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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1970 MAY |
Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Playing the Game |
sces |
red shift, Part 1 of 2; the light from distant galaxies undergo a Doppler effect; Part 2 in 1970 JUN(#2916) |
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Herbert, Frank |
Murder Will In |
nv |
(1920-1986) 2nd/last story in Afterlife of Bailey ser.; see Poul Anderson's story in ser., 1970 MAR(#2878); born in Tacoma, educated at Univ. of Washington; 1st story pub. sf "Looking for Something" in STS 1952 APR; has Dune novels, see www.dunenovels.com |
| 1970 JUN |
Jones, D.F. |
Tocsin, The |
nv |
lives in Cornwall, England; see article by Gary Lovisi "Colossus and Other Cautionary Tales: An Appreciation of the Works of D.F. Jones" in OTW #3 1989 |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Harrison, Harry |
Wife to the Lord |
ss |
this story to be in his coll. One Step from Earth(1970); also in F&SF with co-author Barry N. Malzberg; has novels Tunnel Through the Deeps(1972; N-1973 LOC), Lifeboat(1976 w. Gordon R. Dickson; N-1976 LOC); edited nf Hell's Cartographers(1975 w. Aldiss) |
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Coleman, Sidney |
Books |
br |
Alexei Panshin: Masque World; Robert Silverberg: To Live Again; Keith Laumer: The Long Twilight; Sidney Coleman is an sf fan & a theoretical physicist |
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Tall, Stephen |
Angry Mountain, The |
ss |
(1908-1981) ps. for Compton N. Crook, writer & biology professor; began writing career under various undisclosed ps. in the 1930s, early work not sf(Clute); 1st story pub. sf "The Lights on Precipice Peak" in GAL 1955 OCT |
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McAllister, Bruce |
Mother of Pearl |
ss |
student in the writing program at Univ. of California(Irvine); working on a 1st novel, Humanity Prime(1971), based on themes in this story & in "The Warmest Memory" in F&SF 1970 DEC, & takes material from "The Faces Outside" in IFS 1963 JUL(Clute) |
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Goulart, Ron |
Hobo Jungle |
nv |
5th story in Chameleon Corps series |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Distance of Far, The |
sces |
red shift, Part 2 of 2; judging astronomical distances using the red shift, led up to the discovery that the universe is expanding; Part 1 in 1970 MAY(#2907) |
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Henderson, Zenna |
Believing Child, The |
ss |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 38: 1970 JAN-JUN |
indx |
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| 1970 JUL |
Lanier, Sterling E. |
His Coat So Gay |
nv |
7th story in his Brigadier Ffellowes series |
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Buck, Doris Pitkin |
Clean-Up |
pm |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
Making Titan |
ss |
story part of fixup novel as by K.M. O'Donnell, Universe Day(1971); has used ps. Robin Schaefer(in FAN 1969 APR), & William Coyne(in GAL 1976 MAY); ps. Gerrold Watkins for adult novels A Bed of Money(1969), & Art of the Fugue(1970) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Russ, Joanna |
Books |
br |
Anne McCaffrey: The Ship Who Sang; Poul Anderson: Satan's World; Brian W. Aldiss: Report on Probability A; Ray Bradbury: I Sing the Body Electric |
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Shapiro, Neil |
Starlight Shining Through Her Eyes |
ss |
has also pub. four stories and two articles in Vertex Science Fiction between 1974 FEB & 1975 AUG |
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de Camp, L. Sprague |
Quarter-Acre Round Table, The |
ar |
sources & historical basis of the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Table Round; in Viagens Interplanetary ser., The Stones of Nomoru(1988; with his wife Catherine Crook de Camp), The Venom Trees of Sunga(1992) |
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Silverberg, Robert |
Ishmael in Love |
ss |
has novels The Gate of Worlds(1967), Hawksbill Station(1967), Thorns(1967; N-1967 NEB; 1968 HUG), latter a stylized story of alienation & vampirism(Clute); colls. Needle in a Timestack(1966), To Open the Sky(1967), The Callibrated Alligator(1969) |
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Jennings, Gary |
Tom Cat |
ss |
has nf books for young adults, The Teenager's Realistic Guide to Astrology(1971), The Shrinking Outdoors(1972, conservation of natural resources), The Earth Book(1974) |
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Koontz, Dean R. |
Mystery of His Flesh, The |
nv |
has thriller/horror novel The House of Thunder(1988 U.K.); The Shadow Sea(1988); Midnight(1989), a technophobic horror novel about a scientific experiment gone terribly wrong(B&C); see his iv's in WRT 1990 WIN, LOC 1994 NOV, CMD 1992 SPR & 1997 SPR |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: My Planet 'Tis of Thee |
sces |
overpopulation, the problems of a finite world; growth of population exceeded by growth of energy use, use of natural resources, increasing pollution |
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Wilson, Robin Scott |
State of the Art, The |
ss |
(1928- ) also in F&SF under the working name Robin Scott, & as Robin Wilson; a doctor, & later the President of California State Univ.(Chico); 1st story pub. sf "Third Alternative" in ANA 1964 MAR |
| 1970 AUG |
Swann, Thomas Burnett |
Goat Without Horns, The |
no-1/2 |
"a young Englishman ... becomes involved in a tangle of mysterious events on the Caribbean island of Oleandra"; has a dolphin as a narrator; a poet & novelist, Swann used to teach English literature at Florida Atlantic Univ.; has coll. Moondust(1968) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Blish, James |
Books |
br |
John Lymington: Ten Million Years to Friday; Julius Fast: The League of Grey-Eyed Women(1st pub. in VSF 1969 AUG); D.G. Compton: The Steel Crocodile; Avram Davidson: The Phoenix and the Mirror |
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Lucas, Jon |
Self-Priming Solid-State Electronic Chicken, The |
ss |
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Exter, Maureen Bryan |
Good-bye Birthday, The |
ss |
(1945?- ) ps. for E.M. Goldman, & in F&SF as such; 26-years old, lives in California, has had stories in Ingenue, etc; has books Money to Burn(1994), The Night Room(1995), Getting Lincoln's Goat: An Elliott Armbruster Mystery(1995), Shrinking Pains(1996) |
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Harburg, E.Y. |
Fashion Note |
pm |
(1898-1981) 1st pub. in his coll. Rhymes for the Irreverent(1965); Edgar Yipsel Harburg, poet & lyricist; co-wrote score for The Wizard of Oz(1939), Finian's Rainbow(1968); coll. At This Point in Rhyme(1976); see John Lahr: The Business of Rainbow(1978) |
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Goulart, Ron |
Confessions |
nv |
3rd story in F&SF in Jose Silvera series |
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Goldstone, Cynthia & Avram Davidson |
Pebble in Time |
ss |
Goldstone is a sf painter who lives in California, near Mission Dolores; married in 1951 to fellow sf artist Louis C. Goldstone III; good friends of Avram Davidson & many sf/f authors & artists, they have showed their artwork at many sf conventions |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Stars in Their Courses, The |
sces |
astrology through history; has nf books, Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, Vol.I & Vol.II(1970) |
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Moore, Raylyn |
Out of Control |
ss |
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| 1970 SEP |
Kelley, Leo P. |
Travelin' Man, The |
ss |
has novels Mindmix(1972), Mythmaster(1973), The Earth Tripper(1973) |
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Blish, James |
Books |
br |
James Branch Cabell: The High Place; Hans Stefan Santesson(ed): Crime Prevention in the 30th Century; Howard Fast: The General Zapped an Angel; Harry Harrison(ed): Nova 1 |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Walling, William |
Rings on Her Fingers |
ss |
(1926- ) his 1st pub. story, but not his 1st sale - has already sold his 1st novel, No One Goes There Now(1971), about a human culture on a colony planet confronted by aliens who will not abide our games of violence(Clute); William Herbert Walling |
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de Camp, L. Sprague |
Reward of Virtue |
pm |
has nf book Lands Beyond(1952; W-1953 IFA) with Willy Ley; colls. The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales(1970), The Best of L. Sprague de Camp(1978; N-1979 LOC); has nf book The Ragged Edge of Science(1980); see website www.lspraguedecamp.com |
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Sargent, Pamela |
Landed Minority |
ss |
(1948- ) her 1st pub. story; born in Ithaca, NY, now a graduate student in classical philosophy at the State Univ. of New York(Binghampton), where she lives with writer George Zebrowski; has coll. The Best of Pamela Sargent(1987; N-1988 LOC) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films |
mr/tvr |
1st of his column of reviews of movies on the big screen & on TV, & of TV series; Beneath the Planet of the Apes(1970), dir. Ted Post, stars Charlton Heston & James Franciscus |
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Bunch, David R. |
Tough Rocks and Hard Stones |
vi |
has coll. Bunch!(1993; N-1993 DIC; 1994 LOC) |
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Swann, Thomas Burnett |
Goat Without Horns, The |
no-2/2 |
1st story pub. sf "Winged Victory" in FUN 1958 JUL; has book Wonder and Whimsy: The Fantastic World of Christina Rossetti(1960); has Minotaur seq. The Day of the Minotaur(1966), The Forest of Forever(1971),The Minikins of Yam(1976), Cry Silver Bells(1977) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Lopsided Sun, The |
sces |
sunspots & solar flares |
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Teichner, Albert |
Ultimate Thrill, The |
nv |
has stories in anth. Anon.(ed): The 6 Fingers of Time(1965; stories from IFS 1959-1961), Damon Knight(ed): Orbit 10(1972), & Orbit 13(1974) |
| 1970 OCT |
Wilson, Robin Scott |
Gone Fishin' |
ss |
Wilson was the most influential founder of the Clarion Writers' Workshop, along with Damon Knight, etal, in Clarion, PA, in 1968; Clarion still operates today |
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Davidson, Avram |
Selectra Six-Ten |
ss |
has book of poems, Loups-Garous(1971); has novella in Arnten series, "The Forges of Nainland Are Cold" in FAN 1972 AUG, OCT; also in this series, novella "Arnten of Ultima Thule" in IFS 1971 AUG |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Books: Dark Corner, The |
br |
August Derleth(ed): Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos; David H. Keller: The Folsolm Flint and Other Curious Tales |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
Books |
br |
Jerome Agel(ed): The Making of Kubrick's 2001; J. Francis McComas(ed): Special Wonder: The Anthony Boucher Memorial Anthology of Fantasy and Science Fiction; Index to the Science Fiction Magazines 1969 |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
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