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John Light

John Light

Light, John Roger Charles

June 5, 1943 (age 82)

Birth place: Hornchurch, Essex, England, UK

104 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
1986 22 Poem One More Time, But Slower SF Spectrum 11
1986 Cover Art SF Spectrum 11 SF Spectrum 11
1986 11 Short Fiction The Last Days SF Spectrum 10
February 1986 33 Short Fiction Living Space Auguries, #5
March 1986 13 Short Fiction Professor Mif and the Ancient Burial Urns Back Brain Recluse, March 1986
1987 22 Poem Grey Maker SF Spectrum 12
January 1987 6 Short Fiction The Flower in the Sky Auguries, #6
February 1987 19 Poem Escape Auguries, #7
February 1987 16 Short Fiction Peace Conference Auguries, #7
April 1987 15 Short Fiction Music to the Ears Back Brain Recluse, April 1987
June 1987 4 Short Fiction Tower of the Kings New Moon Quarterly, June 1987
July 1987 16 Short Fiction Cloud Opus Quarterly, Summer 1987
September 1987 Cover Art New Moon Quarterly, September 1987 New Moon Quarterly, September 1987
January 1988 35 Short Fiction A Dream of Peace Auguries, #8
March 1988 3 Short Fiction Proof Auguries, #10
March 1988 4 Short Fiction States of Mind New Moon Quarterly, March 1988
June 1988 16 Short Fiction Cafe Shut Works, Summer 1988
September 1988 13 Short Fiction Professor Miff & the Ancient Earthworks Works, Autumn 1988
September 1988 40 Short Fiction The Air Was Full of Musics Dream Quarterly, #17, Autumn 1988
November 1988 31 Short Fiction End of a Dream Maelstrom # 3, November 1988
January 1989 23 Short Fiction Life Cycle Auguries, #11
March 1989 32 Poem Winter Stars Dream Science Fiction, Spring 1989
March 1989 19 Essay Word Grid 4 Dream Science Fiction, Spring 1989
May 1989 6 Short Fiction Biocide New Visions, May 1989
May 1989 33 Short Fiction Second Opinion New Visions, May 1989
June 1989 32 Essay Word Grid 5 Dream Science Fiction, Summer 1989
August 1989 19 Short Fiction The Element Makers The Edge, #1, August-September 1989
August 1989 9 Essay Writing Science Fiction The Edge, #1, August-September 1989
September 1989 23 Short Fiction The Living Polymer Overspace, September 1989
September 1989 53 Essay Word Grid 6 Dream Science Fiction, Autumn 1989
December 1989 23 Short Fiction Alorn at the Sea of Content Overspace, December 1989
December 1989 36 Poem Mental Block Overspace, December 1989
December 1989 39 Short Fiction The Sound of the Sea Dream Science Fiction, Winter 1989
1990 43 Short Fiction Love Thy Neighbor Works, No. 7
February 1990 31 Poem Message from a Distant Sun Overspace, February 1990
March 1990 24 Short Fiction Unacceptable Risk Overspace, March 1990
April 1990 40 Poem Centaurus Overspace, April 1990
April 1990 Cover Art Overspace, April 1990 Overspace, April 1990
April 1990 67 Essay Word Grid 7 Dream Science Fiction, Spring 1990
May 1990 6 Short Fiction Crystal Star Overspace, May 1990
May 1990 Cover Art Overspace, May 1990 Overspace, May 1990
June 1990 15 Short Fiction A Matter of Suitability Nova SF, Summer 1990
July 1990 36 Essay Word Grid 8 Dream Science Fiction, Summer 1990
July 1990 27|27.3 Poem World's End Overspace, July 1990
September 1990 Cover Art Overspace, September 1990 Overspace, September 1990
September 1990 35 Essay Word Grid 9 Dream Science Fiction, September 1990
December 1990 8 Poem The Length of Time Overspace, December 1990
December 1990 11 Essay Write What You Like! Focus, #22
January 1991 24 Short Fiction Goddess without Love Dream Science Fiction, January 1991
January 1991 49 Essay Word Grid 10 Dream Science Fiction, January 1991
July 1991 48 Short Fiction Across Infinity Dream Science Fiction, July 1991
July 1991 61 Essay Word Grid 12 Dream Science Fiction, July 1991
August 1991 20 Short Fiction The Wizard of Drel Overspace, August 1991
September 1991 31 Essay Word Grid 13 (New Moon #1, September 1991) New Moon #1, September 1991
July 1992 17|17.2 Poem Message from Mars Overspace, July 1992
November 1992 9 Short Fiction New Universe Orion #2, November 1992
December 1992 54 Short Fiction City of Comfort and Sadness Xizquil, December 1992
1993 4 Short Fiction Allergy Premonitions, Summer 1993
1993 3 Poem Reality Premonitions, Summer 1993
June 1993 63 Poem Time Auguries, #17
1994 2 Short Fiction Delivery Man Black Tears, #3
June 1994 3|3 Interior Art Cartoon: no caption (Focus 26) Focus, #26
June 1994 Cover Art Focus, #26 Focus, #26
June 1994 11|19 Short Fiction The Scales from His Eyes Focus, #26
June 1994 11|20 Interior Art The Scales from His Eyes Focus, #26
June 1994 19 Short Fiction Where Is Harmony? Psychotrope, #2
August 1994 4 Short Fiction Misunderstanding The Zone, Summer 1994
December 1994 |31 Interior Art Focus 27 Focus, #27
1995 5 Short Fiction Dream Seller Albedo One, #9
March 1995 21 Essay A Top 10 Science Fiction Novels (The Zone, Spring 1995) The Zone, Spring 1995
March 1995 42 Short Fiction Pitfall Threads, March 1995
1996 33 Short Fiction A Prince of Light Sierra Heaven, Spring 1996
March 1996 14 Short Fiction A Ninteenth Century Dream Beyond the Boundaries, Spring 1996
June 1996 39 Short Fiction Kim Psychotrope, June 1996
March 1997 Cover Art Focus, #31 Focus, #31
March 1997 38 Essay Our Other Selves: Aliens in SF The Zone and Premonitions, Spring 1997
March 1997 6|7 Short Fiction Pavilion of Time Focus, #31
March 1997 14|19 Poem Space Raiders Focus, #31
July 1997 16|16.2 Review Dotty Vector 194
November 1997 15|14 Interior Art Cartoon: no caption (Focus 32) Focus, #32
November 1997 Review The Lords of Hate Vector 196
December 1997 68 Interior Art Too Fast The Zone and Premonitions, Winter 1997-98
January 1998 9 Short Fiction Curiosity Maelstrom # 8, Winter 97/98
June 1998 61 Short Fiction Out of the Mist All Hallows, June 1998
October 1998 17 Essay Uneasy Lie the Dead Penny Dreadful, Autumn 1998
November 1998 11|16 Short Fiction For Herself Alone Focus, #34
1999 26 Short Fiction The Wolds Scheherazade 18
1999 26 Interior Art The Wolds Scheherazade 18
March 1999 Cover Art Maelstrom #9, Spring 1999 Maelstrom #9, Spring 1999
May 1999 7|6 Poem Small Press Voyager Focus, #35
July 1999 12 Short Fiction Smile Penny Dreadful, Summer 1999
August 1999 43 Poem Escape from Paradise Sci-Fright, Issue #4
October 1999 45 Interior Art Armchair Alien (cartoon) The Zone and Premonitions, Autumn 1999
October 1999 29 Poem Pseudonymph The Zone and Premonitions, Autumn 1999
October 1999 29 Interior Art Pseudonymph The Zone and Premonitions, Autumn 1999
November 1999 17 Poem City by the Sea Sci-Fright, Issue #5
November 1999 17 Poem J Sci-Fright, Issue #5
December 1999 83 Short Fiction Dark Garden Enigmatic Tales, Winter 1999
January 2000 38 Short Fiction Opus Posthumous Black Rose #4, January 2000
March 2000 3 Poem A Place of Old Songs of Innocence, Spring 2000
August 2000 28 Short Fiction The Universe at the End of the Restaurant The Zone, Summer 2000
June 2001 53 Poem Merlin's Memories Legend: Worlds of Possibility #3, Spring/Summer 2001
June 2001 31 Essay Why Suicide? Penny Dreadful, Summer 2001
March 2003 29 Review No Space in Time Vector 228

7 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1981 Novel The Well of Time John Light
1992 Chapbook Death on Dorado John Light
1996 Chapbook Dotty John Light
1997 Novel The Lords of Hate John Light
2002 Novel No Space in Time John Light
2004 Novel Conspiracy of the Dead John Light
2015 Collection Distant Dreams: Science Fiction Poems John Light
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