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Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
1989 MAY |
Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Nayan Chanda: Brother Enemy: The War After the War: A History of Indochina Since the Fall of Saigon; Tzvetan Todorov: The Conquest of America; Romance of the Three Kingdoms(computer game); Robert Cormier: Fade |
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Brunner, John |
Man With a Taste for Turkeys, The |
nv |
7th story in Mr. Secrett series; has novels The Infinitive of Go(1980), Players at the Game of People(1980), While There's Hope(1982), The Great Steamboat Race(1983), More Things in Heaven(1987), The Shift Key(1987), The Days of March(1988) |
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Orr, A. |
Sleeping Anacondas |
ss |
(1950- ) working name for Alice Ingram Orr Sprague; has World in Amber seq., The World in Amber(1985), & In the Ice King's Palace(1986), about a world set literally in a drop of amber & centering on the wizard Isme's efforts to maintain balance(Clute) |
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Taylor, L. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Films: Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 34: In Which We Praise Those Whose Pants're On Fire, Noses Long As a Telephone Wire |
mr |
essay: the writer as "Paid Liar"; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen(1989), based on the 1785 book by Rudolf Erich Raspe, which was in turn based on the real life of Baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymous(1720-1797), remake of 1943 film, dir. by Terry Gilliam |
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Poyer, D.C. |
Before All, Do No Harm |
nv |
(1949- ) wn. for David Charles Poyer; educated at Annapolis, 7 years in Navy; has sf novels The Shiloh Project(1981), Star Seed(1982, as David Andreissen), Stepfather Bank(1987); as David Poyer has ex-Seal mys. ser. Down to a Sunless Sea(1996), etc |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon: Low Budget '2001' |
ct |
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Sheffield, Charles |
Out of Copyright |
ss |
N-1990 LOC, short story; has anth. How to Save the World(1995); coll. Georgia On My Mind, and Other Places(1995); novels The Ganymede Club(1995), Tomorrow and Tomorrow(1997), Aftermath(1998), The Cyborg From Earth(1998), Transvergence(1999) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Changing Distance, The |
sces |
planet Mars; how its surface was mapped, from 'close approach' telescope views to the Martian probes; how distances change between Earth & the Moon, Sun, & Mars; perihelions & aphelions |
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Wightman, Wayne |
Return of the Electrovoids, The |
nv |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Cross, Ronald Anthony |
Hermes and the Magic Helmet |
ss |
has popular novelette, "Hotel Mind Slaves," in Terry Carr(ed): Universe 16(1986), which was N-1987 LOC |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 47 |
cmp |
1st prize: Bruce Scanlon; 2nd prize: Lee van Laer; R-U: Michael Juergens; H-M: Charles Gregory; Mark Tuveson; David A. Smidt; John V.R. Williams; F.L. Bass; Patricia Warrick |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 48 |
cmp |
invent the last lines for a horror, sf of f movie, e.g.: "Yes, but when the sun sets, will the dying start again?" |
1989 JUN |
Denton, Bradley |
Sin-Eater of the Kaw, The |
nv |
N-1990 LOC, novelette; has novel Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede(1991; W-1992 JWC; N-LOC), a rock and roll sf chase thriller with drive-in revivals and a resurrected Buddy Holly on every TV station(B&C) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: John W. Campbell Jr & Hal Clement, superscience, Campbell's Modern S.F., & hard sf, put into an historical context; John Cramer: Twistor; Budrys has used many ps., incl. Robert Marner, Albert Stroud, William Scarff, & John A. Sentry |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
William Sanders: Journey to Fusang; John E. Stith: Deep Quarry; M. Coleman Easton: Spirits of Cavern and Hearth; also in Card's Homecoming series, The Ships of Earth(1994), Earthborn(1995), & Earthfall(1995), about the semi-feudal planet Harmony |
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Williamson, Chet |
Fayhorn and the Golden Nest |
ss |
has game novelization Forgotten Realms: Murder in Cormyr(1996); movie novelization The Crow: The City of Angels(1996), & a tie-in The Crow: Clash by Night(1998) |
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Thomas, Thomas T. |
Message Found in a Dram Block |
nv |
(1948- ) Thomas Thurston Thomas; has 1st novel The Doomsday Effect(1986, as Thomas Wren; W-1987 CCR; N-LOC), First Citizen(1987; N-1988 PRO), The Mask of Loki(1990, w. Zelazny), Me(1991), Crygender(1992), Flare(1992, w. Zelazny), Mars Plus(1994, w. Pohl) |
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Arno, Ed |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Rogers, Bruce Holland |
Whalesong |
ss |
(1958- ) ps. for Bruce P(aul) Rogers, in F&SF 1982 JUN as such; has taught creative writing, literature at Univ. of Colorado; has trans. poetry, fiction from German, Spanish & Portuguese; now lives in Eugene, OR; see website at www.sff.net/people/bruce |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Kilworth, Garry |
Bowmen in the Mist |
ss |
has novels The Phantom Piper(1994), The Brontė Girls(1995), House of Tribes(1995), A Midsummer's Nightmare(1996), The Raiders(1996), The Roof of Voyaging(1996), Princely Flower(1997), Land-of-Mists(1998), Shadow Hawk(1998); interview in INZ 1992 AUG |
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Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Phantom |
nv |
(1960- ) N-1990 STO, nv; story started "the day after I saw Isaac Stern in concert"; born & lives in Eugene, OR; 1st story pub. sf "Sing" in ABO 1987 FEB/MAR; editor of Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine 1988 FLL-1993 FLL; W-1990 JWCA, Best New Writer |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Change of Air, A |
sces |
planet Venus; what we have learned about it over the last 30 years; its atmosphere, surface, rate of rotation, & lack of a magnetic field; see Asimov websites at www.asimovonline.com/, & http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/Asimov/Asimov.html |
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Morressy, John |
Cricket on the Hearth |
ss |
12th story in F&SF in his Kedrigern the wizard series |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 76: 1989 JAN-JUN |
indx |
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1989 JUL |
Etchemendy, Nancy |
Cat in Glass |
ss |
N-1989 NEB, short story; has website at www.sff.net/people/Etchemendy/ |
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Arno, Ed |
Cartoon: You Are Here |
ct |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: "a little walk through Your Reviewer's thought processes as he assimilates a new thing," Part 1 of 2; Ted Reynolds: The Tides of God; other ps. Budrys has used incl. David C. Hodgkins, Ivan Janvier, Paul Janvier, Gordon Javlyn, & Alger Rome |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Mike Resnick: Ivory; Burt Cole: The Quick; William H. Whyte: City: Rediscovering the Center; Gene Wolfe: There Are Doors; Card has novel Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus(1996; N-1996 SDW), future observers find a way to change the past |
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Moon, Elizabeth |
Happy Frog, The |
ss |
has The Legacy of Gird ser., Surrender None(1990), Liar's Death(1992), coll. in omnibus The Legacy of Gird(1996); Ireta ser., Sassinak(1990 w. Anne McCaffrey), Generation Warriors(1991 w. McCaffrey), The Planet Pirates(1993 w. McCaffrey & Jody Lynn Nye) |
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Wagar, W. Warren |
Husband of Puma St. Louis Desire, The |
nv |
has pub. 9 stories in mags. F&SF & ASI, and in anth. Pamela Sargent & Ian Watson(ed): Afterlives(1986), George Zebrowski(ed): Synergy 1(1987), & Carol Serling & Martin H. Greenberg(ed): Journeys to the Twilight Zone(1993) |
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Armstrong, Michael |
Termin'ator |
ss |
has 2nd novel Agviq: The Whale("Going After Arviq," 1985; exp. 1990), is a post-holocaust tale set in Alaska that features a woman anthropologist whose book knowledge of the ancient ways of the Eskimo sophisticates the vitality of tribal survivors(Clute) |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Films: Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 35: In Which the Phantasmagorical Pales Before the Joys of the Mimetic |
mr |
essay: the ghost story as done by Hollywood, the best; Topper(1937; colorized 1985); Kwaidan(1964); Here Comes Mr. Jordan(1941); The Haunting(1963); I Married a Witch(1942); The Ghost and Mrs. Muir(1947), etc; reviews High Spirits(1988) |
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Goulart, Ron |
Consequences of Buying Maria Montez for Dad, The |
ss |
has Harry Challenge series, novels The Prisoner of Blackwood Castle(1984), The Curse of the Obelisk(1987); see interviews in AMZ 1980 AUG, & in LOC 1993 FEB(#385) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Importance of Pitch, The |
sces |
red-shift & the doppler effects, Part 1 of 2; how the pitch (of sound waves, light waves), was used to determine the size & age of the universe; the special problem of the receding galaxies; Part 2 in 1989 AUG(#6035) |
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Cunningham, P.E. |
Purpose |
na |
4th & last story in Pteros series; the friendship between two students, Peter Terrell a human, & Cathal a ptero, help protects the keep from Lios, an insane ptero |
1989 AUG |
Oates, Joyce Carol |
Damnation of A— K—, The |
ss |
(1938- ) from Lockport, NY; studied at Syracuse Univ., U. of Wisconsin; taught at U. of Detroit, U. of Windsor, Princeton U.; W-1994 STO, Lifetime Achievement; has novels incl. Son of the Morning(1978), Bellefleur(1980), The Virgin in the Rose-Bower('84) |
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Bilgrey, Marc |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: what goes on in a reviewer's mind, Part 2 of 2; Ralph Peters: Red Army; David Downing: The Red Eagles; how Budrys picks the books he reviews; mentions Budrys(ed): L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume V |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Dave Wolverton: On My Way to Paradise; Card has novels Treasure Box(1996), dark fantasy about a supernaturally dysfunctional family(B&C); Homebody(1998), dark fantasy about a man restoring an old house & encountering supernatural difficulties(B&C) |
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Finch, Sheila |
World Waiting, A (for Shannon Rae) |
nv |
(1935- ) 1st story in Lingster ser., exp. into novel A World Waiting(1989); born in London, now lives in CA; teaches at El Camino College; 1st story pub. sf "The Confessions of Melakos" in Sou-wester, in 1977; also has stories pub. as Sheila Finch-Rayner |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Pestriniero, Renato |
Espree |
ss |
(1933- ) trans. from the Italian by Pestriniero & Kim Stanley Robinson; from Venice, Italy, Pestriniero has had many stories & novels pub. there; story "Enchanted Village"(1959) was exp. by A.E. van Vogt & retitled "The People of the White Sands"(1982) |
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Aldridge, Ray |
Chump Change |
ss |
at his website www.goodpots.com/, Aldridge lists the clay artists he admires most, with links to their websites as well as to websites that promote clay art; on his own website, Aldridge goes into much detail into how his art has evolved & techniques used |
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Onopa, Robert |
Artist of the Future, The |
ss |
lives in Kailua, Hawaii; Prof. of English at the Univ. of Hawaii; has sf novel The Pleasure Tube(1979); see entry in C.A., vol.112 |
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Nurit |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Aandahl, Vance |
Lost in Cleveland |
ss |
"the greatest basketball game of all time: the 20th Century NBA All-Stars against the Cyborg Superstars of 2055" |
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Gallagher, Stephen |
Ribbon of Darkness, Over Me |
nv |
see interviews in Stan Nicholls: Wordsmiths of Wonder(1993), & in INZ 1998 FEB |
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