The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2007

Books, Listed by Author

LEVINE, GAIL CARSON (chron.)

• * _Ella Enchanted (HarperTrophy 0-06-440705-5, Aug 2006, $6.99, 232pp, tp) [Ella Enchanted] Reissue (HarperCollins 1997) young-adult fantasy novel. This is a movie tie-in edition, with added materials in an Extras Inside section.

LEVINSON, [Dr.] PAUL (1947- ) (chron.)

• * _The Plot to Save Socrates (Tor 978-0-765-31197-9, Feb 2007, $14.95, 270pp, tp, cover by Gaetano Gandolfi) Reprint (Tor 2006) SF time-travel novel.

LEVITHAN, DAVID (stories) (chron.)

• * _Marly’s Ghost (Penguin/Speak 978-0-14-240912-1, Oct 2007, $6.99, 163pp, tp) Reprint (Dial 2006) young-adult ghost novella retelling Dickens’s A Christmas Carol as a contemporary Valentine’s Day story.
• * *Wide Awake (Random House/Knopf 0-375-83466-4, Oct 2006, $16.95, 221pp, hc) Young-adult near-future SF novel. Politically active teens get involved when a gay Jewish man is elected President of the United States, and controversy erupts. This is dated 2006, but not seen until now.

LEVITSKY, ALEXANDER, ed. (chron.)

• * *Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Overlook Duckworth 978-1-58568-819-8, Jul 2007, $37.95, 656pp, hc, cover by Konstantin Yuon) Anthology of over 52 pieces including 25 stories, seven novel excerpts, 10 poems, and various vignettes and fragments tracing the development of Russian fantasy from folk tale to the Soviet era, with extensive commentary by Levitsky, who translated a number of pieces. Some pieces are “abridged.” Authors include Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov, and Ivan Antonovich Efremov. An afterword by Sofya Khagi discusses contemporary Russian SF and fantasy. (Contents)

LEVITT, JOHN (chron.)

• * *Dog Days (Ace 978-0-441-01553-5, Nov 2007, $6.99, 297pp, pb, cover by Don Sipley) [Dog Days] Fantasy novel. Ex-enforcer Mason just wants to be a musician, but evil in San Francisco drags him — and his magical dog Louie — back into the magic business. The author also writes as J.R. Levitt.

LEVY, ROGER (chron.)

• * _Icarus (Orion/Gollancz 978-0-575-07981-6, May 2007, £7.99, 421pp, tp) Reprint (Gollancz 2006) SF novel.

LEWIS, C(live) S(taples) (1898-1963) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _The Chronicles of Narnia Pop-up (with Robert Sabuda & Matthew Armstrong) See entry under Robert Sabuda.
• * +The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy 1950-1963 (HarperSanFrancisco 978-0-06-081922-4, Jan 2007, $42.95, 1810+xx, hc) Non-fiction, biographical/reference, the third of three volumes collecting Lewis’s extensive correspondence. Edited and with a preface by Walter Hooper. Includes an appendix with biographies of correspondents, and an index. First US edition (HarperCollins UK 11/06).

LEWIS, MATTHEW GREGORY (1775-1818) (chron.)

• * _The Monk (SFBC #1235998, Jul 2007, $12.99, 442pp, tp) Reprint (1795) gothic novel with minor supernatural elements. This is similar to the Oxford World’s Classics 2002 edition with introduction by Stephen King; it has ISBN 978-0-7394-8252-0, lacks a price, and has the book club number on the back jacket.

L’HOMME, ERIK (chron.)

• * +The Face in the Shadow (Scholastic 0-439-65666-4, Mar 2006, $5.99, 262pp, tp, cover by Mark Zug) [Book of the Stars] Young-adult fantasy novel, the third in the Book of the Stars trilogy. Translated from the French Le Visage de l’Ombre (Gallimard 2002) by Roz Schwartz. First US edition (The Chicken House UK 2005). This is dated 2006, but not seen until now.

LICKISS, REBECCA, ed. (stories) (chron.)

• * _The Future We Wish We Had (with Martin H. Greenberg) See entry under Martin H. Greenberg

LIGHTMAN, ALAN (chron.)

• * *Ghost (Random House/Pantheon 978-0-375-42169-3, Oct 2007, $23.00, 245pp, hc) Fantasy novel. A middle-aged man has a vision and sparks a controversy over the existence of the supernatural.

LIGHTNER, LEE (chron.)

• * *Warhammer 40,000: Sons of Fenris (BL Publishing/Black Library 978-1-84416-388-5, Jan 2007, £6.99, 404pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf] Novelization based on the SF roleplaying game, the fifth book of the Space Wolf series.
• * +Warhammer 40,000: Sons of Fenris (BL Publishing/Black Library US 978-1-84416-388-5, Feb 2007, $7.99, 404pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf] Novelization based on the SF roleplaying game, fifth in the Space Wolf series. This first US edition has the same ISBN as the Black Library UK (1/07) edition, but only gives US and Canadian prices.

LIGOTTI, THOMAS (1953- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *The Nightmare Factory (HarperCollins/Fox Atomic Comics 978-0-06-124353-0, Aug 2007, $17.99, unpaginated, tp, cover by Ashley Wood) Graphic collection of comics adaptations of four stories by Thomas Ligotti, two adapted by Stuart Moore, two by Joe Harris, illustrated by various artists. Ligotti provides introductions. (Contents)
• * _The Shadow at the Bottom of the World (Subterranean Press 1-59606-057-3, May 2006, $50.00, 270pp, hc, cover by J. K. Potter) Reprint (Cold Spring Press 2005) collection of 16 stories. This is dated 2006, but not seen until now. This is a signed, limited edition of 400; a traycased, lettered edition of 26 is sold out. Subterranean Press, PO Box 190106, Burton MI 48519; [www.subterraneanpress.com].

LILLEY, SHARYN, ed. (stories) (chron.)

• * _In Bad Dreams, Volume One: Where Real Life Awaits (with Mark S. Deniz) See entry under Mark S. Deniz

LIMA, MARIA (chron.)

• * *Matters of the Blood (Wildside Press/Juno Books 978-0-8095-5790-8, Mar 2007, $12.95, 282pp, tp) Dark fantasy mystery/romance about a woman with necromantic powers working at a mortuary in a small Texas town. A first novel. Wildside Press/Juno Books, 9710 Traville Gateway Dr. #234, Rockville MD 20850; [www.juno-books.com].

LINDBERGH, JUDITH (chron.)

• * *The Thrall’s Tale (Penguin/Plume 978-0-28817-1, Jan 2007, $15.00, 451pp, hc, cover by Larry Rostant) Reprint (Viking 2005, not seen) historical novel with possible fantasy elements set in ancient Greenland during the introduction of Christianity. A first novel.

LINDBOE, OLE (chron.)

• * _The Fantastic World of Clause Brusen (with Claus Brusen) See entry under Claus Brusen.

LINDHOLM, MEGAN; [i.e., Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden] (1952- ); see pseudonym Robin Hobb (chron.)

LINDLEY, RAE (chron.)

• * *Cimmerian City (Lavender Isis Press 978-0-9793674-7-2, Oct 2007, $10.95, 188pp, tp, cover by Rae Lindley) [Cimmerian] Near-future SF novel, the first in the Cimmerian series. Raven Blackheart wakes ten years after an accident to find humans and creatures called Dracins at war in a world run by corporations. This is a print-on-demand edition. Lavender Isis, PO Box 47564, Tampa FL 33647; [www.lavenderisis.com].

LINDQVIST, JOHN AJVIDE (chron.)

• * +Let Me In (St. Martin’s 978-0-312-35528-9, Oct 2007, $25.95, hc) Vampire novel. The new girl next door only comes out at night. A Thomas Dunne book. Translated from the Swedish Lät den rätte komma in (Ordfront 2004) by Ebba Segerberg. A first novel. First US edition (Quercus 8/07).
• * *Let the Right One In (Quercus 978-1-8472-4169-6, Aug 2007, £12.99, 513pp, hc) Vampire novel. Translated by Ebba Segerberg from the Swedish original, Lät den rätte komma in (Ordfront 2004). A damaged young boy makes friends with his new neighbour, a 200-year old vampire frozen in childhood.

LINDSKOLD, JANE M. (stories) (chron.)

• * *Wolf’s Blood (Tor 978-0-765-31480-2, Mar 2007, $27.95, 540pp, hc, cover by Julie Bell) [Firekeeper] Fantasy novel, sixth and final in the Firekeeper series.

LINEBARGER, PAUL M(yron) A(nthony) (1913-1966); see pseudonym Cordwainer Smith (stories) (chron.)

LINK, KELLY (Denise), ed. (1969- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet (with Gavin J. Grant) (Ballantine Del Rey 978-0-365-49913-4, Sep 2007, $14.95, 387pp, tp, cover by Jacob McMurray) Anthology of 49 pieces, not all easily defined (around 25 stories, 15 poems, and miscellaneous other items), originally published in the small-press zine. Introduction by Dan Chaon. Authors include John Kessel, Nalo Hopkinson, Karen Joy Fowler, and Jeffrey Ford. (Contents)
• * _The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection (with Gavin J. Grant & Ellen Datlow) See entry under Ellen Datlow.

LINNEA, S. L. (chron.)

• * *Beyond Eden (St. Martin’s 978-0-312-94215-1, Sep 2007, $6.99, 387pp, pb) [Jaime Richards] Supernatural thriller, sequel to Chasing Eden. Someone is kidnapping descendants of Eden out in the “Terris” (real) world. Copyrighted by Sharon Linnéa & B.K. Sherer.

LISLE, REBECCA (chron.)

• * *The Curse of the Ravens (Hodder Children’s Books 978-0-340-89448-4, Jun 2007, £5.99, 314pp, pb) Young-adult fantasy novel.

LITTLE, BENTLEY (1960- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *The Vanishing (Penguin/Signet 978-0-451-22185-8, Aug 2007, $7.99, 386pp, pb) Horror novel. Family men start killing their families gruesomely, and researchers uncover a similar 19th-century case.

LIU, MARJORIE M. (1978- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Soul Song (Leisure 978-0-8439-5766-2, Jul 2007, $6.99, 331pp, pb) [Dirk & Steele] Dark fantasy romance/mystery in the Dirk & Steele series about the operatives of a global paranormal detective agency. Kitala Bell is drawn to a man from the sea with a magical song.

LIVINGSTON, MICHAEL (stories) (chron.)

• * _Prime Codex (with Lawrence M. Schoen) See entry under Lawrence M. Schoen

LLOYD, TOM (chron.)

• * _The Stormcaller (Orion/Gollancz 978-0-575-07926-7, Jul 2007, £7.99, 502pp, tp, cover by Larry Rostant) [Twilight Reign] Reprint (Gollancz 2006) fantasy novel, book one of The Twilight Reign series.
• * *The Twilight Herald (Orion/Gollancz 978-0-575-07729-4, Aug 2007, £12.99, 505pp, tp, cover by Larry Rostant) [Twilight Reign] Fantasy novel, sequel to The Stormcaller. A hardcover edition (-07728-7, £18.99) was announced but not seen.

LLYWELYN, MORGAN (1937- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * _The Greener Shore (Ballantine Del Rey 978-0-345-47767-5, Jul 2007, $14.95, 301pp, tp, cover by John Jude Palencar) [Druids] Reprint (Del Rey 2006) Celtic historical fantasy novel, sequel to Druids.

LOCKE, GEORGE (Walter), ed. (1936- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *The Edge of Space (London: Murqi Press, 2007, £25.00, xiv+146pp, tp) Anthology of stories set in the upper atmosphere. Limited edition, 250 copies. Also 26-copy lettered edition which for £125 includes a colour portfolio of illustrations to Doyle’s “The Horror of the Heights” and a copy of George Allan England’s The Empire of the Air published by Black Dog Books. (Contents)
• * *Yew Tree Press Christmas Annual for 2008: Mysteries of the Court Revealed (London: Yew Tree Press, 2007, £25.00, 45+52pp, tp) Limited edition, 250 copies. (Contents)

LOCKE, JOHN, ed. (1632-1704) (stories) (chron.)

• * *From Ghouls to Gangsters: The Career of Arthur B. Reeve: Volume 2 (Off-Trail Publications 978-0-9786836-4-5, Nov 2007, $20.00, 251pp, tp, cover by Howard V. Brown) Lengthy career biography of Reeve, all major nonfiction works by Reeve reflecting on his career or detective fiction, an extensive bibliography of his work (magazine, book, newspaper, comic strip, stage, radio, film, television), an Art Gallery, a sources bibliography, and index. (Contents) [Reeve]
• * *Pulpwood Days: Volume 1: Editors You Want to Know (Off-Trail Publications 978-0-9786836-2-7, Mar 2007, $16.00, 178pp, tp) (Contents)

LOCKWOOD, CARA (chron.)

• * *The Scarlet Letterman (Pocket/MTV Books 978-1-4165-2490-8, Jan 2007, $9.95, 256pp, tp) [Bard Academy] Young-adult ghost romance novel, the second in the Bard Academy series about a school with ghost teachers. Miranda’s torn between the ghost of Heathcliff and the guy whose letter jacket she wears.
• * _Wuthering High (Pocket/MTV Books 978-1-4165-2475-5, Apr 2007, $9.95, 257pp, tp) [Bard Academy] Reissue (MTV Books 2006, not seen) young-adult ghost romance novel, the first in the Bard Academy series about a school where the teachers are all ghosts of famous authors. Third printing.

LODGE, KIRSTEN, ed. (chron.)

• * *The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse (Dedalus 978-1-903517-60-4, Aug 2007, £12.00, 346pp, tp, cover by Nikolai Kalmakov) Associational anthology of more than fifty decadent and macabre stories, extracts, fables, and poems from the late nineteenth century. Poetry translated by Lodge, prose by Margo Shohl Rosen and Grigory Dashevsky.

LOMBARDO, DEAN (chron.)

• * *Vespa (Active Bladder 978-0-9761729-4-9, Aug 2007, $10.00, 184pp, tp) Horror novel. An expert on invasive species believes something is preying on people in a small town. Active Bladder, PO Box 24607, Philadelphia PA 19111; [www.activebladder.com].

LONG, DAVID (1948- ) (chron.)

• * *The Inhabited World (Houghton Mifflin 978-0-618-54335-9, Jul 2006, $23.00, 277pp, hc) Quasi-fantasy novel. A ghost trying to figure out why he killed himself watches the new tenant of his house, a woman who just ended a love affair.

LONG, DUSTIN (chron.)

• * *Icelander (Grove/McSweeney’s 978-0-8021-4320-4, Jun 2007, $13.00, 249pp, hc, cover by Josh Cochran) Reprint (McSweeney’s Books 2006, not seen) fantasy mystery/satire novel set in an alternate world. Bean Day celebrations in New Cruiskeen are disrupted by a crime wave. Literary works satirized include James Joyce’s Ulysses, Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire, and Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, with elements of Agatha Christie, Thomas Pynchon, Arthur Conan Doyle. A first novel.

LONG, NATHAN (stories) (chron.)

• * *Warhammer: Blackhearts: The Omnibus (BL Publishing/Black Library 978-1-84416-510-0, Sep 2007, £9.99, 766pp, tp, cover by Christer Sween) [Warhammer: Blackhearts] Omnibus/collection of two stories and three novelizations based on the roleplaying game: Valnir’s Bane (2004), Broken Lance (2005), and Tainted Blood (2006). (Contents)
• * +Warhammer: Blackhearts: The Omnibus (BL Publishing/Black Library US 978-1-84416-510-0, Oct 2007, $11.99, 766pp, tp, cover by Christer Sveen) [Warhammer: Blackhearts] Omnibus/collection of two stories and three novelizations based on the fantasy roleplaying game: Warhammer: Valnir’s Bane (2004), Warhammer: The Broken Lance (2005), and Warhammer: Tainted Blood (2006). Copyrighted by Games Workshop. This first US edition has the same ISBN as the Black Library UK (9/07) edition, but only lists US and Canadian prices.
• * *Warhammer: Manslayer (BL Publishing/Black Library 978-1-84416-509-4, Oct 2007, £6.99, 411pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Warhammer: Gotrek & Felix] Novelization based on the roleplaying game universe. Book nine in the Gotrek and Felix subseries.
• * +Warhammer: Manslayer (BL Publishing/Black Library US 978-1-84416-509-4, Nov 2007, $7.99, 411pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Warhammer: Gotrek & Felix] Novelization based on the fantasy roleplaying game, in the Gotrek & Felix series. Copyrighted by Games Workshop. This first US edition has the same ISBN as the Black Library UK (10/07) edition, but only lists US and Canadian prices.
• * *Warhammer; Orcslayer (BL Publishing/Black Library 1-84416-391-1, Oct 2006, £6.99, 399pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Warhammer: Gotrek & Felix] Fantasy novelization based on the roleplaying game, in the Gotrek & Felix series.

LORIMER, JANET (chron.)

• * *Master of Shadows (Wildside Press/Juno Books 978-0-8095-5782-0, Aug 2007, $12.95, 255pp, tp, cover by Timothy Lantz) Paranormal romance drawing on Beauty and the Beast. Ariel discovers there really is a man-beast in the woods. Juno Books, 9710 Traville Gateway Dr. #234, Rockville MD 20850; [www.juno-books.com].

LOUINET, PATRICE, ed. (stories) (chron.)

• * _The Last of the Trunk See entry under Robert E. Howard.

LOVE, KATHY (chron.)

• * _Fangs for the Memories (Kensington/Brava 978-0-7582-1132-3, Sep 2007, $6.99, 332pp, tp) [Young Brothers] Vampire romance. A vampire’s brother falls in love with a mortal and forgets he’s a vampire.
• * *My Sister is a Werewolf (Kensington/Brava 978-0-7582-1855-1, Jul 2007, $14.00, 280pp, tp, cover by Lisa Henderling) [Young Brothers] Paranormal romance in a series begun in Fangs for the Memories. The vampiric Young brothers have a werewolf sister searching for a cure to her condition.

LOVECRAFT, H(oward) P(hillips) (1890-1937) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * _At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror (Ballantine Del Rey 978-0-345-32945-5, Dec 2007, $6.99, 184pp, pb) Reissue (Beagle 1971) collection of four stories; 37th printing.
• * *Graphic Classics, Volume Four: H.P. Lovecraft, Second Edition (Eureka Productions 978-0-9746648-9-7, Jan 2007, $11.95, 144pp, tp) Illustrated anthology/graphic novel with eight HPL stories and poems in comic or illustrated form; this second edition is completely revised with 75 pages of new material, dropping several pieces (including a biography of HPL and the introduction by Gahan Wilson) and adding four, including adaptations of “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”, “Dreams in the Witch House”, and “Sweet Ermengarde”. Eureka Productions, 8778 Oak Grove Road, Mount Horeb WI 53572; [www.graphicclassics.com]. (Contents) [ed: Tom Pomplun]
• * _The Horror in the Museum (Ballantine Del Rey 978-0-345-48572-4, Oct 2007, $16.95, 453pp, tp, cover by John Jude Palencar) Reprint (Arkham House 1989 as The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions) collection of 24 stories either written in collaboration with H.P. Lovecraft or revised by him; a significant expansion and revision of the eponymous 1944 Arkham House edition. This has a new introduction by Stephen Jones, plus notes by S.T. Joshi and August Derleth from the Arkham House 1970 edition.
• * _Tales of H.P. Lovecraft (HarperPerennial 978-0-06-137460-9, Nov 2007, $14.95, 328pp, tp, cover by Mike Mignola) Reprint (Ecco Press 1997) anthology of ten stories by Lovecraft, selected and introduced by Joyce Carol Oates. This has an added readers guide section with biographical essay by S.T. Joshi, and Lovecraft’s “Notes on Writing Weird Fiction”.