| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Knight, Damon |
What Rough Beast? |
1959 FEB |
nv |
editor of sf magazine If: Worlds of S.F., for three issues, 1958 OCT - 1959 FEB; has anth. A Century of Science Fiction(1962), First Flight(1963), Tomorrow X 4(1964), A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels(1964), Beyond Tomorrow(1965) |
| |
Books: Half Loaves |
1959 APR |
br |
Edmund Cooper: Tomorrow's Gift; Murray Leinster: The Monster from World's End; Knight is considered the 1st outstanding book reviewer in sf(Clute); for his reviews he also won a retrospective 1975 Pilgrim Award from the Science Fiction Research Assoc. |
| |
Books: Wine With Your Bottle, Sir? |
1959 MAY |
br |
John Bowen: After the Rain; Poul Anderson: The Enemy Stars; Knight has trans. a number of French sf stories, some pub. in F&SF, which are coll. in 13 French Science Fiction Stories(1965) |
| |
Books: From the Horse's Mouth |
1959 JUL |
br |
Heinlein, Bloch, Kornbluth, Bester: The Science Fiction Novel, Imagination and Social Criticism(nf, with intro by Basil Davenport) |
| |
Books: Innocence of Evil, The |
1959 AUG |
br |
horror stories, Groff Conklin(ed): Br-r-r!; Donald A. Wollheim(ed): The Macabre Reader |
| |
To Be Continued |
1959 OCT |
ss |
has anth. The Dark Side(1965), The Shape of Things(1965), Cities of Wonder(1966), Nebula Award Stories 1965(1966), Science Fiction Inventions(1967), Worlds to Come(1967); edited the famous Orbit 1-21 anth.(1966-80), which was N for several Locus Awards |
| |
Books: Without Hokum |
1959 NOV |
br |
Judith Merril(ed): SF, The Year's Greatest S.-F. and Fantasy; Algis Budrys: The Falling Torch; Donald H. Tuck: Handbook of S.F. and F., 2nd ed.; George O. Smith: The Fourth "R"; Arch Oboler: The Night of the Auk |
| |
Books: Near Misses From All Over |
1959 DEC |
br |
Brian W. Aldiss: Vanguard from Alpha; Edmund Cooper: Seed of Light; H.L. Gold(ed): The World that Couldn't Be |
| |
Books: And the Truth Shall Drive You Mad |
1960 JAN |
br |
Shirley Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House; Frederik Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth: Wolfbane; Sheckley: Immortality, Inc.; van Vogt: The War Against the Rull; Asimov: Words of Science; Jerry Sohl: One Against Herculum; Leonard Wibberley: The Quest of Excalibur |
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Books: 1924 |
1960 FEB |
br |
Eugene Zamiatin: We; John Wyndham & Lucas Parkes: The outward Urge; Sterling Noel: We Who Survived; Robert A. Heinlein: Starship Troopers(book is 20,000 words longer than the serial that was in F&SF(1959 OCT-NOV) |
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Books: Concerning Enchantments |
1960 MAR |
br |
Norman Matson: Enchanted Beggar; Rex Gordon: First to the Stars; Kurt Vonnegut: The Sirens of Titan; Paul I. Wellman: The Fiery Flower; Anthony Boucher(ed): A Treasury of Great Science Fiction; Benjamin Appell: The Funhouse |
| |
Books: Best of 1959, The |
1960 APR |
br |
& the 10 best books of the 1950s - Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles; Heinlein: The Man Who Sold the Moon, & The Puppet Masters; Simak: City; Tucker: The Long, Loud Silence; Bester: The Demolished Man; Sturgeon: More Than Human; Vidal: Messiah; etc |
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Books: Iä! Yog-Sothoth! Yah, Yah, Yah! |
1960 MAY |
br |
John Lymington: Night of the Big Heat; L. Sprague de Camp: The Glory That Was; Robert M. Coates: The Eater of Darkness |
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Books: New Maps of Hell |
1960 JUN |
br |
Kingley Amis: New Maps of Hell; Philip K. Dick: Dr. Futurity; Roald Dahl: Kiss Kiss; L. Sprague de Camp: The Bronze God of Gold; Dick Eney(comp): Fancyclopedia II(based on an earlier edition by Jack Speer) |
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Books: Level 7 |
1960 JUL |
br |
Mordecai Roshwald: Level 7 |
| |
Books: Tedious Mr. Lovecraft, The |
1960 AUG |
br |
H.P. Lovecraft: The Shuttered Room and Other Places; C.S. Lewis: The World's Last Night |
| |
Books: Walden Two |
1960 SEP |
br |
B.F. Skinner: Walden Two(followed by editor's note that D.K. has resigned as book reviewer - actually caused by the editor's rejection of a bad review by D.K. of a Judith Merril book(prob. The Tomorrow People); Alfred Bester to be new book reviewer) |
| |
Tree of Time, The |
1963 DEC |
no-1/2 |
Prof. Gordon Naismith must travel to the future to destroy the dangerous monster, Zug; this version was expanded & retitled Beyond the Barrier(1964); has short story "Masks" in PBY 1968 JUL, N-1968 NEB; 1969 HUG |
| |
Tree of Time, The |
1964 JAN |
no-2/2 |
has anth. The Metal Smile(1968), One Hundred Years of Science Fiction(1968), Toward Infinity(1968), Dimension X(1970), A Pocketful of Stars(1970), First Contact(1971), Perchance to Dream(1972), Science Fiction Argosy(1972), Tomorrow and Tomorrow(1973) |
| |
Maid to Measure |
1964 OCT |
vi |
has anth. The Golden Road(1973), A Shocking Thing(1974), Happy Endings(1974), Science Fiction of the Thirties(1975); has colls. The Best of Damon Knight(1976), Rule Golden(1979), Better Than One(1980, with Kate Wilhelm) |
| |
I See You |
1976 NOV |
ss |
W-1977 JUP; N-1977 HUG, LOC, short story; says Knight, "you may think it is a short story, but it is really a novel on the plan of A for Anything, & Hell's Pavement, only much compressed" |
| |
Not With a Bang |
1979 OCT |
ss |
1st pub. in F&SF 1950 WIN/SPR; see Knight essay in Brian W. Aldiss & Harry Harrison(ed): Hell's Cartographers(1975); see interviews in Eternity #4 1975, & "An Interview with Kate Wilhelm and Damon Knight" in TotU #2 1987 |
| |
Tarcan of the Hoboes |
1982 OCT |
ss |
a pastiche; see article "All in a Knight's Work" by James Blish in Speculations 29 1971; see interviews in Paul Walker: Speaking of Science Fiction(1978), & in Charles Platt: Who Writes Science Fiction(1980), & Dream Makers(1980) |
| |
La Ronde |
1983 OCT |
ss |
N-1984 LOC, short story; has nf books, Turning Points: Essays on the Art of Science Fiction(1977), & Creating Short Fiction(1981; rev. 1997), a popular handbook on writing |
| |
CV |
1985 JAN |
no-1/3 |
1st & only story(novel) in F&SF in his CV series; "a floating contruction called Sea Venture (thus CV), which is designed as an alternative to colonies in space & is threatened by a(n invisible) menace"; novel takes place in 1998 |
| |
CV |
1985 FEB |
no-2/3 |
other novels in CV ser., The Observers(1988), & A Reasonable World(1991), which are about alien parasites who turn out not to be the paranoia-justifying plague of the 1950s sf but moralistic symbionts who enforce rational behavior upon our leaders(Clute) |
| |
CV |
1985 MAR |
no-3/3 |
has novels The World and Thorinn(GAL 1968 APR, JUN, AUG; 1981 fixup), & The Man in the Tree(1984), the latter has as a hero an 8½ Christ figure(B&C); has colls. Late Knight Edition(1985), One Side Laughing: Stories Unlike Other Stories(1991) |
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God Machine, The |
1985 JUL |
vi |
has coll. Author's Choice Monthly Issue 21: God's Nose(1991); poetry coll. TAB A(1993); has novel Why Do Birds(1992), in 21st century a man claims to have been kidnapped by aliens in the 1930s & returned to Earth w. a mission(B&C); W-1994 NEB, Grandmaster |
| |
Strangers in Paradise |
1986 APR |
ss |
N-1987 LOC; has novel Humpty Dumpty: An Oval(1996), a surreal sf novel in which a man tries to make sense of the world after the fabric of reality cracks(B&C); last work at fictionwise.com/knight/(2000); obits in NYT 4/17/02, LOC 2002 MAY, SFC 2002 JUL |
| Knight, Damon & H. Ken Bulmer |
Day Everything Fell Down, The |
1957 AUG |
ss |
(1922-2002; 1921- ) H. Ken Bulmer, working name for Henry Kenneth Bulmer, U.K. writer who usually writes fiction under Ken or Kenneth Bulmer(& in F&SF as such), has used many ps., has colls. The Wind of Liberty(1962), Defiance(1963) |
| Knister, Barry |
Beckfords, The |
1978 FEB |
ss |
has a BA from Kalamazoo College, MA from Wayne State Univ.; Peace Corps volunteer for 2 years in Micronesia; since 1968, teaches English at Lawrence Institute of Technology, & a course in Science Fiction Classics; has novel The Dating Service(1987) |
| Koja, Kathe |
Reckoning |
1990 JUL |
nv |
(1960- ) lives in Berkeley, MI; attended Clarion on a Susan Petrey Scholarship; 1st story pub. "Happy Birthday, Kim White" in SF International #1 1987; see interview in LOC 1992 JAN(#372), & entry in CA, vol.147, p.263-264 |
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Neglected Garden, The |
1991 APR |
ss |
has 1st novel, sf/horror, The Cipher(1991; W-1992 LOC, STO; N-1991 DIC), about a would-be poet who & his experience with a black hole in his apartment building that leads to another dimension(B&C) |
| |
Angels in Love |
1991 JUL |
ss |
N-1992 LOC, short story; "continues look at domestic nightmares"; has horror novel Bad Brains(1992; N-1993 LOC), about an artist whose head injury exposes him to a strange & terrifying world lurking at the edge of human consciousness(B&C) |
| |
Company of Storms, The |
1992 JUN |
ss |
N-1993 LOC, ss; has novels Skin(1993; N-1994 WFA), a horror novel of sadism & psychological manipulation; Strange Angels(1994), a psychological novel of madness, art & obsession; Kink(1996), a horror novel of obsession(B&C); coll. Extremities(1998) |
| |
Lady Lazarus |
1996 MAY |
ss |
story explores poet Sylvia Plath(1932-63), who wrote about her suicide attempts in her poem "Lady Lazarus"(pub. in coll. Ariel, in 1965); she did commit suicide, shortly after her novel The Bell Jar was pub.; considered the best poet of her generation |
| Koja, Kathe & Barry N. Malzberg |
Orleans, Rheims, Friction: Fire |
1997 AUG |
ss |
(1960- ; 1939- ) the authors have collab. on dozens of stories |
| Koman, Victor |
Bootstrap Enterprise |
1992 FEB |
ss |
(1944- ) 1st story pub. sf "When It Worked" in Libertarian Notes 1976 SEP 5; 1st sf novel Saucer Sluts(1980; vt Starship Women); The Jehovah Contract(1987; W-1988 PRO), Solomon's Knife(1989; W-1990 PRO), Kings of the High Frontier(1996; W-1997 PRO) |
| Koontz, Dean R. |
Soft Come the Dragons |
1967 AUG |
ss |
(1945- ) his 1st pub. sf story; began his career with over 20 sf novels, but from 1975 concentrated on horror, at first under various ps.: David Axton, Brian Coffey, Deanne Dwyer, K.R. Dwyer, John Hill, Leigh Nichols, Richard Paige, Owen West, etc(Clute) |
| |
To Behold the Sun |
1967 DEC |
ss |
has 1st novel Star Quest(1968); novels The Fall of the Dream Machine(1969), Fear That Man(1969), The Fall of the Dream Machine(1969), Fear That Man(1969), Dark Symphony(1970); his novella "Beastchild," in VSF 1970 AUG, N-1971 HUG |
| |
Psychedelic Children, The |
1968 JUL |
ss |
his early stories coll. in Soft Come the Dragons(1970); has novels Dark of the Woods(1970), Hell's Gate(1970), Anti-Man(1970), The Crimson Witch(FAN 1970 OCT; exp. 1971), A Darkness in My Soul(FAN 1968 JAN; exp. 1972), Warlock!(1972) |
| |
Twelfth Bed, The |
1968 AUG |
ss |
has novels Time Thieves(1972), The Flesh in the Furnace(1972), Starblood(1972), Demon Seed(1973; 1977 movie), A Werewolf Among Us(1973), Hanging On(1973), After the Last Race(1974), Nightmare Journey(1975), The Vision(1977) |
| |
Muse |
1969 SEP |
ss |
many of his horror novels under var. ps. came out after 1980 under his own name; has sf novels The Long Sleep(1975, as John Hill), Invasion(1975 Canada, as Aaron Wolfe), Prison of Ice(1976, as David Axton); has nf book Writing Popular Fiction(1972) |
| |
Third Hand, A |
1970 JAN |
nv |
has comic novel The Haunted Earth(1973); thriller/horror novel Night Chills(1976), about a mind-controlling drug(B&C); sf/suspense novel Lightning(1988); Oddkins(1988), a ya fantasy novel about a battle betw. groups of good toys & bad toys(B&C) |
| |
Mystery of His Flesh, The |
1970 JUL |
nv |
has thriller/horror novel The House of Thunder(1988 U.K.); The Shadow Sea(1988); Midnight(1989), a technophobic horror novel about a scientific experiment gone terribly wrong(B&C); see his iv's in WRT 1990 WIN, LOC 1994 NOV, CMD 1992 SPR & 1997 SPR |
| |
Bruno |
1971 APR |
nv |
1st story in hard-boiled detective Jake Ash ser.; has novels The Bad Place(1990), sf/horror novel about a pair of PI's & a strange family(B&C); Cold Fire(1991), about a journalist who finds a man who has performed 12 last minute rescues across the country |
| |
Cosmic Sin |
1972 FEB |
nv |
2nd/laststory in his Jake Ash ser.; has novel Hideaway(1992; 1995 movie), about a man who nearly dies & brings back evil from the other side; Fear Nothing(1998; N-1998 STO), an sf thriller about genetic engineering; coll. Strange Highways(1995) |
| Kopf |
Cartoon |
1982 JUN |
ct |
L.J. Kopf; has book, Into Every Life a Little Edge Must Fall(1988) |
| |
Cartoon |
1983 MAR |
ct |
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Cartoon |
1983 MAY |
ct |
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