| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Blish, James |
Books |
1971 JAN |
br |
Darko Suvin(ed): Other Worlds, Other Seas; James Branch Cabell: Something About Eve; Sam Moskowitz(ed): Under the Moons of Mars; Peter Tate: The Thinking Seat |
| |
Books |
1971 MAR |
br |
Poul Anderson: Tau Zero; James Cooke Brown: The Troika Incident; L.P. Davies: Genesis Two; L. Sprague de Camp(ed): Warlocks and Warriors; Robert A. Heinlein: I Will Fear No Evil |
| |
Poul Anderson: Enduring Explosion, The |
1971 APR |
ar |
a critical look at the works of Poul Anderson |
| |
Books |
1971 MAY |
br |
Jon Hartridge: Binary Device; Roger Zelazny: Nine Princes in Amber; Frank Herbert: Whipping Star; R.A. Lafferty: Fourth Mansions; Stanislaw Lem: Solaris |
| |
Books |
1971 AUG |
br |
Patrick Moore: Atlas of the Universe; Harry Harrison: The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge; Lois & Stephen Rose: The Shattered Ring; James Sallis: A Few Last Words |
| |
Books |
1971 SEP |
br |
Larry Niven: Ringworld; D.G. Compton: Chronocules; James White: Tomorrow Is Too Far; Lester del Rey: Nerves, & The Eleventh Commandment |
| |
Books |
1971 DEC |
br |
Theodore Sturgeon: Sturgeon Is Alive and Well ...; Avram Davidson: Strange Seas and Shores; L.P. Davies: The Alien; Poul Anderson: Operation Chaos; Harlan Ellison: Alone Against Tomorrow; Gahan Wilson: I Paint What I See |
| |
Books |
1972 JAN |
br |
R.A. Lafferty: Arrive at Easterwine; Josephine Saxton: Vector for Seven; Brian W. Aldiss: The Shape of Further Things; Charles Platt: Planet of the Voles; Ben Bova: Exiled from Earth; NESFA: Index to the Science Fiction Magazines |
| |
Books |
1972 FEB |
br |
Dick Allen: Science Fiction: The Future; Gordon R. Dickson: Tactics of Mistake; R.A. Lafferty: The Flame Is Green; Josef Nesvadba: The Lost Face |
| |
Midsummer Century |
1972 APR |
na |
N-1973 LOC, novella; astronomer finds himself 23,000 years in the future, where man suffers in a primitive state, at war with sentient birds(rvw. in F&SF 1973 FEB); see David Ketterer: Imprisoned in a Tesseract: The Life and Work of James Blish(1988) |
| |
Books |
1972 APR |
br |
James Branch Cabell: The Cream of the Jest; Peter Tate: Gardens 1 to 5; Roger Zelazny: Jack of Shadows; Thomas M. Disch: Fun with Your New Head; G.C. Edmondson: Chapayeca |
| |
Books |
1972 JUN |
br |
William H. Walling: No One Goes There Now; Ernest Tidyman: Absolute Zero; Gordon Eklund: The Eclipse of Dawn; David Gerrold & Larry Niven: The Flying Sorcerers; K.M. O'Donnell: Universe Day; Gordon R. Dickson: Sleepwalker's World |
| |
Books |
1972 JUL |
br |
Lester del Rey: Pstalemate; Curt Siodmak: The Third Ear; Richard Matheson: Hell House; Ursula K. Le Guin: The Lathe of Heaven; Avram Davidson: Peregrine: Primus; Josephine Saxton: Group Feast |
| |
Books |
1972 NOV |
br |
Brian W. Aldiss: This Moment of Eclipse; Chad Oliver: The Edge of Forever; Robert Silverberg(ed): Four Futures, & New Dimensions 1 |
| |
Books |
1973 JAN |
br |
John Brunner: The Wrong End of Time; Hugo Gernsback: Ultimate World; Ron Goulart: Hawkshaw; R.A. Lafferty: Strange Doings; Robert Silverberg: The Book of Skulls |
| |
Art of the Sneeze, The |
1982 NOV |
misc |
never before pub.; his Star Trek novels(he did the first 12 of them), were pub. betw. 1967 & 1977, the last w. J.A. Lawrence; most famous of them, Spock Must Die!(1970); has posthumous colls. With All of Love: Selected Poems(1995), & A Dusk of Idols(1996) |
| Bloch, Robert |
I Do Not Love Thee, Doctor Fell |
1955 MAR |
ss |
(1917-1994) writer of fantasy, horror & thrillers; 1st story pub. "Lilies" in MVT 1934 WIN; 1st of 67 in WRT, "The Feast in the Abbey" in 1935 JAN; has 22 stories in Lefty Feep series in FAD(1942-46), coll. in Lost in Time and Space with Lefty Feep(1987) |
| |
I Kiss Your Shadow |
1956 APR |
ss |
Bloch modelled stories "A Good Night's Work"(UNK 1941 OCT), sequel "The Eager Dragon"(WRT 1943 JAN) on work of Damon Runyon(1884-1946); "Nursemaid to Nightmares"(WRT 1942 NOV), sequel "Black Barter"(WRT 1943 SEP) on Thorne Smith(1893-1934)(Clute) |
| |
All on a Golden Afternoon |
1956 JUN |
nv |
has 1st book, coll. The Opener of the Way(1945); an active sf/f fan thruout his life, he adapted some of his stories for a 39-episode radio program, Stay Tuned for Horror, in 1945(Clute); used several ps. incl. Tarleton Fiske, E.K. Jarvis, Herbert Scanlon |
| |
Some of My Best Fans Are Friends |
1956 SEP |
ar |
in which Bloch explains the sf fan to the sf reader; has a coll. of fanzine articles, The Eighth Stage of Fandom(1962, edited by Earl Kemp); has famous story "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper"(WRT 1943 JUL), & related novel The Night of the Ripper(1984) |
| |
Try This for Psis |
1956 OCT |
ss |
collab. w. Henry Kuttner on short story "The Black Kiss"(WRT 1937 JUN), was later retitled as title story of coll. Sea-Kissed(1945 chap); has 2 novellas in Thorne Smith style, "The Miracle of Roland Weems"(IMT 1955 MAY), "The Big Binge"(IMT 1955 JUL) |
| |
Proper Spirit, The |
1957 MAR |
ss |
has colls. Terror in the Night and Other Stories(1958), Pleasant Dreams(1960; rev. 1979), Blood Runs Cold(1961), Nightmares(1961), Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper(1962), More Nightmares(1962), Atoms and Evil(1962, sf coll.), Bogey Men(1963), Horror-7(1963) |
| |
Traveling Salesman, The |
1957 SEP |
vi |
1st pub. in PBY 1957 FEB; has suspense novels The Scarf(1947; vt The Scarf of Passion, 1949; rev. 1966), The Deadbeat(1960), The Couch(1962; & 1962 movie), The Will to Kill(1954), The Kidnapper(1954; 1988), Spiderweb(1954), Shooting Star(1958) |
| |
How Bug-Eyed Was My Monster |
1958 MAR |
ss |
1st pub. in Casper Magazine, in 1957 MAY; has novel This Crowded Earth(AMZ 1958 OCT; 1968); best known for novel Psycho(1959; basis of 1960 Alfred Hitchcock movie), for which he wrote 2 sequels, Psycho II(1982; N-1983 BFA), & Psycho House(1990) |
| |
That Hell-Bound Train |
1958 SEP |
ss |
W-1959 HUG; has suspense novels Firebug(1961; 1988), Terror(1962), The Star Stalker(1968), The Todd Dossier(1969 as by Collier Young), Night-World(1972; 1986), American Gothic(1974; 1987), There Is a Serpent in Eden(1979; vt The Cunning, 1981) |
| |
Conventional Approach, The |
1964 MAR |
ar |
2nd article of three in a series about the current sf fan scene, this one on sf conventions, a phenomenon of sf fandom; has colls. The Skull of the Marquis de Sade(1965; title story made into 1965 movie, The Skull), Tales in a Jugular Vein(1965) |
| |
Plot Is the Thing, The |
1966 JUL |
ss |
N-1966 NEB, short story; has colls. Chamber of Horrors(1966), The Living Demons(1967), Dragons and Nightmares(1969), Bloch and Bradbury(1969), Fear Today, Gone Tomorrow(1971); edited The Best of Fredric Brown(1977; N-1977 LOC) |
| |
Anthony Boucher |
1968 AUG |
obit |
a tribute to the late Anthony Boucher; see "Robert Bloch" in Moskowitz(ed): Seekers of Tomorrow(1966); iv's in IFS 1969 JUL, in Walker: Speaking of Science Fiction(1978), Fear! 1990 JAN, WRT 1991 SPR; Bloch's obit & appreciations in LOC 1994 NOV(#406) |
| |
Movie People, The |
1969 OCT |
ss |
has novels It's All in Your Mind(IMT 1955 JUL, as The Big Binge; 1971), Sneak Preview(novella in AMZ 1959 NOV; exp. 1971), Strange Eons(1979; N-1980 BRG); colls. The King of Terrors(1977), Cold Chills(1977), The Best of Robert Bloch(1977) |
| |
Case of the Stubborns, A |
1976 OCT |
ss |
Robert Bloch W-1975 WFA, Lifetime Achievement; W-1984 HUG, Special Award, 50 Years As an SF Professional; W-1990 STO, Lifetime Acievement; W-1994 STO, for his autobiography, Once Around the Bloch(1993) |
| |
But First These Words |
1977 MAY |
ss |
has colls. Mysteries of the Worm: All the Cthulhu Mythos Stories(1981; N-1982 BRG; exp. 1993), Final Reckonings: The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch, Vol.1(1987), Bitter Ends: The Selected ..., Vol.2(1987), Last Rites: The Selected ..., Vol.3(1987) |
| |
Nina |
1977 JUN |
ss |
has colls. The King of Terrors(1977), Out of the Mouth of Graves(1978), Such Stuff As Screams Are Made Of(1979), Out of My Head(1986), Midnight Pleasures(1987; N-'88 STO), Fear and Trembling(1989), The Early Fears(1993); The Lost Bloch Vol.1(1999), 2(200) |
| |
What You See Is What You Get |
1977 OCT |
ss |
has omnibus of 3 non-genre novels, Unholy Trinity: Three Novels of Suspense(1986; The Scarf-1947, The Deadbeat-1960, & The Couch-1962); another, Screams: Three Novels of Terror(1989; The Will to Kill-1954, Firebug-1961, The Star Stalker-1968) |
| |
Freak Show |
1979 MAY |
ss |
has associational novels, The Kidnapper(1954), Spiderweb(1954), Shooting Star(1958), Terror(1962), The Todd Dossier(1969, as by Collier Young), Night-World(1972), American Gothic(1974), There Is a Serpent in Eden(1979; vt The Cunning, 1981) |
| Block, Lawrence |
Boy Who Disappeared Clouds, The |
1984 DEC |
ss |
(1938- ) mystery writer Grand Master; has won 3 Edgar Awards, 4 Shamus Awards, etc; has several mys. ser., incl. NY P.I. Matt Scudder ser., Eight Million Ways to Die(1982; W-Shamus; N-EDG), A Dance at the Slaughterhouse(1991; W-EDG; N-Shamus), etc |
| Blum, Richard H. |
Firmin Child, The |
1965 DEC |
ss |
(1927- ) Doctor of Psychology, consultant at the Institute for the Study of Human Problems(Stanford Univ.); has pub. mostly nf, incl. The Family Guide to Doctors, Hospitals and Medical Care(1964), & Utopiates: A Study of the Use and Users of LSD-25(1964) |
| Blumlein, Michael |
Bestseller |
1990 FEB |
nv |
(1948- ) N-1991 STO, novelette; 1st pub. in his coll. The Brains of Rats(1989; N-1990 LOC; 1991 STO, WFA); lives in San Francisco, a physician & faculty member at the Univ. of California School of Medicine |
| |
Paul and Me |
1997 OCT/NOV |
ss |
has 1st novel The Movement of Mountains(1987; N-1988 LOC), an interplanetary sf tale about genetically-engineered Slaves that are approaching humanity(B&C) |
| |
Revenge |
1998 APR |
nv |
has novel X, Y(1993; N-1994 LOC), a horror novel about a man who finds himself in a woman's body & has to adjust to his new existence & learn to use the power it brings him(B&C) |
| Boatman, Alan |
Agua Morte |
1986 NOV |
ss |
graduate of Univ. of Michigan, a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford Univ.; has 1st novel Summer's Lie(1970); Comrades in Arms(1974), about a Marine in Vietnam who was shot in the back by a fellow Marine |
| Boles, Paul Darcy |
Fabulous Bartender, The |
1970 MAY |
ss |
(1916-1984) born in Ashley-Hudson, IN; vice president of an advertising agency in Atlanta; has novels The Streak(1953), The Beggars in the Sun(1954; vt All That Love Allows, 1955), Beggars in the South(1954) |
| |
Droodspell |
1973 FEB |
ss |
has novels Glenport, Illinois(1956), Deadline(1957), Parton's Island(1958); has pub. short fiction in Cosmopolitan, Cavalier, Playboy, McCall's, Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Seventeen, Good Housekeeping |
| |
Meddy |
1973 MAY |
ss |
has coll. A Million Guitars and Other Stories(1967); novel The Limner(1975; vt Loving Letty, 1975 UK) |
| |
Sled, The |
1974 JAN |
ss |
has novels The Mississippi Run(1977), Glory Day(1979) |
| |
Sunday We Didn't Go to Lemon's, The |
1976 MAY |
ss |
has novel Night of Vengeance(1980) |
| |
Wheels of God, The |
1977 JAN |
ss |
has novel Night Watch, A Timeless Christmas Story(1980); nf book Storycrafting(1984) |
| Bongianni, Wayne |
New and Happy Woman, A |
1972 JUL |
ss |
student at an sf writing workshop at the Univ. of California, taught by Bruce McAllister |
| Bonnet, Leslie |
Game With a Goddess |
1959 SEP |
ss |
1st pub. in Argosy U.K.) 1958 MAY; has pub. many short stories in the U.K.'s version of Argosy betw. 1958-1964; has edited book Chinese Folk and Fairy Tales(1958, 1963); has children'sbook with Ed Young: The Terrible Nung Gwama: A Chinese Folktale(1978) |
| Borgese, Elizabeth Mann |
For Sale, Reasonable |
1959 JUL |
vi |
(1918-2002) daughter of writer Thomas Mann; co-founder of World Federalism(1946), Law of the Sea(1982); Prof. of Ocean Law, Dalhousie Univ.(Nova Scotia); has story coll. To Whom It May Concern(1960); nf Ascent of Woman(1963); edited Ocean Frontiers(1992) |
| Borski, Robert |
Trolls |
1974 MAY |
ss |
(1950- ) born & grew up in Stevens Point, WI; his 2nd sale; 1st story pub. "Kiss an Angel Good Morning" in Etchings & Odysseys #1 1973 |
