The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2005

Stories, Listed by Title

• Under the Lake • Garth Nix • (ss)
• Under the Needle • Léa Silhol • (ss)
• Under the Penitence • Iain Emsley • (br)
• Under the Penitence • Mary R. Gentle • (na)
• Under the Skin • Nicholas Kaufmann • (ss)
• Undercurrents • Gary Merchant • (ss)
• Underground • C. C. Parker • (ss)
• Underneath • Kealan-Patrick Burke • (ss)
• The Undiscovered • William Sanders • (nv)
• Undiscovered Fred • Jack Adrian • (ar)
• Unexpected • Samantha Henderson • (pm)
• Unexpected • Junius B. Smith • (ss)
• Unexpected Protocol: A Critique of the “I, Robot” Book and Motion Picture • Nina Munteanu • (ar)
• Unfinished Business (Genre Character) • Chico Kidd • (ss)
• The Unforseen Factor • Wesley Lambert • (ss)
• The Unfortunate Gytt • Kage Baker • (nv)
• The Unfortunate Invitation • D. W. Cropper • (ss)
• Unicorn • Gary McMahon • (ss)
• The Unicorn Cup • Cherith Baldry • (ss)
• The Unicorn Hunt • Michelle Sagara West • (nv)
• The Unicorn Tapestries • Peter S. Beagle • (pm)
• Uninvited Ghosts • Penelope Lively • (ss)
• Union Dues • K. A. Patterson • (ss)
• The Universal Hum • Mark Joseph Kiewlak • (pm)
• Universal Kiss-Off • Peter Payack • (pm)
• The Universal Language of Silence • Forrest Aguirre • (ss)
• A Universal Spectrum • Lisa S. Silverthorne • (ss)
• Universe • Robert A. Heinlein • (na)
• The Unknown • Christopher Anvil • (nv)
• Unleaving • India Edghill • (nv)
• Unnatural History • Sarah A. Hoyt • (ss)
• The Unnaturals • Philip José Farmer • (ss)
• Unplanned • Todd Carpenter • (ss)
• Unprepared • Karen Pierce Gonzalez • (ss)
• Unravelling Biology • Robert Lake • (ss)
• The Unrecorded Test Match • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• Unrehearsed Verse Is... • Jane Gwaltney • (pm)
• Unrest • Kurt MacPhearson • (pm)
• The Unseelie Tree • Mike Allen • (pm)
• Unseen • David Lubar • (ss)
• The Untethered Spacewalk by NASA • Michael Bishop • (br)
• Untitled • James Ambuehl • (pm)
• Untitled • Philip K. Dick • (ex)
• Untitled Fragment (“He knew de Bracy”) • Robert E. Howard • (uw)
• Untitled Fragment (“The Wind from the Mediterranean”) • Robert E. Howard • (uw)
• Untitled Howard Story • Robert E. Howard • (ss)
• Untitled Notes • Robert E. Howard • (ms)
• (untitled) • Marcus Ewert • (pm)
• Untouched by Human Hands • Robert Sheckley • (ss)
• Untropy • Christopher Anvil • (nv)
• Untwitched: Games for the Rest of Us • James Schellenberg • (cl)
• An Unusual Autobiography • E. F. Benson • (ar)
• The Unwritten King: Stories Stephen King Has Thought Of, But Just Hasn’t Written Down (Yet) • Stephen J. Spignesi • (ar)
• UOUS • Tanith Lee • (na)
• Up from the Bottomless Pit • Philip José Farmer • (sl)
• Up! • Paul Di Filippo • (nv)
• Upcoming Events • Anthony R. Lewis • (ms)
• Upgrade • Pat Cadigan • (n.)
• Upgrade • Artie Nolan • (vi)
• Uplift the Savage • Christopher Anvil • (ss)
• Upon a Slender Stem • James Chambers & Jason Whitley • (nv)
• Upon the Midnight Clear • Stephen Dedman • (ss)
• Urban Shaman, C.E. Murphy • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Ursula K. le Guin and Therolinguistics • Rosaleen Love • (ar)
• Ursula K. Le Guin: Frankenstein’s Earthsea • Charles N. Brown • (iv)
• Ursun’s Teeth • Graham McNeill • (n.)
• “US” • Howard Waldrop • (ss)
• Used • Alyssa Sturgill • (vi)
• Useful Addresses • Stephen Jones • (ms)
• Useful Agonies • Gregory Benford • (ss)
• Useless • Terry D. Scheerer • (pm)
• Utnapishtim on Friday After Dessert • Danny Adams • (pm)
• Vacation • Daniel Wallace • (ss)
• Vaila • M. P. Shiel • (nv)
• Valentia • Caitlín R. Kiernan • (ss)
• Valentine • Bruce Holland Rogers • (ss)
• Vali’s Wound • John C. Hocking • (ss)
• Valley of Bones • Harold Torger Vedeler • (ss)
• Valley of Lights • Stephen Gallagher • (n.)
• Valley of Lights: Phoenix Film Reconnaisance Diary • Stephen Gallagher • (ar)
• The Valley of the Lost • Robert E. Howard • (nv)
• Valley of the Shadow • Dario Ciriello • (ss)
• Vamphyrric Outcast • Simon Clark • (ss)
• A Vampire and a Vampire Hunter Walk into a Bar • Keith R. A. DeCandido • (ss)
• Vampire Clichés • Lee Clark Zumpe • (pm)
• Vampire Killings • Gary Every • (pm)
• The Vampire Kiss • Gene Wolfe • (ss)
• The Vampire Museum • Misc. • (ms)
• Vampireslayer • William King • (n.)
• Vanilla for the Lady • Deborah J. Miller • (ss)
• Vanishing Act • E. Catherine Tobler • (ss)
• The Vanishing Devil • Win Scott Eckert • (ss)
• The Vanishing Virgin • Harvey Jacobs • (ss)
• Vanity, DIY, the Multicorp, and You • James Schellenberg • (cl)
• Variants of the Obsolete • Margaret Ballif Simon • (pm)
• Variations on a Theme • Holly Phillips • (nv)
• Varied Ways of Looking at a Manuscript • Deborah L. Notkin • (cl)
• Vastarien • Thomas Ligotti • (ss)
• Vaudeville’s Puppet • Aynjel Kaye • (ss)
• The Vault • Robert Higgs • (ss)
• The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis • Clark Ashton Smith • (ss)
• The Vegetable Lamb • Matthew Francis • (ss)
• Veil of Skin • Maria Alexander • (ss)
• Veils • Marc Paoletti • (ss)
• Veil’s Visit • Joe R. Lansdale & Andrew H. Vachss • (ss)
• Vellum • Sandy Auden • (br)
• Vellum, Hal Duncan • Lisa Goldstein • (br)
• Velocity • Tracina Jackson-Adams • (pm)
• Velvet Fangs • Norman Partridge • (ss)
• Velvet Fields • Anne McCaffrey • (ss)
• Venetian Kiss • Shaun Jeffrey • (ss)
• Vengeance and Wrath • D. W. Cropper • (nv)
• Veniss Underground • Jeff VanderMeer • (n.)
• Venus Aloft • Patricia Hartman • (ar)
• Venus Flowers at Night • Pamela Sargent • (na)
• The Venus Hunters • J. G. Ballard • (nv)
• Venus of Santa Cruz • Cody Goodfellow • (ss)
• The Verdict • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• A Very British History • Paul J. McAuley • (ss)
• The Very First Affair • Johan Heliot • (nv)
• The Very Idea • Terry D. Scheerer • (ss)
• A Very Little Madness Goes a Long Way • M. Rickert • (ss)
• Very Nice • Terry Jackman • (ss)
• Vessels • Norman Partridge • (ss)
• Veterans of the War • Robert Reed • (vi)
• A Victim of Higher Space • Algernon Blackwood • (nv)
• Victorian Biography—and Afterwards • E. F. Benson • (ar)
• The Victory • Daniel C. Smith • (ss)
• Videssos Besieged • Harry Turtledove • (n.)
• A View from Outside: A Genre Conversation with Yoshio Kobayashi and Christopher Barzak • K. Bird Lincoln • (iv)
• View of Toledo: 2499 • Margaret Ballif Simon • (pm)
• Viewpoint • Gene Wolfe • (nv)
• Viewpoints • W. Paul Ganley • (pm)
• Views from the Shambly House: Tim Lees Interviewed • Tony Lee • (iv)
• Vikings of the Gloves • Robert E. Howard • (ss)
• village of wolves • Michaela Kahn • (pm)
• Villaggio Sogno • Richard A. Lupoff • (nv)
• Vintage Season • Henry Kuttner • (na)
• Violation • William F. Nolan • (ss)
• Violent Angel • Thomas S. Roche • (ss)
• Violet Miranda • Willow Dawson & Emily Pohl-Weary • (gn)
• Violets • Al Sarrantonio • (ss)
• Virgin • Ed Malles • (ss)
• Virgin Sand Goddess • Nancy Jackson • (ss)
• Virgo • Sonya Taaffe • (pm)
• Viro and the Iron-Circlet • Jonah Lissner • (ss)
• Vision • Hannah Wolf Bowen • (ss)
• A Visit to Santa Claus • Richard Matheson • (ss)
• Visiting Hours • Eddie Robson • (ss)
• Visiting the Dead • Kit Reed • (ss)
• The Visitor • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• Visitors from Mlok • Clark Ashton Smith • (ss)
• Visitor’s Guide excerpt • Gary A. Braunbeck • (ms)
• Vitamin X • Allen Ashley & Andrew Hook • (ss)
• Vitia Capitalis • Catherynne M. Valente • (pm)
• Viva La Revolution! • E. Robert Dobson • (ss)
• Vivisection • Anna Mioduchowska • (pm)
• Vocabulary Items • Bruce Holland Rogers • (ss)
• Voice and Virtue: Celebrating Jack McDevitt • Michael Bishop • (ar)
• The Voice in the Dawn • William Hope Hodgson • (ss)
• The Voice in the Night • William Hope Hodgson • (ss)
• The Voice in the Shadows • Lee Clark Zumpe • (pm)
• Voice Mail • Aliya Whiteley • (vi)
• The Voice of El-Lil • Robert E. Howard • (nv)
• A Voice Was Heard in Ramah • John Sunseri • (ss)
• Voices in the Water • Basil Copper • (ss)
• Voices of the Infinite Sea • Lorne Dixon • (ss)
• Voices of Vision • Steven H. Silver • (br)
• The Volkendorf Exhibition (Conte Cruel) • John Llewellyn Probert • (ss)
• Voluntary Committal • Joe Hill • (na)
• The Voluntary State • Christopher Rowe • (nv)
• Volunteered, Being Terminal • Steve Sneyd • (pm)
• Voodoo Dance • Bien-Amie Sylvain • (il)
• Vortex • Kevin L. Donihe • (pm)
• Vote on Whether to Create a New Short-Short Rhysling Award Category • Misc. • (ms)
• Voudoun Symbolism in The Farming of Bones • Donna Weir-Soley • (es)
• Vows • Richard Lee Byers • (nv)
• Vows: A Parable • Melissa Marr • (ss)
• Voyage Into the Heart • Patricia A. McKillip • (ss)
• The Voyeur • Steven Utley • (ss)
• The Vrykolakas • Jane Jakeman • (ss)
• Vulpheous • Eric Brown • (ss)
• Vulthoom • Clark Ashton Smith • (nv)
• The Vulture, 4 - 17 March • Philip Raines & Harvey Welles • (ss)
• The Vultures of Wahpeton • Robert E. Howard • (na)
• Vultures of Wahpeton: Alternate ending • Robert E. Howard • (ms)
• Vultures’ Sanctuary • Robert E. Howard • (nv)
• Vuuduu • C. J. Henderson • (ss)
• Der Wahrsager • Mark Anthony Brennan • (ss)
• Wait Until Next Year • Jody Lynn Nye • (nv)
• Wait Until the War Is Over • Sarah A. Hoyt • (nv)
• waiting • Eric Marin • (pm)
• The Waiting • William F. Nolan • (pm)
• Waiting for Felicity • Forrest Aguirre • (ss)
• Waiting for First Contact • Roger L. Dutcher • (pm)
• Waiting for Jeremy • Richard Salter • (ss)
• Waiting for Louis • Veronica Perry • (vi)
• Waiting for No Man • Nadine Riches • (ss)
• Waiting for Seasons to Change • Peter Tennant • (ss)
• Waiting for the Daemon • Pamela Steele • (pm)
• Waiting for the Olympians • Frederik Pohl • (na)
• Waiting in the Garden • Tony Ruggiero • (pm)
• The Waiting Room • Liza Granville • (ss)
• Waiting to Happen • Joanne Merriam • (pm)
• The Wake • Donald Pulker • (ss)
• Waking Chang-er • Samantha Ling • (ss)
• Waking Up • Kurt Strouse • (ss)
• Waldo Fobgib’s Electric Picture Shop • Andrew O. D. Booth • (ss)
• Walk Among Us • Bryan Smith • (sl)
• A Walk in the Garden • Lucius Shepard • (ss)
• A Walk in the Night • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• A Walk Through Hell • James T. Howlett • (pm)
• A Walk Through the Periodic Chart • Karl Johanson • (ar)
• The Walker Behind • Marion Zimmer Bradley • (ss)
• Walkers • Norman Partridge • (ss)
• Walking Around Money • Donald E. Westlake • (na)