The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2007

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DELANEY, JOHN (chron.)

* _Magic: The Gathering: Future Sight (with Scott McGough) See entry under Scott McGough.
DELANEY, JOSEPH H(enry) (1932-1999) (chron.)

* _The Last Apprentice: Curse of the Bane (HarperTrophy/Greenwillow 978-0-06-076623-8, Sep 2007, $7.99, 468pp, tp, cover by Patrick Arrasmith) [Last Apprentice] Reprint (The Bodley Head 2005 as The Spook’s Curse) young-adult dark fantasy, second in a series about apprentice spook (ghostbuster) Thomas Ward.
* +The Last Apprentice: Night of the Soul Stealer (HarperCollins/Greenwillow 978-0-06-076624-5, Sep 2007, $16.99, 500pp, hc, cover by Patrick Arrasmith) [Last Apprentice] Young-adult dark fantasy about an apprentice ghostbuster, the third in a series. Illustrated by Patrick Arrasmith. First US edition (The Bodley Head 2006 as The Spook’s Secret by Joe Delaney).
* *The Spook’s Battle (The Bodley Head 978-0-370-32892-8, Jul 2007, £9.99, 484pp, hc, cover by David Wyatt) [Spook] Young-adult fantasy novel. Fourth in the series begun in The Spook’s Apprentice.
* _The Spook’s Secret (Random House UK/Red Fox 978-0-099-45647-6, Jul 2007, £5.99, 454pp, tp, cover by David Wyatt) [Spook] Reprint (The Bodley Head 2006) young-adult fantasy novel, third in a series.
DELANY, SAMUEL R(ay, Jr.) (1942- ) (chron.)

* *Dark Reflection (Carroll & Graf 978-0-78671-947-1, May 2007, $15.95, 295pp, tp) Associational novel about the life of a gay African-American poet in New York City.
DEL FRANCO, MARK (chron.)

* *Unshapely Things (Ace 978-0-441-01477-4, Feb 2007, $7.99, 305pp, pb, cover by Jaime DeJesus) [Connor Grey] Contemporary fantasy mystery, the first in a series. Connor Grey, a druid with a magical disability, helps the police track a killer.
de LINT, CHARLES (Henri Diederick Hoefsmit) (1951- ) (stories) (chron.)

* _The Ivory and the Horn (Tor/Orb 987-0-7653-1679-0, Oct 2007, $14.95, 318pp, tp, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Newford] Reprint (Tor 1995) collection of 15 urban fantasy stories set in Newford.
* *Little (Grrl) Lost (Penguin/Viking 978-0-670-06144-0, Sep 2007, $17.99, 271pp, hc, cover by Scott Fischer) Young-adult contemporary fantasy novel. T.J.’s unhappy about moving to Newford until she gets to know a Little teen living in the walls of her house.
* _Memory & Dream (Tor/Orb 978-0-765-31678-3, Feb 2007, $15.95, 400pp, tp, cover by John Howe) Reprint (Tor 1994) contemporary urban fantasy novel.
* *Promises to Keep (Subterranean Press 978-1-59606-126-2, Sep 2007, $35.00, 173pp, hc, cover by Mike Dringenberg) [Newford] Fantasy novella in the Newford series. This trade edition is sold out, as well as the signed, slipcased edition of 175 ($125.00); a traycased edition of 26 ($250.00) is still available. Subterranean Press, PO Box 190106, Burton MI 48519; [www.subterraneanpress.com].
* _Widdershins (Tor 978-0-7653-1286-0, Jun 2007, $14.95, 560pp, tp, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Newford] Reprint (Tor 2006) fantasy novel in the Newford series.
DE LOS SANTOS, OSCAR, ed. (chron.)

* _When Genres Collide: Selected Essays from the 37th Annual Meeting of the Science Fiction Research Association (with Thomas J. Morrissey) See entry under Thomas J. Morrissey
del REY, LESTER; [i.e., Ramón Felipe San Juan Mario Silvio Enrico Smith Heathcourt-Brace Sierra y Alvarez-del Rey y de Los Uerdes (born Leonard Knapp)] (1915-1993) (stories) (chron.)

* _Police Your Planet (Wildside Press 0-8095-0147-3, 2006, $13.95, 123pp, tp, cover by Stefan Schiessl) Reprint (Avalon 1956 as by Eric Van Lhin) SF novel. This is dated 2006, but not seen until now. A print-on-demand edition available online at [www.wildsidepress.com]; Wildside Press, 9710 Traville Gateway Dr. #234, Rockville MD 20850.
* _The Sky Is Falling (Wildside Press 1-55742-947-2, 2006, $12.95, 104pp, tp, cover by Stefan Schiessl) Reprint (Ace 1973 as part of an Ace Double) SF novella. This is dated 2006 but not seen until now. A print-on-demand edition available online at [www.wildsidepress.com]; Wildside Press, 9710 Traville Gateway Dr. #234, Rockville MD 20850.
DeMARCE, VIRGINIA EASLEY (chron.)

* _1634: The Bavarian Crisis (with Eric Flint) See entry under Eric Flint.
* _1634: The Ram Rebellion (with Eric Flint) See entry under Eric Flint.
de MARI, SILVANA (chron.)

* *The Last Dragon (with Shaun Whiteside,trans.) (Hyperion 0-7868-3636-9, Oct 2006, $16.95, 361pp, hc, cover by Chelushkin) Young-adult fantasy novel. A young elf who may be the last of his kind seeks the last dragon to fulfill a prophecy and save the world. Translated from the Italian L’Ultimo Elfo (Adriano Salani 2004) by Shaun Whiteside. This is dated 2006, but not seen until now.
* _The Last Dragon (with Shaun Whiteside,trans.) (Hyperion 978-1-4231-0405-6, Sep 2007, $6.99, 361pp, tp, cover by Chelushkin) Reprint (Hyperion 2006, not seen) young-adult postapocalyptic fantasy novel. A young elf and a dragon must save the world. Translated from the Italian L’Ultimo Elfo (Adriano Salani 2004) by Shaun Whiteside.
* _The Last Elf (Bloomsbury 978-0-7475-7767-6, Jan 2007, £7.99, 361pp, hc) Reprint (Hyperion 2006 as The Last Dragon) young-adult fantasy novel. Translated by Shaun Whiteside from the Italian L’Ultimo Elfo (Salani Editore 2004). [First U.K. edition]
DEMING, SARAH (chron.)

* *Iris, Messenger (Harcourt 978-0-15-205823-4, May 2007, $16.00, 209pp, hc, cover by Eric Fortune) Young-adult contemporary fantasy. Iris Greenwold finds ancient Greek gods working ordinary jobs around town.
DENIZ, MARK S., ed. (stories) (chron.)

* *In Bad Dreams, Volume One: Where Real Life Awaits (with Sharyn Lilley) (Eneit Press 978-1-873671-00-9, Sep 2007, A$21.00, 230pp, tp, cover by Charlotte Thomson) Original anthology with 17 stories of contemporary horror. Eneit Press, Ostra Promenaden 43, 602 29 Norrkoping, Sweden; [www.eneitpress.com]. (Contents)
DENNING, TROY (1958- ) (chron.)

* *Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Inferno (Ballantine Del Rey LucasBooks 978-0-345-47755-2, Sep 2007, $7.99, 289pp, pb) [Star Wars: Legacy of the Force] Star Wars novelization. Copyrighted by Lucasfilm.
* _Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Inferno (Random House UK/Arrow/LucasBooks 978-0-099-49206-1, Oct 2007, £6.99, xx+312pp, pb) [Star Wars: Legacy of the Force] Reprint (Del Rey 2007) SF novelization. Book six in a nine-book subseries. [First U.K. edition]
DENNIS, ANDREW (stories) (chron.)

* _1635: The Cannon Law (with Eric Flint) See entry under Eric Flint.
DENTON, BRADLEY (Clayton) (1958- ) (chron.)

* _Blackburn (St. Martin’s/Picador 978-0-312-42695-8, May 2007, $13.00, 296pp, tp) Reprint (St. Martin’s 1994) associational serial-killer horror novel.
de PIERRES, MARIANNE (chron.)

* +Crash Deluxe (Penguin/Roc 978-0-451-46184-1, Oct 2007, $6.99, 261pp, pb) [Parrish Plessis] SF novel, third in the Parrish Plessis series. First US edition (Orbit 6/05).
* *Dark Space (Little, Brown UK/Orbit 978-1-84149-428-9, May 2007, £6.99, 416pp, pb) [Sentients of Orion] SF novel, book one of the Sentients of Orion series.
DEVERAUX, JUDE; pseudonym of Jude White, (1947- ) (chron.)

* *Someone to Love (Simon & Schuster/Atria 978-0-7434-3716-5, Jul 2007, $25.95, 308pp, hc) Paranormal romance. A man dealing with his fiancee’s suicide buys a haunted house.
DEVEREUX, DAVID (chron.)

* *Hunter’s Moon (Orion/Gollancz 978-0-575-07985-4, Jun 2007, £9.99, 231pp, tp) Dark fantasy thriller of a secret agent who is also a master magician. A hardcover edition (-07986-1, £18.99) was announced but not seen.
DeVITA, JAMES (chron.)

* *The Silenced (HarperCollins/Eos 0-06-078462-8, Jul 2007, $17.99, 506pp, hc) Young-adult dystopian SF novel about teens resisting an oppressive regime, inspired by real events in WWII Germany.
DEVLIN, DELILAH (chron.)

* *Into the Darkness (HarperCollins/Avon Red 978-0-06-116123-0, Apr 2007, $13.95, 307pp, tp) Erotic vampire romance set in New Orleans.
DEVOTI, LORI (chron.)

* *Guardian’s Keep (Harlequin/Silhouette Nocturne 978-0-373-61779-1, Jan 2008, $5.25, 282pp, pb) [Unbound] Paranormal romance in the Unbound series.
DE WINTER, CORRINE (stories) (chron.)

* *Tango in the Ninth Circle (Dark Regions Press 1-888993-42-1, Jan 2007, $6.95, 43pp, ph, cover by Matt Taggart) Chapbook collection of 27 poems. Introduction by Denise Dumars. Dark Regions Press, PO Box 1264, Colusa CA 95932. (Contents)
DeWOLF, PARKER (chron.)

* *Eberron: The Left Hand of Death (Wizards of the Coast 978-0-7869-4713-3, Jul 2007, $6.99, 277pp, pb, cover by Cyril Van Der Haegen) [Eberron: Lanternlight Files] Novelization based on the roleplaying game, first in the Lanternlight Files series. Copyrighted by Wizards of the Coast.
de WOLFF, GUSTAV (chron.)

* _Vampyre: The Terrifying Lost Journal of Dr. Cornelius Van Helsing (with Cornelius Van Helsing) See entry under Cornelius Van Helsing.
DÍAZ, JUNOT (chron.)

* *The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Penguin/Riverhead 978-1-59448-958-7, Sep 2007, $24.95, 340pp, hc) Dark fantasy novel. A young man who dreams of being “the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien” is doomed by a family curse, traced across generations. A first novel.
DICK, PHILIP K(indred) (1928-1982) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

* _Blade Runner (Ballantine Del Rey 978-0-345-35047-3, Dec 2007, $7.50, 265pp, pb, cover by Drew Struzan) Reissue (Doubleday 1968 as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) SF novel. This is a 25th Anniversary (of the movie) edition with a new article by Paul M. Sammon on the evolution from book to movie; 40th printing.
* _Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Orion/Gollancz 978-0-575-07993-9, Mar 2007, £7.99, 214pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1968) SF novel.
* _Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Gollancz 978-0-575-07993-9, Mar 2007, £7.99, 214pp, tp, cover by Sue Michniewicz) Reprint (Doubleday 1968) SF novel.
* _Dr. Bloodmoney (Orion/Gollancz 978-0-575-07994-6, Mar 2007, £7.99, 278pp, pb) Reprint (Ace 1965) SF novel.
* _Dr. Bloodmoney (Gollancz 978-0-575-07994-6, Mar 2007, £7.99, 273pp, tp, cover by Sue Michniewicz) Reprint (Ace 1965 as Dr. Bloodmoney Or How We Got Along After the Bomb) SF novel. Includes an undated Afterword by Dick.
* _Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (Orion/Gollancz 978-0-575-07995-3, Mar 2007, £7.99, 247pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1974) SF novel.
* _Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (Gollancz 978-0-575-07995-3, Mar 2007, £7.99, 247pp, tp, cover by Sue Michniewicz) Reprint (Doubleday 1974) SF novel. The cover is, peculiarly, Flow, My Tears, the Policeman Said.
* *Four Novels of the 1960s (Library of America 978-1-59853-009-4, May 2007, $35.00, 829pp, hc) Omnibus of four novels: The Man in the High Castle (1962), The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep? (1968), and Ubik (1969). Edited by Jonathan Lethem. Includes chronology and notes. Order from Library of America, 14 East 60th Street, New York NY 10022. (Contents)
* *Human Is? (Orion/Gollancz 978-0-575-08034-8, Mar 2007, £6.99, pb) Collection of 20 stories.
* *Human Is? (Gollancz 978-0-575-08034-8, Mar 2007, £7.99, 438pp, tp, cover by Sue Michniewicz) Collection of 20 stories, including 4 stories which have been filmed. (Contents)
* +Humpty Dumpty in Oakland (Tor 978-0-7653-1690-5, Oct 2007, $24.95, 252pp, hc) Associational mainstream novel. First US edition (Gollancz 1986).
* _Martian Time-Slip (Orion/Gollancz 978-0-575-07996-0, Mar 2007, £7.99, 280pp, pb) Reprint (Ballantine 1964) SF novel.
* _Martian Time-Slip (Gollancz 978-0-575-07996-0, Mar 2007, £7.99, 280pp, tp, cover by Sue Michniewicz) Reprint (Ballantine 1964) SF novel.
* _Our Friends from Frolix 8 (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07671-2, Dec 2006, £6.99, 211pp, tp, cover by Chris Moore) Reprint (Ace 1970) SF novel.
* _The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Orion/Gollancz 978-0-575-07997-7, Mar 2007, £7.99, 243pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1965) SF novel.
* _The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Gollancz 978-0-575-07997-7, Mar 2007, £7.99, 243pp, tp, cover by Sue Michniewicz) Reprint (Doubleday 1964) SF novel.
* *Voices from the Street (Tor 978-0-765-31692-9, Jan 2007, $24.95, 301pp, hc) Associational mainstream novel, previously unpublished.
* _Voices from the Street (Tor 978-0-7653-1821-3, Nov 2007, $14.95, 304pp, tp) Reprint (Tor 2007) associational mainstream novel.
DICKENS, CHARLES (John Huffam) (1812-1870) (stories) (chron.)

* _A Christmas Carol (with P. J. Lynch) (Candlewick Press 0-7636-3120-5, Oct 2006, $19.99, 159pp, hc, cover by Mark Summers) [Christmas Carol] Reprint (Chapman & Hall 1843) classic Christmas ghost story with new illustrations by P.J. Lynch. This is dated 2006, but not seen until now.
* _Christmas Carol and Other Holiday Tales (Borders Classics 978-1-58726-422-1, 2007, $5.95, 224pp, tp, cover by Harold Copping) Reissue omnibus of three fantastic Christmas novels: A Christmas Carol (1843), The Chimes (1844), and A Cricket on the Hearth (1845). Second printing.
* _A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth (Barnes & Noble Classics 978-1-59308-033-4, 2007, $5.95, 275pp, tp, cover by John Leech) Reissue omnibus of three fantastic Christmas novels: A Christmas Carol (1843), The Chimes (1844), and A Cricket on the Hearth (1845). This has a 2004 introduction and notes by Katharine Kroeber Wiley. Third printing.
DICKINSON, JOHN (chron.)

* _The Cup of the World (Random House/Laurel-Leaf 978-0-553-49489-1, Apr 2007, $6.99, 419pp, pb) [Cup of the World] Reprint (Fickling UK 2004) young-adult medieval fantasy, first in a series.
* _The Widow and the King (Random House/Laurel-Leaf 978-0-553-49503-4, Apr 2007, $7.99, 613pp, pb) [Cup of the World] Reprint (Fickling 2005) young-adult medieval fantasy, sequel to The Cup of the World.
DICKINSON, PETER (Malcolm de Brissac) (1927- ) (stories) (chron.)

* *Angel Isle (Macmillan Children’s Books 1-4050-4995-2, Oct 2006, £12.99, 616pp, hc) [Ropemaker] Young-adult fantasy novel. Sequel to The Ropemaker.
* +Angel Isle (Random House/Lamb 978-0-385-74690-8, Oct 2007, $17.99, 500pp, hc, cover by Steve Rawlings) [Ropemaker] Young-adult fantasy novel, sequel to The Ropemaker. First US edition (Macmillan 10/06).
* *The Weir: Poems (Peter Dickinson Books 978-0-9557805-1-6, Dec 2007, £9.10, 80pp, tp) Collection of poems, mainly original. (Contents)
DICKSON, GORDON R(upert) (1923-2001) (chron.)

* *Antagonist (with David W. Wixon) (Tor 978-0-312-85388-4, Mar 2007, $27.95, 429pp, hc, cover by Volkan Baga) [Childe Cycle] SF novel, the final book in the Dickson’s Childe Cycle, completed by Wixon.
DIETZ, WILLIAM C(orey) (1945- ) (chron.)

* _Drifter (Ace 978-0-441-16813-2, Feb 2007, $6.99, 200pp, pb, cover by Jean Targete) [Lando] Reissue (Ace 1991) SF novel, first book in the Lando series. Third printing.
* _Drifter’s Run (Ace 978-0-441-16814-9, Mar 2007, $6.99, 196pp, pb, cover by Jean Targete) [Lando] Reissue (Ace 1992) SF novel, second book in the Lando series. Third printing.
* _Drifter’s War (Ace 978-0-441-16815-6, Apr 2007, $6.99, 230pp, pb, cover by Luis Royo) [Lando] Reissue (Ace 1992) SF novel, third in the Ace Lando series. Fourth printing.
* *Hitman: Enemy Within (Ballantine Del Rey 978-0-345-47132-1, Sep 2007, $6.99, 307pp, pb) Novelization based on the video game. Copyrighted by Eidos Interactive.
* _Logos Run (Ace 978-0-441-01536-8, Oct 2007, $7.99, 357pp, pb, cover by Craig White) [Runner] Reprint (Ace 2006) far-future SF, sequel to Runner.
* *When All Seems Lost (Ace 978-0-441-01524-5, Oct 2007, $24.95, 343pp, hc, cover by Bruce Jensen) [Legion of the Damned] Military SF novel, seventh in the Legion of the Damned series. The president of the Confederacy is captured by the alien enemy.
DIKTY, JULIAN MAY (1931- ); see under May, Julian (chron.)
DILLARD, J. M.; [i.e., Jeanne M. Dillard Kalogridis] (1954- ) (chron.)

* *Star Trek: The Next Generation: Resistance (Pocket 978-0-7434-9955-2, Sep 2007, $7.99, 306pp, pb, cover by Tom Hallman) [Star Trek: The Next Generation] Star Trek novelization. Copyrighted by CBS Studios.
DILLON, DIANE (Claire Sorber) (1933- ) (chron.)

* _Mother Goose: Numbers on the Loose (with Leo Dillon) See entry under Leo Dillon.
DILLON, LEO; [i.e., Lionel John Dillon, Sr.] (1933- ) (chron.)

* *Mother Goose: Numbers on the Loose (with Diane Dillon) (Harcourt 978-0-15-205676-6, Oct 2007, $17.00, unpaginated, hc, cover by Leo Dillon & Diane Dillon) Children’s picture book of nursery rhymes involving numbers, selected and illustrated by the Dillons.
DIMES, JOHN (chron.)

* *The Rites of Pretending Tribe (Zumaya Publications 978-1-934135-29-7, Apr 2007, $14.99, 214pp, tp, cover by Erin Wells) Surreal fantasy novel. A team of magicians seeks the cause of a sleeping sickness attacking a town’s children. This is a print-on-demand edition, available online at [www.zumayapublications.com]; Zumaya Publications, 3209 S. IH35 #1086, Austin TX 78741-6905.
DISCH, THOMAS M(ichael) (1940-2008) (stories) (chron.)

* *About the Size of It (Anvil Press 978-0-85646-391-4, May 2007, £9.95, 157pp, tp) (Contents)
DIVAKARUNI, CHITRA BANERJEE (chron.)

* _The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin 978-1-4169-1768-7, Mar 2007, $5.99, 329pp, tp, cover by Anton Petrov) [Brotherhood of the Conch] Reprint (Roaring Brook Press 2005) young-adult fantasy novel set in Mughal India, book two of The Brotherhood of the Conch after The Conch Bearer.

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