The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Books, Listed by Author

AMADO, JORGE (Luis) (1912-2001) (stories)

• * _Tent of Miracles (Avon 0-380-75472-X, Aug ’88, $9.95, 401pp, tp) Reprint (Knopf 1971) South American magical realism novel, translated by Barbara Shelby.
• * _The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell (Avon 0-380-75476-2, Dec ’88 [Nov ’88], $5.95, 97pp, tp) Reprint (Knopf 1965) magic realism/literary fantasy novella, translated from the Portuguese by Barbara Shelby.
• * *The War of the Saints (Bantam 0-553-09537-4, Dec ’93, $22.95, 357pp, hc, cover by Bascove) Magical realism novel with fantasy elements.
• * _The War of the Saints (Serpent’s Tail 1-85242-372-2, May ’94, £9.99, 357pp, tp, cover by Fernando & Mercedes) Reprint (Bantam 1993) magic realism novel in which a statue comes to life to save a young girl. [First U.K. edition]
• * _The War of the Saints (Bantam 0-553-37440-0, Mar ’95 [Feb ’95], $10.95, 357pp, tp, cover by Bascove) Reprint (Bantam 1993) literary magic realism novel with real fantasy elements. Translation by Gregory Rabassa.

AMANO, YOSHITAKA

• * *Hiten: The Art of Yoshitaka Amano (Books Nippan/Asahi Sonorama 4-257-03229-4, 1990 [May ’91], $24.95, unpaginated, tp, cover by Yoshitaka Amano) Art book, a collection of pieces, both black-and-white and full-color, by a major Japanese sf/fantasy artist. The foreword by Yumemakura Baku is in Japanese, but the title page, titles, and afterword by Tatsuki & Lenore Kobayashi are in English. There is an earlier all-Japanese version (1989).

AMBROSE, DAVID (Edwin) (1943- )

• * +The Man Who Turned Into Himself (St. Martin’s 0-312-10497-9, Feb ’94 [Mar ’94], $17.00, 196pp, hc) Literary sf novel about a man trapped inside his alter ego in a parallel universe, searching for a way to return to the life he loves. A first novel. First American edition (Jonathan Cape 1993).
• * _The Man Who Turned Into Himself (Pan 0-330-32674-0, Feb ’95, £4.99, 231pp, pb) Reprint (Cape 1993) literary SF novel. Rick Hamilton wakes after an accident to find himself in a parallel world where he is known, but barely liked.
• * _The Man Who Turned Into Himself (St. Martin’s/Picador 0-312-13119-4, Aug ’95 [Jul ’95], $10.00, 196pp, tp, cover by Eric Dinyer) Reprint (Jonathan Cape 1993) literary SF novel about a man trapped inside himself in an alternate universe.
• * *Mother of God (Macmillan UK 0-333-63773-9, Aug ’95, £9.99, 344pp, hc) SF novel. A brilliant young woman, who has secretly created the first viable artificial intelligence programme, is unaware she is being stalked via the Internet by a serial killer.
• * +Mother of God (Simon & Schuster 0-684-82418-3, Nov ’96 [Oct ’96], $23.00, 352pp, hc, cover by Michaelangelo Buonarroti) Near-future SF thriller. A woman’s artificial intelligence program is loose on the nets and out to kill its creator, with a serial killer’s help. First US edition (Macmillan UK 1995).
• * *Superstition (Macmillan UK 0-333-68264-5, Sep ’97, £16.99, 354pp, hc) SF/supernatural novel. A successful experiment to manufacture a ghost has a slight side-effect.
• * _Superstition (Pan 0-330-36744-7, Jul ’98 [Sep ’98], £5.99, 419pp, pb) Reprint (Macmillan UK 1997) SF/supernatural novel.
• * +Superstition (Warner 0-446-52344-5, Oct ’98 [Sep ’98], $24.00, 368pp, hc) SF/horror novel about a ghost literally created by the power of the human mind. First US edition (Macmillan UK 1997).

AMES, J(ohn) EDWARD (1949- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *The Asylum (Zebra 0-8217-4661-8, Aug ’94 [Jul ’94], $4.50, 303pp, pb) Horror novel about a brilliant chemist who can create mental illness artificially.
• * *Death Crystal (Leisure 0-8439-3053-5, Nov ’90 [Oct ’91], $4.50, 396pp, pb) Horror novel of an evil crystal from Atlantis. This is a 1990 book not seen until now.
• * *Spellcaster (Zebra 0-8217-2732-X, Aug ’89 [Jul ’89], $3.95, 347pp, pb) Voodoo horror novel. Unspeakable evil walks the streets of New Orleans during Mardi Gras.

AMES, LEE J(udah) (1921- )

• * *Draw 50 Beasties and Yugglies and Turnover Uglies and Things That Go Bump in the Night (Doubleday 0-385-24625-0, Nov ’88 [Oct ’88], $12.95, unpaginated, hc) A humorous “how-to” sketchbook of odd creatures.

AMES, MILDRED (Walsh) (1919-1994)

• * _Anna to the Infinite Power (Scholastic/Point 0-590-33732-7, 1985 [Sep ’85], $2.25, 202pp, pb) Reprint (Scribner’s 1981) young-adult sf novel.
• * _Anna to the Infinite Power (Scholastic/Point 0-590-33732-7, 1986 [Mar ’86], $2.25, 202pp, pb) Reprint (Scribner’s 1981) young-adult sf novel of a genetically engineered girl.

AMIS, [Sir] KINGSLEY (William) (1922-1995) (stories)

• * _The Alteration (Penguin 0-14-009952-2, Feb ’88, £2.50, 205pp, pb) Reissue (Cape 1976) literary sf novel.
• * _The Alteration (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-432-2, Oct ’88 [Sep ’88], $3.95, 205pp, pb) Reprint (Cape 1976) alternate-history novel in a contemporary Europe that never underwent the Protestant Reformation.
• * _The Alteration (Easton Press no ISBN, Apr ’93, no price, 210pp, hc) Reprint (Jonathan Cape 1976) literary sf novel, with an introduction by Brian Aldiss and artwork by Debbie Hughes. This special leatherbound gilt-edge edition is part of the “Masterpieces of Science Fiction” series and is available by subscription only.
• * *Collected Short Stories (Hutchinson 0-09-172737-5, Apr ’87, £11.95, 321pp, hc) Collection of most of Amis’s short fiction, including some sf. (Contents)
• * _The Green Man (Academy Chicago 0-89733-220-2, Dec ’86, $4.95, 242pp, pb) Reprint (Cape 1969) novel of the supernatural, mixing satire and terror.
• * _The Green Man (Penguin 0-14-009950-6, Feb ’88, £2.50, 175pp, pb) Reissue (Cape 1969) literary ghost novel.
• * _The Green Man (Penguin 0-14-013043-8, Oct ’90, £3.99, 175pp, pb) Reissue (Cape 1969) ghost story. This is the TV tie-in edition.
• * _The Green Man (Academy Chicago 0-89733-220-2, Mar ’91 [May ’91], $6.95, 242pp, pb) Reissue (Cape 1969) novel involving satire, suspense, horror, and metaphysics. Tie-in edition for the BBC film.
• * _The Green Man (Academy Chicago 0-89733-220-2, Sep ’97 [Jan ’98], $12.00, 242pp, tp) Reissue (Cape 1969) mystery set in a haunted inn. A TV tie-in edition. Third printing.
• * +Memoirs (Simon & Schuster/Summit 0-671-74909-9, Sep ’91 [Nov ’91], $25.00, 346pp, hc) Non-fiction, the autobiography of the British writer and critic, whose fiction and non-fiction works have included sf and fantasy. First American edition (Hutchinson 1991).
• * _Russian Hide-and-Seek (Penguin 0-14-005738-2, Jul ’87, £2.95, 251pp, pb) Reissue (Hutchinson 1980) literary sf novel.

AMIS, MARTIN (Louis) (1949- ) (stories)

• * _Dead Babies (Random House/Vintage 0-679-73449-X, Mar ’91, $10.00, 206pp, tp, cover by Drew Roth) Reprint (Cape 1975) near-future literary fantasy novel.
• * *Einstein’s Monsters (Jonathan Cape 0-224-02435-3, Apr ’87 [May ’87], £5.95, 127pp, hc) Collection of stories, including some sf. Simultaneous with American edition. (Contents)
• * *Einstein’s Monsters (Crown/Harmony 0-517-56520-X, May ’87, $14.95, 149pp, hc) Collection of 5 pre- and post-holocaust stories on the folly of war. There’s a simultaneous British edition.
• * _Einstein’s Monsters (Penguin 0-14-010315-5, May ’88, £3.50, 132pp, tp) Reprint (Cape 1987) associational/sf collection.
• * _Einstein’s Monsters (Vintage 0-679-72996-8, Mar ’90 [Apr ’90], $8.95, 149pp, tp, cover by Arthur Trees) Reprint (Harmony 1987) collection of five literary sf and fantasy stories.
• * *Heavy Water and Other Stories (Jonathan Cape 0-224-05126-1, Oct ’98, £14.99, 231pp, hc) Associational collection of 9 stories, including several fantasy and SF. Two seem to be originals. (Contents)
• * +London Fields (Harmony 0-517-57718-6, Mar ’90 [Feb ’90], $19.95, 470pp, hc) Literary fantasy novel. First American edition (Cape 1989).
• * _London Fields (Random House/Vintage 0-679-73034-6, Apr ’91 [Mar ’91], $11.00, 470pp, tp, cover by Drew Roth) Reprint (Cape 1989) near-future pre-apocalyptic literary fantasy novel.
• * *Time’s Arrow (Jonathan Cape 0-224-03093-0, Sep ’91, £13.99, 176pp, hc) Literary sf novel about a man living backwards in time.
• * +Time’s Arrow (Crown/Harmony 0-517-58515-4, Nov ’91 [Oct ’91], $18.00, 168pp, hc, cover by Chip Kidd) Literary fantasy novel of a spectral alter ego trapped inside the body of a Nazi doctor who was at Auschwitz and forced to live his life backwards. First American edition (Cape 1991).
• * _Time’s Arrow (BOMC no ISBN, Dec ’91 [Nov ’91], $9.00, 160pp, hc, cover by Chip Kidd) Reprint (Cape 1991) literary fantasy novel of a spectral alter ego trapped inside the body of a Nazi doctor who was at Auschwitz and forced to live his life backwards. This edition is identical to the 1991 Crown Harmony edition except it lacks an ISBN and price and has a BOMC mark on the back.
• * _Time’s Arrow (BOMC/QPBC no ISBN, Aug ’92, $9.95, 160pp, tp, cover by Chip Kidd) Reprint (Cape 1991) literary fantasy novel. Similar to the 1991 Crown Harmony edition except it lacks an ISBN and price and has the jacket printed as the soft cover.
• * _Time’s Arrow (Penguin 0-14-016779-X, Sep ’92, £5.99, 176pp, pb) Reprint (Cape 1991) literary sf novel about a man living backwards in time.
• * _Time’s Arrow (Random House/Vintage 0-679-73572-0, Nov ’92 [Oct ’92], $10.00, 165pp, tp, cover by Drew Roth) Reprint (Cape 1991) literary fantasy novel.

AMOS, BETH (1954- )

• * *Second Sight (HarperPaperbacks 0-06-101288-2, Nov ’98 [Oct ’98], $6.50, 449pp, pb) Supernatural thriller. A journalist with paranormal abilities investigates a colleague’s death.

AMOSS, BERTHE

• * *Lost Magic (Hyperion 1-56282-573-9, Sep ’93, $14.95, 184pp, hc, cover by Diane Stanley) Young-adult fantasy novel of a young girl who must rescue her lord’s daughter from the evil fairies who have kidnapped her.
• * _Lost Magic (Hyperion 0-7868-1034-3, May ’95 [Apr ’95], $4.50, 184pp, tp, cover by Diane Stanley) Reprint (Hyperion 1993) young-adult fantasy.

ANDERS, AGNETHA

• * *The Last Days of the Pleasurehouse (Nexus 0-352-32818-5, Apr ’92, £4.50, 241pp, pb) [Pleasurehouse] Erotica set in 2031. Volume two in the “Pleasurehouse” series.
• * *Pleasurehouse 13 (Nexus 0-352-32805-3, Dec ’91 [Jan ’92], £3.99, 249pp, pb) [Pleasurehouse] Erotica set in a stratified Britain in 2030. Volume 1 in a new series.

ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN (1805-1875) (stories) (chron.)

• * _Andersen’s Fairy Tales (NAL/Signet Classic 0-451-52107-2, Jun ’87 [May ’87], $3.95, 381pp, pb) Reissue (NAL/Signet 1966) selection from The Snow Queen and Other Tales; selected, translated, and with an afterword by Pat Shaw Iverson. Illustrations by Sheila Greenwald. (Contents)
• * _The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (Doubleday Anchor 0-385-18951-6, Apr ’90 [Mar ’90], $14.95, 1101pp, tp, cover by E. S. Hardy) Reissue (Anchor 1974) collection of fantasy stories and fairy tales, translated from the Danish by Erik Haugaard with a foreword by Virginia Haviland; 11th printing.

ANDERSON, BLAINE

• * *Heartspell (Warner 0-446-36199-2, Jan ’92 [Dec ’91], $4.99, 339pp, pb, cover by Gregg Gulbronson) Fantasy romance about a healer and spell-giver who finds love with an enemy warrior in ancient Ireland.

ANDERSON, C. DEAN

• * *Raw Pain Max (Popular Library 0-445-20828-7, Dec ’88 [Nov ’88], $3.95, 260pp, pb) Horror novel about the relationship between a vampire and a performer in a safe sex club catering to a sado-masochistic clientele.
• * *Torture Tomb (Popular Library 0-445-20370-6, May ’87 [Apr ’87], $3.50, 325pp, pb) Horror novel of good witches vs. “an evil dynasty built upon the unspeakable secrets of the damned.” The author writes heroic fantasy as Asa Drake.

ANDERSON, CRAIG W(orden) (1945- ) (stories)

• * *Science Fiction Films of the Seventies (McFarland 0-89950-086-2, Sep ’85 [Aug ’85], $15.95 + $1.00 postage, 261pp, pb) Historical and critical survey, with numerous photographs.

ANDERSON, DENNIS LEE

• * *Arthur, King (HarperPrism 0-06-105433-X, Jan ’95 [Dec ’94], $4.99, 360pp, pb, cover by Joe Burleson) Arthurian fantasy novel. Mordred steals Excalibur and Merlin’s Book, and Arthur follows him into the middle of WWII.

ANDERSON, DON (1931- )

• * *Heatshield (Pan 0-330-30981-1, Feb ’90 [1990], £3.99, 288pp, pb) Near-future techno-thriller.

ANDERSON, DOUGLAS A(llen), ed. (1959- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * _The Dragon Path: The Collected Tales of Kenneth Morris See entry under Kenneth Morris.

ANDERSON, JACK(son Northman) (1922-2005)

• * *Millennium (Tor/Forge 0-312-85401-3, Nov ’94, $22.95, 332pp, hc, cover by Alan Ayers) SF thriller novel. An alien visitor falls afoul of Earth’s human dangers, and a journalist has to save him and the planet.
• * _Millennium (Tor 0-812-52258-3, Oct ’95 [Sep ’95], $5.99, 424pp, pb, cover by Shelley Eshkar) Reprint (Forge 1994) SF thriller novel. A journalist saves an alien visitor from Earth’s human dangers.

ANDERSON, JANET S.

• * *Going Through the Gate (Penguin/Dutton 0-525-45836-0, Oct ’97 [Sep ’97], $15.99, 134pp, hc, cover by Elizabeth Sayles) Young-adult fantasy novel. Secret sixth-grade graduation rites involve animals, magic, and a 25-year-old mystery. A first novel.

ANDERSON, JANI, ed. (1949- ) (stories)

• * *Bringing Down the Moon (Space & Time 0-917053-02-8, Oct ’85 [Apr ’86], $7.95, 251pp, tp) This original semi-pro anthology of 15 stories of fantasy and terror appeared in 1985, but we missed it. A hardcover edition has also been announced; we haven’t seen it. (Contents)

ANDERSON, K. J.; see under Anderson, Kevin J. (stories) (chron.)

ANDERSON, KAREN; [i.e., June Millichamp “Karen” Kruse Anderson] (1932- ) (stories)

• * _Dahut (with Poul Anderson) See entry under Poul Anderson.
• * _The Dog and the Wolf (with Poul Anderson) See entry under Poul Anderson.
• * _Gallicenae (with Poul Anderson) See entry under Poul Anderson.
• * _The King of Ys (with Poul Anderson) See entry under Poul Anderson.
• * _The King of Ys 2: Gallicenae (with Poul Anderson) See entry under Poul Anderson.
• * _The King of Ys: Dahut (with Poul Anderson) See entry under Poul Anderson.
• * _Roma Mater (with Poul Anderson) See entry under Poul Anderson.
• * _The Unicorn Trade (with Poul Anderson) See entry under Poul Anderson.

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• * _The Night Fantastic (with Poul Anderson) See entry under Poul Anderson.

ANDERSON, KEVIN J(ames) (1962- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * _Afterimage (with Kristine Kathryn Rusch) See entry under Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
• * _Afterimage/Aftershock (with Kristine Kathryn Rusch) See entry under Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
• * *Ai! Pedrito! When Intelligence Goes Wrong (Bridge 1-57318-121-8, Jun ’98, $25.00, 365pp, hc, cover by Peter Green & Mike Manoogian) Associational novelization of a humorous spy story by L. Ron Hubbard. Foreword by Dan Sherman. Copyrighted by L. Ron Hubbard Library.
• * *Assemblers of Infinity (with Doug Beason) (Bantam Spectra 0-553-29921-2, Feb ’93 [Jan ’93], $4.99, 355pp, pb, cover by Pamela Lee) Sf novel of a lunar colony endangered by contact with sentient alien machines. This is longer than the Analog version.
• * _Assemblers of Infinity (with Doug Beason) (SFBC #00745, Jun ’93 [May ’93], $7.98, 278pp, hc, cover by Pamela Lee) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1993) sf novel of a lunar colony endangered by contact with sentient alien machines. First hardcover edition. This edition lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * *Blindfold (Warner Aspect 0-446-60247-7, Nov ’95 [Oct ’95], $5.99, 377pp, pb, cover by Stephen Youll) SF novel. In a fragile society dependent on telepaths as Truthsaysers, someone is trying to subvert the system.
• * *Born of Elven Blood (with John Gregory Betancourt) (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum 0-689-31815-4, Jun ’95, $15.00, 138pp, hc, cover by John Howe) Young-adult fantasy novel. Packaged and partially copyrighted by Byron Preis Visual Publications; text copyrighted by the authors.
• * *Climbing Olympus (Warner Aspect 0-446-60158-6, Sep ’94 [Aug ’94], $5.50, 297pp, pb, cover by Mark Harrison) SF novel of men who are surgically transformed in order to colonize Mars.
• * _Climbing Olympus (Easton Press no ISBN, Mar ’95, no price, 297pp, hc) SF novel of men who are surgically transformed in order to colonize Mars. This special leatherbound, gilt-edge edition is part of the “Signed First Editions of Science Fiction” series, and is available only by subscription. Published “simultaneously” with Warner edition listed seven months ago; this is the first hardcover edition.
• * _Climbing Olympus (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-648305-4, Jun ’97, £5.99, 297pp, pb) Reprint (Warner Aspect 1994) SF novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Fallout (with Doug Beason) (Ace 0-441-00425-3, Mar ’97 [Feb ’97], $5.99, 303pp, pb, cover by Doug Struthers) [Virtual Destruction] SF thriller, sequel to Virtual Destruction. An extremist militia group invades the device assembly facility at a nuclear test site.
• * *Gamearth (NAL Signet 0-451-15680-3, Mar ’89 [Feb ’89], $3.95, 335pp, pb) [Gamearth] Fantasy novel about a role playing game that refused to stay pretend.
• * *Gameplay (NAL Signet 0-451-16236-6, Oct ’89 [Sep ’89], $3.95, 325pp, pb) [Gamearth] Fantasy novel about a role-playing game that comes alive, sequel to Gamearth.
• * *Game’s End (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45031-0, Sep ’90 [Aug ’90], $4.50, 333pp, pb) [Gamearth] Fantasy novel, third book of the “Game” trilogy.
• * *Ignition (with Doug Beason) (Coronet 0-340-67455-5, Dec ’96 [Apr ’97], £5.99, 452pp, pb) Near-future thriller. Published in 1996, but not seen until now.
• * +Ignition (with Doug Beason) (Tor/Forge 0-312-86270-9, Mar ’97 [Feb ’97], $23.95, 320pp, hc, cover by Gary Ruddell) Associatonal space-program thriller. Terrorists hold a historic shuttle launch hostage. First US edition (Hodder & Stoughton 1996).
• * _Ignition (with Doug Beason) (Tor 0-812-54548-6, Apr ’98 [Mar ’98], $6.99, 402pp, pb, cover by Gary Ruddell) Reprint (Coronet 1996) associational space-program thriller.