| Series Code |
Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| spec |
Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Population of Lawyers Will Outstrip Forage and a Short Hunting Season Will Be Declared., The |
1997 MAY |
ct |
7th cartoon in his Speculations series |
| |
Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Disney's Ascendancy Continues Unchecked. In 2015 It Launches Its Most Ambitious Theme Park Ever. All Employees Are Expected to Follow Certain Rules. |
1997 AUG |
ct |
reprint of the 3rd cartoon in his Speculations series, 1st pub. in F&SF 1996 SEP; this time with one extra sentence |
| |
Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - It Will Become Clear That H.P. Lovecraft Was Actually a Journalist ... |
1997 SEP |
ct |
8th cartoon in his Speculations series |
| |
Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Novelty Tombstones Will Become Popular. |
1997 SEP |
ct |
9th cartoon in his Speculations series |
| |
Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Shrinking Number of Increasingly Immense Corporations Will Provide All of Our Employment, Goods, and Services, Radically Altering the Quality of ..., A |
1998 JAN |
ct |
10th cartoon in his Speculations series |
| |
Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Television—High Definition Television. |
1998 JAN |
ct |
11th cartoon in his Speculations series |
| |
Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Caller Eradication Leads to the Extinction of Telemarketers, the Jerky Boys, and Old, Alcoholic, College Friends |
1998 MAR |
ct |
12th cartoon in his Speculations series |
| |
Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Declining Literacy Will Drive the Proliferation of Pictographs. Over Time, Pictographs Will Succumb to the Shorthand of Abstraction ... Reinvigorating Literacy. |
1998 AUG |
ct |
13th cartoon in his Speculations series |
| |
Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Simple Solution to Racism, Sexism, and Lookism Will Be Found ..., A |
1998 SEP |
ct |
14th cartoon in his Speculations series |
| |
Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Cryogenically Preserved People Will Eventually Be Thawed Out ... "Mmmm, It Tastes Just Like Chicken" |
1998 DEC |
ct |
15th cartoon in his Speculations series |
| |
Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Sports Will Stop Being a Dreary Bore When the Balls Can Defend Themselves. |
1999 FEB |
ct |
16th cartoon in his Speculations series |
| |
Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Destined to Become the Most Popular of All Time, a New Superhero Will Appear ... What-You-Want-to-Hear-Man. |
1999 FEB |
ct |
17th cartoon in his Speculations series |
| |
Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Though Matter Transmitters Will Make Travel Instantaneous, Baggage Handling Problems Will Persist ... |
1999 APR |
ct |
18th cartoon in his Speculations series |
| |
Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Most Noxious Pollutant Will Finally Be Treated at Its Source., The |
1999 JUL |
ct |
19th cartoon in his Speculations series |
| |
Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - As Environmental Degradation Continues, Mutation Leave Will Become a Standard Employee Benefit. |
1999 JUL |
ct |
20th cartoon in his Speculations series |
| |
Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Politics Will Become So Degraded That Only Blatant Sociopaths Will Seek Office. |
1999 OCT/NOV |
ct |
21st cartoon in his Speculations series |
| |
Long |
Cartoon: Speculations - Starting Next Year, Every Baby Will Come Pre-Loaded With Microsoft Software. |
1999 DEC |
ct |
22nd cartoon in his Speculations series |
| spon |
Reynolds, Mack & August Derleth |
Adventure of the Snitch in Time, The |
1953 JUL |
ss |
1st story in F&SF(and a new one) in Derleth's Solar Pons series |
| |
Reynolds, Mack & August Derleth |
Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus, The |
1955 JUN |
ss |
2nd story Solar Pons series |
| sprn |
Petrey, Susan C. |
Spareen Among the Tartars |
1979 SEP |
ss |
1st story in her Spareen the Varkelan vampire/leechman-healer series, whose family lives among the Tartars on the Russian steppes; N-1980 BRG, short fiction; her 1st fiction sale |
| |
Petrey, Susan C. |
Spareen Among the Cossacks |
1981 APR |
nv |
2nd story in her Spareen the Varkelan vampire series |
| |
Petrey, Susan C. |
Healer's Touch, The |
1982 FEB |
nv |
3rd story in her Spareen the Varkelan vampire series, this one about Vaylance, the brother of Spareen; series coll. in Gifts of Blood(1990) |
| |
Petrey, Susan |
Leechcraft |
1982 MAY |
nv |
4th story in her Spareen the Varkelan vampire series |
| |
Petrey, Susan C. |
Small Changes |
1983 FEB |
ss |
5th story in her Spareen the Varkelan vampire series |
| |
Petrey, Susan C. |
Spareen and Old Turk |
1983 AUG |
ss |
6th & last story in her Spareen the Varkelan vampire series |
| sprt |
Effinger, George Alec |
25 Crunch Split Right on Two |
1975 APR |
nv |
1st sf story about sports series, this one football |
| |
Effinger, George Alec |
From Downtown at the Buzzer |
1977 NOV |
nv |
2nd & last sf story about sports series, this one basketball |
| |
Effinger, George Alec |
Breakaway |
1981 JAN |
nv |
3rd sf story about sports series, this one futuristic hockey |
| spwh |
Young, Robert F. |
Jonathan and the Space Whale |
1962 MAR |
nv |
1st story in his Space Whale series |
| |
Young, Robert F. |
Star Eel, The |
1977 JUN |
ss |
2nd story in F&SF in his Space Whale series; another story in this series in IFS 1971 OCT |
| |
Young, Robert F. |
Haute Bourgeoisie, The |
1980 JAN |
nv |
3rd story in F&SF in his Space Whale series |
| |
Young, Robert F. |
"Mindanao Deep, The" |
1980 MAR |
ss |
4th story in F&SF in his Space Whale series, is pub. in fixup novel Starfinder(1980) as "Beneath the Painted Ocean" |
| |
Young, Robert F. |
As a Man Has a Whale a Love Story |
1980 JUL |
nv |
5th & last story in F&SF in his Space Whale series; series to be coll. in fixup novel Starfinder(1980); this story in that book is broken up into the stories "Spacewhale, Space-Time," & "The Construction Company" |
| stbr |
Grant, Charles L. |
Crowd of Shadows, A |
1976 JUN |
ss |
1st & only story in F&SF in his Starburst series, about a society that has developed androids that are almost too human; W-1977 NEB; N-1977 HUG, LOC, short story; only other story in series, "A Voice Not Heard", in ASI 1984 SEP |
| strg |
Haldeman, Jack C. II & Jack Dann |
High Steel |
1982 FEB |
nv |
1st story in their John Strange series, about an American Indian orbital construction worker who holds the key to alien contact; N-1982 NEB, short story; 1983 LOC, novelette |
| |
Dann, Jack & Jack C. Haldeman II |
Sentry |
1988 FEB |
nv |
2nd & last story in their John Stranger series, pub. as a fixup novel High Steel(1993) |
| strs |
Beauclerk, Jane |
We Serve the Star of Freedom |
1964 JUL |
ss |
1st story in F&SF in Stars series; ps. for poet M(ary) J(ane) Engh; her 1st sale of a story |
| |
Beauclerk, Jean |
Lord Moon |
1965 APR |
ss |
2nd & last story in Stars series; N-1965 NEB |
| suns |
Springer, Nancy |
Amends: Tale of the Sun Kings, A |
1983 MAY |
ss |
1st & only story in F&SF in Suns series; others in series are novels in The Book of Suns seq., The Book of Suns(1977; rev. vt The Silver Sun, 1980), The White Hart(1979), The Sable Moon(1981) |
| svtz |
Niven, Larry |
Get a Horse! |
1969 OCT |
ss |
1st story in his Institute for Temporal Research, or Hanville Svetz series; a series of time-paradox comedies(3 in F&SF), are coll. in The Flight of the Horse(1973); in coll. title story was orig. titled "Get a Horse!" |
| |
Niven, Larry |
Bird in the Hand |
1970 OCT |
ss |
2nd story in his Hanville Svetz series |
| |
Niven, Larry |
There's a Wolf in My Time Machine |
1971 JUN |
ss |
3rd story in his Hanville Svetz series |
| t&t |
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki |
Airborn |
1996 MAY |
na |
1st story in F&SF in witch twins Tasha and Terry Dane series; they also appear in Matt Black series novel Past the Size of Dreaming(2001); N-1996 Homer; 1997 HUG, novella |
| tbrt |
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 |
| |
Williams, Gregg |
Plastic and Practical Jokes |
1974 MAR |
ss |
2nd & last story in TABROT, or Tuesday Night Forum series |
| thrs |
Cogswell, Theodore R. |
Threesie |
1956 JAN |
ss |
see sequels, of sorts, a triptych inspired by this story, in F&SF 1956 NOV, stories #862, 863, & 864 |
| |
Asimov, Isaac |
Brazen Locked Room, The (Gimmicks Three: I) |
1956 NOV |
ss |
part of a triptych, inspired by Cogswell's story "Threesie"(#740) in F&SF 1956 JAN |
| |
deFord, Miriam Allen |
Time Trammel (Gimmicks Three: II) |
1956 NOV |
ss |
part of a triptych, inspired by Cogswell's story "Threesie"(#740) in F&SF 1956 JAN |
| |
Cogswell, Theodore R. |
Impact with the Devil (Gimmicks Three: III) |
1956 NOV |
ss |
part of a triptych, inspired by Cogswell's story "Threesie"(#740) in F&SF 1956 JAN |
| tman |
Laidlaw, Marc |
Cartoon: Thinking Man's "Blob," The (B-Movies Remade for Discerning Viewers) |
1992 FEB |
ct |
1st cartoon in his Thinking Man's movies series |
