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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1954 MAY |
Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Note From the Editors: Contest Results |
note |
announcing the winners of the best stories of 1953(see 1953 DEC) |
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Jennings, Dale |
Gingerbread Man, The |
vi |
(1928- ) 1st pub. fiction |
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Kemp, Lysander |
Airborne Baserunner, The |
ss |
(1920- ) his 1st book coll. of poetry, The Northern Stranger(1946); has trans from the Spanish, Octavio Paz: The Labyrinth of Solitude(1961), Mario Vargas Llosa: The Time of the Hero(1966), Carlos Fuentes: Aura(1975); edited The Conquest(1970) |
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Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Brown & Reynolds(ed): Science-Fiction Carnival; Pohl(ed): Star Science Fiction Stories, No.2; Conklin(ed): 6 Great Short Novels of SF; Norton(ed): Space Pioneers; Wollheim(ed): The Ultimate Invader; Pohl & Kornbluth: Search the Sky; Tucker: Wild Talent |
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Porges, Arthur |
$1.98 |
ss |
$1.98 is said to be the value of a human body reduced to its raw elements |
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Anderson, Poul |
Ghetto |
nv |
story revised to be chapter 21 in novel Starfarers(1998; N-1999 JWC, LOC); has Technic History/Nicholas van Rijn seq. War of the Wing-Men(1958; vt The Man Who Counts, 1978), Satan's World(1969), The People of the Wind(1973; N-1973 NEB; 1974 HUG, LOC) |
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Dee, Roger |
Pondstone Paradox, The |
ss |
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| 1954 JUN |
Abernathy, Robert |
Heirs Apparent |
nv |
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Dickson, Gordon R. |
Miss Prinks |
ss |
Dickson lives in Minneapolis; 1942 joined Minneapolis Fantasy Society, became friends w. Poul Anderson & Clifford D. Simak after WWII thru it; fulltime writer since 1950; early fiction coll. in The Man from Earth(1983), Forward!(1985), The Stranger(1987) |
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Shaara, Michael |
Time Payment |
ss |
has sf novel The Herald(1981; vt The Noah Conspiracy); sf coll. Soldier Boy(1982); has interview in AMZ 1982 SEP; has posthumous baseball novel For Love of the Game(1991; made into 1999 movie; see website http://jeffshaara.com/michaelbio.html |
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Charteris, Leslie |
Fish Story |
ss |
1st pub. in BBM 1953 NOV(not a Saint story); three different actors played The Saint in the movies, 1938-54: Louis Hayward, George Sanders, & Hugh Sinclair; has coll. Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh(ed): The Fantastic Saint(1982) |
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Norton, Andre |
Mousetrap |
ss |
(1912- ) ps. for Alice Mary Norton, legally changed to Andre Norton; born in Cleveland, librarian, editor at Gnome Press 1950-58; 1st novel pub. children's The Prince Commands(1934), 1st fantasy story pub. "The People of the Crater," Fantasy Book 1947 |
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Crow, Levi |
Warrior in Darkness |
ss |
2nd story Plain Indians folktales ser.; Wellman has only mys. novel Find My Killer(1947), w. female detective J.D. Thatcher; nf Dead and Gone: Classic Crimes of North Carolina(1954), W-1955 EDG; 1st nf Giant in Gray: A Biography of Wade Hampton(1949) |
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Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Hal Clement's books, incl. Mission of Gravity; Arthur C. Clarke: Prelude to Space; Robert A. Heinlein: Revolt in 2100; H. Nearing: The Sinister Researches of C.P. Ransom; Groff Conklin(ed): Crossroads in Time; James Blish: Jack of Eagles |
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Wainwright, Ruth Laura |
Mint, in d/j |
ss |
also has short story "Green Grew the Lasses" in GAL 1953 JUL |
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Heinlein, Robert A. |
Star Lummox |
no-2/3 |
champion swordman, a figure skater, expert in rifle & pistol; 1st story pub. sf "Lifeline" in ASF 1939 AUG; returned to Navy in 1942; Future History ser. coll. in The Man Who Sold the Moon(1949), The Green Hills of Earth(1951), & Revolt in 2100(1953) |
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Watt, T.S. |
Visitors From Venus |
vi |
1st pub. in Punch |
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F&SF staff |
Index to Volume 6: 1954 JAN-JUN |
indx |
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| 1954 JUL |
Holding, Elisabeth Sanxay |
Shadow of Wings |
nv |
has suspense novels The Death Wish(1934), The Unfinished Crime(1935), The Obstinate Murderer(1938), Who's Afraid?(1940), The Girl Who Had to Die(1940), Speak of the Devil(1941), Lady Killer(1942), Net of Cobwebs(1945), The Innocent Mrs. Duff(1946) |
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Wolf, Leonard |
Some Facts About Robots (III) |
pm |
in anthology, called "Some Facts About Robots" |
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Barr, Robert |
Doom of London, The |
ss |
(1850-1912) 1st pub. in the magazine he edited, The Idler, in 1892 NOV, & in his coll. The Face & the Mask(1894); Scottish writer & editor; has colls. In a Steamer Chair and Other Shipboard Stories(1892), Revenge!(1896), novel From whose Bourne(1893) |
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Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Recommended Reading |
br |
one paragraph, "books … relatively scarce … and stories are plentiful" |
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Sheckley, Robert |
Accountant, The |
ss |
has novel Immortality Delivered(GAL 1958-59 OCT-FEB as "Time Killer"; 1958), made into 1969 TV movie Immortality, Inc., & 1992 movie Freejack; novel The Status Civilization(1960), set on a prison planet where conformity is evil(Clute) |
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Springer, Sherwood |
Epitaph in Avalon |
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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Friborg, Albert Compton |
Careless Love |
ss |
(1930- ) his 1st pub. story; ps. for Irving Flint 'Bud' Foote; professor at Georgia Tech.; Foote has article "Verne's Paris in the Twentieth Century: The First Science Fiction Dystopia?" in the NYRSF 1995 DEC(#88); has also contributed to SF Studies |
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Drake, Leah Bodine |
Gods of the Dana, The |
pm |
has 1st poetry coll. A Hornbook for Witches: Poems of Fantasy(1950) |
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Davidson, Avram |
My Boy Friend's Name Is Jello |
ss |
(1923-1993) his 1st pub. sf story; born in Hog Hill section of Yonkers, NY; an Orthodox Jew, he served as a U.S. Naval Hospital Corpsman with the Marines 1942-45 in the South Pacific & China, & with the Israeli forces in the 1948-49 Arab-Israeli War |
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Heinlein, Robert A. |
Star Lummox |
no-3/3 |
novels in Future History ser., Methuselah's Children(ASF 1941 JUL-SEP; rev. 1958), & Orphans of the Sky(ASF 1941 MAY, OCT as "Universe" & "Common Sense"; 1963 fixup UK); pieces most assembled in The Past Through Tomorrow(1967) |
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Garrett, Randall |
Infinite Resources |
ss |
became a member of the prolific Ziff-Davis(AMZ, FAN, etc) authors, with Robert Silverberg & Harlan Ellison in the 1950s; has used house ps. Alexander Blade, Richard Greer, Ivar Jorgensen, Clyde Mitchell, S.M. Tenneshaw, Gerald Vance, Leonard G. Spencer |
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Grinnell, David |
Lysenko Maze, The |
ss |
1st pub. in Punch, 30 DEC 1953; has Ajax Calkins series in FUT 1941-42 as Martin Pearson, later the basis for novel Destiny's Orbit(1962, as David Grinnell), & sequel Destination Saturn(1967, as by Grinnell & Lin Carter); founded DAW Books in 1972 |
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??? |
Cartoon |
ct |
1st pub. in Punch, 30 DEC 1953 |
| 1954 AUG |
Bester, Alfred |
Fondly Fahrenheit |
nv |
has novel Tiger! Tiger!(1956 U.K.; vt The Stars My Destination(GAL 1956-57 NOV-JAN; 1957; vt Tiger! Tiger!, 1987), about Gully Foyle, "whose passion for revenge transform him from an illiterate outcast to a ... quasi-superman 'in an age of freaks'"(Clute) |
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Porges, Arthur |
Devil and Simon Flagg, The |
ss |
also writes mystery fiction, 1st being ""Modeled in Clay" in Man to Man 1950 AUG/SEP, & incl. the series of Dr. Joel Hoffman, Ulysses Price Middlebie, Julian Morse Trowbridge, & Dr. Cyriack Skinner Grey, the latter a wheelchair-bound detective |
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Henderson, Zenna |
Gilead |
nv |
2nd story The People series, chrono. story #7; the chronological order of the stories in this series is listed in her coll. Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson(1995) |
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deFord, Miriam Allen |
Frustrated Frankenstein: Alfonso Herrera and His Colpoids |
ar |
the doctor's attempts to create artificial life |
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Brookbank, Richard |
Invisible Wall, The |
ss |
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Rogers, Kay |
Command Performance |
ss |
has short story "Flirtation Walk" in Alice Laurance(ed): Cassandra Rising(1978) |
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Boucher, Anthony & J. Francis McComas |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Merril(ed): Human?; Moskowitz(ed): Editor's Choice in SF; H.L. Gold(ed): The Second Galaxy Reader of SF; Derleth(ed): Time to Come; Healy(ed): 9 Tales of Space and Time; Robert Sheckley: Untouched by Human Hands; Richard Matheson: Born of Man and Woman |
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Buck, Doris P. |
Two-Bit Oracle |
ss |
housewife in Alexandria, VA, semi-professional actress, writer of many varied interests |
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Mudgett, Herman W. |
Report on the Sexual Behavior of the Extra-Sensory Perceptor |
pm |
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Beaumont, Charles |
Quadriopticon, The |
nv |
an early sf fan, he has his own fanzine Utopia, in 1945; tried an acting career in Hollywood before turning to writing |
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Wellman, Manly Wade |
Little Black Train, The |
ss |
6th story Silver John series; has John Thunstone series some in WRT from 1938(as by Gans T. Field) & later in F&SF, occult detective; has novel Twice in Time(STS 1940 MAY; cut 1957; res. 1988) a time travel story featuring Leonardo da Vinci's Florence |
| 1954 SEP |
McIntosh, J.T. |
One Too Many |
na |
3rd story of trilogy, Lt. Bill Easson series; 1st #293 by M'Intosh(F&SF 1953 FEB) & 2nd #437 by McIntosh(F&SF 1954 JAN); series coll. in fixup novel One in Three Hundred(1954) |
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Ellis, H.F. |
Space-Crime Continuum |
ss |
1st pub. in Punch |
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McComas, J. Francis |
Brave New Word |
ss |
(1911-1978) Jesse Francis McComas, co-editor & co-founder of F&SF with Anthony Boucher; co-editor with Raymond J. Healey: Adventures in Time and Space(1946) which contained his 1st story pub. "Flight Into Darkness," as by Webb Marlowe |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Note From the Editor |
note |
announcement that J. Francis McComas is no longer co-editor of F&SF, beginning with this issue; Boucher's novels Rocket to the Morgue(1942, etc) & Nine Times Nine(1940; 1986) are both part of his Sister Ursula Mystery series |
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Phillips, Peter |
First Man in the Moon |
vi |
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Reynolds, Mack |
Prone |
ss |
also in United Planets series is fixup novel Section G: United Planets(na "Fiesta Brava" in ANA 1967 SEP, & ss "Psi Assassin" in ANA 1967 DEC; fixup 1976); also in F&SF with co-author August Derleth(Solar Pons series), & with Gary Jennings |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Anderson: Brain Wave; David Duncan: Dark Dominion; Jerry Sohl: The Altered Ego; Taine: G.O.G.666; de Camp: Cosmic Manhunt; Simak: Ring Around the Sun; E. Mayne Hull: Planets for Sale; Derleth(ed): Portals of Tomorrow; Conklin(ed): S-F Thinking Machines |
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Jakes, John |
Crack-Up |
ss |
(1932- ) also in F&SF as John W. Jakes; has Dragonard ser., novels When the Star Kings Die(1967), The Planet Wizard(1969), Tonight We Steal the Stars(1969); coll. of a ser. Brak the Barbarian(1968); novels Six-Gun Planet(1970), Black in Time(1970) |
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