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             | Issue Date | Author | Story Title | Type | Comments |  
            | 1961 MAY | Edmondson, G.C. | Country Boy, The | ss | 5th story in his Mad Friend series; this series coll. in Stranger Than You Think(1965); has novels Chapayeca(1971; vt Blue Face, 1972), set in Mexico; T.H.E.M.(1974), The Aluminum Man(1975), latter about Native Americans & a crash-landed alien |  
            |  | Asimov, Isaac | Science: Heaven on Earth | sces | stars; mapping the stars |  
            |  | Bester, Alfred | Books | br | H.L. Gold(ed): The Fifth Galaxy Reader; Theodore Sturgeon: Some of Your Blood; Zenna Henderson: Pilgrimage: The Book of the People; Ben Bova: The Milky Way Galaxy; Poul Anderson: Twilight World; Leo Margulies(ed): The Unexpected |  
            |  | Posselt, Mildred | Flower, The | pm | (1950?-  ) sent in by Mr. E.F.T. Rice of Wilmington, Delaware, this poem was written by the 11-year old daughter of a friend of his |  
            |  | Slesar, Henry | Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross, The | ss | (1927-2002) vice president of a N.Y. advertising firm; 1st story pub. sf "The Brat" in IMT 1955 SEP; about a third of his work is sf or f, many under the ps. O.H. Leslie & house ps. Ivar Jorgensen, E.K. Jarvis, Clyde Mitchell, etc, in AMZ & FAN |  
            |  | Rubin, Rick | Final Muster | nv | (1932?-  ) writer, born in Portland, OR; has short story "The Bet" in Dude 1959 NOV |  
            | 1961 JUN | Smith, Cordwainer | Alpha Ralpha Boulevard | nv | (1913-1966) 1st & only story in F&SF in Instrumentality of Mankind series; ps. for Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, U.S. writer, political scientist, military adviser in Korea & Malaya; his 1st story as C.S. was "Scanners Live in Vain" in FBK #6, 1950 JUN |  
            |  | Clarke, Arthur C. | Crime on Mars | ss | 1st pub. in EQMM 1960 JUL; begun in 1987, Arthur C. Clarke Award for best U.K. 1st edition sf novel; has novel The Ghosts from the Grand Banks(1990), about an attempt to raise the Titanic; has colls. The Sentinel(1996), The Collected Stories of ...(2001) |  
            |  | West, John Anthony | George | ss | (1932-  ) "this story was orig. conceived & written as a play; since pub. in F&SF, it has been scheduled to be an off-Broadway play; ex-Editorial Assistant to F&SF(1956) & ex-Assistant Editor to VSF(1957), he lives on the island of Ibiza(south of Majorca) |  
            |  | Buck, Doris Pitkin | Birth of a Gardener | ss |  |  
            |  | Twain, Mark | Curious Pleasure Excursion, A | ss | (1835-1910) 1st pub. in The New York Herald Tribune, 6 JUL 1874, during the time of the "Comet Scare"; ps. for Samuel L. Clemens; has sf novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court(1889), coll. The Science Fiction of Mark Twain(1984, ed D. Ketterer) |  
            |  | Scott, Jody | Go for Baroque | ss | (1923-  ) wn. for Joann Huguelot Wood; Scott her name from a first marriage; born in Chicago, now lives in Seattle; she has a novel of suspense, Cure It with Honey(1951); has also pub. vignette "The Origin of Species," in FAN 1969 FEB, as Jody Scott Wood |  
            |  | Briarton, Grendel | Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XL | vi | 37th story in F&SF in Feghoot series; with thanks to E. Nelson Bridwell |  
            |  | deFord, Miriam Allen | Cage, The | ss |  |  
            |  | Asimov, Isaac | Science: Four Steps to Salvation | sces | communication, advances in; see addendum on p.4, 1961 SEP - in response to a reader's question about Asimov's statement that primitive writing preceded agriculture: the Incas had no writing, but if writing didn't bring about agriculture, then what did? |  
            |  | Bester, Alfred | Books | br | Algis Budrys: Rogue Moon |  
            |  | Blish, James | Books | br | Algis Budrys: Rogue Moon; has nf criticism books The Issue at Hand(1964), & More Issues at Hand(1970), as W. Atheling Jr; edited anth. New Dreams This Morning(1966), Nebula Award Stories 5(1970), & a coll. of C.M. Kornbluth stories, Thirteen O'Clock(1972) |  
            |  | Garrett, Randall & Avram Davidson | Something Rich and Strange | nv | (1927-1987; 1923-1993) |  
            |  | F&SF staff | Index to Volume 20: 1961 JAN-JUN | indx |  |  
            | 1961 JUL | Amis, Kingsley | Something Strange | ss | (1922-1995) 1st pub. in The Spectator, in 1960; has social comedy novel Lucky Jim(1954); sf criticism New Maps of Hell(1960); anth. Spectrum ser.(1961-66); coll. My Enemy's Enemy (1962); Memoirs(1991); obit LOC 1995 LOC; bio R. Bradford: Lucky Him(2001) |  
            |  | Worthington, Will | Package Deal | ss |  |  
            |  | Breckenridge, Nicholas | Cat Lover, The | ss | has article "The Lion" in P.S. 1966 JUN, a memoir of his father, a commercial artist |  
            |  | Briarton, Grendel | Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XLI | vi | 38th story in F&SF in Feghoot series |  
            |  | Burger, Otis Kidwell | Zookeeper, The | ss |  |  
            |  | Neville, Kris | Closing Time | ss | earned a B.A. in English from the Univ. of California in 1960; has short story "Big Talk" in Manhunt 1953 APR; also in F&SF with co-author Lil Neville(his wife), & with Barry N. Malzberg |  
            |  | Anderson, Poul | Night Piece | ss | has Maurai series, coll. Maurai and Kith(1982; N-1983 LOC), tales of post-catastrophe life, & novel Orion Shall Rise(1983; N-1984 LOC), a pro-technology sequel, in which man aspires to the stars again(Clute) |  
            |  | Asimov, Isaac | Science: Recipe for a Planet | sces | elementary makeup of the Earth |  
            |  | Bester, Alfred | Books | br | Jules Verne: From Earth to the Moon, & To the Sun? Off on a Comet!; The Fabulous World of Jules Verne(movie); Kingsley Amis: New Maps of Hell; Damon Knight: Far Out; Alan E. Nourse: Tiger by the Tail; Frederik Pohl: Turn Left at Thursday |  
            |  | Aldiss, Brian W. | Undergrowth | na | 3rd story Hothouse ser.; has "plotless novel," A Garden With Figures; novels The Dark Light Years(1964), how humans deal w. aliens superior in intelligence, but physically disgusting, & Earthworks(1965), An Age(1967; vt Cryptozoic!, 1968 US) |  
            |  | Buck, Doris Pitkin | Vintage Wine | pm |  |  
            | 1961 AUG | Davidson, Avram & Morton Klass | Kappa Nu Nexus, The | ss | (1923-1993; 1927-2001) Morton the younger brother of Philip Klass(William Tenn); born in Brooklyn, NY; has 1955 BA in anthropology from Brooklyn College; 1959 PhD from Columbia Univ.; Prof. at Barnard College & Columbia; see obit in LOC 2001 JUN |  
            |  | Harrison, Harry | Survival Planet | ss | (1925-  ) working name for Henry Maxwell Harrison; 1st worked in field as a commercial artist, chiefly in comics, but supplied illustrations to mags. such as GAL; 1st story pub. "Rock Diver" in WBY 1951 FEB; member of N.Y. sf Hydra Club with Damon Knight |  
            |  | Aandahl, Vance | Cogi Drove His Car Through Hell | ss |  |  
            |  | Cheinisse, Claude F. | Juliette | ss | (1931-1982) 1st pub. in 1959; trans. from the French by Damon Knight; a doctor specializing in forensic & industrial toxicology; involved in French fandom since late 1950s, 1st story pub. sf in 1958; married sf writer Christine Renard in 1965 |  
            |  | Briarton, Grendel | Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XLII | vi | 39th story in F&SF in Feghoot series; with thanks to Andrew Gould |  
            |  | Blau, E. William | Dispatch Executive, The | ss |  |  
            |  | Reed, Kit | Piggy | ss | has 1st novel Mother Isn't Dead She's Only Sleeping(1961) |  
            |  | Drake, Leah Bodine | Meeting on a Northern Moor, A | pm | edited with Dr. C.A. Muses an anthology of contemporary British & American verse, The Various Light |  
            |  | Leinster, Murray | Case of the Homicidal Robots, The | nv | has Med Service series colls. Doctor to the Stars(1964), & S.O.S. from Three Worlds(1967), & novels The Mutant Weapon(1959), & This World Is Taboo (1961); novelette "Exploration Team" in ASF 1956 MAR(Colonial Survey ser.) W-1956 HUG |  
            |  | McClintic, Winona | Four Days in the Corner | ss |  |  
            |  | Asimov, Isaac | Science: Evens Have It, The | sces | nuclear structure |  
            |  | Dickson, Gordon R. | Haunted Village, The | nv | has fixup novel Time Storm(nv's in ASI 1977 SPR & SUM, na in Cosmos SF&F 1977 JUL; 1977; N-1978 HUG, LOC), an sf novel of three survivors of a time storm that destroyed life on Earth & threatens the universe(B&C) |  
            | 1961 SEP | Klein, Gérard | Monster in the Park, The | ss | (1937-  ) 1st pub. in the French edition of F&SF; trans. by Virginia Kidd; soldier in Algeria, has pub. in France, this is his 1st story pub. in the U.S. |  
            |  | Gold, Herbert | Day They Got Boston, The | ss | (1924-  ) 1st pub. in Metronome 1961 JAN; author of Therefore Be Bold(1960), Love and Like(1960), & edited Fiction of the Fifties(1959), & Stories of Modern America (1961) |  
            |  | Briarton, Grendel | Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XLIII | vi | 40th story in F&SF in Feghoot series; with thanks to Herman Mudgett(ps. for Anthony Boucher) |  
            |  | Young, Michael | Timekeeper, The | ss | (1915-2002) British sociologist & writer; has nf book Family and Kinship in East London(1957); sf work The Rise of the Meritocracy 1870-2033: An Essay on Education and Equality(1958), which takes the form of a report by an historical sociologist(Clute) |  
            |  | Wallace, Floyd | Privates All | nv | ( ?-? ) also goes under the byline F.L. Wallace;1st story pub. sf "Hideaway" in ASF 1951 FEB; pub. many stories in GAL; has Australian coll. Worlds in Balance(1955), & novel Address: Centauri(1952 GAL APR as "Accidental Flight"; exp. 1955); also in VSF |  
            |  | Peterson, Nils | Pecking Order | ss | Professor of English at San José State Univ. from 1963-1999, where he was also the Coordinator of the Creative Arts, & poetry consultant for San Jose Studies; has pub. poems in many journals, & articles on subjects as varied as golf and Shakespeare |  
            |  | Harris, Rosemary | Hamlin | ss | (1923-  ) Rosemary Jeanne Harris; has young adult fantasy, Reuben seq., The Moon in the Cloud(1968), The Shadow on the Sun(1970), The Bright and Morning Star(1972); novels The Seal-Singing(1971), A Quest for Orion(1978), & sequel Tower of the Stars(1980) |  
            |  | Asimov, Isaac | Science: Not As We Know It | sces | life; chemical bases of life, only nucleic acid/protein in water is life-as-we-know-it |  |