| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Morressy, John |
Fair Weather Fiend |
1991 JAN |
nv |
13th story in F&SF in his Kedrigern the wizard series; has novels in this series, Kedrigern and the Charming Couple(1990), & A Remembrance for Kedrigern(1990) |
| |
Liberator, The |
1991 APR |
ss |
|
| |
Tale of Three Wizards, A |
1991 DEC |
ss |
|
| |
Working Stiffs |
1993 MAY |
ss |
see his entry in the St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers(1996) |
| |
Nest Egg |
1995 OCT/NOV |
ss |
14th story in F&SF in his Kedrigern the wizard series |
| |
Rimrunner's Home |
1997 SEP |
nv |
retired from teaching at the end of 1995; has novel The Juggler(1996), a juvenile book about the Middle Ages, in which Beran makes a pact with the devil to become the greatest juggler in the world |
| |
Reflection and Insight |
1998 MAR |
ss |
15th story in F&SF in his Kedrigern the wizard series |
| |
Cold Comfort |
1999 FEB |
ss |
16th story in F&SF in his Kedrigern the wizard series |
| |
Floored |
1999 JUL |
ss |
17th story in F&SF in his Kedrigern the wizard ser.; this ser. coll. in omnibus form with The Domesticated Wizard: Kedrigern Chronicles Vol. I(2002), which incl. 6 stories & the novels A Voice for Princess(1986), & The Questing of Kedrigern(1988) |
| Morris, Wright |
Word From Space, The |
1958 SEP |
ss |
(1910-1998) story title in TOC, Index is "Last Call;" on p.111 as listed here is its orig. title, 1st pub. in ATM 1958 APR; novelist/photographer; The Field of Vision(1956; W-1957 Nat. Book Award); see Joseph J. Wydeven: Wright Morris Revisited(1998) |
| Morrison, William |
Playground |
1954 FEB |
nv |
(1906-1980) ps. for Joseph Samachson; born in Trenton, NJ; writer & chemist; earned a PhD in Chemistry from Yale in 1930; Prof. of Biochemistry at Loyola University, retired in 1973 |
| |
Inner Worlds, The |
1954 APR |
nv |
1st story pub. "Bad Medicine" in TWS 1941 FEB, as by William Morrison |
| |
There Ought to Be a Lore |
1954 SEP |
ss |
under house ps. Brett Sterling, wrote two Captain Future tales, "Worlds to Come"(CFU 1943 SPR), & "Days of Creation"(CFU 1944 SPR; vt The Tenth Planet, 1969) |
| |
Music of the Sphere |
1954 OCT |
nv |
has juvenile sf novel(his only book), Mel Oliver and Space Rover on Mars(1954), as by William Morrison |
| |
Ardent Soul, The |
1954 DEC |
ss |
|
| |
Star Slugger |
1956 JUN |
ss |
|
| |
Science Stage, The |
1957 MAR |
plyr |
author of The Dramatic Story of the Theatre(with wife Dorothy); reviews play Night of the Auk |
| |
Science Stage, The |
1957 MAY |
plyr |
Vidal's play Visit to a Small Planet |
| |
Science Stage, The |
1957 JUN |
plyr |
play Good As Gold |
| |
Science Stage, The |
1957 AUG |
plyr |
plays Shinbone Alley, Hide and Seek |
| |
Science Stage, The |
1957 NOV |
plyr |
two musical comedies, Damn Yankees, & L'il Abner; Visit to a Small Planet |
| |
Science Stage, The |
1958 MAR |
plyr |
plays When the Curtain Rises on the Makropoulos; Rumple |
| |
Science Stage, The |
1958 MAY |
plyr |
play The Infernal Machine |
| |
Science Stage, The |
1958 JUN |
plyr |
plays Endgame; Dark of the Moon |
| |
Science Stage, The |
1958 JUL |
plyr |
plays Clerambard; Back to Methuselah |
| Morrison, William & Frederik Pohl |
Stepping Stone |
1957 DEC |
nv |
(1906-1980; 1919- ) William Morrison is a ps. for Joseph Samachson; both in F&SF by themselves |
| Morrow, James |
Spelling God With the Wrong Blocks |
1987 MAY |
ss |
(1947- ) produced material for Boston TV, 1979-1984; 1st book Moviemaking Illustrated: The Comicbook Filmbook(1973); wrote children's textbooks & at least 5 children's novels, 1st was The Quasar Kids(1987); 1st sf novel The Wine of Violence(1981) |
| |
Eye That Never Blinks, The |
1988 MAY |
ss |
has novelization of computer game(In Search of the Most Amazing Thing), The Adventures of Smoke Bailey(1983); novels The Continent of Lies(1984), This Is the Way the World Ends(1986; N-1986 NEB; 1987 JWC, LOC); see iv's in INZ 1991 APR, LOC 1998 AUG(#451) |
| |
Abe Lincoln in McDonald's |
1989 MAY |
ss |
N-1990 LOC, ss; has novels Only Begotten Daughter(1990; W-1991 WFA; N-1990 NEB; 1991 JWC, LOC), Towing Jehovah(1994; W-1995 WFA; N-1994 NEB; 1995 CLA, HUG, LOC); novella City of Truth(1991; W-1992 NEB; N-LOC); coll. Swatting at the Cosmos(1990) |
| |
Director's Cut |
1994 MAR |
ply |
this short play a deleted section from his novel, Towing Jehovah(1994), though parts of it survive here & there; has novels Blameless in Abaddon(1996; N-1997 LOC), The Eternal Footman(1999); see his website at www.sff.net/people/ |
| |
Bible Stories for Adults, No.20: The Tower |
1994 JUN |
ss |
N-1995 LOC; 1st/only story in F&SF in Bible Stories for Adults ser., coll. in Bible Stories for Adults(1996; N-1997 LOC, WFA); 1st pub. in his coll. Author's Choice Monthly #8: Swatting at the Cosmos(1990); ser. story "B.S. for A.: The Deluge," W-1988 NEB |
| |
Eight Great Animated Fantasy Films |
1998 JUL |
misc |
A Warm Reception in L.A.; Bad Luck Blackie(1949); Minnie the Moocher(1932); Bolero; Before the Law(prologue to The Trial, 1963); My Neighbor Totoro(1988 Japan); The Fabulous World of Jules Verne(1958 Czech); Pinocchio(1940) |
| Morton, Charles W. |
All-Purpose Ghost Story, The |
1955 JUL |
vi |
an associate editor of ATL, where this vignette was 1st pub. in 1953; has books with cartoonist Francis W. Dahl: Dahl's Boston(1946), & Dahl's Brave New World(1947); nf How to Protect Yourself from Women(1951); autibiography It Has Its Charms ...(1966) |
| Morton, J.B. |
On the Way to Her Sister |
1955 APR |
ss |
(1893-1979) 1st pub. in Punch, in 1954; John Bingham Morton, U.K. writer, known primarily under house ps. Beachcomber, under which he wrote a comic column in the London Daily Express(1924-75), in coll. Beachcomber(1974), novel Drink Up, Gentlemen(1930) |
| Moskowitz, Sam |
How Science Fiction Got Its Name |
1957 FEB |
ar |
(1920-1997) see letter in 1980 MAR; sf historian/anthologist; as Sam Martin, editor of trade mags. for frozen food industry until 1985; prominent member of sf fandom since 1936; wrote history of fandom in The Immortal Storm(1954), his 1st book, W-1955 HUG |
| |
Fantasy and Science Fiction by Theodore Sturgeon |
1962 SEP |
bib |
chronological listing of the 1st publication of Sturgeon's f & sf; has 3 stories in 1941, incl. "The Way Back" in CMT 1941 JAN; literary agent 1940-41; managing editor of SFP 1952 NOV-1953 DEC; editor of 4 issue revival WRT 1973 SUM-1974 SUM |
| |
Introduction to Booth Tarkington's "The Veiled Feminists of Atlantis" (Special Reprint Feature) |
1968 FEB |
in |
Moskowitz pub. a series of about 50 profiles of sf authors betw. 1958-67, in mags. SAT, FAN, AMZ & WOT; series on sf themes in AMZ 1965 APR, & WOT 1966 JAN, MAR, NOV, 1967 FEB, MAY; has anth. Editor's Choice in Science Fiction(1954) |
| |
Introduction to Guillaume Apollinaire's "Remote Projection" (Special Reprint Feature) |
1968 JUL |
in |
many of Moskowitz's author profiles & sf theme articles coll. in 3 volumes: Explorers of the Infinite(1963), covers the period up to 1940; Seekers of Tomorrow(1966), covers 1940-65; Strange Horizons(1976), covers sf themes(Clute) |
| |
Introduction to Yevgeny Zamyatin's "The Cave" |
1969 FEB |
in |
has sf mag. history anth. Science Fiction by Gaslight(1968), covers period 1891-11, & Under the Moon of Mars(1970), covers period 1912-20; has many anth. incl. The Coming of the Robots(1963), Exploring Other Worlds(1963), Horrors Unknown(1971) |
| |
Afterword |
1979 JUL |
aw |
story "A Modern Magician" to be pub. in Olaf coll., Moskowitz(ed): Far Future Calling(1979); Olaf has novels Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest(1935), Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord(1944), latter about a dog w. enhanced intelligence(Clute) |
| Mudgett, Herman W. |
(Untitled) |
1951 AUG |
pm |
(1911-1968) ps. for William Anthony Parker White, aka Anthony Boucher; also in F&SF as H.H. Holmes; in Anthology #37 as "Limerick" |
| |
Naming of Names, The |
1953 OCT |
pm |
Herman W. Mudgett was the infamous "Torture Doctor," a 19th Century U.S. mass murderer, who used the alias H.H. Holmes(also a Boucher ps.); see book David Franke: The Torture Doctor(1975) |
| |
Report on the Sexual Behavior of the Extra-Sensory Perceptor |
1954 AUG |
pm |
|
| |
Glass of the Future, The |
1955 JAN |
pm |
|
| |
Silent, Upon Two Peaks ... |
1955 JUL |
pm |
|
| Mueller, Richard |
Chains of the Sea, The |
1982 JUN |
ss |
(1920- ) born in NJ; has BA in theatre from Iowa Wesleyan, MA in playwrighting from CSU, MFA in acting from Univ. of Iowa; "served in the U.S. Coast Guard on a lightship, & a rescue boat crew, which accounts for the authentic tone of (this) story" |
| |
Everybody Goes to Mosserman's |
1982 SEP |
ss |
has novelettes "Little Axes" in Fantasy Book 1983 DEC, & "The Dark at the End of the Tunnel" in Fantasy Book 1985 SEP; short stories "The Day We Really Lost the War" in ASI 1985 SEP, & "Meditation on the Death of Cortes" in ASI 1988 SEP |
| |
Welcome to Coventry |
1983 MAR |
ss |
has 1st novel, novelization Ghostbusters: The Supernatural Spectacular(1985); Jernigan's Egg(1986), an sf novel with elements of heroic fantasy(B&C) |
| |
Cenotaph |
1983 JUN |
ss |
has novel in series, Time Machine #24: World War 1 Flying Ace(1988), in which the mission is to go back in time to 1917 & find the Red Baron |
| |
Song for Justin, A |
1983 NOV |
ss |
writer for 24 episodes of the animated TV series, The Real Ghostbusters(1986); also wrote episodes for the animated TV series Tiny Toons Adventures, Spiral Zone, Hypernauts(1996), Extreme Ghostbusters(1997), & Buzz Lightyear of Star Command |
