| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Davidson, Avram |
Dr. Bhumbo Singh |
1982 OCT |
ss |
N-1983 LOC, short story |
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Buchanan's Head |
1983 FEB |
ss |
see the NYRSF 2000 JUN(#142), a Special Avram Davidson Issue, which excerpts of his travel memoir "Dragons in the Trees" about British Honduras(basis of Limekiller's British Hidalgo), & a reminiscence by Hugh Leddy |
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Revenge of the Cat-Lady |
1985 JAN |
ss |
has sequel to The Phoenix and the Mirror(1969), in Vergil ser., Vergil in Averno(1987); 3rd Vergil novel exists only in draft, ending his plans for a trilogy (Clute); see Michael Swanwick & Davidson nv "Vergil Magus: King Without Country" in ASI 1998 JUL |
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Mountaineers Are Always Free |
1987 OCT |
vi |
has anth. Magic for Sale(1983; N-1984 LOC); Davidson W-1986 WFA, for Lifetime Achievement; novel with his ex-wife Grania Davis, Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty(1988); Davidson was a practioner of Tenrikyo(see its official website at www.tenrikyo.or.jp/ |
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While You're Up |
1988 OCT |
vi |
has nf coll., Adventures in Unhistory(1993); he was a visiting lecturer or guest writer at the Univ. of Washington, Univ. of California(Irvine), Univ. of Texas(El Paso), Univ. of Michigan, & the College of William and Mary; see www.avramdavidson.com |
| |
Mr. Rob't E. Hoskins |
1990 NOV |
ss |
has colls. The Avram Davidson Treasury(1998; W-1999 LOC), & Everybody Has Somebody in Heaven: Essential Jewish Tales of the Spirit(2000); has Jack Limekiller story orig. pub as by Conrad Amber, The Beasts of the Elysian Fields(2001; chapbook) |
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Day They All Came Back, The |
1991 JUN |
vi |
see his obit & appreciations(tributes), in LOC 1993 JUN(#389) & JUL(#390), obit in CA, vol.171; has colls. The Investigations of Avram Davidson(1999), 13 of his tales of mystery & crime; The Other Nineteenth Century(2001), coll. of his historical fantasy |
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Sacrifice |
1996 FEB |
vi |
has fantasy novella The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil(1998; N-1998 STO) with Grania Davis(who finished the story after Davidson's death), about a professor on a terrifying quest to save his sanity & daughter, & uncover a house's secret |
| |
Blunt |
1998 OCT/NOV |
ss |
an excerpt from an unfinished novel, The Corpsmen, from the mid 1950s, a ser. of loosely connected character sketches about members of the WWII Naval Medical Corps; discovered by Henry Wessels, who maintains an A.D. website at www.kosmic.org |
| Davidson, Avram & Grania Davis |
Hills Behind Hollywood High, The |
1983 APR |
nv |
(1923-1993; 1943- ) N-1984 LOC, novelette; Avram Davidson & Grania Davis are also in F&SF by themselves; they were married to each in the early 1960s, & had lived in Mexico for a short time |
| |
Dear Friend Charlene |
1984 AUG |
ss |
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Addrict |
1987 JAN |
ss |
they wrote a novel together, Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty(1988) |
| Davidson, Avram & Morton Klass |
Kappa Nu Nexus, The |
1961 AUG |
ss |
(1923-1993; 1927-2001) Morton the younger brother of Philip Klass(William Tenn); born in Brooklyn, NY; has 1955 BA in anthropology from Brooklyn College; 1959 PhD from Columbia Univ.; Prof. at Barnard College & Columbia; see obit in LOC 2001 JUN |
| Davidson, Avram & Robert F. Young |
Introduction to Robert F. Young's "In What Cavern of the Deep" |
1964 OCT |
in |
Young likes: opera, cold weather, "The Defenders"; dislikes: rock 'n roll, hot weather, "The Danny Thomas Show" |
| Davidson, Avram & Sidney Klein |
Teeth of Despair, The |
1961 MAY |
ss |
(1923-1993; ?-? ) |
| Davis, Dorothy |
F&SF Crossword |
1987 FEB |
pz |
answers in 1987 MAR, p.128 |
| Davis, Grania |
Jumping the Line |
1979 JUL |
ss |
(1943- ) lives near San Francisco; 1st story pub. "My Head's in a Different Place, Now" in Terry Carr(ed): Universe 2(1972); has books The King and the Mangoes(1975 chap), The Proud Peacock and the Mallard(1976 chap), children's fantasies about Buddha |
| |
Doctor Sunspot |
1990 FEB |
ss |
Davis travels a lot, which inspires much of her fiction; has novel The Rainbow Annals(1980), is based on Tibetan legends, explores the myth-rich intricacies of Buddhism, in a tale about the Monkey God & his various reincarnations(Clute) |
| |
Blessed/Damned Thornston Emerald, The |
1991 JUN |
ss |
has novels Dr. Grass(1978), The Great Perpendicular Path(1980); Moonbird(1986), set near Bali, deals with the dilemma of a native shaman—whose travels with his God make up most of the novel—when a group of North Americans invade his home(Clute) |
| |
Tree of Life, Book of Death |
1992 MAR |
nv |
"off-beat fantasy with an unusual angle ... mixes a bit of history with a bit of folklore to create a tale full of golems, death, & rebirth"; married to Avram Davidson, with whom she has fantasy novel Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty(1988), set in China |
| |
ChronoCorp |
1993 AUG |
ss |
also in F&SF with Avram Davidson; has short novel with Davidson, The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil(1998; N-1998 STO), a horror mystery which centers around the phenomenon of the 'Paper-Man,' who lives in the walls of older houses |
| Davis, Hank |
Staying Power |
1972 JAN |
ss |
age 27, recently returned from a year in Vietnam, has sold stories to ANA, IFS, & Orbit; assistant editor for F&SF 1974 NOV-1975 AUG, & for New Destinies #9(1990) |
| Davis, Hassoldt |
Pleasant Woman, Eve, The |
1959 OCT |
ss |
(1907-1959) explorer, captain in the French Foreign Legion; has travel books Land of the Eye(1940), Sorcerer's Village(1955), World Without a Roof(1957); ar's "Resurrection in Djibouti" in PST 1943 SEP 4, & "The Case of the Happy Hippo" in ARG 1956 MAR |
| Davis, Lavinia R. |
Randall |
1953 AUG |
ss |
(1909-1961) Lavinia Riker Davis |
| Davis, Wesley Ford |
Ask and It May Be Given |
1971 OCT |
ss |
Prof. of English at the Univ. of South Florida; has novel The Time of the Panther(1958); has had short stories in many magazines |
| Dawes |
Cartoon |
1982 NOV |
ct |
( -1990) working name for Joseph Dawes |
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Cartoon |
1983 FEB |
ct |
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Cartoon |
1983 JUN |
ct |
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Cartoon |
1983 OCT |
ct |
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Cartoon |
1984 JAN |
ct |
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Cartoon |
1984 JUL |
ct |
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Cartoon |
1984 DEC |
ct |
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Cartoon |
1986 FEB |
ct |
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Cartoon |
1987 MAY |
ct |
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Cartoon |
1987 SEP |
ct |
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Cartoon: Time Machine |
1987 OCT |
ct |
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Cartoon |
1988 SEP |
ct |
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| de Camp, L. Sprague |
Lament by a Maker |
1955 JAN |
pm |
(1907-2000) engineer, MS in Economics, linguist, naval officer, contributor to VoA; 1st story pub. "The Isolinguals" in ASF 1937 SEP; has Johnny Black ser., about an intelligent bear(ASF, 1938-40), Viagens series(ASF, 1949-51); in F&SF with Fletcher Pratt |
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What Is a Rosicrucian? |
1956 MAR |
ar |
small correction in F&SF 1956 JUN p.38; most famous work is novel Lest Darkness Fall(UNK 1939 DEC; 1941); has colls. Divide and Rule(1948; story alone 1990 chap), The Wheels of If(UNK 1940 OCT; 1948), The Undesired Princess(1951; title story, 1990) |
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How to Talk Futurian |
1957 OCT |
ar |
future possibilities of languages; has article "Language for Time Travelers" in ASF 1938 JUL; has novel Genus Homo(SSS 1941 MAR; 1950), with P. Schuyler Miller; series 9 articles, "Lost Continents"(OWS 1952-53 OCT-JUL; 1954); bio article in OWS 1952 OCT |
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Dragon Hunt |
1963 JAN |
ar |
the making of his novel The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate(1961), including how he did the research for the novel; has novels Solomon's Stone(UNK 1942 JUN; 1956), The Glory That Was(STS 1952 APR; 1960) |
| |
How to Plan a Fauna |
1963 OCT |
ar |
terrestial & extra-terrestial animal life, rules to follow when creating a fictional world's fauna; has novels with Fletcher Pratt, The Land of Unreason(UNK 1941 OCT; 1942), The Carnelian Cube(1948), & ser. coll. Tales from Gavagan's Bar (1953; exp.1978) |
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Books |
1963 NOV |
br |
Robert Wauchope: Lost Tribes & Sunken Continents(Myth and Method in the Study of American Indians); de Camp has Pusadian seq., novel The Tritonian Ring(TCS 1951 WIN; 1968), & coll. The Tritonian Ring and OtherPusadian Tales(1953) |
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Mammoths and Mastodons |
1965 MAY |
ar |
elephants & their ancestors, incl. mammoths & mastodons; has coll. A Gun for Dinosaur(1963); edited anth. Swords and Sorcery(1963), The Spell of Seven(1965), The Fantastic Swordsmen(1967), Warlocks and Warriors(1970) |
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Nabonidus |
1965 JUN |
pm |
has Harold Shea series with Fletcher Pratt, The Incomplete Enchanter (UNK 1940 MAY & AUG, as "The Roaring Trumpet" & "The Mathematics of Magic"; 1947), The Castle of Iron(UNK 1941 APR; 1950), The Wall of Serpents(FNF 1953 JUN; 1960 fixup) |
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You Can't Beat Brains |
1966 OCT |
ar |
profile of Isaac Asimov, born in Soviet Union near Smolyensk in 1920, came to U.S. 3 years later; parents ran candy store in Brooklyn; financed his college education by his pro writing; worked on cancer research; Asimov wrote of de Camp in I. Asimov(1994) |
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Gods, The |
1966 DEC |
pm |
has Viagens Interplanetary ser. colls. in The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens(1953), Sprague de Camp's New Anthology of Science Fiction(1953 UK), The Virgin and the Wheels(1976), & novel Rogue Queen(1951) |
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Time |
1967 OCT |
pm |
has novels in Krishna series, Cosmic Manhunt(ASF 1949 AUG-SEP as "The Queen of Zamba; 1954; rev. vt The Queen of Zamba, 1977), The Search for Zei, & The Hand of ZEI(ASF 1950-51 OCT-JAN as "The Hand of Zei"; 1962, 1963; 1982) |
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Dinosaurs in Today's World |
1968 MAR |
ar |
stories of dragons & dinosaurs & sea serpents in our recent past; Krishna series incl. novels The Tower of Zanid(SFS 1958 MAY-AUG; 1958), The Hostage of Zir(1977), The Bones of Zora(1983), The Swords of Zinjaban(1991), the last two with wife Catherine |
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Faunas |
1968 SEP |
pm |
has colls. of Robert E. Howard stories he completed, incl. Tales of Conan(1955; vt The Flame Knife, 1981), Conan(1967), etc; has nf writings on the sword & sorcery genre, The Conan Reader(1968), Blond Barbarians and Noble Savages(1975 chap) |
