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CROWDER, HERBERT (Alexander) (1925- )

* _Weatherhawk (Macdonald 0-356-19137-0, Nov ’90, £12.95, 413pp, hc) Reprint (Putnam 1990) near-future techno-thriller.
CROWLEY, ALEISTER; [i.e., Edward Alexander Crowley] (1875-1947) (stories)

* _Moonchild (Samuel Weiser 0-87728-147-5, Oct ’91 [Dec ’91], $9.95, 335pp, tp) Reprint (Mandrake Press 1929) occult thriller by the famous black magician.
* _The Strategem and Other Stories (Temple Press 1-871744-10-5, Jul ’90, £10.50, 108pp, hc, cover by Total 333) Reprint (Mandrake Press 1929) occult/horror collection. This edition contains a new foreword and a new, previously unpublished, short story, and is available in the US for $21. (Contents)
CROWLEY, JOHN (William) (1942- ) (stories) (assoc.)

* *Ægypt (Bantam Spectra 0-553-05194-6, Apr ’87 [Feb ’87], $17.95, 390pp, hc) [AEgypt] Literary fantasy novel.
* _Ægypt (Gollancz 0-575-04108-0, Sep ’87, £11.95, 390pp, hc) [AEgypt] Reprint (Bantam 1987) literary fantasy novel. Volume 1 in a new quartet. [First U.K. edition]
* _Ægypt (Gollancz 0-575-04325-3, Aug ’88 [Jul ’88], £3.95, 390pp, tp) [AEgypt] Reprint (Bantam 1987) literary fantasy novel. Rich and unusual, it promises much for the sequels that are presumably to follow. (PSP)
* _Ægypt (Bantam 0-553-34592-3, Mar ’89 [Feb ’89], $8.95, 390pp, tp) [AEgypt] Reprint (Bantam 1981) alternate-world literary fantasy novel.
* _Ægypt (Bantam 0-553-37430-3, Sep ’94 [Aug ’94], $12.95, 390pp, tp) [AEgypt] Reissue (Bantam 1987) alternate-world literary fantasy novel; third printing.
* *Antiquities: Seven Stories (Incunabula 0-9633637-2-7, Oct ’93, $25.00, 100pp, hc) Collection of seven stories. This edition is limited to 1,000 copies. A 77-copy signed limited edition (-3-5, $90.00) was announced, but is not yet out. Order from Incunabula, Box 30146, Seattle WA 98103. (Contents)
* _Beasts (Gollancz 0-575-04134-X, Dec ’87, £3.95, 184pp, tp) Reprint (Doubleday 1976) fantasy novel. Volume 20 in the “Gollancz Classic SF” series.
* *Beasts/Engine Summer/Little, Big (BOMC/QPBC no ISBN, Jun ’91, $12.95, 184/182/627pp, tp) Omnibus of three novels, fantasy novel Beasts (Doubleday 1976), sf novel Engine Summer (Doubleday 1979), and the World Fantasy Award-winning Little, Big (Bantam 1981). (Contents)
* _The Deep (Unwin 0-04-823318-8, Jul ’87, £2.95, 176pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1975) sf/fantasy novel.
* _Great Work of Time (Bantam Spectra 0-553-29319-2, Aug ’91 [Jul ’91], $3.99, 136pp, pb, cover by Thomas Canty) World Fantasy Award-winning novella that previously appeared in the collection Novelty.
* _Little, Big (Methuen 0-413-51350-5, Nov ’86, £3.95, 538pp, pb) Reissue (Bantam 1981) fantasy novel.
* _Little, Big (Bantam Spectra 0-553-26586-5, Apr ’87 [Mar ’87], $4.95, 625pp, pb) Reissue (Bantam 1981) fantasy novel, winner of the World Fantasy Award. Third printing. Highly recommended. (FCM)
* _Little, Big (Bantam Spectra 0-553-26586-5, Nov ’90 [Oct ’90], $4.95, 627pp, pb, cover by Tom Canty) Reissue (Bantam 1981) World Fantasy award-winning novel, with a new foreword by the author; third printing. This is actually the fourth printing — there was another third printing in 1987.
* _Little, Big (Bantam 0-553-37397-8, Sep ’94 [Aug ’94], $12.95, 538pp, tp) Reprint (Bantam 1981) fantasy novel. Winner of the 1982 World Fantasy Award.
* _Little, Big (SFBC #17464, Aug ’97, $13.98, 529pp, hc, cover by Gary A. Lippincott) Reprint (Bantam 1981) fantasy novel. Winner of the 1982 World Fantasy Award. This lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
* *Love & Sleep (Bantam 0-553-09642-7, Sep ’94 [Aug ’94], $22.95, 503pp, hc) [AEgypt] Fantasy novel of the magic hiding beneath the surface of human history, a sequel to Ægypt.
* _Love & Sleep (Easton Press no ISBN, Sep ’94, no price, 502pp, hc) [AEgypt] Fantasy novel of the magic hiding beneath the surface of human history; a sequel to Ægypt. Published “simultaneously” with the Bantam edition listed last month. This special leatherbound gilt-edge edition is part of the “Signed First Editions of Science Fiction” series, and is available by subscription only.
* _Love & Sleep (Bantam 0-553-37468-0, Sep ’95 [Aug ’95], $12.95, 503pp, tp) [AEgypt] Reprint (Bantam 1994) fantasy novel, sequel to Ægypt.
* *Novelty (Doubleday Foundation 0-385-26171-3, May ’89 [Apr ’89], $18.95, 227pp, hc) Collection of four stories, three original, including one novella. Also in trade paperback (-26347-3, $6.95). (Contents)
* *Three Novels (Bantam 0-553-37398-6, Sep ’94 [Aug ’94], $12.95, 548pp, tp) Omnibus of The Deep (1975), Beasts (1976), and Engine Summer (Doubleday 1979), Crowley’s first three novels. (Contents)
CROWTHER, PETER (1949- ) (stories) (assoc.)

* *Escardy Gap (with James Lovegrove) (Tor 0-312-86210-5, Sep ’96, $26.95, 543pp, hc, cover by Mark Elliot) Horror novel. A writer literally struggles with the creatures of his imagination.
* _Escardy Gap (with James Lovegrove) (Tor 0-812-55539-2, Feb ’98 [Jan ’98], $6.99, 500pp, pb, cover by Mark Elliot) Reprint (Tor 1996) horror novel.
* _Escardy Gap (with James Lovegrove) (Simon & Schuster/Earthlight 0-671-01605-9, Apr ’98, £5.99, 543pp, pb, cover by Les Edwards) Reprint (Tor 1996) horror novel. A writer literally struggles with the creatures of his imagination. [First U.K. edition]
* *Forest Plains (Hypatia Press no ISBN, 1996 [Mar ’97], $40.00, 65pp, hc) Dark fantasy novella. A dead Indian with a magical sense of smell investigates a scent of wrongness in a small town. The introduction is by Charles de Lint. This is a signed, limited edition of 125; a lettered, leatherbound edition ($100.00) was announced but not seen. Order from Blue Moon Books, 360 West First, Eugene OR 97401; credit card orders 800-738-2660; email: hypatia@teleport.com
* *Fugue on a G-String (Subterranean Press no ISBN, Feb ’98, $10.00, 38pp, ph, cover by Alan M. Clark) Associational detective short story in chapbook form. Introduction by Ed Gorman. Illustrated by Alan M. Clark. This is a signed, limited edition of 250. Order from Subterranean Press, PO Box 190106, Burton MI 48519; postage included in price.
_____, ed.

* *Blue Motel (Little Brown UK 0-316-91180-1, Dec ’94, £16.99, 369pp, hc, cover by J. K. Potter) [Narrow Houses] Original anthology of horror, fantasy, SF and crime stories, all on the theme of superstition. Subtitled “Narrow Houses: Volume Three”. Narrow in title, but not in scope. Recommended (PSP). (Contents)
* +Blue Motel (White Wolf 1-56504-922-5, Feb ’96 [Jan ’96], $5.99, 559pp, pb) [Narrow Houses] Original anthology of 18 horror stories, third in the “Narrow Houses” series. First American edition (Little Brown UK 1994).
* _Blue Motel (Warner UK 0-7515-1650-3, Mar ’96, £6.99, xiv+369pp, pb, cover by J. K. Potter) [Narrow Houses] Reprint (Little, Brown UK 1994) anthology of high-quality stories of unease.
* *Dante’s Disciples (with Edward E. Kramer) (White Wolf 1-56504-907-1, Feb ’96 [Jan ’96], $14.99, 406pp, tp) Original anthology of 26 stories inspired by Dante’s “Inferno”, by authors including Gene Wolfe, Harlan Ellison, Nancy Holder, and Brian Aldiss. There is an introduction by James O’Barr. (Contents)
* _Dante’s Disciples (with Edward E. Kramer) (White Wolf 1-56504-878-4, Sep ’98 [Aug ’98], $5.99, 603pp, pb, cover by Michael Scott Cohen) Reprint (White Wolf 1996) original anthology inspired by Dante’s “Inferno”.
* *Destination Unknown (White Wolf 1-56504-941-1, Jan ’97, $12.99, 316pp, tp, cover by Douglas Winter) Original anthology of 16 stories set in other realities. Authors include Charles De Lint, Terry Dowling, Ian McDonald, and Kathleen Ann Goonan. Introduction by Anne McCaffrey. (Contents)
* _Heaven Sent (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Signet Creed 0-45-118445-9, Oct ’95, £4.99, xvii+317pp, pb) Reprint (DAW 1995) original anthology of 18 stories about angels. [First U.K. edition]
* *Heaven Sent: 18 Glorious Tales of the Angels (with Martin H. Greenberg) (DAW 0-88677-656-2, May ’95 [Apr ’95], $5.50, 352pp, pb, cover by Jean-Francois Podevin) Original anthology of 18 stories featuring angels, by such authors as Charles de Lint, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Michael Bishop, John Brunner, and Ed Gorman. The introduction is by Storm Constantine. (Contents)
* _Narrow Houses (Warner UK 0-7515-0107-7, Dec ’93, £5.99, 460pp, pb, cover by Jeff Potter) [Narrow Houses] Reprint (Little, Brown UK 1992) original horror anthology.
* +Narrow Houses (Warner Aspect 0-446-60157-8, Oct ’94 [Sep ’94], $5.50, 460pp, pb, cover by Rick Berry) [Narrow Houses] Original anthology of 28 stories and one poem, with an introduction by Douglas E. Winter. First American edition (Little Brown UK 1992).
* *Narrow Houses: Volume I (Little Brown UK 0-316-90395-7, Dec ’92, £15.99, 460pp, hc, cover by J. K. Potter) [Narrow Houses] Anthology of 29 original horror stories on the subject of superstition, including pieces by Stephen Gallagher, Robert Holdstock and Ramsey Campbell. Recommended (PSP). (Contents)
* *Tales in Space (White Wolf 1-56504-867-9, Apr ’98, $12.99, 318pp, tp, cover by Kathleen Ryan) SF anthology of 15 stories set in space. Authors include Ursula K. Le Guin, Brian W. Aldiss, Paul J. McAuley, and John Varley. (Contents)
* *Tales in Time (White Wolf 1-56504-989-6, Apr ’97, $12.99, 284pp, tp) SF anthology of 13 stories of time travel. Authors include Ian Watson, Jack Finney, H.G. Wells, and Harlan Ellison. Introduction by John Clute. (Contents)
* _Tombs (with Edward E. Kramer) See entry under Edward E. Kramer
* *Touch Wood (Little Brown UK 0-316-90732-4, Dec ’93, £15.99, 372pp, hc, cover by Jeff Potter) [Narrow Houses] Original horror anthology. Volume two in the “Narrow Houses” series. (Contents)
* _Touch Wood (Warner UK 0-7515-0698-2, Dec ’94 [Feb ’95], £5.99, 372pp, pb, cover by J. K. Potter) [Narrow Houses] Reprint (Little, Brown UK 1993) horror anthology, subtitled “Narrow Houses: Volume Two”. Issued in 1994, but not seen until now.
* +Touch Wood (Warner Aspect 0-446-60162-4, Mar ’96 [Feb ’96], $5.99, 365pp, pb, cover by Richard Newton) [Narrow Houses] Original anthology of 25 horror stories, with an introduction by Ramsey Campbell. First American edition (Little Brown UK 1992).
CROZIER, OUIDA

* *Shadows After Dark (Rising Tide Press 1-883061-50-4, Aug ’93, $9.95, 201pp, tp, cover by Evelyn Rysdyk) Lesbian sf/vampire novel of an alien vampire woman sent to Earth to find salvation for her dying planet.
CRUMEY, ANDREW (1961- )

* *D’Alembert’s Principle: Memory, Reason and Imagination (Dedalus 1-873982-32-1, Apr ’96 [Mar ’96], £7.99, 203pp, tp, cover by Lise Weisgerber) Literary fantasy novel in 3 parts, one starring ‘Pfitz’ from Crumey’s 1995 novel. Including an Introduction by John Clute.
* *Music, in a Foreign Language (Dedalus 1-873982-11-9, Mar ’94 [Feb ’94], £7.99, 243pp, tp, cover by Lise Weisgerber) Literary fantasy novel. Alternate-world Britain experiencing the collapse of communism.
* +Music, in a Foreign Language (St. Martin’s/Picador 0-312-14688-4, Nov ’96 [Dec ’96], $22.00, 243pp, hc) Literary SF set in an imaginary police state in Britain. First US edition (Dedalus 1994); winner of Scotland’s Saltire Prize for Best First Novel.
* _Music, in a Foreign Language (St. Martin’s/Picador 0-312-16946-9, Dec ’97 [Jan ’98], $12.00, 243pp, pb) Reprint (Dedalus 1994) literary SF novel set in a future imaginary police state in Britain.
* *Pfitz (Dedalus 1-873982-81-X, Mar ’95 [Feb ’95], £7.99, 164pp, tp, cover by Lise Weisgerber) Literary fantasy novel. An 18th century prince devotes his wealth and the efforts of his subjects to the creation of an imaginary city. The boundaries between reality and fantasy begin to break down.
* +Pfitz (St. Martin’s/Picador 0-312-16964-7, Oct ’97, $20.00, 164pp, hc) Literary meta-fantasy/mystery. An 18th-century prince creates an imaginary city, one of whose imaginary inhabitants disappears. First US edition (Dedalus 1995).
* _Pfitz (St. Martin’s/Picador 0-312-19550-8, Nov ’98 [Oct ’98], $12.00, 164pp, tp) Reprint (Dedalus 1995) literary meta-fantasy/mystery.
CSICSERY-RONAY, ISTVAN, Jr., ed. (stories)

* _On Philip K. Dick: 40 Articles from Science-Fiction Studies (with Arthur B. Evans, Veronica Hollinger & R. D. Mullen) See entry under R. D. Mullen
CUDDON, J(ohn) A(nthony Bowden), ed. (1928- ) (stories)

* *The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (Penguin 0-14-006800-7, Oct ’84, £4.95, 512pp, tp) Anthology of classic supernatural fantasy tales. (Contents) [Not seen]
* _The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (Penguin 0-14-006800-7, 1985 [Oct ’85], £4.95/$6.95, 512pp, pb) Reissue (Penguin 1984) anthology of classic supernatural fantasy tales.
* _The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (Penguin 0-14-006800-7, Oct ’87, £5.95, 512pp, tp) Reissue (Penguin 1984) ghost anthology.
* _The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (Bloomsbury Books 1-85471-001-X, 1991 [Jan ’92], £4.99, 512pp, hc) Reprint (Penguin 1984) ghost story anthology. This is an “Instant Remainder” book.
* *The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (Penguin 0-14-006799-X, 1984, £4.95, 607pp, tp) Anthology of dark tales from authors including Henry James, Poe, Kafka, William Hope Hodgson, Ray Bradbury, and other major authors. (Contents) [Not seen]
* _The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (Viking UK 0-670-81034-7, 1985 [Oct ’85], £10.95, 607pp, hc) Reprint (Penguin 1984) anthology of dark tales from authors including Henry James, Poe, Kafka, William Hope Hodgson, Ray Bradbury, and other major authors.
* _The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (Penguin 0-14-006799-X, Oct ’87, £5.95, 607pp, tp) Reissue (Penguin 1984) horror anthology.
* _The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (Bloomsbury Books 1-87063-094-7, 1991 [Jan ’92], £4.99, 607pp, hc) Reprint (Penguin 1984) horror anthology. This is an “Instant Remainder” book.
CUDLIP, DAVID R(ockwell) (1933- )

* _Comprador (Grafton 0-586-06886-4, May ’87, £3.50, 475pp, pb) Reprint (Secker & Warburg 1984) near-future thriller.
CULBREATH, MYRNA (Lou) (1938- )

* _The Fate of the Phoenix (with Sondra Marshak) See entry under Sondra Marshak.
* _The Prometheus Design (with Sondra Marshak) See entry under Sondra Marshak.
* _Star Trek # 5: The Prometheus Design (with Sondra Marshak) See entry under Sondra Marshak.
* _Star Trek # 9: Triangle (with Sondra Marshak) See entry under Sondra Marshak.
* _Star Trek: The Fate of the Phoenix (with Sondra Marshak) See entry under Sondra Marshak.
* _Star Trek: The New Voyages (with Sondra Marshak) See entry under Sondra Marshak.
* _Star Trek: The Price of the Phoenix (with Sondra Marshak) See entry under Sondra Marshak.
* _Star Trek: The Prometheus Design (with Sondra Marshak) See entry under Sondra Marshak.
* _Star Trek: Triangle (with Sondra Marshak) See entry under Sondra Marshak.
* _Triangle (with Sondra Marshak) See entry under Sondra Marshak.
_____, ed. * _Star Trek: The New Voyages (with Sondra Marshak) See entry under Sondra Marshak. * _Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 (with Sondra Marshak) See entry under Sondra Marshak.
CULIK, HUGH (1950- ); see pseudonym Charles H. Buck
CULLEN, BRIAN (stories)

* +What Niall Saw (St. Martin’s 0-312-86613-5, Oct ’86 [Sep ’86], $11.95, 89pp, hc) Novella in diary form of a young Irish schoolboy and nuclear holocaust, framed with archeological notes on the finding of the diary. First American edition (Sphere 1985).
CULLEN, JEAN

* *Inside Out (with Marjorie Housepian Dobkin) (Ballantine Ivy 0-8041-0427-1, Nov ’89 [Apr ’90], $3.95, 267pp, pb) Fantasy novel of two women facing the problems of eternal youth.
CULLEN, LYNN

* *The Backyard Ghost (Clarion Books 0-395-64527-1, Apr ’93 [Mar ’93], $13.95, 149pp, hc, cover by Diane de Groat) Young-adult fantasy novel of a teenage girl who discovers the ghost of a Civil War-era bugle boy in her backyard. A first novel.
* _The Backyard Ghost (Avon Camelot 0-380-72370-0, Sep ’95 [Aug ’95], $3.50, 149pp, pb) Reprint (Clarion 1993) young-adult ghost novel.
CULLEN, SEAMUS; pseudonym (1927-2006) (stories)

* *A Noose of Light (Futura/Orbit 0-7088-8178-5, Mar ’86, £2.50, 216pp, pb) [Noose of Light] Arabian Nights-style fantasy novel. Two Djinni scheme to take the soul of a wise man and to satisfy their lusts for mortal women and the violent females of their own kind. Erotic and humorous.
* _A Noose of Light (Macdonald Library Editions 0-356-12193-3, May ’86, £8.95, 216pp, hc) [Noose of Light] Reprint (Futura/Orbit 1986) Arabian-style fantasy novel, a library edition almost simultaneous with the original paperback.
* *The Sultan’s Turret (Futura/Orbit 0-7088-8179-3, Aug ’86, £2.50, 252pp, pb) [Noose of Light] Arabian Nights-style fantasy novel, sequel to A Noose of Light.
CUMMINGS, MICHAEL S., ed. (1943- )

* *Utopian Studies II (with Nicholas D. Smith) (University Press of America 0-8191-7305-3, Mar ’89 [Aug ’89], $12.75, 154pp, tp) Non-fiction anthology of 16 academic papers on utopias presented at the conference of the Society for Utopian Studies, including studies of H.G. Wells, Lewis Carroll, Doris Lessing and Ursula K. Le Guin. Also announced in hardcover (-7304-5, $24.95) but not seen.
CUMMINS, ELIZABETH (Ann) (1939- )

* *Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin (University of South Carolina Press 0-87249-687-2, Jun ’90 [May ’90], $22.95, 216pp, hc) Non-fiction; criticism. A guide to Le Guin’s work, focusing on fiction set in four principal worlds—Earthsea, the Hainish planets, Orsinia, and the future West coast.
* _Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin (University of South Carolina Press 0-87249-869-7, Dec ’92 [Apr ’93], $12.95, 216pp, tp) Reprint (University of South Carolina 1990) non-fiction, criticism. A guide to Le Guin’s work, focusing on fiction set in four principal worlds — Earthsea, the Hainish planets, Orsinia, and the future West Coast. This is a 1992 book not seen until now. [Le Guin]
* _Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin (University of South Carolina Press 0-87249-869-7, 1993 [Aug ’93], $12.95, 216pp, tp) Reprint (University of South Carolina 1990) non-fiction, criticism. A guide to Le Guin’s work, focusing on fiction set in four principal worlds — Earthsea, the Hainish planets, Orsinia, and the future West Coast. This edition has been updated by adding a new chapter and post-1990 bibliography. Order from University of South Carolina Press, Columbia SC 29208. [Le Guin]

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