The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2001

Books, Listed by Author

LUSTBADER, ERIC VAN (stories) (chron.) (continued)

• * *The Ring of Five Dragons (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-224729-1, May 2001, £17.99, 616pp, hc, cover by John Howe) [Pearl Saga] Fantasy novel, Volume One of “The Pearl Saga”. A prince reborn into a woman’s body fulfills a prophecy of the hero who will rediscover the lost Pearl and lead his people from serfdom and extinction. A trade paperback edition (-224732-1, £11.99) was announced but not seen.

LÜTZEN, HANNA (chron.)

• * _Vlad the Undead (Groundwood Books 0-88899-342-0, Oct 2001, $5.95, 190pp, tp, cover by Harvey Chan) Reprint (Groundwood 1998) young-adult vampire novel. Translated by the author from the Danish (Gyldendal Denmark 1995 as Vlad).

LYNDS, GAYLE (Hallenbeck) (1950- ) (chron.)

• * *Mesmerized (Pocket 0-671-02407-8, May 2001, $24.95, 454pp, hc) Spy thriller with SF elements. An international attorney gets deadly memories along with a heart transplant.

LYNN, ELIZABETH A(nne) (1946- ) (chron.)

• * _The Sardonyx Net (Ace 0-441-00814-3, Mar 2001, $6.99, 438pp, pb, cover by Jean Pierre Targete) Reprint (Putnam 1981) SF novel.

LYONS, MARY (chron.)

• * *Knockabeg: A Famine Tale (Houghton Mifflin 0-618-09283-8, Aug 2001, $15.00, 118pp, hc, cover by Marc Yankus) Young-adult Celtic fantasy set in Ireland. Faeries help humans during a potato famine caused by a curse.

McARTHUR, MAXINE (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * +Time Future (Warner Aspect 0-446-60963-3, Jun 2001, $6.99, 445pp, pb, cover by Jim Burns) [Time Future] SF novel of interstellar war. Winner of the George Turner Prize. A first novel. First US edition (Bantam Australia 1999).

McAULEY, PAUL J. (1955- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *The Secret of Life (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-225904-4, Jan 2001, £16.99, 391pp, hc) SF novel. While a genetically altered version of a Martian microbe threatens the ecology of Earth, an expedition to Mars is threatened by its own internal maladies.
• * +The Secret of Life (Tor 0-765-30080-X, Jun 2001, $25.95, 413pp, hc) Near-future SF novel. A possibly alien fungus-like organism threatens Earth, prompting an urgent mission to Mars. First US edition (Voyager 1/01).
• * _The Secret of Life (SFBC #39177, Sep 2001, $12.50, 413pp, hc) Reprint (Voyager 2001) 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.
• * _The Secret of Life (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-651330-1, Sep 2001, £6.99, 518pp, pb) Reprint (Voyager 2000) SF novel.
• * _Shrine of Stars (HarperCollins/Eos 0-380-79298-2, Oct 2001, $6.99, 372pp, pb, cover by Gregory Bridges) [Confluence] Reprint (Gollancz 1999) SF novel. Book three of the “Confluence” trilogy.
• * *Whole Wide World (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-225903-6, Sep 2001, £16.99, 388pp, hc) SF murder mystery. In a London subject to total surveillance after terrorists bombed the Internet and economic system into oblivion, a woman’s murder is broadcast on the Net.

McBAIN, SCOTT; pseudonym (1960- ) (chron.)

• * *The Coins of Judas (HarperCollins UK 0-00-711465-6, Apr 2001, £9.99, 374pp, tp) Fantasy novel. Five of Judas’s thirty pieces of silver are still being sought for their power to create a Magus, and their power to corrupt. McBain is a pseudonym. A hardcover edition (-226120-0, £16.99) was announced but not seen.

McCAFFREY, ANNE (Inez) (1926- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _Acorna’s People (with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough) (Severn House 0-7278-5690-1, Jan 2001, £17.99, 383pp, hc) [Acorna] Reprint (HarperPrism 1999) SF novel based on a comic-book idea by McCaffrey, third in the “Acorna the Unicorn Girl” series.
• * *Acorna’s Search (with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough) (HarperCollins/Eos 0-380-97898-9, Dec 2001, $25.00, 292pp, hc, cover by John Ennis) [Acorna] SF novel based on a comic-book idea by McCaffrey, fifth in the “Acorna the Unicorn Girl” series.
• * _Acorna’s Search (with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough) (SFBC #11707, Dec 2001, $12.99, 292pp, hc, cover by John Ennis) [Acorna] Reprint (Eos 2001) SF novel based on a comic-book idea by McCaffrey, fifth in the “Acorna the Unicorn Girl” series. This is similar to the Eos edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _Acorna’s World (with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough) (Transworld/Corgi 0-552-14749-4, Jul 2001, £5.99, 382pp, pb, cover by Fred Gambino) [Acorna] Reprint (Eos 2000) SF novel based on a comic-book idea by McCaffrey, fourth in the “Acorna the Unicorn Girl” series. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Acorna’s World (with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough) (HarperTorch 0-06-105984-6, Oct 2001, $6.99, 353pp, pb, cover by John Ennis) [Acorna] Reprint (Eos 2000) SF novel based on a comic-book idea by McCaffrey, fourth in the “Acorna the Unicorn Girl” series.
• * _The Dinosaur Planet Omnibus (Little, Brown/Orbit 1-84149-030-X, Feb 2001, £7.99, 189+281pp, pb, cover by Mark McKenna) [Ireta] Reprint (SFBC 1985 as The Ireta Adventure) SF omnibus of the two “Ireta” novels: Dinosaur Planet (1977) and Dinosaur Planet Survivors (1984). The books are separately paginated. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Dragonflight (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-33546-5, Feb 2001, $6.99, 286pp, pb, cover by Michael Whelan) [Pern] Reprint (Ballantine 1968) SF novel in the “Pern” series. 57th printing.
• * _Dragonflight (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-33546-5, Apr 2001, $6.99, 286pp, pb, cover by Mychael Maier) [Pern] Reprint (Ballantine 1968) SF novel in the “Pern” series. 59th printing.
• * _Dragonquest (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-33508-2, Feb 2001, $6.99, 315pp, pb, cover by Michael Whelan) [Pern] Reissue (Ballantine 1971) SF novel in the “Pern” series. 48th printing.
• * _Dragonquest (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-33508-2, Apr 2001, $6.99, 315pp, pb, cover by Mychael Maier) [Pern] Reissue (Ballantine 1971) SF novel in the “Pern” series. 49th printing.
• * _The Girl Who Heard Dragons (Tor 0-812-51099-2, Sep 2001, $7.99, 402pp, pb, cover by Michael Whelan) Reissue (Tor 1994) collection of 15 stories, with interior illustration by Michael Whelan and an introduction by the author. Fifth printing.
• * _Pegasus in Flight (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36897-5, Jan 2001, $6.99, 293pp, pb, cover by Bruce Jensen) [Daffyd op Owen; Talents] Reissue (Del Rey 1990) SF novel, volume two in the “Talents” series. 16th printing.
• * _Pegasus in Space (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-43467-6, Mar 2001, $6.99, 434pp, pb, cover by Bruce Jensen) [Talents] Reprint (Del Rey; Bantam UK 2000) SF novel, third in the “Talents” series.
• * *The Skies of Pern (Bantam UK 0-593-04330-8, Feb 2001, £16.99, 447pp, hc, cover by Les Edwards) [Pern] SF novel in the “Pern” series. The dragonriders have diverted the Red Star, Pern’s people are divided by the diversion of the Red Star, and rediscovered technology.
• * +The Skies of Pern (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-43468-4, Apr 2001, $25.00, 434pp, hc, cover by Les Edwards) [Pern] SF novel in the “Pern” series. Dragonriders face a meteor strike and anti-technology terrorists. First US edition (Bantam UK 2/01).
• * _The Skies of Pern (SFBC #35025, May 2001, $12.50, 434pp, hc, cover by David Stevenson) [Pern] Reprint (Bantam UK 2/01) SF novel in the “Pern” series. This is similar to the Del Rey edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _The Skies of Pern (Transworld/Bantam UK 0-593-04337-5, Aug 2001, £9.99, 447pp, tp, cover by Les Edwards) [Pern] Reprint (Bantam UK 2001) SF novel in the “Pern” series.
• * _The Skies of Pern (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-43469-2, Jan 2002, $7.99, 456pp, pb, cover by Les Edwards) [Pern] Reprint (Bantam UK 2001) SF novel in the “Pern” series.
• * _To Ride Pegasus (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-33603-8, Apr 2000, $6.99, 243pp, pb, cover by Bruce Jensen) [Daffyd op Owen; Talents] Reissue (Ballantine 1973) SF novel, volume one in the “Talents” series. 33rd printing.
• * _The White Dragon (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34167-8, Apr 2001, $6.99, 445pp, pb, cover by Mychael Maier) [Pern] Reissue (Del Rey 1978) SF novel in the “Pern” series. 42nd printing.

McCARTHY, KEVIN (chron.)

• * *The Family: Special Effects, Book 1 (with David B. Silva) (DAW 0-88677-920-0, Jan 2001, $6.99, 437pp, pb, cover by Bob Warner) [The Family] Horror novel. Refugees from a secret PSI Project are asked to help in a Hollywood murder investigation. Packaged by Tekno Books; copyrighted by them, Kevin McCarthy, and Ed Gorman.

McCARTHY, WIL(liam Terence) (1966- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _The Collapsium (Orion/Gollancz 1-85798-326-2, Sep 2001, £6.99, 325pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) [Monarchs of Sol] Reprint (Del Rey 2000) SF novel.

McCOMAS, FRANCIS J., ed. (chron.)

• * _Adventures in Time and Space (with Raymond J. Healy) See entry under Raymond J. Healy

McCONNELL, ASHLEY (chron.)

• * *Stargate SG-1: The Morpheus Factor (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45816-8, Feb 2001, $5.99, 296pp, pb) [Stargate SG-1] Novelization based on the TV series based on the film, fourth in the series. Copyrighted by MGM Worldwide Television Productions.
• * *Stargate SG-1: The Morpheus Factor (Macmillan/Channel 4 Books 0-7522-7198-9, Feb 2001, £5.99, 297pp, pb) [Stargate SG-1] Novelization based on the TV series based on the movie. Copyrighted by MGM Worldwide TV Productions Inc.

McCRUMB, SHARYN (Elaine Atwood) (1948- ) (chron.)

• * _She Walks These Hills (Penguin/Signet 0-451-18472-6, Jun 2001, $7.99, 447pp, pb) [Sheriff Spencer Arrowood] Reissue (Scribners 1994) mystery with fantasy elements. 13th printing.
• * *The Songcatcher (Penguin/Dutton 0-525-94488-5, Jun 2001, $24.95, 321pp, hc, cover by Kenneth Murray) [Sheriff Spencer Arrowood] Mystery novel with ghost/fantasy elements, in the “Ballads” series set in Appalachia. A folksinger seeks an old song that haunts her family history.
• * *The Songcatcher (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-71717-3, Jun 2001, £17.99, 292pp, hc) [Sheriff Spencer Arrowood] Contemporary/historical novel with fantasy elements, part of the “Ballad” series. Simultaneous with the US (Dutton) edition.

McCURDY, J. FitzGERALD (chron.)

• * *The Serpent’s Egg (Saratime Publishing 0-9688713-0-5, Oct 2001, C$19.95, 280pp, hc) [*Serpent’s Egg] Fantasy novel. Miranda finds a parallel fantasy world beneath Ottawa. Order from Saratime Publishing, 363 Churchill Ave. North, Ottawa Ontario Canada K1Z 5C4.

McDEVITT, JACK; [i.e., John Charles McDevitt] (1935- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Deepsix (HarperCollins/Eos 0-06-105124-1, Mar 2001, $25.00, 432pp, hc, cover by Chris Moore) [*Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins] SF novel of a life-supporting planet threatened by a rogue gas giant.
• * _Deepsix (SFBC #34761, Apr 2001, $12.50, 432pp, hc, cover by Chris Moore) [*Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins] Reprint (Eos 3/01) SF novel of a life-supporting planet threatened by a rogue gas giant.
• * _Deepsix (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-710879-6, Jun 2001, £6.99, 432pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) [*Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins] Reprint (Eos 2001) SF novel of a life-supporting planet threatened by a rogue gas giant. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Infinity Beach (HarperCollins/Eos 0-06-102005-2, Feb 2001, $6.99, 510pp, pb, cover by Craig Attebery) Reprint (HarperPrism 2000) SF novel.

McDEVITT, JOHN CHARLES; see under McDevitt, Jack (stories) (chron.)

McDONALD, IAN (Neil) (1960- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Ares Express (Simon & Schuster UK/Earthlight 0-684-86151-8, May 2001, £16.99, 332pp, hc) [Desolation Road] SF/fantasy novel, set in the universe of Desolation Road. Sweetness Octave Glorious-Honeybun Asiim 12th leaves her fusion-powered locomotive home to find adventure.
• * _Desolation Road (Simon & Schuster/Earthlight 0-671-03753-6, May 2001, £6.99, 373pp, pb, cover by Paul Youll) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1988) SF novel.

MACDONALD, JAMES D(ouglas) (1954- ) (chron.)

• * _By Honor Betray’d (with Debra Doyle) See entry under Debra Doyle.
• * _Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict: Requiem for Boone (with Debra Doyle) See entry under Debra Doyle.

McDONALD, JOYCE (chron.)

• * *Shades of Simon Gray (Random House/Delacorte 0-385-32659-9, Oct 2001, $15.95, 247pp, hc, cover by Michael Morgenstern) Young-adult fantasy. A comatose teen has conversations with a man who died 200 years before.

McDONNELL, KATHLEEN (chron.)

• * *The Nordlings (Second Story Press 1-896764-23-1, Mar 2000, $6.95, 207pp, tp, cover by Kasia Charko) Young-adult fantasy adventure. Peggy falls into a fantasy world where she encounters a lost Arctic explorer. This is dated 1999, but not seen until now. Order from Second Story Press, 720 Bathurst Street, Suite 301, Toronto Ontario Canada M5S 2R4.

MacEOIN, DENIS (1949- ); see pseudonyms Jonathan Aycliffe & Daniel Easterman (chron.)

McFEDRIES, A.; pseudonym of Noel Hynd, (1947- ) (chron.)

• * *The King of the Sun (Bantam Spectra 0-553-58147-3, Feb 2001, $5.99, 309pp, pb, cover by Bob Warner) SF mystery novel. California detective Alicia Aldrich tracks a killer who claims to be an alien with unearthly mental powers. McFedries is a pen name for Noel Hynd.

McGARRY, TERRY (1962- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Illumination (Tor 0-312-87389-1, Aug 2001, $25.95, 494pp, hc, cover by Gary Ruddell) [Eiden Myr] Fantasy novel. A newly accredited mage loses her power, and to get a cure must capture the rogue Dark Mage. A first novel.
• * _Illumination (SFBC #39528, Sep 2001, $13.99, 494pp, hc, cover by Gary Ruddell) [Eiden Myr] Reprint (Tor 2001) fantasy novel of a new mage on a quest. This is similar to the Tor edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.

McGOUGH, SCOTT (stories) (chron.)

• * *Magic: The Gathering: Chainer’s Torment (Wizards of the Coast 0-7869-2696-1, Jan 2002, $6.99, 320pp, pb) [Magic: The Gathering: Odyssey Cycle] Novelization based on the collectible card game, Book II of the “Odyssey Cycle”.

McGRAW, ELOISE JARVIS (1915-2000) (chron.)

• * *The Rundelstone of Oz (Hungry Tiger Press 1-929527-04-7, Oct 2001, $24.95, 219pp, hc, cover by Eric Shanower) [Oz] Young-adult fantasy novel of L. Frank Baum’s “Oz”. A living marionette seeks the missing Rundelstone. Illustrated by Eric Shanower. Available from Hungry Tiger Press, 5995 Dandridge Lane, Suite 121, San Diego CA 92115-6575; [www.hungrytigerpress.com].

MacGREGOR, ROB(ert R.) (1948- ) (chron.)

• * _Just/in Time (with Billy Dee Williams) See entry under Billy Dee Williams.

MacGREGOR, T(rish) J(aneshutz) [i.e., Patricia Marie Janeshutz MacGregor] (1947- ) (chron.)

• * *Vanished (Pinnacle 0-7860-1162-9, Feb 2001, $6.99, 384pp, pb) Horror novel/mystery. After a man’s lover vanishes before his eyes, he starts investigating a series of strange disappearances.

MACHEN, ARTHUR; pseudonym of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, (1863-1947) (stories) (chron.)

• * *The Three Imposters and Other Stories (Chaosium 1-56882-132-8, Apr 2001, $13.95, xix + 234pp, tp, cover by Harry Fassl) Collection of three horror stories and the collection of linked stories The Three Imposters (Lane 1895). First volume of “The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen”. (Contents)

McHUGH, MAUREEN F. (1959- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Nekropolis (HarperCollins/Eos 0-380-97457-6, Sep 2001, $25.00, 257pp, hc, cover by Jeff Nishinaka) SF novel set in a future Moslem society. An indentured woman regrets having submitted to a biotech process that keeps her subservient.

McINTEE, DAVID A. (chron.)

• * *Doctor Who: Bullet Time (BBC Books 0-563-53834-1, Aug 2001, £5.99, 254pp, pb) [Doctor Who: Missing Adventures] Novelization based on the TV series. Book 44 of the BBC “Missing Adventures” series.

MacINTYRE, F(eargus) GWYNPLAINE (1949- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *MacIntyre’s Improbable Bestiary (Wildside Press/Zadok Allen: Publisher 1-58715-472-2, May 2001, $15.00, 158pp, tp, cover by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre) Collection of four stories, one original, and 51 poems, most humorous, subtitled “Perverse Verse & Odious Odes”. The author provides a foreword, plus notes on several pieces. This is a print-on-demand edition, available online at [www.wildsidepress.com] or from Wildside Press, PO Box 301, Holicong PA 18928. (Contents)

MACKAY, SCOTT (1957- ) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *The Meek (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45823-0, Apr 2001, $5.99, 328pp, pb, cover by Ray Lundgren) SF novel. Plans to establish a colony on Ceres are upset when inhabitants are discovered.

McKENNA, JULIET E. (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * +The Gambler’s Fortune (HarperCollins/Eos 0-380-81902-3, Aug 2001, $7.50, 516pp, pb) [Tales of Einarinn] Fantasy novel, third in the “Tales of Einarinn”. First US edition (Orbit 2000).
• * _The Gambler’s Fortune (SFBC #38595, Aug 2001, $10.98, 518pp, hc, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Tales of Einarinn] Reprint (Orbit 2000) fantasy novel, third in the “Tales of Einarinn”. This has ISBN 0-7394-1938-2; it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * *The Warrior’s Bond (Little, Brown/Orbit 1-84149-065-2, Oct 2001, £6.99, 520pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Tales of Einarinn] Fantasy novel, the “Fourth Tale of Einarinn”.

McKENZIE, CHUCK, ed. (1970- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *AustrAlien Absurdities: Comic Tales of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror (with Tansy Rayner Roberts) (Agog Press 0-9580567-1-4, 2001, A$19.95, 230pp, tp) Original anthology of 25 stories, with an introduction by Tom Holt. (Contents)