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| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Payes, Rachel Cosgrove |
Acrostic Puzzle |
1985 APR |
pz |
answers in 1985 MAY, p.35; under her full name has romance novels Lady Alicia's Secret(1986), Emeralds and Jade(1988), & The Dark Towers of Trelochen(1991) |
| Payes, Robert |
Acrostic Puzzle |
1979 AUG |
pz |
answers in 1979 SEP, p.135; has short stories "Target Practice" in Vertex 1974 DEC, "Final Bomb" in Vertex 1975 APR, & "Exile in Lakehurst" in Asimov, Greenberg & Olander(ed): Microcosmic Tales(1980) |
| Pearce, Gerald |
Twilight Reign |
1977 MAR |
na |
(1929- ) born in England, lives in Hollywood hills; full-time writer for 20 years, now a writer for Disney; 1st story pub. sf "The Dreaming Wall" in GAL 1955 MAY; na "In the Sumerian Marshes" in AMZ 1984 SEP, N-1985 LOC, WFA; mystery novel Orphans(1990) |
| Pearson, Martin & Cecil Corwin |
Mask of Demeter, The |
1953 JAN |
ss |
(1914-1990; 1923-1958) Martin Pearson ps. for Donald A. Wollheim; Cecil Corwin ps. for C.M. Kornbluth; Wollheim also in F&SF under ps. David Grinnell; Kornbluth also in F&SF by himself; 'Cecil Corwin' is main character of Kornbluth story #954, 1957 JUL |
| Pederson, Con |
August People, The |
1953 JUN |
ss |
(1934- ) born in MN, moved to CA in 1943; has BA in Art from UCLA; attended animation school in Theater Arts at UCLA; worked for Disney writing their "Man on the Moon" & "Mars and Beyond" TV programs; W-1998 Oscar, Contributions to Special Effects |
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Pushover Planet |
1963 JUN |
ss |
worked on the special effects for Stanley Kubrick's movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968; W-Oscar, for Special Effects); co-founded Robert Abel & Associates in 1970, produced Superbowl 1984's 'sexy robot' commercial, & over 16 years won 33 Clio Awards |
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To Aid and Dissent |
1969 JUL |
ss |
created the special effects for Robert Abel's movie Tron(1982; W- Special Effects Oscar); see online interviews at www.webcom.com/kellyd/articles/con.html, www.vfxhq.com/spotlight98/9804c.html, & at www.awn.com/mag/issue4.03/4.03pages/moritzpederson.php3 |
| Pellegrino, Charles & George Zebrowski |
Oh, Miranda! |
1991 SEP |
ss |
(1953- ; 1945- ) 1st/only story in F&SF in Lex Bardo ser.; Pellegrino, a scientist, has nf books Her Name, "Titanic"(1988), etc; 1st novel Flying to Valhalla(1993); w. Zebrowski, The Killing Star(1995), Star Trek: The Next Generation: Dyson Sphere(1999) |
| Pendleton, Michaelene |
Rising Star |
1993 JUN |
ss |
story grew out of a discussion with Clarion friends about how a dragon could make a living in these recessionary times; lived for 18 years in Alaska, now owns a hotel in Moab, UT; has book w. F.A. Barnes: Canyon Country, Prehistoric Indians(1979; 1990) |
| Perlman, Al B. |
Invitation to a Cruise |
1973 JUL |
pz |
a logic puzzle, solution on p.97; Perlman has done logic features for Intellectual Digest; in story intro, editor Ferman asks readers if they like the idea of an occasional puzzle feature |
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Logic Puzzle: Letter From a Small Businessman |
1977 MAR |
pz |
a logic puzzle, solution on p.160 & 156 |
| Perry, Steve |
Master of Chan Gen, The |
1992 SEP |
nv |
(1947- ) wn. for Steven Carl Perry; trained in the martial arts, this story about its "core aspects"; 1st story pub. sf "With Clean Hands" in GAL 1977 DEC as by ps. Jesse Peel; 1st novel The Tularemia Gambit(1981), an sf hardboiled detective story(Clute) |
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Other Toys |
1994 FEB |
ss |
has Time Machine ser., Civil War Secret Agent(1984), Sword of the Samurai(1984; w. J. Michael Reeves); also w. Reaves, Hellstar(1984), Dome(1987); Conan ser., incl. Conan the Fearless(1986), Conan the Free Lance(1990); The Hero Curse(1991) |
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Just Ask |
1995 MAR |
ss |
has Matador ser., incl. The Man Who Never Missed(1985), Brother Death(1992); written for TV, Batman: The Animated Series(1992), for which he was nominated for an Emmy; has novels Aliens Omnibus Edition(1995), The Trinity Vector(1996) |
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"What the Dormouse Said" |
1997 JAN |
ss |
has Aliens novels, incl. Earth Hive(1992), The Female War(1993; w. Stephani Perry; Stellar Ranger ser., Lone Star(1994), Stellar Ranger(1994); Aliens Versus Predator novels, Prey(1994; w. Perry), Hunter's Planet(1994; w. David Bischoff) |
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Few Minutes in Granddaddy's Old House on Black Bottom Bayou, A |
1998 AUG |
ss |
has Venture Silk ser., Spindoc(1994), The Forever Drug(1995); Star Wars novel, Shadows of the Empire(1996), novels Leonard Nimoy's Primortals: Target Earth(1997), The Digital Effect(1997); novelization Men in Black(1997) |
| Perry, Steve & George Florance-Guthridge |
Champion of the World |
1982 AUG |
ss |
(1947- ; 1948- ) wn. for Steven Carl Perry, 1st story pub. sf "With Clean Hands" in GAL 1977 DEC as by his ps. Jesse Peel; has 1st novel The Tularemia Gambit(1981), an sf hardboiled detective story(Clute); see info on co-author under George Guthridge |
| Perry, Steve & George Guthridge |
Macaw, The |
1993 FEB |
ss |
on collab., G.G.: "Even though we rarely agreed about anything ... we have sold everything on which we've collab."; S.P.: "Each of us hated the way the other one wrote. We always took out each other's favorite lines & bits. Still, we sold 'em all." |
| Pestriniero, Renato |
Espree |
1989 AUG |
ss |
(1933- ) trans. from the Italian by Pestriniero & Kim Stanley Robinson; from Venice, Italy, Pestriniero has had many stories & novels pub. there; story "Enchanted Village"(1959) was exp. by A.E. van Vogt & retitled "The People of the White Sands"(1982) |
| Petaja, Emil |
Where Is Thy Sting |
1967 MAY |
ss |
(1915-2000) U.S. writer of Finnish descent; 1st professional sale "Time Will Tell" in AMZ 1942 JUN; early work in coll. Stardrift, and Other Fantastic Flotsam (1971); has Finnish verse epic based novels Kalevala seq. Saga of the Lost Earths(1966), etal |
| Peterson, Nils |
Cosmic Sex and You (as by Sammial Longhorn Priapus, Sx.D. |
1961 APR |
vi |
has 1954 BA from Centre College of Kentucky; 1958 MA from Rutgers Univ.; he's a contributing editor to the Blue Sofa Review; also in F&SF as Nils T. Peterson |
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Pecking Order |
1961 SEP |
ss |
Professor of English at San José State Univ. from 1963-1999, where he was also the Coordinator of the Creative Arts, & poetry consultant for San Jose Studies; has pub. poems in many journals, & articles on subjects as varied as golf and Shakespeare |
| Peterson, Nils T. |
Prelude to a Long Walk |
1962 JAN |
vi |
has chapbook of poems, Here Is No Ordinary Rejoicing(?), & was an editor for Discover America(?), a coll. of poems celebrating the USA's bicentennial; has book of poetry The Comedy of Desire(1994), illus. by Rita Shumaker, & an introduction by Robert Bly |
| Peterson, Phyllis Lee |
Pamela Pays the Piper |
1950 FLL |
ss |
(1909- ) 1st pub. in Canadian Home Journal; has book The Log Cabin in the Forest(1954); wrote for Canadian TV, adapting Louis Hemon's 1933 novel Maria Chapdelaine for Playdate(drama ser., 1961-64), scripted Strangers in Ste Angele for The Serial(1963-66) |
| Petrey, Susan |
Leechcraft |
1982 MAY |
nv |
4th story in her Spareen the Varkelan vampire series; also in F&SF as Susan C. Petrey |
| Petrey, Susan C. |
Spareen Among the Tartars |
1979 SEP |
ss |
(1945-1980) N-1980 BRG, short fiction; her 1st fiction sale; 1st story in her Spareen the Varkelan vampire/leechman-healer series, whose family lives among the Tartars on the Russian steppes; Susan Candace Petrey, from the Portland, OR, area |
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Spidersong |
1980 SEP |
ss |
N-1981 HUG, LOC, short story |
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Spareen Among the Cossacks |
1981 APR |
nv |
2nd story in her Spareen the Varkelan vampire series; also in F&SF as Susan Petrey |
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Healer's Touch, The |
1982 FEB |
nv |
3rd story in her Spareen the Varkelan vampire series, this one about Vaylance, the brother of Spareen; series coll. in Gifts of Blood(1990) |
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Small Changes |
1983 FEB |
ss |
5th story in her Spareen the Varkelan vampire series |
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Spareen and Old Turk |
1983 AUG |
ss |
6th & last story in Spareen the Varkelan vampire series; the Portland S. F. Society in 1982 created a scholarship fund, as a memorial to Susan who died in 1980, to send an aspiring writer to the Clarion Writers Workshop, which she herself couldn't afford |
| Petrie, Graham |
Herman |
1973 AUG |
ss |
(1941- ) British, born in Malaysia, educated there & in Scotland; teaches film & sf at McMaster Univ.(Hamilton, Ontario); has pub. fiction in PBY, Encounter, etc; has pub. film criticism & book The Cinema of Francois Truffaut(1970) |
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Bars: Aspect of Night Life, An |
1981 JUL |
ss |
living in Canada since 1964; has novels Seahorse(1969 Canada; 1980 UK; 1996 US), The Siege(1996); nf books Hollywood Destinies: European Directors in America(1985), The Films of Andrei Tarkovski: A Visual Fugue(1994), etc. |
| Pettis, Nina |
Witch's Charm (Quintet: III) |
1959 SEP |
pm |
(1948?- ) 3 of 5 vignettes: at least 1 written by a famous author, 1 by a 12 year old; answers 1959 OCT; this one, by an 11-year old |
| Phelan, Jeremiah |
Episode of the Perilous Talisman, The |
1951 FEB |
nv |
(1895-1963) per Hawk's, ps. is for C. Daly King, who has Dianetics br(#62) in F&SF 1950 DEC; 1st & only story in F&SF in his Trevis Tarrant series |
| Phillips, Peter |
Warning, The |
1953 SEP |
ss |
(1920- ) British newspaperman; his writing of sf stories lasted a decade; between 1948-1958, he pub. at least 22 stories in sf/f mags., incl. F&SF, ASF, WRT, MVL, PLS, STS, GAL, NWS, FAN, & INF |
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c/o Mr. Makepeace |
1954 FEB |
ss |
his 1st story pub. was "Dreams Are Sacred" in ASF 1948 SEP, which with "Manna" in ASF 1949 FEB, & "Lost Memory" in GAL 1952 MAY have been highly anthologized |
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First Man in the Moon |
1954 SEP |
vi |
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| Phillips, Rog |
Homestead |
1957 AUG |
ss |
(1909-1965) working name for Roger Phillips Graham; 1st story pub. "Let Freedom Ring" in AMZ 1945 DEC; wrote many stories for AMZ & for FAD; used many ps. incl. Clinton Ames, Franklin Bahl, Craig Browning, Gregg Conrad, Inez McGowan |
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Love Me, Love My — |
1958 FEB |
ss |
7th story unofficial Bureau of Imaginary Zoology series(the vegy); 1st story Vegy series(more stories promised by the editor); other ps. he used: Melva Rogers, Chester Ruppert, William Carter Sawtelle, John Wiley, & under several house ps. as well |
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Services, Incorporated |
1958 JUN |
ss |
has series with character Lefty Baker(var. mags. 1947-61; 1969); has novels Time Trap(1949), Worlds Within(1950), Worlds of If(1951), The Involuntary Immortals(FAD 1949 DEC; rev. 1959) |
| Pinkney, Dorothy Cowles |
Full Circle |
1956 DEC |
pm |
(1904-1973) born in New Rochelle, NY; lived in Rowayton, CT; pub. ss's & pm's in over 75 mags. betw. 1930s-1970s; won 3 Kaleidograph, 2 Step Ladder Awards, & 1934 Poetry Sociey of America Prize(poem "Without a Candle"); coll. The Town Not Yet Awake(1956) |
| Platt, Charles |
Profile of Rudy Rucker |
1984 DEC |
bio |
(1945- ) actually a transcript of an iv with Rucker, w. brief notes & descriptions by Platt; Rucker is a mathematician & sf writer who lives & works in Lynchburg, VA; 1st started writing Spacetime Donuts(1981), after seeing the Rolling Stones in Buffalo |
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Inside Science Fiction: Ackermania |
1988 MAY |
ar |
"The Auction of the Century" of part of Forrest J Ackerman sf collection, which incl. some of Frank Frazetta's artwork; why are some people infected with Ackermania, or obsessive collecting?; Platt's 1st story pub. sf/f "One of Those Days" in SCF #68 1964 |
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Inside Science Fiction: Inscrutable Science Fiction |
1988 NOV |
ar |
the takeover of American SF by Japanese publishers & writers, and do the Americans care?; as a spoof, has the cover of the F&SF 1999 JAN issue is covered with Japanese names(not so); Platt's 1st novel Garbage World(1967), The City Dwellers(1970) |
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Inside Science Fiction: How to Live Forever |
1989 APR |
ar |
cryonic suspension; Platt visits Alcor Life Extension Foundation, in Riverside, CA; Note - F&SF has pub. 'cryostasis' ads off & on since 1987 AUG(p.95), for the Immortalist Society, in Oak Park, MI; Platt has novel Less Than Human(1986), as Robert Clarke |
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Inside Science Fiction: Down Among the Dead |
1989 SEP |
ar |
on the set of Somtow Sucharitkul's movie The Laughing Dead(1989), the cast includes sf fans & writers Somtow, Arthur Byron Cover, Tim Sullivan, William F. Wu, Greg Cox, & Edward Bryant(he's a redneck whose head is run over by a bus) |
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Inside Science Fiction: Too Many Books |
1990 JUL |
ar |
interviews editors, etal, at publishing houses about the flood of books being pub. today, incl. Susan Allison(Ace), David Hartwell(William Morrow, Tor), Betsy Mitchell(Bantam), John Douglas(Avon), Steve Brown(mag. Science Fiction Eye) |
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Inside Science Fiction: Trading Data With Dead and Digital |
1994 MAR |
ar |
how a couple of hackers/phone phreaks entered cyberspace to begin a Bulletin Board System, or BBS; the sf connection in the MindVox BBS; Platt has coll. of iv's, Dream Makers(1980); novels Free Zone(1988), The Silicon Man(1991; N-1992 JWC), Protektor('96) |
| Platt, Charles & Shawna McCarthy |
Starhaven |
1982 JAN |
ss |
(1945- ; 1954- ) Platt from U.K., an editor at NWS 1969-71, 1st story pub. sf "One of Those Days" in SCF #68 1964, 1st novel Garbage World(1967), see iv in Non-Stop 1995 WIN; McCarthy an editor at ASI 1978-85, at RoF 1994-present, see iv in TWZ 1986 APR |
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