| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| McIntosh, J.T. |
One in a Thousand |
1954 JAN |
na |
(1925- ) 2nd story Lt. Bill Easson series; 1st story, #293, as by J.T. M'Intosh in 1953 FEB; ps. for Scottish writer & journalist James Murdoch MacGregor, used for all his sf work; has also pub. non-sf under his own name |
| |
One Too Many |
1954 SEP |
na |
3rd story of trilogy, Lt. Bill Easson series; 1st #293 by M'Intosh(F&SF 1953 FEB) & 2nd #437 by McIntosh(F&SF 1954 JAN); series coll. in fixup novel One in Three Hundred(1954) |
| |
Selection |
1955 JAN |
nv |
has novels Born Leader(1954; vt Worlds Apart, 1958), puts two sets of colonists from a destroyed Earth on nearby planets, where the authoritarian set conflicts with the libertarian set(Clute) |
| |
Eleventh Commandment |
1955 MAY |
nv |
also in F&SF as J.T.M'Intosh |
| |
Man Who Cried "Sheep!," The |
1955 SEP |
nv |
has novel The Fittest(1955; vt The Rule of the Pagbeasts, 1956), which depicts the harrowing effects of a misfired experiment to increase animal intelligence(Clute) |
| |
Sandmen, The |
1957 JUN |
ss |
|
| |
Tenth Time Around |
1959 MAY |
nv |
has novels 200 Years to Christmas(SCF 1959 #35; exp. 1961), about a generation starship; The Million Cities(SAT 1958 AUG; rev. 1963), an urban dystopian novel |
| |
One Into Two |
1962 FEB |
ss |
has novels The Noman Way(NWS 1952 JUL-NOV as "The ESP Worlds"; 1964); Out of Chaos(1965), a post-holocaust novel; Snow White and the Giants(IFS 1966-67 OCT-JAN; 1968 US; vt Time for a Change, 1967), about time-traveling aliens |
| |
Stupid General, The |
1962 AUG |
ss |
has novels Six Gates from Limbo(1968), Transmigration(1970), Flight from Rebirth(ASF 1960 MAR as "Immortality ...... For Some"; exp. 1971) |
| |
Humanoid Sacrifice |
1964 MAR |
nv |
has novels The Cosmic Spies(1972), The Space Sorcerers(1972; vt The Suiciders, 1973 US), Galactic Takeover Bid(1973) |
| |
Poor Planet |
1964 AUG |
nv |
has novel Ruler of the World(cut 1976 Canada; rev. vt This Is the Way the World Begins, 1977 UK) |
| |
Sudden Silence, The |
1966 APR |
ss |
has novels Norman Conquest 2066(1977), A Planet Called Utopia(1979) |
| |
Saw and the Carpenter, The |
1967 SEP |
nv |
see book Ian Covell: J.T. McIntosh: Memoir & Bibliography(1987 chap) |
| McIntyre, Vonda N. |
Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn, The |
1974 FEB |
ss |
(1948- ) N-1975 LOC; writer & geneticist; attended 1970 Clarion; 1st story pub. sf "Only at Night in" in Wilson(ed): Clarion(1971); 1st novel The Exile Waiting(1975); fixup novel Dreamsnake(ANA 1973 OCT, 1978 FEB, MAR; 1978) W-1978 NEB; 1979 HUG, LOC |
| |
Fireflood |
1979 NOV |
nv |
N-1980 HUG, LOC, novelette; title story of her coll. Fireflood and Other Stories(1979; N-1980 HUG, LOC); has written 5 Star Trek novels; Superluminal(1983 fixup; N-1984 LOC), The Moon and the Sun(1997; W-1997 NEB); see iv's in GEO 1979 NOV, LOC 1998 FEB |
| McKenna, Bridget |
Good Pup, The |
1993 MAR |
ss |
N-1993 HOM, NEB; 1994 HUG, LOC, SFC; lives in Seattle, WA; attended Clarion; 1st sale "The Old Oregon Trail" in Budrys(ed): WotF, Vol. II(1986); 1st novel, in Caley Burke P.I. mys. ser., Murder Beach(1993), Dead Ahead(1994; N-Shamus), Caught Dead(1995) |
| |
Little Things, The |
1993 OCT/NOV |
ss |
McKenna also writes under ps. Melissa Cleary, having taken over the Jackie Walsh & Jake mys. ser. w. book #10, And Your Little Dog, Too(1998), & #11, In the Doghouse(2000); also wrote the Cleary stories in Canine Crimes(1998), & Canine Christmas(1999) |
| McKenna, R.M. |
Casey Agonistes |
1958 SEP |
ss |
(1913-1964) wn. for Richard Milton McKenna, his 1st pub. story; also in F&SF as Richard McKenna; born in Mountain Home, Idaho; Navy veteran(1931-53) & Old China Hand(10 years), B.A. in English Literature in 1958 from Univ. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| McKenna, Richard |
Mine Own Ways |
1960 FEB |
ss |
McKenna's efforts to revise "Casey Agonistes"(F&SF 1958 SEP, #1140) according to the editors demands are described in his essay "Journey with a Little Man," which was reprinted in Damon Knight's sf criticism anthology Turning Points(1977) |
| |
Hunter, Come Home |
1963 MAR |
nv |
has only novel The Sand Pebbles(1962; W-1963 Harper Prize; 1966 movie), about a gunboat patrolling the Yangtze River during revolution-torn China in 1926; McKenna served in the Navy in the Far East for 10 years, two of them aboard a gunboat in 1930s China |
| |
Home the Hard Way |
1967 OCT |
nv |
prev. unpub. story; has mainstream fiction coll. Sons of Martha and Other Stories(1966); his story "The Secret Place" in Damon Knight: Orbit 1(1966) won a posthumous Nebula Award; see Peter Nicholls: Survey of Science Fiction Literature(1979) |
| |
They Are Not Robbed |
1968 JAN |
nv |
previously unpublished; also in F&SF as R.M. McKenna; has coll. of essays & speeches, New Eyes for Old(1972), which chronicle his development as a writer; fiction coll. Casey Agonistes and Other Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories(1973) |
| McKinlay, M. Catherine |
Xessex |
1983 FEB |
ss |
(1939- ) her 1st pub. story; ps. for Katherine V. Forrest; from San Francisco; as Forrest has feminist sf novel Daughters of a Coral Dawn(1984); lesbian-oriented sf & horror coll. Dreams and Swords(1987); has Kate Delafield(LAPD lesbian detective) ser. |
| McKnight, John P. |
Prolog |
1951 AUG |
vi |
(1908?-1987) John Proctor McKnight |
| |
Bird Talk |
1953 APR |
vi |
has nf book, The Papacy: A New Appraisal(1952), an examination of the religious & doctrinal aspects of the Papacy as well as its political influence |
| McLaughlin, Cooper |
Shannon Merrow, The |
1982 NOV |
ss |
served 5 years as an Airborne Infrantryman; Prof. of Psychology in the California State Univ. system |
| |
Smyler, The |
1984 JUL |
ss |
has short story "The Stones of Moel Hebog" in S&T 1983 SUM, & novelette "The Shanahy's Treasure" in S&T 1986 WIN |
| |
Black and Tan Man, The (For Snooper 6 & Darkhorse 16) |
1985 NOV |
nv |
has novella "The Lodge of Jahbulon" in anth. Gardner Dozois & Susan Casper(ed): Ripper!(1988) |
| |
Order of the Peacock Angel, The |
1987 JAN |
nv |
tale about a brotherhood that began 1000 years ago & may still have existed in the 1960s, beginning with the mystery of a box carved from the metal of a ship from the sky(author says the historical background is accurate) |
| McLaughlin, Dean |
Voyage Which Is Ended, The |
1962 AUG |
ss |
(1931- ) born in Ann Arbor, MI, went to Univ. of Michigan; bookstore owner; 1st story pub. sf "For Those Who Follow After" in ASF 1951 JUL; has novel Dome World(ASF 1958 MAR as"The Man on the Bottom"; exp. 1962) |
| |
One Hundred Days From Home |
1964 FEB |
ss |
amateur astronomer, the son of a well-known astronomer; has novels The Fury from Earth(1963); The Man Who Wanted Stars(1965 fixup), which depicts a man's long, driven quest to force & trick Earth governments into attaining interstellar space flight(Clute) |
| |
Trouble With Project Slickenside, The |
1973 MAR |
nv |
has coll. Hawk Among the Sparrows(1976; title story a novella in ANA 1968 JUL was N-1968 NEB; 1969 HUG); see Biolog in ANA 1977 NOV; has novel Dawn, in ANA 1981 APR 27-JUL 20; has novella "Ode to Joy" in ANA 1991 JUL; editor of Figment #1-3(1990) |
| |
West of Scranton and Beyond the Dreams of Avarice |
1974 AUG |
nv |
has novella "Mark on the World," in ANA 1992 JUL, was N-1993 HUG |
| McMorrow, Fred |
Man From Tomorrow, The |
1960 MAY |
ss |
(1925-2000) son of Tom McMorrow Jr(in F&SF 1953 MAY, #333), the large McMorrow family lives on Cape Cod; has pub. stories in TWS, STS, PST & PBY; has psychology book Midolescence: The Dangerous Years(1974); Jimmy: The Candidacy of Carter(1976) |
| McMorrow, Tom Jr |
Leap Year Day |
1953 MAY |
ss |
has pub. sf stories in STS 1953 OCT, & TWS 1954 WIN, & SPR; has also pub. 4 short stories in PST betw. 1950-1958, wrote for The Saturday Evening Post and Argosy; his father was Thomas McMorrow(1886-1957) who wrote for The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's |
| McMullen, Sean |
Colors of the Masters, The |
1988 MAR |
nv |
(1948- ) N-1989 DIT; from Australia; 1st professional sf sale "The Pharoah's Airship" in Omega Science Digest, 1986 JUL/AUG; has coll. Call to the Edge(1992; N-1993 DIT); 1st novel Voices in the Light(1994 fixup; N-1995 DIT), 1st in Greatwinter series |
| |
While the Gate Is Open |
1990 FEB |
nv |
has 2nd novel, Greatwinter ser., Mirrorsun Rising(1995; W-1996 DIT; N-1995 AUR) about a world controlled by computers; both novels in ser. reworked as Souls in the Great Machine(1999); The Centurion's Empire(1998); see iv's in Eidolon 1993 WIN, 1996 FLL |
| McNamara, Michael M. |
Boy Who Dreamed of Tir na n-Og, The |
1979 DEC |
ss |
(1940-1979) born in Limerick, Ireland; came to U.S. in 1958; naturalized U.S. citizen; served in U.S.A.F.; has novels The Vision of Thady Quinlan(1974), The Feast, The Sovereign Solution(1979, on terrorism), The Dancing Floor(1979, on the Irish rebellion) |
| Meadows, Patrick |
"Virtue. 'Tis a Fugue!" |
1967 APR |
ss |
has book Countercommandment(1967) |
| |
Pater One Pater Two |
1969 FEB |
nv |
|
| |
Rag, a Bone, A |
1971 AUG |
ss |
concerns cryogenics |
| |
Supernovas and Chrysanthemums |
1971 DEC |
ss |
Has nf book Francis Ponge and the Nature of Things: From Ancient Atomism to a Modern Poetics(1997), about the French poet Francis Ponge(1899-1988) |
| Meddor, Michael |
Wizard Retires, The |
1999 SEP |
nv |
(1946- ) N-1999 WFA, novella; his 1st pub. story; Michael Meddor is a pseudonym for Joseph Feehan; served in the Army; wrote games for Apple II computers; now runs big mainframe computers |
| Meehan, Thomas A. |
Wind's Will, The |
1955 JUL |
ss |
screenwriter & playwright; also in F&SF as Maurice Murphy(#81); 1st book coll. Yma, Ava; Yma, Abba ... and Others(1967); has Broadway plays Annie(1977; 1980 book; 1982, 1995 TV, 1999 TV movies); movies To Be or Not to Be(1983), Spaceballs(1987) |
| Mendelsohn, M. |
Little Goethe |
1978 NOV |
nv |
his 1st pub. fiction; a univ. professor in England |
| Mérimée, Prosper |
Venus of Ille, The (Special Reprint Feature) |
1970 NOV |
nv |
(1803-1870) story written in 1837, trans. by Francis B. Shaffer; French dramatist, short story writer & historian, born in Paris; served in French govt., incl. inspector of ancient monuments, had habit of pub. archaeological theories & findings in stories |
| Merril, Judith |
Dead Center |
1954 NOV |
nv |
(1923-1997) ps. for Josephine Juliet Grossman, legally changed her name to Judith Merril; born in NYC, editor at Bantam in 1947, freelance editor since1949; 1st story pub. sf "That Only a Mother" in ASF 1948 JUN; married to Frederik Pohl 1949-53 |
| |
Project Nursemaid |
1955 OCT |
na |
problems of an administrator of a space project attempting to raise embryos in a low- or null-gravity environment(Clute); Merril moved to Canada for political reasons in 1968, living in Toronto; has 2 short stories in VSF 1957 JAN & MAR as ps. Rose Sharon |
| |
Wish Upon a Star |
1958 DEC |
ss |
has 1st novel Shadow on the Hearth(1950; basis of TV-play Atomic Attack), the story of an atomic war from the viewpoint of a housewife(Yntema); anthologies Shot in the Dark(1950), Beyond Human Ken(1952), Beyond the Barriers of Space and Time(1954) |
| |
Death Cannot Wither |
1959 FEB |
nv |
has 2 novels w. C.M. Kornbluth as by Cyril Judd, Outpost Mars(1952), Gunner Cade(1952); has anth. Human?(1954), SF: The Year's Greatest ...(1956-59), Annual Edition of the Year's Best SF(1960-66); novel The Tomorrow People(1960), a psychological mystery |
