The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Books, Listed by Author

BÜSSING, SABINE (1960- ) (stories)

• * *Aliens in the Home: The Child in Horror Fiction (Greenwood 0-313-25420-6, Mar ’87 [May ’87], $32.95, xxi + 203pp, hc) Non-fiction, critical study; there’s an appendix on horror films. “Contributions to the Study of Childhood and Youth, No. 4.”
• * _Aliens in the Home: The Child in Horror Fiction (Greenwood 0-313-25426-5, May ’87, £31.95, 232pp, hc) Associational non-fiction study. [First U.K. edition, not seen]
• * *A Darker Shade of Bale (The Book Guild 0-86332-895-4, Feb ’94, £11.95, 200pp, hc, cover by Inky Finger) Collection of macabre tales based on traditional horror motifs. (Contents)

BUTLER, BEVERLY (Kathleen) (1932- )

• * _Ghost Cat (Scholastic 0-590-41837-8, Aug ’88 [Oct ’88], $2.50, 189pp, pb) Reprint (Dodd, Mead 1984) young-adult ghost story.
• * *Witch’s Fire (Penguin/Dutton/Cobblehill 0-525-65132-2, Oct ’93, $14.99, 135pp, hc, cover by Stephen Marchesi) Young-adult fantasy novel of a wheelchair-bound girl who learns that the witch who used to own her family’s new house wants it back.
• * _Witch’s Fire (Penguin/Puffin 0-14-037614-3, Sep ’95, $3.99, 135pp, tp, cover by Bill Schmidt) Reprint (Dutton/Cobblehill 1993) young-adult horror novel.

BUTLER, CHARLES

• * *The Darkling (Orion/Dolphin 1-85881-383-2, Jun ’97 [May ’97], £3.99, 168pp, pb, cover by George Smith) Young-adult dark fantasy novel. There is a simultaneous hardback (Orion Children’s Books, -378-6, £9.99).
• * +The Darkling (Simon & Schuster/McElderry 0-689-81796-7, Apr ’98 [May ’98], $16.00, 164pp, hc, cover by Carol Benioff) Young-adult ghost novel. An old man’s lost love haunts young Petra. First US edition (Orion 1997). A first novel.
• * *Timon’s Tide (Orion/Dolphin 1-85881-646-7, Nov ’98 [Dec ’98], £4.50, 181pp, pb, cover by George Smith) Young-adult horror novel.

BUTLER, DAVID (1941- )

• * *The Man Who Mastered Time (Heinemann 0-434-09906-6, Oct ’86, £10.95, 262pp, hc) Literary sf novel of time travel and Coleridge’s poetry. A first novel.

BUTLER, JACK (Armand) (1944- ) (stories)

• * *Dreamer (Random House/Knopf 0-679-44665-6, 1998 [Jun ’98], $25.00, 415pp, hc, cover by Chip Kidd) Science fantasy thriller. The government wants a sleep researcher to create artificial intelligences by teaching computers to dream.
• * *Nightshade (Atlantic Monthly Press 0-87113-315-6, Aug ’89 [Jul ’89], $18.95, 276pp, hc) Vampire/sf novel set on an Earth-colonized Martian frontier.
• * _Nightshade (Paladin 0-586-09051-7, Jun ’91, £5.99, 276pp, tp, cover by Peter Gudynas) Reprint (Atlantic Monthly 1989) literary sf novel. [First U.K. edition]

BUTLER, MARILYN, ed. (stories)

• * _Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text See entry under Mary W. Shelley.

BUTLER, OCTAVIA E(stelle) (1947-2006) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Adulthood Rites (Warner 0-446-51422-5, Jun ’88 [May ’88], $16.95, 277pp, hc) [Xenogenesis] Sf novel, sequel to Dawn, second in the “Xenogenesis Trilogy”. Bleak novel of a remnant human population on Earth, gene-manipulating aliens, and human/alien hybrids.
• * _Adulthood Rites (Gollancz 0-575-04238-9, Oct ’88, £11.95, 277pp, hc) [Xenogenesis] Reprint (Warner 1988) sf novel. Volume 2 in the “Xenogenesis” trilogy. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Adulthood Rites (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20903-8, May ’89 [Apr ’89], $3.95, 277pp, pb) [Xenogenesis] Reprint (Warner 1988) sf novel, second book in the “Xenogenesis” trilogy. Highly recommended (CNB).
• * _Adulthood Rites (Gollancz 0-575-04494-2, Jun ’89 [May ’89], £3.50, 277pp, pb, cover by George Underwood) [Xenogenesis] Reprint (Warner 1988) sf novel. Volume Two in the “Xenogenesis” trilogy.
• * _Adulthood Rites (Warner Aspect 0-446-60378-3, Apr ’97 [Mar ’97], $5.99, 279pp, pb, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Xenogenesis] Reissue (Warner 1988) SF novel. Book two of the “Xenogenesis” trilogy. Eighth printing.
• * *Bloodchild and Other Stories (Four Walls Eight Windows 1-56858-055-X, Sep ’95 [Aug ’95], $18.00, 144pp, hc) Collection of five stories and two essays. Includes two Hugo winners; the title story also won the Nebula. (Contents)
• * _Bloodchild and Other Stories (Seven Stories Press 1-888363-36-3, Jan ’97, $10.00, 145pp, tp) Reprint (Four Walls Eight Windows 1995) collection of five stories and two essays. Includes two Hugo winners; the title story also won the Nebula.
• * *Clay’s Ark (St. Martin’s 0-312-14321-4, Mar ’84 [Feb ’84], $12.95, 201pp, hc) [Patternist] Sf novel.
• * _Clay’s Ark (SFBC #2742, Dec ’84 [Nov ’84], $3.98, 186pp, hc) [Patternist] Reprint (St. Martin’s 1984) sf novel.
• * _Clay’s Ark (Ace 0-441-11089-4, Jun ’85 [May ’85], $2.75, 201pp, pb) [Patternist] Reprint (St. Martin’s 1984) sf novel.
• * _Clay’s Ark (Gollancz 0-575-04820-4, Jul ’91, £3.99, 201pp, pb, cover by Danny Flynn) [Patternist] Reprint (St. Martin’s 1984) sf novel. Volume 3 in the “Patternist” series.
• * _Clay’s Ark (Warner Aspect 0-446-60370-8, Dec ’96 [Nov ’96], $5.99, 213pp, pb, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Patternist] Reprint (St. Martin’s 1984) SF novel.
• * *Dawn (Warner 0-446-51363-6, May ’87 [Apr ’87], $15.95, 264pp, hc) [Xenogenesis] Sf novel of the far future.
• * _Dawn (Gollancz 0-575-04190-0, Oct ’87, £11.95, 272pp, hc) [Xenogenesis] Reprint (Warner 1987) sf novel. Volume 1 in the “Xenogenesis” trilogy. [First U.K. edition, not seen]
• * _Dawn (Gollancz 0-575-04268-0, May ’88, £2.95, 264pp, pb) [Xenogenesis] Reprint (Warner 1987) very impressive sf novel about a ‘first contact’ in rather unusal circumstances. Recommended. (PSP) Volume 1 in the “Xenogenesis” trilogy.
• * _Dawn (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20516-4, Jun ’88 [May ’88], $3.95, 248pp, pb) [Xenogenesis] Reprint (Warner 1987) sf novel, first in the “Xenogenesis” trilogy. Highly recommended. (CNB)
• * _Dawn (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20779-5, Apr ’90, $4.50, 248pp, pb, cover by Enric) [Xenogenesis] Reissue (Warner 1987) sf novel; fourth printing.
• * _Dawn (Warner Aspect 0-446-60377-5, Apr ’97 [Mar ’97], $5.99, 249pp, pb, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Xenogenesis] Reissue (Warner 1987) SF novel. Book one of the “Xenogenesis” trilogy. 12th printing.
• * *The Evening and the Morning and the Night (Pulphouse 1-56146-538-0, Nov ’91, $1.95, 45pp, pb, cover by Alan Giana) Nebula Award-nominated sf short story that originally appeared in Omni 5/87. Short story paperback #38. A signed leatherbound limited edition of 100 copies ($20.00) is also available. Order from Pulphouse Publishing, Box 1227, Eugene OR 97440.
• * *Imago (Warner 0-446-51472-1, May ’89 [Apr ’89], $19.95, 264pp, hc) [Xenogenesis] Sf novel, third book of the “Xenogenesis” trilogy. An outstanding series about the possible future of Humanity. Highly recommended (CNB).
• * _Imago (Gollancz 0-575-04239-7, Jul ’89, £12.95, 264pp, hc) [Xenogenesis] Reprint (Warner 1989) sf novel. Triumphant conclusion to the “Xenogenesis” trilogy. Recommended. (PSP) [First U.K. edition]
• * _Imago (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20977-1, Mar ’90 [Feb ’90], $4.95, 220pp, pb, cover by Wayne Barlowe) [Xenogenesis] Reprint (Warner 1989) sf novel, third book of the “Xenogenesis” trilogy.
• * _Imago (Warner Aspect 0-446-60363-5, Apr ’97 [Mar ’97], $5.99, 220pp, pb, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Xenogenesis] Reissue (Warner 1989) SF novel. Book three of the “Xenogenesis” trilogy. Sixth printing.
• * _Imago: Xenogenesis III (Gollancz 0-575-04776-3, May ’90, £3.99, 264pp, pb, cover by George Underwood) [Xenogenesis] Reprint (Warner 1989 as Imago) sf novel.
• * _Kindred (Beacon Press 0-8070-8305-4, Aug ’88, $8.95, tp) Reprint (Doubleday 1979) time travel fantasy/historical novel about a modern black woman in the old South. There is a new 27-page introduction on blacks in sf and Octavia E. Butler in particular, by Robert Crossley. This trade paperback is part of the “Black Women Writers Series.”
• * _Kindred (The Women’s Press 0-7043-4162-X, Oct ’88, £4.95, 264pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1979) sf novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Kindred (The Women’s Press 0-7043-4162-X, Feb ’95, £6.99, 264pp, tp, cover by Deborah Gyan) Reissue (Doubleday 1979) SF novel of a contemporary Black woman who travels back to the American South of 1815, only to find herself enslaved.
• * _Kindred (Beacon Press 0-8070-8305-4, 1998 [Mar ’98], $13.00, 264pp, tp) Reissue (Doubleday 1979) SF time-travel novel. This has the 1988 introduction by Robert Crossley. 12th printing.
• * _Mind of My Mind (Gollancz 0-575-04817-4, Mar ’91, £3.99, 221pp, pb, cover by Danny Flynn) [Patternist] Reprint (Doubleday 1977) sf novel. Volume 2 in the “Patternist” series.
• * _Mind of My Mind (Warner Questar 0-446-36188-7, Aug ’94 [Jul ’94], $5.50, 217pp, pb, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Patternist] Reprint (Doubleday 1977) sf novel, second book in the “Patternist” series.
• * *Parable of the Sower (Four Walls Eight Windows 0-941423-99-9, Dec ’93, $19.95, 299pp, hc, cover by Barry Marcus) [Parable] Sf novel set in a dystopian 21st-century California where small walled enclaves hold a brutal world at bay. Recommended (SW).
• * _Parable of the Sower (Warner Aspect 0-446-60197-7, Feb ’95 [Jan ’95], $5.99, 295pp, pb, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Parable] Reprint (Four Walls Eight Windows 1993) dystopian SF novel.
• * _Parable of the Sower (The Women’s Press 0-7043-4421-1, Feb ’95, £6.99, 299pp, tp, cover by Deborah Gyan) [Parable] Reprint (Four Walls Eight Windows 1993) SF novel set in a dystopian 21st-century California where small walled enclaves hold a brutal world at bay. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Parable of the Talents (Seven Stories Press 1-888363-81-9, Nov ’98 [Oct ’98], $24.95, 365pp, hc) [Parable] Dystopian SF novel, sequel to Parable of the Sower. Lauren and her daughter mature in the war-torn world of 2032.
• * _Patternmaster (Warner Aspect 0-446-36281-6, May ’95 [Apr ’95], $5.50, 202pp, pb, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Patternist] Reprint (Doubleday 1976) SF novel of a struggle for succession in a telepathic race.
• * _Wild Seed (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20537-7, Dec ’88 [Nov ’88], $3.95, 279pp, pb) [Patternist] Reprint (Doubleday 1980) sf novel about the conflict between two immortals, set in 17th-century Africa. Highly recommended. (CNB)
• * _Wild Seed (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20537-7, Apr ’90 [Mar ’90], $4.50, 279pp, pb, cover by Wayne Barlowe) [Patternist] Reissue (Doubleday 1980) sf novel set in 17th-century Africa; third printing.
• * _Wild Seed (Gollancz 0-575-04819-0, Oct ’90, £3.99, 248pp, pb, cover by Danny Flynn) [Patternist] Reprint (Doubleday 1980) sf novel.
• * *Xenogenesis (SFBC #15462, Nov ’89, $9.98, 726pp, hc, cover by Pat Morrissey) [Xenogenesis] Omnibus edition of the “Xenogenesis” trilogy, consisting of Dawn (Warner 1987), Adulthood Rites (Warner 1988), and Imago (Warner 1989). Highly recommended (CNB). (Contents)

BUTNER, RICHARD, ed. (stories)

• * _Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology (with John Kessel & Mark L. Van Name) See entry under John Kessel.

BUTOR, MICHEL (Marie Francois) (1926- )

• * *Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ape (Dalkey Archive Press 1-56478-089-9, Jul ’95 [May ’95], $10.95, 121pp, tp, cover by Tamara Fox) Fantasy novel. A young man steeps himself in the literature of alchemy, and dreams of becoming an ape. There is a fantasy story within the story. First published in France in 1967. Translated by Dominic Di Bernardi. A hardcover edition (-077-5, $19.95) was announced but not seen. Order from Dalkey Archive Press, Illinois State University, Normal IL 61790; 309-438-7555.

BUTTERWORTH, MICHAEL, ed. (1947- ) (stories)

• * _Savoy Dreams (with David Britton) See entry under David Britton.

BUTTREY, DOUGLAS NORTON (1918-1994); see pseudonym Densil Barr

BUTTS, JANE ROBERTS (1929-1984); see pseudonym Jane Roberts

BUTTS, NANCY

• * *The Door in the Lake (Front Street 1-886910-27-8, Jun ’98 [Oct ’98], $15.95, 159pp, hc, cover by Dan Burr) Young-adult SF novel. A boy disappears, then returns two years later, no older, and with no memory of the lost time.

BUXTON, JAMES

• * *Pity (Orion 0-75280-471-5, Oct ’97 [Sep ’97], £16.99, 394pp, hc) Associational gothic novel of obsessive love, shifting identities, sexes, and allegiances, in 1860s London.
• * *Strange (Warner UK 0-7515-0753-9, Jul ’94, £4.99, 332pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) Horror novel.
• * *Subterranean (Orbit 0-7088-4358-1, Nov ’89, £3.50, 288pp, pb) Horror novel.
• * *The Wishing Tree (Orion 1-85798-478-1, Jul ’96, £9.99, 330pp, tp) Dark fantasy novel.
• * _The Wishing Tree (Orion 0-75280-881-8, Mar ’97 [Feb ’97], £4.99, 330pp, pb) Reprint (Orion 1996) horror novel.

BUZZATI, DINO (1906-1972) (stories)

• * _Restless Nights: Selected Stories of Dino Buzzati (Carcanet 0-85635-684-0, Feb ’87, £4.95, 180pp, tp) Reprint (North Point Press 1984) collection including some sf. [Not seen]
• * *Restless Nights: Selected Stories of Dino Buzzati (North Point Press 0-86547-100-2, Jan ’84 [Dec ’83], $12.00, 122pp, hc) Collection of literary stories with some sf and fantasy elements. (Contents)
• * *The Siren (North Point Press 0-86547-159-2, Oct ’84 [Sep ’84], $10.50, 147pp, tp) Collection of 14 literary stories with fantasy elements, selected and translated by Lawrence Venuti.

BYARS, BETSY (Cromer) (1928- )

• * *McMummy (Viking 0-670-84995-2, Oct ’93 [Feb ’94], $13.99, 149pp, hc, cover by Stephen Marchesi) Young-adult fantasy novel about a mysterious pod growing in a scientist’s greenhouse.
• * _McMummy (Penguin/Puffin 0-14-036439-0, Sep ’95, $3.99, 149pp, tp, cover by Jeff Lindberg) Reprint (Viking 1993) young-adult fantasy about a mysterious pod in a greenhouse.
• * *The Winged Colt of Casa Mia (Avon 0-380-00201-9, Aug ’88, $2.50, 128pp, pb) Young-adult Pegasus fantasy novel, illustrated by Richard Cuffari.

BYATT, ANTONIA S(usan Drabble) (1936- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * +Angels & Insects (Random House 0-679-40512-7, Apr ’93, $21.00, 342pp, hc, cover by Jose Conde) Collection of two novellas, the second a ghost story. First American edition (Chatto & Windus 1993).
• * _Angels & Insects (BOMC no ISBN, May ’93 [Apr ’93], $17.95, 342pp, hc, cover by Jose Conde) Reprint (Chatto & Windus 1993) collection of two novellas, the second a ghost story. Similar to the Random House edition except it lacks an ISBN and price and has a BOMC mark on the back.
• * _Angels & Insects (Vintage UK 0-09-922431-3, Oct ’93, £5.99, 290pp, tp, cover by Liz Cooke) Reprint (Chatto & Windus 1993) collection of two original literary short novels, one a fantasy.
• * _Angels & Insects (Random House/Vintage 0-679-75134-3, Apr ’94, $12.00, 337pp, tp, cover by Liz Cooke) Reprint (Chatto & Windus 1993) collection of two novellas, the second a ghost story.
• * _Angels & Insects (Random House/Vintage 0-679-75134-3, Sep ’95 [Feb ’96], $13.00, 337pp, tp) Reissue (Chatto & Windus 1992) collection of two novellas, the second a ghost story. This is a movie tie-in edition. Fifth printing.
• * *Angels and Insects (Chatto & Windus 0-7011-3717-7, Oct ’92 [Feb ’93], £14.99, 290pp, hc) Collection of two original literary fantasy short novels. (Contents)
• * *The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye (Chatto & Windus 0-7011-6278-3, Nov ’94, £9.99, 280pp, hc) Five fairy tales, two original, aimed at adults. Two of the reprints are extracted from her novel Possession, 1980, while an excerpt from the title story was published as “The Scholar and the Djinn”. (Contents)
• * +The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye (Random House 0-679-42008-8, Nov ’97 [Oct ’97], $20.00, 274pp, hc) Collection of five adult fairy tales, two original. Two are excerpts from Possession. This is the first US edition (Chatto & Windus 1994).
• * _The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye (Random House/Vintage International 0-679-76222-1, Nov ’98 [Oct ’98], $12.00, 274pp, tp) Reprint (Chatto & Windus 1994) collection of five adult fairy tales.
• * *Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice (Chatto & Windus 0-701-16823-4, Nov ’98 [Oct ’98], £12.00, 230pp, hc, cover by Edvard Munch) Collection of six mainstream and literary fantasy stories, including the original fantasy novella, ‘Cold’. (Contents)
• * *Sugar and Other Stories (Scribner’s 0-684-18786-8, Jul ’87 [Aug ’87], $16.95, 248pp, hc) Collection of stories, some of which deal with ghosts and the afterlife. (Contents)
• * *Sugar and Other Stories (Scribner’s 0-684-18786-8, Jul ’87, $16.95, 248pp, hc) Collection of stories, some of which deal with ghosts and the afterlife. (Contents)

BYERS, EDWARD A(dams) (1939-1989) (stories)

• * *The Babylon Gate (Baen 0-671-65565-5, Apr ’86 [Mar ’86], $2.95, 246pp, pb) Sf novel of space stations and psychic powers.
• * *The Long Forgetting (Baen 0-671-55980-X, Sep ’85 [Aug ’85], $2.95, 283pp, pb) Sf novel, a first novel.

BYERS, RICHARD LEE (1950- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Dark Fortune (Diamond 1-55773-864-5, Jan ’93 [Dec ’92], $4.99, 261pp, pb) Horror novel about a faltering preacher given the power to heal by an evil force.
• * *Dead Time (Zebra 0-8217-3963-8, Nov ’92 [Oct ’92], $3.99, 286pp, pb) Horror novel. Jack Stone finds a way to break through the time barrier to try and save his sister from a serial killer’s knife, but inadvertantly provides access to Earth for an evil force.
• * *Deathward (New Infinities 0-425-11598-4, Jan ’89 [Dec ’88], $3.95, 326pp, pb) Horror novel. A man wakes up in a psychiatric ward with partial memory loss, and a detective believes he holds the key to serial killings that can’t be dealt with on human terms.
• * *Fright Line (New Infinities 0-425-11666-2, Mar ’89 [Feb ’89], $3.95, 330pp, pb) Horror novel.
• * *The Nightmare Club #1: Joy Ride (Zebra/Z-Fave 0-8217-4315-5, Aug ’93, $3.50, 179pp, pb) [Nightmare Club] Young-adult horror novel, first book of a loosely-connected series centered around a club where strange things happen. Mike ignores warnings about drinking and driving, but he doesn’t know that his new girl was killed by a drunk driver decades ago — and is back for revenge.