The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Books, Listed by Author

LARSON, GLEN A. (chron.) (continued)

• * *Battlestar Galactica #11: The Nightmare Machine (with Robert Thurston) (Berkley 0-425-08618-6, Dec ’85 [Nov ’85], $2.95, 216pp, pb) Sf novel based on the tv series.
• * *Battlestar Galactica #12: “Die, Chameleon!" (with Robert Thurston) (Berkley 0-425-09095-7, May ’86 [Apr ’86], $2.95, 217pp, pb) [Battlestar Galactica] Sf novel based on the tv series.
• * *Battlestar Galactica #13: Apollo’s War (with Robert Thurston) (Berkley 0-425-09476-6, Jan ’87 [Dec ’86], $2.95, 198pp, pb) [Battlestar Galactica] Novelization based on episodes of the tv sf series.
• * *Battlestar Galactica #14: Surrender the Galactica! (with Robert Thurston) (Ace 0-441-05104-9, Jan ’88 [Dec ’87], $2.95, 203pp, pb) Sf novelization based on the long-gone tv series.
• * _The Cylon Death Machine (with Robert Thurston) (Titan 1-85286-089-8, Aug ’88 [Jul ’88], £2.95, 250pp, pb) [Battlestar Galactica] Reprint (Berkley 1979) sf novelization. Volume 2 in the “Battlestar Galactica” series.
• * _The Tombs of Kobol (with Robert Thurston) (Titan 1-85286-090-1, Oct ’88, £2.95, 215pp, pb) [Battlestar Galactica] Reprint (Berkley 1979) sf novelization. Volume 3 in the “Battlestar Galactica” series. [First U.K. edition]

LARSON, MAJLISS

• * _Pawns and Symbols (Firecrest 0-85997-926-1, Jul ’87, £7.95, 288pp, hc) [Star Trek] Reprint (Pocket 1985) sf novel. Volume 41 in the Star Trek Novels series. [First U.K. edition, not seen]
• * *Star Trek: Pawns and Symbols (Pocket 0-671-55425-5, Nov ’85 [Oct ’85], $3.50, 277pp, pb) [Star Trek] Star Trek novel, #26 in the series.
• * _Star Trek: Pawns and Symbols (Pocket 0-671-66497-2, May ’88 [Jun ’88], $3.95, 277pp, pb) [Star Trek] Reissue (Pocket 1985) sf novelization. 26th in the popular series of original novelizations.
• * _Star Trek: Pawns and Symbols (Titan 1-85286-323-4, Sep ’90, £3.99, 277pp, pb) [Star Trek] Reprint (Pocket 1985) sf novelization.

LARSON, RANDALL D(ouglas) (1954- ) (stories)

• * *The Complete Robert Bloch: An Illustrated, Comprehensive Bibliography (Fandom Unlimited 0-9607178-1-1, Jul ’86 [Aug ’87], $10.00, 126pp, tp) Non-fiction, bibliography. The copyright is 1986, but we were not sent a copy until 1987. [Bloch]
• * *Film Into Books: An Analytical Bibliography of Film Novelizations, Movie and TV Tie-Ins (Scarecrow Press 0-8108-2928-2, Apr ’95 [Jun ’95], $69.50, 608pp, hc) Non-fiction critical examination and bibliography of that widely despised (and “highly misunderstood”) sub-genre, novelizations. Includes interviews with more than 50 authors who share their perspectives of the hows and whys of tie-ins. Authors mentioned include Isaac Asimov, Piers Anthony, John Jakes, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Order from University Press of America, 4720 Boston Way, Lanham MD 20706; credit card orders: 800-462-6420.
• * *Robert Bloch (Starmont House 0-930261-58-5, Dec ’86 [Jan ’87], $8.95, 148pp, tp) Non-fiction, critical study, “Starmont Reader’s Guide 37”, including primary and secondary bibliographies. [Bloch]
• * *The Robert Bloch Companion: Collected Interviews 1969-1989 (Starmont House 1-55742-146-3, 1989 [Aug ’90], $11.95, 157pp, tp, cover by Allen Koszowski) Non-fiction; reference. A book-length interview with Bloch pieced together from 34 interviews that appeared during the 20-year period. A hardcover edition (-147-1, $21.95) was announced but not seen. [Bloch]

LASENBY, JACK

• * _The Conjuror (Oxford University Press 0-19-558259-4, Sep ’93, £8.95, 238pp, hc) Reprint (OUP New Zealand 1992) young-adult sf novel set in post-holocaust New Zealand. [First U.K. edition]

LASH, BATTON (stories)

• * *Wolff & Byrd: Counselors of the Macabre (Adrion Books 0-933773-12-9, Feb ’88, $7.00, unpaginated, tp) Graphic novel, humorous horror featuring a team of lawyers who only have supernatural clients. Collected from the National Law Journal.

LASKI, MARGHANITA (1915-1988) (stories)

• * _The Victorian Chaise Longue (Academy Chicago 0-89733-097-8, Jul ’84 [Jun ’84], $3.95, 119pp, pb) Reprint (Cresset 1953) novel of time travel and horror.

LASKY, KATHRYN; [i.e., Kathryn Lasky Knight] (1944- )

• * *Home Free (Four Winds Press 0-02-751650-4, Jan ’86 [Feb ’86], $13.95, 245pp, hc) Young-adult sf novel of naturalists vs developers, and children with strange powers.
• * _Home Free (Dell/Laurel-Leaf 0-440-20038-5, Jan ’88 [Dec ’87], $2.95, 245pp, pb) Reprint (Four Winds 1985) young-adult novel of naturalists vs. developers, and children with strange powers.
• * *Memoirs of a Bookbat (Harcourt Brace 0-15-215727-1, May ’94, $10.95, 215pp, hc, cover by Michael Steirnagle) Associational young-adult novel about a young girl, daughter of itinerant fundamentalists, who is rescued from a terrible family situation by an SF writer.
• * *Shadows in the Water (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-273533-X, Oct ’92 [Nov ’92], $6.95, 211pp, tp, cover by Ed Gazsi) [Starbuck Twins] Young-adult fantasy novel, second book of the “Starbuck Twins” series. The twins use their telepathic powers to enlist a school of dolphins to help stop toxic waste dumpers in the Florida Keys.
• * *A Voice in the Wind (Harcourt Brace 0-15-294102-9, Nov ’93 [Oct ’93], $10.95, 256pp, hc, cover by Ed Gazsi) [Starbuck Twins] Young-adult fantasy/mystery novel, the third featuring the telepathic Starbuck twins, who release the earthbound spirit of an ancient Native American. A trade paperback edition (-294103-7, $3.95) is also available.

LATHAM, ROBERT (Arch), ed. (1959- ) (stories)

• * *Modes of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (with Robert A. Collins) (Greenwood Press 0-313-29085-7, Oct ’95, $69.50, 234pp, hc) Collection of 25 essays with a focus on fantasy and politics. Order from Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Box 5007, Westport CT 06881; credit card orders: 800-225-5800.
• * _Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual 1990 (with Robert A. Collins) See entry under Robert A. Collins
• * _Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual 1991 (with Robert A. Collins) See entry under Robert A. Collins
• * _Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual 1989 (with Robert A. Collins) See entry under Robert A. Collins

LA TOURETTE, AILEEN (1946- )

• * *Cry Wolf (Virago 0-86068-584-5, May ’86, £9.95, 193pp, hc) Post-holocaust sf novel.
• * *Cry Wolf (Virago 0-86068-589-6, May ’86, £3.95, 193pp, tp) Paperback edition of the above.

LAUGHLIN, FLORENCE (stories)

• * _The Little Leftover Witch (Macmillan Aladdin 0-689-71273-1, Oct ’88 [Sep ’88], $3.50, 91pp, tp) Reprint (? 1960) children’s fantasy novella about a witch stranded with a mortal family when her broomstick crash-lands. Illustrations by Sheila Greenwald.

LAUMER, (John) KEITH (1925-1993) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Alien Minds (Baen 0-671-72055-4, May ’91 [Apr ’91], $4.50, 326pp, pb, cover by Doug Anderson) Collection of ten stories including two originals about alien races. (Contents)
• * *Back to the Time Trap (Baen 0-671-72127-5, Jul ’92 [Jun ’92], $5.99, 339pp, pb, cover by Dean Morrissey) [Time Trap] Humorous time-travel sf novel, sequel to Time Trap (Putnam 1970). Far-future superhumans are warring with alien conquerors for control of the time stream.
• * _Beyond the Imperium (Tor 0-812-54381-5, Feb ’86 [Jan ’86], $2.95, 318pp, pb) [Imperium] Reissue (Tor 1981) omnibus volume of The Other Side of Time (Berkley 1965) and Assignment in Nowhere (Berkley 1968). 2nd Tor printing.
• * _Bolo (Berkley 0-425-07559-1, Dec ’84 [Nov ’84], $2.75, 216pp, pb) [Bolo] Reissue (Putnam 1976) collection of 6 stories about war machines. Fifth Berkley printing.
• * _Bolo (Ace 0-441-06997-5, Jul ’86 [Jun ’86], $2.95, 216pp, pb) [Bolo] Reprint (Berkley/Putnam 1976) collection of stories about fighting machines.
• * _The Breaking Earth (Tor 0-812-54387-4, May ’88 [Apr ’88], $3.50, 287pp, pb) Reissue (Tor 1981) collection. Reprint of Catastrophe Planet (Berkley 1966), with some short stories, plus afterwords by G. Harry Stine and Frederik Pohl.
• * *Chrestomathy (Baen 0-671-55920-6, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $2.95, 254pp, pb) Collection of novel excerpts and a few stories with new forewords by the author. (Contents)
• * *The Compleat Bolo (Baen 0-671-69879-6, Jun ’90 [May ’90], $3.95, 314pp, pb, cover by Stephen Hickman) [Bolo] Omnibus of the collections Bolo (Putnam 1976) and Rogue Bolo (Baen 1986). (Contents)
• * _Dinosaur Beach (Baen 0-671-65581-7, Jul ’86 [Jun ’86], $2.95, 204pp, pb) Reprint (Scribners 1971) sf novel of time travel and suspense.
• * _Earthblood (with Rosel George Brown) (Bluejay 0-312-94125-0, Feb ’85 [Jan ’85], $7.95, 318pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1966) sf adventure novel. New illustrations by Alan Gutierrez.
• * _Earthblood (with Rosel George Brown) (Baen 0-671-65348-2, Aug ’87 [Jul ’87], $2.95, 311pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1966) sf novel.
• * *End As a Hero (Ace 0-441-20656-5, Aug ’85 [Jul ’85], $2.95, 150pp, pb) Sf novel.
• * _Galactic Odyssey (Tor 0-812-54385-8, Jan ’87 [Dec ’86], $2.95, 252pp, pb) Reissue (Berkley 1967) sf novel; 2nd printing.
• * *The Galaxy Builder (Ace 0-441-27280-0, Feb ’84 [Jan ’84], $2.75, 236pp, pb) [*Lafayette O’Leary] Sf novel, a Lafayette O’Leary alternate-reality adventure.
• * _The Great Time Machine Hoax (Ace 0-441-30268-8, Aug ’84 [Jul ’84], $2.75, 210pp, pb) Reissue (Simon & Schuster 1964) sf novel, 2nd Ace printing.
• * *Judson’s Eden (Baen 0-671-72038-4, Feb ’91 [Jan ’91], $4.95, 379pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) Sf novel of a crash survivor who finds himself on a very strange planet.
• * _Knight of Delusions (Tor 0-812-54362-9, Jul ’88 [Jun ’88], $3.95, 287pp, pb) Reissue (Tor 1982) sf collection, with the novel Night of Delusions (Berkley 1972) plus 2 stories; second printing.
• * _The Long Twilight (Ace 0-441-48928-1, Jan ’86 [Dec ’85], $2.95, 222pp, pb) Reprint (Putnam 1969) sf novel.
• * _The Monitors (Tor 0-812-54369-6, May ’84 [Apr ’84], $2.95, 251pp, pb) Reprint (Berkley 1966) sf novel.
• * *Once There Was a Giant (Tor 0-812-54371-8, Jul ’84 [Jun ’84], $2.50, 223pp, pb) Collection of two novellas (including the title one) plus a Laumer appreciation by Sandra Miesel. Tor continues to be a bibliographer’s nightmare. This book is not related to the 8-story 1971 Doubleday collection with the same name. The second story seems to be an original. (Contents)
• * _The Other Sky/the House in November (Tor 0-812-54377-7, Nov ’85 [Oct ’85], $2.95, 249pp, pb) Reprint (Tor 1981) omnibus “Tor Double” with back-to-back sf novels.
• * _A Plague of Demons (Baen 0-671-55982-6, Sep ’85 [Aug ’85], $2.75, 218pp, pb) Reprint (Berkley 1965) sf novel.
• * *Retief and the Pangalactic Pageant of Pulchritude (Baen 0-671-65556-6, Mar ’86 [Feb ’86], $2.95, 278pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Collection of an original novelette which gives the book its new title plus the novel Retief’s Ransom (Putnam 1971). (Contents)
• * *Retief and the Rascals (Baen 0-671-72168-2, May ’93 [Apr ’93], $4.99, 241pp, pb, cover by Gary Ruddell) [Jame Retief] Sf novel in the long-running “Retief” series.
• * _Retief and the Warlords (Baen 0-671-65575-2, Jun ’86 [May ’86], $2.95, 266pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reprint (Doubleday 1968) novel in the “Retief” series.
• * _Retief at Large (Ace 0-441-71507-9, May ’85 [Apr ’85], $3.50, 440pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reissue (Ace 1978) collection, 6th Ace printing. The stories are culled from earlier Retief collections.
• * *Retief in the Ruins (Baen 0-671-65599-X, Nov ’86 [Oct ’86], $2.95, 247pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Collection of three stories: two originals (the title story and “The Woomy”) plus “There is a Tide”. “Retief” #5. (Contents)
• * _Retief of the CDT (Baen 0-671-55990-7, Oct ’85 [Sep ’85], $2.95, 220pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reprint (Doubleday 1971) collection of stories featuring Retief.
• * _Retief to the Rescue (Timescape 0-671-81866-X, Feb ’84 [Jan ’84], $2.95, 237pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reprint (S&S Timescape 1983) sf novel.
• * _Retief to the Rescue (Baen 0-671-65376-8, Jan ’88 [Dec ’87], $2.95, 250pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reprint (Simon & Schuster/Timescape 1983) sf novel in an endless humorous series.
• * _Retief Unbound (Ace 0-441-71254-1, Mar ’85 [Feb ’85], $2.95, 343pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reissue (Ace 1979) of an omnibus volume which collects 5 of the 6 stories from Envoy to New Worlds (Ace 1963) plus the novel Retief’s Ransom (Putnam 1971).
• * _Retief: Diplomat at Arms (Baen 0-671-65358-X, Oct ’87 [Sep ’87], $2.95, 214pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reprint (Timescape 1982) collection of sf stories featuring Retief.
• * _Retief: Emissary to the Stars (Baen 0-671-65605-8, Dec ’86 [Nov ’86], $2.95, 270pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reprint (Dell 1975) collection of 7 stories about Retief.
• * *Retief: Envoy to New Worlds (Baen 0-671-65635-X, Apr ’87 [Mar ’87], $2.95, 245pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Collection of Retief stories which includes the six stories from Envoy to New Worlds (Ace 1963) plus “Rank Injustice” (which first appeared in New Destinies earlier this year). To add to the confusion, five of the six Envoy stories appeared along with a short novel as Retief Unbound (Ace 1979). (Contents)
• * _Retief’s War (Baen 0-671-55976-1, Aug ’85 [Jul ’85], $2.95, 218pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reprint (Doubleday 1966) sf novel.
• * *The Return of Retief (Baen 0-671-55903-6, Sep ’84 [Aug ’84], $2.95, 221pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Sf novel in the “Retief” series.
• * _The Return of Retief (Baen 0-671-55902-8, Dec ’85 [Nov ’85], $2.95, 221pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Reissue (Baen 1984) sf novel. Second printing.
• * *Reward for Retief (Baen 0-671-69804-4, Feb ’89 [Jan ’89], $3.95, 340pp, pb) [Jame Retief] Sf novel in the humorous “Retief” series.
• * *Rogue Bolo (Baen 0-671-65545-0, Jan ’86 [Dec ’85], $2.95, 233pp, pb) [Bolo] Collection of two connected short novels, apparently new, plus a reprint of “A Short History of the Bolo Fighting Machines”. (Contents)
• * _The Shape Changer (Ace 0-441-76088-0, May ’84 [Apr ’84], $2.50, 230pp, pb) [*Lafayette O’Leary] Reissue (Putnam 1972) sf novel, third in the “Lafayette O’Leary” alternate-worlds series.
• * *The Star Treasure (Baen 0-671-65596-5, Oct ’86 [Sep ’86], $2.95, 271pp, pb) Collection, including the complete novel The Star Treasure (Putnam 1971), plus 3 short stories. There is no contents page. (Contents)
• * *The Stars Must Wait (Baen 0-671-69859-1, Feb ’90 [Jan ’90], $3.50, 283pp, pb, cover by Laurence Schwinger) Sf novel. A 21st-century astronaut wakes from suspended animation to a world inhabited by barbarians and sentient senile tanks.
• * _The Time Bender (Ace 0-441-81014-4, Mar ’84 [Feb ’84], $2.75, 248pp, pb) [*Lafayette O’Leary] Reissue (Berkley 1966) sf novel. The first “Lafayette O’Leary” alternate-world adventure. 5th Ace printing.
• * _Time Trap (Baen 0-671-65340-7, Aug ’87 [Jul ’87], $2.95, 156pp, pb) [Time Trap] Reprint (Putnam 1970) sf time travel novel.
• * _A Trace of Memory (Tor 0-812-54373-4, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $2.95, 256pp, pb) Reprint (Berkley 1963) sf novel.
• * _A Trace of Memory (Tor 0-812-51689-3, Dec ’91 [Nov ’91], $3.99, 256pp, pb, cover by Bob Layzell) Reissue (Berkley 1963) sf novel; second printing.
• * _The Ultimax Man (Baen 0-671-65652-X, Jun ’87 [May ’87], $2.95, 249pp, pb) Reprint (Putnam 1978) sf adventure novel.
• * _The World Shuffler (Ace 0-441-91702-X, Apr ’84 [Mar ’84], $2.75, 236pp, pb) [*Lafayette O’Leary] Reissue (Putnam 1970) “Lafayette O’Leary” sf adventure novel; 4th Ace printing.
• * _Worlds of the Imperium (Tor 0-812-54379-3, Jan ’86 [Dec ’85], $2.95, 288pp, pb) [Imperium] Reissue (Tor 1982) collection of the title novel (Ace 1962) plus two novelettes. Third Tor printing in this form.
• * *Zone Yellow (Baen 0-671-72028-7, Dec ’90 [Nov ’90], $4.50, 247pp, pb, cover by Tom Kidd) [Imperium] Sf adventure novel in the “Imperium” series.

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• * *Dangerous Vegetables (with Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh) (Baen 0-671-57781-6, Dec ’98 [Nov ’98], $5.99, 378pp, pb, cover by Bob Eggleton) Anthology of 22 stories, two original, featuring vegetables. A take-off on the “Dangerous Visions” anthologies. Authors include Ray Bradbury, Michael Bishop, and John D. MacDonald. The cover notes “Created by Keith Laumer”; Greenberg and Waugh are noted only in the copyright. The introduction by Ben Bova is about Laumer, and says the book was Laumer’s idea, but he died without doing it. Copyrighted by Tekno Books and Charles G. Waugh. (Contents)

LAUNAY, ANDRÉ (Joseph) (1930- ); see pseudonym Andrew Laurance

• * _The Harlequin’s Son (Pan 0-330-29599-3, Dec ’86, £2.50, 240pp, pb) Horror novel.
• * *Seance (Pan 0-330-30273-6, May ’91 [Apr ’91], £4.99, 285pp, pb, cover by George Underwood) Occult thriller.

LAUNIUS, ROGER D.

• * *NASA & the Exploration of Space (with Bertram Ulrich) (Stewart Tabori & Chang 1-55670-696-0, Oct ’98, $60.00, 224pp, hc, cover by Paul Hudson) Associational art book celebrating NASA’s 40-year anniversary, with more than 200 full-color illustrations from NASA’s art collection, focusing on fine art, with artists such as Norman Rockwell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Robert McCall; artists known for SF include Vincent Di Fate.

LAURANCE, ANDREW; pseudonym of André Launay, (1930- )

• * +The Black Hotel (Charter Diamond 1-55773-376-7, Aug ’90 [Jul ’90], $3.95, 246pp, pb) Horror novel of a haunted hotel. First American edition (Star 1983).
• * +The Blood of Nostradamus: The Link (Diamond 1-55773-553-0, Aug ’91, $3.95, 206pp, pb) [Blood of Nostradamus] Horror novel, second book of the “Blood of Nostradamus” trilogy. First American edition (Star 1980 as The Link).
• * +The Blood of Nostradamus: The Premonition (Diamond 1-55773-511-5, May ’91 [Apr ’91], $3.95, 199pp, pb) [Blood of Nostradamus] Horror novel, first book of a series about Nostradamus’ descendants. First American edition (Star 1979 as Premonitions of an Inherited Mind).
• * +The Blood of Nostradamus: The Unborn (Diamond 1-55773-598-0, Oct ’91 [Sep ’91], $4.50, 236pp, pb) [Blood of Nostradamus] Horror novel, third book of a series about Nostradamus’ descendants. First American edition (Star 1980 as The Embryo).
• * +Catacomb (Diamond 1-55773-460-7, Feb ’91 [Jan ’91], $3.95, 219pp, pb) Horror novel of a man who can see death in the faces of its soon-to-be victims. First American edition (W.H. Allen 1981 as The Hiss).
• * +Ouija (Charter Diamond 1-55773-415-1, Nov ’90 [Oct ’90], $3.95, 235pp, pb) Horror novel of the evils lurking in wait for anyone who uses the deadly board. First American edition (Star 1982).