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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1981 NOV |
Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Frank Herbert: God Emperor of Dune; David Graham: Down to a Sunless Sea; Roland Green: Wandor's Flight; Ben Bova: Voyagers |
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Kress, Nancy |
Casey's Empire |
ss |
(1948- ) N-1982 LOC, short story; born in Buffalo, NY; raised in E. Aurora, NY; has elementary education degree from SUNY(Plattsburgh), MS in English from SUNY(Brockton); 1st story pub. sf "The Earth Dwellers" in GAL 1976 DEC; fulltime writer since 1990 |
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King, Stephen |
Gunslinger and the Dark Man, The |
ss |
5th story in Dark Tower ser.; has novels Cujo(1981; W-1982 BFA; N-BRG, LOC; 1983 movie), Christine(1983; N-1984 LOC; 1983 movie), Pet Sematary(1983; N-1984 LOC, WFA; 1989 movie); w. Peter Straub, The Talisman(1984; N-1985 LOC, WFA) |
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Ryan, Alan |
Sanasardo Meets Attila |
vi |
has story "The Bone Wizard" in Whispers 1984 DEC, W-1985 WFA; novel Cast a Cold Eye(1984); coll. The Bones Wizard(1988); anth. Haunting Women(1988; N-1989 LOC); see interviews in Douglas E. Winter: Faces of Fear(1985), & in American Fantasy 1986 FLL |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Io Noon or Not Outlandish Enough |
mr/tvr |
Outland(1981), stars Sean Connery, Frances Sternhagen, compares it with High Noon(1952) in an off-Earth location; The Girl, the Gold Watch and Dynamite(1981), sequel to The Girl, the Gold Watch and Ecerything(1980) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
does cartoon illustration on assignment for many publications(incl. Barron's, Playboy, Penthouse, etc.), as well as book illustration & book jackets; has "done 2 covers for NYM & many for other publications such as Barron's, Industry Week, Today's Health" |
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Tuttle, Lisa |
Treading the Maze |
ss |
N-1982 BSF, short fiction |
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Taylor, Michael D. |
Plenty of Nothing |
ss |
has 1969 PhD in Mathematics from Florida State Univ.; Professor of Mathematics at a Florida university |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Crucial Asymmetry, The |
sces |
Big Bang; chronology of the Big Bang & the Universe, & the asymmetrical aspects of it that has allowed life to exist |
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Niven, Larry & Dian Girard |
Talisman |
nv |
(1938- ; ? - ?) 4th story in F&SF in Mana ser., set in the same Warlock's universe as "What Good Is a Glass Dagger?" in F&SF 1972 SEP; Girard a fulltime computer programmer, has Cheryl Harbottle ser. of stories in GAL 1978 FEB, & ASI 1979 JUL, 1980 FEB |
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Nurit |
Cartoon |
ct |
has illus. children's books by David Cleveland: The April Rabbits(1978), Tony Schwartz: Media: The Second God(1981), Stephen Manes: Socko: Every Riddle Your Feet Will Ever Need(1982); illus. nf book Ora Band(ed): Hebrew: A Language Course Level 2(1983) |
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Payes, Rachel Cosgrove |
Acrostic Puzzle |
pz |
answers in 1981 DEC, p.114; as E.L. Arch, has sf novels Bridge to Yesterday(1963), Planet of Death(1964), The Deathstones(1964), The First Immortals(1965), The Double-Minded Man(1966), The Man With Three Eyes(1967) |
| 1981 DEC |
Leman, Bob |
Tehama, The |
nv |
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Mason, Tom |
Cartoon: Solar Panel |
ct |
has anth. Spicy Detective Stories(1989), Spicy Mystery Stories(1990), Sherlock Holmes(1989), the latter having reprints of the 1954-56 comic strip; w. Sax Rohmer, Fu Manchu(1989), also comic strip reprints; w. Chris Ulm, Robotech II: The Sentinel(1989) |
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Martin, George R.R. |
Books |
br |
"this article is in response to Thomas M. Disch's 1981 FEB column, in which he discussed the work of a generation of sf writers he labeled "The Labor Day Group"; supposedly incl. McIntyre, Tanith Lee, Dann, Bishop, Card, Varley, George R.R. Martin |
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Scholz, Carter |
Altamira (for Glenn Harcourt—als ich chan) |
ss |
(1953- ) N-1982 LOC; born in Manhattan, attended Clarion; 1st story pub. sf "Closed Circuit" in Wilhelm(ed): Clarion SF(1976); has 1st novel, with Glenn Harcourt, Palimpsests(1984); Radiance(2002); coll. Kafka Americana(1999) with Jonathan Lethem |
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Goulart, Ron |
Return of Max Kearny, The |
ss |
9th story in F&SF in Max Kearny series |
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Arno, Ed |
Cartoon |
ct |
has illus. over 100 children's books, mainly in Europe, but incl. the U.S. children's books, The Gingerbread Man(1967), Freya Littledale: The Magic Fish: The Fisherman and His Wife(1967), & Nancy K. Robinson: Mom, You're Fired!(1981) |
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Wellen, Edward |
Hotline |
nv |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Trash of the Titans |
mr/tvr |
Clash of the Titans(1981), special effects by Ray Harryhausen, stars Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Maggie Smith; briefly, out on video, War of the Worlds(1953); Time After Time(1979); Rosemary's Baby(1968) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
according to F&SF's files, Martin did a bunch of spot illustrations from 1954-1956, described as "man in space suit looking at chart of stars 4/55," "open book, spaceship wavy lines 6/55," "book encircled by snake 11/55)," "atom in circle 5/56," etc. |
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Green, Terence M. |
Till Death Do Us Part |
ss |
(1947- ) from Canada, teaches English in a Toronto secondary school; has pub. stories in Australian & Canadian anth., incl. his 1st story pub. sf "Of Children in the Foliage" in Morris Wolfe(ed): Aurora: New Canadian Writing 1979(1979) |
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Brantingham, Juleen |
Felly |
ss |
(1942- ) temporarily living in New York state; 1st story pub. sf "Lobotomy Shoals" in Omni 1979 FEB; has pub. stories in ASI, TWZ, Whispers, & in the anth. Shadows, Universe |
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Sanders, Scott |
Sleepwalker, The |
ss |
1st pub. in Temple Univ. mag. Tracks; has novel about John James Audubon, Wonders Hidden: Audubon's Early Years(1984); has nf books D.H. Lawrence(1973), Wilderness Plots: Tales About the Settlement of the American Land(1983), Writer from the Center(1995) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Let Einstein Be! |
sces |
Einstein's universe & theory of relativity; non-common sense Einstein's theories vs. common sense Euclidean geometry & Newtonian physics |
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Silverberg, Robert |
In the Fifth Year of the Voyage |
nv |
3rd & last story in F&SF in Majipoor ser.; this story & others in ser. coll. in Majipoor Chronicles(1982); also in ser. are novels Valentine Pontifex(1983; N-1984 LOC), The Mountains of Majipoor(1995), Sorcerers of Majipoor(1997); 1987 married Karen Haber |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 28 |
cmp |
1st prize: Nicholas Ordway; 2nd prize: Chris Chapman; R-U: John Cuthbertson; Rachel Cosgrove Payes; Jeff Long |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 29 |
cmp |
suggested by Paula I. Carson - submit Burma Shave road advertisements adapted for the space traveler of the future |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 61: 1981 JUL-DEC |
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