The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
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- BEAR, GREG(ory Dale) (stories) (chron.) (continued)
- * *The Venging (Legend 0-7126-5051-2, Feb ’92 [Dec ’91], £8.99, 269pp, tp, cover by Nick Rodgers) Collection of eight sf stories. This reprints the contents of the 1983 collection The Wind from a Burning Woman (Arkham House) and adds two early stories, newly revised for this edition. A hardcover edition (-5050-4, £14.99) is also available. (Contents)
- * _The Venging (Legend 0-09-996450-3, Nov ’93, £4.99, 290pp, pb, cover by Nick Rodgers) Reprint (Legend 1992) sf collection.
- * _The Wind from a Burning Woman (Ace 0-441-89212-4, Oct ’84 [Sep ’84], $2.75, 226pp, pb) Reprint (Arkham House 1983) collection, including the Nebula winner “Hardfought” and 5 others. Recommended. (CNB)
- * _The Wind from a Burning Woman (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20846-5, Oct ’90 [Sep ’90], $4.95, 240pp, pb) Reprint (Arkham House 1983) collection of six stories.
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- * *New Legends (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Legend 0-09-931881-4, May ’95 [Apr ’95], £15.99, x+419pp, hc) Anthology of fifteen original SF short stories and an article, by Le Guin, Anderson, Sheckley, Benford, McAuley, Egan, and others. Greenberg’s name is not used on the cover. (Contents)
- * +New Legends (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Tor 0-312-85930-9, Aug ’95 [Jul ’95], $22.95, 379pp, hc, cover by John Harris) Original anthology of 16 SF stories. Authors include Ursula K. Le Guin, Gregory Benford, Paul J. McAuley, and Robert Silverberg. First US edition (Legend 1995).
- * _New Legends (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Legend 0-09-931901-2, May ’96 [Apr ’96], £5.99, x+419pp, pb) Reprint (Legend 1995) original anthology of fifteen SF stories and an article.
- * _New Legends (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Tor 0-312-86201-6, Jun ’96 [May ’96], $13.95, 379pp, tp, cover by John Harris) Reprint (Legend 1995) original SF anthology.
- BEARNE, BETSY
- * *Eli’s Ghost (Macmillan McElderry 0-689-50420-9, Mar ’87, $10.95, 104pp, hc) Juvenile fantasy novel about a boy who leaves his unpleasant father to find his mother, a reputed witch. He almost dies in a swamp, and as a result a poltergeist is created, which does all the things the boy wants to do but doesn’t because he’s too timid.
- BEASLEY, (William) CONGER, Jr. (1940- ) (stories)
- * *The Magic Deer (Wordcraft 1-877655-01-5, Sep ’89, $5.00, 31pp, ph) Collection of three short stories of Native American magic realism, illustrated by Richard A. Schindler. (Contents)
- BEASON, (James) DOUG(las) (1953- ) (stories)
- BEATH, WARREN NEWTON (1951- ) (stories)
- * *Bloodletter (Tor 0-312-85731-4, Aug ’94 [Jul ’94], $21.95, 288pp, hc, cover by Joe DeVito) Horror novel about a writer who thinks his vampire creation is real and stalking him — and may be right.
- * _Bloodletter (Tor 0-812-53393-3, Jun ’96 [May ’96], $5.99, 310pp, pb, cover by Joe DeVito) Reprint (Tor 1994) horror novel about a writer who thinks his vampire creation is real.
- * *Shock Lines (Zebra 0-8217-4036-9, Jan ’93 [Dec ’92], $4.50, 382pp, pb) Horror novel of an inhuman teenage girl who brings earthquakes and death to a California desert town.
- * *Who Killed James Dean? (Tor 0-812-53873-0, Sep ’95 [Aug ’95], $5.99, 370pp, pb, cover by Eric Peterson) Horror novel. Dean fans use occult rituals to bring their idol back to life.
- BEATON, ALISTAIR (chron.)
- BEATTIE, ANN (1947- ) (stories)
- * *Spectacles (Workman/Ariel 0-89480-924-5, Oct ’85 [Nov ’85], $10.95, 37pp, hc) Juvenile fantasy short story, illustrated by Winslow Pels.
- BEATY, (Arthur) DAVID (1919-1999) (stories)
- * *The Ghosts of the Eighth Attack (Souvenir Press 0-285-63423-2, Mar ’98 [May ’98], £16.99, 264pp, hc, cover by Colin Sullivan) Ghost novel. An RAF squadron in 1940 is shadowed by the planes of an American squadron which perished to a man in an attack in 1918.
- BEAUCHAMP, GORMAN (Lynn) (1938- )
- * *Jack London (Starmont 0-916732-39-8, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $5.95, 96pp, pb) Non-fiction, reference book emphasizing London’s sf and fantasy works. Also available in hardcover for $13.95. [London]
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- * *Utopian Studies 1 (with Kenneth Roemer & Nicholas D. Smith) (University Press of America 0-8191-6165-9, May ’87 [Apr ’87], $12.75, 197pp, tp) Non-fiction, anthology of scholarly essays, co-published with the Society for Utopian Studies. (Hardcover and library binding editions have been announced; not seen.)
- BEAUMONT, CHARLES; [legalized from Charles Leroy Nutt] (1929-1967); see pseudonym Michael Phillips (stories) (chron.)
- * _The Howling Man (Tor 0-812-50552-2, Mar ’92 [Feb ’92], $4.99, 572pp, pb, cover by Peter Scanlon) Reprint (Dark Harvest 1988 as Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories) collection of 28 stories and one novel excerpt, five previously unpublished, with numerous story introductions by Bloch, Bradbury, Ellison, etc. Edited and with a biographical note by Roger Anker.
- * *Selected Stories (Dark Harvest 0-913165-23-9, Oct ’88 [Sep ’88], $19.95, 404pp, hc) Collection of 29 stories, including several previously unpublished items. Most were selected by various friends, including Bradbury, Ellison, and Bloch, who also wrote introductions to each. Editor Roger Anker furnishes a short biography. (Contents)
- * *Selected Stories (Dark Harvest 0-913165-22-0, Oct ’88 [Sep ’88], $65.00, 404pp, hc) Limited edition of the above.
- BEAUMONT, NINA
- * *Across Time (Harlequin 0-373-28803-4, Jan ’94 [Dec ’93], $3.99, 376pp, pb) Time-travel romance with a twist. An 18th-century woman somehow finds herself in the body of her evil ancestor at the court of the Borgias.
- BEAUVOIR, SIMONE (Luciie Ernestine Marie Bertrand) de (1908-1986)
- * _All Men are Mortal (Virago 1-86049-002-6, Jan ’96, £6.99, 406pp, tp) Reprint (World 1955) fantasy novel of a young woman who falls in love with an immortal. A movie tie-in edition. Translated by Euan Cameron from the French (Editions Gallimard 1946). [First U.K. edition]
- BEAVEN, DEREK
- BEBRIS, CARRIE A.
- BECHARD, GORMAN (III) (1959- ) (stories)
- * *The Second Greatest Story Ever Told (Carol Publishing Group/Citadel 0-8065-1263-6, Nov ’91, $17.95, 291pp, hc, cover by Alex Gross) Literary fantasy novel about the coming of Jesus Christ’s little sister, Ilona Ann Coggswater, who loves Elvis Costello and the Mets and whose message to the world is simply “Be kind.” A first novel.
- BECHARD, MARGARET (stories) (chron.)
- * *Star Hatchling (Viking 0-670-86149-9, Oct ’95 [Sep ’95], $13.99, 152pp, hc, cover by Broeck Steadman) Young-adult SF novel about a human girl marooned on a planet inhabited by lizardlike aliens.
- * _Star Hatchling (Penguin/Puffin 0-14-037581-3, Nov ’97 [Dec ’97], $4.50, 152pp, tp, cover by Michael Koelsch) Reprint (Viking 1995) young-adult SF novel.
- BECK, L(ily) ADAMS (née Moresby) (1862?-1931)
- * _The House of Fulfillment (Jeremy P. Tarcher 0-87477-532-9, Dec ’89 [Nov ’89], $11.95, 342pp, tp, cover by Tanya Maiboroda) Reprint (Unwin 1927) oriental Buddhist occult fantasy novel, with a new introduction by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
- BECKER, ALIDA, ed. (1948- )
- * _A Tolkien Treasury (Running Press/Courage Books 0-89471-704-9, Apr ’89 [Jun ’89], $9.98, 192pp, hc) Reprint (Grosset & Dunlap l974 as The Tolkien Scrapbook) illustrated anthology of 29 essays, parodies. poems, and filksongs written by and for Tolkien fans, with illustrations by Michael Green and a color portfolio by Tim Kirk. An oversize instant remainder book.
- BECKER, ALLIENNE R.
- * *The Lost Worlds Romance: From Dawn Till Dusk (Greenwood Press 0-313-26123-7, Jun ’92 [Jul ’92], $42.95, 164pp, hc) Non-fiction, criticism. A feminist revisionist study of lost race/world fantasy fiction from Verne and Haggard to John Wyndham and Andrew M. Greeley (who supplies an introduction). Available from Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport CT 06881.
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- * *Visions of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fifteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (Greenwood Press 0-313-29725-8, Dec ’96 [Jan ’97], $55.00, 205pp, hc) Collection of 22 essays on fiction, theater and film, and literary theory. Order from Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Box 5007, Westport CT 06881; credit card orders: 800-225-5800.
- BECKER, HYAM YONA; [born Jeffrey Charles Becker] (1953- )
- * *The Temple of Hashem (Gefen Books 965-229-156-0, Mar ’98 [Aug ’98], $10.95, 312pp, tp) SF novel. Israel gets rights to a part of Antarctica, but a mixed group of explorers find much more than they bargained for. This was apparently published in Israel by Gefen Publishing in 1997, and distributed in the US as of 3/98, but not seen until now. Order from Gefen Books, 12 New Street, Hewlett, NY 11557; 516-295-2805; isragefen@netmedia.net.il; add $4.00 postage.
- BECKER, ULRIKE, ed.
- BECKER, WALT (William) (1968- )
- * *Link (Morrow 0-688-15822-6, Nov ’98 [Oct ’98], $25.00, 384pp, hc) Science fiction novel. Scientists unearth the true, alien-assisted origins of mankind. A first novel.
- BECKFORD, WILLIAM (1760-1844) (stories) (chron.)
- * _The Episodes of Vathek (Dedalus 1-873982-61-5, Feb ’95, £6.99, 207pp, tp, cover by Lise Weisgerber) Reprint (Stephen Swift 1912) fantasy collection. Portions of Vathek which were suppressed before that book’s publication in 1787 (because of their contentious themes of homosexuality and sado-masochism) and not published until 1912. An extremely rare collection, this is only the third British edition, and the first in over 50 years. Using the 1912 version edited by Sir Frank T. Marzials (with minor corrections and alterations), this edition is edited with an introduction by Malcolm Jack. It is internally dated 1994. (Contents)
- * _Vathek and other stories (Penguin 0-14-043530-1, May ’95 [Jun ’95], £5.99, xxxviii+314pp, pb, cover by Elihu Vedder) Reprint (Pickering & Chatto 1993) collection of essays, satires and stories, including the famous title novel. Edited and with an Introduction by Malcolm Jack. This version is slightly corrected from its limited first edition. (Contents)
- BECKWITH, HENRY L(yman) P(arsons), Jr. (1935- )
- * _Lovecraft’s Providence & Adjacent Parts, 2nd Edition Revised (Donald M. Grant 0-937986-84-4, Nov ’86 [Oct ’86], $15.00, 94pp, hc) Non-fiction, tour book. Updated from the 1979 book used for the last Providence World Fantasy Con. Limited to 600 copies. [Lovecraft]
- BÉDARD, MICHAEL (A.) (1949- ) (stories)
- * *A Darker Magic (Atheneum 0-689-31342-X, Oct ’87 [Sep ’87], $13.95, 183pp, hc) Young-adult novel of magic and horror. A first novel.
- * _A Darker Magic (Avon 0-380-70611-3, Aug ’89 [Jul ’89], $2.95, 184pp, pb) Reprint (Atheneum 1987) young-adult horror novel. An inhuman magician who preys on children in a small town generation after generation.
- * *Painted Devil (Macmillan Atheneum 0-689-31827-8, Apr ’94 [May ’94], $15.95, 226pp, hc, cover by Stephen Marchesi) Young-adult dark fantasy novel. Alice discovers deadly connections between some sinister puppets and a tragic puppet show that took place 20 years before.
- * *Redwork (Macmillan Atheneum 0-689-31622-4, Oct ’90 [Nov ’90], $15.95, 261pp, hc, cover by Stephen Marchesi) Young-adult fantasy novel of a teenage boy’s relationship with the old alchemist who lives downstairs.
- * _Redwork (Avon Flare 0-380-71612-7, Sep ’92 [Aug ’92], $3.50, 217pp, pb) Reprint (Atheneum 1990) young-adult horror novel.
- BEEBEE, CHRIS
- * *The Hub (Macdonald 0-356-14800-9, Aug ’87, £10.95, 249pp, hc) Sf novel.
- * _The Hub (Orbit 0-7088-8214-5, Mar ’88, £2.95, 249pp, pb) Reprint (Macdonald 1987) sf novel blending terrorism and a debate on the nature of reality.
- * *The Main Event (Orbit 0-7088-8300-1, Jul ’89 [Jun ’89], £2.99, 202pp, pb) [Cipola Sequence] Sf novel. Volume 2 in “The Cipola Sequence”.
- BEECH, LEN
- BEECHAM, JAHANNA; see pseudonym Jahnna N. Malcolm
- BEERE, PETER (1951- )
- * *At Gehenna’s Door (Scholastic UK 0-590-13381-0, Jun ’97, £3.50, 265pp, pb) Young-adult dark fantasy novel.
- * *Doom Sword (Scholastic UK 0-590-55288-0, Oct ’93, £3.50, 225pp, pb, cover by Mark Taylor) Young-adult fantasy novel.
- * *Star Warriors (Scholastic UK 0-590-55706-8, Feb ’95, £3.50, 267pp, pb, cover by David Wyatt) Young-adult fantasy novel. When the Star - last remaining light in a darkened world - is stolen, only the warriors of the plains are willing to battle an evil Lord for its return.
- * *Trauma 2020: Book 1: Urban Prey (Arrow 0-09-934780-6, May ’84 [Apr ’84], £1.75, 198pp, pb) [Trauma 2020] Sf novel of a grim future, first in a series.
- * *Trauma 2020: Book 2: The Crucifiction Squad (Arrow 0-09-934770-9, May ’84 [Apr ’84], £1.75, 223pp, pb) [Trauma 2020] Sf novel, second in the series.
- * *Trauma 2020: Book 3: Silent Slaughter (Arrow 0-09-943480-6, 1985 [Oct ’85], £1.95, 202pp, pb) [Trauma 2020] 21st-century action thriller, third novel in a series.
- * *Underworld III (Hippo 0-590-55039-X, Sep ’92 [Oct ’92], £2.99, 160pp, pb) Young-adult sf novel, set in a future London.
- BEESE, P(atricia) J(ane) (1946- ) (stories)
- * *The Guardsman (with Todd Cameron Hamilton) (Pageant 0-517-00665-0, Jul ’88 [Jun ’88], $2.95, 313pp, pb) Sf novel of interstellar depravity and rebellion.
- BEHR, IRA STEVEN
- * *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Ferengi Rules of Aquisition (Pocket 0-671-52936-6, Jul ’95 [Jun ’95], $6.00, 84pp, tp) [Star Trek: Deep Space Nine] Humorous business/meditation book based on the greedy aliens from the TV series, illustrated with numerous stills. Author is noted as “by Quark, as told to Ira Steven Behr.” Copyrighted by Paramount Pictures.
- BEHRENDS, STEVE (1959- ) (stories)
- * *Clark Ashton Smith (Starmont House 0-930261-98-4, 1990 [Apr ’91], $9.95, 112pp, tp) Non-Fiction, criticism. A guide to Smith’s work, with annotated primary and secondary bibliographies. A hardcover edition (-99-2, $19.95) was announced but not seen. This is a 1990 book not seen until now. [Smith]
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- BEIDLER, PETER G., ed.
- * *The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (St. Martin’s/Bedford 0-312-08083-2, Jun ’95, $10.95, 313pp, tp) [Turn of the Screw] Non-fiction, part of the “Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism” series. Contains James’s complete text, plus five new critical essays that examine the work from different contemporary critical perspectives: Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic, deconstruction, and reader response. Also includes an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts, and a survey of major critical response over time. A hardcover edition (-12260-8) was announced but not seen. [James]
- BEKSINSKI, ZDZISLAW (1929-2005) (assoc.)
- * *The Fantastic Art of Beksinski (Morpheus International 1-883398-38-X, Nov ’98, $24.95, 72pp, hc, cover by Zdzislaw Beksinski) Pictorial book of dark fantasy paintings by a Polish surrealist whose works have many of the alien qualities of H.R. Giger, with narrative effects are weirdly reminiscent of Goya and Whelan. Order from Morpheus International, PO Box 7246, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.
- BELDEN, DAVID (Corderoy) (1949- )
- * *Children of Arable (NAL/Signet 0-451-14660-3, Jan ’87 [Dec ’86], $2.95, 289pp, pb) [Gendering] Sf novel of a “real woman” in a genderless future. A first novel.
- * *To Warm the Earth (NAL Signet 0-451-15485-1, Aug ’88 [Jul ’88], $3.95, 317pp, pb) Sf novel. The primitive remnants of humans on an icebound Earth send an emissary to the Galactic Collectivity for help.
- BELDEN, WILANNE SCHNEIDER (1925- ) (stories)
- * *Mind-Hold (HBJ/Gulliver 0-15-254280-9, Mar ’87, $14.95, 242pp, hc) [Mind-Call] Post-disaster young-adult sf novel of psi powers and survival, a sequel to Mind-Call (1981).
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