The Locus Index to Science Fiction

Books, Listed by Author

DOUGLAS, LAUREN WRIGHT (1947- ) (stories)

• * *In the Blood (Naiad Press 0-941483-22-3, Jun ’89 [May ’89], $8.95, 242pp, tp) Lesbian near-future sf novel set in an America destroyed by biological warfare.

DOUGLAS, MARJIE

• * *Matrix Witch (Dillon Gemstone 0-87518-356-5, Jun ’88, $12.95, 285pp, hc) Young-adult contemporary fantasy novel of a high school white witch in training, heiress to great powers.

DOUGLASS, SARA; pseudonym of Sara Mary Warneke, (1957- ) (stories)

• * _BattleAxe (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-651106-6, Sep ’98, £6.99, xiv+674pp, pb, cover by Shaun Tan) [Wayfarer Redemption; Axis Trilogy] Reprint (HarperCollins Australia 1995) fantasy novel. Book One of the “Axis” trilogy. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Beyond the Hanging Wall (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-69960-4, Dec ’97, £3.99, 394pp, pb, cover by Nina Davis) Reprint (Hodder Headline Australia 1996) young-adult fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition]

DOWD, TOM (1944- ) (stories)

• * *Shadowrun #15: Burning Bright (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45368-9, Nov ’94 [Oct ’94], $4.99, 280pp, pb, cover by Peter Peebles) [Shadowrun] Fantasy novelization based on the Shadowrun game. Packaged and copyrighted by FASA Corporation.
• * *Shadowrun: Night’s Pawn (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45238-0, Apr ’93 [Mar ’93], $4.99, 286pp, pb, cover by Richard Hescox) [Shadowrun] Fantasy novelization based on the “Shadowrun” game, with illustrations by Larry MacDougall. Packaged and copyrighted by FASA.
• * _Shadowrun: Night’s Pawn (Roc UK 0-14-023349-0, Jul ’93, £4.99, 286pp, pb, cover by Richard Hescox) [Shadowrun] Reprint (Roc 1992) fantasy novelization. Volume 10 in the series. [First U.K. edition]

DOWLING, DAVID (Hurst) (1950- )

• * *Fictions of Nuclear Disaster (University of Iowa Press 0-87745-142-7, Feb ’87, $20.00, 239pp, hc) Non-fiction, critical study.

DOWLING, TERRY (1947- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Blue Tyson (Aphelion Publications 1-875346-05-8, Apr ’92, $10.00, 238pp, tp, cover by Nick Stathopoulos) [Tom Tyson] Sf collection of 10 connected stories, the sequel to Rynosseros. With an introduction by Jack Vance. Available for $10.00 US (airmail postpaid to anywhere in the world). From Aphelion Publications, PO Box 619, North Adelaide SA 5006 Australia. (Contents)
• * *An Intimate Knowledge of the Night (Aphelion Publications 1-875346-15-5, May ’95, $10.00, 284pp, tp, cover by Nick Stathopoulos) Collection of 13 horror stories, tied together with telephone conversations between the author and Raymond, a former mental patient. Available in Australia from Aphelion Publications, 3 Pepper Tree Lane, North Adelaide, South Australia, 5006, Australia (A$14.95); in the US from Mark V. Zeising, PO Box 76, Shingletown CA 96088. (Contents)
• * *The Man Who Lost Red (MirrorDanse Books 0-646-214918, Dec ’94 [Jan ’95], A$9.95, 111pp, tp, cover by Shaun Tan) Collection of two stories, one original, with a foreword by Nick Stathopoulos and illustrated by Shaun Tan. A limited edition of 500 copies. Available from MirrorDanse Books, PO Box 3542, Parramatta NSW 2124, Australia. (Contents)
• * *The Mars You Have In Me (Eidolon Publications no ISBN, Mar ’92, no price, unpaginated, ph, cover by Nick Stathopoulos) Sf short story with interior art by Stephen Stanley. This is a signed limited 200-copy edition, distributed as a gift to friends and subscribers of Eidolon, the Australian sf magazine. Available from Eidolon Publications, PO Box 225, North Perth WA 6006 Australia.
• * *Rynosseros (Aphelion Publications 1-875346-01-5, 1990 [May ’90], A$12.95, 228pp, tp, cover by Nick Stathopoulos) [Tom Tyson] Sf collection of connected stories set in a future Australia. (Contents)
• * +Rynosseros (SFBC #00608, May ’93 [Apr ’93], $8.98, 184pp, hc, cover by Ron Walotsky) [Tom Tyson] Collection of connected sf stories set in a future Australia. First American edition (Aphelion 1990).
• * *Twilight Beach (Aphelion Publications 1-875346-08-2, Sep ’93 [Aug ’93], A$12.95, 270pp, tp, cover by Nick Stathopoulos) [Tom Tyson] Collection of 11 connected sf stories, in the “Rynosseros” series. Available for $10.00 US from Aphelion Publications, PO Box 619, North Adelaide, South Australia 5006 or from Mark V. Ziesing, Box 76, Shingletown CA 96088. (Contents)
• * *Wormwood (Aphelion Publications 1-875346-02-3, 1991 [Apr ’91], A$12.95, 251pp, tp, cover by Nick Stathopoulos) Sf collection of connected stories set in a future Australia. A hardcover limited edition of 300 copies ($20.00) was announced but not seen. This is an Australian edition. (Contents)

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• * *Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF (with Van Ikin) (Coronet 0-340-60854-4, Nov ’93, A$12.95, 334pp, pb, cover by Nick Stathopoulos) Anthology of 17 Australian sf stories, with an introduction by the editors. This is an Australian first edition. (Contents)

DOWNER, ANN (1960- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *The Books of the Keepers (Macmillan Atheneum 0-689-31519-8, Apr ’93, $15.95, 245pp, hc, cover by Stephen Marchesi) [Spellkey] Young-adult fantasy novel, third book of the “Spellkey” trilogy.
• * *The Glass Salamander (Macmillan Atheneum 0-689-31413-2, Sep ’89, $13.95, 216pp, hc) [Spellkey] Medieval young-adult fantasy about a changeling, sequel to The Spellkey.
• * *The Spellkey (Atheneum 0-689-31329-2, Oct ’87, $13.95, 217pp, hc) [Spellkey] Young-adult fantasy quest novel, a first novel.
• * _The Spellkey (Orbit 0-7088-8283-8, Jan ’89, £2.99, 240pp, pb) [Spellkey] Reprint (Atheneum 1987) fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * *The Spellkey Trilogy (Baen 0-671-87644-9, Feb ’95 [Jan ’95], $5.99, 630pp, pb, cover by Darrell K. Sweet) [Spellkey] Omnibus of three young-adult fantasy novels, The Spellkey (1987), The Glass Salamander (1989), and The Books of the Keepers (1993), all originally published by Macmillan Atheneum. Much of The Spellkey has been rewritten for this edition, including two new chapters. (Contents)

DOWNIE, GARY

• * _The Doctor Who Cookbook (Target 0-426-20276-7, Nov ’86, £3.50, 120pp, pb) [Doctor Who] Reprint (W.H. Allen); non-fiction, associational. “Inter-galactic recipes from favourite Doctor Who actors and actresses.”

DOWNIE, JILL (1938- )

• * *The Raven in the Glass (Paperjacks 0-7701-0699-4, Oct ’87, $3.95, 471pp, pb) Historical/horror novel of an American woman and her Viennese double at the turn of the century.

DOWNING, DAVID C. (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy (University of Massachusetts Press 0-87023-774-8, Sep ’92 [Aug ’92], $25.00, 186pp, hc) Non-fiction, criticism. A study of the three sf novels in the “Ransom” trilogy, with a bibliography. Available from University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst MA 01004. [Lewis]

DOWNING, PAULA E.; [i.e., Paula Elaine Downing King] (1951- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Fallway (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-37763-X, Jan ’93 [Dec ’92], $4.99, 242pp, pb, cover by Nicholas Jainschigg) Sf novel of human warriors raised by aliens to fight their own people.
• * *Flare Star (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-37165-8, Apr ’92 [Mar ’92], $3.99, 249pp, pb, cover by Michael Herring) Sf novel of a sun that flares, destroying most of a human colony, and a supply ship officer trying to save the survivors.
• * *Rinn’s Star (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36919-X, Dec ’90 [Nov ’90], $3.95, 229pp, pb, cover by Barclay Shaw) Sf novel of a telepath indentured to the Chinese and escaping to the Soviets creating an interstellar incident.
• * *A Whisper of Time (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-38195-5, Apr ’94 [Mar ’94], $4.99, 295pp, pb, cover by Nicholas Jainschigg) Sf novel of an alien child adopted by a human archaeologist who must search for the truth about her people’s disappearance.

DOWRICK, STEPHANIE, ed.

• * _Great Tales of the Supernatural (Everyman’s Library 0-460-87165-X, May ’92 [Jun ’92], £3.99, 206pp, tp, cover by Joseph Drivas) Reissue (Everyman’s Library 1978) anthology of classic supernatural tales, abridged from Classic Tales of Horror (Book Club Associates 1978). (Contents)

DOWSON, ERNEST (Christopher) (1867-1900) (stories)

• * *The Diary of a Successful Man (Tartarus Press 1-872621-09-0, Aug ’92, no price, 24pp, ph) Reprint of a story from Dilemmas (Elkin Mathews, 1895) in a limited edition booklet, illustrated by R.B. Russell.

DOYLE, [Sir] ARTHUR (Ignatius) CONAN (1859-1930) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *The Best Horror Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle (Academy Chicago 0-89733-265-2, Mar ’89, $6.95, 294pp, pb) Collection of 13 stories, edited by Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh. (Contents)
• * _The Complete Professor Challenger (Wordsworth 1-85326-927-1, Jan ’89, £8.99, 584pp, hc) [Prof. Challenger] Reprint (John Murray 1952 as The Professor Challenger Stories) sf omnibus. [Not seen]
• * _The Doings of Raffles Haw (Greenhill 0-947898-37-9, Oct ’86, £8.95, 258pp, hc) Reprint (Lovell 1891) collection including some sf.
• * *The Horror of the Heights and Other Tales of Suspense (Chronicle Books 0-8118-0144-6, Apr ’92 [Sep ’92], $9.95, 242pp, tp, cover by Alex Lawrence) Collection of 14 ghost and suspense stories, with a preface by Doyle excerpted from Through the Magic Door.
• * _The Lost World (Academy Chicago 0-89733-331-4, Feb ’90 [Mar ’90], $4.95, 214pp, pb, cover by Julia R. Anderson) [Prof. Challenger] Reprint (Doran 1912) classic sf adventure novel featuring Professor Challenger.
• * _The Lost World (Penguin/Puffin 0-14-035013-6, Feb ’91 [Mar ’91], $2.95, 264pp, pb, cover by Alun Hood) [Prof. Challenger] Reissue (Doran 1912) Professor Challenger sf novel, with illustrations by Ian Newsham; eighth printing. This is a worldwide edition printed in England with prices for five countries printed on the back.
• * _The Lost World (Tor 0-812-53468-9, Nov ’93 [Oct ’93], $4.99, 248pp, pb) [Prof. Challenger] Reprint (Doran 1912) Professor Challenger sf novel.
• * _The Lost World (Puffin 0-14-036748-9, Oct ’94 [Dec ’94], £3.50, 280pp, pb, cover by Adrian Chesterman) [Prof. Challenger] Reprint (Doran 1912) SF novel, illustrated by Ian Newsham.
• * _The Lost World (Penguin/Puffin Classics 0-14-036748-9, Mar ’95, $3.50, 280pp, pb, cover by Adrian Chesterman) [Prof. Challenger] Reprint (Doran 1912) Professor Challenger SF novel. This is a 1994 repackaged worldwide edition of the Puffin 1981 edition illustrated by Ian Newsham.
• * _The Lost World (Oxford University Press 0-19-283186-0, May ’95, £4.99, 189pp, pb, cover by Paul Slater) [Prof. Challenger] Reprint (Doran 1912) SF/fantasy novel, in the Professor Challenger series, with a new Introduction by Ian Duncan.
• * _The Lost World (Tor 0-812-56483-9, Aug ’97 [Oct ’97], $4.99, 248pp, pb) [Prof. Challenger] Reissue (Doran 1912) SF novel featuring Professor Challenger. Second printing.
• * _The Lost World (Oxford University Press 0-19-283352-9, 1998 [Oct ’98], $8.95, 199pp, tp) [Prof. Challenger] Reprint (Doran 1912) SF novel featuring Professor Challenger. This is an Oxford World’s Classics edition, edited with introduction and notes by Ian Duncan.
• * _The Lost World (Dover 0-486-40060-3, Mar ’98 [May ’98], $1.50, 172pp, tp, cover by Jan Sovak) [Prof. Challenger] Reprint (Doran 1912) Professor Challenger SF novel in a thrift edition.
• * _The Lost World (Oxford University Press 0-19-283352-9, Jun ’98, £4.99, xxxii+199pp, tp) [Prof. Challenger] Reprint (Doran 1912) SF/fantasy novel in the “Professor Challenger” series, with an Introduction and notes by Ian Duncan. Subtitled ‘Being an Account of the Recent Amazing Adventures of Professor George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlee and Mr. E.D. Malone of the “Daily Gazette”.’ (Contents)
• * *The Lost World and other stories (Wordsworth 1-85326-245-5, Apr ’95, £1.00, 461pp, tp, cover by E. F. Schutte) [Prof. Challenger] SF/fantasy omnibus of two novels and three stories. A thrift paperback edition. Copyrighted 1995. (Contents)
• * _The Lost World and The Poison Belt (Alan Sutton 0-7509-0822-X, Mar ’95 [Feb ’95], £5.99, vii+291pp, tp, cover by John Martin) [Prof. Challenger] Reprint (Eyre 1950) omnibus of the two classic Professor Challenger novels. (Contents)
• * *The Maracot Deep (Leipzig: Berhard Tauchnitz, 1929, 272pp, hc) Collection of British Authors Vol. 4905. [EZ] (Contents)
• * _The Poison Belt (Easton Press no ISBN, Aug ’89, no price, 313pp, hc) [Prof. Challenger] Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 1913) fantasy adventure featuring Professor Challenger. There is a new introduction by Gary K. Wolfe and awful artwork by Harry Robins. This special leatherbound gilt-edge edition is part of the “Masterpieces of Science Fiction” series and is available by subscription only.
• * _Round the Fire Stories (Chronicle Books 0-87701-883-9, May ’91 [Jun ’91], $9.95, 226pp, tp, cover by Alex Laurant) Reprint (Smith, Elder 1908) collection of 16 ghost and mystery stories. (Contents)
• * *The Supernatural Tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Foulsham 0-572-01453-8, Apr ’88 [Mar ’88], £12.95, 272pp, hc) Collection of supernatural tales, edited by Peter Haining. (Contents)
• * +The Unknown Conan Doyle (Doubleday 0-385-19028-X, May ’84 [Apr ’84], $14.95, 456pp, hc) John Michael Gibson & Richard Lancelyn Green, eds. Collection of 33 stories, 10 of them “newly discovered”, covering a number of genres. First U.S. edition (Secker & Warburg 1982). Later reprinted (Avenel 1986) as 33 by Arthur Conan Doyle. (Contents)
• * _When the World Screamed and Other Stories: The Professor Challenger Adventures: Volume 2 (Chronicle Books 0-87701-652-6, Jun ’90 [Jul ’90], $8.95, 233pp, tp) [Prof. Challenger] Collection of three Professor Challenger adventures, the novellas “When the World Screamed” and “The Disintegration Machine” plus the novel The Land of Mist (Hutchinson 1926). (Contents)

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• * _Conan Doyle: Portrait of an Artist See entry under Julian Symons.
• * _Ten Years Beyond Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Matches His Wits with the Diabolical Dr. Fu Manchu See entry under Cay Van Ash.

DOYLE, DEBRA (1952- ); see house pseudonyms Nicholas Adams, Victor Appleton, Martin Delrio & Robyn Tallis (stories) (assoc.)

• * *Bad Blood (with James D. Macdonald) (Berkley 0-425-13953-0, Oct ’93 [Sep ’93], $3.99, 201pp, pb) [Bad Blood] Young-adult horror novel of kids on a camping trip in danger when they learn that one of the group is a werewolf.
• * *By Honor Betray’d (with James D. Macdonald) (Tor 0-812-51706-7, Jul ’94 [Jun ’94], $4.99, 407pp, pb, cover by Romas) [Mageworlds] SF adventure novel, third book of the “Mageworlds” series.
• * *Circle of Magic #1: School of Wizardry (with James D. Macdonald) (Troll 0-8167-1827-X, Feb ’90, $2.95, 139pp, tp, cover by Judith Mitchell) [Circle of Magic] Young-adult fantasy novel about a young wizard, with illustrations by Judith Mitchell. A hardcover edition (-1826-1) was announced but not seen. These seem to be designed for the educational market.
• * *Circle of Magic #2: Tournament and Tower (with James D. Macdonald) (Troll 0-8167-1829-6, Feb ’90, $2.95, 134pp, tp, cover by Judith Mitchell) [Circle of Magic] Young-adult fantasy novel about a young wizard. A hardcover edition (-1828-8) was announced but not seen. These seem to be designed for the educational market.
• * *Circle of Magic #3: City by the Sea (with James D. Macdonald) (Troll 0-8167-1831-8, Feb ’90, $2.95, 132pp, tp, cover by Jordi Penalva) [Circle of Magic] Young-adult fantasy novel about a young wizard. A hardcover edition (-1830-X) was announced but not seen. These seem to be designed for the educational market.
• * *Circle of Magic #4: The Prince’s Players (with James D. Macdonald) (Troll 0-8167-1833-4, Feb ’90, $2.95, 133pp, tp, cover by Jordi Penalva) [Circle of Magic] Young-adult fantasy novel about a young wizard. A hardcover edition (-1832-6) was announced but not seen. These seem to be designed for the educational market.
• * *Circle of Magic #5: The Prisoners of Bell Castle (with James D. Macdonald) (Troll 0-8167-1835-0, Feb ’90, $2.95, 137pp, tp, cover by Melvyn Grant) [Circle of Magic] Young-adult fantasy novel about a young wizard. A hardcover edition (-1834-2) was announced but not seen. These seem to be designed for the educational market.
• * *Circle of Magic #6: The High King’s Daughter (with James D. Macdonald) (Troll 0-8167-1837-7, Feb ’90, $2.95, 136pp, tp, cover by Melvyn Grant) [Circle of Magic] Young-adult fantasy novel about a young wizard. A hardcover edition (-1836-9) was announced but not seen. These seem to be designed for the educational market.
• * *Daniel M. Pinkwater’s Melvinge of the Megaverse Book 2: Night of the Living Rat (with James D. Macdonald) (Ace 0-441-91079-3, Apr ’92 [Mar ’92], $4.50, 155pp, pb, cover by Steve Fastner & Rich Larsen) Humorous fantasy novel based on a concept and with an afterword by Pinkwater, second book of a series. Packaged and copyrighted by General Licensing Company, a Byron Preiss subsidiary.
• * *The Gathering Flame (with James D. Macdonald) (Tor 0-812-53495-6, Jul ’95 [Jun ’95], $5.99, 442pp, pb, cover by Romas Kukalis) [Mageworlds] Science fantasy novel. This is “Mageworlds” #4, but is actually a prequel to the first three books, the first in a new series telling the parents’ story. A ruling queen, just out of school, marries a privateer to get spaceships to fight the Mages.
• * *Groogleman (with James D. Macdonald) (Harcourt Brace 0-15-200235-9, Sep ’96, $15.00, 113pp, hc, cover by Cliff Nielsen) Young-adult post-holocaust SF novel. The strange grooglemen kidnap Dan’s cousin, and a mysterious stranger helps rescue her.
• * *Hunter’s Moon (with James D. Macdonald) (Berkley 0-425-14362-7, Nov ’94 [Oct ’94], $3.99, 187pp, pb) [Bad Blood] YA horror novel about a teenaged werewolf and vampires; sequel to Bad Blood.
• * *Judgement Night (with James D. Macdonald) (Berkley 0-425-14728-2, May ’95, $3.99, 162pp, pb) [Bad Blood] Young-adult werewolf novel, third in the “Bad Blood” series.
• * *Knight’s Wyrd (with James D. Macdonald) (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-200764-4, Oct ’92, $16.95, 209pp, hc, cover by Marco Ventura) Young-adult fantasy novel of a boy who sets out on a dangerous quest after a wizard predicts that he’ll die within a year.
• * _Knight’s Wyrd (with James D. Macdonald) (Harcourt Brace/Magic Carpet 0-15-201520-5, Mar ’97, $6.00, 308pp, pb, cover by Michael Hussar) Reprint (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992) young-adult fantasy novel.
• * *The Long Hunt (with James D. Macdonald) (Tor 0-812-53496-4, Aug ’96 [Jul ’96], $5.99, 282pp, pb, cover by Romas Kukalis) [Mageworlds] Science fantasy novel, “Mageworlds” #5, set 20 years after the Second Magewar.