The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2005

Stories, Listed by Title

• One Day, in the Middle of the Night • James Van Pelt • (ss)
• One Death • Terry D. Scheerer • (pm)
• One Final Firecracker, Gregory Maguire • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• One for the Books • Richard Matheson • (ss)
• One for the Record • Esther M. Friesner • (ss)
• One for the Road • Stephen King • (ss)
• One Gutless Turkey • Holly Dyess • (ss)
• One Hot Day • Stephen W. Gabriel • (ss)
• 104 Really Cool Works of Twentieth-Century Fiction in English • Michael Bishop • (ar)
• The 120 Hours of Sodom • Jim Grimsley • (nv)
• One Last Game • Robert Reed • (nv)
• One Long Hot Summer • Heidi Cyr • (ss)
• One Man Show (Pulp, with a Nod of the Head to William Hope Hodgson) • Simon Clark • (ss)
• One Man’s Poison • Robert Sheckley • (ss)
• The One Millionth Smile • Neil Williamson • (ss)
• One Night at Mercy • Christa Faust • (na)
• One of the Hungry Ones • Holly Phillips • (nv)
• One Rainy Afternoon Spent in the Company of Dr. Thulask • James Ambuehl • (ss)
• One Step Forward • Mark Joseph Kiewlak • (ss)
• One Summer’s Evening • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• The One That Got Away • Kristine Kathryn Rusch • (ss)
• One Thing After Another • Bruce Holland Rogers • (vi)
• One Way Conversation • Brian M. Sammons • (ss)
• One Wednesday Afternoon • Alison Jacobs • (ss)
• The One Who Conquers • Bruce Holland Rogers • (ss)
• One with Shakespeare • Martha Foley • (ss)
• One Word Answer • Charlaine Harris • (nv)
• Oni • Ren Holton • (vi)
• Onion • Caitlín R. Kiernan • (nv)
• The Only • Al Sarrantonio • (ss)
• Only Begotten • Rebecca Lloyd • (ss)
• The Only Courage • C. J. Henderson • (ss)
• Only in America • Michael Bishop • (ar)
• Only in New Orleans • Elyn Selu • (ss)
• Only Partly Here • Lucius Shepard • (nv)
• The Only Sane Man in the Universe • Marguerite Krause • (ar)
• Opal Ball • Robert Reed • (ss)
• An Open Letter to Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Dean Koontz • Mara Leveritt • (ar)
• Open Season • Tim Curran • (ss)
• Openclose • Terry Bisson • (ss)
• The Opener of the Way • Joel Lane • (ar)
• Opening Doors • Josepha Sherman • (ss)
• Opening Her Door • Alexander B. Potter • (ss)
• Opening the Door • Arthur Machen • (ss)
• Opera Adaptations, Vol. 3, P. Craig Russell • Karen Haber • (br)
• Operation Balsam; or Touch-Me-Not • Patricia Highsmith • (ss)
• Operation Macbeth • Duane Ackerson • (pm)
• The Operator • Christopher Anvil • (nv)
• Or Else • Henry Kuttner • (ss)
• Or the Tiger • Geoffrey Thorne • (nv)
• Oracle • Greg Egan • (na)
• The Oracle Alone • Catherynne M. Valente • (pp)
• The Oracle at Amarillo • Catherynne M. Valente • (pm)
• The Oracle at Anchorage • Catherynne M. Valente • (pm)
• The Oracle at Boston • Catherynne M. Valente • (pm)
• The Oracle at Cayucos (CA) • Catherynne M. Valente • (pm)
• The Oracle at Chinatown • Catherynne M. Valente • (pm)
• The Oracle at Detroit • Catherynne M. Valente • (pm)
• The Oracle at Kilauea (HI) • Catherynne M. Valente • (pm)
• The Oracle at Las Vegas • Catherynne M. Valente • (pm)
• The Oracle at Los Angeles • Catherynne M. Valente • (pm)
• The Oracle at Manhattan • Catherynne M. Valente • (pm)
• The Oracle at Miami • Catherynne M. Valente • (pm)
• The Oracle at Monterey • Catherynne M. Valente • (pm)
• The Oracle at New Haven • Catherynne M. Valente • (pm)
• The Oracle at New Orleans • Catherynne M. Valente • (pm)
• The Oracle at Sacramento • Sonya Taaffe • (pm)
• The Oracle at San Diego • Catherynne M. Valente • (pm)
• The Oracle at Savannah • Catherynne M. Valente • (pm)
• The Oracle at Seattle • Catherynne M. Valente • (pm)
• The Oracle at Taos • Catherynne M. Valente • (pm)
• The Oracle in Motion • Catherynne M. Valente • (pm)
• Oranges, Lemons, and Thou Beside Me • Eugie Foster • (ss)
• The Orchard in Rain • K. S. Hardy • (pm)
• The Order of Nature • Edward Lee • (ss)
• The Order of the Days • Ruth Berman • (pm)
• The Order of Things • Adam Roberts • (nv)
• Ordinary People, Eleanor Arnason • Richard Horton • (br)
• Ordinary People, Eleanor Arnason • Russell Letson • (br)
• O’Reta, Snapshot Memories • Joe R. Lansdale • (ss)
• Organ Donors • Kim Newman • (nv)
• Organs R Us • Ryck Neube • (ss)
• Oriental Mist • James S. Dorr • (ss)
• Origin of Evil • Edward A. Holsclaw, II • (ss)
• Origin Story • Eleanor Arnason • (ss)
• The Original Dr. Shade • Kim Newman • (nv)
• The Orion Man • Doug Goodman • (ss)
• Orkney Lament • Jane Yolen • (pm)
• Orphan Asylum • D. W. Cropper • (nv)
• The Orphan the Moth and the Magic • Harvey Jacobs • (nv)
• Orphans of Chaos, John C. Wright • Damien Broderick, Lisa Goldstein & Richard Horton • (br)
• Orphans of Chaos, John C. Wright • Nick Gevers • (br)
• Orpheus Retires • Erin Keane • (pm)
• Oscar Night, 2054 • Syne Mitchell • (vi)
• Osmund Considers • Timons Esaias • (ss)
• Ossuary • Ann K. Schwader • (pm)
• The Other • Jonathan Daniel • (ss)
• Other Altars of the Heart • Tim Pratt • (pm)
• Other Cities (Chicago, 1962: Kandiah) • Mary Anne Mohanraj • (ss)
• The Other Clarke and Lewis • Ryder W. Miller • (in)
• The Other Exhibition • John Travis • (ss)
• The Other Family • Roberta Lannes • (ss)
• The Other Gods • H. P. Lovecraft • (ss)
• The Other Grace • Holly Phillips • (nv)
• Other News • Misc. • (ms)
• The Other Pedestrian • D. Harlan Wilson • (vi)
• The Other Real World • Howard Waldrop • (nv)
• The Other Ruth • W. R. Mitchell • (ss)
• The Other Side • Rommel de Guzman • (ss)
• The Other Side of Time • Keith Laumer • (n.)
• The Other Sleeping Beauties • Greg Beatty • (pm)
• Others • Kevin L. Donihe • (pm)
• Our Ecstatic Days, Steve Erickson • Faren Miller • (br)
• Our Lady of Darkness • Marc Laidlaw • (ar)
• Our Lady of the Snows • Nancy Kilpatrick • (ss)
• Our Mortal Span • Howard Waldrop • (ss)
• Our Robot President: The First Hundred Days • Bruce Boston • (pm)
• ’Our Sister, the Death of the Body’ • E. F. Benson • (ar)
• Our World, How Fragile • Paul Melniczek • (ss)
• Out of Her Thoughts an Air That Kills • Harrison Howe • (ss)
• Out of the Box • Steve Martinez • (nv)
• Out of the Night • Philip Kennedy • (pm)
• Out of the Picture • Arthur Machen • (nv)
• Out of the Storm • William Hope Hodgson • (ss)
• Out of the Woods • Patricia A. McKillip • (ss)
• Out Twelve-Steppin’, Summer of AA • Nancy Holder • (ss)
• Outer Dark • John Farris • (ar)
• The Outermost Borough • Gahan Wilson • (ss)
• Outlander • John Borneman • (pm)
• Outlaw Glory • Steven Utley • (ss)
• Outrage • Stephen Laws • (ss)
• Outside Camelot • Myranda Summers • (pm)
• The Outsider • H. P. Lovecraft • (ss)
• Outsiders, Nancy Holder & Nancy Kilpatrick, eds. • Tim Pratt • (br)
• Over Alsace • Forrest Aguirre • (ss)
• Over the Sea from Skye • Lillian Stewart Carl • (ss)
• Overlay • Jack Skillingstead • (ss)
• The Overnight, Ramsey Campbell • Tim Pratt • (br)
• Oversite • Maureen F. McHugh • (ss)
• Overtime • Mad Marv • (nv)
• Owasa • A. H. Jennings • (nv)
• The Owl • Conrad Williams • (ss)
• Ox • Jenn Reese • (vi)
• An Oxblood Stetson Hat • Norman Partridge • (ar)
• Oxygen Rising • R. García y Robertson • (nv)
• Pacing White Stallion • J. Edward Ames • (ss)
• Pack Rat or The Way of All Flesh • John Bruni • (ss)
• The Pagans • Martin Taulbut • (ss)
• Pages from Cold Point • Terry Lamsley • (ar)
• Pages to Color • 7ARS • (il)
• Pages to Color • Marcia A. Borell • (il)
• The Pain Gun • Gregory Benford • (ss)
• Pain Management • Peter David • (nv)
• Pain, Wonder, and Prehistoric Monsters: An Interview with Caitlín R. Kiernan • Misc. • (iv)
• Painkillers • Jacey Ford • (na)
• Painted Child of Earth • Rosemary Edghill • (ss)
• Painted Ladder • Eric Moorman • (pm)
• The Painted Son • Donna Taylor Burgess • (pm)
• The Painter • Joel Betancourt • (ss)
• Painwise • James Tiptree, Jr. • (nv)
• The Pair-a-Duce Comet Casino All Sol Poker Championships • James Van Pelt • (ss)
• The Pale Ape • M. P. Shiel • (ss)
• The Pale Lover (Guy de Maupassant) • Richard Gavin • (ss)
• Pale Moonlight • D. L. Snell • (ss)
• Palenque • Matthew Rossi • (ss)
• Palimpsest Day • Gary A. Braunbeck • (nv)
• Pallinghurst Barrow • Grant Allen • (ss)
• La Paloma Blanca • Diane Whiteside • (ss)
• The Pan!c Foundation—A Retrospective • Arthur Lyte • (vi)
• Pan-Galactic Swingers • Steven Utley • (ss)
• Panacea • Jason Stoddard • (ss)
• Panahard and Mr. Snaith • A. G. Morris • (ss)
• Pandora’s Star • Nigel Brown • (br)
• Pantheon Version 2.0 • Michael T. Huyck, Jr. & Brian Keene • (ss)
• Papa and the Sea • Sandra McDonald • (ss)
• Papa Loaty (American Gothic) • Donald R. Burleson • (ss)
• Papago War Song • Gary Every • (pm)
• Papa’s Masks: Roles of the Father in Danticat’s The Dew Breaker • Joan Conwell • (es)
• Papa’s Planet • William F. Nolan • (ss)
• Paper Tigers • Melissa Mead • (vi)
• Paper Traces • James R. Cain • (pm)
• A Para*doxa Interview: • Lance Olsen • (iv)
• Para*doxa Interview: Texts & Questions, with Samuel R. Delany • Lance Olsen • (iv)
• A Para*doxa Interview:
  ___ Inside and Outside the Canon • Anonymous • (iv)
• Parable of a 21st Century Religion: Octavia Butler’s Afrofuturistic Bridge between Science and Religion • Kimberly J. Ruffin • (es)
• Parachute Kid • Edd Vick • (ss)
• The Parade of Night • D. W. Cropper • (ss)
• Paradise Betrayed • Liza Granville • (ss)
• Paradox Winter ’04 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Paradox & Greenblatt, Attorneys at Law • Kevin J. Anderson • (ss)
• Parallax • Laird Barron • (ss)
• Pardon My Iron Nerves • Edmond Hamilton • (nv)
• Paris Is Burning • Barry Baldwin • (nv)
• The Paris-Ganymede Clock • Robert Sheckley • (ss)
• Parish Damned • Lee Thomas • (na)
• The Parker Panic • Michael A. Stackpole • (nv)
• Parma Violets • Reggie Oliver • (ss)
• Part Eight: Home of the Brave • Allen M. Steele • (nv)
• Part of the Game • F. Paul Wilson • (ss)
• Part Seven: Liberation Day • Allen M. Steele • (na)
• A Partial List of New Year’s Resolutions from the Desk of the Boortian Ambassador to Earth • Terrie Leigh Relf • (pm)
• Parting Shot...: Orders • Jon Hansen • (vi)
• Parting Shot...: Training Ground • Jonette Stabbert • (vi)
• Parting Shot...: Within the Darkness • K. A. Patterson • (vi)
• The Partner • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• The Party’s Over • Penelope Kim Crowther • (vi)
• pasadena • Eric Marin • (pm)
• Passages of Deceit • Sarah A. Seaborne • (ss)
• Passageways of Remembrance • Sarah Callahan • (es)
• Passing of the Minotaurs • Rjurik Davidson • (ss)
• The Passing of the Organics • Paul Grant • (ss)
• Passing Through • Christina Sng • (pm)
• The Passion of Frankenstein • Frank J. Morlock • (ss)