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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1983 JAN |
Tiptree, James Jr |
Beyond the Dead Reef |
ss |
W-1984 LOC, ss; 2nd & last story in F&SF in Quintana Roo ser.; author says of Q.R., "a diary of life on its shores could often be taken for a log of life on an alien planet"; has coll. Out of the Everywhere, & Other Extraordinary Visions(1981; N-1982 LOC) |
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Baloo |
Cartoon |
ct |
ps. for cartoonist Rex May; May lives in Indiana; he began as an intelligence analyst, then wrote articles for the National Lampoon in the early 1970s, before turning to gag writing & cartooning; he works part time as a postal clerk |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: long & unflattering essay on the Science Fiction Research Assoc.(SFRA), & SF-related careers in academe; George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, & Robert Scholes(ed): Bridges to Fantasy |
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Blanchard, L.S. |
Mirror of the Soul |
nv |
Linda S. Blanchard, her 1st sale; lives in Washington State where she runs a local chapter of a pro-space group & works as a telecommunications operator; has books under ps. Samskrti, Hatha Yoga: Manual I(1985), & Hatha Yoga: Manual II(1989) |
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Tritten, Larry |
Green Roses |
ss |
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Rucker, Rudy |
Inertia |
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 |
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Florance-Guthridge, George & Dianne M. Thompson |
Legacy |
ss |
(1948- ; ? - ? ; ? - ?) George Florance-Guthridge a collab. ps. for George Guthridge(& in F&SF by himself as such) & his wife(Florance?); Thompson is a new writer, lives in Montana, & has story "Triangle" with G. F.-G. in ASI 1982 AUG |
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Eisenstein, Phyllis |
Subworld |
nv |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
has cartoons in colls. A Child of Six Could Do It(1973), Nobody's Perfect(1974), The American Cartoon Album(1974), I Feel I Should Warn You(1975), The Art in Cartooning(1975), The New Yorker Album(1975), The Journal of the Century(1976) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: E.T., Go Home |
mr/tvr |
E.T. the Extra-Terrestial(1982), from Disney, dir. Steven Spielberg, script by Melissa Mathison, stars Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace-Stone, Peter Coyote |
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Grant, Charles L. |
Next Name You Hear, The |
ss |
4th & last story in F&SF in Oxrun Station ser.; has Oxrun Trilogy, The Soft Whisper of the Dead(1982), The Dark Cry of the Moon(1986), The Long Night of the Grave(1986); has novels In a Dark Dream(1989; N-1990 STO, WFA), Stunts(1990), Fire Mask(1991) |
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Bretnor, R. |
Cryogenesis |
ss |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: To Ungild Refined Gold |
sces |
numbers; playing with numbers; square roots, algebraic equations, reciprocals, the Fibonacci series; has 16th coll. of F&SF science essays, Counting the Eons(1983); has nf book The Roving Mind(1983) |
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Nurit |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Morressy, John |
Rarebit of Magic, A |
ss |
6th story in F&SF in his Kedrigern the wizard series; has fantasy Iron Angel series, about three brothers on a quest, Ironbrand(1980), Graymantle(1981), Kingsbane(1982), The Time of the Annihilator(1985) |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 31 |
cmp |
1st prize: Jean MacKay Jackson; 2nd prize: John E. Stith; R-U: Bruce Berges; William Meltzer; R.G. Duling; Michael Croteau; Richard J. Coppins |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 32 |
cmp |
suggested by Steve Leavell & Stephen Mendenhall - submit sequels for any sf work, e.g.: More More Than Human, by Sturgeon |
| 1983 FEB |
Bretnor, Reginald |
Gilpin's Space |
na |
N-1984 LOC, novella; the goings-on at Underseas, Ltd., when a scientist working on a time machine disappears with his entire lab - an 80-foot submarine named Cupid's Arrow; expanded into novel Gilpin's Space(1986) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: the economics or money side of King's collection of 4 novellas; Stephen King: Different Seasons; George R.R. Martin: Fevre Dream; Boris & Arkady Strugatsky: Roadside Picnic |
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Shea, Michael |
Grunt-12 Test Drive |
ss |
has novel In Yana, the Touch of Undying(1985; N-1986 LOC), a fantasy novel in the Vancean mode, with more than a touch of horror(B&C) |
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Petrey, Susan C. |
Small Changes |
ss |
5th story in her Spareen the Varkelan vampire series |
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Queenan, Joseph |
Power of the Spoken Word, The |
ss |
(1950- ) has nf books as by Joe Queenan, Imperial Caddy: The Rise of Dan Quayle ...(1992); on moviemaking, The Unkindest Cut(1995), If You're Talking to Me, Your Career Must Be in Trouble(1994); Red Lobster, White Trash & the Blue Lagoon(1998) |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Dragooned Dragon |
mr/tvr |
The Flight of Dragons(1982), animated, based very loosely on Gordon R. Dickson's The Dragon and the George(F&SF 1957 SEP; exp. 1976) & Peter Dickinson's The Flight of Dragons(1979); Heartbeeps(1981), stars Bernadette Peters, Andy Kaufman |
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Malzberg, Barry N. |
What We Do on Io |
vi |
has anth. Neglected Visions(1980), with Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander; anth. The Science Fiction of Mark Clifton(1980), with Martin H. Greenberg; Bug-Eyed Monsters(1980), with Bill Pronzini |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
has science cartoon coll. Einstein Simplified: Cartoons in Science(1980) - in which "the last page depicts the entire universe in its actual size" |
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Davidson, Avram |
Buchanan's Head |
ss |
see the NYRSF 2000 JUN(#142), a Special Avram Davidson Issue, which excerpts of his travel memoir "Dragons in the Trees" about British Honduras(basis of Limekiller's British Hidalgo), & a reminiscence by Hugh Leddy |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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McKinlay, M. Catherine |
Xessex |
ss |
(1939- ) her 1st pub. story; ps. for Katherine V. Forrest; from San Francisco; as Forrest has feminist sf novel Daughters of a Coral Dawn(1984); lesbian-oriented sf & horror coll. Dreams and Swords(1987); has Kate Delafield(LAPD lesbian detective) ser. |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Ready and Waiting |
sces |
stars; novas and supernovas through history; how 'new stars,' or novas were first viewed & regarded by early astronomers, beginning with Hipparchus in 130 B.C. |
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Dawes |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Eklund, Gordon |
Revisions |
ss |
N-1984 LOC, short story; 2nd story of 3 in Time Loop ser., other 2 by Damien Broderick(1982 DEC) & by George Alec Effinger(1983 JUL); stories are not connected in any way except by a common theme, that of being caught in a loop of time |
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Ferman, Edward L. |
Letters |
lttr |
Jim Merritt(Tucker letter, 1982 SEP); David L. Jones(same); Kathy Romer(Gottlieb letter, 1982 SEP); same - M.K. McClintick; Michael Taviss; Amy Gambino; John Zipperer; Angela Savatiel; Michael Luoma; Angie Simpson; Veronica Swanson; Dorcas Richardson |
| 1983 MAR |
Reaves, Michael |
Tearing of Greymare House, The |
nv |
(1950- ) working name for J(ames) Michael Reaves, & also in F&SF as such; has novels Street Magic(1991), Night Hunter(1997); Voodoo Child(1998), a horror novel that takes place in New Orleans during Mardi Gras; supernatural horror Hell on Earth(2001) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: two kinds of story ideas, 'closed' ideas & 'open' ideas(by introduction of cross-threads, where "any # of plots might be hung"); L. Ron Hubbard: Battlefield Earth; Arthur C. Clarke: 2010: Odyssey Two; Isaac Asimov: Foundation's Edge |
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Zahn, Timothy |
Shadows of Evening, The |
ss |
has novels A Coming of Age(1985), set on a colony, a mutation gives children telekinetic powers until puberty(Clute); Spinneret(1985), Triplet(1987), Deadman Switch(1988), Warhorse(1990); colls. Cascade Point(1986), Time Bomb(1988), Distant Friends(1992) |
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Mueller, Richard |
Welcome to Coventry |
ss |
has 1st novel, novelization Ghostbusters: The Supernatural Spectacular(1985); Jernigan's Egg(1986), an sf novel with elements of heroic fantasy(B&C) |
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Cowper, Richard |
Brothers |
ss |
N-1984 LOC; pub. almost simultaneously in the magazine Extro 1982(?) APR/MAY; see article by Cowper, "Backwards Across the Frontier," in Foundation 9, 1975; has colls. The Custodians(1976), The Web of the Magi(1980), Out There Where the Big Ships Go(1980) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Searles, Baird |
Films: Tube or Not Tube |
mr/tvr |
TV sf/f; The Powers of Matthew Star(1982-83 TV series, 22 ep.), stars Peter Barton, Louis Gossett Jr; The Mysterious Stranger(1982 PBS TV), dramatization of Mark Twain's posthumous novel(1916; rest. 1969; 1982), stars Lance Kerwin |
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Jacobs, Harvey |
Where Did You Get My Number? |
ss |
has novel The Juror(1980) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
has cartoon colls. All Those in Favor(1970), Yak! Yak! Yak! Blah! Blah! Blah!(1977); coll. of business cartoons, Good News—Bad News(1977) became a daily panel cartoon for the Chicago Tribune/New York News Syndicate in 1978, & ran for 15 years |
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Wellen, Edward |
Spur the Nightmare |
nv |
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Kopf |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Gotschalk, Felix C. |
Conspicuous Consumption |
ss |
has 1st novel, Growing Up in Tier 3000(1975), about the perfect community of the future, complete with all the exotic, & erotic, luxuries, amenities & technology aperson could want - but it is a suicidal & malignant paradise that threatens humanity |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Armies of the Night, The |
sces |
popular beliefs; the 'armies of the night,' being the purveyors of rubbish such as astrology, "intellectual junk food," & whose ranks are swelled by those ignorant of science & its methods; for reason, against irrationality |
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Robinson, Kim Stanley |
Black Air |
nv |
W-1984 WFA, novella; SFC; N-1983 NEB; 1984 HUG, LOC, novelette; pub. as a chapbook in 1991; has PhD in English from Univ. of California(San Diego); 1st stories pub. sf "Coming Back to Dixieland" & "In Pierson's Orchestra" in Knight(ed): Orbit 18(1976) |
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Payes, Rachel Cosgrove |
Acrostic Puzzle |
pz |
answers in 1983 APR, p.114; Payes has written over 45 books, under her real name, as Rachel Cosgrove, Rachel R. Cosgrove, & under the ps, E.L. Arch & Joanna Kaye; her work has mainly been in the historical romance & mystery genres |
| 1983 APR |
Schenck, Hilbert |
Hurricane Claude |
nv |
N-1984 HUG, LOC, novella; "story about a group of ocean engineers & their attempts to stop a gigantic killer storm that is ... headed for Long Island" |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: long essay on Gene Wolfe; Gene Wolfe: The Citadel of the Autarch; Kevin Hancer: Paperback Price Guide #2; Jay Kennedy: The Official Underground and Newave Comix Price Guide |
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Wolfe, Gene |
Solar Labyrinth, A |
vi |
also in Book of the New Sun ser., The Sword of the Lictor(1981; W-1983 BFA, LOC, SFC; N-1982 NEB; 1983 BRG, BSF, HUG, WFA), The Citadel of the Autarch(1982; W-1984 JWC; 1985 Apollo; N-1983 BRG, NEB, SCF; 1984 BSF, LOC) |
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