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| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Smeds, Dave |
Short Timer |
1994 DEC |
nv |
N-1995 NEB, ss; has The War of the Dragons ser., novels The Sorcery Within(1985; N-1986 LOC), The Schemes of Dragons(1989); coll. of erotic sf/f stories, Earthly Pleasures(1996), as by Reed Manning; comic ser. novel, X-Men: The Law of the Jungle(1998) |
| Smith, Adam |
Third Coordinate, The |
1964 NOV |
nv |
(1930- ; ? - ? ) a collab. ps. for George J.W. Goodman & Winthrop Knowlton, writers of mysteries, incl. novel A Killing in the Market(1958) as by Winthrop Goodman; G.J.W.G. has book Bascombe: The Fastest Hound Alive(1958); W.K. mys. False Premises(1983) |
| Smith, Clark Ashton |
Prophecy of Monsters, A |
1954 OCT |
vi |
(1893-1961) by 1911 sold stories to The Black Cat & The Overland Monthly; his best early fiction in colls. The Star-Treader(1912), Ebony & Crystal(1923); has colls. Out of Space and Time(1942; 1974), Lost Worlds(1944; 1974), Other Dimensions(1970) |
| Smith, Cordwainer |
Alpha Ralpha Boulevard |
1961 JUN |
nv |
(1913-1966) 1st & only story in F&SF in Instrumentality of Mankind series; ps. for Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, U.S. writer, political scientist, military adviser in Korea & Malaya; his 1st story as C.S. was "Scanners Live in Vain" in FBK #6, 1950 JUN |
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Down to a Sunless Sea |
1975 OCT |
nv |
N-1976 LOC; this story, never before pub., was completed by his wife Genevieve, after his death; was Prof. of Asiatic Politics at John Hopkins Univ.; used ps. Felix C. Forrest, Carmichael Smith for non-sf novels; has many colls., sf novel Norstrilia(1975) |
| Smith, Dean Wesley |
Where Have All the Graveyards Gone? |
1989 DEC |
ss |
(1950- ) 1st story pub. "Flawless Execution" in Knight(ed): The Clarion Awards(1984); founder with Kristine Kathryn Rusch, etal, of small press Pulphouse Publishing in 1988(W-1989 WFA); editor of Pulphouse: A Weekly Magazine 1991 MAR-1995(19 issues) |
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Jukebox Gifts |
1994 JAN |
ss |
N-1994 NEB; 1995 HUG, LOC, short story; 1st & only story in F&SF in Jukebox series, about a jukebox & its music that has time-travel powers; other stories in series in Night Cry 1987 FLL, & Resnick & Greenberg(ed): By Any Other Fame(1993) |
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In the Shade of the Slowboat Man |
1996 JAN |
ss |
N-1996 NEB, ss; w. wife Rusch has S. F. Writers of America Handbook(1990; W-1991 LOC); 1st novel Laying the Music to Rest(1989; N-1990 LOC, STO); has written many ser. books for Star Trek, Aliens, etc; w. Rusch, trilogy, The Tenth Planet(1999; 2000; 2000) |
| Smith, Evelyn E. |
Martian and the Magician, The |
1952 NOV |
ss |
(1922-2000) native New Yorker; a freelance writer, mostly of articles; her 1st story pub. sf "Tea Tray in the Sky" in GAL 1952 SEP |
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Last of the Spode, The |
1953 JUN |
ss |
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Gerda |
1954 APR |
ss |
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At Last I've Found You |
1954 OCT |
ss |
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Faithful Friend, The |
1955 JUN |
ss |
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Captain's Mate, The |
1956 MAR |
ss |
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BAXBR/DAXBR |
1956 SEP |
ss |
1st pub. in Derleth(ed): Time to Come(1954) |
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Outcast of Mars |
1957 MAY |
ss |
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Send Her Victorious |
1960 FEB |
ss |
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Day in the Suburbs, A |
1960 SEP |
ss |
has 1st novel, The Perfect Planet(1962), whose setting is a planet which was once a health farm(Clute) |
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Softly While You're Sleeping |
1961 APR |
ss |
has sf/fantasy novels, as by Delphine C. Lyons, Flower of Evil(1965), The House of Four Windows(1965), The Depths of Yesterday(1966), Valley of Shadows(1968), & Phantom at Lost Lake(1970); also as Lyons, has nf book Everyday Witchcraft(1972) |
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Robert E. Lee at Moscow |
1961 OCT |
ss |
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They Also Serve |
1962 SEP |
nv |
has sf novel Unpopular Planet(1975), written in 18th century style as a memoir of an overpopulated future future Earth where aliens maintain the planet as a breeding-ground for humans & other species(Clute) |
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Little Gregory |
1964 FEB |
nv |
has sf novel The Copy Shop(1985), in which aliens land in NYC, and go unnoticed |
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Calliope and Gherkin and the Yankee Doodle Thing |
1969 MAR |
nv |
has art teacher/painter Susan Melville, who inadvertently becomes a freelance assassin, mystery series, Miss Melville Regrets(1986), Miss Melville Returns(1987), Miss Melville's Revenge(1989), & Miss Melville Rides a Tiger(1991); see obit in LOC 2001 OCT |
| Smith, Hogan |
Year of the Earthman, The |
1964 OCT |
ss |
ps. for Allen D. Morgan; lives in San Diego |
| Smith, Kenneth |
With These Hands |
1963 JUL |
ss |
freshman at the Univ. of Texas, a staff cartoonist for the weekly Texas Observer (Austin) |
| Smith, Philip H. & Alan E. Nourse |
Miracle Too Many, A |
1964 SEP |
ss |
(? - ? ; 1928-1992) Smith is a N.Y. physician; Nourse is a Washington state physician |
| Smith, Ron |
I Don't Mind |
1956 OCT |
vi |
(1936-1987) working name for Ronald Loran Smith; grew up in Los Angeles; founded fanzine Inside, "which turned into a major fanzine featuring parodies of var. professional mags."(LOC 1987 DEC, p.70), & W-1956 HUG, for Best Fanzine |
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Horror Story Shorter by One Letter Than the Shortest Horror Story Ever Written, The |
1957 JUL |
vi |
has collab. ps. Martin Loran, with John Baxter, used for two stories in ANA 1966 JUL, & ANA 1967 NOV; in the early 1960s moved to Australia where he was a book editor & ghost wrote several Carter Brown(ps. for Alan Geoffrey Yates) mystery novels |
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Tripsych |
1965 MAR |
spf |
spoof on "three beloved sf plots," consists of three vignettes - "The Prescence," "Reunion," & "The Alien"; see his obit in LOC 1987 DEC(#323) |
| Smith, Sarah |
Touched by the Bomb (For the Ozawa family of Nagasaki, d. August 9, 1945, & for Ernest Hollings) |
1993 JUN |
ss |
(1947- ) story inspired by her 3 years in Japan as a child, & her 'oma,' Yaeko Ozawa, a Nagasaki survivor; lives in Brookline, MA; has sf novel King of Space(1991); Victorian-era mys. ser., The Vanished Child(1992), The Knowledge of Water(1996) |
| Sohl, Jerry |
Jelna |
1972 AUG |
ss |
(1913- ) working name for Gerald Allan Sohl Sr, writer & former journalist; 1st story pub. sf "The 7th Order"(in TOC as "The Seventh Order") in GAL 1952 MAR; used ps. Nathan Butler, Sean Mei Sullivan, Roberta Mountjoy; has 1st novel The Haploids(1952) |
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Service, The |
1976 FEB |
ss |
has novels Transcendent Man(1953), Costigan's Needle(1953), The Altered Ego(1954), Point Ultimate(1955), The Odious Ones(1959), Night Slaves(1965), The Anomaly(1971), Death Sleep(1983); did scripts for The Invaders, Star Trek, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone |
| Somers, Jonathan Swift III |
Scarletin Study, A |
1975 MAR |
nv |
(1918- ) 1st story of 2 in Ralph Von Wau Wau ser., 2nd in Farmer's Pseudonym ser.; ps. for Philip José Farmer; story of a private detective, Ralph Von Wau Wau, a German Shepherd with an IQ of 200; see letter from "Trout" in 1975 APR, "Somers" in 1975 SEP |
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Doge Whose Barque Was Worse Than His Bight, The |
1976 NOV |
nv |
2nd story of 2 in Ralph Von Wau Wau series |
| Soukup, Martha |
Master of the Game |
1987 NOV |
ss |
(1959- ) born in Chicago, now lives in Albuquerque, NM; graduate 1985 Clarion; 1st story pub. sf "Dress Rehearsal" in Terry Carr(ed): Universe 16(1986); has short story "In Defense of the Social Contracts" in SFAge 1993 SEP, which W-1994 NEB |
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Big Wish, The |
1988 JUL |
ss |
has colls. Rosemary's Brain and Other Tales of Weird Wonder(1992); The Arbitrary Placement of Walls(1997), the title story(ss in ASI 1992 APR) of which N-1992 NEB; 1993 HUG, LOC, WFA; nv "The House of Expectations" in Hayden: Starlight 2(1998), N-1998 TIP |
| Spencer, James |
To the Stars |
1962 JAN |
pm |
1st pub. in the San Francisco Review; he also had pub. in the Review, short story "Too Soon for Pigeons" in 1963 |
| Spinrad, Norman |
Age of Invention, The |
1966 JUL |
ss |
(1940- ) N-1966 NEB; born in U.S. but lives in France; 1st story pub. sf "The Last of the Romany" in ANA 1963 MAY; has novel Bug Jack Barron(NWS 1967-68 DEC-OCT; 1969; N-1969 NEB; 1970 HUG); see iv's in Platt: Dream Makers(1980), LOC 1999 FEB(#457) |
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Neutral Ground |
1966 NOV |
ss |
colls. The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde(1970), No Direction Home(1975), The Star-Spangled Future(1979); nf colls. Staying Alive(1983), Science Fiction in the Real World(1990); novel The Void Captain's Tale(1983; N-1983 NEB); book reviewer for ASI |
| Spivak, Lawrence E. |
Introduction |
1949 FLL |
in |
(1900-1994) intro to the mag. & its editors by its publisher ; was publisher of F&SF from 1949 FLL thru 1954 JUL; on p.8 of Annette Peltz McComas(ed): The Eureka Years(1982), a letter states Boucher & McComas wrote this intro & signed as by Spivak |
| Springer, Nancy |
Amends: Tale of the Sun Kings, A |
1983 MAY |
ss |
(1948- ) 1st & only story in F&SF in Suns ser.; others in ser. are novels in The Book of Suns seq., The Book of Suns(1977; her 1st pub. work; rev. vt The Silver Sun, 1980; N-1981 BRG), The White Hart(1979), The Sable Moon(1981; N-1982 LOC, MYT) |
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Boy Who Plaited Manes, The |
1986 OCT |
ss |
N-1986 NEB; 1987 HUG, LOC, short story; WFA, short fiction; Springer loves horses, & often writes them into her fiction; she volunteers for Horseback Riding for the Handicapped, & the Wind Ridge Farm Equine Sanctuary, in Wellsville, PA |
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Serenity |
1989 JAN |
nv |
other novels in The Book of the Sun seq., The Black Beast(1982; N-1983 LOC), The Golden Swan(1983) - these two assembled as The Book of Vale(1983) - & Wings of Flame(1985; N-1986 LOC); has novels Chains of Gold(1986), A Horse to Love(1987) |
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Autumn Mist |
1991 JUL |
ss |
"ties together the motifs of the issue: the need for change, for preserving the past, & the effect we have on the environment"; has Sea King trilogy, Madbond(1987), Mindbond(1987), Godbond(1988); The Hex Witch of Seldom(1988), Not on a White Horse(1988) |
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Don't Look Back |
1992 OCT/NOV |
ss |
about this story, "Where I learned to wish on a white horse, I don't remember. It's just another childhood superstition ..."; has novels Apocalypse(1989), Red Wizard(1990), The Friendship Song(1992), The Blind God Is Watching(1994), Metal Angel(1994) |
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Damnbanna |
1992 DEC |
na |
N-1993 HUG, novella; 1st pub. by Axolotl Press in 1992; the story of Angel, a teenage girl, who befriends a boy at school whose face is so badly scarred, he hides beneath a bandanna, hence his nickname; see iv's in WRT 1990 SUM, & LOC 1995 JUN |
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Chasing Butterfly Shadow |
1996 MAY |
ss |
won the Joan Fassler Memorial Book Award for her children's book, Colt(1991); "very old people, like very young children, are cognitive aliens to the rest of us ... (this) is my attempt to depict a very old woman's different view of everyday experience" |
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Transcendence |
1997 OCT/NOV |
ss |
has coll. Chance—and Other Gestures of the Hand of Fate(1988); novels Larque on the Wing(1994; W-1994 TIP), Looking for Jamie Bridger(1995), Fair Peril(1996), Secret Star(1997), I Am Mordred(1998), Prom Night(1999); see website at www.stlf.org/ |
| Springer, Sherwood |
Epitaph Near Moonport |
1954 JAN |
pm |
(1912?-2000) long-time sf fan; 1st story pub. "Alias a Woo-Woo" in IMG 1952 JAN, followed by a sequel, "Love That Woo-Woo!" in IMG 1953 SEP; in a biographical sketch, in IMG 1954 FEB, Springer talks of his early sf fan days |
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Epitaph in Avalon |
1954 JUL |
pm |
Springer worked for various newspapers; in the late 1930s he moved to southern California where he lived the rest of his life, & where he joined the L.A. Science Fiction Society |
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