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| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Wade, Susan |
Convertible Coven, The |
1994 MAR |
ss |
(1955- ) lives in Austin, TX; has story "Pandora's Game" in New Pathways 1990 NOV; did the cover art for Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine, #17 1994; see her entry in CA, vol.171 |
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Intruders |
1995 JUL |
ss |
"story started to gell one evening when I ... saw the figure of a man inside my house ... the character who seemed to fit with him to make a story was Julia ..."; has pub. over 15 stories thru mid-2002 in RoF, AMZ, PLP, & in many of Ellen Datlow's anth. |
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Recent Vintage, A |
1997 MAY |
nv |
has 1st novel, Walking Rain(1996; N-EDG, for best paperback original), a mystery crime novel set in New Mexico, where a young woman inherits a small ranch, as well as an unresolved hate crime & family ghosts |
| Wagar, W. Warren |
Day of No-Judgment, The |
1986 APR |
nv |
(1932- ) 1st story in Ira Walker series; wn. for Walter Warren Wagar; history professor at State Univ. of New York(Binghampton); 1st story pub. sf "Heart's Desire" in ASI 1984 JUL; has books related to SF - H.G. Wells and the World State(1961) |
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President's Worm, The |
1986 SEP |
ss |
has SF-related books - H.G. Wells: Journalism and Prophecy, 1893-1946(coll. of essays, 1964), Terminal Visions: The Literature of Last Things(1982), A Short History of the Future(1989), latter a speculative history of the next 200 years told from 2200 AD |
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Night of No Joy, The |
1987 JUN |
nv |
2nd story in Ira Walker series; story concerned about an "effect" that begins as a series of anomalies, an upsurge in randomness that results in a world that is not quite the same |
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Time of No Troubles, The |
1988 DEC |
na |
3rd & last story in Ira Walker series; in this story a new "sanity" arrives, & the questions about the 'effect' & what has happened to the world begin to be answered |
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Husband of Puma St. Louis Desire, The |
1989 JUL |
nv |
has pub. 9 stories in mags. F&SF & ASI, and in anth. Pamela Sargent & Ian Watson(ed): Afterlives(1986), George Zebrowski(ed): Synergy 1(1987), & Carol Serling & Martin H. Greenberg(ed): Journeys to the Twilight Zone(1993) |
| Wagner, Karl Edward |
In the Pines |
1973 AUG |
nv |
(1945-1994) born in Knoxville, TN; has 1st novel & Kane ser. Darkness Weaves with Many Shades(1970), Death Angel's Shadow(1973), coll. The Book of Kane(1985); colls. In a Lonely Place(1983), Exorcisms and Ecstasies(1997); see obit in LOC 1994 NOV(#406) |
| Wainwright, Ruth Laura |
Mint, in d/j |
1954 JUN |
ss |
also has short story "Green Grew the Lasses" in GAL 1953 JUL |
| Wakefield, H.R. |
Professor Pownall's Oversight |
1950 SUM |
ss |
(1888-1964) 1st pub. in The Royal Magazine 1928 MAR, as "The Unseen Player"; working name for Herbert Russell Wakefield, U.K. writer noted for ghost stories; has coll. They Return at Evening(1928) |
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Gorge of the Churels, The |
1951 OCT |
ss |
has colls. Old Man's Beard(1929; vt Others Who Returned, 1929 US), Imagine a Man in a Box(1931), Ghost Stories(1932), A Ghostly Company(1935), The Clock Strikes Twelve(1940), Strayers from Sheol(1961), The Best Ghost Stories of ... (1978) |
| Waldo, Thayer |
Lunatick, The |
1974 MAR |
ss |
(1919- ) born in Paris, international correspondent, freelance writer for 30 years; has had stories in PST, HRP, Holiday, etc; lives in Mexico; see his Warren Commission testimony at www.jmasland.com/testimony/media/waldo.htm |
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Stillness at Sordera, A |
1976 MAR |
nv |
working on a book about U.S. policy in Latin America since WWII |
| Waldrop, Howard |
Five More SF Biopics We Don't Need (And the Spins and High Concepts That Will Be Put on Them) |
1998 JUL |
misc |
(1946- ) 1.What's It All About?; 2.Nobody Kicks Earth!; 3.That Bright Pink Light; 4.Go Ask Tip; 5.Of Time and the Miskatonic; 1st story pub. "Lunchbox" in ANA 1972 MAY; 1st novel w. Jake Saunders, The Texas-Israeli War: 1999(ss, GAL 1973 JUN; exp. 1974) |
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Mr. Goober's Show |
1998 SEP |
ss |
N-1999 LOC, short story; 1st pub. in Omni Online, 1998 MAR; has sf novel of time travel & parallel worlds, Them Bones(1984; N-1994 DIC; 1995 CCR, LOC); see iv's in LOC 1988 AUG, INZ 1991 OCT, Talebones 1995 FLL, Eidolon 1996 SPR; website at www.sff.net/ |
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Dynasters, Vol. I, The: On the Downs |
1999 OCT/NOV |
ss |
N-1999 WFA, shfi; 2000 LOC, ss; has na A Dozen Tough Jobs(1989); colls. Howard Who?(1986), All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past(1987; N-1988 LOC, STO), Strange Things in Close Up(1989), Night of the Cooters(1991; 1993), Going Home Again(1997) |
| Walker, Anne |
Oversight of Dirty-Jets Ryan, The |
1961 DEC |
ss |
ps. for Anne Gutterman; as Walker, has short story in "A Matter of Proportion" in ASF 1959 AUG |
| Walker, Paul |
Affair With a Lonesome Monster |
1972 JUN |
ss |
(1921- ) writer & critic; has book reviews in GAL 1977 NOV-1979 MAR; has 3 stories in GAL 1978 MAR, JUN, & NOV; book of interviews, Speaking of Science Fiction: The Paul Walker Interviews(1978); sf novel Who Killed Utopia?(1980) |
| Wallace, Floyd |
Privates All |
1961 SEP |
nv |
( ?-? ) also goes under the byline F.L. Wallace;1st story pub. sf "Hideaway" in ASF 1951 FEB; pub. many stories in GAL; has Australian coll. Worlds in Balance(1955), & novel Address: Centauri(1952 GAL APR as "Accidental Flight"; exp. 1955); also in VSF |
| Walling, William |
Rings on Her Fingers |
1970 SEP |
ss |
(1926- ) his 1st pub. story, but not his 1st sale - has already sold his 1st novel, No One Goes There Now(1971), about a human culture on a colony planet confronted by aliens who will not abide our games of violence(Clute); William Herbert Walling |
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Unsigned, The |
1971 APR |
ss |
Walling is an aerospace engineer |
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Sorrowful Host, The |
1971 DEC |
ss |
has novel "Earth, Air, Fire, and Water," with Stephen Nemeth, pub. in ANA 1974 FEB-APR |
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Devil We Know, The |
1973 JAN |
ss |
has novel, The World I Left Behind Me(1979), about Project Demeter & a race to achieve interstellar flight, against impossible odds |
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Triggerman |
1979 SEP |
nv |
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| Wallsten, Robert |
Punk's Progress |
1963 FEB |
ss |
(1912- ) former Broadway actor, WWII naval officer; N-1961 EDG, for Best Short Story, "Children of Alda Nuova," in EQMM; wrote 43 TV dramas, 6 plays, & many stories in popular mags.; had article "Shakespere on the Jungle Circuit" in COL 1944 DEC 9 |
| Walpole, Horace |
Saturnian Celia |
1957 APR |
vi |
(1717-1797) 1st pub. in The Letters of Horace Walpole(1903); U.K. writer, has novels The Castle of Otranto(1765), The Mysterious Mother(1768), coll. Hieroglyphic Tales(1785; 1981 ed. Gross); see Smith: Horace Walpole: Writer, Politician, Connoisseur(1967) |
| Walton, Bryce |
Midway, The |
1955 FEB |
ss |
(1918-1988) born in Blythedale, MO; lived in Hollywood, CA; was a combat correspondent for Leatherneck, covering Iwo Jima & Okinawa campaigns; scriptwriter for TV, incl. Captain Video & Alfred Hitchcock Presents |
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Contract, The |
1956 JUL |
ss |
1st story pub. "The Ultimate World" in PLS 1945 WIN; has novel Sons of the Ocean Deeps(1952), in which a failed space cadet gets a chance to mature in the benthos(Clute) |
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Peace Watchers, The |
1964 JUN |
ss |
won a 1961 award for best short story in EQMM |
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Final Exam |
1964 DEC |
ss |
has used ps. Paul Franklin & Dave Sands(latter for western stories, too) for mystery short stories; used ps. Kenneth O'Hara for 7 sf/f stories pub. between 1951-1958 in mags. STS, Orbit, FAN, MVL & IFS |
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Best Is Yet to Be, The |
1966 NOV |
ss |
has pub. over 80 stories, between 1945-1969, in IFS, EQMM, AHMM, PLS, STS, Dime Mystery, SSF, IMG, SFQ, Fear!, Jungle Stories, TWS, SSS, FAN, FUT, FUN, VSF, Orbit S.F., MVL, Vortex S.F., The Man from U.N.C.L.E. |
| Wanley, Nathaniel |
(Untitled) |
1951 DEC |
vi |
(1634-1680) an extract from The Wonders of the Little World, 1st pub. in 1678; a 1-paragraph filler; this book illustrates the extremes of human nature with anecdotes & specific individual examples |
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Two Magicians, The |
1952 FEB |
vi |
an extract from The Wonders of the Little World, 1st pub. in 1678; a 1-paragraph filler |
| Ward, Andrew |
Has-Been, The |
1974 AUG |
ss |
(1946- ) born in Chicago, raised in India, Greenwich, CT; attended Oberlin College & the Rhode Island School of Design; has suspense novel of India, Blood Seed(1985), nf Our Bones Are Scattered, the Cawnpore Massacres & the Indian Mutiny of 1857(1996) |
| Ward, Michael |
One Way Ticket to Elsewhere |
1981 SEP |
nv |
lives in Baton Rouge, just started a job in advertising; has short stories "Wednesday Night Group" in ASI 1984 APR, "Delta D and She" in Silverberg & Randall(ed): New Dimensions 12(1981), & "Daton and the Dead Things" in Sword and Sorceress #1(1984) |
| Wark, Jim |
Books |
1963 APR |
br |
Wallace West: Outposts in Space |
| Warner, Tori |
Think Snow |
1973 JUN |
ss |
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| Warren, Rosalind |
Messenger, The |
1987 JUN |
ss |
Rosalind A. Warren, her 1st pub. sf story; lives in Maine; has had work pub. in various mags. & anth.; edited books Women's Glib: A Collection of Women's Humor(1991), & Kitty Libber: Cat Cartoons by Women(1992) |
| Watkins, William Jon |
Inverse Universe |
1979 JAN |
pm |
(1942- ) Prof. of English at Brookdale Community College(NJ); has 1st sf novel Ecodeath(1972, w. Gene Snyder), Clickwhistle(1973), The God Machine(1973), What Rough Beast(1980), The Centrifugal Rickshaw Dancer(1985), The Last Deathship Off Antares(1989) |
| Watson, Billy |
Man Who Told Lies, The (Quintet: IV) |
1959 SEP |
vi |
4 of 5 vignettes: at least 1 written by a famous author, 1 by a 12 year old; answers 1959 OCT; this one, ps. for Theodore Sturgeon |
| Watson, Ian |
My Soul Swims in a Goldfish Bowl |
1978 APR |
ss |
(1943- ) from England, Oxford Univ. graduate; taught English at univ. in Tanzania(1965-67), Tokyo(1967-70), & at Birmingham Polytechnic(6 years); fulltime writer since 1976; 1st story pub. sf "Roof Garden Under Saturn" in NWS 1969 NOV |
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World Science Fiction Convention of 2080, The |
1980 OCT |
ss |
N-1981 BSF, short fiction; LOC, short story; has 1st novel The Embedding(1973; W-1975 Prix Apollo; N-1974 JWC; 1975 NEB), The Jonah Kit(1975; W-1978 BSF), the latter describes the imprinting of human consciousness into whales(Clute) |
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Nightmares |
1981 APR |
ss |
has novels Alien Embassy(1977), concerns the control of information & perception by the powers-that -be; The Martian Inca(1977; N-1978 LOC), in which a transformative virus invades Earth(Clute); Under Heaven's Bridge(1980), with Michael Bishop |
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Call of the Wild, The: Dog-Flea Version, The (with apologies to Jack London) |
1981 OCT |
ss |
has novels Miracle Visitors(1978), suggests that UFOs work as enticements to focus human attention on higher states of communication; God's World(1979), describes the 'gift' of an alien stardrive which will take a human team to the alien world(Clute) |
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Slow Birds |
1983 JUN |
nv |
N-1983 NEB; 1984 HUG, novelette; LOC, short story; has novel The Gardens of Delight(1980; N-1981 LOC), describes a world whose transformative energies makes its environment into a duplicate of the painting by Hieronymous Bosch(1460-1516)(Clute) |
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Black Current, The |
1983 NOV |
nv |
N-1984 LOC, novelette; 1st story in his Book of the River series; about a world split betw. East & West by a huge river, a mysterious alien creature that lives at midstream, & a young woman named Yaleen & her brother, who plan to make the first crossing |
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New Year's Eve at Tambimatu |
1983 DEC |
nv |
2nd story in his Book of the River ser.; this ser. to become the fixup novel The Book of the River(1984), part of the trilogy which also incl. The Book of the Stars(1984), The Book of Being(1985); assembled in omnibus The Books of the Black Current(1986) |
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Walk to Manhome, and Away, A |
1984 JAN |
nv |
3rd story in his Book of the River series; has novel Deathunter(1981; N1982 LOC), which suggests that humans give off a pheromone-like signal at death which attracts Death himself in the form of a moth-like insect(Clute) |
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Worm's Head, The |
1984 FEB |
nv |
4th & last story in his Book of the River series; has novels Chekhov's Journey(1983), which concerns the Tunguska explosion of 1908; Converts(1984), a comedy about evolution & the abuse of power; The Power(1987), a horror novel(Clute) |
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