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Alexis Gilliland

Pseudonym of Alexis A. Gilliland

108 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
November 1968 3 Interior Art Science Fiction Review, November 1968 Science Fiction Review, November 1968
April 1971 71 Short Fiction Feghoot The WSFA Journal #76, April-May 1971
April 1971 9 Essay The Future is Upon Us: Frankenstein Dept. The WSFA Journal #76, April-May 1971
June 1971 33 Review The Broken Sword The WSFA Journal #77, June-July 1971
January 1972 30 Review The World Inside The WSFA Journal #79, November 1971 - January 1972
May 1972 A5 Essay On Oceans and Immortality The WSFA Journal #80, May 1972
May 1972 Cover Art The WSFA Journal #80, May 1972 The WSFA Journal #80, May 1972
November 1973 61 Interior Art Cartoon: "My expertise obsolete?" Algol, #21, November 1973
May 1974 44 Interior Art Algol, May 1974 Algol, #22, May 1974
July 1977 60|60.6 Interior Art Cartoon: no caption (Algol, Summer-Fall 1977) Algol, #29, Summer-Fall 1977
July 1982 164 Review Long Shot for Rosinante Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, July 1982
October 1982 33 Interior Art Eye of the Basilisk Fantasy Newsletter, #52 October 1982
March 1983 62 Interior Art Cartoon: "'You'll never take me alive!' 'That does seem to be the agreement!'" Amazing Science Fiction, March 1983
May 1983 62 Interior Art Cartoon: "I'll bet he knows what the meaning of life is!" Amazing Science Fiction, May 1983
July 1983 8 Interior Art Cartoon: "'Are you REAL?' 'You better believe it, honey chile!'" Amazing Science Fiction, July 1983
September 1983 47 Interior Art Cartoon: "'Glad to see you.' 'Easy Boss'" Amazing Science Fiction, September 1983
September 1983 82 Interior Art Cartoon: "I feel it is my duty to advise you that I am actively reviewing my options." Amazing Science Fiction, September 1983
November 1983 20 Interior Art Cartoon: "Mr. Smith you have terminal dandruff unless ... unless ... you are somehow reproducing by spores. Would you like a second opinion?" Amazing Science Fiction, November 1983
November 1983 89 Interior Art Cartoon: "You are busted to a hemi-semi-demigod. Get down there and invent agriculture!" Amazing Science Fiction, November 1983
January 1984 140 Interior Art Cartoon: "Whatever happened to the arrow that pointed the way?" Amazing Science Fiction, January 1984
March 1984 52 Interior Art Cartoon: "You mean I can make money doing this? Amazing Science Fiction, March 1984
May 1984 40 Interior Art Cartoon: "Don't you understand? It isn't your Helen of Troy Impersonation I Love! It's you !" Fantasy Review, May 1984
May 1984 81 Interior Art Cartoon: "I like it!" Amazing Science Fiction, May 1984
May 1984 38 Interior Art Cartoon: "This fluorocarbon emulsion blood substitute isn't bad, actually." Fantasy Review, May 1984
May 1984 24 Interior Art Cartoon: "This one checked his soul with the baggage on Flight 437 to Boston." "What airline?" Fantasy Review, May 1984
May 1984 9 Interior Art Cartoon: "We lumpenvampires carry the soil of our homeland under our fingernails" Fantasy Review, May 1984
June 1984 37 Interior Art Cartoon: "Existentialism?! Hah!" Fantasy Review, June 1984
June 1984 33 Interior Art Cartoon: "For a philosopher-king it is safer to be a bad philosopher than a bad king" Fantasy Review, June 1984
June 1984 31 Interior Art Cartoon: "I liked the course better before the critics did it over" Fantasy Review, June 1984
June 1984 26 Interior Art Cartoon: "The Only Good Indian is a dead Indian" Fantasy Review, June 1984
June 1984 29 Interior Art Cartoon: "What a great idea, JB!" Fantasy Review, June 1984
July 1984 20 Interior Art Cartoon: "How do you keep all those arrows going?" Amazing Stories, July 1984
July 1984 33 Interior Art Cartoon: "Nimue? I knew her well!" Fantasy Review, July 1984
July 1984 94 Interior Art Cartoon: "Once more into the breach, good friend! Amazing Stories, July 1984
August 1984 41 Interior Art Cartoon: "Actually, a background in literary criticism is very helpful in arms control talks." Fantasy Review, August 1984
August 1984 23 Interior Art Cartoon: "Another reviewer educated beyond his intelligence." Fantasy Review, August 1984
August 1984 47 Interior Art Cartoon: "Looks like Indiana Jones clipped the coupon of doom!" Fantasy Review, August 1984
August 1984 19 Interior Art Cartoon: "The critics are out to get me." Fantasy Review, August 1984
August 1984 17 Interior Art Cartoon: "We eliminated Thuggee by finding them honest work. Literary criticism, mostly." Fantasy Review, August 1984
September 1984 20 Interior Art Cartoon: "'Devilish Horror Stories' regrets that we cannot use your submission at this time" Fantasy Review, September 1984
September 1984 29 Interior Art Cartoon: "If you're so zen, why don't your eyes slant?" Amazing Stories, September 1984
September 1984 25 Interior Art Cartoon: "The borderline between fantasy and science fiction" Fantasy Review, September 1984
September 1984 19 Interior Art Cartoon: "The Srinx, the reed flute, is very, very old." Fantasy Review, September 1984
September 1984 27 Interior Art Cartoon: "Well! Wait til the wicked witch of the west sees these bifocals!" Fantasy Review, September 1984
September 1984 33 Interior Art Cartoon: "Well... If they don't want the plans for a pyramid that won't fall down, what about the first draft of the Sermon on the Mount?" Fantasy Review, September 1984
September 1984 31 Interior Art Cartoon: "What's the latest on the sin that can't be named?" Fantasy Review, September 1984
October 1984 25 Interior Art Cartoon: "Ahhr! Time to review the kingdom again!" Fantasy Review, October 1984
October 1984 35 Interior Art Cartoon: "It's a good blue-green algae, but it isn't a great one." Fantasy Review, October 1984
November 1984 43 Interior Art Cartoon: "I can't deny it... horror is an academic growth area." Fantasy Review, November 1984
November 1984 31 Interior Art Cartoon: "Over there is the border between fantasy and sci-fi!" Fantasy Review, November 1984
November 1984 37 Interior Art Cartoon: "Well... They were reviewers after all..." Fantasy Review, November 1984
November 1984 22 Interior Art Cartoon: "Ygor, no more brains from California. Ok?" Amazing Stories, November 1984
November 1984 101 Interior Art Cartoon: "You entrepreneurs ought to listen to us economists!" Amazing Stories, November 1984
December 1984 31 Interior Art Cartoon: "I know a moat is traditional! But we're not going to have one!" Fantasy Review, December 1984
December 1984 23 Interior Art Cartoon: "I'm building a new society, using the the literary-critique methodology." Fantasy Review, December 1984
January 1985 15 Interior Art "What's your definition of science-fiction then?!" Fantasy Review, January 1985
January 1985 7 Interior Art Cartoon: "No, no, stupid. You call my name, shazam, and the magic lightning turns you into a bigger stupid." Amazing Science Fiction, January 1985
January 1985 7 Interior Art Cartoon: "There is treasure and then there is treasure." Fantasy Review, January 1985
February 1985 140 Interior Art Cartoon: "Good Afternoon. I represent Mr. Bunker Hunt, a "White Knight," you should pardon the expression, in the attempted takeover of yer hoard." The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1985
May 1985 13 Interior Art Cartoon: "But suppose a knight should get lucky? Don't you want your loved ones taken care of?" Fantasy Review, May 1985
May 1985 25 Interior Art Cartoon: "Evolution is all very well, but I'm not ready to give up my immortality!" Fantasy Review, May 1985
May 1985 19 Interior Art Cartoon: "My electronic grandfathers clock!" Amazing Stories, May 1985
June 1985 33 Interior Art Cartoon: "'Some things man was not meant to know!' What sort of an error message is that?" Fantasy Review, June 1985
June 1985 27 Interior Art Cartoon: "That's stupid. Castles don't gain weight!" Fantasy Review, June 1985
June 1985 15 Interior Art Cartoon: "Yuck! A mock virgin make out of salt water taffy!" Fantasy Review, June 1985
July 1985 22 Interior Art Cartoon: "'I'm the best there is.' 'Right. And if you want to stay that way, put the star back on my magic wand!'" Amazing Stories, July 1985
July 1985 21 Interior Art Cartoon: "Unicorn Designed by a Committee" Fantasy Review, July 1985
October 1985 26 Interior Art Cartoon: "No, can't say as how I ever wondered what was over the edge of the world. Why to you ask?" Fantasy Review, October 1985
November 1985 131 Interior Art Cartoon: "She loves me, she loves me not!" Amazing Stories, November 1985
November 1985 75 Interior Art Cartoon: "Some Blondes Have More Fun in Republics Your Majesty." The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November 1985
January 1986 83 Interior Art Cartoon: "According to the instructions, that is a pretty girl!" Amazing Stories, January 1986
March 1986 24 Interior Art Cartoon: "'Inarticulate imbecile.' 'Glib cretin.'" Amazing Stories, March 1986
May 1986 17|17.3 Review Wizenbeak Locus, #304 May 1986
June 1986 20 Review Wizenbeak Fantasy Review, June 1986
September 1986 31 Interior Art Cartoon: "Fafnir's taste for exotic food was his undoing." The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1986
September 1986 126 Interior Art Cartoon: "Yes there are taboos in science fiction. You can't even mention them in cartoons." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1986
December 1986 71 Interior Art Cartoon: "That was the third person this week asking to see the dungeon master. Could there have been a reorganization?" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1986
December 1986 180 Review Wizenbeak Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, December 1986
January 1987 190 Interior Art Cartoon: "'Thou shalt not adulturate science fiction with fantasy?' 'Don't push yer luck, Moses!" Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 1987
January 1987 44 Interior Art Cartoon: "We've been under siege by the critics." Fantasy Review, January-February 1987
May 1987 69 Review Wizenbeak Amazing Stories, May 1987
September 1987 191 Interior Art Cartoon: "Dungeons and Flagons? You go into this cellar and try to drink the other suckers under the table." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1987
April 1988 37 Interior Art Cartoon (Locus #327) Locus, #327 April 1988
September 1988 11 Interior Art untitled (Star*Line, September-December 1988) Star*Line, September-December 1988
November 1988 133 Interior Art Cartoon: "I don't like flying and I don't like insects. I want to dig tunnels in the earth and eat earthworms!" Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, November 1988
December 1991 46 Essay Letter (Science Fiction Review, December 1991) Science Fiction Review, December 1991
December 1991 47 Interior Art Letters to SFR (Science Fiction Review, December 1991) [2] Science Fiction Review, December 1991
January 1992 72 Essay E. Dorothea Gilliland Locus, #372 January 1992
October 1992 174 Interior Art Cartoon: "'SF!? This is demented trash.' 'Yes, but is it demented enough?'" Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1992
May 1993 174 Interior Art Cartoon: "It was either be a drag queen or found Christianity." Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1993
March 1994 38 Essay Threshold: Building Castles in Space Gateways, Spring 1994
1996 10 Interior Art Cartoon "Vespaluus calls you the 'increasingly absurd Gilliland'" Science Fiction Eye, #14, Spring 1996
April 2003 9 Interior Art Cartoon: "'Who's the new guy?' 'One of them dot com cowboys.'" Asimov's Science Fiction, April 2003
May 2003 8 Interior Art Cartoon: "Have the lights gone out or am I emitting miasmic evil again?" Asimov's Science Fiction, May 2003
June 2003 130 Interior Art Cartoon: "Well sure, some of my courtiers are crooks! Now and then I need shit an honest man could not provide! Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2003
July 2003 9 Interior Art Cartoon: "'Be reasonable, Max, if I didn't write turgid, jargon-clotted prose, the mendacity of my theory would be obivous!' 'Winning an argument is no excuse to write that badly!'" Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2003
September 2003 136 Interior Art Cartoon: "'How goes the plan for the perfect state?' 'Talk to my detail guy, here!'" Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2003
September 2003 15 Interior Art Cartoon: "'So we mount the hand grenade on a plaque as an award for the best critic.' 'And when we present it, the pin falls out?'" Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2003
October 2003 9 Interior Art Cartoon: "'The granduer of science fiction rubs off on those who write it!' 'That's 'grandeur,' Max, and don't forget to wash up for dinner!'" Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2003
February 2004 141 Interior Art Cartoon: "'We need more power Scotty! Use technobabble!' 'I canna give ye more power, Captain, we're in Kabbalababble space!'" Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2004
June 2004 141 Interior Art Cartoon:"'What makes you think the flint knife is not genuine?' 'The digital watch in the handle!'" Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2004
July 2004 141 Interior Art Cartoon: "So there I was, caught between the Scylla of overripe metaphor and the Charybdus of polemical hypostasization! Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2004
October 2004 26 Interior Art Cartoon: "'How does taking off in a stolen spaceship prove our innocence of anything?' 'Ask the scriptwriters!'" Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2004
October 2004 149 Interior Art Cartoon: "'Plot deplausiblizers on line, Captain!' 'Stick to standard technobabble, Max!'" Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2004
October 2004 129 Interior Art Cartoon: "'The script calls for full frontal nudity!?' 'No problem, Captain, my sex organs are internal!' Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2004
December 2004 9 Interior Art Cartoon: "'Can we set the phaser lower than stun?' 'Yes, we can do confuse, disorient, and speaking in tongues!'" Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2004
August 2005 141 Interior Art Cartoon: "The string was to ... to remind me to check the fuse? But we have circuit breakers!" Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2005
2006 17 Essay Science Once Again Nudges Science Fiction Towards Fantasy The SFWA Bulletin, Spring 2006

1 English-language book

Year Type Title Author(s)
1979 Nonfiction The Iron Law of Bureaucracy Alexis Gilliland