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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1954 SEP |
Morrison, William |
There Ought to Be a Lore |
ss |
under house ps. Brett Sterling, wrote two Captain Future tales, "Worlds to Come"(CFU 1943 SPR), & "Days of Creation"(CFU 1944 SPR; vt The Tenth Planet, 1969) |
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Rigsby, Howard |
One Fine Day |
vi |
(1909-1975) ps. for Vechel Howard; his 1st sf story; has 1st mys. novel Murder for the Holidays(1951); Kill and Tell(1951), Lucinda(1954), As a Man Falls(1954), The Avenger(1957)The Tulip Tree(1963); westerns Rage in Texas(1953), The Reluctant Gun(1957) |
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Finney, Jack |
There Is a Tide … |
ss |
1st pub. in COL, 2 AUG 1952; has colls. The Third Level(1957) & I Love Galesburg in the Springtime(1963) - assembled together as About Time: Twelve Stories(1986), & Forgotten News: The Crime of the Century and Other Lost Stories(1983); obit LOC 1995 DEC |
| 1954 OCT |
Moore, Ward |
Lot's Daughter |
nv |
2nd & last story in Lot, or David Jimmon, series, sequel to story "Lot," #336, F&SF 1953 MAY; the Lot stories were used as an uncredited basis for the movie Panic in the Year Zero(1962)(Clute) |
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Novotny, John |
Angry Peter Brindle, The |
ss |
his stories have appeared chiefly in Esquire; betw. 1958-1963, he has pub. stories in the men's mags. Dude, & Escapade |
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Wolf, Leonard |
Robot Lonely |
pm |
has biography, Bluebeard: The Life and Crimes of Gilles de Rais(1980); trans. from the Yiddish, Der Nister(Pinhas Kahanovitch): The Family Mashber(1987), the story of 3 brothres in Russia before the revolution |
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Broughton, Rhoda |
Man With the Nose, The |
ss |
(1840-1920) 1st pub. in Temple Bar, 1872 OCT & in her coll. Tales for Christmas Eve(1873; republished as Twilight Stories in 1879 & 1947); has novels Belinda(1884), Not Wisely But Too Well(1904) |
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Smith, Evelyn E. |
At Last I've Found You |
ss |
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Sheckley, Robert |
Slow Season, The |
ss |
Sheckley lives in Portland, OR; has colls. Notions: Unlimited(1960), Store of Infinity(1960), Shards of Space(1962), The People Trap and Other Pitfalls(1968), Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?(1971), The Robot Who Looked Like Me(1978 UK) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Foundation of S.F. Success, The |
pm |
'Three Laws of Robotics' 1st appeared in "Liar!"(Robot series) in ASF 1941 MAY; has novelette "Nightfall," in ASF 1941 SEP, by many polls the best all-time short sf story; novel version of story, Nightfall(1990 UK) written with Robert Silverberg |
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Morrison, William |
Music of the Sphere |
nv |
has juvenile sf novel(his only book), Mel Oliver and Space Rover on Mars(1954), as by William Morrison |
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Dunsany, Lord |
Misadventure |
vi |
1st pub. in his coll. Jorkens Downs Another Whiskey(1954); 1st story in F&SF in Mr. Jorkens Club ser.; coll. The Sword of Welleran(1908), illus. by Simes, has story "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth" that created sword & sorcery genre(Clute) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Geoffrey Kerr: Under the Influence; Marghanita Laski: The Victorian Chaise Lounge; J.B. Priestley: The Magicians; Gore Vidal: Messiah; Thyra Samter Winslow: The Sex Without Sentiment; Sax Rohmer: Return of Sumuru; Robert Payne: The Deluge |
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Kneale, Nigel |
Peg (Legends of War ... and Women: I) |
ss |
(1922- ) 1st pub. in his coll. Tomato Cain(1949); working name for Thomas Nigel Kneale, U.K. author & screenwriter; scripted Quatermass serials for BBC-TV (1953-68) |
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Stanton, Will |
Girl in the Flaxen Convertible, The (Legends of War ... and Women: II) |
ss |
1st pub. in ESQ 1953 OCT |
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Coppel, Alfred |
Mars Is Ours |
ss |
has political thrillers Thirty-Four East(1974), The Dragon(1977), The Hastings Conspiracy(1980), The Apocalypse Brigade(1981); has alternate history novel The Burning Mountain: A Novel of the Invasion of Japan(1983) |
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Wolf, Leonard |
Rules for an Invasion |
pm |
has historical novel The False Messiah(1982), based on the life of Shabbatai Zevi(1626-76); novel The Glass Mountain(1993) |
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Smith, Clark Ashton |
Prophecy of Monsters, A |
vi |
(1893-1961) by 1911 sold stories to The Black Cat & The Overland Monthly; his best early fiction in colls. The Star-Treader(1912), Ebony & Crystal(1923); has colls. Out of Space and Time(1942; 1974), Lost Worlds(1944; 1974), Other Dimensions(1970) |
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Clingerman, Mildred |
Letters From Laura |
ss |
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??? |
Cartoon |
ct |
1st pub. in Punch, 9 DEC 1953 |
| 1954 NOV |
Merril, Judith |
Dead Center |
nv |
(1923-1997) ps. for Josephine Juliet Grossman, legally changed her name to Judith Merril; born in NYC, editor at Bantam in 1947, freelance editor since1949; 1st story pub. sf "That Only a Mother" in ASF 1948 JUN; married to Frederik Pohl 1949-53 |
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Siegel, Larry |
Dead-Eye Daniel |
ss |
has short story "How Not to Write a Best Seller" in PBY 1960 OCT, reprinted in Hugh M. Hefner(ed): The Bedside Playboy(1963) |
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Porges, Arthur |
Grom, The |
ss |
has used ps. Derek Page for story "The 60-Minute Egg" in Bizarre! Mystery Magazine, 1965 NOV; has pub. many mystery stories in AHMM, EQMM, MSMM, & The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Magazine |
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Grimes, Lee |
Lease on Life |
ss |
a Southern California newspaperman |
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Matheson, Richard |
Test, The |
ss |
has screenplays of other artists work, Master of the World(1961; Jules Verne's 1904 novel), Night of the Eagle(1962; aka Burn, Witch, Burn!; Fritz Leiber's 1943 novel Conjure Wife), Die! Die! My Darling!(1965; aka Fanatic; Anne Blaisdell's novel) |
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Oliver, Chad |
Transformer |
ss |
has novel Shadows in the Sun(1954), in which a Texas annthropologist(much like himself) man discovers that the people of a Texas town(much like Crystal City, TX, where he lived) are aliens judging man for entry into galactic citizenship |
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Shango, J.R. |
Matter of Ethics, A |
ss |
ps. for Clifton L. Dance, a physician; also in F&SF as Clifton Dance |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
1954 IFA winner & runners-up, Sturgeon: More Than Human; Bester: The Demolished Man; Pohl & Kornbluth: The Space Merchants; also reviewed nf Charles Coombs: Skyrocketing into the Unknown; Harold Leland Goodwin: The Science Book of Space Travel |
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Hamilton, Edmond |
Sacrifice Hit |
nv |
(1904-1977) wrote 1st story at age 14 "The Plant that Was Alive," didn't sell; 1st story pub. "The Monster-God of Mamurth" in WRT 1926 AUG; has coll. The Horror on the Asteroid & Other Tales of Planetary Horror(1936); married Leigh Brackett in 1946 |
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de Camp, L. Sprague & Fletcher Pratt |
Weissenbroch Spectacles, The |
ss |
12th story Gavagan's Bar series; stories from series coll. in Tales from Gavagan's Bar(1953; exp. 1978); exp. version incl. series stories pub. in WRT(1951 NOV, 1952 SEP, 1953 MAR) & in FUN(1959 JAN, OCT) & incl. one original story |
| 1954 DEC |
Boucher, Anthony |
Note From the Editor |
note |
description of this issue's cover by Chesley Bonestell & to announce 4 more by Bonestell in the next year; Boucher also has mystery novels The Case of the Solid Key(1942), & The Case of the Seven Sneezes(1942) |
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Abernathy, Robert |
Fishers, The |
nv |
Abernathy has published at least 30 sf stories in the 1940s & 1950s in magazines as diverse as Astounding, Planet Stories, Science Fiction Quarterly, Fantastic Universe, Amazing, Galaxy, etc. |
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Webb, Charles |
Special Talent |
ss |
also in F&SF as Charles T. Webb |
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Saki |
Seventh Pullet, The |
ss |
(1870-1916) 1st pub. in colls. Beasts and Super-Beasts(1914) & Short Stories by Saki(1930); ps. for Hector Hugh Munro, U.K. author & journalist; born in Akyab, Burma; educated at Exmouth & at Bedford; died in the trenches of France in 1916 |
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Lee, Edward |
Kalato |
ss |
ps. for Edward Lee Fouts, mystery writer, lives in Oregon; has 1st mystery novel, in Red Blake series, Lust to Kill(1944; vt A Fish for Murder), & The Needle's Eye(1944), as Edward Lee |
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Dickson, Gordon R. |
Case History, A |
ss |
Dickson was married in 1959 briefly to Virginia Faine, who has short story "Daughter of Eve" in F&SF 1962 JUN, as Djinn Faine; he is also in F&SF with co-author Poul Anderson, & their Hoka series |
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Hewison, R.J.P. |
Genius |
pm |
(1909- ) Robert John Petrie Hewison |
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de Moncrif, Francois Augustin Paradis |
Cat, the Brahmin, and the Penitent, The |
vi |
(1687-1770) 1st pub. in Les Chats(Paris, 1727), trans. from the French by R. Bretnor; last name also variously spelled Moncreiff |
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Morrison, William |
Ardent Soul, The |
ss |
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Townes, Robert Sherman |
Time and Place |
ss |
also has short stories "Problem for Emmy" in STS 1952 JUN, reprinted in Groff Conklin(ed): SF Thinking Machines(1954), "Earth Is the Evening Star" in STS 1953 APR, & "The Fortune Hunters" in PST 1957 NOV 9 |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
recent literary prizes awarded to Ray Bradbury; William M. Sloane(ed): Stories for Tomorrow; Fredric Brown: Angels and Spaceships, & What Mad Universe; Kornbluth: The Explorers; Russell: Deep Space; Tucker: The S-F Subtreasury; Padgett: Line to Tomorrow |
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Henexson, Glen |
Wish for the Moon |
ss |
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Farmer, Philip José |
Totem and Taboo |
ss |
W-1953 HUG, Best Promising Author, in part for controversial sf na "The Lovers"(STS 1952 AUG; exp. 1961); 1st novel The Green Odyssey(1956), "picaresque tale of an Earthman escaping from captivity on an alien planet"; iv in Platt: Dream Makers(1980; 1987) |
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Dick, Philip K. |
Father-Thing, The |
ss |
tried unsuccessfully to break into mainstream market with novels, Mary and the Giant(written 1953-55; 1987), The Broken Bubble(wr. 1956; 1988), Puttering About in a Small Land(wr.1957; 1985), In Milton Lumky Territory(wr. 1958-59; 1985) |
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Novotny, John |
Bourbon Lake, The |
ss |
1st pub. in ESQ 1951 JAN |
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McClintic, Winona |
Wife's Return, The |
pm |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 7: 1954 JUL-DEC |
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