The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Books, Listed by Author

CAPEK, KAREL (stories) (chron.) (continued)

• * _R. U. R. and The Insect Play (with Josef Capek) See entry under Josef Capek.
• * *Toward the Radical Center: A Karel Capek Reader (Catbird Press 0-945774-07-9, Mar ’90 [May ’90], $12.95, 408pp, tp, cover by Chris Lione) Collection of plays and stories by Capek, including a new (and first complete) translation of the play R.U.R. and an excerpt from a new translation of From the Life of the Insects.
• * *War with the Newts (Allen & Unwin/Unicorn 0-04-823308-0, 1985 [Dec ’85], £2.95, 241pp, pb) This is a new translation, by Ewald Osers, of the satiric Czech sf novel Valka s Mloky (Prague 1936); an earlier English version appeared from Allen & Unwin in 1937.
• * _War with the Newts (Northwestern University Press 0-8101-0663-9, May ’85 [Apr ’85], $8.95, 348pp, pb) Reprint (Allen & Unwin 1937) classic satiric sf novel translated by M & R Weatherall from the Czeck Valka s Mloky (1936), with a new introduction by Czech dissident writer Ivan Klima. A hardcover edition (0-8101-0700-7, $24.95) has also been announced, but we haven’t seen it and it isn’t on their order sheet.
• * _War with the Newts (Catbird Press 0-945774-10-9, Mar ’90 [May ’90], $9.95, 241pp, tp, cover by Chris Lione) Reprint (Czech 1937 as Valka s Mloky) classic literary satire of utopias. This is the first American edition of a new translation by Ewald Osers, first published by Allen & Unwin in the UK in 1985.
• * _War with the Newts (Picador 0-330-31695-8, Nov ’91, £6.99, 215pp, tp, cover by John Alcorn) Reprint (Allen & Unwin 1937) sf novel. Translated from the Czech Valka s Mloky (1936) by Ewald Osers.

CAPES, BERNARD (Edward Joseph) (1854-1918) (stories)

• * *The Black Reaper (Ash-Tree Press 1-899562-52-4, Aug ’98, C$52.00, xviii+227pp, hc, cover by Richard Lamb) Collection of 23 horror stories, a revised and expanded version of the 1989 Equation edition, adding 11 stories. Edited and with a revised introduction by Hugh Lamb; foreword by Ian Burns. This is a limited edition of 600. A world-wide edition available in the US for $39.50 and in the UK for £24.50. (Contents)
• * *The Black Reaper: Tales of Terror (Equation 1-85336-121-6, Jul ’89, £3.50, 192pp, tp) Collection of ghost and horror stories, edited and introduced by Hugh Lamb. (Contents)

CAPOBIANCO, MICHAEL (Victor) (1950- ) (stories)

• * _Alpha Centauri (with William Barton) See entry under William Barton.
• * *Burster (Bantam Spectra 0-553-28543-2, Jul ’90 [Jun ’90], $3.95, 247pp, pb, cover by Paul Swendsen) Sf novel of a young interstellar colonist sent back to Earth when the colony ship loses contact with home.
• * _Fellow Traveler (with William Barton) See entry under William Barton.
• * _Iris (with William Barton) See entry under William Barton.
• * _White Light (with William Barton) See entry under William Barton.

CAPONEGRO, CANDACE (E.) (1949- )

• * *The Breeze Horror (NAL Onyx 0-451-40075-5, Feb ’88 [Jan ’88], $3.50, 316pp, pb) Horror/sf novel, a first novel.

CARAKER, MARY (1929- ) (stories)

• * *The Faces of Ceti (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-54698-2, Mar ’91 [Feb ’91], $14.95, 201pp, hc, cover by Bob Eggleton) Young-adult sf novel; two teenage girls determined to save their small space colony search for a food source on an alien world.
• * *I Remember, I Remember... (Pulphouse 1-56146-524-0, Jul ’91, $1.95, 46pp, pb, cover by Alan Giana) Original sf short story of a woman who wakes from cold sleep on a colony ship with no memory of how she got there. Short Story paperback #24.
• * *Seven Worlds (NAL/Signet 0-451-14498-8, Sep ’86 [Aug ’86], $2.95, 223pp, pb) [Seven Worlds] Sf novel based on some early shorter work (used here as the first two sections) about Morgan Farraday, Space Corps agent. A first novel. (Contents)
• * *The Snows of Jaspre (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-48292-5, Apr ’89 [Mar ’89], $14.95, 234pp, hc) [Seven Worlds] Young-adult sf novel set in an exotic world; sequel to Seven Worlds.
• * *Water Song (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20512-1, Sep ’87 [Aug ’87], $2.95, 214pp, pb) Sf novel of a water planet threatened by a changing climate.

CARAVELA, JACK

• * *The Gifted (Zebra 0-8217-3537-3, Oct ’91 [Nov ’91], $4.50, 288pp, pb) Horror novel of a boy who can kill with his mind.

CARD, ORSON SCOTT (1951- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *The Abyss (Pocket 0-671-67625-3, Jun ’89 [May ’89], $4.50, 363pp, pb) Movie tie-in novelization.
• * _The Abyss (Legend 0-09-969060-8, Oct ’89, £3.99, 363pp, pb) Reprint (Pocket 1989) sf novelization based on the screenplay by James Cameron, with afterwords by both Cameron and Card. [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Abyss (Legend 0-7126-3403-7, Oct ’89, £12.95, 363pp, hc) Hardcover edition of the above. [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Abyss (SFBC #15581, Dec ’89 [Nov ’89], $6.98, 363pp, hc) Reprint (Pocket 1989) sf movie novelization.
• * _The Abyss (Pocket 0-671-67625-3, Apr ’90 [Jul ’90], $4.50, 363pp, pb) Reissue (Pocket 1989) sf novelization; third printing.
• * *Alvin Journeyman (Tor 0-312-85053-0, Sep ’95 [Aug ’95], $24.95, 381pp, hc, cover by Dennis Nolan) [Alvin Maker] Fantasy novel of a magical alternate America. Book IV of the “Tales of Alvin Maker”. Also announced as a 50-copy limited edition (-86005-6, $200.00), not seen.
• * _Alvin Journeyman (Tor 0-812-50923-4, Sep ’96 [Aug ’96], $6.99, 400pp, pb, cover by Dennis Nolan) [Alvin Maker] Reprint (Tor 1995) fantasy novel of a magical alternate America. Book IV of the “Tales of Alvin Maker”.
• * *Alvin Wandering (SFBC #00310, Nov ’98 [Oct ’98], $14.98, 613pp, hc, cover by Stephen Hickman) [Alvin Maker] Omnibus of the fourth and fifth novels in the “Alvin Maker” series: Alvin Journeyman (1995) and Heartfire (1998). This special SFBC edition has ISBN 1-56865-904-0; it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket. (Contents)
• * *The Call of Earth (Tor 0-312-93037-2, Jan ’93 [Dec ’92], $21.95, 304pp, hc, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Homecoming] Sf novel set on a planet protected by a godlike AI, second book of the “Homecoming” series. A signed limited 100-copy edition was announced but not seen.
• * _The Call of Earth (Legend 0-09-926011-5, Feb ’93, £8.99, 304pp, tp, cover by Dennis Barker) [Homecoming] Reprint (Tor 1992) sf novel. Volume two in the “Homecoming” series. A hardcover edition (-926191-X, £14.99) was announced but not seen. [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Call of Earth (Tor 0-812-53261-9, Jan ’94 [Dec ’93], $5.99, 332pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Homecoming] Reprint (Tor 1993) sf novel set on a planet protected by a godlike AI, second book of the “Homecoming” series.
• * _The Call of Earth (Legend 0-09-919941-6, Apr ’94, £5.99, 304pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Homecoming] Reprint (Tor 1992) SF novel. Volume two in the “Homecoming” series.
• * *Cardography (Hypatia Press 0-940-84102-9, Mar ’87, $17.95, 183pp, hc) Collection of 5 fantasy stories plus an introduction by David Hartwell plus a new afterword (and maps) by Card. Limited to 750 + 194 + 56 copies in various limited, signed states. (Contents)
• * _The Changed Man (Tor 0-812-53365-8, Apr ’92 [Mar ’92], $4.99, 246pp, pb, cover by Paul Scanlon) Reprint (Tor 1990) collection of 11 stories, originally the first part of the massive collection Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card, with the original introduction by the author. (Contents)
• * _Characters and Viewpoint (Robinson 1-85487-073-4, Sep ’90, £5.99, 182pp, tp) Reprint (Writer’s Digest 1988) non-fiction writers’ guide. In the “Writer’s Workshop” series.
• * *Characters and Viewpoints (Writer’s Digest 0-89879-307-6, Sep ’88 [Aug ’88], $12.95, 182pp, hc) Non-fiction, associational: writer’s reference. In “The Elements of Fiction Writing” series.
• * *Children of the Mind (Tor 0-312-85395-5, Aug ’96 [Jul ’96], $23.95, 349pp, hc, cover by John Harris) [Ender Wiggin] SF novel. Fourth and final novel in the “Ender” series. A leatherbound, limited edition of 200 (-86191-5, $200.00) was announced but not seen.
• * _Children of the Mind (SFBC #14736, Feb ’97 [Jan ’97], $11.98, 349pp, hc, cover by John Harris) [Ender Wiggin] Reprint (Tor 1996) SF novel. Fourth novel in the “Ender” series. This is similar to the Tor edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Children of the Mind (Tor 0-812-52239-7, Jun ’97 [May ’97], $6.99, 370pp, pb, cover by John Harris) [Ender Wiggin] Reprint (Tor 1996) SF novel. Fourth and (maybe) final novel in the “Ender” series.
• * _Cruel Miracles (Tor 0-812-52304-0, Dec ’92 [Nov ’92], $4.99, 242pp, pb, cover by Peter Scanlan) Reprint (Tor 1990) collection of six stories, originally book four of the massive collection Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card, with an introduction and afterword by the author. (Contents)
• * *Earthborn (Tor 0-312-93040-2, May ’95 [Apr ’95], $23.95, 378pp, hc, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Homecoming] SF novel, the fifth and final volume in the “Homecoming Saga”.
• * _Earthborn (Tor 0-812-53298-8, May ’96 [Apr ’96], $6.99, 430pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Homecoming] Reprint (Tor 1995) SF novel, the fifth and final volume in the “Homecoming Saga”.
• * *Earthfall (Tor 0-312-93039-9, Feb ’95 [Jan ’95], $22.95, 350pp, hc, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Homecoming] SF novel, fourth volume in the “Homecoming” series based loosely on The Book of Mormon. The ship from Harmony finally reaches Earth.
• * _Earthfall (Tor 0-812-53296-1, Jan ’96 [Dec ’95], $5.99, 370pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Homecoming] Reprint (Tor 1995) SF novel, fourth volume in the “Homecoming” series. The ship from Harmony finally reaches Earth.
• * *Ender’s Game (Tor 0-312-93208-1, Jan ’85, $13.95, 357pp, hc) [Ender Wiggin] Sf novel set mostly at a space academy. Expansion of a novella that first appeared in Analog, August 1977. Recommended. (FCM)
• * _Ender’s Game (Tor 0-812-53253-8, Jan ’86 [Dec ’85], $3.50, 357pp, pb) [Ender Wiggin] Reprint (Tor 1985) sf novel. A Nebula nominee.
• * _Ender’s Game (Arrow 0-09-949610-0, Feb ’87, £2.95, 357pp, pb) [Ender Wiggin] Reissue (Tor 1985) Hugo and Nebula Award winning sf novel.
• * _Ender’s Game (Legend 0-09-949610-0, Mar ’90, £3.99, 357pp, pb) [Ender Wiggin] Reissue (Tor 1985) sf novel.
• * _Ender’s Game (Tor 0-312-93208-1, Aug ’91 [Jul ’91], $21.95, 226pp, hc, cover by John Harris) [Ender Wiggin] Reissue (Tor 1985) Hugo and Nebula Award-winning sf novel. This edition has been slightly revised and corrected. It also has a long new introduction.
• * _Ender’s Game (Tor 0-812-51349-5, Sep ’91 [Aug ’91], $4.95, 357pp, pb, cover by John Harris) [Ender Wiggin] Reissue (Tor 1985) Hugo and Nebula Award-winning sf novel, first book of the “Ender” series. This is the original text, not the revised and corrected version published by Tor in hardcover last month. 14th printing.
• * _Ender’s Game (Legend 0-09-949610-0, Aug ’92, £4.99, 357pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) [Ender Wiggin] Reissue (Tor 1985) sf novel. Volume one in the “Ender” series. This contains the revised text and long introduction from the 1991 Tor edition.
• * _Ender’s Game (Tor 0-312-85323-8, Sep ’92 [Aug ’92], $10.95, 226pp, tp, cover by John Harris) [Ender Wiggin] Reprint (Tor 1985) Hugo and Nebula Award-winning sf novel. This has the revised text and new introduction from the 1991 Tor hardcover reissue.
• * _Ender’s Game (Easton Press no ISBN, Nov ’93, no price, 226pp, hc) [Ender Wiggin] Reprint (Tor 1985) Hugo and Nebula Award-winning sf novel, with an introduction by George Slusser and artwork by Walter Velez. This special signed, leatherbound gilt-edge edition is part of the “Masterpieces of Science Fiction” series and is available by subscription only.
• * *Ender’s War (SFBC #02858, Jun ’86, $7.98, 634pp, hc) [Ender Wiggin] Omnibus edition of two sf novels of Ender Wiggins’ adventures in space and through time. (Contents)
• * _Ender’s War (SFBC #14799, Feb ’97 [Jan ’97], $14.98, 634pp, hc, cover by Vincent di Fate) [Ender Wiggin] Reissue (SFBC 1986) omnibus of Ender’s Game (Tor 1985) and Speaker for the Dead (Tor 1986). This is a Guild America edition, ISBN 0-312-93738-5, and has a new book-club number.
• * _Flux (Tor 0-812-51685-0, Sep ’92 [Aug ’92], $4.99, 274pp, pb, cover by Peter Scanlan) Reprint (Tor 1990) collection of seven stories, originally book two of the massive collection Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card, with an original introduction by the author. (Contents)
• * *The Folk of the Fringe (Phantasia Press 0-932096-49-2, Apr ’89, $22.00, 243pp, hc) [Carpenter] Collection of five connected stories (including one original) set in a near future post-WWIII America among the Mormon survivors, plus an article on writing and an appreciation by fellow Mormon Michael Collings. Also available in a special signed boxed edition ($75.00) of 475 copies. The regular edition is limited to 3,000 copies. (Contents)
• * _The Folk of the Fringe (Legend 0-7126-3638-2, Mar ’90, £5.95, 243pp, tp, cover by Fred Gambino) [Carpenter] Reprint (Phantasia 1989) collection of five connected stories (including one original) set in a near future post-WWIII America among the Mormon survivors, plus an article on writing and an appreciation by fellow Mormon Michael Collings. Also available in hardcover (-3637-4, £11.95).
• * _The Folk of the Fringe (Tor 0-812-50086-5, Aug ’90 [Jul ’90], $4.95, 306pp, pb, cover by Glen Bellamy) [Carpenter] Reprint (Phantasia 1989) collection of five connected stories set in a near-future post-WWIII America among the Mormon survivors, plus an article on writing and an appreciation by Michael Collings.
• * _The Folk of the Fringe (SFBC #17913, Jan ’91, $5.98, 232pp, hc, cover by Ron Walotsky) [Carpenter] Reprint (Phantasia 1989) collection of connected stories.
• * _The Folk of the Fringe (Legend 0-09-973440-0, May ’91 [Apr ’91], £3.99, 301pp, pb, cover by Fred Gambino) [Carpenter] Reprint (Phantasia 1989) sf collection.
• * _The Folk of the Fringe (Tor 0-812-50086-5, Jan ’98 [Dec ’97], $5.99, 306pp, pb, cover by Glen Bellamy) [Carpenter] Reissue (Phantasia 1989) collection of connected post-holocaust stories about Mormon survivors. Fourth printing.
• * _Hart’s Hope (Allen & Unwin/Unicorn 0-04-823288-2, Jun ’86 [May ’86], £2.95, 301pp, pb) Reprint (Ace 1983) fantasy novel.
• * _Hart’s Hope (Tor 0-812-53351-8, Feb ’88 [Jan ’88], $3.95, 261pp, pb) Reprint (Ace 1983) fantasy novel.
• * _Hart’s Hope (Severn House 0-7278-4456-3, Nov ’93, £13.99, 261pp, hc, cover by Ian D. Daniels) Reprint (Ace 1983) fantasy novel. This is the first world hardcover edition. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Hart’s Hope (Tor 0-812-52135-8, May ’98 [Apr ’98], $5.99, 261pp, pb, cover by Dennis Nolan) Reissue (Ace 1983) fantasy novel. Fourth printing.
• * *Hatrack River (SFBC #4667, Apr ’89, $9.98, 792pp, hc) [Alvin Maker] Omnibus of Seventh Son (Tor 1987), Red Prophet (Tor 1988), and Prentice Alvin (Tor 1989). (Contents)
• * _Hatrack River (SFBC #00346, Nov ’98, $14.98, 744pp, hc, cover by Pat Morrissey) [Alvin Maker] Reprint (SFBC 1989) omnibus of the first three novels in the “Alvin Maker” series: Seventh Son (1987), Red Prophet (1988), and Prentice Alvin (1989). This special SFBC edition has ISBN 1-56865-989-X; it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * *Heartfire (Tor 0-312-85054-9, Aug ’98 [Jul ’98], $24.95, 301pp, hc, cover by Dennis Nolan) [Alvin Maker] Fantasy novel, fifth in the “Alvin Maker” series. Alvin looks for answers in witch-hanging New England, while his wife goes south to Camelot. A limited edition (-86728-X, $200.00) was announced but not seen.
• * *Homebody (HarperCollins 0-06-017655-5, Apr ’98 [Mar ’98], $24.00, 291pp, hc, cover by Phil Heffernan) Dark fantasy novel. A man restoring an old house encounters supernatural difficulties.
• * *Homecoming: Earth (SFBC #07184, Jun ’95 [May ’95], $12.98, 614pp, hc, cover by Doug Beekman) [Homecoming] Omnibus of Earthfall and Earthborn, the final two books in the “Homecoming” pentology. This special SFBC edition has no price, and has both the SFBC number on the back jacket and an ISBN (1-56865-140-6) on the copyright page. (Contents)
• * *Homecoming: Harmony (SFBC #02627, Mar ’94, $14.98, 819pp, hc, cover by Peter Scanlan) [Homecoming] Sf omnibus of the first three books in the “Homecoming” series, The Memory of Earth (Tor 1992), The Call of Earth (Tor 1993), and The Ships of Earth (Tor 1994). This lacks an ISBN and price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket. (Contents)
• * *How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy (Writer’s Digest Books 0-89879-416-1, Aug ’90, $13.95, 140pp, hc) Non-fiction book on writing sf.
• * _How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy (SFBC #03011, May ’94 [Apr ’94], $6.98, 140pp, hc) Reprint (Writer’s Digest 1990) non-fiction book on writing sf. Similar to the Writer’s Digest edition except this lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back cover.
• * *Lost Boys (HarperCollins 0-06-016693-2, Nov ’92 [Oct ’92], $20.00, 448pp, hc, cover by Robert Crawford) Dark fantasy/mainstream novel based on Card’s award-winning short story.
• * _Lost Boys (SFBC #03641, May ’93 [Apr ’93], $10.98, 448pp, hc, cover by Robert Crawford) Reprint (HarperCollins 1992) dark fantasy/mainstream novel based on Card’s award-winning short story. Similar to the HarperCollins edition except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Lost Boys (HarperPaperbacks 0-06-109131-6, Dec ’93 [Nov ’93], $5.99, 528pp, pb, cover by Kirk Reinert) Reprint (HarperCollins 1992) dark fantasy/mainstream novel based on Card’s award-winning short story.
• * *Lovelock (with Kathryn H. Kidd) (Tor 0-312-85732-2, Jul ’94 [Jun ’94], $21.95, 283pp, hc, cover by Donato) [Mayflower Trilogy] SF novel, first book of the “Mayflower Trilogy.”
• * _Lovelock (with Kathryn H. Kidd) (Tor 0-812-51805-5, Apr ’95 [Mar ’95], $5.99, 302pp, pb, cover by Donato) [Mayflower Trilogy] Reprint (Tor 1994) SF novel, first book in the “Mayflower Trilogy”.
• * _Maps in a Mirror: Volume One: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card (Legend 0-09-988470-4, May ’92, £4.99, 552pp, pb, cover by Nick Rodgers) Reprint (Tor 1990 as part of Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card) sf collection. This edition contains the 18 stories in the first two “books” of the original volume. (Contents)
• * _Maps in a Mirror: Volume Two: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card (Legend 0-09-988480-1, May ’92, £4.99, 552pp, pb, cover by Nick Rodgers) Reprint (Tor 1990 as part of Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card) sf collection. This edition contains the 16 stories in the third and fourth “books” of the original volume. (Contents)
• * *Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card (Tor 0-312-85047-6, Oct ’90, $22.95, 675pp, hc) Collection of 46 stories spanning Card’s entire career. The book is divided into five sections, with an introduction and afterword by Card for each. (Contents)
• * _Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card (BOMC no ISBN, Nov ’90 [Oct ’90], $17.95, 675pp, hc) Reprint (Tor 1990) collection of 46 stories. This edition is identical to the Tor edition except it lacks an ISBN, price, and has a special BOMC mark on the back.
• * _Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card (Easton Press no ISBN, Nov ’90, no price, 675pp, hc) Collection of 46 stories, with a preface by James Gunn and several full-color illustrations by Jill Bauman. This edition is published “simultaneously” with the Tor and BOMC editions listed previously. This special signed leatherbound gilt-edge edition is part of the “Signed First Editions of Science Fiction” series and is available by subscription only.