| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Kersh, Gerald |
Terribly Wild Flowers, The |
1958 OCT |
ss |
(1911-1968) Russian-born U.K. author, has colls. The Brighton Monster(1953), Men Without Bones(1955), Nightshade and Damnations(1968), novels The Secret Masters(1953), Brock(1969); story in PST, "The Secret of the Bottle," W-1957 EDG |
| Kessel, John |
Just Like a Cretin Dog |
1979 JAN |
nv |
(1950- ) his 1st pub. fiction; born in Buffalo, NY; has BA in Physics & English from Univ. of Rochester, MA in English from Univ. of Kansas(where he taught composition & sf), PhD from Kansas Univ.; has taught at N. Carolina State Univ. since 1982 |
| |
Herman Melville: Space Opera Virtuoso |
1980 JAN |
spf |
tongue-in-cheek 'literary biography' of Herman Melville's(1819-1891) pulp fiction career; 1st story pub. sf "The Silver Man" in GEO #8 1978; has 1st novel w. James Patrick Kelly, Freedom Beach(nv "Freedom Beach" in F&SF 1984 AUG, etal; 1985 fixup) |
| |
Monuments of Science Fiction, The |
1980 AUG |
fa/spf |
written in the form of a literature textbook, with a short story, "Starship Nurse of the Pecos ... " by V.H. Winkler, sandwiched between an "Introduction" & "Questions for Thought and Discussion" |
| |
Uncle John and the Saviour |
1980 DEC |
ss |
has novel Good News From Outer Space(1989; N-1989 NEB; 1990 JWC, LOC), set in a near-future America controlled by fundamentalist Christians awaiting the arrival of God's messenger—in a spaceship |
| |
Not Responsible! Park and Lock It! (with thanks to Tim Roth) |
1981 SEP |
nv |
see interviews in Forbidden Lines 1991 FEB/MAR, & in LOC 1993 AUG(#391), & 1997 JUN(#437); Kessel lives in Raleigh, NC, an Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State Univ. since 1982, where he teaches American literature & fiction writing |
| |
Another Orphan |
1982 SEP |
na |
W-1982 NEB; N-1983 HUG, LOC, SFC, novella; "story of Patrick Fallon, a young Chicago broker who finds himself deposited into a hammock on a 19th-century sailing ship"; pub. as a Tor Double with Barry B. Longyear's "Enemy Mine" in 1989 |
| |
Judgment Call |
1987 OCT |
ss |
has colls. Meeting in Infinity: Allegories & Extrapolations(1992; N-1993 LOC, WFA), & The Pure Product(1997; N-1998 LOC); Kessel is the literary executor of the late Lawrence S. Rudner, & edited the latter's last novel, Memory's Tailor(1998) |
| |
Invaders |
1990 OCT |
nv |
N-1991 LOC, novelette; has anth., with Richard Butner & Mark L. Van Name, Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology(1996; N-1997 LOC); has audio play produced by the Seeing Ear Theater(www.scifi.com/set/originals) |
| |
Buffalo (for my father) |
1991 JAN |
ss |
W-1992 LOC, STU; N-1991 NEB; 1992 HUG, short story; to be pub. in anth. of autobiographical "hometown" sf, Anne Devereaux Jordan(ed): Fires of the Past: Thirteen Contemporary Fantasies About Hometowns(1991); this one set in Buffalo, NY |
| |
Books |
1993 MAR |
br |
introduces himself & the way he will write his reviews; Maureen F. McHugh: China Mountain Zhang; Michael Bishop: Count Geiger's Blues; Gene Wolfe: Nightside the Long Sun |
| |
Books: Today's Truth |
1993 MAY |
br |
essay: the cyberpunk debate, Part 1 of 2; what it is & where has it gone; Larry McCaffery(ed): Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern S. F.; Bruce Sterling: Globalhead, & The Hacker Crackdown(nf); Marc Laidlaw: Kalifornia |
| |
Books: Big Book, Women, and God, The |
1993 JUL |
br |
essay: cyberpunk, Part 2 of 2(Part 1 in 1993 MAY); the role of Kim Stanley Robinson as a cyberpunk author, if he is one; Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Mars; Judith Moffett: Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream; M.J. Engh: Rainbow Man |
| |
Books: No Place Like Home |
1993 SEP |
br |
Nancy Kress: Beginnings, Middles and Ends(nf); George Ochoa & Jeffrey Osier: The Writer's Guide to Creating a Science Fiction Universe; Bradley Denton: Blackburn; Geoff Ryman: Was |
| |
Books: Forward Into the Past |
1993 DEC |
br |
Gardner Dozois(ed): The Year's Best Science Fiction, Tenth Annual; John Clute & Peter Nicholls(ed): The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |
| |
Books: Just Like Real People |
1994 FEB |
br |
Gwyneth Jones: White Queen; Terry Bisson: Bears Discover Fire; briefly, Gregory Frost: The Pure Cold Light; Theodore Sturgeon: Argyll; Cordwainer Smith: The Rediscovery of Man; Charlie Oberendorf: Testing |
| |
Books: Canons Left and Right |
1994 APR |
br |
essay: 'best of' anthologies; Tom Shippey(ed): The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories; Ursula K. Le Guin & Brian Attebery(ed): The Norton Book of Science Fiction; Gardner Dozois(ed): Modern Classics of S. F., & Modern Classic Short Novels of S. F. |
| |
Books: Growing Up, the Hard Way |
1994 JUN |
br |
essay: Lewis Shiner & his works, "arcing away from sf," & cyberpunk; Lewis Shiner: Glimpses; Spider Robinson: Off the Wall at Callahan's; Brad Templeton(ed): Hugo and Nebula Anthology(CD-ROM); Expert Astronomer(CD-ROM) |
| |
Books: Parables and Other Stuff |
1994 AUG |
br |
essay: "women in jeopardy"; Michael Blumlein: X, Y; Octavia Butler: The Parable of the Sower |
| |
Books: Hard Work |
1994 OCT/NOV |
br |
essay: definitions of hard sf; David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer(ed): The Ascent of Wonder; John Huntington: Rationalizing Genius; James Patrick Kelly: Wildlife |
| |
Books: Prisoners of Perception |
1995 JAN |
br |
essay: writers that still labor "to produce work that's commercially acceptable while still doing things that matter to (them)"; Rebecca Ore: Slow Funeral; see Kessel's website at www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/main.html |
| |
Books: Grace Under Pressure |
1995 MAR |
br |
announces his retirement from book reviewing due to "increasing responsibilities at work & home"; Maureen F. McHugh: Half the Day Is Night; in 2001, Kessel became Director of Creative Writing program at North Carolina State Univ.; lives in Raleigh, NC |
| |
Who I'll Cast When They Let Me Direct ... |
1998 JUL |
misc |
Bester: The Stars My Destination; Dick: The Man in the High Castle; Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness; Wolfe: The Book of the New Sun; Robinson: Red Mars; Miller Jr: A Canticle for Liebowitz; Heinlein: "All You Zombies —"; Fowler: Sarah Canary; 3 more |
| |
Every Angel Is Terrifying |
1998 OCT/NOV |
ss |
N-1998 STO, short fiction; 1999 LOC, WFA, short story; has satirical sf novel Corrupting Dr. Nice(1997; N-1998 LOC), about time-traveling con-artists & a scientist with a baby dinosaur who cross paths in Jerusalem at the time of Christ(B&C) |
| Kessel, John & James Patrick Kelly |
Freedom Beach |
1984 AUG |
nv |
N-1985 LOC, nv; 1st & only story in F&SF in Freedom Beach ser.; to be part of fixup novel Freedom Beach(1985), Kessel's 1st novel, about a strange sort of resort that seems to be founded on amnesia; others in ser. in AMZ 1982 SEP, & in ASI 1984 APR, DEC |
| Keyes, Daniel |
Flowers for Algernon |
1959 APR |
nv |
(1927- ) W-1960 HUG, short story; 1966 exp. into a novel, W-1966 NEB; 1967 HUG(br 1966 JUN); basis of movie Charly(1968); born in Brooklyn, BA from Brooklyn College, 1950; 1st story pub. "Precedent" in MSF 1952 MAY; assoc. ed. at MSF 1951-52 |
| |
Crazy Maro |
1960 APR |
nv |
has novels The Touch(1968); The Fifth Sally(1980), multiple personality; true crime The Minds of Billy Milligan(1981; N-EDG; basis of 1999 movie The Crowded Room), sequel The Milligan Wars(1994 Japan), Unveiling Claudia: A True Story of Serial Murder('86) |
| |
Flowers for Algernon |
1979 OCT |
nv |
1st pub. in F&SF 1959 APR, perhaps the "most famous story F&SF has ever published"; besides being made into the 1968 movie Charly, the story was also made into a stage musical in London in 1979 JUN; see interview in LOC 1997 JUN(#437) |
| Kidd, Virginia |
Books |
1965 OCT |
br |
(1921- ) reviews C.S. Lewis: Poems(ed. by Walter Hooper); Kidd born in Philadelphia, known primarily as an editor & agent; married to James Blish until 1947-63; 1st solo story pub. sf "Kangaroo Court" in Knight(ed): Orbit 1(1966) |
| Killheffer, Robert K.J. |
Books |
1994 SEP |
br |
(1966- ) Robert Karl Johann Killheffer; introduces his style of book reviewing; essay: where has sf's sense of wonder gone? See these three novels; Gene Wolfe: Lake of the Long Sun; Greg Bear: Moving Mars; Ian McDonald: Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone |
| |
Books |
1994 DEC |
br |
essay: similarities between sf & mystery fiction; Peter Hoeg: Smilla's Sense of Snow; Wilhelm: The Best Defense; Laidlaw: The Orchid Eater; R.K.J.K. has done reviews for The Washington Post, & NYRSF; was nf editor at Omni & Omni Online |
| |
Books |
1995 FEB |
br |
essay: "sf usually ... offer(s) more insight into our current circumstances than sound predictions of tomorrow"; John Barnes: Mother of Storms; Jack Womack: Random Acts of Senseless Violence; Bruce Sterling: Heavy Weather; McHugh: Half the Day Is Night |
| |
Books: Chasing Shadows |
1995 APR |
br |
essay: is there a distinctively Canadian or Australian brand of sf?; David G. Hartwell & Glenn Grant(ed): Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction; Peter McNamara & Margaret Winch(ed): Alien Shores: The Anthology of Australian S. F. |
| |
Books |
1995 MAY |
br |
essay: "peircing the veil in order to solve the mysteries of creation ... in stories about ... the sudden-isolation scenario .."; Greg Egan: Quarantine; Patricia Anthony: The Happy Policeman; Robert Reed: Beyond the Veil of Stars |
| |
Books |
1995 JUN |
br |
essay: "Every age develops its own distinctive figure of villainy," today's latest villain is the Corporation; William Browning Spencer: Résumé With Monsters; David Prill: The Unnatural; R.K.J.K. is editor of sf mag. Century #0-4 1994-6, #5-6 2000 |
| |
Books |
1995 JUL |
br |
essay: when non-genre critics rave about a genre book; Jeff Noon: Vurt; Neal Stephenson: The Diamond Age; R.K.J.K. has 2-part article "After Winning the War: Fantasy and Science Fiction's Fortieth Year", in the NYRSF 1989 DEC-1990 JAN |
| |
Books |
1995 SEP |
br |
essay: New York City in earlier days(1864-1912), the fallacy of nostalgia, & "the ways in which the past has become the present"; Jack Finney: From Time to Time; E.L. Doctorow: The Waterworks |
| |
Books |
1995 OCT/NOV |
br |
essay: differences between the sexes, visions of battles between the sexes; Elizabeth Hand: Waking the Moon; Suzy McKee Charnas: The Furies |
| |
Books |
1995 DEC |
br |
essay: fantasy novels with the insight of an historical context; Guy Gavriel Kay: The Lions of Al-Rassan; Parke Godwin: The Tower of Beowulf |
| |
Books |
1996 FEB |
br |
essay: sf that looks backwards in time, what if? alternate histories; Jack Dann: Memory Cathedral: A Secret History of Leonardo da Vinci; Paul J. McAuley: Pasquale's Angel |
| |
Books |
1996 APR |
br |
essay: two novels that "reveal the constant dance the present must do with the past on its way to the future"; Terence M. Green: Shadow of Ashland; Jack Cady: The Off Season |
| |
Books |
1996 JUN |
br |
Robin Scott Wilson: Paragons: Twenty Science Fiction Writers Ply Their Craft; John Kessel, Mark L. Van Name, & Richard Butner(ed): Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology |
| |
Books |
1996 AUG |
br |
essay: humorous sf/f; Connie Willis: Bellwether; Bradley Denton: Lunatics |
| |
Books |
1996 OCT/NOV |
br |
essay: the mystical or occult elements in some sf, the difference between sf & occult readers; Marc Laidlaw: The 37th Mandala; Robert Holdstock: Ancient Echoes |
| |
Books |
1997 JUN |
br |
essay: Greg Egan & sf novels that not only have a sense of adventure, but also have so many interesting ideas that they give an overwhelming intellectual thrill; Greg Egan: Distress |
| |
Books |
1997 OCT/NOV |
br |
essay: Arthurian legend novels; Bernard Cornwell: Enemy of God; Jack Whyte: The Eagles' Brood; A.A. Attanasio: The Eagle and the Sword |
| |
Books |
1998 FEB |
br |
essay: time travel novels; Connie Willis: To Say Nothing of the Dog; J.R. Dunn: Days of Cain; Three in Time: Classic Novels of Time Travel, by Chad Oliver(The Winds of Time), Wilson Tucker(The Year of the Quiet Sun), & Poul Anderson(There Will Be Time) |
| |
Books |
1998 JUN |
br |
essay: New Wave authors' legacy; Michael Moorcock: The War Amongst the Angels; Roger Zelazny & Jane Lindskold: Donnerjack; Harvey Jacobs: American Goliath; Harlan Ellison: Slippage; R.K.J.K. was a reviewer for Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews |
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Books |
1998 OCT/NOV |
br |
essay: pulp art & artists; Robert Lesser: Pulp Art: Original Cover Paintings for the Great American Pulp Magazines; Frank M. Robinson & Lawrence Davidson: Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines; Vincent di Fate: Infinite Worlds |
| |
Books |
1999 MAR |
br |
essay: sf novels "resemble alternate history—but ... (are) more like parallel histories, or secret histories"; J. Gregory Keyes: Newton's Cannon; David Morse: The Iron Bridge; Robert Charles Wilson: Darwinia |
