| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Recommended Reading |
1952 SEP |
br |
Arthur C. Clarke: Sands of Mars(nf); C.M. Kornbluth: Takeoff; John W. Campbell Jr: Cloak of Aesir; Martin Greenberg(ed): Five S.F. Novels; August Derleth(ed): Night's Yawning Peal |
| |
Note From the Editors |
1952 OCT |
note |
reporting the 1st of a new series of covers by Chesley Bonestell |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1952 OCT |
br |
John Collier: Fancies and Goodnights(W-1951 EDG); Arthur C. Clarke: The Exploration of Space(nf); de Camp & Ley: Lands Beyond(nf); Simak: City; Gerald Heard: Gabriel and the Creatures; Bleiler & Dikty: The Year's Best S.F. Novels, 1952 |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1952 NOV |
br |
Ray Bradbury(ed): Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow; Geoffrey Household: Tales of Adventurers; Cyril Judd: Outpost Mars; John Taine: The Crystal Horde |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1952 DEC |
br |
actually a one paragraph filler on p.57, as they "know of no adult books to recommend" due to the "doldrums" of summer |
| |
Introduction to the Bureau of English Matriculation |
1953 JAN |
in |
introducing a policy which will present the works of foreign authors "who have markedly influenced the course of fantasy & science fiction in other lands, yet who have never been translated into English"; it introduces Kurd Lasswitz to F&SF's readers |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1953 JAN |
br |
Clarke: Islands in the Sky; Poul Anderson: Vault of Ages; Chad Oliver: Mists of Dawn; Ruthven Todd: Space Cat; Wilson Tucker: The Long Loud Silence; van Vogt: Away and Beyond; Merril(ed): Beyond Human Ken; Bleiler & Dikty(ed): The Best S.F. Stories, 1952 |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1953 FEB |
br |
Bernard Wolfe: Limbo; Franz Kafka: Selected Stories of ...; Eric Frank Russell: Sentinels from Space; Leigh Brackett: The Starmen; Robert A. Heinlein: The Rolling Stones; C.S. Lewis: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; Carey Rockwell: Stand by for Mars! |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1953 MAR |
br |
best f/sf books in 1952 - R.B. Davis: Chivers' Life of Poe; Bradford Day(ed): Index to the S.-F. Magazines 1926-1950; C. Ryan(ed): Across the Space Frontier; Francis Stevens: The Heads of Cerberus; Kurt Vonnegut: Player Piano |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1953 APR |
br |
M. Gardner: In the Name of Science(nf); C. Ryan(ed): Across the Space Frontier(nf); Vonnegut: Player Piano; Asimov: The Currents of Space; C.L. Moore: Judgment Night; Williamson: The Legion of Space; Vance Randolph: Who Blowed Up the Church House? |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1953 MAY |
br |
R. Bretnor: Modern S.F., Its Meaning and Its Future(nf); Frederik Pohl(ed): Star S.F. Stories; Andre Norton(ed): Space Service; August Derleth(ed): Worlds of Tomorrow; Kendell F. Crossen(ed): Future Tense; Groff Conklin(ed): S.-F. Adventures in Dimension |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1953 JUN |
br |
Ray Bradbury: The Golden Apples of the Sun; Simak: Ring Around the Sun; Menzel: Flying Saucers; Mallan(ed): The Mystery of Other Worlds Revealed; Nelson Brown: Sheridan Le Fanu(bio); Robert Ashley: Wilkie Collins(bio) |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1953 JUL |
br |
Bester: The Demolished Man; Pohl & Kornbluth: The Space Merchants; Kendell F. Crossen: Once Upon a Star; George O. Smith: Hellflower; Groff Conklin(ed): The Supernatural Reader; Allan Barnard: The Harlot Killer(Ripper anth.); Edwin A. Abbott: Flatland |
| |
Note From the Editors |
1953 AUG |
note |
announcing F&SF's first serial, Poul Anderson's novel Three Hearts and Three Lions, to begin in the next issue |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1953 AUG |
br |
Clarke: Against the Fall of Night; Olaf Stapledon: To the End of Time; Pratt: The Undying Fire; William Tenn: Children of Wonder; Sturgeon: Baby Is Three; Greenberg(ed): The Robot and the Man; Wollheim(ed): Prize S. F.; F. Anstey: The Brass Bottle |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1953 SEP |
br |
Olaf Stapledon: To the End of Time; H. Rider Haggard: Lost Civilizations; Harness: Flight Into Yesterday; Wilmar H. Shiras: Children of the Atom; McIntosh: World Out of Mind; Wilson Tucker: The Time Masters; Bleiler & Dikty: Year's Best S. F. Novels, 1953 |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1953 OCT |
br |
Patrick Moore: A Guide to the Moon(nf); Heinz Haber: Man in Space(nf); Clarke: Childhood's End; Gerald Kersh: The Secret Masters; Elizabeth Cadell: Crystal Clear; Charlotte Haldane: The Shadow of a Dream; Ayn Rand: Anthem |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1953 NOV |
br |
1953 IFA winners, runners-up, Clifford D. Simak: City; C.M. Kornbluth: Takeoff; Kurt Vonnegut: Player Piano; L. Sprague de Camp & Willy Ley: Lands Beyond(nf); Ryan: Across the Space Frontier(nf); Martin Gardner: In the Name of Science(nf) |
| |
Note From the Editors: Contest (repeated in 1954 JAN issue) |
1953 DEC |
note |
announcing a contest: readers write 250 words or less for their top 3 stories of 1953; best of readers & authors win cash; results, 1954 MAY |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1953 DEC |
br |
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451; Fritz Leiber: Conjure Wife; Fletcher Pratt & L. Sprague de Camp: Tales from Gavagan's Bar; L. Sprague de Camp: Science-Fiction Handbook(nf) |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1954 JAN |
br |
Robert A. Heinlein: Starman Jones; Walter R. Brooks: Freddy and the Spaceship; C.M. Kornbluth: The Syndic; Bleiler & Dikty(ed): The Best S-F Stories, 1953; Samuel Mines: The Best from Startling Stories; William M. Sloane: Space Space Space |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1954 FEB |
br |
Sturgeon: More Than Human, & E. Pluribus Unicorn; Leiber: The Green Millennium; Padgett: Well of the Worlds; van Vogt: The Universe Maker; de Camp: The Tritonian Ring; Howard: The Coming of Conan; Heinlein: Assignment in Eternity |
| |
Recommended Reading: Best Science-Fantasy Books of 1953, The |
1954 MAR |
br |
list of the best f & sf books of 1953 |
| |
Note From the Editors |
1954 APR |
note |
first issue to have all new stories; how do the readers like it? |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1954 APR |
br |
John Wyndham: Out of the Deeps; Lewis Padgett: Mutant; Nat Schachner: Space Lawyer; Raymond F. Jones: Planet of Light |
| |
Note From the Editors: Contest Results |
1954 MAY |
note |
announcing the winners of the best stories of 1953(see 1953 DEC) |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1954 MAY |
br |
Brown & Reynolds(ed): Science-Fiction Carnival; Pohl(ed): Star Science Fiction Stories, No.2; Conklin(ed): 6 Great Short Novels of SF; Norton(ed): Space Pioneers; Wollheim(ed): The Ultimate Invader; Pohl & Kornbluth: Search the Sky; Tucker: Wild Talent |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1954 JUN |
br |
Hal Clement's books, incl. Mission of Gravity; Arthur C. Clarke: Prelude to Space; Robert A. Heinlein: Revolt in 2100; H. Nearing: The Sinister Researches of C.P. Ransom; Groff Conklin(ed): Crossroads in Time; James Blish: Jack of Eagles |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1954 JUL |
br |
one paragraph, "books … relatively scarce … and stories are plentiful" |
| |
Recommended Reading |
1954 AUG |
br |
Merril(ed): Human?; Moskowitz(ed): Editor's Choice in SF; H.L. Gold(ed): The Second Galaxy Reader of SF; Derleth(ed): Time to Come; Healy(ed): 9 Tales of Space and Time; Robert Sheckley: Untouched by Human Hands; Richard Matheson: Born of Man and Woman |
| Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas (edited by Annette McComas) |
Sorry, But—Rejections and Advice |
1982 JUN |
ar |
excerpts from book edited by Annette Peltz McComas, J. Francis McComas' wife, The Eureka Years: Boucher and McComas' Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 1949-1954(1982); excerpts of rejections & advice by the editors to would-be-authors(rvw. 1982 NOV) |
| Bourne, J.R. |
System, The |
1976 DEC |
ss |
(1945- ) James R. Bourne, his 1st pub. fiction; born in NYC, graduated from Yale Univ. in 1967, now lives in California |
| Bourne, Mark |
Brokedown |
1993 MAR |
ss |
his 1st professional sale; has BA in English, MA in Dramatic Arts; attended 1992 Clarion; writes for astronomy mags., designs museum programs; worked for the Strasenburgh Planetarium in Rochester, NY |
| |
Great Works of Western Literature |
1994 SEP |
ss |
lives in Portland, OR; now a senior writer/editor for an Internet company; see his website at www.sff.net/people; won Honorable Mention, 1994 JWCA, for Best New Writer |
| |
Mustard Seed |
1997 AUG |
ss |
has pub. fiction in Jennifer Hershey, etal(ed): Full Spectrum 5(1995), Esther M. Friesner(ed): Chicks in Chainmail(1995), & Mike Resnick(ed): Alternate Tyrants(1997); has eBook coll. Mars Dust & Magic Shows(2001), pub. by Scorpius Digital |
| Bova, Ben |
Fifteen Miles |
1967 MAY |
ss |
(1932- ) 1st & only story in F&SF in his Chet Kinsman series; others in series, ANA 1965 SEP, & novels Millennium(1976), Colony(1978), Kinsman(1979 fixup), & Voyagers(1981, & also a separate sequence); working name for Benjamin William Bova |
| |
Slight Miscalculation, A |
1971 AUG |
ss |
technical editor for Project Vanguard 1956-58, & for a research lab 1960-71; editor of ANA 1972 JAN- 1978 NOV, & at Omni 1978 OCT-1979 DEC; W-1973, 1977 & 1979 HUG, best editor; has 1st sf pub. children's novel The Star Conquerors(1959) |
| |
Sam Gunn |
1983 OCT |
ss |
1st story altogether & in F&SF in Sam Gunn, space entrepreneur, series; other stories in series in Omni 1990 JUL, ANA 1996 JAN & 1998 MAR, & in SFAge 1997 JAN; see interviews in LOC 1991 APR(#363), The Leading Edge #27 1993, & INZ 1994 APR |
| |
Isolation Area |
1984 OCT |
nv |
2nd story in F&SF in Sam Gunn ser.; has Orion ser., Star Watchman(1964), The Weathermakers(1967), Out of the Sun(1968), The Dueling Machine(1969), As On a Darkling Plain(1972 fixup); colls. Forward in Time(1973), Viewpoint(1977), Maxwell's Demons(1979) |
| |
Crisis of the Month |
1988 MAR |
ss |
has nf books The Uses of Space(1965), In Quest of Quasars(1970), The Amazing Laser(1971); children's sf Exiles ser., Exiled from Earth(1971), Flight of Exiles(1972), End of Exile(1975), omnibus The Exiles Trilogy(1980); movie novelization, THX 1138(1971) |
| |
Diamond Sam |
1988 NOV |
nv |
3rd story in F&SF in Sam Gunn ser.; has novels Escape!(1970), The Winds of Altair(1973; rev. 1983), When the Sky Burned(1973; rev. vt Test of Fire, 1982); Gremlins, Go Home!(1974), w. Gordon R. Dickson; The Multiple Man(1976), a suspense tale about clones |
| |
Can of Worms, A |
1989 NOV |
nv |
4th story in F&SF in Sam Gunn ser.; ser. coll. in Sam Gunn, Unlimited(1993 fixup); also in ser. Sam Gunn Forever(1998), Twice Seven(1998); has humorous recursive sf novel, The Starcrossed(1975), the protagonist a thinly disguised Harlan Ellison(Clute); |
| |
Vacuum Cleaner |
1991 JUN |
na |
5th story in F&SF in Sam Gunn ser.; has Voyagers ser., Voyagers(1981), The Alien Within(1986), Star Brothers(1990); also in Orion ser., Orion('84), Escape Plus('84 coll.), Vengeance of Orion('88), Orion in the Dying Time('90), Orion and the Conqueror('94) |
| |
Re-Entry Shock |
1993 JAN |
ss |
also in Orion series, Orion Among the Stars(1995), Legendary Heroes(1996); Privateers(1985; 2000), City of Darkness(1986), Welcome to Moonbase(1987), Peacekeepers(1988); with A.J. Austin, To Save the Sun(1992), To Fear the Light(1994) |
| |
Inspiration |
1994 APR |
ss |
N-1994 NEB; 1995 HUG, LOC, short story; has nf The Fourth State of Matter(1974), The High Road(1981); colls. The Astral Mirror(1985), Battle Station(1987), Challenges(1993); novels Cyberbooks(1989); Mars(1992), The Trikon Deception(1992) w. Bill Pogue |
| |
Life As We Know It |
1995 SEP |
ss |
this story "a near-future sf story based on current day practices ... we are going to find lots of surprises when we begin to explore other worlds in detail"; has novels Triumph(1993), Death Dream(1994), Brothers(1995); colls. Twice Seven(1998) |
| |
Great Moon Hoax or A Princess of Mars, The |
1996 SEP |
ss |
won best editor Hugo six times at ANA & Omni; has taught sf at Harvard Univ. & at the Hayden Planetarium in NYC; this humorous story mixes sf & detective genres, with several homages playing thru its pages; has novels Moon Base(1996), Storm Fury(1997) |
| |
Café Coup, The |
1997 SEP |
ss |
has nf books, The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells(1994); w. Anthony R. Lewis, Space Travel(1997; N-1998 HUG), Time Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Science of Interplanetary and Interstellar Travel(1997) |
| |
Remember, Caesar ... |
1998 MAR |
ss |
has Moonrise ser., Moonrise(1996), Moonwar(1998); nf Immortality: How Science Is Extending Your Life Span(1998); novels Return to Mars(1999), Venus(2000), Jupiter(2001); Asimov writes of Bova in I. Asimov(1994); see iv in LOC 2000 NOV(#478) |
| Bowen, Elizabeth |
Cheery Soul, The |
1952 APR |
ss |
(1899-1973) 1st pub. in The Listener, 24 DEC 1942 & in coll. The Demon Lover and Other Stories(1945); born in Britain; 1st book coll. Encounters(1923); has novels The Last September(1929; 1999 movie), Death of the Heart(1939; 1985 movie), Eva Trout(1968) |
