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| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Masear, Arthur |
Cartoon |
1996 OCT/NOV |
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Cartoon: Ace Cryogenics |
1996 DEC |
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Cartoon |
1997 APR |
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Cartoon: Wheel Chair-Accessible UFO |
1997 JUN |
ct |
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Cartoon: Auditions for Cats |
1997 SEP |
ct |
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Cartoon: Genetic Engineering Lab |
1997 OCT/NOV |
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Cartoon: Personnel |
1997 DEC |
ct |
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Cartoon |
1998 JAN |
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Cartoon |
1998 MAR |
ct |
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Cartoon: Skippy |
1998 MAR |
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Cartoon: Missing Persons |
1998 AUG |
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Cartoon: Weatherwatch |
1999 JUL |
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| Masefield, John |
Sealman, The |
1955 JUL |
vi |
(1878-1967) 1st pub. in A Mainsail Haul(1905; exp. 1913); Poet Laureate of England, 1930-67; has Kay Harker ser. novels The Midnight Folk(1927), & The Box of Delights(1935); has Christian Fantasy trilogy, the 1st novel being The Trial of Jesus(1925) |
| Mason, Lisa |
Destination |
1992 SEP |
ss |
(1953- ) Lisa Susan Mason; 1st story pub. sf/f "Arachne" in Omni 1987 DEC, exp. into 1st novel Arachne(1990; N-1991 LOC); Summer of Love(1994; N-1994 DIC; 1995 LOC), Cyberweb(1995), The Golden Nineties(1995; N-1996 LOC), Pangaea(1999), Pangaea II(1999) |
| Mason, Tom |
Cartoon: Solar Panel |
1981 DEC |
ct |
has anth. Spicy Detective Stories(1989), Spicy Mystery Stories(1990), Sherlock Holmes(1989), the latter having reprints of the 1954-56 comic strip; w. Sax Rohmer, Fu Manchu(1989), also comic strip reprints; w. Chris Ulm, Robotech II: The Sentinel(1989) |
| Massa, Jack |
Daydream Enhancer, The |
1980 FEB |
ss |
(1953- ) working name for John Andrew Massa; earned a master's degree in English in 1978; works as an editor in Atlanta; has novel Mooncrow(1979), a fantasy adventure about a one-man army, named Mooncrow, fighting the advance of the Empire of War |
| Masters, Rob & Regina Hugo |
Acrostic Puzzle |
1977 SEP |
pz |
answers in 1977 OCT, p.55 |
| Matheson, Richard |
Born of Man and Woman |
1950 SUM |
vi |
(1926- ) his 1st pub. story; author & screenwriter; born in Allendale, NJ; served in WWII, has 1949 degree in journalism from Univ. of Missouri; his fiction output dwindled in late 1960s-70s as he wrote for TV/movies; began writing fiction again in 1990s |
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Through Channels |
1951 APR |
ss |
has 1st two novels, crime novels Someone Is Bleeding(1953) & Fury on Sunday(1953); has 1st two sf novels, I Am Legend(1954) & The Shrinking Man(1956); more on 3 of these as Matheson wrote the movie scripts for them |
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Dress of White Silk |
1951 OCT |
ss |
has colls. Born of Man and Woman(1954; vt Third from the Sun, 1961), The Shores of Space(1957), Shock!(1961; vt Shock I, 1979), Shock II(1964), Shock III(1966), Shock Waves(1970), Shocks IV(1980 UK), R. M.: Collected Stories(1989; W-1990 STO, WFA) |
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SRL Ad |
1952 APR |
ss |
SRL, short for The Saturday Review of Literature; has novel/screenplay The Shrinking Man(1956; 1957 movie The Incredible Shrinking Man; W-1958 HUG), is about a man exposed to a toxic cloud who begins to shrink irreversibly(Clute) |
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Disappearing Act |
1953 MAR |
ss |
has screenplay The Beat Generation(1959; aka This Rebel Age); has screenplays of the work of Edgar Allan Poe: House of Usher(1960), Pit and the Pendulum(1961), Tales of Terror(1962; aka Poe's Tales of Terror), The Raven(1963) |
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Test, The |
1954 NOV |
ss |
has screenplays of other artists work, Master of the World(1961; Jules Verne's 1904 novel), Night of the Eagle(1962; aka Burn, Witch, Burn!; Fritz Leiber's 1943 novel Conjure Wife), Die! Die! My Darling!(1965; aka Fanatic; Anne Blaisdell's novel) |
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Funeral, The |
1955 APR |
ss |
has screenplays The Comedy of Terrors(1963; vt Graveside Story), The Devil Rides Out(1968; aka The Devil's Bride); has novel/screenplay The Beardless Warriors(1960; 1967 movie The Young Warriors, aka Eagle Warriors); wrote 16 scripts for The Twilight Zone |
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Pattern for Survival |
1955 MAY |
vi |
has 1st sf novel, I Am Legend(1954; vt The Omega Man, 1971), is about the last mortal man in a world in which a plague has turned all others into vampires - did screenplay for The Last Man on Earth(1964), but not for remake The Omega Man(1971)(Clute) |
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Steel |
1956 MAY |
nv |
has screenplays De Sade(1969), It's Alive!(1969; based on his novelette "Being" in IFS 1954 AUG); has novels/screenplays Ride the Nightmare(1959; 1971 movie Cold Sweat), Someone Is Bleeding(1953; 1972 movie Icy Breasts, aka Icy Flesh) |
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Splendid Source, The |
1957 MAR |
ss |
has teleplays The Night Stalker(1971; aka The Kolchak Papers), The Night Strangler(1972; aka Time Killer), Dracula(1973), Dying Room Only(1973); has erotic horror novel Earthbound(1982 as by Logan Swanson; as by himself, 1989 UK) |
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Holiday Man, The |
1957 JUL |
ss |
has novel/screenplay Hell House(1971; 1973 movie The Legend of Hell House), of occult investigators seeking source of supernatural power that has slain other teams in a haunted house; teleplays The Stranger Within(1974), Scream of the Wolf(1974) |
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Old Haunts |
1957 OCT |
ss |
has teleplays The Morning After(1974), The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver(1977), The Martian Chronicles(1980 TV mini-series); screenplays Dead of Night(1977), Twilight Zone: The Movie(1983, "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"), Jaws 3-D(1983; aka Jaws 3) |
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Lemmings |
1958 JAN |
vi |
has novel/screenplay Bid Time Return(1975; W-1976 WFA, best novel; vt Somewhere in Time, 1980, & 1980 movie; had bit part - "Astonished Man"), about a love that transcends time & unites the souls of two people separated by a century(Clute) |
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Edge, The |
1958 AUG |
ss |
has teleplays The Morning After(1974), The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver(1977), screenplays Dead of Night(1977), Jaws 3(1983); has western novel The Gunfight(1992); nf book w. Ricia Mainhardt, Robert Bloch: Appreciations of the Master(1995) |
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From Shadowed Places |
1960 OCT |
nv |
has teleplays w. William F. Nolan, Trilogy of Terror(1975) & Trilogy of Terror II(1996), based on 3 of Matheson's stories, including short story "Prey" in PBY 1969 APR; has anthology w. Greenberg & Waugh(ed): The Twilight Zone: The Original Stories(1985) |
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Traveller, The |
1962 FEB |
ss |
1st pub. in coll. Born of Man and Woman(1954); has western novels Journal of the Gun Years(1991; W-1992 Spur Award), The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok(1996); coll. By the Gun(1994); thriller 7 Steps to Midnight(1992), mystery Now You See It(1995) |
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Jazz Machine, The |
1963 FEB |
pm |
has novel/screenplay What Dreams May Come(1978; 1998 movie), an afterlife fantasy said to be drawn from reports of near-death experiences; has an nf book on the afterlife & psychic phenomenon, The Path: Metaphysics for the 1990s(1993)(Clute) |
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Tis the Season to Be Jelly |
1963 JUN |
ss |
has novel/screenplay A Stir of Echoes(1958; 1999 movie), on paranormal experience: a domestic drama in which a man discovers that upsetting visions destroying his life & sanity are caused by psychic residue in his house from an unsolved murder(Clute) |
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Girl of My Dreams |
1963 OCT |
ss |
see book by Mark Rathbun & Graeme Flanagan: Richard Matheson: He Is Legend: An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography(1984); has partial writing credits to TV documentary The Dreamer of Oz(1990), a bio of L. Frank Baum; W-1984 WFA & 1991 STO, Lifetime Achievement |
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Born of Man and Woman |
1979 OCT |
vi |
1st pub. in F&SF 1950 SUM; see ar in TWZ 1981 SEP; iv's in TWZ 1981 OCT, 1983 SEP/OCT, 1986 JUN, & in CMD 1992 SPR, 1997 FLL, & in Winter(ed): Faces of Fear(1985), Fear! 1990 FEB, Midnight Graffiti Special #1 1994; The Twilight Zone Scripts(1998) |
| Matthews, Patricia |
Children of the Sea, The |
1987 FEB |
ss |
(1927- ) lives near San Diego; 1st sales 2 poems for the Oregonian in 1957; has pub. fiction, poetry in Cosmopolitan, AHMM, etc; writes historical romance novels as by Patty Brisco, Horror at Gull House(1969), The Crystal Window(1976), Mist of Evil(1976) |
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Goatman |
1995 MAY |
ss |
has pub. in collab. w. her husband, Clayton Matthews, 4 mys. novels betw. 1969 & 1976, also as Patty Brisco, which incl. House of Candles(1973); has also written under ps. P.A. Brisco, Pat A. Briscoe, Denise Matthews(w. Denise Hrivnak), Laura(ie) Wylie |
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At the Bottom of the Garden |
1996 OCT/NOV |
ss |
other romance novels as Patty Brisco, Love's Avenging Heart(1977), The Unquiet(1991); has Casey Farrel series of mystery novels, The Scent of Fear(1992), Vision of Death(1993), The Sound of Murder(1994), Taste of Evil(1994), The Touch of Terror(1995) |
| Matz, Marc |
At Cost |
1991 MAY |
ss |
(1951?- ) J. Marc Matz, an L.A. small businessman & part-time writer; helps to run his family's cosmetic business; 1st story pub. "Despite and Still" in Writers of the Future, Vol. V(1989); 1st novel, Nocturne for a Dangerous Man(1999; N-2000 LOC) |
| Maurois, André |
War Against the Moon, The |
1950 SUM |
ss |
(1885-1967) 1st pub. in The Forum in 1927 JUL, & as a tiny volume in Dutton's "Today and Tomorrow" ser., in 1928, an excerpt, Chapter CXVII; ps. for Emile Herzog, biographer, novelist; has coll. The Weigher of Souls and The Earth Dwellers(1963) |
| Mayhar, Ardath |
Adapter, The |
1991 DEC |
ss |
(1930- ) began pub. poetry in 1940s, has historicals & westerns as Frank Cannon, non-sf/f books as John Killdeer & Sarah MacWilliams; 1st pub. sf/f "The Cat with the Sapphire Eyes" in Weirdbook #8 1973; has coll. Slewfoot Sally and the Flying Mule(1995) |
| McAllister, Bruce |
Without a Doubt Dream |
1968 APR |
ss |
(1946- ) student at U.C.L.A.; 1st story pub. sf "The Faces Outside" in IFS 1963 JUL |
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Prime-Time Teaser |
1968 DEC |
ss |
studied art before turning to writing |
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Benji's Pencil |
1969 MAR |
ss |
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After the Bomb Cliches |
1969 NOV |
ss |
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E Pluribus Solo |
1970 JAN |
ss |
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Mother of Pearl |
1970 JUN |
ss |
student in the writing program at Univ. of California(Irvine); working on a 1st novel, Humanity Prime(1971), based on themes in this story & in "The Warmest Memory" in F&SF 1970 DEC, & takes material from "The Faces Outside" in IFS 1963 JUL(Clute) |
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Warmest Memory, The |
1970 DEC |
ss |
see his story in 1970 JUN(#2914), about how this story was used in his 1st novel, Humanity Prime(1971) |
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