| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Miller, P. Schuyler |
For Analysis |
1958 NOV |
vi |
a takeoff on ASF's 'Probability Zero' department; has colls. The Titan(stories 1931-1944; 1952), Alicia in Blunderland(SFD 1933 JUN-DEC, & FMG 1934 JAN-APR as by Nihil; 1983); novel Genus Homo(SSS 1941 MAR; rev. 1950) with L. Sprague de Camp |
| Miller, Ronald |
Acrostic Puzzle |
1984 SEP |
pz |
answers in 1984 OCT, p.38 |
| Miller, Sasha |
Jamie Burke and the Queen of England |
1987 JUN |
ss |
ps. for Georgia Myrle Miller; used ps. Myrle Benedict for short stories; G.S. Madden for western novel The Quest(1977); Georgia Sallaska for historical novels Three Ships and Three Kings(1969), Priam's Daughter(1970), etc; S.M. for novel Ladylord(1996) |
| Miller, Wade |
I Know a Good Hand Trick |
1959 NOV |
ss |
(1920- ; 1920-1961) collab. ps. for Robert (Bob) Wade & William (Bill) Miller; top collab. in the mystery field(DeAndrea); met in junior high in San Diego, has 1st crime novel Deadly Weapon(1946); Guilty Bystander(1947) began P.I. Max Thursday series |
| |
How Lucky We Met |
1960 OCT |
ss |
their story "Invitation to an Accident," in EQMM, N-1955 EDG; under collab. ps. Whit Masterton have ser. of thrillers, incl. Badge of Evil(1956; Orson Welles' movie Touch of Evil, 1958, res. 1975, rev. 1998), A Hammer in His Hand(1960) |
| Miller, Walter M. Jr |
Canticle for Liebowitz, A |
1955 APR |
nv |
(1922-1996) 1st story of three(a triptych) in St. Liebowitz series; pub. as a fixup novel in 1960, W-1961 HUG; born in New Smyrna Beach, FL; flew combat missions in WWII, converted to Catholicism in 1947; studied at Univ. of Tennessee, Univ. of Texas |
| |
And the Light Is Risen |
1956 AUG |
na |
2nd story St. Liebowitz series; survival of man 600 years after 20th century nuclear holocaust as seen thru the eyes of the Abbey of Liebowitz; 1st story pub. "MacDougal's Wife" in The American Mercury 1950 MAR; wrote scripts for TV show Captain Video |
| |
Last Canticle, The |
1957 FEB |
na |
3rd story St. Liebowitz series; has sequel novel Saint Liebowitz and the Wild Horse Woman(1997), with an excerpt novelette "God Is Thus" in F&SF 1997 OCT/NOV; 1st story pub. sf "Secret of the Death Dome" in AMZ 1951 JAN |
| |
Lineman, The |
1957 AUG |
na |
has novelette "The Darfsteller" in ASF 1955 JAN, W-1955 HUG; has colls. Conditionally Human(1960), The View from the Stars(1965), The Science Fiction of ...(1978), The Best of ...(1980); anth. Beyond Armageddon(1985) w. Martin H. Greenberg |
| |
Canticle for Leibowitz, A |
1979 OCT |
nv |
1st pub. in F&SF 1955 APR, the 1st of 3 stories in his St. Liebowitz series, which was made into his award-winning fixup novel A Canticle for Liebowitz(1959); see William H. Roberson & Robert L. Battenfeld: Walter M. Miller Jr: A Bio-Bibliography(1992) |
| |
God Is Thus |
1997 OCT/NOV |
nv |
4th story in St. Liebowitz ser., excerpt from Saint Liebowitz and the Wild Horse Woman(1997); W.M. died after completing 85% of novel, finished by Terry Bisson; action occurs betw. the 2nd & 3rd nv of A Canticle for St. Liebowitz; obit in LOC 1996 FEB |
| Mills, Robert P. |
Last Shall Be First, The |
1958 AUG |
vi |
(1920-1986) prev. Managing Editor of F&SF since 1st issue, & beginning 1958 SEP issue thru 1962 MAR, the editor of F&SF; editor of VSF(1957-1958); aafter leaving F&SF, he acted as a literary agent(for Walter M. Miller Jr, etal), until 1984 |
| |
About This Issue … |
1958 OCT |
in |
introduction to the 9th Anniversary issue; he edited The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Ninth Series(1960), Tenth(1961), Eleventh(1962), A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction(1960), Twenty Years of the Magazine of ...(1970) w. Edward L. Ferman |
| |
This Month … |
1959 MAY |
note |
soliciting reader opinions: 1. 3 short novelets in one issue?; 2. Graves' "The Shout" F&SF reprint OK; 3. send in topics for Asimov's essays; Mills has anth.The Worlds of Science Fiction(1963) |
| |
In This Issue … |
1959 JUL |
note |
contest for readers' best new money-making use for the time machine in H.M. Sycamore's story(#1274); some results of F&SF 1959 May poll |
| |
Authors of Last Month's "Quintet" |
1959 OCT |
note |
announcing the 5 authors who wrote the 5 vignettes in F&SF 1959 SEP's "Quintet" |
| |
In This Issue … |
1959 DEC |
note |
Mel Hunter's 3rd robot, or the last man, series of cover paintings; Beaumont's new column; winner 1959 JUL time machine idea contest(#1264) |
| |
In This Issue ... |
1960 MAY |
note |
states editorial policy is to exploit the "infinitely various field" of sf, & to publish "controversial stories." Solicits readers' opinions. "This issue is largely made up of pairs of stories - pairs which share a common setting, or point, or subject." |
| |
In This Issue ... |
1961 NOV |
note |
"F&SF is not directly involved in the search for an ultimate definition of sf" - the definition of of sf is dependent of "your definition of science." The definitions of sf, by Hugo Gernsback and by Gordon R. Dickson, are given |
| |
Coming Next ... |
1962 MAR |
note |
announces his leaving F&SF(due to other professional responsibilities), the new editor being Avram Davidson(beginning next issue) |
| |
Richard McKenna: b. May 9, 1913 – d. November 1, 1964 |
1965 FEB |
note |
authorship uncredited, but believed by Edward L. Ferman to be by Robert P. Mills, Richard McKenna's agent |
| Milosevic, Mario |
Dead Letters |
1995 JUL |
ss |
this story written as a response to his father's death in 1990, "(he) is still with me in many ways: memories, dreams, gestures, stray phrases ..."; married to writer Kim Antieau; managing editor for Daughters of Nyx, a magazine published in Skamania, WA |
| M'Intosh, J.T. |
Talents |
1952 OCT |
nv |
(1925- ) ps. for James Murdoch MacGregor, also in F&SF under ps. J.T. McIntosh, both used for his sf works; Scottish writer & journalist, from Aberdeen; has also pub. non-sf under his own name |
| |
One in Three Hundred |
1953 FEB |
nv |
1st story Lt. Bill Easson series, has two other stories in series as by J.T. McIntosh; winner best story of 1953 in F&SF, contest results in 1954 MAY |
| |
Beggars All |
1953 APR |
nv |
1st story pub. sf "The Curfew Tolls" in ASF 1950 DEC, as by J.T. M'Intosh; has 1st novel World Out of Mind(1953), about a disguised alien on an Earth dominated by aptitude tests, where he wins his way to the top & prepares the way for invasion(Clute) |
| Miranda, Vincent |
Damon Knight: Bibliography |
1976 NOV |
bib |
(1946?-1992) chronological listing of short stories, colls., novels, anthologies, nf, & translations; his short story "To Serve Man," in GAL 1950 NOV, was the basis for a screenplay by Rod Serling for the TV series, The Twilight Zone |
| Moffett, Judith |
Surviving |
1986 JUN |
nv |
(1942- ) W-1987 STU; N-1986 NEB; 1987 LOC, novelette; her 1st pub. sf story; Prof. at the Univ. of Pennsylvania since 1979; first active as poet, has colls. Keeping Time(1976), Whinny Moor Crossing(1984); W-1988 JWCA, Best New Writer |
| |
I, Said the Cow |
1990 JAN |
ss |
has 1st novel, Pennterra(1987; N-1988 LOC), about the two human expeditions to the planet Pennterra & their interaction(w. some sexual explicitness) w. the native pheromone-emitting Hrossa; coll. Author's Choice Monthly Issue 19: Two That Came True(1991) |
| |
Final Tomte |
1990 JUN |
nv |
1st story in F&SF in Hefn ser., about aliens who insist Earth clean up its ecosystem; all other ser. stories pub. in ASI 1988-1990, & coll. in fixup novel The Ragged World(1991; N-1992 LOC); sequel Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream(1992; N-1992 TIP) |
| |
Bradshaw, The |
1998 OCT/NOV |
na |
N-1999 LOC, novella; 2nd story in F&SF in Hefn series; novella written while living in Salt Lake City; took off a year tending gardens, raising ducks in a Philadelphia suburb, written up in Homestead Year(1995); now lives in Cincinnati & Philadelphia |
| Moffitt, Donald |
Scroll, The |
1972 MAY |
ss |
(1936- ) VP of a Madison Ave public relations firm, has nf books Swindled!: Classic Business Frauds of the Seventies(1976), America Tomorrow(1977), & The Wall Street Journal Views America Tomorrow(1977); has 1st novel The Jupiter Theft(1977) |
| |
Man Who Was Beethoven, The |
1972 DEC |
ss |
has Genesis series novels The Genesis Quest(1986), Second Genesis(1986), in which man contacts aliens after millions of years gap; Mechanical Sky ser. novels Crescent in the Sky(1990), A Gathering of Stars(1990), in which Arabs rule the space ways(Clute) |
| Mohler, Will |
Journey of Ten Thousand Miles, The |
1963 MAR |
ss |
lives in Washington, DC; has novelette "In the Control Tower" in GAL 1963 DEC; also has 5 stories in F&SF under the ps. Will Worthington |
| Monteleone, Thomas F. |
Spare the Child |
1982 JAN |
ss |
(1946- ) lives in Baltimore; began in sf writing br's for AMZ 1972 NOV-1975 JUL; 1st story pub. sf "Agony in the Garden" in AMZ 1973 MAR; 1st novel Seeds of Change(1975); Guardian seq. Guardian(1980), Ozymandias(1981); coll. Dark Stars and Other...(1981) |
| Moon, Elizabeth |
If Nudity Offends You |
1988 FEB |
ss |
(1945- ) wn. for Susan Elizabeth Norris Moon; has degrees from Rice Univ., Univ. of Texas; spent 3 years in Marines; 1st story pub. "ABCs in Zero-G" in ANA 1986 AUG; 1st novel The Deed of Paksenarrion #1: Sheepfarmer's Daughter(1988; W-1989 CCR; N-LOC) |
| |
New World Symphony |
1989 FEB |
nv |
has sequels to her 1st novel, The Feed of Paksenarrion II: Divided Allegiance(1988), III: Oath of Gold(1989), coll. in omnibus The Deed of Paksenarrion(1992); colls. Lunar Activity(1990; N-1991 LOC), Phases(1997) |
| |
Happy Frog, The |
1989 JUL |
ss |
has The Legacy of Gird ser., Surrender None(1990), Liar's Death(1992), coll. in omnibus The Legacy of Gird(1996); Ireta ser., Sassinak(1990 w. Anne McCaffrey), Generation Warriors(1991 w. McCaffrey), The Planet Pirates(1993 w. McCaffrey & Jody Lynn Nye) |
| |
Aura |
1995 AUG |
ss |
has Familias Regnant ser., Hunting Party(1993), Sporting Chance(1994), Winning Colors(1995), Remnant Population(1996), Once a Hero(1997); Rules of Engagement(1998), Change of Command(1999); see interview in LOC 1995 MAR, her website at www.sff.net/people |
| Moore, Dick |
After Everything, What? |
1964 NOV |
ss |
working name for John Richard Moore; has novelette "Bogeyman" in WOT 1965 MAY |
| Moore, E.A. |
Next Step, The |
1967 FEB |
nv |
Edward Albert Moore |
| Moore, Hal R. |
Sea Bright |
1965 SEP |
ss |
writer & photographer |
| |
Doctor Dominoe's Dancing Doll |
1972 DEC |
nv |
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| Moore, Raylyn |
They All Ran After the Farmer's Wife |
1970 APR |
ss |
(1928- ) wife of author Ward Moore(also in F&SF); 1st story pub. "Death Is a Woman" in ESQ, in 1954; has book Mock Oranges(1968) |
| |
Out of Control |
1970 AUG |
ss |
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| |
Different Drummer, A |
1971 FEB |
ss |
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| |
If Something Begins |
1971 MAY |
ss |
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Lobster Trick |
1972 DEC |
ss |
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Shoes |
1974 FEB |
ss |
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Milewide Steamroller, The |
1975 APR |
ss |
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Castle, The |
1976 AUG |
ss |
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