The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Books, Listed by Author

BRUNNER, JOHN (Kilian Houston) (stories) (continued)

• * _The Compleat Traveller in Black (Methuen 0-413-14910-2, Apr ’87, £2.50, 232pp, pb) [Traveler in Black] Reprint (Bluejay 1986) fantasy collection. [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Compleat Traveller in Black (Macmillan Collier Nucleus 0-02-030720-9, Oct ’89, $3.95, 233pp, pb) [Traveler in Black] Reprint (Bluejay 1986) collection of five stories featuring the title character. This is a reprint of the Bluejay revised edition, but lacks the Martin Springett illustrations. The original edition, lacking one story, appeared from Ace in 1971.
• * _The Compleat Traveller in Black (Mandarin 0-7493-0105-8, Oct ’89 [Sep ’89], £3.50, 233pp, pb, cover by Patrick Mortemore) [Traveler in Black] Reprint (Bluejay 1986 as The Compleat Traveler in Black) fantasy collection.
• * _The Crucible of Time (SFBC #3282, Apr ’84 [Mar ’84], $5.50, 368pp, hc) Reprint (Del Rey 1983) sf novel. Fascinating history of science on alien world. (EAL).
• * _The Crucible of Time (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-30235-4, Jul ’84 [Jun ’84], $3.50, 416pp, pb) Reprint (Del Rey 1983) sf novel, first paperback edition. Highly recommended. (FCM)
• * _The Crucible of Time (Legend 0-09-934850-0, Jun ’90 [Jul ’90], £4.99, 474pp, pb, cover by Melvyn Grant) Reissue (Del Rey 1983) sf novel.
• * *The Days of March (Kerosina 0-948893-26-5, Oct ’88, £14.95, 308pp, hc) Mainstream novel, of associational interest. Limited to 350 copies.
• * *The Days of March (Kerosina 0-948893-27-3, Oct ’88, £5.95, 308pp, tp) Paperback edition of the above. Limited to 3000 copies. [Not seen]
• * *The Days of March (Kerosina 0-948893-25-7, Oct ’88, £30.00, 308pp, hc) Special signed, boxed edition of the above. Limited to 250 copies.
• * _Interstellar Empire (DAW 0-88677-111-0, Feb ’86 [Jan ’86], $2.95, 256pp, pb) Reissue (DAW 1976) collection of 4 stories.
• * _Interstellar Empire (Arrow 0-09-938870-7, Aug ’87, £2.50, 256pp, pb) Reissue (DAW 1976) sf collection. Volume 4 in the Venture SF series.
• * _The Jagged Orbit (DAW 0-87997-917-8, Mar ’84 [Feb ’84], $2.95, 318pp, pb) Reprint (Ace 1969) sf novel. One of Brunner’s major novels. Recommended. (CNB)
• * *A Maze of Stars (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36541-0, Jul ’91 [Jun ’91], $18.00, 393pp, hc, cover by John Berkey) Sf novel of a great sentient ship charged with protecting human settlements on other worlds.
• * _A Maze of Stars (Easton Press no ISBN, Aug ’91, no price, 393pp, hc) Sf novel of a great sentient ship charged with protecting human settlements on other worlds, with an introduction by James Gunn and artwork by John Berkey. This edition is published “simultaneously” with the Del Rey edition which appeared two months earlier. This special leatherbound gilt-edge edition is part of the “Signed First Editions of Science Fiction” series and is available by subscription only.
• * _A Maze of Stars (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-37554-8, Mar ’92 [Feb ’92], $4.99, 326pp, pb, cover by John Berkey) Reprint (Del Rey 1991) sf novel of a great sentient ship charged with protecting human settlements on other worlds.
• * _More Things in Heaven (DAW 0-88677-187-0, Feb ’87 [Jan ’87], $2.95, 221pp, pb) Reprint (Dell 1973) of a revision of The Astronauts Must Not Land (Ace 1963); sf novel.
• * *Muddle Earth (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-37851-2, Sep ’93 [Aug ’93], $4.99, 276pp, pb, cover by John Berkey) Humorous sf novel about a man awakened from cryogenic suspension in a bizarre 24th century where Earth is a tourist attraction.
• * _The Sheep Look Up (Legend 0-09-937770-5, Jan ’91, £4.99, 461pp, pb) Reissue (Harper & Row 1972) classic sf novel. Strongly recommended. (PSP)
• * *The Shift Key (Methuen 0-413-14920-X, May ’87, £2.50, 227pp, pb) Borderline sf novel.
• * _The Shockwave Rider (Methuen 0-413-17960-5, May ’88 [Mar ’88], £3.50, 288pp, pb) Reprint (Harper & Row 1975) sf novel.
• * _The Shockwave Rider (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-32431-5, Jan ’89 [Dec ’88], $3.95, 280pp, pb) Reissue (Harper & Row 1975) sf novel. One of the first, and best, novels about a computer society. Eighth printing.
• * _The Squares of the City (Macmillan Collier Nucleus 0-02-017511-6, Dec ’91 [Jan ’92], $5.95, 318pp, pb, cover by Romas Kukalis) Reprint (Ballantine 1965) sf novel.
• * _Stand on Zanzibar (Easton Press no ISBN, 1987 [May ’87], price unknown, 507pp, hc) Reprint (Doubleday 1968) classic sf novel. Leatherbound “Collector’s Edition”, part of Easton’s “The Masterpieces of Science Fiction”, with a new introduction by David Brin and several illustrations (one full-color) by Vincent DiFate. Available by subscription only from The Easton Press; call 1-800-243-5160.
• * _Stand on Zanzibar (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34787-0, Apr ’88 [Mar ’88], $3.50, 650pp, pb) Reissue (Doubleday 1968) sf novel, winner of the Hugo Award. 14th printing; over 350,000 in print.
• * _Stand on Zanzibar (Legend 0-09-919110-5, Apr ’88, £3.99, 576pp, pb) Reissue (Doubleday 1968) sf novel.
• * _Stand on Zanzibar (Legend 0-09-919110-5, Jun ’90 [Jul ’90], £4.99, 576pp, pb) Reissue (Doubleday 1968) sf novel.
• * _Stand on Zanzibar (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34787-0, Aug ’94 [Jul ’94], $5.99, 650pp, pb, cover by Murray Tinkelman) Reissue (Doubleday 1968) Hugo Award-winning SF novel; 17th printing.
• * *Three Complete Novels (Wings 0-517-12310-X, 1995 [May ’95], $12.99, 788pp, hc, cover by Chris Moore) Omnibus of three SF novels: Children of the Thunder (Del Rey 1989), The Tides of Time (Del Rey 1984), and The Crucible of Time (Del Rey 1983). This is an instant remainder edition. (Contents)
• * *The Tides of Time (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-31838-2, Dec ’84 [Nov ’84], $2.95, 235pp, pb) Sf novel.
• * _The Tides of Time (SFBC #6241, Jun ’85 [May ’85], $4.98, 182pp, hc) Reprint (Del Rey 1984) sf novel, first hardcover edition.
• * _The Tides of Time (Penguin 0-14-008240-9, Mar ’86, £2.50, 235pp, pb) Reprint (Del Rey 1984) sf novel.
• * _Timescoop (DAW 0-87997-966-6, Oct ’84 [Sep ’84], $2.50, 239pp, pb) Reprint (Dell 1969) sf novel.
• * _Total Eclipse (DAW 0-87997-911-9, Feb ’84 [Jan ’84], $2.50, 206pp, pb) Reissue (Doubleday 1974) sf novel. Fifth printing.
• * *Victims of the Nova (Legend 0-09-962440-0, Mar ’89, £3.99, 473pp, pb, cover by Eddie Jones) [Zarathustra Planet] Omnibus of the “Zarathustra Planet” series: Polymath, The Avengers of Carrig, and The Repairmen of Cyclops. Volume 22 in the “Venture SF” series. (Contents)
• * _The Whole Man (Macmillan Collier Nucleus 0-02-030275-4, Sep ’90 [Aug ’90], $4.95, 188pp, pb, cover by Romas) [Gerald Howson] Reprint (Ballantine 1964) sf novel.

BRUSH, KAREN A(lexandra) (1960- )

• * *The Demon Pig (AvoNova 0-380-75760-5, Dec ’91 [Nov ’91], $4.50, 241pp, pb) Fantasy novel, second book of a series. A fairy pig must defeat the Queen of the Dead to save his people.
• * *The Pig, the Prince & the Unicorn (Avon 0-380-75062-7, Jun ’87 [May ’87], $2.95, 216pp, pb) Fantasy novel. With the aid of a prince/bard, a witch, and a moray eel, the pig Quadroped must save the world from the evil Black Unicorn. Something of a satire, but it gets more serious than the scenario suggests.

BRUST, STEVEN (Karl Zoltan) (1955- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Agyar (Tor 0-312-85178-2, Mar ’93 [Feb ’93], $18.95, 254pp, hc, cover by Jim Burns) Dark fantasy novel of a vampire in Cleveland who falls in love with a beautiful dancer.
• * _Agyar (SFBC #00910, Jul ’93 [Jun ’93], $8.98, 254pp, hc, cover by Jim Burns) Reprint (Tor 1993) dark fantasy novel of a vampire in Cleveland who falls in love with a beautiful dancer. Similar to the Tor edition except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Agyar (Tor 0-812-51521-8, Mar ’94 [Feb ’94], $4.99, 254pp, pb, cover by Jim Burns) Reprint (Tor 1993) dark fantasy novel of a vampire in Cleveland who falls in love with a beautiful dancer.
• * *Athyra (Ace 0-441-03342-3, Apr ’93 [Mar ’93], $4.99, 243pp, pb, cover by Ciruelo Cabral) [Vlad Taltos] Fantasy novel, sixth book of the “Vlad Taltos” series.
• * *Brokedown Palace (Ace 0-441-07181-3, Jan ’86 [Dec ’85], $2.95, 270pp, pb) Fantasy novel set in a country very much like Hungary.
• * _Brokedown Palace (Pan 0-330-30793-2, Nov ’91, £5.99, 270pp, tp, cover by Julek Heller) Reprint (Ace 1986) fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Brokedown Palace (Ace 0-441-07182-1, Aug ’96 [Jul ’96], $5.50, 270pp, pb, cover by Alan Lee) Reissue (Ace 1986) fantasy novel. Fourth printing.
• * *Cowboy Feng’s Space Bar and Grille (Ace 0-441-11816-X, Jan ’90 [Dec ’89], $3.50, 224pp, pb, cover by Jim Gurney) Sf adventure novel of a bar that moves through space.
• * *Dragon (Tor 0-312-86692-5, Nov ’98 [Oct ’98], $22.95, 288pp, hc, cover by Stephen Hickman) [Vlad Taltos] Fantasy novel, eighth in the series featuring sorcerer-assassin Vlad Taltos, but a prequel to much of the series, and first (in the immediate series) from Tor. The assassin becomes a soldier at the Battle of Baritt’s Tomb.
• * *Five Hundred Years After (Tor 0-312-85179-0, Apr ’94 [Mar ’94], $23.95, 444pp, hc, cover by Sam Rakeland) [Dragaeran] Swashbuckling fantasy novel à la Dumas. Sequel to The Phoenix Guards.
• * _Five Hundred Years After (Tor 0-812-51522-6, Mar ’95 [Feb ’95], $5.99, 553pp, pb, cover by Sam Rakeland) [Dragaeran] Reprint (Tor 1994) swashbuckling fantasy novel in the “Dragaeran” universe.
• * *Freedom & Necessity (with Emma Bull) (Tor 0-312-85974-0, Mar ’97 [Feb ’97], $25.95, 444pp, hc, cover by G. Wappers) Historical novel with fantasy elements. Four relatives discuss social reform and philosphy while uncovering a deadly conspiracy in mid-19th-century England.
• * _Freedom & Necessity (with Emma Bull) (Tor 0-812-56261-5, Dec ’97 [Nov ’97], $6.99, 590pp, pb, cover by G. Wappers) Reprint (Tor 1997) historical novel with fantasy elements.
• * *The Gypsy (with Megan Lindholm) (Tor 0-312-85274-6, Jun ’92 [May ’92], $18.95, 272pp, hc, cover by Sam Rakeland) Fantasy thriller about a mysterious gypsy and a modern policeman who are at the center of a fantastical and murderous web spun by the Queen of the Underworld.
• * _The Gypsy (with Megan Lindholm) (Tor 0-812-52498-5, Jul ’93 [Jun ’93], $4.99, 338pp, pb, cover by Sam Rakeland) Reprint (Tor 1992) fantasy thriller about a mysterious gypsy and a modern policeman who are at the center of a fantastical and murderous web spun by the Queen of the Underworld.
• * _Jhereg (Ace 0-441-38552-4, Jul ’84 [Jun ’84], $2.75, 239pp, pb) [Vlad Taltos] Reissue (Ace 1983) fantasy novel; 4th printing.
• * *Orca (Ace 0-441-00196-3, Mar ’96 [Feb ’96], $5.99, 290pp, pb, cover by Ciruelo Cabral) [Vlad Taltos] Fantasy novel, seventh in the series featuring sorcerer-assassin Vlad Taltos. Vlad tries to stop the eviction of a widow, and uncovers murder, bank fraud, and cover-ups that reach to the highest levels of government.
• * *Phoenix (Ace 0-441-66225-0, Nov ’90 [Oct ’90], $4.50, 245pp, pb, cover by Denis Beauvais) [Vlad Taltos] Fantasy novel, fifth book of the “Vlad Taltos” series.
• * *The Phoenix Guards (Tor 0-312-85157-X, Sep ’91 [Aug ’91], $19.95, 331pp, hc, cover by Sam Rakeland) [Dragaeran] Fantasy novel set in the same world as the “Vlad Taltos” series, but a thousand years previously. Four adventurers swashbuckle their way through a maze of court intrigue to save their empire in an hommage to Dumas and Sabatini.
• * _The Phoenix Guards (Tor 0-812-50689-8, Jun ’92 [May ’92], $4.99, 491pp, pb, cover by Sam Rakeland) [Dragaeran] Reprint (Tor 1991) fantasy novel set in the same world as the “Vlad Taltos” series, but a thousand years previously. Four adventurers swashbuckle their way through a maze of court intrigue in an hommage to Dumas and Sabatini.
• * _The Phoenix Guards (Tor 0-812-50689-8, Jan ’94 [Dec ’93], $4.99, 491pp, pb, cover by Sam Rakeland) [Dragaeran] Reprint (Tor 1991) fantasy novel set in the same world as the “Vlad Taltos” series; second printing.
• * *The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars (Ace 0-441-08410-9, May ’87 [Apr ’87], $16.95, 210pp, hc) Fantasy novel, first in a series (by various authors), “Fairy Tales”, using classic stories as a jumping-off point for original novels. These are not just retellings of the original stories.
• * _The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars (Ace 0-441-79099-2, Oct ’88 [Sep ’88], $3.50, 210pp, pb) Reprint (Ace 1987) fantasy novel, retelling of a Hungarian fairy tale.
• * _The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars (Tor/Orb 0-312-86039-0, Jul ’96 [Jun ’96], $11.95, 210pp, tp) Reprint (Ace 1987) fantasy novel based on a Hungarian fairy tale.
• * *Taltos (Ace 0-441-18200-3, Mar ’88 [Feb ’88], $2.95, 181pp, pb) [Vlad Taltos] Fantasy novel, fourth in the “Jhereg” series.
• * _Taltos and the Paths of the Dead (Pan 0-330-30792-4, Jul ’91, £4.99, 181pp, tp, cover by Fred Gambino) [Vlad Taltos] Reprint (Ace 1988 as Taltos) fantasy novel. Volume 4 in the “Vlad Taltos” series. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Taltos the Assassin (Pan 0-330-31612-5, Feb ’91, £6.99, 684pp, tp, cover by Fred Gambino) [Vlad Taltos] Fantasy omnibus of Jhereg, Yendi and Teckla. (Contents)
• * *Teckla (Ace 0-441-79977-9, Jan ’87 [Dec ’86], $2.95, 214pp, pb) [Vlad Taltos] Fantasy novel in the “Jhereg” series.
• * *To Reign in Hell (SteelDragon 0-916595-00-5, Jun ’84 [May ’84], $17.00, 257pp, hc) Fantasy novel based on Judeo-Christian mythology. Limited edition of 1,000 signed, numbered copies, illustrated by Kathy Marschall.
• * _To Reign in Hell (Ace 0-441-81496-4, May ’85 [Apr ’85], $2.95, 269pp, pb) Reprint (Steel-Dragon 1984) fantasy novel. First mass-market edition.
• * *Yendi (Ace 0-441-94456-6, Jul ’84 [Jun ’84], $2.75, 209pp, pb) [Vlad Taltos] Fantasy novel, sequel to Jhereg.

BRYAN, JESSICA; pseudonym of Yaffa Chudnow

• * *Beneath a Sapphire Sea (Bantam Fanfare 0-553-56221-5, Sep ’93 [Aug ’93], $4.99, 437pp, pb, cover by John Ennis) Fantasy romance about a modern woman’s love for a man of a forgotten undersea race.
• * *Dawn on a Jade Sea (Bantam 0-553-29837-2, Sep ’92 [Aug ’92], $5.50, 483pp, pb, cover by John Ennis) Fantasy romance set in Atlantis.

BRYANT, DOROTHY (Mae) (1930- )

• * _The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You (Random House/Moon Books 0-679-77843-8, 1997 [Apr ’97], $10.00, 220pp, tp, cover by Kevin Sloan) Reprint (Evan Press 1971 as The Comforter by D.M. Bryant) mystical fantasy with elements of SF.

BRYANT, EDWARD (Winslow, Jr.) (1945- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Author’s Choice Monthly Issue 7: Neon Twilight (Pulphouse no ISBN, Apr ’90 [Mar ’90], $4.95, 110pp, tp, cover by George Barr) Collection of three space opera stories, one an original, with an introduction by the author. A signed hardcover edition ($25.00) is also available, and a deluxe leatherbound edition ($50.00) was announced but not seen. (Contents)
• * *The Cutter (Pulphouse 1-56146-508-9, Jan ’91, $1.95, 52pp, pb, cover by Doug Herring) Fantasy story. Short story paperback #8. This originally appeared in Silver Scream (Dark Harvest 1988) and is published under Bryant’s byline for the first time. A 100-copy signed, leatherbound limited edition ($20.00) is also available.
• * *Darker Passions (Roadkill Press no ISBN, Dec ’92, $6.00, 43pp, ph, cover by Melissa Sherman) Collection of three stories, one original, with an introduction by Dan Simmons and illustrations by Melissa Sherman. Limited to 500 signed copies. Order from Little Bookshop of Horrors, 10380 Ralston Ave., Arvada CO 80004. (Contents)
• * *Fetish (Pulphouse/Axolotl no ISBN, Aug ’91, $10.00, 132pp, tp, cover by Jill Bauman) Short horror novel, Bryant’s longest work in many years. This trade paperback edition is limited to 525 copies. A 300-copy hardcover edition ($35.00) and a 75-copy deluxe leatherbound edition of 75 copies ($65.00) are also available. All states are signed by the author.
• * *The Man of the Future (Roadkill Press, Dec ’90, $3.00, 25pp, ph, cover by Dan Simmons) Horror short story which originally appeared in the October 1984 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, in somewhat different form. This is a limited edition of 400 copies of which 100 are reserved for private distribution and 300 are for sale. Numbered and signed by author and illustrator.
• * _The Shadow on the Doorstep/Trilobyte (with James P. Blaylock) See entry under James P. Blaylock
• * _The Thermals of August (Pulphouse 1-56146-556-9, Jun ’92 [Jul ’92], $1.95, 50pp, pb, cover by Stacy Drum) Sf novelette that originally appeared in F&SF and in the collection Particle Theory. Short Story Paperback #56. A 100-copy signed limited hardcover edition (-936-X, $20.00) is also available. Order from Pulphouse Publishing, Box 1227, Eugene OR 97440.

BRYANT, RAY (1939- )

• * *The Satisfaction House (Warner UK 0-7515-2049-7, Aug ’97 [Jul ’97], £5.99, 408pp, pb, cover by Lee Stannard) Dark fantasy novel. A first novel. Winner of the YOU Magazine/Little, Brown competition.

BRYERS, PAUL (1945- )

• * *In a Pig’s Ear (Bloomsbury Books 0-7475-2478-5, Apr ’96 [Jul ’96], £14.99, 277pp, hc) Literary fantasy novel.

BUCHAN, JOHN, Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940) (stories)

• * *The Best Supernatural Stories of John Buchan (Robert Hale 0-7090-4293-0, Apr ’91 [Mar ’91], £15.95, 254pp, hc) Collection of 15 supernatural short stories by John Buchan, edited and with an introduction by Peter Haining. (Contents)
• * _The Dancing Floor (Oxford University Press 0-19-283287-5, Apr ’97 [May ’97], £4.99, xxxviii+231pp, tp, cover by Parthenis Constantin) Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 1926) literary fantasy novel. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by Marilyn Deegan. The text is that of the 1928 Thomas Nelson edition. (Contents)
• * *The Far Islands and Other Tales of Fantasy (Donald M. Grant 0-937986-68-2, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $17.00, 206pp, hc) Collection of six fantasy stories edited by John Bell, with illustrations by Larry Dickison and a long bio-bibliographical introduction by Bell. Buchan, an important figure in the adventure field, has been sadly neglected. (Contents)
• * *Witch Wood (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-496-9, Jul ’89 [Jun ’89], $4.50, 292pp, pb) Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 1927) historical novel with fantasy elements set in 18th-century Scotland.
• * _Witch Wood (World’s Classics 0-19-282941-6, Oct ’93 [Dec ’93], £3.99, 331pp, pb, cover by Sir George Harvey) Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 1927) witchcraft novel. Introduction, by J.C.G. Grieg.

BUCHER-JONES, SIMON (stories)

• * *The Death of Art (Doctor Who Books 0-426-20481-6, Sep ’96 [Aug ’96], £4.99, 276pp, pb, cover by Jon Sullivan) [Doctor Who: New Adventures] Original novel based on the Doctor Who TV series. This is a world-wide edition, available in the US for $5.95. Volume 54 in “The New Adventures”.
• * *The New Adventures: Ghost Devices (New Adventures 0-426-20514-6, Nov ’97 [Oct ’97], £4.99, 249pp, pb, cover by Mark Salwowski) [Bernice Summerfield] SF novelization based on characters from Doctor Who novelizations, without the Doctor. Book 7 in the Bernice Summerfield series.

BUCK, CHARLES H.; pseudonym of Ray Buck & Hugh Culik

• * *The Master Cure (Jove 0-515-10187-7, Sep ’89 [Aug ’89], $3.95, 284pp, pb) Near-future medical/political thriller about deadly virus unleashed by white supremacists who wish to rid the world of “undesirables”.