The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2004

Stories, Listed by Title

• Purple Reign • Brian Keene • (nv)
• The Purple Testament • Rod Serling • (pl)
• Purr of a Cat • Hugh B. Cave • (ss)
• Purse • Chesya Burke • (ss)
• The Pursuit of Sacracea • Richard Marlowe • (ss)
• The Pusher • Howard Schoenfeld • (ss)
• The Pusher • John Varley • (ss)
• Puss in D.C. • Pamela Sargent • (nv)
• Put Down • William I. Lengeman, III • (ss)
• Puzzle of Flesh: A Review of “Pieces” • Heather Drain • (mr)
• Pyramid of the Visitors • Jim Harmon • (ss)
• Pythoninae Priapus • Scott Thomas • (vi)
• Q • John Grant • (ss)
• Q & A • J. G. Ballard • (ms)
• Q&A: Greg Keyes • Dave Gross • (iv)
• Q&A: Larry Niven • Darrell Schweitzer • (iv)
• Q&A:
  ___ Harry Turtledove • Anonymous • (iv)
  ___ Charles Vess • Anonymous • (iv)
• Quality Control • Michael W. Clark • (ss)
• The Quality of Sand • Cherene Sherrard • (ss)
• Quantum Anthropology • Liz Williams • (ss)
• Quantum Phantom of the Opera • Kendall Evans • (pm)
• The Quantum Physics of Love • Patricia K. McCarthy • (pm)
• Quantum Survival • Kendall Evans • (pm)
• Quarks and Strings Editorial • Margaret Ballif Simon • (ed)
• Quarry • Peter S. Beagle • (nv)
• The Quarry • M. John Harrison • (ss)
• Quarry Games • Mark Patrick Lynch • (ss)
• A Quartet of Mini-Fantasies • Arthur Porges • (vi)
• Quasimodo Takes the Grand Tour • Tobias Seamon • (pm)
• Quatrain • Samuel Loveman • (pm)
• Quatrains • Samuel Loveman • (pm)
• Queen • Gene Wolfe • (ss)
• The Queen Bee, Brothers Grimm, Elizabeth James, trans., illustrated by Iassen Ghiuselev • Karen Haber • (br)
• The Queen of Magic • Jack Clubb • (pm)
• Queen of the Martian Mysteries: An Appreciation of Leigh Brackett • Michael Moorcock • (ar)
• A Queer Island • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• The Queer Story of Brownlow’s Newspaper • H. G. Wells • (ss)
• Quelling the Demon • Kurt MacPhearson • (pm)
• The Question • Guy Belleranti • (pm)
• The Question I Get Asked Most Often • Ursula K. Le Guin • (ar)
• A Question of Discourse • Gary Fry • (vi)
• The Question of Poe’s Narrators • James W. Gargano • (ar)
• A Question of Taste • François DeVoto • (ss)
• The Question of [?query term] • Adam Roberts • (ss)
• A Quick Spin Around the Rings • Ben Cook • (ar)
• The Quicksilver Rebellion • Mikal Trimm • (pm)
• Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson • Russell Letson • (br)
• The Quiet Dark • Scott E. Green • (pm)
• The Quiet Man • Anthony J. Mazza • (ss)
• The Quiet Place • Michael L. Garrard • (vi)
• Quiet, He Said • Alex Lucas • (pm)
• Quietly Now • Charles L. Grant • (nv)
• Quietus • Ross Rocklynne • (ss)
• The Quilt • Robert D. San Souci • (ss)
• Quirk • Maurice Oliver • (pm)
• Quits • E. Phillips Oppenheim • (ss)
• Quiz Answers • Anonymous • (ms)
• Quiz Answers • Christopher Barker • (ms)
• R • Ben Peek • (ss)
• R.A.O.K. • Joe Murphy • (ss)
• The R.B, G.K.C., and G.B.S. Forever Orient Express • Ray Bradbury • (pm)
• R.I.P. (To Ian Curtis) • Edward Lee • (pm)
• Rabbit Rerun • Carol Rosenfeld • (ss)
• Rabid Transit: Petting Zoo, Barth Anderson, Christopher Barzak, Alan DeNiro & Kristin Livdahl, eds. • Richard Horton • (br)
• Race, Sex & Horror: The Things Darwin Never Told You • Christopher M. Cumo • (ar)
• Rachael • Gary Couzens • (ss)
• Rachel • Larissa Lai • (ss)
• Rachel in Love • Pat Murphy • (nv)
• The Radiant Warrior • Leo A. Frankowski • (n.)
• Radiant, James Alan Gardner • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Radio in the 1632 Universe • Rick Boatright • (ar)
• Radio-Man • James C. Glass • (ss)
• Raffles Holmes • John Kendrick Bangs • (ss)
• Rafiddilee • Meredith Ann Pierce • (ss)
• Raft • Stephen M. Baxter • (ss)
• The Raft Builders • Lord Dunsany • (pp)
• The Rag and Bone Man’s Story • Colin Brake • (ss)
• Rag Doll • John Sunseri • (ss)
• Ragdog • Susan Mosser • (ss)
• Ragnall Redux • Abbie Bernstein • (ss)
• The Raid on the Academy of Sorcery • Margaret Weis • (nv)
• The Rain • Aloysius Bertrand • (pp)
• Rain • Esther Garber & Yolande Sorores • (nv)
• Rain • John Ling • (ss)
• Rain from Another Country • Mark W. Tiedemann • (ss)
• The Rain Room • Scott Thomas • (ss)
• Rainbird • R. A. Lafferty • (ss)
• Rainmaker • Charlee Jacob • (pm)
• Rains of Terror • Harry J. Lowther • (pm)
• RAM • Andy Miller • (ss)
• The Ramapos • Samuel Loveman • (pm)
• Ramblings at the End of the World • Christina Sng • (pm)
• Rami Temporalis • Gary A. Braunbeck • (nv)
• Rampion • Meredith Ann Pierce • (na)
• Ramsey Campbell, Probably:
  ___ The Edited Version • Ramsey Campbell • (cl)
  ___ Plagued by Plagiarism I • Ramsey Campbell • (cl)
  ___ Plagued by Plagiarism II • Ramsey Campbell • (cl)
• Random Musings on Storytelling • Christopher Kugler • (ed)
• Random Seed • Keith P. Graham • (ss)
• The Rape of the Toyota • Cathy Tacinelli • (pm)
• raped in another room • John Sweet • (pm)
• The Rapid Advance of Sorrow • Theodora Goss • (ss)
• Rapper • Albert E. Cowdrey • (ss)
• Rapture • Sally Gwylan • (sl)
• Rapture • Andrew Lyall • (ss)
• The Rapture of the Nerds: Jury Duty and Appeals Court • Cory Doctorow & Charles Stross • (na)
• The Raptures of the Deep • Rosaleen Love • (ss)
• Rapunzel Summons the Prince • Orson Scott Card • (pm)
• Rapunzel—the True Story • Robert Sheckley • (nv)
• Rapunzel, Too Late • W. Paul Ganley • (pm)
• Rat • Paul Finch • (ss)
• Rat City • Maree Kimberley • (ex)
• Rat: Killing in the Name of Science • Jessa Sinclair • (ar)
• Rats Ashore • Charles C. Young • (ss)
• The Rat’s Dream • Richard William Pearce • (pm)
• The Rats, the Bats, & the Ugly, Eric Flint & Dave Freer • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Rattenkrieg • Robert Carl • (ss)
• Rattle of Bones • Robert E. Howard • (ss)
• The Rattle of Her Smile • Stanley C. Sargent • (nv)
• Rattler • Brian A. Hopkins & Gene Wolfe • (ss)
• The Raven • Edgar Allan Poe • (pm)
• Raven Says • John Calvin Rezmerski • (pm)
• Raven’s Back in Town • Bradley H. Sinor • (ss)
• The Ravinini Box • Jeffrey D. Johnson • (ss)
• Raw Material • Antonia S. Byatt • (nv)
• The Razor in the Apple • Jay R. Bonansinga • (pm)
• Re-deem the Time • David J. Lake • (ss)
• Reach for the Sky • Mickey Zucker Reichert • (nv)
• Reaching • Paul G. Tremblay • (ss)
• Read This #1: 1997 • Jeff VanderMeer • (ar)
• Read This #2: 2000 • Jeff VanderMeer • (ar)
• Read This #3: 2002 • Jeff VanderMeer • (ar)
• The Reader • Jeffrey Valka • (vi)
• Reading Day • Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini • (ss)
• Reading Lesson • Guy Belleranti • (pm)
• Reading My Mind • Nancy Jackson • (ss)
• Reading the Well • Peter Straub • (pm)
• Reading Young, Reading Old: Mark Twain’s Diaries of Adam and Eve • Ursula K. Le Guin • (in)
• Ready for the Afterlife • Abel Diaz • (ss)
• Real Life • Dennis Detwiller • (ss)
• Real Monsters • Bob L. Morgan • (ss)
• A Real Nice Guy • William F. Nolan • (ss)
• The Real Scoop About Pixies • Mario Milosevic • (pm)
• Real Vampires • Scott Thomas • (ss)
• Reality 2.0 • Ian Creasey • (ss)
• The Realm of Galaxies • Tim Myers • (pm)
• Realms of Fantasy 2/04 • Nick Gevers • (br)
• Realms of Fantasy 2/04 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Realms of Fantasy 4/04 • Nick Gevers • (br)
• Realms of Fantasy 4/04 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Realms of Fantasy 6/04 • Nick Gevers • (br)
• Realms of Fantasy 6/04 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Realms of Fantasy 8/04 • Nick Gevers • (br)
• Realms of Fantasy 8/04 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Realms of Fantasy 10/04 • Nick Gevers • (br)
• Realms of Fantasy 10/04 • Richard Horton • (br)
• The Realms of Tolkien • Daphne Castell • (ar)
• The Reaper • Richard Geyer • (pm)
• The Reaper’s Image • Stephen King • (ss)
• The Reason for the Visit • John Crowley • (ss)
• Reasonable Engineering Laws • Darrell Schweitzer • (iv)
• Rebar Theater • Peter Hynes • (ss)
• Rebel Horticulture • Terry A. Garey • (pm)
• The Rebel, Jack Dann • Nick Gevers • (br)
• The Rebel, Jack Dann • Faren Miller • (br)
• The Rebuff • Lord Dunsany • (vi)
• The Rec Field • Bill Pronzini • (ss)
• Receiver • Michael A. Arnzen • (ss)
• Reception • Ray Garton • (ss)
• a recipe for Ideologically Labile Fruit Crisp • Eileen Gunn • (ms)
• The Reckoning • John Maclay • (vi)
• Recognition, William Gibson, read by Shelly Frasier • John Joseph Adams • (br)
• Recommended Books • David Lee Summers • (br)
• Reconciliation • E. F. Benson • (ss)
• The Recondite Rebus • Michael Cobley • (ss)
• Recovery from a Fall • David Findlay • (ss)
• Recreating the Terror • Stephen Jones • (in)
• Recruiting New “Huddled Masses” and “Wretched Refuse”: A Prolegomenon to the Human Colonization of Space • Morton Klass • (ar)
• Recursion • Rick Kleffel • (br)
• Recycling the Dead • Diane Thompson • (ss)
• Recycling Triptych • Douglas M. Stokes • (pm)
• Red • Rickey Windell George • (ss)
• Red as Blood • Tanith Lee • (ss)
• Red Blades of Black Cathay • Robert E. Howard & Tevis Clyde Smith • (nv)
• The Red Bow • George Saunders • (ss)
• Red Canvas • Tim Jones • (pm)
• Red Caramae • Kit Wesler • (ss)
• Red City • Janeen Webb • (nv)
• Red Equals Green • Mark Zirbel • (ss)
• The Red Eye • Jeffrey Valka • (vi)
• The Red Hand • Arthur Machen • (nv)
• Red Hands • Terry Gates-Grimwood • (ss)
• Red Hands, Black Hands • Chris Roberson • (ss)
• Red Magic • Alice Brown • (pm)
• Red Moon Rising • Lori Handeland • (ss)
• Red Ochre • Lucy Sussex • (nv)
• Red of Tooth & Claw • Eleanora Boyce • (ss)
• Red Shadows • Robert E. Howard • (nv)
• The Red Slipper • Dennis L. McKiernan • (ss)
• Red Thunder • Robert E. Howard • (pm)
• Red View • Darren Speegle • (ss)
• Red Witch of Colchis • Yoon Ha Lee • (pm)
• Red Wood • Brian Keene • (nv)
• The Red World of Polaris • Clark Ashton Smith • (nv)
• Red-shift Days • Russell Miles • (ss)
• Redeemers • Orson Scott Card • (pm)
• Redeeming the Lost, Elizabeth Kerner • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Redemption Center • Alexander B. Potter • (nv)
• Redemption, Drawing Near • Michael J. Jasper • (ss)
• The Reducer • Kristine Ong Muslim • (pm)
• Redundancy • Alan Dean Foster • (ss)
• Redux • Susan S. McCrackin • (nv)
• The Reference Library • Thomas A. Easton • (br)
• The Reflecting Eye: A Charlie Parker Novella • John Connolly • (na)
• Reflecting Stream • Louise Webster • (pm)