The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Books, Listed by Author

GORMLEY, BEATRICE (continued)

• * _Paul’s Volcano (Avon Camelot 0-380-70562-1, Sep ’88 [Aug ’88], $2.50, 120pp, pb) Reprint (Houghton Mifflin 1987) children’s sf/mad scientist/science project novel.
• * *Richard and the Vratch (Avon Camelot 0-380-75207-7, Oct ’87 [Sep ’87], $3.75, 133pp, pb) Juvenile sf novel about a tribe of prehistoric creatures.
• * *Wanted: UFO (Penguin/Dutton 0-525-44593-5, Jul ’90 [Sep ’90], $12.95, 119pp, hc, cover by Emily Arnold McCully) Young-adult sf novel of two kids and the spaceship that lands in the backyard.

GORO, FRITZ

• * *On the Nature of Things: The Scientific Photography of Fritz Goro (Aperture 0-89381-542-X, 1993 [Jun ’94], $40.00, 130pp, hc, cover by Fritz Goro) Associational art book, a collection of Fritz W. Goro’s photographs of scientific subjects such as DNA, moon rocks, fiberoptics, etc., with commentary by various scientists and an introduction by Stephen Jay Gould. The photos are more exotic than most modern art books.

GOROG, JUDITH (Allen) (1938- ) (stories)

• * *On Meeting Witches at Wells (Putnam/Philomel 0-399-21803-3, Oct ’91 [Nov ’91], $14.95, 119pp, hc, cover by Karl Swanson) Young-adult collection of 14 fantasy and horror stories told when a group of kids gather for the last time at their school before it’s closed up and destroyed. (Contents)
• * *Please Do Not Touch (Scholastic 0-590-46682-8, Sep ’93 [Oct ’93], $13.95, 129pp, hc, cover by Stanislaw Fernandes) Young-adult collection of 12 connected horror stories centered around exhibits at a strange art gallery. (Contents)
• * *Three Dreams and a Nightmare and Other Tales of the Dark (Putnam/Philomel 0-399-21578-6, Sep ’88 [May ’89], $13.95, 156pp, hc) Young-adult collection of 14 stories of the fantastic. Published in 1988, but not seen until 1989. (Contents)
• * _When Flesh Begins to Creep (Gollancz 0-575-03797-0, Mar ’86, £6.95, 128pp, hc) Reprint (Philomel 1982, as A Taste for Quiet) juvenile collection of 12 supernatural stories.
• * _When Flesh Begins to Creep (Lions 0-00-672777-8, Dec ’87, £1.95, 142pp, pb) Reprint (Philomel 1982, as A Taste for Quiet) original juvenile fantasy/occult collection.
• * *Winning Scheherezade (Macmillan Atheneum 0-689-31648-8, Apr ’91, $11.95, 101pp, hc, cover by James E. Ransome) [Thousand and One Nights] Young-adult fantasy novel, a sequel to The Thousand and One Nights.

GOSHGARIAN, GARY (1942- ) (stories)

• * *Rough Beast (Penguin/Donald I. Fine 1-55611-464-8, Dec ’95 [Jan ’96], $21.95, 296pp, hc) Horror/SF novel
• * _Rough Beast (Leisure 0-8439-4152-9, Jan ’97 [Aug ’97], $4.99, 296pp, pb) Reprint (Fine 1995) horror/SF novel.
• * *The Stone Circle (Penguin/Donald I. Fine 1-55611-533-4, Sep ’97 [Aug ’97], $21.95, 296pp, hc) Horror novel combining Native American and Celtic mythology. A stone henge is uncovered on an island in Boston Harbor.

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• * *Horrorscape (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co. 0-8403-8181-6, 1993, 252pp, tp) Textbook. (Contents)

GOTLIEB, PHYLLIS (Fay, née Bloom) (1926-2009) (stories)

• * *Blue Apes (Tesseract 1-895836-13-1, Dec ’95 [Feb ’96], $8.95, 272pp, pb, cover by Robert Pasternak) Collection of 11 stories. Also published in a hardcover edition (-14-X, $21.95). Price is the same in US and Canadian money. Order from Tesseract Books, 214-21 10405 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton Alberta Canada T5J 3S2. Add $2.00 postage. (Contents)
• * _Emperor, Swords, Pentacles (Ace 0-441-20547-X, May ’85 [Apr ’85], $2.95, 299pp, pb) [Starcats] Reissue (Ace 1982) sf novel in the “Khreng and Prandra” series. Third Ace printing.
• * *Flesh and Gold (Tor 0-312-86523-6, Feb ’98 [Jan ’98], $22.95, 286pp, hc) [Flesh and Gold] SF novel. A telepathic alien judge far from her homeworld investigates slavery of altered humans.
• * *Heart of Red Iron (St. Martin’s 0-312-02583-1, Mar ’89, $15.95, 235pp, hc) [Dahlgren] Sf novel, sequel to O Master Caliban!.
• * _A Judgement of Dragons (Ace 0-441-42032-X, Mar ’85 [Feb ’85], $2.95, 263pp, pb) [Starcats] Reprint (Berkley 1980) collection of four stories starring sentient cats. First book in a trilogy.
• * *The Kingdom of Cats (Ace 0-441-44453-9, Jul ’85 [Jun ’85], $2.95, 284pp, pb) [Starcats] Sf novel, third in the “Ungruwarkh” trilogy. This tour-de-force underscores Gotlieb’s much-underestimated talent - a complex, demanding and rewarding book. Not to be missed. (DLN)

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• * *Tesseracts 2 (with Douglas Barbour) (Porcépic Press 0-88878-270-5, Nov ’87, C$9.95, 295pp, tp) Mostly original anthology of 23 Canadian sf stories, including some appearing in English for the first time. (Contents)

GOTTFRIED, CHET (M.) (1947- ) (stories)

• * *The Steel Eye (Space & Time 0-917053-00-1, Jul ’84 [Jun ’84], $5.95, 151pp, tp) Sf/mystery novel featuring a hardboiled robot detective. This is the first book publication from Gordon Linzner of Space and Time Magazine.

GOTTLIEB, SHERRY (Maureen Gershon) (1948- )

• * *Hell No We Won’t Go: Resisting the Draft During the Vietnam War (Viking 0-670-83935-3, Jul ’91 [Aug ’91], $21.95, 274pp, hc, cover by Tom McKeveny) Associational non-fiction, a collection of interviews about the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement by the former proprietor of A Change of Hobbit bookstore. Sf people represented include Stephen R. Donaldson, Michael Reaves, Dennis Etchison, John Varley, and Debbie Notkin. Others have names that are sus-piciously similar to literary personalities.
• * *Love Bite (Warner 0-446-36537-8, Jun ’94 [May ’94], $5.99, 277pp, pb, cover by Mel Odom) [Love Bite] Vampire horror novel about a police detective marked by a vampire as her mate. A first novel.
• * _Love Bite (Transylvania Press 1-55135-001-7, Jul ’94 [Aug ’94], $65.00, 275pp, hc, cover by Alan M. Clark) [Love Bite] Reprint (Warner 1994) vampire horror novel. First hardcover edition. This is a signed numbered slipcased 500-copy limited edition.
• * _Love Bite (Warner UK 0-7515-1090-4, Aug ’94, £4.99, 277pp, pb, cover by Mel Odom) [Love Bite] Reprint (Warner 1994) horror novel. [First U.K. edition]

GOUDGE, EILEEN; [i.e., Eileen Goudge Zuckerman] (1950- ) (stories)

• * *Eileen Goudge’s Swept Away #1: Gone with the Wish (Avon Flare 0-380-75128-3, Sep ’86 [Feb ’87], $2.50, 166pp, pb) Young-adult sf/romance novel, first in a series about time-traveling teens. Issued in 1986; not seen until now.
• * *Eileen Goudge’s Swept Away #4: Star Struck (Avon Flare 0-380-75131-3, Jan ’87, $2.50, 202pp, pb) Latest in a series of teenage time travel romances; a computer makes Kiki Wynkowski’s wildest dreams come true, and she’s back in the ’30s starring in a major movie.

GOUDGE, ELIZABETH (de Beauchamp) (1900-1984) (stories)

• * _Linnets and Valerians (Dell Yearling 0-440-40590-4, Mar ’92 [Feb ’92], $3.50, 246pp, pb, cover by Yvonne Gilbert) Reprint (Brockhampton Press 1964) young-adult fantasy novel of a magical battle between good and evil in a small English village.
• * _The Little White Horse (Dell Yearling 0-440-40734-6, Dec ’92 [Nov ’92], $3.50, 277pp, tp, cover by Yvonne Gilbert) Reprint (University of London Press 1946) classic young-adult fantasy of an orphaned girl who finds mystery and fantasy at lonely Moonacre Manor.
• * _The Little White Horse (Lion 0-7459-1458-6, Mar ’94, £3.50, 238pp, pb, cover by Govinder Ram) Reprint (University of London 1946) young-adult fantasy novel.
• * _The Little White Horse (Lion 0-7459-1458-6, Apr ’94 [Aug ’94], £3.50, 238pp, pb, cover by Govinder Ram) Reprint (University of London 1946) young-adult fantasy novel, winner of the 1946 Carnegie Medal. A tie-in edition to the BBC1 serial Moonacre.

GOUGH, VAL, ed. (stories)

• * *A Very Different Story: Studies on the Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (with Jill Rudd) (Liverpool University Press 0-85323-601-1, Nov ’98 [Dec ’98], £15.95, x+188pp, tp) Collection of critical essays on the author of Herland and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’. A hardcover edition (-591-0, £32.00) was announced but not seen. [Gilman]

GOULART, RON(ald Joseph) (1933- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * _After Things Fell Apart (Berkley 0-425-07647-4, Apr ’85 [Mar ’85], $2.75, 189pp, pb) Reprint (Ace 1977) satiric sf novel.
• * *Author’s Choice Monthly Issue 11: Skyrocket Steele Conquers the Universe and Other Media Tales (Pulphouse no ISBN, Aug ’90, $4.95, 100pp, tp, cover by George Barr) Collection of five stories plus an introduction by the author. A signed hardcover edition ($25.00) is also available. A deluxe leatherbound edition ($50.00) was announced but not seen. (Contents)
• * _Battlestar Galactica # 9: Experiment in Terra (with Glen A. Larson) See entry under Glen A. Larson
• * _Battlestar Galactica #10: The Long Patrol (with Glen A. Larson) See entry under Glen A. Larson
• * *Brainz, Inc. (DAW 0-88677-042-4, May ’85 [Apr ’85], $2.75, 205pp, pb) [Odd Jobs, Inc.] Sf novel. Part of the “Odd Jobs, Inc.” series.
• * *The Curse of the Obelisk (Avon 0-380-89858-6, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $2.95, 139pp, pb) Humorous fantasy novel.
• * *Daredevils, Ltd. (St. Martin’s 0-312-90140-2, Jun ’87 [May ’87], $2.95, 185pp, pb) [Ex-Chameleon] Sf novel of a future private investigator, part of the humorous “Ben Jolson” series.
• * *The Dime Detectives (Mysterious Press 0-89296-191-0, Dec ’88 [Nov ’88], $17.95, 248pp, hc) Non-fiction, associational. A history of the detective fiction pulps.
• * *Everybody Comes to Cosmo’s (St. Martin’s 0-312-90931-4, Feb ’88 [Mar ’88], $2.95, 184pp, pb) [Ex-Chameleon] Humorous sf novel, third in the “Ex-Chameleon” series, sequel series to the “Chameleon Corps” series.
• * *Galaxy Jane (Berkley 0-425-08684-4, Mar ’86 [Feb ’86], $2.95, 168pp, pb) Humorous sf novel of drug smuggling under cover of filming the epic pirate adventure Galaxy Jane; a reporter and a robot photographer investigate.
• * *The Great Comic Book Artists (St. Martin’s 0-312-34557-7, Aug ’86 [Jul ’86], $12.95, 128pp, pb) Non-fiction, reference. Short biographies of 60 comic artists plus a full-page example of their work.
• * *The Great Comic Book Artists Volume 2 (St. Martin’s 0-312-01768-5, Dec ’88, $12.95, 113pp, tp) Non-fiction, biography. One-page articles plus one page of art from 56 artists.
• * *Groucho Marx, Master Detective (St. Martin’s/Dunne 0-312-18106-X, Apr ’98 [Mar ’98], $22.95, 262pp, hc, cover by Hal Just) [Groucho Marx] Associational mystery.
• * *Hellquad (DAW 0-87997-949-6, Aug ’84 [Jul ’84], $2.50, 158pp, pb) Humorous sf novel in typical Goulartian style.
• * *The Prisoner of Blackwood Castle (Avon 0-380-88005-9, Jul ’84 [Jun ’84], $2.50, 174pp, pb) Humorous fantasy adventure novel.
• * *Ron Goulart’s Great History of Comic Books (Contemporary Books 0-8092-5045-4, Sep ’86 [Aug ’86], $14.95, 314pp, pb) Non-fiction, reference. An illustrated history of American comics from the 1890s to the 1980s. A once-over-lightly with a nod to pulp fiction. A good, quick, sprightly written reference, but certainly not definitive. (CNB)
• * *Starpirate’s Brain (St. Martin’s 0-312-90053-8, Oct ’87 [Sep ’87], $2.95, 184pp, pb) [Ex-Chameleon] Sf adventure novel, Book 2 of “The Exchameleon series.”
• * *Suicide, Inc. (Berkley 0-425-07586-9, Mar ’85 [Feb ’85], $2.75, 156pp, pb) Sf novel.

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• * *The Encyclopedia of American Comics (Facts on File 0-8160-1852-9, Nov ’90, $39.95, 408pp, hc) Non-fiction; reference. An excyclopedia of American comics and comics industry personalities, this covers everything from the Katzenjammer Kids to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
• * _The Encyclopedia of American Comics (Facts on File 0-8160-2582-7, Sep ’91 [Aug ’91], $19.95, 408pp, tp) Reprint (Facts on File 1990) non-fiction reference book. An encyclopedia of American comics and comics industry personalities.

GOULD, ALAN (1951- ); see pseudonym Michael A. Banks (stories)

GOULD, SANDRA LEE

• * *Faraday’s Popcorn Factory (St. Martin’s 0-312-18578-2, May ’98, $23.95, 273pp, hc, cover by Jody Hewgill) Fantasy novel. A woman falls in love with (literally) the son of the weather.

GOULD, STEVEN (Charles) (1955- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Greenwar (with Laura J. Mixon) (Tor/Forge 0-312-85261-4, Jun ’97 [May ’97], $25.95, 380pp, hc, cover by Peter Bollinger) Associational very-near-future thriller of ecological terrorism.
• * _Greenwar (with Laura J. Mixon) (Tor 0-812-57116-9, Nov ’98 [Oct ’98], $6.99, 588pp, pb, cover by Peter Bollinger) Reprint (Forge 1997) very-near-future thriller of ecological terrorism.
• * *Helm (Tor 0-312-86460-4, Mar ’98 [Feb ’98], $24.95, 383pp, hc, cover by Jim Burns) SF novel. A younger son on a lost colony planet sets out on a quest with the help of ancient technology.
• * _Helm (SFBC #05864, Jun ’98 [May ’98], $12.50, 383pp, hc, cover by Jim Burns) Reprint (Tor 1998) SF lost-colony novel. This is similar to the Tor edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * *Jumper (Tor 0-312-85272-X, Aug ’92 [Jul ’92], $21.95, 344pp, hc, cover by Romas) [Jumper] Sf novel about a young teleporter on his own in New York City. A first novel.
• * _Jumper (SFBC #02780, Nov ’92 [Dec ’92], $9.98, 344pp, hc, cover by Romas) [Jumper] Reprint (Tor 1992) sf novel about a young teleporter on his own in New York City. Similar to the Tor edition except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Jumper (Tor 0-812-52237-0, Oct ’93 [Sep ’93], $4.99, 344pp, pb, cover by Romas) [Jumper] Reprint (Tor 1992) sf novel about a young teleporter on his own in New York City.
• * *Wildside (Tor 0-312-85473-0, Apr ’96 [Mar ’96], $22.95, 316pp, hc, cover by Nicholas Jainschigg) SF novel. An 18-year-old controls a gateway to a rich, unpolluted world.
• * _Wildside (SFBC #11583, Jun ’96 [May ’96], $10.98, 316pp, hc, cover by Nicholas Jainschigg) Reprint (Tor 1996) SF novel. An 18-year-old controls a gateway to a rich, unpolluted world. This is similar to the Tor edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Wildside (Tor 0-812-52398-9, Jan ’97 [Dec ’96], $5.99, 316pp, pb, cover by Nicholas Jainschigg) Reprint (Tor 1996) SF novel. An 18-year-old controls a gateway to a rich, unpolluted world.

GOURMONT, REMY de (1858-1915) (stories)

• * *The Angels of Perversity (Dedalus 0-946626-81-2, Aug ’92 [Jul ’92], £6.99, 176pp, tp, cover by David Bird) Literary fantasy collection. First English translation (by Francis Amery). (Contents)

GOWAR, MICK, ed.; [i.e., Michael Robert Gowar] (1951- ) (stories)

• * *Twisted Circuits (Beaver 0-09-943400-8, Jan ’87, £1.75, 144pp, pb) Original juvenile sf anthology. (Contents)

GOWER, DANIEL H.

• * *Harrowgate (Dell Abyss 0-440-21456-4, Dec ’93 [Nov ’93], $4.99, 385pp, pb) Horror novel of an artist and a beautiful but dead woman guarding mankind from an evil force.
• * *The Orpheus Process (Dell Abyss 0-440-21143-3, Feb ’92 [Jan ’92], $4.99, 420pp, pb) Horror novel, a retelling of Frankenstein set at a small suburban college. A first novel. Recommended (SW).

GRABIEN, DEBORAH (1954- ) (chron.)

• * *And Then Put Out the Light (Pan 0-330-32868-9, Jul ’93, £4.99, 247pp, pb, cover by Peter Mennim) Ghost story about a woman haunted by a figure from the past.
• * +Eyes in the Fire (St. Martin’s 0-312-03336-2, Sep ’89 [Aug ’89], $15.95, 250pp, hc) Fantasy/mystery novel about a woman who is psychically linked to a druid. A first novel. First American edition (Piatkus 1988 as Woman of Fire).
• * *Plainsong (St. Martin’s 0-312-04403-8, Apr ’90, $16.95, 231pp, hc) Near-future post-apocalypse metaphysical literary sf novel.
• * _Plainsong (Fawcett Crest 0-449-21985-2, Dec ’91 [Nov ’91], $4.99, 229pp, pb) Reprint (St. Martin’s 1990) near-future post-apocalypse literary sf novel.
• * _Plainsong (Pan 0-330-31833-0, Jan ’92, £4.50, 231pp, pb, cover by Mike Posen) Reprint (St. Martin’s 1990) metaphysical literary sf novel.
• * *Woman of Fire (Piatkus 0-86188-722-0, Sep ’88 [Oct ’88], £10.50, 250pp, hc) Time-travel fantasy set in the present and the Celtic age.

GRABINSKI, STEFAN (1887-1936) (stories) (chron.)

• * *The Dark Domain (Dedalus 1-873982-25-9, Dec ’93, £6.99, 153pp, tp, cover by Franz von Stuck) Collection of literary fantasy stories, translated from the Polish, and introduced, by Miroslaw Lipinski, with an afterword by Madeleine Johnson. (Contents)
• * *The Dark Domain (Dedalus/Hippocrene 0-7818-0211-3, Jan ’94, $10.95, 153pp, tp, cover by Franz von Stuck) Collection of 11 literary dark fantasy short stories. These were originally published in 1918 and 1922, and are translated from the Polish by Miroslaw Lipinski. There is an introduction and afterword by the translator. This edition has both the US and UK ISBNs and prices, and is apparently the same as the British edition. The cover calls it a Dedalus book and the title page refers to it as Dedalus/Hippocrene.

GRABOWSKY, NICHOLAS; see pseudonym Nicholas Randers

• * *Halloween IV (Critic’s Choice 1-55547-292-3, Nov ’88 [Jan ’89], $3.50, 223pp, pb) Novelization of the horror movie.

GRACE, MARIAN (1941- ); see pseudonym Camarin Grae

GRACE, PATRICIA

• * _The Sky People (The Women’s Press 0-7043-4415-7, Aug ’95, £5.99, 183pp, tp, cover by Kerry Gemmill) Reprint (Penguin Books (NZ) 1994) literary fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition]

GRAE, CAMARIN; pseudonym of Marian Grace, (1941- )

• * *Stranded (Naiad Press 0-941483-99-1, Oct ’91, $9.95, 307pp, tp, cover by Pat Tong & Bonnie Liss) Lesbian sf novel of aliens in human form fighting another alien determined to turn the U.S. into a theocracy.

GRAF, L. A.; pseudonym of Julia Ecklar & Karen Rose Cercone (stories)

• * *Alien Nation #7: Extreme Prejudice (Pocket 0-671-79570-8, Mar ’95 [Feb ’95], $5.50, 279pp, pb) [Alien Nation] SF novelization based on the TV show. Copyrighted by Twentieth Century Fox Film.
• * *Star Trek #68: Firestorm (Pocket 0-671-86588-9, Jan ’94 [Dec ’93], $5.50, 273pp, pb) [Star Trek] Star Trek novelization.