The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Books, Listed by Author

HOGAN, JAMES P(atrick) (stories) (chron.) (continued)

• * _The Mirror Maze (Bantam Falcon 0-553-27762-6, Aug ’92 [Jul ’92], $5.99, 439pp, pb, cover by Bill Schmidt) Reissue (Bantam Spectra 1989) near-future political thriller; second printing.
• * *The Multiplex Man (Bantam Spectra 0-553-08999-4, Dec ’92 [Nov ’92], $20.00, 359pp, hc, cover by Paul Youll) Near-future sf thriller. Richard Jarrow wakes up in another man’s body, without an official identity, in a repressive bureaucratic America where a lack of valid papers can kill you.
• * _The Multiplex Man (Bantam Spectra 0-553-56363-7, Nov ’94 [Oct ’94], $5.99, 386pp, pb, cover by Paul Youll) Reprint (Bantam 1992) SF novel, winner of the Prometheus Award.
• * *Out of Time (Bantam Spectra 0-553-29971-9, Dec ’93 [Nov ’93], $3.99, 117pp, pb, cover by Bruce Jensen) Sf novella about a policeman in a New York City where time passes at different speeds in different parts of the city.
• * *Paths to Otherwhere (Baen 0-671-87710-0, Feb ’96 [Jan ’96], $22.00, 405pp, hc, cover by Gary Ruddell) Near-future SF novel. Physicists hope to use quantum mechanics to find a world without war.
• * _Paths to Otherwhere (Baen 0-671-87766-6, Feb ’97 [Jan ’97], $5.99, 405pp, pb, cover by Gary Ruddell) Reprint (Baen 1996) near-future SF novel. Physicists hope to use quantum mechanics to find a world without war.
• * *The Proteus Operation (Bantam Spectra 0-553-05095-8, Sep ’85 [Aug ’85], $16.95, 403pp, hc) Sf time travel novel centered around World War II.
• * _The Proteus Operation (SFBC #05755, Jan ’86, $5.98, 403pp, hc) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1985) alternate world sf novel.
• * _The Proteus Operation (Bantam 0-553-25698-X, Sep ’86 [Aug ’86], $4.50, 407pp, pb) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1985) sf novel.
• * _The Proteus Operation (Century 0-7126-9527-3, Nov ’86, £9.95, 496pp, hc) Reprint (Bantam 1985) sf novel.
• * _The Proteus Operation (Arrow 0-09-948200-2, Jul ’87, £3.50, 496pp, pb) Reprint (Bantam 1985) sf novel.
• * _The Proteus Operation (Bantam Spectra 0-553-19553-0, Mar ’89 [Feb ’89], no price, 407pp, pb) Reissue (Bantam 1985) sf novel. This is a special free giveaway printing, shrinkwrapped with copies of The Mirror Maze. Fifth printing.
• * _The Proteus Operation (Bantam Spectra 0-553-25698-X, Nov ’91 [Oct ’91], $4.99, 407pp, pb, cover by Jim Warren & Bob Larkin) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1985) time-travel sf thriller set in a world where the Nazis won WWII.
• * _The Proteus Operation (Baen 0-671-87757-7, Dec ’96 [Nov ’96], $5.99, 467pp, pb, cover by David Mattingly) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1985) SF time-travel novel.
• * *Realtime Interrupt (Bantam Spectra 0-553-37454-0, Mar ’95 [Feb ’95], $12.95, 324pp, tp) SF thriller. Scientists are trapped in their own virtual reality.
• * _Realtime Interrupt (Bantam Spectra 0-553-57445-0, Jan ’96 [Dec ’95], $5.99, 320pp, pb, cover by Peter Gudynas) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1995) SF thriller. Scientists are trapped in their own virtual reality.
• * *Star Child (Baen 0-671-87878-6, Jun ’98 [May ’98], $5.99, 269pp, pb, cover by Stephen Hickman) SF novel. Mechanical minds on a spaceship, speculating on the origins of machinekind, decide to create humans from obsolete data they uncover.
• * _Thrice Upon a Time (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36010-9, Jan ’89 [Dec ’88], $3.95, 310pp, pb) Reissue (Del Rey 1980) sf time travel novel. Fifth printing.
• * _The Two Faces of Tomorrow (Baen 0-671-87848-4, Oct ’97 [Sep ’97], $6.99, 442pp, pb, cover by Stephen Hickman) Reprint (Del Rey 1979) SF novel.

HOGARTH, GRACE (Weston) ALLEN (1905-1995)

• * _Sneeze on Sunday (with Andre Norton) See entry under Andre Norton.

HOH, DIANE (1937- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *The Accident (Scholastic 0-590-44330-5, May ’91 [Apr ’91], $2.95, 165pp, pb, cover by Genzo) Young-adult horror novel. A young girl and the spirit of a drowned girl trade places.
• * *Nightmare Hall: Deadly Attraction (Scholastic 0-590-46015-3, Sep ’93, $3.50, 214pp, pb) [Nightmare Hall] Young-adult horror novel, third book in a series. The big-man-on-campus flirts with a pretty new girl only to realize that she isn’t quite human and never lets go of what she wants.
• * _Nightmare Hall: Deadly Attraction (Scholastic UK 0-590-55612-6, Jan ’95, £2.99, 214pp, pb) [Nightmare Hall] Reprint (Scholastic 1993) Young-adult horror novel, third book in a series. The big-man-on-campus flirts with a pretty new girl only to realize that she isn’t quite human and never lets go of what she wants. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Nightmare Hall: Monster (Scholastic 0-590-48321-8, Jul ’94 [Jun ’94], $3.50, 165pp, pb) [Nightmare Hall] Young-adult horror novel, 13th book in a series. A supernatural creature attacks people walking alone on the campus.
• * _Nightmare Hall: The Monster (Scholastic UK 0-590-19500-X, Dec ’97, £3.99, 165pp, pb) [Nightmare Hall] Reprint (Scholastic 1994) young-adult dark fantasy novel of an (in-)human monster. Volume 13 in the series. Copyrighted by Barbara Steiner, suggesting Hoh is, or has become, a house pseudonym. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Nightmare Hall: The Roommate (Scholastic UK 0-590-55522-7, Oct ’94, £2.99, 184pp, pb) [Nightmare Hall] Reprint (Scholastic 1993) young-adult horror novel. Volume two in a new series. Copyrighted by Nola Thacker. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Nightmare Hall: The Scream Team (Scholastic 0-590-47137-6, Nov ’93, $3.50, 164pp, pb) [Nightmare Hall] Young-adult horror novel, fifth book of a series. Delle is desperate to become a cheerleader until she learns that you have to die to make the team.
• * _Nightmare Hall: The Scream Team (Scholastic UK 0-590-13103-6, Oct ’95, £3.50, 164pp, pb) [Nightmare Hall] Reprint (Scholastic 1993) young-adult horror novel, sixth book in a series. Delle is desperate to become a cheerleader until she learns that you have to die to make the team. (This seems to have appeared as Book 5 in the US). [First U.K. edition]
• * *Nightmare Hall: The Silent Scream (Scholastic 0-590-46014-5, Jul ’93, $3.50, 229pp, pb) [Nightmare Hall] Young-adult horror novel of a girl who moves into a dorm room haunted by the ghost of a girl who hanged herself there. First book of a new series.
• * _Nightmare Hall: The Silent Scream (Scholastic UK 0-590-55461-1, Oct ’94, £2.99, 229pp, pb) [Nightmare Hall] Reprint (Scholastic 1993) young-adult horror novel. Volume one in a new series. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Nightmare Hall: The Vampire’s Kiss (Scholastic 0-590-25089-2, Apr ’95 [Feb ’95], $3.50, 145pp, pb) [Nightmare Hall] Young adult vampire novel, #22 in the series about a strange dormitory. Only some of the novels in the series are fantasy.
• * *Nightmare Hall: The Wish (Scholastic 0-590-46013-7, Oct ’93, $3.50, 195pp, pb) [Nightmare Hall] Young-adult horror novel, fourth book in a series. A mechanical wishing booth in the campus pizzeria seems to be responsible for horrible incidents.
• * _Nightmare Hall: The Wish (Scholastic UK 0-590-55906-0, Apr ’95, £3.50, 195pp, pb, cover by Larry Rostant) [Nightmare Hall] Reprint (Scholastic 1993) young-adult horror novel, fourth book in a series. A mechanical wishing booth in the campus pizzeria seems to be responsible for horrible incidents. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Point Horror 2: The Diane Hoh Special Edition (Scholastic UK 0-590-54287-7, Oct ’96 [Dec ’96], £6.99, 378pp, hc) Young-adult horror omnibus of The Fever, Funhouse, and The Invitation. (Contents)

HOHL, JOAN (M.) (1935- )

• * *Window on Today (Berkley 0-425-11200-4, Jan ’89 [Dec ’88], $2.50, 178pp, pb) [Window] Fantasy time travel love story, second in a trilogy.
• * *Window on Tomorrow (Berkley 0-425-11462-7, Mar ’89 [Sep ’89], $2.50, 180pp, pb) [Window] Romance with sf elements, Second Chance at Love #458. A woman discovers that the man of her dreams is an alien.
• * *Window on Yesterday (Berkley 0-425-11090-7, Nov ’88 [Oct ’88], $2.50, 181pp, pb) [Window] Time travel romance novel of love during the American revolution; first of a trilogy. “Second Chance of Love” #450.

HOKE, FRANKLIN, ed. (stories)

• * _Horrifying and Hideous Hauntings (with Helen Hoke) See entry under Helen Hoke.

HOKE, HELEN, ed.; [i.e., Helen L. Hoke Watts] (1903-1990) (stories)

• * *Horrifying and Hideous Hauntings (with Franklin Hoke) (Dutton/Lodestar 0-525-67179-X, May ’86, $14.95, 116pp, hc) Young-adult anthology of horror tales. (Contents)
• * *Venemous Tales of Villainy and Vengeance (Dutton/Lodestar 0-525-67158-7, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $11.95, 127pp, hc) Anthology of 8 horror stories by Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg, Joan Aiken, and others. (Contents)

HOKENSON, JAN (Walsh), ed. (1942- )

• * *Forms of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Third International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film (with Howard D. Pearce) (Greenwood 0-313-25035-9, May ’86 [Jun ’86], $45.00, xiv + 262pp, hc) Non-fiction, a group of critical studies.

HOKLIN, LONN (1946- ); see pseudonym John Gideon

• * *The Hourglass Crisis (Warner 0-446-34620-9, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $3.95, 374pp, pb) Sf/suspense novel of an attempt to restore the Third Reich through time travel.

HOLCH, GREGORY J.

• * *The Things with Wings (Scholastic 0-590-93501-1, May ’98 [Jul ’98], $15.95, 227pp, hc, cover by Josh Gosfield) Young-adult fantasy novel. Strange things begin to happen when the Emerald Rainbow butterflies return to the town of Angel Falls. A first novel.

HOLDEN, ELIZABETH (Rhoda Wintle) (1943- ); see pseudonym Louise Lawrence (stories)

HOLDEN, URSULA (1921- )

• * *Tin Toys (Methuen 0-413-60450-0, Mar ’86, £8.95, 132pp, hc) Horror novel. Mordantly humorous exploration of a child’s world, with all its subversive horrors. (JF/SJ)
• * _Tin Toys (Methuen 0-413-15850-0, Jul ’87, £3.95, 132pp, pb) Reprint (Methuen 1986) literary horror novel.

HOLDER, NANCY (Lindsay Jones) (1953- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _Buffy, the Vampire Slayer: Blooded (with Christopher Golden) See entry under Christopher Golden.
• * _Buffy, the Vampire Slayer: Child of the Hunt (with Christopher Golden) See entry under Christopher Golden.
• * _Buffy, the Vampire Slayer: Halloween Rain (with Christopher Golden) See entry under Christopher Golden.
• * *Buffy, the Vampire Slayer: The Angel Chronicles, Vol. 1 (Pocket Archway 0-671-02133-8, Jul ’98 [Jun ’98], $4.50, pb) [Buffy, the Vampire Slayer] Young-adult collection/novelization of three episodes of the TV show based on the movie. Copyrighted by Twentieth Century Fox Film. (Contents)
• * *Cannibal Dwight’s Special Purpose (Roadkill Press no ISBN, Sep ’92, $5.00, 21pp, ph, cover by Melissa Sherman) Horror short story with illustrations by Melissa Sherman. This is a 300-copy signed limited edition. Order from Little Bookshop of Horrors, 10380 Ralston Rd., Arvada CO 80004.
• * *Dead in the Water (Dell Abyss 0-440-21481-5, Jun ’94 [May ’94], $4.99, 413pp, pb) Horror novel about a sea voyage from Long Beach to Hawaii that turns into a nightmare when the ship sinks and survivors are picked up by a vessel that masks a deadly evil. Recommended (SW).
• * _Dead in the Water (Raven 1-85487-419-5, Nov ’95, £4.99, 413pp, pb, cover by J. K. Potter) Reprint (Dell Abyss 1994) horror novel about a sea voyage from Long Beach to Hawaii that turns into a nightmare when the ship sinks and survivors are picked up by a vessel that masks a deadly evil. Winner of the 1995 Bram Stoker Award for Novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Gambler’s Star, Book One: The Six Families (Avon Eos 0-380-79312-1, Oct ’98 [Sep ’98], $5.99, 338pp, pb) [*Gambler’s Star] SF novel, first in a series. A mob war threatens Moonbase Vegas when a rich Earthsider tries to start a new casino.
• * *The Ghosts of Tivoli (Pulphouse 1-56146-544-5, Feb ’92, $1.95, 28pp, pb, cover by Todd Cameron Hamilton) Original fantasy short story of a man’s search for magic in the ruins of his past. Short story paperback #44. Order from Pulphouse Publishing, PO Box 1227, Eugene OR 97440.
• * *Highlander: Measure of a Man (Warner Aspect 0-446-60455-0, May ’97 [Apr ’97], $5.99, 216pp, pb) [Highlander] Novelization based on the TV show based on the movie. Copyrighted by Warner Books.
• * _Making Love (with Melanie Tem) See entry under Melanie Tem.
• * _Making Love (with Melanie Tem) (Raven 1-85487-345-8, Jan ’95, £4.99, 368pp, pb) Reprint (Dell Abyss 1993) horror novel of repressed woman who dreams her ideal lover into existence, and is happy until she realises she can no longer control him. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Sabrina, the Teenage Witch: Spying Eyes (Pocket Archway 0-671-02118-4, Sep ’98 [Aug ’98], $4.50, 145pp, pb) [Sabrina, the Teenage Witch] Young-adult novelization, 14th in the series based on the TV show based on the Archie Comic. Copyrighted by Viacom Productions.
• * _Witch-Light (with Melanie Tem) See entry under Melanie Tem.

HOLDSTOCK, ROBERT (Paul) (1948-2009); see pseudonyms Robert Faulcon & Richard Kirk (stories) (chron.)

• * *Ancient Echoes (HarperCollins UK 0-00-224600-7, Apr ’96 [Mar ’96], £15.99, 343pp, hc, cover by Geoff Taylor) SF/fantasy novel. A young boy’s powerful visions of another world lead to a breakthrough in his later life.
• * +Ancient Echoes (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45575-4, Jul ’96 [Jun ’96], $12.95, 357pp, tp, cover by Ron Walotsky) Fantasy novel. A boy with visions of other worlds must enter them as a man through lucid dreaming, encountering mythagos (myth-imagoes), if not the precise territory of Mythago Wood. First US edition (HarperCollins UK 1996).
• * _Ancient Echoes (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-648000-4, Dec ’96 [Nov ’96], £5.99, 405pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1996) fantasy novel.
• * _Ancient Echoes (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45561-4, May ’97 [Apr ’97], $6.99, 428pp, pb, cover by Ron Walotsky) Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1996) fantasy novel of “mythagos.”
• * *The Bone Forest (Grafton 0-246-13833-5, Mar ’91 [Feb ’91], £13.99, 229pp, hc, cover by Geoff Taylor) Collection of eight fantasy stories, including the title novella that forms a prequel to Mythago Wood, illustrated by Geoff Taylor. (Contents)
• * _The Bone Forest (Grafton 0-586-21292-2, May ’92 [Apr ’92], £4.50, 268pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) Reprint (Grafton 1991) collection of eight fantasy stories, including the title novella that forms a prequel to Mythago Wood, illustrated by Geoff Taylor.
• * +The Bone Forest (AvoNova 0-380-76781-3, Sep ’92 [Aug ’92], $4.50, 247pp, pb, cover by Tom Canty) Collection of eight fantasy stories. The title novella is a prequel to Mythago Wood. First American edition (Grafton 1991).
• * _Earthwind (Gollancz 0-575-04011-4, Sep ’87, £2.95, 245pp, pb) Reprint (Faber and Faber 1977) sf novel.
• * _The Emerald Forest (HarperCollins UK 0-00-648014-4, Aug ’95, £4.99, 253pp, pb, cover by Jim Burns,(?)) Reprint (Penguin 1985) novelisation of the film.
• * _Eye Among the Blind (Gollancz 0-575-04010-6, Jun ’87, £2.50, 219pp, pb) Reprint (Faber and Faber 1976) sf novel.
• * *The Fetch (Orbit 0-356-19699-2, Dec ’91 [Nov ’91], £13.95, 376pp, hc, cover by Jim Burns) Horror novel about a child who can ‘fetch’ things from any point in space or time. Recommended. (PSP)
• * _The Fetch (Warner UK 0-7515-0084-4, Sep ’92, £4.99, 376pp, pb, cover by Jim Burns) Reprint (Orbit 1991) horror novel about a child who can “fetch” things from any point in space or time. Recommended (PSP).
• * _Gate of Ivory (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-224604-X, May ’98, £16.99, 287pp, hc, cover by John Howe) [Mythago] Reprint (Penguin/Roc 1997 as Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn) fantasy novel in the “Mythago” cycle. The next-generation Huxley is drawn into Ryhope Wood to meet the usual miserable love affair. Based on the Mabinogion. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Gate of Ivory (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-648002-0, Dec ’98 [Nov ’98], £6.99, 348pp, pb, cover by John Howe) [Mythago] Reprint (Roc 1997 as Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn) fantasy novel in the “Mythago” cycle. The next-generation Huxley is drawn into Ryhope Wood.
• * *Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45570-3, Nov ’97 [Oct ’97], $24.95, 308pp, hc, cover by Ron Walotsky) [Mythago] Fantasy novel in the “Mythago” cycle. The next-generation Huxley is drawn into Ryhope Wood.
• * *The Hollowing (HarperCollins UK 0-00-224201-X, Aug ’93 [Jul ’93], £8.99, 314pp, tp, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Mythago] Fantasy novel, about a young boy lost in Ryhope Wood. A hardcover edition (0-246-13834-3, £15.99) is also available. Volume three in the “Mythago Wood” series.
• * +The Hollowing (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45355-7, Jul ’94 [Jun ’94], $17.95, 367pp, hc, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Mythago] Fantasy novel, third book of the “Mythago Wood” series, about a boy lost in dark and magical Ryhope Wood. First American edition (HarperCollins UK 1993).
• * _The Hollowing (HarperCollins UK 0-586-21293-0, Sep ’94, £4.99, 376pp, pb) [Mythago] Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1993) fantasy novel. Volume three in the “Mythago Wood” series.
• * _The Hollowing (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45356-5, Jul ’95 [Jun ’95], $4.99, 321pp, pb, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Mythago] Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1993) fantasy novel set in the world of Mythago Wood.
• * _In the Valley of the Statues and Other Stories (Gollancz 0-575-04023-8, Mar ’88, £2.95, 223pp, pb) Reprint (Faber 1982) sf/fantasy collection.
• * *Lavondyss (Gollancz 0-575-04375-X, Oct ’88, £6.99, 367pp, tp) [Mythago] Fantasy novel. Sequel to Mythago Wood. Also available in hc (-04374-1) for £11.95.
• * *Lavondyss (Gollancz 0-575-04482-9, Oct ’88, £40.00, 367pp, hc) [Mythago] Slipcased edition of the above, limited to 150 numbered copies, signed by Robert Holdstock and Alan Lee.
• * +Lavondyss (William Morrow 0-688-09185-7, Aug ’89 [Jul ’89], $18.95, 367pp, hc) [Mythago] Fantasy novel set in an English forest where myths still walk; sequel to Mythago Wood. First American edition (Gollancz 1988).
• * _Lavondyss (SFBC #15578, Dec ’89 [Nov ’89], $8.98, 367pp, hc, cover by Alan Lee) [Mythago] Reprint (Gollancz 1988) fantasy novel, sequel to Mythago Wood.
• * _Lavondyss (Grafton 0-586-20760-0, Jan ’90, £3.99, 475pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Mythago] Reprint (Gollancz 1988) fantasy novel. Sequel to Mythago Wood.
• * _Lavondyss (Avon 0-380-71184-2, Jan ’91 [Dec ’90], $4.50, 388pp, pb, cover by Thomas Canty) [Mythago] Reprint (Gollancz 1988) fantasy novel, sequel to Mythago Wood.
• * *Merlin’s Wood (HarperCollins UK 0-00-224603-1, Sep ’94 [Aug ’94], £15.99, 234pp, hc, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Mythago] Fantasy novel, fourth in the “Mythago Wood” cycle, plus two reprinted short stories. (Contents)
• * _Merlin’s Wood (HarperCollins UK 0-00-648001-2, Mar ’95, £4.99, 286pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Mythago] Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1994) fantasy novel, fourth in the ‘Mythago Wood’ cycle, plus two reprinted short stories.