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Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1953 APR |
Saari, Oliver |
Space Man, The |
ss |
(1919?-2000) Oliver E. Saari; native of Finland, came to the US in the 1920s, grew up in Minneapolis; an early sf fan, he belonged to & helped to organized the Minneapolis Fantasy Society; 1st story pub. "The Stellar Exodus" in ASF 1937 FEB |
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McKnight, John P. |
Bird Talk |
vi |
has nf book, The Papacy: A New Appraisal(1952), an examination of the religious & doctrinal aspects of the Papacy as well as its political influence |
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Schenck, Hilbert Jr |
Tomorrow's Weather |
ss |
(1926- ) his 1st pub. story; Hilbert van Nydeck Schenck Jr; engineer, university lecturer, writer; also in F&SF as Hilbert Schenck, beginning in 1977 |
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Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Recommended Reading |
br |
M. Gardner: In the Name of Science(nf); C. Ryan(ed): Across the Space Frontier(nf); Vonnegut: Player Piano; Asimov: The Currents of Space; C.L. Moore: Judgment Night; Williamson: The Legion of Space; Vance Randolph: Who Blowed Up the Church House? |
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Bretnor, R. |
Cat |
ss |
edited book Modern Science Fiction, Its Meaning and Its Future(1953; slightly exp. 1979); also in F&SF with co-author Kris Neville |
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Reines, Donald F. |
Shape of Copyright to Come, The |
ar |
1st pub. in the Information Bulletin of the Library of Congress, 1952 AUG; this article is reprinted as "Interplanetary Copyright" in Martin Greenberg(ed): Coming Attractions(1957) |
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Ready, W.B. |
Devlin |
ss |
his 1st story pub. "Barring the Weight" in ATL, in 1948; has novel The Poor Hater: A Story of Ireland and America(1958) as William Ready, about an Irishman who comes to America in the mid-19th century |
| 1953 MAY |
Anderson, Poul |
When Half-Gods Go |
ss |
1st story pub. sf "Tomorrow's Children," with F.N. Waldrop in ASF 1947 MAR; 1st novel Vault of the Ages(1952); has coll. of his best early stories, Alight in the Void(1991); occasionally used the pseudonyms A.A. Craig & Winston P. Sanders(latter in F&SF) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Snulbug |
ss |
reprint of his 1st pub. sf story, 1st pub. in UNK 1941 DEC; has a piece of juvenalia pub. "Ye Goode Olde Ghoste Storie" in WRT 1927 JAN; Boucher has written several hundred radio plays(Sherlock Holmes, Gregory Hood, etc) |
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Ludwig, Edward W. |
Occupation |
ss |
(1920-1990) writer, editor & publisher; has novel The Mask of John Culon(1970), in which the protagonist awakens from suspended animation to a dystopia dominated by a repressive religion(Clute); coll. The 7 Shapes of Solomon Bean(1983) |
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Porges, Arthur |
Story Conference |
ss |
influenced by the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Saki, O. Henry, T.H. Huxley, Samuel Johnson, G.K. Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, R.L. Stevenson, Charles Dickens, & Edgar Wallace(from his fan website) |
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Crow, Levi |
Young-Man-With-Skull-at-His-Ear |
nv |
(1903-1986) 1st story Plain Indians folktales series; ps. for Manly Wade Wellman(& in F&SF as such); Wellman W-1946 EDG for mystery short story "A Star for a Warrior" featuring Native American detective David Return, "the 1st truly American detective" |
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MacDonald, John D. |
Labor Supply |
ss |
(1916-1986) 1st story in F&SF in his Dr. Travis Vrees ser.; 1st story pub. sf "Cosmetics" in ASF 1948 FEB; has novels The Girl, the Gold Watch, & Everything(1962), The Executioners(1958; 1962, 1991 movies, Cape Fear) ; W-1971 Grand Master Edgar Award |
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McClintic, Winona |
There Did Not Remain a Word to Say |
ss |
Born 1921, in Germany, of American parents. Grew up in southern California. Educated at Mills College (Oakland) and UC Berkeley. Married William E. Martin in the mid-50s. Moved to the Netherlands with her husband and children in 1962. Passed away in 1977. |
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McMorrow, Tom Jr |
Leap Year Day |
ss |
has pub. sf stories in STS 1953 OCT, & TWS 1954 WIN, & SPR; has also pub. 4 short stories in PST betw. 1950-1958, wrote for The Saturday Evening Post and Argosy; his father was Thomas McMorrow(1886-1957) who wrote for The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's |
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Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Recommended Reading |
br |
R. Bretnor: Modern S.F., Its Meaning and Its Future(nf); Frederik Pohl(ed): Star S.F. Stories; Andre Norton(ed): Space Service; August Derleth(ed): Worlds of Tomorrow; Kendell F. Crossen(ed): Future Tense; Groff Conklin(ed): S.-F. Adventures in Dimension |
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Lasswitz, Kurd |
Aladdin's Lamp |
ss |
1st written in 1888, 1st pub. in ?; trans. from the German by Willy Ley; novel trans. into English, Two Planets(1971, a much cut version) |
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Moore, Ward |
Lot |
nv |
1st story in Lot, or David Jimmon, series, see sequel #540, F&SF 1954 OCT; winner 3rd place best story of 1953 in F&SF(see contest results, 1954 MAY); describes nuclear holocaust & its consequences, an exodus from doomed L.A., analagous to Sodom(Clute) |
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Lyon, Dana |
Mr. Elsie Smith |
vi |
(1897-1982) her 1st fantasy ss, usually a mys. novelist; wn. for Mabel Dana Lyons; has novels Retaliation(1934), It's My Own Funeral(1944), The Frightened Child(1948; 1951 movie The House on Telegraph Hill), The Tentacles(1950), The Trusting Victim(1964) |
| 1953 JUN |
Harness, Charles L. |
Child by Chronos |
ss |
began a series of patent office spoofs in ASF as by Leonard Lockhart in 1952; series was collab. with Theodore L. Thomas, also a patent attorney, then left for Thomas to continue alone(1954-62), all as by L.L.; has 2nd novel The Ring of Ritornel(1968) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Flies |
ss |
(1920-1992) born in Petrovichi, Russia, came to the U.S. in 1923; discovered sf through pulps sold in his father's candy store; 1st story pub. sf "Marooned Off Vesta" in AMZ 1939 MAR; Futurian; BS & PhD in Chemistry from Columbia Univ. in 1939 & 1948 |
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Neville, Kris |
It Pays to Advertise |
ss |
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Agnew, Bruce A. |
Key, The |
vi |
his 1st pub. story |
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Pederson, Con |
August People, The |
ss |
(1934- ) born in MN, moved to CA in 1943; has BA in Art from UCLA; attended animation school in Theater Arts at UCLA; worked for Disney writing their "Man on the Moon" & "Mars and Beyond" TV programs; W-1998 Oscar, Contributions to Special Effects |
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Charteris, Leslie |
Man Who Liked Ants, The |
ss |
1st pub. in Double Detective, 1937 DEC; 2nd story in F&SF from The Saint series(2nd of only two sf-horror Saint story); The Saint 1st appeared in movies in The Saint in New York(1938), and there were at least 6 more movies between 1939-54 |
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Robin, Ralph |
Mr. Prime |
ss |
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Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Ray Bradbury: The Golden Apples of the Sun; Simak: Ring Around the Sun; Menzel: Flying Saucers; Mallan(ed): The Mystery of Other Worlds Revealed; Nelson Brown: Sheridan Le Fanu(bio); Robert Ashley: Wilkie Collins(bio) |
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Pascal, David |
Cartoon: "Beware of Robot" |
ct |
has illus. book Charles Issawi: Issawi's Laws of Social Motion(1973); has books w. Eddie Frederics: The Art of Inferior Decorating(1963); w. Walter Herdeg: The Art of the Comic Strip(1972); see entries in editions of The National Cartoonists Society Album |
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Dick, Philip K. |
Preserving Machine, The |
ss |
1st story in F&SF in his inventor Dr. Rupert Labyrinth series; 1st pub. novel Solar Lottery(1955), novels The World Jones Made(1956), The Man Who Japed (1956), Eye in the Sky(1957), The Cosmic Puppets(SAT 1956 DEC as "A Glass of Darkness"; exp. 1957) |
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Porges, Arthur |
Strange Birth |
vi |
has used ps. Peter Arthur(in FAN 1960 DEC & 1961 JAN), & Pat Rogers(in Fear! 1960 MAY), in issues in which he already had a story under his own name; see his fan website at www.fortunecity.co.uk/jodrellbank/gargoyle/7/ |
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Blish, James |
First Strike |
ss |
(1921-1975) member of the Futurians; 1st story pub. "Emergency Refueling" in SSS 1940 MAR; graduated from Rutgers in 1942, lab tech in Army; did postgraduate work in Zoology at Columbia Univ. in 1945-46, married to Viginia Kidd 1947-63 |
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McClintic, Winona |
His Master's Voice |
pm |
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Ready, W.B. |
Weerawannas |
ss |
best known for his early Tolkien study, The Tolkien Relation: A Personal Inquiry(1968, 1981; vt Understanding Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings, 1969), as William Ready |
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McClintic, Winona |
Two Voices, The |
pm |
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Hershman, Morris |
Happy Traitor, The |
vi |
(1920- ) has sf novel Shareworld(1972; vt The Crash of 2086, 1976); writes mys. stories & novels under ps. Evelyn Bond, Arnold English, Norman Hunt, Sam Victor; romance under ps. Bond, Ian Kavanaugh, Sara Roffman, Janet Templeton, Lionel Webb, etc. |
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Nearing, H. Jr |
Maladjusted Classroom, The |
ss |
9th story in Profs. Ransom & MacTate series |
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Smith, Evelyn E. |
Last of the Spode, The |
ss |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 4: 1953 JAN-JUN |
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| 1953 JUL |
Gresham, William Lindsay |
Star Gypsies, The |
ss |
(1909-1962) born in Baltimore, MD; moved when a child to NYC where he became enthralled with Coney Island; has carny novel, Nightmare Alley(1946; 1947 movie); nf book Monster Midway: An Uninhibited Look at the Glittering World of the Carny(1953) |
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McClintic, Winona |
Vampire, The |
pm |
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Reynolds, Mack & August Derleth |
Adventure of the Snitch in Time, The |
ss |
(1917-1983; 1909-1971) story Derleth's Solar Pons ser., Sherlock Holmes pastiches; books in ser. - In Re: Sherlock Holmes(1945), The Memoirs of S.P.(1951; N-1951 EDG), Three Problems for S.P.(1952), The Return of S.P.(1958), The Reminiscences of S.P.('61) |
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Anthony, John |
Hypnoglyph, The |
ss |
(1916-1985) ps. for John Ciardi, well-known poet, Prof. of English & editor |
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de Camp, L. Sprague & Fletcher Pratt |
Untimely Toper, The |
ss |
10th story Gavagan's Bar series; Pratt has coll. Double in Space(1951); anth. World of Wonder(1951), The Petrified Planet(1952), the latter a Twayne Triplet, was the 1st shared-world anthology to appear in the genre |
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Dryfoos, Dave |
Man |
vi |
David M. Dryfoos |
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Porges, Arthur |
Mop-Up |
ss |
a lover of classical music, this passion is shown in his stories "Words and Music"(IFS 1960 SEP), "The Mozart Annuity"(FAN 1962 NOV), "The Perfect Pitcher" in AHMM 1961 SEP, & "The Second Debut"(AHMM 1968 AUG)(from his fan website) |
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Goldsmith, Ruth M. |
Yankee Exodus |
ss |
(1919- ) her 1st pub. story; also has short story "Moonshine" in the Atlantic Monthly 1956 MAY |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Model of a Science Fiction Editor, The |
pm |
was a mystery reviewer(as Holmes) for the San Francisco Chronicle, EQMM, & the N.Y. Times Book Review; he won EDG in 1945 & 1950 for his criticism; reviewed science-fantasy(as Boucher) for the S.F. Chronicle, the Chicago Sun Times, the N.Y. Herald Tribune |
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James, Henry |
Friends of the Friends, The |
nv |
(1843-1916) 1st pub. in Chap Book, 1896 MAY, as "The Way It Came"; has colls. The Two Magics(1898), The Ghostly Tales of Henry James(1949); novel The Turn of the Screw(COL JAN 17-APR 16, 1898) made into movies The Innocents(1961), The Nightcomers(1971) |
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McClintic, Winona |
Antiquary, The |
pm |
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Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Bester: The Demolished Man; Pohl & Kornbluth: The Space Merchants; Kendell F. Crossen: Once Upon a Star; George O. Smith: Hellflower; Groff Conklin(ed): The Supernatural Reader; Allan Barnard: The Harlot Killer(Ripper anth.); Edwin A. Abbott: Flatland |
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