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Kings in Hell C. J. Cherryh & Janet Morris (Baen 0-671-65614-7, Feb ’87 [Jan ’87], $3.95, 377pp, pb) [Heroes in Hell] Fantasy novel in the “Heroes in Hell” series. Alexander, Caesar, Cleopatra, and others refight the Trojan War.
Merovingen Nights #2: Fever Season ed. C. J. Cherryh (DAW 0-88677-224-9, Oct ’87 [Sep ’87], $3.50, 297pp, pb) [Merovingen Nights] Shared world original anthology, second in the series. C.J. Cherryh writes all the connections between the stories, weaving them into a quasi-novel.

11 · Fever Season · C. J. Cherryh · ss *
29 · Hearts and Minds · Chris Morris · nv *
59 · Fever Season (reprised) · C. J. Cherryh · ms *
71 · A Plague on Your Houses · Mercedes R. Lackey · nv *
105 · Fever Season (reprised) · C. J. Cherryh · ms *
109 · War of the Unseen Worlds · Leslie Fish · nv *
139 · Fever Season (reprised) · C. J. Cherryh · ms *
149 · Night Ride · Nancy Asire · nv *
179 · Fever Season (reprised) · C. J. Cherryh · ms *
193 · Life Assurance · Lynn Abbey · nv *
231 · Fever Season (final reprise) · C. J. Cherryh · ms *
241 · Instant Karma · Janet Morris · nv *
271 · Fever Season (Lyrics) · Mercedes R. Lackey · sg *
271 · Fever Season (Music) · C. J. Cherryh · sg *
273 · Mist-Thoughts (Lyrics) · Mercedes R. Lackey · sg *
273 · Mist-Thoughts (Music) · C. J. Cherryh · sg *
275 · Partners (Lyrics) · Mercedes R. Lackey · sg *
275 · Partners (Music) · C. J. Cherryh · sg *
277 · Index to City Maps · Misc. · ix
280 · Merovingian City Maps · Pat Tobin · il
285 · Merovan Ecology · Misc. · ms *
298 · Merovan Sea Floor and Hemispheric Maps · Pat Tobin · il
Merovingen Nights: Festival Moon ed. C. J. Cherryh (DAW 0-88677-192-7, Apr ’87 [Mar ’87], $3.50, 300pp, pb) [Merovingen Nights] Shared-world sf original anthology based on the background of Cherryh’s Angel with the Sword.

15 · Festival Moon · C. J. Cherryh · ss *
28 · First Night Cruise · Leslie Fish · nv *
66 · Festival Moon (reprised) · C. J. Cherryh · vi *
71 · Two Gentlemen of the Trade · Robert Lynn Asprin · ss *
85 · Festival Moon (reprised) · C. J. Cherryh · vi *
89 · Cat’s Tale · Nancy Asire · nv *
114 · Festival Moon (reprised) · C. J. Cherryh · vi *
118 · Deathangel · Mercedes R. Lackey · nv *
150 · Festival Moon (reprised) · C. J. Cherryh · vi *
153 · Sword Play · Janet & Chris Morris · na *
213 · Festival Moon (reprised) · C. J. Cherryh · vi *
217 · First-Bath · Lynn Abbey · nv *
253 · Festival Moon (reprised) · C. J. Cherryh · vi *
255 · Night Action · Chris Morris · ss *
270 · Festival Moon (final reprise) · C. J. Cherryh · vi *
277 · Sea Floor Maps · Pat Tobin · il *
280 · Merovingen Ecology · Mercedes R. Lackey · ms *
287 · Index to City Maps · Misc. · ix
290 · Merovingian City Maps and Merovin Hemispheric Maps · Pat Tobin · il *
297 · Guardian · Leslie Fish · sg *
299 · Black Water (Suicide) [lyrics] · Mercedes R. Lackey · sg *
299 · Black Water (Suicide) [music] · C. J. Cherryh · sg *
300 · Private Conversation [lyrics] · Mercedes R. Lackey · sg *
300 · Private Conversation [music] · C. J. Cherryh · sg *
The Beasts of Valhalla George C. Chesbro (Dell 0-440-10484-X, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $3.95, 327pp, pb) [Dr. Robert Frederickson (Mongo)] Reprint (Atheneum 1985) sf/mystery novel in the “Mongo” series, with our dwarf detective thrown into a manufactured Lord of the Rings.
The Golden Child George C. Chesbro (Futura 0-7088-3269-5, Jan ’87, £2.50, 205pp, pb) Reprint (Pocket 1986) novelization of film with fantasy elements. [First U.K. edition]
The Golden Child George C. Chesbro (Severn House 0-7278-1447-8, Apr ’87, £8.95, 208pp, hc) Reprint (Pocket 1986) novelization of fantasy film. [Not seen]
Shadow of a Broken Man George C. Chesbro (Dell 0-440-17761-8, Dec ’87 [Nov ’87], $3.50, 252pp, pb) [Dr. Robert Frederickson (Mongo)] Reprint (Simon & Schuster 1977) mystery novel with fantasy elements; first in the “Mongo the Dwarf” series.
Veil George C. Chesbro (Mysterious Press 0-445-40523-6, Sep ’87 [Aug ’87], $3.95, 228pp, pb) [Veil Kendry] Reprint (Mysterious Press 1986) mystery novel of a parapsychic spy.
The Shores of the Near Past Michael Chester (School Street Press 0-939105-50-0, 1986 [Feb ’87], 181pp, hc) Young-adult sf time travel novel. This appeared in 1986, but we did not see it until 1987.
The Essential G.K. Chesterton G. K. Chesterton (Oxford University Press 0-19-282056-7, May ’87, £5.95, 489pp, tp) Reprint (Bodley Head 1985) collection of stories including some fantasy, edited by P.J. Kavanagh.
The Man Who Was Thursday G. K. Chesterton (Dover 0-486-25121-7, Jun ’86 [Jan ’87], $4.95, 120pp, tp) Reprint (Dodd, Mead 1908) fantasy novel. Published in 1986; missed.
The Man Who Was Thursday G. K. Chesterton (Lythway Large Print 0-7451-0603-X, Oct ’87 [Dec ’87], £8.95, 286pp, hc) Reprint (Dodd, Mead 1908) fantasy novel.
Out of the Dark World Grace Chetwin (NAL/Signet 0-451-15148-8, Jan ’88 [Dec ’87], $2.50, 154pp, pb) Reprint (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1985) juvenile fantasy novel.
The Riddle and the Rune Grace Chetwin (Macmillan Bradbury 0-02-718312-2, Sep ’87 [Oct ’87], $13.95, 257pp, hc) [Gom] Young-adult fantasy quest novel, first in a new trilogy featuring Gom, a boy with a strange destiny and the hero of Gom on Windy Mountain, a prequel to the trilogy.
Dracula’s Children R. Chetwynd-Hayes (Kimber 0-7183-0649-X, May ’87, £8.95, 208pp, hc) Original collection of vampire stories.

19 · Irma · nv *
63 · Rudolph · nv *
85 · Zena · nv *
125 · Cuthbert · nv *
153 · Marcus · nv *
187 · Benjamin · nv *
The House of Dracula R. Chetwynd-Hayes (Kimber 0-7183-0668-6, Oct ’87, £9.50, 206pp, hc) Original horror collection.

6 · Draculain Genealogical Table · ms
9 · Introduction · in
13 · Caroline · na *
77 · Marikova · nv *
123 · Karl · nv *
155 · Gilbert · nv *
183 · Louis · nv *
Tales of the Dark ed. Lincoln Child (St. Martin’s 0-312-90339-1, Jul ’87 [Jun ’87], $3.50, 184pp, pb) Anthology of 10 horror stories.

vii · Introduction · Lincoln Child · in
1 · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine Sep, 1839
19 · The Signalman · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas, 1866
33 · Green Tea [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv All the Year Round Oct 23-Nov 13, 1869
63 · The Squaw · Bram Stoker · ss Holly Leaves Dec 2, 1893
75 · Markheim · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss The Broken Shaft: Unwin’s Annual for 1886, ed. Sir Henry Norman, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1885; EQMM Jul ’55
91 · The Upper Berth · F. Marion Crawford · nv The Broken Shaft: Unwin’s Annual for 1886, ed. Sir Henry Norman, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1885
113 · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
129 · “They” · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribner’s Aug ’04
152 · The Yellow Sign · Robert W. Chambers · nv The King in Yellow, New York & Chicago: F. Tennyson Neely, 1895
172 · The Voice in the Night · William Hope Hodgson · ss Blue Book Nov ’07
Tales of the Dark 2 ed. Lincoln Child (St. Martin’s 0-312-90769-9, Sep ’87 [Aug ’87], $3.50, 181pp, pb) Anthology of 9 late-19th and early-20th-century supernatural stories.

vii · Introduction · Lincoln Child · in
1 · The Dead Hand · Wilkie Collins · nv Household Words Oct 10, 1857; originally published as “The Double-Bedded Room,” part of Chapter 2 of “The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices”, Household Words, Oct. 3-31, 1857 and Harper’s Weekly Oct. 31-Nov. 28, 1857, a collaboration with Charles Dickens.
28 · The Damned Thing · Ambrose Bierce · ss Tales from New York Town Topics Dec 7, 1893; Weird Tales Sep ’23
39 · Man-Size in Marble [1886] · E. Nesbit · ss Grim Tales, London: Innes, 1893
56 · The Leather Funnel · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss McClure’s Nov ’02
71 · Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance · M. R. James · nv More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Arnold, 1911
103 · The Novel of the White Powder · Arthur Machen · ss The Three Impostors, John Lane, 1895
124 · The Flowering of the Strange Orchid · H. G. Wells · ss Pall Mall Budget Aug 2, 1894
134 · The Empty House [Jim Shorthouse] · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Empty House, Eveleigh Nash, 1906
155 · Benlian · Oliver Onions · nv The Fortnightly Review Jan ’11
178 · A Note on the Authors · Misc. · bg
Worm Simon Ian Childer (Grafton 0-586-06945-3, May ’87, £2.50, 189pp, pb) Horror novel. This is a pseudonym for John Brosnan & Leroy Kettle.
The Dream Auditor Lesley Choyce (Ragweed Press/Indivisible Books 0-920304-63-X, 1986 [Feb ’87], C$9.95, 87pp, tp) Very short story collection of 10 sf stories, 6 of them original. This small press edition has a 1986 copyright date, but we did not see it until now.

9 · The Dream Auditor · ss *
13 · The Day the Nurk Field Collapsed · ss *
25 · Buddha at the Laundromat · ss The New Quarterly Sum ’82
28 · Privileged Information · ss *
34 · Thanotopolis Revisited · ss *
44 · The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer · ss Orion v1 #2 ’82
51 · Beaverbrook in Love · ss Potboiler Spr/Sum ’83
59 · Princess Thirty Moonbeams and the Hard Luck Bargaining Kit · ss *
63 · Boylan Briggs Salutes the New Cause · ss The Lunatic Gazette Dec ’82
73 · Renaissance Man · ss *
C.S. Lewis Joe R. Christopher (G.K. Hall/Twayne 0-8057-6944-7, Apr ’87, $16.95, 150pp, hc) Non-fiction, critical study which concentrates on the fantasy novels. [C. S. Lewis]
City of Gold and Lead John Christopher (Puffin 0-14-031685-X, Mar ’87, £1.75, 159pp, pb) [Tripods] Reissue (Hamish Hamilton 1967) juvenile sf novel. Volume 2 in the “Tripods” series. This is a pseudonym for C.S. Youd.
The White Mountains John Christopher (Puffin 0-14-031684-1, Mar ’87, £1.75, 155pp, pb) [Tripods] Reissue (Hamish Hamilton 1967) juvenile sf novel. Volume 1 in the “Tripods” series. This is a pseudonym for C.S. Youd.
Beyond that River Paul Christopher (Pal Books 3-925942-00-9, Nov ’87 [Dec ’87], £4.95, 288pp, pb) Original horror collection.

5 · Once Upon a Chair · nv *
37 · Sunday Special · ss *
45 · Bobbie · nv *
73 · Little White Mongrel · ss *
83 · For the Love of Mother · ss *
95 · Dora · ss *
111 · A Bottle on the Beach · ss *
125 · The Purple Hour · ss *
137 · Masters of the Void · ss *
149 · Pyramids · ss *
159 · To Be Blind · ss *
169 · Beyond That River · ss *
185 · Waiting for Sunlight · ss *
195 · Hermione Gould · nv *
233 · Mushrooms · nv *
285 · In the Tube · vi *
Galactic Chronicles Paul Christopher (Pal Books 3-925942-02-5, Nov ’87, £2.50, 128pp, pb) Sf novel. [Not seen]
Cry Wolf Alan B. Chronister (Zebra 0-8217-2094-5, Jun ’87 [May ’87], $3.95, 320pp, pb) Horror novel.
Shadow Child Joseph Citro (Zebra 0-8217-2117-8, Jul ’87 [Jun ’87], $3.95, 366pp, pb) [Shadow Child] Horror novel.
Red Storm Rising Tom Clancy (Collins 0-00-223078-X, Jan ’87, £10.95, 652pp, hc) Near future thriller about war with Russia. [First U.K. edition]
FirstFlight Chris Claremont (Ace 0-441-23584-0, Dec ’87, $2.95, 243pp, pb) [FirstFlight] Sf space opera novel, a first novel by a famed comic writer.
The Uncanny X-Men et al Chris Claremont (Marvel Comics 0-939766-96-5, 1987 [Nov ’87], $6.95, 185pp, tp) Graphic novel made up of issues #129-137 of the comic book series, with full-color illustrations.
Frederik Pohl Thomas D. Clareson (Starmont House 0-930261-33-X, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $9.95, 173pp, tp) Non-fiction, critical study. [Frederik Pohl]
Wild Man of the Woods Joan Clark (Viking Kestrel 0-670-80015-5, May ’86 [Feb ’87], $11.95, 171pp, hc) Young-adult fantasy novel of Indian masks that give a boy the spirits’ powers. This appeared in 1986, but we did not see it until now. It’s the first U.S. edition of a 1985 release from Penguin-Canada.
The Cradle will Fall Mary Higgins Clark (Fontana 0-00-617086-2, Sep ’87, £2.95, 286pp, pb) Reissue (Collins 1980) horror novel.
A Cry in the Night Mary Higgins Clark (Fontana 0-00-616654-7, Aug ’87 [Sep ’87], £2.95, 295pp, pb) Reissue (Simon & Schuster 1982) horror novel.
A Stranger is Watching Mary Higgins Clark (Fontana 0-00-617188-5, Aug ’87 [Sep ’87], £2.50, 222pp, pb) Reissue (Collins 1978) horror novel.
Where are the Children? Mary Higgins Clark (Fontana 0-00-616127-8, Sep ’87, £2.50, 176pp, pb) Reissue (Talmy Franklin 1975) horror novel.
2001: A Space Odyssey/The City and the Stars/The Deep Range/A Fall of Moondust/Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke (Octopus/Heinemann 0-905712-82-X, 1987 [Nov ’87], $11.98, 747pp, hc) Omnibus edition of the above titles. First U.S. edition.

7 · 2001: A Space Odyssey [Space Odyssey] · n. New York: New American Library, 1968
139 · The City and the Stars · n. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1956; revised and expanded from Against the Fall of Night (Gnome 1953).
305 · The Deep Range · n. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1957; expanded from “The Deep Range”, Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3, 1954.
449 · A Fall of Moondust · n. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1961
601 · Rendezvous with Rama [Rama] · n. London: Gollancz, 1973
2061: Odyssey Three Arthur C. Clarke (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-35173-8, Jan ’88 [Nov ’87], $17.95, 279pp, hc) [Space Odyssey] Sf novel, sequel to 2010: Odyssey Two.
Childhood’s End Arthur C. Clarke (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34795-1, Jan ’88 [Dec ’87], $3.50, 218pp, pb) [Impact] Reissue (Ballantine 1953) sf novel; 55th printing. One of the classics of sf. Highly recommended. (CNB)
The City and the Stars Arthur C. Clarke (NAL/Signet 0-451-14822-3, May ’87 [Apr ’87], $3.50, 256pp, pb) Reissue (Harcourt Brace 1956) sf novel, with a new introduction by the author.
The Deep Range Arthur C. Clarke (NAL/Signet 0-451-14753-7, Apr ’87 [Mar ’87], $3.50, 254pp, pb) Reprint (Harcourt Brace 1957) sf novel with a new introduction by the author; 11th printing.
Dolphin Island Arthur C. Clarke (Ace 0-441-15220-1, Dec ’87 [Nov ’87], $2.95, 188pp, pb) Reprint (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1963) young-adult sf novel.
Expedition to Earth Arthur C. Clarke (Sidgwick & Jackson/NEL 0-283-98623-9, Jan ’87, £1.95, 175pp, pb) Reissue (Ballantine 1953) sf collection.
A Fall of Moondust Arthur C. Clarke (Gollancz 0-575-03978-7, Feb ’87, £3.50, 224pp, tp) Reprint (Harcourt, Brace & World 1961) sf novel. Volume 9 of the Gollancz Classic SF series.
A Fall of Moondust Arthur C. Clarke (NAL/Signet 0-451-14717-0, Mar ’87 [Feb ’87], $3.50, 254pp, pb) Reissue (Harcourt Brace & World 1961) sf novel with a new introduction by the author. Tenth NAL printing.
Glide Path Arthur C. Clarke (NAL/Signet 0-451-14866-5, Sep ’87 [Aug ’87], $3.50, 252pp, pb) Reissue (Harcourt Brace 1963), 9th NAL printing. Non-sf, associational, a novel of WWII and the first use of radar. New intro by Clarke.
Islands in the Sky Arthur C. Clarke (NAL/Signet 0-451-14895-9, Jul ’87, $3.50, 256pp, pb) Reissue (Winston 1952) young-adult sf novel, 15th printing; has a new introduction by Clarke.
The Lion of Comarre & Against the Fall of Night Arthur C. Clarke (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-652517-8, Aug ’87 [Jul ’87], $9.95, 214pp, tp) Reprint (Harcourt Brace & World 1968) omnibus edition of 2 novels.
The Nine Billion Names of God Arthur C. Clarke (NAL/Signet 0-451-14755-3, Mar ’87, $3.50, 253pp, pb) Reissue (Harcourt Brace World 1967) collection with a new introduction by the author; 11th Signet printing.
The Other Side of the Sky Arthur C. Clarke (Gollancz 0-575-03988-4, May ’87, £2.95, 245pp, pb) Reprint (Harcourt Brace 1958) sf collection. Contains a new introduction by Clarke.
The Other Side of the Sky Arthur C. Clarke (NAL/Signet 0-451-14937-8, Aug ’87 [Jul ’87], $4.50, 254pp, pb) Reissue (Harcourt Brace 1958) collection, 13th printing.
Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-35056-1, Jan ’88 [Dec ’87], $3.50, 274pp, pb) [Rama] Reissue (Gollancz 1973) sf novel, winner of both the Hugo and Nebula; 20th printing.
The Sands of Mars Arthur C. Clarke (NAL/Signet 0-451-14790-1, Mar ’87 [Feb ’87], $3.50, 246pp, pb) Reissue (Sidgwick & Jackson 1951) sf novel with the 1967 introduction by the author; 10th Signet printing. Clarke’s 35-year-old vision of Mars is still evocative, mostly undated, and a classic. Highly recommended. (CNB)
The Songs of Distant Earth Arthur C. Clarke (Grafton Overseas 0-586-06623-3, 1986 [Apr ’87], £2.50, 238pp, pb) Reprint (Del Rey 1986) sf novel. Special “open market” edition.
The Songs of Distant Earth Arthur C. Clarke (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-32240-1, May ’87 [Apr ’87], $4.95, 319pp, pb) Reprint (Del Rey 1986) sf novel.
The Songs of Distant Earth Arthur C. Clarke (Grafton 0-586-06623-3, Aug ’87, £2.50, 238pp, pb) Reprint (Del Rey 1986) sf novel.
Tales of Ten Worlds Arthur C. Clarke (NAL/Signet 0-451-14978-5, Jun ’87 [May ’87], $3.50, 252pp, pb) Reissue (Harcourt Brace & World 1962) collection, with a new introduction by Clarke. 11th printing.
The Wind from the Sun Arthur C. Clarke (NAL/Signet 0-451-14754-5, Mar ’87 [Feb ’87], $3.50, 244pp, pb) A slightly revised edition (3 new vignettes plus a new introduction) of the earlier collection (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1972). Even NAL doesn’t really consider it a new book, and lists it as the 9th printing of the earlier work. Nevertheless, Clarke completists should note the three new “stories.”

vii · Preface · pr
ix · Introduction to the 1987 Edition · in
1 · The Food of the Gods · ss Playboy May ’64
7 · Maelstrom II · ss Playboy Apr ’65
27 · The Shining Ones · ss Playboy Aug ’64
50 · The Wind from the Sun [“Sunjammer”] · nv Boys’ Life Mar ’64
77 · The Secret [“The Secret of the Men in the Moon”] · ss This Week Aug 11 ’63
85 · The Last Command · vi Bizarre! Mystery Magazine Nov ’65
88 · Dial “F” for Frankenstein · ss Playboy Jan ’65
97 · Reunion · vi Infinity #2, ed. Robert Hoskins, Lancer, 1971
100 · Playback · ss Playboy Dec ’66
104 · The Light of Darkness · ss Playboy Jun ’66
113 · The Longest Science-Fiction Story Ever Told [“A Recursion in Metastories”] · vi Galaxy Oct ’66
115 · Herbert George Morley Roberts Wells, Esq. · ed If Dec ’67
119 · Love That Universe · ss Escapade, 1967
124 · Crusade · ss The Farthest Reaches, ed. Joseph Elder, Trident, 1968
131 · The Cruel Sky · nv Boys’ Life Jul ’67 (+1)
157 · The Neutron Tide · vi Galaxy May ’70
160 · Transit of Earth · ss Playboy Jan ’71
179 · A Meeting with Medusa · nv Playboy Dec ’71
240 · When the Twerms Came · vi Playboy May ’72
242 · Quarantine · vi IASFM Spr ’77
244 · siseneG · vi Analog May ’84
Arthur C. Clarke’s July 20, 2019 ed. Arthur C. Clarke (Grafton 0-246-12980-8, Apr ’87 [Mar ’87], £14.95, 282pp, hc) Reprint (Macmillan 1986) non-fiction of associational interest. A look at a day in the life of the 21st Century. Clarke contributes an Introduction and Afterword and did some editing, the remainder is by assorted Omni editors. [First U.K. edition]

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