| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Bishop, Michael |
Tigers of Hysteria Feed Only on Themselves, The |
1974 JAN |
ss |
has novels And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees(1976; vt Beneath the Shattered Moons, 1977), Stolen Faces(1977); has poetry coll. Windows & Mirrors: A Chapbook of Poetry to Deep South Con XV(1977 chap); coll. Blooded on Arachne(1982; N-1983 LOC) |
| |
In Rubble, Pleading |
1974 FEB |
ss |
"... central incident is true. I heard it when I was a 9-year-old boy sitting in a barber shop in Mulvane, KS ... idea of tornados striking in a seemingly intelligent, premeditated manner came to me before 4 or 5 twisters (hit) Athens(GA)," where he lives |
| |
Cathadonian Odyssey |
1974 SEP |
nv |
N-1975 HUG, LOC, short story; has Urban Nucleus ser., A Little Knowledge(1977; N-1978 LOC), Catacomb Years(1979 fixup; N-1980 LOC), Under Heaven's Bridge(1980, w. Ian Watson), a near-future domed Atlanta is ruled by a repressive regime, confronts aliens |
| |
Samurai and the Willows, The |
1976 FEB |
na |
N-1976 NEB; 1977 HUG, LOC, novella; 1st & only story in F&SF in Urban Nucleus ser.; an 18-year old black girl helps a 38-year old nisei come to terms w. the way his mother spent her last years; story becomes part of fixup novel Catacomb Years(1979) |
| |
Leaps of Faith |
1977 OCT |
ss |
has novel No Enemy But Time(1982; W-1982 NEB; N-1983 BSF, DIT, JWC, LOC), in which a time-traveler returns to the Pleistocene Africa of his dreams, fathers a child there, returns w. her to the present day(Clute); coll. One Winter in Eden(1984; N-1985 LOC) |
| |
Effigies |
1978 OCT |
nv |
has novels Who Made Stevie Crye?(1984; N-1985 LOC), a strangely unengaged horror novel with laughs(Clute); Ancient of Days(1985; N-1986 LOC; 1988 CLA), The Secret Ascension(1987; N-1988 LOC; 1989 CLA; vt Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas, 1988 UK) |
| |
Books |
1980 JAN |
br |
Kevin O'Donnell Jr: Bander Snatch(1st novel); Orson Scott Card: Hot Sleep(1st novel); Greg Bear: Hegira(1st novel); Lee Killough: The Doppelganger Gambit; Kate Wilhelm: Juniper Time |
| |
Books |
1980 JUN |
br |
Samuel R. Delany: Tales of Nevčr˙on; Christopher Priest: An Infinite Summer; Elizabeth A. Lynn: The Dancers of Arun; Poul Anderson: The Merman's Children; Russell Kirk: Lord of the Hollow Dark; Ursula K. Le Guin: Malafrena |
| |
Books |
1982 JAN |
br |
Woman Space: Future and Fantasy; Carr & Greenberg(ed): A Treasury of Modern Fantasy; Schochet & Silbersack(ed): The Berkley Showcase, Vol.4; Suzette Haden Elgin: Twelve Fair Kingdoms; Christopher Priest: The Affirmation; Thomas M. Disch: ABCDE...: Poems |
| |
And the Marlin Spoke |
1983 OCT |
nv |
N-1984 LOC, novelette; has colls. Close Encounters with the Deity(1986; N-1987 LOC), Author's Choice Monthly Issue 15: Emphatically Not SF, Almost(1991); has na Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana(1989 chap; N-1990 LOC, WFA; 1991 NEB) |
| |
With a Little Help From Her Friends |
1984 FEB |
nv |
N-1985 LOC, novelette; has anth. Changes: Stories of Metamorphosis(1983, with Ian Watson), Light Years and Dark(1984; W-1985 LOC), Nebula Awards 23(1989; N-1990 LOC), ... 24(1990; N-1991 LOC), ... 25(1991; N-1992 LOC) |
| |
Independence Day Forever |
1984 JUL |
pm |
dateline, Pine Mountain, Georgia; has novel Unicorn Mountain(1988; W-1989 MYT; N-1989 LOC), set partly in Atlanta, is a fantasy in which the dying of unicorns from another dimension is connected with the problem of AIDS in this world(Clute) |
| |
Taccati's Tomorrow |
1986 JUN |
ss |
has novel Count Geiger's Blue(1992; N-1993 LOC), is a fantasy set in the Atlanta-like Salonika, the capital of the imaginary southern state of Oconee(Clute); see iv's in New Pathways 1987 JAN, LOC 1988 DEC & 1996 JUL; see bib in INZ 1994 APR |
| |
Reply to Orson Scott Card, A |
1988 MAY |
lttr |
response to 1988 FEB review by Card of Bishop's book, The Secret Ascension(1987; vt Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas, 1988 UK); says Card accuses him of character assassination of Richard M. Nixon |
| |
Icicle Music |
1989 NOV |
ss |
N-1990 LOC, ss; 1st pub. in Cramer & Hartwell(ed): Spirits of Christmas(1989); has novel Brittle Innings(1994; W-1995 LOC, SCF; N-HUG, JWC, WFA; 1996 MYT), a fantasy that blends the magic of baseball, the coming-of-age tale, & the Frankenstein myth(B&C) |
| |
Three Dreams in the Wake of a Death |
1996 JUL |
ss |
"story grew out of a dream. I won't tell you which of the story's 3 parts reproduces my real dream or which 2 parts are attempts to create credible dream imagery" |
| |
Annalise, Annalise |
1996 OCT/NOV |
ss |
has coll. At the City Limits of Fate(1996; N-1996 DIC; 1997 LOC); has poetry coll. Time Pieces(1998); see his website at www.mindspring.com |
| |
Philip K. Dick Is Dead, a Lass (for Phil, dead on March 2, 1982) |
1999 MAR |
pm |
1st pub. in Quality Paperback Book Club's Calendar of Days; has mystery novels with Paul Di Filippo, under collab. ps. Philip Lawson(comb. of their middle names), Would It Kill You to Smile?(1998), sequel Muskrat Courage(2000) |
| Bishop, Michael & Gerald W. Page |
Murder on Lupozny Station |
1981 APR |
nv |
(1945- ; 1939- ) N-1982 LOC; sf mystery tale, a human/alien team who normally orchestrate faster-than-light travel are called on to investigate the murder of the Lupozny stationmaster; Page edited Nameless Places(1975), Heroic Fantasy(1979; N-1980 BRG) |
| Bisson, Terry |
Coon Suit, The |
1991 MAY |
vi |
(1942- ) born in Madisonville, KY; lives in Brooklyn, NY; 1964 BA from Univ. of Louisville; editor & copywriter; 1st novel pub. heroic fantasy/romance, Wyrldmaker(1981); see iv's in INZ #40 1990, LOC 1991 JUL(#366), PWr #13 1997, & Odyssey 1997 NOV/DEC |
| |
Next |
1992 MAY |
ss |
1st & only story in F&SF in his Dialogue series; other stories in series, "They're Made Out of Meat," in Omni 1991 APR, & "Press Ann" in ASI 1991 AUG; 1st short story pub. "Over Flat Mountain" in Omni 1990 JUN |
| |
Canción Autentica de Old Earth |
1992 OCT/NOV |
ss |
has story "Bears Discover Fire" in ASI 1990 AUG, which W-1990 NEB; 1991 HUG, STU, LOC; see his websites at www.sff.net/people/ & at www.terrybisson.com, the latter giving a full biography & bibliography, as well as works that are forthcoming |
| |
Partial People |
1994 JAN |
vi |
1st pub. in his coll. Bears Discover Fire(1993), title story was 1st pub. in ASI 1990 AUG, & W-1990 NEB; 1991 HUG, LOC, SFC, STU; N-1991 HOM, WFA, short story; see his entry in the St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers(1996), & CANR, vol.59, p.47-48 |
| |
Player, The |
1997 OCT/NOV |
vi |
has novels Talking Man(1986; N-1987 LOC, WFA), about the 1st auto trip to the North Pole; Fire on the Mountain(1988; N-1989 LOC), dramatizes what might have happened if John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry succeeded; novelization Johnny Mnemonic(1995) |
| |
Incident at Oak Ridge |
1998 JUL |
ply |
has novel Voyage to the Red Planet(1990; N-1991 LOC), space adventure, "homage to the Classical Golden Age of SF"; sf novelizations Virtuosity(1995), Alien Resurrectuion: The Oficial Junior Novelization(1997), The Fifth Element(1997), The Sixth Day(2000) |
| |
Smoother |
1999 JAN |
ss |
N-2000 LOC, ss; has Wilson Wu and Irving series, novelettes "The Hole in the Hole"(ASI 1994 FEB; N 1995 HUG, LOC), & "The Edge of the Universe"(ASI 1996 AUG; N-1997 HUG, LOC); comic book script in Roger Zelazny's Amber: The Guns of Avalon, Book One(1996) |
| |
macs |
1999 OCT/NOV |
ss |
W-2000 LOC, NEB; N-2000 HUG, ss; has novel Pirates of the Universe(1996; N-1997 HUG, LOC), a man escapes dismal 21st century by living in utopian theme park; after Walter Miller Jr's death, finished his novel, St. Liebowitz and the Wild Horse Woman(1997) |
| Black, Jennifer |
Memories of Gwynneth |
1986 FEB |
ss |
her 1st pub. sf story; born in West Wales, became pub. at age 19; has sold a number of stories & articles to various publications under various names |
| Blackwood, Algernon |
At a Mayfair Luncheon |
1986 SEP |
ss |
(1869-1951) 1st pub. in Windsor Magazine, 1936 MAR; UK fantasy writer, lived in Canada & US; 1st story pub. A Mysterious House(1889; 1987 chap); colls. The Empty House(1906), The Listener(1907), etc; 1st novel John Silence, Physician Extraordinary(1908) |
| Blanchard, L.S. |
Mirror of the Soul |
1983 JAN |
nv |
Linda S. Blanchard, her 1st sale; lives in Washington State where she runs a local chapter of a pro-space group & works as a telecommunications operator; has books under ps. Samskrti, Hatha Yoga: Manual I(1985), & Hatha Yoga: Manual II(1989) |
| Bland, Frederick |
Fifteenth Wind of March, The |
1962 JUN |
nv |
U.K. author |
| Blau, E. William |
Dispatch Executive, The |
1961 AUG |
ss |
|
| Blaylock, James P. |
Old Curiosity Shop, The |
1998 FEB |
nv |
(1950- ) 1st story pub. sf "The Red Planet" in Unearth #3 1977; 1st novels fantasies in Elfin ser., The Elfin Ship(1982), The Disappearing Dwarf(1983), The Stone Giant(1989); Homunculus(1986), Winter Tides(1997); see www.sybertooth.com/blaylock/ |
| Blish, James |
First Strike |
1953 JUN |
ss |
(1921-1975) member of the Futurians; 1st story pub. "Emergency Refueling" in SSS 1940 MAR; graduated from Rutgers in 1942, lab tech in Army; did postgraduate work in Zoology at Columbia Univ. in 1945-46, married to Viginia Kidd 1947-63 |
| |
Book of Your Life, The |
1955 MAR |
ss |
edited only issue of VAN, 1958 JUN; has Okie ser.(1950-54), flying cities powered by antigravity spindizzies; novels Jack of Eagles(TWS 1949 DEC as"Let the Finder Beware"; 1952; vt ESP-er, 1958), The Warriors of Day(TCS 1951 SUM as Sword of Xota; 1953) |
| |
With Malice to Come: 1. A Feast of Reason; 2. The Billion-Year Binge; 3. A Matter of Energy |
1955 MAY |
spf |
triptych of parodies, 3 vignettes of familiar types of science fiction; has Okie series novels Earthman, Come Home(var. mags. 1950-53; 1955 fixup), They Shall Have Stars(ASF 1952-54; 1956 fixup), The Triumph of Time(1958), A Life for the Stars(1962) |
| |
Time to Survive, A |
1956 FEB |
na |
1st & only story in F&SF in Pantropy series; part of a novel, being a coll. of linked stories, The Seedling Stars(var. mags. 1952-56; 1957), deals with pantropy as man takes to the stars; his 4 Okie novels combined in one volume, Cities in Flight(1970) |
| |
In Memoriam: Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) |
1957 JAN |
pm |
Fletcher Pratt died June 10, 1956; Blish has colls. Galactic Cluster(1959), So Close to Home(1961), Best Science Fiction Stories of James Blish(1965; rev. 1973), Anywhen(1970), The Best of James Blish(1979); has novel The Frozen Year(1957) |
| |
This Earth of Hours |
1959 JUN |
nv |
has After Such Knowledge seq. novels A Case of Conscience(1958; W-1959 HUG), "one of the first serious attempts to deal with religion in sf"(Clute), Doctor Mirabilis(1964; rev. 1971), Black Easter(1968; N-1968 NEB), The Day After Judgment(1971) |
| |
Masks, The |
1959 NOV |
ss |
1st pub. in his college(Rutgers) fraternity magazine in 1959; has novels The Duplicated Man(DSF 1953 AUG; 1959) with Robert A.W. Lowndes(as Michael Sherman), Titan's Daughter(1961), The Night Shapes(1962), A Torrent of Faces(1967 fixup) |
| |
Oath, The |
1960 OCT |
nv |
has four juvenile novels: The Star Dwellers(1961), Mission to the Heart Stars(1965), Welcome to Mars!(1967), The Vanished Jet(1968); novels ...And All the Stars a Stage(AMZ 1960 JUN-JUL; exp. 1971), The Quincunx of Time(GAL 1954 FEB as "Beep"; exp. 1973) |
| |
Books |
1961 JUN |
br |
Algis Budrys: Rogue Moon; has nf criticism books The Issue at Hand(1964), & More Issues at Hand(1970), as W. Atheling Jr; edited anth. New Dreams This Morning(1966), Nebula Award Stories 5(1970), & a coll. of C.M. Kornbluth stories, Thirteen O'Clock(1972) |
| |
Who's in Charge Here? |
1962 MAY |
vi |
wrote & edited many Star Trek books & colls., incl. the first original Star Trek novel, Spock Must Die(1970); has criticism colls. The Issue at Hand(1964), More Issues at Hand(1970) as by William Atheling Jr; essay coll. The Tale That Wags the Dog(1987) |
| |
Theodore Sturgeon's Macrocosm |
1962 SEP |
ar |
a critique of Theodore Sturgeon as a literary craftsman; see article on Blish, "Scholia, Seasoned with Crabs, Blish Is" by John Clute in NWS #6 1973; see Blish interview in Paul Walker: Speaking of Science Fiction(1978) |
| |
No Jokes on Mars |
1965 OCT |
ss |
has anth. New Dreams This Morning(1966), Nebula Award Stories Five(1970), Thirteen O'Clock(1972, a coll. of C.M. Kornbluth stories); has coll. Get Out of My Sky and There Shall Be No Darkness(1980 UK); see appreciation of his work in INZ 1997 MAR |
| |
Books |
1970 FEB |
br |
James Branch Cabell: Figures of Earth, & The Silver Stallion; Lord Dunsany: The King of Elfland's Daughter; William Morris: The Wood Beyond the World; Fletcher Pratt: The Blue Star; Josephine Saxton: The Hieros Gamos of Sam and An Smith |
| |
Books |
1970 APR |
br |
Edward Lucie-Smith(ed): Holding Your Eight Hands, an Anthology of Science-Fiction Verse; Roger Zelazny: Creatures of Light and Darkness; George MacDonald: Lilith; Jack Vance: Eight Fantasms and Magics; Dan Morgan: The New Minds, & 1 more |
| |
Books |
1970 AUG |
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 |
| |
Books |
1970 SEP |
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 |
| |
Books |
1970 DEC |
br |
Joanna Russ: And Chaos Died(excerpt pub. in F&SF 1970 FEB; N-1970 NEB; 1971 LOC); John Boyd: The Rakehells of Heaven; Brian W. Aldiss: Barefoot in the Head; Harry Harrison: The Daleth Effect |
