The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2002

Stories, Listed by Title

• Baby • Andrew Hook • (ss)
• Baby • Charlee Jacob • (ss)
• The Baby • Bentley Little • (ss)
• Baby Food • Mia Fields • (ss)
• The Baby Lot • Robert Swartwood • (ss)
• The Baby Sitters • Alex Hamilton • (ss)
• Babylon 5: The Passing of the Techno-Mages, Book I: Casting Shadows • Jeanne Cavelos • (n.)
• Babylon 5: The Passing of the Techno-Mages, Book II: Summoning Light • Jeanne Cavelos • (n.)
• Babylon 5: The Passing of the Techno-Mages, Book III: Invoking Darkness • Jeanne Cavelos • (n.)
• Babylon Sisters • Paul Di Filippo • (nv)
• Bacchante • Clark Ashton Smith • (pm)
• Back Cover • Jenny Kerr • (il)
• Back Outside the Creature Barn • C. C. Parker • (ss)
• The Back Room • Carl Hose • (ss)
• Back to October • Jack Fisher & Wendy Rathbone • (pm)
• Backcloth for a Crown Additional • Dan Abnett • (ss)
• Backlash • Paul E. Pinn • (ss)
• Backyard Dragon • Nicholas J. Perry • (ss)
• The Bad Apple • Rachel Kendall • (ss)
• Bad Apple • Kenneth H. Wood • (ss)
• Bad Blood in Benton • Fred Quattrone • (ss)
• A Bad Day for Vermin • Keith Laumer • (ss)
• A Bad End • Robert J. Randisi • (ss)
• Bad Magic • Karen R. Porter • (pm)
• Bad Medicine • Jonathan Green • (ss)
• Bad of Heart • Michael T. Huyck, Jr. • (ss)
• Bad Things Happen to Good People • Cory Daniells • (ss)
• Badgetree: A Brackard’s Point Story • Geoff Cooper • (ss)
• The Bagman’s Story • Charles Dickens • (ss)
• Bait • Bob Leman • (ss)
• Balgrummo’s Hell • Russell Kirk • (ss)
• The Ballad of Blaster Bill • Nelson S. Bond • (pm)
• The Ballad of Farther-on Jones • Dirk Flinthart • (ss)
• The Ballad of Forgotten Anocholee • Lee Clark Zumpe • (pm)
• The Ballad of Skirnir • Shahrukh Husain • (pm)
• A Ballad of the White Plague • P. C. Hodgell • (nv)
• Ballard’s Books • Gerard Daniel Houarner • (ss)
• The Ballroom • William Sansom • (ss)
• The Banana Man • Kurt Newton • (ss)
• Band Interview with Bella Morte on their new release “The Quiet” • Anonymous • (cl)
• Band Interview: Illumina sheds light on what’s new from the U.K. • Anonymous • (cl)
• Band Interviews with The Machine in The Garden and The Crüxshadows • Anonymous • (cl)
• Bandwidth to Burn • Robert A. Metzger • (nv)
• Bangala Ruse • Paul E. Pinn • (ss)
• Banging the Drum for Harlan Ellison • Neil Gaiman • (ar)
• Bangkok Rules • Patrick Lestewka • (ss)
• The Banishing Seal of Yste • Thomas Brown • (pm)
• The Banquet of the Lords of Night • Liz Williams • (ss)
• Banshee • Neil Gaiman • (sg)
• Baptism of Fire, Baptism of Ice • John J. Ordover & Susan Wright • (nv)
• A Bar and a Quest • Robin Hobb • (ar)
• A Bar and a Quest • Megan Lindholm • (ar)
• Bar Crawl of the Damned • William Morton • (cs)
• Barathrum • Jonathan Curran • (ss)
• Barathrum • Jonathan Curren • (nv)
• The Barbarian • Poul Anderson • (ss)
• The Barbarian and the Queen: Thirteen Views • Jane Yolen • (ss)
• The Barber • Sam Millar • (ss)
• Bare Bones • Honna Swenson & Patrick J. Swenson • (ed)
• The Bare Bones: An Introduction • Clive Barker • (in)
• The Barney • Brian W. Aldiss • (pm)
• Barren Earth • David Carroll • (ss)
• The Barrier • Stephen M. Baxter • (ss)
• Barry N. Malzberg: Dismantling SF • Charles N. Brown • (iv)
• Barry Westphall Crashes the Singularity • James Patrick Kelly • (vi)
• Bartok and the Unicorn • Melanie Fletcher • (ss)
• Basis for a Long Term Hell • Joey Froehlich • (pm)
• Basted • Alan Dean Foster • (ss)
• Bathory’s Dudgeon • Richard Bellush, Jr. • (ss)
• Bathroom, Night • Kiel Stuart • (pm)
• Battle Cry • Jack McKinney • (n.)
• The Battle for Cassville • K. D. Wentworth • (ss)
• The Battle of Bhavnager • Ralph Horsley • (ms)
• The Battle of Blue Trout Basin • Nelson S. Bond • (vi)
• The Battle of Gettysburg: An Overview • Steve Winter • (ar)
• The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, Justine Larbalestier • Gary K. Wolfe • (br)
• Battle Royale • Kim Newman • (mr)
• Battlehymn • Jack McKinney • (n.)
• Baudolino, Umberto Eco • Faren Miller • (br)
• Bay of Traitors • Tyree Campbell • (ss)
• Bayer’s Tale • Adam Niswander • (ss)
• Bayou Blues • Nancy Berman & Eric S. Trautmann • (na)
• Bayou de la Mère • Poppy Z. Brite • (ss)
• Be Prepared • Ellen Klages • (vi)
• The Beachcomber • Nina Allen • (ss)
• Beachcomber • Nancy Bennett • (pm)
• Beachcomber • Robert D. Rowntree • (ss)
• A Beacon Shall I Shine • Yvonne Navarro • (ss)
• The Beads of Ku • Denise Angela Shawl • (ss)
• The Bear Dancer • Lee Kottner • (ss)
• The Bearing of Light • Patrick O’Leary • (ss)
• Bearing Seed • Forrest Aguirre • (vi)
• The Beast • Laura R. Jacobsen • (pm)
• The Beast Behind • Sean K. Twyford • (ss)
• The Beast of Averoigne • Clark Ashton Smith • (ss)
• The Beast on Downy Mount • Michael Thomas • (ss)
• The Beast on the Plain • Scott Thomas • (ss)
• The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (Harlan Ellison) • Neil Gaiman • (ar)
• Beastie on Ice • Sharon Black • (pm)
• Beasts • Ray Bradbury • (ss)
• The Beat from the Street • Misc. • (cl)
• Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar) • Cory Doctorow • (ss)
• Beautiful Darkness • A. J. Starr • (pm)
• The Beautiful People • Charles Birkin • (ss)
• Beauty & the Beasts • Marina Warner • (ar)
• Beauty and the Beast • Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Madame • (ss)
• Beauty and the Beast • Jonathan Romney • (mr)
• The Beauty in the Beast • K. G. McAbee • (ss)
• The Beauty of Detail • Stuart Young • (ss)
• The Beauty of Sin • Jeffrey A. Stadt • (ss)
• The Beauty of Things Unseen • Richard Parks • (ss)
• Beauty to the Beholder • Susan Urbanek Linville • (ss)
• Because I Could Not Stop for Death • Ray Naylor • (ss)
• Beckoned • Philippa Pearce • (ss)
• The Beckoning Fair One • Oliver Onions • (na)
• The Becoming • Shane Ryan Staley • (ss)
• Becoming Bird • Bob Hicok • (pm)
• Becoming Jim • Mike O’Driscoll • (ss)
• Bed & Breakfast • Gene Wolfe • (nv)
• A Bed of Earth, Tanith Lee • Faren Miller • (br)
• A Bed of Roses • V. B. Ledwos • (ss)
• Bed Rocks • Kat Yares • (ss)
• Bedside Matters • Greg Cox • (ss)
• Beedlemania • Nev Fountain • (ss)
• “before she stomped away” • Charles Coleman Finlay • (pm)
• Before the Last Snowflake Falls • Brian Hodge • (ss)
• Before We Hit Bottom • Alexander C. Irvine • (pm)
• The Begetting • Charlee Jacob • (ss)
• The Beggar • Bruce Hoff • (ss)
• Beggarman • Susan M. Shwartz • (nv)
• Beggars in Spain • Nancy Kress • (na)
• Behemoth • Tim Pratt • (ss)
• Behind the Ate Ball • Forrest J Ackerman • (ss)
• Behind the Eyes of Dreamers • Pamela Sargent • (na)
• Behind the Night • George Zebrowski • (ss)
• Behind the Painted Face • John B. Ford • (ss)
• Behind the Scenes: Going for the Jugular • David Miller • (ar)
• Behind the Scenes: Going Underground • David Miller • (ar)
• Behind the Screams of the film “Fear of the Dark” • Al J. Vermette • (ar)
• Behind the Screams: Movie “Creepy Tales” • Misc. • (ms)
• Behind the Screams: Movie: “Am I My Brother’s Keeper?” • Dark Soul • (ar)
• Behind the Screams: Movie: “Forests of the Dead” • Dark Soul • (ar)
• Behind the Screams: Movie: “The Mind’s Eye” • Dark Soul • (ar)
• Behind the Stumps • Russell Kirk • (ss)
• Behold, the Fish • J. Robert King • (nv)
• Beholders • Trevor Mendham • (vi)
• Being • Richard Matheson • (nv)
• Being Kind • Victoria Rothschild • (ss)
• Being Providence: An Introduction to H.P. Lovecraft • Poppy Z. Brite • (ss)
• Being Small • Nancy Bennett • (pm)
• The Belt • Charles Birkin • (ss)
• Beneath the Eye of the Hawk • Jane M. Lindskold • (nv)
• Beneath the Moors • Brian Lumley • (n.)
• Berenice • Edgar Allan Poe • (ss)
• Berenice’s Journal • Anonymous • (ss)
• Berenice’s Journal • Richard Gavin • (ss)
• Bertrand’s Bride • Beverly Suarez-Beard • (ss)
• Best Friends • Brian Plante • (ss)
• The Best Is Yet to Come: Facing Mars • Marvin Kaye • (ar)
• Bestial Acts • Claude Lalumière • (ss)
• A Bestiary: Engulfer • Tim Pratt • (pm)
• A Bestiary: Laughing Blood • Tim Pratt • (pm)
• A Bestiary: Plate Spinning • Tim Pratt • (pm)
• A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut • Tim Pratt • (pm)
• Betcha Can’t Eat Just One • Alan Dean Foster • (ss)
• Bethlehem: 9 Months B.C. • Shane Ryan Staley • (vi)
• The Better Part of Valor, Tanya Huff • Alyx Dellamonica • (br)
• A Better Place • Richard Paul Russo • (ss)
• Better Seen Than Heard • Emily C. A. Snyder • (ss)
• Better Than One • Paul Dale Anderson • (ss)
• Better the Boy of Beauty, Than Unwashed Ugly Me • Ray Bradbury • (pm)
• Better to Burn • Brian Keene • (in)
• Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril, Judith Merril & Emily Pohl-Weary • Gary K. Wolfe • (br)
• Better When They Bleed • David A. Lindschmidt • (ss)
• A Better World • David Whitman • (ss)
• Betty Ballantine: Publishing Pioneer • Charles N. Brown • (iv)
• Between • Vera Searles • (ss)
• Between Two Worlds • Ann K. Schwader • (pm)
• Between, Jean Thesman • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Beware of Dragons • G. O. Clark • (pm)
• Beware the Fury • Theodore Sturgeon • (nv)
• Bewitched • Edith Wharton • (nv)
• Beyond • Jean Lorrain • (ss)
• Beyond Beford Falls • John Varley • (ms)
• Beyond Harry Potter • Christine G. Richardson • (ar)
• Beyond Ledra • Cathy Buburuz • (ss)
• Beyond Lies the Wub • Philip K. Dick • (ss)
• Beyond the Belle Epoque • Jayme Lynn Blaschke • (iv)
• Beyond the Great Snow Mountains • Louis L’Amour • (ss)
• Beyond the Great Wall • Clark Ashton Smith • (pm)
• Beyond the Pale • Ramsey Campbell • (ar)
• Beyond the Pale • John Clute • (ar)
• beyond the peregrine lights • Charles Coleman Finlay • (pm)
• Beyond the Periodic Table: Artificial Atoms and Programmable Matter • Wil McCarthy • (ar)
• Beyond the Reef • Basil Copper • (na)
• Beyond the Torched Lands • Bruce Boston • (pm)
• Beyond the Wall of Sleep • H. P. Lovecraft • (ss)
• Bibi • Mike Resnick & Susan M. Shwartz • (na)
• Bibliography • Anonymous • (bi)
• Bibliography • Misc. • (bi)
• Bibliography: Original Publications • Misc. • (bi)
• Bibliophile: The Horwitz Anthologies of Supernatural Fiction • James Doig • (ar)
• Bicycle Repairman • Bruce Sterling • (nv)
• Big “C” • Brian Lumley • (nv)
• The Big Bang Cycle • Abbi Ball • (pm)
• The Big Black Mark • A. Bertram Chandler • (n.)
• Big City Littles • Charles de Lint • (ss)
• Big City People • Afifah Myra Muffaz • (pm)
• The Big Guy • Derek Paterson • (ss)
• Big Nose Pride Day. A Surreal Essay • Mark E. Rudolph • (ar)
• The Big Picture • Timothy Zahn • (nv)
• The Big Rock Candy Mountain • Andy Duncan • (nv)
• The Big Show • Keith Laumer • (nv)
• The Big Sleep • Forrest J Ackerman • (ms)