The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2005

Stories, Listed by Title

• A Single Shadow • Stephen Dedman • (ss)
• Single White Farmhouse • Heather Shaw • (ss)
• Single White Witch • Carly Alexander • (na)
• Singularities • Jason Wallace • (ed)
• Sins of the Father (Jaffna, 1977: Chelliah) • Mary Anne Mohanraj • (ss)
• Sins of the Mother • Mad Marv • (nv)
• Sir Arthur C. Clarke: “Man of the Century” • Ryder W. Miller • (ar)
• Sir Edmund Orme • Henry James • (nv)
• Sir John Paper Returns to Honah-Lee • Robert Coover • (ss)
• Sir Roger de Coverley • E. F. Benson • (ss)
• Siren • Jeffrey Thomas • (ss)
• Siren Song at Midnight • David Wolverton • (ss)
• Siren’s Call • Greg Schwartz • (pm)
• Sister Dark • Holly Phillips • (pm)
• Sister Frankenstein • Donna Taylor Burgess • (pm)
• Sister Light • Holly Phillips • (pm)
• Sister Mary (Colombo, 1949: Vallipuram) • Mary Anne Mohanraj • (ss)
• Sister, I’m Telling You • Joanne Merriam • (pm)
• The Sisterhood of Plain-Faced Women • Gary A. Braunbeck • (nv)
• Sister’s Story • Krista Dietrich • (ss)
• Sisyphus and the Stranger • Paul Di Filippo • (ss)
• Sit Up Very Slowly • Phillip Gething • (ss)
• Sitka • William Sanders • (ss)
• “Sitting in the Sun in the Waist-High Grass” • Michael Bishop • (ar)
• Sitting Tenant (Haunted House) • Nicholas Royle • (ss)
• Six Breaths • Wesley Lambert • (pm)
• Six Green Bottles • Lauren Slater • (ss)
• Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast • Dan Abnett • (ss)
• Six Minutes of Air • Paul Dworschack-Kinter • (ss)
• Six Minutes of Air (Warrior) • Somegirl • (sg)
• Six Shots by Moonlight • H. P. Lovecraft • (ss)
• Six Weeks in a Balloon • Eric Brown • (ss)
• Six-Shooter • Ellen Guon • (ss)
• The Sixteenth Man I Killed • Martin Simpson • (ss)
• The Sixth Borough • Jonathan Safran Foer • (ss)
• The Sixth Victim • Dan Foley • (ss)
• Sixtus VI, Pope of the Red Slipper • Patricia Highsmith • (nv)
• Sixty Thousand Pieces of Glass • Sam Hayes • (ss)
• The Skag Castle • Robert Sheckley • (nv)
• Skatebirding • Heather Shaw • (ss)
• Skeleton Crew • Paul Finch • (ss)
• Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp • Algernon Blackwood • (ss)
• The Skeptic • Jennifer Roberson • (ss)
• Sketches • Gary Gianni • (pi)
• Skimming Stones • Michelle Riedlinger • (ss)
• Skin • Caitlín R. Kiernan • (ar)
• Skin Deep • Robert Bloch • (ss)
• Skin Deep • Mary Rosenblum • (ss)
• Skin Holes • Kaaron Warren • (ss)
• Skin of Glass • Dan Raphael • (pm)
• The Skin of My Soul • Sean Meriwether • (ss)
• The Skin of the World • Douglas Clegg • (ss)
• Skin-Tight • James Lecky • (ss)
• The Skins • Reggie Oliver • (ss)
• Skins on Sule Skerry • Sonya Taaffe • (pm)
• The Skrayling Tree • Michael Moorcock • (n.)
• Skulking Permit • Robert Sheckley • (nv)
• Skull • Cathy Buburuz • (il)
• Skull Vault • Sarah Singleton • (pm)
• Skull-Face • Robert E. Howard • (na)
• Sky Carver, Dean Whitlock • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• The Sky Green Box • Rudi Dornemann • (ss)
• Sky Lift • Robert A. Heinlein • (ss)
• Slaughter House • Richard Matheson • (nv)
• The Slave-Princess • Robert E. Howard • (uw)
• The Slaying of Winter • Vera Nazarian • (nv)
• Sledder • Bruce Taylor • (vi)
• The Sledding Hill, Chris Crutcher • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur • David A. Sutton • (ar)
• Sleep Sweetly, Tender Heart, in Peace • Maxim Jakubowski • (ss)
• Sleeping Beauties • Jody Lynn Nye • (nv)
• Sleeping Dragons • Lynette Aspey • (ss)
• Sleepover • Guy Belleranti • (pm)
• Slight of Leg • James Renner • (ss)
• Slimed • Louise Herring-Jones • (ss)
• Slipped Away • Susan M. Sailors • (pm)
• Slippered Feet • Daniel Wallace • (ss)
• The Slithering • Tim Curran • (ss)
• Sloth • Jacqueline Rayner • (lk)
• Slots • Tyree Campbell • (ss)
• The Sloughing of the Skin • H. O. Ransome • (ss)
• Slow Burn • Brian Pedersen • (ss)
• Slow Dancing with Jesus • Jack M. Dann & Gardner R. Dozois • (ss)
• A Slow Day in Skullport • Ed Greenwood • (na)
• The Slow Ones • Larry Niven • (ss)
• Slow Poison • Tanya S. Huff • (ss)
• Slow Spider Sunset • Todd Hanks • (pm)
• The Slug Breeder’s Daughter • Charles Coleman Finlay • (ss)
• The Smackdown Outside Dedham • Charles Coleman Finlay • (ss)
• The Small Black Box of Morality • Eleanor Arnason • (vi)
• Small Country • Nick Hornby • (nv)
• Small Inspiration • Melissa Mead • (vi)
• Small World • William F. Nolan • (ss)
• The Small World of Lewis Stillman • William F. Nolan • (ss)
• The Smell of Death • David Lubar • (ss)
• The Smell of Mice • Kaaron Warren • (ss)
• The Smell of the Earth • Joan L. Savage • (ss)
• The Smile • G. O. Clark • (pm)
• The Smile • Fred Saberhagen • (nv)
• The Smile on the Face • Nalo Hopkinson • (ss)
• Smiling Faces in Hog Heaven • Stephen L. Burns • (ss)
• Smiling Vermin • David Bartell & Ekaterina Sedia • (ss)
• Smilodon • Kristine Dikeman • (vi)
• Smith: An Episode in a Lodging House • Algernon Blackwood • (ss)
• Smoke and Mirrors, Tanya Huff • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Smoke ’Em If You Got ’Em... • John Mason Skipp • (ar)
• The Smoke from Mooney’s Pub • Chet Williamson • (ss)
• Smoko • Kaaron Warren • (ss)
• Snack Food • Jeff Carlson • (ss)
• Snake • Joe R. Lansdale • (vi)
• Snake • Jenn Reese • (vi)
• Snake Agent, Liz Williams • Faren Miller • (br)
• The Snake Charmer • Julie Shiel • (pm)
• Snake in the Grass • Erin M. Hartshorn • (ss)
• A Snake Story • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• Snapshot • Joanne Shemmans • (ss)
• The Snore • D. Harlan Wilson • (vi)
• Snow • John Crowley • (nv)
• Snow Angels • Lisa S. Silverthorne • (ss)
• The Snow Came Softly Down; or, The Kindness of Ghosts • Brian J. Showers • (ss)
• The Snow Globe • Bob Franklin • (ss)
• Snow in Summer • Jane Yolen • (ss)
• The Snow Queen • Patricia A. McKillip • (nv)
• The Snow Queen • Debbie Ridpath Ohi & Michelle Sagara West • (na)
• The Snow Spider • Jenny Nimmo • (n.)
• Snow Water • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• Snowball’s Chance • Charles Stross • (ss)
• Snowbound • D. W. Cropper • (ss)
• The Snug • Terry Lamsley • (ss)
• So High a Price • Ed Greenwood • (nv)
• So Long Gerry • Terry Lamsley • (na)
• So Proudly We Hail • Judith Merril • (ss)
• So Runs the World Away • Caitlín R. Kiernan • (ss)
• So Sick • Holly Day • (pm)
• “So What’s This Guy’s #@!&*%! Problem, Anyway?” • Gary A. Braunbeck • (in)
• So, Your Utopia Needs a Language... • Tristan S. Davenport • (ar)
• Soapbox: Six Appeal • Robert Dando • (ar)
• Soapbox: The Art of Getting Published, Sort Of • Jon Hartless • (ar)
• Sobek’s Tears • Shane Jiraiya Cummings • (ss)
• Social Customs in 1837 • E. F. Benson • (ar)
• Soft Apocalypse • Will McIntosh • (ss)
• Soft Construction with Boiled Beans • Paul A. Toth • (ss)
• The Soft Whisper of Midnight Snow • Charles de Lint • (ss)
• Softening Us Up • Stanley Schmidt • (ed)
• Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck • Neal L. Asher • (nv)
• Soho Golem • Kim Newman • (na)
• Sold Out • Danny Oz • (ss)
• The Soldier and the Cryptie • Scott Thomas • (ss)
• Soldiers • Dave Luckett • (ss)
• The Soldiers’ Rest • Arthur Machen • (ss)
• Solid Gold • Anonymous • (ss)
• Solid Gold • Rachel Kendall • (ss)
• Solidarity • Walter Jon Williams • (na)
• Solipsister • Jason Erik Lundberg • (ss)
• Solitary Isle • Koji Suzuki • (ss)
• Solo in the Spotlight • George Alec Effinger • (ss)
• Solution to Crossword • James P. Hogan • (ms)
• Solution Unsatisfactory • Robert A. Heinlein • (nv)
• Solvent Hunger • David Conyers • (ss)
• Soma • Forrest Aguirre • (ss)
• Some Action • Benjamin Reed • (ss)
• Some Events at the Templar Radiant • Fred Saberhagen • (nv)
• Some Famous Hauntings • Scott Thomas • (vi)
• Some Houseguests Can’t Be Helped • Peg Duthie • (pm)
• Some Joys Under the Star • Frederik Pohl • (ss)
• Some Notes for the Intermediate and Advanced Creative Writing Student • Samuel R. Delany • (ar)
• Some Notes on BlöödHag • Anonymous • (bg)
• Some of Your Blood • Peter Atkins • (ar)
• Some Records • Some Writers • (ar)
• Some Things Are Better Left • Gregory Frost • (nv)
• Some Touch of Pity • Gary A. Braunbeck • (nv)
• Some Zombie Contingency Plans • Kelly Link • (ss)
• Somebody Calling • Brian Lumley • (ss)
• Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town • Rick Kleffel • (br)
• Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Cory Doctorow • Damien Broderick • (br)
• Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Cory Doctorow • Faren Miller • (br)
• Someone Is Watching • Steven Utley • (ss)
• Someone’s Watching • Rosalind Trotter • (ss)
• Someone’s Watching You • Christopher Jackman • (ss)
• Something Bad • W. M. Ollie • (ss)
• Something Dwells ‘Neath Hannah Town • Darren K. Latta • (nv)
• Something for Nothing • Robert Sheckley • (ss)
• Something Like the Sound of the Wind in Trees • Bruce Holland Rogers • (ss)
• Something Occurred; Bennie on the Loose • Seán Mac Roibin • (ss)
• Something Wicked • Kurt Newton • (pm)
• Something Wicked This Way Comes • Peter Crowther • (ar)
• Something Worse Hereafter • Sarah A. Hoyt • (ss)
• Sometimes I Sit Here, and I Wonder... Octavia E. Butler Passed This Way Once 1947-2006 • Sandra Y. Govan • (ar)
• Somewhen • Jane Yolen • (ss)
• Somewhere • Kristine Ong Muslim • (pm)
• Somewhere in the Moebius’ House • W. Gregory Stewart • (pm)
• Somewhere, in a Hidden Glade • Mikal Trimm • (pm)
• Son and Foe 11/05 • Richard Horton • (br)
• Son Observe the Time • Kage Baker • (na)
• Son of an Astronaut • John Grey • (pm)
• Son of Shadow • Michael Greenhut • (pm)
• A Song for Morning • Hayden Trenholm • (ss)
• Song for Two Voices • Janni Lee Simner • (ss)
• Song in the Dark, P.N. Elrod • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Song of Evil Love • Russell Gray • (ss)
• The Song of Sorrow • Mark Howard Jones • (ss)
• Song of the Black Dog • Kit Reed • (ss)
• Song of the Cailleach Bheur • Jane Yolen • (pm)
• Song of the Harpy’s Lover • William John Watkins • (pm)
• Song of the Martian Cricket • David Lunde • (pm)
• A Song of the Race • Robert E. Howard • (pm)
• Song of the Sap • Greg Beatty • (pm)
• The Song of the Solipsilepidopterist • Greg Beatty • (vi)
• A Song Out of Midian • Robert E. Howard • (pm)
• Song to the Selkie • Gemma Files • (pm)
• Songwalking the Hunter’s Road • Charles de Lint • (nv)
• The Sonic Flowerfall of Primes • Andrew Joron • (pm)
• Sons of Destiny: The Saga of Darren Shan: Book 12 • Darren Shan • (n.)
• Sons of the Earth • Vaughan Stanger • (vi)
• Soo Lin and the Snow Eagle • Lee Emmett • (ss)