The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

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ALDISS, BRIAN W(ilson) (stories) (chron.) (continued)

* _The Secret of This Book (HarperCollins UK 0-00-649793-4, Nov ’96, £5.99, 334pp, tp, cover by Gary Embury) Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1995) collection of more than 20 stories and vignettes—several original—each introduced by a comment, vignette, or anecdote. Appeared as Common Clay in the US (1996). This edition has illustrations by the author.
* *Sex and the Black Machine (Avernus, Jul ’90, 26pp, 7½" x 9" ph) Collage of words and images put together by Brian Aldiss and distributed free with the August issue of Interzone, which was a special Brian Aldiss issue. This is subtitled “the first Aldiss cutup”.
* *Somewhere East of Life (Carroll & Graf 0-7867-0074-2, Aug ’94 [Jul ’94], $22.95, 391pp, hc) [Squire] Mainstream/SF black comedy novel about a man trying to recover a decade of memories stolen from him and sold as softcore porn. Final volume of the “Squire” quartet of mainstream novels. Simultaneous with the UK edition from Flamingo.
* *Somewhere East of Life (Flamingo 0-00-225000-4, Aug ’94, £15.99, 392pp, hc, cover by Gary Embury) [Squire] Sf/mainstream novel. Fourth in the “Squire” quartet. Simultaneous with the US (Carroll & Graf) edition.
* _Somewhere East of Life (Easton Press no ISBN, Nov ’94, no price, 391pp, hc) [Squire] Mainstream/SF black comedy novel about a man trying to recover a decade of memories stolen from him and sold as softcore porn. Final volume of the “Squire” quartet of mainstream novels. With an introduction by James Gunn and illustration by Frank Mayo. This special leatherbound, gilt-edge edition is part of the “Signed First Editions of Science Fiction” and is available by subscription only. Published “simultaneously” with the Carroll and Graf edition listed four months ago.
* _Somewhere East of Life (Flamingo 0-00-654763-X, Nov ’95 [Oct ’95], £5.99, 392pp, tp, cover by Gary Embury) [Squire] Reprint (Flamingo 1994) SF novel; fourth in the ‘Squire’ quartet.
* _Starswarm (Baen 0-671-55999-0, Dec ’85 [Nov ’85], $2.95, 246pp, pb) Reprint (Signet 1964) collection. This is labeled “first complete U.S. edition.” It adds one story “Intangibles, Inc.” to the earlier collection and drops all earlier copyright mention. (Contents)
* _Starswarm (Gollancz 0-575-04182-X, Aug ’90, £3.50, 190pp, pb) Reprint (Signet 1964) sf collection. Volume 45 in the “VGSF Classics” series.
* *Trillion Year Spree (with David Wingrove) (Gollancz 0-575-03942-6, Oct ’86, £15.00, 511pp, hc) Non-fiction, critical study of the history of science fiction; an extensive revision and expansion of Aldiss’s Billion Year Spree (1973).
* *Trillion Year Spree (with David Wingrove) (Gollancz 0-575-03943-4, Oct ’86, £9.95, 511pp, tp) Trade paperback edition of the above.
* _Trillion Year Spree (with David Wingrove) (Avon 0-380-70461-7, Mar ’88 [Feb ’88], $9.95, 511pp, tp) Reprint (Gollancz 1986) non-fiction, critical history of sf. Highly recommended — up to but not including the last part on today’s authors. (CNB)
* _Trillion Year Spree (with David Wingrove) (Paladin 0-586-08684-6, Sep ’88, £6.95, 688pp, tp) Reprint (Gollancz 1986). This is a slightly revised and corrected edition of the Hugo-winning non-fiction history of science fiction.
* *Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (with David Wingrove) (Atheneum 0-689-11839-2, Nov ’86, $14.95, 512pp, hc) Revised, updated version of the non-fiction study of sf, The Billion Year Spree. Close to or simultaneous with the British edition from Gollancz. B&W photos plus color reproductions.
* +A Tupelov Too Far (St. Martin’s 0-312-10565-7, Mar ’94, $18.95, 200pp, hc, cover by Sergeí Sharov) Collection of 12 stories. First American edition (HarperCollins UK 1993).
* *A Tupolev Too Far (HarperCollins UK 0-00-224033-5, Jul ’93 [Jun ’93], £14.99, 200pp, hc, cover by Sergeí Sharov) Collection of 12 sf and fantasy stories, mainly from the last five years. Recommended (PSP). (Contents)
* _A Tupolev Too Far and other stories (HarperCollins UK 0-00-647631-7, Oct ’94, £4.99, 232pp, pb, cover by Fred Gambino) Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1993) collection of 12 SF and fantasy stories.
* *The Twinkling of an Eye or My Life as an Englishman (Little, Brown UK 0-316-64706-3, Nov ’98, £20.00, 484pp, hc) Autobiography of the author, illustrated with eight pages of photographs.
* *The Year Before Yesterday (Franklin Watts 0-531-15040-2, Apr ’87 [Mar ’87], $16.95, 227pp, hc) Sf alternate world novel composed of Equator (Brown, Watson 1958) and “The Impossible Smile” (Science Fantasy May & June 1965 as by Jael Cracken) plus a new framework. (Contents)
* _The Year Before Yesterday (St. Martin’s 0-312-91112-2, Jun ’88 [May ’88], $3.50, 227pp, pb) Reprint (Franklin Watts 1987) sf quasi-novel.
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* *The Book of Mini-Sagas II (Alan Sutton 0-86299-486-1, Feb ’88 [Mar ’88], £3.95, 254pp, tp) A second anthology of 50-word pieces, of associational interest.
* _Galactic Empires (Legend 0-09-952150-4, Sep ’88, £4.99, 650pp, pb) Reprint (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1976, in 2 volumes) sf anthology.
* *The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction (with Sam J. Lundwall) (Penguin 0-14-008067-8, Jul ’86 [Aug ’86], £3.50, 320pp, pb) Anthology of sf from many lands. (Contents)
* +The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction (with Sam J. Lundwall) (Penguin 0-14-008067-8, Oct ’87 [Sep ’87], $4.95, 320pp, pb) Anthology of international sf stories from 26 countries. First U.S. edition (Penguin 1986). This is actually a reissue of the original, distributed for the first time in the U.S. with a $4.95 American price on the back.
ALDISS, MARGARET (Christie, née Manson) (1933-1997) (stories)

* *The Work of Brian W. Aldiss: An Annotated Bibliography & Guide (Borgo Press 0-89370-488-1, Jul ’92, $29.00, 359pp, tp) Non-fiction; reference. A semi-annotated (by Brian Aldiss) bibliography of Aldiss’ fiction and non-fiction, with a preface by Margaret Aldiss and an introduction by David Wingrove. There is an autobiographical afterword and numerous photos. A hardcover edition (-388-5, $39.00) was announced but not seen. Available from The Borgo Press, PO Box 2845, San Bernardino CA 92406. Please add $2.00 shipping. [Aldiss]
_____, ed. * _A Is for Brian (with Malcolm Edwards & Frank Hatherley) See entry under Frank Hatherley.
ALDRIDGE, ALAN (1943- )

* *The Gnole (with Steven R. Boyett) (Heinemann 0-434-01788-4, Nov ’91, £17.99, 503pp, hc) Ecological fantasy novel, heavily illustrated by Maxine Miller and Harry Willock.
* *The Gnole (with Steven R. Boyett) (Mandarin 0-7493-0990-3, Nov ’91, £9.99, 503pp, tp) Paperback edition of the above.
* _The Gnole (with Steven R. Boyett) (Mandarin 0-7493-1354-4, Sep ’92, £4.99, 467pp, pb, cover by Alan Aldridge) Reprint (Heinemann; Mandarin 1991) ecological fantasy novel, heavily illustrated by Maxine Miller and Harry Willock.
ALDRIDGE, ALEXANDRA (Bertash) (1940- )

* *The Scientific World View in Dystopia (UMI 0-8357-1572-8, 1984 [May ’85], $24.95 + postage, 97pp, hc) Non-fiction, literary criticism. This revision of a doctoral thesis appeared in 1984, but we did not see it until 1985.
ALDRIDGE, RAY(mon Huebert) (1948- ) (stories)

* *The Emancipator Book I: The Pharaoh Contract (Bantam Spectra 0-553-29118-1, Sep ’91 [Aug ’91], $4.50, 290pp, pb, cover by Paul Youll) [Emancipator] Sf novel, first book of a new series set on a planet used by an interstellar corporation as a breeding ground for slave labor. A first novel.
* *The Emancipator, Book II: The Emperor of Everything (Bantam Spectra 0-553-29491-1, Feb ’92 [Jan ’92], $4.50, 278pp, pb, cover by Paul Youll) [Emancipator] Sf novel, second book of a series set on a planet used by an interstellar corporation as a breeding ground for slave labor.
* *The Emancipator, Book III: The Orpheus Machine (Bantam Spectra 0-553-29119-X, Sep ’92 [Aug ’92], $4.99, 335pp, pb, cover by Paul Youll) [Emancipator] Sf novel, third book of a series set on a planet used by an interstellar corporation as a breeding ground for slave labor.
ALDRIN, EDWIN E(ugene) “BUZZ”, Jr. (1930- ) (stories)

* *Encounter with Tiber (with John Barnes) (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-62450-7, Jun ’96 [May ’96], £16.99, 560pp, hc) Near-future SF novel, with a foreword by Arthur C. Clarke.
* *Encounter with Tiber (with John Barnes) (Warner Aspect 0-446-51854-9, Jul ’96 [Jun ’96], $21.95, 560pp, hc, cover by Bob Eggleton) SF novel. A message from deep space helps set off a new space race.
* _Encounter with Tiber (with John Barnes) (NEL 0-340-62451-5, Nov ’96 [Jan ’97], £5.99, 560pp, pb) Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton; Warner Aspect 1996) SF novel.
* _Encounter with Tiber (with John Barnes) (Warner Aspect 0-446-60404-6, May ’97 [Apr ’97], $6.50, 640pp, pb, cover by Bob Eggleton) Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton; Warner Aspect 1996) SF novel.
ALESHKOVSKY, JOSEPH; [born Iosif Efimovich Aleskovsky] (1929- ); see pseudonym Yuz Aleshkovsky
ALESHKOVSKY, YUZ; pseudonym of Joseph Aleshkovsky, (1929- )

* *A Ring in a Case (Northwestern University Press/Hydra 0-8101-1138-1, Jun ’95 [May ’95], $24.95, 249pp, hc, cover by Odilon Redon) Satiric dark quasi-fantasy. Demons, many drawn from Russian tradition and literature, haunt a determined atheist in post-Gorbachev Moscow. Translated by Jane Anne Miller.
ALEXANDER, BRANDON; see under R. L. Stine

* _Fear Street Sagas #12: Chamber of Fear [as by R. L. Stine] See entry under R. L. Stine
* _Fear Street Sagas #3: Forbidden Secrets [as by R. L. Stine] See entry under R. L. Stine
* _Fear Street Sagas: Children of Fear [as by R. L. Stine] See entry under R. L. Stine
ALEXANDER, DAVID; pseudonym of Lawrence Herskovits, (1953- ); see house pseudonym John Sievert

* _C.A.D.S. # 9: Suicide Attack [as by John Sievert] See entry under John Sievert.
* _C.A.D.S. #10: Recon by Fire [as by John Sievert] See entry under John Sievert.
* _C.A.D.S. #11: Death Zone Attack [as by John Sievert] See entry under John Sievert.
* _C.A.D.S. #12: Tech Assassins [as by John Sievert] See entry under John Sievert.
* _Dark Messiah (Star 0-352-32152-0, Nov ’87, £1.95, 221pp, pb) [Phoenix] Reprint (Leisure 1987) post-holocaust adventure novel. Volume 1 in the “Phoenix” series. [First U.K. edition]
* *Nomad #4: Desert Fire (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62118-3, Sep ’93 [Aug ’93], $4.99, 348pp, pb) [Nomad] Sf men’s adventure novel, fourth book of a series featuring a 21st-century anti-terrorist commando.
* *Nomad: Smart Bomb (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62117-5, Apr ’93 [Mar ’93], $4.99, 348pp, pb) [Nomad] Sf men’s adventure novel, third book of a series featuring a 21st-century anti-terrorist commando.
* *Phoenix #1: Dark Messiah (Leisure 0-8439-2462-4, May ’87 [Aug ’87], $2.95, 221pp, pb) [Phoenix] Post-holocaust adventure novel.
* *Phoenix #2: Ground Zero (Leisure 0-8439-2517-5, Aug ’87 [Jul ’87], $2.95, 224pp, pb) [Phoenix] Post-holocaust sf adventure novel.
* _Phoenix #2: Ground Zero (W.H. Allen Star 0-352-32170-9, Jan ’88, £2.50, 224pp, pb) [Phoenix] Reprint (Leisure 1987) post-holocaust adventure novel. Volume 2 in the “Phoenix” series. [First U.K. edition]
* *Phoenix #4: Metalstorm (Leisure 0-8439-2630-9, Aug ’88 [Oct ’88], $2.95, 192pp, pb) [Phoenix] Post-holocaust men’s adventure novel.
* *Phoenix #5: Whirlwind (Leisure 0-8439-2685-6, Oct ’88 [Sep ’88], $2.95, 192pp, pb) [Phoenix] Post-apocalyptic men’s adventure novel.
* _Star Trek Creator: The Authorised Biography of Gene Roddenberry (Boxtree 0-7522-0792-X, Nov ’95, £12.99, 599pp, tp) [Star Trek] Reprint (Penguin/Roc 1994) non-fiction. The authorised, but still revealing biography of Gene Roddenberry.
* *Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45418-9, Jun ’94 [May ’94], $23.95, 599pp, hc) [Star Trek] Non-fiction, biography. The authorized biography of Roddenberry, with an introduction by Majel Barrett Roddenberry. [Roddenberry]
* _Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry (Boxtree 0-7522-0873-X, Dec ’94, £15.99, 599pp, hc) [Star Trek] Reprint (Roc 1994) Associational work: includes an introduction by Majel Barrett Roddenberry, a Foreword by Ray Bradbury, and 16pp of stills. The body of the text quotes from letters by John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, and Erle Stanley Gardner. [First U.K. edition] [Roddenberry]
* _Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45440-5, Mar ’95 [Feb ’95], $6.99, 649pp, pb) [Star Trek] Reprint (Penguin/Roc 1994) non-fiction, the authorized biography of Gene Roddenberry, with an introduction by Majel Barrett Roddenberry.
* _Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry (Boxtree 0-7522-0368-1, Sep ’96, £7.99, 599pp, pb) [Star Trek] Reprint (Roc 1994) non-fiction. The authorised, but still revealing biography of Roddenberry, from soldier to policeman to writer to propagandist for the future. Includes 16pp of photographs. [Roddenberry]
ALEXANDER, DAVID M(ichael) (1945- )

* _Fane (Timescape 0-671-83154-2, Jan ’84 [Dec ’83], $3.50, 311pp, pb) Reissue (Pocket/Timescape 1981) fantasy novel.
ALEXANDER, LLOYD (Chudley) (1924-2007) (stories) (chron.)

* *The Arkadians (Penguin/Dutton 0-525-45415-2, Jun ’95 [May ’95], $15.99, 272pp, hc, cover by Trina Schart Hyman) Young-adult fantasy in which a boy, a girl, and a donkey have various adventures in a fantasy society based on ancient Greece.
* _The Arkadians (Penguin/Puffin 0-14-038073-6, May ’97, $4.99, 272pp, pb, cover by Steve Johnson & Lou Fancher) Reprint (Dutton 1995) young-adult fantasy set in a society based on ancient Greece.
* *The Beggar Queen (Dutton 0-525-44103-4, May ’84 [Apr ’84], $11.95, 237pp, hc) [Westmark] Sf novel; conclusion of the “Westmark” trilogy. An alternate-world European Graustarkian adventure, and an excellent young-adult series. Recommended. (CNB)
* _The Beggar Queen (Dell/Laurel Leaf 0-440-90548-6, Oct ’85 [Sep ’85], $2.95, 237pp, pb) [Westmark] Reprint (Dutton 1984) young-adult fantasy novel. Conclusion of the “Westmark” trilogy, a Graustarkian adventure series.
* _The Black Cauldron (Armada 0-00-672562-7, May ’88, £1.95, 157pp, pb) [Chronicles of Prydain] Reissue (Holt Rinehart 1965) young-adult fantasy novel. Volume 2 in the “Prydain” series.
* _The Black Cauldron (Dell Yearling 0-440-40649-8, Apr ’90 [Mar ’90], $3.50, 229pp, tp, cover by Jody Lee) [Chronicles of Prydain] Reissue (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1965) young-adult fantasy novel, second book of the “Chronicles of Prydain” series; 23rd printing.
* _The Black Cauldron (Mammoth 0-7497-1773-4, Aug ’95 [Jul ’95], £3.50, 182pp, pb) [Chronicles of Prydain] Reprint (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1965) young-adult fantasy novel. Second of the five-part “Prydain” series.
* _The Black Cauldron (Dell Yearling Newbery 0-440-22743-7, Jun ’97, $2.69, 220pp, pb, cover by Jody Lee) [Chronicles of Prydain] Reprint (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1965) young-adult fantasy novel, second book of the “Chronicles of Prydain”. This is a promotional edition, marked “Special low price” on the cover. This is the first Dell Yearling Newbery edition, with a new ISBN; previous Dell Yearling reissues were up to at least the 23rd printing.
* _The Black Cauldron (Dell Yearling Newbery 0-440-40649-8, Nov ’98, $5.50, 229pp, tp) [Chronicles of Prydain] Reissue (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1965) young-adult fantasy novel, second book of the “Chronicles of Prydain”. 38th printing.
* _The Book of Three (Armada 0-00-672561-9, May ’88, £1.95, 156pp, pb) [Chronicles of Prydain] Reissue (Holt Rinehart 1964) young-adult fantasy novel. Volume 1 in the “Prydain” series.
* _The Book of Three (Dell Yearling 0-440-40702-8, Apr ’90 [Mar ’90], $3.50, 224pp, tp, cover by Jody Lee) [Chronicles of Prydain] Reissue (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1964) young-adult fantasy novel, first book of the “Chronicles of Prydain” series; 25th printing.
* _The Book of Three (Mammoth 0-7497-1775-0, Aug ’95 [Jul ’95], £3.50, 188pp, pb, cover by Mark Robertson) [Chronicles of Prydain] Reprint (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1964) young-adult fantasy novel. First of the five-part “Prydain” series.
* _The Castle of Llyr (Heinemann 0-434-92651-5, Aug ’86, £7.95, 192pp, hc) [Chronicles of Prydain] Reprint (Holt 1966) young-adult fantasy novel.
* _The Castle of Llyr (Armada 0-00-672563-5, May ’88, £1.95, 160pp, pb) [Chronicles of Prydain] Reissue (Holt Rinehart 1966) young-adult fantasy novel. Volume 3 in the “Prydain” series.
* _The Castle of Llyr (Dell Yearling 0-440-41125-4, Apr ’90 [Mar ’90], $3.50, 206pp, tp, cover by Jody Lee) [Chronicles of Prydain] Reissue (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1966) young-adult fantasy novel, third book of the “Chronicles of Prydain” series; 18th printing.
* _The Castle of Llyr (Mammoth 0-7497-1774-2, Nov ’95, £3.50, 172pp, pb, cover by Mark Robertson) [Chronicles of Prydain] Reprint (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1966) young-adult fantasy novel. Third in “The Chronicles of Prydain” quintet.
* _The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man (Dell Yearling 0-440-40580-7, Feb ’92 [Jan ’92], $3.50, 107pp, tp) Reprint (Dutton 1973) young-adult fantasy novel of a magician’s cat’s adventures in human form.
* *The Drackenberg Adventure (Dutton 0-525-44389-4, Apr ’88 [May ’88], $12.95, 152pp, hc) [Vesper Holly] Young-adult alternate world historical novel, third in the “Vesper Holly” series. Alexander writes the best Graustarkian adventure today. Recommended (CNB).
* _The Drackenberg Adventure (Dell Yearling 0-440-40296-4, Jun ’90 [May ’90], $3.50, 152pp, tp, cover by Michael Conway) [Vesper Holly] Reprint (Dutton 1988) young-adult alternate-world Victorian adventure novel, third book of the “Vesper Holly” series.
* *The El Dorado Adventure (Dutton 0-525-44313-4, Apr ’87, $12.95, 164pp, hc) [Vesper Holly] Young-adult adventure novel, sequel to The Illyrian Adventure. There isn’t any actual fantasy, but the Victorian world it takes place in, with unknown countries and lost races a la H. Rider Haggard, is definitely an alternate world. The young female adventurer and her bumbling professor escort are great fun. (CNB)
* _The El Dorado Adventure (Dell Laurel-Leaf 0-440-20068-7, Mar ’88 [Feb ’88], $2.95, 164pp, pb) [Vesper Holly] Reprint (Dutton 1987) alternate world Victorian Graustarkian novel, sequel to The Illyrian Adventure. Recommended. (CNB)
* _The El Dorado Adventure (Dell Yearling 0-440-40298-0, Aug ’90 [Jul ’90], $3.50, 164pp, tp, cover by Michael Conway) [Vesper Holly] Reprint (Dutton 1987) young-adult alternate-world Victorian adventure novel, second book of the “Vesper Holly” series.
* *The First Chronicles of Prydain (Fontana 0-00-617371-3, Jun ’86 [May ’86], £4.95, 472pp, tp) [Chronicles of Prydain] Omnibus of the first three novels in Alexander’s “Prydain” fantasy series. (Contents)
* _The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha (Penguin/Puffin 0-14-130057-4, May ’98 [Apr ’98], $4.99, 213pp, tp, cover by Brad Weinman) Reprint (Dutton 1978) young-adult fantasy novel.

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