The Locus Index to Science Fiction

by Charles N. Brown & William G. Contento

with

Index to Science Fiction
Anthologies and Collections,
Combined Edition

by William G. Contento

Copyright © 2000, 2001 by Charles N. Brown & William G. Contento

The Locus Index to Science Fiction is created from the monthly Books Received column in Locus Magazine, edited by Charles N. Brown. The contents of anthologies, single-author collections, and magazines are added by William G. Contento, who also wrote the programs used to generate these pages.

The CD-ROM version of The Locus Index is merged with the Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition by William G. Contento, an index to SF anthologies and single-author collections published before 1984.

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2001 Corrections:

Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001
From: Lichtman, Robert

In the "Locus Index to Science Fiction," there's an obsolete ordering address for Theodore Sturgeon's autobiographical work, ARGYLL. You show Box 611, Glen Ellen, but the correct address is:

P. O. Box 232517
Encinitas, CA 92023

Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001
From: Doug McFerran

In your index for Science Fiction you list illustrator David Farren as being the pseudonym of Douglass David McFerran. Yes and no. I did publish a novel in England ("Mendaga's Morning" for Sphere Books in 1976) with this pseudonym, but there is a quite different David Farren who has done cover art. (There is also a quite different Douglas McFerran who is a fairly well known British actor). Maybe it would be helpful to correct this.

Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001
From: "Peter Ryan"

Here's another book not in your index:

Armada Sci-Fi 3 (ed. Richard Davis, Armada C1077, 1976, 40p, 128pp, pb)

Contents:

7 Introduction
9 Back to Earth (Rosemary Timperley)
24 The House Crab Project (David Campton)
39 The Day of the Meteor (John Halkin)
57 The Music of the Stars (Pamela Cleaver)
66 Man's Best friend (Elizabeth Fancett)
82 The Trees So High (Julia Birley)
100 Fred (Catherine Gleason)
115 Saturday Night is the Busiest Night of the Week (Pamela Cleaver)

Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001
From: "Susan Kathleen O'Fearna"

*Beyond World's End (with Rosemary Edghill) (Baen 0-671-31955-8, Jan 2001, $24.00, 331pp, hc, cover by Larry Elmore)

_Beyond World's End (with Rosemary Edghill) (SFBC #35126, Feb 2001, $11.98, 329pp, hc, cover by Stephen Hickman)

These books both have the same cover and it is NOT by Larry Elmore but by Stephen Hickman.

Date: Tue, 29 May 2001
From: Richard Freitas

For your info: I don't see a listing for: STAR TREK:VOYAGER:EQUINOX - Diane Carey (POCKET) #0-671-04295-5 (10-99)

Date: Fri, 25 May 2001
From: Brad Aiken

I sent a copy of my book, Starscape, to Locus several months ago. I was upset when I finally found the listing on your web site, mistakingly attributed to a Norbert Weissinger as the author. I would appreciate it if you would correct this listing to reflect me (Brad Aiken) as the author of Starscape.

Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001
From: Tod

in The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1998) is a slight mistake. You created an author named Colin Pratchett (PRATCHETT, COLIN *The Light Fantastic (Colin Smythe 0-86140-203-0, May '86, 9.95, 217pp, hc) Fantasy novel. [Not seen])

Colin Smythe is TERRY Pratchetts agent, not the author of The Light Fantastic.

Date: Sat, 19 May 2001
From: tim jones

You do a wonderful job of compiling the Locus index, but I've noticed an error in the 2001 index: the title of my second-listed poem in "Dreams and Nightmares" #58 should be "The Stars, Natasha", not "The Stars, Like Natasha".

Date: Thu, 17 May 2001
From: George Willick

Have been working on Piper this week with some success from my alter-egos at US Gen Web.

Henry Beam Piper was born on Mar 23, 1904, son of Herbert Orr & Harriet L. (Maurer) Piper. Father's occupation was blacksmith and they lived at 320 Howard Ave. Altoona, Pa. (This from the birth record.)

Herbert Orr's father was a Civil War Captain and Doctor named Henry Beam Piper, H. Beam's namesake.

Beam's mother was the daughter of Henry & Carolyn (Myers) Mauer. She was born March 26, 1864, and died Sept. 3, 1955...being 40 years old when she had Beam and explaining why he lived with her and was an only child.

I go into all of this because there's little chance that your listing of "H.(Horace) Beam Piper" is correct and since I've always admired the dedication that you have for your web pages, I'd like to humbly offer the correction.

Date: Fri, 11 May 2001
From: Roger Silverstein

A couple more little corrections:
in 1984-1998 You list the Nina Kiriki Hoffman story "A Touch of the Old Lilith" as "The Touch..."
in the 2000 index, the anthology The Chick is in the Mail: in the individual story listings "The Chick" is run together as one word.

Date: Sat, 05 May 2001
From: Roger Silverstein

In your 1984-98 database, for the anthology The UFO Files, when you link from the ToC to each story, the publisher is listed as "DWA" (instead of DAW).

Date: Fri, 04 May 2001
From: Roger Silverstein

In your 1999 Locus Online index, you list the anthology Alien Abductions (Greenberg & Helfers) as an Oct 1999 release, but when you follow the links to the individual stories, it gives a 1998 date for the book.

Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001
From: Roger Silverstein

The Nina Kiriki Hoffman story "Trees Perpetual of Sleep" is also in the "Matt" series. The ongoing character is named "Matt Black" and I would suggest listing the stories that way, especially since you use "Matt Black" in your 1999 and 2000 indices.

Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001
From: Bruce Miller

thanks for the fantastic Locus Index. Here's a trivial thing I noticed, the character and Series Title "Retief, James" should read "Retief, Jame" -- Many thanks again for this monumental work in progress!

Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001
From: Roger Silverstein

Regarding the Nina Kiriki Hoffman novella "Unmasking" in your 1984-1998 bibliography: should be just Unmasking (delete "The") part of the "Matt" series

Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001
From: Terri Anderson Ker

Edward Andrew Mann, the screenwriter and novelist who wrote The Portals, was my friend. His actual year of birth was 1931, rather than 1932, as your list indicates. Also, if you're interested, his year of death was 1998.

Date: Tuesday, March 20
From: David O. Miller

I was looking through your listings and I came across my name. The two listings (shown below) under cover artists should be combined into one as I did the art work for all four books. I always use my middle initial so the listing should be for David O. Miller. I did not however write any stories as the link indicates. That link should be removed.

MILLER, DAVID (stories)

* Dun Lady's Jess by Doranna Durgin (Baen, Aug '94)
* The Yngling in Yamato by John Dalmas (Baen, Dec '94)
* Initiation by Marian Hughes (Baen, Jan '95)

MILLER, DAVID O.

* Buck Rogers: Warlords of Jupiter by William H. Keith, Jr. (TSR, Mar '93)

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001
From: "Jay Davis"

I'm Jay Davis, co-author of two horror novels from Tor, Sins of the Flesh and Bring on the Night. I ran across your author index online and discovered that it claims that "Jay Davis" is a pseudonym for someone named Charles Neutzel. I assure you that is incorrect. I don't know who Charles Neutzel is, but I do know he isn't me. My brother Don and I are the authors of those two novels. It isn't a huge matter, but I'd appreciate it if you remove the incorrect attribution of my real name as someone else's pseudonym. Thanks!

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001
From: Roger Silverstein

I have in my hands a copy of Keith Roberts' Ladies From Hell (Gollancz, 1979), a collection that I think should be listed in your index to anthologies. It contains 5 stories:

Our Lady of Desperation (no source listed, I think this is original to the book)
The Shack at Great Cross Halt (New Writings in SF 30)
The Ministry of Children (New Worlds 10)
The Big Fans (F&SF)
Missa Privata (New Worlds 9)
as well as an Introduction by Roberts

Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001
From: Jessica Stern

The short story "The Dull Knight's Fortune," (Shadow Sword Win '96) should be credited to John T. Kirkpatrick, not Kilpatrick. He's the same Kirkpatrick who appears later with "A Token of My Esteem."

Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001
From: Angus MacDonald

Hi. The online Locus Index for 2000 has my name wrong: it is "Angus MacDonald," not "Augus McDonald."

Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001
From: "Jim C. Hines"

I was browsing the 1999 Locus index, and I saw that you had my story "Blade of the Bunny" listed.

I also saw that you had me down as being born in 1947. Despite the typo that appeared in the anthology, I am a mere 26 years old - 1974 instead of '47. Thought you might want to know...

Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001
From: Roger Silverstein

In the 1999 Locus index, Charles de Lint's "The Buffalo Man" is definitely in the "Newford" series. I just read it in de Lint's The Triskell Tales, and it has Jilly and Merin and Ceran and the crow girls.

Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001
From: "Sam Wilson"

3 items for the Locus index fyi
1. Writers of the Future #VIII (8) was edited by Dave Wolverton, not Algis Budrys.
2. Under authors, the Sam Wilson who wrote The Castle of Murders... is not the same Sam Wilson who wrote Winter Night, with Kittens (in the abovementioned WOTF VIII).
3. The Samuel Wilson who wrote Reduction in Staff is the same S. Wilson who wrote Winter Night...

Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001

I wanted to make a correction to your index: Nayler, Jack (author of "The Ride") should be Nayler, Ray. I am also the author of the story "Ropes of the Lasso Inn" (Deathrealm Issue #30).

Thanks,

Ray Nayler

Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001

In the Series list, only three books are shown for Fawcett's sharecropped series *Guardians of the Three*. The fourth, Lovejoy's *Defender of Ar*, is shown in the index as part of the series; it's just not in the series entry itself.

Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001
From: "Roger Pilkey"

I have a correction-
Author Steve Perry, the page says "the Omega Case". Should be "The Omega Cage".

Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001

In regard to your bibliography of SF and fantasy, you've got my year of birth wrong.

I was born in 1951 not in 1920 (my father, same name, was born in '27 and never wrote SF). As far as I know I'm not dead yet.

Cheers

Don Walsh (Donald J. Walsh Jr.)

Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001

Antoinette Stockenberg e-mail us to let us know that she does not write under the pseudonym Victoria Knight. She would like us to correct this error ASAP.

2000 Corrections:

Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000

My son just sent me an e-mail saying that your catalogue lists my horror novels, The Witching and The Spawning, under my name but states that this is a pseudonym for James Fritzhand. "Are you not who you say you are?" he asks.

My birth certificate reads "Fritzen Ravenswood," and I've never heard of James Fritzhand, who might be as surprised by this as I am. Unfortunately, I don't know how to get around online well enough to check this out for myself, but I'm willing to take my son's word for this peculiar situation.

Do clear it up, though, won't you?

Fritzen Ravenswood

Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000
From: "Waugh, Randy"

I would like to open by saying thank you for listing Evening Song and Mind Surfing by Gillosa Uaugh as Books Received in the November 2000 issue.

There were errors in the listings (arising from information on my copyright page) I would appreciate if you could note the following corrections to these errors in the upcoming issue.

1. Mind Surfing should show a copyright date of c 1999
2. Evening Song should show a copyright date of c 2000
3. The *official* address of the website should be: http://www.cyberus.ca/~gilliosa
4. These books can be purchased directly from the publisher at P.O. Box 77008, Ottawa South RPO, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5N2 or Amazon.com, or locally in Ottawa at Basilisk Dreams Books at 857B Bank Street.

Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000
From: "Peter Ryan"

The contents page for CYBERSEX (ed. Richard Glyn Jones) has an incorrect page reference for Pat Murphy's 'Love and Sex among the Invertebrates' (it should be p.160, not p.171) and omits the story 'A Coney Island of the Mind' by Maureen F McHugh (which IS on p.171).

Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000
From: Amanda Cockrell

I just discovered that you have my name, Amanda Cockrell, listed in your index as a "pseudonym" of Amanda Cockrell Crowe. **Please** change this. Crowe was my former married name. I divorced my ex ten years ago, and in any case I never wrote using that name. My full legal name is Amanda Cockrell, which is my maiden name, and it is **not** a pseudonym. If I sound touchy about this, I apologize, but it's a bit of a sore point to find a web page listing my ex-husband's name as the "real" name and my own as a pseudonym. **Many** thanks!

Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000
From: "Nicholas Grabowsky"

Maybe it's because at the moment I've nothing better to do, but I noticed in your index of science fiction books and authors you have Nicholas Grabowsky (Halloween IV) as a pseudonym for Nicholas Randers (Pray, Serpent's Prey). It should be the other way around, as Nicholas Randers was indeed my pen name.

Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000
From: "Peter Ryan"

The contents page for NEBULA AWARDS 27 misses out Nancy Kress's 'Beggars in Spain' (p243).

Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000
From: Jacques Wong

just wanted you to know that my copy of 999 : New Stories of Horror and Suspense from AVON (ISBN 0-380-97740-0) list the first story by Kim Newman as 'Amerikanski Dead at the Moscow Morgue' and not 'Amerikanski Dead at the Moscow Institute'

Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000

I am thrilled to be included, but I should point out that my date of birth is in fact 1966 not 1967.

Thank you

Renny Willins

Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000
From: "TIM WHITE"

I came across the part of your website concerning SF/F artists, and noticed I was listed (thanks!). However, there were a couple of errors. You have me listed as having two middle names, this is not correct, and probably stems from the Clute SF encyclopaedia who had me listed as the same. Just plain Tim White would be fine, although I thought the two middle names sounded rather nice! Also, the only book in the 'Chung Kuo' series by David Wingrove I have illustrated is -'WHITE MOON, RED DRAGON' ( book 6 ). Even if I am listed on the cover of the book you mention - this was not mine, unless something was used without my permission!

Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000
From: Leslie Gadallah

The listing for me indicates Anne Payne as a pseudonym. Anne Payne is my mother's name, and I've never used it for any other purpose. I don't know how it got to be here, but I'd appreciate a correction.

Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000

You have the story "Full Circle Bounty" listed incorrectly at http://www.locusmag.com/index/s278.html#A4064.3 The story is listed as:

DAWSON, JAMES (1910- )
Do You Dream in Silver?, (ss) The Ultimate Silver Surfer, ed. Stan Lee, Boulevard, 1995
The Dream Machine, (ss) Cavalier Jan '91
Full Circle Bounty (with John Miller), (ss) Midnight Zoo v3 #11 '93
Intensive Care, (ss) Oui Mar '91
One for the Road, (ss) The Ultimate Super-Villains, ed. Stan Lee, Boulevard, 1996
Read Me, (ss) Gent Holiday issue, 1992

This is not the correct author. I wrote this along with John Miller, along with "The Soarhawk", "Black Dugal's Music Shoppe", and "The Sapient Sorcerer" all of which appeared in Polyhedron. Please correct the listing, which should read:

DAWSON, JAMES (1946-)
Full Circle Bounty (with John Miller), (ss) Midnight Zoo v3 #11 '93

Thank you for your assistance.

Jim Dawson

Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000
From: Bob Strauss

In your entry for Robert W, Walker's Aftershock, you have two errors. First, the mutant is not headless (the victims are) and second, the mutant does not "eat Hollywood."

Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000
From: "Neal Asher"

Just a quick note to let you know that I've been looking through your index and have to point out that the two stories listed for 'Neil Asher' are listed under a misspelling of my name. You also might like to know that I've recently been signed to Pan Macmillan for a three book contract and the first book'll be out March the 31st 2001. The title will be Gridlinked.

Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000
From: "Susan Sauber"

In the 1984-1998 Locus index, while Mark Alan Arnold is spelled correctly in his listing, when you search for each of the stories anthologized in Elsewhere, Vol.3, they are each credited to:
"Elsewhere v3 ed Terri Windling & Mark Allan Arnold". Allan should be corrected to Alan in each entry.

Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000
From: Edward P. Berglund

HOSKINS, DABNY

A Talk with Peter Cannon, (iv) Crypt of Cthulhu #90 '95

Dabny Hoskins is a pseudonym of Peter H. Cannon

Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000
From: "Bruce Larson"

I recently found that I was included in the Locus Index Of Science Fiction, 1999. I was quite thrilled to appear there with many of my colleagues. I do have a correction I would like to bring to your attention. This is not an error committed by yourself. Instead, the editors of Millennium SF&F misspelled my name as LARSEN. I am listed under the misnomer for the story "Southern Sun" that appeared in print in Millennium SF&F Vol. 2, Issue 3, Fall 1999. However, I am actually Bruce S. LARSON. I realize your source was in error, certainly not yourself.

Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000
From: Rob Wood

I was browsing your list of cover artists and was pleased to see my name included. For clarification, the credit given to Ron Wood and Rob Stansbury Wood is a mistake. I illustrated those covers also.

Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000
From: "Rob Gerrand"

Please note that I edited Transmutations, published by Outback Press, Melbourne Australia, 1979, a collection of original Australian science fiction.

I also wrote the science fiction novel Fortress, Bookman Press, Melbourne Australia, 1993, based on the movie of the same name.

Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000
From: Dave Smeds

In perusing the on-line Index to 1984-98 works, I noticed an incorrect spelling of an author name. Joel Richard Fruchtman, who writes under the pseudonym of Joel Richards, has no "s" on his real middle name. The "s" should only be on the pseudonym.

1998 Additions:

Current index for 1998 books and magazines.

Pre-1998 Additions:

Corrections:

Notes:

Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998
From: Ernesto Vegetti

Dear Contento,
I've received last week the two CD.
I'd some problem with custom and I wait a week longer to see them.
The combined edition is very useful.

I send you some notes.

Best regards

Ernesto

CALVINO
Numbers in the Dark (Pantheon 0-679-44205-7, Nov '95 [Dec '95], $24.00, 277pp, hc) Collection of fables, tales, fragments, and dialogues, many never published before, and few previously collected. Translated by Tim Parks from Primal che tu dira "Pronto" (Mondadori Milan 1993). First US edition (Jonathan Cape UK 1995).
The exact title is: Prima che tu dica "Pronto"

ALDANI
Red Rhombuses, (nv) "Screziato di rosso" Robot Speciale #4 '77
S Is for Snake, (ss) "S come serpente" Urania #1021, apr. 27, 1986 [english edition is the first edition]

BIO
Martin HOCKE (1938*)
Luigi COZZI (1947*)
Luigi DE PASCALIS (1943*)
Renato PESTRINIERO (1933*)

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