The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2000

Books, Listed by Author

FEIST, RAYMOND E(lias) (stories) (chron.) (continued)

• * _Krondor: The Assassins (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-224700-3, Mar 2000, £10.99, 352pp, tp, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Riftwar Legacy] Reprint (Voyager 1999) fantasy novel, book two of “The Riftwar Legacy”, based on the CD-ROM game, Betrayal at Krondor.
• * _Krondor: The Assassins (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-648335-6, Sep 2000, £5.99, 352pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Riftwar Legacy] Reprint (Voyager 1999) fantasy novel. Volume Six in the “Serpentwar Saga”. Book II of the “Riftwar Legacy”.
• * _Krondor: The Assassins (HarperTorch 0-380-80323-2, Nov 2000, $6.99, 350pp, pb, cover by Liz Kenyon) [Riftwar Legacy] Reprint (Voyager 1999) fantasy novel, book two of “The Riftwar Legacy”, based on the CD-ROM game, Betrayal at Krondor.
• * _Krondor: The Betrayal (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-648334-8, Nov ’99, £6.99, 418pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Riftwar Legacy] Reprint (Avon Eos; Voyager 1998) fantasy novel. Volume five in the “Serpentwar Saga”. Book I of the “Riftwar Legacy”.
• * _Krondor: The Betrayal (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-648334-8, Nov ’99, £6.99, 418pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Riftwar Legacy] Reprint (Avon Eos; Voyager 1998) fantasy novel. Book I of the Riftwar Legacy.
• * _Mistress of the Empire (with Janny Wurts) (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-586-20379-6, Nov 2000, £7.99, 860pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Riftwar: Empire] Reissue (Doubleday Foundation; HarperCollins UK 1992) fantasy novel, third in the “Empire” trilogy. Fifth printing.
• * _Servant of the Empire (with Janny Wurts) (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-586-20381-8, Nov 2000, £7.99, 837pp, pb) [Riftwar: Empire] Reissue (Doubleday Foundation 1990) fantasy novel. Second in the “Empire” trilogy. 11th printing.

FELL, ALISON (chron.)

• * _The Mistress of Lilliput, or, The Pursuit (Transworld/Anchor UK 1-862-30048-8, Jan 2000, £6.99, 351pp, tp, cover by Paul Aston) Reprint (Doubleday UK 1999) recursive literary fantasy novel.

FENNER, ARNIE, ed. (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _Spectrum 6: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art (with Cathy Fenner) See entry under Cathy Fenner.
• * _Spectrum 7: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art (with Cathy Fenner) See entry under Cathy Fenner.

FENNER, CATHY, ed. (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _Spectrum 6: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art (with Arnie Fenner) (SFBC #05277, Nov ’99, $19.98, 167+xiii, hc, cover by Donato Giancola) Reprint (Underwood 1999) art book. This has plain bindings where the Underwood had art printed on the cover; the jacket lacks both price and SFBC number.
• * *Spectrum 7: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art (with Arnie Fenner) (Underwood Books 1-887424-55-5, Oct 2000, $27.50, 198pp, tp, cover by Cliff Nielsen) Art book. Seventh in a series of yearbooks of professional fantasy art, with full-color reproductions of over 200 pieces chosen by a jury. Arnie Fenner provides a discussion of the year in review. A hardcover edition (-54-7, $35.00) is also available.

FERLOSIO, RAFAEL SÁNCHEZ (chron.)

• * *Adventures of the Ingenious Alfanhui (Dedalus 1-873982-59-3, Nov 2000, £8.99, 199pp, tp, cover by Jean Corbechon & David Bird) Literary fantasy novel, translated by Margaret Jull Costa from the Spanish original (1951). A worldwide edition available from SCB Distributors, California, for $13.99.

FERMAN, EDWARD L(ewis), ed. (1937- ) (chron.)

• * _The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology (with Gordon Van Gelder) (Tor 0-312-86974-6, Sep 2000, $15.95, 381pp, tp) Reprint (Tor 1999) anthology of stories that appeared in the magazine from 1994-98.

FILIPAK, CHRISTINE, ed. (stories) (chron.)

• * _Tales from the Dark Tower (with Joseph Vargo) See entry under Joseph Vargo.

FINCH, PAUL (stories) (chron.)

• * *The Dark Satanic... (Enigmatic Press no ISBN, Jan ’99, £4.00, 61pp, ph, cover by Gerald Gaubert) Chapbook original collection of “two terror tales from the north of England.” This has ISSN 1464-1461. Enigmatic press, 1 Gibbs Field, Bishops Stortford, Herts CM23 4EY England; www.epress.force9.co.uk
• * *The Shadow’s Beneath (Enigmatic Press 0-9537476-1-1, Apr 2000, £4.00, 80pp, ph, cover by Gerald Gaubert) Original collection of three supernatural stories, one a reprint. Volume three in the “Enigmatic Variations” series. (Contents)

FINDLEY, TIMOTHY (Irving Frederick) (1930-2002) (chron.)

• * +Pilgrim (HarperCollins 0-06-019197-X, Jan 2000, $25.00, 486pp, hc, cover by Honi Werner) Fantasy novel. A suicidal, self-proclaimed immortal gets psychological counseling from Carl Jung. First US edition (HarperFlamingo Canada 1999).
• * _Pilgrim (Faber and Faber 0-571-20268-3, May 2000, £10.99, 486pp, tp) Reprint (HarperCollins Canada 1999) literary fantasy novel. An immortal is psychoanalysed by Carl Jung after a 1912 suicide attempt. [First U.K. edition]

FINE, ANNE (1947- ) (chron.)

• * *Bad Dreams (Random House/Delacorte 0-385-32757-9, Jun 2000, $15.95, 133pp, hc, cover by Mel Grant) Young-adult fantasy novel. A girl tries to “free” a friend from magic that lets her experience what’s in a book without reading it.

FIRTH, VIOLET M(ary) (1890-1946); see pseudonym Dion Fortune (stories) (chron.)

FISHER, CATHERINE (chron.)

• * *Flain’s Coronet (The Bodley Head 0-370-32602-4, Feb 2000, £10.99, 234pp, hc, cover by Richard Jones) [Book of the Crow] Young-adult SF/fantasy novel, volume three of “The Book of the Crow”.
• * _The Interrex (Red Fox 0-09-926394-7, Feb 2000, £3.99, 213pp, pb) [Book of the Crow] Reprint (The Bodley Head 1999) young-adult fantasy/SF novel, volume two of “The Book of the Crow”.
• * *The Lammas Field (Hodder Silver 0-340-73699-2, Jan 2000, £4.99, 172pp, pb, cover by Andrew Potter) Young-adult fantasy novel.

FISK, NICHOLAS; pseudonym of David Higginbottom, (1923- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * _Monster Maker (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-74992-X, Oct ’99, £3.99, 156pp, pb, cover by Paul Young) Reprint (Pelham Books 1979) young-adult fantasy novel.

FISK, PAULINE (1948- ) (chron.)

• * _The Candle House (Red Fox 0-09-960071-4, Jul 2000, £4.99, 264pp, pb) Reprint (The Bodley Head 1999) young-adult fantasy novel of parallel lives, fate, and identity.

FLEMING, GHERBOD; pseudonym of John H. Steele (stories) (chron.)

• * *World of Darkness: Brujah (White Wolf 1-56504-825-3, Apr 2000, $5.99, 278pp, tp, cover by John Van Fleet) [World of Darkness: Clan] Novelization of the “Clan”, based on the role-playing games. Copyrighted by White Wolf.
• * *World of Darkness: Nosferatu (White Wolf 1-56504-835-0, Sep 2000, $5.99, 286pp, tp, cover by John Van Fleet) [World of Darkness: Clan] Novelization of the “Clan”, based on the role-playing games. Copyrighted by White Wolf.

FLETCHER, JANE (chron.)

• * *The World Celaeno Chose (The Dimsdale Press 0-9523625-3-8, Dec ’99, $16.95, 349pp, tp, cover by Barbara Taylor) SF novel of a world without men, and an “imprinter” unwillingly sequestered to protect her psychic skills that make reproduction possible. Originally published in the UK, this is available in the US from Firebird Distributing, 2030 First Street, Unit 5, Eureka CA 95501; 800-353-3575.

FLIEGER, VERLYN, ed. (1933- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Tolkien’s Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-Earth (with Carl F. Hostetter) (Greenwood Press 0-313-30530-7, Jan 2000, $59.95, 274 + xvi, hc) Non-fiction anthology of critical essays on the mythic and philosophical background of Tolkien’s major works. Order from Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Box 5007, Westport CT 06881; credit card orders: 800-225-5800. [Tolkien]

FLINT, ERIC (1947- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *1632 (Baen 0-671-57849-9, Feb 2000, $24.00, 504pp, hc, cover by Larry Elmore) [1632] SF novel. Deer-hunting coal miners are transported back to 1632 Germany and introduce American-style freedom and justice.
• * _1632 (SFBC #10650, Jul 2000, $11.98, 504pp, hc, cover by Larry Elmore) [1632] Reprint (Baen 2000) SF novel of American coal miners transported to 1632 Germany. This is similar to the Baen edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Destiny’s Shield (with David A. Drake) (Baen 0-671-57872-3, Jun 2000, $6.99, 568pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Belisarius] Reprint (Baen 1999) historical/alternate world SF novel, third in the series featuring Byzantine general Belisarius vs. the alien Malwa in 6th-century India.
• * *Fortune’s Stroke (with David A. Drake) (Baen 0-671-57871-5, Jun 2000, $24.00, 402pp, hc, cover by Gary Ruddell) [Belisarius] Historical/alternate world SF novel, fourth in the series featuring Byzantine general Belisarius vs. the alien Malwa in 6th-century India.
• * *Rats, Bats & Vats (with Dave Freer) (Baen 0-671-31940-X, Sep 2000, $23.00, 388pp, pb, cover by Bob Eggleton) [Rats, Bats & Vats] Humorous SF novel. In the middle of an alien invasion on a colony planet, a vat-grown soldier in charge of cyber-augmented bats and rats rescues a rich girl with her own weird companions.

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• * _T’nT: Telzey & Trigger See entry under James H. Schmitz.
• * _Trigger & Friends See entry under James H. Schmitz.

FLINT, JAMES (stories) (chron.)

• * +Habitus (St. Martin’s 0-312-24545-9, Jan 2000, $26.95, 415pp, hc) SF satire of mathematics, computers, gambling, and Kabbalah. Three characters and a space-dog search for meaning. A first novel. First US edition (Fourth Estate 1998).

FLORCZAK, ROBERT (stories) (chron.)

• * _The Magic Fish-Bone (with Charles Dickens) See entry under Charles Dickens.

FLYNN, MICHAEL F(rancis) (1947- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _Firestar (Tor 0-812-53006-3, Mar 2000, $6.99, 885pp, pb, cover by Vincent Di Fate) [Firestar] Reissue (Tor 1996) near-future SF novel. Second printing.
• * *Lodestar (Tor 0-312-86137-0, Mar 2000, $24.95, 365pp, hc, cover by Julie Bell) [Firestar; Jacinta Rosario] Near-future SF novel, third in the series begun in Firestar. Asteroids threaten Earth.
• * _Lodestar (SFBC #06991, Apr 2000, $12.98, 428pp, hc, cover by Julie Bell) [Firestar; Jacinta Rosario] Reprint (Tor 2000) near-future SF novel. This is similar to the Tor edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.

FLYNN, TOM (chron.)

• * *Galactic Rapture (Prometheus Books 1-57392-754-6, Jan 2000, $19.95, 500pp, tp, cover by Michael Carroll) [Galactic Rapture] Satirical SF novel. Earth in 2344 exports mass entertainment and religion to the credulous Galactics. Order from Prometheus Books, 59 John Glenn Drive, Amherst NY 14228-2197; 800-421-0351; add $4.45 postage.

FOLLETT, JAMES (1939- ) (chron.)

• * *Temple of the Winds (Severn House 0-7278-5568-9, May 2000, £17.99, viii+308pp, hc) [Temple of the Winds] SF/fantasy novel, first in a trilogy. A community isolated behind a mysterious force-field reverts to the mythic patterns of life in Olde England.
• * *Wicca (Severn House 0-7278-5626-X, Nov 2000, £17.99, 314pp, hc) [Temple of the Winds] SF/fantasy novel, second in a trilogy after Temple of The Winds. A community, isolated behind a mysterious force-field, reverts to the ways of Olde England, including laws on witchcraft.

FORD, JEFFREY (1955- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * _Memoranda (HarperCollins/Eos 0-380-81368-8, Oct 2000, $5.99, 249pp, pb, cover by Phil Singer) [Well-Built City] Reprint (Avon Eos 1999) fantasy novel, second in a trilogy begun in World Fantasy Award-winning novel The Physiognomy.
• * _The Physiognomy (HarperCollins/Eos 0-380-79332-6, Oct 2000, $5.99, 244pp, pb) [Well-Built City] Reissue (Avon 1997) fantasy mystery set in an alternate world where phrenology works. Winner of the World Fantasy Award. Second printing.

FORD, JOHN M(ilo) (1957-2006) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *The Last Hot Time (Tor 0-312-85545-1, Dec 2000, $22.95, 205pp, hc, cover by Tristan Elwell) Fantasy novel of gangsters and magic in a Chicago where the worlds of man and Faerie overlap.
• * _On Writing Science Fiction: The Editors Strike Back! (with George H. Scithers & Darrell Schweitzer) See entry under George H. Scithers

FORD, PETER SHANN (chron.)

• * *The Keeper of Dreams (Simon & Schuster 0-684-87219-6, Sep 2000, $24.00, 304pp, hc, cover by Nicholas Wilton) Thriller with fantasy elements based on myths of the Australian Aborigines.

FORSTCHEN, WILLIAM R. (1950- ) (chron.)

• * *Down to the Sea (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45806-0, Dec 2000, $6.99, 342pp, pb, cover by Edwin Herder) [Lost Regiment] Military SF novel set in the alternate world of “The Lost Regiment”, set 20 years after the war with the alien Hordes.

FORSYTH, KATE (chron.)

• * +The Cursed Towers (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45691-2, May 2000, $6.99, 544pp, pb, cover by Judy York) [Witches of Eileanan] Celtic fantasy novel, third in “The Witches of Eileanan” trilogy. First US edition (Random House Australia/Arrow 1999).

FORTUNE, DION; pseudonym of Violet M. Firth, (1890-1946) (stories) (chron.)

• * _The Secrets of Dr. Taverner (Ash-Tree Press 1-55310-010-7, Nov 2000, C$53.00, xxvi+163pp, hc, cover by Deborah McMillion-Nering) [Dr. Taverner] Reprint (Llewellyn Publications 1979) collection of occult detective stories first published in 1926. This edition follows the text of the 1979 edition by including the extra story “A Son of the Night” and adds a lengthy Adrian introduction. Volume three in “The Ash-Tree Press Occult Detectives Library”. This is a limited edition of 500 copies. A world-wide edition available in the US for $40.00 and in the UK for £25.00. (Contents)

FORWARD, EVE (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Animist (Tor 0-312-86891-X, Jun 2000, $23.95, 336pp, hc, cover by Darrell K. Sweet) Fantasy novel. A recently graduated student of Animism quests to find an animal with which to bond.
• * _Animist (SFBC #14566, Aug 2000, $11.98, 336pp, hc, cover by Darrell K. Sweet) Reprint (Tor 2000) SF novel. This is similar to the Tor edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.

FORWARD, ROBERT L(ull) (1932-2002) (chron.)

• * _Dragon’s Egg (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-43529-X, Mar 2000, $12.00, 345pp, tp) [*Dragon’s Egg] Reprint (Del Rey 1980) SF novel. Part of the “Impact” line of classic reprints.

FOSTER, ALAN DEAN (1946- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Dirge (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-41864-6, Jun 2000, $24.95, 310pp, hc, cover by Mark Harrison) [Founding of the Commonwealth] SF novel, book two of “The Founding of the Commonwealth” series, set much earlier in the universe of the “Pip and Flinx” novels.
• * _Into the Thinking Kingdoms (Warner Aspect 0-446-60804-1, Feb 2000, $6.50, 375pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Journeys of the Catechist] Reprint (Warner Aspect 1999) fantasy novel, book two in the “Journeys of the Catechist”.
• * *Journeys of the Catechist (SFBC #06095, Mar 2000, $14.98, 823pp, hc, cover by Jon Sullivan) [Journeys of the Catechist] Omnibus of three fantasy novels in the series: Carnivores of Light and Darkness (1998), Into the Thinking Kingdoms (1999), A Triumph of Souls (2000). This special SFBC edition has ISBN 0-7394-0792-9; it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket. (Contents)
• * _Phylogenesis (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-41861-1, Jul 2000, $6.99, 289pp, pb, cover by Mark Harrison) [Founding of the Commonwealth] Reprint (Del Rey 1999) SF novel of the birth of the Commonwealth of the “Pip and Flinx” novels.
• * _To the Vanishing Point (Wildside Press 1-58715-046-8, 1999, $17.00, 310pp, tp) Reprint (Warner 1988) fantasy novel. This is dated 1999, but not seen until now. An on-demand edition available online from Wildside Press, PO Box 45, Gillette NJ 07933-0045; www.wildsidepress.com
• * *A Triumph of Souls (Warner Aspect 0-446-52218-X, Mar 2000, $24.95, 406pp, hc, cover by Keith Parkinson) [Journeys of the Catechist] Fantasy novel, third and final in the “Journeys of the Catechist”.

FOSTER, JAMES D. (1952- ); see pseudonym James F. David (chron.)

FOWLER, BO (chron.)

• * +Scepticism Inc. (Bloomsbury USA 1-58234-072-2, Mar 2000, $13.95, 248pp, tp) Fantasy satire of faith, love, artificial intelligence, and a metaphysical betting shop. First US edition (Cape 1998).

FOWLER, CHRISTOPHER (1953- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Calabash (Little, Brown/Warner UK 0-7515-3040-9, May 2000, £8.99, 346pp, tp) Associational novel of a dissatisfied teenager in 1970s Britain who escapes into the richly imagined fantasy kingdom of Calabash.

FOX, BRANDON (chron.)

• * *Sex Rites (Leyland Publications 0-943595-80-0, Dec 2000, $15.95, 191pp, tp, cover by Jan J. Vágner) [Apprenticed to Pleasure] Erotic gay fantasy novel, third in a series after Apprenticed to Pleasure and Conjuring the Flesh. A group of mages opposes the tyrannical zamindar. Available from Leyland Publications, PO Box 410690, San Francisco CA 94141; add $1.00 postage.

FOX, DEREK M. (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Treading on the Past (Enigmatic Press 0-9537476-2-X, May 2000, £5.00, 83pp, ph, cover by Frank Mafrici) Original collection of four supernatural stories. Volume four in the “Enigmatic Variations” series. (Contents)
• * *Treading on the Past (Enigmatic Press 0-9537476-2-X, Jun 2000, $13.00, 81pp, tp, cover by Frank Mafrici) Original collection of four dark fantasy stories. Illustrated by Frank Mafrici. Originally published in the UK, this is available in the US from Firebird Distributing, 2030 First Street, Unit 5, Eureka CA 95501; 800-353-3575.

FOY, GEORGE (1952- ) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *The Memory of Fire (Bantam Spectra 0-553-37930-5, Feb 2000, $12.95, 371pp, tp, cover by Eric Dinyer) Dystopian near-future SF novel. A musician opposes government plans to close down an anarchist outsider enclave.