The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2004

Stories, Listed by Title

• The Visitors’ Book • Frances Oliver • (ss)
• Visits • Melanie Tem • (ss)
• Visits with Mother • Kurt Newton • (ss)
• Vistas • Mario Milosevic • (pm)
• Vital Signs • Dean C. Ing • (na)
• Vittorio the Vampire • Anne Rice • (n.)
• Vivaldi and the heavens’ multicoloured luminous stars • Ron Butlin • (ss)
• Vivaldi learns a new skill • Ron Butlin • (ss)
• Vivaldi, the jumping cardinal, God and the number 3 • Ron Butlin • (ss)
• Vivian Relf • Jonathan Lethem • (ss)
• The Vixen • H. B. Marriott Watson • (ss)
• The Voice of the Beach • Ramsey Campbell • (nv)
• Voice of the Hurricane • Paul M. Berger • (ss)
• The Voiceover Man • D. Harlan Wilson • (ss)
• Voices • C. L. Needham • (vi)
• Voices • Kathryn Rantala • (pm)
• Voices in a Box • Nancy Jackson • (ss)
• Voices in an Empty Room • Richard Parks • (nv)
• The Voices In My Head • Susan Marie Groppi • (ed)
• Void-Egg Verses • Yoon Ha Lee • (pm)
• Volcano Master • Janet S. Haffley • (ss)
• Vole Mountain • Anonymous • (ss)
• Vole Mountain • Andrew Hook • (ss)
• The Voluntary State • Christopher Rowe • (nv)
• Volunteers • Alexander C. Irvine • (ss)
• Voodoo for Cain • Eileen Lavelle • (ss)
• Voodoo Vincent and the Astrostoriograms • Tyehimba Jess • (ss)
• Vortle • Lee Battersby • (ss)
• Voting Procedures • Misc. • (ms)
• Vows • Scott H. Urban • (ss)
• A Voyage • Samuel Loveman • (pm)
• The Voyage Home • Vonda N. McIntyre • (n.)
• The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Book One: Ilse Witch • Terry Brooks • (n.)
• Voyage of The Jerle Shannara: Book Three: Morgawr • Terry Brooks • (n.)
• The Voyage of The Jerle Shannara: Book Two: Antrax • Terry Brooks • (n.)
• The Voyage of the Star Wolf • David Gerrold • (n.)
• Voyeur • Alun Williams • (ss)
• The Vultures of Whapeton • Robert E. Howard • (na)
• Vympyre • William F. Nolan • (vi)
• W. Paul Ganley • Anonymous • (iv)
• W.E. • Samuel Loveman • (pm)
• Wager • Sharon E. Woods • (ss)
• The Waif • Gene Wolfe • (ss)
• Wailin’ Jenny • Mark Leslie • (pm)
• The Wailing on the Water • Paul Finch • (ss)
• Waiting for the Bell • Marci Rae Johnson • (pm)
• Waiting for the Iron Age • David Langford • (ss)
• Waiting for the Vampire • William J. Mann • (nv)
• The Wake • Mario Milosevic • (pm)
• Wake-Up Call • David J. Schow • (ss)
• The Wakeford Abyss • John Connolly • (ss)
• Waking Dreams • E. K. Rivera • (ss)
• Waking Up with Sha’zreen • Jim Johnson • (ss)
• Wal-Mart, Cracker Barrel, Ill-tidings and Other Dark Omens • Steven Lee Climer • (ss)
• Wal-Martin’ • Elizabeth Massie • (pm)
• A Walk in the Forest • Frances Oliver • (ss)
• Walk on the Wild Side • Jeremy E. Johnson • (ss)
• A Walk Through the Periodic Chart • Karl Johanson • (ar)
• Walk to Lingham • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• A Walk-On Part in the War • Stephen Dedman • (ss)
• The Walker on the Wall • Iain Rowan • (ss)
• Walkers • Norman Partridge • (ss)
• The Walking Dead • E. Hoffmann Price • (ss)
• Walking Gods • George Alec Effinger • (ss)
• Walking Hibernation • Joanne Merriam • (ss)
• Walking on Water • Orson Scott Card • (pm)
• The Walking Sticks • Gene Wolfe • (ss)
• Walking Wolf • Nancy A. Collins • (na)
• Walks • Joe R. Lansdale • (ss)
• The Wall • J. Michael Straczynski • (sa)
• A Wall of Brass • John Borneman • (ss)
• The Walled-In Room • Heather Richardson • (ss)
• Walls • Paul G. Tremblay • (ss)
• The Walls Within • Lane Robbins • (nv)
• Wally’s Porn • Victoria Elisabeth Garcia • (ss)
• Walter and the Wonderful Watch • John Morressy • (ss)
• [Walter G. Bowen] • A Reviewer Reviewed • Edgar Allan Poe • (ms)
• Waltz in Flexitime • Michael Cobley • (ss)
• The Wand of a Witch • K. S. Hardy • (pm)
• Wanderer • John Grey • (pm)
• Wanted: Warehouse Manager • Lee Clark Zumpe • (pm)
• The War Between the Objects and the Subjects • John Crowley • (ss)
• The War Crime • Don Kerr • (ss)
• The War Cry of O • Emily Gaskin • (pm)
• War Games • S. Yi • (ss)
• War Is a Mixed Bag • Eric S. Brown & C. Dennis Moore • (ss)
• War Machine • James C. Glass • (ss)
• The War of the Flowers • Brenda Cooper • (ss)
• War of the Worlds • John Bushore • (pm)
• The War of the Worlds • H. G. Wells • (n.)
• The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells, read by James Spencer • John Joseph Adams • (br)
• The War of the Worldviews • James Morrow • (ss)
• War Stories • Keith R. A. DeCandido • (na)
• War Stories • Andrew Humphrey • (ss)
• “A War Without End” • Ursula K. Le Guin • (ar)
• War World • William C. Dietz • (n.)
• Warchalking • Paul Haines & Claire McKenna • (ss)
• ’Ware Hawk • Andre Norton • (n.)
• Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Child • Ian Watson • (n.)
• Warhammer 40,000: Harlequin • Ian Watson • (n.)
• Warhammer 40,000: Honour Guard • Dan Abnett • (n.)
• Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor • Ian Watson • (n.)
• Warhammer 40,000: Sabbat Martyr • Dan Abnett • (n.)
• Warhammer 40,000: Straight Silver • Dan Abnett • (n.)
• Warhammer 40,000: The Guns of Tanith • Dan Abnett • (n.)
• Warm Man • Robert Silverberg • (ss)
• Warm Thick Beer • Jeremy Gottwig • (pm)
• Warmonger • Russell Chambers • (ss)
• The Warning • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• Warning to a Long-Haired Woman • Orson Scott Card • (pm)
• Warped Stars • Ian Watson • (nv)
• The Warrior Lives • Joel Rosenberg • (n.)
• Warriors of the Tempest • Stan Nicholls • (n.)
• Wasp Trap • Ann K. Schwader • (pm)
• Wasteland • Samuel Loveman • (pm)
• Wasteland, Francesca Lia Block • Faren Miller • (br)
• Watch Me When I Sleep • Jean-Claude Dunyach • (ss)
• The Watcher in the Green Room • Hugh B. Cave • (ss)
• Watchers at the Strait Gate • Russell Kirk • (nv)
• Watchfire • Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts • (ss)
• Watching You Die • Joanne Shemmans • (pm)
• Water Babies • Simon Brown • (nv)
• The Water Castle • Jay Lake • (ss)
• The Water Cure • Liz Williams • (ss)
• Water Dog God • Brad Watson • (ss)
• The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall • John Kendrick Bangs • (ss)
• Water Muse • Bobbi Sinha-Morey • (pm)
• The Water Room • Kevin Etheridge • (br)
• The Waterfall • Marion Zimmer Bradley • (ss)
• The Waters of Meribah • Tony Ballantyne • (ss)
• “Watson!” • A. E. Dingle • (ss)
• The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination, Ursula K. Le Guin • Gary K. Wolfe • (br)
• The Waves at Night Look Scarlet • Kiel Stuart • (ss)
• Waves of Fear • Paula Guran • (cl)
• The Way Back • Peter Carter • (vi)
• a way not avoided • Eric Marin • (pm)
• The Way of All Ghosts: A Myth from Thistledown • Greg Bear • (na)
• The Way of Cross and Dragon • George R. R. Martin • (nv)
• The Way of the Cross • Thomas F. Monteleone • (ss)
• The Way of the Heathen • William Hope Hodgson • (ss)
• The Way the Future Looks: THX 1138 and Blade Runner • Robert Silverberg • (ar)
• Waycross • Caitlín R. Kiernan • (nv)
• Wayfarers • Algernon Blackwood • (ss)
• Waylaid • Thomas M. Reid • (ss)
• WD40 versus The Three Laws of Robotics • Darren Goossens • (ss)
• We Are All Ghosts • Mario Milosevic • (pm)
• We Are Legend: The Social Consequences of the Aids Crisis • Laura M. Kelley • (ar)
• We Are Marching to Utopia: Kurt Vonnegut’s “Player Piano” • Donald E. Morse • (ar)
• We Could Be Sisters • Chris Beckett • (ss)
• We Defy Old Stars • M. C. A. Hogarth • (ss)
• we fell • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • (pm)
• We Have Always Spoken Panglish • Suzette Haden Elgin • (ss)
• We Hobbits Are a Merry Folk...: An Incautious and Heretical 1st Draft about J.R.R. Tolkien • David Brin • (ar)
• We Killed Them in the Ratings • J. Michael Straczynski • (nv)
• We Must an Anguish Pay • Steve Mohn • (ss)
• We the Enclosed • K. J. Bishop • (nv)
• We Visit Mount Rainier • Jack Cady • (pm)
• We Who Fight Monsters • Paul Finch • (ss)
• The We Who Sing • Stephen M. Baxter • (ss)
• “We Will Water Our Horses in the Mississippi” • James R. Arnold • (ss)
• We Would Be Heroes • Robert N. Stephenson • (ss)
• Wealth • Robert Reed • (ss)
• Weapon of Mass Distraction • Richard A. Lovett, Ph.D. • (nv)
• Weapons of Choice, John Birmingham • Jonathan Strahan • (br)
• Weapons of Mass Production • Michael Stone • (vi)
• Weapons of the Lord Are Not Carnal • Andrew Tisbert • (nv)
• The Weather Artist • Tim Kenyon • (ss)
• The Weather’s Fine • Harry Turtledove • (ss)
• Weaver of Dreams • Jill Bauman • (pm)
• Weavers of the Twilight • Louise Katz • (ss)
• Web of Deception • David M. Weber • (nv)
• Webster • Greg Bear • (ss)
• The Wedding • Simon Bestwick • (ss)
• A Wedding Chest • Vernon Lee • (ss)
• The Wedding Job • Paul McAvoy • (ss)
• The Wedding of Snow and Ice • Alice Hoffman • (ss)
• A Week in the Life of Self Pity • John Llewellyn Probert • (vi)
• A Week in the Unlife • David J. Schow • (ss)
• The Weeping Manse • Jessica Amanda Salmonson • (ss)
• Weeping Walls • Paul Di Filippo • (ss)
• Weetzie Bat • Francesca Lia Block • (na)
• The Weight of a Word • Jo Olluyn • (pm)
• Weird Furka • Adam Golaski • (nv)
• Weird Tales Talks with Terry Pratchett • Joseph McCabe • (iv)
• The Welcome • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• Welcome to Andromeda Spaceways In-flight Duty Free • Stuart Barrow & Barbara Robson • (ss)
• Welcome to Dark Tales • Sean Jeffery • (ed)
• Welcome to Justice 2.0 • George Tucker • (vi)
• Welcome to Olympus, Mr. Hearst • Kage Baker • (na)
• Welcome! • Deb Geisler • (ed)
• Weldon Kees • T. M. Wright • (pm)
• The Well • Dennis L. McKiernan • (nv)
• We’ll Have Manhattan • Judy Klass • (ss)
• We’ll Just Act Natural • Ray Bradbury • (ss)
• The Well of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde, read by Elizabeth Sastre • John Joseph Adams • (br)
• Wellbeing • Alasdair Gray • (ss)
• Welles or Wells: The First Invasion from Mars • William Tenn • (ar)
• Wellman, A Farewell • Scott E. Green • (pm)
• Wendigo’s Child • Thomas F. Monteleone • (ss)
• We’re Always Having to Do Some Kind of Dying • Kent Kruse • (pm)
• We’re Going Where the Sun Shines Brightly • Christopher Fowler • (ss)
• Werechihuahua • Ian Watson • (pm)
• The Werewolf in the Supermarket • William John Watkins • (pm)
• West of the Moon • Marianne Willman • (ss)
• Westall’s Vampires • David Longhorn • (ar)
• Western Civilization • Mario Milosevic • (pm)
• Wet Blood Dream • Eric Joel Bresin • (pm)
• A Wet Day • Richard Middleton • (ss)
• Wet Work • Gaie Sebold • (ss)
• Wetware • David Langford • (ss)
• What a Friend Told Me About the Men in Her Family • Mario Milosevic • (pm)
• What a Good Eater She Is! • Terrie Leigh Relf & Willow Katsumi Relf-Discartin • (pm)
• What Are Friends For? • Eileen Gunn • (ss)