The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2003

Stories, Listed by Title

• Slow Degenerate • Michael Bracken • (ss)
• Slow Life • Michael Swanwick • (nv)
• Slow Lightning • John Clute • (br)
• The Slow Mutants • Stephen King • (nv)
• Slow, Slow Burn • George Alec Effinger • (ss)
• The Slugger’s Game • Robert E. Howard • (ss)
• Sluggers of the Beach • Robert E. Howard • (ss)
• Slugs • David Lubar • (ss)
• Small Arms • Patricia Duncker • (nv)
• Small Avalanches • Joyce Carol Oates • (nv)
• A Small Goddess • John Teehan • (ss)
• Small Houses • James P. Blaylock • (ss)
• Small Magic • Janet Fox • (ss)
• The Small Miracle • Anonymous • (ss)
• The Small Miracle • Rhys H. Hughes • (ss)
• A Small Nightmusic • Ben Passikoff • (pm)
• The Small Ones • C. L. Werner • (nv)
• A Small Planet of Our Own • Terri Merritt-Pinckard • (ss)
• The Small Roads out of Town • C. J. Hurtt • (vi)
• Small World • Michael J. Kurland • (nv)
• Small World • William F. Nolan • (ss)
• A Small, Obscure Spot • Sam Rasnake • (pm)
• The Smart Minefield • Chris Butler • (ss)
• Smash and Grab • David A. Drake • (nv)
• The Smile • Ray Bradbury • (ss)
• The Smile of Karen • Oliver Onions • (nv)
• The Smiling People • Ray Bradbury • (ss)
• The Smithsonian Institution • John Clute • (br)
• Smoke • Jon Manchip White • (ss)
• Smoke • Stanley Wiater • (ss)
• Smoke and Mirrors, Parts I-IV • Michael Swanwick • (ss)
• Smoke City • Russell Blackford • (ss)
• The Smoke Ring • Larry Niven • (n.)
• Smoking with Karl Marx in Toulon, 1996 • Kevin Carollo • (pm)
• Smunkies • David Lubar • (ss)
• Smut Talk • Larry Niven • (ss)
• The Snail • James R. Cain • (pm)
• Snake Girl • Caitlin Davies • (ss)
• Snake in the Class • Diane A. S. Stickart • (nv)
• Snake Oil • Tracy S. Morris • (ss)
• Snake Vengeance • E. C. Tubb • (ss)
• Snakeland • David Lubar • (ss)
• Snakes • Jack Ketchum • (ss)
• Snap • Fidelis Blue • (ss)
• Snapping Pansy • Darren Goossens • (ct)
• A Snapshot from Fayetteville • Mick Collins • (ss)
• Snare, Katharine Kerr • Alyx Dellamonica • (br)
• Snare, Katharine Kerr • Faren Miller • (br)
• Snitto-Snot • Michael Köhlmeier • (ss)
• Snoutferatu • Rhys H. Hughes • (pm)
• The Snow • Hugh Walpole • (ss)
• Snow Beetles • L. H. Maynard & Michael P. N. Sims • (ss)
• Snow Day • Dean R. Koontz • (pm)
• Snow Day • Jennifer Pelland • (ss)
• Snow Glass Apples: A Play for Voices, Neil Gaiman • Gary K. Wolfe • (br)
• Snow in the Desert • Neal L. Asher • (nv)
• The Snow Queen • Robert S. Phillips • (pm)
• The Snow Queen’s Rick Assessment • Chris Clarke • (ss)
• snow semaphores • Gillian Harding-Russell • (pm)
• Snow Speaks • Christine Butterworth • (pm)
• The Snow Walker’s Son • Catherine Fisher • (n.)
• Snow White Turns 39 • Anne Sheldon • (pm)
• Snow, Tracy Lynn • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Snowball’s Chance, John Reed • Faren Miller • (br)
• Snowbound • T. M. Gray • (ss)
• So Many Things Left Out • Paul G. Tremblay • (ss)
• So Napoleon Almost Slept Here, Right? • O’Neil De Noux • (ss)
• So You Want to Be a Wizard • Diane Duane • (n.)
• Soapbox:
  ___ Behind the Sock Drawer • A. J. Jones • (cl)
• Social Dreaming of the Frin • Ursula K. Le Guin • (ss)
• A Social Gathering • Jeff VanderMeer • (ss)
• Society’s Goy • Mike Resnick • (ss)
• Society’s Stepchild • Susan R. Matthews • (ss)
• Sock Heroes • M. Thomas • (ss)
• The Sofa • Maurice Reveley, Jr. • (ss)
• Soft Black Star: Some Thoughts on Knowing Thomas Ligotti • David Tibet • (ar)
• The Soft Room • Geoffrey Rhorne • (nv)
• The Soft Terrible Music • George Zebrowski • (ss)
• A Soft Voice Whispers Nothing • Thomas Ligotti • (ss)
• The Softest Is the Kitten with Eyes Not Open • Eric Chambers • (pm)
• Sojourn: From the Ashes, Ron Marz & Greg Land • Charles de Lint • (br)
• Sol-Zeta Five • Eric S. Brown & Gail Davis • (ss)
• Solace • Justin Josephnek Klör • (pm)
• Solar Constant • Murray Leinster • (nv)
• Solar Family • Kaolin Fire • (pm)
• Soldier of Arete • Gene Wolfe • (n.)
• Soldier of the Mist • Gene Wolfe • (n.)
• The Soldiers Bond • Lindsay Buroker • (vi)
• Soldier’s Home • Loren W. Cooper • (ss)
• The Soldiers’ Rest • Arthur Machen • (ss)
• Soleta: Out of the Frying Pan • Susan M. Shwartz • (nv)
• Soleta: Revelations • Keith R. A. DeCandido • (nv)
• Solid State Biology • Catherine Haluska Shaffer • (ar)
• Soliloquy • Alexandra Elizabeth Honigsberg • (ss)
• Soliloquy • Dana Solomon • (ss)
• The Solitaire Mystery • John Clute • (br)
• Soliton, by Roald Hoffmann • Drew Morse • (br)
• Solstice • Jennifer Stevenson • (ss)
• Some Assembly Required • Scott Ciencin & Dan Jolley • (na)
• Some Live Like Lazarus • Ray Bradbury • (pm)
• Some of the Windows of My House • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • (pm)
• Some Other Me • Brian Hodge • (ss)
• Some People Who Have Had Influence Over Me • Robert E. Howard • (ar)
• Some Things You Learn by Doing • Lawrence Barker • (ss)
• Some Velvet Morning • Nancy A. Collins • (nv)
• Some Words with a Mummy • Edgar Allan Poe • (ss)
• Someday • Diane L. Tucker • (pm)
• Someone to Share the Night • Tanya S. Huff • (nv)
• Something • Jack Fisher • (ss)
• Something About Collaborating with Artists • Neil Gaiman • (ar)
• Something About Her • Andrew Humphrey • (ss)
• Something Ending • Eddy C. Bertin • (ss)
• Something from the Nightside, Simon R. Green • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Something in Store • Bev Vincent • (ss)
• Something in the Air • Gordon Holmes Landsborough • (nv)
• Something in the Bath • Steve Lines • (pm)
• Something in the Shadows • John S. Glasby • (ss)
• Something to Say for the Rain • Rudolf Bayr • (ss)
• Something’s Cooking • Tony Ruggiero • (ss)
• Sometimes Above the Trees • K. S. Hardy • (vi)
• Sometimes They Hug Back • Richard Dysinger • (ss)
• Sometimes, Just Because • Tanya S. Huff • (nv)
• Somewhere a Band Is Playing • Ray Bradbury • (pm)
• Somewhere A Voice Is Calling • John S. Glasby • (ss)
• Somewhere in My Mind There Is a Painting Box • Charles de Lint • (nv)
• Somewhere, Under the Rainbow • Steve Eng • (pm)
• A Son in Shadow • John B. Rosenman • (ss)
• Son of Book Monster of Blood Island • Henry W. Wagner • (br)
• Son of Summer Stars • Meredith Ann Pierce • (n.)
• A Song for Lya • George R. R. Martin • (na)
• Song from the Kalevala • Eleanor Arnason • (pm)
• A Song of Ice and Fire • Robert Silverberg • (is)
• A Song of Stone • John Clute • (br)
• Song of the Beast • William Thompson • (br)
• Song of the Beast, Carol Berg • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Song of the Chemical Boy • Nile A. Coy • (pm)
• The Song of the Slaves • Manly Wade Wellman • (ss)
• The Song of the Stones • Diana L. Paxson • (ss)
• The Songs a Dead Whale Sings • Jeff VanderMeer • (vi)
• Songstress • Jason Erik Lundberg • (ss)
• Soon Enough • Holly Phillips • (pm)
• Soothe the Savage Beast • Michael R. Martin • (ss)
• Sophia Walters Shaw • Patricia Duncker • (nv)
• The Sorcerer of Rasston • Patricia Duffy Novak • (ss)
• The Sorcerer of Rhiannon • Leigh Brackett • (nv)
• The Sorcerer’s Gift • Darrell Schweitzer • (ss)
• Sorceress of the Gulls • Dave Smeds • (ss)
• Sorrow • Eric S. Brown • (vi)
• Sorry, Right Number • Richard Matheson • (ss)
• A Sort of Hysteresis • Ian Watson • (pm)
• Sortilege and Serendipity • Brian M. Stableford • (nv)
• Sothis Rising • Ann K. Schwader • (pm)
• Soul Mate • David Bailey • (ss)
• Soul Mates • L. A. Story Houry • (ss)
• The Soul of Vernon Lennox • Arthur Gray • (vi)
• The Soul Thieves • Catherine Fisher • (n.)
• Souls, Written on the Flea • Tom Piccirilli • (ss)
• The Sound • A. E. van Vogt • (nv)
• Sound Bites…? • Derek M. Fox • (ss)
• Sound Check • G. O. Clark • (pm)
• The Sound Gun • Matthew Derby • (ss)
• The Sound of a Door Opening • Don Webb • (ss)
• The Sound of Summer Running • Ray Bradbury • (ss)
• A Sound of Thunder: The Graphic Adaptation • Ray Bradbury • (gs)
• Sounds Like • Mike Driscoll • (ss)
• Sour • Airom Bleicher • (il)
• Sources • Misc. • (bi)
• Sources and Acknowledgements • Jessica Amanda Salmonson • (bi)
• Sources and Acknowledgments • Misc. • (bi)
• Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural, Bill Congreve, ed. • Tim Pratt • (br)
• Southern Crab Nebula • Anonymous • (pi)
• A Southern Gothic • Gary Hernandez • (ss)
• Space • Lia Pas • (pm)
• Space and Time Books • Melissa J. Yuan-Innes • (ss)
• Space Divers • Annette Griessman • (ss)
• Space Opera Buzz • William Thompson • (br)
• Space Operetta • Adam Browne • (ss)
• The Spacemice Incident • Carl Frederick • (ss)
• Spadework • Michael J. Kurland • (ss)
• The Spam of God • Sandra McDonald • (ss)
• Spamology • James Patrick Kelly • (pm)
• Spandex Bone Dials • Paul Lomax • (pm)
• Spare Parts • Stuart Young • (ss)
• Sparks in a Cold War • Kristine Kathryn Rusch • (nv)
• Sparks: An Urban Fairytale, Lawrence Marvit • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Spawning • Harvey Jacobs • (nv)
• Speak! • Elizabeth Bear • (ss)
• Speaking Out • Simon Guerrier • (ss)
• Speaking the Ceremony • Nicole R. Murphy • (ss)
• Spear of Heaven • Judith Tarr • (n.)
• Special Delivery • John Collier • (nv)
• A Special Introduction • David Brin • (in)
• Special Order • Henry Lee Forrest • (nv)
• The Specialist • Lauren P. Burka • (nv)
• Specifically • Guy Gavriel Kay • (pm)
• Speckles • Mark West • (ss)
• Specters of the Dawn • S. Andrew Swann • (n.)
• Spectrum 10, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. • Karen Haber • (br)
• Spectrum 9, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. • Karen Haber • (br)
• Spectrum SF 9 11/02 • Nick Gevers • (br)
• Spectrum SF 9 11/02 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Specula • Michael J. Kurland • (ss)
• The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon • Faren Miller • (br)
• A Spell at the End of the World • Alexander James • (ss)
• The Spell of Magic • Peter Haining • (in)
• Spellbinding Recipes • Misc. • (ms)
• Spellbound Crossword Puzzle • Misc. • (pz)
• Spellbound in Seattle, Garthia Anderson • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Spellbound’s Featured Creature: The Little People • Raechel Henderson Moon • (ar)
• The Spellcoats • Diana Wynne Jones • (n.)
• Spells Trouble • Paul Kane • (pm)
• The Spencer Inheritance • Michael Moorcock • (ss)
• The Sphinx Without a Secret • Oscar Wilde • (ss)
• Spicy Detective #3 • Jeffrey Ford • (vi)
• The Spider • James R. Cain • (ss)