| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Rogers, Joel Townsley |
No Matter Where You Go |
1959 FEB |
nv |
(1896-1984) born in Sedalia, MO; has 1917 Harvard BA; mystery writer, mostly in the pulps & slicks; has 1st suspense novel Once in a Red Moon(1923); The Red Right Hand(1945),Lady with the Dice(1946), The Stopped Clock(1958; vt Never Leave My Bed, 1968) |
| Rogers, Kay |
Love Story |
1951 JUN |
vi |
her 1st pub. story; she is "a green-eyed redhead," single, & "lives with 34 cats" in Russell, PA |
| |
Bitterness of Ghoril, The |
1952 APR |
ss |
|
| |
Experiment |
1953 FEB |
vi |
|
| |
Letter to a Tiger |
1953 OCT |
ss |
|
| |
Command Performance |
1954 AUG |
ss |
has short story "Flirtation Walk" in Alice Laurance(ed): Cassandra Rising(1978) |
| Rohrer, Robert |
Keep Them Happy |
1965 APR |
ss |
N-1965 NEB, short story; Robert H. Rohrer Jr, from Atlanta, a student at Emory Univ. |
| |
Explosion |
1965 AUG |
ss |
has 1st pub. sf/f story "Decision" in FAN 1962 MAR, & 15 other short stories pub. in F&SF, AMZ & FAN between 1962-1965 |
| Rokesmith, John Thames |
Writers of the Purple Page |
1977 MAY |
nv |
(1929- ) ps. for Arthur Jean Cox, in F&SF as such, as Arthur J. Cox, & Jean Cox; tongue-in-cheek story intro says Rokesmith authored several western novels & biography of Tom Mix, Straight Shooters Always Win, which was a novella by Cox in F&SF 1974 MAY |
| Rolf, Kenn |
Satellite Trails |
1959 JUN |
ar |
variations possible for geostationary orbits for satellites |
| Roller, Howard & Parke Godwin |
Sergeant Pepper Variations |
1982 FEB |
ss |
(? - ?; 1929- ) both former professional actors; Roller a critical writer on film history, has written music & record reviews; Godwin has occult novel with Marvin Kaye, A Cold Blue Light(1983; a sequel by Kaye alone, Ghosts of Night and Morning, 1987) |
| Rosenbaum, Jonathan |
Now and Then |
1957 NOV |
vi |
(1943?- ) grew up in Florence, AL; attended the Putney School, N.Y. Univ., Bard College; has 1968 MA in English & American Lit. from SUNY(Stony Brook); film critic since 1987 for the Chicago Reader; has many film books, incl. Movies as Politics(1997) |
| Rosenblum, Mary |
Spirit-Dancing on the Evergreen Point Bridge |
1991 MAY |
nv |
(1953- ) lives in Portland, OR; has BS in Biology; fulltime writer since 1988, attended Clarion in 1989; 1st sale "For a Price" in ASI 1990 JUN; has 1st novel, Chimera(1993; N-1994 LOC), a virtual reality sf novel of intrigue & mayhem on the global net |
| |
Sanctuary |
1993 JUN |
ss |
story "the result of my lifelong habit of taking evening walks ... There is a drowsy peace in the air that makes me think of elderly men & women dreaming gently of youth & yesterday ..." |
| |
California Dreamer |
1994 MAY |
ss |
story inspired by a visit to San Francisco after the latest earthquake; has fixup novel, from stories that were 1st pub. in ASI, The Drylands(1993; W-1994 CCR; N-1994 LOC), set in the 21st Century Northwestern U.S., in a world dying for lack of water(B&C) |
| |
Afterimage |
1997 JUL |
ss |
has sf mystery novel The Stone Garden(1995; N-1996 LOC), about the murders of artists who sculpt emotion-absorbing asteroids(B&C); see interview in LOC 1994 APR(#399) |
| |
Rainmaker, The |
1998 OCT/NOV |
nv |
N-1999 LOC, nv; has coll. Synthesis and Other Virtual Realities(1996; N-1997 LOC); murder mystery ser., as by Mary Freeman, Devil's Trumpet(1999), Deadly Nightshade(1999), Bleeding Heart(2000), featuring Oregon landscaping gardener Rachel O'Connor |
| Rosny ainé, J.-H. |
Shapes, The |
1968 MAR |
nv |
(1856-1940) 1st pub. in 1887; trans. from the French by Damon Knight, in his One Hundred Years of Science Fiction(1968); ps. for Honore Boëx; with his brother Justin used collab. ps. J.-H. Rosny, & later by themselves J.-H. Rosny ainé & J.-H. Rosny jeune |
| Rothman, Barry |
Care in Captivity Series: Tyrant Lizards Tyrannosaurus Rex |
1966 JUN |
vi |
1st pub. in the Bulletin of the Philadelphia Herpetological Society, 1965 JAN |
| Rothman, Chuck |
Playmates |
1986 MAY |
ss |
(1952- ) wn. for Charles Rothman; born in Southold, NY, lives in Schenectady; grad. from Union College, teaches at Siena College; 1st story pub. sf "The Munji Deserters", ASI 1982 JUN; novel Staroamer's Fate(1986; N-1986 LOC); writes reviews for Tangent |
| Rotsler, William |
Parental Guidance Suggested |
1979 JAN |
ss |
(1926-1997) writer, cartoonist & artist, W-1975 HUG for his fan art; 1st story pub. sf "Ship Me Tomorrow" in GAL 1970 JUN; 1st novel Patron of the Arts(nv in Carr: Universe 2, 1972; exp. 1974), The Far Frontier(1980), Shiva Descending(1980, w. G. Benford) |
| Royce, Stewart |
"… Fight in the Hills" |
1953 NOV |
ss |
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| Rubin, Rick |
Final Muster |
1961 MAY |
nv |
(1932?- ) writer, born in Portland, OR; has short story "The Bet" in Dude 1959 NOV |
| |
Interplanetary Cat, The |
1961 NOV |
ss |
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| Rucker, Rudy |
Man Who Ate Himself, The |
1982 DEC |
ss |
(1946- ) working name for Rudolf von Bitter Rucker; has PhD from Rutgers Univ.; associate professor of Mathematics at Randolph-Macon Woman's College(Lynchburg, VA); 1st story pub. "The Miracle" in the amateur mag. The Pegasus, in 1962 |
| |
Inertia |
1983 JAN |
nv |
his 2nd pub. story was "Faraway Eyes" in ANA 1980 SEP; has colls. The 57th Franz Kafka(1983; N-1984 LOC), Transreal!(1991; N-1992 LOC), Gnarl!(2000); nf coll. Seek!(1999); many of his stories deal with mathematics; see interview in INZ #20 1987 |
| |
Monument to the Third International |
1984 DEC |
ss |
has 1st novel White Light(1980; N-1981 LOC), & thematic sequels, The Sex Sphere(1983), & The Secret of Life(1985); has 2nd novel Spacetime Donuts(1981), about a dystopian near-future computer society; nf The Fourth Dimension(1984) |
| |
Soft Death |
1986 SEP |
ss |
has anth. Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder(1987), & Semiotext(e) Science Fiction(1989), the latter with Robert Anton Wilson & Peter Lamborn Wilson; has novels Master of Space and Time(1984), The Hollow Earth(1990), The Hacker and the Ant(1994) |
| Rucker, Rudy & Paul Di Filippo |
Instability |
1988 SEP |
ss |
1st story in F&SF in Di Filippo's Lost Pages ser.; Rucker has robot ser., Software(1982; W-1982 DIC), Wetware(1988; W-1988 DIC; N-1989 LOC), Freeware(1997), Realware(2000); nf Mind Tools (1987), Artificial Life Lab(1993), Saucer Wisdom(1999) |
| Runyon, Charles |
Terminal |
1975 AUG |
ss |
also in F&SF as Charles W. Runyon |
| Runyon, Charles W. |
Sweet Helen |
1969 SEP |
ss |
(1928-1987) orig. from Missouri, writer of thrillers & sf; 1st story pub. sf "First Man in a Satellite" in SUP 1958 DEC; has pub. stories in FAN, AHMM, & MSMM; has 1st mys. novel The Anatomy of Violence(1960); also in F&SF as Charles W. Runyon |
| |
Dream Patrol |
1970 FEB |
ss |
has mystery novels The Death Cycle(1963), Color Him Dead(1963), The Prettiest Girl I Ever Killed(1965), The Black Moth(1967), Power Kill(1972); has powerful novel of the Green Berets in Vietnam, The Bloody Jungle(1966); also in F&SF as Charles Runyon |
| |
Soulmate |
1970 APR |
ss |
story is "a contemporary horror tale & a strong one, not recommended for the squeamish"; exp. into novel, Soulmate(1974), being about possession, the victim a young prostitute(Clute); ghostwrote Ellery Queen novels The Last Score(1964), Killer Touch(1975) |
| |
Once There Were Cows |
1974 JUL |
nv |
a freelance writer, he has pub. 30 books in 14 years; has 1st sf novels Pig World(1971); sf novel Ames Holbrook, Deity(1972), about cured illnesses & eternal life |
| |
Noomyenoh |
1975 JAN |
nv |
has sf novel I, Weapon(1977), about a superman, super weapon, fashioned for an alien war against the armor-plated marsupials, called the Vim, who are attempting to take over the Universe; mystery novel Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die(1977) |
| |
In Case of Danger, Prsp the Ntxivbw |
1975 DEC |
ss |
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| |
Brain Diver |
1976 MAR |
ss |
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| |
Sitter, The |
1976 JUL |
ss |
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| |
Daughter of the Vine |
1977 APR |
nv |
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| |
Liberation of Josephine, The |
1978 SEP |
ss |
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| Rusch, Kristine Kathryn |
Phantom |
1989 JUN |
nv |
(1960- ) N-1990 STO, nv; story started "the day after I saw Isaac Stern in concert"; born & lives in Eugene, OR; 1st story pub. sf "Sing" in ABO 1987 FEB/MAR; editor of Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine 1988 FLL-1993 FLL; W-1990 JWCA, Best New Writer |
| |
Inspiration |
1990 NOV |
ss |
has book, novella The Gallery of His Dreams(1991 chap; ASI 1991 SEP; W-1991 HOM; 1992 LOC; N-1991 NEB; 1992 HUG, WFA), a time-travel tale featuring the photographer Matthew B. Brady(c.1823-1896), known for covering the Civil War(Clute) |
| |
Editorial |
1991 JUL |
ed |
new editor of F&SF shares w. the magazine a "sense of history"; promises changes at F&SF will be "structurally sound" as she "values history, & yet ... embrace(s) the future," a sort of an informal theme for her 1st issue of F&SF; see article LOC 1991 FEB |
| |
Editorial |
1991 AUG |
ed |
"editing is more than reading ... I look for fiction that is a little bit exotic, a little bit strange. Fiction that gives me a new perspective on a place I've already seen"; this is the informal theme for this issue's fiction; 2nd informal theme is Death |
| |
To Our Readers |
1991 AUG |
note |
"F&SF will pub. a combined October/November 42nd Anniversary issue"; an annual feature thereafter; note repeated in the 1991 SEP issue; Rusch has 1st novel The White Mists of Power(1991; N-1992 LOC), about a bard's mysterious & dangerous heritage(B&C) |
| |
Editorial |
1991 SEP |
ed |
"Children & childhood are the themes linking most of the stories in this issue. Each story propounds its own theory ... Theories of childhood rise & fall like empires ..."; Rusch w. Dean Wesley Smith W-1989, 1992 WFA, Special Award, for editing Pulphouse |
| |
Dancers Like Children |
1991 SEP |
nv |
1st story in F&SF in planet Bountiful ser., to be part of fixup novel, Alien Influences(1994; N-1995 CLA); an sf murder mystery, when impressionable children of human colonists come under the influence of aliens on the desert planet Bountiful(B&C) |
| |
Editorial |
1991 OCT/NOV |
ed |
"anniversaries are ... ways of keeping track of time ... (this) double issue (is) filled with stories about time ... in more ways than one ... This issue is yet another marker in the passage of the years"; Rusch was N-1991 LOC, for editing Pulphouse |
| |
Editorial |
1991 DEC |
ed |
child abuse, violence: do they belong in fiction?; "First job of fiction is ... to entertain ... the very best fiction brings a nugget of truth to that entertainment, a nugget that at times is difficult to face" |
| |
Editorial |
1992 JAN |
ed |
courage & heroism in real life & in fiction; "Most of our literature is about people as ordinary as we are, caught in extraordinary events, forced by circumstances to make that one small gesture, that one action which will save a life or change the world" |
