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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1974 SEP |
Bishop, Michael |
Cathadonian Odyssey |
nv |
N-1975 HUG, LOC, short story; has Urban Nucleus ser., A Little Knowledge(1977; N-1978 LOC), Catacomb Years(1979 fixup; N-1980 LOC), Under Heaven's Bridge(1980, w. Ian Watson), a near-future domed Atlanta is ruled by a repressive regime, confronts aliens |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Earthtrek |
mr/tvr |
Planet Earth(1974 TV), a sequel to Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II(1973 TV), stars John Saxon |
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Grant, C.L. |
Rest Is Silence, The |
nv |
N-1974 NEB, novelette; has novelette "A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye," in Edward L. Ferman & Barry N. Malzberg(ed): Graven Images(1977), which W-1978 NEB; has ya horror series as Simon Lake; see his website at www.wetwires.com/charlesgrant |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Look Long Upon a Monkey |
sces |
evolution & anti-evolutionists; man evolving from the monkeys, & how history has looked upon it |
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Young, Robert F. |
Spacetrack |
ss |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 8 |
cmp |
1st prize: F.M. Busby; 2nd prize: Joe Haldeman; R-U: Kenneth R. Drost; Daniel Dern; Mark Robert Kelly; R. Tyler Sperry II; Terry Naylor; Reid Powell; David A. Wilson; Carolyn Appleman; Ken Scott; A.J. Onia; Jonathan Fink; Merrill Emmet; 7 others |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 9 |
cmp |
suggested by Sherry M. Gottlieb - submit in 75 words or less, descriptions of specialized courses that might be offered within such a mythical college sf department |
| 1974 OCT |
Ferman, Edward L. |
Editorial |
ed |
things change in sf, so it's nice to have some continuity, as in F&SF, publishing sf & f for 25 years under 5 editors; Ferman was nominated for 17 Hugo Awards, 1973-80, 1984-92, for Best Editor, & won 3 Hugo Awards, 1981-83, for Best Editor |
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Bretnor, R. |
Count Von Schimmelhorn and the Time-Pony |
na |
3rd story in F&SF in Papa Schimmelhorn series; Papa S. builds a time machine for his friend General Pollard, & together they go back in time to the year 1241 to save western Europe from the Mongol horde |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38º 54'N, Longitude 77º 00'13"W |
nv |
W-1975 HUG, LOC; Ellison: "taken me 2½ years to write this story ... In it, I try to fuse elements of reality & fantasy, past & present & future ... It's a mystery story, & those familiar with cinema lore will have the significant clues by page three" |
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Sturgeon, Theodore |
Blue Butter |
ss |
N-1975 JUP, short story; has graphic Star Trek Fotonovel: Amok Time(1978), & graphic version of novel More Than Human(1979); novel Godbody(1986; N-1987 LOC); see interview in Charles Pratt(ed): Dream Makers II(1983; rev. vt Dream Makers, 1987) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Nothing Like Murder |
ss |
1st story in F&SF in his Black Widowers ser.; "Mr. Tolkien died on Sept. 2, 1973. I decided to memorialize him in the only way I could—which was to write a Black Widowers tale that hinged upon him"; most of 66 stories in ser. been pub. in EQMM 1972-91 |
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Anderson, Poul |
Visitor, The |
ss |
has Harvest of Stars seq., Harvest of Stars(1993; N-1994 LOC), The Stars Are Also Fire(1994; N-1995 LOC), Harvest the Fire(1995), The Fleet of Stars(1997; N-1998 LOC); has novel The Saturn Game(novella, ANA 1981 FEB 2; exp. 1989) |
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Pohl, Frederik & C.M. Kornbluth |
Mute Inglorious Tam |
ss |
N-1975, LOC; "been waiting for years to write a story about a s-f writer who couldn't be a s-f writer because he happened to be born in a time when that art was not possible ... (then) I realized that story could fit nicely into ... a fragment of Cyril's" |
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Dick, Philip K. |
Pre-Persons, The |
nv |
N-1975 LOC; story written especially for this issue; has stories "Impostor"(ASF 1953 JUN; made into 1999 movie), & "Minority Report"(FUN 1956 JAN; made into 2000 movie); see iv's in Vertex 1974 FEB, Charles Platt: Dream Makers(1980; 1987), & TWZ 1982 JUN |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Merril, Judith |
In the Land of Unblind |
vi |
Merril: "Do NOT call it a poem"; see article "Memories of Judy" by Derryl Murphy in On Spec, 1997 WIN; see interview "One of Postwar SF's Formative Figures" by David Seed in INZ 1997 DEC; see her obit & appreciations In LOC 1997 OCT & NOV(#441, 442) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Frankenstein Re-Redux |
mr/tvr |
Andy Warhol's Frankenstein(1974 France-Italy-US), aka Flesh for Frankenstein, written & directed by Paul Morrissey; short encore, Barbarella(1967) |
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Dickson, Gordon R. |
In Iron Years |
nv |
Dickson W-1975 Skylark Award, for Imaginative Fiction, & W-1977 Stanley G. Weinbaum Award; see his interviews in Shweitzer(ed): SF Voices(1976), & LOC 1991 APR(#363); his obit & tributes in LOC 2001 MAR(#482), SFC 2001 MAY(#212) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Oh, Keen-Eyed Peerer Into the Future! |
sces |
sf predicting the future; Three Laws of Futurics(with stories as examples): 1. What has happened in the past will happen in the future; 2. Consider the obvious seriously, few do; 3. Consider the consequences; sequel to "Future? Tense!" in 1965 JUN(#2219) |
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Vance, Jack |
Seventeen Virgins, The |
nv |
N-1975 BFA, JUP, LOC; 6th & last story in Cugel the Clever ser.; this story w. others coll. in Cugel's Saga(1983), part of Dying Earth seq., as is Rhialto the Marvelous(1984), The Laughing Magician(1998); has novels Night Lamp(1996), Ports of Call(1998) |
| 1974 NOV |
Tall, Stephen |
Mushroom World |
na |
2nd story in F&SF in his Stardust series; scientists aboard the Stardust, on a mission to discover & explore new worlds, find sentient amphibians who live in a Mesozoic age of giant reptiles & mushrooms; series coll. in The Stardust Voyages(1975) |
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Davidson, Avram |
Books |
br |
Poul Anderson: A Midsummer Tempest; Sam Moskowitz(ed): When Women Rule; James White: The Dream Millenium; Geo. Alec Effinger: Relatives |
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Sladek, John |
Space Shoes of the Gods |
fa |
has nf books The New Apocrypha: A Guide to Strange Sciences and Occult Beliefs(1973); Arachne Rising: The Thirteenth Sign of the Zodiac(1977), The Cosmic Factor(1978), both as James Vogh; Judgement of Jupiter(1980), as Richard A. Tilms |
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Aldiss, Brian W. |
Three Songs for Enigmatic Lovers |
gp |
1st & only story group in F&SF in his Enigma ser.; 3 short stories/vignettes: 1. A One-Man Expedition Through Life; 2. The Taste of Shrapnel; 3. Forty Million Miles from the Nearest Blonde; "(enigmas) are slightly surreal escapades grouped in threesomes" |
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Brennert, Alan |
Winter Memory, A |
nv |
(1954- ) graduate of Clarion, a student at Cal. State Univ.(Long Beach); 1st story pub. sf "The Stars Have All Gone Out" in Vertex 1973 OCT, & "Nostalgia Tripping" in Robert Hoskins(ed): Infinity #5(1973); see profile in TWZ 1986 DEC |
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Haldeman, Joe |
To Howard Hughes: Modest Proposal, A |
ss |
(1943- ) wn. for Joseph W. Haldeman; born in Oklahoma City, has BS in Physics & Astronomy from the Univ. of Maryland; combat engineer in Vietnam 1967-69; 1st story pub. sf "Out of Phase" in GAL 1969 SEP; see iv's in LOC 1994 MAY(#400), 1997 JUL(#438) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Flesh Gordon |
mr/tvr |
Flesh Gordon(1972); Yellow Submarine(1968); The Turn of the Screw(1974, 2-part TV movie), stars Lynn Redgrave; book Walt Lee: Reference Guide to Fantastic Films, Vol.3(1974) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Eisenberg, Larry |
Look Alike Revolution, The |
ss |
4th story in F&SF in Emmett Duckworth series |
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Reaves, J. Michael |
Century Feeling, The |
ss |
(1950- ) working name for James Michael Reaves; lives in Alabama, attended 1972 Clarion SF Writers' Workshop; 1st story pub. sf "The Breath of Dragons" in Robin Scott Wilson(ed): Clarion 3(1973); also in F&SF as Michael Reaves |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Skewered! |
sces |
numbers; Skewes' number, largest finite number used in a math proof; has story coll. in Dream ser., The Dream, Benjamin's Dream, and Benjamin's Bicentennial Blast(1976), 1st pub. in PST 1974 JAN, APR, JUN/JUL; 4th story "Party by Satellite," PST 1974 MAY |
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Harrison, Harry & Barry N. Malzberg |
Whatever-I-Type-Is-True Machine, The |
ss |
(1925- ; 1939- ) Harry Harrison has autobiographical piece "The Beginning of the Affair" in Brian W. Aldiss & Harry Harrison(ed): Hell's Cartographers: Some Personal Histories of Science Fiction Writers(1975) |
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Young, Robert F. |
Hex Factor |
ss |
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| 1974 DEC |
Ferman, Edward L. |
Biographical Sketch |
bio |
tongue-in-cheek "biography" of Kilgore Trout(born 1907, has pub. 117 novels, 2000 short stories), a fictional author created by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.; for this 2-part novel, "Venus on the Half-Shell," Trout is used as a ps. by Philip José Farmer |
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Trout, Kilgore |
Venus on the Half-Shell |
no-1/2 |
(1918- ) ps. for Philip José Farmer, the 1st in Farmer's Pseudonym series; the adventures of Simon Wagstaff, the Space Wanderer, & his 3 constant companions, a dog, an owl, & a female robot; Kilgore Trout is a fictional author created by Kurt Vonnegut |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Panshin, Alexei & Cory |
Books |
br |
"We are passing through a time of retrospection"; Donald H. Tuck: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vol.1; Asimov: Before the Golden Age; The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum; Jacques Sadoul: Les meilleurs recits de Astounding Stories, 1934/37 |
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Owen, Guy |
House of Yellow Pain, The |
ss |
(1925-1981) Guy Owen Jr, Prof. of English at N. Carolina State Univ.; has poems, stories & articles pub. in dozens of mags.; has 4 novels incl. The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man(1967), which was made into movie The Flim Flam Man(1967), stars George C. Scott |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Picnic World |
mr/tvr |
Phase IV(1973 UK), dir. Saul Bass, stars Nigel Davenport |
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Wellen, Edward |
Second Fall, or Anthony Comstock's Final Victory, The |
ss |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
Sedan Deville |
ss |
has novels The Day of the Burning(1974), Tactics of Conquest(1974), both in which aliens threaten the Earth(Clute) |
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Green, Joseph |
Jaybird's Song |
ss |
has novel Star Probe(ANA 1975 OCT-DEC; 1976 UK) |
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Sladek, John |
Face, The |
ss |
has sf novels Roderick, or The Education of a Young Machine(1980), Roderick at Random(1983), Red Noise(1982 chap), Tik-Tok(1983), Bugs(1989 UK), Blood and Gingerbread(1990 chap); iv's in INZ #30 1989, TotU #5 1989, & obits in LOC 2000 APR, TotU #21 2000 |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Star in the East |
sces |
Bible's star of Bethlehem, the 9 possibilities for the astronomical basis for the story from the Gospel of St. Matthew; has 11th coll. of F&SF science essays Of Matters Great and Small(1975); nf coll. of essays Science Past, Science Future(1975) |
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Neville, Lil & Kris |
Man Who Read Equations, The |
ss |
( ? - ?; 1925-1980) husband & wife collaboration |
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Niven, Larry |
Nonesuch, The |
ss |
has CoDominion ser. w. Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye(1974; N-1975 HUG, LOC, NEB), The Gripping Hand(1993; N-1994 LOC); also w. Pournelle, Lucifer's Hammer(1977; N-1978 HUG, LOC), Oath of Fealty(1981; N-1982 LOC; 1983 & 1997 PRO) |
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Aickman, Robert |
Same Dog, The |
nv |
has colls. Painted Devils: Strange Stories(1979), The Wine-Dark Sea(1988; N-1989 LOC); has novels The Late Breakfasters(1964), The Model(1987); has novella "The Stains," in Ramsey Campbell(ed): New Terrors #1(1980), which W-1981 BFA, short fiction |
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Adams, Georgia F. |
Acrostic Puzzle |
pz |
( ? -1992) Georgia Fillingame Adams; rules for all acrostic puzzles in F&SF: puzzle contains a quotation from a work in sf, the 1st letters of the puzzle name the author & title of the work the quotation is from; answer in 1975 JAN, p.157 |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 47: 1974 JUL-DEC |
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