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Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
1956 JAN |
Kornbluth, C.M. |
Cosmic Charge Account, The |
nv |
in F&SF anthology as "The Cosmic Expense Account"; has solo novel Not This August(1955; exp. by Pohl 1981); has novels with Frederik Pohl The Space Merchants(GAL 1952 JUN-AUG as "Gravy Planet"; 1953), Search the Sky(1954; rev. by Pohl 1985) |
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Abernathy, Robert |
Year 2000, The |
vi |
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Clarke, Arthur C. |
What Goes Up … |
ss |
1st & only story in F&SF in White Hart Tavern series; others stories in series pub. in var. magazines; coll. in Tales of the White Hart(1957); four early stories pub. in fanzines 1937-42 were coll. in The Best of Arthur C. Clarke 1937-1971(1973 UK) |
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Miller, P. Schuyler |
Daydream |
ss |
(1912-1974) 1st pub. in Donald A. Wollheim(ed): The Girl with the Hungry Eyes(1949); Peter Schuyler Miller; book reviewer for ASF(1945 APR-1975 JAN), won 1963 special Hugo for his reviews; 1st story pub. "The Red Plague" in WOS 1930 JUL |
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McClintic, Winona |
Anti-Climax, The |
pm |
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Lindner, Robert |
Jet-Propelled Couch, The |
ar |
(1914-1956) 1st pub. in The Jet-Propelled Couch and Other True Psychoanalytical Tales(1955; vt The Fifty-Minute Hour); psychoanalyst & prison psychologist; author of Rebel Without a Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath(nf, 1944) |
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Wellman, Manly Wade |
On the Hills and Everywhere |
ss |
9th story Silver John ser.; has novel Island in the Sky(TWS 1941 OCT; 1961); Manly's brother, Paul, is a writer of historical novels & nf books of the Southwest, incl. The Iron Mistress(1951), Ride the Red Earth(1958), Death on the Prairie(1987 nf) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Dikty(ed): The Best S-F Stories and Novels, 1955; Kornbluth: Not This August; Brackett: The Long Tomorrow; Asimov: The End of Eternity; H. Chandler Elliott: Reprieve from Paradise; J.T. McIntosh: The Fittest; Sam Merwin: Three Faces of Time |
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Cogswell, Theodore R. |
Threesie |
ss |
(1918-1987) see sequels, of sorts, a triptych inspired by this story, in F&SF 1956 NOV, stories #862, 863 & 864; Theodore Rose Cogswell, writer & academic, was ambulance driver on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War |
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Carter, Paul A. |
Unbalanced Equation |
nv |
this story was written before Richardson's article(#721) in F&SF 1955 DEC on Martian explorers sexual mores, tho it's pub. afterwards; has novel with Gregory Benford, Iceborn(1989, in George Zebrowski: Synergy 3 as "Proserpina's Daughter"; exp. 1989 chap) |
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Clingerman, Mildred |
Mr. Sakrison's Halt |
ss |
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1956 FEB |
Knight, Damon |
Country of the Kind, The |
ss |
has short story "To Serve Man" in GAL 1950 NOV, was made into a famous 1962 episode (#89) of TV series, The Twilight Zone; 1st novel Hell's Pavement(ASF 1952 JAN as "The Analogues"; exp. 1955 fixup; vt Analogue Men, 1962) |
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Searle, Ronald |
Cartoon |
ct |
1st pub. in his coll. The Female Approach(1954); served in WWII in Royal Engineers painting camouflage, & was interned in a Japanese POW camp for over 3 years; pub. book of sketches made in Changi Camp, To the Kwai and Back: War Drawings 1939-1945(1986) |
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Blish, James |
Time to Survive, A |
na |
1st & only story in F&SF in Pantropy series; part of a novel, being a coll. of linked stories, The Seedling Stars(var. mags. 1952-56; 1957), deals with pantropy as man takes to the stars; his 4 Okie novels combined in one volume, Cities in Flight(1970) |
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Bennett, Kem |
Rufus |
ss |
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Lewis, C.S. |
Shoddy Lands, The |
ss |
(1898-1963) working name for Clive Staples Lewis, U.K. author & professor, born in Belfast; has Dr. Ransom Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet(1938), Perelandra(1943), That Hideous Strength(1945); see biographies by A.N. Wilson, & by Green and Hopper |
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deFord, Miriam Allen |
Martie and I |
ss |
also in F&SF with co-author Anthony Boucher |
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McClintic, Winona |
Ultimate Price, The |
ss |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
Bradbury: The October Country; Sturgeon: Caviar; Kuttner & Moore: No Boundaries; Brown: Martians, Go Home; Sloane: The Edge of Running Water; Heinlein: Tunnel in the Sky; Norton: Star Guard; Wollheim: The Secret of the Martian Moons |
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Beaumont, Charles & Chad Oliver |
I, Claude |
ss |
2nd story Claude Adams series, 1st was in F&SF 1955 APR(#636) under Oliver & Beaumont |
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Maddux, Rachel |
Final Clearance |
ss |
(1912-1983) wn. for Rachel Maddux Baker; grad. Univ. of Kansas; 1st story pub. na "Turnip's Blood" in Story Mag. 1936 DEC, anth. The Flying Yorkshire(1938), & in her autobiography, Communication(1941 unpub.; 1991); 1st novel The Green Kingdom(1957; 1993) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Message, The |
vi |
has novel The End of Eternity(1955), a complex tale of time travel & time paradoxes, considered by some to be his best work(Clute); colls. The Martian Way and Other Stories(1955), Earth Is Room Enough(1957), Nine Tomorrows: Tales of the Near Future(1959) |
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Pohl, Frederik |
Census Takers, The |
ss |
(1919- ) member Futurians, writer, editor, agent; AAF weatherman in Italy in WWII; married to Judith Merril(1949-52); collab. w. many authors, used many ps., incl. James MacCreigh for solo work; also in F&SF w. co-author William Morrison, C.M. Kornbluth |
1956 MAR |
Anderson, Poul |
Superstition |
nv |
has novels Perish by the Sword(1959), The Golden Slave(1960; rev. 1980), Murder in Black Letter(1960), Rogue Sword(1960), Murder Bound(1962) - all associational; has fixup novel Twilight World(ASF 1947 MAR, JUL; 1961) |
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Searle, Ronald |
Cartoon |
ct |
1st pub. in coll. The Female Approach(1954); W-1959, 1965, 1986-1987 Plaque Award, Advertising; W-1980 Plaque Award, Magazine/Book Illustration; designed animated films Dick Deadeye(1975), sequences in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines(1965) |
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Vandercook, John W. |
Challenge, The |
ss |
(1902-1963) 1st pub. in EQMM 1952 JUL; war correspondent & news analyst for ABC; has nf Tom-Tom(1926), about Surinam; Dark Islands(1937), about Fiji, New Guinea & the Solomon Islands; biography of Henri Christophe, Emperor of Haiti, Black Majesty(1928) |
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Smith, Evelyn E. |
Captain's Mate, The |
ss |
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Saki |
Wolves of Cernogratz, The |
ss |
1st pub. in The Morning Post, 7 JAN 1913, & in colls. The Toys of Peace(1919), & The Complete Short Stories of Saki(1930; exp.1948); see biographical memoir by Saki's sister, Ethel M. Munro: The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope, and Other Stories(1995) |
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Oliver, Chad |
North Wind |
ss |
also in F&SF with co-author Charles Beaumont in Claude Adams series, 1955 APR(#636) & 1956 FEB(#751) |
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Beaumont, Charles |
Science Screen, The |
mr |
The Incredible Shrinking Man(to come out in 1957); King Dinosaur; Tarantula! (1955); Ulysses(1955) |
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Hubbard, P.M. |
Lion |
vi |
has mystery/suspense novels Cold Waters(1969), High Tide(1970), The Dancing Man(1971) |
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Priestley, J.B. |
Night Sequence |
nv |
1st pub. in his coll. The Other Place(1953); has nf English Journey(1934), Man and Time(1964), Over the Long High Wall(1972); see books Susan Cooper: J.B. Priestley: Portrait of an Author(1970), & Vincent Brome: J.B. Priestley(1988) |
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de Camp, L. Sprague |
What Is a Rosicrucian? |
ar |
small correction in F&SF 1956 JUN p.38; most famous work is novel Lest Darkness Fall(UNK 1939 DEC; 1941); has colls. Divide and Rule(1948; story alone 1990 chap), The Wheels of If(UNK 1940 OCT; 1948), The Undesired Princess(1951; title story, 1990) |
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Urban, Helen M. |
Finer Breed, The |
ss |
has short stories "Pass the Salt" in SCF #13 1955, "Heart Ache" in AUT #65 1956, "The Cat & the Canaries" in FUN 1957 FEB, "The Glory of Ippling" in GAL 1962 DEC, & "Tag" in Asimov, etal(ed): Microcosmic Tales(1980) |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading: Best Science-Fantasy Books of 1955, The |
br |
the sf book market in 1955 in brief: novels, short story collections, anthologies, critique, unclassified, fantasy, folklore, nf, humor, juveniles |
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Bradbury, Ray |
Dragon, The |
vi |
1st pub. in ESQ 1955 AUG; has coll. The Illustrated Man(1951; N-1952 IFA; 1970 HUG; 3 stories made into 1969 movie), juvenile novel Switch on the Night(1955; 1993; N-1994 LOC), colls. The Golden Apples of the Sun(1953), The October Country(1956) |
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Brode, Anthony |
Flying Chaucer |
pm |
(1923- ) U.K. author& newspaperman; has nf books To Bed on Thursday(1958), a satire on his days as a news reporter; Picture a Country Vicarage(1956), Wayward Vicarage(1959) |
1956 APR |
Moore, Ward |
No Man Pursueth |
nv |
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United States Air Force |
Unidentified Aerial Objects |
ar |
1st pub. in ?; the U.S.A.F. gives a negative report on the possibility of UFOs |
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Felsen, Henry Gregor |
Spaceman Cometh, The |
ss |
(1916-1995) 1st pub. in COL, 11 NOV 1955; has ya novels Hot Rod(1951), Street Rod(1953), The Boy Who Discovered the Earth(1955), Boy Gets Car(1960; vt Road Rocket), A Teen-Ager's First Car(1967), The Spaceman Cometh: Why the Earth Was Not Invaded(1971) |
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Bloch, Robert |
I Kiss Your Shadow |
ss |
Bloch modelled stories "A Good Night's Work"(UNK 1941 OCT), sequel "The Eager Dragon"(WRT 1943 JAN) on work of Damon Runyon(1884-1946); "Nursemaid to Nightmares"(WRT 1942 NOV), sequel "Black Barter"(WRT 1943 SEP) on Thorne Smith(1893-1934)(Clute) |
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St. Clair, Eric |
Motorman's Glove, The |
ss |
1st pub. in 1949 |
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Godwin, Tom |
Operation Opera |
ss |
(1915-1980) 1st story pub. sf "The Gulf Between" in ASF 1953 OCT; has famous story "The Cold Equations" in ASF 1954 AUG(see article on story in NYRSF 2002 MAR); see articles by Diane Godwin Sullivan: "Tom Godwin: A Personal Memory" in Quantum #37 |
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Boucher, Anthony |
Recommended Reading |
br |
UFO books, incl.: George Adamski: Inside the Space Ships; Harold T. Wilkins; Major Donald E. Keyhoe: The Flying Saucer Conspiracy; & f & sf books, Clarke: The City and the Stars; James Helvick: Overdraft on Glory; Alfred Toombs: Good as Gold |
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Wilson, Richard |
Don't Fence Me In |
vi |
a founding member of the Futurians, director of the News Bureau of Syracuse University until he retired in 1982 |
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Hubbard, P.M. |
Free Flight |
pm |
has mystery/suspense novels The Whisper in the Glen(1972), A Rooted Sorrow(1973) |
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Novotny, John |
On Camera |
ss |
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McComas, J. Francis |
Shock Treatment |
nv |
1st pub. in Raymond J. Healey(ed): 9 Tales of Space and Time(1954); co-edited with Boucher the first three volumes of The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction(1952), #2(1953), & #3(1954) |
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Cockburn, Claud |
Incredulity of Colonel Mumph, The |
vi |
(1904-1981) 1st pub. in Punch; working name for Francis Claud Cockburn; has ps. James Helvick under which he has the novel Overdraft on Glory(1955), & has pub. short stories in LIL, PST, & the U.K.'s Argosy, mostly in the 1950s |
1956 MAY |
Kuttner, Henry & C.L. Moore |
Rite of Passage |
nv |
story followed by checklist of books by Kuttner & Moore; Kuttner's 1st story pub. "The Graveyard Rats," WRT 1936 MAR; has Tony Quade ser.(TWS 1938-47), Pete Manx ser.(TWS 1939-44), Galloway Gallegher ser.(ASF 1943-48), Hogben ser.(TWS 1947-49) |
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