| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Bester, Alfred |
Men Who Murdered Mohammed, The |
1958 OCT |
ss |
N-1959 HUG, short story; has coll. Starburst(1958) |
| |
Will You Wait? |
1959 MAR |
ss |
works for Holiday Magazine as feature writer, later becoming senior literary editor; edited anth. The Science Fiction Novel: Imagination and Social Criticism (1959); Bester W-1987 NEB, Grandmaster Award |
| |
Pi Man, The |
1959 OCT |
ss |
N-1960 HUG, short fiction; also in F&SF under ps. Billy Watson |
| |
Books |
1960 OCT |
br |
Clifford D. Simak: The Worlds of Clifford Simak; Mark Clifton: Eight Keys to Eden; Judith Merril: Out of Bounds; L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt: The Incomplete Enchanter |
| |
Books |
1960 NOV |
br |
Jan Potocki: The Saragossa Manuscript; Wernher von Braun: First Men to the Moon; Constantine Fitzgibbon: When the Kissing Has to Stop; Theodore Sturgeon: Beyond; Robert Sheckley: Notions, Unlimited; Asimov: Nine Tomorrows; Dickson: The Genetic General |
| |
Books |
1960 DEC |
br |
James Blish: A Clash of Cymbals; James H. Schmitz: Agent of Vega; E.E. Smith: The Vortex Blaster; Robert Nathan: The Weans; Robert Sheckley: The Status Civilization |
| |
Books |
1961 JAN |
br |
Theodore Sturgeon: Venus Plus X; Harry Harrison: Deathworld; Andre Norton: Shadow Hawk; Frederik Pohl: Star of Stars; Patrick Moore: A Guide to the Stars |
| |
Books |
1961 FEB |
br |
Judith Merril(ed): The Fifth Annual of the Year's Best S-F; "rest of books sent in for review were so bad they'll be ignored & the rest of the column is a discussion of the reasons why the books are so bad" |
| |
Books |
1961 MAR |
br |
a composite All Star Author, out of colleagues we admire most: dramatic virility of Heinlein, humanity of Sturgeon, gloss of Sheckley, dispassion of Blish, encyclopedic enthusiasm of Asimov, courage of Farmer, & high style of Bradbury |
| |
Books |
1961 APR |
br |
Isaac Asimov: The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science |
| |
Books |
1961 MAY |
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 |
| |
Books |
1961 JUN |
br |
Algis Budrys: Rogue Moon |
| |
Books |
1961 JUL |
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 |
| |
Books: Demolished Man, The |
1961 SEP |
br |
discusses himself, "no longer a creative writer, but merely a magazine columnist" |
| |
Books |
1961 OCT |
br |
many short reviews of reprints |
| |
Books |
1961 NOV |
br |
Robert A. Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land; Guy Murchie: Music of the Spheres |
| |
Books |
1961 DEC |
br |
Ivan T. Sanderson: Abominable Snowmen, Legend Come to Life; Willard Bascom: A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea; Lester del Rey: The Mysterious Sea; Robert A. Heinlein: 6 x H; Ward Moore: Greener than You Think; H.R. Wakefield: The Clock Strikes 12 |
| |
Books |
1962 JAN |
br |
Ernst Juenger: The Glass Bees; Leo Marguilies(ed): The Ghoul Keepers; Arthur C. Clarke: A Fall of Moondust; H.L. Gold: Mind Partner, and 8 Other Novelets from Galaxy |
| |
Books |
1962 FEB |
br |
Edmond Hamilton: Battle for the Stars; Clifford D. Simak: Time Is the Simplest Thing; Theodore Sturgeon: A Way Home |
| |
Books |
1962 MAR |
br |
Bester interviews an sf fan, John X |
| |
Books |
1962 APR |
br |
Brian W. Aldiss: The Primal Urge; Fritz Leiber: The Silver Eggheads; Lester del Rey: And Some Were Human; John W. Campbell(ed): Prologue to Analog; The Fourth Dimension Simply Expressed(Dover Press) |
| |
Books |
1962 JUN |
br |
Robert Silverberg: Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations; Ray Bradbury: The October Country; Algis Budrys: The Falling Torch; Harry Harrison: Planet of the Damned, & The Stainless Steel Rat; Fritz Leiber: Shadows with Eyes |
| |
Books |
1962 JUL |
br |
many short reviews, incl. Arthur C. Clarke: From the Ocean, from the Stars; E.E. Smith: Gray Lensman; Andre Norton: Catseye; Thomas Grouling: Project 12; Philip José Farmer: The Alley God; Diana & Meir Gillon: The Unsleep; Frank Herbert: 21st Century Sub |
| |
Books |
1962 AUG |
br |
Bester says goodbye as book reviewer for F&SF; has colls. The Dark Side of the Earth(1964), The Light Fantastic(1976), Star Light, Star Bright(1976); novel The Computer Connection(ASF 1974-75 NOV-JAN as "The Indian Giver"; 1975; vt Extro, 1989) |
| |
They Don't Make Life Like They Used To |
1963 OCT |
nv |
has novels Golem-100(ANA 1974 JUN as short story "The Four-Hour Fugue"; N-1975 HUG, LOC; exp. 1980), regarded by Bester as his best novel, a tale of the jungle of NYC in 2175 A.D.(Clute); The Deceivers(1981); has interview in AMZ 1976 JUN |
| |
Animal Fair, The |
1972 OCT |
nv |
N-1972 NEB, novelette; has posthumously pub. novel, Tender Loving Rage(1991), written 20 years earlier, a mainstream novel set in 1959 New York(Clute); has autobiographical sketch in Aldiss & Harrison(ed): Hell's Cartographers(1975) |
| |
Fondly Fahrenheit |
1979 OCT |
nv |
1st pub. in F&SF 1954 AUG; see obits in INZ #23 1988, & in LOC 1987 NOV(#322), & "In Memoriam: Alfred Bester 1913-1987" by Isaac Asimov in Michael Bishop(ed): Nebula Awards 23(1989); has coll. Virtual Unrealities(1997) |
| Bier, Jesse |
No Vacancy |
1972 APR |
nv |
(1925- ) Prof. at the Univ. of Montana; has had stories in ESQ, Best American Short Stories; has novel Trial at Bannock(1963), & a book of criticism, The Rise and Fall of American Humor(1968) |
| |
Man on Zero-Four, The |
1972 NOV |
nv |
|
| Biese, L.J.T. |
Baron's Dog, The |
1967 AUG |
ss |
lives in the Bronx |
| Bigelow, Leslie |
Sorcerer's Apprentice, The |
1953 MAR |
ss |
Prof. of English at Arizona State(Tempe) |
| Biggle, Lloyd Jr |
Wings of Song |
1963 NOV |
ss |
(1923-2002) born in Iowa, WWII veteran, has an AB in English, MM in Music Literature, & PhD in Musicology from Univ. of Michigan; his stories frequently have music themes, incl. his 1st story pub. sf "Gypped" in GAL 1956 JUL; see his obit in LOC 2002 OCT |
| |
And Madly Teach |
1966 MAY |
nv |
has 1st novel The Angry Espers(AMZ 1959 AUG, as "A Taste of Fire"; rev. 1961); has novels in Jan Darzek sequence All the Colors of Darkness(1963), & Watchers of the Dark(1966), about "late-20th-century private eye ... investigating aliens"(Clute) |
| |
In His Own Image |
1968 JAN |
ss |
has Cultural Survey sequence novels The Still, Small Voice of Trumpets(ASF 1961 APR as "Still, Small Voice"; exp. 1968) & The World Menders(1971); has novel The Fury Out of Time(1965), coll. The Rule of the Door and Other Fanciful Regulations(1967) |
| |
Frayed String on the Stretched Forefinger of Time, The |
1971 MAY |
ss |
has novel The World Menders(ANA 1971 FEB-APR; 1971), Monument(ANA 1961 JUN; N-1962 HUG, short story; exp. 1974), Silence Is Deadly(1977); two Sherlock Holmes pastiches The Quailsford Inheritance(1986), The Glendower Conspiracy(1990) |
| |
Whom the Gods Love |
1971 NOV |
ss |
1st & only story in Jan Darzek ser.; has coll. A Galaxy of Strangers(1976); The Whirligig of Time(1979), Alien Main(1985 w. T.L. Sherred), The Tunesmith(IFS 1957 AUG; 1991 chap); 2 detective novels Interface for Murder(1987), A Hazard of Losers(1991) |
| Bilgrey, Marc |
Cartoon: Search for Extraterrestial Intelligence, The (The Early Years) |
1989 FEB |
ct |
has book The Private Eye Cartoon Book(1985), & a short story "Progress" in Keen Science Fiction!, 1996 SEP |
| |
Cartoon |
1989 AUG |
ct |
|
| Binder, Eando |
Warning to the Furious, A |
1953 AUG |
ss |
(1911-1975) ps. for Otto Oscar Binder; his 1st story pub., with his brother Earl, "The First Martian" as by Eando Binder in AMZ 1932 OCT; Otto had sentient robot Adam Link ser.(AMZ 1939-42), coll. in Adam Link Robot(1965 fixup) |
| Bird, R.P. |
Illness in a Word |
1991 APR |
ss |
he is a graduate student in history & struggling professional writer; "to him, history & fiction are related, like the opposite sides of the same coin" |
| Birkin, Charles |
Ballet Nčgre |
1967 NOV |
ss |
(1907-1985) 1st pub. in his anthology The Smell of Evil(1965); U.K. writer & editor; editor for Creeps Library from 1932-1936, where he also had stories as by Charles Lloyd, & has his coll. Devil's Spawn(1936); edited The Kiss of Death(1964), etal |
| Bischoff, David |
Outside |
1980 APR |
ss |
(1951- ) born in Washington, DC; lives in Eugene, OR; has degree in TV, radio & film from the Univ. of Maryland; has worked for NBC in Washington, DC, since 1974; 1st story pub. sf "The Sky's an Oyster; the Stars Are Pearls" in Perry Rhodan #66 1975 |
| |
Santa Ritual Abuse |
1995 JAN |
ss |
story written for a writers' Xmas Eve reading; 1st novel The Seeker(1976) w. Chris Lampton; Tin Wodman(1979) w. Dennis Bailey; Nightworld series, Nightworld('79), The Vampires of Nightworld('81); w. Charles Sheffield, The Selkie('82), The Judas Cross('94) |
| |
Fade |
1996 AUG |
nv |
has Star Fall ser., A Space Fantasy(1980), A Space Operetta(1982); Dragonstar ser. w. Thomas F. Monteleone, Day of the Dragonstar(1983), Night of the Dragonstar(1985), Dragonstar Destiny(1989); novelization Wargames(1983); The Crow: Quoth the Crow(1998) |
| |
In the Bleak Mid-Solstice |
1997 DEC |
ss |
has Time Machine 2: Search for Dinosaurs(1984); Gaming Magi ser., Destiny Dice(1985), Wraith Board(1985), Unicorn Gambit(1986); Star Hounds ser., The Infinite Battle(1985), Galactic Warriors('85), The Macrocosmic Conflict('86); Hackers(1995) |
| |
Joy to the World |
1999 JAN |
ss |
has UFO Conspiracy ser., Abduction(1990), Deception(1991), Revelation(1991); Mutants Amok ser. as Mark Grant, Mutants Amok(1991), Mutant Hell(1991), Rebel Attack(1991), Holocaust Horror(1991), Mutants Amok at Christmastime(1992); Philip K. Dick High(2000) |
| Bishop, Michael |
Darktree, Darktide |
1971 APR |
ss |
(1945- ) born in Lincoln, NE; has MA in English from Univ. of Georgia; did thesis on Dylan Thomas(Clute); 1st story pub. sf "Piņon Fall" in GAL 1970 OCT; has 1st novel A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire(1975; N-1975 NEB; rev. vt Eyes of Fire, 1980) |
| |
Tapestry of Little Murders, A |
1971 JUN |
ss |
has na "Death and Designation Among the Asadi" in IFS 1973 JAN/FEB, N-1973 NEB 1974-HUG, LOC, made into fixup novel Transfigurations(1979; N-1980 LOC; 1981 BSF); nv "On the Street of the Serpents," in Gerrold: Science Fiction Emphasis #1(1974), N-1974 NEB |
| |
Spacemen and Gypsies |
1971 SEP |
ss |
has novella "Allegiances," in GAL 1975 FEB, N-1976 LOC; novelette "Blooded on Arachne," in Elwood & Silverberg(ed): Epoch(1975), N-1975 NEB; 1976 LOC; short story "Rogue Tomato," in Silverberg(ed): New Dimensions 5(1975), N-1976 HUG, LOC |
| |
White Otters of Childhood, The |
1973 JUL |
na |
N-1973 NEB; 1974 HUG, LOC, novella; in the early 5300s, the human population is down to 2 million people living on 2 Caribbean islands & ruled by a mutant dictator, the whole human race overseen by advanced aliens called Parfects |
