| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Thomas, Ted |
Science Springboard, The: Noise |
1967 DEC |
ar |
measures to prevent damage caused by undue noise |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Aperture in the Sky |
1968 FEB |
ar |
what radio telescopes have so far discovered |
| |
Tour, The |
1971 MAR |
ss |
|
| |
Rescuers, The |
1974 SEP |
nv |
|
| |
Family Man, The |
1978 MAR |
ss |
|
| Thomas, Theodore L. |
Intruder, The |
1961 FEB |
ss |
(1920- ) Theodore Lockard Thomas; 1st story pub. sf "The Revisitor" in SPM 1952 SEP & "The Improbable Profession" in ASF 1952 SEP(as by his ps. Leonard Lockhard, & with Charles L. Harness, the 1st story in his Patent Office spoofs series) |
| |
Test |
1962 APR |
vi |
has 8 stories in Patent Office spoof series, as by his ps. Leonard Lockhard & sometimes with Charles L. Harness(they are both patent attorneys): in ASF/ANA 1952-64 & in FUN 1955 NOV |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Our Fuzzy Moon |
1964 FEB |
ar |
possible geometry of the moon's surface - "in preparation for the possibility of man going to the there within ten years" - a fungral lunar reef?; also in F&SF in this column as Ted Thomas |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Pure Water From Salt |
1964 MAR |
ar |
desalination methods; has two novels with Kate Wilhelm, The Clone(FAN 1959 DEC as by himself; exp. 1965; N-1965 NEB), which was Wilhelm's 1st novel, & The Year of the Cloud(1970) |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Van Allen Belts |
1964 APR |
ar |
Van Allen radiation belts; has short story "The Doctor," in Knight(ed): Orbit 2(1967), N-1967 NEB |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Building of a Protein, The |
1964 MAY |
ar |
from M.I.T. "new clues on how the living cell makes protein" |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Medical Radiotracers |
1964 JUN |
ar |
using radioactive tracers in medical diagnosis |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Balloon Astronomy |
1964 JUL |
ar |
the use of balloons in astronomy |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Red Cells, The |
1964 AUG |
ar |
the red blood cell goes thru a life cycle, & is very fragile |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Carbonaceous Chondrites |
1964 SEP |
ar |
one of the three kinds of meteorites(other two types - aerolites & sideriolites), & one which may be made of carbon from living things |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Stomata |
1964 OCT |
ar |
the tiny pores in plant leaves used in respiration |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Plant Galls |
1964 DEC |
ar |
causes of plant galls |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Biolaser, The |
1965 JAN |
ar |
use of the laser as a microsurgery tool |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Placebo Effect, The |
1965 FEB |
ar |
research results on the placebo effect |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Low-Level Weather |
1965 MAR |
ar |
micrometeorology, study of the weather within a few hundred feet above the ground |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Ice Ages, The |
1965 APR |
ar |
study of core samples |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Phoenix |
1965 JUN |
ar |
composition of the gas giants Jupiter & Saturn; editor's note on p.89, readers' comments on this series is welcomed |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Computer Diagnosis |
1965 JUL |
ar |
computers in use in making medical diagnoses |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Crystal Surfaces |
1965 AUG |
ar |
observing & moving individual atoms on a surface |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Lunar Landing |
1965 SEP |
ar |
how the Surveyors soft-landed on the moon, how will manned rockets? |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Insect Attractant |
1965 NOV |
ar |
getting away from using chemical poisons to kill or control insects |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Smog |
1966 JAN |
ar |
the chemistry of smog; can additives to gasoline lessen the harmful compounds |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Desynchronosis |
1966 FEB |
ar |
jet lag |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Injected Memory |
1966 APR |
ar |
memory is a matter of chemistry, experiments in memory transfer; see also in this issue Philip K. Dick's story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," #2327, on this same subject |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Beamed Power |
1966 MAY |
ar |
"transmission of power by radiowaves" |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Migratory Locusts |
1966 JUN |
ar |
"the short-horned grasshopper gone wild ... by the press of" overpopulation |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Man in the Sea |
1966 JUL |
ar |
problems of deep-sea diving & submersibles, compressed air mixtures |
| |
Science Springboard, The: Meteoroid Collision |
1966 AUG |
ar |
possible collisions between spacecraft & meteoroids, meteoroid size & speed, how best to protect spacecraft |
| |
Splice, The |
1981 MAR |
nv |
|
| Thomas, Thomas T. |
Message Found in a Dram Block |
1989 JUN |
nv |
(1948- ) Thomas Thurston Thomas; has 1st novel The Doomsday Effect(1986, as Thomas Wren; W-1987 CCR; N-LOC), First Citizen(1987; N-1988 PRO), The Mask of Loki(1990, w. Zelazny), Me(1991), Crygender(1992), Flare(1992, w. Zelazny), Mars Plus(1994, w. Pohl) |
| Thompson, Jessie |
Snowfall |
1988 SEP |
ss |
1st sale; "I now live in northern California near the ocean, & though I love the warm fog & soft nights, I think about what it would be like to live closer to the real true edge again. To stick my tongue to frozen metal on a deal. To walk on booming ice." |
| |
Angelman |
1992 APR |
ss |
|
| Thompson, Joyce |
Synecdoche |
1992 AUG |
ss |
(1948- ) part of group of Seattle writers that incl. Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, this story written as admittance to a party held by Ann; has mainstream novels, Conscience Place(1984), Bones(1991); colls. 35-Cent Thrills(1978), East Is West of Here(1987) |
| Thurber, James |
If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox (Worlds of If: II.) |
1952 FEB |
vi |
(1894-1961) Worlds of If: Early Alternate Histories; 1st pub. in NYM, in 1930; writer & cartoonist; author of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"(1939; & in coll. My World—And Welcome To It), made into 1947 movie; has novel White Deer(1945) |
| |
Friend to Alexander, A |
1966 NOV |
ss |
1st pub. in NYM, 10 JAN 1942, & in coll. My World—And Welcome To It(1942); he's considered one of the 20th century's best humorists(Clute); has novel The Thirteen Clocks(1950), colls. Fables of Our Time(1940), Further Fables of Our Time(1956) |
| |
Interview With a Lemming |
1967 MAY |
vi |
1st pub. in PM, 3 MAR 1941; has fabulation The Wonderful O(1955 chap), in which "wordplay runs riot ... as monomaniac pirates excise the letter O from ... an island's language & life ('Otto Ott, when asked his name, could only stutter')"(Clute) |
| Thurston, Robert |
Carolyn's Laughter |
1972 JAN |
na |
(1936- ) a transplant doctor seeks help from the fiance of a multiple donor, when patients who have received the transplants, including a monkey who has the woman's hands, begin to have strange reactions |
| |
Hippie-Dip File, The |
1972 MAR |
ss |
1st story pub. "Stop Me Before I Tell More" in Knight(ed): Orbit 9(1971); has 1st novel Alicia II(1978), in which the brain of an old man is implanted into the body of a young "retread"(Clute) |
| |
Under Siege |
1974 JUL |
nv |
N-1975 LOC, nv; has novels A Set of Wheels(1983), Q Colony(in Silbersack & Schochet 1981 anth. The Berkley Showcase 4, as "The Oonaa Women"; exp. 1985), latter set in a research station on an alien planet whose natives can interbreed w. humans(Clute) |
| |
Dream by Number |
1975 SEP |
nv |
has TV tie-in Battlestar Galactica novels, w. Glen A. Larson, Battlestar Galactica(1978), #2: The Cylon Death Machine(1979), #3: The Tombs of Kobol(1979), #4: The Young Warriors(1980), #11: The Nightmare Machine(1985), #12: Die, Chameleon!(1986) |
| |
Aliens |
1976 DEC |
nv |
has 1 more Battlestar Galactica novel, #14: Surrender the Galactica!(1987); BattleTech tie-ins, Legend of the Jade Phoenix #1: Way of the Clans(1991), #2: Bloodname(1991), #3: Falcon Guard(1991); has novelization, Robot Jox(1989) |
| |
Mars Ship, The |
1977 JUN |
nv |
N-1978 LOC, novella; "despite the title, (story) takes place at a party & does not fall into any category"; "in a world where cryonics is overused, ... a floating monument called the Mars Ship may (help) some people resolve their personal problems" |
| Tiedemann, Mark W. |
Shattered Template |
1992 JUN |
ss |
(1955?- ) born & lives in St. Louis, MO, a commercial photographer; 1st story pub. "Target" in ASI 1990 DEC; has short story "Pulitzer Kills Publishing Maggot" in Greenberg & Friesner(ed): Alien Pregnant by Elvis(1994) |
| |
Playground Door, The |
1993 MAY |
ss |
has 1st novel, The New Isaac Asimov's Robot Mystery: Mirage(2000), & 2nd novel in Asimov's Robot ser., Asimov's Chimera(2001); sf novels Compass Reach(2001), about a person selected to be the alien's ambassador to Earth; thriller Realtime(2001) |
| |
Psyché |
1998 DEC |
ss |
this fantasy was inspired by a painting(bearing the same title) of a young woman gazing at herself—off-center—in a mirror; the artist, Berthe Morisot, an Impressionist, was married to the brother of the artist Manet |
