B - Other Writers

Vitali Babenko "Beg" © Fantastika 75-76, 1976 Vitali Babenko "Proklyaty I Blagoslovenny" © Iskatel, 1976 NF - 26, Znanie 1982 --/ cool space sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ rare find William L. Bade "Ambition" © Galaxy, Oct 1951 William L. Bade "Underdog" © Fantastic Story, 1954 Dale Bailey "Hunger : A Confession" © F&SF, Mar 2003 --short story : 2004 Locus Poll --/ cool f story --/ shock value Hilary Bailey "Dr. Gelabius" © New Worlds, Aug 1968 Hilary Bailey "The Fall of Frenchy Steiner" © New Worlds, Jul 1964 Scott Baker "Alimentary Tract" © Universe 1, ed. R. Silverberg, 1990 --/ coo f story --/ shock value Scott Baker "The Jamesburg Incubus" © 1990, "Alien Sex", ed. E. Datlow Scott Baker "Virus Dreams" © OMNI Best SF 3, 1988 --/ fourth place sf story --/ shock value Andrei Balabukha "Putyami Kosmoprokhodcev" © 1980, Yuni Tekhnik --/ cool space sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ rare find Andrei Balabukha "Tema Dlya Dissertatcii" © 1981, Fantastika-81 --/ cool sf story Andrei Balabukha "Geniak" © 1979, Vokrug Sveta --/ cool sf story --/ rare find Andrei Balabukha "Malenki Polustanok V Nochi" © Fantastika - 72, 1972 A. Balazh "Vstrecha" © 1972, Kosmichsli Hospital transl. from Hungarian --/ fourth place space sf story --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ rare find ---------------------------------------------- Tony Ballantyne "Star!" ©  Constellations, ed. by Peter Crowther, 2005 --/ cool sf story --/ idea award When teens say they want to become "a star" they don't usually mean it in a literal sense. In this story (reminiscent of Gregory Benford and Gordon Eklund's "If The Stars Are Gods" from 1974 Terry Carr's Universe) stars are alive... a teen can turn into one, for example. This weird, preposterous idea gets an appropriately tongue-in-cheek treatment, enough said. review: 22-Feb-09 (read in 2005) ---------------------------------------------- Tony Ballantyne "The Waters Of Meribah" © Interzone, Oct 2003 --novelette : 2003 Locus Poll --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award Nathan Ballingrud "You Go Where It Takes You" © Sci Fiction, Jul 2003 --honorable mention : 2004 Fountain Manly Banister "Escape To Earth" © Science Fiction Quarterly, Nov 1957 Ashok Banker "In The Shadow Of Her Wings" © Interzone, Apr 2001 --fiction : 2002 Interzone Poll /8 (tie) Iain M. Banks "Odd Attachment" © Arrows of Eros, ed. A. Stewart, 1989 The State of the Art, 1991 --/ fourth place space sf story --/ wonder award --/ black humour award --/ shock value --/ rare find Raymond E. Banks "Act Of Passion" © IF, Mar 1954 --/ cool sf story Nick Bantock "The Golden Mean" (nv) (Griffin & Sabine # 3) © Chronicle Books, 2001 --/ fourth place f series --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ style award: postcards novel Nick Bantock "Griffin & Sabine" (nv) (Griffin & Sabine # 1) © Chronicle Books, 2001 --/ fourth place f series --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ style award: postcards novel Nick Bantock "The Morning Star Trilogy" (nv) (incl. "The Gryphon" "Alexandria" "Morning Star") (Griffin & Sabine series) © Chronicle Books, 2001 --/ cool f series --/ wonder award Nick Bantock "Sabine's Notebook" (nv) (Griffin & Sabine # 2) © Chronicle Books, 2001 --/ fourth place f series --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ style award: postcards novel John Barfoot "The Smell of the Noose, The Roar of the Blood" © Orbit # 21, 1980 --/ cool sf story --/ shock value Steven Barnes "Gorgon Child" (nv) (Street Lethal series) © 1989, Ace Books --/ fourth place sf novel --/ wonder award --/ adventure award Steven Barnes "The Locusts" (with Steven Barnes) © Analog, Jun 1979 Limits, 1985 --novelette : 1980 Hugo --novelette : 1980 Locus /16 --novelette : 1980 AnLab /2 --/ cool space sf story --/ idea: doomed efforts of colonists Donald Barr "Sam" © F&SF, Jun 2002 Stephen Barr "Callahan and the Wheelies" © F&SF, Aug 1960 --/ fourth place sf story --/ idea award --/ wonder award --/ rare find John Barrett "A Long Way Back" © Thrilling Wonder Stories, 1949 --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award --/ rare find Neal J. Barrett "Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus" © IASFM, Feb 1988 --novelette : 1989 Hugo --novelette : 1989 Nebula --novelette : 1989 Locus /9 --novelette : 1989 Asimov's Reader Poll /7 --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award --/ style award Laird Barron "Old Virginia" © F&SF, Feb 2003 --novelette : 2004 Locus /27 --/ cool f story --/ wonder award ---------------------------------------------- Phillip Jacques Bartell "One Hundred Generations" (also as by Philip Barshofsky) © Wonder Stories, Sep 1935 --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award --/ rare find Published during the last year of "Wonder Stories" magazine, before it became "Thrilling Wonder Stories" with slightly less wild and woolly fiction inside - this is unashamedly grand (and hopelessly naive) futuristic storytelling. An implausible future, which only could've been imagined at the end of the 30s: human beings evolve into brainy but utterly helpless and sexless creatures (like in the famous Harry Bates "Alas, All Thinking" story), their joy of living largely lost in the sterile and manufactured lifestyle. However, there is a scientist in his fortress in the sky (sane, for a change), who brings back the normal human form, but with one substantial improvement - wings. In the most sensual and beautiful part of the story a bunch of flubbergasted and scared man-geeks catch their first glimpse of a female "angel" and realize that they need to shed their age-old inhibitions... Learning to fly, learning to love again. Carried in the air by a cute & mischievous angel... Memorable & exotic tale. review: 20-Dec-07 (read in 2007) ---------------------------------------------- Philip Bartell (as by Philip Barshofsky) "One Prehistoric Night" © Wonder Stories, Nov 1934 --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award Donald Bartelm "The Air Baloon" © New Yorker, 1966 trans. to Russian --/ cool f story --/ wonder award --/ rare find Christopher Barzak "Plenty" © Strange Horizons, May 2001 --short story : 2002 Locus Poll --/ cool f story Harry Bates "Alas, All Thinking" © Astounding Stories, Jun 1935 --/ cool sf story Harry Bates (with D.W. Hall) "A Scientist Rises" © Astounding Stories, 1932 John Baxter "The Hermes Fall" (nv) © 1978, Pocket Books John Baxter "Takeover Bid" © New Writings in SF # 5, 1965 Peter S. Beagle "Come Lady Death" © Atlantic Monthly, Sep 1963 also in - F&SF, Sep 1968 The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche, 1997 --/ cool f story Peter S. Beagle "A Fine And Private Place" (nv) © 1960, Ballantine Books --/ fourth place f novel --/ wonder award --/ style award --/ emotion award Peter S. Beagle "The Last Unicorn" (nv) © 1968, Ballantine Books --all time fantasy novel : 1987 Locus All-Time Poll /5 --fantasy novel: 1998 Locus All-Time Poll /18 (tie) --/ cool f novel --/ style award Elizabeth Bear "The Chains That You Refuse" © Chiaroscuro # 20, 2004 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ style award --/ rare find Elizabeth Bear "Follow Me Light" © SciFiction, Jan 2005 --/ cool sf story Doug Beason "When the Desert Wind Turns: The Stormtrooper's Tale" (Star Wars series) © Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, 1991 --/ cool sf story George B. Beattie "The Murders On The Moon-Ship" © Wonder Stories, Feb 1931 --/ cool space sf story --/ adventure award --/ rare find Clyde Beck "Anastomosis" © Startling Stories, 1947 Belcampo "Doroga Vospominaniy" © Doroga Vospominaniy, 1981 trans. from Belgian --/ cool sf story --/ style award --/ rare find M. Shayne Bell (with Mike Resnick) "Flower Children Of Mars" © Mars Probes, ed. P. Crowther, 2002 ------------------------ M. Shayne Bell "Mrs. Lincoln's China" © IASFM, July 1994 --short story : 1995 Hugo --short story : 1995 Locus --short story : 1995 Asimov's Readers Poll --/ cool apocalyptic sf story --/ idea award --/ emotion award I can't believe this story has not been reprinted yet. The world comes to an end in a chaotic uprising, and the White House gets raided by an unruly mob, much like the Winter Palace was raided by "liberated workers" and bolsheviks during the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. The uniqueness of the story lies in juxtaposition of such wild cruelty and chaos with delicacy and gentle culture of collectible china, belonging to American Presidents of the Past. This is truly a heart-breaking approach, not dissimilar to Ray Bradbury's indisputable classic "The Smile". Highly Recommended - instills a long time dislike of revolutionary crowds and extreme revolutionary causes, as it surely should. ------------------------ M. Shayne Bell "The Pagodas of Ciboure" © The Green Man, ed. E. Datlow, 2002 --novelette : 2003 Nebula --/ cool sf story M. Shayne Bell "The Thing About Benny" © Vanishing Acts, ed. E. Datlow, 2000 --/ cool sf story --/ idea award Robert Leslie Bellem "Adventure's End" © Spicy Adventure Stories, Apr 1935 --/ cool f story --/ adventure award: purple prose --/ rare find Robert Leslie Bellem "Blood For The Vampire Dead" © Mystery Tales, Mar 1940 Robert Leslie Bellem "The Lake Of The Left-Hand Moon" © Hollywood Detective, 1939 --/ adventure award --/ rare find Robert Leslie Bellem "The Moon-God Takes" © Spicy Mystery, Dec 1936 Stephen Vincent Benet "By the Waters of Babylon" (also as "The Place of the Gods") © The Saturday Evening Post, 1937 The Pocket Book Of Science Fiction, 1943 --/ cool apocalyptic sf story --/ adventure award Gregory Bennett "The Last Plague" © Analog, Apr 1994 --novella : 1995 Locus /15 --novella : 1995 HOMer Keith Bennett "The Rocketeers Have Shaggy Ears" © Planet Stories, Spr 1950 --/ fourth place space sf story --/ wonder award --/ adventure award Ruth Berman "What I Did During My Park Vacation" © Microcosmic Tales, ed. I. Asimov, 1980 --/ cool sf story --/ idea award: travelling parks alighting on roofs --/ rare find ---------------------------------------------- Beth Bernobich "A Flight of Numbers Fantastique Strange" © IASFM, Jun 2006 --/ fourth place time sf novella --/ wonder award --/ idea award Very original novella, with wildly imaginative premise (numbers have a certain characteristics beyond "just mathematics", prime numbers especially approach personality-like complexity and are able to affect the flow of alternative time streams - an idea similar to numerology, but combined with speculation on time/space fabric' properties). An interesting Victorian background, lyrical prose and a deceptively quiet mystery plot add to reader's enjoyment of this stand-out and truly original SF story in recent years. review: 23-Jul-06 (read in 2006) ---------------------------------------------- Don Berry "Problem in Ecology" © Future Science Fiction, Apr 1958   John Berryman "Beyond The Stars (also as "Space Rating") © Astounding, Oct 1939 --/ cool space sf story --/ rare find John Berryman "Space Rating" (also as "Beyond The Stars") © Astounding, Oct 1939 --/ cool space sf story --/ rare find Bill Bickel "Make It Never Happened" © IASFM, 1984 Steven Bryan Bieler "Kid Photon" © New Dimensions # 11, 1980 --/ cool sf story David F. Bischoff "Alone And Palely Loitering" © Chrysalis # 3, ed. R. Torgeson, 1978 Sergei Bityutzki "Sverkhnovaya Barnarda" © Teknika Molodezhi, 1979 --/ cool space sf story --/ rare find Algernon Blackwood "Smith: An Episode In A Lodging House" © The Empty house, 1906 Forgotten Fantasy, Jun 1971 --/ cool sf story: metamorphosis --/ rare find Gala Blau "Outfangthief" © The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women, ed. S. Jones, 2001 Francesca Lia Block "Bones" © The Rose And The Beast, 2000 --short story : 2001 Locus Poll --/ cool f story --/ style award Walton Blodgett "Other Worlds" © Fantastic Adventures, Jul 1943 --/ rare find Igor Blokhin "Repliki" © Znaniya-Sila, 1983 Michael Blumlein "The Domino Master" © 1988, OMNI --/ cool sf story Michael Blumlein "Hymenoptera" © Crank!, Jan 1993 also in - Dark Love, ed. N. Collins, 1995 --/ fourth place f story --/ wonder award --/ emotion award Michael Blumlein "Keeping House" © 1987, The Brains Of Rats --collection : 1991 World Fantasy --collection : 1991 Stoker --collection : 1991 Readercon W --/ fourth place f story --/ style award --/ emotion award --/ shock value Michael Blumlein "Know How, Can Do" © F&SF, Dec 2001 --novelette : 2002 Locus /23 --/ cool sf story --/ style award --/ idea award --/ shock value J. F. Bone "Gamesman" © Crisis, ed. R. Elwood, 1974 Pavel Bortnik "Neudavsheesya Vtorzhenie" © Teknika Molodezhi, 1979 --/ cool sf story --/ humour award --/ rare find Bruce Boston "For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets" © IASFM, Apr 1984 All the Clocks Are Melting, 1984 --short poem : 1985 Rhysling W --/ emotion award Bruce Boston "The Nightmare Collector" © Night Cry, Spr 1987 The Nightmare Collector, 1988 --short poem : 1988 Rhysling W (tie) --/ emotion award Sydney J. Bounds "The Animators" © Tales Of Terror From Outer Space, ed. R. Chetwynd-Hayes, 1975 --/ fourth place space sf story --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ shock value Sydney J. Bounds "Throwback" © New Writings In SF # 16, 1969 --/ cool sf story Marjorie Bowen "The Sign-Painter and the Crystal Fishes" © 1953 Night Chills, Ed. K. McCauley, 1975 --/ cool f story Richard Bowes "From the Files of the Time Rangers" (Time Rangers series) © Sci Fiction, Aug 2000 From the Files of the Time Rangers, 2003 Richard Bowes "The Quicksilver Kid" (Time Rangers series) © Sci Fiction, Jan 2001 From the Files of the Time Rangers, 2003 --/ cool sf story Patricia Bowne "Want's Master" (as by A. B. Ming) © Tales of the Unanticipated # 23, 2002 --short story : 2003 Locus Poll Russell Branch "The League Of Left-Handed Men" © Science Fiction Adventures, July 1953 --/ cool sf story --/ idea award --/ shock value --/ rare find Peter Brandvold "Bullet For A Virgin" © 2020, Mean Pete Press --/ third place western novella --/ adventure award --/ style award --/ shock value --/ rare find R. V. Branham "Chango Chingamadre, Dutchman, & Me" © Full Spectrum # 3, 1991 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ style award Bolling Branham "Spacemen Are Born" © Planet Stories, 1952 --/ cool sf story Gary A. Braunbeck "After The Elephant Ballet" © Heaven Sent, ed. P. Crowther, 1995 --/ cool dark f story --/ style award William Brengle "Return To Lilliput" (nv) (Gulliver Travels sequel) © Fantastic Adventures, May 1943 --/ cool sf novel --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ rare find Joseph Payne Brennan "The Jugular Man" © Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Nov 1973 --/ fourth place dark f story --/ wonder award --/ idea: ghost defender --/ style award --/ rare find Joseph Payne Brennan "Marianne" © Whispers, Jun 1975 --/ cool dark f story --/ wonder award --/ shock value Alan Brennert "Jamie's Smile" © The Ides of Tomorrow, ed. T. Carr, 1976 Her Pilgrim Soul and Other Stories, 1990 --/ cool f story --/ style award Alan Brennert "Queen Of The Magic Kingdom" © New Voices in SF # 3, ed. G. Martin, 1980 Alan Brennert "Stage Whisper" © New Voices in SF # 3, ed. G. Martin, 1980 Alan Brennert "Steel" © Cobblestone, 1977 --/ cool superman sf story --/ idea award --/ humour award --/ rare find John Brizzolara "The Coffin Rider" © IASFM, Oct 1981 --/ cool sf story --/ shock value Kevin Brockmeier "The Green Children" © The Truth About Celia, 2002 ---------------------------------------------- Keith Brooke "A Different Sky" ©  Constellations, ed. by Peter Crowther, 2005 --/ cool sf story Keith Brooks writes: "...the events in this story are vast and almost entirely off-stage, both outside the scope of the story and the ability of its protagonists to really understand - the story is that insignificant speck, but its events are also central to those affected. It's only a short story, but I think this is probably the most ambitious thing I've written. I think there's a novel here, too..." ---------------------------------------------- Mary Brown "The Unlikely Ones" (nv) © 1986, Baen Books --/ fourth place f novel --/ wonder award --/ style award Like a colorful blur, a fluid bubble, a Russian "lubok" folk craft, or a dark porous chocolate with all kinds of microscopic "Kinder Surprise" toys in every delectable cavity, like a triple-calorie pudding eaten in a kaleidoscope flurry of road trip landscapes, this one disorients and delights at once. A very powerful fantasy, it maintains a dreamlike state throughout the whole narrative; a stand-out original work of fiction, which has been woefully underrated and sadly lost among other Baen Fantasy "paper-pointless fantasy-less clone-produced barely-alive" opuses. (Not that I have anything against this publisher, you notice...) However, this one rocks, and lucky is the reader who dips into the marvelous murk and swirling passages of this many-faceted book. Amazon readers are also at a loss how classify it. Beauty goes along with Ugliness in the magical quest to face and overcome the tainted side of each protagonist's heart, with a bittersweet ending... I repeat, "ending". Note that it's NOT a series, or a trilogy. Correct me if I'm wrong. But on the other hand it's like "A Series of Unfortunate Events" for adults, with amplified magic and weirdness. review: 19-Oct-06 (read in 1991) ---------------------------------------------- Molly Brown "Bad Timing" © Interzone, Dec 1991 Bad Timing and Other Stories, 2001 --short fiction : 1992 British SF --fiction : 1992 Interzone Poll /2 --/ third place time sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ style award --/ romance award --/ humour award --/ emotion award --/ rare find Molly Brown "The Selene Gardening Society" © 2005, "The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures", ed. M. Ashley --/ cool sf story Nigel Brown "Annuity Clinic" © Interzone, Apr 2003 --short story : 2004 Locus Poll --/ cool sf story --/ idea award Rosel George Brown "Hair-Raising Adventure" © Star Science Fiction # 5, 1959 Rosel George Brown "Virgin Ground" © IF, Feb 1959 Steven Brust "Issola" (nv) (Taltos series 9) © Tor Books, 2001 Scott Emerson Bull "Mr. Sly Stops For A Cup Of Joe" © Gathering The Bones, ed. D. Etchinson, 2003 --short story : 2004 Locus Poll --/ cool f story --/ adventure award --/ rare find Alice Bullock "Asylum" © Future Stories, Aug 1954 --/ cool ESP sf story David R. Bunch "Incident In Moderan" © 1967, Dangerous Visions Moderan, 1971 --collection : 1972 Locus /11 David R. Bunch "Escaping" © 1967, Dangerous Visions Moderan, 1971 Milbre Burch "Sop Doll" © Realms of Fantasy, Apr 2001 --short story : 2002 Locus Poll --/ cool f story Anthony Burgess "A Clockwork Orange" (nv) © 1962, Ballantine Books --hall of fame : 1999 Prometheus --hall of fame : 2002 Prometheus --/ fourth place sf novel --/ style award --/ shock value --/ emotion award A.W. Burkholder "Dimensional Fate" © Wonder Stories, 1934 --/ fourth place time sf story --/ wonder award --/ rare find Stephen L. Burns "In The Kingdom At Morning" © Analog, Feb 1987 --novella/novelette : 1988 AnLab /4 (tie) --/ fourth place sf novella --/ wonder award Edgar Rice Burroughs "Barsoom series" (nv) © 1920-1945 --all-time series : 1966 Hugo --/ adventure award ---------------------------------------------- Edgar Rice Burroughs "The Living Dead" (Carson of Venus series) © Fantastic Adventures, Nov 1941 Escape on Venus, 1946 --/ cool sf story --/ rare find This story is part of the last Burroughs series: "Carson Napier on Venus". Reminded me of Alan Burt Akers "Scorpio" series, with the strange flying machines, fantasy-like aliens and clockwork primitive plot. Of course, Akers (pen name of Kenneth Bulmer) imitated Burroughs, but... Akers did it more engagingly, me thinks. Here, formulaic adventure is not as exotic and lush, as one might expect from Burroughs - however, it does contain one the future staples of space opera: putting our heroes on display (hanging from a hook) in an alien museum, and their subsequent inevitable escape. It seems the movie is in the works based on "Pirates of Venus" series. Should be a colorful CG experience. By the way, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that there is a term "Sword and Planet" used to describe the whole subgenre in science fiction. Very convenient; I am going to use it now on a ton of pulp and paperback fiction reviews (Robert Moore Williams, Lin Carter, Akers, etc.) ---------------------------------------------- John Coleman Burroughs (with Hilbert Burroughs) "The Man Without A World" © Thrilling Wonder Stories, 1942 William Burroughs "Nova Express" (nv) © 1968, Panther Books --/ cool sf novel --/ style award --/ shock value Richard Butner "Ash City Stomp" © Trampoline, ed. K. Link, 2003 --honorable mention : 2004 Fountain --/ cool f story --/ style award ----------------------------------------------

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