| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| La Farge, Oliver |
John the Revelator |
1951 FEB |
ss |
(1901-1963) anthropologist & novelist; President of the Association on American Indian Affairs, 1933-1941 & 1947-1951; has novels Laughing Boy(1929; W-1930 Pulitzer), Sparks Fly Upward(1931), The Enemy Gods(1937, 1975), The Eagle in the Egg(1949, 1972) |
| |
Time Watcher, The |
1953 FEB |
ss |
1st pub. in ?; has book A Pictorial History of the American Indian(1956), has colls. All the Young Men(1976), Yellow Sun, Bright Sky: the Indian Stories of Oliver La Farge(1988) |
| |
Spud and Cochise |
1957 DEC |
nv |
1st pub. in A Pause in the Desert(1935); has biography by D'Arcy McNickle: Indian Man, a Life of Oliver La Farge(1971) |
| Lafferty, R.A. |
Man With the Speckled Eyes, The |
1964 DEC |
ss |
(1914-2002) wn. for Raphael Aloysius Lafferty, born in Neola, IA; lives in Tulsa, OK; electrical engineer until he retired in 1971; 1st story pub. sf "Day of the Glacier" in SFS 1960 JAN; short story "Slow Tuesday Night," in GAL 1965 APR, N-1965 NEB |
| |
Hog-Belly Honey |
1965 SEP |
ss |
has 1st novel The Reefs of Earth(1968); novel Past Master(1968; N-1968 NEB; 1969 HUG), places Sir Thomas More on planet Astrobe, where he again suffers a martyr's death; novel Space Chantey(1968), in which Homer's Odyssey is retold as space opera(Clute) |
| |
Narrow Valley |
1966 SEP |
ss |
has novel Fourth Mansions(1969; N-1970 NEB); his novelette "Continued on Next Rock," in Knight(ed): Orbit 7(1970), N-1970 NEB; 1971 HUG; has colls. Nine Hundred Grandmothers(1970), Strange Doings(1972); Lafferty W-1990 WFA, Lifetime Achievement |
| |
Camels and Dromedaries, Clem |
1967 OCT |
ss |
has Argos Mythos series, in which a group of WWII buddies are treated as reincarnations of Jason's Argonauts(Clute), novels The Devil Is Dead(1971; N-1971 NEB), Archipelago(1979), Promonotory Goats(1988), How Many Miles to Babylon?(1989) |
| |
World Abounding |
1971 DEC |
ss |
N-1972 LOC, shfi; has Argos Mythos series coll. Episodes of the Argos(1990); has Coscuin Chronicles historical novels The Flame Is Green(1971; 1985), Half a Sky(1984; N-1985 LOC); More than Melchisedech seq. Tales of Chicago(1992), Tales of Midnight(1992) |
| |
Three Shadows of the Wolf |
1975 MAR |
nv |
has colls. Does Anyone Else Have Something to Add?(1974), Apocalypses(1977), Golden Gate and Other Stories(1982), Four Stories(1983), Heart of Stone, Dear and Other Stories(1983), Snake in His Bosom and Other Stories(1983), Through Elegant Eyes(1983) |
| |
Thou Whited Wall |
1977 JAN |
ss |
has colls. The Man Who Made Models ...(1984), Ringing Changes(1984), Slippery and Other Stories(1985), The Early Lafferty(1988), East of Laughter(1988), The Early Lafferty II(1990), Lafferty in Orbit(1991), Mischief Malicious(1991), Iron Tears(1992) |
| |
Square and Above Board |
1982 OCT |
ss |
has Green Tree seq. novels My Heart Leaps Up, Chapters 1 & 2(1986), My Heart Leaps Up(1989), My Heart Leaps Up, Chapter 9 & 10(1990); Sinbad: The 13th Voyage(1989), The Elliptical Grave(1989), Dotty(1990), Argo(1992), Alaric: The Day the World Ended(1993) |
| |
Stranger From Beyond the Sky, The |
1984 MAR |
pm |
see iv's in Walker: Speaking of S. F.(1978), AMZ 1983 SEP, American Fantasy 1987 SUM, Man from Tulas: Interviews with R.A. Lafferty(1990), INZ 1992 OCT(with an annotated bibliography), & article in AMZ 1993 OCT, & obit in LOC 2002 MAY, JUN(#496, 497) |
| Laidlaw, Marc |
Faust Forward |
1987 MAR |
ss |
(1960- ) born in L.A.; attended Univ. of Oregon; lives in San Francisco; also in F&SF with co-author C.A. Cador in 1981 AUG, Paul Di Filippo in 1993 SEP; 1st story pub. sf "A Hiss of Dragon" with Gregory Benford in Omni 1978 DEC, which was N-1979 LOC |
| |
Middleman's Rent |
1988 APR |
ss |
has 1st novel Dad's Nuke(1985), a sf satire of suburban life & Christian fundamentalism set in a near-future community effectively sealed off from the rest of the disintegrating USA(Clute) |
| |
Demonstration, The |
1989 FEB |
ss |
recently moved from San Francisco to Long Island, where he's working on his current sf novel Kalifornia(1993); Laidlaw wrote comic strip scripts for Creepy, & Vampirella; see entry in C.A., vol.119, p.188 |
| |
Uneasy Street |
1989 SEP |
ss |
has novel Neon Lotus(1988; N-1988 DIC; 1989 LOC), which follows the cosequences of the reincarnation of a Tibetan Buddhist sage as a young girl in a highly technologized USA(Clute); see article on him in AMZ 1992 DEC |
| |
Gasoline Lake |
1991 OCT/NOV |
na |
post-holocaust story, "set in a future where the world has dried up & water is as precious as gold ..."; has satirical sf novel Kalifornia(1993), set in a future where stars' lives are transmitted directly from their senses to their fans(F&SF) |
| |
Cartoon: Thinking Man's "Blob," The (B-Movies Remade for Discerning Viewers) |
1992 FEB |
ct |
1st cartoon in his Thinking Man's movies series; has crime novel The Orchid Eater(1994), about Lupe Diaz, mutilated by a gang when he was young, he takes revenge when he is older & stronger on the person he holds responsible, his brother Sal |
| |
Vulture Maiden, The |
1992 AUG |
nv |
N-1993 HUG, LOC, novelette; story "based on the most current info I've been able to obtain about the situation inside Tibet today ... the Vulture Goddess is my own invention—my wish for the deliverance of the Tibetan people" |
| |
Cartoon: Thinking Man's "Godzilla," The (Pretentious B-Movies) |
1992 SEP |
ct |
2nd & last cartoon in his Thinking Man's movies series |
| |
Terror's Biggest Fan |
1993 MAY |
nv |
went to school in Eugene, OR, which was used as the basis in this story for the fictional town of Spencer, as well as using Oregon's music scene |
| |
Black Bus, The |
1994 JUN |
nv |
story written late at night after his newborn daughter fell asleep, "... inspired by the Grateful Dead & its cult"; has New Age satire/Lovecraftian horror novel, The 37th Mandala(1996; W-1996 IHA; N-1997 LOC, STO, WFA), about a New Age charlatan |
| |
Dankden |
1995 OCT/NOV |
na |
1st story in his Gorlen Vizenfirth series, about a bard whose right hand is made out of polished stone due to a gargoyle's curse, & that swallows more of his flesh each time he strays from his appointed task |
| |
Catamounts |
1996 SEP |
ss |
2nd story in his Gorlen series, an alternate world fantasy; has New Age satire/Lovecraftian horror novel, The 37th Mandala(1996; W-1996 IHA; N-1997 LOC, WFA), about a New Age charlatan promoting evil mandalas as spirit guardians(B&C) |
| |
Curiosities: The Diamond in the Window, by Jane Langton, 1962 |
1998 DEC |
br |
The Diamond in the Window(1962), by Jane Langton(1922- ), a ya fantasy about two children, Edward & Eleanor Hall, who discover a "cryptic poem tantamount to a treasure map" in a secret attic room; has sequel, The Swing in the Summerhouse(1967) |
| |
Total Conversion |
1999 AUG |
ss |
has sf novelization The Third Force(1996), based on the CD-ROM game "Gadget" |
| Laidlaw, Marc & Paul Di Filippo |
Sleep Is Where You Find It |
1993 SEP |
nv |
features photographer & ghost-magnet Weegee; M.L.: "I got stuck in a dead-end trying to write about Weegee. I invited Paul to see if he could find a way to free up the story"; the two trying to collab. on a fantasy novel on the same theme |
| Lake, Paul |
Rat Boy |
1987 MAY |
ss |
his 1st pub. sf story; poet pub. in The New Republic, etc.; teaches at Arkansas Technical Univ.; poetry colls. Bull Dancing(1977), Another Kind of Travel(1988); novel Among the Immortals(1994), depicts Percy Shelley as a vampire; Walking Backwards(1999) |
| Lamb, Toni Heller |
Happy Place, The |
1964 JUL |
vi |
(1944?- ) her 1st pub. story; age 20, lives in N.Y.'s Lower East Side |
| Lambe, Dean R. |
One Over, The |
1980 JUN |
ss |
(1943- ) has BA from Whitman College(WA), & PhD in Biological Psychology from Duke Univ.(NC); an ex-professor, now writing full-time; has novel with Michael A. Banks, The Odysseus Solution(1986), an adventure tale involving aliens(Clute) |
| Lamming, R.M. |
Ink Imp, The |
1980 MAY |
nv |
(1948- ) N-1981 BSF, shfi; she was born on the Isle of Man, educated in Wales & at Oxford, now lives in North London; 1st story pub. sf "The Tunkin" in SFM v.2 #3 1975 as Robin Douglas; pub. 5 more stories as R.D. in the 1970s |
| |
Unfortunate Incident in the Life of a License Examiner, An |
1980 NOV |
ss |
has 1st novel The Notebook of Gismondo Cavalletti(1983; W-1983 Higham First Novel Award), set in 16th century Florence; In the Dark(1986), in which an elderly gentleman becomes reacquainted with passionate romance; see entry in C.A., vol.125, p.272-277 |
| Landis, Geoffrey A. |
Long Time Dying, A (A Love Story in Twelve Cantos) |
1991 AUG |
vi |
(1955- ) born in Detroit, MI; has BS in Physics, BS & MS in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T.; 1988 PhD in Solid State Physics from Brown Univ.; research scientist w. the Ohio Aerospace Inst. & the NASA Glenn (prev. Lewis) Research Center |
| |
Laboratory Procedure |
1991 OCT/NOV |
ss |
lives in Brook Park, OH; 1st story pub. "Elemental" in ANA 1984 DEC(N-1985 HUG); has coll. Myths, Legends, and True History(1991); 1st novel Mars Crossing(2000); 1999 married Mary Turzillo; has website at www.sff.net; see iv in LOC 2000 JAN(#468) |
| Landon, Perceval |
Thurnley Abbey |
1949 FLL |
ss |
(1869-1927) 1st pub. in England in his coll. Raw Edges(1908); English barrister, playwright, journalist & author; has books Lhasa: An Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet ... (1905), and Nepal(1928) |
| Landsberg, John M. |
Secret Mitty of Walter Life, The |
1983 JUL |
vi |
co-editor w. Jonathan Ostrowsky-Lantz of sf mag. Unearth(8 issues) 1977 WIN-1979 WIN; mag. was subtitled "The Magazine of Science Fiction Discoveries"; mag. pub. several 1st pub. stories(Gibson, Somtow, di Filippo) & reprinted those of sf greats(Clute) |
| |
Conditioning |
1988 SEP |
ss |
|
| Lane, Joel & Chris Morgan |
Feels Like Underground |
1999 APR |
ss |
(1963- ; 1946- ) both live in Birmingham, U.K.; J.L. has coll. The Earthwire and Other Stories(1994; W-1995 BFA; N-1995 WFA); C.M. has history of predictive sf, The Shape of Futures Past(1980), anth. Dark Fantasies(1989), nf Fortune Telling(1992; 1995) |
| Lang, Allen Kim |
Ambassador's Return |
1957 NOV |
ss |
(1928- ) U.S. Blood Bank supervisor, at Indiana Univ.; served in the Army & Air Force; 1st story pub. sf "Machine of Klamugra" in PLS 1950 NOV; has pub. 12 stories outside of F&SF in sf mags. betw. 1950-1966 |
| |
Exchange Student |
1958 FEB |
ss |
Lang has pub. fiction in AHMM, & Manhunt, incl. the anthologized "Final Exam" in AHMM 1959 AUG; also anthologized are sf stories, novella "The Chemically Pure Warriors" in IFS 1962 JUL, & novelette "Blind Man's Lantern" in ANA 1962 DEC |
| |
Thaw and Serve |
1964 JAN |
ss |
has novel Wild and Outside(1966), in which a U.S. baseball shortstop is sent to subdue a planet of alien musclemen(Clute) |
| Langdon, John |
Man Who Could Smell Land, The |
1951 AUG |
ss |
(1913- ) 1st pub. in Mast Magazine(U.S. Maritime Service magazine), 1947 OCT; John Franklin Coasten Langdon; has also pub. short stories "Hermit on Bikini" in Bluebook 1953 MAR, & "The Girls of Tombatoo" in Fury 1962 MAY |
| Langelaan, George |
Other Hand, The |
1961 OCT |
ss |
(1908-1969) French-born U.K. writer & journalist; has coll. of sf/horror stories Out of Time(1964), which contains the story "The Fly"(PBY 1957 JUN) which was made into movie The Fly(1958; 1986), and several sequels; he has pub. several works in French |
| Langford, David |
Curiosities: "The Strange Case of Cyril Bycourt," by Ernest Bramah (in coll. Max Carrados Mysteries, 1927) |
1999 SEP |
br |
(1953- ) Ernest Bramah(1868?-1942), created the blind sleuth Max Carrados series, in colls. Max Carrados(1914), The Eyes of M.C.(1923), The Specimen Case(1924), Best M.C, Detective Stories(1972); also created Oriental raconteur Kai Lung series |
| Lanier, Sterling |
Whose Short Happy Life? |
1968 MAR |
ss |
(1927- ) Sterling E. Lanier, & also in F&SF as such; editor & writer; did 6 years graduate work in anthropology/archaeology at the Univ. of Pennsylvania; editor at Chilton Books 1961-1967, before turning freelance & working as a sculptor & jeweller |
| Lanier, Sterling E. |
Soldier Key |
1968 AUG |
nv |
(1927- ) 1st story in his Brigadier Donald Ffellowes series, a series similar to Lord Dunsany's Jorken stories or Clarke's White Hart stories(Clute); 1st story pub. "Join Our Gang?" in ASF 1961 MAY |
| |
Kings of the Sea, The |
1968 NOV |
ss |
2nd story in his Brigadier Ffellowes series |
| |
Leftovers, The |
1969 MAR |
ss |
3rd story in his Brigadier Ffellowes series; has 1st novel, The War for the Lot(1969), a children's fantasy in which a boy is chosen telepathically to defend a tract from city rats(Clute) |
| |
Fraternity Brother |
1969 AUG |
ss |
4th story in his Brigadier Ffellowes series |
| |
Feminine Jurisdiction, A |
1969 NOV |
nv |
5th story in his Brigadier Ffellowes series |
