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Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
1965 JAN |
Oliver, Chad |
End of the Line |
nv |
has western novel The Cannibal Owl(1994), about a black man on a quest to rescue a 10-year old boy kidnapped by a Comanche warrior |
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St. Clair, Eric |
Dimensional Analysis and Mr. Furtescue |
ss |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Begin at the Beginning |
sces |
calendars, New Year's Day, and the equinox; has 4th coll. of F&SF science essays Of Time, Space, and Other Things(1965) |
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Moore, Ward |
Mysterious Milkman of Bishop Street, The |
ss |
1st pub. in MacLeans Mag., in 1955 |
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Harrison, Harry |
Famous First Words |
fa |
edited anth. with Brian W. Aldiss, Nebula Award Stories Two(1967), All About Venus(1968), Best SF: 1967(-74) series(1968-75); anth. with Leon E. Stover, Apeman, Spaceman: Anthropological Science Fiction(1968); has Stainless Steel Rat ser. of novels |
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Thomas, Theodore L. |
Science Springboard, The: Biolaser, The |
ar |
use of the laser as a microsurgery tool |
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Kurosaka, Bob |
Those Who Can, Do |
vi |
Robert T. Kurosaka, a 29 year old math instructor at a Vermont college |
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Pangborn, Edgar |
Wogglebeast |
ss |
has colls. Good Neighbors and Other Strangers(1972), The Company of Glory(1975), Still I Persist in Wondering(1978) |
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Ciardi, John |
Love Letter From Mars |
pm |
also in F&SF under the ps. John Anthony |
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Goulart, Ron |
Books |
br |
Poul Anderson: Trader to the Stars; Heinlein: Farnham's Freehold; Bleiler: Best Ghost Stories of J. Sheridan LeFanu, & Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Poison Belt; Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan and the Madman; etc |
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Davidson, Avram |
House the Blakeneys Built, The |
ss |
N-1965 NEB, short story; has coll. What Strange Stars and Skies(1965); the Davidsons left Mexico for California in mid to late 1964, & were soon divorced; Grania later married Dr. Steven Davis; Avram Davidson lived in the Bay area in the late 1960s-70s |
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Leiber, Fritz |
Four Ghosts in Hamlet |
nv |
N-1965 NEB, novelette; after months of research on the Ape Man & the South American jungle, Leiber wrote the first authorized Tarzan novel written by anyone besides Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Valley of Gold(1966) |
1965 FEB |
Anderson, Poul |
Marque and Reprisal |
na |
N-1966 HUG, short fiction; 1st of a trilogy, in privateer Gunnar Heim series; "Gunnar Heim ... and his desperate and heroic adventurings with the distant world of New Europe and the alien & beautiful & utterly dangerous Aleriona" |
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Marsh, Willard |
Sin of Edna Schuster, The |
ss |
has coll. Beachhead in Bohemia(1969) |
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Sanford, Sue |
Mrs. Pribley's Underdog |
ss |
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Mills, Robert P. |
Richard McKenna: b. May 9, 1913 – d. November 1, 1964 |
note |
authorship uncredited, but believed by Edward L. Ferman to be by Robert P. Mills, Richard McKenna's agent |
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Drake, Leah Bodine |
Time and the Sphinx (In Memory of Lord Dunsany) |
vi |
what Drake calls a "story-poem," written in the style and mood of Lord Dunsany, 1st pub. in 1947; writes poetry reviews for ATL |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Harmony in Heaven |
sces |
Kepler's (third) harmonic law |
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Demmon, Calvin |
Switch, The |
vi |
also in F&SF as Calvin W. Demmon; lives in Ingelwood, CA, works as a night-shift clerk in L.A. County's Juvenile Hall |
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Anderson, Karen |
Look Up |
pm |
has King of Ys seq. with Poul Anderson, Roma Mater(1986; N-1987 LOC), Gallicenae(1987), Dahut(1987), & The Dog and the Wolf(1988) |
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deFord, Miriam Allen |
Absolutely Perfect Murder, The |
ss |
has edited anthology Space, Time and Crime(1964) |
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Thomas, Theodore L. |
Science Springboard, The: Placebo Effect, The |
ar |
research results on the placebo effect |
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Green, Robert M. Jr |
Deadeye Dick Syndrome, The |
ss |
|
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Young, Robert F. |
Dialogue in a Twenty-First Century Dining Room |
ss |
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1965 MAR |
Zelazny, Roger |
Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth, The |
nv |
W-1965 NEB, nv; N-1966 HUG, shfi; has the land of Amber ser., novels Nine Princes in Amber(1970), The Guns of Avalon(1972), Sign of the Unicorn(1975), The Hand of Oberon(1976), The Courts of Chaos(1978), featuring Corwin; see his entry in CANR, vol.60 |
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Brennan, J.H. |
Final Appeal |
ss |
(1940- ) James Herbert Brennan, editor of a weekly paper in Ulster, Northern Ireland |
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Thomas, Theodore L. |
Science Springboard, The: Low-Level Weather |
ar |
micrometeorology, study of the weather within a few hundred feet above the ground |
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Sharkey, Jack |
Essentials Only |
ss |
Sharkey wrote more than 100 short & full-length plays & musicals, which have been performed by community theaters thruout the nation; successful playwright, was well-known in the dinner theater industry, & among high school theater clubs |
|
Merril, Judith |
Books |
br |
Asimov: The Rest of the Robots; Leiber: A Pail of Air; Leinster: Doctor to the Stars; Richard Matheson: Shock II; Sturgeon: Sturgeon in Orbit; Cordwainer Smith: The Planet Buyer; Silverberg: Regan's Planet; Laumer: The Great Time Machine Hoax; etc |
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Gastaldi, Ernesto |
End of Eternity, The |
ss |
(1934- ) trans. from the Italian, & with a introduction to Italian sf, by Harry Harrison |
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Smith, Ron |
Tripsych |
spf |
spoof on "three beloved sf plots," consists of three vignettes - "The Prescence," "Reunion," & "The Alien"; see his obit in LOC 1987 DEC(#323) |
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Kerr, Walter H. |
Illusion |
pm |
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Kirs, Alex |
Better Than Ever |
ss |
N-1965 NEB, short story; lives in NYC; also has short stories "Man Overboard" in SFA 1958 JAN, & "The Scuffle" in Escapade 1961 AUG |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Oh, East Is West and West Is East |
sces |
Americas, the countries farthest east, west, south & north |
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Ottum, Bob Jr |
Ado About Nothing |
vi |
(1948?- ) 17-year-old son of writer Bob Ottum, who is also in F&SF; working name for Robert K. Ottum Jr |
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Carter, Lin |
Uncollected Works |
ss |
(1930-1988) N-1965 NEB; wn. for Linwood Vrooman Carter; 1st fantasy novel The Wizard of Lemuria(1965), 1st in ser. of Conan pastiche; editor of fantasy anthologies; nf book defining heroic fantasy, Imaginary Worlds(1973); Robert M. Price: Lin Carter(1991) |
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Schutz, J.W. |
Maiden Voyage |
nv |
(1912-1984) N-1965 NEB, novelette; his 1st pub. sf; working name for Joseph Willard Schutz; State Department official - American Consul General in Tangier, Morocco; graduated in science & later from the U.S. Counter-Insurgency School |
1965 APR |
Ferman, Joseph W. |
Contest Winners |
note |
winners of Univac-Unicorn short story contest: 1st prize, Herb Lehrman; 2nd prize, Greg Benford; 3rd, Barbara P. Kerr; 4th, Elizabeth Daniels; 5th, Royce Burton Jr; 1st & 2nd prize stories to be pub. in the 1965 JUN issue; anth. #27 has authors' memoirs |
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Anderson, Poul |
Arsenal Port |
na |
2nd story in Gunnar Heim series, a trilogy about the starship Fox II and its privateer captain, Gunnar Heim; has King of Ys series with Karen Anderson, Roma Mater(1986; N-1987 LOC), Gallicenae(1987), Dahut(1988), The Dog and the Wolf(1988) |
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Wilson, Gahan |
Cartoon |
ct |
1st cartoon by Wilson in F&SF, and the beginning of his monthly cartoons in F&SF - string ends with 1981 MAR issue, with 198 cartoons in all, but returns with the 1981 MAY issue; also pub. in a hardcover facsimile of this 1965 APR issue (Anth. #27) |
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Rohrer, Robert |
Keep Them Happy |
ss |
N-1965 NEB, short story; Robert H. Rohrer Jr, from Atlanta, a student at Emory Univ. |
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Jonas, Gerald |
Imaginary Numbers in a Real Garden |
pm |
(1935- ) staff writer for Talk of the Town column in NYM; has had poems pub. in NYM, ATL, The Saturday Review, & Look |
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Merril, Judith |
Books |
br |
Charles Einstein: The Day New York Went Dry; John Christopher: Sweeney's Island; James Kennaway: The Mind Benders; The Worlds of Robert F. Young; Isaac Bashevis Singer: Short Friday; Robert Nathan: The Fair; William Golding: The Spire; & one other |
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Davenport, Basil |
Books |
br |
Judith Merril(ed): The Ninth Annual of the Year's Best SF; Davenport has sf criticism books Inquiry into Science Fiction(1955), The Science Fiction Novel: Imagination and Social Criticism(1959; rev. 1964); edited anth. Invisible Men(1960), & 4 others |
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Caravan, TP |
Blind Date |
ss |
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Thomas, Theodore L. |
Science Springboard, The: Ice Ages, The |
ar |
study of core samples |
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Hodgins, Roderic C. |
History of Doctor Frost, The |
ss |
a psychological counselor at Harvard, has an AB in math from Harvard |
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Beauclerk, Jean |
Lord Moon |
ss |
N-1965 NEB, short story; 2nd & last story in Stars series |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Certainty of Uncertainty, The |
sces |
uncertainty principle, Part 1; Part 2 in 1965 AUG(#2243) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Eyes Do More Than See |
vi |
N-1965 NEB, short story; in his memoir of story in anth. #27, Asimov states it was based on an illus. from PBY; illus. story idea offered to 3 other authors by & incl. Algis Budrys, whose story "Now Hear the Word of the Lord" was pub. in GAL 1969 FEB |
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