The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Books, Listed by Author

PIRONE, JAMES (continued)

• * *Mystery at Deep Ravine (with Paula Sweeney) (Royal Fireworks Press 0-88092-295-8, 1997 [Apr ’98], $7.99, 155pp, tp, cover by Ned Butterfield) [Jake Montana] Young-adult fantasy mystery featuring Jake Montana, a young Native American with shamanistic powers; third in the series. Jake’s dreams and visions help discover what happened to missing soldiers from the Battle of Little Big Horn. This is dated 1997 but not seen until now. Copyrighted by Royal Fireworks. Order from Royal Fireworks Publishing, First Avenue, Unionville, NY 10988; (914) 726-4444; add $4.00 shipping.

PIRTLE, CALEB

• * +Last Deadly Lie (Paperjacks 0-7701-0909-8, Jul ’88 [Jun ’88], $3.95, 306pp, pb) Horror novel. First U.S. edition (McLennan 1986).

PISERCHIA, DORIS (Elaine) (1928- ) (stories)

• * _Star Rider (The Women’s Press 0-7043-4071-2, May ’87, £3.95, 219pp, tp) Reprint (Bantam 1974) sf novel. [First U.K. edition]

PITCHER, CAROLINE (stories) (chron.)

• * *Mine (Mammoth 0-7497-2875-2, Sep ’97, £4.50, 120pp, tp, cover by Holly Warburton) Young-adult fantasy novel. A young girl hears the voices of other girls in history whose lives echo her own.

PITTMAN, JOSEPH, ed. (stories)

• * _The Best of the Best (with Elaine Koster) See entry under Elaine Koster.

PITTS, MICHAEL R. (1947- )

• * _The Great Science Fiction Films II (with James Robert Parish) See entry under James Robert Parish.

PIZIKS, STEVEN (Alfred) (1967- ) (stories)

• * *In the Company of Mind (Baen 0-671-57776-X, Nov ’98 [Oct ’98], $6.99, 339pp, pb, cover by Charles Keegan) [In the Company of Mind] SF novel. Lance Blackstone is a fugitive from his billionaire father, whose illegal experiments gave him multiple personalities.

PJERROU, MARY (1945- )

• * *Coz (Spinsters/Aunt Lute 0-933216-70-X, Sep ’89 [Oct ’89], $9.95, 224pp, tp) Feminist fantasy novel featuring a midwife heroine and the conflict between an astronomer and a witch who can manipulate time. A first novel.

PLAICE, STEPHEN, ed. (stories)

• * _The Printer’s Devil A Magazine of New Writing: Issue D (with Eva Salzman & Sean O’Brien) See entry under Sean O’Brien.

PLANK, ROBERT (1907-1983)

• * *George Orwell’s Guide Through Hell (Borgo Press 0-89370-299-4, Dec ’86 [Jul ’88], $7.95, 123pp, tp) Non-fiction, critical work, a psychological study of 1984. The book is dated 1986, distributed in 1987, not seen until 1988. [Orwell]
• * _George Orwell’s Guide Through Hell (Borgo Press 0-89370-413-X, 1994 [Mar ’95], $17.00, 136pp, tp) Reprint (Borgo 1986) non-fiction, critical work, a psychological study of 1984. This has a 1994 copyright date, but not seen until now. There seem to minor revisions from the earlier edition. A hardcover edition (-313-3, $27.00) was announced but not seen. Available from Borgo Press, PO Box 2845, San Bernardino CA 92406-2845; add $2.50 shipping. Credit card orders: fax 909-888-4942. [Orwell]

PLANTE, EDMUND (stories)

• * *Alone in the House (Avon Flare 0-380-76424-5, Oct ’91 [Sep ’91], $2.99, 166pp, pb, cover by Mark Fresh) Young-adult horror novel. A vampire stalks a young girl while her parents are out of town.
• * *Garden of Evil (Leisure 0-8439-2683-X, Oct ’88 [Sep ’88], $3.95, 368pp, pb) [Seed of Evil] Horror novel about evil plants. Sequel to Seed of Evil.
• * *Seed of Evil (Leisure 0-8439-2581-7, Feb ’88 [Apr ’88], $3.95, 367pp, pb) [Seed of Evil] Horror novel of a demonic child.
• * *Transformation (Leisure 0-8439-2490-X, May ’87 [Aug ’87], $3.95, 351pp, pb) Horror novel of a woman pregnant with “inhuman seed.”
• * *Trapped (Leisure 0-8439-2877-8, Dec ’89 [Feb ’90], $3.95, 355pp, pb) Horror novel. Carnivorous creatures trap family in isolated cabin.

PLATT, CHARLES (Michael) (1945- ); see pseudonyms Robert Clarke & Charlotte Prentiss (stories)

• * _The Dream Makers (Xanadu 0-947761-14-4, Nov ’86, £11.95, 288pp, hc) Reprint (Savoy 1980 as Who Writes Science Fiction?) non-fiction, book of interviews with sf authors.
• * *Dream Makers: SF and Fantasy Writers at Work (Revised) (Ungar/Crossroad/Continuum 0-8044-2745-3, Mar ’87 [Apr ’87], $17.95, 280pp, hc) Non-fiction, selection of interviews from Dream Makers (Berkley 1980, 15 of the 29 interviews) and Dream Makers, Volume II (Berkley 1983, 9 of the 28 interviews). There are no new interviews or revisions except a short introduction and afterword.
• * *Free Zone (Avon 0-380-75411-8, Jan ’89 [Dec ’88], $3.50, 233pp, pb) Humorous sf novel, a spoof on most of the major themes in sf; it acknowledges ideas “stolen from...Wells, Heinlein, Kornbluth, Bester... etc.”
• * *How to Be a Happy Cat (with Gray Joliffe) (Gollancz 0-575-03902-7, Oct ’86, £3.50, 90pp, pb) Non-fiction, associational. A humorous instruction book “for cats who want to get ahead and stay ahead.”
• * +How to Be a Happy Cat (Main Street 1-55562-019-1, May ’87, $5.95, 94pp, tp) Non-sf, not quite fantasy; humor book, with cartoons by Gray Jolliffe. It’s told from the cat’s viewpoint and translated from the feline by Platt. Our promotional copy came with a free bag of catnip. This is the first U.S. edition. The 1986 Gollancz edition was a British best seller.
• * _Less Than Human (Grafton 0-586-07079-6, Sep ’87, £2.95, 238pp, pb) Reprint (Avon 1986, as by Robert Clarke) humorous sf novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Piers Anthony’s Worlds of Chthon: Plasm (NAL/Signet 0-451-15015-5, Oct ’87 [Sep ’87], $3.50, 284pp, pb) [*Piers Anthony’s Worlds of Chthon] Sf novel set in a world invented by Anthony; a sequel to his Chthon and Phthor.
• * _Piers Anthony’s Worlds of Chthon: Soma (Grafton 0-586-20440-7, Aug ’90, £3.50, 239pp, pb, cover by Bruno Elletori) [*Piers Anthony’s Worlds of Chthon] Reprint (NAL Signet 1989) sf novelization.
• * _Plasm (Grafton 0-586-07428-7, Dec ’88, £2.99, 236pp, pb) [*Piers Anthony’s Worlds of Chthon] Reprint (Signet 1987) sf novelization. In the “Piers Anthony’s Worlds of Chthon” series. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Protektor (AvoNova 0-380-78431-9, Feb ’96 [Jan ’96], $5.99, 294pp, pb, cover by Tom Canty) SF novel. A Protektor investigates computer system failures on a tech-dependent world.
• * *The Silicon Man (Bantam Spectra 0-553-28950-0, Mar ’91 [Feb ’91], $4.50, 253pp, pb, cover by Jean Francois Podevin) Sf novel. An FBI agent discovers a scientific conspiracy dedicated to achieving immortality by placing human minds inside computers.
• * _The Silicon Man (Tafford Publishing 0-9623712-7-0, Sep ’93 [Aug ’93], $19.95, 256pp, hc, cover by Jean François Podevin) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1991) sf novel, with a new introduction by the author. First hardcover edition. Order from Tafford Publishing, PO Box 271804, Houston TX 77277. Phone: (713) 621-6876.
• * _The Silicon Man (Wired Books 1-888869-14-3, Oct ’97 [Nov ’97], $12.95, 327pp, tp) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1991) SF novel. There is a new foreword by Gregory Benford.
• * *Soma (NAL Signet 0-451-15764-8, Jan ’89 [Dec ’88], $3.95, 236pp, pb) [*Piers Anthony’s Worlds of Chthon] Science fiction novel, the second written by Platt and set in Piers Anthony’s Worlds of Chthon. A sequel to Plasm.

PLATT, JAMES (1861-1910) (stories)

• * _Tales of the Supernatural (Ghost Story Press no ISBN, 1994, £25.00, vii+147pp, hc, cover by Austin Osman Spare) Reprint (Simpkin & Marshall 1894) collection of six ghost stories, illustrated by Jim Cawthorn. Limited to 250 numbered copies. [Not seen]

PLATT, MARC (1914- ) (stories)

• * *Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible (Doctor Who Books 0-426-20365-8, Feb ’92 [Jan ’92], £3.50, 275pp, pb, cover by Peter Elson) [Doctor Who] Original novelization based on the Doctor Who TV series. Volume one in the trilogy. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the US for $5.95.
• * *Doctor Who: Battlefield (Target 0-426-20350-X, Jul ’91 [Aug ’91], £2.50, 172pp, pb, cover by Alister Pearson) [Doctor Who] Young-adult sf novelization. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the U.S. for $4.95. Volume 152 in the series.
• * *Doctor Who: Ghost Light (Target 0-426-20351-8, Sep ’90, £2.50, 160pp, pb) [Doctor Who] Young-adult sf novelization. Volume 149 in the series. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the US for $3.95.
• * *Doctor Who: The Scripts: Ghost Light (Titan 1-85286-477-X, Jul ’93 [Jun ’93], £4.99, 135pp, tp, cover by Alister Pearson) [Doctor Who] Sf novelization. Script from a recent episode of Doctor Who, edited by John McElroy and with background articles by Stephen James Walker and by Marc Platt.
• * *Downtime (Doctor Who Books 0-426-20462-X, Jan ’96 [Feb ’96], £4.99, 263pp, pb, cover by Paul Campbell) [Doctor Who: Missing Adventures] Original novel based on the Doctor Who TV series. This is a world-wide edition, available in the US for $5.95. In “The Missing Adventures”.
• * *Lungbarrow (Doctor Who Books 0-426-20502-2, Mar ’97, £4.99, 308pp, pb, cover by Fred Gambino) [Doctor Who: New Adventures] Novelisation based on the Doctor Who TV series. Volume 60 in “The New Adventures”.

PLATT, RANDALL BETH (1948- )

• * *Out of a Forest Clearing (John Daniel & Company 0-936784-89-X, Nov ’91 [Dec ’91], $9.95, 220pp, tp, cover by Rick Garcia) Fantasy novel, an “environmental fable” of all animals joining together to save the planet from human military technology.

PLAYFORD, NICHOLAS (1961- ) (stories)

• * *The Prisoner Gains a Blurred Skin (Australian Scholarly/Black Pepper 1-875606-19-X, 1994 [Sep ’95], A$14.95, 169pp, tp, cover by James Gleeson) Collection of 14 surreal and fantastic stories heavily influenced by J.G. Ballard. This has a 1994 copyright, but was not seen until now. Available from Australian Scholarly Publishing, PO Box 299, Kew, Victoria 3101, Australia; (03) 817-5208, fax -6431. (Contents)

PLOWRIGHT, TERESA (1952- ) (stories)

• * *Dreams of an Unseen Planet (Arbor House 0-87795-863-7, Dec ’86 [Nov ’86], $16.95, 273pp, hc) Sf novel of stranded colonists and a dreamer. A first novel.
• * _Dreams of an Unseen Planet (Porcépic Press 0-88878-282-9, Feb ’90, $8.95, 267pp, tp, cover by Soren Henrich) Reprint (Arbor House 1986) sf novel of a dying human colony on an alien world. The text of this edition has been revised.
• * _Dreams of an Unseen Planet (Grafton 0-586-20932-8, Nov ’90, £3.99, 348pp, pb, cover by Chris Foss) Reprint (Arbor House 1986) sf novel.

PLUNKETT, ROBERT L. (1951- )

• * *A California Dreamer in King Henry’s Court (Silver Dawn Media 0-9623139-4-7, Jan ’90, $16.95, 213pp, hc, cover by Tim Solliday) Time-travel sf novel.

PODRUG, JUNIUS (1947- )

• * *Frost of Heaven (Dark Harvest 0-913165-70-0, May ’92, $19.95, 321pp, hc, cover by Gary Glover) Fantasy adventure thriller set in India about a mysterious hidden kingdom in the Himalayas. A first novel. Order from Dark Harvest, PO Box 941, Arlington Heights IL 60006.

POE, EDGAR ALLAN (1809-1849) (stories) (chron.)

• * _A Collection of Stories (Tor 0-812-50455-0, Apr ’94, $2.50, 236pp, pb, cover by Paul Jennis) Reissue (Tor 1988) collection of 17 stories, with a foreword, introduction, and afterword by S.T. Joshi; second printing.
• * _Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Doubleday 0-385-07407-7, Mar ’91, $19.95, 821pp, hc, cover by Jackie Schuman) Reissue (Doubleday 1966) collection of 66 stories, the short novel “The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym of Nantucket”, and Poe’s complete poems; 21st printing.
• * _The Fall of the House of Usher (Target 0-426-20247-3, Jul ’86 [Aug ’86], £1.80, 143pp, pb) Reprint; collection. (Contents)
• * _The Fall of the House of Usher (Star 0-352-32053-2, Feb ’87, £1.95, 143pp, pb) Reprint collection of horror stories. This is identical to the Target (1986) edition.
• * _The Fall of the House of Usher (Books of Wonder 0-929605-66-7, 1997 [Feb ’98], $5.95, 57pp, tp, cover by William Sayer) Horror short story published as part of the “Classic Frights” line for young adults. Illustrated by William Sayer.
• * _The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (Penguin/Signet Classic 0-451-52675-9, Apr ’98 [Jul ’98], $4.95, 384pp, pb) Reprint (Signet Classic 1960) collection of 15 classic horror stories. There is a new introduction by Stephen Marlowe, and an updated bibliography. (Contents)
• * _The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings (Penguin 0-14-043291-4, Apr ’86, £3.95, 539pp, pb) Reissue (Penguin 1967 as Selected Writings) collection.
• * *Ghostly Tales and Eerie Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Putnam/Grosset & Dunlap 0-448-40533-4, Aug ’93 [Sep ’93], $13.95, 249pp, hc, cover by Larry Schwinger) Collection of 14 stories & nine poems, aimed at young-adults, with full-color illustrations by Larry Schwinger. (Contents)
• * *The Gold-Bug and Other Tales (Dover 0-486-26875-6, Aug ’91, $1.00, 121pp, tp, cover by Paul E. Kennedy) Collection of nine classic stories. A “Dover Thrift Edition." (Contents)
• * _Murders in the Rue Morgue & other stories (Pulp Fictions UK 1-902058-02-X, Mar ’98 [Oct ’98], £4.99, 319pp, tp) Reprint (Lancer 1967 as Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Terror) collection of eight classic crime and horror stories. (Contents)
• * _Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Stories (Pulp Fictions UK 1-902058-02-X, Apr ’98 [Aug ’98], $9.95, 319pp, tp, cover by Tom Paddle) Reprint (Lancer 1967 as Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Terror) collection of eight classic horror stories. Published in the UK (£4.99); available in the US from Firebird Distributing, 2030 First St., Unit 5, Eureka CA 95501; 707-444-1434.
• * *Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales (Oxford University Press 0-19-282844-4, Apr ’94 [May ’94], £5.99, 301pp, pb, cover by Frederick Edwin Church) Fantasy/horror collection, edited and annotated by J. Gerald Kennedy. In the World’s Classic series. (Contents)
• * *Selected Tales (Random House/Vintage 0-679-72524-5, Aug ’91 [Jan ’92], $9.50, 436pp, tp) Collection of 17 stories plus the novel The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym, with an introduction by Diane Johnson.
• * _Selected Tales (Penguin/Godfrey Cave 0-14-062116-4, Aug ’94 [Sep ’94], £1.00, 406pp, pb, cover by Arthur Rackham) Reprint fantasy/horror collection. This is not the same as the 1991 book from Vintage. (Contents)
• * *Selected Tales (Oxford University Press 0-19-283224-7, Apr ’98, £2.50, xxviii+338pp, tp, cover by Harry Clarke) Fantasy/horror collection. This appears to be a new selection, edited and with an introduction and notes by David Van Leer. (Contents)
• * _The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition (University of Illinois Press 0-252-06125-X, Feb ’90 [Jan ’91], $17.95, 633pp, tp) Reprint (Bobbs Merrill 1976) collection of all of Poe’s short fiction, edited and with notes by Stuart and Susan Levine, plus an introduction by Stuart Levine and a bibliography. This has been the standard text of Poe’s short fiction.
• * _Tales (Leipzig: Berhard Tauchnitz, 1905, 328pp, hc) Reprint (Tauchnitz 1884) collection. Collection of British Authors Vol. 2212, edited John H. Ingram. [EZ] (Contents)
• * *Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (Morrow/Books of Wonder 0-688-07509-6, Sep ’91 [Aug ’91], $19.95, 308pp, hc, cover by Barry Moser) Collection of 14 stories with illustrations by Barry Moser and an afterword by Peter Glassman.
• * _Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Octopus 0-7064-2651-7, Oct ’86, £6.95, 318pp, hc) Reprint (Harrap 1935) collection of horror stories.
• * _Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Mystic Press 1-85170-124-9, Aug ’87 [Dec ’87], £14.95, 412pp, hc) Reprint (Everyman Library 1908) horror collection.
• * _Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Everyman 0-460-11336-4, Sep ’87, £2.95, 572pp, pb) Reissue (Everyman Library 1908) horror collection.
• * _Tales of Mystery and Imagination (O’Mara 0-948397-46-2, Sep ’87 [Dec ’87], £12.00, 304pp, hc) Reprint (Everyman Library 1908) horror collection. Facsimile of Harrap (1919) edition with new introduction by Richard Dalby. Illustrated by Harry Clarke.
• * _Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Everyman 0-460-87040-8, Sep ’90, £4.99, 572pp, tp, cover by Simon Marsden) Reissue (Everyman 1908) horror collection.
• * *Tales of Mystery and Terror (Penguin/Puffin 0-14-035115-9, Oct ’90 [Nov ’90], $2.25, 191pp, pb, cover by David Wyatt) Collection of 13 stories. This is a worldwide edition. (Contents)
• * _Tales of Mystery and Terror (Puffin 0-14-036720-9, Jan ’95 [Feb ’95], £3.50, 235pp, pb, cover by David Bergen) Reissue (Puffin 1990) collection of 13 fantasy and horror stories.
• * _Tales of Mystery and Terror (Penguin/Puffin 0-14-036720-9, Aug ’95 [Sep ’95], $3.50, 235pp, pb, cover by David Bergen) Reissue (Puffin 1990) young-adult collection of 13 classic horror stories. We appear to have missed the first (1994) printing of this specific edition in the US. This is a worldwide edition; second printing.
• * _Tales of Mystery and The Imagination (Mysterious Press 0-89296-350-6, Oct ’88 [Aug ’88], $25.00, 303pp, hc) Reprint (Harrap 1919) collection, illustrated by Harry Clarke. This is a facsimile of the famous earlier edition (with what are generally considered the best Poe illustrations ever), with an introduction by Richard Dalby written for the 1987 British facsimile edition.
• * *The Tell Tale Heart (Mojo Press 1-885418-03-5, Aug ’95, $4.95, unpaginated, tp, cover by Bill D. Fountain) Graphic collection of stories and poems by Poe, illustrated by Bill D. Fountain. Order from Mojo Press, PO Box 140005, Austin TX 78714; [mojo@eden.com].
• * *The Tell-Tale Heart (with Melvin R. White) (Hanbury 1-85205-030-6, May ’87 [Jun ’87], £1.95, 18pp, pb) Play adaptation of Poe’s short story. [Not seen]
• * _Three Tales of Horror (with Ambrose Bierce & Robert Louis Stevenson) (Penguin 0-14-600090-0, Aug ’95, $.95, 58pp, tp, cover by Francisco Goya) Anthology of three horror stories. A “Penguin 60s” anniversary edition. (Contents)
• * _Visions of Poe (with Simon Marsden) See entry under Simon Marsden.

POE, ROBERT

• * *The Black Cat (Tor/Forge 0-312-86013-7, Nov ’97 [Oct ’97], $23.95, 288pp, hc, cover by Michael Koelsch) Associational mystery, a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s story by the same title, with elements of modern paganism.
• * _The Black Cat (Tor 0-812-54932-5, Dec ’98 [Nov ’98], $6.99, 278pp, pb, cover by Michael Koelsch) Reprint (Forge 1997) associational mystery retelling Edgar Allan Poe’s story.