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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1984 APR |
Strickland, Brad |
Herders of Grimm, The |
nv |
(1947- ) working name for William Bradley Strickland; born in New Holland, GA; lives in Oakwood, GA; has AB, MA & 1976 PhD from Univ. of Georgia; taught at Truett-McConnell Junior College, 1976-85; 1st story pub. sf/f "Payment Deferred" in ASI 1982 MAY |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: E Pluribus Unum |
sces |
Grand Unification Theories; unifying the forces of nature: light, heat, gravitation, magnetism, & electricity; "action at a distance," from the beginning; has 17th coll. of F&SF science essays, X Stands for Unknown(1984) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
has cartoons in colls. The New Yorker Book of Doctors(1993), The New Yorker Book of Lawyers(1994), The Art of The New Yorker(1995), The New Yorker Book of Business Cartoons(1998), The New Yorker Book of All New Cat Cartoons(1998) |
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Schenck, Hilbert |
Steam Bird |
na-1/2 |
concerns a U.S.-Soviet stand-off & recounts the pioneering flight of an enormously slow steam-driven nuclear bomber(Clute); to be in coll. Steam Bird(1988) |
| 1984 MAY |
Leman, Bob |
Pilgrimmage of Clifford M., The |
nv |
3rd story in F&SF in Goster County series |
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Haldeman, Jack C. II |
Cube Root |
vi |
has with his brother Joe Haldeman(also in F&SF), fixup novel, There Is No Darkness(1983; N-1984 LOC), a series of adventures about a group of space vadets & a hinterland hick who eventually save the Universe |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: something good happening in sf; Joy Chant: The High Kings, Arthur's Celtic Ancestors; Kim Stanley Robinson: The Wild Shore; Damon Knight: The Man in the Tree |
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Green, Terence M. |
Barking Dogs |
ss |
N-1985 LOC, short story; story exp. into his 1st novel Barking Dogs(1988), which has a sequel, Blue Limbo(1997), which in turn was exp. from novelette(N-1993 ARR) in Leslie Choyce(ed): Ark of Ice(1992); novels are near future sf detective thrillers |
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Chandler, A. Bertram |
Grimes and the Jailbirds |
ss |
3rd & last story in Rim World series(character Commodore John Grimes); see interview in AMZ 1983 MAR |
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Baloo |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Unabsorbed Shocks |
mr/tvr |
Christine(1983), based on Stephen King's 1983 novel, dir. John Carpenter, stars a red 1958 Plymouth, Keith Gordon, John Stockwell; Prototype(1983 TV), stars David Morse(as the android), Christopher Plummer, Frances Sternhagen |
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Cowper, Richard |
Message to the King of Brobdingnag, A (For Jim Lovelock F.R.S.—author of "Gaia"—who thought of it) |
nv |
N-1985 LOC, novelette; has chapbooks The Story of Pepita and Corindo(1982), The Young Student(1982), The Unhappy Princess(1982), & The Missing Heart(1982); has coll. The Tithonian Factor(1984) |
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Shiner, Lewis |
Till Human Voices Wake Us |
ss |
has antiwar anth. When the Music's Over(1991; N-1992 WFA), the proceeds for the editor going to Greenpeace; fantasy novel Glimpses(1993; W-1994 WFA), about a rock 'n roll fan who hears & then bootlegs dead rock stars' performances that never happened(B&C) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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DeChancie, John |
Grass of Remembrance, The |
ss |
(1946- ) his 1st short story sale; TV/movie cameraman, then director of educational & industrial films; began writing in 1979, has 1st novels Skyway trilogy, Starrigger(1983), Red Limit Freeway(1984), Paradox Alley(1986); Living With Aliens(1995) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Up We Go |
sces |
flight; man's desire to fly, from the beginning, the discoveries that led to flight; the first aeronauts - Pilatre de Rozier & the Marquis d'Arlandes, on Nov. 20, 1783 |
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Nurit |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Schenck, Hilbert |
Steam Bird |
na-2/2 |
has 1st novel At the Eye of the Ocean(1980), & A Rose for Armageddon(1982), both set in the Cape Cod region; the 1st novel about a pre-Civil War sea captain who helps slaves escape to Canada; latter about near-future researchers who find a time portal |
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Payes, Rachel Cosgrove |
Acrostic Puzzle |
pz |
answers in 1984 JUN, p.132; under her full name has Seven Sisters romance novel series, Love's Charade(1980), Love's Promenade(1981), Love's Serenade(1981), Love's Renegade(1981), Love's Escapade(1981) |
| 1984 JUN |
King, Stephen |
Ballad of the Flexible Bullet, The |
na |
N-1985 LOC, WFA; about relationship betw. a writer & an editor & the supernatural forces that unite them; pub. in his coll. Skeleton Crew(1985; W-1986 LOC); novels It(1986; W-1987 BFA; N-LOC, WFA; 1990 movie), Misery(1987; W-1988 STO; N-WFA; 1990 movie) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Frank N. Magill(ed): Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature; Paul A. Carter: Another Part of the Fifties; L. Sprague & Catherine de Camp, & Jane Whittington: Dark Valley Destiny: The Life of Robert E. Howard; Joe Haldeman(ed): Nebula Award Stories Seventeen |
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Gloss, Molly |
Joining |
ss |
(1944- ) has juvenile novel Outside the Gates(1986); 1st adult novel, The Jump-Off Creek(1989), a portrait of a pioneer woman & her ability to endure as she struggles to homestead alone in the Blue Mountains of Oregon in the 1890s |
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Williamson, Chet |
Will the Real Sam Starburst ... |
ss |
has 1st novel, Soulstorm(1986), which, like Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House, has five people trapped in a mountaintop mansion, where they must face the ghosts of every person who has been damned & then an very evil force(Clute) |
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Morressy, John |
Stoneskin |
ss |
was writer-in-residence at the Worcester Consortium, MA, in 1977; visiting writer & Professor of English at Univ. of Maine(Orono), 1977-1978; since 1968, writer-in-residence & Professor at Franklin Pierce College, NH |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Droidful |
mr/tvr |
Android(1982), dir. Aaron Lipstadt, stars Klaus Kinski; Caveman(1981), stars Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long, Barbara Bach; An American Werewolf in London(1981), dir./writer John Landis, stars David Naughton, Jenny Agutter |
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Niemand, O. |
Two Bits |
ss |
4th story in Springfield series, this one in the style of deceased American writer Ring Lardner |
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Nurit |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Mackay, M. Sargent |
Demon Lover |
nv |
N-1985 LOC, novelette; ps. for Alexander Mackay Smith, his 1st fiction sale; graduate of Georgetown Univ., presently in the Navy, a petty officer on board the USS Blue Ridge, home-ported in Yokosuka, Japan |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Two Masses, The |
sces |
Einstein's Special & General Relativity Theories, Part 1 of 2; gravitational & inertial mass of an object are "apparently" equal; Part 2 in 1984 JUL(#5182); followed by a correction of Jupiter's diameter as given in "Arm of the Giant" essay in 1983 DEC |
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Wightman, Wayne |
Skin Disguise, The |
ss |
born & raised in Missouri, has lived in California since the 1960s; has Gorman Rimley ser. of stories, "Metamind" in AMZ 1980 AUG, "Evening Promenade" in FAN 1980 OCT, & "The Semi-Happy Life of Gorman Rimley" in AMZ 1981 MAR |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
Martin says: "How you get ideas (for a cartoon) is a mystery to me but it is, for me, the most fun. I have done gags for other cartoonists. The New Yorker bought ideas from me for Peter Arno, Charles Addams, George Price and others." |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 66: 1984 JAN-JUN |
indx |
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| 1984 JUL |
Kress, Nancy |
Explanations, Inc. |
ss |
has "Sleepless" trilogy, Beggars in Spain(na in ASI 1991 APR; W-1991 NEB; 1992 HUG, SFC; N-LOC; exp. 1993; N-1993 NEB; 1994 HOM, HUG, JWC, LOC), Beggars and Choosers(1994; N-1995 HUG, LOC, NEB), Beggars Ride(1996; N-1997 LOC) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: on Lucius Shepard, how he survived despite the publishers; Lucius Shepard: Green Eyes; David Brin: The Practice Effect |
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Dawes |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Bishop, Michael |
Independence Day Forever |
pm |
dateline, Pine Mountain, Georgia; has novel Unicorn Mountain(1988; W-1989 MYT; N-1989 LOC), set partly in Atlanta, is a fantasy in which the dying of unicorns from another dimension is connected with the problem of AIDS in this world(Clute) |
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Hughes, Edward P. |
Thicker Than Ichor |
ss |
has 1st novel, The Long Mynd(1985), which depicts a post-holocaust world that has been brought into being by psi powers(Clute) |
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Hill, Hal |
Quicksilver Day |
ss |
(1949?- ) lives in California; has had stories pub. in TWZ & AMZ; has novel Country Harvest(1967); has several nf books on Southeast Asian & Australian politics & economics, incl. Australia-Philippine Economic Relations(1984) |
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Wellen, Edward |
Pattern |
vi |
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Purtill, Richard |
By the Dragon's Cave |
ss |
also in F&SF as Richard L. Purtill; has nf books Thinking About Ethics(1976), Logic Argument, Refutation & Proof(1979); literary criticism books C.S. Lewis's Case for the Christian Faith(1981), J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Reality and Religion(1984; W-1987 MYT) |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
has science cartoon colls. Science Goes to the Dogs(1985), From Personal Ads to Cloning Labs: More Science Cartoons from Sidney Harris(1992) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Grimm Fun |
mr/tvr |
Faerie Tale Theatre ser. available on video & cable incl. "Sleeping Beauty"(C. Reeves, B. Peters), "Jack and the Beanstalk"(J. Stapleton, D. Christopher, E. Gould), "The Frog Prince"(R. Williams); Searles' last mr/tvr in F&SF, then AMZ 1984 NOV-1986 NOV |
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McLaughlin, Cooper |
Smyler, The |
ss |
has short story "The Stones of Moel Hebog" in S&T 1983 SUM, & novelette "The Shanahy's Treasure" in S&T 1986 WIN |
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O'Neill, Gene |
300 S. Montgomery |
ss |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Victorious General, The |
sces |
Einstein's Special & General Relativity Theories, Part 2 of 2; the various tests that the General Relativity Theory has passed; Part 1 in 1984 JUN(#5166) |
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Pohl, Frederik |
Greening of Bed-Stuy, The |
na |
N-1984 NEB; 1985 LOC, na; 1st story in NYC ser.; with 3 original na's, to be part of fixup novel The Years of the City(1984; W-1985 JWC); Pohl is a student & practioner of municipal politics & a resident of NYC; Asimov writes of Pohl in I. Asimov(1994) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
Henry Martin retired in 1995, "when my wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and I knew there was a more important job awaiting as care giver" |
| 1984 AUG |
Wightman, Wayne |
Ganglion |
nv |
1st story in his Tarassis Psychonauts series, set in a station deep in space in which a team of psychonauts are probing into alien minds; Wightman says this story grew from his respect for the work of Philip K. Dick |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Michael Shea: Nifft the Lean; Octavia E. Butler: Clay's Ark; George Zebrowski(ser. ed): The Classics of Modern Science Fiction Ser. - Eric Frank Russell: Mens, Martians and Machines; James Gunn: The Joy Makers; Chad Oliver: The Shores of Another Sea |
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