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| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Roberts, Jane |
Chestnut Beads, The |
1957 OCT |
nv |
1st story Bundu, or Migma, witchcraft ser.; has novels The Rebellers(1963); The Education of Oversoul Seven(1973), in which a student protagonist inhabits the bodies & souls of 4 humans of differnet periods ranging from 35,000 BC to 2300 AD; has 2 sequels |
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Bundu, The |
1958 MAR |
na |
2nd story Bundu witchcraft series; has two sequels to The Education of Oversoul Seven(1973) - The Further Education of Oversoul Seven(1979), & Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time(1984) |
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Demon at Devotions, A |
1958 SEP |
ss |
has book of a series of connected poems, Dialogues of the Soul & Mortal Self in Time(1975), & juvenile novel Emir's Education in the Proper Use of Magical Powers(1979) |
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Nightmare |
1959 APR |
vi |
Roberts, a psychic, began in the 1960s to channel the thoughts of a personality known as Seth; has 1st psychic book How to Develop Your ESP Powers(1966; vt The Coming of Seth, 1976); see "How It All Began" at www.spiritual-endeavors.org/Seth//howitall.htm |
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Impasse |
1959 JUL |
ss |
lives now in upstate NY; has Seth series of metaphysical, psychic books, Seth Material(1970), Seth Speaks(1972), The Nature of Personal Reality(1974), The Coming of Seth(1976), The Unknown Reality(1977), Dreams Evolution and Value Fulfillment(1986), etc. |
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Three Times Around |
1964 MAY |
ss |
see books Susan M. Watkins: Conversations with Seth, Vol. I: Story of Jane Roberts ESP Class(1980), Vol. II(1984), & Speaking of Jane Roberts: Remembering the Author of the Seth Material(2001); Roberts considered among most important 20th century psychics |
| Roberts, John Maddox |
Stoney Griffon and the UFO People |
1990 MAY |
ss |
(1947- ) lives on a mountain-top on VA/KY border; 1st sf novel pub. The Strayed Sheep of Charun(1977; rev. vt Cestus Dei, 1983); ya Space Angel ser., Space Angel(1979), Spacer: Window of the Mind(1988); King of the Wood(1983), The Enigma Variations(1989) |
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Skinsuit |
1990 NOV |
ss |
has Cingulum ser., The Cingulum(1985), Cloak of Illusion(1985), The Sword, the Jewel, and the Mirror(1988); Act of God ser. w. Yoji Kondo(as Eric Kotani), Act of God(1985), The Island Worlds(1987), Between the Stars(1988); Murder in Tarsis(1996) |
| Roberts, Keith |
Survey of the Third Planet |
1966 JAN |
ss |
(1935-2000) U.K. writer, illustrator; 1st story pub. sf "Anita" & "Escapism" in SCF #67 1964; wrote early stories in U.K. as ps. Alistair Bevan; assoc. editor of SCF #81 & successor IMP 1966 MAR-1967 FEB; has illus. covers for SCF, IMP, NWS & for novels |
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Mayday, The |
1970 NOV |
nv |
1st story in F&SF in his Anita the witch series; except for the 3 stories in F&SF, the other 9 stories in the series are pub. in the British magazines SCF & IMP betw. the years 1964-66 |
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Junior Partner |
1970 DEC |
ss |
2nd story in F&SF in his Anita the witch ser.; ser. coll. in Anita(1970; exp. 1990); has 1st novel, The Furies(SCF #74-76 1965; 1966), about a nuclear test going awry in the UK(Clute); see article "Keith Roberts: The Patient Craftsman" in SFM v.2 #12 1975 |
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Wreck of the "Kissing Bitch," The |
1971 DEC |
nv |
1st pub. in Douglas Hill(ed): Warlocks and Warriors(1971); has 2nd, fixup novel, Pavane(IMP 1966 & NWS 1966 DEC; 1968 fixup; rev. 1969), about an alternate world in which Elizabeth I was assassinated & Spanish Armada was successful |
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Beautiful One, The |
1974 JAN |
nv |
1st pub. in NWS #6 1973; has fixup novel The Inner Wheel(1970), which deals with a kind of gestalt superman theme(Clute); see interviews in Charles Platt: Dream Makers(1983), & in LOC 1986 SEP(#308) |
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Big Fans, The |
1977 MAY |
nv |
N-1978 LOC, short fiction; 1st & only story in F&SF in his Alex Boulter series; only other story in series, novelette "Boulter's Canaries," in John Carnell(ed): New Writings in SF #3(1965); see his interview in LOC 1986 SEP(#308) |
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Ariadne Potts |
1978 APR |
ss |
has novels The Boat of Fate(1971), a historical novel with a Roman setting, & The Chalk Giants(1974 fixup; cut 1975 US); has colls. Machines and Men(1973), The Grain Kings(1976), The Passing of the Dragons(1977) |
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Lordly Ones, The |
1980 MAR |
nv |
N-1981 BSF, short fiction; HUG, LOC, novelette; 1st story in his Comfort Station Attendant series; has colls. Ladies From Hell(1979), The Lordly Ones(1986), A Heron Caught in Weeds: Poems(1987 chap), Winterwood and Other Hauntings(1989) |
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Comfort Station, The |
1980 MAY |
ss |
2nd story in Comfort Station Attendant ser.; see ar "Keith Roberts: The Patient Craftsman" by Mike Ashley in SFM vol.2 #12 1975; has fixup novel Molly Zero(1980; N-1981 BSF, LOC), about the growth of a young female protagonist in a dystopian world(Clute) |
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Checkout, The |
1981 FEB |
nv |
N-1982 BSF, short fiction; 3rd & last story in F&SF in his Anita the witch series; has fixup novel Kiteworld(1985; N-1986 BSF, JWC, LOC), composed of interlinked tales set in a post-holocaust world ruled by the Church Variant(B&C) |
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Kaeti's Nights |
1981 OCT |
nv |
1st story in F&SF in Kaeti Fredericks ser.; Kaeti & her companions inhabit a strange world, a 'theatre of the mind,' where ghosts, vampires & even the odd goddess may be encountered; other stories in ser. in Firebird #3 1984, WRT 1988-89 WIN, INZ 1994 OCT |
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Sphairistike |
1984 FEB |
nv |
story's title was the name first given to lawn tennis back in the 1870s; in Kaeti Frederick's ser. is chapbook Kaeti's Apocalypse(1986); has nf book The Natural History of the P.H.(1988 chap), initials refer to the 'Primitive Heroine'; Lemady(1997) |
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Richenda |
1985 SEP |
nv |
has novel Gráinne(1987; W-1988 BSF; N-CLA), which follows a heroine from schooldays at Oxford to her "self-ordained destiny as high priestess of a radically new social movement"(B&C); nf book Irish Encounters(1989), essays about a trip to Ireland in 1978 |
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Tiger Sweater, The |
1987 OCT |
na |
N-1987 NEB, na; 2nd & last story in F&SF in Kaeti Fredericks series; Kaeti is a young Londoner whose life frequently takes unexpected & odd turns; series coll. in Kaeti & Company(1986), Kaeti on Tour(1992); see obit in LOC 2000 NOV |
| Roberts, Mary-Carter |
When Jack Smith Fought Old Satan |
1957 JUL |
nv |
1st pub. in COL, 7 DEC 1956; became State Travel Writer for Maryland in 1955, retired in 1969 |
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One Sent |
1958 FEB |
ss |
has novels The Abbot Sisters(1951), Little Brother Fate(1957), the latter a mystery crime novel based on the 3 greatest American murder cases of the 1920s(those of Mildred Baker, Rev. Roy Harvey Barber, & Herman Levy and Thomas Meyer) |
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He Descended Into Hell |
1975 JUN |
nv |
former book review editor of the Washington Star; has had stories pub. in COL, NYM, & Woman's Day |
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Ride, Colonel, Ride! |
1976 MAR |
ss |
"I've written the wonderful ride of Tench Tilghman as fantasy—because that sharpens its point, I think—but it is all true" |
| Roberts, R. Ellis |
Other End, The |
1951 APR |
ss |
(1879-1953) 1st pub. in London in his coll. The Other End(1923); wn. for Richard Ellis Roberts; 1st book Poems(1906); nf books Samuel Rogers and His Circle(1910), Henrik Ibsen(1912), (tr)Ernst Toller: Look Through the Bars, Portrait of Stella Benson(1939) |
| Robertson, Morgan |
From the Darkness and the Depths |
1969 AUG |
nv |
(1861-1915) 1st pub. in New Story Mag., 1913 JAN; has famous novella "Futility" (1898 mag.; in coll. The Wrecking of the Titan, 1912; 1994), about a new 'unsinkable' luxury liner, the Titan, which hits an iceberg & sinks(uncannily predicting the Titanic) |
| Robin, Ralph |
Beach Thing, The |
1952 JUN |
ss |
has pub. 11 stories in F&SF, GAL, FAN & OWS between 1951-53; only other story pub. was short story "The Pygmies of Phobos" in AMZ 1936 APR |
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Budding Explorer |
1952 SEP |
ss |
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Inefficiency Expert |
1953 MAR |
ss |
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Mr. Prime |
1953 JUN |
ss |
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Open Ears |
1953 AUG |
ss |
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| Robins, Madeleine E. |
Cuckoo |
1984 SEP |
ss |
(1953- ) born in NYC; attended Connecticut College, majoring in Theatre Studies; attended 1981 Clarion; worked at Tor Books from 1989-1994, then briefly at Metropolis Mag., then Acclaim Comics; fulltime freelance writer & editor since 1998 |
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Mules |
1990 APR |
nv |
has pub. historical romance novels, Althea(1977), My Dear Jenny(1980), The Heiress Companion(1981), Lady John(1982); has 1st story pub. sf/f "The Border" in ASI 1982 JUL |
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Papa's Gone A-Hunting |
1991 JAN |
ss |
has last historical romance novel, The Spanish Marriage(1984), which she says, "I structured ... around a specific historic event, & had to plot backward, synchronizing the action in the book with what was happening in Spain, Portugal & England ..." |
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Willie |
1992 DEC |
ss |
story inspired by watching the movie Young Frankenstein(1974), had "impatience with the doctor, who didn't have the responsibility to follow through on his project" |
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Somewhere in Dreamland Tonight |
1994 JUL |
ss |
has associational novel, Daredevil: The Cutting Edge(1999), based on the Marvel Comics character; Robins once worked for Acclaim Comics(ex-Valiant Comics), editing Armed and Dangerous, Magnus Robot Fighter, Shadowman, & Darque Passages |
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Abelard's Kiss |
1995 AUG |
ss |
story incorrectly listed in TOC as "Adelard's Kiss"; has novel, The Stone War(1999), in which New York City suffers a strange catastrophe; see her website at www.sff.net/people |
| Robinson, Kim Stanley |
To Leave a Mark |
1982 NOV |
na |
(1952- ) N-1983 HUG, LOC; exp. into fixup novel Icehenge(1984), w. story "On the North Pole of Pluto" in Knight(ed): Orbit 21(1980); a woman who is an expert in biological living systems becomes a key figure in a space mutiny; Robinson lives Maryland |
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Black Air |
1983 MAR |
nv |
W-1984 WFA, novella; SFC; N-1983 NEB; 1984 HUG, LOC, novelette; pub. as a chapbook in 1991; has PhD in English from Univ. of California(San Diego); 1st stories pub. sf "Coming Back to Dixieland" & "In Pierson's Orchestra" in Knight(ed): Orbit 18(1976) |
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Ridge Running |
1984 JAN |
ss |
N-1985 HUG, LOC, short story; has Orange County ser. novels The Wild Shore(his 1st novel, 1984; W-1985 LOC; N-1984 DIC, NEB; 1985 SFC), The Gold Coast(1988; N-1989 JWC, LOC; 1990 BSF), Pacific Edge(1990; W-1991 JWC; N-1991 LOC) |
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Transect, A |
1986 MAY |
ss |
has novels The Memory of Whiteness("In Pierson's Orchestra"; exp. 1985; N-1986 LOC; 1987 CLA), Escape From Kathmandu(1989 fixup; N-1990 LOC), A Short, Sharp Shock(1990); colls. The Planet on the Table(1986; N-1987 LOC), Remaking History(1991; N-1992 LOC) |
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Return From Rainbow Ridge, The |
1987 AUG |
nv |
N-1988 LOC, novelette; has Mars ser. novels Red Mars(1992; W-1993 BSF, NEB; N-1992 TIP; 1993 CLA, HUG, LOC, SFC), Green Mars(1994; W-1994 HUG, LOC; N-BSF, NEB, SFC), Blue Mars(1996; W-1997 HUG, LOC; N-BSF, CLA, JWC, SFC) |
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Zürich |
1990 MAR |
ss |
N-1991 LOC, ss; lived for over a year in Zurich; see iv's in Nova Express 1989 SPR, TotU 1991 SPR/SUM, Nicholls(ed): Wordsmiths of Wonder(1993), PWr #9 1996, & in LOC 1996 MAR, 1997 SEP; has novel Antarctica(1997); coll. The Martians(1999) |
| Roessner, Elmer |
Dragon on Somerset Street |
1952 JUN |
ss |
(1900-1972) 1st pub. in ESQ 1951 NOV; born in Oakland, CA; moved to NYC, working for news agencies, the N.Y. World Telegraph; prolific war pulp writer; wrote under ps. Dennis Murray for Women's News Service; grandfather of sf/f writer Michaela Roesnner |
| Rogers, Bruce Holland |
Whalesong |
1989 JUN |
ss |
(1958- ) ps. for Bruce P(aul) Rogers, in F&SF 1982 JUN as such; has taught creative writing, literature at Univ. of Colorado; has trans. poetry, fiction from German, Spanish & Portuguese; now lives in Eugene, OR; see website at www.sff.net/people/bruce |
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Big Far Now |
1991 MAR |
nv |
lives in Eugene, OR; has novel Mind Games(1992), book # 10 in Tom Swift series, as by Victor Appleton; Asses of the Sun(1996), in Magic: The Gathering #7, as by Hanovi Braddock; poetry chaps Breathing in the World(1990), Tales and Declarations(1991) |
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Lifeboat on a Burning Sea |
1995 OCT/NOV |
nv |
W-1996 NEB; has "Staying Alive" column, Speculations 1995 JAN -present, about writing fiction full-time; has anth. Bedtime Stories to Darken Your Dreams(1999); colls. Wind Over Heaven(2000; N-2001 STO), Flaming Arrows(2000); audiobook Award Stories(2000) |
| Rogers, Bruce P. |
Krishman Cube, The |
1982 JUN |
ss |
(1958- ) his 1st pub. sf/f story, though "Wirewalkers Get No Overtime," Writers Forum, 1978, is near fantasy; Bruce Paul Rogers, also in F&SF as ps. Bruce Holland Rogers; BA in history from Colorado State Univ.; story "A Branch in the Wind," W-1989 WotF |
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