The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2005

Stories, Listed by Title

• A Poet on Board • Terrie Leigh Relf • (pm)
• Poet Snow • Robert Reed • (ss)
• The Poetess in Hell • Rebecca Marjesdatter • (ed)
• Poetry and the Gods • H. P. Lovecraft • (ss)
• A Poetry Project Newsletter Interview:
  ___ A Silent Interview • Anonymous • (iv)
• Poetry Readings, Workshops, and Other Events • Suzette Haden Elgin • (ar)
• Point of Origin • Catherine Wells • (nv)
• Points of Interest • Misc. • (cl)
• Poison Study, Maria V. Snyder • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Poisonous Puns • Anonymous • (hu)
• Poker Boy vs. a Denizen of Gambling Hell • Dean Wesley Smith • (ss)
• Polaris • H. P. Lovecraft • (ss)
• Policeman Bluejay • L. Frank Baum • (ss)
• The Policeman’s Daughter • Wil McCarthy • (na)
• The Political Officer • Charles Coleman Finlay • (na)
• Pollock’s Knives • Mike Allen • (pm)
• The Poltergeist of Polaris • Elizabeth Barrette • (pm)
• Polyhedrons • Robert A. Metzger • (nv)
• Polyphony 5, Deborah Layne & Jay Lake, eds. • Nick Gevers • (br)
• Pond Life • Sam Dawson • (vi)
• Pop Art • Joe Hill • (nv)
• Pop Star in the Ugly Bar • Bentley Little • (ss)
• The Pope of the Chimps • Robert Silverberg • (nv)
• The Pope, Sonny Liston and Me • Robert S. Neilson • (ss)
• The Poppet • L. Jagi Lamplighter • (ss)
• Poppies by Moonlight • Sydney J. Van Scyoc • (ss)
• Porcelain Salli • Trent Jaimeson • (ss)
• Port Wine • Richard Ramsey • (ss)
• The Portrait • T. Jain • (ss)
• Portrait of the Founder • D. Harlan Wilson • (ss)
• Ports of Call • Jack Vance • (n.)
• Positive Obsession • Octavia E. Butler • (ar)
• Possibilities • Yael Fattal • (pm)
• Postcards • Rebecca Moesta • (ss)
• Postcards from the Province of Hyphens • Sonya Taaffe • (ss)
• Postcretaceous Era • D. Ellis Dickerson • (ss)
• Postscript • Arthur Machen • (aw)
• Postscripts Summer ’04 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Postscripts Spring ’05 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Postscripts Summer ’05 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Postscripts Autumn ’05 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Potato pilots • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • (pm)
• Potherb Gardening • Ruth Berman • (pm)
• Pottering About • David Rafer • (ms)
• Poulet à la Richelieu • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• The Powder Men • Scott Thomas • (ss)
• The Power and the Gory • James A. Bibby • (nv)
• The Power of Dreams • Daniel C. Smith • (pm)
• Power of the Pen • Steven E. Burt • (ss)
• Power Play • Jack Whyte • (ss)
• Pow’r • James E. Gunn • (nv)
• Practical Mistake • Peter Andrew Smith • (ss)
• Practical Villainy • Janni Lee Simner • (ss)
• Prairie-Dog Town • L. Frank Baum • (ss)
• Pray for the Tiny Monsters • W. Gregory Stewart • (pm)
• Prayer for a Dead Paramecium • Carl Frederick • (ss)
• A Prayer for the Dead • Eric Brown • (ss)
• Prayer for the Earth • Kendall Evans • (pm)
• A Prayer for the Silent • John Sunseri • (ss)
• A Prayer for Tinkerbelle • J. Dansereau • (pm)
• Prayer of Antigone • Angelo Sphere • (pm)
• The Praying Man • Steven E. Burt • (ss)
• Preacher • Cullen Bunn & Michael Howard • (ss)
• Precautions • Kit Reed • (ss)
• Precious Memories • David Lubar • (ss)
• The Precise Reason I Will Never Drink a Magic Love Potion Again • Erin Jensen • (ss)
• Precognitive Myopia • Forrest Aguirre • (ss)
• Preface • Kevin J. Anderson & Brian Herbert • (pr)
• Preface • Chaz Brenchley • (pr)
• Preface • Octavia E. Butler • (pr)
• Preface • Arthur C. Clarke • (pr)
• Preface • Jack M. Dann & Gardner R. Dozois • (pr)
• Preface • Lord Dunsany • (pr)
• Preface • David Eddings • (pr)
• Preface • Suzette Haden Elgin • (pr)
• Preface • Dennis Etchison • (pr)
• Preface • James E. Gunn • (pr)
• Preface • Drew Morse • (pr)
• Preface • Garth Nix • (pr)
• Preface • Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany • (pr)
• Preface • Al Sarrantonio • (pr)
• Preface and Acknowledgements • Samuel R. Delany • (pr)
• Preface to Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary • M. R. James • (pr)
• Preface to More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary • M. R. James • (pr)
• Preface to the Second French Edition • Michel Houellebecq • (pr)
• The Pregnant Sky (Franz Kafka) • Andrew Hook • (ss)
• The Prehistory of Global Climate Change • Richard A. Lovett, Ph.D. • (ar)
• Prelude • Allen M. Steele • (lk)
• Premonitions • Dan Foley • (ss)
• The ’Prentices’ Mutiny • William Hope Hodgson • (ss)
• Presence • Maureen F. McHugh • (nv)
• The Present • Nan Fry • (pm)
• Present Pefect • Loren L. Coleman • (ss)
• The Presentation • Michael Shea • (ss)
• Preserves • Jim Rockhill • (ss)
• President Buck Jones Rallies and Waves the Flag • Patricia Highsmith • (nv)
• Presidents • Robert Coover • (ss)
• President’s Message • Mike Allen • (ms)
• Presley 45 • David Morrell • (ss)
• The Press • Graham Masterton • (ss)
• Pretend That We’re Dead • Alison J. Littlewood • (ss)
• Pretty Meat • Steven Utley • (ss)
• The Pretty Place • Eric Marin • (ss)
• The Price • Neil Gaiman • (ss)
• The Price of Arrogance • Eric S. Brown • (ss)
• Pride • Wolfgang H. Baur • (nv)
• Pride • Jacqueline Rayner • (lk)
• Pride of Place • Erika Milo • (ss)
• Primary Ignition • Allen M. Steele • (cl)
• Primate in Forest • Kim Stanley Robinson • (ex)
• Primates in Love • Michael Bishop • (br)
• Prime Evil • Mark Chadbourn • (ar)
• Primitive Hunt, Day One • Monte Davis • (ss)
• Primitive Hunt, Day Two • Monte Davis • (ss)
• Prince Charming • Helena Bell • (pm)
• Prince Charming Comes • Jane Yolen • (pm)
• Prince Mud-Turtle • L. Frank Baum • (ss)
• The Prince of Ebon Rih • Anne Bishop • (n.)
• The Prince of Mules • Carol Emshwiller • (ss)
• Princess Academy, Shannon Hale • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• The Princess in the Forest (Chicago, 1955: Kandiah) • Mary Anne Mohanraj • (ss)
• A Princess of Roumania • John Clute • (br)
• A Princess of Roumania, Paul Park • Nick Gevers • (br)
• A Princess of Roumania, Paul Park • Faren Miller • (br)
• A Princess of Roumania, Paul Park • Gary K. Wolfe • (br)
• Principles of Animal Eugenetics • Yves Meynard • (nv)
• The Prison of Your Skin • Joseph V. Danoski • (pm)
• The Prison Planet • Frank Andreotti • (ss)
• Prisoner of Ironsea Tower • Sandy Auden • (br)
• Private Eye • Henry Kuttner • (nv)
• Private Eye • Joe R. Lansdale • (vi)
• The Private Lives of Lizards • Margaret Ballif Simon • (pp)
• Private Voices • Vincent R. Vurchio • (ss)
• The Prize of Peril • Robert Sheckley • (ss)
• Pro Patria Mori • Lavie Tidhar • (ss)
• Probability Zero:
  ___ Copernican Principle • Robert Scherrer • (vi)
  ___ The Genetics Lecture • Harry Turtledove • (vi)
  ___ July Fourth, 2213 • Peter L. Manly • (vi)
  ___ Keeping Track • Richard Foss • (vi)
  ___ Much Ado About Newton • Carl Frederick • (vi)
• Probable Cause • Stephen Dedman • (ss)
• Problem Child • Brian Lumley • (ss)
• The Problem of Susan • Neil Gaiman • (ss)
• Proboscis • Laird Barron • (nv)
• The Prodigal Troll, Charles Coleman Finlay • Nick Gevers • (br)
• Professor Anthony Magistrale • Anonymous • (iv)
• The Project • Pasquale J. Morrone • (ss)
• Project Nightmare • Robert A. Heinlein • (nv)
• Project Nursemaid • Judith Merril • (na)
• Project: Earth • Philip K. Dick • (nv)
• Prologue • Steele. Allen • (nv)
• Prologue • Koji Suzuki • (ss)
• Prologue: The Oracle Alone • Catherynne M. Valente • (pr)
• Prometheus Unbound, at Last • Kim Stanley Robinson • (vi)
• Promise • Ilona Hegedûs • (pm)
• The Promise • Jane Yolen • (ss)
• The Promised Land • Antonio Ruffini • (ss)
• Promised Land • Steven Utley • (ss)
• Promises Made • David DeLee • (ss)
• A Proper View of Death • S. M. Cross • (ss)
• Prophesy • Sonya Taaffe • (pm)
• A Prophet Without Honour • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• The Prophetic Method • Andy Eliason • (nv)
• Prospector’s Special • Robert Sheckley • (nv)
• Prospectus for a Novel of Human Prehistory, or The Origins of No Enemy But Time • Michael Bishop • (ar)
• Prosthetic Wings • K. S. Hardy • (pm)
• Protagonist • Amanda Turek • (pm)
• Protective Custody • Steve Sneyd • (pm)
• The Protector’s War • Jim Steel • (br)
• Proteus Tells • Sonya Taaffe • (pm)
• The Prototype • Ron Shiflet • (ss)
• Protractor Men • D. Harlan Wilson • (ss)
• The Proud Robot • Henry Kuttner • (nv)
• Provender Gleed, James Lovegrove • Nick Gevers • (br)
• The Proverb Mail • Bruce Taylor • (ss)
• Provocateurs of Sense • Matthew Cheney • (cl)
• Prowl Unceasing • Chris Roberson • (nv)
• The Proxy • Paul J. McAuley • (nv)
• Prozac Crusade • Brendan D. Carson • (ss)
• Pseudofolliculitis City • D. Harlan Wilson • (ss)
• Psyche • Sonya Taaffe • (pm)
• Pterygotus • Steven Utley • (pm)
• Public Service Announcement #27 • Kurt MacPhearson • (pm)
• Public Service Announcement #8 • Kurt MacPhearson • (pm)
• Publication Acknowledgements • Misc. • (ms)
• Publications Received • Misc. • (cl)
• Publisher’s Foreword • David M. Pitchford • (fw)
• Publisher’s Note • Anonymous • (pr)
• The Publishing Industry—from the Reader’s Perspective • Deborah L. Notkin • (cl)
• Pulp Alibis • Paul Di Filippo • (ss)
• Pulp Cover • Gene Wolfe • (ss)
• The Pulse of the Sea • Philip Edward Kaldon • (ss)
• Pumpkin Art • Dan Foley • (ss)
• Punch • Robert Coover • (ss)
• The Pure Ones • Scottland Jacobson • (ss)
• The Pure Ones • Junk Circuit • (sg)
• The Pure Product • John Kessel • (nv)
• Pure Vision • Robert Reed • (ss)
• Purity • Thomas Ligotti • (ss)
• The Purloined Prose • Patricia Lee Macomber & David Niall Wilson • (sl)
• The Purple Cloud • M. P. Shiel • (n.)
• Purple Priestess of the Mad Moon • Leigh Brackett • (ss)
• Pursued by a Bear • Hannah Wolf Bowen • (ss)
• The Pursuit of Artemisia Guile • Scott Geiger • (ss)
• Pushing Down the Tombstones • Ralph Robert Moore • (ss)
• Pushing Ice, Alastair Reynolds • Nick Gevers • (br)
• Put Your Hands Together • George Alec Effinger • (ss)
• Puttin Off ’Til Tomorrow • C. L. Russo • (ss)
• Puzzle • Kevin Anderson • (ss)
• Puzzle • Misc. • (pz)
• Puzzle Page: Chicago Cryptogram • Robert Coover • (pz)
• Puzzle Page: Riddle • Robert Coover • (pz)
• Puzzle Page: Suburban Jigsaw • Robert Coover • (pz)
• The Pyre and Others • David J. Schow • (ss)
• Q&A: Ian R. MacLeod • Rick Kleffel • (iv)
• Q&A: Sarah Ash • Sandy Auden • (iv)
• Q&A:
  ___ Gregory Benford • Anonymous • (iv)