| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
1957 MAY |
br |
James Barlow: One Half of the World; Pohl: Slave Ship; E.C. Tubb: Alien Dust; Grinnell: Across Time; Brown: Rogue in Space; Lan Wright: Who Speaks of Conquest?; Whit & Hallie Burnett(ed): 19 Tales of Terror; Quinn & Wulff(ed): The First World of If |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1957 JUN |
br |
C.S. Lewis: Till We Have Faces; Johannes Rüber: Bach and the Heavenly Choir; Arthur C. Clarke: The Deep Range; James Blish: The Frozen Year; Leinster: City on the Moon; T.H. White: The Master; Ruthven Todd: Space Cat Meets Mars; Pohl: Undersea Fleet |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1957 JUL |
br |
Alfred Hitchcock: Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV; Beaumont: The Hunger and Other Stories; Ilse Aichinger: The Bound Man and Other Stories; James Blish: The Seedling Stars; Lovecraft & Derleth: The Survivor and Others; Oliver: The Winds of Time |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1957 AUG |
br |
opposition to the Oz books of L. Frank Baum; Andre Norton: Star Born; Fritz Leiber: Destiny Times Three; Greenberg(ed): Five S.F. Novels; Alfred Bester: The Stars My destination; Vance: Big Planet; Clement: Cycle of Fire; Silverberg: The 13th Immortal |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1957 SEP |
br |
Richard Carrington: Mermaids and Mastodons; Busson & Leroy: The Last Secrets of the Earth; Martin Greenberg(ed): Coming Attractions(nf); Ray Palmer(ed): The Secret of the Saucers(nf); Frederik Pohl: The Case Against Tomorrow; Cyril Judd: Gunner Cade |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1957 OCT |
br |
best of British sf, John Christopher: No Blade of Grass; Neville Shute: On the Beach; Burt Cole: Subi, the Volcano; Philip José Farmer: The Green Odyssey; Gallun: People Minus X; Sax Rohmer; Re-Enter Fu Manchu; I.O. Evans(ed): Jules Verne, Master of SF |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1957 NOV |
br |
recommended reprints; Jack Finney: The Third Level(coll.); Brian W. Aldiss: Space, Time and Nathaniel; Rex Gordon: First on Mars; Charles Eric Maine: High Vacuum; James White: The Secret Visitors; Coblentz: Hidden World; Goodrich: The Genesis of Nam |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1957 DEC |
br |
nf reprints & reissues; Irving Wallace: The Square Pegs(nf); Gerald W. Johnson: The Lunatic Fringe(nf); Edgar Eager: Half Magic, Magic by the Lake, & Knight's Castle |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1958 JAN |
br |
L. Sprague de Camp: Solomon's Stone(UNK 1942 JUN; 1957); Philip K. Dick: The Cosmic Puppets(SAT 1956 OCT; 1957) |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1958 FEB |
br |
C.L. Moore: Doomsday Morning; Wellman: Twice in Time; George O. Smith: Troubled Star; Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged; van Vogt: Empire of the Atom; Sheckley: Pilgrimage to Earth; Dick: The Variable Man; Asimov: Lucky Starr series, as by Paul French |
| |
Afterword to "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" by Edgar Allan Poe |
1958 MAR |
aw |
an afterword by the editor, a well-known mystery writer himself, discussing the merits of this story, a rare detective story, one without a detective, save the reader |
| |
Best Science-Fantasy Books of 1957, The |
1958 MAR |
br |
survey of the best f & sf books of 1957 |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1958 APR |
br |
Maine: Spaceways Satellite; Stine: Rocket Power and Space Flight; E.F. Russell: Wasp; Clifton & Riley: They'd Rather Be Right; van Vogt: The Mind Cage; Roger Manvell: The Dreamers; del Rey: Robots and Changelings; Wilson: Those Idiots from Earth |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1958 MAY |
br |
1957 IFA winner, J.R.R. Tolkien: Lord of the Rings; Clarke: The Other Side of the Sky; Wyndham: The Midwich Cuckoos; Fred Hoyle: The Black Cloud; Maine: World Without Men; E.C. Tubb: The Mechanical Monarch; Matheson: A Stir of Echoes |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1958 JUN |
br |
Robert Randall: The Shrouded Planet; Tom Godwin: The Survivors; brief notes on fantasy books |
| |
Introduction to C.M. Kornbluth's "Theory of Rocketry" |
1958 JUL |
in |
an introduction to Kornbluth's story, as well as a eulogy of his works and accomplishments |
| |
C.M. Kornbluth: Memorial Bibliography, A |
1958 JUL |
bib |
Cyril M. Kornbluth died March 21, 1958; a short chronological listing of his books |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1958 AUG |
br |
Fadiman(ed): Fantasia Mathematica; Dikty(ed): The Best S-F Stories and Novels, 9th Series; Wollheim(ed): Men on the Moon; Blish: A Case of Conscience, & Vor; Bester: Starburst; Steve Eisner(ed): Howard Phillips Lovecraft Memorial Symposium |
| |
Autobiographical Note |
1958 AUG |
note |
announcing his sabbatical(actually his resignation, due to poor health) from editing F&SF, and introducing the new editor, Robert P. Mills |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1958 SEP |
br |
William Tenn: Time in Advance; Charles Beaumont: Yonder; Gerald Kersh: On an Old Note; H.L. Gold(ed): The Third Galaxy Reader; James L. Quinn & Eve Wulff(ed): The Second World of If; Groff Conklin(ed): The Graveyard Reader; Asimov: Only a Trillion(nf) |
| |
Recommended Reading: All Star Survey, An |
1958 OCT |
br |
a retrospective survey of the best science-fantasy books from 1949 thru 1957: the best 50-plus titles; has his mystery reviews coll. in The Anthony Boucher Chronicles: Reviews and Commentary 1942-1947, Vol. I(2001), Vol. II(2002) |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1958 NOV |
br |
review of older works by Heinlein; Judith Merril(ed): SF, The Year's Greatest S.-F. and Fantasy, Third Annual; Algis Budrys: Who?, & Man of Earth; Shirley Jackson: The Sundial; Edward Eager: The Time Garden; Andre Norton's juveniles, brief reviews |
| |
Pink Caterpillar, The |
1958 DEC |
ss |
1st pub. in Adventure 1945 FEB, 2nd story in F&SF from his Fergus O'Breen series; edited A Treasury of Great Science Fiction(1959), & The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction series(1953-59); has coll. The Compleat Werewolf(1969) |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1958 DEC |
br |
Theodore Sturgeon: The Cosmic Rape, & A Touch of Strange; Karen Anderson: Henry Kuttner, A Memorial Symposium(nf); Roger L. Green: Into Other Worlds; Nandor Fodor: On the Trail of the Poltergeist(nf); Eric Frank Russell: Great World Mysteries(nf) |
| |
Quest for Saint Aquin, The |
1959 JAN |
ss |
1st pub. in Raymond J. Healy(ed): New Tales of Space and Time(1951), this is considered by many to be his best work of sf; has colls. Exeunt Murderers: The Best Mystery Stories of Anthony Boucher(1983), The Compleat Boucher(1999; N-2000 LOC) |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1959 JAN |
br |
interplanetary spaceships, UFOs in books, & cartoon books; Basil Davenport(ed): Deals with the Devil; short list of books ideal for Xmas presents; Asimov writes of Boucher & F&SF in I. Asimov(1994); Silverberg does in "Reflections" column, ASI 1996 SEP |
| |
Tenderizers, The |
1972 JAN |
ss |
previously unpublished; see J.R. Christopher, D.W. Dickensheet & R.E. Briney: A Boucher Bibliography, bound with Lenore Glen Offord(ed): A Boucher Portrait(1969 chap); has coll. Exeunt Murderers: The Best Mystery Stories of Anthony Boucher(1983) |
| |
Man's Reach |
1972 NOV |
nv |
N-1973 LOC; never before published; for more biographical & bibliographical information on Anthony Boucher, see Annette Peltz McComas(ed): The Eureka Years, Boucher and McComas' Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1949-1954(1982; rvw. F&SF 1982 NOV) |
| |
Quest for Saint Acquin, The |
1979 OCT |
ss |
1st pub. in F&SF 1959 JAN, & in Raymond J. Healy(ed): New Tales of Space and Time(1951), as "The Quest for Saint Aquin"; see "In Memoriam—Anthony Boucher" by J. Francis McComas in Poul Anderson(ed): Nebula Award Stories Four(1969) |
| Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Recommended Reading |
1950 WIN/SPR |
br |
(1911-1968; 1911-1978) 9 best f/sf books of 1949, Brown: What Mad Universe; S.F. Wright: The World Below; Sturgeon: Without Sorcery; Bleiler & Dikty: The Best SF Stories, 1949; Bonestell & Ley: The Conquest of Space; L. Golding: Honey for the Ghost |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1950 SUM |
br |
Heinlein: Sixth Column, & Waldo and Magic, Inc; S. Fowler Wright: The Throne of Saturn; Merril(ed): Shot in the Dark; Anthony West: The Vintage; E.M. Butler: Ritual Magic; for br's & story intros A.B. & McC. take turns, if one writes, the other revises |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1950 FLL |
br |
Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles; Fritz Leiber: Gather, Darkness!; Andre Maurois: The Maurois Reader; August Derleth(ed): Beyond Time and Space; Eric Linklater: A Spell for Old Bones; Talbot Mundy: The Devil's Guard |
| |
Note From the Editors |
1950 DEC |
note |
change from a quarterly to a bimonthly publishing schedule |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1950 DEC |
br |
Judith Merril: Shadow on the Hearth; Donald A. Wollheim(ed): Flight Into Space; L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt: The Incomplete Enchanter; Mary Griffith: Three Hundred Years Hence |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1951 FEB |
br |
Robert A. Heinlein: The Man Who Sold the Moon; Bleiler & Dikty(ed): The Best S.F. Stories, 1950; Cadell: Brimstone in the Garden; Robert M. Coates: Here Today; Nigel Kneale: Tomato Cain |
| |
Note From the Editors |
1951 FEB |
note |
adding 10,000 words to each issue, beginning with the 1951 APR issue |
| |
Note From the Editors |
1951 APR |
note |
announcement of Story Title Contest |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1951 APR |
br |
best books of 1950; C. Adams: Monster Rally; Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles; Cadell: Brimstone in the Garden; Davenport: Ghostly Tales to Be Told; Derleth(ed): Beyond Time & Space; Greenberg(ed): Men Against the Stars |
| |
To Our Readers |
1951 JUN |
note |
readers' opinions of F&SF from their letters: what they want to see in F&SF |
| |
Note From the Editors |
1951 JUN |
note |
announcement of Story Title Contest |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1951 JUN |
br |
Robert A. Heinlein: Farmer in the Sky; Isaac Asimov: I, Robot; Philip Wylie: The Disappearance; Martin Greenberg(ed): Journey Into Infinity |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1951 AUG |
br |
John Wyndham: The Day of the Triffids; Arthur C. Clarke: Prelude to Space; John W. Campbell Jr: The Moon Is Hell!; Edmond Hamilton: City at World's End; Jack Williamson: The Cometeers; Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1951 OCT |
br |
Conklin(ed): Possible Worlds of S.F.; Derleth(ed): Far Boundaries; Crossen(ed): Adventures Into Tomorrow; M. Leinster(ed): Great Stories of S.F.; J.D. Carr: The Devil in Velvet; Vance Randolph: We Always Lie to Strangers; Simak: Time and Again |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1951 DEC |
br |
Ley: Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel; Ley: Dragons in Amber; de Camp: Rogue Queen; van Vogt: The Weapon Shops of Isher; W. Stewart: Seetee Ship; Taine: Seeds of Life; C. Beuf: The Innocence of Pastor Müller; J. Oliver: Morning for Mr. Prothero |
| |
Report From the Editors |
1952 FEB |
note |
readers' responses to Cornell Woolrich's novella, "Jane Brown's Body," #139, in 1951 OCT |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1952 FEB |
br |
Heinlein: The Day After Tomorrow, & The Green Hills of Earth, & The Puppet Masters; Sam Merwin Jr: The House of Many Worlds; Kenneth Fearing: Lonliest Girl in the World; Pratt(ed): Worlds of Wonder; W.B. Ready: The Great Disciple and Other Stories |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1952 APR |
br |
best f/sf of 1951 include, Kem Bennett: The Fabulous Wink; John Collier: Fancies and Goodnights(W-1952 IFA, coll.); Gerald Heard: The Black Fox; Malcolm Jameson: Bullard of the Space Patrol |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1952 JUN |
br |
Lewis Padgett: Tomorrow and Tomorrow, & The Fairy Chessmen; Peter Lum: Fabulous Beasts; John W. Campbell Jr: The Astounding Science Fiction Anthology; Martin Greenberg(ed): Travelers of Space |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1952 AUG |
br |
Heinlein: Tomorrow the Stars; Merril & Pohl(ed): Beyond the End of Time; Groff Conklin(ed): Invaders of Earth; H.L. Gold(ed): Galaxy Reader of S.F.; James Blish: Jack of Eagles; A.E. van Vogt: Destination: Universe!(coll.); Maurice Walsh: Son of a Tinker |
| |
Note From the Editors |
1952 SEP |
note |
change from a bimonthly to a monthly publishing schedule; change in the style of the title on the cover |
