The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2004

Stories, Listed by Title

• Portrait of a Horror Writer • Tim Waggoner • (ss)
• Portrait of a Strong Man • Eleanor Smith • (ss)
• Portrait of a Suburb • S. William Snider • (ss)
• Portrait of an Unidentified Angel • Wendy A. Shaffer • (ss)
• A Portrait of the Artist • Vandana Singh • (pm)
• Portraits • Eric Flint • (ss)
• Portti 86 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Poseidon • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• The Poseidon Aphasia • Lisa M. Bradley • (pm)
• Position Vacant: Santa Claus • Valerie Y. L. Toh • (ss)
• Possession • Sarah Brown Weitzman • (pm)
• A Post-Modern Way to Die • Sebastian Daez • (pm)
• Postcard from Boston • Zara Baxter • (ar)
• Postcards • Mario Milosevic • (pm)
• The Postern Gate of the Louvre • Aloysius Bertrand • (pp)
• Postscripts Spring ’04 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Potion for Immortality • Orson Scott Card • (pm)
• Pots • C. J. Cherryh • (nv)
• Potter’s Field • Kevin L. Donihe • (pm)
• Poul Anderson • William Tenn • (ob)
• The Power • Linda D. Addison • (ss)
• Power • Mario Milosevic • (pm)
• The Power of Love • Janine Cross • (ss)
• The Power of Myth • Mario Milosevic • (pm)
• The Power of Waking • Nina Kiriki Hoffman • (ss)
• The Power of Words • Edgar Allan Poe • (ss)
• Power Plant • Milton A. Rothman • (ss)
• Power Sources • Julia H. West • (ss)
• Powers of Detection, Dana Stabenow, ed. • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Powers of Detection: Stories of Mystery and Fantasy • Dorman T. Shindler • (br)
• The Prairie Whales Are All Extinct • Nicholas C. Ozment • (pm)
• The Prank • Gregory Maguire • (nv)
• The Prayer • Violet Hunt • (nv)
• Prayer in the ICU • Orson Scott Card • (pm)
• A Prayer of Salt and Sand • Karina Sumner-Smith • (ss)
• The Prayer of the Flowers • Lord Dunsany • (pp)
• The Pre-Persons • Philip K. Dick • (nv)
• Precious Cargo • Bernie Arntzen • (nv)
• Precious Things • Thomas M. Reid • (ss)
• The Precipice • Ben Bova • (n.)
• Predator’s Gold, Philip Reeve • Faren Miller • (br)
• A Predicament • Edgar Allan Poe • (ss)
• Preface • Antonin Artaud • (pr)
• Preface • Aloysius Bertrand • (pr)
• Preface • Jack M. Dann & Gardner R. Dozois • (pr)
• Preface • Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling • (pr)
• Preface • Michael Dirda • (pr)
• Preface • Lord Dunsany • (pr)
• Preface • Eric Flint • (pr)
• Preface • Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini • (pr)
• Preface • William F. Nolan • (pr)
• Preface • Jerry Oltion • (pr)
• Preface • Robert M. Price • (pr)
• Preface • Joel Rosenberg • (pr)
• Preface • Virginia Woolf • (pr)
• Preface • Misc. • (pr)
• Preface (Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque—1840) • Edgar Allan Poe • (pr)
• Preface (The Raven and Other Poems) • Edgar Allan Poe • (pr)
• Preface to “Advocates” • Suzy McKee Charnas • (pr)
• Preface to The Man from Genoa • Samuel Loveman • (pr)
• Preface: Reclaiming the Tradition • Ann K. Schwader • (pr)
• Preflash • John M. Ford • (ss)
• Pregnant • Barbara Robson • (ss)
• The Pregnant Pause • Kaolin Fire • (pm)
• Prelude to Armageddon • Cleve Cartmill • (n.)
• Prelude: Night Voyage • Meredith Ann Pierce • (ss)
• The Premature Burial • Edgar Allan Poe • (ss)
• The Presence by the Fire • H. G. Wells • (ss)
• A Present from Earth • Sydney J. Bounds • (ss)
• Present Perfect • Thomas F. Monteleone • (vi)
• Preservation • Jason R. Huff • (pm)
• Preserve Us • Victoria Elisabeth Garcia • (ss)
• President • Mike Allen • (ms)
• President • Scott E. Green • (ms)
• El Presidente • Mike Resnick • (ss)
• The President’s Body • John Maclay • (ss)
• President’s Message • Mike Allen • (ms)
• PRESS ENTER [] • John Varley • (na)
• Prester John • Frances Oliver • (ss)
• Presumed Dead • Rick Kennett • (ex)
• Previous Winners • Misc. • (ms)
• Prey • Stephen LeClerc • (vi)
• Prey of the Nightborn • Hugh B. Cave • (ss)
• The Price • Anne Bishop • (nv)
• A Price of Course Worth Paying • Steve Sneyd • (pm)
• The Price of Freedom • Stanley Schmidt • (ed)
• The Price of Glamour • Steve Berman • (nv)
• The Price of Oranges • Nancy Kress • (nv)
• The Price to Pay • Philip E. High • (ss)
• Pricks and Afflictions • Dennis L. McKiernan • (nv)
• Prides: An Essay on Writing Workshops • Ursula K. Le Guin • (ar)
• The Priest and the Barber • Arthur Machen • (ss)
• The Priest’s Pavan • R. Murray Gilchrist • (ss)
• Primate Suspect • Rhys H. Hughes • (vi)
• Prime Crime • Milton A. Rothman • (nv)
• Prime Spark • Sean P. Fodera • (nv)
• Primitive Baptist Church, Tennessee • Lee Clark Zumpe • (pm)
• Primitives • John Seavey • (ss)
• Primordial Haiku • Melanie Tem • (pm)
• Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady • Vernon Lee • (na)
• Prince Alcorez and the Magician • Clark Ashton Smith • (vi)
• Prince of Christler-Coke, Neal Barrett, Jr. • Faren Miller • (br)
• The Prince of Perfect • Ann K. Schwader • (ss)
• The Prince Revisited • Jamie Wasserman • (pm)
• The Princess and the Pee • John Everson • (ss)
• Princess Injera Versus the Spanakopita of Doom • Robin Wayne Bailey • (ss)
• The Princess of All Lands • Russell Kirk • (ss)
• A Princess of Earth • Mike Resnick • (ss)
• The Princess of Neptune, Quentin Dodd • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Princess of Tides • Cythera • (pm)
• Printed Matter • Cliff Burns • (ss)
• The Prisoner • Philip E. High • (ss)
• Prisoner 392 • Jon F. Merz • (nv)
• A Prisoner in the Tower • John Grey • (pm)
• The Prisoner of Hulburg • Richard Lee Byers • (ss)
• Prisoners of Uqbaristan • Chris Nakashima-Brown • (ss)
• The Prisoner’s Tale • Thomas F. Monteleone • (ss)
• Privacy: Who Needs It? • Robert J. Sawyer • (ar)
• Private Eyes • Grey Rollins • (nv)
• The Private Sector in Space • Robert J. Sawyer • (ar)
• The Prize • C. H. Sherman • (ss)
• Prize Crew • Gene Wolfe • (ss)
• The Prize of Peril • Robert Sheckley • (ss)
• Probability Zero • Hayford Peirce • (vi)
• Probability Zero:
  ___ Do Unto Others • Kelvin Throop • (vi)
  ___ Equivalence Principle • Robert Scherrer • (vi)
  ___ Fore-Thought • Don D’Ammassa • (vi)
  ___ Promises, Promises • Mia Molvray, Ph.D. • (vi)
  ___ The Test • Kevin Levites • (vi)
  ___ Warning! Warning! • Guy Stewart • (vi)
  ___ What Engineers Know • Arlan Andrews, Sr. • (vi)
• Probable Cause • Stephen Dedman • (ss)
• The Problem of Susan • Neil Gaiman • (ss)
• Problem Project • Hugh A. D. Spencer • (ss)
• Procession • G. O. Clark • (pm)
• The Prodigies of Monkfield Cabot • Mike Minnis • (nv)
• Les Professeurs • Graham Masterton • (pm)
• Professionalism • Robert J. Sawyer • (ar)
• Professor Berkowitz Stands on the Threshold • Theodora Goss • (ss)
• Professor Bulworth’s Story • Peter Anghelides • (ss)
• Professor Dyspeptical’s Parrot • D. Harlan Wilson • (ss)
• Professor Jonkin’s Cannibal Plant • Howard R. Garis • (gs)
• A Profile • Jeff VanderMeer • (ar)
• Profiteer • S. Andrew Swann • (n.)
• Profits • Terry Bramlett • (ss)
• De Profundis Clamavi • Samuel Loveman • (pm)
• Program Participant Biographies • Mary Kay Kare • (bg)
• Progress • Hayford Peirce • (ss)
• Progress • Jeffrey Valka • (vi)
• Project Blue Book • Christian Grainger • (ss)
• Projection • Christoph Meyer • (ar)
• Prologue • C. J. Cherryh • (pr)
• Prologue • Kevin L. O’Brien • (pr)
• Prologue: Something Wicked • Stewart O’Nan • (pr)
• Promethes: Pandora’s Box • Robert M. Price • (in)
• Promethes: Where Walks Istasha • James Ambuehl • (pm)
• Promise • James A. Maxey • (ss)
• The Promise of Jasmine • Ron Clinton • (ss)
• Promises • Richard A. Lovett, Ph.D. • (nv)
• Promises • Louise Webster • (pm)
• Proof • Timothy Zahn • (ss)
• Property • Alasdair Gray • (ss)
• The Prophecy • Hugh B. Cave • (ss)
• Prophecy • John Dotson • (pm)
• The Prophecy • J. E. Muddock • (nv)
• Proposed Changes to Rules for Grand Master Selection • Misc. • (ms)
• Pros and Cons • Robert J. Sawyer • (ar)
• Prose Bowl • Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini • (nv)
• Prospectus of The Penn Magazine • Edgar Allan Poe • (ms)
• Prospero One • Stephen M. Baxter & Simon Bradshaw • (ss)
• Protection • Robin Wayne Bailey • (nv)
• Protector of the Small: First Test • Tamora Pierce • (n.)
• Protector of the Small: Lady Knight • Tamora Pierce • (n.)
• Protector of the Small: Page • Tamora Pierce • (n.)
• Protector of the Small: Squire • Tamora Pierce • (n.)
• Proteus • Samuel Loveman • (pm)
• prot’s Report • Gene Brewer • (ss)
• Proud Walkers • Jay Lake • (vi)
• Prune Chicken • Elizabeth A. Jasper • (ms)
• PS238: With Liberty and Recess for All, Aaron Williams • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Psalm Three from the Book of Bast • John D. Dionne • (pm)
• Psyche and Eros • Diana Sherman • (ss)
• The Psyche Zenobia • Edgar Allan Poe • (ar)
• Psyched Up • Michael D. Turner • (ss)
• A Psychic Mystery • Anonymous • (ss)
• Psycho Hunter • Michael A. Arnzen • (vi)
• The Psycho Pigs Meet the Yumbie Bitch from Hell • Bill D. Allen • (ss)
• Psycho, He Explained • Robert Dunbar • (ss)
• Psychology • Arthur Machen • (ss)
• Psychotronic Heroes • Don Webb • (pm)
• Publication History • Misc. • (ms)
• Publisher’s Note: Not the Last Word • Sandra Schulberg • (aw)
• Publisher’s Spotlight—Peter Crowther/PS Publishing • Sean Wallace • (cl)
• Pueblo, Colorado Has the Answers • Kage Baker • (ss)
• Pulling Through • Dean C. Ing • (n.)
• Pulp Cover • Gene Wolfe • (ss)
• Pulp Friction • Gary Fry • (ss)
• The Pulp Reprints of Hugh B. Cave • Michael Chomko • (ar)
• Pulphouse #18-The Jesus Issue, edited by Damon Knight • Jeff VanderMeer • (br)
• Pulse • Corrine De Winter • (pm)
• Pumpkin Carving • Robert Freese • (ss)
• Pumpkin Coach • Allen Ashley • (ss)
• Pumpkin Light • William B. Simmons • (ss)
• Pumpkinseeds • Kevin Anderson • (ss)
• Pundleton’s Audience • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• Punish the Young Seed of Satan • Robert Fleming • (ss)
• Punishment • Michael A. Arnzen • (vi)
• Puppet • Charles de Lint • (pm)
• A Puppet Show for No One • Jeffrey Thomas • (ss)
• The Pure Product • John Kessel • (nv)
• Purgatory • Jeffrey Valka • (vi)
• The Purging • Dennis L. McKiernan • (nv)
• La Purisima • Tamara Thorne • (pm)
• Purity • Douglas Clegg • (na)
• Purity • Thomas Ligotti • (ss)
• The Purloined Letter • Edgar Allan Poe • (nv)
• The Purple Emperor, Herbie Brennan • Carolyn Cushman • (br)