M - Other Writers

C. C. MacApp "For Every Action" © Amazing Stories, May 1964 --story: Best SF 1965 list --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea: vacuum alien bugs --/ adventure award --/ style award --/ humour award --/ rare find C. C. MacApp "A Pride Of Islands" © IF, May 1960 --/ cool sf story --/ idea award John D. MacDonald "Spectator Sport" © Thrilling Wonder Stories, Feb 1950 Other Worlds, Other Times, 1978 --Groff Conklin's story selection --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ awesome scale --/ shock value --/ rare find John D. MacDonald "The White Fruit Of Banaldar" © Startling Stories, Sep 1951 ---------------------------------------------- A. MacFadyen, Jr. "The Time Decelerator" © Astounding, Jul 1936 --/ cool sf story --/ rare find It's a pleasant enough pulp story. Ultimately forgettable, but when eating it first time, tastes not bad and quite chewable. review: 10-Jul-06 (read in 2002) ---------------------------------------------- Edward Mackin "The Trouble With H.A.R.R.I." © 1957, Authentic SF --/ cool sf story Edward Mackin "The Unremembered" © New Worlds, Mar 1964 --story: Best SF 1965 list Phyllis MacLennan "Thus Love Betrays Us" © F&SF, Sep 1972 --/ fourth place sf story --/ style award --/ emotion award Tom Maddox "Snake Eyes" © 1986, OMNI Mirrorshades, 1987 -a --short story : 1987 Locus /21 --/ third place sf novella --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ style award Tom Maddox "The Robot And The One You Love" © OMNI, 1988 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ style award Richard Magruder "And All The Girls Were Nude" © Imagination, Jan 1955 Gregory Maguire "Scarecrow" © Half-Human, ed. B. Coville, 2001 --short story : 2002 Locus Poll --/ cool f story Sarah Maitland "Why I Became a Plumber" © On Becoming A Fairy Godmother, 2003 --short story : 2004 Locus Poll --/ fourth place f story --/ wonder award --/ style award --/ idea award --/ rare find German Maksimov "Posledni Porog" © Fantastika-65, 1965 --/ cool sf story --/ idea award Gennady Maksimovich "Dolg" © 1981, Yuni Teknik --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award --/ rare find Gennady Maksimovich "Esli On Vernetsya" © 1981, Fantastika-81 --/ cool sf story Gennady Maksimovich "Poslednaya Ispoved Lui Kufo" © Teknika Molodezhi, 1979 Gennady Maksimovich "Prizvanie" © Teknika Molodezhi, 1981 --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ rare find Elisabeth Malartre "Evolution Never Sleeps" © IASFM, Jul 1999 --short story : 2000 Asimov's Reader Poll /2 --/ cool sf story --/ style award K. Malinovski "Tretia Planeta Prociona" © Iskatel, 1979 --/ fourth place space sf story --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ rare find David Mallory "St. George" © Fantastic, 1978 Russell Maloney "Inflexible Logic" © 1940, New Yorker Fantasia Mathematica, 1958 Vladimir Malov "Motylki Na Svet" © 1978, Yuni Teknik --/ cool sf story --/ rare find Vladimir Malov "Tot Kto Vernetsya!" © Iskatel, 1980 Maria Mamonova "ABEV" © Teknika Molodezhi, 1982 --/ cool sf story Ion Maneskurte "Muzhchiny Vselennoi" © Fantastika - 77, 1977 trans. from Moldovian --/ cool sf story --/ rare find Edward Andrew Mann "The Portals" (nv) © 1974, Panther Books --/ cool dark f novel Robert E. Margroff "Caterpillar Express" © IF, Mar 1968 --/ fourth place space sf story --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ idea award --/ rare find Arnold Marmor "Fish Fry" © Imagination, Dec 1954 --/ humour award Arnold Marmor "The Scandalized Martians" © Imagination, Jun 1954 --/ humour award Joseph Martino "Pandora's Printout" © Analog, Feb 1983 Georgy Martynov "Gianea" (nv) © 1963, Smena novel: 1965, Biblioteka Priklucheni --/ cool sf novel --/ wonder award --/ rare find David Marusek "We Were Out Of Our Minds With Joy" © IASFM, Jul 1995 --shortlist : 1996 Sturgeon --novella : 1996 Locus /11 --novella : Asimov's Reader Poll /3 David Marusek "The Wedding Album" © IASFM, Sep 1999 --novella : 200 Nebula --winner : 2000 Sturgeon W --novella : 2000 Locus /11 --novella : 2000 Asimov's Readers Poll /6 --novella : 2000 HOmer --translated short story : 2002 Seiun --/ cool sf story David Marusek "Yurek Rutz, Yurek Rutz, Yurek Rutz" © IASFM, Jan 1999 --short story : 2000 Locus /11 --short story : 2000 Asimov's Reader Poll /6 -- short story : 2000 Hugo --short story : 1999 Nebula --/ humour award David Mason "The Transfinite Choice" © 1964, Science Fantasy --/ cool sf story David Mason "Traveller's Rest" © 1965, Science Fantasy --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award Donald Matheson "The Molecule Trapper" © Amazing Stories, Sep 1934 --/ cool sf story --/ idea award --/ rare find ---------------------------------------------- Richard Christian Matheson "Arousal" © "Alien Sex", ed. by Ellen Datlow, 1990 --short story : Locus Poll --/ shock value --/ rare find Very subversive, subliminal, sexy story - that tackles a taboo subject matter with astonishing clarity and daring. Very sincere, laconic, "rousing" prose. ---------------------------------------------- Richard Christian Matheson "Conversation Piece" © Whispers # 2, 1979 Scars & Oth. Distinguishing Marks, 1987 --/ cool f story Richard Christian Matheson "Hiding" © The Bradbury Chronicles, ed. by W. Nolan, 1991 --/ fourth place f story --/ idea award --/ style award --/ emotion award --/ romance award --/ rare find Milton Matthew "No Man Is Ever Alone" © Amazing Stories, Aug 1951 --/ cool space sf story Patricia Matthews "Little William" © Topper, 1975 Robert Mattingly "Discovering A New Earth" © Microcosmic Tales, ed. I. Asimov, 1980 --/ cool sf story --/ humour award Andre Maurois "The War Against the Moon " © The Forum, Jul 1927 --Groff Conklin's story selection --/ idea award Julian May "The Many-Colored Land" (nv) (Saga of the Pliocene Exile 1) (Galactic Milieu series) © 1981, Doubleday Books --novel : 1982 Hugo --novel : 1982 Nebula --sf novel : 1982 Locus W --fantasy : 1982 Mythopoeic --novel : 1983 Prometheus --/ fourth place sf novel --/ adventure award --/ awesome scale Alister McAllister "The Hunting On The Doonagh Bog" © 1919, original Bruce McAllister "When the Fathers Go" © 1982, "Universe 12", ed. T. Carr --/ cool sf story Bruce McAllister "Stu" © Sci Fiction, Nov 2005 --/ cool sf story Ed McBain (as Evan Hunter) "The Miracle of Dan O'Shaughnessy" © Imagination, Jan 1955 Ed McBain (as S. A. Lombino) "Welcome Martians" © IF, May 1952 --/ cool sf story --/ rare find Ed McBain (as Evan Hunter) "The Plagiarist from Rigel IV" © Imagination, Mar 1954 Robert McCammon "The Wolf's Hour" (nv) © 1988, Dell Books --novel : 1990 Stoker --horror novel : 1990 Locus /6 --/ fourth place dark f novel Robert McCammon "Track Of The Cat" © 1990, original --/ cool dark f story Wil McCarthy "Rocket Ghosts" © 1996, IASFM --/ cool sf story ---------------------------------------------- Thomas Calvert McClary (as by Calvin Peregoy) "Dr. Conklin—Pacifist" © Astounding Stories, Aug 1934 --/ cool sf story --/ humour award This reads like a typical "Amazing Stories" material, a run-of-the-mill inventor story. And yet, it's funny in a P. G. Wodehouse sort of way. Thomas Calvert McClary wrote a few big novels for "Astounding" in the late 1930s, but he hides under a pen name here. ---------------------------------------------- Thomas C. McClary (as by Calvin Peregoy) "The Terrible Sense" © Astounding Stories, Aug 1938 --Groff Conklin's story selection J. Frances McComas "Brave New World" © F&SF, Sep 1954 J. Francis McComas (as by Webb Marlowe) "Flight Into Darkness" © Astounding, Feb 1943 James V. McConnell "All Of You" © Beyond Fantasy Fiction, Jul 1953 --/ cool sf story --/ humour award Steven Edward McDonald "Watch This Space" © IASFM, Sep 1981 R.J. McGregor "The Red Night Of Twea" © Fantastic Story, 1954 Maureen F. McHugh "Interview: On Any Given Day" © Starlight 3, ed. P. Hayden, 2001 --shortlist : 2002 Sturgeon Maureen F. McHugh "Presence" © F&SF, Mar 2002 --novelette : 2003 Hugo --novelette : 2003 Locus /16 Pat McIntosh "Child Of Air" © Anduril, 1978 Pat McIntosh "Cry Wolf" © Anduril, Jul 1975 Patricia A. McKillip "Wonders of the Invisible World" © Full Spectrum # 5, ed. J. Hersh, 1995 --short story : 1996 Locus Poll --/ cool sf story James McKimmey, jr. "'Mid Pleasures And Palaces" © IF, Mar 1954 Robin McKinley "The Pool in the Desert" © Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, ed. P. Dickinson, 2002 --collection : 2003 World Fantasy Dean McLaughlin "The Brotherhood of Keepers" (nv) © Astounding, Jul 1960 Hawk Among the Sparrows, 1976 russ. as "Bratia Po Razumu" --/ cool sf novella Sean McMullen "The Colors of the Masters" © F&SF, Mar 1988 Call to the Edge, 1992 --Australian short fiction : 1989 Ditmar --/ cool sf story Sean McMullen "A Ring of Green Fire" © Interzone, Nov 1994 --best Interzone selection Paul McNamara "The Last Man in New York" © Thrilling Wonder Stories, May 1944 --/ cool sf story --/ rare find P. J. McQuarrie "Greetings From Botz And Spinney" © IASFM, Sep 1982 --/ cool sf story --/ humour award P. J. McQuarrie "Packing Up" © IASFM, Dec 1981 John Meaney "Sharp Tang" © Interzone, Apr 1994 --fiction : 1995 Interzone Poll John Meaney "The Whisper Of Disks" © Interzone, Oct 2002 --short story : 2003 Locus Poll Yury Medvedev "Chertova Dyuzhina Oskarov" © Fantastika - 79, 1979 Capt. S.P. Meek "Awlo Of Ulm" © Amazing Stories, Sep 1931 Capt. S.P. Meek "Futility" © Wonder Stories, 1929 Capt. S.P. Meek "Submicroscopic" © Amazing Stories, Aug 1931 --/ cool sf story --/ adventure award Alexander Meerov "Rodbaridy" (part of "Sirinevy Kristal") © 1962, Na Sushe I Na More --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award --/ rare find ---------------------------------------------- Ib J. Melchior "The Racer" © Escapade, Jan 1956 --/ third place sf story --/ adventure award --/ shock value --/ idea award --/ rare find This is the ORIGINAL story behind the idea of a brutal cross-country race, in which the winner is the one who hits more pedestrians along the way. Similar manic mass-entertainment was described by Robert Sheckley in "The Prize of Peril", but this time cars are used as killing machines and the whole American population becomes a potential target of crazed drivers, bent on increasing their killing score, catering to blood-thirsty TV watching crowd. Interestingly, even though plenty of warning is given along the racing route and everybody has an option to stay safely inside, there are many who prefer to stick it out and take their chances... Going to the movies, picking groceries becomes a life-threatening gamble. This story is a heady mix of shocks and thrills, told in a single breath; a horrifying, emotionally charged, highly cinematic and, surprisingly, humane tale. One heck of the story, asking for one heck of a movie. It's a shame that certain cheesy Hollywood remake ("Death Race 2000") ruined the prospects for a better movie, potentially "The Truman Show" classic of our generation. review: 21-Dec-07 (read in 2007) ---------------------------------------------- Vitaly Melentiev "Indiya, Lyubov Moya" © Fantastika - 77, 1977 Vitaly Melentiev "Shumit Tishina" © Iskatel, 1970 Mir Iskatelya, 1973 --/ cool sf story --/ rare find Carlton Mellick III "Porno In August" © Random Acts Of Weirdness, ed. B. Knight, 2002 --/ cool sf story --/ idea award --/ wonder award --/ shock value Gennady Melnikov "Sluchai Na Ostrove Men" © 1982, Na Sushe I Na More --/ cool sf novella Gennady Melnikov "Volchya Yama" © 1982, Teknika Molodezhi --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ rare find Gennady Melnikov "Yasnoe Utro Posle Dolgoi Nochi" © Fantastika - 81, 1981 --/ cool sf story Henry Melton "We Hold These Rights" © Stellar # 3, 1977 --/ cool sf story Richard C. Meredith "Earthcoming" © The Future Is Now, ed. William F. Nolan, 1970 --/ cool sf story Lew Merril "The Robot Awakes" © Spicy Adventure Stories, Oct 1940 Melissa Michaels "In The Country Of The Blind, No One Can See" © IASFM, Jan 1979 --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award Sergei Mikhalkov "Pervaya Troika, ili Got 2001" (movie: "Bolshoe Kosmicheskoe Puteshestvie") © Pioneer, Dec 1969 --/ rare find Lawrence Miles "Grass" © F&SF, Sep 2001 Benjamin E. Miller "Zero Hour" (nv) © NAL / Onyx Books, 2003 --/ fourth place sf novel --/ wonder award --/ idea award R. DeWitt Miller "Within The Pyramid" © Astounding, Mar 1937 --/ cool sf story Jesse Miller "Twilight Lives" © New Voices in SF # 2, ed. G. Martin, 1979 --new writer : 1974 Campbell --/ cool sf novella --/ adventure award Rex Miller "Slice" (nv) © 1990, Dell Books --/ cool dark f novel --/ shock value Samuel Mines "A Matter of Size" © Thrilling Wonder Stories, Feb 1947 Marie Ming "A Singular Clone" © Analog, Jan 2001 --/ cool sf story William Mingin "Greaves, This Is Serious" © Tales of the Unanticipated # 23, 2002 --short story : 2003 Locus Poll Keith Minnion "Ghosts" © 1979, Asimov's SF Adventure --/ cool sf story --/ style award Keith Minnion "A Trail Of Footprints" © IASFM, Sep 1981 --/ cool sf story --/ style award Alexander Mirer "Dom Skitaltcev" (nv) (Dom Skitaltcev series) © 1960 - 1979, Moscow --/ fourth place sf novel --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ rare find ---------------------------------------------- David Mitchell "Cloud Atlas" (nv) © 2004, Hodder & Stoughton / Random House --novel : 2004 Nebula r-up --novel : 2005 Arthur Clarke Award r-up --Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Place: 10) --/ second place sf novel --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ style award --/ emotion award --/ awesome scale A novel of this scope and magnitude cannot be read and reviewed as a piece of literature, but rather as a piece of the Universe (think of some rough-hewn blocks of reality, unprocessed), with time, higher powers, human misery and angelic beauty intertwined into one bewildering whole - possible to untangle only by degrees, and not always to one's complete satisfaction. But such incompleteness, perhaps, is part of the book's charm. It does not really have a beginning or end, and could've been written on a far bigger scale, eventually swallowing all the space available in all the world's libraries. In other words, dear reader, you will be entertained on a highly subliminal level - the language, the wordplay will reach deep inside your soul, the virtuoso (almost Mandelbrodt-like in its complexity) plot will thread your heart though many glorious loops, and the unifying idea behind the book - the Cloud Atlas itself - will be unveiled only in the act of "flipping the proverbial rug" upside-down and gazing on the revealed celestial pattern (instead of random tangle of knots underneath). This book is about the arrow of human destiny pointed at the vague but glorious destination; it is about victory over time and entropy (to a certain degree); it is about pre-meditated blessings and casual cataclysms; it is a tapestry woven from only the finest literary and science-fictional ingredients. Something that Sir Arthur Clarke would dream up in his sleep but be powerless to remember in the morning. A package and a marvel to be forever entrenched in your imagination. A Cloud Atlas, indeed. (review by Avi Abrams) ---------------------------------------------- Ken Mitchell "Fire And Brimstone" © IASFM, Jul 1982 --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ style award --/ rare find Mary Ann Mitchell "Tainted Blood" (nv) (De Sade series 4) © 2003, Leisure Book --/ shock value Donald Moffit "Literacy" © Analog, Apr 1994 Yuri Moiseev "Titania, Titania!" © Na Sushe I Na More, 1972 --/ cool sf story Devon Monk "Stitchery" © Black Gate, Sum 2001 --short story : 2002 Locus Poll --/ cool f story R. A. Montana "The Diana Syndrome"" © Microcosmic Tales, ed. I. Asimov, 1980 --/ cool sf story --/ idea award: what are stars and sky? --/ rare find Dex R. Moore "The Innkeeper Of Mars" © Amazing Stories, Oct 1952 Ward Moore "Conversation Piece" © Whispers, Oct 1978 Ward Moore "Dominions Beyond" (also as "The Second Trip To Mars") © Saturday Evening Post, 1954 Ward Moore "Peacebringer" (also as ``Sword of Peace'') © Amazing, Mar 1950 A. R. Morlan "Cat In The Box" © Sci Fiction, Mar 2001 --/ cool sf story --/ idea award A. R. Morlan "Cine Rimettato" © Sci Fiction, Aug 2002 --/ cool sf story --/ idea award A. R. Morlan "From The Walls Of Irezumi" © Sci Fiction, Oct 2001 --/ shock value Vyacheslav Morochko "Ezhik" © Fantastika - 72, 1972 --/ cool sf story --/ rare find Vyacheslav Morochko "Moe Imya Vam Izvestno" © Fantastika - 72, 1972 --/ cool sf story --/ rare find Vyacheslav Morochko "Tam, Gde Vechno Dremlet Taina" © Fantastika-69/70, 1970 --/ fourth place space sf story --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ rare find David Morrel "The Good Times Always End" © Ellery Queen's Mystery, Jun 1982 David Morrel "Resurrection" © Redshift, ed. A. Sarrantonio, 2001 --short story : 2002 Locus Poll --/ cool sf story John Morressy "No More Pencils, No More Books" © F&SF, Jun 1979 John Morressy "A Rarebit of Magic" (Kedrigern series) © F&SF, Jan 1983 A. Morris "The Devil Of Doom" © Fantastic Adventures, 1949 ---------------------------------------------- (right image: painting by Nicholas Roerich, 1946) Kenneth Morris (as by Wentworth Tompkins) "The Rose And The Cup" © The Theosophical Path, Apr 1916 The Phoenix Tree, ed. R. Boyer, 1974 The Secret Mountain and Other Tales, 1926 The Rose and The Cup of the title is a theosophical symbol, interchangeable with the Ace of Hearts, the openness to all emotion. The story illustrates this principle, using a few sublime fantasy elements. Kenneth Morris was a theosophist himself, seeking (and finding) secret symbols all over our reality. In some ways, such mining of esoteric knowledge is not unlike fantasy, when you are really following the constructs of your mind, satisfied with mind games, exploring various possibilities, seeking for the truth, but wandering among twisted (and endlessly fascinating) mirrors. For many members of the society the "uncovering of similarities" was a reward enough, and some of them came to the knowledge of God in due time. As for this story, it's average in my opinion, although Le Guin calls Morris "one of the master prose stylists of fantasy in the twentieth century." ---------------------------------------------- Richard Mueller "The Chains of the Sea" © 1982, F&SF --/ fourth place sf story --/ adventure award --/ rare find Richard Mueller "Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Gonna Rise Again" © F&SF, Oct 1984 Stanley Mullen "Revolt On Mercury" © 1957, Fantastic Universe --/ cool sf novella Walter H. Mulstay "Cargo To Mars" © Fantastic Story, 1954 --/ cool sf story --/ rare find H. Warner Munn "Merlin's Ring" (nv) (King Of The World's Edge # 3) © Weird Tales, Sep 1939 (first part only) book: 1974, Ballantine Books --novel : 1975 World Fantasy --fantasy : 1975 Mythopoeic --/ fourth place f novel --/ wonder award --/ awesome scale H. Warner Munn "The Wheel" © Weird Tales, May 1933 --/ cool dark f story --/ wonder award: inquisition --/ rare find Gary Myers "Xiurhn" © 1975, The House Of The Worm, publ. with Arkham House --/ cool f story Gary Myers "The Snout In The Alcove" © The Year's Best Fantasy Stories # 3, 1977 -------------------------------------

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