The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Books, Listed by Author

WILLIAMS, GRAHAM (continued)

• * *Doctor Who: The Nightmare Fair (Target 0-426-20334-8, May ’89, £1.99, 143pp, pb) [Doctor Who] Young-adult sf novelization. This is not part of the normal series and contains the first of the scripts from the 1985 season that was never filmed.
• * _Doctor Who: The Nightmare Fair (Target 0-426-20334-8, Jan ’92, £2.99, 143pp, pb) [Doctor Who] Reissue (Target 1989) young-adult sf novelization. This is not part of the normal series and contains the first of the scripts from the 1985 season that was never filmed. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the US for $4.95.

WILLIAMS, GREG

• * *Younger than Springtime (Penguin/Donald I. Fine 1-55611-511-3, Apr ’97 [Dec ’97], $22.95, 297pp, hc) Satiric fantasy novel. A man’s new secretary literally makes him young again. A first novel.

WILLIAMS, IAN

• * *The Lies That Bind (Purnell 0-361-08531-1, Jun ’89 [Jul ’89], £2.50, 254pp, pb, cover by Lee Stannard) Young-adult sf novel. Also available in hardcover (-08530-3).

WILLIAMS, KAREN (stories)

• * *Love Spell (Rising Tide Press 0-9628938-2-X, Aug ’93 [Oct ’93], $9.95, 193pp, tp) Lesbian romantic fantasy about a veterinarian who falls in love with a woman from another world.

WILLIAMS, KIT (1946?- ) (stories)

• * +"Book with No Name" (Knopf/Borzoi 0-394-53817-X, Jun ’84 [May ’84], $10.95, unpaginated, hc) A book which will remain untitled until someone wins a contest to choose the right name. Aside from being a contest (“void where prohibited by law”), this is a book of intricately beautiful illustrations and a short story/fable which is a fantasy of the seasons. It’s worth a look. (FCM)
• * *Out of One Eye (Jonathan Cape 0-224-02809-X, Sep ’86, £12.95, 112pp, hc) Art book with 78 colour illustrations from Williams’s early work.

WILLIAMS, LINDA V(erLee) (1942- ); see pseudonym Linda Grant

WILLIAMS, LORRAINE DILLE, ed.

• * *Buck Rogers: The First 60 Years in the 25th Century (TSR 0-88038-604-5, Oct ’88 [Feb ’89], $24.95, 288pp, hc) [Buck Rogers] Collection of Buck Rogers comics, one episode for each decade. Includes the original Phil Nowlan story from Amazing Stories, biographical material on the creators and their successors, and Ray Bradbury’s introduction to the 1969 book The Collected Works of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (which just reprinted material from before 1962).

WILLIAMS, (Winifred) MARY (Harvey Nethercot) iI.e., Winifred Mary Harvey Nethercot Williams Lewis] (1903-2000) (stories)

• * *Creeping Fingers and Other Stories of the Occult (Robert Hale 0-7090-4801-7, May ’92, £14.95, 191pp, hc, cover by Helen Hale) Collection of 15 original supernatural and ghost stories. (Contents)
• * *The Haunted Garden (William Kimber 0-7183-0599-X, Mar ’86, £8.50, 176pp, hc) Collection of 18 ghost stories. (Contents)
• * *Haunted Waters (Kimber 0-7183-0650-3, Oct ’87, £9.50, 190pp, hc) Original ghost collection. (Contents)
• * *Ravenscarne and Other Ghost Stories (Piatkus 0-7499-0057-1, Feb ’91, £12.95, 195pp, hc, cover by Pete Rozycki) Original collection of ghost stories. (Contents)

WILLIAMS, MATT (stories)

• * _Manitou Man: The Worlds of Graham Masterton (with Graham Masterton & Ray Clark) See entry under Graham Masterton.

WILLIAMS, MICHAEL (Leon) (1952- ) (stories)

• * *Allamanda (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-68223-X, Jun ’97 [May ’97], £17.99, 436pp, hc, cover by Mick Van Houten) [Arcady] Fantasy novel. Sequel to Arcady.
• * +Allamanda (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45609-2, Oct ’97 [Sep ’97], $14.95, 417pp, tp, cover by Romas Kukalis) [Arcady] Fantasy novel, sequel to Arcady. First US edition (Hodder & Stoughton June 1997).
• * _Allamanda (NEL 0-340-67449-0, Dec ’97 [Nov ’97], £6.99, 436pp, pb, cover by Mick Van Houten) [Arcady] Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 1997) fantasy novel, sequel to Arcady.
• * *Arcady (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45500-2, Apr ’96 [Mar ’96], $12.95, 400pp, tp, cover by Romas Kukalis) [Arcady] Fantasy novel. Magical voids threaten to take over a land out of British Romantic poetry, where William Blake’s works are religion, and John Milton is a saint.
• * _Arcady (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-67456-3, Jul ’96, £16.99, 486pp, hc, cover by Mick Van Houten) [Arcady] Reprint (Roc 1996) fantasy novel. The borders between magic and reality shift in a land out of British Romantic poetry. First world hardcover edition. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Arcady (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45598-3, Apr ’97 [Mar ’97], $6.50, 436pp, pb, cover by Romas Kukalis) [Arcady] Reprint (Roc 1996) fantasy novel set in a land out of British Romantic poetry.
• * *DragonLance Heroes II #3: Galen Beknighted (TSR 0-88038-921-4, Dec ’90, $4.95, 317pp, tp, cover by Jeff Easley) [DragonLance: Heroes II] Fantasy novelization based on the “DragonLance” game, with illustrations by Valerie Valusek.
• * _DragonLance Heroes II: Galen Beknighted (Penguin 0-14-014375-0, May ’91, £4.50, 317pp, pb, cover by Jeff Easley) [DragonLance: Heroes II] Reprint (TSR 1990) fantasy novelization. Volume 3 in the trilogy. [First U.K. edition]
• * *DragonLance Heroes: Weasel’s Luck (TSR 0-88038-625-8, Jan ’89, $3.95, 347pp, tp) [DragonLance: Heroes] Fantasy novelization; third in the “DragonLance Heroes” trilogy.
• * _DragonLance Heroes: Weasel’s Luck (Penguin 0-14-011649-4, Aug ’89, £3.99, 347pp, pb, cover by Larry Elmore) [DragonLance: Heroes] Reprint (TSR 1988) fantasy novelization. Volume three in the “DragonLance Heroes” series. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Dragonlance: Before the Mask (with Teri Williams) (TSR 1-56076-583-6, Apr ’93 [Mar ’93], $4.95, 312pp, tp, cover by Jeff Easley) [DragonLance: Villains] Fantasy novelization based on the “Dragonlance” game, first book of the “Dragonlance Villains” series.
• * *DragonLance: The Dark Queen (with Teri Williams) (TSR 1-56076-925-4, Dec ’94, $4.95, 313pp, tp, cover by Jeff Easley) [DragonLance: Villains] Fantasy novelization based on the role-playing game, volume six in the “Villains Series”, with interior illustrations by Karl Waller. Copyrighted by TSR.
• * *DragonLance: The Oath and the Measure (TSR 1-56076-336-1, May ’92 [Apr ’92], $4.95, 311pp, tp, cover by Clyde Caldwell) [DragonLance: Meetings] Fantasy novelization based on the “DragonLance” game, fourth book of “The Meetings Sextet”.
• * *From Thief to King: A Forest Lord (Warner Questar 0-446-36146-1, Oct ’91 [Sep ’91], $4.50, 291pp, pb, cover by Edwin Herder) [From Thief to King] Fantasy novel, second book of the “From Thief to King” series.
• * *From Thief to King: The Balance of Power (Warner Questar 0-446-36244-1, Dec ’92 [Nov ’92], $4.99, 292pp, pb, cover by Edwin Herder) [From Thief to King] Fantasy novel, third book of the “From Thief to King” series.
• * *A Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Popular Library Questar 0-445-21054-0, Nov ’90 [Oct ’90], $4.50, 280pp, pb, cover by Edwin Herder) Fantasy novel of a thief who becomes the apprentice of a powerful wizard and discovers his true destiny.

WILLIAMS, MICHAEL LINDSAY (1940- )

• * *FTL: Further Than Life (Avon 0-380-89632-X, Mar ’87 [Feb ’87], $3.50, 327pp, pb) [Martian Spring] Sf novel, sequel to Martian Spring.
• * *Martian Spring (Avon 0-380-89633-8, Sep ’86 [Aug ’86], $3.50, 277pp, pb) [Martian Spring] Sf novel, a first novel.

WILLIAMS, NIGEL (1948- ) (stories)

• * *Black Magic (Hutchinson 0-09-170950-4, Jul ’88, £8.95, 117pp, hc) Fantasy novella. Illustrated throughout by Julek Heller.

WILLIAMS, PAUL (Steven), ed. (1948- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * _I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon See entry under Philip K. Dick.
• * _Microcosmic God: The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. 2 See entry under Theodore Sturgeon.
• * _Thunder and Roses: The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. 4 See entry under Theodore Sturgeon.
• * _The Ultimate Egoist: The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. 1 See entry under Theodore Sturgeon.

WILLIAMS, PAUL O(sborne) (1935-2009) (stories) (chron.)

• * _The Breaking of Northwall (Orbit 0-7088-8158-0, 1985, £2.50, 280pp, pb) [Pelbar Cycle] Reprint (Del Rey 1981) fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition, not seen]
• * _The Breaking of Northwall (Orbit 0-345-29259-6, 1985 [Jan ’86], £1.00, pb) [Pelbar Cycle] Reprint (Del Rey 1981) fantasy novel.
• * _The Breaking of Northwall (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-32434-X, Feb ’95 [Mar ’95], $5.99, 280pp, pb, cover by Darrell K. Sweet) [Pelbar Cycle] Reissue (Del Rey 1981) SF novel, first in the “Pelbar Cycle”.
• * _The Dome in the Forest (Orbit 0-7088-8165-3, Feb ’86 [Jan ’86], £2.50, 214pp, pb) [Pelbar Cycle] Reprint (Del Rey 1981) sf novel, #3 in the “Pelbar Cycle”.
• * *The Gifts of the Gorboduc Vandal (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-35597-0, May ’89 [Apr ’89], $3.95, 210pp, pb) Sf novel.
• * *Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick (Arbor House 0-87795-800-9, May ’86 [Apr ’86], $7.95, 184pp, pb) Non-fiction, biographical study. [Dick]
• * *The Song of the Axe (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-31658-4, Jul ’84 [Jun ’84], $2.95, 248pp, pb) [Pelbar Cycle] Sf novel, sixth in the “Pelbar Cycle”.
• * *The Sword of Forbearance (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-32504-4, Oct ’85 [Sep ’85], $2.95, 245pp, pb) [Pelbar Cycle] Sf novel, conclusion of the “Pelbar Cycle” (Book #7).

WILLIAMS, ROBERT PAUL (1957- ); see pseudonym Tad Williams (stories) (chron.)

WILLIAMS, RUSS

• * *The Night Hunter (New Horizon Press no ISBN, Jul ’90, $15.00, 448pp, tp) Horror thriller from a gay small press about a ghostly cougar stalking a small Appalachian town during a blizzard. This consists of 21½ x 28 cm. sheets perfectbound without a wraparound cover — the spine is just the glue.

WILLIAMS, RUTH L.

• * *The Silver Tree (HarperCollins 0-06-020296-3, Jun ’92 [May ’92], $14.00, 213pp, hc, cover by Eric Peterson) Young-adult time-travel fantasy about a girl who makes an unfortunate wish in the presence of a magic dollhouse.

WILLIAMS, SEAN (Llewellyn) (1967- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Doorway to Eternity (MirrorDanse Books 0-646-19084-9, Jan ’95 [Feb ’95], A$8.95, 99pp, tp, cover by Antoinette Rydyr & Robert Hood) Collection of three SF novelettes “by Australia’s rising young SF writer”, with a foreword by Bill Congreve, and a bibliography of Williams’ work to date. Illustrations by Antoinette Rydyr and Robert Hood. A limited edition of 400 copies. Available from MirrorDanse Books, 1/26 Central Avenue, Westmead NSW Australia 2145. (Contents)
• * *Metal Fatigue (HarperCollinsAustralia 0-7322-5633-X, 1996 [May ’96], A$12.95, 458pp, pb, cover by Greg Bridges) Near-future SF thriller. A walled-off city in the war-torn US holds too hard to the illusion of American superiority.
• * *The Resurrected Man (HarperCollins Australia/Voyager 0-7322-5903-7, Apr ’98 [Mar ’98], A$14.95, 609pp, pb, cover by Shaun Tan) SF thriller of teleportation devices and the serial murder of the same duplicated person.
• * *The Unknown Soldier (with Shane Dix) (Aphelion Publications 1-875346-11-2, Aug ’95, A$14.95, 361pp, tp, cover by Tim Ide) [Evergence] SF novel, first in “The Cogal” trilogy about a sector of space inhabited by seven sentient races, and their ever-shifting alliances. Published in Australia; available in the US for $10.00 from Mark V. Ziesing, PO Box 76, Shingletown CA 96088.

WILLIAMS, SHEILA, ed. (stories) (chron.)

• * *Hugo and Nebula Award Winners from Asimov’s Science Fiction (Random House/Wings 0-517-12410-6, 1995 [Jan ’96], $12.99, 558pp, hc) Anthology of 17 award-winning stories. This is an instant remainder edition. (Contents)
• * *Intergalactic Mercenaries (with Cynthia Manson) (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45580-0, Nov ’96 [Oct ’96], $5.99, 266pp, pb) Anthology of six military SF stories from Analog and Asimov’s. Authors include Gordon R. Dickson, Frederik Pohl, and Lois McMaster Bujold. (Contents)
• * _Isaac Asimov’s Camelot (with Gardner R. Dozois) See entry under Gardner R. Dozois
• * _Isaac Asimov’s Christmas (with Gardner R. Dozois) See entry under Gardner R. Dozois
• * _Isaac Asimov’s Cyberdreams (with Gardner R. Dozois) See entry under Gardner R. Dozois
• * _Isaac Asimov’s Detectives (with Gardner R. Dozois) See entry under Gardner R. Dozois
• * _Isaac Asimov’s Earth (with Gardner R. Dozois) See entry under Gardner R. Dozois
• * _Isaac Asimov’s Ghosts (with Gardner R. Dozois) See entry under Gardner R. Dozois
• * _Isaac Asimov’s Moons (with Gardner R. Dozois) See entry under Gardner R. Dozois
• * _Isaac Asimov’s Robots (with Gardner R. Dozois) See entry under Gardner R. Dozois
• * _Isaac Asimov’s Skin Deep (with Gardner R. Dozois) See entry under Gardner R. Dozois
• * _Isaac Asimov’s Vampires (with Gardner R. Dozois) See entry under Gardner R. Dozois
• * *The Loch Moose Monster: More Stories from Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine (Delacorte 0-385-30600-8, Mar ’93, $16.00, 285pp, hc, cover by Joel Iskowitz) Anthology of 14 stories that originally appeared in Asimov’s, with a foreword by Joan D. Vinge and an afterword by the editor. (Contents)
• * _Science Fiction by Asimov See entry under Isaac Asimov.
• * *Tales from Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine (with Cynthia Manson) (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-284209-8, Oct ’86 [Mar ’87], $15.95, 298pp, hc) Young-adult anthology of 17 stories from Asimov’s; introduction by Isaac Asimov. This has a 1986 copyright, but we did not see it until 1987. (Contents)
• * *Why I Left Harry’s All Night Hamburgers and Other Stories (with Charles Ardai) (Delacorte 0-385-30044-1, Jun ’90 [May ’90], $14.95, 285pp, hc, cover by Joel Iskowitz) Anthology of 12 stories, with an introduction by Ardai. (Contents)
• * _Why I Left Harry’s All Night Hamburgers and Other Stories (with Charles Ardai) (Dell Laurel-Leaf 0-440-21394-0, Dec ’92 [Nov ’92], $3.99, 285pp, pb, cover by Joel Iskowitz) Reprint (Delacorte 1990) anthology of 12 sf stories, with an introduction by Ardai.

WILLIAMS, SIDNEY; see pseudonym Michael August (stories)

• * *Blood Hunter (Zebra/Pinnacle 1-55817-437-6, Nov ’90 [Oct ’90], $3.95, 317pp, pb) Horror novel. Sentient killer swamp.
• * *Gnelfs (Zebra/Pinnacle 1-55817-543-1, Sep ’91 [Aug ’91], $4.50, 352pp, pb) Horror novel of adorable little tv creatures who come out of the set to attack an innocent family.
• * *Night Brothers (Zebra/Pinnacle 1-55817-290-4, Dec ’89 [Nov ’89], $4.50, 448pp, pb) Horror novel. Vampires in Louisiana.
• * *When Darkness Falls (Zebra/Pinnacle 1-55817-621-7, Jul ’92 [Aug ’92], $4.50, 384pp, pb) Horror novel of werewolves preying on a small Louisiana town.

WILLIAMS, TAD; pseudonym of Robert Paul Williams, (1957- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Caliban’s Hour (Legend 0-09-926361-0, Oct ’94, £12.99, 180pp, hc, cover by Bruce Pennington) Short fantasy novel of magic and menace derived from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, wherein Caliban confronts Miranda 20 years after she left the island, seeking revenge for the cruelties she inflicted.
• * +Caliban’s Hour (HarperPrism 0-06-105204-3, Dec ’94 [Nov ’94], $14.99, 201pp, hc, cover by Jim Griffin) Fantasy novella. The monster from Shakespeare’s The Tempest tells his version of the story. First American edition (Legend 1994). This edition has two distinct covers by the same artist.
• * _Caliban’s Hour (Legend 0-09-926171-5, Sep ’95, £4.99, 180pp, pb, cover by Bruce Pennington) Reprint (Legend 1994) fantasy novel. A tale of magic and menace derived from Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”, wherein Caliban confronts Miranda twenty years after she left the island, seeking revenge for the cruelties she inflicted.
• * _Caliban’s Hour (HarperPrism 0-06-105413-5, Nov ’95 [Oct ’95], $4.99, 194pp, pb, cover by Jim Griffin) Reprint (Legend 1994) fantasy novella. Shakespeare’s character tells his side of the story.
• * *Child of an Ancient City (with Nina Kiriki Hoffman) (Macmillan Atheneum 0-689-31577-5, Nov ’92 [Oct ’92], $14.95, 137pp, hc, cover by Greg Hildebrandt) Young-adult fantasy novel, with illustrations by Greg Hildebrandt. An Arabian Nights-style story of a merchant’s son traveling with a caravan whose members fall victim to a vampire. This is part of the “Dragonflight” series packaged by Byron Preiss Visual Publications.
• * *Child of an Ancient City (with Nina Kiriki Hoffman) (Legend 0-7126-5499-2, Nov ’92 [Oct ’92], £7.99, 80pp, tp, cover by Bruce Pennington) Arabian Nights fantasy novella, illustrated throughout by Bruce Pennington. A hardcover edition (-5492-5, £12.99) is also available. Simultaneous with US (Atheneum) edition.
• * _Child of an Ancient City (with Nina Kiriki Hoffman) (Tor 0-812-53391-7, Sep ’94 [Aug ’94], $6.99, 280pp, tp, cover by Greg Hildebrandt) Reprint (Atheneum 1992) young-adult fantasy novel, with illustrations by Greg Hildebrandt. An Arabian Nights-style story of a merchant’s son traveling with a caravan whose members fall victim to a vampire.
• * *The Dragonbone Chair (DAW 0-8099-0003-3, Nov ’88 [Oct ’88], $19.95, 654pp, hc) [Memory, Sorrow & Thorn] Tolkienesque fantasy novel, Book One of “Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn”.
• * _The Dragonbone Chair (SFBC #14507, Feb ’89 [Mar ’89], $9.98, 785pp, hc) [Memory, Sorrow & Thorn] Reprint (DAW 1988) fantasy novel, book one of “Memory, Sorrow and Thorn”.
• * _The Dragonbone Chair (Legend 0-7126-3432-0, Aug ’89, £7.50, 654pp, tp, cover by Michael Whelan) [Memory, Sorrow & Thorn] Reprint (DAW 1988) fantasy novel. Volume one in the “Memory, Sorrow and Thorn” series. Also available in hardcover (-3427-4, £14.95). [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Dragonbone Chair (DAW 0-88677-384-9, Nov ’89 [Aug ’89], $5.95, 783pp, pb) [Memory, Sorrow & Thorn] Reprint (DAW 1988) fantasy novel, book one of “Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn”.