The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2005

Stories, Listed by Title

• Walking the Line • Brian Maycock • (ss)
• Walking West • Joel Best • (ss)
• The Wall • Eric Marin • (pm)
• Wall Eye • Simon Clark • (vi)
• The Wall of America • Thomas M. Disch • (ss)
• Walls • Matthew Cheney • (cl)
• Walpurgis Afternoon • Delia Sherman • (nv)
• Walpuski’s Typewriter • Frank Darabont • (na)
• Wanderer 8 • Rosaleen Love • (ss)
• The Wandering Jew’s Daughter • Paul Féval • (na)
• Wandering Stu • David Lubar • (ss)
• Wanderings • Chris Forbes • (pm)
• Wang’s Carpets • Greg Egan • (nv)
• WaNNa bE yR GiRLfRiENd • David Hensler • (ss)
• War and Peace • Matthew Joseph Harrington • (na)
• War Cry • Michael Longcor • (ss)
• War Game • Philip K. Dick • (ss)
• War Games • Lisanne Norman • (nv)
• War Games 2.0 • S. Yi • (ss)
• War Haven • Allen Ashley • (ss)
• The War in the Air • H. G. Wells • (n.)
• War Is for the Hard of Hearing • Greg Beatty • (pm)
• The War Lord • Peter Morwood • (n.)
• War Memorial: Edinburgh • Jane Yolen • (pm)
• The War of the Worlds • Les Edwards • (ar)
• The War of the Worlds • H. G. Wells • (n.)
• War of Words • Noah W. Copley, Jr. • (ss)
• War on Bear Creek • Robert E. Howard • (ss)
• War Wounds • Thomas Donaldson • (ss)
• ’Ware, Man • Cas Peace • (ss)
• Warfem • Angela Knight • (na)
• Warhammer: Konrad • David Ferring • (n.)
• Warhammer: Shadowbreed • David Ferring • (n.)
• Warhammer: The Ambassador • Graham McNeill • (n.)
• Warhammer: Ursun’s Teeth • Graham McNeill • (n.)
• Warhammer: Warblade • David Ferring • (n.)
• Warlock at the Wheel • Diana Wynne Jones • (ss)
• The Warlord of Saturn’s Moons • Eleanor Arnason • (ss)
• The Warlord’s Domain • Peter Morwood • (n.)
• Warlord’s World • Christopher Anvil • (n.)
• Warmth • Geoff Ryman • (nv)
• Warning Label • Chelsea Polk • (ar)
• Warning: Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here! • John Ringo • (pr)
• Warren Norwood • Pierce Watters • (ob)
• Warren’s New Career • Tim Myers • (ss)
• Wars of the Worlds • David Gerrold • (ar)
• Wash Is Done • Mikal Trimm • (vi)
• Wasps at the Speed of Sound, Derryl Murphy • Richard Horton • (br)
• Waste Land • Stephen Dedman • (vi)
• Waste Management • Suzanne Church • (ss)
• Watch • Stephen Dedman • (ss)
• Watch and Wake • M. T. Anderson • (ss)
• The Watchers • Chris Forbes • (pm)
• Watchers • Renee Roberson • (vi)
• Watcher’s Watched • Lee Clark Zumpe • (pm)
• Watching for a Nightmare • Anastasia Andersen • (pm)
• Watching Goldfish Die • Mary Frances Zambreno • (vi)
• Watching Me, Watching You • Fay Weldon • (ss)
• Watching the Detectives • John Garrison • (ar)
• Watching the Elephant Vanish • Michael Bishop • (br)
• Watching the Fractal Set • Ursula K. Le Guin • (pm)
• Water Angel • Bruce McAllister • (ss)
• Water Babies • Simon Brown • (nv)
• Water Babies • Greg Kishbaugh • (ss)
• Water Goethe Before the Fall • Alan L. Lickiss • (ss)
• Water Is for Washing • Robert A. Heinlein • (ss)
• The Water Sculptor of Station 233 • George Zebrowski • (ss)
• Water World, Glacier World, Dust World • Kevin Walsh • (ar)
• Watercolors • Koji Suzuki • (ss)
• Watercolors in the Rain • Beth Bernobich • (ss)
• Waterfront Law • Robert E. Howard • (ss)
• The Waterless Sea, Kate Constable • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• Watermelon • Scott Nicholson • (ss)
• The Waters and the Wild • Mercedes R. Lackey • (ss)
• Waters of Malediction • Nicholas Scipior • (ss)
• The Wave-Function Collapse • Steven Utley • (ss)
• Waves of Fear • Paula Guran • (cl)
• Wax • Elizabeth Bear • (ss)
• The Waxwork • A. M. Burrage • (ss)
• The Way Back • A. Bertram Chandler • (n.)
• The Way Down the Hill • Tim Powers • (nv)
• Way Down There • Joe R. Lansdale • (ss)
• Way for the Hangtown Rebel! • Clifford D. Simak • (nv)
• The Way Home • Gavin Salisbury • (ss)
• The Way of Cross and Dragon • George R. R. Martin • (nv)
• The Way of the Moon • Abayomi Animashaun • (pm)
• The Way of the Swords • Robert E. Howard • (nv)
• A Way Out • Mary Frances Zambreno • (ss)
• The Way Up to Heaven • Roald Dahl • (ss)
• We Are Dead Together • Charles de Lint • (ss)
• We Are Not Alone • Heidi Briadgead • (ar)
• We Asked • Tobias Seamon • (pm)
• We Can Remember It for You Wholesale • Philip K. Dick • (nv)
• We Can’t Handle the Truth • C. Lee Player • (ed)
• We can’t sleep ’til morning • Terrie Leigh Relf • (pm)
• We Come Not to Praise Washington • Charles Coleman Finlay • (nv)
• We Die as Angels • William John Watkins • (pm)
• We Few, David Weber & John Ringo • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• We Find Things Old • Bentley Little • (ss)
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle • Jack Womack • (ar)
• We Interrupt This Program • David Lubar • (ss)
• We Lived in a House • Cara Spindler • (ss)
• We Must Love One Another or Die: A Critique of Star Wars • Athena Andreadis • (ar)
• We Too and Bully Dunkan • William Hope Hodgson • (ss)
• We Traverse Afar • James P. Blaylock & Tim Powers • (ss)
• We Twins • Alyssa Sturgill • (ss)
• Wealth • Robert Reed • (ss)
• The Weapon • Michelle Sagara West • (ss)
• Weapons of Mass Seduction, Lucius Shepard • Nick Gevers • (br)
• Weapons Sold Separately • Geoff Nelder • (ss)
• Weaver of Dreams • Anne Bishop • (ss)
• The Web • Gary William Crawford • (pm)
• The Wedding • Richard Matheson • (ss)
• The Wedding Album • David Marusek • (na)
• Weekend at Pocono Mountain • Robin M. Buehler • (ss)
• Weighted • Deborah Cimo • (pm)
• The Weird Ocean: Doing Oceanography Without Getting All Wet • Richard A. Lovett, Ph.D. • (ar)
• Weird Tales: The Story of a Delusion • Philip Jenkins • (ar)
• The Weird, Weird West • Therese Littleton • (ar)
• The Weirds of Wallace • Jack Adrian • (ar)
• The Weirdstone of Brinsingamen • Muriel Gray • (ar)
• Welcome to Dark Tales • Sean Jeffery • (ed)
• Welcome to Midnight • Natalie J. E. Potts • (ss)
• Welcome to My Worlds: The Art of Rob Alexander, Rob Alexander • Karen Haber • (br)
• Welcome to the Crystal Arches • Irene Radford • (nv)
• Welcome to the Empire • Eric Marin • (pm)
• Welcome to the Karnival... • Rick Hautala • (ss)
• Welcome to the Masque • Jeff VanderMeer • (ss)
• Welcome to the New Year • Susan Marie Groppi • (ed)
• Welcome to the Shadow City • Gary William Crawford • (pm)
• Well Met by Moonlight • Diana L. Paxson • (ss)
• The Well of Baln • Ursula K. Le Guin • (pm)
• The Well of Stars, Robert Reed • Nick Gevers • (br)
• The Well of Stars, Robert Reed • Russell Letson • (br)
• Well Preserved • Eric Hermanson • (ss)
• We’ll Take Manhattan • Alan Heal • (ss)
• Well Tempered • Anonymous • (vi)
• Well Tempered • Neil Williamson • (vi)
• Well, Aren’t You Terrifying • William D. Carl • (ss)
• A Well-Dressed Fear • B. A. Chepaitis • (ss)
• Wells and the Nightmare of War • Jay Winter • (in)
• Wells, Welles, Well!, or Who Called the Martians Down? • Fred Saberhagen • (ar)
• We’re on the Move! • Diane L. Walton • (ed)
• We’re Still Girls • Joanne Merriam • (pm)
• The Were-Wolf • Clemence Housman • (nv)
• Werefir • Ruth Berman • (pm)
• Werewolf • Karen A. Romanko • (pm)
• The Werewolf Escapes His Wife • William John Watkins • (pm)
• The Werewolf of Rutherford Grange • G. L. Gick • (sl)
• The Werewolf’s Absolution • William John Watkins • (pm)
• West Memphis Three, 1996 • Grove Pashley • (il)
• West Memphis Three, 2002 • Grove Pashley • (il)
• The Western Front • Patrick Samphire • (ss)
• The Western Genre Fled Across the Desert, and Stephen King Followed • David M. Higgins • (ar)
• Wet Cactus • Uncle River • (ss)
• Wet Nurse • Gary McMahon • (ss)
• Wet Straw • Richard Matheson • (ss)
• Wezleski to the Rescue • C. J. Henderson • (ss)
• Whack • Daniel C. Smith • (pm)
• Whales • Kate Grimes • (pm)
• Whales on Stilts!, M.T. Anderson • Carolyn Cushman • (br)
• What Colour Is the Wind? • Aleksandar Ziljak • (ss)
• What Do Genies Wish For? • Valerie Frankel • (ss)
• What Do You Seek, So Far Far Away • Thomas Donaldson • (ss)
• What Happens Next: Lived Story • Sophie Masson • (ar)
• What Her Mother Said • Theodora Goss • (pm)
• What I Didn’t See • Karen Joy Fowler • (ss)
• What I Learned Playing Marathon Solitaire on My PC • W. Gregory Stewart • (pm)
• What I Owe to Rick • Arthur Porges • (ss)
• What I Remember • Megan Messinger • (ss)
• What if Space Were Filled with Worms? • Willow Katsumi Relf-Discartin • (pm)
• What is and What was Death on an Autumn Sky • Caniglia • (il)
• What Is Life? • Robert Sheckley • (ss)
• What Little Girls Are Made Of • Alyssa Sturgill • (vi)
• What Must Be • Josepha Sherman • (ss)
• What Nightmares May Come • Anthony Beal • (ss)
• What Rough Beast Comes • Kurt Belcher & William Jones • (gs)
• What Rough Beast Comes • William Jones & Bill Skaar • (gs)
• What Say You? • Jason B. Sizemore • (ed)
• What Small Joy • Laurie Tom • (ss)
• What T and I Did • Fred Saberhagen • (ss)
• What The Cat Dragged In • Lee Clark Zumpe • (pm)
• What the Dead Men Say • Philip K. Dick • (na)
• What the Moon Brings • H. P. Lovecraft • (pp)
• What the Traveler Saw • Gary William Crawford • (pm)
• What They Left Behind • Brian Freeman • (ss)
• What to Do When Your Relatives from Mars Visit Unexpectedly • Bruce Boston • (pm)
• What to Expect and Not Expect from an Interstellar Voyage • Bruce Boston • (pm)
• What to Take and Not to the Enchanted Forest • Bruce Boston • (pm)
• What You Need • Henry Kuttner • (ss)
• What You Wish For • Stephen Dedman • (ss)
• What’s Coming • Kurt MacPhearson • (pm)
• What’s Expected of Us • Ted Chiang • (vi)
• What’s Going On Out There? • Deborah L. Notkin • (cl)
• What’s in the Box, Fox? • Neil Ayres • (ss)
• Wheat Fall • Scott C. Virtes • (pm)
• The Wheels of If • L. Sprague de Camp • (na)
• When Bear Creek Came to Chawed Ear • Robert E. Howard • (ss)
• When Children Weep • Michael Kelly • (ss)
• When Civilizations Collapse • James Schellenberg • (cl)
• When Day Is Dun • Richard Matheson • (ss)
• When Johnny Comes Marching Home • Justin Stanchfield • (ss)
• When Kaylee • Jennifer Schwabach • (pm)
• When Lemmy Met Jules • Terrance Dicks • (ss)
• When Opportunity Knocks— • Norman Partridge • (ar)
• When Raven Came • Jane Yolen • (pm)
• When Sparrows Fall • Lisa S. Silverthorne • (ss)
• When the Bough Breaks • Henry Kuttner • (nv)
• When the Bough Doesn’t Break • Brian Hodge • (nv)
• When the Dragon Falls • Patrick Samphire • (ss)
• When the Fruit Comes Ripe • Norman Partridge • (vi)
• When the Great Days Came • Gardner R. Dozois • (ss)
• When The Law Has Spoken • D. Harlan Wilson • (ss)
• When the Lights Go Out • Eugie Foster • (ss)