The Locus Index to Science Fiction
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- COOPER, LOUISE (stories) (continued)
- * +Revenant (Tor 0-812-50807-6, Sep 93 [Aug 93], $4.99, 312pp, pb, cover by Robert Gould) [Indigo] Fantasy novel, seventh book of the Indigo series. This has a 1993 copyright date and is probably revised. First American edition (Grafton 1992).
- * *Sacrament of Night (Headline 0-7472-1716-5, Sep 97 [Aug 97], £17.99, 344pp, hc, cover by J. Sullivan) Fantasy novel.
- * _Sacrament of Night (Headline 0-7472-5372-2, Jul 98 [Aug 98], £5.99, 344pp, pb, cover by J. Sullivan) Reprint (Headline 1997) fantasy novel.
- * *The Shrouded Mirror (Puffin 0-14-038218-6, Sep 96 [Jan 97], £2.99, 91pp, pb, cover by George Smith) [Dark Enchantment] Dark fantasy novel. In the Dark Enchantment series.
- * *The Sleep of Stone (Macmillan Atheneum 0-689-31572-4, Nov 91 [Oct 91], $14.95, 138pp, hc, cover by John Collier) Young-adult fantasy of a shape-changer and her love for a prince. Illustrated by John Collier. A Dragonflight book packaged by Byron Preiss Visual Publications.
- * *The Sleep of Stone (DAW 0-88677-555-8, Jan 93 [Dec 92], $3.99, 173pp, pb, cover by Brigid Collins) Reprint (Atheneum 1991) young-adult fantasy novel of a shapechanger and her love for a prince. The original illustrations by John Collier are not included.
- * *Star Ascendant (HarperCollins UK 0-586-21519-0, Apr 94, £4.99, 414pp, pb) [Star Shadow] Fantasy novel, subtitled The Star Shadow Trilogy Book I..
- * +Star Ascendant (Tor 0-312-85871-X, Oct 95 [Sep 95], $23.95, 349pp, hc) [Star Shadow] Fantasy novel, prequel to the Time Master trilogy. First US edition (HarperCollins UK 1994).
- * _Star Ascendant (Tor 0-812-55175-3, Oct 96 [Sep 96], $6.99, 349pp, pb, cover by Gary Ruddell) [Star Shadow] Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1994) fantasy novel, prequel to the Time Master trilogy.
- * *Storm Ghost (Penguin/Puffin UK 0-14-038636-X, May 98, £3.99, 121pp, tp, cover by Tom Connell) Young-adult fantasy novel.
- * *The Thorn Key (Franklin Watts/Orchard 1-85213-132-2, Aug 88, £7.95, 163pp, hc) Young-adult fantasy novel.
- * *Troika (Tor 0-812-50799-1, Jul 91 [Jun 91], $4.50, 312pp, pb, cover by Gary Ruddell) [Indigo] Fantasy novel, fifth book of the Indigo series. Simultaneous with the British edition from Grafton.
- * *Troika (Grafton 0-586-21337-6, Jul 91, £3.99, 268pp, pb, cover by Mike Posen) [Indigo] Fantasy novel. Book 5 of Indigo. Simultaneous with the U.S. (Tor) edition.
- COOPER, MERIAN C. (1893-1973)
- COOPER, MOLLY, ed. (stories)
- * *Classic Ghost Stories (Lowell House Juvenile 1-56565-279-7, 1995 [Sep 96], $5.95, 128pp, tp, cover by Barbara Kiwak) Young-adult anthology of six ghost stories. Authors include Bram Stoker, O. Henry, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde. Illustrated by Barbara Kiwak. This has a 1995 copyright, but was not seen until now. Copyrighted by RGA Publishing Group. Available from Lowell House Juvenile, 2029 Century Park East, Suite 3290, Los Angeles CA 90067. (Contents)
- * _Classic Ghost Stories (Barnes & Noble 0-7607-0609-3, 1997 [Sep 97], $5.98, 128pp, hc, cover by Barbara Kiwak) Reprint (Lowell House Juvenile 1995) young-adult anthology of six ghost stories, several excerpted from longer works. This instant remainder edition retains the copyright page from the Lowell House trade paperback, and indicates third printing.
- * *Classic Vampire Stories: Timeless Tales to Sink Your Teeth Into (Lowell House Juvenile 1-56565-494-3, Oct 96 [Sep 96], $5.95, 121pp, pb, cover by Barbara Kiwak) Young-adult anthology of six vampire stories, plus an excerpt from Bram Stokers Dracula. Other authors include F. Marion Crawford, Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, and E.F. Benson. Illustrated by Barbara Kiwak. Copyrighted by RGA Publishing Group. Available from Lowell House Juvenile, 2029 Century Park East, Suite 3290, Los Angeles CA 90067. (Contents)
- * _Classic Vampire Stories: Timeless Tales to Sink Your Teeth Into (Barnes & Noble 0-7607-0610-7, 1997 [Sep 97], $5.98, 121pp, hc, cover by Barbara Kiwak) Reprint (Lowell House Juvenile 1996) young-adult anthology of seven vampire stories (one an excerpt from Dracula). This instant remainder edition retains the copyright page of the Lowell House trade paperback edition, and indicates second printing.
- COOPER, RICHARD (Fairhurst) (1930-1998)
- * *Knights of God (Lions 0-00-672534-1, Sep 87, £2.25, 228pp, pb) Novelization of new childrens television serial set in a near-future England ruled by a theocracy.
- COOPER, ROSCOE (stories)
- * *The Diary of Victor Frankenstein (DK Ink 0-7894-2456-8, Sep 97, $19.95, unpaginated, hc, cover by Timothy Basil Ering) [Frankenstein] Young-adult retelling/art/gift book version of Frankenstein. Illustrations by Timothy Basil Ering.
- COOPER, SONNI; [i.e., Sandra Lenore Cooper] (1934- )
- * _Black Fire (Firecrest 0-85997-630-0, Jun 86, £7.50, 224pp, hc) [Star Trek] Reprint (Pocket Books 1983) sf novel, Star Trek #8.
- * _Star Trek # 8: Black Fire (Gregg 0-8398-2935-3, Mar 86, $11.95, 220pp, hc) [Star Trek] Reprint (Pocket 1983) Star Trek novel. First hc edition.
- * _Star Trek: Black Fire (Pocket 0-671-83632-3, May 84 [Apr 84], $2.95, 220pp, pb) [Star Trek] Reissue (Timescape 1983) Star Trek novel. Number 8 in the series.
- * _Star Trek: Black Fire (Titan 1-85286-308-0, Jul 90, £2.99, 220pp, pb) [Star Trek] Reprint (Pocket 1983) sf novelization.
- * _Star Trek: Black Fire (Titan 1-85286-308-0, Apr 96, £4.99, 220pp, pb, cover by Boris Vallejo) [Star Trek] Reissue (Pocket 1983) SF novelization. Fourth printing.
- COOPER, SUSAN (Mary) (1935- ) (stories) (assoc.)
- * *The Boggart (Macmillan McElderry 0-689-50576-0, Mar 93, $14.95, 196pp, hc, cover by Trina Schart Hyman) [Boggart] Young-adult fantasy novel of a Canadian family who inherit a mischevious spirit called a Boggart along with a Scottish castle.
- * _The Boggart (The Bodley Head 0-370-31829-3, Apr 93, £8.99, 182pp, hc, cover by Trina Schart Hyam) [Boggart] Reprint (McElderry 1993) humorous childrens fantasy about a mischievous spirit transported from Scotland to Canada. [First U.K. edition]
- * _The Boggart (Puffin 0-14-086488-9, Aug 94, £3.99, 182pp, pb, cover by Paul Campion) [Boggart] Reprint (McElderry 1993) young-adult fantasy novel.
- * _The Boggart (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin 0-689-80173-4, Aug 95, $3.95, 196pp, pb, cover by Ed Little) [Boggart] Reprint (McElderry 1993) young-adult fantasy novel about a Scottish imp let loose in modern Toronto.
- * *The Boggart and the Monster (Simon & Schuster/McElderry 0-689-81330-9, Apr 97, $16.00, 185pp, hc, cover by Trina Schart Hyman) [Boggart] Young-adult fantasy novel, sequel to The Boggart. Canadian visitors inadvertantly carry a Scottish imp to meet his cousin at Loch Ness.
- * _The Boggart and the Monster (The Bodley Head 0-370-32486-2, Jun 98, £10.99, 167pp, hc, cover by Trina Schart Hyam) [Boggart] Reprint (Simon & Schuster/McElderry 1997) young-adult fantasy novel, sequel to The Boggart. [First U.K. edition]
- * _The Boggart and the Monster (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin 0-689-82286-3, Aug 98, $4.50, 185pp, tp, cover by Joe Burleson) [Boggart] Reprint (McElderry 1997) young-adult fantasy novel, sequel to The Boggart.
- * _The Dark Is Rising (Collier 0-689-71087-9, Oct 86 [Dec 86], $2.95, 244pp, pb) [Dark Is Rising] Reprint (Atheneum 1973) fantasy novel, second in the excellent Dark is Rising pentalogy. The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, is rarely reprinted, and the series can be read without it. Highly recommended. (FCM)
- * _The Dark Is Rising (Windrush 1-85089-933-9, Apr 88 [Aug 88], £8.70, 338pp, hc) [Dark Is Rising] Reprint (Atheneum 1973) young-adult fantasy novel. Volume 2 in the Dark is Rising series. [Not seen]
- * _The Dark Is Rising (Macmillan Educational 0-333-47580-1, Jan 89, £3.25, 256pp, pb) [Dark Is Rising] Reprint (Chatto & Windus 1973) fantasy novel. Volume 2 in the The Dark is Rising series. [Not seen]
- * _The Dark Is Rising (Puffin 0-14-036462-5, Sep 94, £4.99, 332pp, pb, cover by Melvyn Grant) [Dark Is Rising] Reprint (Atheneum 1973) young-adult fantasy novel, with an afterword by Neil Philip. Volume two in the Dark is Rising series.
- * _The Dark Is Rising (Random House UK 0-09-936601-0, Sep 94, £5.00, 304pp, hc) [Dark Is Rising] Reprint (Atheneum 1973) young-adult fantasy novel. Volume two in the Dark is Rising series.
- * _The Dark Is Rising (SFBC 1-56865-205-4, Sep 96 [Aug 96], $14.98, 865pp, hc, cover by Walter Velez) [Dark Is Rising] Reprint (Penguin 1984 as The Dark is Rising Sequence) omnibus of the five novels in the Dark is Rising young-adult fantasy series. This is a special Guild America edition, SFBC #13751. This edition lacks a price and has the book club number on the back jacket.
- * _The Dark Is Rising Sequence (Puffin 0-14-031688-4, Apr 86, £4.95, 786pp, tp) [Dark Is Rising] Reissue (Puffin 1984) omnibus of the five novels in the Dark is Rising series.
- * _The Dark Is Rising Sequence (Puffin 0-14-031688-4, Jan 87, £5.95, 786pp, tp) [Dark Is Rising] Reissue (Penguin 1984) omnibus of the five novels in the Dark is Rising fantasy series.
- * *Dreams and Wishes (Simon & Schuster/McElderry 0-689-80736-8, May 96 [Nov 96], $18.00, 198pp, hc, cover by Andrew Moore) Young-adult collection of 14 essays and speeches by, and an interview with, Cooper on fantasy and writing for children.
- * _Greenwitch (Collier 0-689-71088-7, Oct 86 [Dec 86], $2.95, 131pp, pb) [Dark Is Rising] Reprint (Atheneum 1974) fantasy novel, The Dark is Rising #3.
- * _The Grey King (Collier 0-689-71089-5, Oct 86 [Dec 86], $2.95, 165pp, pb) [Dark Is Rising] Reprint (Atheneum 1975) young-adult fantasy novel, The Dark is Rising #4. This book won the Newbery Medal for Best Juvenile of 1975.
- * _Over Sea, Under Stone (Macmillan Collier 0-02-042785-9, Apr 89 [May 89], $2.95, 243pp, pb) [Dark Is Rising] Reprint (Cape 1965) young-adult fantasy novel, first book in The Dark Is Rising series.
- * _Seaward (Macmillan/Collier 0-02-042190-7, Apr 87, $3.95, 167pp, pb) Reprint (Atheneum 1983) young-adult fantasy novel.
- * _Silver on the Tree (Collier 0-689-71090-9, Oct 86 [Dec 86], $2.95, 274pp, pb) [Dark Is Rising] Reprint (Atheneum 1977) fantasy novel, The Dark is Rising #5.
- * _Silver on the Tree (Windrush 1-85089-936-3, Jul 88 [Aug 88], £8.70, 394pp, hc) [Dark Is Rising] Reprint (Atheneum 1977) young-adult fantasy novel. Volume 5 in the Dark is Rising series. [Not seen]
- COOPER, TOM; [i.e., William Thomas Cooper]
- * *War*Moon (Worldwide Library 0-373-97031-5, Feb 87, $3.50, 381pp, pb) Near-future thriller about a Soviet space battle station.
- COOVER, ROBERT (Lowell) (1932- ) (stories) (assoc.)
- * *Aesops Forest/The Plot of the Mice (with Brian Swann) (Capra Press 0-88496-252-0, Dec 86, $7.50, 39 + 76pp, pb) Back-to-back edition of two fantasy/literary/surreal works, a novelette by Coover and a group of bedtime [fantasy] stories...for adults by Swann. Both are illustrated by Michael McCurdy. (Contents)
- * *Briar Rose (Grove/Atlantic 0-8021-1591-8, Jan 97, $18.00, 86pp, hc) Literary fantasy novella. A retelling of Sleeping Beauty with a spell-casting fairy interested in the nature of human desire.
- * _Briar Rose (Grove 0-8021-3541-2, Jan 98 [Feb 98], $11.00, 86pp, tp) Reprint (Grove/Atlantic 1997) literary fantasy novella retelling of Sleeping Beauty.
- * *Pinocchio in Venice (Simon & Schuster/Linden 0-671-64471-8, Jan 91, $19.95, 330pp, hc, cover by Gene Greif) Literary fantasy novel of the human Pinocchio, now an old man, returning to where his story started as he slowly turns back to wood.
- * _The Public Burning (Grove/Atlantic 0-8021-3527-7, Oct 97 [May 98], $14.00, 534pp, tp, cover by Michael Tedesco) Reprint (Viking 1977) wildly satirical alternate history. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are executed by burning in Times Square, while Richard Nixon dreams of becoming the superhero Uncle Sam currently the alter-ego of Dwight D. Eisenhower. This has a new introduction by William H. Gass.
- COPELAND, LORI (1941- ) (stories)
- * *Candlelight Ecstasy Romance #462: Out of This World (Dell 0-440-16764-7, Oct 86 [Feb 87], $2.50, 189pp, pb) Romance/sf novel. Toni watches a UFO steal the neighborhood hunks barbecue grill. He thinks shes crazy, but falls in love anyway. As the book ends, they watch together as the UFO returns the grill. Published in 1986.
- * *Forever, Ashley (Dell 0-440-20807-6, Jul 92 [Jun 92], $4.99, 265pp, pb) Time-travel historical fantasy romance.
- COPPEL, ALFRED; [i.e., Alfredo José de Araña-Marini y Coppel] (1921-2004); see pseudonym Robert Cham Gilman (stories) (assoc.)
- * _The Burning Mountain (Charter 0-441-08935-6, Apr 84 [Mar 84], $3.50, 389pp, pb) Reprint (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1983) alternate-history WWII novel. Interesting, exciting, mostly plausible. (EAL)
- * _The Burning Mountain (Severn House 0-7278-4884-4, Feb 96 [Jan 96], £17.99, 438pp, hc, cover by Tony Masero) Reprint (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1983) alternate-world historical novel, in which the atomic bomb fails its test at Los Alamos, and the bombing of Japan is postponed. This is the first UK hardback. Copyrighted 1993, but not seen until now.
- * *Glory (Tor 0-312-85469-2, May 93 [Apr 93], $21.95, 349pp, hc, cover by Darrell K. Sweet) [Goldenwing] Sf novel set in a universe where colonized planets preserve Earth nationalism as we know it, on a world settled by South Africans struggling to maintain apartheid in the face of revolution.
- * _Glory (Tor 0-812-52393-8, Apr 94 [Mar 94], $5.99, 373pp, pb, cover by Darrell K. Sweet) [Goldenwing] Reprint (Tor 1993) sf novel.
- * *Glorys People (Tor 0-312-86168-0, Jun 96 [May 96], $23.95, 320pp, hc, cover by David Mattingly) [Goldenwing] SF novel, third in the Goldenwing cycle.
- * _Glorys People (Tor 0-812-52395-4, Jul 97 [Jun 97], $5.99, 279pp, pb, cover by David Mattingly) [Goldenwing] Reprint (Tor 1996) SF novel, third in the Goldenwing cycle.
- * *Glorys War (Tor 0-312-85471-4, Apr 95 [Mar 95], $21.00, 288pp, hc, cover by David Mattingly) [Goldenwing] SF novel, Book Two of the Goldenwing Cycle.
- * _Glorys War (Tor 0-812-52394-6, Mar 96 [Feb 96], $5.99, 309pp, pb, cover by David Mattingly) [Goldenwing] Reprint (Tor 1995) SF novel, Book Two of the Goldenwing Cycle.
- COPPER, BASIL (1924- ) (stories) (assoc.)
- * *The Black Death (Fedogan & Bremer 1-878252-04-6, Mar 92, $32.00, 373pp, hc, cover by Stefanie Hawks) Occult thriller set on Dartmoor at the turn of the century. A signed slipcased limited edition ($60.00) was announced but not seen. Available from Fedogan & Bremer, 700 Washington Ave. SE, Suite 50, Minneapolis, MN 55414.
- * *The Exploits of Solar Pons (Fedogan & Bremer 1-878252-11-9, Oct 93, $24.00, 239pp, hc, cover by Stefanie Hawks) [Solar Pons] Collection of four original Holmes pastiche Solar Pons adventures featuring the character created by August Derleth. Coppers fifth Solar Pons book. Illustrated by Stefanie Hawks. A signed, numbered, slipcased limited edition (-14-3, $60.00) was announced but not seen. Available from Fedogan & Bremer, 700 Washington Ave., Suite 50, Minneapolis MN 55414. Add $1.50 for postage, $3.00 for priority mail. (Contents)
- * *The Recollections of Solar Pons (Fedogan & Bremer 1-878252-20-8, Oct 95, $25.00, 250pp, hc, cover by Stefanie K. Hawks) [Solar Pons] Associational collection of four novellas featuring the Sherlockian detective originally created by August Derleth. Three are original; the fourth is a restored version of the original, much-modified, publication. Illustrations are by Stefanie K. Hawks. A limited edition (-21-6, $75.00) was announced but not seen. Available from Fedogan & Bremer, 603 Washington Ave SE #77, Minneapolis MN 55414-2950; fax 612-721-8848. (Contents)
- * _The Vampire: In Legend and Fact (Citadel Press 0-8065-1126-5, Jun 89, $7.95, 208pp, tp) Reprint (Hale 1973 as The Vampire: In Legend, Fact, and Art) non-fiction study of vampirism.
- COPPERFIELD, DAVID, ed. (1956- ) (stories) (assoc.)
- * *David Copperfields Beyond Imagination (with Janet Berliner & Martin H. Greenberg) (HarperPrism 0-06-105229-9, Dec 96 [Nov 96], $23.00, 353pp, hc) Original anthology of 17 stories of fantasy and SF. Authors include Peter S. Beagle, Ed Bryant, Robert Silverberg, Tad Williams, and Anne McCaffrey. Greenberg is credited only on the copyright page. There is a preface by Raymond E. Feist. (Contents)
- * _David Copperfields Beyond Imagination (with Janet Berliner & Martin H. Greenberg) (HarperPrism 0-06-105493-3, Sep 97 [Aug 97], $6.99, 476pp, pb) Reprint (HarperPrism 1996) original anthology.
- * *David Copperfields Tales of the Impossible (with Janet Berliner & Martin H. Greenberg) (HarperPrism 0-06-105228-0, Nov 95 [Oct 95], $23.00, 386pp, hc) Original anthology of 18 stories of magic. There is a preface by Dean Koontz, an introduction by David Copperfield, and a section of author biographies. Authors include Copperfield, Ray Bradbury, S.P. Somtow, F. Paul Wilson, and Joyce Carol Oates. Copyrighted by David Copperfields Disappearing, Janet Berliner Gluckman, and Martin H. Greenberg, who is not credited elsewhere. (Contents)
- * _David Copperfields Tales of the Impossible (with Janet Berliner & Martin H. Greenberg) (HarperPrism 0-06-105492-5, Dec 96 [Nov 96], $6.99, 473pp, pb) Reprint (HarperPrism 1995) original anthology of 18 stories of magic.
- COPPULA, SUSAN
- * *Shades of Winter (Ballantine Fawcett 0-449-13169-6, Jan 89 [Dec 88], $3.95, 404pp, pb) Historical romance novel with witchcraft, set in Henry IIIs England.
- CORBEN, RICHARD (Vance) (1940- ) (stories) (assoc.)
- * *Vic and Blood (with Harlan Ellison) (St. Martins 0-312-03471-7, Nov 89, $8.95, 63pp, tp, cover by Richard Corben) [Vic & Blood] Graphic novel adaptation of Ellisons three post-Apocalypse sf stories, Eggsucker, A Boy and His Dog, and Run, Spot, Run.
- * _The Voyage of Sindbad (with Jan S. Strnad) (Titan 1-85286-058-8, May 88, £8.95, 102pp, tp) Reprint (Heavy Metal Books ????, as New Tales of the Arabian Nights) fantasy/adventure graphic novel. [First U.K. edition]
- CORBETT, W(illiam) J(esse) (1938- )
- * *Ark of the People (Hodder Childrens Books 0-340-69965-5, Jul 98 [Jun 98], £3.99, 294pp, pb, cover by Wayne Anderson) [Ark of the People] Young-adult animal fantasy novel, illustrated by Wayne Anderson.
- * +Pentecost and the Chosen One (Delacorte 0-385-29549-9, Jun 87 [May 87], $14.95, 238pp, hc) [Pentecost] Young-adult fantasy novel, the further adventures of the talking mice in The Song of Pentecost (which won the 1982 Whitbread Award). First U.S. edition (Methuen 1984). The illustrations by Martin Ursell are apparently new.
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