The Locus Index to Science Fiction

Books, Listed by Author

DENNIS, IAN (1952- )

• * *Bagdad (Macmillan Canada 0-7715-9892-0, Jun ’86 [May ’86], C$17.95, 210pp, hc) [Prince of Stars] Arabian Nights-style fantasy novel, Vol. I of “The Prince of Stars in the Cavern of Time”, a duology. A first novel.
• * _Bagdad (Unwin/Unicorn 0-04-823274-2, Jul ’86, £8.95, 224pp, hc) [Prince of Stars] Reprint (Macmillan Canada 1986) Arabian Nights-style fantasy novel. Volume 1 in the “Prince of Stars in the Crown of Time” series. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Bagdad (Unwin 0-04-823307-2, Oct ’87, £2.95, 210pp, pb) [Prince of Stars] Reprint (Macmillan Canada 1986) fantasy novel. Volume 1 in the Prince of Stars in the “Cavern of Time” series.
• * *The Prince of Stars (Unwin 0-04-823306-4, Nov ’87, £2.95, 221pp, pb) [Prince of Stars] Fantasy novel. Volume 2 in the “Prince of Stars in the Cavern of Time” series.
• * *The Prince of Stars in the Cavern of Time (Viking Overlook 0-87951-298-9, Feb ’89, $18.95, 433pp, hc) [Prince of Stars] Arabian Nights satirical fantasy novel. First U.S. editions of both (Macmillan Canada 1986, 1987, in two volumes, Bagdad and The Prince of Stars).

DENNIS, K. C.

• * *Blood Red! (Vantage Press 0-686-91074-5, Jan ’84 [Dec ’83], $8.95, 156pp, tp) Horror novel from a vanity press.

DENNIS, NIGEL (Forbes) (1912-1989)

• * _Cards of Identity (Penguin 0-14-006608-X, Feb ’84 [Jan ’84], $4.95, 302pp, pb) Reprint (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1955) satiric fantasy novel.

DENT, LESTER (1905-1959) (stories)

• * *The Sinister Ray (Gryphon 0-936071-04-4, Oct ’87, $9.95, 175pp, tp) [Lynn Lash] Collection of three scientific detective stories, originally published in the old pulps. (Contents)

DENTON, BRADLEY (Clayton) (1958- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Blackburn (St. Martin’s 0-312-08705-5, Feb ’93 [Jan ’93], $19.95, 296pp, hc) Associational non-supernatural horror novel, portions of which have appeared in Pulphouse and in F&SF. Recommended. (SW)
• * _Blackburn (NEL 0-450-60395-4, Jul ’94, £4.99, 296pp, pb) Reprint (St. Martin’s 1993) associational non-supernatural horror novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Blackburn (St. Martin’s/Picador 0-312-13029-5, May ’95 [Apr ’95], $12.00, 296pp, pb) Reprint (St. Martin’s 1994) associational serial-killer horror novel.
• * *Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede (Morrow 0-688-10822-9, Sep ’91 [Aug ’91], $22.00, 359pp, hc, cover by Mark Harrison) Rock and roll sf chase thriller with drive-in revivals and a resurrected Buddy Holly on every TV station.
• * _Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede (Easton Press no ISBN, Mar ’92, no price, 359pp, hc) Sf novel. This edition is being published “simultaneously” with the Morrow edition listed in August 1991. This special leather-bound gilt-edged edition is part of the “Signed First Editions of Science Fiction” series and is available by subscription only.
• * _Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede (Headline 0-7472-3835-9, Apr ’92, £4.99, 359pp, pb, cover by Mick Brownfield) Reprint (Morrow 1991) rock and roll sf chase thriller. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede (AvoNova 0-380-71876-6, Dec ’92 [Nov ’92], $4.50, 290pp, pb, cover by Tim O’Brien) Reprint (Morrow 1991) rock and roll sf chase thriller with drive-in revivals and a resurrected Buddy Holly on every TV station. Recommended (SW).
• * *The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians (Wildside Press 1-880448-38-6, Oct ’94 [Feb ’95], 208pp, hc) Collection of five stories, with an introduction by Howard Waldrop and illustrations by Doug Potter. Available only in a boxed set with A Conflagration Artist, also by Denton; the set is also available in limited editions, with different bindings (snakeskin, etc.) for each edition (-36-X, $250.00, lettered; -37-8, $125.00, 100 copies numbered.) Available from Wildside Press, 37 Fillmore Street, Newark NJ 07105. (Contents)
• * *A Conflagration Artist (Wildside Press 1-880448-42-4, Oct ’94 [Feb ’95], $70.00, 207pp, hc) Collection of eight stories, with an introduction by Steven Gould and illustrations by Doug Potter. Available only as part of a boxed set with The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Commedians; the set is also available in limited editions, each edition with a different binding (-40-8, $250.00, 26 lettered copies; -41-6, $125.00, 100 numbered copies.) Available from Wildside Press, 37 Fillmore Street, Newark NJ 07105. (Contents)
• * *Lunatics (St. Martin’s 0-312-14363-X, Jun ’96 [May ’96], $23.95, 325pp, hc, cover by Maurice Vellekoop) Wry, humorous fantasy novel. The goddess of the moon falls in love with a guy named Jack in Austin, Texas.
• * _Lunatics (Bantam 0-553-37891-0, Jul ’97 [Jun ’97], $12.95, 343pp, tp, cover by Ronald Finger) Reprint (St. Martin’s 1996) humorous fantasy novel.
• * *One Day Closer to Death (St. Martin’s 0-312-18150-7, Feb ’98 [Jan ’98], $23.95, 337pp, hc) Collection of eight stories, one original. All but one other story were previously collected in The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and The Conflagration Artist. Each story has an introduction by the author. (Contents)
• * *Wrack & Roll (Popular Library/Questar 0-445-20306-4, Nov ’86 [Oct ’86], $3.50, 406pp, pb) Alternate-world sf novel of straights vs. Wrackers. A better than average first novel. Recommended. (FCM)
• * _Wrack and Roll (Headline 0-7472-3009-9, Jul ’87, £3.50, 406pp, pb) Reprint (Questar 1986) sf novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Wrack and Roll (Headline 0-7472-0016-5, Aug ’87, £10.95, 406pp, hc) Reprint (Questar 1986) sf novel.

DENYER, TREVOR, ed. (stories)

• * _Gravity’s Angels (with Sarah Ellender, Trevor Mendham, Martin Owton & Gary Couzens) See entry under Gary Couzens.

DENZEL, JUSTIN (Francis) (1917- )

• * *Hunt for the Last Cat (Putnam/Philomel 0-399-22101-8, Oct ’91, $14.95, 191pp, hc) Young-adult prehistoric adventure novel of a young girl blamed by her clan for the depredations of a marauding saber-tooth.

de OVALLE, PILAR

• * *Calabrinia Falling (The Crossing Press 0-89594-433-2, Sep ’90, $8.95, 194pp, tp, cover by Mark Johnson) Feminist fantasy novel of a princess with a quest.

DE PAUW, LINDA GRANT

• * *Baptism of Fire (The Minerva Center 0-9634895-0-X, May ’93 [Feb ’93], $14.95, 393pp, tp, cover by Hannah M. G. Shapero) Sf novel about the adventures of Lt. Maggie Steele, “a woman hero in the heroic tradition of Horatio Hornblower,” newly graduated and facing the adjustment from simulated interstellar combat to the real thing. Order from The Minerva Center, 20 Granada Rd., Pasadena MD 21122.

DE QUEIROZ, EÇA (stories)

• * *The Mandarin (and Other Stories) (with Margaret Jull Costa,trans.) (Dedalus 0-946626-98-7, Feb ’93 [Jan ’93], £6.99, 125pp, tp) Collection of three literary fantasy stories, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. The book was edited by Robert Webb, who also contributes an afterword. (Contents)
• * *The Relic (with Margaret Jull Costa,trans.) (Dedalus 0-946626-94-4, Jun ’94, £8.99, 281pp, tp, cover by J. M. Turner) Literary fantasy novel, translated from the Portugese (1887) and with an Introduction by Margaret Jull Costa. Apparently the first English-language edition. [First U.K. edition]

DERESKE, JO (1947- )

• * *The Lone Sentinel (Macmillan Atheneum 0-689-31552-X, Oct ’89 [Nov ’89], $13.95, 169pp, hc, cover by Alan C. Olson) Young-adult sf novel set in a remote colony on an alien world.

de RICO, UL; pseudonym of Ulderico Gropplero di Troppenburg, (1944- )

• * *The White Goblin (Thames and Hudson 0-500-01724-7, Oct ’96, $19.95, unpaginated, hc, cover by Ul de Rico) [Rainbow Goblins] Children’s picture book, sequel to The Rainbow Goblins. Translated from the German by Stanley Baron, but no earlier edition is listed.

DERLETH, AUGUST (William) (1909-1971) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *The Cthulhu Mythos (Barnes & Noble 0-7607-0253-5, Feb ’97 [Jan ’97], $9.98, 448pp, hc) Collection of 17 Lovecraftian stories, containing all of Derleth’s non-collaborative contributions to the Mythos, including the contents of The Mask of Cthulhu (1958), and The Trail of Cthulhu (1962), plus six others. There is an introduction by Ramsey Campbell, copyrighted 1977. (Contents)
• * *The Final Adventures of Solar Pons (Battered Silicon Dispatch Box/Mycroft & Moran 1-55246-012-6, Nov ’98 [Dec ’98], $28.00, 202pp, hc, cover by Jean-Pierre Cagnat) [Solar Pons] Original collection of early unpublished stories — one novel, six stories, and a series of vignettes — featuring Derleth’s Sherlockian detective, Solar Pons. Two stories are SF collaborations with Mack Reynolds, with an article describing how the two came to collaborate by editor Peter Ruber, who also provides the introduction. The Mycroft & Moran imprint is used under a special licensing agreement with Arkham House, which is distributing the book in the US. Order from The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, PO Box 204, Shelburne ON Canada L0N 1S0; fax 519-925-3482; e-mail gav@gbc.com; add $3.00 postage. (Contents)
• * *In Lovecraft’s Shadow (Battered Silicon Dispatch Box/Mycroft & Moran 1-55246-003-7, Nov ’98 [Dec ’98], $60.00, 351pp, hc, cover by Stephen Fabian) Collection of all 23 of Derleth’s complete Lovecraftian Mythos stories (excluding his actual Lovecraft collaborations), three poems (one previously unpublished), and essay “A Note on the Cthulhu Mythos”. Illustrated by Stephen Fabian. Introduction and comments on the artist by Joseph Wrzos. The Mycroft & Moran imprint is used under a special licensing agreement with Arkham House, which is distributing the book in the US. Order from The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, PO Box 204, Shelburne ON Cnada L0N 1S0; fax 519-925-3482; e-mail gav@gbc.com; add $3.00 postage. (Contents)
• * _The Loved Dead (with H. P. Lovecraft) See entry under H. P. Lovecraft
• * _The Lurker at the Threshold (with H. P. Lovecraft) See entry under H. P. Lovecraft
• * _The Mask of Cthulhu (Grafton 0-586-04139-7, Jul ’88, £2.50, 204pp, pb) Reprint (Arkham House 1958) horror collection. (Contents)
• * _The Mask of Cthulhu (Carroll & Graf 0-7867-0337-7, Apr ’96 [Mar ’96], $4.95, 201pp, pb) Reprint (Arkham House 1958) collection of six Lovecraftian stories.
• * _The Trail of Cthulhu (Grafton 0-586-04138-9, Jul ’88, £2.95, 256pp, pb) [Laban Shrewsbury] Reprint (Arkham House 1962) horror collection. (Contents) [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Trail of Cthulhu (Carroll & Graf 0-7867-0341-5, Jun ’96 [May ’96], $4.95, 248pp, pb) [Laban Shrewsbury] Reprint (Arkham House 1962) collection of five Lovecraftian stories.
• * _Walden West (University of Wisconsin Press 0-299-13594-2, Nov ’92 [Oct ’92], $12.95, 262pp, tp, cover by Mike Jaynes) Reprint (Duell 1961) associational autobiographical non-fiction, a collection of vignettes of Wisconsin life. With the original woodcuts by Grisha Dotzenko. A hardcover edition (-13590-X, $35.00) was announced but not seen. Available from University of Wisconsin Press, 114 N. Murray St., Madison WI 53715.
• * _The Watchers Out of Time (with H. P. Lovecraft) See entry under H. P. Lovecraft

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• * _The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions (Carroll & Graf 0-7867-0387-3, Oct ’96 [Sep ’96], $4.95, 245pp, pb) Reprint (Arkham House 1944) collection of 10 Lovecraftian stories, two collaborations with Lovecraft, the rest by other authors, though the cover credits Lovecraft as the sole author; the title page credits Lovecraft “and Others”. Derleth is mentioned only on the copyright page. This has the same text as the 1970 Beagle Boxer edition, which reprinted half of the 1944 Arkham House collection.
• * _Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (Grafton 0-586-20344-3, Sep ’88, £3.99, 508pp, pb) Reprint (Arkham House 1969) horror anthology. (Contents)

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• * _Return to Derleth: Selected Essays, Volume Two See entry under James P. Roberts.

DERMAN, MARTHA

• * *Tales from Academy Street (Scholastic 0-590-43703-8, Sep ’91 [Aug ’91], $13.95, 103pp, hc, cover by Norman Walker) Young-adult fantasy about a street where children begin to notice strange things happening.
• * _Tales from Academy Street (Scholastic 0-590-43704-6, Sep ’92 [Aug ’92], $2.95, 103pp, tp) Reprint (Scholastic 1991) young-adult fantasy novel about a street where children begin to notice strange things happening.

DERRICKSON, FRASER, ed. (stories)

• * *Would Could Should (A.S.F.A.E. Society, 1988, 55pp, ph) Pamphlet containing nine stories by members of The American Science Fiction Authors and Editors Society. (Contents)

de SÁ-CARNEIRO, MÁRIO (stories)

• * *The Great Shadow (and other stories) (Dedalus 1-873982-72-0, Oct ’96 [Sep ’96], £8.99, 249pp, tp, cover by Lise Weisgerber) Literary fantasy collection of 8 stories. Translated, with a Foreword, by Margaret Jull Costa from Céu em fogo (Portugal, 1915). (Contents)

DeSAIX, FRANK

• * *Hilary and the Lions (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0-374-33237-1, Sep ’90 [Oct ’90], $13.95, unpaginated, hc, cover by Debbi Durland Desaix) Children’s picture book, also of interest to adults, about the stone lions at the New York Public Library coming to life, with full-color illustrations by Debbi Durland Desaix.

DE SENA, JORGE

• * *The Wondrous Physician (J.M. Dent/Everyman 0-460-02463-9, Mar ’86, £3.95, 123pp, pb) First English-language version (translated from Portuguese by Mary Fitton) of a fantasy novel “set in a world of sorcery, superstition and magic.”

DesJARDIN, MARIE (stories) (assoc.)

• * *For the Time Being (Write Way 1-885173-46-6, Feb ’98, $15.95, 438pp, hc) SF novel. Super-intelligent college students are kidnapped by aliens to build a time machine. Order from Write Way Publishing, 10555 E. Dartmouth, Suite 210, Aurora CO 80014.

DESJARLAIS, JOHN (Joseph) (1953- )

• * *The Throne of Tara (Crossway Books 0-89107-574-7, Jul ’90, $8.95, 249pp, tp, cover by Chuck Gillies) Celtic Christian fantasy novel about the life of St. Columba, who carried Christianity to sixth-century Scotland.

DESMOULINS, MELANIE

• * *The Snake (Velvet Publications 1-871592-82-8, Oct ’97 [Dec ’97], £7.95, 154pp, tp) Erotic dark fantasy novel. A young widow is seduced into the coils of Satan.

DESOTO, JOHN

• * *The Sex Files: File 3: Unnatural Blonde (Headline Delta 0-7472-5730-2, Sep ’97, £5.99, 218pp, pb) [Sex Files] Explicitly erotic SF/fantasy novel in a series emulating The X-Files. A famous sex symbol makes a comeback from the dead.

DesROCHERS, DIANE

• * *Walker Between the Worlds (Llewellyn Publications 1-56718-224-0, May ’95 [Apr ’95], $6.99, 435pp, pb, cover by Erin McKee) Science fantasy novel. Alan Kolkey must use his “highly developed psychic powers and archetypal energies” to save Earth from a comet collision, and cope with an old girlfriend from a past life. A first novel. Available from Llewellyn Publications, PO Box 64383, St. Paul MN 55164-0383.

DE STEFANO, ANTHONY; see pseudonym Anthony John

DEUDON, ERIC HOLLINGSWORTH, ed. (stories)

• * _The Nightcharmer and Other Tales of Claude Seignolle See entry under Claude Seignolle.

DEUKER, CARL

• * _On the Devil’s Court (Avon Flare 0-380-70879-5, Sep ’91 [Aug ’91], $2.99, 252pp, pb) Reprint (Little, Brown 1988) young-adult horror novel of a teenager who sells his soul to the devil to become a high school basketball star.

DEVENPORT, EMILY (c1958- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Eggheads (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45517-7, Apr ’96 [Mar ’96], $5.99, 323pp, pb, cover by Donato) [Eggheads] SF novel. A poor woman hopes to make her fortune prospecting in the ruins of the long-vanished alien Earlies.
• * *GodHeads (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45680-7, Apr ’98 [Mar ’98], $5.99, 334pp, pb, cover by Donato Giancola) [Eggheads] SF novel, a distant sequel to Eggheads. A special agent and a reprogrammed criminal are sent to infiltrate the GodHeads’ interstellar communications network.
• * *The Kronos Condition (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45554-1, Feb ’97 [Jan ’97], $5.99, 334pp, pb, cover by Donato Giancola) SF novel. Young people with godlike psionic powers oppose their ruthless mentors.
• * *Larissa (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45276-3, Oct ’93 [Sep ’93], $4.99, 284pp, pb) [Shade] Sf novel of a human girl fighting for survival on a world ruled by hostile aliens. Set in the same world as Shade.
• * *Scorpianne (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45318-2, Aug ’94 [Jul ’94], $4.99, 250pp, pb) Sf novel of a woman who flees from Earth to Mars to escape a deadly assassin.
• * *Shade (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45062-0, Dec ’91 [Nov ’91], $4.99, 246pp, pb) [Shade] Sf novel of a runaway girl in an extraterrestrial ghetto who becomes a pawn in the conflict between three alien races. A first novel.
• * _Shade (The Women’s Press 0-7043-4298-7, Apr ’92, £5.99, 246pp, tp, cover by Namara) [Shade] Reprint (Roc 1991) sf novel. [First U.K. edition]

DEVER, JOE (1956- ) (stories)

• * *The Dark Door Opens (with John Grant) (Beaver 0-09-963760-X, Jun ’89 [May ’89], £2.50, 272pp, pb) [Legends of Lone Wolf] Young-adult fantasy novelization. Volume 2 in the “Legends of Lone Wolf” series.
• * *Eclipse of the Kai (with John Grant) (Beaver 0-09-963750-2, Jun ’89 [May ’89], £2.50, 237pp, pb) [Legends of Lone Wolf] Young-adult fantasy novelization. Volume 1 in the “Legends of Lone Wolf” series.
• * +Legends of Lone Wolf #1: Eclipse of the Kai (with John Grant) (Berkley 0-425-12314-6, Oct ’90 [Sep ’90], $3.50, 237pp, pb) [Legends of Lone Wolf] Novelization based on the “Lone Wolf” game, with illustrations by Brian Williams. First American edition (Beaver 1989).
• * +Legends of Lone Wolf #2: The Dark Door Opens (with John Grant) (Berkley 0-425-12439-8, Dec ’90 [Nov ’90], $3.50, 272pp, pb, cover by Daniel R. Horne) [Legends of Lone Wolf] Novelization based on the “Lone Wolf” game, with illustrations by Brian Williams. First American edition (Beaver 1989).
• * +The Legends of Lone Wolf #3: The Tides of Treachery (Berkley 0-425-12551-3, Feb ’91 [Jan ’91], $3.50, 182pp, pb) [Lone Wolf] Novelization based on the “Lone Wolf” game, with illustrations by Brian Williams. Originally published as the first half of the third book in the U.K. First American edition (Beaver 1989 as The Sword of the Sun).