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| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| West, Michelle |
Musing on Books |
1997 SEP |
br |
William Browning Spencer: Zod Wallop; essay: "I react to books the same way I react to people ... there are books that I trust ..."; Tad Williams: Otherland: City of Golden Shadow; Terry Pratchett: Interesting Times |
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Musing on Books |
1998 JAN |
br |
essay: Robin McKinley's novels; Robin McKinley: Rose Daughter; Sharon Shinn: Jovah's Angel; Will Shetterly: Dogland; as Sagara, also in The Sundered series, Lady of Mercy(1993), & Chains of Darkness, Chains of Light(1994) |
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Musing on Books |
1998 MAR |
br |
Mary Doria Russell: The Sparrow; Kate Elliott: Prince of Dogs; Terry Pratchett: Maskerade; as M.W., has Sacred Hunt fantasy series, Hunter's Oath(1995), & Hunter's Death(1996), set in a kingdom where hunters must annually their god's prey(B&C) |
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Musing on Books |
1998 JUL |
br |
essay: Sean Stewart's fiction; Sean Stewart: The Night Watch; Mary Doria Russell: Children of God; Richard Grant: In the Land of Winter; as M.W., has The Sun Sword fantasy series, set in the same world as the Sacred Hunt series, The Broken Crown(1997) |
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Musing on Books |
1998 DEC |
br |
essay: books about gender issues; Carolyn Ives Gilman: Halfway Human; James Alan Gardner: Commitment Hour; as M.W., also in The Sun Sword series, The Uncrowned King(1998), The Shining Court(1999); she lives in Toronto |
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Musing on Books |
1999 APR |
br |
Michael Hale: A Fold in the Tent of the Sky; Steven Brust: Dragon; Terry Pratchett: Hogfather; see Michelle West's entry in CA, vol.180, p.362-363, as Michelle Sagara; she has novel w. Mark Kreighbaum & John Helfers, Tad William's Mirrorworld(1998) |
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Musing on Books |
1999 AUG |
br |
essay: round-up of recent ya titles; Jane Yolen & Bruce Coville: Armageddon Summer; Sonia Levitin: The Cure; Philip Pullman: Clockwork; Vivian Vande Velde: Never Trust a Dead Man |
| Westlake, Donald E. |
Hydra |
1984 MAR |
ss |
(1933- ) in F&SF as ps. Curt Clark, & w. co-author Larry M. Harris; famous mystery writer, 1st story pub. sf "Or Give Me Death" in USF 1954 NOV; has sf novel Anarchaos(1967), as Curt Clark; coll. The Curious Facts Preceding My Execution ...(1968) |
| What, Leslie |
Clinging to a Thread |
1994 APR |
ss |
(1955- ) born in L.A.; lives in Eugene, OR; her mother a survivor of WWII's Riga Ghetto; Leslie has a poem in Marguerite M. Striar(ed): Beyond Lament: Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust(1998); has humor column "Say What" in Eugene Weekly |
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Designated Hater |
1994 MAY |
ss |
1976 Clarion graduate, her 1st pub. story was "King for a Day" in ASI 1992 SEP; prev. was a maskmaker & puppetmaker, does a fair amount of performance art- see her website www.sff.net/people/leslie.what, incl. her multi-media art "Jell-O Zen Garden" |
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Compatibility Clause |
1995 JAN |
ss |
has her 1st coll., Sweet and Sour Tongue(2000), stories that examine "traditional & nontraditional takes on Jewish life"; historical romance Nice Girls Do(2001), as by Leslie Joyce, "about a (WWII) young couple working in the Resistance in Nice, France" |
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Uncle Gorby and the Baggage Ghost |
1996 MAR |
ss |
about story, "My father's death made me feel as if the one resource I needed was locked away ... I wonder if ghosts aren't reference materials, accessed by memory, imagination, & wishful thinking"; ghost-edited a book of poetry by at-risk youths |
| Wheeler, Deborah |
Madrelita |
1992 FEB |
nv |
(1947- ) N-1993 LOC; 1st story in West City ser.; born in Queens, NY; lives in Mar Vista, CA; has 1968 BA from Reed College, 1973 MS from Portland State Univ.; was Dean of Pasadena College of Chiropractic; has master's rank in kung fu san soo |
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Javier, Dying in the Land of Flowers |
1996 JAN |
nv |
N-1996 NEB, nv; 2nd & last story in West City ser.; has 1st novel Jaydium(1993), in which 2 miners on a remote planet are accidentally shot back in time to an earlier time in their culture; Northlight(1995), where colonists have forgone technology(B&C) |
| Wheeler, Mark |
Life on the Tether |
1983 AUG |
nv |
N-1984 LOC, novelette; from England, not far from Arthur C. Clarke's hometown of Minehead, Somerset |
| White, Don |
Twenty-Four Hours in a Princess's Life, with Frogs |
1962 OCT |
vi |
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Peggy and Peter Go to the Moon |
1963 FEB |
vi |
from London |
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Watch the Bug-Eyed Monster |
1963 MAY |
ss |
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| White, E.B. |
Hour of Letdown, The |
1952 AUG |
ss |
(1899-1985) 1st pub. in NYM, 22 DEC 1951; working name for Elwyn Brooks White; NYM's Talk of the Town columnist; wrote Stuart Little(1945; 1999 movie), Charlotte's Web(1952; 1973 movie); see website www.kirjasto.sci.fi//ebwhite.htm |
| White, James |
Christmas Treason |
1962 JAN |
nv |
(1928-1999) U.K. writer from Ulster; 1st story pub. sf "Assisted Passage" in NWS 1953 JAN; best known for his Sector General series, about galactic medicine, pub. mainly in NWS; in ser. coll. Hospital Station(1962), novel Star Surgeon(1963) |
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Counter Security |
1963 FEB |
nv |
chief salesman in tailoring department of the largest department store in Belfast, Northern Ireland; has 1st novel The Secret Visitors(1957); Second Ending(1962; N-1962 HUG), All Judgement Fled(1968), colls. Deadly Litter(1964), Monsters and Medics(1977) |
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Fast Trip |
1963 APR |
nv |
has novels Open Prison(1965; vt The Escape Orbit, US; N-1965 NEB), The Watch Below(1966; basis 1981 movie Goliath Awaits), Tomorrow Is Too Far(1971), Dark Inferno(1972; vt Lifeboat, US), The Dream Millennium(1974), Underkill (1979), Double Contact(1998) |
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Interpreters, The |
1987 MAR |
ss |
an extract from his novel, The Interpreters(1985)?; has many Sector General ser. books, incl. Ambulance Ship(1979 fixup), Code Blue—Emergency!(1987), Mind Changer(1998); has coll. The White Papers(1996); see iv's in LOC 1984 JUN(#281), & 1993 MAR(#386) |
| White, Robert |
Natural Selection |
1988 AUG |
ss |
(1941?- ) his 1st sale; works as a literary agent |
| White, Ted |
Books |
1964 NOV |
br |
(1938- ) reviews Andre Norton: Night of Masks; working name for Theodore Edwin White, assistant editor of F&SF from 1963-68; later editor of AMZ & FAN from 1969-78, Heavy Metal from 1979-80, & Stardate from 1985-86 |
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Books |
1965 AUG |
br |
Donald A. Wollheim & Terry Carr(ed): World's Best Science Fiction: 1965; White's 1st story pub. "Phoenix" in AMZ 1963 FEB, which became part of a fixup novel, Phoenix Prime(1966), the first in his Qanar sequence |
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Editorial |
1966 FEB |
ed |
Part 1 of 2, "The Slush Pile," where new writers come from; e.g. Larry Niven, over a dozen stories rejected by F&SF before "Becalmed in Hell"(1965 JUL, #2229) was "enthusiastically bought"; rules for submission; Tom Disch also mentioned |
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Editorial |
1966 MAR |
ed |
Part 2 of 2, "The Slush Pile"; only "1 out of 500 stories among the 'slush pile' ... will make it into print" in F&SF; why stories get rejected, what is a suitable story?; White has anth. The Best from Amazing Stories(1973), The Best from Fantastic(1973) |
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Books |
1967 OCT |
br |
Gordon R. Dickson: The Space Swimmers; Arthur Sellings: The Uncensored Man; also in White's Qanar sequence, novels The Sorceress of Qar(1966), Star Wolf!(1971); has 1st novel Invasion from 2500(1964), novel Lost in Space(1967, TV tie-in, as Ron Archer) |
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Wednesday, Noon |
1968 FEB |
ss |
1st & only story in F&SF in private detective Ronald Archer series, only other story in series in FAN 1969 OCT; has novels Android Avenger(1965), sequel The Spawn of the Death Machine(1968), juvenile The Secret of the Marauder Satellite(1967) |
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Books |
1968 OCT |
br |
Alexei Panshin: Heinlein in Dimension; White has novels The Jewels of Elsewhen(1967), Sideslip(1968, w. Dave Van Arnam), No Time Like Tomorrow(1969), By Furies Possessed(1970), juvenile Trouble on Project Ceres(1971), etc |
| White, William Chapman |
Literate Monster, The |
1957 JUL |
vi |
(1903-1955) 1st pub. in the New York Herald Tribune, in 1954; has columns in the Tribune & NYT, coll. in Forever Wild: Adirondack Country(1954), Just About Everything on the Adirondacks(1960); novel The Pale Blonde of Sands Street(1946) |
| Whitehill, Joseph |
In the House, Another |
1960 APR |
vi |
(1909?-1990?) engineer & writer; has a short story, "Marshmallow World," in ASF 1954 APR; coll. Able Baker and Others(1957), the title story won a 1956 O. Henry Prize Award, & two others won EQMM annual awards |
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Doctor Royker's Experiment |
1960 SEP |
ss |
has 1st novel The Angers of Spring(1959; vt The Way Up, 1960), about electrical engineers & the women they want but do not understand; 2nd novel Precious Little(1967), about 6 scientist on an oceanographic study being stranded on a Pacific island |
| Whitley, George |
Second Meeting |
1950 FLL |
ss |
(1912-1984) 1st pub. in Town & Country, in 1948; ps. for A. Bertram Chandler(& in F&SF as such), merchant seaman in the British Navy; has used this ps. for 22 sf/f stories in mags. NWS, FFM, WRT, AMZ, FUN, SFA, SCF, SSF, PLS, TWS & STS |
| Whitlock, Dean |
Million-Dollar Wound, The |
1987 JAN |
ss |
(1950?- ) his 1st pub. story; lives in Vermont, has been a journalist & a technical writer |
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Miriam, Messiah |
1988 JAN |
nv |
Whitlock wrote 15 sf/f short stories, between 1987-1995, in the mags. GEO, ASI, F&SF, ABO, & The Gate |
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All or Nothing |
1989 FEB |
ss |
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Fax Man, The |
1990 SEP |
ss |
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On the Death of Daniel |
1991 MAR |
ss |
has a short story, "Waiting for the Girl from California," in Steven-Elliot Altman & Patrick Merla(ed): The Touch(2000), an anth. whose proceeds went to benefit AIDS & cancer reasearch |
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Woman, the Pilot, the Raven, The |
1991 AUG |
ss |
"story about AIDS & Death ... set in the mountains of eastern US, again a familiar but exotic locale (in the soul this time)" |
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Man Who Loved Kites, The |
1991 DEC |
nv |
says "I became a kite aficionado over the summer, & was inspired to write this tale. The main events are taken from Chinese oral tradition & written history ... have jumbled together some actual names from (them) to provide monikers for my characters" |
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Three Gifts |
1995 FEB |
nv |
this story evolved over several beach vacations, "My reverence for the sea started me thinking in terms of religion, faith, & miracles" |
| Whitten, William |
About the Artist |
1981 JUL |
bio |
one-page profile on this issue's cover artist, Kent Bash, born in 1946 in Culver City, CA; has done portraits of famous people, such as Sophia Loren, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, & Harlan Ellison; also does cover & interior artwork for books |
| Whyte, H.W. |
Non Sub Homine |
1975 JUN |
ss |
(1940-1991) ps. for Henry Walter Weiss; 1965 law degree graduate from Harvard Univ.; first an estate lawyer, then in private practice in NJ; Barry N. Malzberg's "Understanding Entropy"(SFAge 1994 JUL; N-1994 NEB; 1995 HUG, LOC, SFC) was written for him |
| Wightman, Wayne |
Condemned, a Kiss, and Sleep |
1982 DEC |
nv |
(1946- ) teaches creative writing at Modesto(CA) Junior College; 1st story pub. sf "Do Unto Others" in AMZ 1980 FEB; "spends lots of time listening to Haydn while I'm in the kitchen teaching myself to cook ..." |
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Skin Disguise, The |
1984 JUN |
ss |
born & raised in Missouri, has lived in California since the 1960s; has Gorman Rimley ser. of stories, "Metamind" in AMZ 1980 AUG, "Evening Promenade" in FAN 1980 OCT, & "The Semi-Happy Life of Gorman Rimley" in AMZ 1981 MAR |
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Ganglion |
1984 AUG |
nv |
1st story in his Tarassis Psychonauts series, set in a station deep in space in which a team of psychonauts are probing into alien minds; Wightman says this story grew from his respect for the work of Philip K. Dick |
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Tensor of Desire, The |
1985 MAY |
na |
2nd & last story in his Tarassis Psychonauts series; in a station deep in space, a team of psychonauts are probing into alien minds |
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Great Wall, The |
1985 SEP |
ss |
N-1986 LOC, short story |
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