The Locus Index to Science Fiction

Books, Listed by Author

DELANY, SAMUEL R(ay, Jr.) (stories) (continued)

• * _Flight from Neveryon (Grafton 0-586-20272-2, Apr ’89, £3.99, 480pp, pb, cover by Pierre Lacombe) [Neveryon] Reprint (Bantam 1985) fantasy collection. All the pieces have been revised for this edition, which omits the second appendix (“Closures and Openings”). Recommended. (PSP) Volume 3 in the “Return to Neveryon” series. (Contents) [First U.K. edition]
• * _Flight from Neveryon (Wesleyan/University Press of New England 0-8195-6277-7, Apr ’94, $14.95, 376pp, tp) [Neveryon] Reprint (Bantam 1985) fantasy collection, third book of the “Neveryon” series. This follows the revised text of the 1989 Grafton edition, not previously available in the US. It omits the original second appendix “Closures and Openings”, but adds the “Buffon’s Needle” appendix from the 1989 Grafton edition of Return to Neveryon. Available from University Press of New England, 23 S. Main St., Hanover NH 03755-2048.
• * *Hogg (Black Ice Books 0-932511-88-0, Mar ’95, $24.95, hc) Associational pornographic novel. Previously considered “unpublishable” due to its “vivid portrait of the profane.”
• * _Hogg (Black Ice Books 1-57366-011-6, Mar ’96, $11.95, 219pp, tp) Reprint (Black Ice 1995) associational pornographic novel.
• * _The Jewels of Aptor (Gollancz 0-575-04445-4, Jan ’89, £2.99, 221pp, pb, cover by Mick Posen) Reissue (Ace 1962) sf novel.
• * *Longer Views (University Press of New England/Wesleyan 0-8195-6293-9, Dec ’96 [Nov ’96], $22.00, 342pp, tp) Non-fiction, criticism. A collection of six “Expanded Essays” (one as an appendix) mostly not directly about SF, three previously unpublished. There is a preface by Delany and an introduction by Kenneth James. A hardcover edition (-5281-X, $50.00) was announced but not seen. Order from University Press of New England, 23 South Main St., Hanover NH 03755.
• * *The Mad Man (Richard Kasak UK 1-56333-194-2, May ’94 [Nov ’94], £10.99, 506pp, tp, cover by Mia Wolff) Associational novel about a gay man having unprotected sex in the time of AIDS. This trade paperback edition was published in the UK only, while the simultaneous hardcover edition (-193-4, $23.95) was published in the US only.
• * *The Mad Man (Masquerade/Richard Kasak Books 1-56333-193-4, Jun ’94 [May ’94], $23.95, 501pp, hc, cover by Mia Wolff) Associational psychological thriller. A graduate student researching the life of a murdered gay writer/philosopher gradually finds himself following the pattern of the dead man’s life.
• * _The Mad Man (Masquerade/Rhinoceros 1-56333-408-9, Apr ’96, $8.99, 564pp, tp) Associational psychological thriller. A previous Masquerade trade paperback edition (-194-2) appeared in the UK only.
• * _The Motion of Light in Water (Paladin 0-586-08910-1, May ’90, £6.99, 581pp, tp) Reprint (Arbor House 1988) autobiography. This version is greatly expanded and revised and also contains a 60-page written interview, “The Column at the Market’s Edge”, originally published in Camera Obscura. Recommended. (PSP)
• * +The Motion of Light in Water (Masquerade/Richard Kasak 1-56333-133-0, Dec ’93 [Nov ’93], $12.95, 519pp, tp, cover by Brian Lynch) Non-fiction, Delany’s autobiography. This is the greatly revised and expanded text of the British edition, but does not include the Camera Obscura interview “The Column at the Market’s Edge” included there. The original version was published by Arbor House in 1988. First American edition (Paladin 1990).
• * *The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 1957-1965 (Morrow/Arbor House 0-87795-947-1, Mar ’88 [Feb ’88], $17.95, 302pp, hc) Non-fiction, autobiography.
• * _The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 1957-1965 (NAL Plume 0-452-26232-1, Mar ’89, $8.95, 302pp, tp) Reprint (Arbor House 1988) Non-fiction autobiography
• * _Neveryona (Bantam 0-553-24177-X, Jul ’84 [Jun ’84], $3.50, 449pp, pb) [Neveryon] Reprint (Bantam 1983) fantasy novel, first mass-market paperback.
• * _Neveryona (Grafton 0-586-20271-4, Feb ’89, £4.50, 544pp, pb, cover by Pierre Lacombe) [Neveryon] Reprint (Bantam 1983) second volume in Delany’s marvellous “Return to Neveryon” series. This edition has been ‘corrected’ and contains Delany’s preferred text. Recommended. (PSP) [First U.K. edition]
• * _Neveryona (Wesleyan/New England University Press 0-8195-6271-8, Oct ’93, $14.95, 399pp, tp) [Neveryon] Reprint (Bantam 1983) fantasy novel, second book of the “Neveryon” series. This is the corrected text of the 1989 Grafton edition, not previously available in the US. Available from University Press of New England, 23 South Main St., Hanover NH 03755-2048.
• * _Neveryóna (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-586-20271-4, Nov ’96, £5.99, 544pp, pb) Reprint (Bantam 1983) fantasy novel. This follows the 1988 revision (Grafton).
• * _Nova (Bantam Spectra 0-553-23621-0, Jan ’86 [Dec ’85], $2.95, 215pp, pb) Reissue (Doubleday 1968) sf novel. 13th Bantam printing.
• * _Nova (Gollancz 0-575-03818-7, Mar ’86, £2.95, 224pp, pb) Reprint (Doubleday 1968) sf novel, #4 in the new “Gollancz Classic SF” paperback line.
• * _Nova (Bantam Spectra 0-553-23621-0, May ’90, $3.95, 215pp, pb, cover by Graphics Associates) Reissue (Doubleday 1968) sf novel; 14th printing.
• * _Return to Neveryon (Grafton 0-586-20273-0, Jun ’89, £3.99, 399pp, pb, cover by Pierre Lacombe) [Neveryon] Reprint (Arbor House 1987 as The Bridge of Lost Desire) fantasy collection. This concluding volume of the “Return to Neveryon” series is even more of a bibliographer’s nightmare than preceding volumes. It contains exactly the same version of ‘The Tale of Gorgik’ (except for about half a dozen words) as the first volume in this edition did. It also contains a revised version of ‘Closures and Openings’ from Flight to Neveryon and a snatch of correspondence that appears to be original to this volume. (PSP) (Contents) [First U.K. edition]
• * _Return to Neveryon (Wesleyan/University Press of New England 0-8195-6278-5, Apr ’94, $14.95, 291pp, tp) [Neveryon] Reprint (Arbor House 1987 as The Bridge of Lost Desire) fantasy collection, fourth book of the “Neveryon” series. This follows the text and contents of the 1989 Grafton edition, including a revised version of the “Closures and Openings” appendix from Flight from Neveryon, but omitting the “Buffon’s Needle” appendix from the British edition. Available from University Press of New England, 23 S. Main St., Hanover NH 03755-2048.
• * *Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics (University Press of New England/Wesleyan 0-8195-6280-7, Sep ’94, $16.95, 322pp, tp) Non-fiction, criticism. A collection of “written interviews” with (and some by as well) Samuel R. Delany. A hardcover edition (-5276-3, $40.00) was announced but not seen.
• * *Starboard Wine (Dragon Press no ISBN, Apr ’84 [Mar ’84], $19.95, 244pp, hc) Non-fiction, collection of 12 pieces of sf criticism. This is Delany’s attempt to write a more “popular” book on sf criticism. Limited to 500 signed copies.
• * *Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (Bantam 0-553-05053-2, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $16.95, 368pp, hc) [Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand] Sf novel, first of a two-part work. Highly recommended. (FCM)
• * _Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (Bantam Spectra 0-553-25149-X, Sep ’85 [Aug ’85], $3.95, 375pp, pb) [Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand] Reprint (Bantam 1984) sf novel, first of a “diptych.” Recommended — for the adventurous. A literary sf extravaganza. (FCM)
• * _Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (QPB/Bantam no ISBN, Nov ’85, $8.95, 368pp, pb) [Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand] Reprint (Bantam 1984) sf novel, first of a “dilogy”. This edition is identical to the Bantam hardcover with the jacket printed on the paperback cover.
• * _Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (Grafton/Panther 0-586-06749-3, Jun ’86 [May ’86], £2.95, 464pp, pb) [Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand] Reprint (Bantam 1984) sf novel, first in a duology.
• * _Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (Bantam Spectra 0-553-25149-X, Nov ’90 [Oct ’90], $4.95, 385pp, pb) [Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand] Reissue (Bantam 1984) sf novel; fourth printing. Includes a new 10-page afterword on postmodernism.
• * *The Straits of Messina (Serconia Press 0-934933-04-9, Sep ’89, $19.95, 169pp, hc) Collection of nine non-fiction pieces on Delany’s fiction, five originally published as by K. Leslie Steiner, with an introduction by the author.
• * _Tales of Neveryon (Grafton 0-586-20270-6, Nov ’88, £3.50, 335pp, pb) [Neveryon] Reprint (Bantam 1979) fantasy collection. This volume contains the afterword to The Bridge of Lost Desire (as a preface) and the revised version of ‘The Tale of Gorgik’ that appeared therein. First, and best, in the Return to Neveryon series. Recommended. (PSP) (Contents) [First U.K. edition]
• * _Tales of Neveryon (Wesleyan/New England University Press 0-8195-6270-X, Oct ’93, $12.95, 260pp, tp) [Neveryon] Reprint (Bantam 1979) fantasy collection, first book of the “Neveryon” series. This is the corrected text of the 1988 Grafton edition, including somewhat different contents, which was not previously available in the US. Available from University Press of New England, 23 South Main St., Hanover NH 03755-2048.
• * _Tales of Nevèrÿon (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-586-20270-6, Jun ’96 [Jul ’96], £5.99, 335pp, pb) Reprint (Bantam 1979) fantasy collection. This edition follows the revised text and contents of the 1988 Grafton edition.
• * *They Fly at Çiron (Incunabula 0-9633637-0-0, Jul ’93, $25.00, 179pp, hc) Fantasy adventure novel of a civilized society’s conflict with warlike barbarians. Includes heavily revised and expanded versions of two pieces published previously. This edition is limited to 1000 copies. A 77-copy signed and numbered edition (-1-1) was announced but not seen. Order from Incunabula, PO Box 30146, Seattle WA 98103-0146. (Contents)
• * _They Fly at Ciron (Tor 0-312-85775-6, Jan ’95, $19.95, 222pp, hc, cover by Thomas Canty) Reprint (Incunabula 1993) fantasy adventure novel of a civilized society’s conflict with warlike invaders.
• * _They Fly at Çiron (Tor 0-812-54317-3, Feb ’96 [Jan ’96], $6.99, 243pp, pb, cover by Thomas Canty) Reprint (Incunabula 1993) fantasy adventure novel of a civilized society’s conflict with warlike invaders.
• * _They Fly at Çiron (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-649939-2, Aug ’98, £5.99, 222pp, pb, cover by Thomas Canty) Reprint (Incunabula 1993) fantasy adventure novel of a civilized society’s conflict with warlike barbarians. Includes heavily revised and expanded versions of two published previously pieces. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Triton (Bantam Spectra 0-553-22979-6, Jan ’86 [Dec ’85], $3.95, 369pp, pb) Reissue (Bantam 1976) sf novel, 11th printing.
• * _Triton (Grafton 0-586-21420-8, Oct ’92, £4.99, 369pp, pb, cover by John Harris) Reprint (Bantam 1976) sf novel. This is the first proper UK edition, although the US (Bantam) edition was distributed in the UK in 1977. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Trouble on Triton (University Press of New England/Wesleyan 0-8195-6298-X, Jul ’96 [May ’96], $14.95, 312pp, tp) Reprint (Bantam 1976 as “Triton”) SF novel. There is a new foreword by Kathy Acker. Available from University Press of New England, 23 South Main St, Hanover NH 03755.
• * *Wagner/Artaud: A Play of 19th and 20th Century Critical Fictions (Ansatz Press 0-945195-01-X, Apr ’88 [May ’88], $7.00, 78pp, ph) Non-fiction, associational — a work of scholarship which doesn’t deal with sf or fantasy but includes some scene setting and play with serious ideas recalling Delany’s speculative fiction. Limited to 150 copies, including 30 signed and numbered (price unknown).

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• * _Ash of Stars: On the Writing of Samuel R. Delany See entry under James Sallis.
• * _Samuel R. Delany See entry under Seth McEvoy.

DELAP, RICHARD (Leon) (1942-1987) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Shapes (with Walt Lee) (Ace Charter 0-441-76103-8, Feb ’87 [Jan ’87], $3.95, 324pp, pb) Sf horror novel with a shape-changing alien that absorbs people.

DE LARRABEITI, MICHAEL (1937- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * _The Borribles (Ace 0-441-07171-6, Jun ’84 [May ’84], $2.50, 305pp, pb) [Borribles] Reissue (Bodley Head 1976) young-adult fantasy novel. Recommended. (CNB)
• * _The Borribles Go for Broke (Ace 0-441-07024-8, Jul ’84 [Jun ’84], $2.50, 267pp, pb) [Borribles] Reissue (Bodley Head 1981) fantasy novel, sequel to The Borribles.
• * *The Borribles: Across the Dark Metropolis (Piccolo 0-330-29149-1, Oct ’86, £1.95, 332pp, pb) [Borribles] Juvenile fantasy novel, #3 in the series. A planned hardcover edition was dropped amid controversy.
• * +The Borribles: Across the Dark Metropolis (Ace 0-441-00311-7, Mar ’88 [Feb ’88], $3.50, 306pp, pb) [Borribles] Fantasy novel, third in the series about wild children. First American edition (Pan 1986).
• * *Provençal Tales (St. Martin’s 0-312-02968-3, Jul ’89, $16.95, 222pp, hc) Associational; retelling of Provençal tales and fables by the author of the “Borribles” books.

DELINSKY, BARBARA (Ruth, née Greenberg) (1945- )

• * *The Outsider (Harlequin 0-373-25485-7, Mar ’92, $2.99, 221pp, pb) Sf romance. A folk healer falls in love with a mysterious stranger from the stars who has telepathic powers. A Harlequin Temptation romance.

de LINT, CHARLES (Henri Diederick Hoefsmit) (1951- ); see pseudonym Samuel M. Key (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Ascian in Rose (Axolotl Press 0-939879-10-7, Apr ’87 [Mar ’87], $30.00, 84pp, hc) [Moonheart] Fantasy novella set in the same world as the novel Moonheart. Limited to 300 signed copies (also fifty leatherbound, $65.00).
• * *Ascian in Rose (Axolotl Press 0-939879-11-5, Apr ’87 [Mar ’87], $6.00, 84pp, tp) [Moonheart] Trade paperback of the above. Limited to 500 copies.
• * *Author’s Choice Monthly Issue 22: Hedgework and Guessery (Pulphouse no ISBN, Jul ’91 [Jun ’91], $4.95, 118pp, tp, cover by George Barr) Collection of seven stories and eight poems, plus an introduction by the author. One poem is original. A signed hardcover edition ($25.00) is also available, and a deluxe leatherbound edition ($50.00) was announced but not seen. (Contents)
• * *Berlin (Fourth Avenue Press 0-9694121-1-8, Oct ’89, $14.95, 55pp, tp) [Borderland] Novella in the shared-world “Borderland” series. The trade edition is limited to 300 copies. A hardcover edition of 26 copies (-0-X, $35.00) was not seen, and was sold out prior to publication. Order from The House of Speculative Fiction, Inc., 105 Fourth Ave., Ottawa ONT Canada K1S 2LI.
• * *Brian Froud’s Faerielands: The Wild Wood (Bantam Spectra 0-553-09630-3, Mar ’94 [Feb ’94], $19.95, 221pp, hc, cover by Brian Froud) [Faerielands] Fantasy novel of a young artist whose work is haunted by faerie. Illustrated by Brian Froud. First book of a new series, each book by a different author, created by Brian Froud and Robert Gould. Packaged by Byron Preiss Visual Publications.
• * *The Dreaming Place (Macmillan Atheneum 0-689-31571-6, Nov ’90, $14.95, 138pp, hc, cover by Brian Froud) [Newford] Young-adult fantasy novel of a young girl and her cousin endangered by an earth spirit that wants one of the girls for her own. Illustrated by Brian Froud. A “Dragonflight” book packaged by Byron Preiss Visual Publications.
• * _The Dreaming Place (Warner Questar 0-446-36287-5, Feb ’92 [Jan ’92], $4.99, 138pp, pb, cover by Brian Froud) [Newford] Reprint (Atheneum 1990) young-adult fantasy novel of a young girl and her cousin endangered by an earth spirit that wants one of the girls for her own. Illustrations by Brian Froud. Packaged by Byron Preiss Visual Publications.
• * *Dreams Underfoot (Tor 0-312-85205-3, Apr ’93 [Mar ’93], $22.95, 414pp, hc, cover by Terri Windling) [Newford] Collection of 19 stories set in the imaginary city of Newford, two original. There is an introduction by Terri Windling. (Contents)
• * _Dreams Underfoot (Tor 0-812-51621-4, Jul ’94 [Jun ’94], $4.99, 459pp, pb, cover by Terri Windling) [Newford] Reprint (Tor 1993) collection of 19 stories set in the imaginary city of Newford, two original, with an introduction by Terri Windling.
• * *Drink Down the Moon (Ace 0-441-16861-2, Jun ’90 [May ’90], $3.95, 216pp, pb, cover by Jim Warren) [Jack of Kinrowan] Fantasy novel of the wild fairies that roam the streets of Ottawa, sequel to Jack, the Giant-Killer.
• * *Ghosts of Wind and Shadow (Pulphouse/Axolotl no ISBN, Apr ’91, $10.00, 73pp, tp, cover by Donna Gordon) [Newford] Fantasy novella with an introduction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. A hardcover limited edition of 300 copies ($35.00) and a deluxe leatherbound edition ($65.00) are also available. All states are signed by the author and introducer.
• * *Ghostwood (Pulphouse/Axolotl no ISBN, Aug ’90, $10.00, 226pp, tp, cover by Donna Gordon) [Moonheart] Urban fantasy novel, part of the “Moonheart” cycle. A hardcover edition ($35.00) and a deluxe leatherbound edition ($65.00) are also available.
• * *Greenmantle (Ace 0-441-30295-5, Feb ’88 [Jan ’88], $3.50, 328pp, pb) Fantasy novel; the wild hunt still exists not far from a modern city.
• * _Greenmantle (Pan 0-330-31580-3, Mar ’91 [Dec ’90], £7.99, 328pp, tp, cover by David Bergen) Reprint (Ace 1988) fantasy novel about The Wild Hunt. Also announced in hardcover (-31579-X, £15.99).
• * _Greenmantle (Pan 0-330-31111-5, Feb ’92, £4.99, 328pp, pb, cover by David Bergen) Reprint (Ace 1988) fantasy novel.
• * _Greenmantle (Tor/Orb 0-312-86510-4, Aug ’98 [Jul ’98], $14.95, 384pp, tp, cover by David Bergen) Reprint (Ace 1988) fantasy novel.
• * *The Harp of the Grey Rose (Donning/Starblaze 0-89865-374-6, Aug ’85 [Jul ’85], $7.95, 207pp, pb) [Cerin Songweaver] Fantasy novel, first of a projected series. Illustrations by George Barr.
• * _The Harp of the Grey Rose (Avon 0-380-76202-1, Feb ’91 [Jan ’91], $3.95, 230pp, pb, cover by Darrell K. Sweet) [Cerin Songweaver] Reprint (Donning/Starblaze 1985) fantasy novel, the first book of the “Legend of Cerin Songweaver” series.
• * *Into the Green (Tor 0-312-85672-5, Nov ’93 [Oct ’93], $19.95, 249pp, hc, cover by John Howe) [Angharad] Fantasy novel based on (and containing) the Angharad stories originally published in the Sword & Sorceress anthologies.
• * _Into the Green (Tor 0-812-52249-4, Jan ’95 [Dec ’94], $4.99, 254pp, pb, cover by John Howe) [Angharad] Reprint (Tor 1993) fantasy novel.
• * *The Ivory and the Horn (Tor 0-312-85573-7, Apr ’95 [Mar ’95], $21.95, 318pp, hc, cover by Terri Windling) [Newford] Collection of 15 urban fantasy stories, one original, set in the magical city of Newford. (Contents)
• * _The Ivory and the Horn (Tor 0-812-53408-5, Mar ’96 [Feb ’96], $6.99, 338pp, pb, cover by Terri Windling) [Newford] Reprint (Tor 1995) collection of 15 urban fantasy stories.
• * *Jack of Kinrowan (Tor 0-812-53898-6, Jul ’95 [Jun ’95], $5.99, 474pp, pb, cover by Thomas Canty) [Jack of Kinrowan] Omnibus of two contemporary fantasy novels, Jack the Giant Killer (Ace 1987) and Drink Down the Moon (Ace 1990). (Contents)
• * *Jack the Giant Killer (Ace 0-441-37969-9, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $16.95, 202pp, hc) [Jack of Kinrowan] Contemporary fantasy novel, loosely based on the fairytale of the same name.
• * _Jack the Giant-Killer (Ace 0-441-37970-2, Jan ’90 [Dec ’89], $3.50, 186pp, pb, cover by Jim Warren) [Jack of Kinrowan] Reprint (Ace 1987) contemporary fantasy novel. Part of the “Fairy Tales” series packaged by Terri Windling/Endicott Studios.
• * *The Little Country (Morrow 0-688-10366-9, Jan ’91, $22.95, 636pp, hc, cover by Darrell K. Sweet) Fantasy novel of a folksinger in a Cornish town in danger because of a mysterious book that opens the way into another world. Recommended (SW).
• * _The Little Country (SFBC #18125, Apr ’91, $10.98, 636pp, hc, cover by Darrell K. Sweet) Reprint (Morrow 1991) fantasy novel.
• * _The Little Country (Tor 0-812-52248-6, Mar ’93 [Feb ’93], $5.99, 591pp, pb, cover by Dave Henderson) Reprint (Morrow 1991) fantasy novel of a folksinger in a Cornish town in danger because of a mysterious book that opens the way into another world.