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| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Wightman, Wayne |
Metaphysical Gun, The |
1986 FEB |
nv |
N-1987 LOC, novelette |
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Cage 37 |
1987 APR |
nv |
N-1988 LOC, novelette |
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Rat Run |
1988 OCT |
ss |
has pub. over 35 short stories, between 1980-1999, in mags. AMZ, FAN, F&SF, ASI, PLP, Omni, The Thirteenth Moon, & in anth. Charles L. Grant(ed): Shadows #6(1983), and Lewis Shiner(ed): When the Music's Over(1991) |
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Return of the Electrovoids, The |
1989 MAY |
nv |
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Somewhere Dreamers Wake |
1989 SEP |
ss |
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Pardon My Extremities |
1990 JAN |
ss |
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Unnatural Strangers |
1990 APR |
ss |
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King of the Neanderthals, The |
1990 NOV |
nv |
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Cretaceous Waltz, The |
1992 JAN |
ss |
"a quirky & sentimental love story with a strange twist"; has 1st book, coll. Ganglion and Other Stories(1995) |
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Attack of the Ignoroids, The |
1999 AUG |
nv |
working on "a non-fiction self-realization book for people who think human beings are evolutionary dead-ends," which probably influenced this story |
| Wightman, Wayne & Richard Paul Russo |
Idiot's Dream, The |
1997 DEC |
nv |
neither has done much collab. work before; Wightman says their key to success is that "Richard is sincere, and I don't care" |
| Wilber, Rick |
Calculating Love |
1992 MAR |
ss |
(1948- ) working name for Richard Arnold Wilber; lives in St. Petersburg, FL; has Ed.D from Southern Illinois Univ.; a college teacher for over 25 years, he teaches journalism at the Univ. of South Florida; book reviewer for The St. Petersburg Times |
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Ice Covers the Hole |
1992 DEC |
nv |
N-1993 NEB, novelette; co-editor with Richard Mathews of Sub-Tropical Speculations(1991), an anth. of Florida-themed sf; has ya mystery, The Secret Skater(1996), as by Robin Aran; edits Fiction Quarterly, the Tampa Tribune literary supplement |
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Straight Changes |
1998 APR |
ss |
baseball story; has coll. Where Garagiola Waits and Other Baseball Stories(1999), in which Wilber discusses, in story intros & notes, how baseball, family, & writing came together in these pieces(B&C); he's the fiction editor at GalaxyOnline.com |
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Imagine Jimmy |
1999 APR |
ss |
has nf books Magazine Feature Writing(1995), The Writer's Handbook for Editing and Revision(1996), Modern Media Teaching(2001), Feature Writing(2001); novel To Leuchars(2000); see his website at http://circle.greyware.com/people/Rick.Wilber |
| Wilbur, Rick |
Where Garagiola Waits |
1997 APR |
ss |
N-1997 NEB, ss; baseball spring training story; R.W. the son of baseball player Del Wilber who was a catcher for St. Louis, Philadelphia & Boston between 1946-1954, after which he had a successful career coaching, scouting & managing in the minors |
| Wilde, Niall |
Divvil With the Women, A |
1960 JAN |
ss |
(1905-1978) 1st pub. in Science-Fantasy #16, in 1955, as "Heart's Desire"; ps. for Eric Frank Russell, also been spelled Nialle at times; his 1st story pub. "The Saga of Pelican West" in ASF 1937 FEB; 1st novel Sinister Barrier(UNK 1939 MAR; 1943; 1948) |
| Wilde, Oscar |
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime |
1964 MAR |
nv |
(1854-1900) 1st pub. in Court and Society Review, 1887 MAY & in coll. of same name(1891); Anglo-Irish writer; has poetry Poems(1881), The Sphinx(1894), The Canterville Ghost(1887); wrote plays 1891-5; most famous story The Picture of Dorian Gray(1891) |
| Wilde, Percival |
Extreme Airiness of Duton Lang, The |
1951 JUN |
ss |
(1887-1953) 1st pub. in ESQ 1939 APR; wrote many Broadway plays & books coll. his plays; nf The Craftmanship of the One Act Play(1923; 1951); coll. Rogues in Clover(1929; The Popular Mag. 1924-5), ser. about ex-card sharp Bill Parmalee exposing gamblers |
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Haunted Ticker, The |
1951 DEC |
nv |
1st pub. in The Popular Magazine, 20 MAY 1923; has mystery novels Mystery Weekend(1938), Inquest(1940), Design for Murder(1941), Tinsley's Bones(1942); coll. of spoofs P. Moran, Operative(1947); see http://members.aol.com/MG4273/unalign.htm#Wilde |
| Wiles, A.F. |
Cartoon |
1953 AUG |
ct |
1st pub. in Punch, 14 SEP 1952 |
| Wilhelm, Kate |
Time to Keep, A |
1962 JAN |
ss |
(1928- ) born in Toledo, OH; married Damon Knight in 1963; 1st story pub. sf "The Pint-Sized Genie" in FAN 1956 OCT; in 1958 helped found Milford Science Fiction Writers' Workshop with Knight, & Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop in 1968 |
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Man Without a Planet, The |
1962 JUL |
ss |
wn. for Katie Wilhelm Knight; has coll. The Mile-Long Spaceship(1963); 1st novel mys., More Bitter Than Death(1963); 1st sf novel The Clone(1965) w. Theodore L. Thomas; The Nevermore Affair(1966); W-1968 NEB(ss) for "The Planners" in Knight: Orbit 3(1968) |
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Stranger in the House |
1968 FEB |
na |
"this is a story about an alien probe of Earth ... focuses on the small group of people who are directly affected, among them Mandy, who is married to Robert"; has novels The Killing Thing(1967), Let the Fire Fall(1969); coll. The Downstairs Room(1968) |
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Whatever Happened to the Olmecs? |
1973 OCT |
nv |
has colls. Abyss(1971), The Infinity Box(1975; title story N-1971 NEB, na), Somerset Dreams(1978), Listen, Listen(1981), Children of the Wind(1989); fixup novel Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang(1976; W-1977 HUG, JUP, JWC, LOC; N-1976 NEB) |
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Disassembler, The |
1987 OCT |
ss |
has novels Margaret and I(1971), The Clewiston Test(1976; W-1995 TIP), Juniper Time(1979; W-1981 Apollo), A Sense of Shadow(1981), The Winter Beach(1981), Oh, Susannah(1982), Welcome Chaos(1983); see iv's in Platt: Who Writes S. F.?(1980), & TofU 1987 SPR |
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Naming the Flowers |
1993 FEB |
na |
N-1993 HOM, HUG, LOC, NEB, na; 1st pub. by Axolotl Press in 1992; has P.I. Charlie Meiklejohn & psychologist Constance Leidl ser., The Hamlet Trap(1987), The Dark Door(1988), Smart House(1989), Sweet, Sweet Poison(1990), Seven Kinds of Death(1992) |
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Forget Luck |
1996 APR |
ss |
N-1997 HUG, LOC, ss; 1st story in F&SF in Tony Manetti ser.; also in Charlie & Constance mystery ser., coll. of five na's, A Flush of Shadows(1995), omnibus The Casebook of Constance and Charlie, Vol. 1 & 2(1999 & 2000); see her entry in CANR, vol.60 |
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Happiest Day of Her Life, The |
1999 OCT/NOV |
nv |
2nd story in F&SF in Tony Manetti ser.; has Eugene, OR, defense attorney Barbara Holloway ser. Death Qualified(1991), The Best Defense(1994), Malice Prepense(1996), Defense for the Devil(1999), No Defense(2000); psychological novel The Good Children(1999) |
| Williams, C. Herb |
Canyons of the Mind |
1980 JUL |
ss |
has nf book with Walt Neubrech, Indian Treaties: American Nightmare(1976), which deals with controversial legal battles of the 1970s; also has short story "Partners" in AMZ 1991 JAN |
| Williams, Gregg |
Computer and the Oriental, The |
1973 JUL |
ss |
1st story of 2 in his TABROT(Tactical Army Base Research Outpost No. Two), aka Tuesday Night Forum series; a student at Memphis State Univ., studying drama |
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Plastic and Practical Jokes |
1974 MAR |
ss |
2nd & last story in TABROT, or Tuesday Night Forum series; has book with Paul Dreyfus, The Unauthorized Strategy Guide to The Magic: The Gathering Card Game(1995) |
| Williams, Jay |
Asa Rule, The |
1956 JUN |
ss |
(1914-1978) has 11 sf/f stories pub. between 1956-1962 in F&SF, ASF, & FUN; posthumous coll. Unearthly Beasts and Other Strange People(1979); nf travel book, A Change of Climate(1956) |
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Mr. Guthrie's Cold War |
1956 OCT |
ss |
1st pub. in The Woman's Journal, in 1954 |
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Little Tin God |
1958 JAN |
ss |
has historical novels, The Witches(1958), set in 1590 Scotland, tells of the conspiracy against the Scottish king James VI, who was later to become England's king James I; Solomon & Sheba(1959) |
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Operation Ladybird |
1959 AUG |
nv |
has Danny Dunn juvenile science-fact adventure series, with Raymond Abrashkin, Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint(1956), D.D. on a Desert Island(1957), D.D. and the Homework Machine(1959), D.D. and the Weather Machine(1959) |
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Beetle, The |
1961 MAR |
ss |
also in juvenile Danny Dunn series with Raymond Abrashkin, Danny Dunn on the Ocean Floor(1960), D.D. and the Fossil Cave(1961), D.D. and the Heat Ray(1962), D.D., Time Traveler(1963), D.D. and the Voice from Space(1967) |
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Somebody to Play With |
1961 MAY |
ss |
also in juvenile Danny Dunn series with Raymond Abrashkin, Danny Dunn and the Smallifying Machine(1969), D.D. and the Swamp Monster(1971), D.D., the Invisible Boy(1974), D.D., Scientific Detective(1975), D.D. and the Universal Glue(1977) |
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Interplanetary Sex |
1962 JAN |
ar |
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Gifts of the Gods |
1962 APR |
ss |
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| Williams, Robert Moore |
Aurochs Came Walking |
1953 DEC |
ss |
(1907-1977) 1st story pub. sf "Zero as a Limit" in ASF 1937 JUL, as by Robert Moore; has Jongor series(FAD 1940-51) of novels pub. in book form in 1970; has novel Doomsday Eve(1957), etc; autobiography Love Is Forever – We Are for Tonight(1970) |
| Williams, Tad |
Monsieur Vergalant's Canard |
1995 SEP |
ss |
(1957- ) wn. for Robert Paul Williams; 1st novel Tailchaser's Song('85; N-'86 LOC); Child of an Ancient City('92) w. Nina Kiriki Hoffman; has Otherland ser., City of Golden Shadow('96), etc; N-1986 JWCA; see iv in LOC 1995 JAN, & www.tadwilliams.com |
| Williams, Walter Jon |
Side Effects |
1985 JUN |
nv |
(1953- ) N-1986 LOC, ss; lives in NM; 1st works were 5 naval adventures in Privateer & Gentlemen ser., The Privateer(1981), etc, as by Jon Williams; 1st pub. sf novel Ambassador of Progress(1984); Knight Moves(1985; N-1986 DIC), Aristoi(1992; N-1993 LOC) |
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Wall, Stone, Craft |
1993 OCT/NOV |
na |
N-1993 HOM, NEB; 1994 HUG, LOC, SFC, WFA; 1st pub. by Axolotl Press, 1993; Hardwired ser., Hardwired('86), Voice of the Whirlwind('87); Metropolitan ser., Metropolitan('95), City on Fire('97); coll. Frankenstein and Foreign Devils('98); iv in LOC '96 SEP |
| Williamson, Chet |
Scent of the Soul, A |
1983 AUG |
ss |
(1948- ) working name for Chester Carlton Williamson, writer/producer of industrial shows; lives in Elizabethtown, PA; 1st story pub. fantasy/horror "Offices" in TWZ 1981 OCT; writes mostly horror stories & novels |
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Rosinante |
1984 APR |
ss |
story was sparked "when I saw (in a film) a hideous old horse, a dead ringer for Cervantes' Rosinante, & wondered what Don Quixote might have been like through the horse's point of view" |
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Will the Real Sam Starburst ... |
1984 JUN |
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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Matter of Sensitivity, A |
1985 JAN |
ss |
has novel Ash Wednesday(1987; N-1988 STO), which studies the ravages of guilt, as all the people who ever died in a small Pennsylvania town suddenly return as ghosts to confront the town's residents(Clute) |
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Letters to Mother |
1987 APR |
ss |
has horror novels Lowland Rider(1988), set in a NYC subway; Dreamthorp(1989), set in a small Pennsylvania town; The House of Fear(1989 chap); mystery novel McKain's Dilemma(1989), about a married gay man & a killing over AIDS |
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Play Dead |
1987 AUG |
ss |
has interviews in TWZ 1986 JUL/AUG, Fear! 1989 JAN/FEB, Stanley J. Wiater(ed): Night Visions 7(1989), The Blood Review 1990 APR, WRT 1990 FLL(a Special Chet Williamson Issue), & Haunts #24 1992; see article in CMD 1990 SUM |
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