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| Issue Date |
Author |
Story Title |
Type |
Comments |
| 1990 JAN |
Garcia y Robertson, R. |
Auld Religion, The |
nv |
1st story in Anne of Northumberland ser., to be part of his 1st novel, The Spiral Dance(1991 fixup), historical fantasy novel set in Elizabethan England, follows the attempts of Princess Anne to regain her throne thru witchcraft aided by a werewolf(Clute) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: on Harlan Ellison & the way both of their review columns(one on books, one on films) are alike, a personal introspection; Harlan Ellison: Harlan Ellison's Watching; Emma Bull: Falcon; Leo Frankowski: The High-Tech Knight, & The Radiant Warrior |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Gene Wolfe: Soldier of Arete; Randall Boyll: After Sundown; Card has novel Shadow of the Hegemon(2001), sequel to Ender's Shadow(1999), "which picks up a year later after the Battle School Kids have all been returned to Earth" |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Films: Harlan Ellison's Watching: Installment 38: In Which, Though Manipulated, We Acknowledge That Which All Men Seek |
mr |
Field of Dreams(1989), based on W.P. Kinsella novel Shoeless Joe(1982), stars Kevin Costner; essay: on what this movie is about, an introspective review; book David Holland: From Out of the Past: A Pictorial History of the Lone Ranger |
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Reed, Robert |
Busybody |
ss |
has 1st story pub. sf "Mudpuppies" as Robert Touzalin, in Algis Budrys(ed): L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol. I(1986), the first grand prize winner of the WOTF award |
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Jonik |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Wightman, Wayne |
Pardon My Extremities |
ss |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Williamson, Chet |
Other Errors, Other Times |
ss |
has coll. Figures in the Rain: Weird and Ghostly Tales(2002); has pub. over 80 short stories since 1981 in sf/f & horror mags. & anth.; WRT 1990 FLL, a Special Chet Williamson Issue; see online interview at www.rambles.net/c_williamson.html |
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Morressy, John |
Timekeeper |
nv |
N-1991 LOC, novelette |
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Jonik |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Parkinson, T.L. |
Shell, The |
ss |
(1949-1992) Terry Lee Parkinson, his 2nd appearance in F&SF, the first being a letter in 1963 NOV; has been pub. in anth. Shadows, Full Spectrum; 1st & only novel, The Man Upstairs(1991), a psychosexual thriller of passion & obsession set in San Francisco |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Hot, Cold, and Con Fusion |
sces |
cold fusion, scientific errors, honest ones; the 'discovery' of cold fusion by B. Stanley Pons & Martin Fleischmann, as announced on March 23, 1989; other errors, N-rays, polywater, Martian canals; see "The Radiation That Wasn't" in F&SF 1988 MAR(#5804) |
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Moffett, Judith |
I, Said the Cow |
ss |
has 1st novel, Pennterra(1987; N-1988 LOC), about the two human expeditions to the planet Pennterra & their interaction(w. some sexual explicitness) w. the native pheromone-emitting Hrossa; coll. Author's Choice Monthly Issue 19: Two That Came True(1991) |
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Frazier, Robert |
Common Ground |
pm |
lives on Nantucket Island, MA; has coll. with Lucius Shepard, Nantucket Slayrides: Three Short Novels(1989), which has two novellas by Shepard, one by Frazier, all set on Nantucket Island |
| 1990 FEB |
Blumlein, Michael |
Bestseller |
nv |
(1948- ) N-1991 STO, novelette; 1st pub. in his coll. The Brains of Rats(1989; N-1990 LOC; 1991 STO, WFA); lives in San Francisco, a physician & faculty member at the Univ. of California School of Medicine |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Joe Haldeman: Buying Time; Octavia Butler: Wild Seed, & the trilogy Dawn, Adulthood Rites, & Imago |
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Aldridge, Ray |
Cold Cage, The |
ss |
N-1991 LOC, short story |
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Sherman, Delia |
Nanny Peters and the Feathery Bride |
ss |
has 2nd novel The Porcelain Dove(1993; W-1994 MYT; N-LOC), based on French folklore & history, & set during the French Revolution; see interview in LOC 1994 OCT(#405); she teaches sf/f writing at Odyssey & Clarion Workshops |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Johnson, James B. |
Last American, The |
ss |
has novels Habu(1989), about a longevity treatment that removes all physical & psychological 'defects'(B&C); A World Lost(1991), about a spacer trying to find his vanished planet(B&C) |
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Farris, Joseph |
Cartoon |
ct |
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McMullen, Sean |
While the Gate Is Open |
nv |
has 2nd novel, Greatwinter ser., Mirrorsun Rising(1995; W-1996 DIT; N-1995 AUR) about a world controlled by computers; both novels in ser. reworked as Souls in the Great Machine(1999); The Centurion's Empire(1998); see iv's in Eidolon 1993 WIN, 1996 FLL |
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Davis, Grania |
Doctor Sunspot |
ss |
Davis travels a lot, which inspires much of her fiction; has novel The Rainbow Annals(1980), is based on Tibetan legends, explores the myth-rich intricacies of Buddhism, in a tale about the Monkey God & his various reincarnations(Clute) |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Business As Usual |
sces |
humanity; bartering & trade as the sign of humanity, how it developed from the earliest hominids to the use of credit & "smart" cards; has 21st coll. of F&SF science essays, Out of the Everywhere(1990) |
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Brennert, Alan |
Sea Change |
nv |
has written some scripts for China Beach(1988-1991 TV series, 62 ep.); has 1st novel City of Masques(1978), in which actors scientifically programmed to become their roles run amok(Clute); Kindred Spirits(1984), his 1st & only foray into the romance genre |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon: If Trees Could Talk |
ct |
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F&SF staff |
Report on Competition 49 |
cmp |
1st prize: John Beifuss; 2nd prize: Miki Magyar; R-U: David Shapiro; Mark Martel; Peter Wong; Robert Sheehan |
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F&SF staff |
Competition 50 |
cmp |
suggested by Brian Lumley(with help from the Sunday Telegraph; Rob Meades & David Wake who have colls. of "Drabbles," 100-word sf stories) - submit "mini-sagas" of exactly 50 words |
| 1990 MAR |
Etchemendy, Nancy |
Shore Leave Blacks |
ss |
N-1990 NEB; 1991 LOC, short story; 1st story in Nevada desert town of Pactolus series |
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Harris, S. |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
combined review & essay on the history of sf; Alexei & Cory Panshin: The World Beyond the Hill (a history of SF from 1764 thru the Golden Age of SF) |
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Easton, Thomas A. |
Down on the Truck Farm |
ss |
1st/only story in F&SF in Jimmy Brane ser., an "organic future" in which genetic engineers accomplish things as dog-like vehicles, etc; another story in ANA 1990 AUG; see article "Reality Check: Tom Easton's Gengineered Future" in Mindsparks 1994 FLL |
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Cooke, Catherine |
Bat-Winged Knight, The |
ss |
(1963- ) wn. for Catherine Cooke Montrose, her 1st short story sale; lives in Orange, CA; 1st pub. fiction, Eleven Kingdoms trilogy, Mask of the Wizard(1985), Veil of Shadow(1987), The Hidden Temple(1988); Winged Assassin ser., The Winged Assassin(1987) |
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Robinson, Kim Stanley |
Zürich |
ss |
N-1991 LOC, ss; lived for over a year in Zurich; see iv's in Nova Express 1989 SPR, TotU 1991 SPR/SUM, Nicholls(ed): Wordsmiths of Wonder(1993), PWr #9 1996, & in LOC 1996 MAR, 1997 SEP; has novel Antarctica(1997); coll. The Martians(1999) |
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Martin, H. |
Cartoon: Mr. Fourth Dimension |
ct |
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Elgin, Suzette Haden |
What the EPA Don't Know Won't Hurt Them |
ss |
has Native Tongue series, Native Tongue(1984; N-1985 DIT, LOC), The Judas Rose(1987), & Earthsong(1994) |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Films: Harlan Ellison's Watching, Installment 39: In Which We Hum a Merry Tune While Waiting for New Horrors, New Horrors |
mr |
book reviews - Tim Powers: The Stress of Her Regard(1989); Floyd Gottfredson: Mickey Mouse in Color(1988); Tullio Pericoli: Woody, Freud and Others(1989); Peter Sutton: Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia; J.P. Telotte: Dreams of Darkness; 1 more |
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Wellen, Edward |
Cool Cat |
nv |
has audiobook novel(2 cassettes), Mind Slash Matter(1997), part sf & part mystery, about Rush Lightbody, a Hollywood screenwriter stricken by Alzheimer's |
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Dowling, Terry |
Shatterwrack at Breaklight |
ss |
(1948- ) 1st pub. in Omega Science Digest 1985 JUL/AUG, the 1st & only story in F&SF in Tom Rynosseros ser.; ser. coll. in Rynosseros(1990), Blue Tyson(1992), Twilight Beach(1993); Dowling's one of Australia's top sf writers, this his 1st U.S. appearance |
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Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Smashing the Sky |
sces |
sky, & how it was viewed from ancient times to today; the sky was first viewed as a firmament, a solid sphere around the Earth; similar to, but from a different perspective, essay "Dead Center" in 1983 APR(#4966) |
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Cross, Ronald Anthony |
Every Trembling Blossom, Every Singing Bird |
nv |
has 1st novel, Prisoners of Paradise(1989), an sf primitive survivor novel set in a bleak game-world environment(Clute) |
| 1990 APR |
Ligotti, Thomas |
Last Feast of Harlequin, The (To the memory of H.P. Lovecraft) |
nv |
(1953- ) N-1991 LOC, WFA; 1st stories pub. "The Chymist" in Nyctalops #16 1981 & "Les Fleurs" in Dark Horizons #23 1981; has colls. Song of a Dead Dreamer(1986), Noctuary(1994; N-1995 LOC), The Nightmare Factory(1996; W-1997 BFA, STO; N-1997 LOC, WFA) |
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Budrys, Algis |
Books |
br |
essay: what is the difference between fantasy & sf?; why is the US & UK pub. much more fantasy than the rest of the world?; David Pringle: Modern Fantasy (The Hundred Best Novels) |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Books to Look For |
br |
Isaac Asimov: Nemesis; Ben Bova: Cyberbooks |
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Tritten, Larry |
Date, The |
ss |
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Turzillo, Mary A. |
Kraken |
ss |
lives in Berea, OH; has PhD from Case-Western Reserve Univ.; Prof. of English at Kent State Univ.; attended 1985 Clarion & other writers' workshops; 1st story pub. "What Do I See in You?" in Budrys(ed): Writers of the Future, Vol. IV(1988) |
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Jonik |
Cartoon |
ct |
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Wightman, Wayne |
Unnatural Strangers |
ss |
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Robins, Madeleine E. |
Mules |
nv |
has pub. historical romance novels, Althea(1977), My Dear Jenny(1980), The Heiress Companion(1981), Lady John(1982); has 1st story pub. sf/f "The Border" in ASI 1982 JUL |
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