The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2002

Books, Listed by Author

ABBEY, LYNN; [i.e., Marilyn Lorraine Abbey] (1948- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Sanctuary (Tor 0-312-87491-X, Jun 2002, $27.95, 480pp, hc, cover by Jean Pierre Targete) [*Thieves’ World] Fantasy novel of “Thieves’ World”.

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• * *Thieves’ World: Turning Points (Tor 0-312-87517-7, Nov 2002, $25.95, 317pp, hc, cover by Jean Pierre Targete) [*Thieves’ World] Original shared world anthology of ten stories. Authors include Dennis L. McKiernan, Robin Wayne Bailey, and Raymond E. Feist. (Contents)

ABBEY, MARILYN LORRAINE; see under Abbey, Lynn (stories) (chron.)

ABBOTT, EDWIN ABBOTT (1839-1929) (chron.)

• * *The Annotated Flatland (Perseus Publishing 0-7382-0541-9, Nov 2001, $30.00, 239 + xxvii, hc) [Flatland] Annotated edition of the fantasy novel Flatland (Seeley 1884) with an introduction and extensive notes by Ian Stewart. This is dated 2001, but not seen until now.

ABNETT, DAN (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *Warhammer 40,000: Hereticus (Black Library 1-84154-236-9, Jun 2002, £5.99, 315pp, pb, cover by Adrian Smith) [Warhammer 40,000: Eisenhorn] Novelization based on the SF role-playing game universe, the third volume in the “Eisenhorn” trilogy.
• * +Warhammer 40,000: Hereticus (Games Workshop/Black Library 0-7434-4308-X, Jul 2002, $6.95, 315pp, tp, cover by Adrian Smith) [Warhammer 40,000: Eisenhorn] Novelization based on the fantasy role-playing game world. Book three in the “Eisenhorn” trilogy. Copyrighted by Games Workshop Ltd. First US edition (Black Library UK 6/02).
• * *Warhammer 40,000: Straight Silver (Black Library 1-84154-262-8, Nov 2002, £5.99, 315pp, pb, cover by Adrian Smith) [*Warhammer 40,000: Gaunt’s Ghosts] Book six of the “Gaunt’s Ghosts” series set in the “Warhammer 40,000” universe.
• * +Warhammer 40,000: Straight Silver (Games Workshop/Black Library 0-7434-4325-X, Dec 2002, $6.95, 315pp, tp, cover by Adrian Smith) [*Warhammer 40,000: Gaunt’s Ghosts] Novelization based on the SF role-playing game, sixth in the “Gaunt’s Ghosts” series. Copyrighted by Games Workshop. First US edition (Black Library UK 11/01).
• * *Warhammer 40,000: The Guns of Tanith (Black Library 1-84154-232-6, Apr 2002, £5.99, 315pp, pb, cover by Martin McKenna) [*Warhammer 40,000: Gaunt’s Ghosts] Book 5 of the “Gaunt’s Ghosts” series set in the “Warhammer 40,000” universe.
• * +Warhammer 40,000: The Guns of Tanith (Games Workshop/Black Library 0-7434-4304-7, May 2002, $6.95, 315pp, tp, cover by Adrian Smith) [*Warhammer 40,000: Gaunt’s Ghosts] Novelization based on the fantasy role-playing game, fifth in the “Gaunt’s Ghosts” series. Copyrighted by Games Workshop. First US edition (Black Library UK 4/01).

ACKER, KATHY (1944-1997) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Rip-off Red, Girl Detective and The Burning Bombing of America (Grove 0-8021-3920-5, Oct 2002, $14.00, 201pp, tp) Omnibus of two previously unpublished novellas, one SF: The Burning Bombing of America, a dystopian tale of the destruction of America. (Contents)

ACKERMAN, FORREST J(ames), ed. (1916-2008) (stories) (chron.)

• * _Expanded Science Fiction Worlds of Forrest J Ackerman & Friends PLUS (Sense of Wonder Press 0-918736-26-9, May 2002, $14.95, 205pp, tp, cover by Neil Austin) Reprint (Powell 1969 as Science Fiction Worlds of Forrest J Ackerman & Friends) anthology of 32 stories; this adds seven stories to the original. Sense of Wonder Press, 113 North Washington St., Box 347, Rockville MD 20850; [www.senseofwonderpress.com]. (Contents)

ADAMS, DOUGLAS (Noel) (1952-2001) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Pan 0-330-25864-8, May 2002, £5.99, 180pp, pb) [Hitchhiker] Reprint (Pan 1979) humorous SF novel, book one in the series. This is a “Commemorative Edition”, with a brief biography of Adams updated to include mention of his death.
• * _The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Picador 0-330-49119-9, May 2002, £6.99, 178pp, tp) [Hitchhiker] Reprint (Pan 1979) humorous SF novel, first in the series.
• * _The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07484-1, Nov 2002, £5.99, 178pp, hc) [Hitchhiker] Reprint (Pan 1979) humorous SF novel based on the radio serial, book one in the series. A mini-hardback edition.
• * _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts (Picador 0-330-49204-7, 2002, £9.99, xv+765pp, tp) [Hitchhiker] Reprint (Heinemann 1986) omnibus of the first four novels in the humorous SF series. (Contents)
• * _Life, the Universe, and Everything (Picador 0-330-49120-2, 2002, £6.99, 199pp, tp) [Hitchhiker] Reprint (Pan 1982) humorous SF novel, third in the “Hitch Hiker’s Guide” series.
• * _Life, the Universe, and Everything (Pan 0-330-26738-8, May 2002, £5.99, 199pp, pb) [Hitchhiker] Reissue (Pan 1982) humorous SF novel; book three in the “Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” series. This is a “Commemorative Edition”, with a brief biography updated to include mention of Adams’s death.
• * _Life, the Universe, and Everything (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07485-X, Nov 2002, £5.99, 184pp, hc) [Hitchhiker] Reprint (Pan 1982) humorous SF novel, book three in the series. A mini-hardback edition.
• * _Mostly Harmless (Picador 0-330-49122-9, 2002, £6.99, 230pp, tp) [Hitchhiker] Reprint (Heinemann 1992) humorous SF novel; fifth book in the “Hitch Hiker’s Guide” series.
• * _Mostly Harmless (Pan 0-330-32311-3, May 2002, £5.99, 230pp, pb) [Hitchhiker] Reissue (Heinemann 1992) humorous SF novel; book five in the “Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” series. This is a “Commemorative Edition”, with a brief biography updated to include mention of Adams’s death.
• * _The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Picador 0-330-49121-0, 2002, £6.99, 200pp, tp) [Hitchhiker] Reprint (Pan 1980) humorous SF novel, second in the “Hitch Hiker’s Guide” series.
• * _The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Pan 0-330-26213-0, May 2002, £5.99, 200pp, pb) [Hitchhiker] Reissue (Pan 1980) humorous SF novel; book two in the “Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” series. This is a “Commemorative Edition”, with a brief biography updated to include mention of Adams’s death.
• * _The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07486-8, Nov 2002, £5.99, 196pp, hc) [Hitchhiker] Reprint (Pan 1980) humorous SF novel, book two in the series. A mini-hardback edition.
• * *The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (Random House/Harmony 1-4000-4508-8, May 2002, $24.00, 299 + xxxvi, hc) Collection of Adams’s unfinished novel, plus articles, essays, interviews, and correspondence. Introduction by Christopher Cerf. Editor Peter Guzzardi adds a note Adams’s unpublished texts, a prologue by Nicholas Wroe (originally an article in The Guardian provides biographical information. The “Epilogue” is an appreciation by Richard Dawkins from The Guardian, followed by the program for Adams’s memorial service.
• * *The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (Macmillan UK 0-333-76657-1, May 2002, £16.99, xxxv+295pp, hc, cover by David Tran) Collection of fiction and non-fiction pieces, including ten chapters assembled from the unfinished “Dirk Gently” novel The Salmon of Doubt, a reprint “Hitchhiker” short story, and other articles, essays, brief responses, commentaries, and biographical pieces. Edited by Peter Guzzardi. Introduction by Stephen Fry. Simultaneous with the US edition. (Contents)
• * _So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Picador 0-330-49123-7, 2002, £6.99, 167pp, tp) [Hitchhiker] Reprint (Pan 1984) humorous SF novel, fourth in the “Hitch Hiker’s Guide” series.
• * _So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Pan 0-330-28700-1, May 2002, £5.99, 167pp, pb) [Hitchhiker] Reissue (Pan 1984) humorous SF novel; book four in the “Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” series. This is a “Commemorative Edition”, with a brief biography updated to include mention of Adams’s death.
• * _The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-45374-3, May 2002, $18.00, 815pp, tp) [Hitchhiker] Reprint (Heinemann 1995) omnibus of the five novels in the Hitchhiker series, plus the story “Young Zaphod Plays It Safe”. This has a new foreword by Neil Gaiman, and the 1986 introduction by Douglas Adams.

ADAMS, JESSICA (chron.)

• * *I’m a Believer (Transworld/Black Swan 0-552-77083-3, Aug 2002, £6.99, 380pp, tp) Literary ghost novel. A man is haunted by his girlfriend’s spirit.

ADAMS, RICHARD (George) (1920- ) (chron.)

• * _Shardik (Overlook Press/Tusk 1-58567-182-7, 2002, $21.95, 604pp, tp) Reprint (Allen Lane 1974) fantasy novel. This has a new introduction by Robert Silverberg.

ADLER, BILL, Jr., ed. (chron.)

• * *Kids’ Letters to Harry Potter from Around the World (Carroll & Graf 0-7867-1058-6, Oct 2002, $9.95, 195pp, tp) [Harry Potter] Reprint (Carroll & Graf 2001 as Kids’ Letters to Harry Potter, not seen) non-fiction, unauthorized gathering of letters written by children to the fictional character.
• * _Time Machines: The Best Time Travel Stories Ever Written (Carroll & Graf 0-7867-1033-0, Aug 2002, $13.00, 382pp, tp) Reprint (Carroll & Graf 1997) anthology of 22 time-travel stories.

ADRIAN, JACK, ed.; pseudonym of Christopher Lowder, (1945- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2002: Ghosts at ‘The Cornhill’ 1920-30 (Ash-Tree Press 1-55310-048-4, Dec 2002, C$52.00, xiv+214pp, hc, cover by Rob Suggs) Anthology of weird stories reprinted from ‘The Cornhill’. This is a limited edition of 500 copies. A world-wide edition available in the US for $39.50 and in the UK for £24.50. (Contents)

AGUIRRE, FORREST (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *The Butterfly Artist (Flesh & Blood Press no ISBN, Oct 2002, $5.00, 48pp, ph, cover by Nick Demakis) Chapbook original collection of 10 stories, four reprints. Order from Flesh & Blood Press, 121 Joseph St., Bayville NJ 08721; [horrorjack@aol.com]. (Contents)

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• * _Leviathan, Volume Three (with Jeff VanderMeer) See entry under Jeff VanderMeer.

AGURRIE-AMADO, KORI (stories) (chron.)

• * *Writers Anonymous (Quiet Vision Publishing 1-57646-580-2, Jul 2001, $9.99, 101pp, tp, cover by Joseph Bellofatto) Fantasy novella. A writer’s characters are rebelling against their cliché-ridden story. Illustrated by Joseph Bellofatto. This is dated 2001, but not seen until now. Order from Quiet Vision Publishing, 12155 Mt. Shadow Road, Sandy UT 84092-5812; [www.qvision.net].

AIKEN, JOAN (Delano) (1924-2004) (stories) (chron.)

• * _The Cockatrice Boys (Tor/Starscape 0-765-34231-6, Mar 2002, $5.99, 221pp, tp, cover by Gris Grimly) Reprint (Gollancz 1996) young-adult fantasy novel.
• * _Dido and Pa (Houghton Mifflin 0-618-19623-4, Sep 2002, $5.95, 297pp, tp, cover by Edward Gorey) [Alternate England; James III] Reprint (Cape 1986) young-adult fantasy novel. A hardcover edition (-19624-2, $15.00) was announced but not seen.
• * *Ghostly Beasts (Jonathan Cape 0-224-06463-0, Oct 2002, £12.99, 143pp, hc, cover by Amanda Harvey) Collection of 15 young-adult poems and stories, two original. (Contents)
• * _Midnight Is a Place (Houghton Mifflin 0-618-19625-0, Sep 2002, $5.95, 292pp, tp, cover by Lars Leetaru) Reprint (Cape 1974) young-adult fantasy novel. A hardcover edition (-19626-9, $15.00) was announced but not seen.
• * *The Scream (Macmillan Children’s Books 0-333-96009-2, Feb 2002, £9.99, 86pp, hc, cover by Michael Gibbs) Young-adult fantasy novella.
• * _The Whispering Mountain (Tor/Starscape 0-765-34241-3, May 2002, $5.99, 276pp, tp, cover by Charles Vess) Reprint (Cape 1968) young-adult fantasy novel.

ALAMA, PAULINE J. (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *The Eye of Night (Bantam Spectra 0-553-58463-4, Jul 2002, $5.99, 451pp, pb, cover by John Jude Palencar) Fantasy novel. An artifact may bring about the end of the world. A first novel.

ALDISS, BRIAN W(ilson) (1925- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *At a Bigger House (Avernus, 2002, 60pp, ph) Collection of recent poems on a wide variety of themes, illustrated with 6 coloured plates by the author. A limited edition of just 20 copies. (Contents)
• * _Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith’s (House of Stratus 0-7551-0077-8, Jan 2001, £7.99, 217pp, tp) Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 1990 as Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith’s: A Writing Life) autobiographical work. This follows the limited Avernus edition, which added a further six chapters, and an appendix listing each of the 250 items issued with the limited edition. This is dated 2001, but not seen until now. Copyrighted 1990, 2001. This is a print-on-demand edition, available online at [www.houseofstratus.com], or from House of Stratus Ltd., Thirsk Industrial Estate, York Rd., Thirsk, North Yorkshire YO7 3BX.
• * *The Cretan Teat (House of Stratus 0-7551-1147-8, May 2002, £9.99, 206pp, hc, cover by Konstantina Koulieri & Derek Edwards) Humorous mainstream novel of authorship and authenticity, a fake icon, and all-too-real life. Includes an afterword by Aldiss on the book’s delay. This is a print-on-demand edition, available online at [www.houseofstratus.com], or from House of Stratus Ltd., Thirsk Industrial Estate, York Rd., Thirsk, North Yorkshire YO7 3BX.
• * *The Dark Sun Rises (Avernus, Oct 2002, £5.99, 68pp, ph) Collection of poems, mainly original, illustrated with 6 coloured plates by the author. A limited edition of just 50 copies. (Contents)
• * _Greybeard (House of Stratus 0-7551-0063-8, Mar 2001, £6.99, 258pp, tp) Reprint (Faber and Faber 1964) SF novel. This is dated 2001 but not seen till now. This is a print-on-demand edition, available online at [www.houseofstratus.com], or from House of Stratus Ltd., Thirsk Industrial Estate, York Rd., Thirsk, North Yorkshire YO7 3BX.
• * _Helliconia Spring (Pocket/ibooks 0-7434-4472-8, Feb 2002, $14.00, 361 + xxiv, tp, cover by Robert Zohrab) [Helliconia] Reprint (Atheneum; Cape 1982) SF novel, first in the “Helliconia” trilogy. This has the introduction by Aldiss from the 1996 Voyager omnibus edition.
• * _Helliconia Summer (Pocket/ibooks 0-7434-4510-4, Aug 2002, $14.00, 398pp, tp, cover by Robert Zohrab) [Helliconia] Reprint (Cape; Atheneum 1983) SF novel, second in the “Helliconia” trilogy.
• * _Helliconia Winter (Pocket/ibooks 0-7434-4516-3, Dec 2002, $14.00, 288pp, tp, cover by Robert Zohrab) [Helliconia] Reprint (Atheneum; Cape 1985) SF novel, third in the “Helliconia” trilogy. “A Robert Silverberg Selection”.
• * *I Went To Another House (Avernus, Jan 2002, ph) Collection of poetry, with similar contents to The Dark Sun Rises. Limited to 20 numbered copies. (Contents)
• * *Super-State (Orbit 1-84149-144-6, May 2002, £16.99, 230pp, hc) Satirical SF novel set in a future Europe.
• * _Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (with David Wingrove) (House of Stratus 0-7551-0068-9, Sep 2001, £9.99, 639pp, tp) Reprint (Gollancz 1986) non-fiction study of the genre, expanded from Aldiss’s Billion Year Spree. This is dated 2001, but not seen until now. This is a print-on-demand edition, available online at [www.houseofstratus.com], or from House of Stratus Ltd., Thirsk Industrial Estate, York Rd., Thirsk, North Yorkshire YO7 3BX.

ALEXANDER, LLOYD (Chudley) (1924-2007) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _The Beggar Queen (Penguin/Firebird 0-14-131070-7, Jun 2002, $5.99, 237pp, pb, cover by Michel Bohbot) [Westmark] Reprint (Dutton 1984) young-adult fantasy novel, third book in the “Westmark” trilogy.
• * _The Kestrel (Penguin/Firebird 0-14-131069-3, Jun 2002, $5.99, 244pp, pb, cover by Michel Bohbot) [Westmark] Reprint (Dutton 1982) young-adult fantasy novel, second in the “Westmark” trilogy.
• * _The Philadelphia Adventure (Penguin/Puffin 0-14-230144-2, Jul 2002, $5.99, 150pp, tp, cover by Stan Watts) [Vesper Holly] Reprint (Dutton 1990) young-adult Graustarkian/alternate world adventure, fifth in the “Vesper Holly” series.
• * *The Rope Trick (Penguin/Dutton 0-525-47020-4, Oct 2002, $16.99, 195pp, hc, cover by Greg Spalenka) Young-adult fantasy. A female stage magician seeks to learn the fabled rope trick, but finds more than she bargained for.

ALISON, JANE (chron.)

• * _The Love-Artist (Picador USA 0-312-42006-4, Apr 2002, $13.00, 242pp, tp, cover by Sanjay Kothari) Reprint (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001) mainstream historical novel with fantasy elements, set in ancient Rome.

ALKON, PAUL K(ent) (1935- ) (chron.)

• * _Science Fiction Before 1900: Imagination Discovers Technology (Routledge 0-4159-3887-2, Feb 2002, $18.95, 176pp, tp) Reprint (Twayne 1994) non-fiction, a critical examination of the roots of SF. Order from Routledge, 29 West 35th Street, New York NY 10001; [www.routledge-ny.com].

ALLEN, ROGER MacBRIDE (1957- ) (chron.)

• * *The Ocean of Years (Bantam Spectra 0-553-58364-6, Jul 2002, $6.50, 441pp, pb, cover by Gregory Bridges) [Chronicles of Solace] Far-future SF novel, second in a trilogy begun in The Depths of Time. A planet’s long-lost founder may be its only hope once its terraforming begins to fail.

ALLENDE, ISABEL (1942- ) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *City of the Beasts (HarperCollins 0-06-050918-X, Nov 2002, $19.99, 406pp, hc, cover by Cliff Nielsen) [Alexander Cold] Young-adult fantasy adventure/magic realism novel. A team searches the Amazon jungle for the legendary creature called The Beast. Translated from the Spanish Ciudad de las Bestias by Margaret Sayers Peden.

ALLSTON, AARON (Dale) (1960- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines (SFBC #51698, Jul 2002, $12.99, 458pp, hc, cover by Terese Nielsen) [Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines] Omnibus of two Star Wars novelizations: Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Rebel Dream (2002) and Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Rebel Stand (2002). Copyrighted by Lucasfilm. This has ISBN 0-7394-2777-6; it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket. (Contents)
• * _Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream (Random House/Arrow Lucasbooks 0-09-941033-8, May 2002, £5.99, xii+304pp, pb, cover by Dave Seeley) [Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines] Reprint (Del Rey Lucasbooks 2002) original novel in the “Star Wars” series, set around 30 years after Star Wars: A New Hope [First U.K. edition]
• * *Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand (Ballantine Del Rey LucasBooks 0-345-42868-4, Jun 2002, $6.99, 367pp, pb, cover by Dave Seeley) [Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines] Star Wars novelization, second in the “Enemy Lines” duology. Copyrighted by Lucasfilm.
• * _Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand (Random House/Arrow Lucasbooks 0-09-941034-6, Jun 2002, £5.99, xiii+367pp, pb) [Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines] Reprint (Del Rey Lucasbooks 2002) original novel in the “Star Wars” series, set around 30 years after Star Wars: A New Hope. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Rebel Dream (Ballantine Del Rey LucasBooks 0-345-42866-8, Apr 2002, $6.99, 304pp, pb, cover by Terese Nielsen) [Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines] Star Wars novelization, first in the “Enemy Lines” sub-series. Copyrighted by Lucasfilm.

ALMOND, DAVID (chron.)

• * _Secret Heart (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-74369-7, Mar 2002, £4.99, 202pp, tp, cover by Darren Hopes) Reprint (Hodder Children’s Books 2001) young-adult fantasy novel.