The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Books, Listed by Author

AUSTIN, A. J. (stories)

• * _To Fear the Light (with Ben Bova) See entry under Ben Bova.
• * _To Save the Sun (with Ben Bova) See entry under Ben Bova.

AUSTIN, RICHARD; pseudonym of Victor Milán, (1954- )

• * *The Guardians (Jove 0-515-07980-4, Feb ’85 [Jan ’85], $2.75, 230pp, pb) [Guardians] Sf/survivalist novel of a “four-man elite survival team.”
• * _The Guardians (Pan 0-330-31127-1, Jun ’90, £3.50, 230pp, pb, cover by Gino D’Achille) [Guardians] Reprint (Berkley 1985) post-holocaust adventure novel.
• * *The Guardians # 2: Trial By Fire (Jove 0-515-08184-1, May ’85 [Apr ’85], $2.75, 231pp, pb) [Guardians] Second in a post-holocaust action/adventure series.
• * *The Guardians # 3: Thunder of Hell (Jove 0-515-08327-5, Aug ’85 [Jul ’85], $2.75, 217pp, pb) [Guardians] Sf novel, third in a survivalist series; post-holocaust adventure.
• * *The Guardians # 4: Night of the Phoenix (Jove 0-515-08392-5, 1985 [Oct ’85], $2.75, 216pp, pb) [Guardians] Post-holocaust sf adventure novel, fourth in a series.
• * *The Guardians # 5: Armageddon Run (Jove 0-515-08598-7, Apr ’86 [Mar ’86], $2.75, 182pp, pb) [Guardians] Post-holocaust action adventure novel.
• * *The Guardians # 6: War Zone (Jove 0-515-08723-8, Aug ’86 [Jul ’86], $2.75, 217pp, pb) [Guardians] Post-holocaust sf action/adventure novel, #6 in the series.
• * *The Guardians # 7: Brute Force (Jove 0-441-08836-6, Jan ’87 [Dec ’86], $2.75, 217pp, pb) [Guardians] Post-holocaust action adventure novel.
• * *The Guardians # 8: Desolation Road (Jove 0-515-09004-2, Jun ’87 [May ’87], $2.95, 219pp, pb) [Guardians] Post-holocaust sf adventure novel, latest in the series.
• * *The Guardians # 9: Vengeance Day (Jove 0-515-09321-1, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $2.95, 201pp, pb) [Guardians] Post-holocaust men’s sf adventure novel.
• * *The Guardians #13: Devil’s Deal (Jove 0-515-10192-3, Dec ’89 [Jan ’90], $3.50, 215pp, pb) [Guardians] Post-holocaust military sf novel.
• * *The Guardians #14: Death from Above (Jove 0-515-10267-9, Mar ’90 [Feb ’90], $3.50, 202pp, pb) [Guardians] Post-holocaust military sf novel.
• * _The Guardians: Armageddon Run (Pan 0-330-31662-1, Dec ’90, £3.50, 182pp, pb, cover by Gino D’Achille) [Guardians] Reprint (Jove 1986) post-holocaust adventure novel. Volume 5 in the series.
• * _The Guardians: Brute Force (Pan 0-330-31755-5, Mar ’91, £3.99, 217pp, pb, cover by Gino D’Achille) [Guardians] Reprint (Jove 1987) post-holocaust adventure novel. Volume 7 in the series.
• * *The Guardians: Death Charge (Jove 0-515-10409-4, Aug ’91 [Jul ’91], $3.50, 188pp, pb) [Guardians] Post-holocaust military sf novel, 16th book of a series.
• * _The Guardians: Desolation Road (Pan 0-330-31766-0, Mar ’91, £3.99, 219pp, pb, cover by Gino D’Achille) [Guardians] Reprint (Jove 1987) post-holocaust adventure novel. Volume 8 in the series.
• * *The Guardians: Freedom Fight (Jove 0-515-09484-6, Mar ’88 [Feb ’88], $2.95, 201pp, pb) [Guardians] Post-holocaust adventure, 10th in the series.
• * _The Guardians: Freedom Fight (Pan 0-330-31858-6, Aug ’91, £3.99, 201pp, pb, cover by Gino D’Achille) [Guardians] Reprint (Jove 1988) post-holocaust adventure novel. Volume 10 in the series. [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Guardians: Night of the Phoenix (Pan 0-330-31572-2, Sep ’90, £3.50, 216pp, pb, cover by Gino D’Achille) [Guardians] Reprint (Jove 1985) post-holocaust adventure novel. Volume 4 in the series. This is a pseudonym for Victor Milan.
• * *The Guardians: Snake Eyes (Jove 0-515-10407-8, Dec ’90, $3.50, 198pp, pb) [Guardians] Post-holocaust military sf adventure novel. Fifteenth in the series.
• * *The Guardians: The Plague Years (Jove 0-515-09841-8, Dec ’88 [Nov ’88], $2.95, 200pp, pb) [Guardians] Post-holocaust sf adventure novel, 12th in the series..
• * _The Guardians: Thunder of Hell (Pan 0-330-31307-X, Sep ’90, £3.50, 217pp, pb, cover by Gino D’Achille) [Guardians] Reprint (Jove 1985) post-holocaust adventure novel. Volume 3 in the series.
• * _The Guardians: Trial by Fire (Pan 0-330-31254-5, Jun ’90, £3.50, 231pp, pb, cover by Gino D’Achille) [Guardians] Reprint (Berkley 1985) post-holocaust adventure novel.
• * *The Guardians: Valley of the Gods (Jove 0-515-09642-3, Aug ’88, $2.95, 197pp, pb) [Guardians] Post-holocaust men’s macho adventure novel, 11th in the series.
• * _The Guardians: Vengeance Day (Pan 0-330-31857-8, Aug ’91, £3.99, 201pp, pb, cover by Gino D’Achille) [Guardians] Reprint (Jove 1987) post-holocaust adventure novel. Volume 9 in the series. [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Guardians: War Zone (Pan 0-330-31663-X, Dec ’90, £3.50, 217pp, pb, cover by Gino D’Achille) [Guardians] Reprint (Jove 1986) post-holocaust adventure novel. Volume 6 in the series.

AUSTIN, TERRY

• * *Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind’s Eye (Dark Horse Comics 1-56971-223-9, Dec ’96 [Jan ’97], $14.95, unpaginated, tp, cover by Duncan Fegredo) [Star Wars] Graphic novelization of the book by Alan Dean Foster, based on the movies. Art by Terry Austin and Chris Sprouse. Introduction by Alan Dean Foster. This collects issues 1-4 of the comics adaptation. Star Wars copyrighted by Lucasfilm; “All other material” copyrighted by Dark Horse.

AVI; pseudonym of Avi Wortis, (1937- ) (chron.)

• * *Bright Shadow (Bradbury Press 0-02-707750-0, Oct ’85 [Nov ’85], $11.95, 167pp, hc) Young-adult fantasy novel. A 12-year-old girl is the repository for the last wishes left in the kingdom.
• * _Bright Shadow (Macmillan Aladdin 0-689-71256-1, Oct ’88 [Sep ’88], $3.95, 167pp, pb) Reprint (Macmillan Bradbury 1985) young-adult fantasy novel.
• * _Devil’s Race (Avon Flare 0-380-70406-4, Oct ’87, $2.75, 118pp, pb) Reprint (Lippincott/Harper & Row 1984) young-adult horror novel.
• * _Devil’s Race (HarperTrophy 0-06-440586-9, May ’95, $3.95, 152pp, pb, cover by Lisa Falkenstern) Reprint (Lippincott 1984) young-adult horror novel about a boy haunted by an evil ancestor.
• * *The Man Who Was Poe (Franklin Watts/Orchard 0-531-05833-6, Oct ’89, $13.95, 208pp, hc) Young-adult historical mystery/horror novel with Edgar Allen Poe as a detective and ghosts that prowl an old cemetery.
• * _The Man Who Was Poe (Avon Flare 0-380-71192-3, Aug ’91 [Jul ’91], $3.50, 213pp, pb) Reprint (Orchard 1989) young-adult historical mystery fantasy.
• * *Perloo the Bold (Scholastic 0-590-11002-0, Nov ’98 [Oct ’98], $16.95, 225pp, hc, cover by Marcie Reed) Young-adult fantasy novel. Timid, scholarly Perloo faces armed opposition when selected to be the new ruler of the rabbit-like Montmers.
• * *Something Upstairs (Franklin Watts/Orchard 0-531-05782-8, Sep ’88 [Oct ’88], $11.95, 120pp, hc) Young-adult short novel about ghosts.
• * _Something Upstairs (Avon Flare 0-380-70853-1, Oct ’90 [Sep ’90], $2.95, 116pp, pb) Reprint (Orchard 1988) young-adult ghost novel.
• * *Tom, Babette, and Simon: Three Tales of Transformation (Simon & Schuster 0-02-707765-9, Jun ’95, $15.00, 100pp, hc, cover by Alexi Natchev) Young-adult collection of three stories about magically transformed children.

AVON, DAVID

• * *Capitol City Kidnapping (Vantage Press 0-533-10134-4, Sep ’92, $16.95, 266pp, hc) Sf/espionage thriller of intrigue in a galactic confederation. Published by a vanity publisher. Order from Vantage Press, 516 West 3343th St., New York NY 10001.

AWLINSON, RICHARD; pseudonym of Scott Ciencin & Troy Denning

• * *Forgotten Realms: Shadowdale (TSR 0-88038-730-0, Jun ’89, $3.95, 335pp, tp) [Forgotten Realms: Avatar] Fantasy novelization based on the “Forgotten Realms” game, first book in the “Avatar” trilogy.
• * _Forgotten Realms: Shadowdale (Penguin 0-14-012628-7, Oct ’89, £3.99, 335pp, pb, cover by Jeff Easley) [Forgotten Realms: Avatar] Reprint (TSR 1989) fantasy novelization. Volume one in the “Avatar” trilogy. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Forgotten Realms: Tantras (TSR 0-88038-748-3, Aug ’89, $3.95, 338pp, tp) [Forgotten Realms: Avatar] Fantasy novelization based on the “Forgotten Realms” game, book two of the “Avatar” trilogy.
• * _Forgotten Realms: Tantras (Penguin 0-14-012629-5, Nov ’89, £3.99, 338pp, pb, cover by Clyde Caldwell) [Forgotten Realms: Avatar] Reprint (TSR 1989) fantasy novelization. Volume 2 in the “Avatar” trilogy. This is a pseudonym for Scott Ciencin. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Forgotten Realms: Waterdeep (TSR 0-88038-759-9, Oct ’89, $3.95, 341pp, tp) [Forgotten Realms: Avatar] Fantasy series based on the “Forgotten Realms” game setting, third book of the “Avatar” trilogy. Awlinson is a pseudonym for Troy Denning.
• * _Forgotten Realms: Waterdeep (Penguin 0-14-012630-9, Feb ’90, £3.99, 341pp, pb, cover by Clyde Caldwell) [Forgotten Realms: Avatar] Reprint (TSR 1989) fantasy novelization. Volume 3 in the “Avatar” trilogy. This is a pseudonym for Troy Denning.

AXLER, JAMES; house pseudonym (chron.)

• * *Death Lands: Crater Lake [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Gold Eagle 0-373-62504-9, May ’88, £2.50, 250pp, pb) [Deathlands] Reprint (Gold Eagle 1987) post-holocaust adventure novel. Volume 4 in the “Deathlands” series. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Death Lands: Dectra Chain [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62507-3, Sep ’88 [Oct ’88], $3.95, 349pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust adventure novel, seventh in the series.
• * _Death Lands: Dectra Chain [by Laurence James] (Gold Eagle 0-373-62507-3, Oct ’89, £2.75, 349pp, pb, cover by Herring) [Deathlands] Reprint (Worldwide Library 1988) post-holocaust adventure novel. Volume seven in the series. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Death Lands: Homeward Bound [by Laurence James] (Gold Eagle 0-373-62505-7, Jan ’89, £2.50, 317pp, pb, cover by Michael Herring) [Deathlands] Reprint (Worldwide 1988) post-holocaust adventure novel. Volume 5 in the series. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Death Lands: Ice and Fire [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62508-1, Dec ’88 [Nov ’88], $3.95, 348pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust adventure novel, eighth in the series.
• * _Death Lands: Ice and Fire [by Laurence James] (Gold Eagle 0-373-62508-1, Feb ’90, £2.95, 349pp, pb, cover by Herring) [Deathlands] Reprint (Worldwide Library 1988) post-holocaust adventure novel. Volume 8 in the series.
• * _Death Lands: Neutron Solstice [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Gold Eagle 0-373-62503-0, Jan ’88, £2.50, 252pp, pb) [Deathlands] Reprint (Worldwide 1987) post-holocaust adventure novel. Volume 3 in the “Deathlands” series. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Death Lands: Northstar Rising [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library 0-373-62510-3, Dec ’89 [Jan ’90], $3.95, 346pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust military sf novel, fifth book of the “Death Lands” series.
• * *Death Lands: Pony Soldiers [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62506-5, May ’88 [Nov ’88], $3.95, 348pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust adventure novel.
• * _Death Lands: Pony Soldiers [by Laurence James] (Gold Eagle 0-373-62506-5, Jul ’89, £2.75, 348pp, pb) [Deathlands] Reprint (Worldwide Library/Gold Eagle 1988) post-holocaust adventure novel. Volume 5 in the series. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Death Lands: Red Equinox [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library 0-373-62509-X, Jun ’89, $3.95, 299pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust sf military adventure novel. Number 9 in the series.
• * _Death Lands: Red Equinox [by Laurence James] (Gold Eagle 0-373-62509-X, May ’90, £2.95, 299pp, pb) [Deathlands] Reprint (Worldwide 1989) post-holocaust thriller. Volume 9 in the series.
• * *Death Lands: Time Nomads [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library 0-373-62511-1, Jul ’90, $3.95, 348pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust sf adventure novel.
• * *Deathlands #3: Neutron Solstice [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library 0-373-62503-0, Mar ’87 [Feb ’87], $2.95, 252pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust sf adventure novel.
• * *Deathlands #4: Crater Lake [by Laurence James] (Gold Eagle 0-373-62504-9, Aug ’87 [Jul ’87], $2.95, 250pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust sf adventure novel.
• * *Deathlands: Bitter Fruit [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62535-9, Jan ’97 [Dec ’96], $5.50, 348pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust SF adventure novel. Copyrighted by Worldwide Library.
• * *Deathlands: Bloodlines [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62529-4, Dec ’95 [Nov ’95], $4.99, 348pp, pb, cover by Herring) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust SF adventure novel, #29 in the series. Ryan Cawdor and company survive bayou country. Copyrighted by Worldwide Library.
• * *Deathlands: Chill Factor [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62515-4, May ’92 [Aug ’92], $4.99, 349pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust sf adventure novel, 15th book in the ongoing series.
• * *Deathlands: Circle Thrice [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62532-4, Jun ’96, $5.50, 349pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust SF adventure novel, set in the Tennessee.
• * *Deathlands: Cold Asylum [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62520-0, Apr ’94, $4.99, 346pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust sf novel, 20th book in the ongoing series. Copyrighted by the publisher.
• * *Deathlands: Crossways [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62530-8, Feb ’96 [Jan ’96], $4.99, 349pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust SF adventure novel, set in the Rockies.
• * *Deathlands: Dark Carnival [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62514-6, Jan ’92, $4.99, 345pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust sf adventure novel, 14th book in the ongoing series.
• * *Deathlands: Dark Emblem (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62543-X, Oct ’98 [Sep ’98], $5.99, 349pp, pb, cover by Michael Herring) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust SF adventure novel. Ryan Cawdor’s company encounters a mad scientist. Copyrighted by Worldwide Library.
• * *Deathlands: Deep Empire [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62519-7, Jan ’94, $4.99, 349pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust sf adventure novel, 19th book in the ongoing series.
• * *Deathlands: Demons of Eden (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62537-5, May ’97, $5.50, 338pp, pb, cover by Herring) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust SF adventure novel. Copyrighted by Worldwide Library.
• * *Deathlands: Eclipse at Noon [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-, Sep ’96 [Aug ’96], $5.50, 347pp, pb, cover by Herring) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust SF adventure novel, #32 in the series.
• * *Deathlands: Emerald Fire [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62528-6, Oct ’95 [Nov ’95], $4.99, 347pp, pb, cover by Herring) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust SF adventure novel, #28 in the series. Cawdor and company visit the Amazon basin. Copyrighted by Worldwide Library.
• * *Deathlands: Freedom Lost (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62541-3, Mar ’98, $5.99, 346pp, pb) Post-holocaust SF adventure novel. Ryan Cawdor gets caught up in a war over an old mall in the Carolinas. Copyrighted by Worldwide Library.
• * *Deathlands: Fury’s Pilgrims [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62517-0, Jan ’93 [Dec ’92], $4.99, 349pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust sf adventure novel, 17th book in the ongoing series.
• * *Deathlands: Genesis Echo [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62525-1, Mar ’95 [Apr ’95], $4.99, 349pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust SF adventure novel, #25 in the series. Copyrighted by the publisher.
• * *Deathlands: Ground Zero [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62527-8, Jul ’95, $4.99, 346pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust SF adventure novel, #27 in the series. Ryan Cawdor battles in the ruins of Washington, DC. Copyrighted by Worldwide Library.
• * *Deathlands: Latitude Zero [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62512-X, Apr ’91 [Mar ’91], $4.50, 349pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust sf adventure novel in an ongoing series.
• * *Deathlands: Moon Fate [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62516-2, Sep ’92 [Aug ’92], $4.99, 347pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust sf adventure novel, 16th book of the ongoing series.
• * *Deathlands: Nightmare Passage (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62540-5, Jan ’98 [Dec ’97], $5.50, 349pp, pb, cover by Herring) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust SF adventure novel. Ryan Cawdor finds an Ancient Egyptian settlement in a California desert. Copyrighted by Worldwide Library.
• * *Deathlands: Rider, Reaper [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62522-7, Aug ’94, $4.99, 349pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust SF adventure novel, 22nd book in the ongoing series. Copyrighted by the publisher.
• * *Deathlands: Seedling [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62513-8, Sep ’91 [Aug ’91], $4.95, 349pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust sf adventure novel in an ongoing series.
• * *Deathlands: Shadowfall [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62526-X, May ’95 [Apr ’95], $4.99, 349pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust SF adventure novel, #26 in the series. Copyrighted by the publisher.
• * *Deathlands: Shockscape [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62518-9, Jun ’93 [May ’93], $4.99, 349pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust sf adventure novel, 18th book in the ongoing series.
• * *Deathlands: Skydark (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62536-7, Mar ’97, $5.50, 346pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust SF adventure novel. Ryan Cawdor faces an army of mutants. Copyrighted by Worldwide Library.
• * *Deathlands: Stoneface [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62534-0, Nov ’96 [Oct ’96], $5.50, 347pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust SF adventure novel. Ryan Cawdor visits Mt. Rushmore.
• * *Deathlands: The Mars Arena (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62538-3, Aug ’97 [Jul ’97], $5.50, 348pp, pb, cover by Herring) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust SF adventure novel. Ryan Cawdor searches for the remains of a crashed space station. Copyrighted by Worldwide Library.
• * *Deathlands: Trader Redux [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-625424-3, Dec ’94, $4.99, 349pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust SF novel, #24 in the series. Copyrighted by the publisher.
• * *Deathlands: Twilight Children [by Laurence James] (Worldwide Library Gold Eagle 0-373-62521-9, Jun ’94 [May ’94], $4.99, 347pp, pb) [Deathlands] Post-holocaust SF novel. Book #21 in the ongoing series. Copyrighted by the publisher.