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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1987 NOV |
Di Filippo, Paul |
Conspiracy of Noise |
nv |
"Everyone talks about the central role of information & information theory in today's society, but nobody embodies this notion in fiction. I've tried." |
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Etchemendy, Nancy |
Lunch at Etienne's |
ss |
N-1987 NEB, short story; has pub. stories & articles in Cricket Magazine |
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Kelly, James Patrick |
Daemon |
ss |
N-1988 LOC, ss; Kelly calls this story kind of a 2nd cousin to his story "The F&SF Diet" in F&SF 1984 MAR(#5118); has "On the Net" column in ASI 1998 AUG-present; see his website at www.jimkelly.net |
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Arno, Ed |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Soukup, Martha |
Master of the Game |
ss |
(1959- ) born in Chicago, now lives in Albuquerque, NM; graduate 1985 Clarion; 1st story pub. sf "Dress Rehearsal" in Terry Carr(ed): Universe 16(1986); has short story "In Defense of the Social Contracts" in SFAge 1993 SEP, which W-1994 NEB |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Asking the Right Question |
sces |
stars, supernovas; how the study of the February 23, 1987 supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud aided the study of the neutrino; history of neutrino research; does the neutrino have mass?; follow-up to essay in 1987 AUG(#5700) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Le Guin, Ursula K. |
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight |
nv |
W-1988 WFA, na; HUG; N-1987 NEB; 1988 LOC, nv; JWC, STU, ss; in Hainish seq., The Left Hand of Darkness(1969; W-1969 NEB; 1970 HUG; 1995 TIP), The Dispossessed(1974; W-1974 NEB; 1975 HUG, LOC), Worlds of Exile and Illusion(1996); see iv in TofU #18 1997 |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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| 1987 DEC |
Wilson, Robert Charles |
Extras |
nv |
N-1988 LOC; has novels Darwinia(1998), "in 1912 ... all Europe is mysteriously replaced by a primeval forest"(LOC); Bios(1999), "involving the exploration of a lush but savagely hostile world called Isis"(LOC); coll. The Perseids(2000; N-2001 WFA) |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Vladimir Voinovich: Moscow 2042; Patricia Geary: Strange Toys; John Crowley: Aegypt; Michael P. Kube McDowell: Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Book 1: Odyssey; Janet & Isaac Asimov: How to Enjoy Writing; Stephen Brust: The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars |
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Tritten, Larry |
In Video Veritas |
ss |
"We have two black cats, Calliope & Nibs, & the latter is always curling up on the cable box on top of the TV, where he frequently changes the channels by pressing different buttons when he moves — so this (story) was inspired by him" |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon: Design Dept. |
ct |
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Lovin, Roger Robert |
Cobbler, The |
nv |
(1941- ) lives in New Orleans, LA; a former newspaperman, publisher of the south's first alternate newspaper, The Word, writer for the Los Angeles Free Press, the Los Angeles Times, the New Orleans Times Picayune, & the New York Times |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Ledbetter, Kenneth W. |
Canyons of Ariel, The |
nv |
was in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in February 1986, which prompted this story, about humans & aliens meeting on a moon of Uranus |
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Sheffield, Charles |
Obsolete Skill |
ss |
has colls. Vectors(1979), Hidden Variables(1981), Georgia on My Mind, and Other Places(1996; title story in ANA 1993 JAN, W-1993 NEB; 1994 HUG); many novels incl. Jupiter ser., Higher Education(1996; w. Jerry Pournelle), The Billion Dollar Boy(1997) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Effinger, George Alec |
Another Dead Grandfather |
ss |
1st story in Eldres ser.; "I've been thinking about the morality in lots of old sf books, the ones that kill off masses of people in parallel universes in an offhand way, because they're not 'real'; they don't come from 'our' universe so they don't count" |
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Shea, Michael |
Delivery |
ss |
see interview in The Scream Factory 1995 WIN; has novel The A'rak(2000), 3rd in the Nifft series, in which Nifft is hired as a swordsman/bodyguard by Lagadene, a woman on a special mission; omnibus The Incompleat Nifft(2000), of 1st two Nifft novels |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Road to Humanity, The |
sces |
humanity & evolution, Part 1 of 2; humanity, when & how did it come into existence?; what was the key event?; starting from the beginning, evolutionary steps 1-19 of 26 along the road to humanity; Part 2 in 1988 JAN(#5774) |
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Shirley, John |
Ticket to Heaven |
nv |
printing error in story, see correction, 1988 MAR, p.107; has cyberpunk Song Called Youth trilogy, Eclipse(1985), Eclipse Penumbra(1988), Eclipse Corona(1990); The Brigade(1982), Cellars(1982), In Darkness Waiting(1988; N-1989 LOC), A Splendid Chaos(1988) |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 73: 1987 JUL-DEC |
indx |
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