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             | Issue Date | Author | Story Title | Type | Comments |  
            | 1995 OCT/NOV | Rogers, Bruce Holland | Lifeboat on a Burning Sea | nv | W-1996 NEB; has "Staying Alive" column, Speculations 1995 JAN -present, about writing fiction full-time; has anth. Bedtime Stories to Darken Your Dreams(1999); colls. Wind Over Heaven(2000; N-2001 STO), Flaming Arrows(2000); audiobook Award Stories(2000) |  
            |  | Farris, Joseph | Cartoon | ct |  |  
            |  | Killheffer, Robert K.J. | Books | br | essay: differences between the sexes, visions of battles between the sexes; Elizabeth Hand: Waking the Moon; Suzy McKee Charnas: The Furies |  
            |  | de Lint, Charles | Books to Look For | br | Patricia A. McKillip: The Book of Atrix Wolfe; Candas Jane Dorsey & Roger Deegan: Dark Earth Dreams(CD & chapbook); Vivian Vande Velde: Companions of the Night; Andrew Vachss: Batman: The Ultimate Evil |  
            |  | Arno, Ed | Cartoon | ct |  |  
            |  | Bowes, Richard | At Darlington's | ss | 5th story in F&SF in Kevin Grierson series; series set in NYC, "I wrote fashion copy on Seventh Ave in the late sixties ... (in the) world of the Garment District ... Darlington's would by now be gone" |  
            |  | Reed, Kit | Singing Marine, The | ss | N-1996 WFA, short fiction |  
            |  | Hoffman, Nina Kiriki | But Now Am Found | ss | has coll. Courting Disasters and Other Strange Affinities(1991; N-1992 LOC); has novella with Tad Williams, Child of an Ancient City(nv in WRT 1988 FLL by T.W.; exp. 1992 with Hoffman), see T.W.'s website about their collab. effort, www.tadwilliams.com |  
            |  | Long | Cartoon: Eu•phe•mism | ct |  |  
            |  | Vukcevich, Ray | Count On Me | ss | N-1996 NEB, short story |  
            |  | Farris, Joseph | Cartoon | ct |  |  
            |  | Bailey, Dale | Sheep's Clothing | nv |  |  
            |  | Shanahan | Cartoon | ct |  |  
            |  | Ellison, Harlan | Pulling Hard Time | ss | N-1996 HUG; has tv essay colls. The Glass Teat(1970), The Other Glass Teat(1975); essay colls. Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed(1984; W-1985 LOC; N- HUG), An Edge in My Voice(1985; N-1986 HUG, LOC); see Preiss: The Illustrated Harlan Ellison(1979) |  
            |  | Lethem, Jonathan & John Kessel & James Patrick Kelly | True History of the End of the World, The | nv | (1964-  ; 1950-  ; 1951-  )  Lethem says collab. story "was hatched over breakfast in a hotel restaurant on the Sunday morning of a weekend convention. Had the coffee been stronger, you might not be reading this today."; see Lethem iv in LOC 1997 OCT |  
            |  | Long | Cartoon: Bioengineering Fails to Bring About Racial Harmony ... | ct |  |  
            |  | Benford, Gregory | Scientist's Notebook, A: Odyssey Galactic, An | ar | Benford's roles & work on the Japanese(NHK) science series, A Galactic Odyssey(1990-91; & 5-book series); his experience as script writer, science advisor, & narrator, & what he learned "about how science & sf interact" |  
            |  | Martin, H. | Cartoon | ct |  |  
            |  | Morressy, John | Nest Egg | ss | 14th story in F&SF in his Kedrigern the wizard series |  
            |  | Laidlaw, Marc | Dankden | na | 1st story in his Gorlen Vizenfirth series, about a bard whose right hand is made out of polished stone due to a gargoyle's curse, & that swallows more of his flesh each time he strays from his appointed task |  
            |  | F&SF staff | Report on Competition 64 | cmp | 1st prize: James Williamson; 2nd prize: Lisa Neace; R-U: Charles Emmons; Chris Niswander; Tessa B. Dick; Gail Sosinsky Wickman; Carol Silverman Saunders; H-M: Gordon Schnaper; Carol D. Pinchefsky; Scott Morgan |  
            |  | F&SF staff | Competition 65 | cmp | suggested by Harlan Ellison - submit a short blurb of no more than 100 words for any well-known sf/f/horror work(writing a supposedly fine blurb for a work that honestly stinks) |  
            |  | Shanahan | Cartoon: Deja Voodoo | ct |  |  
            | 1995 DEC | Rusch, Kristine Kathryn | Editorial | ed | when local bookstores compete with book superstores, the attitudes of the local bookseller will tell if he is to survive; Rusch has novelizations Star Trek Next Generation: The Soldiers of Fear(1996), Klingon!(1996) w. Dean Wesley Smith as Sandy Schofield |  
            |  | Rysdyk, Leonard | So Tender and Mild | nv | story inspired by his wife's work as neo-natal intensive care nurse; "I've always felt a little guilty that women have to go thru childbirth when men don't"; 1st story pub. "A Sense of Sharing" in ABO 1992 SUM; teaches English at Nassau Community College |  
            |  | Jonik | Cartoon | ct |  |  
            |  | Killheffer, Robert K.J. | Books | br | essay: fantasy novels with the insight of an historical context; Guy Gavriel Kay: The Lions of Al-Rassan; Parke Godwin: The Tower of Beowulf |  
            |  | Jonik | Cartoon | ct |  |  
            |  | de Lint, Charles | Books to Look For | br | Tim Powers: Expiration Date; Alice Hoffman: Practical Magic; Tom Piccirilli: Pentacle; de Lint has pub. as chapbooks the novelettes Berlin(1989), & Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair(1991); novellas Our Lady of the Harbour(1991), The Wishing Well(1993) |  
            |  | Reed, Robert | Myrtle Man, The | nv | a tale of computers, viruses & the way that the little things change our lives |  
            |  | Oltion, Jerry | Uncertainty | ss | has mini-chapbook coll. of three comic vignettes, with Alan Bard, The Gigantic Three in One Complete History of the Universe(1994) |  
            |  | Vukcevich, Ray | Rug Rats | vi |  |  
            |  | Grundy | Cartoon | ct | Grundy influenced early on by the newspapers' comic pages, "perhaps subconsciously spurred on by my father's nightly bedtime sign off of : 'I'll see you in the funny papers!'"; favorites were V.T. Hamlin's 'Alley Oop', & George Lichty's 'Grin and Bear It' |  
            |  | Brown, Carroll | Borderlands, The | ss | (1965-  ) his 1st sale; 1st story pub. in Distant Journeys #2; born in Orlando, FL; has MA in Literature from Michigan State Univ.; book reviewer for Adventures of Sword & Sorcery; has murder/mystery screenplay for movie The Cheshire Cat(1996) |  
            |  | Asimov, Janet | Science: Crazy for Trees | ar | trees; the evolution of trees thru geologic eras, beginning with the Paleozoic; how trees aided primate development, & now how man is destroying trees & his habitat at an astonishing rate |  
            |  | MacLeod, Ian R. | Nina-With-the-Sky-in-Her-Hair | nv | has stories "The Summer Isles" in ASI 1998 OCT/NOV(W-1998 SDW; 1999 WFA; N-1999 HUG, LOC, STU), & "The Chop Girl" in ASI 1999 DEC(W-2000 WFA; N-2000 HUG, LOC, STU) |  
            |  | Martin, H. | Cartoon | ct |  |  
            |  | Garcia y Robertson, R. | Happy Hunting Ground | na | story is part of his novel, American Woman(1998), & "is based on Kiowa lodge tales, & 19th century accounts of the 'Buffalo War'—most of the people in it are real—they did what they said, & saw what they saw. I just put their stories together" |  
            |  | F&SF staff | Index to Volumes 88 & 89: 1995 JAN-DEC | indx |  |  |