| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Watson, Ian |
Flesh of Her Hair, The |
1984 OCT |
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 |
| |
White Socks |
1985 FEB |
nv |
has novels The Fire Worm(INZ #17 1986 as "Jingling Geordie's Hole"; exp. 1988), in which the medieval Lambton Worm proves to be the alchemical salamander of Raymond Lully(Ramon Lull, c.1235-1316) |
| |
Skin Day, and After |
1985 JUL |
ss |
has anth. Picture at an Exhibition(1981), Afterlives: An Anthology of Stories About Life After Death(1986), the latter with Pamela Sargent; novel The Whores of Babylon(1988; N-1989 CLA), about a virtual reality Babylon in the USA(Clute) |
| |
Cold Light |
1986 APR |
nv |
N-1987 LOC, novelette; has horror novel Meat(1988), which depicts a world fighting back against those who refuse to eat meat |
| |
Queenmagic, Pawnmagic |
1986 SEP |
na |
abridged edition of his novel Queenmagic, Kingmagic(1986), pub. also in SEP, & reviewed in F&SF 1988 OCT; narrated by the pawn squire Pedino, it concerns the game of chess & the magical struggle betw. his city of Bellogard & the ebon city of Chorny |
| |
Salvage Rites |
1987 JAN |
ss |
has novels The Flies of Memory(novella in ASI 1988 SEP; exp. 1990), in which aliens memorize bits of Earth so the Universe can continue remembering itself |
| |
Evil Water |
1987 MAR |
nv |
this story to be the title story of his coll. Evil Water(1987; N-1988 LOC); has coll. Salvage Rites(1989; N-1990 LOC), Stalin's Teardrops and Other Stories(1991) |
| |
Mole Field, The |
1988 DEC |
ss |
see interviews in Charles Platt(ed): Who Writes Science Fiction(1980), Extro 1982 FEB/MAR, WRT 1993 SUM(#307, Special Ian Watson Isuue), INZ 1993 SEP & 1997 OCT; see article in The Zone #3 1995 |
| |
In the Upper Cretaceous With the Summerfire Brigade |
1990 AUG |
nv |
has sf novelizations set in the Warhammer universe of the 41st century(based on the Warhammer game), Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor(1990), ... : Space Marine(1993), ... : Harlequin(1994), & ... : Chaos Child(1995) |
| |
Looking Down on You |
1992 OCT/NOV |
ss |
story's genesis was a Dusseldorf SF convention at which he & Terry Pratchett were guests of honor ... incl. a trip to the Rhine Tower |
| |
Amber Room, The |
1995 AUG |
nv |
1st pub. in Peter Crowther & Edward Kramer(ed): Tombs(1995); has novels, Lucky's Harvest(1993), & The Fallen Moon(1994), a 2-volume extra-terrestrial epic loosely inspired by Finland's national epic, the Kalevala |
| |
Last Beast Out of the Box, The |
1997 MAY |
ss |
has novel Hard Questions(1996), a techno-thriller about quantum computers & the mystery of consciousness; about story, "one rainy day years ago, our daughter ... painted 4 cats past & present on a wooden box, & added a marmalade one ... she had foreseen" |
| |
Boy Who Lost an Hour, the Girl Who Lost Her Life, The |
1998 FEB |
ss |
has colls. The Coming of Vertumnus and Other Stories(1994; N-1995 LOC), The Great Escape(2002); poetry coll. The Lexicographer's Love Song and Other Poems(2001 chap); his poem "Ode to My Screen Saver" in WRT 1999 SPR(#315), was N-2000 RHY |
| |
Caucus Winter |
1999 JAN |
ss |
has sf novel, Oracle(1997), in which an ancient Roman soldier is propelled into the 20th century by the first test of the time-probe 'Oracle,' triggering responses from the IRA & the British Secret Service |
| Watt, T.S. |
Visitors From Venus |
1954 JUN |
vi |
1st pub. in Punch |
| Watt-Evans, Lawrence |
Spirit Dump |
1992 OCT/NOV |
ss |
(1954- ) wn. for Lawrence Watt Evans; 1st story pub. sf/f "Paranoid Fantasy #1" in American Atheist 1975 AUG; 1st novel, Lords of Dus ser., The Lure of the Basilisk(1980); Legend of Ethshar ser., latest Night of Madness(2000); see website www.sff.net |
| Webb, Charles |
Special Talent |
1954 DEC |
ss |
also in F&SF as Charles T. Webb |
| Webb, Charles T. |
BEM |
1952 NOV |
vi |
also in F&SF as Charles Webb; has vignettes "The Mink Coat" in The American Magazine 1952 OCT, "Space Opera" in OWS 1952 DEC, & "Psychobabble" in James Charlton(ed): Bred Any Good Rooks Lately?(1986) |
| Webb, Don |
Evil Miracle, The |
1994 AUG |
ss |
(1960- ) lives in Austin, TX; 1st story pub. "The Essence of Faery" in Shavertron #23 1985 JUL; has colls. The Bestseller and Other Tales(1993), The Seventh Day and After(1993), A Spell for the Fulfillment of Desire(1996); novel The Double(1998) |
| Webb, Ron |
Atomic Reaction |
1963 MAY |
pm |
(1936- ) her 1st pub. sf; ps. for Sharon Lynn Webb, a nurse & writer; has Terra Tarkington series in ASI 1979-81, about a nurse engaged in galactic escapades, coll. in novel The Adventures of Terra Tarkington(1985 fixup) |
| |
Girl With the 100 Proof Eyes, The |
1964 JUL |
ss |
her 1st pub. story; has Earth Song trilogy novels Earthchild(1982 fixup), Earth Song(1983), & Ram Song(1984), in which the introduction of an immortality process causes social upheaval(Clute); has medical horror novels Pestis 18(1987), The Halflife(1989) |
| Weiner, Andrew |
Deed, The |
1978 MAY |
nv |
(1949- ) born in London, moved to Montreal in 1974; has BA in Social Psychology; supports "myself as a freelance writer, mostly rock writing for some English magazines, also some copywriting, some psychology writing" |
| |
Comedians |
1979 FEB |
ss |
1st story pub. sf "Empire of the Sun" in Harlan Ellison(ed): Again, Dangerous Visions(1972); only became an active sf writer in the early 1980s, pub. about 25 stories in that decade(Clute) |
| |
Station Gehenna |
1982 APR |
nv |
N-1983 AUR; story expanded into a fixup novel in 1987(N-1988 LOC); the protagonist is sent to Station Gehenna to investigate a murder involving the station crew on the partially terraformed planet(Clute)(see review of novel in F&SF 1987 SEP) |
| |
Letter, The |
1982 NOV |
ss |
an sf critic, his non-fiction has been pub. in Books in Canada Magazine, Quantum, SF Guide, Short Form, and the NYRSF |
| |
On the Ship |
1983 MAY |
ss |
has short story "Distant Signals" in TWZ 1984 MAY/JUN, which was televised in the Tales From the Darkside TV series(Clute) |
| |
Going to Meet the Alien |
1987 AUG |
nv |
|
| |
Man Who Was Lucky, The |
1988 JUN |
ss |
has coll. Distant Signals and Other Stories(1990) |
| |
New Man, A |
1992 JUL |
ss |
has stories "Distant Signals" in TWZ 1984 MAY/JUN, & "Going Native" in Night Cry 1985 WIN, which were made into episodes of the TV series Tales from the Dark Side(92 episodes; 1984-1988) |
| |
Seeing |
1992 SEP |
na |
N-1992 HOM; 1993 AUR; 1st/only story in F&SF in Daniel ser., about a strange boy w. special gifts; Daniel & the other characters are also in story "Getting Near the End" in McEnroe(ed): Proteus(1981) & in coll. Distant Signals and Other Stories(1990) |
| |
Purple Pill, The |
1996 FEB |
ss |
has coll. This Is the Year Zero(1998); this story "is a kind of update to Rog Phillips' story 'The Yellow Pill'(in ASF 1958 OCT) ... in a certain sense it is autobiographical"; see website www.sfwriter.com/egweiner.htm |
| Weiner, David |
Chaparral, The |
1983 NOV |
nv |
no information on this person could be found, but if his middle initial is 'L.,' he might be the author of this book, David L. Weiner: ID - Battling the Inner Dummy: The Craziness of Apparently Normal People(1999) |
| Wellen, Edward |
Seven Day's Wonder |
1963 MAR |
ss |
(1919- ) writer almost exclusively of short stories, lives in New Rochelle; 1st story pub. sf was a spoof "Origins of Galactic Slang" in GAL 1952 JUL, followed by a series of Galactic Origins spoofs in GAL thru 1962 |
| |
Book of Elijah, The |
1964 JAN |
ss |
some of Wellen's Galactic Origin spoofs pub. in GAL were reprinted in Martin Greenberg(ed): All About the Future(1955) |
| |
Buffoon |
1964 DEC |
nv |
has 1st novel, Hijack(VSF 1970 MAY; 1971), in which the Mafia learns the U.S. govt. is secretly preparing to escape the solar system, & muscles in on the action(Clute) |
| |
No Other Gods |
1972 APR |
ss |
between 1952-1993, Wellen has pub. over 65 short stories in sf/f & mystery magazines, & over has stories in about 18 anth. |
| |
Chalk Talk |
1973 MAR |
vi |
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Androids Don't Cry |
1973 MAY |
ss |
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Film Buff |
1973 JUL |
ss |
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Cryonauts, The |
1973 SEP |
ss |
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Mouthpiece |
1974 FEB |
na |
a 1935 gangster comes back to life in a Vietnam vet's college program and via telephone & computer connections, ruthlessly seeks to recover his fortune |
| |
Thataway |
1974 JUN |
ss |
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| |
Second Fall, or Anthony Comstock's Final Victory, The |
1974 DEC |
ss |
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Sanity Clause |
1975 JAN |
ss |
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| |
Deadpan |
1975 JUL |
na |
"a wild thriller concerning a project to restore the Delphic Oracle around a computer installation, the mysterious death of the computer's designer, & the investigations of his son" |
| |
Ransom |
1977 JUL |
ss |
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| |
Further Deponent Sayeth Not |
1977 NOV |
ss |
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Bearings |
1978 FEB |
nv |
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Goldbrick |
1978 NOV |
na |
"the adventures of Lt. Stonewall J. Buckmaster, on assignment to the 10th Experimental Company" |
| |
While-You-Wait |
1979 JAN |
ss |
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