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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1974 JAN |
Eisenstein, Phyllis |
Witch and the Well, The |
nv |
3rd story in her Alaric series; also in F&SF with her husband Alex |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Books |
br |
essay: code of sf book reviewers, "the word is the sole item judged & commented upon"; Kurt Vonnegut Jr: Breakfast of Champions; John Boyd: The Doomsday Gene; Doris Piserchia: Mister Justice; Harry Harrison & Leon E. Stoyer: Stonehenge |
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Boles, Paul Darcy |
Sled, The |
ss |
has novels The Mississippi Run(1977), Glory Day(1979) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Harrison, M. John |
Centauri Device, The |
nv |
1st & only story in F&SF in Capt. John Truck ser., was developed into novel The Centauri Device(1974); has Viriconium seq. novels The Pastel City(1971), A Storm of Wings(1980; N-1981 BFA), In Viriconium(1982; N-1983 BFA), coll. Viriconium Nights(1984) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Jesus With Jets |
mr/tvr |
Jesus Christ Superstar(1973), has same Tim Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber score as the Broadway play, stars Ted Neeley, Yvonne Elliman; Brother Sun, Sister Moon(1973 Italy-UK), dir. Franco Zeffirelli, has songs by Donovan |
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Berman, Ruth |
Board in the Other Direction, A |
ss |
Berman N-1973 JWCA, Best New Writer; has books A Case of Double Identity(1995), Dear Poppa: The World War II Berman Family Letters(1997), & Kerlan Awards in Cildren's Literature(2001); has collab. novel Autumn World(2001) |
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Roberts, Keith |
Beautiful One, The |
nv |
1st pub. in NWS #6 1973; has fixup novel The Inner Wheel(1970), which deals with a kind of gestalt superman theme(Clute); see interviews in Charles Platt: Dream Makers(1983), & in LOC 1986 SEP(#308) |
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Bishop, Michael |
Tigers of Hysteria Feed Only on Themselves, The |
ss |
has novels And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees(1976; vt Beneath the Shattered Moons, 1977), Stolen Faces(1977); has poetry coll. Windows & Mirrors: A Chapbook of Poetry to Deep South Con XV(1977 chap); coll. Blooded on Arachne(1982; N-1983 LOC) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Eclipse and I, The |
sces |
eclipses, Part 1 of 2; his viewing of a solar eclipse on June 30, 1973 off the coast of Africa; a discussion on eclipses; Part 2 in 1974 FEB(#3470); has nf colls. of essays Asimov on Astronomy(1974), Asimov on Chemistry(1974) |
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Coney, Michael G. |
Initiation of Akasa, The |
ss |
3rd & last story in Finistelle, or Donald Lackland series; has novels Syzygy(1973), The Hero of Downways(1973), Friends Come in Boxes(1973 fixup; rev. 1974 UK), the latter a grim account of an unorthodox solution to overpopulation(Clute) |
| 1974 FEB |
Wellen, Edward |
Mouthpiece |
na |
a 1935 gangster comes back to life in a Vietnam vet's college program and via telephone & computer connections, ruthlessly seeks to recover his fortune |
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Russ, Joanna |
Books |
br |
Thomas Disch(ed): Bad Moon Rising; Fredric Brown: Paradox Lost; Gordon Dickson: The Star Road; Marie Farca: Complex Man |
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Russ, Joanna |
Game of Vlet, A |
ss |
has 3rd novel, The Female Man(1975; N-1975 NEB; 1976 LOC; W-1995 TIP), which presents a series of four alternate worlds, in each of which a version of the central protagonist enacts a different life, all dovetailing as the plot progresses(Clute) |
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Bishop, Michael |
In Rubble, Pleading |
ss |
"... central incident is true. I heard it when I was a 9-year-old boy sitting in a barber shop in Mulvane, KS ... idea of tornados striking in a seemingly intelligent, premeditated manner came to me before 4 or 5 twisters (hit) Athens(GA)," where he lives |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
Delightful Comedic Premise, A |
ss |
has anth. Final Stage(1974; N-1975 & 1976 LOC; rev. 1975), with Edward L. Ferman |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Damn You, Harlan Ellison |
mr/tvr |
essay: "Why aren't there more good sf movies?"; The Starlost(1973-74, TV series, 16 ep.), initial script by Harlan Ellison, he rejects whole thing, which is why the credits say "created by Cordwainer Bird," stars Keir Dullea, Gay Rowan, Robin Ward |
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McIntyre, Vonda N. |
Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn, The |
ss |
(1948- ) N-1975 LOC; writer & geneticist; attended 1970 Clarion; 1st story pub. sf "Only at Night in" in Wilson(ed): Clarion(1971); 1st novel The Exile Waiting(1975); fixup novel Dreamsnake(ANA 1973 OCT, 1978 FEB, MAR; 1978) W-1978 NEB; 1979 HUG, LOC |
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Moore, Raylyn |
Shoes |
ss |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Dance of the Luminaries |
sces |
eclipses, Part 2 of 2; why there are so few solar eclipses, & how it was that the ancients could predict them; Part 1 in 1974 JAN(#3459) |
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Etchison, Dennis |
Graveyard Blues, The |
ss |
has colls. The Dark Country(1984), Red Dreams(1984), The Blood Kiss(1988; N-1989 LOC, STO, WFA); has novels Darkside(1986), Shadow Man(1993), California Gothic(1995), & Double Edge(1997) |
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Green, Joseph |
Star Is Born, A |
ss |
has novel The Horde(1976 Canada) |
| 1974 MAR |
Eklund, Gordon |
Beneath the Waves |
na |
concerns an enclave of merpeople and their efforts to convert an "upper" to their way of life |
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Panshin, Alexei & Cory |
Books |
br |
sf has grown; Williamson: H.G. Wells, Critic of Progress; Lowndes: Three Faces of S.F.; Le Guin: From Elfland to Poughkeepsie; Wertham: The World of Fanzines; Bretnor: S. F., Today and Tomorrow; Aldiss: Billion Year Spree, the True History of S.F.; 3 more |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Wolf, Gary K. |
Slammer |
ss |
(1941- ) industrial advertising writer; 1st story pub. sf "Love Story" in WOT 1970 WIN; has novels Killerbowl(1975), A Generation Removed(1977), latter a near-future society where the young have violently taken power, euthanasia among middle aged common |
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Killough, Lee |
Siren Garden, The |
ss |
(1942- ) 1st story in her artist colony Aventine series; working name for Karen Lee Killough; Chief Technologist at Dept. of Radiology, Kansas State Univ. Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital; 1st story pub. as "Caveat Emptor" in ASF 1970 MAY |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Where the Deer and the Androids Play |
mr/tvr |
essay: "why many sf movies seem inane to genre fans"; Westworld(1973), directorial debut & written by Michael Crichton, stars Richard Benjamin, Yul Brynner, James Brolin, has sequel Futureworld(1976) |
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Williams, Gregg |
Plastic and Practical Jokes |
ss |
2nd & last story in TABROT, or Tuesday Night Forum series; has book with Paul Dreyfus, The Unauthorized Strategy Guide to The Magic: The Gathering Card Game(1995) |
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Waldo, Thayer |
Lunatick, The |
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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Tushnet, Leonard |
Waves of Ecology |
ss |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Uneternal Atoms, The |
sces |
radioactivity, Part 1 of 3; radioactive elements & radioactive decay; Part 2 in 1974 APR(#3493), Part 3 in 1974 MAY(#3503) |
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Young, Robert F. |
Star of Stars, The |
nv |
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| 1974 APR |
Silverberg, Robert |
Born With the Dead |
na |
W-1975 LOC; N-1974 NEB; 1975 HUG, JUP; "about love & death & a kind of immortality," a new aristocracy of people rekindled after death, & the search by a "warm" human for his rekindled "dead" wife; "Hawksbill Station," GAL 1967 AUG, N-1967 NEB; 1968 HUG |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
Robert Silverberg |
bio |
R.S. "graduated from Columbia Univ. in 1956, having thruout his senior year sold to almost all of the sf mags ... made $200.00 a week out of sf before he was 21 ... over next 10 years pub. ~ 450 books & 3X as many mag. pieces ... sf 15% of his output" |
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Clareson, Thomas D. |
Robert Silverberg: Compleat Writer, The |
ar |
T.C. considers R.S.'s best novels to be Downward to Earth, Second Trip, Tower of Glass, Dying Inside; compares early stories which R.S. then expanded on; Clareson has nf books Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s(1984), Some Kind of Paradise(1986) |
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Tuck, Donald H. |
Robert Silverberg: Bibliography |
bib |
(1922- ) alphabetical listing of fiction books & stories, nf books, & anthologies; Tuck an Australian bibliographer & industrial manager; has sf nf books A Handbook of S. F. and Fantasy(1954), The Encyclopedia of S. F. and Fantasy(3 vols. 1974, '78, '83) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Brennan, Herbie |
Mammoth |
ss |
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Lanier, Sterling E. |
... No Traveler Returns |
ss |
has 2nd novel Hiero's Journey(1973), & its sequel The Unforsaken Hiero(1983), both assembled as Hiero Desteen(1984 omnibus), set in a post-holocaust world 5000 years after an atomic war, protagonist Hiero searching to help rebuild things(Clute) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Frankenstein Redux |
mr/tvr |
Frankenstein: The True Story(1973 two-part TV movie), script co-authored by Christopher Isherwood, stars James Mason, Michael Sarrazin as the Creature |
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Anver, M.R. |
Unto Us a Child |
ss |
Miriam R. Anver; 1st story pub. sf "Dragon's Teeth" in ANA 1969 MAY; "has doctor's degrees both in veterinary medicine & pathology ... currently ... an assistant professor ... medical faculty at the Univ. of Michigan" |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Particular Matter, A |
sces |
radioactivity, Part 2 of 3; the two chief methods of radioactive decay - emission of an alpha particle, & the emission of a beta particle; Part 1 in 1974 MAR(#3482), Part 3 in 1974 MAY(#3503) |
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Busby, F.M. |
Getting Home |
nv |
N-1975 LOC, novelette; 1st story pub. sf "A Gun for Grandfather" in FUT 1957 FLL; has coll. Getting Home(1987); Rissa seq. novels beginning w. Rissa Kerguelen(1976); has chapter "Fan Clubs" in Joe Sanders(ed): Science Fiction Fandom(1994) |
| 1974 MAY |
Asimov, Isaac |
— That Thou Art Mindful of Him! |
nv |
N-1975 HUG, LOC, novelette; 2nd of 2 stories in F&SF in his Susan Calvin/robot ser., again after her death, her ghost or influence lingers w. the robot company; to be pub. in Ferman & Malzberg(ed): Final Stage(1974), stories of classical sf themes |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Books |
br |
Malzberg: Herovit's World; essay: writers trying to break out of sci-fi author categorization; del Rey(ed): Best S. F. Stories of the Year; essay: "Best of Year" anth., how they used to mean something, analysis of 5 of them; lists his "eight top writers " |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Gotlieb, Phyllis |
Military Hospital, The |
ss |
1st pub. in David Helwig & Tom Marshall(ed): Fourteen Stories High(1971); has Starcats series of novels, A Judgement of Dragons(1980), Emperor, Swords, Pentacles(1982), Kingdom of the Cats(1985) |
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MacLennan, Phyllis |
Like Phoenix From the Ashes Newly Rise |
ss |
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