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Birthday Reviews: L. Sprague de Camp’s “The Figurine”

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L. (Lyon) Sprague de Camp was born on November 27, 1907 and died on November 6, 2000. De Camp won his only Hugo Award in 1997 for his non-fiction book Time & Chance: An Autobiography. He also won the International Fantasy Award for the non-fiction book Lands Beyond, written with Willy Ley and won the British Fantasy Award for The Fallible Fiend. In 1996 he was recognized with the first Sidewise Award for Lifetime Achievement and in 2003 received a Southeastern…

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Birthday Reviews: Frederik Pohl’s “Bialystok Stronghead and the Mermen”

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Cover by Frank R. Paul Frederik Pohl was born on November 26, 1919 and died on September 2, 2013. Pohl won the Hugo Award seven times. He won for Best Professional Magazine from 1966-1968 for If, each time beating himself for his work on Galaxy. In 1973, he won his first fiction Hugo for the short story “The Meeting,” in collaboration with the late C.M. Kornbluth. The story tied with R.A. Lafferty’s “Eurema’s Dam.” He won the Hugo for Best…

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Birthday Reviews: Poul Anderson’s “The Valor of Cappen Varra”

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Poul Anderson was born on November 25, 1926 and died on July 21, 2001. Anderson won the Hugo Award for Short Fiction for “The Longest Voyage” and “No Truce with Kings.” He won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for “The Sharing of Flesh,” “Goat Song,” and “Hunter’s Moon.” Anderson won the Hugo for Best Novella for “The Queen of Air and Darkness” and “The Saturn Game.” Both of those novellas and “Goat Song” also earned the Nebula Award. His…

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Birthday Reviews: Spider Robinson’s “The Centipede’s Dilemma”

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Cover by Vincent di Fate Spider Robinson was born on November 24, 1948. In 1974, Robinson won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Robinson has won the Hugo Award three times. He won for Best Novella in 1977 for “By Any Other Name” and in 1983 for the Short Story “Melancholy Elephants.” In 1978 his novella “Stardance,” co-written with his wife Jeanne, won both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards. He received the Skylark Award from NESFA…

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Birthday Reviews: Wilson Tucker’s “My Brother’s Wife”

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Arthur Wilson Tucker was born on November 23, 1914 and died on October 6, 2006. Tucker won a Hugo Award in 1970 for Best Fan Writer and in 1976 he won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the novel The Year of the Quiet Sun. He received the Big Heart Award in 1962, was inducted into the First Fandom Hall of Fame in 1985 and received a Skylark Award in 1986. In 1990 he received the Phoenix Award and…

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Birthday Reviews: Marly Youmans’s “The Smaragdine Knot”

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Marly Youmans was born on November 22, 1953. Youmans won the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction for her novel The Wolf Pit. She has won the Theodore Hoepfner Award for short story twice, as well as the New Writers Award from Capital Magazine. Youmans won the Ferrol Sams Award and her novel A Death at the White Camellia Orphange received the ForeWord BOTYA Award. Youmans has published four volumes of poetry in addition to her novels…

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Birthday Reviews: Lisa Goldstein’s “Death Is Different”

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Lisa Goldstein was born on November 21, 1953. She has also published under the pseudonym Isabel Glass. Goldstein won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History for her short story “Paradise Is a Walled Garden” in 2012 and the same year won a Mythopoeic Award for her novel The Uncertain Places. She was also a two-time nominee for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and has had works nominated for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the World…

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Birthday Reviews: Molly Gloss’s “Interlocking Pieces”

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Cover by Peter R. Kruzan Molly Gloss was born on November 20, 1944. In 2001, Gloss’s novel, Wild Life received the James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award. Her story “The Grinnell Method” won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award in 2013. Her short story “Labming Season” was nominated for both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award. “Interlocking Pieces” was Gloss’s first professionally published short story, appearing in Terry Carr’s anthology Universe 14 in 1984. Gardner Dozois selected the story for inclusion…

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Birthday Reviews: Alex Shvartsman’s “Staff Meeting, as Seen by the Spam Filter”

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Alex Shvartsman was born in Odessa in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on November 19, 1975. Shvartsman runs UFO Press and edits and publishing the anthology series Unidentified Funny Objects. His short story “Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma,” which appeared in Intergalactic Medicine Show received the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award presented for short fiction published in a small press publication. He has collaborated with William Snee, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, and K.A. Teryna. “Staff Meeting, as Seen by the…

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Birthday Reviews: Lyda Morehouse’s “God Box”

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Lyda Morehouse was born on November 18, 1967. Her novel Apocalypse Array received a special citation from the Philip K. Dick Award in 2005 and she served on the jury the following year. She has published several novels using the pseudonym Tate Hallaway and has collaborated with Rachel Calish and Naomi Kritzer. “God Box” was published in the small press anthology King David and the Spiders from Mars, edited by Tim Lieder in 2014. The story has not been reprinted….

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