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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1974 MAY |
del Rey, Lester |
Dawn Rider, The |
ss |
has novels Preferred Risk(1955, w. Pohl under collab. ps. Edson McCann; 1980 as by themselves), Police Your Planet(SFA 1953 MAR-SEP as by Erik van Lhin; 1956; 1975 as del Rey & van Lhin), Pstalemate(1971); coll. The Early del Rey(1975); obit LOC 1993 JUN |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Zardoz |
mr/tvr |
Zardoz(1973 UK), written, produced & directed by John Boorman(of Deliverance fame), stars Sean Connery |
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Borski, Robert |
Trolls |
ss |
(1950- ) born & grew up in Stevens Point, WI; his 2nd sale; 1st story pub. "Kiss an Angel Good Morning" in Etchings & Odysseys #1 1973 |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: At Closest Range |
sces |
radioactivity, Part 3 of 3; tissue radioactivity, radioactive nuclides in the human body; Part 1 in 1974 MAR(#3482), Part 2 in 1974 APR(#3493) |
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Cox, Arthur Jean |
Straight Shooters Always Win |
na |
a contemporary cattle drive with western writer John Thomas Rokesmith(& under this ps. Cox appears in F&SF 1977 MAY) & western actor Tom Mix |
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Grant, C.L. |
Key to English, The |
ss |
has Parric series of post-holocaust novels The Shadow of Alpha(1976), Ascension(1977), Legion(1979), in which a balkanized U.S. is beset with petty dictators & crazed androids(Clute); has anth. Writing and Selling Science Fiction(1976) |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 7 |
cmp |
1st prize: Bob Leman; 2nd prize: Robert Stewart; R-U: William S. Gray; E. Hunt; Paul Shelton |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 8 |
cmp |
suggested by Roger Klorese - submit near-miss sf or f titles; e.g.: Aldiss: Barefoot in the Bathroom; Bradbury: I Sing the Body Battery-Powered; Herbert: Sand-Pile |
| 1974 JUN |
Pournelle, Jerry |
Enforcer |
nv |
(1933- ) PhDs from Univ. of Washington in Psychology(1960), Political Science(1964); former space scientist, political campaign manager; fulltime writer since 1969; 1st story pub. sf "Peace with Honor" in ASF 1971 MAY; has CoDominium seq., War World seq. |
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Wellen, Edward |
Thataway |
ss |
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Clute, John |
Books |
br |
(1940- ) Harry Harrison(ed): Astounding: John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology; Joseph Green: Conscience Interplanetary; Thomas Page: The Hephaestus Plague; Kit Reed: Mister Da V. and Other Stories; Clute from England, co-editor of INZ #1-9 |
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Aickman, Robert |
Clock Watcher, The |
nv |
1st pub. in Herbert van Thal(ed): The Bedside Book of Horror(1973); Aickman was N-1975 WFA, for Lifetime Achievement |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Miscellany |
mr/tvr |
the use of the term "sci-fi"; Zardoz update; quick round-up of some neglected films - Day of the Dolphin(1973); Fantastic Planet(1973 Czechoslovakia-France); Broken Sword(1969 Japan); The Exorcist(1973); Sleeper(1973); She(1935), & remake She(1965) |
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deFord, Miriam Allen |
Treyans Are Coming, The |
ss |
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Sargent, Pamela |
Bond and Free |
nv |
has fixup novel Cloned Lives(AMZ 1974 FEB, 2 anth. stories; 1976; N-1977 LOC), traces the lives of a number of clones(Clute); The Sudden Star(NWQ #3 1972 as "Julio 204"; exp. 1979; vt The White Death, 1980 UK), set in post-nuclear-holocaust Miami(Clute) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Double-ended Candle, The |
sces |
energy crisis of 1973 & American energy policy, Part 1 of 2; the limited energy resource, oil; Part 2 in 1974 JUL(#3530) |
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Tushnet, Leonard |
In the World of Magic |
ss |
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Lupoff, Richard A. |
Whatever Happened to Nick Neptune? |
nv |
N-1975 LOC, novelette; teaches an sf course for the inmates at San Quentin; edited books The Reader's Guide to Barsoom and Amtor(1963 chap), The Comic-Book Book(1973 w. Don Thompson); has novels Into the Aether(1974), The Triune Man(1976) |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 46: 1974 JAN-JUN |
indx |
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| 1974 JUL |
Lanier, Sterling E. |
Father's Tale, A |
nv |
N-1975 WFA, short fiction; 10th story in his Brigadier Ffellowes series; has novel Menace Under Marswood(1983), set on a terraformed Mars(Clute) |
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Barkin, Haskell |
Mr. Sperling Bugs Out |
ss |
(1934?- ) from California, political public relations writer; has had stories in PBY, EQMM |
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Zebrowski, George |
Books |
br |
Stanislaw Lem: The Invincible, & Memoirs Found in a Bathtub; Zebrowski has coll. The Monadic Universe(1977; exp. 1985); has Omega Point seq., incl. his 1st novel, The Omega Pont(1972), Ashes and Stars(1977), rev. w. 3rd part, The Omega Point Trilogy(1983) |
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Tritten, Larry |
Star Sneak, The (a Jack Vance parody) |
spf |
writer of much humorous sf; has 1st story pub. sf "West Is West" in IFS 1968 AUG; he has pub. over 45 short stories in genre mags. thru 2000, incl. Grue, PLP, Night Cry, WRT, TWZ, The Horror Show, AMZ, INZ, etc; by far he has pub. the most in F&SF |
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Thurston, Robert |
Under Siege |
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) |
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Coney, Michael G. |
Gateway to Now, The |
ss |
2nd story of 2 in John Maine series; has novels Winter's Children(1974 UK), Charisma(1975), Hello Summer, Goodbye(1975 U.K.; vt Rax, 1975 US; vt Pallahaxi Tide, 1990 Canada), the latter a story of adolescent love in an alien environment(Clute) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Mickey Who? |
mr/tvr |
reviews a book on films, Christopher Finch: The Art of Walt Disney(1973); brief mention - This Island Earth(1954), based on story by Raymond F. Jones, "The Alien Machine" in TWS 1949 JUN, stars Jeff Morrow |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
Twenty Sixty-one |
ss |
has novels The Destruction of the Temple(1974; N-1975 LOC), On a Planet Alien(1974), The Sodom and Gomorrah Business(1974), Conversations(1974); colls. Out from Ganymede(1974), The Many Worlds of Barry Malzberg(1975) |
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Runyon, Charles W. |
Once There Were Cows |
nv |
a freelance writer, he has pub. 30 books in 14 years; has 1st sf novels Pig World(1971); sf novel Ames Holbrook, Deity(1972), about cured illnesses & eternal life |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: As Easy As Two Plus Three |
sces |
energy crisis of 1973 & American energy policy, Part 2 of 2; alternatives to oil includes fusion energy; Part 1 in 1974 JUN(#3516) |
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St. Clair, Margaret |
Shadow of Horns, The |
ss |
has novel The Dancers of Noyo(1973), deals with androids, post-holocaust California, Native Americans & political oppression(Clute); colls. Change the Sky, and Other Stories(1974), The Best of ...(1985); see Gordon Benson: Margaret St. Clair(1986 chap) |
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Jacobs, Harvey |
Dress Rehearsal |
ss |
has coll. The Egg of the Glak and Other Stories(1969) |
| 1974 AUG |
Eklund, Gordon |
Treasure in the Treasure House, The |
nv |
expanded Poul Anderson's short story "Incomplete Superman" in FUT 1951 MAR into novel Inheritors of Earth(1974, as with Poul Anderson) |
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McLaughlin, Dean |
West of Scranton and Beyond the Dreams of Avarice |
nv |
has novella "Mark on the World," in ANA 1992 JUL, was N-1993 HUG |
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Coleman, Sidney |
Books |
br |
Roger Zelazny: To Die in Italbar; Larry Niven: Protector; short reviews - H.W. Hall: Science Fiction Book Review Index, Vol.3, 1972; Robert Reginald & M.R. Burgess(ed): Cumulative Paperback Index, 1939-1959 |
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Etchison, Dennis |
Drop City |
nv |
has short story "The Olympic Runner" in Fantasy Tales #16 1986, W-1987 BFA; has anth. MetaHorror(1992; W-1993 WFA, Best Anthology); was genre consultant for the horror comedy movie Night Life(1989), which was banned in Germany |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
has book The Bang Bang Family(1974) |
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Ward, Andrew |
Has-Been, The |
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) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Sinbad, Shamans and a Strangler |
mr/tvr |
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad(1974 UK), stars John Phillip Law; Hex(1973), stars Keith Carradine; The Night Strangler(1972 TV), screenplay by Richard Matheson, stars Darren McGavin, Jo Ann Pflug |
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Varley, John |
Picnic on Nearside |
nv |
(1947- ) his 1st pub. sf story, "was soon thought to be the most significant new writer of the 1970s"(Clute); has "The Barbie Murders" in ASI 1978 JAN/FEB W-1979 LOC; N-1979 HUG, & "Blue Champagne" in Martin(ed): New Voices 4(1981) W-1982 LOC; N-1982 HUG |
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Effinger, Geo. Alec |
Curtains |
ss |
has coll. of early stories, Mixed Feelings(1974), fixup novel Relatives(1973; N-1974 LOC); has novelizations from The Planet of the Apes TV series, Man the Fugitive(1974), Escape to Tomorrow(1975), Journey Into Terror(1975), & Lord of the Apes(1976) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Updating the Asteroids |
sces |
asteroids, Earth-grazing or Apollo objects; a sequel to "The Rocks of Damocles" in 1966 MAR(#2324) |
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Bretnor, R. |
Markham |
ss |
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| 1974 SEP |
Wellman, Manly Wade |
Goodman's Place |
ss |
2nd story in F&SF in Southern Appalachia series; this series coll. in The Valley So Low: Southern Mountain Tales(1987); has colls. Worse Things Waiting(1973; W-1975 WFA); wrote DC Comics The Spirit comics during WWII, which are being reprinted 2001-2002 |
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Thomas, Ted |
Rescuers, The |
nv |
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Clute, John |
Books |
br |
space opera; Donald Barr: Space Relations; Harry Harrison: Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers; Oscar Rossiter: Tetrasomy Two; Mack Reynolds: Commune 2000 AD; Simak: Our Children's Children; Clute's 1st story pub. sf "A Man Must Die" in NWS 1966 NOV |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Eisenberg, Larry |
Elephants Sometimes Forget |
ss |
3rd story in F&SF in Emmett Duckworth series |
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Reamy, Tom |
Twilla |
nv |
(1935-1977) N-1974 NEB, nv; wn. for Thomas Earl Reamy, his 1st pub. story; in aerospace until he got laid off; worked on porno films in L.A., incl. Flesh Gordon(1972); W-1976 JWCA, Best New Writer; edited fanzines Nickelodeon(w. Ken Keller), Trumpet #1-12 |
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