The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
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- AMADO, JORGE (Luis) (1912-2001) (stories)
- * _Tent of Miracles (Avon 0-380-75472-X, Aug 88, $9.95, 401pp, tp) Reprint (Knopf 1971) South American magical realism novel, translated by Barbara Shelby.
- * _The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell (Avon 0-380-75476-2, Dec 88 [Nov 88], $5.95, 97pp, tp) Reprint (Knopf 1965) magic realism/literary fantasy novella, translated from the Portuguese by Barbara Shelby.
- * *The War of the Saints (Bantam 0-553-09537-4, Dec 93, $22.95, 357pp, hc, cover by Bascove) Magical realism novel with fantasy elements.
- * _The War of the Saints (Serpents Tail 1-85242-372-2, May 94, £9.99, 357pp, tp, cover by Fernando & Mercedes) Reprint (Bantam 1993) magic realism novel in which a statue comes to life to save a young girl. [First U.K. edition]
- * _The War of the Saints (Bantam 0-553-37440-0, Mar 95 [Feb 95], $10.95, 357pp, tp, cover by Bascove) Reprint (Bantam 1993) literary magic realism novel with real fantasy elements. Translation by Gregory Rabassa.
- AMANO, YOSHITAKA
- * *Hiten: The Art of Yoshitaka Amano (Books Nippan/Asahi Sonorama 4-257-03229-4, 1990 [May 91], $24.95, unpaginated, tp, cover by Yoshitaka Amano) Art book, a collection of pieces, both black-and-white and full-color, by a major Japanese sf/fantasy artist. The foreword by Yumemakura Baku is in Japanese, but the title page, titles, and afterword by Tatsuki & Lenore Kobayashi are in English. There is an earlier all-Japanese version (1989).
- AMBROSE, DAVID (Edwin) (1943- )
- * +The Man Who Turned Into Himself (St. Martins 0-312-10497-9, Feb 94 [Mar 94], $17.00, 196pp, hc) Literary sf novel about a man trapped inside his alter ego in a parallel universe, searching for a way to return to the life he loves. A first novel. First American edition (Jonathan Cape 1993).
- * _The Man Who Turned Into Himself (Pan 0-330-32674-0, Feb 95, £4.99, 231pp, pb) Reprint (Cape 1993) literary SF novel. Rick Hamilton wakes after an accident to find himself in a parallel world where he is known, but barely liked.
- * _The Man Who Turned Into Himself (St. Martins/Picador 0-312-13119-4, Aug 95 [Jul 95], $10.00, 196pp, tp, cover by Eric Dinyer) Reprint (Jonathan Cape 1993) literary SF novel about a man trapped inside himself in an alternate universe.
- * *Mother of God (Macmillan UK 0-333-63773-9, Aug 95, £9.99, 344pp, hc) SF novel. A brilliant young woman, who has secretly created the first viable artificial intelligence programme, is unaware she is being stalked via the Internet by a serial killer.
- * +Mother of God (Simon & Schuster 0-684-82418-3, Nov 96 [Oct 96], $23.00, 352pp, hc, cover by Michaelangelo Buonarroti) Near-future SF thriller. A womans artificial intelligence program is loose on the nets and out to kill its creator, with a serial killers help. First US edition (Macmillan UK 1995).
- * *Superstition (Macmillan UK 0-333-68264-5, Sep 97, £16.99, 354pp, hc) SF/supernatural novel. A successful experiment to manufacture a ghost has a slight side-effect.
- * _Superstition (Pan 0-330-36744-7, Jul 98 [Sep 98], £5.99, 419pp, pb) Reprint (Macmillan UK 1997) SF/supernatural novel.
- * +Superstition (Warner 0-446-52344-5, Oct 98 [Sep 98], $24.00, 368pp, hc) SF/horror novel about a ghost literally created by the power of the human mind. First US edition (Macmillan UK 1997).
- AMES, J(ohn) EDWARD (1949- ) (stories) (chron.)
- * *The Asylum (Zebra 0-8217-4661-8, Aug 94 [Jul 94], $4.50, 303pp, pb) Horror novel about a brilliant chemist who can create mental illness artificially.
- * *Death Crystal (Leisure 0-8439-3053-5, Nov 90 [Oct 91], $4.50, 396pp, pb) Horror novel of an evil crystal from Atlantis. This is a 1990 book not seen until now.
- * *Spellcaster (Zebra 0-8217-2732-X, Aug 89 [Jul 89], $3.95, 347pp, pb) Voodoo horror novel. Unspeakable evil walks the streets of New Orleans during Mardi Gras.
- AMES, LEE J(udah) (1921- )
- * *Draw 50 Beasties and Yugglies and Turnover Uglies and Things That Go Bump in the Night (Doubleday 0-385-24625-0, Nov 88 [Oct 88], $12.95, unpaginated, hc) A humorous how-to sketchbook of odd creatures.
- AMES, MILDRED (Walsh) (1919-1994)
- * _Anna to the Infinite Power (Scholastic/Point 0-590-33732-7, 1985 [Sep 85], $2.25, 202pp, pb) Reprint (Scribners 1981) young-adult sf novel.
- * _Anna to the Infinite Power (Scholastic/Point 0-590-33732-7, 1986 [Mar 86], $2.25, 202pp, pb) Reprint (Scribners 1981) young-adult sf novel of a genetically engineered girl.
- AMIS, [Sir] KINGSLEY (William) (1922-1995) (stories)
- * _The Alteration (Penguin 0-14-009952-2, Feb 88, £2.50, 205pp, pb) Reissue (Cape 1976) literary sf novel.
- * _The Alteration (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-432-2, Oct 88 [Sep 88], $3.95, 205pp, pb) Reprint (Cape 1976) alternate-history novel in a contemporary Europe that never underwent the Protestant Reformation.
- * _The Alteration (Easton Press no ISBN, Apr 93, no price, 210pp, hc) Reprint (Jonathan Cape 1976) literary sf novel, with an introduction by Brian Aldiss and artwork by Debbie Hughes. This special leatherbound gilt-edge edition is part of the Masterpieces of Science Fiction series and is available by subscription only.
- * *Collected Short Stories (Hutchinson 0-09-172737-5, Apr 87, £11.95, 321pp, hc) Collection of most of Amiss short fiction, including some sf. (Contents)
- * _The Green Man (Academy Chicago 0-89733-220-2, Dec 86, $4.95, 242pp, pb) Reprint (Cape 1969) novel of the supernatural, mixing satire and terror.
- * _The Green Man (Penguin 0-14-009950-6, Feb 88, £2.50, 175pp, pb) Reissue (Cape 1969) literary ghost novel.
- * _The Green Man (Penguin 0-14-013043-8, Oct 90, £3.99, 175pp, pb) Reissue (Cape 1969) ghost story. This is the TV tie-in edition.
- * _The Green Man (Academy Chicago 0-89733-220-2, Mar 91 [May 91], $6.95, 242pp, pb) Reissue (Cape 1969) novel involving satire, suspense, horror, and metaphysics. Tie-in edition for the BBC film.
- * _The Green Man (Academy Chicago 0-89733-220-2, Sep 97 [Jan 98], $12.00, 242pp, tp) Reissue (Cape 1969) mystery set in a haunted inn. A TV tie-in edition. Third printing.
- * +Memoirs (Simon & Schuster/Summit 0-671-74909-9, Sep 91 [Nov 91], $25.00, 346pp, hc) Non-fiction, the autobiography of the British writer and critic, whose fiction and non-fiction works have included sf and fantasy. First American edition (Hutchinson 1991).
- * _Russian Hide-and-Seek (Penguin 0-14-005738-2, Jul 87, £2.95, 251pp, pb) Reissue (Hutchinson 1980) literary sf novel.
- AMIS, MARTIN (Louis) (1949- ) (stories)
- * _Dead Babies (Random House/Vintage 0-679-73449-X, Mar 91, $10.00, 206pp, tp, cover by Drew Roth) Reprint (Cape 1975) near-future literary fantasy novel.
- * *Einsteins Monsters (Jonathan Cape 0-224-02435-3, Apr 87 [May 87], £5.95, 127pp, hc) Collection of stories, including some sf. Simultaneous with American edition. (Contents)
- * *Einsteins Monsters (Crown/Harmony 0-517-56520-X, May 87, $14.95, 149pp, hc) Collection of 5 pre- and post-holocaust stories on the folly of war. Theres a simultaneous British edition.
- * _Einsteins Monsters (Penguin 0-14-010315-5, May 88, £3.50, 132pp, tp) Reprint (Cape 1987) associational/sf collection.
- * _Einsteins Monsters (Vintage 0-679-72996-8, Mar 90 [Apr 90], $8.95, 149pp, tp, cover by Arthur Trees) Reprint (Harmony 1987) collection of five literary sf and fantasy stories.
- * *Heavy Water and Other Stories (Jonathan Cape 0-224-05126-1, Oct 98, £14.99, 231pp, hc) Associational collection of 9 stories, including several fantasy and SF. Two seem to be originals. (Contents)
- * +London Fields (Harmony 0-517-57718-6, Mar 90 [Feb 90], $19.95, 470pp, hc) Literary fantasy novel. First American edition (Cape 1989).
- * _London Fields (Random House/Vintage 0-679-73034-6, Apr 91 [Mar 91], $11.00, 470pp, tp, cover by Drew Roth) Reprint (Cape 1989) near-future pre-apocalyptic literary fantasy novel.
- * *Times Arrow (Jonathan Cape 0-224-03093-0, Sep 91, £13.99, 176pp, hc) Literary sf novel about a man living backwards in time.
- * +Times Arrow (Crown/Harmony 0-517-58515-4, Nov 91 [Oct 91], $18.00, 168pp, hc, cover by Chip Kidd) Literary fantasy novel of a spectral alter ego trapped inside the body of a Nazi doctor who was at Auschwitz and forced to live his life backwards. First American edition (Cape 1991).
- * _Times Arrow (BOMC no ISBN, Dec 91 [Nov 91], $9.00, 160pp, hc, cover by Chip Kidd) Reprint (Cape 1991) literary fantasy novel of a spectral alter ego trapped inside the body of a Nazi doctor who was at Auschwitz and forced to live his life backwards. This edition is identical to the 1991 Crown Harmony edition except it lacks an ISBN and price and has a BOMC mark on the back.
- * _Times Arrow (BOMC/QPBC no ISBN, Aug 92, $9.95, 160pp, tp, cover by Chip Kidd) Reprint (Cape 1991) literary fantasy novel. Similar to the 1991 Crown Harmony edition except it lacks an ISBN and price and has the jacket printed as the soft cover.
- * _Times Arrow (Penguin 0-14-016779-X, Sep 92, £5.99, 176pp, pb) Reprint (Cape 1991) literary sf novel about a man living backwards in time.
- * _Times Arrow (Random House/Vintage 0-679-73572-0, Nov 92 [Oct 92], $10.00, 165pp, tp, cover by Drew Roth) Reprint (Cape 1991) literary fantasy novel.
- AMOS, BETH (1954- )
- * *Second Sight (HarperPaperbacks 0-06-101288-2, Nov 98 [Oct 98], $6.50, 449pp, pb) Supernatural thriller. A journalist with paranormal abilities investigates a colleagues death.
- AMOSS, BERTHE
- * *Lost Magic (Hyperion 1-56282-573-9, Sep 93, $14.95, 184pp, hc, cover by Diane Stanley) Young-adult fantasy novel of a young girl who must rescue her lords daughter from the evil fairies who have kidnapped her.
- * _Lost Magic (Hyperion 0-7868-1034-3, May 95 [Apr 95], $4.50, 184pp, tp, cover by Diane Stanley) Reprint (Hyperion 1993) young-adult fantasy.
- ANDERS, AGNETHA
- * *The Last Days of the Pleasurehouse (Nexus 0-352-32818-5, Apr 92, £4.50, 241pp, pb) [Pleasurehouse] Erotica set in 2031. Volume two in the Pleasurehouse series.
- * *Pleasurehouse 13 (Nexus 0-352-32805-3, Dec 91 [Jan 92], £3.99, 249pp, pb) [Pleasurehouse] Erotica set in a stratified Britain in 2030. Volume 1 in a new series.
- ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN (1805-1875) (stories) (chron.)
- * _Andersens Fairy Tales (NAL/Signet Classic 0-451-52107-2, Jun 87 [May 87], $3.95, 381pp, pb) Reissue (NAL/Signet 1966) selection from The Snow Queen and Other Tales; selected, translated, and with an afterword by Pat Shaw Iverson. Illustrations by Sheila Greenwald. (Contents)
- * _The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (Doubleday Anchor 0-385-18951-6, Apr 90 [Mar 90], $14.95, 1101pp, tp, cover by E. S. Hardy) Reissue (Anchor 1974) collection of fantasy stories and fairy tales, translated from the Danish by Erik Haugaard with a foreword by Virginia Haviland; 11th printing.
- ANDERSON, BLAINE
- * *Heartspell (Warner 0-446-36199-2, Jan 92 [Dec 91], $4.99, 339pp, pb, cover by Gregg Gulbronson) Fantasy romance about a healer and spell-giver who finds love with an enemy warrior in ancient Ireland.
- ANDERSON, C. DEAN
- * *Raw Pain Max (Popular Library 0-445-20828-7, Dec 88 [Nov 88], $3.95, 260pp, pb) Horror novel about the relationship between a vampire and a performer in a safe sex club catering to a sado-masochistic clientele.
- * *Torture Tomb (Popular Library 0-445-20370-6, May 87 [Apr 87], $3.50, 325pp, pb) Horror novel of good witches vs. an evil dynasty built upon the unspeakable secrets of the damned. The author writes heroic fantasy as Asa Drake.
- ANDERSON, CRAIG W(orden) (1945- ) (stories)
- * *Science Fiction Films of the Seventies (McFarland 0-89950-086-2, Sep 85 [Aug 85], $15.95 + $1.00 postage, 261pp, pb) Historical and critical survey, with numerous photographs.
- ANDERSON, DENNIS LEE
- * *Arthur, King (HarperPrism 0-06-105433-X, Jan 95 [Dec 94], $4.99, 360pp, pb, cover by Joe Burleson) Arthurian fantasy novel. Mordred steals Excalibur and Merlins Book, and Arthur follows him into the middle of WWII.
- ANDERSON, DON (1931- )
- * *Heatshield (Pan 0-330-30981-1, Feb 90 [1990], £3.99, 288pp, pb) Near-future techno-thriller.
- ANDERSON, DOUGLAS A(llen), ed. (1959- ) (stories) (chron.)
- * _The Dragon Path: The Collected Tales of Kenneth Morris See entry under Kenneth Morris.
- ANDERSON, JACK(son Northman) (1922-2005)
- * *Millennium (Tor/Forge 0-312-85401-3, Nov 94, $22.95, 332pp, hc, cover by Alan Ayers) SF thriller novel. An alien visitor falls afoul of Earths human dangers, and a journalist has to save him and the planet.
- * _Millennium (Tor 0-812-52258-3, Oct 95 [Sep 95], $5.99, 424pp, pb, cover by Shelley Eshkar) Reprint (Forge 1994) SF thriller novel. A journalist saves an alien visitor from Earths human dangers.
- ANDERSON, JANET S.
- * *Going Through the Gate (Penguin/Dutton 0-525-45836-0, Oct 97 [Sep 97], $15.99, 134pp, hc, cover by Elizabeth Sayles) Young-adult fantasy novel. Secret sixth-grade graduation rites involve animals, magic, and a 25-year-old mystery. A first novel.
- ANDERSON, JANI, ed. (1949- ) (stories)
- * *Bringing Down the Moon (Space & Time 0-917053-02-8, Oct 85 [Apr 86], $7.95, 251pp, tp) This original semi-pro anthology of 15 stories of fantasy and terror appeared in 1985, but we missed it. A hardcover edition has also been announced; we havent seen it. (Contents)
- ANDERSON, K. J.; see under Anderson, Kevin J. (stories) (chron.)
- ANDERSON, KAREN; [i.e., June Millichamp Karen Kruse Anderson] (1932- ) (stories)
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- ANDERSON, KEVIN J(ames) (1962- ) (stories) (chron.)
- * _Afterimage (with Kristine Kathryn Rusch) See entry under Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
- * _Afterimage/Aftershock (with Kristine Kathryn Rusch) See entry under Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
- * *Ai! Pedrito! When Intelligence Goes Wrong (Bridge 1-57318-121-8, Jun 98, $25.00, 365pp, hc, cover by Peter Green & Mike Manoogian) Associational novelization of a humorous spy story by L. Ron Hubbard. Foreword by Dan Sherman. Copyrighted by L. Ron Hubbard Library.
- * *Assemblers of Infinity (with Doug Beason) (Bantam Spectra 0-553-29921-2, Feb 93 [Jan 93], $4.99, 355pp, pb, cover by Pamela Lee) Sf novel of a lunar colony endangered by contact with sentient alien machines. This is longer than the Analog version.
- * _Assemblers of Infinity (with Doug Beason) (SFBC #00745, Jun 93 [May 93], $7.98, 278pp, hc, cover by Pamela Lee) Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1993) sf novel of a lunar colony endangered by contact with sentient alien machines. First hardcover edition. This edition lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
- * *Blindfold (Warner Aspect 0-446-60247-7, Nov 95 [Oct 95], $5.99, 377pp, pb, cover by Stephen Youll) SF novel. In a fragile society dependent on telepaths as Truthsaysers, someone is trying to subvert the system.
- * *Born of Elven Blood (with John Gregory Betancourt) (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum 0-689-31815-4, Jun 95, $15.00, 138pp, hc, cover by John Howe) Young-adult fantasy novel. Packaged and partially copyrighted by Byron Preis Visual Publications; text copyrighted by the authors.
- * *Climbing Olympus (Warner Aspect 0-446-60158-6, Sep 94 [Aug 94], $5.50, 297pp, pb, cover by Mark Harrison) SF novel of men who are surgically transformed in order to colonize Mars.
- * _Climbing Olympus (Easton Press no ISBN, Mar 95, no price, 297pp, hc) SF novel of men who are surgically transformed in order to colonize Mars. This special leatherbound, gilt-edge edition is part of the Signed First Editions of Science Fiction series, and is available only by subscription. Published simultaneously with Warner edition listed seven months ago; this is the first hardcover edition.
- * _Climbing Olympus (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-648305-4, Jun 97, £5.99, 297pp, pb) Reprint (Warner Aspect 1994) SF novel. [First U.K. edition]
- * *Fallout (with Doug Beason) (Ace 0-441-00425-3, Mar 97 [Feb 97], $5.99, 303pp, pb, cover by Doug Struthers) [Virtual Destruction] SF thriller, sequel to Virtual Destruction. An extremist militia group invades the device assembly facility at a nuclear test site.
- * *Gamearth (NAL Signet 0-451-15680-3, Mar 89 [Feb 89], $3.95, 335pp, pb) [Gamearth] Fantasy novel about a role playing game that refused to stay pretend.
- * *Gameplay (NAL Signet 0-451-16236-6, Oct 89 [Sep 89], $3.95, 325pp, pb) [Gamearth] Fantasy novel about a role-playing game that comes alive, sequel to Gamearth.
- * *Games End (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45031-0, Sep 90 [Aug 90], $4.50, 333pp, pb) [Gamearth] Fantasy novel, third book of the Game trilogy.
- * *Ignition (with Doug Beason) (Coronet 0-340-67455-5, Dec 96 [Apr 97], £5.99, 452pp, pb) Near-future thriller. Published in 1996, but not seen until now.
- * +Ignition (with Doug Beason) (Tor/Forge 0-312-86270-9, Mar 97 [Feb 97], $23.95, 320pp, hc, cover by Gary Ruddell) Associatonal space-program thriller. Terrorists hold a historic shuttle launch hostage. First US edition (Hodder & Stoughton 1996).
- * _Ignition (with Doug Beason) (Tor 0-812-54548-6, Apr 98 [Mar 98], $6.99, 402pp, pb, cover by Gary Ruddell) Reprint (Coronet 1996) associational space-program thriller.
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