The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2003

Stories, Listed by Title

• Points of Contact • John Keyes • (ss)
• Points of Interest • Misc. • (ms)
• Poison • Beth Bernobich • (sl)
• The Poison Master, Liz Williams • Nick Gevers • (br)
• Poker Night at O’Malley’s • Douglas D. R. Boyd • (ss)
• The Polar Bear • Margo Skinner • (pm)
• Police at the Door • Isaac Asimov • (ss)
• The Policeman and the Citizen • Ambrose Bierce • (gs)
• The Polish Boy • Orson Scott Card • (na)
• Polite Conversation • Sandra Bates • (pm)
• The Polite Houseguest • Lucy Cohen Schmeidler • (pm)
• Political Economy • Ambrose Bierce • (gs)
• Political Education • Russell Celyn Jones • (ss)
• The Political Officer • Charles Coleman Finlay • (na)
• Polyphony 2, Deborah Layne, ed. • Richard Horton • (br)
• Polyphony: Volume 2, Deborah Layne, ed. • Nick Gevers • (br)
• Polystom • Paul Brazier • (br)
• Polystom, Adam Roberts • Nick Gevers • (br)
• Pomegranate Winter • Ann K. Schwader • (pm)
• Ponderings under the Scope • Peter J. Welmerink • (pm)
• Ponge • Benjamin Rosenbaum • (vi)
• The Pool House • Karen A. Romanko • (pm)
• A Pool in the Desert • Robin McKinley • (na)
• The Pool of the Black One • Robert E. Howard • (nv)
• The Poor Man’s Wife • M. Thomas • (ss)
• Poor Richard’s Analogue • Steven Utley • (pm)
• The Pop Lady Comes on Wednesdays • Paul A. Toth • (ss)
• Popcorn • Al Swanson • (pm)
• Pope Android Seventh • Ray Bradbury • (pm)
• Pope Joan’s High-Heels • Mark McLaughlin • (pm)
• Popes and Phantoms • John Clute • (br)
• Popular Taste • Darrell Schweitzer • (pm)
• Porno in August • Carlton Mellick, III • (ss)
• Porridge on Islac • Ursula K. Le Guin • (ss)
• Port in a Storm • Robert K. Carspecken • (ss)
• Portal • Rick Norwood • (ss)
• Porter’s Progress • Isaac Szpindel • (ss)
• (Portfolio) • Kristan Horton • (pi)
• (Portfolio) • Leopold Plotek • (pi)
• Portrait • Sherry Toomey • (ss)
• A Portrait by Moonlight • Chris Forbes • (vi)
• The Portrait of Mr. W.H. • Oscar Wilde • (nv)
• A Portrait of the Artist • Vandana Singh • (pm)
• Portrait of the Artist’s Mother • Margaret Ballif Simon • (pm)
• Portrait of the Mad Scientist’s Wife • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • (pm)
• A Portrait of the Villainess as a Young Woman • Chris Paul • (ss)
• Portraits of His Children • George R. R. Martin • (nv)
• Portraits of My Lovers • K. J. Kirby • (ss)
• Positively Off It! • Ruth Plumly Thompson • (pm)
• Possessed • Cheyenne McCray • (na)
• The Possession of Angela Bradshaw • John Collier • (ss)
• Possibilities • Eyal Teler • (ss)
• Post-Boomboom • Alberto Vanasco • (ss)
• Post-Mortem • H. Bedford-Jones • (bg)
• Postal Carriers’ Brain Flukes • Stepan Chapman • (ms)
• Postcards from Atlantis • Catherine MacLeod • (ss)
• The Postman’s Tale • Peter Tennant • (vi)
• Postscript: Happy Days pt XXIII: Raw Savoy • John Coulthart, Robert G. Meadley & Michael Moorcock • (ar)
• Posture • Alain Frontier • (vi)
• Potential • Ramsey Campbell • (ss)
• Potherb Gardening • Ruth Berman • (pm)
• The Potted Fern • John S. Davis • (pm)
• The Potter of Bones • Eleanor Arnason • (na)
• “Pour Avoir Bien Servi” • Leo Perutz • (ss)
• Power • Kelley Jean White • (pm)
• Power Failure • Guy Gavriel Kay • (pm)
• The Power of Dreams • Daniel C. Smith • (pm)
• The Power of Myth • Mario Milosevic • (pm)
• The Power of Prayer • Brian M. Stableford • (ss)
• The Power of Rotting Plants, or How SF Solved Global Warming • Gregory Benford, Martin I. Hoffert & Robert A. Metzger • (ar)
• The Power of Visions • Charles E. Gannon • (nv)
• Power Outage • Gordon A. Graves • (vi)
• Power Supply • Richard D. Robbins • (ss)
• Power to the People • Loren K. Jones • (ss)
• The Powers of Lanai • Loren W. Cooper • (ss)
• Practice • Anonymous • (vi)
• Practice • Jeff Holland • (vi)
• Practice! • Howard L. Myers • (nv)
• Praise-the-Chicken Day—or Else • Dean R. Koontz • (pm)
• The Pratfall of Cthulhu • Darrell Schweitzer • (pm)
• The Praxis • Nigel Brown • (br)
• A Prayer for Captain La Hire • Patrice E. Sarath • (ss)
• Prayer for the Dying • Brian Ames • (ss)
• Prayerville • Janis Ian • (ss)
• Precious Alice • L. Lierderman Davitz • (ss)
• Preconceptions • Penny A. Proctor • (ss)
• The Predators • David A. Drake • (nv)
• Predicament • capn detox • (vi)
• Predicting the Future • Douglas Adams • (ar)
• Preface • Ruth Berman & Douglas G. Greene • (pr)
• Preface • Gary A. Braunbeck • (pr)
• Preface • John Clute • (pr)
• Preface • Jack M. Dann & Gardner R. Dozois • (pr)
• Preface • Peter Darbyshire & Brian Panhuyzen • (pr)
• Preface • Barbara Erskine • (pr)
• Preface • Eric Flint • (pr)
• Preface • Marty Halpern & Claude Lalumière • (pr)
• Preface • Jerome Latimer • (pr)
• Preface • Barry N. Malzberg • (pr)
• Preface • D. H. Olson • (pr)
• Preface • Percy Bysshe Shelley • (pr)
• Preface • Donald Sidney-Fryer • (pr)
• Preface • Bud Sparhawk • (pr)
• Preface • Howard Waldrop • (pr)
• Preface to Post Mortem • Peter Ruber • (is)
• Preface to the Second Edition • Clara Reeve • (pr)
• Preface to The Shunned House • Frank Belknap Long • (pr)
• Preface to Tomorrow • James Blish • (pr)
• Prefessor Abraham Van Helsing’s Vampire Hunter’s Guide • Tom Pomplun & Bram Stoker • (gs)
• Prefessor Abraham Van Helsing’s Vampire Hunter’s Guide • Bram Stoker • (gs)
• The Premature Burial • Edgar Allan Poe • (ss)
• Premium Rate • Joel Lane • (vi)
• Premonition • Steve Vertlieb • (pm)
• Presence • Maureen F. McHugh • (nv)
• The Presence • Karen E. Taylor • (na)
• Present from the Past • Jeffrey Ford • (ss)
• Preserve • John Everson • (ss)
• Preserves • Bev Brenna • (pm)
• Pressure • Jeff Carlson • (ss)
• The Prestige • John Clute • (br)
• Presumed Icarus • Tippi N. Blevins • (ss)
• Pretend at Being Blind, Which Calls Truth Near • Ray Bradbury • (pm)
• Pretend That We’re Dead • Gemma Files • (ss)
• Pretend Vampire • Kendall Evans • (pm)
• Pretty Enough • Suellen Luwish • (ss)
• Pretty Kisses • Justin Josephnek Klör • (pm)
• Pretty Polly • David Lubar • (ss)
• The Previous Tenant • Ramsey Campbell • (ss)
• Prey, Michael Crichton • Gary K. Wolfe • (br)
• A Price of Course Worth Paying • Steve Sneyd • (pm)
• The Price of Doing Business • Robert Lynn Asprin • (nv)
• The Price of Everything • Gregg Smith • (ss)
• Price Rise • David Pringle • (ms)
• A Prick of Skin • Paul Melniczek • (ss)
• Pride and Puppetry • Christopher Stasheff • (nv)
• Primary Ignition: In the Company of Dinosaurs • Allen M. Steele • (cl)
• Primary Research • Hank Quense • (ss)
• Primate Panorama • Nigel Brown • (br)
• Prime • Margo Skinner • (pm)
• Primum Non Nocere • F. Paul Wilson • (in)
• Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady • Vernon Lee • (na)
• The Prince and The Crows • M. P. Ericson • (ss)
• Prince of Ayodhya, Ashok K. Banker • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• The Prince of Barlocco • Mark Valentine • (ss)
• Prince of Exiles • Rosemary Edghill • (ss)
• Prince of Flowers • Elizabeth Hand • (ss)
• Prince of the Powers of this World • Roger Zelazny • (ss)
• Prince of the Waters • Brutal Dreamer • (ss)
• The Prince Who Killed a Dragon • Elizabeth Penrose • (pm)
• Princess • Marion Arnott • (ss)
• Princess • Alison L. R. Davies • (ss)
• A Princess of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs • (n.)
• The Princess of Plumpieland! • Ruth Plumly Thompson • (ss)
• Princess of Shades • Jessica Amanda Salmonson • (pm)
• A Princess of the Aerie, John Barnes • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• The Princess’s Birthday Gift • Ferrell Rosser • (ss)
• Prismatica • Samuel R. Delany • (nv)
• Prison • Camille Garwood • (ss)
• Prison Dreams • Paul J. McAuley • (nv)
• The Prisoner • Stuart A. Etter • (ss)
• Prisoner • John Grey • (pm)
• The Prisoner • Richard Matheson • (ss)
• Prisoner of the Coral Deep • J. G. Ballard • (ss)
• Prisoners of Skin and Bones • Jason Brannon • (ss)
• Prisoners of the Royal Weather • Bruce Boston • (pm)
• The Prisoner’s Tale • Stephen L. Sennitt • (ss)
• The Pristine Planet • Lloyd Biggle, Jr. • (ss)
• Pritty-Pritty • Jessica Amanda Salmonson • (ss)
• A Private Clamour • Guy Gavriel Kay • (pm)
• Private Grave 9 • Karen Joy Fowler • (ss)
• Private Parts • John B. Rosenman • (ss)
• The Private Passion of the Rebellious Reader • L. Timmel Duchamp • (ed)
• Private View • Ian Johnson • (vi)
• Probability Zero:
  ___ Counterspy • Richard Foss • (vi)
  ___ Cowzilla • Geoffrey A. Landis • (vi)
  ___ Get Me to the Job on Time • Ian Randal Strock • (vi)
  ___ The HASEG • Jerry Oltion • (vi)
  ___ Just an Average Guy • Richard Foss • (vi)
  ___ The Rescue • Kevin Levites • (vi)
  ___ The Word Mill • Don D’Ammassa • (vi)
• Probing the Near Future • David Brin • (ar)
• The Problem of “Dressing Room A.” • Jacques Futrelle • (ss)
• The Problem of Cell 13 • Jacques Futrelle • (nv)
• The Problem of the Auto Cab • Jacques Futrelle • (ss)
• The Problem of the Broken Bracelet • Jacques Futrelle • (ss)
• The Problem of the Cross Mark • Jacques Futrelle • (ss)
• The Problem of the Deserted House • Jacques Futrelle • (ss)
• The Problem of the Gourmet Planet • Lloyd Biggle, Jr. • (ss)
• The Problem of the Hidden Million • Jacques Futrelle • (ss)
• The Problem of the Pearls • William Hope Hodgson • (ss)
• The Problem of the Red Rose • Jacques Futrelle • (ss)
• The Problem of the Stolen Rubens • Jacques Futrelle • (ss)
• The Problem with Data: Interview with Prof. Michael Fellows • Danuta Shaw • (iv)
• The Procedure • Michael Bishop • (ss)
• Processed Meat • Douglas Ford • (ss)
• Procrustes • Larry Niven • (na)
• The Prodigy • Laura Resnick • (ss)
• Product Placement... • Martha A. Hood • (ss)
• Production Model • Philip E. High • (ss)
• Proem (In a Broken Suitcase) • Jessica Amanda Salmonson • (gp)
• Professional Courtesy • Ambrose Bierce • (gs)
• Professionals • Keith N. Brooke • (ss)
• A Professor at Harvard • David Brin • (ss)
• Professor Berkowitz Stands on the Threshold • Theodora Goss • (ss)
• Profit Motive • Steve de Beer • (ss)
• The Program • Hal Niedzvieki • (ex)
• Program of the Elder Gods • Steven L. Shrewsbury • (sl)
• Progressions, Jon Foster • Karen Haber • (br)
• Prologue • Ray Bradbury • (pm)
• Prologue • Nicholas Wroe • (bg)
• Prologue to Roger Zelazny’s The Dawn of Amber • John Gregory Betancourt • (pr)
• Prologue to The Trumps of Doom • Roger Zelazny • (ex)
• Promethea: Book 3, Alan Moore, J.H. Williams III, & Mick Gray Courtney • Carolyn Cushman • (br)