The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
Books, Listed by Author
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- DUNCAN, DAVE (stories) (chron.) (continued)
- * *The Destiny of the Sword (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-35293-9, Dec 88 [Nov 88], $3.95, 338pp, pb) [Seventh Sword] Fantasy novel, Book Three of the Seventh Sword trilogy.
- * _The Destiny of the Sword (Legend 0-09-965660-4, Jun 91, £3.99, 338pp, pb, cover by Stephen Bradbury) [Seventh Sword] Reprint (Del Rey 1988) fantasy novel. Book Three of The Seventh Sword. [First U.K. edition]
- * *Emperor and Clown (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36631-X, Jan 92 [Dec 91], $4.99, 469pp, pb, cover by Don Maitz) [Man of His Word] Fantasy novel, fourth book of A Man of His Word.
- * *Faery Lands Forlorn (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36629-8, Apr 91 [Mar 91], $4.95, 335pp, pb, cover by Don Maitz) [Man of His Word] Fantasy novel, second book of A Man of His Word.
- * *Future Indefinite (Avon 0-380-97586-6, Aug 97 [Jul 97], $23.00, 334pp, hc, cover by Matt Stawicki) [Great Game] Fantasy novel, subtitled Round Three of the Great Game.
- * _Future Indefinite (Corgi 0-552-14501-7, Sep 98, £5.99, 523pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Great Game] Reprint (Avon 1997) fantasy novel, last of The Great Game trilogy. [First U.K. edition]
- * _Future Indefinite (Avon Eos 0-380-78131-X, Oct 98 [Sep 98], $6.50, 476pp, pb) [Great Game] Reprint (Avon 1997) fantasy novel, subtitled Round Three of the Great Game.
- * *The Gilded Chain (Avon Eos 0-380-97460-6, Nov 98 [Oct 98], $23.00, 338pp, hc, cover by Hal Just) [*Kings Blades] Fantasy adventure novel, book one of The Kings Blades. A boy becomes the greatest warrior of his class, only to be magically bonded for life to the service of an effete noble fop.
- * *Hero! (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-37179-8, May 91 [Apr 91], $4.95, 293pp, pb, cover by Kevin Joyce) Sf novel about a young Space Patrol officer whose planet is on the brink of war.
- * *The Hunters Haunt (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-38459-8, Apr 95 [Mar 95], $5.99, 282pp, pb, cover by Romas Kukalis) Fantasy novel, the second featuring Omar, the Trader of Tales, and his Arabian Nights-style stories and misadventures.
- * *The Living God (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-37899-7, Apr 94 [Mar 94], $20.00, 385pp, hc, cover by Jim Burns) [Handful of Men] Fantasy novel, fourth book of A Handful of Men.
- * _The Living God (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-38878-X, Oct 94 [Sep 94], $5.99, 429pp, pb, cover by Jim Burns) [Handful of Men] Reprint (Del Rey 1994) fantasy novel, fourth book of A Handful of Men.
- * *Magic Casement (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36628-X, Dec 90 [Nov 90], $4.95, 307pp, pb, cover by Don Maitz) [Man of His Word] Fantasy novel, first book of A Man of His Word.
- * *Past Imperative (Morrow AvoNova 0-688-14361-X, Oct 95, $22.00, 445pp, hc, cover by Matt Stawicki) [Great Game] Fantasy novel, subtitled Round One of the Great Game. Mysterious gateways link worlds while Earth in 1914 is on the brink of war.
- * _Past Imperative (AvoNova 0-380-78129-8, Nov 96 [Oct 96], $5.99, 444pp, pb, cover by Matt Stawicki) [Great Game] Reprint (AvoNova 1995) fantasy novel, subtitled Round One of the Great Game.
- * _Past Imperative (Corgi 0-552-14509-2, Feb 97, £5.99, 477pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Great Game] Reprint (Avon 1996) fantasy novel, subtitled Round One of The Great Game. [First U.K. edition]
- * *Perilous Seas (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36630-1, Jul 91 [Jun 91], $4.95, 336pp, pb, cover by Don Maitz) [Man of His Word] Fantasy novel, third book of A Man of His Word.
- * *Present Tense (Avon 0-380-97325-1, Nov 96 [Oct 96], $23.00, 338pp, hc, cover by Matt Stawicki) [Great Game] Fantasy novel, subtitled Round Two of the Great Game.
- * _Present Tense (AvoNova 0-380-78130-1, Aug 97 [Jul 97], $5.99, 418pp, pb, cover by Matt Stawicki) [Great Game] Reprint (Avon 1996) fantasy novel, subtitled Round Two of the Great Game.
- * _Present Tense: Round Two of The Great Game (Corgi 0-552-14500-9, Nov 97, £5.99, 479pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Great Game] Reprint (Avon 1996) fantasy novel, sequel to Past Imperative. [First U.K. edition]
- * *The Reaver Road (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-37481-9, Aug 92 [Jul 92], $4.99, 281pp, pb, cover by Romas) Arabian Nights-style fantasy novel set in a Mesopotamian world.
- * _The Reaver Road (SFBC #03862, Dec 92, $7.98, 281pp, hc, cover by Romas) Reprint (Del Rey 1992) Arabian Nights-style fantasy novel set in a Mesopotamian world. This edition lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket. First hardcover edition.
- * *The Reluctant Swordsman (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-35291-2, May 88 [Apr 88], $3.50, 326pp, pb) [Seventh Sword] Fantasy novel, Book One of The Seventh Sword. Unusually convincing tale of a contemporary man plunged into a fantasy world. Recommended. (FCM)
- * _The Reluctant Swordsman (Legend 0-09-965640-X, Feb 90, £3.50, 327pp, pb, cover by Stephen Bradbury) [Seventh Sword] Reprint (Del Rey 1988) fantasy novel. Book One of The Seventh Sword.
- * *A Rose-Red City (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34098-1, Apr 87 [Mar 87], $2.95, 227pp, pb) Fantasy novel, a first novel.
- * _A Rose-Red City (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34098-1, Aug 88 [Jul 88], $2.95, 230pp, pb) Reissue (Del Rey 1987) sf/fantasy novel with a quest and time travel; second printing.
- * _A Rose-Red City (Legend 0-09-961920-2, Feb 89, £2.99, 230pp, pb) Reprint (Del Rey 1987) sf/fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition]
- * *Shadow (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34274-7, Nov 87 [Oct 87], $2.95, 276pp, pb) Sf novel; though it reads more like fantasy, its an unusually dark and ironic adventure. Recommended. (FCM)
- * _Shadow (Legend 0-09-962000-6, Aug 89, £3.50, 276pp, pb, cover by Steve Bradbury) Reprint (Del Rey 1987) sf novel. [First U.K. edition]
- * *The Stricken Field (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-37898-9, Oct 93 [Sep 93], $19.00, 343pp, hc, cover by Jim Burns) [Handful of Men] Fantasy novel, third book of A Handful of Men.
- * _The Stricken Field (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-38874-7, May 94 [Apr 94], $5.99, 338pp, pb, cover by Jim Burns) [Handful of Men] Reprint (Del Rey 1993) fantasy novel, third book of A Handful of Men.
- * *Strings (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36191-1, Feb 90 [Jan 90], $3.95, 311pp, pb, cover by Neal McPheeters) Romantic sf adventure novel with an endangered princess, embattled kingdoms, and Machiavellian intrigue.
- * *Upland Outlaws (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-37897-0, May 93 [Apr 93], $18.00, 355pp, hc, cover by Jim Burns) [Handful of Men] Fantasy novel, second book of A Handful of Men.
- * _Upland Outlaws (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-38477-6, Oct 93 [Sep 93], $5.99, 299pp, pb, cover by Jim Burns) [Handful of Men] Reprint (Del Rey 1993) fantasy novel, second book of A Handful of Men.
- * _Upland Outlaws (Raven 1-85487-352-0, Jul 95, £4.99, 300pp, pb, cover by Terry Oakes) [Handful of Men] Reprint (Del Rey 1993) fantasy novel. Part Two of the tetralogy, A Handful of Men (sequel to the Man of His Word tetralogy) after The Cutting Edge. [First U.K. edition]
- * _Upland Outlaws (Raven 1-85487-352-0, Jul 95, £4.99, 300pp, pb, cover by Terry Oakes) [Handful of Men] Reprint (Del Rey 1993) fantasy novel. Part Two of the tetralogy, A Handful of Men. [First U.K. edition]
- * *West of January (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-35836-8, Aug 89 [Jul 89], $3.95, 343pp, pb) Sf novel set in a nomadic civilization on an alien world.
- DUNCAN, JODY
- DUNCAN, KIRK
- DUNCAN, LOIS; [i.e., Lois Duncan Arquette] (1934- ) (stories)
- * _Down a Dark Hall (Piper 0-330-31369-X, May 93, £3.50, 181pp, pb, cover by Hayde Sacerdote) Reprint (Little, Brown 1974) young-adult horror novel.
- * _The Eyes of Karen Connors (Pan 0-330-29248-X, Sep 89 [Oct 89], £2.50, 205pp, pb, cover by The Douglas Brothers) Reprint (Little, Brown 1984) young-adult occult novel.
- * *Gallows Hill (Delacorte 0-385-32331-X, May 97, $15.95, 229pp, hc, cover by Cynthia Torp) Young-adult horror. A girl has visions and dreams of the Salem Witch Trials.
- * _Gallows Hill (Dell 0-440-22725-9, Oct 98, $4.99, 229pp, pb) Reprint (Delacorte 1997) young-adult horror novel.
- * _A Gift of Magic (Piper 0-330-32843-3, Dec 93, £3.50, 201pp, pb) Reprint (Little, Brown 1971) young-adult horror novel.
- * _Locked in Time (Hamish Hamilton 0-241-11769-0, Mar 86, £6.50, 208pp, hc) Reprint (Little, Brown 1985) supernatural thriller novel set in the Deep South.
- * _Locked in Time (Puffin Plus 0-14-032380-5, Feb 88 [Mar 88], £2.25, 208pp, pb) Reprint (Hamish Hamilton 1986) young-adult horror novel.
- * _Locked in Time (Dell Laurel-Leaf 0-440-94942-4, Aug 91 [Dec 91], $3.50, 210pp, pb) Reissue (Little, Brown 1985) young-adult ghost thriller; eighth printing.
- * _Stranger with My Face (Pan/Horizons 0-330-29255-2, Mar 86, £1.95, 224pp, pb) Reprint (Little, Brown 1981) young-adult horror novel.
- * _Stranger with My Face (Puffin 0-14-037485-X, Jun 95, £4.99, 250pp, pb, cover by Bruce Hogarth) Reprint (Little, Brown 1981) young-adult fantasy novel. A teenage girl fights an evil twin who gradually takes over her life and body.
- _____, ed.
- * *Night Terrors (Simon & Schuster 0-689-80346-X, Jun 96 [Apr 96], $16.00, 175pp, hc, cover by John Dawson) Original anthology of 11 young-adult horror stories. Authors include Joan Aiken, Joan Lowery Nixon, and Annette Curtis Klause. (Contents)
- * _Night Terrors (Simon & Schuster 0-689-80724-4, Sep 97 [Aug 97], $3.99, 192pp, pb, cover by John Dawson) Reprint (Simon & Schuster 1996) original anthology of 11 young-adult horror stories.
- DUNCAN, SANDY FRANCES
- DUNCKER, PATRICIA (stories)
- * *Monsieur Shoushanas Lemon Trees (Serpents Tail 1-85242-572-5, Aug 97, £9.99, x+197pp, tp, cover by Oscar Zarate) Collection of 13 lesbian/feminist stories, including the fantasy novella, The Arrival Matters (from Insides Out: A Trio, 1997) and other surreal and related works. Several are original. (Contents)
- DUNDES, ALAN, ed.
- * *The Vampire: A Casebook (University of Wisconsin Press 0-299-15924-8, Oct 98, $16.95, 182pp, tp, cover by Edward Binkley) Non-fiction collection of academic essays examining of the roots of vampire legends. A hardcover edition (-15920-5, $45.00) was announced but not seen. Order from the University of Wisconsin Press, 2537 Daniels St., Madison WI 53718; credit card orders 800-621-2736.
- DUNLOP, EILEEN (Rhona) (1938- ) (stories)
- * +Green Willow (Holiday House 0-8234-1021-8, Oct 93, $14.95, 160pp, hc, cover by Paul Hunt) Young-adult fantasy novel about the healing magic present in a haunted Japanese garden at an English manor house. First American edition (Blackie 1992 as Green Willows Secret).
- * _The House on the Hill (Kelpies 0-86241-244-7, Mar 89, £1.95, 147pp, pb) Reprint (Oxford University Press 1987) young-adult ghost novel.
- * _Robinsheugh (Ace 0-441-73201-1, Aug 86 [Jul 86], $2.95, 201pp, pb) Reprint (Oxford Univ. Press 1975) fantasy novel of a modern woman trapped in the 18th century. Also published as Elizabeth, Elizabeth (Holt 1977).
- * *Websters Leap (Holiday House 0-8234-1193-1, Oct 95 [Nov 95], $15.95, 168pp, hc, cover by Valerie Littlewood) Young-adult time travel novel. A girl uses her brothers computer to transport herself to a Scottish castle in 1562.
- DUNMORE, SPENCER (Sambrook) (1928- )
- * _The Sound of Wings (Tor 0-812-51714-8, Jan 88 [Dec 87], $3.95, 347pp, pb) Reprint (Macmillan 1984) aviators ghost story.
- DUNN, CAROLA (1946- ) (stories)
- * *Byrons Child (Walker 0-8027-1132-4, Jan 91 [Dec 91], $18.95, 220pp, hc) Time-travel romance. A couple from the modern era are transported by lightning to Regency London, where the girl, a historian, becomes involved with Byrons daughter and wants to take her forward in time to save her life.
- DUNN, DAWN (Pauline Hartzell) (1958- ); see pseudonym Pauline Dunn (stories)
- DUNN, J(effrey) R. (stories) (chron.)
- * *Days of Cain (Avon 0-380-79280-X, Aug 97 [Jul 97], $13.00, 328pp, tp) Time-travel novel. A far-future monitor must stop a renegade time traveller from changing WWII history at Auschwitz. A hardcover edition (-97433-9, $23.00) is also available.
- * _Days of Cain (NEL 0-340-69631-1, May 98, £6.99, 328pp, tp, cover by Gary Marsh) Reprint (Avon 1997) time-travel novel. A far-future monitor must stop a renegade time traveller from changing WWII history at Auschwitz. [First U.K. edition]
- * _Days of Cain (Avon Eos 0-380-79049-1, Jun 98 [May 98], $3.99, 361pp, pb) Reprint (Avon 1997) time-travel holocaust novel.
- * *Full Tide of Night (Avon Eos 0-380-97434-7, Aug 98 [Jul 98], $14.00, 312pp, hc, cover by Liz Kenyon) SF novel. Colonists on a forbidding planet rebel against their ageless ruler even as a feared starship is on its way from Earth.
- * _This Side of Judgement (NEL 0-340-63226-7, Apr 95, £5.99, 322pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) Reprint (Harcourt Brace 1994) SF thriller about the search for a cybernetically enhanced killer in the 21st century. A first novel, it combines high-tech SF with the police procedural. [First U.K. edition]
- * _This Side of Judgement (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45486-3, Nov 95 [Oct 95], $5.99, 367pp, pb, cover by Donato) Reprint (Harcourt Brace 1994) SF thriller.
- * *This Side of Judgment (Harcourt Brace 0-15-100076-X, Aug 94 [Jul 94], $21.95, 322pp, hc, cover by David Kahl) Sf thriller set in the early 21st century, about the search for a cybernetically enhanced murderer. A first novel.
- DUNN, KATHERINE (Karen) (1945- ) (stories)
- * *Geek Love (Knopf 0-394-56902-4, Mar 89 [Apr 89], $18.95, 348pp, hc) Literary horror novel about a carnival family that breeds its own freaks. A member of the family is telekinetic. Conquer your distaste at the subject and try this one. Recommended (FCM).
- * _Geek Love (QPBC no ISBN, Oct 89, $8.95, 368pp, tp) Reprint (Knopf 1989) literary horror novel about a family that breeds its own freaks. A National Book Award nominee. This edition is the same as the Knopf edition except it lacks an ISBN and has the jacket printed as the soft cover.
- * _Geek Love (Warner 0-446-39130-1, Mar 90 [Feb 90], $9.95, 355pp, tp) Reprint (Knopf 1989) literary horror novel about a carnival family that breeds its own freaks. A National Book Award nominee.
- * _Geek Love (Warner 0-446-39130-1, Jun 90, $9.95, 355pp, tp) Reissue (Knopf 1989) literary horror novel; second printing.
- * _Geek Love (Abacus 0-349-10086-1, Nov 90, £4.99, 392pp, tp) Reprint (Knopf 1989) literary horror novel.
- * _Geek Love (Warner 0-446-39130-1, Sep 94 [Aug 94], $10.99, 355pp, tp, cover by David Tamura) Reissue (Knopf 1989) National Book Award-nominated literary horror novel; seventh printing.
- DUNN, PAULINE; pseudonym of Dawn Dunn & Susan Hartzell
- * *The Crawling Dark (Zebra 0-8217-3417-2, Jun 91 [Jul 91], $4.50, 349pp, pb) Horror novel of a town whose people are mysteriously killed. Dunn is a pen name for Dawn Dunn and Susan Hartzell.
- * *Demonic Colors (Zebra 0-8217-3143-2, Oct 90, $3.95, 351pp, pb) Horror novel of a demon butchering children in a small town.
- * *Flesh Stealer (Zebra 0-8217-2919-5, Mar 90 [Feb 90], $3.95, 317pp, pb) Horror novel. An Indian cave shelters a creature that flays its victims alive.
- DUNN, THOMAS P(eckham) (1940- )
- _____, ed.
- DUNSANY, LORD; [Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett] (1878-1957) (stories) (chron.)
- * *The Complete Pegana (Chaosium 1-56882-116-6, Mar 98, $12.95, 239pp, tp, cover by H. E. Fassl) Omnibus of three collections: The Gods of Pegana (1905), Time and the Gods (1906), and Beyond the Fields We Know, originally part of Tales of Three Hemispheres (1919). Edited and with an introduction by S.T. Joshi. (Contents)
- * *The Hashish Man and Other Stories (Manic D Press 0-916397-45-9, 1996 [Nov 96], $9.95, 148pp, tp) Collection of 25 stories and one preface, with an introduction by editor Jon Longhi. The stories had been previously collected in A Dreamers Tales (1910), Fifty-One Tales (1915), and Tales of Wonder (1916). Order from Manic D Press, PO Box 410804, San Francisco CA 94141. (Contents)
- DU PONT, DENISE, ed.
- * *Women of Vision (St. Martins 0-312-02321-9, Dec 88 [Nov 88], $14.95, 163pp, hc) Non-fiction, 12 essays by women sf writers, plus some biography and bibliography.
- DUPREE, TOM, ed. (stories)
- DUPUIS, JOHN, ed. (stories)
- DURANT, ALAN, ed. (1958- ) (stories)
- * *Vampire & Werewolf Stories (Kingfisher 0-7534-0240-8, Oct 98 [Sep 98], £5.99, 221pp, tp, cover by Mark Edwards) Young-adult anthology of 18 stories and extracts; includes an original story by the editor. Illustrated by Nick Hardcastle. A hardcover edition (-0279-3) was announced but not seen. (Contents)
- * +Vampire and Werewolf Stories (Kingfisher US 0-7534-5152-2, Sep 98 [Aug 98], $6.95, 221pp, tp, cover by Nick Hardcastle) Young-adult anthology of 18 horror stories and novel extracts. Illustrated by Nick Hardcastle. Authors include Bram Stoker, Richard Matheson, and Jane Yolen. Part of the Kingfisher Story Library. First US edition (Kingfisher UK 1998).
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