| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Mueller, Richard |
Mosserman Trace, The |
1984 FEB |
ss |
wrote episodes for the TV show, Married ... With Children, in 1987 |
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Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Gonna Rise Again |
1984 NOV |
ss |
has strange website showcasing his "VerdaWorlds," which includes a site with info on Amelia Earhart, at www.verda.com/ |
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Finnegan's Fake |
1984 DEC |
ss |
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| |
Nifty Murder Case, The (for Donna Kemeny & Michael P. Hodel, for different reasons) |
1985 MAY |
ss |
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Little Friends |
1985 SEP |
ss |
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Creature of Water, A |
1986 JAN |
ss |
"a story about loss & its impact upon the creative process. A year previously I had lost the love of a woman who meant everything to me ... no matter what happens you go on and do and give your best" |
| |
Bullivant's Knife |
1986 JUN |
ss |
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On the Dream Coast in Winter |
1986 NOV |
ss |
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Bless This Ship |
1987 SEP |
ss |
a pair of interwoven yarns in a WWII sea story, "I got the idea for this after becoming fascinated with the phrase 'Constructive Total Loss'" |
| Mundis, Jerrold |
Real Estate |
1980 AUG |
ss |
(1941- ) Jerrold James Mundis; has nf books The Guard Dog(1975), How to Get Out of Debt(1990), Earn What You Deserve(1995); 1st novel The Dogs(1976), Gerhardt's Children(1976), The Retreat(1985); fiction anth. The Dog Book(1983) |
| Murphy, Maurice |
Time Tourist |
1951 FEB |
ss |
ps. for Thomas A. Meehan(& in F&SF as such, #667); wrote movie scripts One Magic Christmas(1985), A Child's Garden of Verses(1992); plays I Remember Mama(1979), Ain't Broadway Grand(1993), The Producers(2001; 2001 book), Hairspray(2002) |
| Murphy, Pat |
Going Through Changes |
1992 APR |
ss |
(1955- ) wn. for Patrice Ann Murphy; 1st story pub. "No Mother Near" in GAL 1975 OCT; 1st novel The Shadow Hunter("Touch of the Bear" in ASI 1980 OCT; exp. 1982; N-1983 LOC), about a Stone-Age man abducted to the future by a time travel project(Clute) |
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Points of Departure |
1995 JUL |
ss |
has fantasy/horror novel The Falling Woman(1986; W-1987 NEB; N-1988 LOC, MYT), about an archaeologist, her daughter & ancient Mayan magic; The City, Not Long After(1988; N-1990 LOC, MYT; 1991 CLA), set in near future San Francisco decimated by plague(B&C) |
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Iris Versus the Black Knight |
1996 OCT/NOV |
ss |
has coll. Points of Departure(1990; W-1990 DIC; N-1991 LOC); coll. w. Pat Cadigan & Karen Joy Fowler, Letters from Home(1991), 6 stories from each author; see entries in CANR, vol.84, & in St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers; website www.brazenhussies.net |
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Ménage and Menagerie (under the influence of Jane Austen) |
1998 OCT/NOV |
nv |
has dark fantasy novel Nadya(1996; N-1996 TIP; 1997 LOC), about a young woman in the 1830s Missouri frontier who discovers she is a werewolf(B&C); sf novel There and Back Again(1999); see iv's in INZ #42 1990, MZBFM 1991 SUM, LOC 1988 OCT & 1999 JUL |
| Murphy, Pat & Paul Doherty |
Science: Science of Invisibility, The |
1997 AUG |
ar |
(1955- ; ? - ? ) both work at San Francisco's hands-on science museum the Exploratorium; Doherty a physicist w. a PhD from MIT, teaches, writes science activity books; discussion of light; problems of being invisible; at-home invisibility experiments |
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Science: Watch the Skies! |
1997 DEC |
ar |
atmospheric optical phenomena - rainbows, secondary rainbows, halos, sundogs, & green flashes - are explained; what closer observations can reveal, "colorful insights"; "hands-on rainbows" & polarized rainbows; see website www.exploratorium.edu |
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Science: Messing With Your Mind |
1998 JUN |
ar |
memory; experiments to show your memory is not always accurate; memories are associative, vulnerable to "post-event information"; you're not the sum of your memories, they're "the end product of all you've ever thought & done ... shaped by who you are" |
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Science: Twisted Thinking |
1999 FEB |
ar |
Möbius strips, what you can do & learn from them; the peculiar properties of Möbius strips, & experiments you can do at home; a brief excursion into fourth-dimensional thinking; wormholes & exotic matter; see Pat's website www.badgrrlzguide.com |
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Science: Shadow Knows, The |
1999 AUG |
ar |
Sun, its movement as perceived from the Earth; what can be learned from experiments & observations of shadows; solstices; solar time & standard time, analemmas; see Pat's website, www.exo.net/jaxxx; Paul's website, www.exo.net/~pauld |
| Murphy, Phyllis |
Time Was |
1968 OCT |
ss |
(1924- ) graduate of Barnard College(NYC), has book about drug addiction, The Little People(1966), with David Wilkerson |
| Murray, Robert |
Replacement, The |
1960 FEB |
ss |
(1902-1971) Robert William Murray, has stories in PST 1961 JUN & 1962 MAR |
| Myers, Howard L. |
Fit for a Dog |
1971 SEP |
ss |
(1930-1971) has novel Cloud Chamber(1977), combines cosmology, antimatter invaders of our universe, sex, & effortless rebirth of all sentient beings in a wide-ranging space opera climaxing in its hero's arrival at nirvana(Clute); freelance writer |
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All Around the Universe |
1972 JAN |
nv |
has used ps. Verge Foray for 11 stories in ANA, FAN, GAL, & IFS, between 1967-1974 |