The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1999

Stories, Listed by Title

• The Observatory:
  ___ Fifty Years Together • Robert Silverberg • (ar)
  ___ The Holographic Eye • Vincent Di Fate • (ar)
  ___ Ultimate Surveillance • David Brin • (ar)
• Observed, Translated, Commented • W. Gregory Stewart • (pm)
• Obsidian Butterfly, Laurell K. Hamilton • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• The Obsolescence of Man • Arthur C. Clarke • (ar)
• AnObstacle • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • (pm)
• Obvious Tactics! • David Pugh • (cs)
• Occupation • Scott C. Holstad • (pm)
• Ocean • Timons Esaias • (pm)
• Oceanic • Greg Egan • (na)
• The Oceanographers • M. Arnott • (pm)
• Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower: One Alternative to a Futureless Future • Lisbeth Gant-Britton • (ar)
• Octavian’s Last Gift (from Cleopatra) • Rain Graves • (pm)
• October 11, 1491 • Ursula K. Le Guin • (pm)
• October Haiku: The Mortal • Tippi N. Blevins • (pm)
• October Haiku: The Vampire • Tippi N. Blevins • (pm)
• October Patch • Michael Cummings • (ss)
• October Witch • Andrea Selina Thomas • (pm)
• Octoberland, A.A. Attanasio • Faren Miller • (br)
• An October’s Verse • Georgia Wood Pangborn • (pm)
• The Octopus Jar • Rhys H. Hughes • (ss)
• Odd Nerdrum, Storyteller and Self-Revealer, Jan Åke Pettersson • Karen Haber • (br)
• Odd Tracks in the Snow • Eric Hermanson • (pm)
• Ode to My Screen Saver • Ian Watson • (pm)
• Ode to St. Valentine • F. David Stevenson • (pm)
• Odessa • Kim Stanley Robinson • (vi)
• Odysseus • John G. Hemry • (ss)
• The Odyssey of Homer • Homer • (ex)
• Of a Cat, But Her Skin • Storm Constantine • (ss)
• Of Bitches Born • Michael Armstrong • (nv)
• Of Daedal Skin • Lia Pas • (pm)
• Of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine • Tom Piccirilli • (ss)
• Of Divers, Hawkers and Slugs • David Gill • (ss)
• Of Pennies, Pulps and Penury • David J. Schow • (in)
• Of Persephone, Poe, and the Whisperer • Tom Piccirilli • (ss)
• Of Pleasure and Pain • Heather Fode • (pm)
• Of Scorned Women and Causal Loops • Robert Grossbach • (ss)
• Of Spirits and Drunks • G. Durant Haire • (vi)
• Of Swords and Spells • Delia Marshall Turner • (n.)
• Of Swords and Spells, Delia Marshall Turner • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Of Synners and Brainworms: Feminism on the Wire • Rebecca Holden • (ar)
• Of Women and Wonder: A Conversation with Suzy McKee Charnas • Bill Clemente • (iv)
• Of Yore • Gwyneth Hughes • (ss)
• An Off-Beat Phenomenon: Steve Sneyd: In Coils of Earthen Hold & Flights from the Iron Moon • A. C. Evans • (ar)
• An Off-World Tragedy • Michael F. Korn • (ss)
• Offer of Immortality • Robertson Davies • (ss)
• An Office in the Grays Inn Road • L. H. Maynard & Michael P. N. Sims • (ss)
• Office Politics • Mark McLaughlin • (pm)
• Ogre of the Cleft • David Case • (nv)
• The Ogre of the Scraggs • Paul Finch • (ss)
• The Ogre’s Lament • Michael Williams • (pm)
• Oh Father, Father, Why Have You Come Back? • John Cheever • (ex)
• Oh Nine Hundred Hours • Peter Layton • (pm)
• Oh, I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside (Within Reason) • John Whitbourn • (ss)
• Oh, That Neighborly Love • Barbara W. Malenky • (ss)
• Oh, Won’t You Wear My Teddybear • Judy McCrosky • (ss)
• Oh, You Beast! • Kay Haugaard • (vi)
• Oil of Dog • Ambrose Bierce • (ss)
• The Oil-Splattered Corpse • Darren K. Latta • (nv)
• Okay, Kiss Experience, But Don’t Open Your Mouth • Simon Clark • (vi)
• Old age • Ursula K. Le Guin • (pm)
• Old Delicious Burdens • Peter Crowther • (ss)
• Old Fears, John Wooley & Ron Wolfe • Edward Bryant • (br)
• Old Glory • Phillip C. Jennings • (ss)
• The Old God Begins to Reassert Himself • John Ezzy • (ss)
• The Old Home • Richard E. Reeve • (vi)
• Old Houses Know Too Much • Brian Lumley • (pm)
• Old Is New Again • Harry Harrison • (ar)
• Old MacDonald Had a Farm • Rebecca M. Senese • (ss)
• The Old Man at the Gate • Simon Clark • (vi)
• An Old Man in Florence • Alan Wall • (ss)
• Old Man Marsh’s Chauffer • Franklyn Searight • (pm)
• The Old Man’s Final Visit • James Robert Smith • (vi)
• Old Merlin Dancing on the Sands of Time • Jane Yolen • (pm)
• Old Music and the Slave Women • Ursula K. Le Guin • (na)
• The Old Ones’ Signs • Pierre V. Comtois • (ss)
• Old River Mouth’s Seed • William R. Eakin • (ss)
• Old Songs Waken • John C. Pelan • (ss)
• Old Souls • Michael Jan Friedman • (nv)
• Old Vanderhaven’s Will • Mary E. Penn • (ss)
• Old Water • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • (ss)
• Old Woman Comes Out of Her Cave and Puts the World in Order • Mildred Tremblay • (pm)
• The Old Woman of Berkeley • Rosemary Pardoe • (ar)
• An Old Woman Remembers • Margaret Muirhead • (pm)
• The Old, Old Story of How Five Men Went Fishing • Stephen Leacock • (ss)
• Ye Olde Lemurian • David Barker • (cl)
• Olfactory Fatigue • C. E. Messersmith • (pm)
• The Olmec Riddle • Michael Lohr • (pm)
• Omar’s One True Love • Gary Jonas • (ss)
• On 23rd Street • Ursula K. Le Guin • (pm)
• On a Rope of Desire • J. B. Mulligan • (pm)
• On Arthur’s Lips • Nancy Bennett • (pm)
• On Behalf of Humanity: The Technological Edge • Paul Levinson • (ar)
• On Blue’s Waters, Gene Wolfe • Faren Miller • (br)
• On Books • Paul Di Filippo • (br)
• On Books • Peter J. Heck • (br)
• On Books:
  ___ Closure • Norman Spinrad • (br)
  ___ Mutants & Cross-overs • Norman Spinrad • (br)
  ___ The Pulp Tradition • Norman Spinrad • (br)
• On Edge • Christopher Fowler • (ss)
• On Gravity and Perpetual Motion • David Lunde • (pm)
• On His Deathbed, Someone Cared • Joey Froehlich • (pm)
• On Joan Slonczewski’s The Children Star • Sandra J. Lindow • (ar)
• On Mars as it is in Heaven: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Martian Utopia • Peter Tennant • (ar)
• On Not Being a Round Quadrangle • Thomas Hobbes • (ex)
• On Not Licking Your Lollipop • B. F. Skinner • (ex)
• On Peter Straub’s Mr. X. • Putney Tyson Ridge • (ar)
• On Rings of Power • Priscilla Olson • (in)
• On Spares: A Short, Formal Introduction, with Additional Theory • Neil Gaiman • (in)
• On Star Wars, Fantasy, and Teenagers • Pamela Mohan • (iv)
• On the Bus to Utica • Carl Dennis • (pm)
• On The Case of Denis McLachlan • Richard Flanagan • (ss)
• ON the edge • Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk • (hu)
• On the Feast of Stephen • G. W. Thomas • (ss)
• On the Last Night of the Festival of the Dead • Darrell Schweitzer • (ss)
• On the Net:
  ___ Comics • James Patrick Kelly • (cl)
  ___ Content • James Patrick Kelly • (cl)
  ___ Sci-fi • James Patrick Kelly • (cl)
  ___ TANSTAAFL • James Patrick Kelly • (cl)
  ___ Which Way? • James Patrick Kelly • (cl)
  ___ Writing • James Patrick Kelly • (cl)
• On the Pawtuxit • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • (pm)
• On the Penal Colony • Kit Reed • (ss)
• On the Prowl • William P. Robertson • (pm)
• On the Road Which Drops Down • Henri Alain-Fournier • (pm)
• On the Wave-Particle Duality of Ghosts • Keith Allen Daniels • (pm)
• On These Nights • Cathy Buburuz • (pm)
• On This Great Road • Henri Alain-Fournier • (pm)
• On This Night • Genevieve Stephens • (pm)
• On This Rainy Day • Lennard Mechlowski • (ss)
• On Which We Feed • Greg F. Gifune • (ss)
• On Winning the Bram Stoker Award • Edo van Belkom • (ar)
• On with the Play • Robert E. Howard • (pm)
• On Writing • Joey Froehlich • (pm)
• Once Upon a Matter Crushed • Wil McCarthy • (nv)
• One Bad Apple • Simon A. Forward • (nv)
• One Being’s Meat... • Keith Rex • (vi)
• The One Black Stain • Robert E. Howard • (pm)
• One Born Every Second Somewhere • J. P. V. Stewart • (pm)
• One Brown Mouse • Gary A. Braunbeck • (na)
• One Crystal Ball, Slightly Used • Stanley Schmidt • (ed)
• One Dark and Stormy Night • Louise Norman • (ss)
• One Dark Summer Night • Wendy Rathbone • (pm)
• One Day at Central Convenience Mall • Nina Kiriki Hoffman • (ss)
• One Day in a War • Hans Urban • (pm)
• One Fairy Tale, Hard-Boiled • P. Andrew Miller • (ss)
• One for the Pot • Basil Copper • (ss)
• One Forbidden Thing • Dora Knez • (ss)
• One Girl of Many • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • (pm)
• 100 Candles • Curt Wohleber • (ss)
• One Hundred Dennis Rodmans • Robert Arthur Vanderwoude • (pm)
• One Man’s Castle • J. Michael Major • (ss)
• One Man’s Poison • Robert Sheckley • (ss)
• One More Step • Rick Wilber • (ar)
• One Morning at the Stone • Tim Waggoner • (ss)
• One Night on the Rue de St. Philip • Doug Rennie • (vi)
• One of the Secret Masters • Darrell Schweitzer • (ss)
• One of the Six • Ray Wallace • (ss)
• One Quiet Night • Bill Johnson • (ss)
• One Side Only • Frederick Cowles • (ss)
• One Summer Evening • Catherine Mintz • (vi)
• The One Where She Tells Him a Story • Juan José Millás • (ss)
• The One Who Stayed Behind • Erik Hauser • (ss)
• One Wing Down • Susan M. Shwartz • (nv)
• 1-800-clone-me • Mary Soon Lee • (ss)
• The One-Eyed Man • Gregory Janks • (nv)
• One-Two-Three for Me • Gene Wolfe • (ss)
• A One-way Ticket to Palookaville • Mike O’Driscoll • (ss)
• One-Way Trip • Anthony Boucher • (na)
• One... The Do-it-yourself Carpenter • Brian Lumley • (pm)
• One: Doorways • Clive Barker • (si)
• The Onion and the Orange Peeled • Ralph Turturro • (pm)
• The Onion Skin Theory of Identity, the Paint Pot Theory of Gender, and the Blu-tack Theory of Position • Rosaleen Love • (ar)
• The Only • Steve Eller • (ss)
• Only As Safe • Mark Andrew Garland & Lawrence Schimel • (ss)
• Only Connect • Douglas Clegg • (ss)
• The Only Crop Visible • William P. Robertson • (pm)
• Only Death, Sir • Peter Atkins • (vi)
• Only the Light Sleeping • Chad Hunter • (ss)
• The Only Thing Necessary... • Jens H. Altmann • (ss)
• The Only Thing We Learn • C. M. Kornbluth • (ss)
• Only What’s on the Menu • Kenneth C. Goldman • (ss)
• Only Women Bleed • Edwina Harvey • (ss)
• Onslaught • A. S. Burden • (ss)
• Onward to the Pole! • Geoffrey A. Landis • (ar)
• Oort Cloud Coda • Aaron B. Larson • (pm)
• The Opal Ring • Michael Fatina • (pm)
• Open at Midnight • Martin Owton • (ss)
• The Open Door • Mrs. Oliphant • (nv)
• An Open Letter • Margaret Muirhead • (ms)
• Open Mike • Eliot Fintushel • (ss)
• The Open Window • Saki • (ss)
• Opening Towards Infinity • Florentin Smarandache • (pm)
• Operation Chaos • Poul Anderson • (n.)
• Operation Desert Fox • Larry Dixon & Mercedes R. Lackey • (nv)
• Operation Luna • Poul Anderson • (n.)
• Operation Luna, Poul Anderson • Russell Letson • (br)
• Ophelia • Kevin N. Roberts • (pm)
• Optical Orifice of the Beholder • K. G. McAbee • (ss)
• Optional Extras • Stephen Dedman • (vi)
• Oracle • John DeChancie • (ex)
• The Oracle • Brian M. Stableford • (nv)
• The Oracle • Misc. • (br)
• The Oracle Lips • Storm Constantine • (nv)
• The Oracle Lips, Storm Constantine • Faren Miller • (br)
• The Oracle: Reviews & Listings • Misc. • (fr)
• The Orange Egg • Jorge dos Santos • (ss)
• Orchard Fruit • Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. • (ss)