The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Books, Listed by Author

BAKER, WILL (stories) (continued)

• * *Shadow Hunter (Viking UK 0-670-84633-3, Jun ’93 [Apr ’93], £9.99, 536pp, tp) [Shadow Hunter] Post-holocaust sf dystopian novel.
• * +Shadow Hunter (Pocket 0-671-79046-3, Jul ’93, $21.00, 373pp, hc, cover by Kam Mak) [Shadow Hunter] Dystopian sf novel set in a world where the southern hemisphere has been devastated by nuclear war. First American edition (Viking UK 1993).
• * _Shadow Hunter (Roc UK 0-14-017237-8, Feb ’94, £4.99, 536pp, pb) [Shadow Hunter] Reprint (Viking UK 1993) futuristic thriller.
• * _Shadow Hunter (Pocket Star 0-671-79045-5, Mar ’94 [Feb ’94], $5.50, 434pp, pb, cover by Kam Mak) [Shadow Hunter] Reprint (Viking UK 1993) dystopian sf novel set in a world where the southern hemisphere has been devastated by nuclear war.
• * _Shadow Hunter (NEL 0-340-67169-6, Sep ’96 [Oct ’96], £5.99, 536pp, pb, cover by Keith Scaife) [Shadow Hunter] Reprint (Viking UK 1993) SF novel.
• * *Star Beast (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-65773-1, Apr ’96 [Mar ’96], £15.99, 472pp, hc, cover by Mike Van Houten) [Shadow Hunter] SF novel, set in the same world as Shadow Hunter.
• * _Star Beast (NEL 0-340-65774-X, Sep ’96 [Aug ’96], £5.99, 472pp, pb, cover by Mick Van Houten) [Shadow Hunter] Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 1996) SF novel. Set in the same world as Shadow Hunter.

BAKIS, KIRSTEN

• * *Lives of the Monster Dogs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0-374-18987-0, Feb ’97, $23.00, 291pp, hc, cover by Debra Lill) Literary SF/satirical novel about a race of intelligent monster dogs in NYC in 2008. A first novel.
• * _Lives of the Monster Dogs (Sceptre 0-340-68596-4, Jan ’98, £10.00, 291pp, tp, cover by Kirsten Bakis) Reprint (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1997) literary fantasy novel. Intelligent dogs emerge from seclusion into 2008 New York. A first novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Lives of the Monster Dogs (Warner 0-446-67416-8, Apr ’98 [Mar ’98], $12.99, 291pp, tp) Reprint (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1997) SF literary satirical novel about intelligent dogs in 2008.

BAKKEN, HARALD

• * *The Fields and the Hills (Clarion Books 0-395-59397-2, Sep ’92 [Aug ’92], $15.95, 228pp, hc, cover by David Wiesner) [Journey, Once Begun] Young-adult fantasy novel, first book of “The Journey, Once Begun”. A boy with unusual powers leaves his people to join a troupe of traveling players.

BAKKER, ROBERT T.

• * *Raptor Red (Bantam UK 0-593-03919-X, Sep ’95 [Aug ’95], £12.99, 241pp, hc, cover by Steve Youll) SF novel. A fictionalised account of a year in the life of a female raptor 120 million years ago as she tries to re-cast her life after the death of her mate. A first novel by a noted paleontologist.
• * *Raptor Red (Bantam 0-553-10124-2, Oct ’95 [Aug ’95], $21.95, 246pp, hc, cover by Steve Youll) Prehistoric novel about a female raptor, told “from within her mind”.
• * _Raptor Red (Bantam UK 0-553-50369-3, Jul ’96 [Jun ’96], £4.99, 284pp, pb, cover by Steve Youll) Reprint (Bantam UK 1995) associational prehistoric dinosaur novel.
• * _Raptor Red (Bantam 0-553-57561-9, Sep ’96 [Aug ’96], $6.50, 256pp, pb, cover by Steve Youll) Reprint (Bantam UK; Bantam 1995) prehistoric novel about a female raptor, told “from within her mind”.

BALDERSTON, DANIEL

• * *Out of Context: Historical Reference and the Representation of Reality in Borges (Duke University Press 0-8223-1316-2, Mar ’93 [Jul ’93], $17.95, 216pp, tp) Non-fiction, criticism, a study of Borges’ work via a detailed examination of seven stories. A hardcover edition (-1289-1, $39.95) was announced but not seen. Available from Duke University Press, Box 90660, Durham NC 27708-0660. [Borges]

BALDERSTON, JOHN L(loyd) (1889-1954) (stories)

• * _Dracula: The Ultimate Illustrated Edition of the World-Famous Vampire Play (with Hamilton Deane) See entry under Hamilton Deane.

BALDICK, CHRIS(topher Giles) (1954- ) (stories)

• * _In Frankenstein’s Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing (Oxford University Press/Clarendon Paperbacks 0-19-812249-7, Jul ’90 [Mar ’91], $14.95, 207pp, tp, cover by John Tenniel) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Oxford 1987) non-fiction, critical survey of Frankenstein’s monster as a mythic image in 19th-century literature. This is a 1990 book not seen until now.

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• * *The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (Oxford University Press 0-19-214194-5, Mar ’92 [Feb ’92], £16.95, xxii+533pp, hc, cover by T. C. Gotch) Anthology of 37 gothic short stories dating from the 18th century to the present day. Recommended (PSP). (Contents)
• * _The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (Oxford University Press 0-19-283117-8, Jun ’93 [Jul ’93], £7.99, 533pp, tp, cover by T. C. Gotch) Reprint (Oxford 1992) anthology of 37 gothic short stories dating from the 18th century to the present.
• * _Tales of Terror from Blackwood’s Magazine (with Robert Morrison) See entry under Robert Morrison.
• * _The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre (with Robert Morrison) See entry under Robert Morrison.

BALDRY, CHERITH (1947- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *The Book and the Phoenix (Kingsway 0-86065-729-9, Oct ’89 [1989], £2.50, 160pp, pb) [Stories of Six Worlds] Young adult sf novel. [Not seen]
• * *Hostage of the Sea (Kingsway 0-86065-730-2, Apr ’90 [1990], £2.50, 158pp, pb) [Stories of Six Worlds] Young-adult fantasy collection.
• * +A Rush of Golden Wings (Crossway Books 0-89107-634-4, Jul ’91 [Dec ’91], $4.95, 160pp, tp, cover by Michael Carroll) [Stories of Six Worlds] Young-adult Christian sf novel of a boy who must carry a single copy of the Bible through many dangers so that copies can be printed for all the people of his planet. First American edition (Kingsway 1989).

BALDWIN, BILL; [i.e., Merl William Baldwin, Jr.] (1935- )

• * *Canby’s Legion (Warner Aspect 0-446-60174-8, Dec ’95 [Nov ’95], $5.50, 362pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) Military SF novel.
• * *The Defenders (Warner Questar 0-446-36250-6, Aug ’92 [Jul ’92], $4.99, 311pp, pb, cover by John Berkey) [Helmsman] Sf adventure novel, fifth book of the “Helmsman” series.
• * _The Defenders (Warner Aspect 0-446-36250-6, Dec ’95 [Nov ’95], $5.50, 311pp, pb, cover by John Berkey) [Helmsman] Reissue (Warner Questar 1992) SF novel, fifth in “The Helmsman” series. Third printing.
• * *The Defiance (Warner Aspect 0-446-60334-1, Nov ’96 [Oct ’96], $5.99, 361pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) [Helmsman] Military SF novel, seventh in the “Helmsman” series.
• * *Galactic Convoy (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20408-7, Dec ’87 [Nov ’87], $3.50, 332pp, pb) [Helmsman] Sf novel, space opera, sequel to The Helmsman.
• * _Galactic Convoy (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20408-7, Jan ’90 [Dec ’89], $3.95, 332pp, pb, cover by John Berkey) [Helmsman] Reissue (Questar 1987) space opera sf novel, second book of the “Helmsman” series; second printing.
• * _Galactic Convoy (Warner Questar 0-445-20408-7, Aug ’92 [Jul ’92], $4.99, 322pp, pb, cover by John Berkey) [Helmsman] Reissue (Popular Library Questar 1987) sf novel, second book in the “Helmsman” series; third printing.
• * _The Helmsman (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20027-8, Jan ’90 [Dec ’89], $3.95, 311pp, pb, cover by John Berkey) [Helmsman] Reissue (Questar 1985) space opera sf novel, first book of the “Helmsman” series; second printing.
• * _The Helmsman (Warner Questar 0-445-20027-8, Aug ’92 [Jul ’92], $4.99, 311pp, pb, cover by John Berkey) [Helmsman] Reissue (Popular Library Questar 1985) sf novel, first book in a series; third printing.
• * *The Mercenaries (Warner Questar 0-446-36139-9, Jun ’91 [May ’91], $4.95, 313pp, pb, cover by John Berkey) [Helmsman] Sf adventure novel, fourth book of the “Helmsman” series.
• * *The Siege (Warner Questar 0-446-36503-3, Mar ’94 [Feb ’94], $5.50, 314pp, pb, cover by John Berkey) [Helmsman] Sf adventure novel, sixth book of the “Helmsman” series.
• * *The Trophy (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20733-7, Jan ’90 [Dec ’89], $3.95, 318pp, pb, cover by John Berkey) [Helmsman] Space opera sf novel, third book of the “Helmsman” series.
• * _The Trophy (Warner Questar 0-445-20733-7, Aug ’92 [Jul ’92], $4.99, 315pp, pb, cover by John Berkey) [Helmsman] Reissue (Popular Library Questar 1990) sf novel, third book in the “Helmsman” series; second printing.

BALDWIN, DAVID

• * _Dark Heart (with Margaret Weis) See entry under Margaret Weis.

BALDWIN, LIZZ, ed.

• * *The Art of Magic: The Gathering: The Rath Cycle (TSR/Wizards of the Coast 0-7869-1178-6, Aug ’98, $19.99, 122pp, tp, cover by Mark Tedin,et al.) [Magic: The Gathering] Art book with illustrations by various artists from the trading-card game “Magic: The Gathering”, including design drawings and discussions of how the game was created. Text by Anthony Waters; introduction by Richard Garfield. Copyrighted by Wizards of the Coast.

BALDWIN, MERL

• * *The Helmsman (Popular Library/Questar 0-445-20027-8, Jun ’85 [May ’85], $2.95, 311pp, pb) Sf novel, a first novel. Also listed inside as by Bill Baldwin.

BALDWIN, MICHAEL (1930- )

• * _The Rape of Oc (Warner UK 0-7515-0624-9, Apr ’94, £6.99, 656pp, tp, cover by Ashley Pierce) Reprint (Little, Brown UK 1993) literary fantasy novel.

BALE, G. F.; pseudonym of Gladys Bale Wellbrock & Patricia Bale Cox

• * *Cry, Baby, Cry (Diamond 1-55773-643-X, Jan ’92 [Dec ’91], $4.99, 295pp, pb) Psychic thriller. A young mother’s baby has been missing for nine months and she’s haunted by visions of a psychopath bent on revenge, proving frighteningly real when she realizes that she’s playing a game with him for the life of her baby.
• * *If Thoughts Could Kill (Charter Diamond 1-55773-395-3, Oct ’90 [Sep ’90], $4.50, 291pp, pb) Thriller about a woman concealing her deadly psychic powers. Bale is a pen name for Gladys Bale Wellbrock and Patricia Bale Cox.

BALFOUR, BRUCE J. (stories)

• * *Star Crusader (Prima/Proteus 0-7615-0067-7, Sep ’95 [Aug ’95], $5.99, 295pp, pb) SF novelization based on the computer game. Copyrighted by Take 2 Interactive Software.

BALIOL, ALEXANDER

• * *The Magefire (Headline 0-7472-7980-2, Sep ’90 [Aug ’90], £8.99, 436pp, tp) [Amulets of Darkness] Fantasy novel. The First Book of the “Amulets of Darkness” cycle. Also available in hardcover (-0241-9, £14.95).

BALL, DONNA (1951- ); see pseudonym Rebecca Flanders

BALL, DUNCAN (1941- )

• * *The Ghost and the Gory Story (Angus & Robertson 0-207-15501-1, Nov ’87, £5.95, 120pp, hc) [Ghost and the Gogglebox] Juvenile ghost novel. Sequel to The Ghost and the Gogglebox. [Not seen]

BALL, MARGARET (Elizabeth) (1947- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * _Acorna: The Unicorn Girl (with Anne McCaffrey) See entry under Anne McCaffrey.
• * _Acorna’s Quest (with Anne McCaffrey) See entry under Anne McCaffrey.
• * *Changeweaver (Baen 0-671-72173-9, Jun ’93 [May ’93], $4.99, 298pp, pb, cover by Larry Elmore) [Flameweaver] Historical fantasy novel of a magical city in the heart of the Hindu Kush. Sequel to Flameweaver.
• * *Flameweaver (Baen 0-671-72095-3, Dec ’91 [Nov ’91], $4.99, 374pp, pb, cover by Stephen Hickman) [Flameweaver] Historical fantasy of a magical city in the path of Russian Imperial expansion.
• * *Lost in Translation (Baen 0-671-87688-0, Oct ’95 [Sep ’95], $5.99, 279pp, pb, cover by Cortney Skinner & Newell Convers) Fantasy novel. Allie, grunge queen of the ’90s, thinks she’s a transfer student in France, but is really studying magic in another world.
• * *Mathemagics (Baen 0-671-87755-0, Dec ’96 [Nov ’96], $5.99, 341pp, pb, cover by Larry Elmore) Fantasy novel. Brass Bra warrior Ruva moves to the suburbs in our universe so her daughter can get a better education, but an evil wizard follows.
• * _Mathemagics (SFBC #15303, Apr ’97 [Mar ’97], $8.98, 341pp, hc, cover by Larry Elmore) Reprint (Baen 1996) fantasy novel. This hardcover edition is otherwise similar to the Baen paperback edition; it lacks a price, and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * *No Earthly Sunne (Baen 0-671-87633-3, Dec ’94 [Nov ’94], $5.99, 343pp, pb, cover by Newell Convers) Fantasy novel. Computer programmer is drawn by music into an Elizabethan spell.
• * _PartnerShip (with Anne McCaffrey) See entry under Anne McCaffrey.
• * *The Shadow Gate (Baen 0-671-72032-5, Jan ’91 [Dec ’90], $4.95, 346pp, pb, cover by Tom Kidd) Fantasy novel of elves in trouble who summon help from our world, specifically the New Age Psychic Research Center of Austin, Texas. Ball writes historical fiction as Catherine Lyndell.

BALLANTINE, BETTY (1919- ) (stories)

• * *The Secret Oceans (Bantam 0-553-09660-5, Aug ’94 [Jul ’94], $29.95, unpaginated, hc, cover by Jeffrey Mangiat) Art book, the story of humans captured for study by intelligent whales, illustrated in full-color by 12 different artists.

BALLANTYNE, JIM; pseudonym of Mark Timlin, (1950- )

• * *The Torturer (Gollancz 0-575-05228-7, Sep ’95, £4.99, 239pp, pb) Horror novel. A hitman who tortures his victims to death is stalked by supernatural forces. This pseudonymous novel is by a “well-known London crime writer.”

BALLARD, J(ames) G(raham) (1930-2009) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *The Atrocity Exhibition (Re/Search Publications 0-940642-18-2, Sep ’90, $14.99, 127pp, tp, cover by Phoebe Gloeckner) Revised classic avant-garde sf novel/collection. This edition contains four new chapters and annotations by Ballard, plus illustrations by Phoebe Gloeckner and photographs by Ana Barrado. The original version was published by Cape in 1970. A limited hardcover edition was announced but not seen. (Contents)
• * _The Atrocity Exhibition (Flamingo 0-586-08992-6, Oct ’93, £6.99, 135pp, tp) Reprint (Re/Search 1990) sf collection. This edition includes the William Burroughs preface, the annotations by Ballard, and two of the additional stories (“Princess Margaret’s Facelift” and “Mae West’s Reduction Mammoplasty”) from the Re/Search edition, but omits the illustrations and the other two additional stories. [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (Pocket/Washington Square Press 0-671-61451-7, Dec ’85, $4.95, 358pp, pb) Reprint (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1978) collection of 19 stories.
• * _The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (Holt/Owl 0-8050-3876-0, Mar ’95 [Feb ’95], $15.95, 302pp, tp, cover by Raquel Jaramillo) Reprint (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1978) collection of 19 stories, with an introduction by Anthony Burgess.
• * *Cocaine Nights (Flamingo 0-00-224135-8, Sep ’96, £16.99, 329pp, hc) Associational crime novel.
• * _Cocaine Nights (Flamingo 0-00-655064-9, Sep ’97, £6.99, 329pp, tp) Reprint (Flamingo 1996) associational novel, with some minor textual revisions.
• * +Cocaine Nights (Counterpoint 1-887178-66-X, May ’98 [Jun ’98], $23.00, 329pp, hc, cover by Tamara de Lempicka) Associational crime novel of sex, suntans, and scandal among the British at a Gibraltar resort. First US edition (Flamingo 1996).
• * _Concrete Island (Vintage 0-394-74107-2, Sep ’85, $3.95, 176pp, pb) [Crash] Reprint (Cape 1974) quasi-fantasy novel. Thematic sequel to Crash.
• * _Concrete Island (Paladin 0-586-09225-0, Mar ’92, £4.50, 126pp, tp, cover by Chris Moore) [Crash] Reprint (Cape 1974) associational mainstream novel.
• * _Concrete Island (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Noonday 0-374-52413-0, Apr ’94, $12.00, 176pp, tp) [Crash] Reprint (Cape 1974) associational mainstream novel.
• * _Concrete Island (Vintage UK 0-09-933481-X, Jul ’94, £5.99, 176pp, pb, cover by Conor Brady) [Crash] Reprint (Cape 1974) associational mainstream novel. Includes an undated introduction, possibly new.
• * _Crash (Vintage 0-394-74109-9, Sep ’85, $3.95, 224pp, pb) [Crash] Reprint (Cape 1973) auto-erotic fantasy novel.
• * _Crash (Paladin 0-586-08989-6, Apr ’90, £4.50, 171pp, tp, cover by James Marsh) [Crash] Reissue (Jonathan Cape 1983) mainstream novel.
• * _Crash (Flamingo 0-586-08989-6, Feb ’93, £5.99, 171pp, tp, cover by Larry Rostant) [Crash] Reprint (Cape 1973) associational novel. This edition includes the introduction written for the 1974 French edition.
• * _Crash (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Noonday 0-374-52412-2, Apr ’94, $12.00, 224pp, tp) [Crash] Reprint (Cape 1973) associational mainstream novel.
• * _Crash (Vintage UK 0-09-933491-7, Jan ’95, £5.99, 224pp, pb) [Crash] Reprint (Cape 1973) associational novel. This edition has a new Introduction by Ballard.
• * _Crash (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Noonday 0-374-52412-2, Sep ’96 [Oct ’96], $12.00, 224pp, tp) [Crash] Reissue (Cape 1973) associational mainstream novel. This is a movie tie-in edition. Fifth printing.
• * _The Crystal World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0-374-52096-8, May ’88 [Apr ’88], $7.95, 210pp, tp) Reprint (Jonathan Cape 1966) sf novel about a journey into a crystalizing forest where all things are transformed into a “jeweled leprosy.” Ballard’s tribute to Heart of Darkness. Highly recommended. (CNB)
• * _The Crystal World (Easton Press no ISBN, May ’91, no price, 210pp, hc) Reprint (Cape 1966) classic surreal sf novel, with a color frontispiece by Jill Bauman. This leatherbound, gilt-edge edition, available by subscription only, is part of the “Masterpieces of Science Fiction” series.
• * _The Crystal World (Flamingo 0-586-02419-0, Oct ’93, £5.99, 175pp, tp, cover by Larry Rostant) Reprint (Cape 1966) sf novel.
• * *The Crystal World/Crash/Concrete Island (BOMC/QPBC no ISBN, May ’91, $11.95, 210+224+176pp, tp, cover by Michael Samuel) Omnibus of three novels, The Crystal World (Cape 1966), Crash (Cape 1973), and Concrete Island (Cape 1973). (Contents)
• * *The Day of Creation (Gollancz 0-575-04152-8, Sep ’87, £10.95, 254pp, hc) Mainstream novel.
• * *The Day of Creation (Gollancz 0-575-04192-7, Sep ’87, £50.00, 256pp, hc) Limited (100 copy) signed edition of the above. [Not seen]