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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1984 AUG |
Nurit |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Davidson, Avram & Grania Davis |
Dear Friend Charlene |
ss |
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Kessel, John & James Patrick Kelly |
Freedom Beach |
nv |
N-1985 LOC, nv; 1st & only story in F&SF in Freedom Beach ser.; to be part of fixup novel Freedom Beach(1985), Kessel's 1st novel, about a strange sort of resort that seems to be founded on amnesia; others in ser. in AMZ 1982 SEP, & in ASI 1984 APR, DEC |
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Collins, Reid |
Great Speckle Bird |
ss |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 1: In Which We Begin Our Journey |
mr |
this column 1st appeared in Cosmos SF&F Magazine 1977 NOV; Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes(1984), the inside Hollywood scoop of how this movie was made, dir. Hugh Hudson, writer Robert Towne, stars Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell |
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Elgin, Suzette Haden |
Magic Granny Says Don't Meddle |
ss |
other novels in Coyote Jones series, The Communipaths(1970), Furthest(1971) - these two with At the Seventh Level(1972) coll. in omnibus Communipath Worlds(1980); also Star-Anchored, Star-Angered(1979), & Yonder Comes the Other End of Time(1986) |
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Dalmas, John |
Picture Man, The |
ss |
(1926- ) story about psychic photography; ps. for John Robert Jones, lives in CA; has degrees in forestry & plant ecology, has pub. work on forestry; 1st pub. sf was novel The Yngling(ANA 1969 OCT-NOV; 1971 fixup), & sequel Homecomimg(1984) |
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Casper, Susan |
Mama |
ss |
(1947- ) born, lives in Philadelphia; married to Gardner Dozois; 1st story pub. sf "Spring-Fingered Jack" in Charles Grant(ed): Fears(1983); her collab. fiction with Dozois coll. in Slow Dancing Through Time(1990); edited anth. with Dozois, Ripper!(1988) |
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Niemand, O. |
artist passes it by, the |
pm |
5th story in Springfield series, this one an sf pastiche of archy & mehitabel's Don Marquis & Krazy Kat's George Herriman |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Coming Full Circle |
sces |
heart & blood vessels through history; Isaac Asimov had triple bypass surgery in December 1983 |
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Donaldson, Stephen R. |
What Makes Us Human |
nv |
2nd story in F&SF in Fred Saberhagen's Berserker ser., to be pub. in Saberhagen(ed): Berserker Base(1984); coll. Reeve the Just(1999; W-2000 WFA); he W-1979 JWCA; see ar in INZ #32 1989, & iv's in LOC 1984 JAN(#276), 1990 JUN(#353), & INZ 1992 JUN |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 35 |
cmp |
1st prize: Robert Werner; 2nd prize: Rick Duling; R-U: Bridget Mintz Register; James Gale; Jean MacKay Jackson; Timothy Wirkkala |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 36 |
cmp |
suggested by Philip Michael Cohen - submit proverbs & cliches given an sf/futuristic twist, e.g.: Cloned to raise hell. Idle hands are the Devil's waldoes. |
| 1984 SEP |
Pohl, Frederik |
Blister, The |
na |
N-1985 LOC, nv; 2nd/last story in NYC ser., becomes part of fixup novel The Years of the City(1984; W-1985 JWC; rvw. F&SF 1985 MAR), forming a future history of NYC; has novels The Cool War(1981), Starburst(1982), The Demon in the Skull(1984) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Larry Niven: The Integral Trees; Ardath Mayhar: Exile on Vlahil; Michael Shaara: The Herald |
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Tuttle, Lisa |
Redcap |
ss |
has colls. A Nest of Nightmares(1985), A Spaceship Built of Stone and Other Stories(1987), Memories of the Body: Tales of Desire and Transformation(1992), Food Man(1994) |
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Robins, Madeleine E. |
Cuckoo |
ss |
(1953- ) born in NYC; attended Connecticut College, majoring in Theatre Studies; attended 1981 Clarion; worked at Tor Books from 1989-1994, then briefly at Metropolis Mag., then Acclaim Comics; fulltime freelance writer & editor since 1998 |
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Leman, Bob |
Instructions |
ss |
this story was pub. in chapbook form in 2001 |
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Nurit |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 2: In Which Sublime and Ridiculous Pass Like Ships in the Night |
mr |
essay: vast sums of $ impede movie creativity; Splash(1984), dir. Ron Howard, stars Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah; Star Trek III: The Search for Spock(1984); The Ice Pirates(1984); Quest(1983), written by Bradbury; Iceman(1984), based on John Drimmer story |
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Hughes, Kim |
You Shall Have a Song and Gladness of Heart |
ss |
fulltime writer, has a PhD from Edinburgh Univ.; a singer; "... story came from two sources: a bout of severe laryngitis ... and ... getting a tune 'stuck' in your head" |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon: Al's Star |
ct |
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Carr, Jayge |
Pieces of Eight |
ss |
(1940- ) ps. for Margery Krueger; lives near New Orleans, has degree in Physics, former nuclear physicist for NASA; 1st story pub. sf "Alienation" in ANA 1976 OCT; 1st novel Leviathan's Deep(1979); has Rabelais seq., Navigator's Sindrome(1983), etc |
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Bryant, Edward |
Armageddon Between Sets |
ss |
N-1985 LOC, ss; 2nd & last story in F&SF in witch Angie Black series; Angie's adventures continue in his short horror novel Fetish(1991); plays a redneck whose head is run over by a bus in S. Sucharitkul's movie, The Laughing Dead(1989), rvw. in 1989 SEP |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Different Years of Time, The |
sces |
chronology, arbitrary 'squeezed' or compressed years, Part 1 of 2; e.g., The Earth Year: Earth formed(Jan. 1), primitive bacteria(Apr. 1), dinosaurs(Dec. 14), 1st hominids(Dec. 31, 4:30 PM), recorded history(last 35 seconds of year); Part 2 in 1984 OCT |
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Sterling, Bruce |
Telliamed |
ss |
edited his own fanzine, Cheap Truth(c. 1984-1986), & its representative anth., Mirrorshades(1986); has colls. Crystal Express(1989; N-1990 LOC), which incl. 5 stories in his Shapers/Mechanist series among its 12 stories; coll. Globalhead(1992; N-1993 LOC) |
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Miller, Ronald |
Acrostic Puzzle |
pz |
answers in 1984 OCT, p.38 |
| 1984 OCT |
Shepard, Lucius |
Night of White Bhairab, The |
nv |
Shepard W-1985 JWCA, for Best New Writer; has novel Life During Wartime("R & R" in ASI 1986 APR; W-1986 NEB; 1987 LOC, SFC; N-HUG; exp. 1987; N-1987 DIC; 1988 LOC; 1989 CLA, DIT); has poem "White Trains" in Night Cry 1987 SPR, W-1988 RHY |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
Allen Andrews: The Pig Plantagenet; Joan D. Vinge: World's End; J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbitt |
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Bryant, Edward |
Man of the Future, The |
ss |
this story was pub. as a chapbook in 1990; has colls. Particle Theory(1981; N-1982 LOC); Trilobyte(1987), with a short story("The Shadow on the Doorstep") by James P. Blaylock |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Watson, Ian |
Flesh of Her Hair, The |
ss |
has colls. The Very Slow Time Machine(1979; N-1980 LOC), Sunstroke(1982), The Book of Ian Watson(1985; N-1986 LOC), Slow Birds(1985; N-1986 LOC); anth. Changes: Stories of Metamorphosis(1983), with Michael Bishop |
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Bova, Ben |
Isolation Area |
nv |
2nd story in F&SF in Sam Gunn ser.; has Orion ser., Star Watchman(1964), The Weathermakers(1967), Out of the Sun(1968), The Dueling Machine(1969), As On a Darkling Plain(1972 fixup); colls. Forward in Time(1973), Viewpoint(1977), Maxwell's Demons(1979) |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 3: In Which We Scuffle Through the Embers |
mr |
essay: Stephen King, Part 1 of 2, there's a "formulaic reason why all but 1 or 2 of (his) films" suck; Firestarter(1984), based on his 1980 novel, dir. Mark L. Lester, screenplay by Stanley Mann, stars Drew Barrymore, David Keith; Part 2 in 1984 DEC |
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Bradley, Marion Zimmer |
Somebody Else's Magic |
nv |
1st story in F&SF in the female minstrel/magician Lythande ser.; other stories in ser. in Asprin(ed): Thieve's World(1979), Asprin(ed): Shadows of Sanctuary(1981; a Lythande novella by Andre Norton), & Marion Zimmer Bradley(ed): Greyhaven(1983) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Different Years of the Universe, The |
sces |
chronology, arbitrary 'squeezed' or compressed years, Part 2 of 2; compressed years of a bigger scale, e.g., The Universe Year: Big Bang(Jan. 1), life begins on Earth(Oct. 6), hominids appear(Dec. 31, 9:40 PM), etc; Part 1 in 1984 SEP(#5211) |
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Baloo |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Effinger, George Alec |
Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, 'Everything,' The |
ss |
N-1984 NEB; 1985 HUG, LOC, SFC, short story; has novel When Gravity Fails(1987; N-1988 HUG, LOC, SFC), the 1st novel in the Marid Audran trilogy, is a hardboiled near-future cyberpunk sf detective novel, taking place in an Arab-controlled city(B&C) |
| 1984 NOV |
Dann, Jack |
Black Horn, The |
nv |
has novels Starhiker(1977 fixup), Junction(FAN 1973 NOV; N-1973 NEB; 1974 LOC; exp. 1981), The Man Who Melted(1984; N-1984 NEB; 1985 LOC), The Memory Cathedral(1995; W-1996 AUR; N-1997 DIT), Counting Coup(1997), The Silent(1998) |
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Tritten, Larry |
Play It Again, Sam |
vi |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: the ABA convention, Frank Herbert & Theodore Sturgeon; Dr. Willis E. McNelly: The Dune Encyclopedia; John Stanley: The Creature Features Movie Guide; Theodore Sturgeon: The Stars Are the Styx; Meredith Ann Pierce: The Darkangel |
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Yolen, Jane |
Five Points of Roguery, The |
ss |
has novel The Stone Silenus(1984); Great Alta ser., Sister Light, Sister Dark(1988; N-1989 LOC, NEB), White Jenna(1989; N-1990 LOC, NEB), both assembled in The Books of Great Alta(1990), about a young girl named Jenna prophesied to become a messiah(Clute) |
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Baloo |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Owens, Barbara |
Doors, The |
ss |
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Mueller, Richard |
Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Gonna Rise Again |
ss |
has strange website showcasing his "VerdaWorlds," which includes a site with info on Amelia Earhart, at www.verda.com/ |
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Strickland, Brad |
Taker of Children, The |
nv |
his 1st pub. story a mystery, sold to EQMM in 1963; has 1st novel To Stand Beneath the Sun(1986), an sf adventure whose protagonist must come to terms with a world dominated by women(Clute); a Prof. of English at Gainesville College(GA), since 1987 |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
Bedside Manor |
ss |
1st & only story in F&SF in android simulacrum Sigmund Freud ser., used on long space voyages to preserve crews' sanity; stories in ser. also in Chrysalis 8(1980), Omni 1980 JUL, & coll. in fixup novel The Remaking of Sigmund Freud(1985; N-1985 DIC, NEB) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Etchemendy, Nancy |
Clotaire's Balloon |
ss |
(1952- ) her 1st pub. sf/f short story; born in Reno, NV; lives in Palo Alto, CA; graphic designer by trade, married to a Prof. of Philosophy at Stanford Univ. |
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