| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Wilson, Richard |
Love |
1952 JUN |
ss |
(1920-1987) has 1st story pub. sf "Retribution" in Science Adventure Stories 1938 OCT; also has stories "Murder from Mars" & "Stepsons of Mars" in AST 1940 APR, the latter story co-authored with C.M. Kornbluth, as by Ivar Towers |
| |
Don't Fence Me In |
1956 APR |
vi |
a founding member of the Futurians, director of the News Bureau of Syracuse University until he retired in 1982 |
| |
Lonely Road |
1956 SEP |
ss |
has 1st novel The Girls from Planet 5(1955), in which aliens comically invade the Earth; has two other novels with the same theme, And Then the Town Took Off(1960), & 30-Day Wonder(1960) |
| |
QRM |
1957 APR |
ss |
has biographical profiles in NWS 1957 JUL, & 1960 SEP |
| |
Venus Papers, The |
1958 MAR |
ss |
has colls. of sf satire Those Idiots from Earth(1957), & Time Out for Tomorrow(1962) |
| |
Eight Billion, The |
1965 JUL |
ss |
N-1965 NEB, short story; story title derived from O. Henry's The Four Million, & Meyer Berger's The Eight Million - topic, over-population |
| |
Day They Had the War, The |
1971 JUN |
ss |
has novelette "Mother to the World" in Damon Knight(ed): Orbit 3(1968), W-1968 NEB; N-1969 HUG; has novella "The Story Writer," in Destinies 1979 APR, was N-1979 NEB |
| |
See Me Safely Home |
1985 NOV |
ss |
has memoir Adventures in the Space Trade(1986 chap); story A Rat for a Friend(1986 chap); coll. The Kid from Ozone Park & Other Stories(1987 chap) |
| Wilson, Robert Charles |
Blue Gularis, The |
1985 JUL |
ss |
(1953- ) born in CA, now lives in Toronto; 1st story pub. sf "Eqinocturne" in ANA 1975 FEB, as by Bob Chuck Wilson; has 1st novel, A Hidden Place(1986; N-1986 DIC; 1987 ARR, LOC), in which aliens contact 2 young Americans in a small town in the 1930s |
| |
State of the Art |
1986 JAN |
ss |
N-1987 LOC, short story; has novels Memory Wire(1987; N-1988 & 1989 ARR), in which the protagonists make contact with a 'lost world' through dream stones; Gypsies(1989; N-1990 & 1991 ARR), deals w. children who can make contact w. parallel worlds(Clute) |
| |
Knight of Antiquity, A |
1986 JUL |
ss |
has novels The Divide(1990; N-1991 LOC; 1992 ARR), a character who contains 2 utterly distinct selves; A Bridge of Years(1991; N-1991 DIC), time travel tale; The Harvest(1992), aliens offer humanity immortality & wisdom(Clute); iv in SFC 1999 FEB/MAR |
| |
Ballads in ¾ Time |
1987 APR |
ss |
has novelette "The Perseids," in Hutchison(ed): Northern Frights 3(1995) & RoF 1995 DEC, W-1996 ARR; N-1996 NEB, WFA; has novel Mysterium(1994; W-1994 DIC; N-1995 ARR, HUG, LOC), about a small town that disappears from our world & appears in another(B&C) |
| |
Extras |
1987 DEC |
nv |
N-1988 LOC; has novels Darwinia(1998), "in 1912 ... all Europe is mysteriously replaced by a primeval forest"(LOC); Bios(1999), "involving the exploration of a lush but savagely hostile world called Isis"(LOC); coll. The Perseids(2000; N-2001 WFA) |
| Wilson, Robin |
To the Vector Belong ... |
1994 SEP |
ss |
(1928- ) "story is ... about familiar people whose world has grown weird on them & they come to realize it when a weird guy comes along ..."; also in F&SF as Robin Scott Wilson & as Robin Scott |
| |
Retired Men's Social Club & Ladies Auxiliary, The |
1996 FEB |
ss |
he is now President Emeritus & Trustee Professor at California State Univ. at Monterey Bay |
| |
Faster Than a Speeding Bullet |
1997 JAN |
ss |
has 1st mystery novel, Death by Degrees(1995), about a former CIA agent hired as a troubleshooter by a university president & finds himself trying to solve a murder |
| |
Thanks, Diaz |
1998 MAY |
ss |
has nf book Paragons: Twelve Science Fiction Writers Ply Their Craft(1996) |
| |
Grift of the Magellanae, The |
1999 MAR |
ss |
lives in Carmel, CA |
| Wilson, Robin Scott |
State of the Art, The |
1970 JUL |
ss |
(1928- ) also in F&SF under the working name Robin Scott, & as Robin Wilson; a doctor, & later the President of California State Univ.(Chico); 1st story pub. sf "Third Alternative" in ANA 1964 MAR |
| |
Gone Fishin' |
1970 OCT |
ss |
Wilson was the most influential founder of the Clarion Writers' Workshop, along with Damon Knight, etal, in Clarion, PA, in 1968; Clarion still operates today |
| |
For a While There, Herbert Marcuse, I Thought You Were Maybe Right About Alienation and Eros |
1972 JUL |
ss |
this story is considered by some to be one of his best works(Clute) |
| |
Pax Romana |
1973 JUN |
ss |
edited Clarion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from the Clarion Writers' Workshop(1971; N-1972 LOC), Clarion II(1972; N-1973 LOC), Clarion III(1973); retired from Clarion after the last anthology |
| |
Not a Red Cent |
1973 DEC |
ss |
edited Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader(1973; N-1974 LOC; 1989; 1996), in which writers discuss their own & others' stories in the anthology(Clute) |
| |
Greening of Mrs. Edmiston, The |
1987 JAN |
ss |
see interview in Starwind 1978 FLL |
| Wiltse, David |
Feeny's Trials |
1985 JAN |
ss |
(1940- ) lives in CT; ex-editor at Tennis Magazine; writer of plays, TV movie scripts Nightmare(1974), Revenge of the Stepford Wives(1980); has FBI agent John Becker mystery ser. Prayer for the Dead(1991), Into the Fire(1994), Blown Away(1996), etc |
| Winkler, Richard |
Afternoon in May, An |
1966 FEB |
ss |
1st pub. in Audience, 1959 SPR; has a short story "It's a Boy, Mr. Winstead" in Liberty Magazine 1941 SEP 13; has children's book, The Boy Who Saw an Alligator in His Bathtub(1961), illus. by Betty Cobb |
| Winslow, Thyra Samter |
Rudolph |
1955 SEP |
ss |
(1893-1961) 1st pub. in her coll. The Sex Without Sentiment(1954); has Broadway novel, Show Business(1926; vt Chorus Girl); colls. Picture Frames(1923; vt Window Panes, 1945), Blueberry Pie(1932), My Own Native Land(1935); nf Be Slim, Stay Slim(1955) |
| Winsor, Philip |
Mama |
1963 NOV |
vi |
(1938- ) Harvard grad., MA from Columbia Univ., a college textbook editor |
| Winston-Macauley, Marnie |
Perfect Solution, The |
1990 SEP |
nv |
(1949?- ) lives in NYC; former prison administrator, now a fulltime freelance writer; has nf books, Manspeak: What He Says and What He Really Means(1996), Men We Love to Hate(1996), The Ultimate Sex, Love & Romance Quiz Book II(1996) |
| Winter, Douglas E. |
Books |
1997 JUL |
br |
(1950- ) essay: vampires; Stephens(ed): Vampires, Wine & Roses; Shepard(ed): Classic Vampire Stories; Gladwell & Havoc(ed): Blood & Roses; Collins: A Dozen Black Roses; Aycliffe: The Lost; Monahan: The Bell Witch; Kimball: Undone; etc |
| |
Books |
1998 JAN |
br |
essay: cloning novels; Michael Marshall Smith: Spares; John Case(ps.): The Genesis Code; M. John Harrison: Signs of Life; Ballard: Cocaine Nights; Jonathan Coe: The House of Sleep; Wilson & Costello: Mirage; Mayra Montero: In the Palm of Darkness; 2 more |
| |
Books |
1998 MAY |
br |
essay: what Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin started; Levin: Son of Rosemary; Westlake: The Ax; Etchison: Double Edge, & Darkside; Tessier: Fog Heart; Atkins: Big Thunder; Wandrei: Don't Dream; Cave: The Door Below; Wagner: Exorcisms and Ecstasies |
| |
Books |
1998 SEP |
br |
essay: "the boundaries of horror are not easily circumscribed"; Otto Penzler(ed): Murder for Revenge; Whitley Strieber: Evenings with Demons: Stories from 30 Years; Bruno Schulz: Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass; David J. Schow: Crypt Orchids |
| |
Books |
1999 FEB |
br |
essay: religious doomsday books; Stephen Jay Gould: Questioning the Millennium; Richard Abane: End Times Visions; Tim La Haye & Jerry B. Jenkins: Left Behind; Peter & Paul Lalonde: Apocalypse; Larry Burkett: Solar Flare; Kenny Love: Millennium Eve |
| |
Books |
1999 JUL |
br |
Ann Arensberg: Incubus; Clive Barker: Galilee; Winter has horror anth. Black Wine(1986; N-1987 WFA), Night Visions 5(1988; N-1989 LOC), Prime Evil(1988; N-1989 LOC, WFA), Dark Visions(1990), Revelations(1997; vt Millennium, U.K.; N-1998 WFA) |
| Winter, Laurel |
Infinity Syrup |
1992 JUN |
ss |
her 1st professional fiction sale; grew up in the mountains of Montana, now lives in Rochester, MN; edited anth. of Minnesota writers, with C.J. Fosdick & Linda Essig, Blossoms and Blizzards(1986); has nf book, Minnesota Trivia(1990) |
| |
Negotiator, The |
1993 DEC |
ss |
wrote this story during an informal writers retreat in Wisconsin, first about aliens, then with an idea about a society with rigid rules about eating |
| |
Moon Garden Cookbook, The |
1994 FEB |
ss |
she wrote this story "after cooking dinner one evening, tired of the fact that my kids were such picky eaters" |
| |
Permanent Natural Boy |
1996 FEB |
ss |
writes fulltime, raises twin boys; "I was thinking about the point in some twins' lives when they begin to see themselves as separate beings. Then there was this idea about permanent paint ..." |
| |
Blood Harp |
1996 MAY |
nv |
N-1996 HOM, novelette; her 1st alternate world fantasy story for F&SF came from an idea after attending "a Rochester Symphony concert" |
| |
David's Ashes |
1997 MAR |
ss |
poetry editor of Tales of the Unaticipated(TotU) from issues #9 1991/1992 FLL/WIN, to #23 2002 APR-2003 APR; has editorials in TotU #14 1995-#23 2002/2003 |
| |
Tomorrow Tea |
1997 DEC |
ss |
has pub. over 35 pieces of short fiction between 1990-2002, almost half of which are poems; she has pub. in mags. F&SF, ASI, & TotU |
| |
Fighting Gravity |
1998 SEP |
ss |
enjoys painting; her long poem, "why goldfish shouldn't use power tools" in ASI 1997 DEC, W-1998 RHY |
| |
Sky Eyes |
1999 MAR |
nv |
W-1999 WFA, novella; N-1999 NEB, novelette; has 1st novel ya Growing Wings(2000; N-2001 LOC, MYT), about Linnet, an eleven-year old girl who suddenly one day begins to grow wings |
| Wisman, Ken |
Moses |
1976 NOV |
nv |
attended 1-year of graduate school at Univ. of Michigan; production editor in a large publishing house; writer of mostly fantasy & horror stories, has pub. over 60 stories thru 2001 in many mags. & anth. Shadows #10(1987), Heaven Sent(1995) |
| |
Peculiar Man, A |
1981 MAR |
ss |
see interviews in Midnight Zoo v.3 #12 1993 JAN, & in Vampire Dan's Story Emporium #4 1997 |
| |
Christmas Tree, The |
1986 JAN |
ss |
has coll. Frost on the Window(1995), of 14 Christmas stories; has fantasy novelette, Eden(2001 chap) |
| Wodehouse, P.G. |
Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court |
1952 OCT |
ss |
(1881-1975) 1st pub. in Liberty Magazine, 2 FEB 1929; from his Mulliner clan ser., 1st story in F&SF in ser.; Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, U.K. writer living in the U.S.; has 1st novel The Pothunters(1901); has Jeeves & Wooster characters in books & movies |
| |
Slice of Life, A |
1955 JUN |
ss |
1st pub. in Liberty Magazine, 7 AUG 1926, & in Meet Mr. Mulliner(1926); 2nd story in F&SF, Mulliner series; Wodehouse wrote lyrics for musicals, 1st for musical Sergeant Brue(1904); playwright, too, 1st play A Gentleman of Leisure, performed in 1911 |
| |
Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo |
1955 DEC |
ss |
1st pub. in ?; 3rd story in F&SF, Mulliner series; has novels The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England: A Tale of the Great Invasion(1909), Laughing Gas(1936); see website http://members.tripod.com/~WatkynBassett/pgw.htm |
