The Locus Index to Science Fiction
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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 This edition contains a new foreword and a new, previously unpublished, short story, and is available in the US for $21.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), Crowleys 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.
- * *Dantes 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 Dantes Inferno, by authors including Gene Wolfe, Harlan Ellison, Nancy Holder, and Brian Aldiss. There is an introduction by James OBarr. (Contents)
- * _Dantes 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 Dantes 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- )
- * *DAlemberts 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 Crumeys 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. Martins/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 Scotlands Saltire Prize for Best First Novel.
- * _Music, in a Foreign Language (St. Martins/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. Martins/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. Martins/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)
- 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- )
- _____, ed.
- CULIK, HUGH (1950- ); see pseudonym Charles H. Buck
- CULLEN, BRIAN (stories)
- * +What Niall Saw (St. Martins 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
- 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 Sultans 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 Guins work, focusing on fiction set in four principal worldsEarthsea, 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 Guins 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 Guins 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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