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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1981 APR |
Searles, Baird |
Films: Non-Review of a Non-Event, A |
mr/tvr |
7th Annual Science Fiction (Film) Awards; briefly, Zardoz(1973), see 1974 MAY review; An Englishman's Castle(1978 UK TV), see 1980 MAR review |
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Sullivan, Tom |
Case for Kosher Pasta, The |
ss |
(1940- ) Thomas William Sullivan, & in also in F&SF as such |
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Watson, Ian |
Nightmares |
ss |
has novels Alien Embassy(1977), concerns the control of information & perception by the powers-that -be; The Martian Inca(1977; N-1978 LOC), in which a transformative virus invades Earth(Clute); Under Heaven's Bridge(1980), with Michael Bishop |
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Brax, Coleman |
Eligible for Parole After Three Hours |
ss |
has fantasy novel Spirits of Cavern and Hearth(1988) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Too Deep for Me |
sces |
pressure, Part 2 of 3; atmospheric pressure & oceanic water pressure; the solubility effects of gases in water & how it affects human's breathing mixtures while working at ocean depths; Part 1 in 1981 MAR(#4579), Part 3 in 1981 MAY(#4608) |
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Petrey, Susan C. |
Spareen Among the Cossacks |
nv |
2nd story in her Spareen the Varkelan vampire series; also in F&SF as Susan Petrey |
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Payes, Rachel Cosgrove |
Acrostic Puzzle |
pz |
answers in 1981 MAY, p.162; as Rachel Cosgrove has novels Long Journey Home(1962), Not for Glory(1963), The Candy Striper(1964), Ann Gordon of the Peace Corps(1965), Linda's Gifts(1966), Designs for Love(1966) |
| 1981 MAY |
Godwin, Parke |
Fire When It Comes, The |
nv |
(1929- ) W-1982 WFA, novella; N-1981 NEB; 1982 HUG, LOC, novelette; "contemporary ghost story ... & convincing picture of a young actress"; 1st story pub. "Unsigned Original" in Marvin Kaye(ed): Brother Theodore's Chamber of Horror(1975) |
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Grant, Charles L. |
Every Time You Say I Love You |
ss |
has Lincoln Blackthorne ser., as Geoffrey Marsh, The King of Satan's Eyes(1984), The Tale of the Arabian Knight(1986), The Patch of the Odin Soldier(1987), The Fangs of the Hooded Demon(1988); novels The Pet(1986; N-1987 WFA), For Fear of the Night(1988) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
Wilson lives on Long Island, NY |
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Priest, Christopher |
Books |
br |
essay: Joan D. Vinge's novel Snow Queen; Barry B. Longyear: City of Baraboo; D.G. Compton: Ascendancies; Bruce Sterling: The Artificial Kid; see Priest' iv INZ 1995 SEP; has novels The Quiet Woman(1990), The Prestige(1996; W-1996 WFA), The Extremes(1998) |
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Pronzini, Bill & Barry N. Malzberg |
Whither Thou, Ghost |
ss |
1st & only story in F&SF in their Lunar Immigration series; other stories in series in ANA 1980 MAR, & 1982 FEB 1; has colls. Graveyard Plots: The Best Short Stories of Bill Pronzini(1985), Small Felonies: Fifty Mystery Short Shorts(1988) |
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Nurit |
Cartoon |
ct |
working name for Nurit Karlin; born in Jerusalem, Israel; illustrator for newspapers & magazines, incl. The New York Times(see its Tuesday's Science Times section for her color illus.), The Washington Post, The Daily News, Newsweek, etc. |
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Shaver, Edward F. |
Killing Thought, The |
nv |
N-1982 BSF, short fiction; his 1st pub. story; graduated from Pennsylvania State Univ. in 1977 with a BS in Physics; employed by a support contractor to the Dept. of Energy's solar energy program |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Corned Beef Flash |
mr/tvr |
Flash Gordon(1980), stars Sam J. Jones as Flash, Melody Anderson as Dale, Timothy Dalton as Prince Barin, Ornella Muti as Princess Aura, Max von Sydow as Ming |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
his 1st cartoon sale to the Christian Science Monitor in 1963; his 1st sales to the PST & NYM were in 1964; he was a contract artist for NYM 1967-1995, the year he retired; he W-1978 Plaque Award, for Magazine Gag Cartoons |
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Goulart, Ron |
Presenting Trilby Swain |
ss |
2nd & last story in F&SF in Oldies, Ltd series |
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Tuttle, Lisa |
Bone Flute, The |
ss |
W-1981 NEB; N-1982 LOC, short story |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Under Pressure |
sces |
pressure, Part 3 of 3; scientific experiments using pressure to see how it affects gases, liquids(esp. water), & solids; the internal structure of the Earth & the pressures involved; Part 1 in 1981 MAR(#4579), Part 2 in 1981 APR(#4594) |
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Bryant, Edward |
Thermals of August, The |
nv |
N-1981 NEB; 1982 HUG, LOC, novelette; pub. as part of Pulphouse Short Story Paperback series, #56, in 1992 |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
Letters |
lttr |
Jason G. Hardy(1980 NOV issue); Dan Whitlock(same; legal mistake in Ellison's "All the Lies That Are My Life"); Sean McMullen(Norden's story, 1980 SEPT); Barry N. Malzberg(same); Laura Campbell(cover art mistake, 1981 FEB) |
| 1981 JUN |
Silverberg, Robert |
Desert of Stolen Dreams, The |
na |
N-1982 LOC, na; 2nd story in F&SF in Majipoor ser.; "adventures of Dekkeret as he sets out on a hazardous mission to the barren continent of Suvrael"; to be pub. in 1987 in a limited illus. edition; a prolific anthologist, Silverberg has too many to list |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Gene Wolfe: The Claw of the Conciliator; Walter S. Tevis: Far from Home; Harlan Ellison: Shatterday; Ed Naha: The Science Fictionary |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
Wilson wrote the screenplay for the movie, Freeway Maniac(1989; aka, Breakdown), about a crazed killer that sneaks onto the set of an sf film & begins murdering the cast & crew |
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Gilbert, Dorothy |
Winter Flowering, A |
nv |
college English teacher, lives in northern California; does volunteer work at KPFA radio, where Boucher had a show; has pub. poetry in F&SF, NYM, The Nation, etal |
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Gotschalk, Felix C. |
Take a Midget Step |
nv |
has a novelette, "The Day of the Big Test," in Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois(ed): Future Power(1976) |
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Buck, Doris Pitkin |
Travel Tip |
pm |
story is followed by an announcement that Buck died December 4, 1980, at the age of 82 |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Dr. J. & Mr. H. X 3 |
mr/tvr |
3 films based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1981 UK TV), stars David Hemmings; The Darker Side of Terror(1978 TV), co-writers Paddy Chayefsky & dir. Ken Russell; Monster on the Campus(1958), stars Arthur Franz |
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Bear, Greg |
Eucharist |
ss |
(1951- ) wn. for Gregory Dale Bear, son-in-law of Poul Anderson; 1st story pub. sf "Destroyers" in FMS 1967 WIN; 1st novel Hegira(1979; rev. 1987 UK); Blood Music(ANA 1983 JUN; W-1983 NEB; 1984 HUG, nv; exp. 1985; N-1985 NEB; 1986 HUG, JWC; 1987 BSF) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
born in Newark, NJ, grew up in Danbury, CT; a staff sergeant with the 100th Infantry Division during WWII in France & Germany; studied at the Whitney School of Art(New Haven, CT) on the GI bill, majoring in painting |
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Cadigan, Pat |
Coming of the Doll, The |
ss |
N-1982 LOC, short story; has 1st novel Mindplayers(1987 fixup; N-1987 DIC; 1988 LOC); Synners(1991; W-1992 CLA; N-1991 NEB; 1992 LOC), cyberpunk novel deals w. a disease in which computer viruses which pass for AIs begin to cause human deaths(Clute) |
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Bretnor, Reg |
It Isn't Love That Makes the World Go 'Round |
ss |
also in F&SF as R. Bretnor, Reginald Bretnor, with several co-authors, & under the ps. Grendel Briarton, & E. Bertrand Loring(both ps. anagrams of his full name) |
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Eklund, Gordon |
Transubstantiation |
ss |
has novels with Gregory Benford, If the Stars Are Gods(novelette in Universe 4, 1974; exp. 1977; N-1978 LOC), in which a mysterious signal implies intelligent life on Jupiter, & sf/mystery Find the Changeling(1980); novel The Garden of Winter(1980) |
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Arno, Ed |
Cartoon |
ct |
(1916- ) working name for Arnold et Arno; born in Innsbruck, Austria; attended art school in Paris; was the art director for 30 years in Bucharest, Rumania, publishing children's books; won many awards from European countries, incl. Italy & Rumania |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Yes! With a Bang! |
sces |
dinosaurs; the evidence that a meteor ended the age of the reptiles; has nf book Change!: Seventy-one Glimpses of the Future(1981) |
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Nurit |
Cartoon |
ct |
Karlin's cartoons have also been pub. in The New Yorker, Audobon, Ladies' Home Jpurnal, etc.; has coll. of captionless cartoons, No Comment: Cartoons Too Funny for Words(1978) |
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Leman, Bob |
Skirmish on Bastable Street |
ss |
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Payes, Rachel Cosgrove |
Acrostic Puzzle |
pz |
answers in 1981 JUL, p.159; under full name has mystery novels Forsythia Finds Murder(1960), Death Sleeps Lightly(1960), Shadow of Fear(1961), Curiosity Killed Kitty(1962), Memoirs of Murder(1964), Mystery of Echo Caverns(1966), O Charitable Death(1968) |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 60: 1981 JAN-JUN |
indx |
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| 1981 JUL |
Reaves, J. Michael |
Werewind |
nv |
N-1982 LOC, novelette; has series novel Time Machine 3: Sword of the Samurai(1984), with Steve Perry; also with Perry, Hellstar(1984), Dome(1987), the latter a post-holocaust tale set in an undersea habitat(Clute) |
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Dryer, Stan |
End of Spinach, An |
ss |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
Wilson was in the documentary, Document of the Dead(1989), about the films of director George A. Romero, with a behind-the-scenes look at his movie, Dawn of the Dead(1978), which was a sequel to his movie, Night of the Living Dead(1968) |
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Disch, Thomas M. |
Books |
br |
essay: Jesus talks with Disch about 5 books about Him; Romulus Linney: Jesus Tales; Philip K. Dick: Valis; James Merrill: Scripts for the Pageant; Rudy Rucker: White Light; Michael Bishop, Barry N. Malzberg & Bruce McAllister: Their Immortal Hearts |
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Florance-Guthridge, George |
Quiet, The |
ss |
N-1981 NEB; 1982 HUG, LOC, short story |
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Lee, Tanith |
Paid Piper |
ss |
has Tales of the Flat Earth seq. Night's Master(1978 fixup; N-1979 WFA), Death's Master(1979; W-1980 BFA; N-1980 BRG, LOC), Delusion's Master(1981; N-1982 LOC, MYT), Delirium's Mistress(1986), Night's Sorceries(1987 fixup; N-1988 LOC, WFA) |
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Sargent, Pamela |
Summer's Dust, The |
nv |
N-1982 LOC, novelette; to be part of fixup novel The Golden Space(1982), which also incl. 3 original stories, & novella "The Renewal" pub. in Jack Dann(ed): Immortal(1978); novel examines the question of immortality(Clute); novel rvw. in F&SF 1982 SEP |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Mundane Monsters and Multicolored Munchkins |
mr/tvr |
Faeries(1981 TV), ½ hour animated show based on 1978 Brian Froud book; Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves(1944); Topper(1937); The Wizard of Oz(1939); The Munster's Revenge(1981), stars Fred Gwynn; Midnight Offerings(1981 TV), stars Melissa Sue Anderson |
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Whitten, William |
About the Artist |
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 |
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Petrie, Graham |
Bars: Aspect of Night Life, An |
ss |
living in Canada since 1964; has novels Seahorse(1969 Canada; 1980 UK; 1996 US), The Siege(1996); nf books Hollywood Destinies: European Directors in America(1985), The Films of Andrei Tarkovski: A Visual Fugue(1994), etc. |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
he has been pub. in many mags., incl. Harvard Business Review, PST, Look, SRL, Ladies' Home Journal, Gourmet, Audobon Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Natural History Magazine, & in the U.K. in The Spectator, & in Punch |
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