The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998


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The Transmigration of Timothy Archer Philip K. Dick (Grafton 0-586-05886-9, Mar ’87, £2.50, 252pp, pb) [VALIS] Reissue (Timescape 1982) sf novel.


VALIS Philip K. Dick (Kerosina 0-948893-15-X, Nov ’87, £37.50, 256pp, hc) [VALIS] Cloth-bound version of VALIS plus a hardcover edition of Cosmogony and Cosmology (0-948893-17-6). [Not seen]


VALIS Philip K. Dick (Kerosina 0-948893-16-8, Nov ’87, £13.95, 256pp, hc) [VALIS] Reprint (Bantam 1981) sf novel, first hardcover edition, with a new afterword by Kim Stanley Robinson. Distributed in the U.S. by the publisher.


The Ganymede Takeover Philip K. Dick & Ray Nelson (Arrow 0-09-921490-3, Sep ’87, £2.50, 192pp, pb) Reissue (Ace 1967) sf novel.


Annerton Pit Peter Dickinson (Puffin 0-14-031042-8, Mar ’87, £1.95, 172pp, pb) Reprint (Gollancz 1977) juvenile sf novel.


A Box of Nothing Peter Dickinson (Magnet 0-416-96630-6, Feb ’87, £1.75, 128pp, pb) Reprint (Gollancz 1985) juvenile fantasy novel who wants nothing and gets a box full of it. Illustrated throughout by Ian Newsham. Strongly recommended. (PS-P)


A Box of Nothing Peter Dickinson (Lythway Large Print 0-7451-0547-5, Jul ’87, £6.95, 208pp, hc) Reprint (Gollancz 1985) juvenile fantasy novel. [Not seen]


Healer Peter Dickinson (Dell/Laurel Leaf 0-440-93377-3, Sep ’87 [Aug ’87], $2.95, 184pp, pb) Reprint (Gollancz 1983) young-adult fantasy novel of a girl with special powers. As always, Dickinson is quirky, intelligent, and a pleasure to read. Recommended. (FCM)


The Ambassadors of Death Terrance Dicks (W.H. Allen 0-491-03712-0, May ’87, £7.50, 144pp, hc) [Doctor Who] Juvenile sf novel. Volume 121 in the Doctor Who series.


The Ambassadors of Death Terrance Dicks (Target 0-426-20305-4, Oct ’87, £1.95, 144pp, pb) [Doctor Who] Reprint (W.H. Allen 1987) juvenile sf novel. Volume 121 in the Doctor Who series.


The Faceless Ones Terrance Dicks (Target 0-426-20294-5, May ’87, £1.75, 140pp, pb) [Doctor Who] Reprint (W.H. Allen 1986) juvenile sf novel. Volume 116 in the Doctor Who series.


Junior Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius Terrance Dicks (Target 0-426-20063-2, Jan ’87, £1.60, 80pp, pb) [Doctor Who] Reissue (Target 1980) juvenile sf novel based on the tv series.


The Mysterious Planet Terrance Dicks (W.H. Allen 0-491-03096-7, Nov ’87 [Dec ’87], £7.95, 127pp, hc) [Doctor Who] Juvenile sf novel. Volume 127 in the Doctor Who series.


The Forever Man Gordon R. Dickson (Sphere 0-7221-3077-5, Sep ’87, £3.50, 375pp, tp) Reprint (Ace 1986) sf novel. [First U.K. edition]


In the Bone: The Best Science Fiction of Gordon R. Dickson Gordon R. Dickson (Ace 0-441-37049-7, Mar ’87, $2.95, 228pp, pb) Collection of 11 stories. This reprints the fiction contents of Gordon R. Dickson’s SF Best (Dell 1978) and adds two stories instead of the appreciations/bibliography.


The Man from Earth Gordon R. Dickson (Tor 0-812-53581-2, Apr ’87 [Mar ’87], $2.95, 288pp, pb) Reissue (Tor 1983) collection.


Secrets of the Deep Gordon R. Dickson (Critic’s Choice 0-931773-29-6, Oct ’85 [Apr ’87], $2.95, 288pp, pb) [Secrets of the Deep] Omnibus of 3 juvenile sf adventure books. This actually first appeared in 10/85, but we missed listing it.


The Space Swimmers Gordon R. Dickson (Tor 0-812-53584-7, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $2.95, 247pp, pb) Reprint (Berkley 1967) sf novel, with uncredited illustrations by Steve Fabian from the 1979 Ace edition.


Spacial Delivery Gordon R. Dickson (Tor 0-812-53548-0, May ’87 [Apr ’87], $2.95, 155pp, pb) [Dilbia] Reprint (Ace 1961) sf novel.


The Stranger Gordon R. Dickson (Tor 0-812-53579-0, Mar ’87 [Feb ’87], $2.95, 254pp, pb) Sf collection of 14 stories, mostly from the Fifties and early Sixties.


Way of the Pilgrim Gordon R. Dickson (Ace 0-441-87486-X, May ’87 [Apr ’87], $16.95, 341pp, hc) [Shane Evert] Sf novel of Earth conquered by giant aliens.


Way of the Pilgrim Gordon R. Dickson (SFBC #11445, Oct ’87 [Nov ’87], $5.98, 436pp, hc) [Shane Evert] Reprint (Ace 1987) sf novel.


Freehold William C. Dietz (Ace 0-441-25186-2, Mar ’87 [Feb ’87], $2.95, 212pp, pb) Military sf adventure novel.


Bloodthirst J. M. Dillard (Titan 1-85286-039-1, Dec ’87, £2.95, 264pp, pb) [Star Trek] Sf novel. Includes an extract from the forthcoming Final Frontier by Diane Carey. Simultaneous with US (Pocket Books) edition. Volume 52 in the “Star Trek Novels” series.


Mindshadow J. M. Dillard (Firecrest 0-85997-923-7, Jul ’87 [1987], £7.95, 256pp, hc) [Star Trek] Reprint (Pocket 1985) sf novel. Volume 42 in the Star Trek Novels series. [First U.K. edition, not seen]


Star Trek #37: Bloodthirst J. M. Dillard (Pocket 0-671-64489-0, Dec ’87, $3.95, 264pp, pb) [Star Trek] Sf novel in the “Star Trek” series; it contains the first chapter of Star Trek: The Final Frontier at the end.


334 Thomas M. Disch (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-340-7, Sep ’87 [Aug ’87], $3.95, 269pp, pb) Reprint (MacGibbon & Kee 1972) sf novel of future New York. This may be Disch’s best — recommended. (FCM)


Daughter of Regals Stephen R. Donaldson (Fontana 0-00-617554-6, Dec ’87, £3.50, 366pp, pb) Reissue (Del Rey 1984) SF/fantasy collection. This is the first UK edition to contain “Gilden-Fire”, previously published separately.


The Illearth War Stephen R. Donaldson (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34866-4, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $4.95, 528pp, pb) [Thomas Covenant] Reissue (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1977) fantasy novel, second in the First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. 22nd printing.


Lord Foul’s Bane Stephen R. Donaldson (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34865-6, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $4.95, 480pp, pb) [Thomas Covenant] Reissue (SFBC 1977) fantasy novel, first book in the First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. 29th printing.


A Man Rides Through Stephen R. Donaldson (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-33299-7, Nov ’87, $19.95, 661pp, hc) [Mordant’s Need] Fantasy novel, conclusion of the “Mordant’s Need” duology.


The Mirror of Her Dreams Stephen R. Donaldson (SFBC #10530, 1987 [Jun ’87], $6.98, 626pp, hc) [Mordant’s Need] Reprint (Del Rey 1986) fantasy novel, first of a duology.


The Mirror of Her Dreams Stephen R. Donaldson (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34715-3, Mar ’87, $4.50, 627pp, pb) [Mordant’s Need] Reprint (Del Rey 1986), first volume of the two-book fantasy “Mordant’s Need.” International edition.


The Mirror of Her Dreams Stephen R. Donaldson (Fontana 0-00-617399-3, Jul ’87 [Jun ’87], £2.95, 658pp, pb) [Mordant’s Need] Reprint (Collins 1986) fantasy novel. Volume 1 in the Mordant’s Need duology.


The Mirror of Her Dreams Stephen R. Donaldson (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34697-1, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $4.95, 622pp, pb) [Mordant’s Need] Reprint (Del Rey 1986), first volume of the two-book fantasy “Mordant’s Need.”


The One Tree Stephen R. Donaldson (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34869-9, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $4.95, 475pp, pb) [Thomas Covenant, II] Reissue (Del Rey 1982) fantasy novel, second book in the Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. 11th printing.


The Power that Preserves Stephen R. Donaldson (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34867-2, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $4.95, 489pp, pb) [Thomas Covenant] Reissue (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1977) fantasy novel, third book in the First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. 21st printing.


White Gold Wielder Stephen R. Donaldson (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34870-2, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $4.95, 485pp, pb) [Thomas Covenant, II] Reissue (Del Rey 1983) fantasy novel, third book in the Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. 9th printing.


The Wounded Land Stephen R. Donaldson (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34868-0, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $4.95, 497pp, pb) [Thomas Covenant, II] Reissue (Del Rey 1981) fantasy novel, first book in the Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. 16th printing.


Superman at Fifty: The Persistence of a Legend Dennis Dooley & Gary Engle (Octavia 0-940601-00-1, Oct ’87, $16.95, 189pp, hc) [Superman] Non-fiction, essays exploring all aspects of Superman.


A Distant Soil Colleen Doran (Donning/Starblaze 0-89865-514-5, Sep ’87, $6.95, unpaginated, tp) [Distant Soil] Sf/fantasy graphic novel, first in a series. It’s compiled from a series of comics.


Keepers of Edanvant Carole Nelson Douglas (Tor 0-312-93012-7, May ’87 [Apr ’87], $15.95, 346pp, hc) [Kendric and Irissa; Sword & Circlet] Fantasy novel, both the end of the “Rynth” series and the beginning of the “Sword & Circlet” series.


Undertow Drake Douglas (Leisure 0-8439-2495-0, Aug ’87 [Jul ’87], $3.95, 398pp, pb) Reprint (1984) horror novel.


The Nest Gregory A. Douglas (Zebra 0-8217-2166-6, Sep ’87 [Aug ’87], $3.95, 448pp, pb) Reissue (Zebra 1980) horror novel; 2nd printing.


Fictions of Nuclear Disaster David Dowling (University of Iowa Press 0-87745-142-7, Feb ’87, $20.00, 239pp, hc) Non-fiction, critical study.


The Spellkey Ann Downer (Atheneum 0-689-31329-2, Oct ’87, $13.95, 217pp, hc) [Spellkey] Young-adult fantasy quest novel, a first novel.


The Raven in the Glass Jill Downie (Paperjacks 0-7701-0699-4, Oct ’87, $3.95, 471pp, pb) Historical/horror novel of an American woman and her Viennese double at the turn of the century.


The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction ed. Gardner R. Dozois (Robinson 0-948164-31-X, Aug ’87, £4.95, 615pp, tp) Reprint (St. Martin’s 1987, as Year’s Best Science Fiction, Fourth Annual Collection) sf/fantasy anthology. [First U.K. edition]


The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Fourth Annual Collection ed. Gardner R. Dozois (St. Martin’s 0-312-00709-4, May ’87, $19.95, 602pp, hc) Anthology of 27 of the best stories of 1986. Dozois does an excellent job. Recommended. (CNB)


The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Fourth Annual Collection ed. Gardner R. Dozois (St. Martin’s 0-312-00710-8, May ’87 [Apr ’87], $11.95, 602pp, tp) Trade paperback edition of the above.


Counting the Cost David Drake (Baen 0-671-65355-5, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $3.50, 267pp, pb) [Hammer’s Slammers] Military sf novel, latest in the “Hammer’s Slammers” series.


Hammer’s Slammers David Drake (Baen 0-671-65632-5, Apr ’87 [Mar ’87], $3.50, 318pp, pb) [Hammer’s Slammers] Collection with Hammer’s Slammers (Ace 1979) plus the short novel “The Tank Lords”.


Kill Ratio David Drake & Janet Morris (Ace 0-441-44116-5, Oct ’87 [Sep ’87], $3.50, 268pp, pb) Sf novel of interstellar terrorism via a deadly plague. “Only Sam Yates can stop it.”


*Batteries Not Included Wayland Drew (Berkley 0-425-10105-3, Dec ’87 [Nov ’87], $2.95, 213pp, pb) Novelization of a movie about robot aliens.


Traveler # 9: The Stalking Time [by Ed Naha] D. B. Drumm (Dell 0-440-18235-2, Jun ’86 [Jan ’87], $2.50, 174pp, pb) [Traveler] Post-holocaust sf novel, part of an adventure series. Published in 1986 but missed.


Traveler #10: Hell on Earth [by Ed Naha] D. B. Drumm (Dell 0-440-13612-1, Oct ’86 [Jan ’87], $2.50, 171pp, pb) [Traveler] Post-holocaust adventure novel in a series; published in 1986, missed until now.


Traveler #11: The Children’s Crusade [by Ed Naha] D. B. Drumm (Dell 0-440-11529-9, Feb ’87 [Jan ’87], $2.75, 172pp, pb) [Traveler] Post-holocaust adventure novel. Traveler turns a group of kids into a guerilla force to save post-WWIII America.


Traveler #12: The Prey [by Ed Naha] D. B. Drumm (Dell 0-440-16958-5, Sep ’87 [Aug ’87], $2.95, 170pp, pb) [Traveler] Post-holocaust adventure novel, latest in the series.


Traveler #13: Ghost Dancers [by Ed Naha] D. B. Drumm (Dell 0-440-12841-2, Dec ’87 [Nov ’87], $2.75, 171pp, pb) [Traveler] Post-holocaust adventure novel.


Classics of the Macabre Daphne du Maurier (Gollancz 0-575-04050-5, Sep ’87 [Oct ’87], £10.95, 284pp, hc) Ghost/occult collection. Illustrated throughout by Michael Foreman.


Classics of the Macabre Daphne du Maurier (Gollancz 0-575-04191-9, Sep ’87 [Oct ’87], £25.00, 284pp, hc) Limited (250 copies) signed edition of the above. [Not seen]


Daphne Du Maurier’s Classics of the Macabre Daphne du Maurier (Doubleday 0-385-24302-2, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $18.95, 284pp, hc) Collection of 6 tales of terror (including “The Birds”), with new color illustrations by Michael Foreman. There is a simultaneous British edition from Gollancz.


Kiss Me Again, Stranger Daphne du Maurier (Dell 0-440-14576-7, May ’87 [Apr ’87], $3.95, 318pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1952) collection of 8 stories, including “The Birds”.


Star Trek #13: The Wounded Sky Diane E. Duane (Pocket 0-671-60061-3, May ’87, $3.50, 256pp, pb) [Star Trek] Reissue (Pocket 1983) Star Trek novel; 4th printing.


The Romulan Way Diane E. Duane & Peter Morwood (Titan 1-85286-002-2, Aug ’87, £2.95, 254pp, pb) [Star Trek: Rihannsu] Sf novel, Simultaneous with US (Pocket) edition. Volume 35 in the Star Trek Novels series.


Star Trek #35: The Romulan Way Diane E. Duane & Peter Morwood (Pocket 0-671-63498-4, Aug ’87 [Jul ’87], $3.50, 254pp, pb) [Star Trek] Star Trek novel.


Ms. Faust Chris Dubbs (Popular Library 0-445-20416-8, Jul ’87 [Jun ’87], $3.50, 296pp, pb) Reprint (Richardson & Steirman 1985) horror novel about a woman executive’s deal with the devil.


Black Orchid Terence Dudley (Target 0-426-20254-6, Feb ’87, £1.75, 143pp, pb) [Doctor Who] Reprint (W.H. Allen 1986) juvenile sf novel. Volume 113 in the Doctor Who series.


K9 and Company Terence Dudley (Target 0-426-20309-7, Oct ’87, £1.95, 160pp, pb) [Companions of Doctor Who] Juvenile sf novel. Volume 3 in the “Companions of Doctor Who” series.


A Rose-Red City Dave Duncan (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34098-1, Apr ’87 [Mar ’87], $2.95, 227pp, pb) Fantasy novel, a first novel.


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