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Alexander Jablokov
"Market Report"
© IASFM, Sep 1998

Harvey Jacobs
"In Seclusion"
© New Worlds, Feb 1968
The Egg of the Glak, and Other Stories, 1969
--story: Best SF 1968 list
--/ cool sf story

Harvey Jacobs
"The Man Who Made A Baby"
© New Worlds # 7, 1974
--/ cool f story
--/ humour award
--/ shock value


Laurence James
"The Only Man On Earth"
© New Worlds Quarterly # 5, 1973
--/ cool apocalyptic story

Laurence M. Janifer
"An Agent In Place"
© Analog, May 1973

Laurence M. Janifer
(as Larry M. Harris)
"Mex"
© Fantastic Universe, Jan 1957

Ben Jeapes
"The Data Class"
© Interzone, Aug 1993
--fiction : 1995 Interzone Poll /9

Mike Jefferies
"The Knights of Cawdor" (nv)
(Loremasters of Elundium #4)
(The Masters of Elundium #1)
© 1995, Harper Prism Fantasy
--/ cool f novel
--/ wonder award

Philip C. Jennings
"Isotope"
© New Destinies, Spr 1989
--/ second place sf story
--/ wonder award
--/ idea award
--/ adventure award
--/ style award
--/ romance award
--/ rare find


Philip C. Jennings
"The Road To Reality"
© IASFM, Jun 1996
--novella : 1997 Asimov's Reader Poll /9
--/ fourth place sf story
--/ wonder award
--/ style award


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Philip C. Jennings
"Teddy Bug and the Hot Purple Snowball"
© Far Frontiers, Winter 1986
The Bug Life Chronicles, 1989
--/ fourth place space sf story
--/ wonder award
--/ idea award
--/ style award


This story deserves a better exposure... wonderful romp through the Solar System inside a prisoner's mind, transplanted into a Charles Stross Lobster-like or Bruce Sterling's Shizmatrix robotic environment: clean, precise prose with good adventure plot. Reminds me of the classic "Delilah and the Space Rigger" by Heinlein. Minds transplanted into space mining robots... can perhaps be scifi subgenre of its own! So many stories are using this theme. Robert Sheckley, Alfred Bester - the list goes on. But this is an extremely entertaining short example.

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Janet Jeppson
"Norby"
(Norby Series)
© IASFM, Mar 1982

Janet Jeppson
(as by J. O. Jeppson)
"The Time-Warp Trauma"
© IASFM, Dec 1981

Edward Jesby
"Sea Wrack"
© F&SF, May 1964
--story: Best SF 1965 list

James B. Johnson
"The Ciders"
© 1988, F&SF
--/ cool sf story

Kij Johnson
"At The Mouth of the River of Bees"
© Sci Fiction, Sep 2003
--short story : 2004 Locus Poll
--/ cool f story
--/ wonder award

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Matthew Johnson
"The Ninth Part of Desire"
© IASFM, Jun 2006
--/ cool sf story

This is "Astounding / Analog" idea-type story, which tells about simulating emotions by chemical and computer means.
review: 23-Jul-06 (read in 2006)

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Mildred Johnson
"The Cactus"
© Weird Tales, Jan 1950
--/ cool sf story
--/ wonder award

Karen G. Jollie
"Chrysalis Three"
© Chrysalis # 3, ed. R. Torgeson, 1978
--short story : 1979 Hugo Poll
--new writer : 1980 Campbell W

--/ fourth place space sf story
--/ wonder award
--/ adventure award
--/ emotion award
--/ rare find


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Gwyneth Jones
"The Fulcrum"

©  Constellations, ed. by Peter Crowther, 2005
--/ cool sf story

"A claustrophobic affair, set on board a very seedy vessel, full of criminals, low-life and aliens on exercise bikes." - via

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Gwyneth Jones
"La Cenerentola"
© Interzone, Oct 1998
--short list : 1999 Tiptree
--short fiction : 1999 British SF W


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Gwyneth Jones
"Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland"
© Off-Limits, ed. E. Datlow, 1996
--long list : 1997 Tiptree
--/ cool sf story

Sword and sorcery virtual sex therapy, with all the predictable images and ideas in and around it. Competent, but forgettable.

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Langdon Jones
"Transient"
© New Worlds, 1971
--/ cool sf story
--/ style award
--/ rare find


Graham Joyce
"Black Dust"
© F&SF, Feb 2002
--short fiction : 2002 British Fantasy
--/ cool f story

Graham Joyce
"The Coventry Boy"
© The Third Alternative # 32, 2002
--short story : 2003 Locus Poll
--/ third place f story
--/ style award
--/ adventure award
--/ emotion award
--/ shock value


Graham Joyce
"Eat Reecebread"
(with Peter F. Hamilton)
© Interzone, Aug 1994
--short list : 1995 Tiptree
--fiction : 1995 Interzone Poll W

--/ cool sf story

Graham Joyce
"Partial Eclipse"
© Sci Fiction, Aug 2000
--short story : 2001 Locus /16 (tie)
--short story : 2003 Seiun

--/ cool sf story

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Henrik Dahl Juve
"The Silent Destroyer"
© Air Wonder Stories, Aug 1929
--/ cool Art Deco sf story
--/ wonder award
--/ rare find


Totalitarian society with silent, highly-efficient ships capable of plowing mountains upside down with destructive rays, as well as neatly slicing enemy ships. Writing style is very dense, but some wonderful moments exist (including curious time traveler "Doc" character), with plenty of Art Deco imagery to keep your imagination firing.
review: 21-Jan-2013

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