesar cypher," to Alan Turing & Claude Shannon in the 1940s, to the National Security Agency; why cryptography is labeled a munitions, & are digital cash of the cyber world |
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Science: Dead Collider, The |
1994 JUL |
ar |
Superconduction Super Collider(SSC); how the huge particle accelerator was first conceived(in August 1982), approved by Ronald Reagan(1986), construction started in Waxahachie, TX, then cancelled(October 1993); domestic, international, monetary battles |
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Science: Artificial Body, The |
1994 OCT/NOV |
ar |
artificial body parts industry, from the kidney dialysis machine to orthopedic prostheses & orthoses, artificial joints, hearts, to reconstructive implants; the essential properties of these parts, what they are made of, & what the future holds for them |
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Science: Bitter Resistance |
1995 FEB |
ar |
bacteria; the nature & characteristics of bacteria; how antibiotics were discovered, how they work, & bacterial defenses & reaction to them; ecotage; the possibility of the evolution of super-resistant bacteria, & the return to a world of deadly plagues |
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Littlest Jackal, The |
1996 MAR |
na |
N-1997 HUG, LOC, na; 2nd story in F&SF in Leggy Starlitz ser.; has Leggy Starlitz novel, Zeitgeist(2000); coll. A Good Old-Fashioned Future(1999; N-2000 LOC); see website at lonestar.texas.net/~dub/sterling.htm; see his iv's in LOC 2001 APR, INZ 2002 AUG |
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Maneki Neko |
1998 MAY |
ss |
W-1999 LOC; N-1999 HUG, NEB, ss; STU; 1st trans. & pub. in Hayakawa S.F.; has humorous near-future sf novel Distraction(1998; W-2000 CLA; N-1999 HUG, LOC), in which a Washington spin-doctor faces a powerful opponent in Louisiana(B&C) |
| Stern, Donnel |
Reunion |
1979 SEP |
ss |
(1949?- ) grew up in northwest & southern California, now lives in NY; Clarion graduate, has a PhD in Psychology; he & his wife are both psychologists |
| Stern, G.B. |
Gemini |
1955 JUL |
ss |
(1890-1973) 1st pub. in coll. Slower Judas(1929); Gladys Bronwyn Stern, wn. for Gladys Bronwyn Holdsworth; has series of novels on Rakonitz family, 1st The Matriarch(1924; 1987), sequel A Deputy Was King(1926; 1988); The Ugly Dachshund(1938; 2001) |
| Sternig, Larry |
Scrap Iron |
1951 JUN |
ss |
(1910-1999) 1st pub. in the pulp mag Fight Stories, in 1945 FLL; ps. for William Campbell Gault; Gault has PI Joe Puma series & PI Brock Callahan series; sold 1st fiction to pulps in 1936; non-ser. novels incl., The Dead Seed(1985), The Chicane War(1986) |
| Stevens, Barry |
Window to the Whirled |
1962 FEB |
nv |
(1902-1985) |
| Stevens, Julie |
Deathtreader, The |
1986 NOV |
ss |
Julie A. Stevens, legal aid attorney & writer; lives in Portland, OR; has been pub. since 1981 in ASI, SFAge, RoF, Whispers, Best of Omni, sf anth. Isaac Asimov's Voices of Tomorrow(1984), & in horror anth. by C.L. Grant(ed): Fears(1983), & Midnight(1985) |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Isle of Voices, The |
1953 JAN |
ss |
(1850-1894) 1st pub. in The National Observer, 4 FEB 1893; studied at Edinburgh Univ.; travelled extensively, settled in Samoa in 1890; suffered from tuberculosis; has novels Treasure Island(1882), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1886) |
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Something in It |
1966 OCT |
vi |
1st pub. in coll. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Fables(1896); has novel Kidnapped(1887), has colls. New Arabian Nights(1882), More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter(1885), The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables(1887) |
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Song of the Morrow, The |
1967 FEB |
ss |
1st pub. in his 1896 coll.; has colls. Island Night's Entertainments(1893), Tales and Fantasies(1905), Fables(1914), The Tales of Tusitala(1946), The Complete Shorter Fiction(1991); see H.M. Geduld: Definitive Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Companion(1983) |
| Stine, G. Harry |
Truth of the Matter, The |
1956 NOV |
ar |
(1928-1997) some classic rocket goofs; George Henry Stine, also in F&SF as Lee Correy; as Stine has Warbots seq., incl. Warbots(1988), Warbots #2: Operation Steel Band(1988), #3: The Bastaard Rebellion(1988), #4: Sierra Madre('85), etal; obit LOC 1997 DEC |
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Sputnik: One Reason Why We Lost |
1958 JAN |
ar |
how Russians beat the U.S. in the race to become 1st in space; has nf book Earth Satellites and the Race for Space Superiority(1957); as Correy has novels Shuttle Down(1981), Space Doctor(1981), Manna(1984), A Matter of Metalaw(1986); obit in LOC 1997 DEC |
| Straley, Rosalind |
Capsule |
1982 AUG |
vi |
(1951?- ) ps. for Elizabeth Morton; a medical texts production editor; has stories pub. in TWZ & AMZ as Morton |
| Strickland, Brad |
Herders of Grimm, The |
1984 APR |
nv |
(1947- ) working name for William Bradley Strickland; born in New Holland, GA; lives in Oakwood, GA; has AB, MA & 1976 PhD from Univ. of Georgia; taught at Truett-McConnell Junior College, 1976-85; 1st story pub. sf/f "Payment Deferred" in ASI 1982 MAY |
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Taker of Children, The |
1984 NOV |
nv |
his 1st pub. story a mystery, sold to EQMM in 1963; has 1st novel To Stand Beneath the Sun(1986), an sf adventure whose protagonist must come to terms with a world dominated by women(Clute); a Prof. of English at Gainesville College(GA), since 1987 |
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Pira |
1985 AUG |
ss |
has medical horror novels Shadowshow(1988), Children of the Knife(1990); has Jeremy Moon seq. Moon Dreams(1988), Nul's Quest(1989), & Wizard's Mole(1991), which conveys its protagonist into a dream world where he takes his stand(Clute) |
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In the Hour Before Dawn |
1986 AUG |
ss |
has completed ya fantasy adventures begun by the late John Bellairs, in his Lewis Barnavelt series, The Ghost in the Mirror(1993), The Vengeance of the Witch-Finder(1993), The Doom of the Haunted Opera(1995); alone, The Hand of the Necromancer(1996) |
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Oh Tin Man, Tin Man, There's No Place Like Home |
1987 MAY |
ss |
"I think (this story) will either please or enrage any reader who is also a movie buff," especially those who are fond of The Wizard of Oz; has ya novel Dragon's Plunder(1992); Ark Liberty(1992), as by Will Bradley; Riverworld seq. novel Hero's Coin(1993) |
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Caution Sign |
1988 MAY |
ss |
has completed ya fantasy novels begun by the late John Bellairs, in his Johnny Dixon series, The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie(1994); by himself, The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder(1997); see entry in C.A., vol.130, p.439-440 |
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What Dreams May Come |
1988 DEC |
ss |
has ya sf novels in the Star Trek Deep Space Nine series, The Star Ghost(1994), & Stowaways(1994); with wife Barbara Strickland, in the Star Trek Next Generation series, Starfall(1995), Nova Command(1995), & Starfleet Academy: Crisis on Vulcan(1996) |
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Her Wild Wild Eyes |
1991 APR |
nv |
has ya fantasies in John Bellairs Lewis Barnavelt series, The Specter from the Magician's Museum(1998), & in his Johnny Dixon series, The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost(1999) |
| Struther, Jan |
Ugly Sister |
1952 FEB |
ss |
(1901-1953) 1st pub. in The London Mercury 1935 DEC; ps. for Joyce Maxtone Graham; coll. of ar's from The London Times, Mrs. Miniver(1939; made into 1942 movie), movie made 2nd most money in 1940s after Gone With the Wind; poetry coll. Glass Blower(1940) |
| Struthers, Andrew |
Cartoon |
1991 DEC |
ct |
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Cartoon |
1992 MAR |
ct |
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Cartoon |
1992 MAY |
ct |
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Cartoon: Ghostwriters in the Sky |
1993 FEB |
ct |
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| Sturgeon, Robin |
Martian Mouse |
1962 SEP |
vi |
(1952- ) Theodore Sturgeon's son; for info on Sturgeon, his works & his family see websites http://glinda.Irsm.upenn.edu/~weeks/sturgeon/thshome.html & http://glinda.Irsm.upenn.edu/~weeks/misc/sturgeon.html |
| Sturgeon, Theodore |
Hurkle Is a Happy Beast, The |
1949 FLL |
ss |
(1918-1985) 1st story unofficial Bureau of Imaginary Zoology ser.(hurkle); ps. for Edward Hamilton Waldo(Sturgeon is his stepfather's surname); 1st story pub. "Heavy Insurance" in the Milwaukee Journal, 16 JUL 1938; 1st sf "Ether Breather" in ASF 1939 SEP |
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Silken-Swift, The |
1953 NOV |
nv |
has coll. Without Sorcery(1948); has novel The Dreaming Jewels(1950); fixup novel More Than Human(exp. from nv "Baby Is Three," GAL 1952 OCT, plus two new novellas; W-1954 IFA), depicts the coming together of 6 deeply alienated psi-powered freaks(Clute) |
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[Widget], The [Wadget], and Boff, The |
1955 NOV |
na-1/2 |
group of humans in Bittelman's boarding house, under Alien Observation; has colls. E Pluribus Unicorn(1953), A Way Home(1955), Caviar(1955); has used ps. E. Waldo Hunter & E. Hunter Waldo in UNK & ASF issues in which he has more than one story |
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[Widget], The [Wadget], and Boff, The |
1955 DEC |
na-2/2 |
has ss "A Saucer of Loneliness" in GAL 1953 FEB, which Algis Budrys says(br in F&SF 1976 MAY) is the most "modern" sf story of 1940s-50s, & is "based on a true incident reported in The Reader's Digest"; wrote Star Trek TV ep. "Amok Time" & "Shore Leave" |
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Fear Is a Business |
1956 AUG |
ss |
his ss, "A Saucer of Loneliness"(made into 1985 Twilight Zone ep.) is said by Budrys(br, F&SF 1976 MAY) to be similar to Eric Frank Russell's ss "I Am Nothing" in ASF 1952 JUL, both "highly creative" & "modern" for their time; also in F&SF as Billy Watson |
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And Now the News … |
1956 DEC |
ss |
has historical novel I, Libertine(1956) as by Frederick R. Ewing; detective novel The King and Four Queens(1956); novel The Cosmic Rape(GAL 1958 AUG as novella "To Marry Medusa"; exp. 1958), colls. A Touch of Strange(1958), Aliens 4(1959), Beyond(1960) |
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Touch of Strange, A |
1958 JAN |
ss |
has novel Venus Plus X(1960), N-1961 HUG; western movie novelization The Rare Breed(1966), & western coll. Sturgeon's West(1973); has non-sf study of a blood-drinking psychotic, Some of Your Blood(1961; 1994); coll. Sturgeon in Orbit(1964) |
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Man Who Lost the Sea, The |
1959 OCT |
ss |
N-1960 HUG, short fiction; has novelization of 1961 movie, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea(1961); has colls. ... And My Fear Is Great/Baby Is Three(1965), Starshine(1966); an Ellery Queen detection The Player on the Other Side(1963) as by E.Q. |
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Like Young |
1960 MAR |
ss |
has colls. The Joyous Invasions(1965 UK), Sturgeon Is Alive and Well ...(1971; N-1972 LOC), The Worlds of T. S.(1972), To Here and the Easel(1973 UK), Case and the Dreamer(1974), The Stars Are the Styx(1979; N-1980 LOC), The Golden Helix(1979) |
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When You Care, When You Love |
1962 SEP |
nv |
N-1963 HUG, short fiction; this story supposed to be the 1st part of a novel, but Sturgeon never completed it(Edward L. Ferman "has a dozen or so pages of an unpublished sequel, but that's as far as [Sturgeon] went"); Sturgeon W-1985 WFA, Lifetime Award |
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Man Who Learned Loving, The |
1969 OCT |
ss |
N-1969 NEB; 1st pub. in Adam in 1969 as "Brownshoes"; has colls. Visions and Venturers(1978), Maturity(1979), Alien Cargo(1984), & A Touch of Sturgeon(1987); story of his became TV ser. The Invaders ep. "The Betrayed"; wrote 1 ep. TV ser. Land of the Lost |
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